Max Peterson, AWS Public Sector Director. Photo AWS Press
Amazon Web Services (aws), Amazon’s cloud computing and services division, presented at its annual summit in Washington the new regions of the world where it will start operating this year and next, including a headquarters at Argentina which will provide better connectivity with companies and state agencies that use processing power Cloud computing.
In an interview in the main auditorium of the Washington Convention Center, Max PetersonAWS public sector representative, reviewed the announcements the company has been making since last year in terms of connectivity: “Currently, AWS is 26 global regions of cloud computing consisting of data centers with 84 zones of existence. We announced plans for others eight AWS Regions around the world, added more than 24 Availability Zones”, He declared.
“We have started to extend the cloud to more places using what we call ‘local areas’. The local zone has expanded the cloud in the United States to 16 different cities, and we have announced plans to launch 32 new local zones in metropolitan areas 26 countries over the next two years ”, Peterson explained at the conference he attended Clarion.
While explaining this, Peterson showed a map where the local area that will open this year’s course and the next in Argentina is also there. These specific zones serve to increase internet connectivity and AWS services leased by other companies.
In Argentina, Edenor, Mercado Libre, the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA), the Italian Hospital in the City of Buenos Aires and the Municipality of Córdoba are some of the institutions using AWS processing power.
The inaugural AWS Summit conference in its 2022 edition has a large number of examples to explain in a more concrete way the things and services for which service is key.
Health, mail and artificial intelligence
Pritha Mehra of the United States Postal Service. Photo AWS Press
Peterson stressed the role of technology development during the coronavirus health crisis and also referred to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “In these challenging times, our customers in the public sector and innovating in the cloud to save lives and provide critical services to citizens. ”
“We help our clients innovate in the sectors of education, public administration, health, aerospace and satellites, as well as non-profit organizations,” said a company representative.
He then reviewed three main public sector cases where AWS supports system infrastructures: the communication system –USPSthe US postal system-, artificial intelligence -Hypergiant- and the Health -Tufts Medicine-.
During the keynote address, Peterson invited Pritha Mehra, CIO of the USPS, who explained how they used AWS to respond to a request from the White House: performed 350 million Covid reviews across the United States.
USPS, the United States postal service. Photo EFE
Next, Quentin Donnellan, president of Hypergiant, an artificial intelligence and machine learning company, explained how they provide analytics data almost immediately to U.S. military and security forces.
Another surprising fact is in the field of health, where Peterson cited the University of British Columbia, which contracted the AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning service for the study. 6 million biological tests to discover 9 new variants of the coronavirus. All this in just 11 days.
“Remember that our global infrastructure is built on the foundation of security: AWS is encrypted automatically all traffic on our global and regional networks between AWS secure facilities ”, Peterson concludes, without mentioning a hot topic in the last two years where cybercrime has grown exponentially.
And, more importantly, because working online requires special care in terms of handling sensitive information, it can be easily accessed by cybercriminals if it is not adequately protected.
About the AWS Summit
Max Peterson opened the summit with his opening statement or “keynote”. Photo AWS Press
The AWS Summit brings together specialists from the industry Cloud computing and there are more than 300 sessions between workshops, conferences and question and answer meetings. It is intended for businesses, governments, and organizations that rely on the services provided by AWS.
AWS brings you databases, management, security, IoT, enterprise applications, and developer tools all online. The company offers approximately 17,300 different products and services to companies and individuals, of which approximately 5,000 fall into the category infrastructure and software.
“The term ‘cloud computing’ refers to the delivery of on-demand computing resources to the Internet at pay-per-use pricing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining their own data centers and servers, the organizations can purchase technologies such as storage, computing, databases and other services based on their needs and when they have peaks in demand. For governments, for example, this happens at censuses or elections, ” Andrés Tahta, General Director of AWS Public Sector for Latin America.
In fact, in his presentation, Peterson remembered that AWS behind the 10 election processinvolving 150 million citizens.
AWS was founded in 2006 and is currently the second most prolific business of the company founded by Jeff Bezos after the amazon.com marketplace: last year it had a turnover of 62 billion dollars.
From Washington
Source: Clarin
