Kevin McLaughlin

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Kevin joined The Information in 2016 after 11 years covering enterprise technology and cloud computing at CRN, a technology trade industry publication. Previously, he was a technical writer for France Telecom’s R&D division and a reporter at Business 2.0, a magazine that covered the rise (and fall) of the first dot-com era. He started his career at The Bangkok Post, a Thailand-based English language daily newspaper serving Southeast Asia. Kevin attended Colgate University and lives with his wife and two young children in Berkeley, Calif. You can reach him at [email protected].

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At Cloud Jamboree, AWS Makes Room for Frenemies

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Kevin McLaughlin

U.S. Antitrust Regulators Now Looking at Amazon Web Services

The action by regulators is a sign of a possible expansion of the FTC’s existing probe into Amazon’s retail business.

AWS Reveals Next Phase of Cloud Hardware Strategy

The cloud computing leader took steps to ensure its products work well even when there's no AWS data center nearby.

Amazon Web Services Makes Its Move in Quantum Computing

The announcement shows Amazon sees quantum computing as an important part of its future, even though it isn't yet clear it will be a viable industry.

Chinese Authorities Taking Hard Line Against ‘Deep Fakes'

China's regulatory move is just the latest against deep fakes, which are getting more scrutiny from regulators around the world.

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Is Microsoft getting a pass for Azure outages and security response?

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As we reported in early July, Microsoft's Azure cloud has a global shortage of computing capacity due to high demand for cloud services and the global chip shortage. Microsoft Azure has other problems too. There have been a number of service outages in recent years, including one last night Pacific time that took down Teams and other services for users around the worl...

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