AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025) I’ve always been fascinated by how quickly we’re able to stand up new Regions and Availability Zones at AWS. Today there are 36 launched Regions and 114 launched Availability Zones. That’s amazing! This past week at AWS was marked by significant expansion to our global infrastructure. The announcement of a new Region in the works […]
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a....ws/aws-weekly-roundu

SAS and Microsoft Collaborate on AI-Driven Decision-Making Tools SAS and Microsoft expand their AI partnership, launching decision-making tools and previewing quantum AI’s potential at SAS Innovate 2025.
https://www.techrepublic.com/a....rticle/news-sas-micr

IBM’s CEO: ‘Era of AI Experimentation is Over’ at THINK 2025 IBM unveils powerful new AI and hybrid cloud tools at THINK 2025, boosting enterprise productivity with watsonx, LinuxONE 5, and expanded Oracle partnership.
https://www.techrepublic.com/a....rticle/news-ibm-thin

In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region AWS announces plans to launch a new AWS Region in Chile by the end of 2026 with three Availability Zones, marking the third AWS Region in Latin American alongside existing Regions in São Paulo and Mexico, and bringing AWS infrastructure and services closer to Chile including AI capabilities while supporting data residency requirements.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a....ws/coming-soon-aws-s

Accelerate the transfer of data from an Amazon EBS snapshot to a new EBS volume Amazon EBS introduces a new Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization to accelerate data transfer from EBS snapshots to new EBS volumes by specifying a consistent volume initialization rate, improving workflow efficiency and predictability.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a....ws/accelerate-the-tr