Cloud Technology News of the Month: January & February 2021
Blog post from Cast AI
In January and February 2021, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $37 billion, up 35% from Q4 2019. Amazon and Microsoft continue to dominate the market, with IBM acquiring multiple cloud consulting firms in recent months. F5 Networks acquired Volterra for $500 million, while Twitter moved its data centers to AWS' ARM processor platform. The US Capitol riot led to AWS cutting off Parler, which later announced it was coming back online using hosting services from SkySilk. CAST AI joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and expanded support for cloud providers including DigitalOcean and AWS Spot instances.
| Trend | Post Mentions | Total Month Mentions | Posts | Companies | MoM |
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| TPUs | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | -50% |
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