Amazon is understood to have started a search for its first office in Dubai, following its recent acquisition of Souq.com.
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Bahrain sovereign wealth fund reduces IT costs by 50% with AWS
Sheikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has recently announced the successful migration of the company’s IT infrastructure to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and the closure of its onsite and offsite data centres.0 3735
Amazon Connect brings contact centres to the cloud
Amazon has released Connect, a contact centre as a service offering hosted in the Amazon Web Services cloud.
Amazon Web Services outage hits websites and apps
Multiple web users who rely on the cloud service have experienced widespread technical disruptions due to an unknown issue.
Amazon Web Services announces MENA office
The world’s largest cloud computing provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has finally announced plans to open an office in Dubai.
Interactive Intelligence introduces PureCloud Engage
Interactive Intelligence Group has recently announced a new customer engagement cloud service for businesses throughout the Middle East.
Amazon Web Services hits 5-year high
Despite Microsoft’s strong growth in the cloud market, Amazon reached a five-year high in its share of the cloud infrastructure service market.
Amazon counters Google with its own cloud price cuts
The price war among major cloud providers continues, with Amazon Web Services announcing Wednesday that it is lowering the prices of a number of its cloud services, one day after Google slashed prices.
Amazon and Microsoft drop US cloud storage prices by up to 50%
Last April, Microsoft committed to matching Amazon’s Web Services prices for compute, storage and bandwidth.
Verizon signs-up Oracle to tackle Amazon in the cloud
Verizon is building up its cloud service to take on the heavyweight of the industry – Amazon Web Services – and says it took a big step toward that direction by partnering with Oracle this week.
Amazon: New analytics tool can scrutinise massive amounts of data
Amazon Web Services this week released its new cloud-based data analytics tool Kinesis, which can analyse large amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour.