The world’s largest cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), experienced a major outage that has impacted thousands of organisations, including banks, financial software platforms such as Xero, and social media platforms such as Snapchat. The outage began at roughly 6pm AEDT on Monday. It was caused by a malfunction at one of AWS’ data… Read more »
AWS has announced the 40 global startups chosen for its 2025 Generative AI Accelerator. The eight-week program, now in its third year, is designed to help early-stage startups scale foundational generative AI technologies.’ Participants will receive up to US$1 million in AWS credits, mentorship, and access to AWS’s full AI technology stack. “The pace of… Read more »
Balancing the merits of artificial intelligence with the risks it poses to workers and creatives is a debate which rages on, all while major US tech companies ramp up their public relations campaigns — warning of the emergence of “two-tier” economies without greater AI take-up. Amazon recently laid out its vision for a future Australia… Read more »
Unicorn Day, the annual AWS-led gathering of founders, investors and startup operators, took over Sydney recently – and the message was loud and clear: Australia might be a small market, but our startups are playing on a global stage. From an impressive lineup of speakers spanning AWS heavyweights to big-name customers and VCs, here are… Read more »
Australia’s competition regulator says the dominance of the country’s three major cloud computing providers — Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) — means such companies could be incentivised to engage in anti-competitive behaviour, potentially increasing risks to consumers and the wider market. The major cloud providers — often called ‘hyperscalers’ due to their capacity… Read more »
Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it will invest A$20 billion to expand data centre infrastructure in Australia over the next five years. Prime minister Anthony Albanese, on his way to the G7 Summit in Canada, met with AWS CEO Matt Garman in Seattle over the weekend for the announcement. The infrastructure rollout by 2029 will… Read more »
Former Square Peg senior investment associate Casey Flint has made the switch to the tech side, joining AWS where she’ll focus on AI. Flint has spend the last few years exploring and unpacking artificial intelligence (AI), explaining her findings and thinking in the excellent series Artificially Intelligent. After four years at the VC, the decision… Read more »
Innovation means different things to different people, but the most important thing when it comes to product development is to have a clear vision, according to Canva’s Head of Design, Andrew Green. “‘We think pretty deeply about our roadmap, and for all the founders out there, I think that one interesting aspect of [Canva cofounder… Read more »
Serial entrepreneur, investor and LaunchVic chair Leigh Jasper is among the founders who’ll share their insights on what it takes to build a billion-dollar startup at AWS Unicorn Day in Melbourne on Thursday, October 24. Jasper cofounded Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for managing construction projects, and as CEO, led the… Read more »
Four Australian artificial intelligence-based startups will feature among 80 globally in the second AWS Global Generative AI Accelerator program. Contact Harald, Marqo, Relevance AI, and Splash Music were selected for the program and score up to US$1 million each in AWS credits, mentorship, and education to accelerate AI innovation with AWS. They’ll also get the chance… Read more »
Amazon Web Services will build a bespoke cloud environment to handle top secret Defence and intelligence data as part of a $2 billion deal with the federal government. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles announced the partnership between the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday morning. The… Read more »
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the hottest sector for startup investors globally right now. And if you’re a founder on the hunt for funds to build your idea, you need AI as a key part of the arsenal to grab their attention. Australia’s most successful tech companies, including Canva and Atlassian, have made generative AI central… Read more »
Amazon is laying off another 9,000 employees, with senior management citing “the uncertain economy in which we reside”. The cuts will come from its cloud business Amazon Web Services (AWS), streaming platform Twitch, and its advertising department. This latest round of layoffs comes just two months after Amazon said it would cut more than 18,000… Read more »
The Australian National University’s ANU Quantum Numbers (AQN), the world’s most popular and powerful online random number generator, has struck a deal with Amazon to make AQN available on AWS Marketplace. AQN has been operating out of a lab at ANU for the past decade and has had more than two billion requests for random… Read more »
Tech giant Amazon is setting up a new Adelaide office at the city’s innovation hub, Lot Fourteen, with a promise to create more than 50 jobs by 2024. The new office will include Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon Sciences, a team carrying out world-leading artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research. State Premier… Read more »
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