AWS announces slew of new cloud products at re:Invent
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a number of new products at the cloud providers annual AWS re:Invent event. AWS CEO Andy Jassy used his keynote to reveal new compute innovations for new EC2 instances – a type of virtual server. He highlighted that AWS can now offer customers new instances on a shorter timeframe [] The post AWS announces slew of new cloud products at re:Invent appeared firs
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Author: Ellen Daniel
Date: 2020-12-02
URL: https://www.verdict.co.uk/aws-reinvent-andy-jassy/
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