Amazon is reportedly set to invest nearly $1.3 billion on tech projects in France. The eCommerce giant is one of several global companies poised to announce new foreign investments in France this week, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (May 12). French President Emmanuel Macron will host 180 CEOs and executives at the Château de Versailles on …
Amazon.com plans to spend US$9 billion to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Singapore, the latest global technology company to boost investment in Southeast Asia. The outlay, to be done over the next four years, doubles the investment of subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Singapore and helps it meet growing customer demand for cloud …
Amazon reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2024, as the company doubles down on its artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives and sees a resurgence in its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The eCommerce giant’s net sales increased 13% year-over-year to $143.3 billion, while operating income jumped to $15.3 billion from $4.8 billion in the …
AWS recently announced the availability of the Internet Weather Map, a new feature of CloudWatch that displays a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages. This new map offers a worldwide perspective on Internet conditions, allowing users to zoom in and analyze performance and availability problems in specific cities or with particular service …
Kathryn Van Nuys Amazon Web Services For climate startups focused on cutting-edge science and in need of costly high-performance computing power, just producing a proof of concept (POC) is a long slog. That’s where Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) new Computer for Climate Fellowship comes in. A joint initiative with UNESCO, it funds entrepreneurs working in …
The rivalry between Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS is legendary in cloud computing. A seasoned tech analyst, Ted Anderson, recently took to his YouTube channel to delve into this heated competition, revealing five critical areas where Azure unexpectedly outshines AWS. Anderson, who has spent a decade navigating both platforms, emphasized that while both services have …
Since ChatGPT proved a consumer hit, a gold rush has set off for AI in Silicon Valley. Investors are intrigued by companies promising generative AI will transform the world, and companies seek workers with the skills to bring them into the future. The frenzy may be cooling down in 2024, but AI skills are still …
Sitting in the stands of Cameron Indoor, where the energy moves like nowhere else, my love for NCAA basketball, particularly the Duke Blue Devils, grew. It’s more than a game; it’s part of who I am. And I’m not alone. Per the NCAA, Thursday’s games alone averaged 8.5 million viewers, making it the most-watched opening …
When Amazon announced Wednesday that it had showered the hot AI startup Anthropic with an additional $2.75 billion to complete the $4 billion investment it had announced last fall, the company positioned the news as a royal win. Amazon’s AWS, the king of cloud computing (with nearly a third of global market share), was deepening …
Verizon, working with its 5G Future Forum (5GFF) peers and Amazon Web Services (AWS), released a whitepaper introducing a new approach for using a Bi-Directional API model to enable developers to go to market faster with more innovative and resilient applications. The whitepaper, “Bi-Directional APIs: Advancing MEC”, is a joint effort involving 5GFF members Telstra, …