“Microsoft prohibits internal use Slack and discourages use of AWS.
Microsoft would have a list of software and services whose internal use has been banned or discouraged. That list includes software such as Slack, Google Docs and Amazon Web Services (AWS). That's what GeekWire reports, who got hold of the list.
The list includes services that Microsoft competes wi... Read more
AWS makes Amazon Personalize widely available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made Amazon Personalize widely available to all its customers. Announced at re:Invent last November, Amazon Personalize is an API for working with machine learning without the need for a developer to have experience.
With Amazon Personalize, developers can add their own... Read more
AWS makes new IOT services and managed Kafka solution widely available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that several new services announced at the re:Invent conference in November last year have been made publicly available. It concerns two internet of things (IoT) services and a managed Kafka solution.
One of the solutions is IoT Things Graph, reports Silicon ... Read more
AWS Ground Station for satellite data has become widely available
AWS Ground Station is now widely available. The service is designed to help AWS customers access and manage data from satellites. That's what Venturebeat reports.
AWS made Ground Station available as a preview in November last year. However, the service is now open to all AWS users. The service inc... Read more
AWS updates SageMaker Ground Truth to simplify ML training
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to make machine learning tasks a little easier. That's what Silicon Angle reports.
SageMaker Ground Truth is a set of tools designed to work with Amazon SageMaker, which were unveiled last year. SageMaker is a service used by devel... Read more
AWS and Ford work on cloud services for connected cars
Ford and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have entered into a partnership to establish a global cloud-based service for autonomous and connected cars. That's what Silicon Angle reports.
The two companies state that they will work together to create "innovative mobility services and distinctive user experi... Read more
Google Cloud challenges AWS with new open source integrations
Google has announced to collaborate with a number of major open source data management and analytics companies, to integrate their products into the Google Cloud Platform and offer them as managed services. These are Confluent, DataStax, Elastic, InfluxData, MongoDB, Neo4j and Redis Labs.
According ... Read more
AI investigators ask AWS to stop selling Recognition to police
A group of over twenty artificial intelligence (AI) researchers within the tech and academic world has asked Amazon Web Services (AWS) to stop selling the facial recognition software Recognition to the police.
Critics of police use of rekognition include Yoshua Bengio, who recently won the Turing Aw... Read more
“Data 540 million Facebook users leaked by misconfiguration.
The data of at least 540 million Facebook users - and possibly more - were found to be publicly available through misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances. That's what security researchers from UpGuard found out. Most of the data was leaked through the Mexican media company Cultura Colectiv... Read more
AWS makes Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive widely available
Amazon Web services (AWS) has made Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive widely available. This is a new class of storage that provides secure, durable object storage for the long-term storage of data that is hardly used.
The storage class costs only $0.00099 per GB per month, making S3 Glacier Deep Archi... Read more