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Accounting software provider MYOB sent the wrong payment summaries to 220 people via its AccountRight Live cloud-based service, with the error having come to light on 28 June, the company says.

Reaction to the awarding of a whole-of-government cloud services deal to Amazon Web Services, the second big contract to go to the American company in two months, after the 2021 Census was handed to it, has ranged from muted to outright anger.

Amazon Web Services has signed a whole-of-government deal with the Federal Government, enabling federal, state and territory agencies, as well as public universities and publicly-owned companies to use AWS Cloud services.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is the foundation for digital transformation, according to Red Hat APAC office of technology director of product portfolio, Brendan Paget.

Swinburne University of Technology has established a cloud innovation centre dedicated to social good, in conjunction with Amazon Web Services.

Identity services provider Okta has announced new state-of-the-art infrastructure based on the AWS cloud service in the Asia-Pacific region.

The cloud services market grew to an estimated US$86 billion in 2018, the tech analyst firm Counterpoint Research says, adding that it expected double-digit growth for the next five years.

Global web host Amazon Web Services launched its AWS EdStart start-up accelerator last year, but is already seeing impressive results for at least two Australian entrepreneurs.

The Federal Government's release of a hosting strategy last week appears to be an attempt to prevent the issue of data sovereignty being raised as an election issue.

A collaboration between Amazon Web Services and Nvidia is aimed at making it easier to create, train and optimise deep learning models centrally on AWS and then deploy them to IoT devices based on the Nvidia Jetson platform,

The Federal Government has announced a joint venture with industry known as Connecting Women in Digital Initiative to coach, mentor and offer networking opportunities for women working in the ICT sector.

A security researcher has found a copy of the Dow Jones Watchlist database on a public Elasticsearch cluster which was open to anyone who knew where to look and could have been found using a public IoT search engine like BinaryEdge.

Security vendor Symantec claims an unprecedented industry collaboration with it and 120 companies globally is driving down the cost and complexity of cyber security, while improving response times to protect enterprises against sophisticated threats.

A fake website, that is more or less an exact copy of one seeking humanitarian aid for Venezuela, has surfaced, with those who set it up having manipulated DNS records so that both resolved to the same IP - which was owned by the fake domain owner - when viewed from within the country.

Cloud services Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure both recorded strong growth in the final quarter of 2018, as the adoption of cloud infrastructure showed no sign of slackening, the technology analyst firm Canalys says.

Amazon Web Services has gained certification as a Protected Cloud provider from the Australian Signals Directorate, the company said in a statement on Thursday, adding that this meant it could store data with the highest security classification in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

Educational institutions follow a range of paths when it comes to using AWS, but they usually start with something simple such as their websites or dev/test environments, and then deploy enterprise applications (eg, SAP, PeopleSoft or student management systems) before developing cloud native apps, AWS APJ regional head of education and research Vincent Quah told iTWire.

MVNO and gas and electricity retailer amaysim has been running "pretty much everything on AWS" since 2014/15, according to IT operations director Peter James.

Server manufacturer Supermicro says an external investigation into claims that chips were implanted on some of its motherboards to spy on companies has drawn a blank.

nib's AWS-powered chatbot has proved its value during its first year of operation.