To determine whether a food delivery business has value, look at the data it collects. And DoorDash Inc. has data. Order behavior by customers of the food delivery service, which now serves diners in 4,000 cities across the U.S. and Canada from over 340,000 merchants, gives it a pretty good idea of what diners like ...

If there is any vertical that understands the meaning of cost to a business, it’s the financial services industry. Yet, when evaluating the cost impact of running information technology in the cloud versus through a private data center, there are other factors of more importance in the world of banks and brokerages. “Cost isn’t really ...

People can choose not to use ride sharing or ignore social media, but when it comes to healthcare, everyone ultimately takes an interest. Mindful of this basic reality, Amazon Web Services Inc. has built its own Healthcare and Life Sciences practice in cloud computing to address that need. “The entire practice of AWS Healthcare Life ...

It might seem at first glance that the mobile food delivery industry is fairly simple. Open app, order restaurant food, pay, and chow down upon receipt. In fact, every order triggers a complex set of technological steps for a business like DoorDash Inc., which has recently emerged as the leader in U.S. online food delivery. ...

If many of today’s banks still don’t trust the cloud, how come the financial industry’s regulator does? An Accenture PLC report released late last year found that 43% of leading global banks have no cloud strategy and 63% lack a roadmap to even measure progress to the cloud. Yet the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. released a number of product announcements on Thursday, but it was the audience in New York City that became an unplanned part of the company’s AWS Summit event. Protesters disrupted traffic outside the venue and interrupted a keynote presentation by Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels (pictured), vocalizing demands that the company ...

If the United States has any hope of strengthening its cybersecurity defenses, the solution begins and ends with trained talent. One cybersecurity training program in Virginia has just expanded nationally in an effort to train more students, especially at the high school level, to defend against cyberattacks. Started in 2016, the Virginia Cyber Range had ...

Even for large corporations, cloud migration is not always a simple task. For information technology organizations at institutions of higher learning, there are plenty of barriers in a move to the cloud, with legacy systems being right near the top of the list. “If there’s one thing in my time in higher education that I ...

Students in Louisiana will soon be earning four-year degrees in cloud computing. Governor John Bel Edwards, in partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc., announced this week that students in the Louisiana Community and Technical College System will now be able to receive an associate degree in cloud computing that will extend into University of Louisiana’s ...

When a company innovates at the speed of Amazon Web Services Inc. and generates an impressive amount of revenue in the process, there’s a lot to discuss. One conference in a given week just simply won’t do. AWS is holding two events in the U.S. this week. One is AWS Summit in New York City, headlined ...