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• Leading cloud providers increase market share as smaller players suffer

  Spending on cloud infrastructure services continues to increase at a healthy pace with investment during the third quarter up 45 per cent on 2017.

• Alibaba's Jack Ma to open institute for tech entrepreneurs in Indonesia

  Jack Ma plans to train thousands of tech entrepreneurs in Indonesia, where he is already an adviser to the government on e-commerce.

• Businesses struggle to match cloud needs with AWS’ services catalogue

  AWS' supremacy could face significant hurdles thanks to a growing dissatisfaction among customers over the spiralling costs of its cloud technology.

• Spotlight on Alibaba CEO Zhang as Jack Ma starts retirement countdown

  Unlike his charismatic boss, Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang isn't one to grab the limelight, let alone make kung fu movies with superstars.

• Alibaba's Jack Ma to unveil succession plan this week, remain chairman

  Alibaba Group’s co-founder Jack Ma will announce a succession plan to hand the reins of his sprawling empire to a new generation of leaders.

• Dominant AWS reminds cloud market who’s boss

  Amazon Web Services continues to dominate the public cloud services market, operating as a “clear” worldwide leader across the world.

• Top cloud vendors spend big as race for scale heats up

  ​Global hyper-scale cloud vendors collectively forked out at least US$27 billion in capital expenditure over the three months ending March.

• Cloud leaders pick up pace as smaller providers lose ground

  Microsoft, Google and Alibaba all grew their market share in the global cloud infrastructure market last quarter, largely at the expense of smaller players.

• Does Oracle Cloud have an on-premises problem?

  Oracle’s latest quarterly results highlight a continued reluctance by the vendor’s legacy customers to shift workloads from their on-premises deployments.

• Alibaba looks set to shake up the global cloud industry status quo

  Alibaba Cloud's dramatic rise could potentially upturn the US-centric nature of the current global cloud services market.

• Alibaba cracks top five global cloud market share tally

  Alibaba has become one of the top five cloud infrastructure service providers in terms of global market share.

• AWS released 497 new services and features last quarter

  AWS released almost 500 new services and features over 12 weeks amid continuing efforts to ​maintain its top spot in the market.