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• April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20

  COVID-19 ups the fight against Amazon package 'porch pirates'

  Many unlucky online shoppers have fallen prey to 'porch pirates' who steal packages from outside their homes. It's a problem that could be exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• April 06, 2020 06 Apr'20

  Amazon bets big on last mile delivery service improvements

  Amazon has made a significant investment in building out its last mile delivery services to grab a piece of the growing grocery delivery market.

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Coronavirus disruption frays Amazon supply chain

  Even as orders increase, disruption from the new coronavirus outbreak could have big consequences for smaller, third-party sellers on Amazon, as they will be punished for stock outages.

• January 24, 2020 24 Jan'20

  New themed Amazon pop-up stores built on consumer data

  In its never-ending quest to establish unique physical locations, Amazon has plans to launch a chain of themed pop-up stores that will focus on a specific product category or trend.

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  AWS security faces challenges after a decade of dominance

  After a decade of dominating the public cloud market and influencing cloud security, AWS is faced with new challenges stemming from old problems and increasing competition.

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• December 31, 2019 31 Dec'19

  AWS month in review: An AWS re:Invent recap of overlooked roll outs

  It's almost impossible to keep up with all the services and capabilities AWS trots out for its annual re:Invent conference. Catch up on Amazon cloud updates you missed with this AWS re:Invent recap.

• December 30, 2019 30 Dec'19

  AWS AI tools focus on developers

  AWS sells many AI products, tools and services aimed at developers, including several for AI newcomers, such as DeepRacer, DeepLens and DeepComposer.

• December 23, 2019 23 Dec'19

  Amazon healthcare strategy is built on pilot projects

  Amazon may be known as an online retail giant. But the company has its sights set on something else: healthcare.

• December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19

  How Amazon HR influences hiring trends

  Amazon recently reached the 750,000 employee mark. As the company gets larger, so does its potential to shape wages and hiring. But its HR influence is a matter of debate.

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  AWS storage changes the game inside, outside data centers

  Long-term influence of Amazon storage centers on S3 API for object systems and extends to pricing, data durability and IT infrastructure planning and decision-making.

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  How Amazon customer experience became e-commerce standard

  Amazon made personalization, one-click shopping, quick shipping and easy returns de facto standards for all B2C and now, B2B businesses. Read about how the company did it, and what's next.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Government Amazon antitrust inquiries scrutinize market dominance

  The federal government and states are examining whether Amazon stifles competition and violates antitrust laws. The inquiries could result in action such as breakup of the tech giant.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Amazon's growth strategy could target 5 key markets

  Amazon could move well beyond its core e-commerce and cloud services businesses in pursuit of growth, targeting markets such as publishing, health care and travel.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Amazon supply chain model disrupts entire industry

  Amazon has conditioned consumers to get goods as quickly as possible, which has affected the global supply chain industry from top to bottom, including inventory management and logistics.

• December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19

  Amazon stores struggle to move from the cloud to solid ground

  Looking for new kingdoms to conquer, Amazon is aggressively moving into physical retail locations. This time the e-commerce giant may face tougher competition.

• December 10, 2019 10 Dec'19

  AWS seeks niche in the cloud UC market

  AWS could play a bigger role in the cloud UC market in 2020 and beyond by targeting developers and existing AWS customers.

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  National Australia Bank cashes in on AWS training and certification

  Structured training got nearly 1,000 National Australia Bank employees certified on AWS, while AWS-honed tactics such as two-pizza teams can help enterprises build up cloud know-how.

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  New AWS cost management tool, instance tactics to cut cloud bills

  AWS users like Lyft and Salesforce have figured out how to keep their cloud costs as low as possible, and a new cloud management tool from Amazon aims to help others do the same.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS Outposts brings hybrid cloud support -- but only for Amazon

  AWS hybrid cloud support has arrived with the release of Outposts, but Amazon takes a different tack on multi-cloud and forbids co-branding partners from so much as using the term.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS moves into quantum computing services with Braket

  Amazon joined IBM, Google and Microsoft in the emerging quantum computing market this week with the Amazon Braket managed service along with a new quantum computing research center.

