Amazon shares rise 1.14% intraday after AWS announces general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service.

Amazon.Com, Inc. rose 1.14% in intraday trading, with the company announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) to enable customers to quickly and easily run and scale their VMware workloads on AWS. Additionally, the U.S. Transportation Department proposed new rules to speed deployment of drones beyond the visual line of sight of operators, which could significantly expand the use-case for drone technologies in areas like manufacturing, farming, energy production, filmmaking, and the movement of products including deliveries.