ORIGINALLY VALUED AT $3.4 MILLION The cloud giant Amazon, has just acquired an empty site in Loudoun County, Virginia, for the development of a new data center. Although a portion was used as a vegetative waste facility for mulch, the…
SPAIN’S PRIME MINISTER WELCOMES AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it plans to open an infrastructure region in Spain, which will consist of three separated Availability Zones. The new infrastructure will be AWS’s seventh region in Europe, joining existing…
A $200 MILLION DATA CENTER FACILITY Amazon’s cloud arm AWS, has gotten a 15-year total property tax exemption for its planned data center campus, which is to be sited in Hermiston, Oregon. Hermiston is a small city in Umatilla County,…
SHUTTING DOWN ITS DATA CENTERS BY 2022 Amazon’s cloud arm AWS (Amazon Web Services), has just been selected by Old Mutual Limited to house its 1000+ business applications. Based in South Africa, Old Mutual is one of the oldest and…
ARGENTINA WINS CHILE WITH TAX INCENTIVES AWS, the cloud services arm of Amazon is planning to invest $800 million in Argentina for the construction of a regional data center. The new 10-year project has been an investment proposal for South…
AMAZON SEEM TO BE INTERESTED The government of Israel has taken a further step in its plans to develop a major regional cloud facility and this project is already attracting the world’s cloud giants. Under Israel’s Finance ministry, the Government…
E8 BUILDS DATA CENTER STORAGE WARES Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired Israel-based storage technology startup E8 Storage. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Following the acquisition, the team of 25 at E8 Storage, which provides flash storage for the…
AWS OPENS FIRST M.E. REGION IN BAHRAIN The cloud giant AWS (Amazon Web Services) has just opened its first Middle Eastern region in Bahrain, following rival Microsoft. About a month ago, Microsoft outran AWS and Google Cloud to open its…
AWS TAKES CHARGE OF THE OPERATIONS Cloud-based software provider Gotransverse, has today launched its new, multi-tenant data center facility in Sydney, Australia. The data center was built for regulatory compliance and to accommodate Gotransverse’s intelligent billing customers in Australia, starting…
AWS New Ground Stations Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just launched its first two Ground Stations in Ohio and Oregon, providing Satellite connectivity as a service. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets users control satellite communications,…
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