1. Amazon backs cloud to beat enterprise vendors

Ian Massingham, UK technical evangelist for Amazon Web Services, says don’t listen to the suppliers spreading fear about the cloud, and insists that the company is big and safe, and that it is their rivals that risk becoming obsolete.

2. AWS says big IT is trash talking the cloud to protect sales

Claims AWS success has led to a backlash.

3. Interoute beats AWS & Azure in transatlantic cloud speeds

Provider ranked higher than AWS, Rackspace and Azure across Atlantic and European data centres

4. Amazon battles banks with seller lending scheme

Mimicking the Alibaba online lending model.

5. New NTT Com CEO taking fight to Amazon via cloud combo

Amazon is "overwhelmingly strong" in public cloud.