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AWS regional outage cripples Amazon and hosted services

AWS's biggest global region was unresponsive for several hours on Tuesday following an "impairment of network devices."

AWS stumps up $10m to plug industrial AI skills gap, make ML jobs accessible to all

As a counterpoint to the drive towards lights-out industrial automation, and its own role in it as supplier of sundry Industry 4.0 componentry – including, as of last week, private 5G pyrotechnics and an expanded IoT arsenal – Amazon Web Services (AWS) is taking...

AWS intros IoT packages to simplify digital twins and vehicle monitoring

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced two new IoT services, AWS IoT TwinMaker and AWS IoT FleetWise, to simplify the process to, respectively, create digital trains of industrial sites, equipment, and production lines, and collect and transfer vehicle data to the cloud. Siemens, Accenture,...

Hyperscalers and telcos at the industrial edge – a royal couple or a battle royale?

The kaleidoscope has been shaken, and the pieces are in flux; it is a quote from when British politics was supposed to change forever. But it captures very well an even more seismic upheaval, which promises indelible change for global industry – and will...

AWS touts efficiency, performance of new AWS-powered EC2 instances

Amazon's said its new chips powering its latest EC2 instances offer customers big performance gains and greatly improved energy efficiency.

AWS Cloud WAN simplifies SD-WAN

AWS Cloud WAN consolidates the previous "patchwork" of SD-WAN tools into a single dashboard, providing customers with policy-driven security.

AWS spurs Machine Learning research with free lab, $10M scholarship

AWS is promoting Machine Learning (ML) by giving away free SageMaker Studio Lab access and $10M in scholarship money for underserved students.

‘Telcos should know by now they’re not the only ones’ – analysts on AWS Private 5G

Short of detail, high on intrigue; the news from AWS this week that it will launch its own private 5G offer, pulling together telco parts from anonymous partners as a new-age plug-and-play enterprise networking system, has caused great excitement within the telecoms market. But...

Just what are you up to, Mr Hyperscaler? Unpacking AWS’s private 5G thunderbolt

That headline; is it a thunderbolt, really, this private 5G package from Amazon Web Services (AWS)? No, because nothing in it is a surprise. We know AWS is serious about 5G, even if it views it as another application, albeit a functional one, for...

Dish chief network officer sees big opportunity in enterprise

Speaking at AWS re:Invent, Dish network chief Marc Rouanne says Dish is building a 5G "network of networks" for businesses and enterprise.

More on AWS Private 5G – branded to begin, partners to join, carriers included (sort of)

So AWS responded about some of the finer details in its new private 5G offer, announced yesterday. What have we learned? Not much, at least in terms of the identity of the networking partners it is using for the project. But there was some...

AWS rolls network, compute, devices into one-stop managed private 5G service

Big news in the excitable private 5G universe; Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced its own private 5G service, AWS Private 5G, incorporating small cell radio access network (RAN) units, core and RAN software, and subscriber identity modules (SIM cards), plus sundry edge servers...

Public MEC vs. private MEC or both?: Verizon taking two-pronged approach

Verizon has partnered with AWS and Microsoft on delivering MEC services Verizon is all in on both public and private MEC and has a range of partnerships in place with the likes of AWS and Microsoft Azure as well as companies focused on applications. But...

Hyperscalers outrunning telcos – but 75% of enterprises want hybrid public-private 5G

Hyperscalers, with only varied and newly acquired in-house 5G knowledge, are outpacing telcos, with 40 years in the game, at private 5G, according to new research from Omdia. The analyst house has named Microsoft as the ‘top innovator’ in the field, ahead of AT&T...

‘A thousand flowers will bloom’ – should carriers climb into bed with hyperscalers?

It is a good question, and maybe the only question for mobile operators going into the Industry 4.0 space. Camille Mendler, a chief analyst at Omdia, asked it of Google Cloud in a recent webinar, which went under the same header, about why mobile...

AWS Canada West (Calgary) coming in 2023

AWS will expand its hyperscaler footprint in Canada in 2023 and 2024 as it brings online Canada West (Calgary), a new 3-AZ Region.

Verizon and Nissan demonstrate edge computing for improved connected-vehicle communication

Verizon and Nissan used sensors and edge technology to create 'a multi-viewpoint picture of potential safety hazards,' which was relayed to the driver Verizon has announced the completion of its cellular vehicle-to-everything communication (C-V2X) research with Nissan North America’s Research and Advanced Engineering team. The...

Verizon launches private MEC solution with AWS

  Verizon said that its private mobile edge compute solution with AWS Outposts is available for enterprise customers in the U.S. The new offering, which had been announced earlier this year, is a cloud computing platform that brings compute and storage services to the edge of...

AWS: ‘Edge is not about compute; it’s an ecosystem’

AWS has several operator partners, including Verizon, Dish Network, Vodafone and KDDI Speaking at the Connectivity Expo in Orlando, Florida, AWS’ Industry Solutions Technology Leader for Worldwide Telecom Robin Harwani detailed the company’s telecom strategic focus, supported by what it’s hearing from its operator partners...

Top 3 hyperscalers and how they are impacting 5G

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are hyperscaler apex predators, and offer both an existential threat and business opportunity for carriers.

Nokia mixes private 5G and edge compute in new MXIE master bundle for Industry 4.0

Nokia has bundled industrial-grade compute, storage, and networking into a single edge solution for mission-critical Industry 4.0. The new package comes with industrial IoT sensing and analytics applications, as well, plus a “single pane of glass” management platform to draw together newly-connected operational technology...

Ericsson intros new IoT Accelerator facility to connect cellular IoT devices to AWS, others

Ericsson has introduced a ‘cloud connect’ function into its IoT Accelerator platform to make it easy for enterprises to connect cellular IoT devices to public cloud endpoints. A press statement from the firm led with connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), and included a...

Ericsson adds Cloud Connect to IoT Accelerator to tap Amazon Web Services

Ericsson Cloud Connect enables secure IoT cellular connections using Amazon Web Services public cloud endpoints.

Well, technically… business focus has shifted from technology to mission: AWS’ Sandy Carter (Ep. 52)

According to Sandy Carter, vice president at Amazon Web Services, the company's customers are moving past the technology implementation stage of the digitalization journey and are beginning to focus on developing and achieving their mission. Listen to this week's episode to hear more about...