Uber sparks bidding war among cloud providers
Uber is said to be taking bids from public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft as it looks to make its dispatch engine (which connects drivers and riders) work even faster. The idea is that if the system is run through data centres run by large cloud computing companies instead of Uber’s own web servers, riders will be able to start their journeys even faster. Apparently Uber plans to remain “vendor-neutral” and may choose different vendors for different regions, depending on locations of data centres and cloud facilities.

There’s a new hot contract up for grabs in the cloud market: Uber.

The ride-hailing company is taking bids from “public” cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft to handle a small but important slice of its infrastructure, according to a person with knowledge of the decision. Uber is already testing some cloud services, this person says.