According to market research group Omdia, AMD has surged to a historically high server market share of 16%. “In the server CPU market, AMD scored its best-ever quarter from a market share and sales perspective with demand from hyperscale cloud service providers, and Google in particular, being a big contributing factor to AMD’s strong performance,” […]
AMD’s Server Market Share Hits New High at 16%
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September 23, 2021 @ 6:41 pm, by raindog308Amazon’s Quantum Computing Service Goes GA with 1 Hour for Free Tier Users
AWS announced this week that Amazon Braket, their quantum algorithm development environment, is available now in their US East and US West regions. AWS Free Tier customers receive 1 free hour of simulation time with AWS Free Tier. The product offers managed Jupyter notebooks for development. According to Amazon: “Customers can use Amazon Braket to test […]
SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers
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Cloudflare Complains About Amazon AWS Egress Fees
In a blog post this week, Cloudflare complained that Amazon AWS’s egress fees are too high. According to CF’s calculations, customers are paying: 80 times Amazon’s costs in the US, Canada, and Europe 21 times Amazon’s costs in South America Between 3.5 times and 17 times Amazon’s costs in Asia As they put it, “Amazon […]
Free VPS Hosting Providers – How to get a free VPS!
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