Amazon Web Services Opens Office in Greece
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that they will soon open their first office in Athens as part of the conglomerate’s ongoing investment in Greece.
The firm had previously opened a CloudFront location in the capital city and the addition of the AWS office is seen as another important development which grew out of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2020 with the country’s Ministry of Digital Governance.
Amazon says that the addition of these on-the-ground services will help Greece compete by building a modern economy powered by cloud computing.
Only part of its ongoing investment plan, the company says that it is continuing to expand its presence in Greece to support the growing number of customers and partners in the country.
The main building of Athens University of Economics and Business. Credit: AUEBWebmaster/Wikimedia CommonsThe new proposed reform bill for Greek universities, calling for campuses to be guarded by the police as they are elsewhere in the world has generated an uproar from a segment of higher education faculty and students. According to the Greek government,…
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ATHENS – After Panteion University s Senate rejected the idea, four other major Greek universities have agreed to accept having campus police forces aimed at thwarting violence after assaults on officials and drug dealing near their grounds – and then objections were immediately raised.
The security forces will be deployed at the University of Athens, the National Technical University of Athens, the Athens University of Economics and Business and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), while the University of Patras may also join the list, said Kathimerini.
It comes in the wake of an Oct. 29 incident in which a group of some 15 hooded people stormed the office of the rector of the Athens University of Economics & Business, Dimitris Bourantonis, causing extensive damages, draping a sign around his neck with a slogan backing squatters.