The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
Insurgents take on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
HOW MUCH have you spent on the cloud today? It takes Robert Hodges only a few clicks to find out. He pulls up a dashboard on a computer in his home office in Berkeley, California, which shows cloud spending at his database firm, Altinity, in real time. The cloud represents half of Altinity’s total costs.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Cloud atlas”
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