Amazon adds new “native” scanning capability to AWS Comprehend
The platform can now scan documents in native MS Word and Adobe PDF formats.
Amazon Web Services announced this week that they have added new features to their Amazon Comprehend service. Specifically, Comprehend now boasts the ability to extract custom details from documents in their native form...
Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon Web Services fulfilled its commitment to rename Amazon Elasticsearch Services, now Amazon OpenSearch Service. The name change was necessary because AWS and Elasticsearch BV had a falling out caused by the licensing of the Elasticsearch open-source software and pocketing the profits from its ...
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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AWS achieves cryptographic perfection using quantum computers
A researcher from AWS synthesized the power of Rigetti and IonQ quantum processors to facilitate the creation of much-improved arbitrarily-generated cryptography. This research can be groundbreaking for advanced encryption procedures.
The fusion of Rigetti and IonQ technology
A researcher fro...
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...
AWS makes cloud observability simpler with Amazon Managed Grafana
Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon Managed Grafana is now generally available. An observability service to help enterprises monitor their infrastructure and apps for technical problems.
The service is a managed implementation of the open-source Grafana platform. AWS built the platform in ...
Tech giants promise Biden massive new cybersecurity investments
Following a meeting at the White House, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and IBM promise to increase cyber security capabilities.
This week US President Biden met with private sector and education leaders to discuss what they call a "whole-of-nation effort" needed to address cybersecurity threa...
AWS enhances cloud backup capabilities with AWS Backup Audit Manager
Amazon Web Services launched AWS Backup Audit Manager to offer companies a tool they can use to check if their data protection processes work as intended and comply with regulations.
Enterprises regularly create backup copies of their data to prepare for the risk that some information may become...
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...
Microsoft protests awarding $10B NSA cloud contract to AWS
After going back and forth for years over the $10 billion decade-long JEDI cloud contract, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services eventually hit a wall when the former lost the deal it had initially won. There is another $10-billion cloud contract in the crosshairs.
This time, Microsoft is protesting...
Splunk spots Monero crypto-mining malware on Windows Servers on AWS
Splunk, the data analysis firm, reported a resurgence of the Crypto botnet, a type of malware that attacks virtual servers running Windows Server inside Amazon Web Services. Splunk’s Threat Research Team (STRT) posted an analysis of the attack on Monday
In the report, it is thought that the at...
Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics adds AI and ML to customer care
Amazon Web Services is enhancing its AWS Contact Center Intelligence by adding a new transcription analytics tool designed to make insights surfaced from customer conversations significantly better.
Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is the given name for the machine learning-powered application p...