AWS re:Invent 2016 – GeekWire Special Coverage

Moving to the cloud requires (and attracts) scarce, expensive talent, say 3 big AWS users

Moving to Amazon Web Services is proving pricey for Matson, a Honolulu-based shipping company that last month announced it has abandoned its… Read More

The busiest Amazon ’employee’ ever? Execs explain their plan to put Alexa everywhere

Amazon is crafting its Alexa voice-based digital assistant to be like one of its employees, and now, with the introduction… Read More

AWS cheat sheet: Here are the key re:Invent announcements to know about today

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services unleashed another wave of technologies today at its re:Invent conference during a keynote by… Read More

Amazon debuts Pinpoint to help mobile developers engage users with targeted push notifications

For developers, building an app is hard enough. Actually getting people to use a product is another story. That’s why Amazon… Read More

Amazon enables AWS CodeBuild, a managed service to build applications

While many developers use build servers running in AWS, typically those build environments are deployed, configured and managed by the… Read More

Amazon unveils AWS X-Ray and Personal Health Dashboard to help monitor application health in the cloud

Developers who deploy applications on AWS now have a new set of tools from Amazon to help them monitor and… Read More

Amazon Web Services unveils ‘Shield’ to protect sites from crippling online attacks

A little more than a month after a massive online assault took down Reddit, Netflix, Twitter and other major online properties,… Read More

AWS serves up new Chef integration, boosting Seattle-based software automation startup

LAS VEGAS — This morning at the fifth annual re:Invent user’s conference, Seattle-based software-automation firm Chef announced that the full capabilities… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy ‘optimistic’ AWS will become a $100B business, but no spinoff plans

LAS VEGAS — After his two-hour keynote at re:Invent 2016 this morning, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy fielded questions from… Read More

Book a trip with your voice? Travel giant Expedia launches new Amazon Alexa skill

Today, Expedia is rolling out a new skill for Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices in advance of the busiest travel season of… Read More

Amazon reveals AWS Snowmobile, a 45-foot semi-trailer that moves exabytes of data to the cloud

LAS VEGAS — Snowball, a physical device introduced by Amazon last year to quickly move 50 TB of data out… Read More

Amazon launches new artificial intelligence services for developers: Image recognition, text-to-speech, Alexa NLP

Amazon today announced three new artificial intelligence-related toolkits for developers building apps on Amazon Web Services. At the company’s AWS re:invent… Read More

New Amazon Athena service enables SQL queries on data stored in Amazon S3

Amazon introduced a new SQL query service called Amazon Athena at the re:invent conference in Las Vegas this morning. Athena… Read More

Amazon debuts new AWS features: FPGA instances, Elastic GPUs, virtual private servers, and more

LAS VEGAS — Amazon on Wednesday unveiled a host of new AWS features that make its online-computing rental simpler for basic… Read More

Amazon launches Amazon Lightsail with low-cost $5 virtual private servers

Providers of low-costs virtual private servers (VPS) are facing a major new competitor this morning, as AWS announced the new… Read More

AWS Storage Gateway adds virtual on-premises file server and lowers pricing

Amazon Web Services wants enterprises to move their data storage to the cloud, replacing on-premise file servers, SANs and backup… Read More

How cloud computing boosts NASA’s quest to explore the final frontier

When one of NASA’s top geeks talks to the cloud-computing geeks at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, you can bet… Read More

Amazon Web Services says open-source MXNet will be the ‘foundation’ of future AI services

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services is making MXNet its deep-learning framework of choice, a top executive said this evening at… Read More

Amazon Web Services pledges to power data centers with 50% renewable energy by end of 2017

Large-scale data centers consume huge amounts of power, but Amazon Web Services is making an effort to move more of… Read More

NASA unveils a skill for Amazon’s Alexa that lets you ask questions about Mars

Amazon’s Alexa has gained many skills over the past year, such as being able to read tweets or deliver election… Read More

Tableau goes with Amazon Web Services for new expansion into public cloud

Seattle-based Tableau Software is making a big move into the public cloud, expanding the subscription-based, hosted version of its data visualization… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy implores partners to commit to AWS to receive business

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy told a room full of its cloud partners and consultants to fully commit to… Read More

NASA’s mission to snag asteroid faces questions amid Trump transition

House Republicans are voicing renewed doubts about NASA’s plan to have astronauts study a piece of an asteroid – a turn… Read More

Amazon unveils ‘AWS Organizations’ for managing multiple AWS accounts, courting big businesses

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services made its first product announcement from its re:Invent 2016 conference here this evening, unveiling a new… Read More

What AWS customers are hoping to hear from Amazon’s cloud team in Las Vegas this week

LAS VEGAS — Easier-to-understand pricing. Best practices. GovCloud enhancements. Those are some of the topics the roughly 28,000 people pouring… Read More

AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Prices depend on discounts and customer acuity, analysis shows

LAS VEGAS — If you’re involved in information technology and the cloud, you’ve heard it before: trade capital expense (capex) for operating… Read More

Shipping firm Matson abandons its data centers for Amazon Web Services

Matson, a Honolulu-based shipping firm with 22 vessels serving Micronesia, the South Pacific and North America, has closed its four… Read More

What’s next for Amazon Web Services? Public cloud leader to reveal plans at giant Las Vegas event

Amazon Web Services, now 10 years old, is by far the dominant public-cloud service, but can it retain its lead?… Read More