Amazon Web Services (AWS) stories - Page 43
Originally disrupting the book retailing business, Amazon Web Services has since emerged as a world’s
leader in the provision of ‘as a Service’ computing resources. With more than 200 services available
covering infrastructure, platform, compute, storage and applications as a service, AWS solutions are
provided from a network of 38 data centers around the world. A cluster of AWS data centres is planned
for New Zealand, headquartered in Auckland, and likely to be online by 2024.
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How Amazon aims to reinvent blockchain
Mon, 3rd Dec 2018
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Amazon QLDB is a new class of database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable ledger.
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AWS makes building and securing data lakes easier
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Amazon Web Services unveils three new tools—Control Tower, Security Hub, and Lake Formation—that streamline data lake building, security, and compliance on AWS.
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AWS offers devs tiny autonomous vehicles for machine learning
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AWS introduces DeepRacer, a 1/18th scale autonomous racecar, offering developers hands-on reinforcement learning. Pre-orders available now.
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Interview: How Origin Energy uses AWS to transform its business
Thu, 29th Nov 2018
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Origin Energy is an Australian electricity retailer that is on the cutting edge of customer service, collaboration, innovation, and experimentation.
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AWS announces two new Marketplace features
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Now customers and marketplace sellers have the ability to use a private marketplace, as well as a dedicated marketplace for containers.
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AWS offers inside look at its work with the public sector
Thu, 29th Nov 2018
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The company’s Public Sector Partner Program grew almost 40% this year, with more than 800 partners now on board.
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AWS provides a shot in the Arm with new servers
Thu, 29th Nov 2018
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While it can’t claim to be the first one to deploy them, it does win the race of the cloud giants in offering the architecture as a cloud service.
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AWS announces pay-as-you-go satellite data download offering
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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Leverages a network of 12 antenna ground stations in AWS Regions around the world to download, process, store, analyse, and act upon satellite data.
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AWS improves network efficiencies with new offerings
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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Announced at AWS re:INVENT, the offerings are designed to speed up inter-instance communication, and application performance and availability.
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AWS boosts power, lowers costs with new EC2 instances
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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At AWS re:INVENT the company announced the availability of three new instances that can reduce workload cost and run bigger workloads, faster.
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Sony Pictures & Spider-Man bring mobile web AR to fans
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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This mobile web experience that allows users to jump directly into Spider-Man’s AR world on any smartphone without the need for an app.
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AWS simplifies data collection from IoT & edge devices
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced four new services that will simplify the collection of data from internet of things (IoT) applications and edge devices.
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AWS RoboMaker supports future of robotics development
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is venturing deeper in the world of robotics services for developers with the launch of AWS RoboMaker.
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Gallery: A tour of the floor at the Red Hat Forum Sydney
Wed, 21st Nov 2018
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Delloite, AWS, Juniper, and more were on display in Sydney to demonstrate and explain how they are helping to move the open source community forward.
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AWS tops all four global markets, APAC a unique case
Wed, 21st Nov 2018
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Amazon Web Services leads the global public cloud market across all major regions, though the APAC scene is uniquely shaped by strong local competition.
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Pure Storage launches new cloud data services
Tue, 20th Nov 2018
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Pure Storage has announced Pure Storage Cloud Data Services, a suite of new cloud offerings that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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NZ-grown fitness app draws on augmented reality
Tue, 20th Nov 2018
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Fitness junkie Amy Lee Summers has launched an AR fitness app, Amy Lee Fit, which features fitness plans, recipes and more.
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Exclusive: Strengths and limitations of the AWS/Cisco partnership
Mon, 19th Nov 2018
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Iguazio CEO Yaron Haviv discusses whether the partnership really is a 'match made in heaven' and what it means for the industry.
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Google Cloud CEO stepping down to welcome ex-Oracle exec
Mon, 19th Nov 2018
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Google Cloud has grown significantly under Greene's tenure, but has involved tens of billions of dollars and little gains on AWS and Azure.
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Deloitte bolsters AWS offerings with CloudinIT
Mon, 19th Nov 2018
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Deloitte expands AWS services with CloudinIT team on board, enhancing Salesforce expertise and boosting Deloitte Digital in NZ from February 2019.