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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

This origin story traces back to the founding of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) service in 2004, which is now regarded as one of the fundamental pieces of cloud computing technology. billion through 2022 to meet customer demand for cloud computing services, according to a new economic impact study (EIS) from AWS.

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

On September 20, 2022, Americans celebrate National Voter Registration Day with a massive cross-country effort to register voters ahead of the federal midterm elections. Since 2004 HeadCount has supported the registration of over one million voters. and Jay Z, Leon Bridges, Trixie Mattel, and Princess Nokia.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. In Florence, a consortium of 29 volunteer organisations includes specialists in medicine, transportation, radio communications, fire-fighting, logistics and hazardous materials response. link] (accessed 21 October 2022). Moore-Bick, M.