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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Tech giants manage corona pandemic better than smaller rivals
Several tech companies published their quarterly results this week. The figures show that Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet have recorded strong growth in advertising sales despite the corona crisis. Microsoft also had a good quarter.
Twitter
Twitter was less successful, noting fewe...
EU working on criteria to distinguish tech giants
Margrethe, European Commissioner for Competition, is working on a set of criteria to determine when a company can be defined as dominant. Such companies will have to comply with stricter legislation.
The legislation is mainly intended to keep tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google i...