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Instaclustr is a 100% open-source business, using Cassandra ("one of the most scalable databases in the world") for data storage, Spark for analytics, Elasticsearch for search, and Kafka for messaging, among other pieces of software.

AWS chief information security officer Steve Schmidt says the company is prepared to take the Australian Government to court if the proposed encryption legislation requires it to build backdoors.

AWS has announced plans to offer on-premises compute and storage services. AWS Outposts will be fully managed hardware racks that connect to other AWS services.

AWS used a keynote presentation by Amazon.com chief technology officer Werner Vogels at its AWS re-Invent conference to announce a raft of new products and features aimed at developers, with an emphasis on serverless.

AWS has launched a series of AI services at its AWS re:Invent conference that can be used in applications without requiring developers to have specific machine learning expertise.

AWS has released a 1/18th scale autonomous race car dubbed DeepRacer at its AWS re:Invent conference as a way to help developers get started with reinforcement learning. The company also previewed its forthcoming Inferentia inferencing chip.

National Australia Bank has set itself an aggressive target for moving applications to the cloud, and "AWS is our strategic partner", a bank executive told AWS's re:Invent conference.

AWS has announced a pair of blockchain services that suit distinct use cases.

AWS has announced new EC2 instances, in some cases featuring custom AWS Graviton Arm-based CPUs.

AWS has announced its Ground Station satellite ground station as a service, and Lockheed Martin Space's new Verge network of antennas is being integrated with Ground Station.

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SaaS and enterprise mobile security vendor Bitglass has been named a leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers.

Amazon plans to enter the Australian Protected cloud market, but it really can't be bothered to offer the same service as it does to the American Government, it would appear.

Global cloud host AWS claims it is in a unique position to observe industry trends with over 40% of the cloud market in its hands. Artificial intelligence continues to dominate and is becoming easier, says its lead architect.

Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels has claimed an article by CNBC about problems faced by the company's website on Prime Day, its made-up holiday in July meant to boost sales, had nothing to do with Amazon Web Services and the new database that Amazon is using. He described it as "silly and misleading".

Research indicates cloud computing skills are in demand, yet the demand for skilled engineers and architects outpaces the availability of such people. Global cloud platform AWS says it’s providing content to educational institutions to bridge this gap.

Silicon Valley autonomous analytics company Anodot has opened its Asia Pacific and Japan headquarters in Sydney as part of a broad global strategic push and business expansion.

VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in Amazon Web Services' Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.

With cloud the ‘new normal’ La Trobe University will offer Australia’s first Bachelor’s degree in Applied Cloud Technology, developed by AWS and Didasko.

Documents belonging to more than 100 manufacturing companies were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics, "an engineering service provider specialised in automation process and assembly for OEMs, Tier 1 automotive suppliers as well as our end users", the security firm UpGuard says.

Snowflake Computing's data warehouse as a service — originally offered on AWS — is now being previewed on Microsoft Azure.