Amazon stories
There was a lot to unpack at the Canalys APAC Channels Forum keynote. This long-form piece tries to cover all the most relevant points for ANZ.
Amazon QLDB is a new class of database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable ledger.
The old proverb 'you have to spend money to make money' could never be truer than in the hyperscale data centre industry.
A 'technical error' at Amazon has exposed customer names and email addresses, leaving many irate and questioning if it was a data breach.
Amazon's potential separation from AWS may not have a significant impact on the cloud market, says Unitas Global's Grant Kirkwood.
While the market is seeing strong growth, it's coming at the expense of small-to-medium sized cloud operators.
Larry Ellison claims the rest of the cloud market is based on decade old technology with poor security, comparing Oracle's new offering with Amazon.
Supermicro vows to test its motherboards for alleged spy chips amid strong denials from Apple and AWS, who demand Bloomberg retract its claims.
Gartner predicts that AI projects will remain alchemy, face recognition will reduce missing people, and social media scandals will have little impact.
The dust still hasn't settled on the report that caused Supermicro's stocks to collapse, and now Apple is stressing its innocence.
A Bloomberg report claims that Supermicro sold motherboards with Chinese spy chips to Apple and Amazon, causing Supermicro's stock to plummet by 40%.
Amazon ECS service discovery makes it easy for containerised services to discover and connect with each other.
In the first half of this year more than US$53b has been spent on hyperscale data centre development, with the bulk of that from just 5 companies.
Google, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle joined forces, pledging to speed up the progress of health data standards and interoperability.
While Google and Amazon still lead the way, it seems the smart speaker market is no exception to the steady rise of Chinese tech.
Amazon is still on top, but Alibaba's investment strategy is giving the company huge potential for global growth.
Smart speaker installed base set to hit 100 million by year-end, with Amazon Echo taking over 50% share, says Canalys.
As an AWS Migrations Acceleration Program Partner, it can help customers reduce the risk of migrating to AWS cloud.
The hottest two categories, Smart Speakers and Video Entertainment products, are expected to represent 71% of the market in 2018.
New Zealanders pay US$5.99 for Amazon Prime Video but get fewer titles compared to the US, which has the largest library at US$12.99 per month.
