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Accelerating India’s digital future: MeitY empanels AWS Asia-Pacific (Hyderabad) Region for government workloads

AWS Public Sector Blog

Operational since November 2022, as part of AWS’s total investment of INR 1,36,500 crores (US $16.4 billion) in cloud infrastructure in India by 2030 , the AWS Asia-Pacific (Hyderabad) Region is the second AWS Region in India to be fully empaneled by MeitY. AWS’s planned investment of US $12.7

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Improving retail customer experience with virtual reality

Open Access Government - Technology News

billion in 2022. Moreover, the experts expect the technology to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28% from 2023 to 2030. Real-life examples: Walmart and Sprouts Since 2017, Walmart has been using VR technology in its Walmart Academies, training centers that evaluate and train enterprise employees.

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Climate Action: Backed by Budget

Barrett & Greene

Grant Ervin, Pittsburgh’s Chief Resilience Officer, recalls a conversation with colleagues on the budget and finance side of Pittsburgh in 2017 “We were so excited about what we wanted to do, and they kept calling our projects ‘unicorn projects,’” recalls Ervin. But with goals in hand, city leaders had to find a way to fund them.