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Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services rolls out new instances for customers that need high-performance graphics

Graphic artists and industrial designers have some new tools to play with from Amazon Web Services, with the upgrade of… Read More

Amazon Web Services drops controversial patent clause from standard user agreement

Amazon Web Services has quietly dropped a controversial provision from its user agreement that essentially forced customers to agree that… Read More

Lock your doors, people: Verizon breach on unsecured AWS server exposes 14M customer records

Storing files on public cloud services is one of the most secure ways to protect your data, so long as… Read More

(L to R): Charles Fitzgerald, Platformonomics; Frank Artale, Ignition Partners; Shelia Gulati, Tola Capital; S. "Soma" Somasegar, Madrona Venture Group

Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Report: AWS set to add machine-translation services for developers

It sounds like Amazon Web Services is getting ready to bring translation technology used on the Amazon.com side of the… Read More

Updated: Amazon Web Services US-East region back to normal after Lambda and Lex issues

(Update 8:00am, June 23rd: All AWS services were restored overnight, according to the company’s status page. No cause of the… Read More

How Seattle’s Distelli is making one of the hottest products in enterprise tech easier to use

Software development organizations are falling in love with Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration software that allows them to deploy software… Read More

Amazon drops contentious non-compete lawsuit against former AWS exec who left for new job at Smartsheet

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a statement from Amazon. The former executive at Amazon Web Services who… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ new DAX database accelerator juices performance without an app overhaul

Amazon Web Services’ in-memory cache for its DynamoDB database, introduced just two months ago in preview mode, has been promoted… Read More

Amazon Web Services quietly forms a mixed reality team, but what is it building?

Amazon is building a new “two pizza team” within Amazon Web Services focused on mixed-reality technology, another sign that the… Read More

Adam Bosworth, VP, Amazon Web Services (Linkedin photo)

Tech vet Adam Bosworth directing mysterious Amazon Web Services project at crux of non-compete dispute

There’s a lot we still don’t know about the mysterious Amazon Web Services project that prompted the company to sue… Read More

Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition might take some cloud revenue off Microsoft’s table

Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Friday also took a major customer away from its closest rival in the… Read More

It’s business, and it’s personal: How Amazon Web Services decides to enforce non-compete contracts

Career decisions are always stressful, but employees at Amazon Web Services face an additional source of anxiety when evaluating new… Read More

Why Amazon (and others) might want to acquire Slack

There’s not much of a dilemma as to why Amazon might consider buying Slack for $9 billion; just about any… Read More

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI for Amazon Web Services, speaks at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit.

Amazon Web Services AI exec: How cloud computing is driving artificial intelligence breakthroughs

Artificial intelligence research is still in its infancy, at least as compared to computer science in general, but the concept… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud customers will have an East Coast region option starting in 2018

Amazon Web Services will open a second region for its GovCloud customers next year, moving its government-services cloud closer to… Read More

Former AWS executive temporarily barred from working at Smartsheet as non-compete lawsuit moves forward

A King County Superior Court Commissioner sided with Amazon in the opening salvo of a court battle over Smartsheet’s hiring… Read More

Amazon’s suit against former AWS VP hints at bigger move into workplace collaboration

Amazon is one of the most notoriously tight-lipped companies in the tech industry when it comes to discussing its future… Read More

Amazon Web Services planning new East Coast campus in Northern Virginia

Amazon Web Services plans to build a new East Coast campus in Northern Virginia, in the same general area that… Read More

Cloudy with a chance of profit: Cloud drives value for tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft

Three hundred billion dollars and growing: that is the size of the cloud market in front of Amazon, Microsoft and… Read More

Google exec: New Seattle building ‘is going to be basically Google Cloud’

Google’s Seattle expansion is no secret, but the search giant hadn’t gone into much detail about which groups would work out… Read More

Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie on competing with Amazon, and standing out in the cloud

Amazon and Microsoft are at the top of the food chain in the growing cloud world, battling for everything from customers… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Swami Sivasubramanian on the future of AI in the cloud

It’s pretty clear that the next big battleground for public cloud providers will involve artificial intelligence. Just as companies like… Read More

When standards aren’t standard: Inside a growing movement to shape the booming cloud industry

What’s the best way to shepherd the promising technologies underpinning a sea change in computing? The Cloud Native Computing Foundation… Read More

Why the Pacific Northwest will be a data center powerhouse for years to come

Abundant clean energy sources, business friendly tax incentives, and new undersea fiber-optic cables will keep the Pacific Northwest as one… Read More

Mary Meeker, partner, Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins’ Meeker: Concerns over cloud vendor lock-in are soaring

As part of this year’s sprint through more than 300 slides on the state of technology, Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker… Read More

Alex Polvi, CEO, CoreOS

CoreOS CEO: Amazon Web Services customers heading down a “very proprietary” path

Amazon Web Services achieved critical and commercial success by changing the way companies procure infrastructure for their critical applications, but… Read More

James Gosling

Legendary computer scientist James Gosling joining Amazon Web Services

The father of Java is joining forces with Amazon Web Services. James Gosling, until today Chief Software Architect at Liquid… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy

How Amazon Web Services uses machine learning to make capacity planning decisions

Machine-learning research isn’t something that Amazon Web Services does just for its cloud customers; it has developed machine-learning driven models… Read More

Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s artificial intelligence and machine learning strategy

https://youtu.be/LqL3tyCQ1yY?t=21m3s Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos appeared this week at the Internet Association‘s annual gala in Washington, D.C., taking part in a… Read More

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