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How Amazon Is Bringing the Keystone XL Pipeline Online
The company behind the controversial tar sands oil pipeline is hosting its digital infrastructure and developing A.I. and automation tools with Amazon Web Services
Amazon has cemented a partnership with the company that owns the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, recently announcing that TC Energy is “going all-in” on Amazon Web Services. The Canadian pipeline corporation, formerly known as TransCanada, has “migrated almost 90 percent of its corporate and commercial applications” to Amazon Web Services, according to a May 13th statement from Amazon. TC Energy plans to migrate all of its data to Amazon’s cloud, and AWS has already helped the pipeline company develop a suite of workflow automation, data analytics, and machine learning programs.
“TC Energy is going all-in on the world’s leading cloud, moving its entire infrastructure to AWS,” the AWS release says. “TC Energy is leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS services, including machine learning, analytics, database, serverless, storage, and compute to deliver energy and generate power more efficiently for millions of homes in North America.”
The announcement comes just weeks after TC Energy’s long-contested Keystone XL pipeline, which…
