AWS Insights

Category: Networking & Content Delivery

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Building resilience: Inside AWS’s nine million kilometers of fiber-optic cabling

A hidden network of fiber-optic cables keeps the world connected. When you send an email across continents or stream a video from another country, that data travels through physical infrastructure underground and under the sea. These cables—many no bigger than a garden hose—are part of the physical foundation of the internet that billions depend on […]

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Moving from on premises to the cloud with AWS delivers significant cost savings, report finds

There is clear momentum to shift compute, storage, and networking functions to the cloud. According to the 2023 Cloud Computing survey released by Foundry (formerly IDG Communications), which surveyed 893 IT decision makers, 66% of respondents expect their cloud spending to increase over the next year. One of the top factors driving these migrations—cited by […]