| 30 April 2021
Just as broadcast tech firms were queuing up to announce their support for the AWS Media & Entertainment cloud-based broadcasting platform, AWS has been given its strongest endorsement after The Walt Disney Company revealed that it is using its infrastructure to support the global expansion of the Disney+ direct-to-consumer service.
Since launch in the US in November 2019, Disney+ has rolled out rapidly in 59 territories across Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and most recently Singapore. At the end of its first quarter ended 2 January 2021, Disney’s direct-to-consumer business had generated more than 146 million total paid subscriptions with revenues for the quarter increasing 73% annually to $3.5 billion.in March 2021 the Walt Disney Company confirmed that Disney+ had gone past the 100 million subscriber mark.
FIRST ALERT: Comfy air the next two days
FIRST ALERT Friday weather By Jill Gilardi | April 30, 2021 at 5:32 AM CDT - Updated April 30 at 1:17 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Lower humidity is back for a couple of days, so enjoy the comfort! Breezy this afternoon, mostly cloudy, and warming into the 70s. Clouds decrease this evening and tonight and temperatures fall to the refreshing upper 40s and lower 50s. You’ll get to enjoy partly sunny skies, lighter winds from the northeast, and highs in the upper 70s and lower 80s.
Our next big thing is the increasing chances to see showers and thunderstorms for the first half of next week. Sunday morning is looking dry and in the upper 50s. Cloud cover is forecast to increase Sunday afternoon with high temperatures in the lower 80s. A disturbance in Texas and Louisiana will likely spread showers and thunderstorms into Mississippi and west Alabama Sunday afternoon and evening.
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Spending on global cloud infrastructure services increased 35% in the first quarter of 2021 to a record of US $41.8 billion as businesses leaned heavily on the internet in the wake of the pandemic, said a study.
Spending on “cloud infrastructure services” around the world was up nearly US$11 billion higher than in Q1 2020 and nearly US$2 billion more than in Q4 2020, revealed the study by the market tracker Canalys.
Vietnam’s FE Credit shifts mission-critical apps to AWS
Ramps up digital transformation efforts.
Kalidas Ghose (FE Credit) Credit: FE Credit
Vietnamese consumer finance firm FE Credit has migrated most of its mission-critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of an overarching digital transformation effort that will see it move the majority of its IT infrastructure to the cloud.
The move sees FE Credit, which was originally founded as the consumer finance division of the Vietnam Prosperity Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) and subsequently spun out as a standalone subsidiary, accelerate its transformation to become a comprehensive digital consumer finance provider.