As Amazon Web Services Inc. concluded its third week of re:Invent 2020 in an all-virtual format, the impact of the global pandemic remained very much a topic of conversation. AWS’ involvement in rapid deployment of customer call centers, expanded use of video conferencing platforms, and the development and safe shipment of vaccines around the world ...

One of the signals to emerge from this month’s three-week re:Invent conference is that while cloud has redefined the enterprise, the enterprise is also redefining cloud. This subtle dynamic can be seen in statements from key Amazon Web Services Inc. executives who are indicating a stronger interest in meeting the operational needs of enterprise customers. ...

The recent disclosure that a nation state actor allegedly placed malicious code in software distributed by SolarWinds Inc. is capturing the interest of the security world as the impact develops into one of the most significant security breaches in a long while. This latest news has placed further scrutiny on the importance of observability in ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. had been in business for only four years when Teresa Carlson (pictured) signed on in 2010 to build a public sector practice for the aspirant cloud provider. The signature moment for her, and perhaps for the cloud industry as a whole, came nearly three years later when AWS and the Central ...

After two straight weeks and a steady drumbeat of new product and service announcements during re:Invent 2020, Amazon Web Services Inc. kicked off the third week of it’s three-week event by sitting back and taking a breath. Today’s keynote presentation by Werner Vogels (pictured), chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon.com Inc., was notable ...

Back in the 1990s, the casino industry unwillingly provided the seed capital to found what became one of the major providers of 3D computer-aided design software. SolidWorks Inc. got its start in 1993 thanks to capital and entrepreneurial initiative provided by Jon Hirschtick, an MIT graduate who was part of a team of students that ...

When his career as a fitness instructor and plans to open a workout studio were suddenly upended by a global pandemic, Jarred Gaines needed a restart. He found it this year through an Amazon Web Services Inc. retraining program. A few months ago, Gaines (pictured) enrolled in Per Scholas, an East Coast nonprofit that trains people for ...

The stated goal for Nationwide Inc., the Fortune 100 insurance services provider, is to “help protect families, businesses and futures.” Based on news released this month, Nationwide’s own business future will be in the cloud. On Thursday, Amazon Web Services Inc. announced that Nationwide had selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and will move ...

Amazon Honeycode was only launched in beta form six months ago, but its own team members have rapidly embraced the promise of a fully managed service that allows customers to build powerful mobile and web applications without the need for any programming. “Among the Honeycode team itself, we use it for managing all of our ...

The announcement today that Arm Ltd. will move a substantial portion of its electronic design automation applications onto the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud platform is a move that bears watching for its future enterprise implications. That is because Arm’s reduced instruction set-based processor designs, already a mainstay in mobile devices, are poised to take on a large ...