Futurum’s Daniel Newman weighs in on Amazon providing free access to Legal Entity Identifier dataset on the AWS Cloud to help businesses protect investments from climate-change related risks. As organizations the world over rush to embrace ESG efforts, or appear to embrace them, real accountability as it relates to ESG initiatives has been missing. That is what GLEIF and ASDI are looking to change with the Legal Entity Identifier dataset — and that’s a win-win all the way around.
Microsoft JEDI Win Gets Cancelled, Amazon Gets Another Chance and Hello JWCC
Futurum’s Shelly Kramer shares insights on the cancellation of Microsoft’s DOD JEDI contract win, how Amazon’s tenacity paid off, and how changing times mean changing cloud needs for the government. Which is where the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), a multi-cloud/multi-vendor Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, comes in.
Amazon’s Stock has Been Stuck in Neutral, but a Host of Catalysts May Soon Change That
Amazon has been diversifying its businesses and executing at the highest levels, and that could help with their stock growth.
Guavus Revs Up Open NWDAF to Spur Automated Multi-vendor 5G Networks
Guavus launched its Guavus-IQ NWDAF solution to provide open NWDAF across operator 5G Core environments to power the service orchestration and closed-loop network automation key to elastically scaling and monetizing new 5G services. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the standard-based 3GPP Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF) is integral to producing the real-time operational intelligence key to handling the complexities of open, multi-vendor 5G networks and delivering the statistical and predictive analytics processing designated for emerging 5G use cases.
AWS EC2 X2gd Instances Powered Using Home-Grown Graviton2 Processors
AWS has announced general availability of EC2 X2gd instances of its cloud computing offering. Futurum’s Fred McClimans discusses the importance of this new offering and how it plays into the growing demand for memory-intensive workloads, such as real-time data analytics. In short, it means very good things for AWS customers. It increases the performance and cuts the cost of cloud computing for workloads such as in-memory databases, relational databases, and our favorite, real-time data analytics. This, coupled with AWS’s scalable, pay-as-you-go consumption model, is exactly what is needed today.
Amazon Hits a Home Run on Historic Day for Tech Earnings
Amidst the global pandemic Amazon has been positioned well for continued success and this quarter shined as the company delivered well above expectations.
Amazon Web Services Increases Availability of AWS IoT SiteWise for Industrial Customers
Amazon recently announced that AWS IoT SiteWise will be available to all AWS customers in certain regions soon. SiteWise is a managed service that gathers and organizes data in a way that helps industrial customers make informed decisions when it comes to monitoring facility operations, making new applications, improving production, determining performance metrics, and more. We expect to be hearing much more about AWS IoT SiteWise in the months to come.
Amazon’s AWS MetroPlus Chatbot Delivered a Significant Assist to NYC Non-Profit Insurer
Amazon’s AWS MetroPlus chatbot program, developed free of charge by Amazon with project management help from Bain & Co., delivered a significant assist to a NYC-based non-profit insurer that continues to pay dividends now and into the future. Here’s the backstory there, and a look at how simple solutions like the one developed here often can have far-reaching benefits.
Amazon’s AWS Doubles Down on Sales Growth, Offering Deeper Tech Expertise
Amazon’s AWS doubles down on sales growth, expanding its sales team to offer deeper tech expertise including cybersecurity, AI, and data analytics. With Microsoft (and others) nipping at its heels, Amazon is reportedly doubling its sales team and shifting from its early focus on servers and storage to what it is customers need today — sales expertise and guidance around intelligent cloud offerings.
Cloud Wars: Amazon Scores as Judge Blocks Microsoft’s JEDI Cloud Contract Award
The cloud wars continue to be exciting. Amazon scored today as a judge blocked the Department of Defense $10Bn JEDI cloud services contract award to Microsoft pending decisions on Amazon’s request to depose the President and other government officials with regard to the award of this contract. But in the big scheme of things, will it matter? Here’s what I think.
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