‘Seven open source companies thought about suing AWS’
In February, leaders of seven open-source companies talked about filing a competition case against Amazon Web Services (AWS). That is what the New York Times writes. This would include MongoDB, a data organisation tool for documents.
According to reports, Amazon regularly copies open source apps... Read more
‘Google Cloud has to catch up with Amazon or Microsoft to survive’
Sources at The Information report that Google Cloud has to best Amazon or Microsoft to survive in the cloud market. Allegedly, that is the requirement which the management of Google has imposed on their cloud unit, in order to continue to receive funding.
Google has invested tens of billions in ... Read more
Amazon Kendra makes business data accessible and retrievable
During re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS) presented an enterprise search engine that will excite most companies. Amazon Kendra is an application where you, as a company, can connect all your data sources to index and search them. Kendra can then directly answer questions or show search results. T... Read more
Amazon starts lawsuit against Trump over JEDI contract
Amazon has announced more details about the charges against President Trump, who is alleged to have "exerted undue pressure" to give the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract with the Pentagon to Microsoft rather than to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
AWS has also described a serie... Read more
AWS introduces S3 Access Points for better management of shared data
At re:Invent, Amazon Web Services introduced a new service called Amazon S3 Access Points. The service is designed to help customers manage shared datasets better.
The service allows users to customise the access rules for each application. The idea is to simplify the management and access of da... Read more
Amazon is working on a payment system that uses hands as identification
Amazon is working on a payment system that can use an individual human hand for identification. The payment system must be used in the Whole Foods supermarket chain.
The intention is that the system called Orville will be rolled out in the coming months, suggesting sources with knowledge of the plan... Read more
Amazon Forecast made widely available
Amazon Forecast, a fully managed event forecasting service using machine learning, is now widely available. Predictions about, for example, sales, required infrastructure or power requirements are thus among the possibilities for companies.
Amazon reported this in a press release on Wednesday. Fo... Read more
AWS: Face recognition software Recognition now also recognizes fear
Amazon Web Services' (AWS) facial recognition software Recognition has been updated to recognize a person's fear. The facial analysis function is also more accurate and functionality has been improved.
According to AWS itself, the software could already accurately recognize seven emotions. It's a... Read more
Hundreds of AWS backups leak sensitive data
Various companies, start-ups and governments are leaking their own files from the cloud. This is shown by new research presented at Def Con. The problem lies in the Elastic Block Storage snapshots by AWS.
The Elastic Block Storage (EBS) snapshots are, according to Ben Morris, a security analyst at B... Read more
FTC investigates iPhone deal between Amazon and Apple
The American watchdog Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would investigate a deal between Amazon and Apple. Last year, the two companies concluded a deal to sell Apple iPhones and other products directly through the online store.
With the deal, Apple was able to sell directly via Amazon for the firs... Read more