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Amazon RDS for Oracle Pricing
15+ years of cloud database innovation. Optimized for Oracle. Powered by AWS.
Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses | TechCrunch
Cloud infrastructure providers -- such as Amazon -- continue to pose an existential threat to the future of open source.

AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.

Be Prepared: We're Entering A Post-Device Era - Fast Company
The new frontier in personal computing may be cloud services that run on less powerful devices.

‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war
The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service and AI from Google and Microsoft for military activities in Gaza, investigation reveals.

AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
Amazon’s latest offering highlights the economic challenges facing open source companies — and Amazon should pay attention.

How we knew it was time to leave the cloud
How we're solving storage and performance issues as we scale.

What Investing in Software Looks Like in 2026
In case you quietly filed Point Nine under “boring SaaS investor” … well, first of all, I’m not going to blame you. We’ve been investing in…

AI's Security Crisis: Why Your Assistant Might Betray You
Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.

Drone Strikes Knock Out Yandex Data Centers, Bot Traffic Plunges but Partly Recovers
Drone attacks hit three Yandex data centers, and bot traffic from its network dropped sharply. Public data shows a partial rebound and includes search crawlers, limiting what can be inferred. We look at cloud recovery capacity and the impact on corporate paperwork.

Oracle Application Express (APEX) - Amazon Relational Database Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation to help you set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the AWS Cloud using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). You can create DB instances that run Amazon Aurora, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.

Is the Day of the Data Center About to Be Over?
Marco Arment's Setup as the Canary in the Coal Mine—or, Rather, as the 50 Mac Mini Server Farm Vastly More Efficient than the NVIDIA-Powered Cloud-Bound Hyperscalers...

Dark Cloud Gathers as Bill Comes Due for AI Industry
AI companies are finding they can no longer sustain footing the bill of their heavily vibe coding customers.

AWS is pushing its DevOps Agent into the delivery pipeline itself, adding release readiness review and autonomous release testing as AI-generated code floods the merge queue.
AWS puts an AI bouncer at the merge queue
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