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Government says breach to AWS-hosted MoD AI recruitment tool would have "concerning consequences"

AI tool Textio improves job advert language but poses risks due to potential data breaches involving sensitive MoD personnel information.
#generative-ai

Amazon cloud executives share their latest AI strategies, and why choice matters more than owning the top model

Amazon prioritizes customer choice in AI over market dominance.
The new AI models, Nova, aim to enhance diversity in model offerings.

AWS CEO explains Amazon's "any model you want" AI strategy

AWS prioritizes cost, security, and flexibility in generative AI, distinguishing it from competitors like Microsoft and Google.

AWS and SentinelOne offer Purple AI on Amazon Bedrock

The expansion of the SentinelOne and AWS partnership allows for greater flexibility in generative AI deployment and model selection.

Amazon's generative AI business has hit a multi-billion dollar run rate that's reaccelerated cloud growth

Generative AI is driving multi-billion-dollar revenue for Amazon Web Services, accelerating growth and profitability.

Matt Garman taking over as CEO with AWS at crossroads | TechCrunch

Amazon Web Services (AWS) faces a critical juncture with slowing growth and generative AI disruptions.

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Expands Portfolio with Bria AI's Text-to-Image Models

Amazon has expanded its generative AI capabilities by integrating Bria AI's text-to-image models into SageMaker JumpStart.

Amazon cloud executives share their latest AI strategies, and why choice matters more than owning the top model

Amazon prioritizes customer choice in AI over market dominance.
The new AI models, Nova, aim to enhance diversity in model offerings.

AWS CEO explains Amazon's "any model you want" AI strategy

AWS prioritizes cost, security, and flexibility in generative AI, distinguishing it from competitors like Microsoft and Google.

AWS and SentinelOne offer Purple AI on Amazon Bedrock

The expansion of the SentinelOne and AWS partnership allows for greater flexibility in generative AI deployment and model selection.

Amazon's generative AI business has hit a multi-billion dollar run rate that's reaccelerated cloud growth

Generative AI is driving multi-billion-dollar revenue for Amazon Web Services, accelerating growth and profitability.

Matt Garman taking over as CEO with AWS at crossroads | TechCrunch

Amazon Web Services (AWS) faces a critical juncture with slowing growth and generative AI disruptions.

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Expands Portfolio with Bria AI's Text-to-Image Models

Amazon has expanded its generative AI capabilities by integrating Bria AI's text-to-image models into SageMaker JumpStart.
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#cloud-computing

Amazon's AWS unveils new supercomputer with its AI chips in a challenge to Nvidia

Amazon Web Services launches AI chips to challenge Nvidia's market dominance.
Apple becomes a customer for AWS's new Trainium2 AI chips, signaling industry shift.

Anthropic will use AWS AI chips after $4 billion Amazon investment

Amazon is doubling its investment in Anthropic to a total of $8 billion, securing a primary partnership in AI development.

OCI and AWS capabilities released by Oracle | App Developer Magazine

Oracle and AWS launched Oracle Database@AWS, enabling access to Oracle databases on AWS infrastructure for enhanced performance and innovation.

Amazon AWS chief Adam Selipsky to step down

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky stepping down after three years of significant growth and challenges.

Australia to build Top Secret Cloud in AWS for defence users

The Australian government plans to build a Top Secret-rated cloud in partnership with Amazon Web Services, aimed at securely hosting sensitive information for Defence and National Intelligence agencies.

CMA to double spend with AWS while overseeing anti-trust probe into cloud giant | Computer Weekly

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to double cloud spend with AWS over the next 36 months under G-Cloud 13 procurement contract.

Amazon's AWS unveils new supercomputer with its AI chips in a challenge to Nvidia

Amazon Web Services launches AI chips to challenge Nvidia's market dominance.
Apple becomes a customer for AWS's new Trainium2 AI chips, signaling industry shift.

Anthropic will use AWS AI chips after $4 billion Amazon investment

Amazon is doubling its investment in Anthropic to a total of $8 billion, securing a primary partnership in AI development.

OCI and AWS capabilities released by Oracle | App Developer Magazine

Oracle and AWS launched Oracle Database@AWS, enabling access to Oracle databases on AWS infrastructure for enhanced performance and innovation.

Amazon AWS chief Adam Selipsky to step down

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky stepping down after three years of significant growth and challenges.

Australia to build Top Secret Cloud in AWS for defence users

The Australian government plans to build a Top Secret-rated cloud in partnership with Amazon Web Services, aimed at securely hosting sensitive information for Defence and National Intelligence agencies.

CMA to double spend with AWS while overseeing anti-trust probe into cloud giant | Computer Weekly

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to double cloud spend with AWS over the next 36 months under G-Cloud 13 procurement contract.
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#ai

One of Amazon's top AI executives is out

Matt Wood's departure from AWS after 15 years reflects ongoing executive turnover and challenges amid intense AI competition.
His time at AWS focused on AI advancements, hinting at future ventures to continue innovation.

Lumen and AWS Leverage Generative AI to Optimized Network Operations

Lumen partners with AWS to enhance cloud technology connectivity and support AI-driven innovations.
The collaboration is expected to impact millions of customers positively.

One of Amazon's top AI executives is out

Matt Wood's departure from AWS after 15 years reflects ongoing executive turnover and challenges amid intense AI competition.
His time at AWS focused on AI advancements, hinting at future ventures to continue innovation.

Lumen and AWS Leverage Generative AI to Optimized Network Operations

Lumen partners with AWS to enhance cloud technology connectivity and support AI-driven innovations.
The collaboration is expected to impact millions of customers positively.
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AWS CDK flaw exposed accounts to full takeover

AWS fixed a significant vulnerability in its Cloud Development Kit that could lead to account hijacking for a small percentage of users.

