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Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services releases version 5.0.0 of Elastic MapReduce, which updates eight Hadoop projects

Amazon Web Services said it has released version 5.0.0 of its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which Amazon said quickly processes very… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Amazon vs. Facebook, lessons from Pokémon Go, and a real-world ‘Clue Quest’

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: We start with a roundup of second quarter earnings, where Amazon again blew away… Read More

Amazon net sales soar 31% to $30.4B, AWS accounts for 56% of operating profits

Amazon’s net sales for the second quarter rose 31 percent to $30.4 billion, coming in at the high end of… Read More

Amazon Web Services tops Microsoft, Google and everyone else in Gartner’s new public cloud ratings

Amazon Web Services occupies the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s new “magic quadrant” report on worldwide public cloud storage services,… Read More

Amazon Web Services buys Cloud9, a maker of online development tools

Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services has bought Cloud9, a privately held company that sells an online, collaborative integrated development… Read More

Q&A: AI2 researcher Peter Clark explains how the cloud is changing artificial intelligence

Peter Clark is a senior research manager at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, overseeing Project Aristo, an effort to… Read More

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services starts certifying partners that help customers move to the cloud

Migrating to the cloud is less of a strain with guidance from trained professionals, and with that in mind, Amazon… Read More

Amazon introduces $20 Dash-like button for the Internet of Things, sells out in a day

Amazon’s Dash Buttons are there to make shopping easier. Instead of pulling out your phone or heading to the computer when… Read More

Amazon’s cloud computing cash cow: AWS, now a $10B business, fuels record quarter for company

Amazon is happy about its cloud computing business, and so are investors. The Seattle-based company crushed analyst expectations for its… Read More

Box to enable regional enterprise storage via Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud

Box wants enterprise users to make better use of the cloud, but regulations and security concerns make it hard for… Read More

Google mulls cloud acquisitions, playing catch-up with Amazon and Microsoft in the enterprise, report says

Tech news site Re/Code says it has learned the names of some of the firms that Google is considering acquiring to… Read More

Amazon Web Services

Amazon puzzled by leak claiming Apple is moving to Google Cloud Platform

Yesterday, a report from tech news publication CRN alleged that Apple is moving some of its cloud spending from Amazon Web… Read More

Amazon Video is expanding into virtual reality, according to new job post

Amazon’s video unit appears to be moving into virtual reality, following some of the company’s rivals into the field. Amazon said… Read More

The United States of Amazon: Interactive map shows tech giant’s growing national footprint

Amazon has been growing at an unprecedented pace in recent years, and 2015 was no exception. Last year, the tech and online… Read More

Sirqul launches platform to build IoT devices with an Amazon Web Services backend

In the internet of things, the “things” are largely functional, but the “internet” still needs some work. Companies can come up with sensors,… Read More

Amazon Web Services

Amazon partners with Ericsson to create cloud service for telcos

Amazon has partnered with Ericsson to help telecos make best use of the cloud as they adapt to a marketplace… Read More

Amazon acquires NICE, maker of high-performance computing software

Amazon has acquired software company NICE for an undisclosed sum, the Web retailer announced via a blog post on Friday… Read More

Analyst warns Apple may ditch Amazon Web Services, taking nearly 10% of AWS revenue with it

Apple will reportedly give Amazon about $1 billion this year to house its various cloud features in Amazon Web Services, making up about… Read More

Amazon spent $690 million on acquisitions in 2015, new filing shows

Amazon spent a total of $690 million on acquisitions in 2015, most of it in cash, according to the company’s annual… Read More

Amazon Web Services generated $2.4B in sales during Q4, up 69% from last year

Amazon’s cloud computing business continues to rake in substantial amounts of cash. Amazon Web Services generated $2.4 billion in net… Read More

Interview: Microsoft Azure evolves, in bid to challenge Amazon in the cloud

The cloud: It’s at the center of our lives, whether we know it or not. It’s how we can pause… Read More

Amazon Web Services generated $2 billion last quarter, up 78% from a year ago

Amazon.com’s cloud business continues to see big momentum.  The Seattle tech giant made $2.085 billion in revenue from Amazon Web… Read More

Walmart plans to release OneOps cloud technology as open source, targeting AWS and Azure

Walmart announced this week that it’s open-sourcing its cloud platform, called OneOps, to let developers build in the cloud without being locked… Read More

Amazon jumps into the Internet of Things, pitching AWS for connected devices

Amazon is jumping into the Internet of Things, but not with a physical product. Instead, the company wants to provide the backbone… Read More

Amazon Web Services consulting firm DualSpark acquired by Datapipe to streamline cloud computing management

DualSpark, an Amazon Web Service consulting firm founded by an ex-Amazon employee, has been acquired by New Jersey-based Datapipe, which… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft ink $108M cloud computing deal with FAA

Amazon and Microsoft are reeling in some serious dough to help the Federal Aviation Administration with its cloud computing needs. IT consultant and systems… Read More

Amazon builds 208MW wind farm to power AWS cloud data centers, its biggest renewable energy source yet

The cloud is getting cleaner. Amazon announced today that it is building a wind farm to power future Amazon Web… Read More

New from Amazon Web Services: API Gateway, Device Farm, Chef rollout

Amazon Web Services made its pitch to developers and companies this morning at the AWS Summit in New York City, showing… Read More

Amazon buys ClusterK, a startup that lets developers run AWS workloads more cheaply

Amazon has purchased ClusterK, a startup that helps developers cut down on their cloud service costs by taking advantage of… Read More

Deploying code The Netflix Way: Lessons from inside the streaming media giant

Mike McGarr is an engineering manager at Netflix, overseeing a team responsible for the tools that Netflix engineers use to… Read More

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