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Vaud-based Cybersecurity Specialist Kudelski Partners With Amazon
Nowadays, manufacturers can connect their devices to the Alexa voice speaker system or integrate Amazon’s assistant directly into their products. This integration requires that their devices undergo a series of tests to validate that they meet all of Amazon’s requirements, including new cybersecurity requirements (secure booting, hardware encryption, key storage, privileges, etc.). To this end, …
Weta Digital Advances Visual Effects And Animation In The Cloud With AWS
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that Weta Digital is going all-in on AWS, leveraging the proven performance of the world’s leading cloud to create a new, cloud-based visual effects (VFX) workflow. This workflow includes a set of technologies for VFX artists that will underpin the studio’s global expansion, accelerate key portions of film …
AWS Powers Moderna’s Digital Biotechnology Platform To Develop New Class of Vaccines And Therapeutics
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering a new class of messenger RNA (mRNA) medicines, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, as well as its standard for analytics and machine learning workloads. Leveraging its mRNA platform and manufacturing facility with the AWS-powered research engine, Moderna delivered the …
AWS Announces General Availability Of AWS IoT SiteWise
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that collects data from the plant floor, structures and labels the data, and generates real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to help industrial customers make better, data-driven decisions. Customers can use SiteWise to monitor operations across facilities, …
Amazon Web Services Launches A Dedicated Aerospace And Satellite Business
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is upping its space industry game with a dedicated business unit called Aerospace and Satellite Solutions (as first reported by the WSJ) that’s focused on space projects, including from customers like NASA, the U.S. military and private space players including Lockheed Martin and others. AWS has already served satellite and space industry …
AWS Announces General Availability Of The Sixth Generation Of Amazon EC2 Instances Powered By AWS Graviton2 Processors
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of its sixth generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with three new instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors. The new general purpose (M6g), compute-optimized (C6g), and memory-optimized (R6g) instances deliver up to 40% better price/performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances. …
AWS And Slack Join Forces To Deliver The Future Of The Enterprise Workplace
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, and Slack Technologies, Inc. announced a new multi-year agreement to deliver solutions for enhanced enterprise workforce collaboration. Slack and AWS will strategically partner to help distributed development teams communicate and become more efficient and agile in managing their AWS resources from inside Slack. Slack will migrate its Slack Calls …
Amazon Funds Urban Greening Program to Increase Climate-Resilience of German Cities
Amazon announced a €3.75 million commitment to The Nature Conservancy in an effort to reduce climate change risks and increase species biodiversity in three German cities. The initial project is in Berlin’s Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. Learnings will be applied in two other German locations, and then shared across other European cities. With this, Amazon is recognizing the urgency of the climate …
Amazon Expands In Santa Barbara And Announces Plans To Create 150 Tech Jobs In Central California
Amazon announced an expansion of the company’s workforce in Santa Barbara, California and plans to create 150 additional tech jobs in the city. With plans to double its workforce, the company has opened a new 48,000 square foot office for Alexa tech teams located in downtown Santa Barbara. Amazon has created more than 45,000 full-time …
Amazon Donates $2 Million To Seattle-Based Nonprofits To Expand Access To STEM And Computer Science Education For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Students Across Washington State
Amazon announced a $2 million total donation to two Washington nonprofit organizations working to make STEM and computer science education more accessible, equitable, and meaningful for hundreds of thousands of Washington State students, especially those from underserved and underrepresented communities. The donation includes $1 million to Washington STEM, a statewide nonprofit organization that advances excellence, …