Google expands its infrastructure into Asia-Pacific and Europe
Google Cloud Platform is a public cloud vendor that lets you rent computer resources from Google's data centers across the world. You can access these for free or on an hourly basis with other competitors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure!
Google Cloud Platform is helping bus... Read more
AWS Cloud Control API simplifies interaction with 100+ AWS services
AWS grew to more than 200 services in 15 years. Each service has a specific API, which complicates API interaction when developing through multiple services. To tackle the challenge, Amazon is introducing the Cloud Control API. Five operations - 'CreateResource', 'GetResource', 'UpdateResource', 'D... Read more
AWS launches outbound communications for Amazon Connect
Amazon Web Services announced the launch of its automated outbound communications for call centers in preview, as its Amazon Connect service picks up momentum. The cloud provider said that its platform, Amazon Connect, now supports more than 10 million contact center interactions daily.
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Google will take smaller cut from revenues on cloud marketplace
Alphabet's Google announced it will take a smaller cut when customers buy from other vendors on the search giant's cloud marketplace. Google Cloud Platform is cutting its percentage revenue share to 3% from 20%.
The goal, according to a Google Cloud spokesperson in a statement is to provide Goog... Read more
Amazon adds new “native” scanning capability to AWS Comprehend
The platform can now scan documents in native MS Word and Adobe PDF formats.
Amazon Web Services announced this week that they have added new features to their Amazon Comprehend service. Specifically, Comprehend now boasts the ability to extract custom details from documents in their native form... Read more
AWS announces new generation of x86-based compute instances
Amazon Web Services is adding a new generation of Intel x86-based compute options to its series of general-purpose EC2 compute instances. The new Amazon EC2 M6i instances the company announced should give users a better balance of network resources, storage, memory and compute.
The instances are... Read more
AWS and Salesforce join forces to make application projects easier
The tech giants recently announced that they are building integrations that will connect many of their cloud products with one another.
Amazon Web Services have unveiled their collaboration with Salesforce Inc. to develop integrations for connecting their cloud products. This collaboration serve... Read more
Amazon Web Services and Ferrari enter an agreement on data
Ferrari has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS) their artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud storage provider. This is to aid the design and testing of their cars and launch their fan engagement platform.
Amazon Web Services has agreed to be luxury carmaker Ferrari's provider ... Read more
AWS increasingly replacing Intel Xeon chips with self-made ARM chips
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still the largest hyperscaler with the widest cloud offering. The development of its cloud portfolio started with standard Intel Xeon server chips (x86), but in recent years AWS has been rapidly developing its own ARM chips that more or less replace Intel.
A while ag... Read more
Amazon’s AWS opens its first office in Greece
Amazon’s cloud computing division, AWS, has opened its first office in Greece. The official opening happened on Friday and aims to support AWS's goal; to grow the number of companies and public sector agencies that use its cloud services.
In Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotaki is ramping... Read more