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  AWS month in review: Explore the CloudFormation CLI, Savings Plans

  This month, Amazon added the AWS CloudFormation CLI and registry, which should increase the scope of resources supported in CloudFormation. The cloud provider also added a Savings Plan pricing ...

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  AWS rejects Elasticsearch trademark lawsuit claims

  AWS' response to Elasticsearch's trademark infringement lawsuit denies the allegations, but experts say a settlement is likely and justifiably in the cards.

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  AWS month in review: Amazon rolls out RDS on VMware, loses JEDI deal

  This month, AWS expanded its hybrid cloud capabilities with RDS on VMware but lost out on the JEDI cloud contract. It also added new EC2 instances with larger network and memory capacity.

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  AWS launches RDS on VMware as hybrid cloud picture evolves

  VMware customers can now run AWS' Relational Database Service in their on-premises clusters, in a move that provides another option for hybrid cloud computing.

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  AWS' open source entreaties now include cloud credits

  AWS will offer promotional cloud credits to open source project maintainers that meet certain criteria. The move comes after repeated tensions with some companies.

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  Amazon wraps Oracle to AWS migration, looks to poach workloads

  Amazon has moved its consumer division's IT operations off of Oracle's database and onto AWS services, a towering effort that gives it a calling card to attract highly critical enterprise workloads.

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  AWS ups the ante to win SAP cloud ERP workloads

  New AWS high-memory instances geared for SAP ERP implementations reflect an ongoing push by hyperscalers for these lucrative workloads. But many SAP customers are early in their move to the cloud.

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement

  In a new lawsuit, Elasticsearch alleges that AWS committed trademark infringement and false advertising in connection with services associated with Elasticsearch, the popular search and analytics platform.

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  AWS updates: Amazon QLDB hits, S3 expands, new instances arrive

  This month AWS finally went live with Amazon QLDB. The AWS ledger database is another way for users to tailor data storage to their needs on the platform. AWS also introduced same-region S3 ...

• September 13, 2019 13 Sep'19

  New details emerge about AWS Outposts as launch nears

  AWS Outposts will ship later this year. In advance of that launch, AWS has given customers a sense of what they can expect from the first release of the private, on-premises version of its public cloud infrastructure.

• August 30, 2019 30 Aug'19

  AWS month in review: AWS time series forecasting service is GA

  In August, Amazon Forecast, an AWS time series forecasting service, and Lake Formation became available to all users. The services should improve users' machine learning and data lake capabilities ...

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Globe and Mail's AWS migration drives digital engagement

  Canadian news outlet The Globe and Mail has broadly adopted AWS cloud services in a bid to increase reader engagement and digital subscription revenue.

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  Amazon's PartiQL query language eyes all data sources

  PartiQL, a multisource query language developed internally at Amazon, is now open sourced under Apache 2.0, and may benefit enterprises with complex data-management needs.

• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  AWS CloudFormation public roadmap released after user gripes

  AWS CloudFormation users now have a public roadmap, which should help them plan use of the infrastructure-as-code tool. But AWS hasn't promised faster CloudFormation development.

• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  AWS month in review: Orlando drops AWS facial recognition program

  The city of Orlando's termination of its Amazon Rekognition pilot was a blow to the much criticized AWS facial recognition in law enforcement agenda. However, AWS did improve some bread and butter ...

• July 26, 2019 26 Jul'19

  AWS Chatbot tool advances AWS' DevOps capabilities

  ChatOps has become a pillar of DevOps in recent years. To that end, AWS has rolled out a managed chatbot service that integrates with Slack and Chime.

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  AWS expands its cloud cost optimization portfolio

  AWS customers have long bemoaned its complexity, which can lead to inadvertent costs. Now AWS has a recommendation tool to help them optimize their EC2 instances for cost and performance.

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Amazon's Werner Vogels talks AWS Outposts, innovation

  Amazon CTO Werner Vogels talks about the company's Outposts hybrid cloud hardware, how AWS approaches innovation and future plans for cloud cost containment.

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on transparency, developers, multi-cloud

  In this Q&A, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels dishes on transparency, technology roadmaps, developers, multi-cloud and more.

• July 11, 2019 11 Jul'19

  AWS Summit widens net with services for containers, devs

  AWS' latest crop of tools monitors container clusters on its services and simplifies developers' use of preferred IDEs and languages, backed by an emphasis on security.