Amazon Web Services CEO doubles down on RTO mandate saying it's far better for 'innovation' and 'speed of execution'

Amazon Web Services' CEO believes in-office work enhances innovation and collaboration, supporting a return-to-office mandate starting January.
#nuclear-energy

Amazon to invest in 3 nuclear plants as it scrambles to power AI programs

Amazon Web Services invests in nuclear energy projects to support AI energy demands with small modular reactors.

Amazon Is Going Nuclear, Joining Big Tech in Energy Race | Entrepreneur

Amazon is advancing its net-zero carbon goal by supporting nuclear energy projects, including deploying small modular reactors (SMRs) in collaboration with Energy Northwest.

Amazon to invest in 3 nuclear plants as it scrambles to power AI programs

Amazon Web Services invests in nuclear energy projects to support AI energy demands with small modular reactors.

Amazon Is Going Nuclear, Joining Big Tech in Energy Race | Entrepreneur

Amazon is advancing its net-zero carbon goal by supporting nuclear energy projects, including deploying small modular reactors (SMRs) in collaboration with Energy Northwest.
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AWS to pay $30.5M in P2P networking patent dispute

Amazon Web Services must pay $30.5 million for willful infringement of two networking patents owned by Acceleration Bay.
#artificial-intelligence

In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past

Developers may need to adapt to new skills as AI technology advances.
The nature of coding jobs could change significantly over the next few years.

Amazon software engineers may be forced to find jobs besides coding thanks to AI: Cloud chief

Amazon software engineers may focus less on coding due to AI advancements, according to AWS CEO Matt Garman.

In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past

Developers may need to adapt to new skills as AI technology advances.
The nature of coding jobs could change significantly over the next few years.

Amazon software engineers may be forced to find jobs besides coding thanks to AI: Cloud chief

Amazon software engineers may focus less on coding due to AI advancements, according to AWS CEO Matt Garman.
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Natural History Museum partners with AWS to restore and protect urban nature | Computer Weekly

The Natural History Museum is partnering with Amazon Web Services to develop a new Data Ecosystem cloud platform for biodiversity data collection and sharing.

Ring camera features are down due to AWS problems

Amazon Web Services reported issues in the US-EAST-1 region affecting services like Ring, with no estimated restoration time.

Amazon stock rises as Q1 earnings top estimates with $143.3B in revenue; AWS sales up 17%

Amazon exceeded Q1 revenue and earnings per share estimates, driven by Amazon Web Services and advertising growth.

Weekly AI Recap: Meta unveils Llama 3, Claude 3 Opus gets added to Amazon Bedrock

Meta released Llama 3 with 8bn and 70bn parameters, aiming for state-of-the-art performance and improved reasoning.

AWS Lambda : Delete old EBS snapshots using Boto3

AWS Lambda allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers.
Lambda can be used for a variety of applications and backend services with zero administration.

Measure the performance of your hybrid network with New Relic and AWS CloudWatch Network Monitor

Network monitoring is crucial for ensuring reliability and security.
New Relic has integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor to troubleshoot connectivity issues in hybrid networks.
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Amazon's $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes

Amazon has released a new version of its Fire TV Cube streaming device that can function as a thin client for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The Fire TV Cube thin client is aimed at businesses with high employee turnover, such as call centers and payment processing centers, where expensive work-issued devices can be difficult to recover.
The thin client runs on the same hardware as the Fire TV Cube entertainment device, including an Arm processor with 8 cores and 2GB of RAM, and both devices run on an Android-based software stack.

How a push to the cloud helped a Ukrainian bank keep faith with customers amid war

The Ukrainian government migrated critical data to Amazon Web Services cloud to preserve digital services during the Russian invasion.
PrivatBank also migrated data to AWS to protect the financial system in Ukraine.

AWS turns Amazon's Fire TV Cube into a thin client

Amazon Web Services has announced the WorkSpaces Thin Client, a device dedicated to connecting to its WorkSpaces desktop-as-a-service offering.
The Thin Client is based on Amazon's Fire Cube smart TV box and runs a modified cut of Android.
AWS decided to base the Thin Client on the Fire Cube to provide a cheaper and easier-to-maintain client device.

Amazon's $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes

Amazon has released a new version of its Fire TV Cube streaming device that can function as a thin client for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The Fire TV Cube thin client is aimed at businesses with high employee turnover, such as call centers and payment processing centers, where expensive work-issued devices can be difficult to recover.
The thin client runs on the same hardware as the Fire TV Cube entertainment device, including an Arm processor with 8 cores and 2GB of RAM, and both devices run on an Android-based software stack.

How a push to the cloud helped a Ukrainian bank keep faith with customers amid war

The Ukrainian government migrated critical data to Amazon Web Services cloud to preserve digital services during the Russian invasion.
PrivatBank also migrated data to AWS to protect the financial system in Ukraine.

AWS turns Amazon's Fire TV Cube into a thin client

Amazon Web Services has announced the WorkSpaces Thin Client, a device dedicated to connecting to its WorkSpaces desktop-as-a-service offering.
The Thin Client is based on Amazon's Fire Cube smart TV box and runs a modified cut of Android.
AWS decided to base the Thin Client on the Fire Cube to provide a cheaper and easier-to-maintain client device.
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AWS Launches New Chips for AI Training and Its Own AI Chatbot

AWS announced new generations of its Graviton and Trainium chips, offering better compute performance and memory bandwidth for cloud workloads and AI model training.
Amazon Bedrock, the foundation model building service, introduced new features including Agents, Custom models, and Guardrails to help organizations customize and control their AI content.

AWS users are getting a big security boost with passkey support

AWS is introducing FIDO2 passkeys as an MFA option to enhance security measures for user accounts.
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