Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Amazon.
Amazon is said to have started designing its own network chips. With this, the company wants to solve bottlenecks in its own infrastructure. The design of its own network chips results from the acquisition of Annapurna Labs. Amazon took over this Israeli chip designer in 2015 for 350 million dol... Read more
3 years ago
The move aims to weaken Amazon's opposition to collective bargaining agreements. This week Reuters reported that the German trade union Verdi has called for workers at six Amazon sites in Germany to go on strike. The industrial action will take place over four days in the run-up to Easter, a usu... Read more
3 years ago
Amazon has introduced S3 Object Lambda. It is a tool with which access to certain data can be restricted per application without needing to write extra software. The company is also cutting the price of S3 Glacier. With S3 Object Lambda, developers can more easily split up a dataset for differen... Read more
3 years ago
Amazon has announced a new addition to its EC2 lineup. The X2gd instances offer twice as much memory per virtual processor as their predecessors. X2gd is intended to be the successor to the existing R6g instances. These EC2 instances are based on Amazon's own Arm-based Graviton processors. Amazo... Read more
3 years ago
Shell and the Dutch electricity supplier Eneco have announced that half of the power generated by a future wind farm in the North Sea will be used to provide green electricity to an Amazon server. The two energy companies are building an offshore wind farm in the North Sea called Hollands Kust N... Read more
3 years ago
Jeff Bezos has announced that he is stepping down from his position as CEO of Amazon. AWS CEO Andy Jassy will replace him. However, Bezos will continue to play an important role within Amazon as Executive Chair. In an e-mail to Amazon employees, which was also published on Amazon's news page, Be... Read more
3 years ago
In the process of putting some reins on the power wielded by US Big Tech companies, EU lawmakers have told Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Alphabet that they are willing to push the proposed February 1 hearing to two months later. The European Parliament invited the CEOs of the four biggest tech co... Read more
3 years ago
European Union lawmakers have invited leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet to Brussels to discuss future legislation for major tech companies. The aim of the meeting is to discuss how to tackle problems related to competition and fake news. The EU is working on several laws in this ar... Read more
3 years ago
Amazon is suing the EU's antitrust regulators for allowing Italy's competition watchdog to pursue its own case against the US-based online retail behemoth. The Italian case concerns the way Amazon selects its sellers. Now, the company is arguing that this investigation should be included in the EU'... Read more
3 years ago
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
3 years ago
