November 29, 2024 Amazon AWS
Health technology company Royal Philips has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services. Philips' integrated diagnostics portfolio in the cloud will be expanded including radiology, digital pathology, cardiology, and AI-advanced visualized solutions.“The collaboration between Philips and...
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November 27, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has agreed with SSAB to pilot the use of green steel in one of its three new data centers in Sweden. The green steel will be used to construct the roof and wall structures at the AWS Västerås data center. SSAB subsidiary Ruukki Construction will supply the steel for the...
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November 25, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is eyeing Fayette County, southern Ohio, as a site for a data center development and is considering a location about 25 miles east of Xenia, 40 miles east of Dayton.“We recently filed documents as part of the process in exploring possible data center locations. This is...
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November 22, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon plans to invest $4 billion in Anthropic, following a previous $4bn investment in the generative artificial intelligence startup. The companies said that the startups "will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future foundation models," however Anthropic will likely...
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October 30, 2024 Indiana
Indiana consumer and environmental advocacy organization Citizens Action Coalition (CAC) has called for a pause on new hyperscale data center development in the state. The group this week called on the Indiana General Assembly to enact a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers used to power...
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October 19, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East, combining AWS' cloud infrastructure and solutions with e& networking capabilities with an aim to offer cloud services to customers in the public sector and heavily regulated...
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September 18, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has entered into a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar contract with Intel to develop custom chip designs. Following the terms of this agreement, Intel will produce an AI fabric chip for AWS on Intel 18A, and produce a custom Xeon 6 chip on Intel 3. Intel has long developed...
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September 10, 2024 Amazon AWS
Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are launching Oracle Cloud offerings on Amazon's cloud platform. This solution enables customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. It will also allow customers to connect their...
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September 06, 2024 Indiana
Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street announced the acquisition of the Global Access Point Union Station data center located in Northern Indiana. This facility offers access to more than 20 telecommunication network service providers, totaling 75,000 sq ft (6,965...
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September 03, 2024 Amazon AWS
Mining company Gold Fields revealed at the recent AWS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa that it has migrated its SAP and treasury systems to Amazon Web Services. Gold Fields has been able to adopt advanced analytics, machine learning (ML), and generative artificial intelligence (AI)...
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August 25, 2024 Indiana
Meta has signed a long-term Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement with Arevon Energy, a renewable energy developer, owner, and operator for its Heirloom Solar Project in Pike County, Indiana. “Arevon is proud to once again partner with Meta and contribute to their sustainability goal of...
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August 13, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed its plans to expand its data center presence in Hyderabad, India with investment in the Telangana region. The discussions were held in California in the US, and have seen AWS express a desire to expand its data center facilities and workforce in Hyderabad....
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August 03, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) brought in $26.3 billion in revenue for Q2 2024, an 18.8 percent jump over last year. However, Amazon still recorded a slower growth rate than its main rivals, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, both of which saw growth of 29 percent in the quarter. The growth of AWS has...
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July 06, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon has partnered with the Australian government for the development of a high-security data center that will handle top-secret information with an investment of A$2 billion to be made over the next decade. Due to the "top secret" nature of the project, neither the location nor the specifics...
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June 14, 2024 Indiana
Provident Realty Advisors notified Chesterton officials on June 10 about its intention to withdraw its proposal for a $1.3 billion data center in Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana.The led to from residents regarding the development, with concerns surrounding negative impacts of air, water,...
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June 14, 2024 Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to launch a cloud region in Taipei, Taiwan and also invest "billions of dollars" in the country over the next 15 years.“Today, we’re announcing that a new AWS Region will be coming to Taiwan by early 2025,” the company said in an announcement this week. “The...
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June 07, 2024 Amazon AWS
Singapore-based insurer Singlife has completed its cloud migration to Amazon Web Services. The move was multi-phased and involved migrating more than 39 mission-critical applications to the cloud and exiting Singlife's data centers within 18 months.Romil Sharma, group head of technology and...
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June 05, 2024 Amazon AWS
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NCLH) has migrated its shoreside technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services in a process which took 15 months to complete and involved moving more than 100 applications, thousands of virtual and physical servers, data center environments, and peripheral...
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June 01, 2024 Amazon AWS
Duke Energy, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nucor have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for renewable energy development in North and South Carolina.This new MoU called "Accelerating Clean Energy" (ACE) tariffs, would help the companies to support carbon-free energy generation...
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May 30, 2024 Amazon AWS
Insurance provider FWD Group has signed a five-year cloud agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which will see AWS continue to host the company's core business applications including finance, customer, and insurance agent interfaces, as part of the company's ongoing cloud migration.Sandeep...
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