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Amazon Invests Another $2.75 Billion Into Anthropic

The GenAI boom last year triggered a desperate scramble among tech companies to adopt the new technology. With such immense potential on the line, an AI arms race is underway. Amazon is spending billions as it looks to g Read more…

AWS Adds ML and Differential Privacy Features to Clean Rooms Service

The digital advertising and marketing industry relies heavily on collecting, storing, and sharing consumer data. The problem with that is that some of the online tools used for handling consumer data can be intrusive and Read more…

AWS Launches New Analytics Engine That Combines the Power Of Vector Search And Graph Data

One of the common debates in the AI circles is whether using graph or vector databases offers more truthful information in generative AI (GenAI) applications. While graph data is great at representing and analyzing compl Read more…

AWS Launches High-Speed Amazon S3 Express One Zone

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a major player in the public cloud space, however, with several other emerging competitors, AWS needs to continue evolving and innovating to continue enjoying the largest slice of the cloud p Read more…

AWS Announces Powerful New Offerings to Accelerate Generative AI Innovation

While the seeds for the machine learning paradigm shift have existed for several decades, it is only recent advancements in ML technologies that have allowed organizations to transform their business. ML technologies hel Read more…

First Open Map Dataset Launched by AWS, Meta, Microsoft-founded Overture Maps Foundation

The Overture Maps Foundation is a geospatial collaborative effort founded by Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom in December 2022. Earlier this week, the organization announced the release of its first open Read more…

Amazon Bedrock: New Suite of Generative AI Tools Unveiled by AWS

AWS has entered the red-hot realm of generative AI with the introduction of a suite of generative AI development tools. The cornerstone of these is Amazon Bedrock, a tool for building generative AI applications using pre Read more…

AWS Announces General Availability of OpenSearch Serverless

Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of its Amazon OpenSearch Serverless service. Unveiled at the company's recent re:Invent conference, this serverless option is meant to drive use cases like websi Read more…

Stormy Skies Ahead? Report Finds 20% of Businesses Intend to Move Workloads From Cloud to On-Prem

Is there an economic storm brewing in the public cloud sector? IT asset management firm Device42 thinks the skies could be darkening. The company has released the results of its Cloud Adoption Survey that found 20% of bu Read more…

AWS Moves Up the Application Stack

Amazon Web Services is no stranger to business applications. After all, it has been running them on its infrastructure service since its founding in 2006, and the AWS Marketplace is full of applications from partners. Bu Read more…

Cloud Cost-Saving Claims Questioned

Does the public cloud help companies save money? While cloud vendors like AWS tout cost savings as a major benefit, the question once again has come up for debate, especially among medium-sized and large companies that h Read more…

SageMaker Bolstered with Better Controls, AI Governance

AWS yesterday unveiled a host of enhancements for Amazon SageMaker, its end-to-end machine learning offering. Among the most prominent capabilities are a collection of new governance tools aimed at keeping ML projects on Read more…

AWS Introduces Amazon Security Lake and AWS Clean Rooms

AWS has introduced two new security services at re:Invent 2022: Amazon Security Lake and AWS Clean Rooms. Amazon Security Lake is a service that automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from cloud a Read more…

AWS Bolsters Glue ETL Tool with Data Observability, Ray Support

AWS has made a big push into data management during re:Invent this week, with the unveiling of DataZone and launch of zero-ETL capabilities in Redshift. But AWS also bolstered its ETL tool with the launch of Amazon Glue Read more…

AWS Seeks an End to ETL

Extract, transform, and load. It’s a simple and ubiquitous thing in IT. And yet everybody seems to hate it. The latest company to pile on to ETL is AWS, which declared an effort to end ETL yesterday at re:Invent. Ad Read more…

AWS Introduces a Flurry of New EC2 Instances at re:Invent

AWS has announced three new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by AWS-designed chips, as well as several new Intel-powered instances at its AWS re:Invent 2022 event in Las Vegas. The first new Read more…

AWS Report Explores the Priorities of Today’s CDO

AWS has released a collaborative research report on the role of the contemporary Chief Data Officer that reflects on how the position and its priorities have evolved. “CDO Agenda 2023: Prioritizing Business Value Creat Read more…

AWS Launches Amazon Neptune Serverless

Amazon Web Services has launched a serverless option for its Neptune graph database service used for building and running applications with highly connected datasets. Neptune's graph database engine is optimized for s Read more…

AWS Announces New Visual Embedding Feature for Amazon QuickSight

AWS has announced a new feature called Fine-Grained Visual Embedding, powered by its cloud-based business intelligence service, Amazon QuickSight. The new feature allows users to embed individual visualizations from Q Read more…

Amazon re:MARS Highlights Intelligence from Shops to Space

Amazon hosted its inaugural re:MARS event back in 2019, with “MARS” here standing for machine learning, automation, robotics, and space. For the past two years, the event has been on hold due to the pandemic—but th Read more…

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