AWS pursues Local Zones strategy to cut latency
AWS announced the availability of Local Zones in Boston, Houston, and Miami to serve latency-sensitive and throughput-sensitive workloads. The first ...
In Focus: AWS
🏢 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Infrastructure, AI Platforms and Hyperscale Computing Services | |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s cloud computing business, providing infrastructure, platform services, AI tools, storage, databases, networking, security and developer services to enterprises, startups, governments and digital infrastructure operators worldwide. | |
| Why It Matters | AWS is one of the largest hyperscale cloud platforms and a major driver of demand for AI infrastructure, data center capacity, custom silicon, optical networking, storage systems and high-performance cloud services. |
| Category | Cloud Provider |
| Parent Company | Amazon.com, Inc. |
| CEO | Matt Garman |
| Focus Areas | Cloud Computing • AI Infrastructure • Machine Learning • Data Centers • Storage • Databases • Networking • Security • Serverless Computing • Custom Silicon |
| Key Platforms | Amazon EC2 • Amazon S3 • AWS Lambda • Amazon Bedrock • Amazon SageMaker AI • AWS Trainium • AWS Inferentia • Amazon VPC • Amazon RDS • AWS Outposts |
| Why Converge Digest Covers It | Converge Digest tracks AWS because its cloud regions, AI services, accelerator deployments, custom chips, networking architecture and data center investments influence the broader market for digital infrastructure, optical networking, semiconductors and cloud-scale computing. |
| Related Technologies | AI Infrastructure • Cloud • Data Centers • Semiconductors • Networking |
| Related Companies | Amazon • Google Cloud • Microsoft • Oracle |
Measuring the latency of AWS Wavelength on Verizon 5G
AvidThink recently performed a series of basic throughput and latency tests on AWS Wavelength on Verizon’s network: Part 1 - https://avidthink.com/analysis/aws-wavelength-verizon-real-world-perspective/ Part ...
AWS launches EC2 Mac instances
Amazon Web Services announced new Mac instances (EC2 Mac instances) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), enabling customers to ...
Zoom affirms AWS as its preferred cloud
Zoom Video Communications has named AWS as its preferred cloud provider. AWS said it has supported Zoom since 2011, and earlier ...
AWS suffers outage impacting Kinesis Data Streams API
Amazon Web Services reported a widespread outage in North America impacting its Kinesis Data Streams API.Amazon Kinesis is a managed ...
Orange Business forms strategic pact with Amazon Web Services
Orange Business Services announced a global strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS).As part of this agreement, a dedicated ...
NEC enters strategic pact with AWS
NEC Corporation has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS, making it the first Japanese company to do so.With ...
AWS Network Firewall managed service goes online
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of AWS Network Firewall, a new managed security service that makes it easier ...
Amdocs to offer its Business Support Systems (BSS) on AWS
Amdocsreached a new multi-year, strategic agreement with Amazon Web Services to deliver integrated, cloud-native Business Support Systems (BSS) offerings for ...
AWS delivers Q3 revenue of $11.6 billion, up 29% yoy
Amazon Web Services generated Q3 sales of $11.601 billion, up 29% from $8,995 billion a year earlier. AWS operating income ...
AWS launches Timestream, a serverless time series database for IoT
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Timestream, a new time series database for IoT and operational applications ...
Verizon expands 5G Edge with AWS Wavelength in Atlanta, NY, DC
Verizon has added AWS Wavelength capabilities in three new locations: Atlanta, New York and Washington, DC. Verizon and AWS launched ...
CrowdStrike expands support for AWS workloads and containers
CrowdStrike, which offers cloud-delivered endpoint protection, is expanding its support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) with new capabilities that deliver ...
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