Amazon unveils AWS SimSpace Weaver, a spatial computing service for developers to run real-time city-sized simulations across multiple instances (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for visually designing and building serverless applications with a drag-and-drop interface  —  At its re:Invent conference today, AWS announced the launch of AWS Application Composer, a new low-code tool for visually designing and building serverless applications.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS announces Amazon DataZone, a service that uses machine learning to help enterprises catalog, discover, share, and govern their data  —  At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced Amazon DataZone, a new data management service that can help enterprises catalog, discover, share and — most importantly — govern their data.

Bloomberg:
AWS announces a new Graviton3E chip for high-performance computing tasks like weather forecasting and gene sequencing, competing with Intel, Nvidia, and others  —  Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing unit is rolling out new chips designed to power the highest-end of computing …

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle a cloud-computing contract of up to $9B each through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability  —  – Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.

Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post:
After a 24+ hour Alibaba Cloud outage on December 18, Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO and says CEO Daniel Zhang Yong will oversee Cloud, effective immediately  —  Alibaba Group Holding has named a new chief technology officer (CTO) and removed the president of its cloud computing services unit …

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS unveils Amazon Security Lake, a service that automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a data lake  —  AWS today announced Amazon Security Lake, a new purpose-built data lake for security-related data.