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Puneet Chandok, AWS India and South Asia head, has resigned
Puneet Chandok, the head of AWS in India and South Asia, has resigned, according to two sources familiar with the matter, a surprise move just weeks after the cloud giant pledged to invest over $12 bi
AWS to invest $12.7 billion in India
Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud business in India by 2030, the e-commerce group said Thursday, as it pushes ahead to scale up the AWS infrastructure in the key overseas market at a
AWS open sources fuzzing tool SnapChange and policy-based access control language Cedar
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new open source projects today, a move designed in part to address concerns around software supply chain security. The Amazon cloud computing subsidiary reve
Security researcher finds trove of Capita data exposed online
London-based outsourcing giant Capita left a trove of data exposed online for seven years, TechCrunch has learned, just weeks after the company admitted to a data breach potentially impacting customer
With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race
Amazon is throwing its hat into the generative AI ring. But rather than build AI models entirely by itself, it’s recruiting third parties to host models on AWS. AWS today unveiled Amazon Bedrock
AWS and Microsoft in UK crosshairs as Ofcom mulls cloud market investigation
U.K. regulator Ofcom is preparing to refer the local cloud infrastructure market for an in-depth investigation, with the practices of Amazon and Microsoft in particular firmly in focus. The news comes
Amazon wants to boost ten generative AI startups around the globe
Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016. Now, seven years later, Amazon has
AWS takes a hit in latest round of Amazon layoffs
When Amazon announced it was laying off another 9,000 employees today, AWS employees were not exempt with Amazon CEO (and former AWS CEO) Andy Jassy announcing the cloud division would be included int
Amazon confirms another round of layoffs, impacting 9,000 people in AWS, Twitch and other units
Amazon has announced yet another substantial round of layoffs, as the internet giant today revealed that a further 9,000 people are set to lose their jobs. In a memo published by CEO Andy Jassy this m
Vantage raises $21M Series A to help bring down cloud costs
Vantage, a startup that helps businesses better understand their cloud infrastructure spend (and automate their savings), today announced that it has raised a $21 million Series A funding round led by
Chainlink’s new platform lets web3 projects connect to Web 2.0 systems like AWS and Meta
Chainlink, a web3 services platform, is launching a self-service, serverless platform to help developers connect their decentralized applications (dApps) or smart contracts to any Web 2.0 API, the com
Mobile carriers team up with AWS, Microsoft to launch Open Gateway, a set of Twilio-like APIs to tap network services
APIs are the building blocks of how the world of technology works: Used to integrate applications with each other, API calls make up the majority of global internet traffic these days. Now, telecoms c
Amazon’s AWS cozies up to carriers, launches 2 services to build and operate networks in the cloud
Amazon has been working on ramping up how it works with telecoms carriers as customers and partners — an ambition pushed in no small part by slowing growth for cloud services overall at AWS and
Choosing a cloud infrastructure provider: A beginner’s guide
It's essential to analyze the tools available before you decide on a cloud infrastructure provider to keep application maturity and running costs in check.
AWS says growth dropped to mid-teens to start new year as customer cost-cutting continues
Yesterday Amazon reported earnings, with AWS growing a modest 20% for the quarter over the prior year to $21 billion. But perhaps even more troubling, the company reported in the earnings call with an
AWS partners with Avalanche to scale blockchain solutions for enterprises, governments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with Ava Labs, the company building out layer-1 blockchain Avalanche, to help scale blockchain adoption across enterprises, institutions and governments, the tw
While Amazon had a rocky year, AWS remains a reliable cash cow
Although Amazon as a whole has hit a bit of a post-peak pandemic rough patch, AWS keeps delivering.
The era of constant innovation at Amazon could be over
Watching AWS re:Invent this week, it was hard to get excited about the announcements, and it seems the age of innovation could be ending.
Amazon CodeCatalyst provides blueprints for collaborative app development
During a keynote at re:Invent 2022 today, Amazon announced CodeCatalyst, a service designed to take away the heavy lifting of working across different codebases, tools and environments to build apps.
Amazon announces Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events from multiple services
As developers use multiple Amazon services to compose an application, they typically have to write glue code to communicate between the different services, which can be a time-consuming manual exercis