
Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) roundup
As Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) winds down, we take a look at some of the announcements from the event that will have an impact on technology in Singapore.

AWS leverages GrabMaps to provide location-based services across ASEAN
With the move, Superapp Grab’s enterprise service unit GrabMaps now provides access to 50 million addresses and Points of Interest (POI) to Amazon Location Services.

Singapore workers get free skills boost to retrain for careers in Cloud computing
Each cohort of the Cloud computing course will be about 25 students, even better, Singaporeans and permanent residents get to study for free!

M1 and Amazon Web Services launch Maxine, an AI VoiceBot, for customer service
The VoiceBot is powered by technology from AWS and M1, with the latter hoping to achieve a more natural customer service experience.

More AMD EPYC-based server instances will be offered by Amazon on AWS
Amazon has announced the launch of new AMD EPYC-based server instances on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Snapchat’s firm will spend US$1 billion on Amazon Web Services
Snap Inc. will be spending US$1 billion over the next five years for some sweet cloud-computing technology.