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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon S3 Express One Zone

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Express One Zone, a new high-performance, single-zone Amazon S3 storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent, single-digit millisecond data access for customers’ most latency-sensitive applications.

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  • At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Express One Zone, a new high-performance, single-zone Amazon S3 storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent, single-digit millisecond data access for customers’ most latency-sensitive applications.
  • Amazon S3 Express One Zone is the lowest latency cloud object storage available, with data access speed up to 10 times faster and request costs up to 50% lower than Amazon S3 Standard, from any AWS Availability Zone within an AWS Region.
  • With Amazon S3 Express One Zone, customers can scale their storage up or down as needed and work with the Amazon S3 APIs they use today.
  • Amazon S3 Express One Zone supports Amazon S3 features, including Mountpoint for Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Server-Side Encryption, and Amazon S3 Block Public Access, as well as AWS services, such as Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon Bedrock.

SAIC MOTOR Overseas Intelligent Mobility Selects AWS as Its Strategic Cloud Provider

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Monday, November 27, 2023

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that SAIC MOTOR Overseas Intelligent Mobility Technology Co., Ltd. (SAIC MOTOR), China’s largest automaker and a Fortune Global 500 company, selected AWS as its strategic cloud provider for its i-SMART connected vehicle platform.

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  • At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that SAIC MOTOR Overseas Intelligent Mobility Technology Co., Ltd. (SAIC MOTOR), China’s largest automaker and a Fortune Global 500 company, selected AWS as its strategic cloud provider for its i-SMART connected vehicle platform.
  • By running on AWS, SAIC i-SMART enables drivers to monitor, interact with, and upgrade in-vehicle features around the world using their mobile phone.
  • With Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) , SAIC MOTOR is able to extract additional value from vehicle data to enhance the driving experience.
  • In addition, SAIC MOTOR built serverless IoT applications based on AWS IoT Core to collect, process, and analyze vehicle data.

AWS Introduces Amazon One Enterprise

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Amazon One Enterprise, a palm-based identity service for comprehensive and easy-to-use authentication that improves organizational security and helps prevent costly security breaches.

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  • At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Amazon One Enterprise, a palm-based identity service for comprehensive and easy-to-use authentication that improves organizational security and helps prevent costly security breaches.
  • Amazon One Enterprise eliminates operational overhead associated with the management of traditional enterprise authentication methods, like badges and PINs.
  • To implement Amazon One Enterprise, IT and security administrators can easily install Amazon One devices on-site and activate them in the AWS Management Console.
  • When connected to computers or other enterprise systems, Amazon One Enterprise authenticates users for access to web applications and software.

Salesforce and AWS Expand Partnership for Customers to More Easily Build Trusted AI Apps, Deliver Seamless CRM Experiences, and Bring Salesforce Products to AWS Marketplace

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Monday, November 27, 2023

In addition, Salesforce Data Cloud will expand to support data sharing across additional AWS technologies.

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  • In addition, Salesforce Data Cloud will expand to support data sharing across additional AWS technologies.
  • AWS will also expand its use of Salesforce products such as Salesforce Data Cloud.
  • Data Cloud will allow AWS to create a single unified customer profile allowing them to deliver more personalized experiences to customers.
  • Joint customers in the U.S. may now purchase select Salesforce products through AWS Marketplace, with expanded product and regional support planned for 2024.

Clarity AI and AWS Advance Sustainable Investing at Scale

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Monday, November 27, 2023

This unbiased information is then shared with investors, researchers, and consumers to help them make sustainable investing and purchasing decisions.

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  • This unbiased information is then shared with investors, researchers, and consumers to help them make sustainable investing and purchasing decisions.
  • Clarity AI developed generative AI models on AWS using Amazon SageMaker to uncover new data points that help clients avoid investing in companies or funds that are engaged in greenwashing or harmful environmental practices.
  • Internally, Clarity AI uses a generative AI–powered chatbot that runs on AWS to handle inquiries from prospective clients, increasing the efficiency of their product specialist team.
  • “Working with customers like Clarity AI, we believe that choice and security are the winning combination that will help organizations make the most of generative AI to reimagine experiences for customers.”

