AWS
Home Office inks £450m AWS contract
Home Office CTO has highlighted a focus on “streamlining our technology and data estates and unifying systems” and “open source and cloud technologies that are scalable and maintainable.”
AWS
“Folks thought this was nuts” - A re:Invent 2023 recap as AWS gets spacey, chippy, AI-happy
Anyone need 65 exaflops of compute on-demand? Amazon should be able to sort you out...
Amazon
AWS launches AI assistant “Amazon Q”, offers fine tuning for models on Bedrock
"Administrators can also configure allowed topics and blocked topics and words so that the responses are controlled. In addition, administrators can enable or disable the upload file feature for their end users..."
AWS
From Sun Ray, to Fire: With its WorkSpaces Thin Client, can AWS make DaaS hot again?
From Sun Ray, to Fire: With its WorkSpaces Thin Client, can AWS make DaaS hot again?
AWS
AWS reveals new Cost Optimization Hub, adds welcome customisations to Compute Optimizer
A longer "lookback" period of utilisation history, centralised cost savings hub and more. But don't rely on it alone...
AWS
How to Shrink EBS Volumes
"Unfortunately, the size of an existing EBS volume cannot be decreased. Instead, it is possible to create a smaller volume and move the data using tools such as rsync, at the cost of pausing the system’s write operations during the migration..."
AWS
Andy Jassy on AWS’s slowdown and AI’s “three layers”
“It's not all customers deciding to shut down workloads” says Amazon's CEO as cloud growth drops to 12% -- with the company saying customers are recognising that AI costs can also spiral.
AWS
AWS promises European sovereign cloud – doesn’t say when, skimps on details
Announcement leaves AWS lagging Azure and OCI - with Oracle already running sovereign infrastructure in Frankfurt and Madrid with “no backbone network connection to other cloud regions”
AWS
AWS’s S3 data replication falters in US-EAST-1 as hyperscaler tackles "backlog"
" our engineers have been focused on mitigating the impact of the delayed replication through changes made to replication subsystems, resource adjustments and other modifications"
SAP
AWS Systems Manager for SAP goes GA - Do you really want to do that?
Enterprises running – or looking to run – SAP HANA in the cloud have got an improved proposition from AWS, with AWS Systems Manager for SAP generally available (GA) this week and offering new capabilities to operate, manage, and backup SAP applications on AWS more efficiently. AWS Systems Manager for SAP is
Cloud
AWS, Azure face cloud competition probe over concentration, data egress concerns
"High profitability, a concentrated market structure and limited levels of switching are likely indicators that cloud providers are not facing sufficiently strong competitive constraints."
AWS
Amazon swoops on AI hotshot Anthropic with $4 billion
AWS to replace Google Cloud as favoured compute platform and all future Anthropic models to be offered via Amazon Bedrock