Wealthsimple Technologies Inc. is closing in on a landmark financing deal, backed by some of Silicon Valley’s leading venture funds, which will make the Toronto-based online bank challenger one of Canada’s most highly valued private technology companies. Sources close to the transaction say several new investors are in the advanced stages of completing a deal […]

A few years ago, you couldn’t send somebody a file if you weren’t in your office because all documents used to be stored on a computer. But today, it’s possible to send files from any part of the world, thanks to cloud infrastructure. Cloud has made life easier. You can stream music, watch your favorite […]

Amazon Nimble Studio is a new service that creative studios can use to produce visual effects, animations, and interactive content entirely in the cloud with AWS, from the storyboard sketch to the final deliverable. Nimble Studio provides customers with on-demand access to virtual workstations, elastic file storage, and render farm capacity. It also provides built-in […]

As traditional workloads continue to migrate to the cloud, some customers have been unable to take advantage of cloud-native services to host data typically held on their on-premises file servers. For example, data commonly used for team and project file sharing, or with content management systems, has needed to reside on-premises due to issues of […]

Steve Prentice (00:03): With so many companies moving their workloads. What used to be in the data center onto public clouds, they are constantly looking to optimize their investments, but sometimes the steps they take end up being misaligned with their plans, their budgets, or their security strategies. And this of course creates an ocean […]

What are the psychological motivators driving customer purchasing decisions? The era of ubiquitous digitalization, advanced analytics, and big data is here. Yet marketers frequently grapple with obtaining information that answers critical questions surrounding the purchasing behaviors of consumers. Amidst a persistent, highly competitive advertising landscape and pervasive disruption that has profoundly impacted consumer behaviors, beliefs, […]

Launched at AWS re:Invent 2017, Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that has already helped tens of thousands of customers quickly build and deploy their machine learning (ML) workflows on AWS. To help them get the most ML bang for their buck, we’ve added a string of cost-optimization services and capabilities, such as Managed Spot […]

One of the things that always intrigues me is to look back at how a technology has evolved. Building programs to communicate with computers is something that has a particularly interesting history. Ada Lovelace is recognized as having written the first program to calculate Bernoulli numbers using Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine back in the mid-nineteenth […]

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites. Our top design priorities at the time were […]

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, telemedicine software services have become extremely popular, and every day more people are using this service instead of going to hospitals and emergency departments as they faced lockdowns and became more hesitant to do in-person doctor’s appointments. Telemedicine is an accessible option since it’s available 24/7 and can […]