• June 28, 2019 28 Jun'19

  Cybersecurity pros at AWS re:Inforce urged to embrace data storytelling

  Robust data coupled with the power of metaphors can help cybersecurity teams tell stories that get the rest of the business on board with new security initiatives and prepare for security crises.

• June 28, 2019 28 Jun'19

  AWS re:Inforce bares financial firms' cloud security challenges

  Cloud security concerns have ebbed among financial services providers, as the panoply of presenters like Capital One, Discover, Barclays and AQR showed at AWS re:Inforce.

• June 28, 2019 28 Jun'19

  AWS month in review: Security Hub goes live at AWS security conference

  AWS this month hosted its inaugural re:Inforce conference in Boston and used the setting to make AWS Security Hub and Control Tower generally available and to introduce a VPC network security ...

• June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19

  New AWS cloud security features fill gaps

  AWS is on pace to deliver more than 1,800 new features and services this year, and many target cloud security.

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  AWS re:Inforce agenda underscores cloud security challenges

  AWS re:Inforce this month in Boston is the first dedicated security conference by the industry's largest cloud provider. Here's an early look at the event's sweeping agenda.

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  AWS partner program targets cloud migration of ISV workloads

  A new AWS cloud migration program is geared to bring ISV application workloads to the platform, and offers a financial incentive for cloud migrations that go well.

• June 04, 2019 04 Jun'19

  NASCAR revs up video archive with AWS AI

  NASCAR will convert and optimize its 18 PB library of race footage with AWS AI and other services to serve broadcast partners and fans in an era driven by consumer app experiences.

• May 31, 2019 31 May'19

  AWS month in review: Updated Lambda execution environment on its way

  AWS is updating Lambda execution environments with the latest Amazon Linux OS. Start testing your functions now before the general AWS Lambda update occurs on July 16. AWS has also launched its ...

• May 24, 2019 24 May'19

  AWS Config Rules price change could cut cloud compliance costs

  AWS Config Rules will switch to usage-based pricing, which could spur cloud compliance service adoption and be kinder to customers' budgets.

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  AWS IQ marketplace taps demand for AWS experts

  AWS is at work on IQ, a job marketplace that matches AWS experts with customers. Similar in appearance to the likes of Upwork, IQ is set for launch later this year.

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  AWS month in review: Enable snapshot automation for Redshift

  Boosted AWS snapshot automation aims to improve data backup in Amazon Redshift and Aurora Serverless. AWS also launched block storage for Snowball Edge and updated Amazon Elasticsearch.

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  ShieldX adds lateral movement security for cloud protection

  In an effort to prevent lateral movement from cybercriminals within the cloud, ShieldX has added East-West security to its Elastic Security Platform for AWS.

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  What the AWS and open source spat means for users and enterprises

  Explore the concerns at the center of the AWS vs. open source debate and how they play into a larger conflict between the open source community and public cloud providers.

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Azure-to-AWS migration tool aims to lure Microsoft workloads

  Customers might appreciate the flexibility of a new AWS tool that pulls in Azure VM workloads but should be mindful of the big picture when it comes to cloud migrations.

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  AWS month in review: More AWS deep learning capabilities

  AWS Deep Learning Containers and DeepRacer ramp up the cloud giant's machine learning orchestration and training. AWS also improves Redshift and Direct Connect.

• March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19

  AWS Direct Connect tiers address planned network spikes

  AWS Direct Connect pivots toward higher bandwidth requirements and cuts prices on lower tiers to handle customers' seasonal workload peaks and make AWS stickier overall.

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Gogo's migration to AWS doesn't mean lock-in

  In-flight broadband service provider Gogo has joined other companies with an all-in cloud push toward AWS, while keeping an eye on portability and its long-term options.

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  AWS Elasticsearch distro stokes open source competitive fires

  The new AWS-backed Open Distro for Elasticsearch may constitute a fork of the popular distributed search and systems analytics engine. What it means for customers is yet to come.

