Today’s AWS News AWS Secures £94 Million UK Government ContractAmazon Web Services (AWS) landed a significant deal with the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for £94 million to modernize its technology infrastructure. This multi-year contract will see...
Looking Back at AWS in 2023 AI Takes Center Stage AWS emerged as a champion of generative AI in 2023, fueling the next wave of innovation with powerful tools and infrastructure. Here’s a glimpse into their key contributions: Foundation Model Playground: Launched...
Big Techs’ Billions for Climate: Here’s Where Amazon and Microsoft are Making their Carbon Bets Big tech companies are making significant investments in carbon reduction initiatives. Amazon and Microsoft, two of the world’s largest cloud computing...
Twitter Owes Amazon at Lease $70 Million Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, reportedly delayed paying Twitter’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) bill, leading to a dispute that prevented Amazon from paying for Twitter ads. According to The Information, Musk, who...
Southwest Airlines selects Amazon Web Services to boost digital capabilities and operational efficiency Southwest Airlines, the largest low-cost carrier in the world, has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider to modernize its digital...
Read More We are half way between the re:Invent conference and the end-of-year holidays, and I did expect the cadence of releases and news to slow down a bit, but nothing is further away from reality. Our teams continue to listen to your feedback and release new...
Read More Amazon SageMaker Canvas provides business analysts with a visual interface to solve business problems using machine learning (ML) without writing a single line of code. Since we introduced SageMaker Canvas in 2021, many users have asked us for an enhanced,...
Read More This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! The world is asynchronous, is what Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, reminded us during his keynote last week at AWS...
Read More Starting in April of 2023 we will be making two changes to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to put our latest best practices for bucket security into effect automatically. The changes will begin to go into effect in April and will be rolled out to...
Read More I am excited to announce the availability of a distributed map for AWS Step Functions. This flow extends support for orchestrating large-scale parallel workloads such as the on-demand processing of semi-structured data. Step Function’s map state executes...
Read More It is increasingly common to use multiple cloud services as building blocks to assemble a modern event-driven application. Using purpose-built services to accomplish a particular task ensures developers get the best capabilities for their use case....
Read More Today, we announced the preview release of Amazon CodeCatalyst. A unified software development and delivery service, Amazon CodeCatalyst enables software development teams to quickly and easily plan, develop, collaborate on, build, and deliver applications...
Read More In 2016, we launched Amazon GameLift, a dedicated hosting solution that securely deploys and automatically scales fleets of session-based multiplayer game servers to meet worldwide player demand. With Amazon GameLift, you can create and upload a game...
Read More Today we are announcing a new Amazon Comprehend feature for intelligent document processing (IDP). This feature allows you to classify and extract entities from PDF documents, Microsoft Word files, and images directly from Amazon Comprehend without you...
Read More AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights is a new capability of AWS Marketplace. It simplifies third-party software risk assessments when procuring solutions from the AWS Marketplace. It helps you to ensure that the third-party software continuously meets your...
Read More Back in 1980, at my second professional programming job, I was working on a project that analyzed driver’s license data from a bunch of US states. At that time data of that type was generally stored in fixed-length records, with values carefully (or not)...
Read More As companies increasingly adopt machine learning (ML) for their business applications, they are looking for ways to improve governance of their ML projects with simplified access control and enhanced visibility across the ML lifecycle. A common challenge...
Read More Gathering insights from data is a more effective process if that data isn’t fragmented across multiple systems and data stores, whether on premises or in the cloud. Amazon AppFlow provides bidirectional data integration between on-premises systems and...
Read More Data fuels machine learning. In machine learning, data preparation is the process of transforming raw data into a format that is suitable for further processing and analysis. The common process for data preparation starts with collecting data, then...
Read More To build machine learning models, machine learning engineers need to develop a data transformation pipeline to prepare the data. The process of designing this pipeline is time-consuming and requires a cross-team collaboration between machine learning...
Read More When we talk with customers, we hear that they want to be able to harness insights from data in order to make timely, impactful, and actionable business decisions. A common pattern with data-driven organizations is that they have many different data sources...
Read More AWS Machine Learning University is now providing a free educator enablement program. This program provides faculty at community colleges, minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) with the skills and...
Read More Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning (ML) hub that can help you accelerate your ML journey. SageMaker JumpStart gives you access to built-in algorithms with pre-trained models from popular model hubs, pre-trained foundation models to help you...
Read More In 2019, we introduced Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for data science and machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio gives you access to fully managed Jupyter Notebooks that integrate with purpose-built...
Read More As you move your machine learning (ML) workloads into production, you need to continuously monitor your deployed models and iterate when you observe a deviation in your model performance. When you build a new model, you typically start validating the model...
Read More Today we are announcing the extension of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) add-ons deployment experience to include software from AWS Marketplace for Containers. Amazon EKS add-ons allow you to consistently ensure that your EKS clusters are...
Today’s AWS News Amazon (AMZN) Rolls Out Web Services (AWS) Innovations – Investopedia – Designed to help customers become more agile and innovate faster at lower costs. AWS DeepRacer program teaches developers about emerging tech –...
Today’s AWS News AWS Leapfrogs Traditional Vendors to Become #1 in Enterprise Storage In 2018, IT Brand Pulse observed that no one published estimates of how much revenue the cloud service providers derive from storage, and where that places them in the rankings...
AWS Leapfrogs Traditional Vendors to Become #1 in Enterprise Storage In 2018, IT Brand Pulse observed that no one published estimates of how much revenue the cloud service providers derive from storage, and where that places them in the rankings of storage leaders....
Setup a 1PB File System in Minutes with Amazon FSx for Lustre Last week, AWS announced that Amazon FSx for Lustre now offers customers the ability to create Hard Disk Drive (HDD)-based file systems and reduce storage costs by up to 80% for throughput-intensive...
Top News How Capital One Reduced its Data-Center Footprint, Expanded its Use of Microservices, and Reimagined Banking Using AWS – AWS Case Studies – How did Capital One get to the point where, in 2015, it announced that all new company applications would run in—and...
Persistent Memory, NVMe over Fabrics and Hybrid Cloud Storage The 3 hottest trends these storage IT leaders are considering are flash storage in hybrid clouds, NVMe flash fabrics and persistent memory in AFAs. Watch this webinar to learn about the: Requirements...
There’s a lot of data published every day about the revenue and growth rate of the enterprise storage vendors, and about the overall growth rate for public cloud Infrastructure-as-as-Service (Iaas) providers. But to the best of our knowledge, no one has...
There’s a New Class of STaaS That Changes Everything While the revenue of incumbent leaders flatlined during the last 5 years, Pure Storage led an assault on legacy technologies and methods of delivering enterprise storage. Pure’s fresh approach including all-flash...
In the 2018 IaaS Brand Leader Survey conducted by IT Brand Pulse, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was selected by IT Pros as Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support, and Innovation Leader for all 14 IaaS product categories. Azure and IBM Perceived as...