Clarity AI and AWS Advance Sustainable Investing at Scale

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Monday, November 27, 2023

This unbiased information is then shared with investors, researchers, and consumers to help them make sustainable investing and purchasing decisions.

Key Points: 
  • This unbiased information is then shared with investors, researchers, and consumers to help them make sustainable investing and purchasing decisions.
  • Clarity AI developed generative AI models on AWS using Amazon SageMaker to uncover new data points that help clients avoid investing in companies or funds that are engaged in greenwashing or harmful environmental practices.
  • Internally, Clarity AI uses a generative AI–powered chatbot that runs on AWS to handle inquiries from prospective clients, increasing the efficiency of their product specialist team.
  • “Working with customers like Clarity AI, we believe that choice and security are the winning combination that will help organizations make the most of generative AI to reimagine experiences for customers.”

Hyundai and Amazon Partner to Deliver Innovative Customer Experiences and Cloud Transformation

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Hyundai Motor Company announced a broad strategic partnership to bring innovative new experiences to customers.

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  • Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Hyundai Motor Company announced a broad strategic partnership to bring innovative new experiences to customers.
  • This strategic collaboration includes Amazon launching online sale of Hyundai vehicles in the U.S. in 2024, Hyundai naming AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help facilitate digital transformation, and the Alexa Built-in experience coming to Hyundai’s next-generation vehicles.
  • Cloud Transformation: Hyundai has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to accelerate its digital transformation using broad and industry-leading AWS capabilities—from compute, storage, database, and analytics to generative AI and Internet of Things (IoT).
  • AWS and Hyundai have designed and implemented a Master Builder training and certification program to train Hyundai engineers in critical cloud skills.

Amazon’s Buy with Prime Kicks Off the Holiday Season by Offering New Shopping Benefits for Prime Members

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

As Prime makes life easier every day, this holiday season Prime members will have even more benefits when using Buy with Prime.

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  • As Prime makes life easier every day, this holiday season Prime members will have even more benefits when using Buy with Prime.
  • “We continue to innovate our Buy with Prime offering so that Prime members get access to an expanded selection and a convenient shopping experience, even when shopping beyond Amazon.com.
  • Just in time for the holiday season, we’re excited to roll out new Buy with Prime features that Prime members will love, including hassle-free returns and world-class customer service,” said Peter Larsen, Amazon vice president of Buy with Prime.
  • Get 24/7 live chat support for Buy with Prime orders : Prime members can now get access to customer service provided by Amazon on behalf of Buy with Prime merchants.

MUFG Signs Multiyear Global Agreement With AWS to Accelerate Digital Transformation

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

MUFG will use AWS technologies to inform data-driven business decisions, automate processes, and develop new digital financial products to meet rapidly evolving customer needs across asset servicing, banking, and fund financing.

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  • MUFG will use AWS technologies to inform data-driven business decisions, automate processes, and develop new digital financial products to meet rapidly evolving customer needs across asset servicing, banking, and fund financing.
  • By moving from on-premises data centers to AWS, MUFG reduced the cost of operating its standard IT infrastructure by 20% and gained the agility to innovate personalized financial services more rapidly.
  • Operating in the cloud, MUFG can provide clients with faster financial processing times, more timely insights, and secure access to digital services that promote long-term financial security.
  • “AWS is helping MUFG achieve its goal of becoming a digital financial platform by leveraging cutting-edge technologies, including generative AI,” said Toshiki Ochi, managing corporate executive and group chief information officer at MUFG.

Amazon Business’ State of Procurement Report Reveals Key Procurement Strategies for 2024: Increasing Budgets and Investments in Tech

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

The report highlights business-to-business (B2B) trends and global insights around procurement needs, priorities, and challenges.

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  • The report highlights business-to-business (B2B) trends and global insights around procurement needs, priorities, and challenges.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231114234616/en/
    Amazon Business' 2024 State of Procurement Report (Graphic: Business Wire)
    The report shows that more than half (53%) of respondents expect their budgets to increase in 2024.
  • “At Amazon Business, we develop scalable solutions for customers and solve their biggest procurement challenges, and I couldn’t be more excited about the evolution of procurement.
  • The 2024 Global State of Procurement Report was fielded online from June 6 to July 14 among 3,108 procurement decision-makers and senior leaders familiar with procurement operations at their organization.