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  AWS CloudFormation complaints spark roadmap pledge

  AWS has responded to user complaints over feature lag and a perceived lack of organizational support for CloudFormation, its popular native infrastructure-as-code service.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  AWS month in review: More improvements for hybrid cloud

  Amazon polished several services in February to simplify management of AWS hybrid cloud architecture. It also added five new EC2 bare metal instances and upgraded Amazon GuardDuty. Find out how AWS ...

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  AWS month in review: Cloud SLAs abound

  AWS added 11 cloud SLAs to its platform in January as it continues to lure enterprises to higher-level services. The contracts should make the services more palatable to organizations that require ...

• January 18, 2019 18 Jan'19

  AWS Backup service targets native workloads

  AWS Backup gives customers management and orchestration tools to simplify snapshots for a variety of Amazon services. The move follows AWS' acquisition of migration and backup vendor CloudEndure.

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Hotel chain bets on AWS migration for cloud IT strategy

  Choice Hotels has placed its technological future in the hands of AWS. Choice's CTO says it's the right move at the right time, the potential for lock-in notwithstanding.

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  AWS scoops up TSO Logic for cloud spend analysis

  AWS has acquired TSO Logic, which produces analytics that customers can use to plan moves to the cloud. The deal comes with the cloud-market land grab still in its infancy.

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  CloudEndure acquisition expands AWS' cloud migration tools

  AWS' acquisition of CloudEndure underscores the move toward multi-cloud, as well as demand from customers for an easier path to public cloud.

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  AWS, MongoDB database collision stirs open source tensions

  AWS' DocumentDB managed database service takes aim at the popular MongoDB NoSQL database and stirs up controversy over the rules of engagement for open source software.

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  AWS Fargate pricing change raises container management stakes

  A dramatic price cut for AWS Fargate container management service aims to entice customers to bring workloads to the cloud platform.

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  New app suite targets AWS enterprise customers

  AWS wants to become more of a business adviser to its customers and plans to provide more options, thanks, in part, to an app suite currently in use by its in-house employees.

• December 21, 2018 21 Dec'18

  AWS month in review: Cloud networking services abound

  AWS' cloud networking services got a big upgrade in December, with a second VPN offering, expanded VPC connections and WebSocket support for API Gateway.

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  AWS enterprise strategy targets industry verticals

  AWS could soon add services specialized for industries such as healthcare and finance. It might be lucrative, but not everyone agrees it's a smart move.

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  COBOL applications can go serverless on AWS Lambda

  More business-critical applications can now move to a serverless architecture in the cloud with the arrival of COBOL support in AWS Lambda.

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  AWS' enterprise efforts shift to prescriptive services

  AWS gives users plenty of options, but with that diversity comes complexity. In response, the cloud vendor is poised to move into new territory to appease its enterprise customers.

• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  AWS Outposts shaped by on-prem forerunner from Microsoft

  AWS Outposts immediately drew comparison to Microsoft Azure Stack, but Amazon said it designed its service differently based on perceived weaknesses in the competition's offering.

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  AWS License Manager spotlights BYOL compliance

  Many AWS customers use the bring-your-own-license model. Now, the cloud vendor has given them a tool to ensure they comply with third-party contract agreements.

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  AWS improves Lambda serverless platform for developers

  Several touches to AWS Lambda aim to soothe developers' concerns over the serverless computing platform, including the ability to use their choice of tools.

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  AWS month in review: Expanded EC2 options and a blastoff into space

  IT and development teams who try to keep pace with AWS' ever-expanding portfolio have a lot to catch up on this month. First, to see the most significant news that came out of AWS re:Invent 2018 ...

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Revisit the sights and sounds from AWS re:Invent 2018

  AWS re:Invent 2018 attendees took to Twitter to voice their pleasures and pains from the show in Vegas, and elaborate on the myriad of Amazon tools and services unveiled at the conference.

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  AWS plans to democratize access to AI and ML

  AWS' goal with AI and ML is to give everybody the same opportunity to bring machine learning to their applications – not just the "richest" and most powerful organizations, but any "builder" of ...

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy talks AI, on-premises moves

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy discusses how the company enforces ethical use of AI on its platform, its contributions to open source projects and how the on-premises Outposts will work.

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Amazon SageMaker updates take on workflows, data labeling

  AWS has extended its AI portfolio with more options for developers who want to more easily and quickly incorporate machine learning into their applications.

