Tech giants collaborate to establish Trusted Cloud Principles
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, Atlassian, SAP, and Cisco combined efforts to establish Trusted Cloud Principles. This collaboration fulfills the companies’ promise of safeguarding the rights of their users.
The tech giants established the Trusted Cloud Principles to protect the in...
Amazon launches QuickSight Q for Business Intelligence
The service uses a natural language query tool that makes it easier for users to ask questions.
Known simply as "Q", the tool allows a company’s employees to ask business questions using natural language. For example: "How many customers bought product X and in which month did they make the p...
Amazon EKS Anywhere is now generally available
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of its Amazon EKS Anywhere service. The service is an extension of the managed Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services which allows users to run Kubernetes on AWS without having to install, operate, and maintain a Kubernetes control plane or nodes.
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Windows Subsystem for Android app available in Microsoft Store
The Android Subsystem for Windows may be available to Microsoft Insider testers sooner rather than later.
Microsoft is planning to roll out Windows 11 on October 5. However, one key feature that will not be included in the rollout is support for Android apps. Instead, the company has promised it...
AWS Announces general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Customers can now run fully managed NetApp ONTAP file storage on AWS.
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. The new storage service allows customers to launch and run fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud.
ONTAP is NetApp’s fil...
Amazon MemoryDB by AWS is now generally available
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a managed in-memory database the company says will simplify the application development process. Enterprise applications have different data access speed requirements.
For instance, a revenue forecasting tool ma...
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...
Amazon shuts down accounts and cloud infrastructure related to NSO Group
Amazon Web Services has shut down cloud infrastructure and accounts linked to the Israeli-based NSO group according to a news report by VICE on Monday.
Recent reports from The Washington Post and other publications revealed that NSO Group’s spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of...
EU lawmaker’s proposals for tougher tech laws in the bloc gets backing
A pivotal EU lawmaker in the European Parliament leading the debate on stricter rules aimed at tech giants (Facebook, Google, Amazon) and other similar platforms, now has the backing to tighten the bloc's citizens' fundamental rights in the draft rules.
The Digital Services Act, which was propos...
Big brands come together against Amazon’s empire in France
A collective of powerful brands (including Heineken and L'Oréal) have won the first round in a legal battle against Amazon, concerning contracts made with the e-commerce giant. A French court ruled against the US giant’s efforts to delay the case, in a ruling given on June 22.
According to de...
Tech Leaders have a new strategy to create tech giants in Europe
Will they ever give Amazon, Facebook, Google and Twitter a literal run for their money?
As we reported yesterday, 2020 is proving to be a banner year for EU tech startups. European tech firms are seeing massive growth in funding, and that is also fueling growth. The performance in this sector is...
Amazon launches ‘bug bust’ initiative
Amazon Web Services is trying to entice developers to build better software with minimal bugs, through the launch of its global AWS BugBust competition. The idea is to get developers to compete to find and fix more than a million software bugs before the end of this year.
The developers who find...