AWS makes IoT TwinMaker generally available
AWS made IoT TwinMaker generally available. TwinMaker allows companies to create a digital twin of physical devices and environments.
Companies can develop and build digital versions of physical environments. Digital twins allow users to test the environments without causing downtime. AWS IoT Tw... Read more
AWS plans to expand their market lead
The Amazon Cloud chief is eyeing acquisitions and other ways to increase the tech giant's dominance.
This week Amazon's cloud chief Adam Selipsky told Bloomberg News that the e-commerce giant doesn’t plan to spin off its profitable Amazon Web Services division.
“We have no current plans t... Read more
AWS introduces Workspaces bundles for heavy-duty graphics apps
AWS introduced several new bundles in Amazon Workspaces, its Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) portfolio. The Graphics.g4dn and GraphicsPro.g4dn Workspaces feature instance store technology for local storage capacity.
According to the tech giant, the new Amazon Workspaces bundles are particularly suit... Read more
Microsoft customers complain about restrictive Office licence terms
Customers, consultants and resellers are uneasy with Microsoft because its Office licences impose restrictions and higher costs for running in public cloud environments other than Azure.
In 2019, Microsoft changed the licensing terms for Office and Windows. The fine print of these terms states ... Read more
Europe to introduce a new deeptech research institute
A new computer science and AI institution, supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and DeepMind, is in the works. It is intended to nurture the next generation of deeptech firms and entrepreneurs.
In September 2022, Bulgaria's Sofia University will launch the Institute for Computer Scien... Read more
Community Grants program 2022 launched by the Rust Foundation
The Rust Foundation is offering assistance to its people with its Community Grant Program 2022. Applications open on April 1st, 2022.
The big guns like AWS, Google, and Huawei have allocated the Rust Community Grants Program budget for 2022, amounting to $625,000. The Community Grants Program wi... Read more
Cloud infrastructure giants boosted data center hardware and software spending
Public cloud infrastructure services like AWS, Google, and Microsoft have boosted the sales of data center hardware and software, increasing the profits of data center manufacturers like Cisco and Dell Technologies.
Over the past year, billions have been invested in launching new kits of data ce... Read more
EU’s Vestager says the cloud computing sector doesn’t raise antitrust alarms yet
Europe's Gaia-X program balances the cloud computing market. Amazon and Microsoft dominate the cloud market, trailed by Alphabet's Google, but it does not currently cause competition worries, according to EU antitrust boss Margrethe Vestager.
Demand for cloud computing services has risen dram... Read more
UK data centers get a 2.3 billion dollar AWS investement
Amazon to operate and build data centers in the UK.
On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services announced that they're spending around 2.37 billion USD on operating and building data centers in the UK.
The investment will be made over a period of two years. According to AWS, this move will almost doubl... Read more
MongoDB and AWS combine forces to ease cloud adoption
Strategic collaboration agreement to focus on accelerating customer workload migrations to the cloud
MongoDB and Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced a significant expansion of their multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA). Under this six-year agreement, MongoDB and AWS have ... Read more