Zoom doesn’t rely on cloud for their critical services
Turns out that Cloud infrastructure does not play as big a role as some would have us believe.
The COVID-driven explosion in remote working and online videoconferencing have made Zoom the darling of the tech world. Not surprisingly, notable big tech firms like Oracle and AWS have tried to jump ...
AWS rolls out Wavelength Zones in Denver and Seattle
The partnership with Verizon 5G is part of Amazon's global expansion of its edge computing infrastructure.
This week Amazon Web Services announced the availability of two new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Denver and Seattle. Wavelength Zones are now available i...
AWS rolls out Wavelength in South Korea
Amazon partners with South Korean 5G provider SK to deliver edge-based Wavelength services.
This week Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of AWS Wavelength on SK Telecom (SKT)’s 5G network. The partnership aims to help developers to build ultra-low latency applications for m...
AWS unveils Chaos Engineering as a service, coming in 2021
When the biggest companies like Amazon or Netflix want to test their systems' strength, they use chaos engineering to simulate the worst-case scenarios and find potential issues before they happen.
At the AWS re:Invent summit on Tuesday, Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, showcased new Chaos Engineerin...
Amazon announces a new program to train 29M people in cloud computing
Amazon announced last week that it is planning to train 29 million people in cloud computing by 2025. The program's agenda is to reskill people so they can get jobs in the information age where cloud computing is the prevailing technology.
The reskilling also comes when online commerce is the do...
AWS adds Professional Services to its software marketplace
Now customers of Amazon Web Services can purchase third-party professional services from Amazon's online software Marketplace.
AWS Marketplace now enables customers to find and buy Professional Services from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and consulting partners. Customers can choose from a...
AWS unveils new tool for moving data from one data store to another
AWS has launched Glue Elastic Views, a new tool that developers can use to move data from one store to another. During the AWS re:Invent Keynote, the CEO, Andy Jassy, said that Glue Elastic Views is a service that programmers can use to move data in multiple data stores without any trouble.
The ...
AWS launches a new data preparation service for machine learning
Named SageMaker Data Wrangler, Amazon's new service makes it easy for data scientists to prepare data for machine learning training. The company also launched SageMaker Feature Store, available in SageMaker Studio, a relatively new service.
With it, one can name, find, organize, and share ...
AWS unveals managed big data service of Apache Airflow
Amazon Web Services launched a new managed product to help its users conduct data processing workloads in the cloud. The new service is named Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow. Users can deploy the open-source Apache Airflow tool to author, schedule, and monitor data workflows.
The chi...
Amazon launches AWS Gateway Load Balancer aimed at simplifying network traffic inspection
Amazon announced the general availability of a new service named AWS Gateway Load Balancer. A service that makes it easy and cost-effective to deploy, scale and manage the availability of third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and deep packet...
AWS plans to expand its cloud in Switzerland
Amazon Web Services announced that they plan to build a cloud region or data center cluster in Switzerland. The move will support several local companies and the public sector organizations that will use the platform.
The announcement is just another move by AWS to expand in Europe. In recent ye...
AWS announces that EC2 Nitro Enclaves are now generally available
Amazon Web Services announced that it is making AWS Nitro Enclaves generally available. The capability allows users to process sensitive data with ease securely. Nitro Enclaves was first announced as one of three new security products from Amazon last December.
It offers customers the ability to...