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Amazon Web Services

Amazon’s online store sales dip below 40% of net sales for first time, and other earnings notes

The chart below is what Amazon’s net sales look like in raw numbers over the past several years, broken down… Read More

Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Philips CEO joins Absci board; AWS exec departs; and more

— Vancouver, Wash.-based AI drug design and development company Absci named Frans van Houten to its board of directors. A… Read More

Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar

The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation.… Read More

Illustration: Three spacecraft planned by companies in AWS Space Accelerator program

Amazon Web Services gets set to ignite space accelerator program’s third stage

The 14 startups selected for Amazon Web Services’ third annual AWS Space Accelerator program include a company that’s building 3D-printed… Read More

Dancing with the cloud: Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky takes steps to fight homelessness

There’s no dancing around the seriousness of the homelessness crisis in Seattle. But a group of notable personalities in the… Read More

Visualization of electric field energy density for metamaterial waveguide

Quantum bits: AWS releases hardware design tool; Google reduces error rates

Today’s news from the frontier of quantum computing includes Amazon Web Services’ release of cloud-based simulation software for modeling the… Read More

UW's Xinxin Tang and IonQ's Peter Chapman at Northwest Quantum Nexus Summit

Northwest Quantum Nexus adds Amazon and Boeing to its team for a summit sequel

It’s been almost four years since Pacific Northwest leaders in the field of quantum computing gathered in Seattle for the… Read More

Podcast

Resetting Amazon: Why the tech giant should rethink its business from scratch

Amazon is resetting its business. Is it doing enough to change its mindset? In an analysis published this week, former… Read More

Amazon Web Services pitches customers on cloud savings, makes bigger push into applications

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and… Read More

Illustration: D-Orbit ION in orbit

The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably… Read More

Podcast

Amazon’s new reality: Where the tech giant is doubling down and cutting back in tough times

Amazon has grown dramatically over the past decade, surpassing 1.5 million employees and extending its reach into nearly every corner… Read More

Earth with satellites

Microsoft and Amazon take on new roles in Pentagon’s space communication plans

Microsoft Azure Space, Amazon Web Services and Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network are now among the Pentagon’s partners in a… Read More

Amazon moves physical retail tech teams into cloud division, looking to accelerate third-party adoption

Amazon is shifting tech teams for its physical stores from its consumer division to its Amazon Web Services cloud division,… Read More

Full text: Microsoft’s multi-cloud vision would keep Amazon from running away with federal deals

A draft document circulated by Microsoft calls for the use of multiple cloud vendors as “the de facto standard for… Read More

M1 Macs in the cloud: Amazon Web Services releases upgraded Mac EC2 instances

Amazon Web Services is doubling down on the latest Apple technologies with the general availability of its EC2 M1 Mac… Read More

More AI for devs: Amazon unveils CodeWhisperer machine-learning ‘coding companion’

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services showed a new service that uses machine learning to generate code suggestions for software… Read More

Here’s how Amazon plans to rein in costs in quest to restore its consumer business to profitability

After doubling its fulfillment capacity and hiring hundreds of thousands of workers to meet demand during the pandemic, Amazon is… Read More

Has Amazon found its fourth pillar? Revisiting a key question for the company’s future

One year ago, the last question put to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during his final shareholder meeting as the company’s… Read More

In its second year, Amazon Web Services’ Space Accelerator boosts 10 far-out startups

For the 10 startups participating this year in Amazon Web Services’ Space Accelerator program, the sky is not the limit.… Read More

Microsoft changes cloud practices in Europe, acknowledges missteps in rivalry with Amazon

Microsoft responded to criticism of its cloud licensing policies in Europe with a series of promises to change its licensing… Read More

Tech Moves: Netflix product leader lands at Google; YouTube CEO to join Code.org board; and more

— Keela Robison, former vice president of product innovation at Netflix, joined Google as vice president of product management leading… Read More

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Amazon, Google or Microsoft? Boeing chooses all of the above for cloud computing services

The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split.… Read More

Orbital Reef space station

Jeff Bezos’ worlds collide: Amazon and AWS join Blue Origin on Orbital Reef space station team

Amazon and its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, say they’re joining forces with another company founded by Jeff Bezos… Read More

New Amazon CEO Andy Jassy crosses tough items off tech giant’s to-do list — what’s next?

An Amazon stock split has long been on shareholders’ wish list, promising to make the company’s shares more affordable for… Read More

Google Cloud’s $5.4B Mandiant deal accelerates cybersecurity race with Microsoft and Amazon

Google’s agreement to buy cybersecurity company Mandiant for $5.4 billion, announced Tuesday morning, reflects a broader effort by the major… Read More

Alcantara Space Center

Amazon Web Services partners with Brazil’s space agency to boost business on the final frontier

Amazon Web Services and the Brazilian Space Agency are joining forces to support long-term growth of the space industry in… Read More

Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

“Your code will be attacked.” That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many… Read More

Microsoft’s earnings will test strength of cloud business, and impact of supply chain constraints

Much of the spotlight has been on Microsoft’s gaming division over the past week, thanks to its $68.7 billion deal… Read More

AWS and Washington state launch cloud training, but educators have big questions about rollout

Amazon Web Services and Washington state officials this week announced a new partnership to provide cloud computing education for high… Read More

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