Amazon Web Services (AWS) stories - Page 3
Originally disrupting the book retailing business, Amazon Web Services has since emerged as a world’s
leader in the provision of ‘as a Service’ computing resources. With more than 200 services available
covering infrastructure, platform, compute, storage and applications as a service, AWS solutions are
provided from a network of 38 data centers around the world. A cluster of AWS data centres is planned
for New Zealand, headquartered in Auckland, and likely to be online by 2024.
Island unveils SASE to cut proxy backhaul for AI era
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Island has rolled out a SASE design that shifts inspection to the endpoint, cutting proxy backhaul and avoiding default SSL/TLS break-and-inspect.
Native raises USD $42m for cloud security control plane
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Cloud security startup Native launches from stealth with USD $42m to unify preventive, intent-based controls across major public clouds.
XM Cyber adds AI exposure mapping across hybrid cloud
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XM Cyber rolls out AI exposure mapping to track shadow AI, cloud models and MCP servers across hybrid estates in a single attack graph.
Kore.ai unveils platform to tackle enterprise AI sprawl
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Kore.ai has launched an Agent Management Platform to give enterprises a unified control layer over fast-growing, fragmented AI agent estates.
Milestone boosts Hafnia with synthetic data, TaaS & VLMs
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Milestone expands Hafnia with synthetic data, TaaS and VLMs to speed smart city vision AI training and cut bias in rare-event modelling.
GitHub backs Alpha-Omega with fresh open source funds
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GitHub joins tech giants in a USD $12.5 million Alpha-Omega push, boosting AI-powered defences for critical open source software.
AWS unveils AI agents to streamline Partner Central
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AWS rolls out Bedrock-powered AI agents in Partner Central, automating deal admin, sales guidance and funding requests for partners.
SentinelOne names Jason Duerden ANZ area vice president
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SentinelOne appoints Jason Duerden ANZ area vice president to drive cyber growth in government, critical infrastructure and AI security.
Linux Foundation secures USD $12.5m for AI security
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Linux Foundation wins USD $12.5m from tech giants to bolster AI-era open source security and ease pressure on overstretched maintainers.
Amazon leads concentrated global hyperscale market
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Amazon leads the concentrated global hyperscale data centre market, as the top 10 providers captured 46% of 2024 revenue.
SailPoint & AWS ally on AI agent identity governance
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SailPoint strikes multi-year AWS deal to govern fast-growing AI agent identities with unified controls across human and machine access.
SailPoint, AWS forge identity governance pact for AI
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SailPoint and AWS strike multi-year deal to build unified identity governance for human and AI agents as cloud workloads grow.
Synechron unifies three Australian consultancies under one
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Synechron merges Chamonix IT, Exposé and iGreenData into a single Australian consultancy, unveiling a new national leadership team.
Anthropic commits USD $100m to Claude partner push
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Anthropic launches Claude Partner Network with an initial USD $100m to train, certify and co-market with enterprises building on Claude.
Datadog names Renee Mitsis to lead ANZ channel push
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Datadog appoints Renee Mitsis to spearhead ANZ channel and alliances, sharpening partner-led growth around security, AI and DevOps.
EDB tops new ranking of commercial Postgres backers
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EDB crowns itself top commercial Postgres backer in new vitality index, as cloud and data giants ramp up investment in the database.
Secure by default: Moving beyond secure by design
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SonicWall champions 'Secure by Default', promising built-in, automated protection that tames tool sprawl and misconfigurations at scale.
Constructor posts surge on AI retail search momentum
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Constructor rides AI retail search boom with 82% customer growth, 116% EMEA revenue jump and 322bn annual product discovery interactions.
CIQ unveils Rocky Linux Pro AI for GPU inference at scale
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CIQ launches Rocky Linux Pro AI, a tuned RHEL-compatible distro promising higher GPU inference throughput from day one at production scale.
OpenLegacy unveils AWS hub for safer mainframe shift
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OpenLegacy debuts an AWS-integrated hub to modernise mainframes incrementally, enabling parallel legacy-cloud operations with less risk.