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‘Customers have been begging us to launch’: AWS just rolled out Amazon Q Business in Europe – and it includes new data residency features
AWS has announced the availability of its Amazon Q Business platform in Europe in a move sure to please sovereignty-conscious customers. The tool, which can be used by staff to find internal data sources more efficiently, will now be available in AWS’ Ireland region in the city of Dublin. Until now the tool has only been available to AWS customers…
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Google’s Wiz acquisition stakes its claim as the go-to hyperscaler for cloud security – now it’s up to AWS and industry vendors to react
Google’s acquisition of cloud security startup Wiz could have monumental implications for the sector, according to industry analysts, with the company raising the stakes for both key competitors and security vendors. The acquisition, announced this week as a $32 billion all-cash transaction, will see Wiz bundled within the tech giant’s cloud computing division. It’s been a long time coming, as…
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With new division, AWS bets big on agentic AI automation – Computerworld
“We have the opportunity to help our customers innovate even faster and unlock more possibilities, and I firmly believe that AI agents are core to this next wave of innovation,” Garman wrote. Autonomous agents The term ‘agentic AI‘ (not to be confused with ‘AI agents’, which refers to more basic helpmates) is open to some interpretation. Broadly, it embraces the…
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AWS exec highlights key skills for success in the evolving AI-driven job market – Computerworld
“That’s what we’re seeing — that recognition that these new technologies that are coming out…and they’re kind of the future, and people have to figure out what this technology can do for them and their job, no matter what their job is. “We participated in a study…around wages associated with AI skills, and what we found was just an incredible…
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UK regulator may investigate AWS and Microsoft cloud businesses
If the various points made in the inquiry are dissected, said Maisto, “we can argue that: a) it is not actually true that cloud customers face a limited choice of providers as there are plenty of cloud vendors; b) it is unlikely that the US hyperscalers may not reflect the evolving business needs of UK clients; c) the significant barriers…
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Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI
Today, I’m talking with Matt Garman, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, or AWS. Matt took over as CEO last June — you might recall that we had his predecessor, Adam Selipsky, on the show just over a year ago. That makes this episode terrific Decoder bait, since I love hearing how new CEOs decide what to change and what…
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AWS eyes ‘flexible’ data center expansion with $11bn Georgia investment
AWS has announced its latest round of infrastructure investment focused in the US, pledging $11 billion for data centers in the state of Georgia. The news follows a similar announcement of $10bn in funding for data centers in Ohio at the end of last year, and comes days after Microsoft said it will spend half of an $80bn tranche of…
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AWS expands Ohio investment by $10 billion in major AI, cloud push
AWS has announced plans to invest an additional $10 billion in Ohio in a bid to expand data center infrastructure and help power the rise of AI. The investment builds on previous announcements of funding in the state worth $7.8 billion last year, in addition to $6 billion in 2022, AWS said in a statement. By 2030, AWS said its…
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CirrusHQ names AWS’ Craig Ridsdill as new head of sales
CirrusHQ has announced the appointment of Craig Ridsdill to the newly-created role of head of sales, as the AWS cloud specialist looks to increase its impact in the healthcare and education sectors. Ridsdill joins the business from AWS, where he has spent the last six years heading up the cloud services platform’s higher education and NHS healthcare teams. Prior to…
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AWS wants to drastically cut down AI hallucinations – here’s how it plans to do it
AWS’ new Automated Reasoning checks promise to prevent models from producing factual errors and hallucinating, though experts have told ITPro that it won’t be an all-encompassing preventative measure for the issue. Announced as part of AWS re:Invent 2024, the hyperscaler unveiled the tool as a safeguard in ‘Amazon Bedrock Guardrails’ that will mathematically validate the accuracy of responses generated by…
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