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April 17, 2019 By ray

What is AWS GovCloud (US)?

AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, helping customers support their US government compliance requirements, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline requirements. AWS services the region with U.S.… Read more

April 13, 2019 By ray

Jeff Bezos Tells New Amazon Employees There Isn’t a Work-Life Balance. Here’s What He Says Instead

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn’t a fan of the phrase “work-life balance.” At an April awards event hosted by Axel Springer and Business Insider US editor in chief Alyson Shontell, Bezos revealed the counterintuitive advice he offers new Amazon employees. Bezos believes that his new hires should stop attempting to achieve “balance” within their professional and personal lives, since that implies a strict trade-off between the two.… Read more

April 12, 2019 By ray

Evaluate speech-to-text services from AWS, Microsoft and Google

Amazon Transcribe, Microsoft Azure Speech to Text and Google Cloud Speech-to-Text enable developers to create dictation applications that can automatically generate transcriptions for audio files, as well as captions for video files. Development teams can weave these capabilities into timesaving apps for a range of uses, including call center analytics, video indexing services, web conference indexing and business transcription workflows.… Read more

March 8, 2019 By ray

IBM spent $34 billion to take on Amazon. Can it succeed?

Earlier this year, there were signs that IBM really might pull off a turnaround. After more than five years of shrinking revenues, Big Blue reported three quarters of growth in a row. Sure, that growth wasn’t coming from new businesses, but from milking the upside in existing businesses. But it was something.… Read more

February 13, 2019 By ray

Amazon is moving into blockchain with a new partnership

Amazon moves into blockchain with a new partnership 1:17 PM ET Tue, 15 May 2018 | 00:52 Amazon‘s cloud computing arm is looking to make it easier for customers to use blockchain with a new partnership announced Tuesday. The cloud computing giant will team with a new start-up launching Tuesday called Kaleido, which was born out of leading blockchain incubator known as Consensys.… Read more