During the company’s ninth annual re:Invent conference, Andy Jassy announced a slew of new products targeting Microsoft and Oracle.

EOH moves on after the cancellation of its lucrative Microsoft contract and is courting global tech giants such as Salesforce and Amazon Web Services.

Commvault now has DR automation for Microsoft Azure and AWS within zones or across regions, along with simple cross-cloud migration support.

AWS is focused on expanding cloud skills across Africa, offering training programmes available for online self-paced learning.

A shared platform could allow higher education to collaborate and share software and licensing costs in the emerging blended learning environment.

When deciding which cloud services to offer, a good place to start is business challenge mapping, says Jason Sharp, director for cloud and hosting at First Distribution.

Companies are aggressively increasing investments in data centre infrastructure in anticipation of increased demand in cloud and hosted services, say analysts.

Native cloud apps are the way to go, says Gavin Ramsay, AWS brand manager at First Distribution.

The company starts the construction of a new hyperscale data centre, with 38MW of critical power load, in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg.

The government’s digital responses to the COVID-19 pandemic showcased the power of moving services online.

This infographic summarises the results of the recent Cloud Survey, which was conducted by ITWeb, in collaboration with AWS.

AWS is set to host a webinar on: "Citizen engagement as an enabler for smart cities of the future" this week, in collaboration with ITWeb.