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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. [ more ]

ComputerWeekly.com

2 days ago

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. [ more ]

Fortune

2 weeks ago

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. [ more ]

Entrepreneur

4 months ago

Master the World of Cloud Computing with This $25 AWS Bundle | Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs have leveraged cloud computing for managing customer relationships, project management, and data storage.

The 2024 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner & Architect Certification Bundle provides comprehensive training on AWS cloud computing. [ more ]

Nextgov.com

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. [ more ]

Ars Technica

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. [ more ]

Theregister

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. [ more ]

ComputerWeekly.com

AWS to offer free AI training courses to two million people by 2025 | Computer Weekly

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to providing two million people with free AI skills training by 2025.

The AI Ready skills initiative aims to make AI education accessible to anyone with a desire to learn.

The demand for AI-savvy workers is high, but employers are struggling to recruit the talent they need. [ more ]

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GeekWire

2 weeks ago

Tech industry

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. [ more ]

The Drum

3 weeks ago

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. [ more ]

New Relic

3 months ago

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. [ more ]

Medium

6 months ago

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. [ more ]

TechRepublic