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AWS marketplace comes to India, enabling rupee transactions for services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday announced the expansion of AWS Marketplace - a platform to discover and transact software solutions - in India, enabling customers to purchase cloud software and services in Indian Rupees. India-based sellers, including Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Consulting Partners, can now list and sell their software and services with simplified tax compliance, the company said in a statement. The expansion allows Indian software providers, including Cisco, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, eMudhra, Freshworks, Sarvam, Salesforce, and IBM, among others, to transact in INR on AWS Marketplace. Globally, AWS Marketplace features over 30,000 listings across more than 70 software categories, including security, AI, DevOps, and data analytics. The service offers customers significant cost and time savings, with a reported 377 per cent return on investment and faster procurement cycles. "AWS Marketplace in India eliminates traditional procurement friction by ...

OpenAI signs $38-bn multi-year cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services

The deal marks the first major announcement since OpenAI's restructuring last week, which freed the ChatGPT maker from its non-profit framework

Infra breakdown: AWS' global outage creates a moment of vulnerability

AWS suffers major global outage on October 20, affecting millions of users and services including Canva, Duolingo, and Snapchat amid its dominant cloud market presence

AWS outage: Why Amazon's cloud failure broke top apps worldwide

Amazon Web Services faced a widespread outage that disrupted platforms including Perplexity AI, Pinterest, and Snapchat, highlighting the risks of global dependence on its cloud network

What to know about Amazon's cloud outage that exposed internet's fragility

A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services on Monday morning demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth's computational infrastructure everyday -- and laid bare the vulnerabilities of an increasingly concentrated system. But despite its omnipresence, most users do not know what -- or where -- the cloud is. Here is what to know about the data centres in Northern Virginia where the outage originated, and what the malfunction reveals about a rapidly evolving industry. Renting internet infrastructure Cloud computing is a technology that allows companies to remotely access massive computing equipment and services without having to purchase and maintain physical infrastructure. In other words, businesses ranging from Snapchat to McDonald's essentially rent Amazon's physical infrastructure located in places all around the world to operate their own websites. Instead of building expensive computing systems in-house, companies rely on Amaz

Amazon's AWS cloud service restored after global outage disrupts businesses

AWS hosts applications and computer processes for companies around the world, and the disruption knocked workers from London to Tokyo offline and halted others from conducting normal everyday tasks

Do You Wanna Partner: Where to watch Tamannaah Bhatia's series online?

Do You Wanna Partner, ft. Tamannaah Bhatia & Diana Penty, is available on Amazon Prime Video from today, Sept 12. This comedy-drama taking viewers on a blend through friendship and ambition

Microsoft taps Anthropic AI as it diversifies beyond OpenAI ties

Microsoft plans to diversify its portfolio by integrating both Anthropic and OpenAI technologies into its Office features

Amazon Web Services bets big on India's talent in the global AI race

Amazon Web Services is investing $12.7 billion in India, banking on its developer base and infrastructure to shape the future of artificial general intelligence

Tata Communications, AWS join hands to establish long-distance data network

Tata Communications partners with AWS to create a robust national network connecting Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai, supporting AI and machine learning workloads across India

Amazon cuts hundreds of AWS jobs amid shift towards generative AI tools

Amazon has laid off hundreds of employees in its AWS cloud division as part of a wider shift towards AI-driven automation, despite strong March-quarter growth in sales and operating income

TPG-backed Altimetrik buys SLK Software to expand services, boost revenue

The deal will help Altimetrik leverage SLK's deep customer relationships, global operational footprint and complementary leadership talent to further deliver innovation-led value creation for customer

AWS plans to add $23 bn to India's GDP by 2030, says Sandeep Dutta

AWS to invest $12.7 billion in India by 2030 as part of its digital infrastructure expansion and AI integration, supporting over 1.31 lakh jobs annually across sectors

Amazon orders workers to relocate to Seattle, other hubs stirring concerns

Amazon has satellite workplaces around the country, including major metropolitan areas like New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Dallas and Austin, giving workers some flexibility about where they lived

AWS backs India's $1 trillion digital economy push with Generative AI

Satinder Pal Singh of AWS India explains how cloud and AI tools are helping enterprise, startups and public platforms scale innovation across key sectors

Byju's app delisted from Google Play Store over unpaid dues to vendor

Beleaguered edtech firm Byju's learning app has been delisted from Google Playstore due to non-payment of dues to its vendor Amazon Web Services, according to sources. While some of the other apps of Think and Learn, which operate under the Byju's brand, continue to be functional on Google Playstore. "BYJU's Learning app has been delisted from Playstore because of non-payment to Amazon Web Services, which provides support to the app. Byju's business is now being managed by an Insolvency Resolution Professional who has to manage all payment-related issues as well," a source told PTI. An email sent to Think and Learn's Insolvency Resolution Professional (IRP) Shailendra Ajmera did not elicit any reply. Byju's Leaning App covered mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology for classes 412 and social studies for classes 68 as well. The app also provides preparation support for competitive exams like JEE, NEET, and IAS. The app continues to be available on Apple's App Store. Byju's Pr

Nova Reel AI by Amazon now generates 2-min videos using text, image inputs

According to Amazon, users will be able to provide a prompt of up to 4,000 characters to generate a video of up to two minutes, which will essentially be a compilation of multiple six-second shots

Amazon Web Services to invest $8.2 bn in Maharashtra by 2029-30: Vaishnaw

Amazon Web Services plans to invest USD 8.2 billion in Maharashtra by 2029-30 to deploy latest and best compute facility and cloud management services, union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Monday. The minister said that Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to significantly increase employment in India as well. "The team of Amazon Web Services met today. They explained their entire plan of investing about USD 8.2 billion in Maharashtra in the coming few years going into 2029-30," Vaishnaw said. He said AWS is very optimistic about growth in India. "They are bringing the latest technologies, they are deploying the latest GPUs which is what they shared today. They are deploying some of the best compute facilities and cloud Management Services in India. "Along with the investment, there will be significant growth in employment also. Amazon web services shared that they will be adding a significant number of jobs in India in the coming years," Vaishnaw said.

It's a quantum leap in computing with India joining the global race

The world's biggest technology companies are building machines with vast processing power. India too is in the race

Angel One says it is investigating security breach, assessing impact

Angel One said it was notified of the breach by its dark-web monitoring partner and that it immediately changed all credentials of its AWS cloud