AWS re:Invent stories

AWS announces renewable power project in Australia
Wed, 4th Dec 2019
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The Australian project is one of six new renewable energy projects, which are expected to produce a total 711MW of new renewable energy capacity.

Interview: AWS ANZ MD discusses machine learning strategy
Wed, 9th Jan 2019
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Last year, AWS announced 13 new machine learning services including a new ML marketplace and a managed service for reinforcement learning algorithms and simulators.

How Amazon aims to reinvent blockchain
Mon, 3rd Dec 2018
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Amazon QLDB is a new class of database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable ledger.

AWS makes building and securing data lakes easier
Fri, 30th Nov 2018
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AWS Control Tower, AWS Security Hub, and AWS Lake Formation help with provisioning and governance, monitoring security and compliance, and building and managing data lakes.

AWS offers devs tiny autonomous vehicles for machine learning
Fri, 30th Nov 2018
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AWS DeepRacer puts reinforcement to the test - see what other machine learning services AWS now offers.

Interview: How Origin Energy uses AWS to transform its business
Thu, 29th Nov 2018
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Origin Energy is an Australian electricity retailer that is on the cutting edge of customer service, collaboration, innovation, and experimentation.

AWS announces two new Marketplace features
Thu, 29th Nov 2018
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Now customers and marketplace sellers have the ability to use a private marketplace, as well as a dedicated marketplace for containers.

AWS offers inside look at its work with the public sector
Thu, 29th Nov 2018
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The company’s Public Sector Partner Program grew almost 40% this year, with more than 800 partners now on board.

AWS provides a shot in the Arm with new servers
Thu, 29th Nov 2018
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While it can’t claim to be the first one to deploy them, it does win the race of the cloud giants in offering the architecture as a cloud service.

AWS announces pay-as-you-go satellite data download offering
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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Leverages a network of 12 antenna ground stations in AWS Regions around the world to download, process, store, analyse, and act upon satellite data.

AWS improves network efficiencies with new offerings
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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Announced at AWS re:INVENT, the offerings are designed to speed up inter-instance communication, and application performance and availability.

AWS boosts power, lowers costs with new EC2 instances
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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At AWS re:INVENT the company announced the availability of three new instances that can reduce workload cost and run bigger workloads, faster.

Sony Pictures & Spider-Man bring mobile web AR to fans
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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This mobile web experience that allows users to jump directly into Spider-Man’s AR world on any smartphone without the need for an app.

AWS simplifies data collection from IoT & edge devices
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced four new services that will simplify the collection of data from internet of things (IoT) applications and edge devices.

AWS RoboMaker supports future of robotics development
Wed, 28th Nov 2018
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is venturing deeper in the world of robotics services for developers with the launch of AWS RoboMaker.

AWS brings Alexa to the enterprise with Alexa for Business
Fri, 1st Dec 2017
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The new AWS service makes it easy for companies to voice-enable their offices with Alexa, giving workers an intelligent assistant.

New features announced for VMware Cloud on AWS
Fri, 1st Dec 2017
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Availability, networking, and security features added and extended native integrations with AWS Direct Connect.

New availability and recovery capabilities announced for AWS database services
Thu, 30th Nov 2017
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New Multi-Master capability makes Amazon Aurora the first relational database service to scale out both reads and writes across multiple data centers.

New AWS features make machine learning more accessible to developers
Thu, 30th Nov 2017
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Amazon SageMaker makes it easy to build, train, and deploy machine learning models, removing the heavy lifting and guesswork from the process.

AWS launches new IoT services for scale; brings Machine learning to the Edge
Thu, 30th Nov 2017
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“Many of the world’s largest IoT implementations run on AWS, and the next phase of IoT is all about scale.”

AWS re:Invent kicks off with enhancements to partner and competency programmes
Wed, 29th Nov 2017
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New AWS Solution Provider Program, AWS SaaS Factory, and AWS SaaS Accelerate Program help increase cloud adoption and APN Partner success.

AWS announces new development platform for VR, AR, and 3D apps
Wed, 29th Nov 2017
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VR and AR apps created in Amazon Sumerian will run in any browser that supports WebGL or WebVR graphics rendering.