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Amazon quiet on big AWS outage, but an explanation could come soon

UPDATE: Amazon has released an explanation of what caused the big outage this week and has started putting safeguards in… Read More

Report: Amazon plans to bring Alexa and cloud-based deep learning tools to call centers

Amazon is gearing up to disrupt another industry, and this time it’s call centers. Amazon Web Services developing a suite of… Read More

Report: Amazon may launch new AWS productivity suite to take on Microsoft and Google

Amazon Web Services is considering bundling its email, file storage, and video conferencing apps into a productivity suite that would… Read More

What ‘Chime’ is it? Amazon sued over name of its new online conferencing technology

A New York-based tech company has filed a federal trademark suit against Amazon Web Services over the name of the cloud giant’s newly launched Chime online… Read More

Microsoft strikes exclusive cloud deal with Flipkart, Amazon’s biggest online retail rival in India

Flipkart, the top online marketplace in India, has agreed to adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform, augmenting its own… Read More

Microsoft doubled its Azure cloud revenue to $2.7B last year, analysts estimate

Microsoft’s revenue from its Azure cloud platform more than doubled in 2016, reaching $2.7 billion, according to an estimate from… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy says this is the cloud giant’s top priority — by far

With the cloud revolution underway, everyone wants to know what computing will look like — and where the biggest market… Read More

Amazon cloud leader Andy Jassy sizes up the competition in rare public remarks about rivals

Amazon likes to say that it focuses on customers, not competitors, which means it’s rare for the company’s top executives to talk about their rivals publicly.… Read More

Snap commits to spend $1B on Amazon Web Services over next five years

Snap Inc.’s Spectacles camera glasses landed in Seattle for the first time Wednesday, but one of the city’s tech giants… Read More

Cloud Report Card: Amazon Web Services is a $12B juggernaut, but Microsoft and Google are gaining

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos promised last year that public cloud titan Amazon Web Services would achieve $10 billion in sales for 2016, reaching that milestone… Read More

‘AWS on premises’ provider Stratoscale acquires database-as-a-service company Tesora

Cloud infrastructure startup Stratoscale is expanding its database services platform. The Israel-based company has acquired database-as-a-service provider Tesora, the companies announced… Read More

Amazon Web Services posts $3.5B in sales, up 47% from last year, reaches $14B annual run rate

Amazon’s cloud computing arm continues to generate billions in revenue and help the tech giant post a profit. Amazon Web Services… Read More

Amazon sales rises 22% to $43.7B, profit beats expectations but stock slips on revenue miss

Amazon just reported $43.7 billion in sales for the fourth quarter, a 22 percent jump for the online retailer’s critical holiday shopping… Read More

Apple touts ‘record results’ for iCloud storage business as services revenue tops $7B

Here’s a sign of the times: Apple made almost as much revenue on its services businesses in the December quarter… Read More

Podcast

The Year in Amazon: How the tech giant redefined itself in 2016, and where it’s headed next

The rise and expansion of Amazon Prime, the continued dominance of Amazon Web Services, the surprise emergence of Amazon Alexa,… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands yet again, this time in London, as cloud movement thrives

Amazon Web Services has opened a London region, offering UK-based companies and their end-users lower latency than they may have… Read More

Study: Microsoft Office skills dominate job listings, but top-paying software gigs are all about AWS

The top three software skills featured in job listings across the United States are all still part of Microsoft Office, but… Read More

Why the data center isn’t dead yet: Explaining the rise of the ‘pragmatic hybrid cloud’

Amazon Web Services’ recent re:Invent conference in Las Vegas highlighted the excitement and momentum that public-cloud computing is generating these… 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

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

Q&A: New Tableau CEO talks lessons learned from Amazon, and his vision for growth

It’s a busy time over at Tableau Software. Less than two months after bringing in its first new CEO since… Read More

The Amazon-ization of Tableau? How this tech CEO is bringing Bezos’ values to his new gig

Amazon seems to have made quite an impression on new Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky. Taking questions from investors for the… Read More

Here’s why you’re seeing the Amazon Web Services logo during the World Series

Baseball fans probably don’t think too much about cloud computing. But they are certainly being exposed to Amazon Web Services… Read More

Amazon posts $32.7B in revenue, up 29%, but profits fall well short of Wall Street expectations

Updated with comments from Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky. Amazon posted $32.7 billion in revenue in the third quarter, up 29… Read More

Q&A: Soon-to-be VC Bob Kelly on Microsoft-Amazon rivalry, cloud computing in Seattle and Alice in Wonderland

Bob Kelly, a 21-year Microsoft vet who left that company in September to start as a managing partner with Seattle’s… Read More

Q&A: Uber’s machine learning chief says pattern-finding computing fuels ride-hailing giant

Under the simple skin of Uber lies complexity you may not have considered: the logistics of predicting how long it… Read More

Amazon is building a massive wind farm in western Texas — its largest yet

To satisfy the voracious energy appetite of Amazon Web Services’ cloud data centers and other parts of Amazon’s business, the… Read More

$1.2M crowdsourced contest aims to improve breast-cancer detection through deep machine learning

Breast-cancer screening using mammograms certainly saves lives, but too many women receive false positives from the test and — even… Read More

GeekWire launches new Cloud Tech channel, with underwriting support from Salesforce

Cloud technology is one of the most dynamic, rapidly growing and important areas of the tech industry, and GeekWire has… Read More

King of the Cloud: How the Seattle region is positioned to reinvent technology, again

In 2003, a group of Amazon.com engineers had a radical idea: offer outsiders access to the same type of infrastructure that… Read More