AWS rolls out expanded cloud compute offering
New service palette includes new EC2 instances and Outposts edge appliances.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week extended both the scope and the reach of its industry leading cloud computing services. The company announced five new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and two new ... Read more
Apple and Amazon declined for French initiative “Tech for Good Call”
Amazon and Apple have not signed up to the new French initiative to get global tech giants to comply with principles that include the fair payment of taxes while publicly acknowledging that fact. Government officials confirmed this refusal on Monday.
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has be... Read more
AWS makes Graph Notebook open source to make graph database analysis easier
Amazon Web Services' latest open source project is called Graph Notebook, enabling data scientists to analyze and visualize information stored in their companies' databases. Graph Notebook is made using software components developed for Amazon Neptune, a managed graph database service.
The proje... Read more
Amazon Translate makes translations more personal
Amazon has released a new version of its translation machine. The Translate software has a new feature that allows users to change the translation style based on previous translations.
The new feature is called Active Custom Translation (ACT). Users can add parallel data (PD), containing example... Read more
EU digital chief talks to tech giants about upcoming DSA & DMA rules
An EU official announced that the European Union's digital chief has invited companies like Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook for video meetings next week. They will talk about the drafting of rules to curb the companies' powers.
Tech companies and online platforms have lobbied very hard to ... Read more
Amazon Web Services APIs could be exploited to steal user data
Attackers can abuse APIs to leak user identities and Access Management info.
Unit 42 researchers have discovered a class of Amazon Web Services (AWS) APIs that are vulnerable to abuse. The abuse by attackers could leak the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles in arbitrary acc... Read more
Amazon Textract adds new languages and handwriting extraction
Five new languages are supported, as well as extraction of handwriting data in English
Amazon this week announced two new features for Amazon Textract. First they have added support for handwriting in English documents. Amazon have also expanded language support for extracting printed text from ... Read more
Amazon charged for anti-competitive action
The EU has charged Amazon for thwarting competition in the online shopping market. The company is said to have an unfair advantage over third parties selling through Amazon when selling its own products through its platform.
According to the European Commission, Amazon uses the data and statisti... Read more
Amazon launches AWS Gateway Load Balancer aimed at simplifying network traffic inspection
Amazon announced the general availability of a new service named AWS Gateway Load Balancer. A service that makes it easy and cost-effective to deploy, scale and manage the availability of third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and deep packet... Read more
AWS announces servers with Nvidia A100 GPUs
Amazon has powered up a series of new servers, ready to be rented out to customers. De servers are equipped with Nvidia A100 GPU clusters, powered by Intel Cascade Lake processors.
The servers carry the P4 name and are the successors of the G4 generation. They each consist of eight Nvidia A100 T... Read more