Building on a 2016 centre in Montreal, Amazon Web Services has launched its second major infrastructure hub in Canada. Based in Calgary, this second AWS centre represents Western Canada. “With the launch of the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, customers and partners across Canada now have additional infrastructure to deploy applications with greater resilience, availability, […]
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OpsGuru Bolsters Cloud Capabilities as Canadian Companies Accelerate Digital Adoption
OpsGuru guides organizations through digital transformation journeys with technical expertise, service, and partnerships. “We live and breathe cloud technology, helping customers focus on their business objectives by relieving them of the mystification of the cloud,” the company says. “We focus on solutions such as cloud adoption, application modernization, Kubernetes enablement, managed cloud operations, cloud security, […]
Amazon Canada to Hire 1,800 New Corporate and Tech Employees in 2021
Amazon today announced plans to hire 1,800 new corporate and technology employees at its Canadian offices in 2021, including its Vancouver and Toronto Tech Hubs. The 1,800 new hires will support teams across Amazon, including AWS, Alexa, Amazon Advertising, and Retail and Operations Technology. The hiring numbers announced today are tied to previous growth announcements, including last […]
Vancouver’s OpsGuru Named AWS Consulting Partner of the Year
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the 2021 Canada AWS Partner Award winners, recognizing channel leaders playing a key role helping Canadian customers drive innovation and build solutions on the AWS Cloud. Announced during the annual AWS Partner Summit, the AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of born-in-the cloud, and traditional AWS Consulting and […]
Want To Build Better Products? Begin With Working Backwards
It’s difficult to develop products that truly deliver for the customer. Too often development teams huddle together to come up with ideas in a vacuum, and build what they believe are amazing products with incredible features that will tackle customer challenges or unmet needs—and then once their product or service is built, it misses the […]
Attention Vancouver Software Developers: Amazon is hiring 862 of you
Vancouverites are well aware of Amazon’s plans for our city. The e-commerce giant has signed a deal to occupy the largest parcel of office space in the city’s core, taking up the full city block where the old Vancouver Post Office stood. To fill that space Amazon needs to hire like crazy. Amazon currently has […]
Amazon Web Services Opens Cloud Innovation Center At UBC
Last summer Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of a Cloud Innovation Centre at the University of British Columbia. The first of its kind in Canada, the CIC is part of an ongoing relationship between AWS and UBC, and one of seven other AWS CICs around the world. This week AWS and UBC officially […]