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Graviton progress: 50% of new AWS instances run on Amazon custom silicon

Network World

Half of all instances spun up on Amazon Web Services over the past two years used Graviton, Amazons custom silicon built on Arm processor technology, rather than x86 processors. But the challenge of getting Arm into enterprise data centers lies in all the legacy code.

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Amazon Web Services focuses on optimizing artificial intelligence in space

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services demonstrated data processing in orbit in 2022, using a payload on D-Orbit’s ION satellite carrier, shown in this artist’s conception. (D-Orbit Clint Crosier is director of aerospace and satellite solutions at Amazon Web Services.

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Top 10 Data Center Stories, September 2013

Data Center Knowledge

Data center expansions by Google, Microsoft and eBay captured the attention of readers in September, along with a cloud outage for Amazon Web Services. Here are the most viewed stories on Data Center Knowledge for September 2013, ranked by page views. Google Has Spent 21 Billion on Data Centers.

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AWS plans to outspend Microsoft and Google on on AI infrastructure

Network World

Amazon Web Services (AWS) intends to invest $100 billion in ramping up infrastructure for AI cloud services this year, surpassing the spending plans of rivals Microsoft and Google. And AWS isnt the only cloud service provider that is ramping up its investments into AI-enabled data centers.

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FERC rejects Amazon’s nuclear data center

Dataconomy

data centers with nuclear energy have run into a significant hurdle. Earlier this year, Amazon acquired the Cumulus data center complex next to the Susquehanna plant for $650 million. Earlier this year, Amazon acquired the Cumulus data center complex next to the Susquehanna plant for $650 million.

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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

CIO Business Intelligence

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region.

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Does Africa Present An Opportunity For The Chinese Clouds?

Forrester IT

Africa is home to 20% of our planet’s land and 16% of its people, but none of the hyperscale public clouds run from data centers there — yet. Microsoft will offer Azure from data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg later this year, and Amazon recently announced plans to follow suit with an Amazon Web Services […].

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