Azure Container Instances bring serverless computing to containers

Enlarge (credit: Ana Ulin) Azure Container Instances (ACI), which let you create Linux and Windows containers without having to manage the virtual machines they run on, are now generally available. ACI brings serverless principles to containerized applications. Serverless computing, pioneered by Amazon’s Lambda and found on Azure as Functions, is designed to defer all system […]

PUTIN: ‘There were instances of doping’ among Russian Olympic athletes, but everybody does it

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Tuesday that there were “instances of doping use” by Russian athletes.  The president also claimed that the issue was widespread and that Russia wasn’t alone. The IOC banned Russia from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang because of the doping allegations, which Russia previously […]

Amazon Web Services launches bare metal compute instances

Amazon Web Services is moving full steam into the bare metal hosting market with the release of a new cloud computing instance. The i3.metal instance will provide customers with a beefy server running in an AWS datacenter that is useful for applications that require a ton of raw power, or an environment similar to what […]

Amazon makes its latest high-compute instances generally available

Amazon Web Services announced today that its latest high-performance cloud virtual machines are generally available for customers. That means businesses will be able to spin up C5 instances in the cloud that are built to handle applications requiring large amounts of compute capacity. For example, the new instances will be well-suited to applications like video […]

Google Cloud launches VM instances with 64 virtual CPU cores

Google today enhanced its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) public cloud infrastructure offering with new virtual machine (VM) instances that boast up to 64 virtual central processing unit (CPU) cores, effectively providing more computing power for applications. They’re available now in beta for all users and projects out of Google’s data center zones that run Intel’s […]

AWS launches I3 VM instances starting at 15 cents per hour

Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that its six types of I3 virtual machine (VM) instances are now available in 15 out of AWS’ 16 data center regions around the world. AWS first announced the I3 series of instances at its re:invent conference in November. These instances backed by solid-state drives […]