• November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

  AWS Outposts amplify signals of a hybrid cloud world

  AWS will transport its software stack into customer data centers with Outposts, a managed service that incorporates the same hardware the cloud provider uses for EC2.

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  AWS adds another backstop for S3 security

  An added AWS feature helps users ensure Amazon S3 storage buckets that contain sensitive information are kept from public view and not exposed to potential cybercrimes.

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  A complete guide to AWS re:Invent 2018 news and analysis

  AWS re:Invent 2018 is sure to generate a number of important updates for enterprise cloud users. Stay on top of the latest news and analysis with this complete conference guide.

• November 16, 2018 16 Nov'18

  EC2 Fleet Auto Scaling targets diverse workloads

  Autoscaling is table stakes for public cloud providers. Now AWS customers can apply it to their EC2 Fleet instance groups for improved control over cost and performance.

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  AWS, Oracle trash talk spotlights cloud database migration

  Amazon says its consumer division has dumped Oracle's database platform, and the company will offload most workloads by year's end. Will it inspire AWS customers to do the same?

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  Cisco, AWS team up for Kubernetes hybrid cloud deployments

  Kubernetes users pick up another option for container orchestration in hybrid deployments in the form of a product bundle from Cisco and AWS.

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  AWS re:Invent 2018 another test for the cloud giant

  AWS continues to dominate the cloud landscape, but there's plenty of work left to do, as more traditional companies integrate its services with their own data centers.

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  AWS month in review: Amazon Lightsail, Lambda updates

  Developers can access managed databases through Amazon Lightsail, run longer function executions and rely on a Lambda SLA. These were some of the notable updates to AWS in October -- a month that ...

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Open source tool simplifies Kubernetes on AWS

  AWS added an open source tool to manage infrastructure directly through Kubernetes. But the software is targeted at AWS assets, so don't expect it to help with portability.

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  AWS month in review: More for hybrid cloud architectures

  September was a low-key month for AWS, even though it rolled out more than 70 updates to its platform. AWS advancements in September were a lot of the standard fodder: services expanded to ...

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Amazon Aurora Parallel Query blurs database lines

  AWS continues to add features to its managed transactional database service. The latest takes advantage of Aurora's scale-out approach to potentially double query speed.

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  AWS balances GA of Aurora Serverless with new instance types

  AWS updates in August include general availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless for MySQL, more instance types, continued progress into serverless territory, and deeper ties to VMware on premises ...

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Amazon RDS on VMware extends cloud database on site

  The latest expansion of the VMware-AWS partnership, centered on RDS, suggests a growing interest from the public cloud giant to extend its reach into enterprise data centers.

• August 27, 2018 27 Aug'18

  VMware Cloud on AWS ups its appeal to legacy shops

  The latest version of VMware's joint hybrid cloud offering with AWS emphasizes faster and more seamless migrations for legacy apps on their way to the cloud.

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  AWS cloud features offer network, performance improvements

  As is often the case, AWS' yearly Summit in New York provided the scene for some additional features and functionality. While AWS cloud features are unveiled regularly, the free-to-attend ...

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  AWS managed Kubernetes service intrigues, vexes IT pros

  Amazon EKS generated curiosity among attendees at the AWS Summit in New York. But AWS' long-term container plans could change and alter how it packages the service to users.

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  Matt Wood talks AWS' AI platform, ethical use

  AWS' AI tools have gained traction with users but also criticism from civil rights advocates. Matt Wood, an AWS deep learning and AI exec, discusses AWS' evolving portfolio.

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  AWS Snowball Edge extends EC2 on premises

  AWS Snowball portable data transfer devices gain EC2 functionality, as the public cloud vendor seeks more ways for customers to use these boxes in their private facilities.

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  VMware-AWS service bubbles into new markets

  With the VMware-AWS partnership, some customers were either reluctant or unable to use earlier versions of the service. Now, with the passage of time and corresponding product maturity, customers ...

• May 31, 2018 31 May'18

  Bare-metal instances augment AWS' IaaS options

  Infrastructure was AWS' focus in May, as the cloud provider made good on several of its promises with features that provide more diverse compute options -- including some that directly challenge ...