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... Read more
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... Read more
Amazon performed 300,000 database migrations from competitors
AWS claims they have lured many customers away from database-vendor Oracle. Oracle is the market leader in enterprise data warehouses.
Last week Amazon Web Services announced a new milestone. They now claim to have migrated over 300,000 customer databases away from competitors and to their own C... Read more
Cohesity partners with AWS to deliver “Data Management as a Service”
Cohesity will use Amazon's Cloud services to offer customers a dynamic DMaaS solution.
Cohesity announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services to transform their data management offering into a Cloud-based service.
“Cohesity and AWS are also focused on helping customers derive v... Read more
AWS makes its own CPUs the default for ElastiCache
Amazon's in-house developed ARM-powered Graviton2 processors will now be the default for its ElastiCache in-memory data store service.
Last week Amazon Web Services made an official announcement of the launch of ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached on Graviton2 M6g and R6g instance families.
E... Read more
The new AWS’s EBS performance gets a boost from io2 volumes
AWS (Amazon Web Services) has announced the new storage service's release with more durability and IOP per GiB, dubbed io2. It is faster than io1 and will be available at the same price. Jeff Barr, the chief evangelist at AWS, said that io2 volumes designs are specifically tailored to deliver 99.99... Read more
AWS Bottlerocket container OS generally available
AWS has made its AWS Bottlerocket operating system, developed for containers, generally available. The special open-source operating system should make container management safer and easier.
AWS Bottlerocket should distinguish itself from the traditional Linux-based business operating systems. T... Read more
Amazon in talks with Apollo to invest in Rackspace Technology
Amazon is in the early stages of a plan to invest in Rackspace Technology. People close to the deal said that the agreement would involve Amazon acquiring a minority stake in Rackspace. Rackspace is in the business of helping companies migrate to the cloud.
The deal could be a great way to soli... Read more
Amazon commits more than $10 billion to Project Kuiper
Project Kuiper is an initiative led by Amazon that will set up 3,236 satellites in low-Earth orbit for internet connectivity. Amazon reported on Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had granted the regulatory approval to launch Project Kuiper while providing other details conce... Read more
Amazon Releases Its New Interactive Video Service
Amazon has made its new Interactive Video Service (IVS) available to developers. This utility will allow for cheaper and easy-to-set-up interactive video streams both on mobile and web applications. Amazon Web Services said that the IVS enables the user to stream a live channel through its main con... Read more