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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

A passionate team of AWS developers and engineers in Cape Town, South Africa, created a single virtual server instance allowing South African customers to access practically unlimited cloud computing capacity without needing an on-premises data center. billion more in its South African cloud infrastructure by 2029.

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Girls in data: Inspiring the future of female data science

Open Access Government - Technology News

It comes as no surprise that, with booming investment in AI development, the demand for highly-skilled data scientists has risen dramatically in the past 10 years. I remember reading an article in Harvard Business Review back in 2012 where data science was dubbed the “ Sexiest Job of the 21st Century ”.

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Introducing a modern cloud native approach for running Moodle at scale

Google Public Sector

billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 14.2%, according to Fortune Business Insights. To ensure users can rely on Moodle to continue delivering connected experiences, Google Cloud's Customer Engineers have developed an open-source, cloud-native approach for hosting Moodle. The digitization of education isn’t slowing down.

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Streamlining naturalization applications with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector Blog

The following screenshot shows the Upload documents page of the developed demo. In this step we use a LLM for classification and data extraction from the documents. This helps the applicant save time because they only upload documents instead of filling out long forms. Screen showing documents have been uploaded.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

While restrictive zoning is not the only reason housing costs are high in the United States, it does play a major role in limiting housing development, especially in parts of the country with high paying jobs in fast-growing industries. But after the reforms were passed, the next planning cycle in 2021 saw the total jump to 2.5 million units.

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