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Amazon Web Services bans accounts linked with Pegasus spyware

The Verge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant infrastructure and accounts,” an Amazon Web Services spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. AWS wasn’t the only service NSO apparently used.

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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. He did not acknowledge the AWS outage that impacted a large swath of the internet last week. Nor did he seek to alleviate concerns about Amazon Web Services’ market power.

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A company you’ve probably never heard of caused half the internet to go dark

Vox

Swaths of websites went down on Tuesday morning after an outage at the cloud computing services provider Fastly. Internet users were unable to access major news outlets, e-commerce platforms, and even government websites. Everyone from Amazon to the New York Times to the White House was affected.

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Equinix and Dell expand partnership for hyperconverged data center offerings

Venture Beast

Equinix is partnering with Dell Technologies, using its vast data center and bare metal backbone as a foundation for several as-a-service offerings. Read More.

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The complicated promise of Amazon’s space internet

Vox

Amazon recently announced that, by the end of next year, a startup called ABL Space Systems would deliver two prototype satellites for Project Kuiper, the company’s effort to build a low-Earth orbit, or LEO, satellite constellation that can beam internet connectivity down to Earth.

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4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. Some hyperscalers offer tools and advice on making AI more sustainable, such as Amazon Web Services, which provides tips on using serverless technologies to eliminate idle resources, data management tools, and datasets.

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper highlights new connections to AWS and partners in Japan

GeekWire

(Amazon Photo) As Amazon gears up to build and launch thousands of satellites for its Project Kuiper constellation , it’s talking up the space-based broadband network’s potential to enable new options for managing data traffic with Amazon Web Services — including private connectivity services that never touch the public internet.