We launched the Canada (Central) Region in 2016 and added a third Availability Zone in 2020. Since that launch, tens of thousands of AWS customers have used AWS services in Canada to accelerate innovation, increase agility, and to drive cost savings. This includes enterprises such as Air Canada, BMO Financial Group, NHL, Porter Airlines, and […]

La version française suit Almost five years ago, I was in Canada opening up the AWS Canada (Central) Region. It was a packed house with customers and partners all excited to hear what AWS had planned for the country. Since then, a lot has changed in the cloud computing world. We’ve more than doubled the […]

With Facebook currently embroiled in an ever-increasing number of scandals, including whistleblowers, censorship accusations, a buried report on mental health issues, and endless data leaks, they’ve chosen to rebrand as “Meta”. But this new name doesn’t change the fact that they are becoming more and more powerful. There have been a number of demands through […]

As working from home has become the new everyday norm, with more employers embracing the remote-work model as a new and likely permanent fixture of the employment world, there is a similar change in the ways workers collaborate in the era of COVID-19. Microsoft Teams has surged to the forefront of collaboration tools throughout the […]

The takeover of British chip-design company Arm is being scrutinized by regulators in the U.S., the U.K., China, and now the European Commission have opened up a competition investigation into the deal. Nvidia designs GPUs (graphics processing units) for professional and gaming markets and system on a chip units (SoCs) for IoT devices and cars. […]

Two years ago, we introduced Amazon SageMaker Studio, the industry’s first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). Amazon SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps, improving data science team productivity by up to 10 times Many data scientists love the R project, an […]

Building robust digital capabilities can deliver huge benefits to Digital Service Providers (DSPs). A recent TMForum survey shows that building digital capabilities (including digitization of customer experience and operations), is the highest post-pandemic priority for DSPs. These digital capabilities can improve EBITDA and customer satisfaction by up to 30% and employee satisfaction by more than […]

We recently introduced Amazon EC2 M6i instances powered by the latest generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, which offer customers up to 15% improvement in price performance compared to M5 instances. Today, I am happy to announce the availability of the new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6i instances, which […]

Many of our customers are telling us they want to move away from commercial database vendors to avoid expensive costs and burdensome licensing terms. But migrating away from commercial and legacy databases can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. When migrating your databases, you can automate the migration of your database schema and data using the AWS […]

What Is Azure Red Hat OpenShift? Red Hat OpenShift provides a Kubernetes platform for enterprises. Azure Red Hat OpenShift permits you to deploy fully-managed OpenShift clusters in the Azure cloud. Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a joint collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat—it is engineered, supported and operated by both companies, for the purpose of […]