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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

CIO

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region.

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Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood

DevOps.com

The post Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood appeared first on DevOps.com. In this week’s The Long View: The EU wants to put servers in orbit, a GDPR penalty for Discord, and Amazon has the hatchet out.

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AWS makes its Lift program available in India

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The Lift program, according to AWS, offers promotional credits and nearly 200 AWS services to help enterprises move on-premises workloads to the cloud. The India Lift program allows enterprises within the designated revenue range, regardless of their status as an AWS customer, to join the program. million rupees.

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AWS hopes for a savior in AI as revenue growth continues to slow

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Revenue for AWS increased 12% year-on-year in the second quarter to $21.4 However, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said enterprises subscribing to AWS services have “needed assistance cost optimizing to withstand this challenging time.” Revenue growth for AWS continued to be on a constant decline. and 33% respectively.

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AWS Snowmobile drives into the sunset

InfoWorld

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has slowly and silently phased out its Snowmobile service—an offering launched at its annual AWS re:Invent conference in 2016 to help enterprises move data from their on-premises servers to the cloud provider’s data centers to accelerate their migration to the public cloud.

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Macroeconomic jitters further slow AWS growth in Q3

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Macroeconomic conditions led by the pandemic and the geopolitical crisis in Ukraine have further slowed down growth of Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), in the third quarter of 2022. Amazon on Thursday said AWS had raked in revenue of $20.5 However, revenue for AWS grew at 33% year-on-year at 19.74

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AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024: Accelerate innovation with generative AI on AWS

AWS Machine Learning - AI

AWS was delighted to present to and connect with over 18,000 in-person and 267,000 virtual attendees at NVIDIA GTC, a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference that took place March 2024 in San Jose, California, returning to a hybrid, in-person experience for the first time since 2019.