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Amazon Web Services launches AWS Ground Station, a cloud service for satellite operators

LAS VEGAS — Space is hard, and getting data to and from orbiting satellites can be even harder. Amazon Web… Read More

Amazon Web Services will now let companies set up internal IT-approved sets of cloud services in AWS Marketplace

LAS VEGAS – A lot of companies moving into cloud computing like to slow-play that transition, working with long-trusted partners… Read More

Network effects: Amazon Web Services touts improvements to its networking services that should boost app performance

LAS VEGAS – Amazon Web Services has built a state-of-the-art network around the world in order to serve its cloud… Read More

Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads

LAS VEGAS — After years of waiting for someone to design an Arm server processor that could work at scale… Read More

Amazon Web Services customers can now build applications for robots in the cloud

Companies using robots across a wide variety of industries will now be able to write cloud-based applications for those robots… Read More

As it gears up for re:Invent 2018, Amazon Web Services rolls out several new features that apparently didn’t make the keynotes

Improvements to its SageMaker machine-learning tool and new scaling options for cloud computing customers were among the new features rolled… Read More

Why some open-source companies are considering a more closed approach

At the peak of its power, open-source software is having an existential crisis. There’s no question that the concept of… Read More

Amazon Web Services promises to support OpenJDK through 2023 with release of internal tool as new open source project

Developers using the popular OpenJDK (Java Development Kit) software tool can breathe a little easier Wednesday after Amazon Web Services… Read More

Crystal City just the latest addition to Amazon’s sprawling Northern Virginia cloud operation

Just a few miles away from Amazon’s proposed new headquarters in the soon-to-be created “National Landing” neighborhood split between Crystal… Read More

With new support from Amazon Web Services, AMD unveils its best shot in years at denting Intel’s data center dominance

Chip watchers think the second generation of AMD’s Eypc server processors could finally inject some competition into the market for… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Rekognition image analysis tool can now locate objects within a photo

Amazon Web Services released new capabilities for its Rekognition image and video analysis service Friday that will allow companies trying… Read More

How the internet of things is changing the design of office buildings and factories

As the internet of things makes its way into industrial and commercial settings, the real acceleration will come when people… Read More

The cost of the cloud: Amazon takes a breath, while Microsoft and Google plunge ahead

Building and maintaining a modern cloud computing service requires billions of dollars in capital expenditures every quarter. Microsoft and Google… Read More

Amazon Web Services revenue up 46 percent to $6.7B, operating income up 77 percent

It sure does look like Amazon Web Services is going to turn into a nice business for Amazon. RELATED: Amazon… Read More

Amazon Web Services to open its first data center in Africa, with service from Cape Town in 2020

In around a year and a half, Amazon Web Services will open its first cloud computing region in Africa, another… Read More

Amazon Web Services pitched ICE on using its Rekognition face-recognition cloud service

Amazon Web Services pitched the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on using its Rekognition video analysis service, which it… Read More

Anonymous employee calls on Amazon Web Services to stop selling face-recognition technology to police departments

More than 450 Amazon employees have now signed a letter originally addressed to CEO Jeff Bezos and other senior executives… Read More

VMware doubles down on Bellevue as its partnerships with cloud providers deepen

VMware plans to expand its presence in Bellevue with enough space to double its headcount in the region its two… Read More

Report: Amazon Web Services cuts deals with SAP, Symantec valued at a combined $1B

It’s become clear over the last several quarters that Amazon Web Services is signing longer-term cloud computing deals with big… Read More

Amazon Web Services, Apple dispute report that China placed spy chips in some of their servers

A blockbuster Bloomberg report that Chinese spies infiltrated the networks of Amazon Web Services and Apple was met with unusually… Read More

Iridium plans to launch CloudConnect satellite IoT system in partnership with Amazon Web Services

Iridium, the satellite communications network, announced Thursday that it intends to work with Amazon Web Services to connect the leading… Read More

Cloudflare enlists Microsoft and other cloud companies in the Bandwidth Alliance, promising cheaper cloud networking costs

With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group… Read More

Salesforce and Amazon Web Services strike new data-sharing deal between multiple cloud products

Companies that are using both Amazon Web Services and Salesforce as part of their enterprise computing needs will be able… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Transcript: ‘Chief slowdown officer’ Jeff Bezos shares Amazon management tips

When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke today at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air, Space and Cyber Conference, his head… Read More

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Financial analyst renews call for Amazon to spin off Amazon Web Services

With antitrust scrutiny growing around Amazon as it continues to impact nearly every sector of the economy, one financial analyst… Read More

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A drone that’s an on-demand data server? The perfect patent for Amazon’s ambitions

Amazon is well-known for developing delivery drones, and for delivering data through Amazon Web Services — so it had to be… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Beyond the cloud: Amazon Web Services hiring engineers for ‘big, audacious space project’

According to two recently deleted job postings on the internet, where nothing can ever really be deleted, Amazon Web Services… Read More

Why this top Amazon exec just placed a bet on a future Seattle NHL franchise

Andy Jassy runs the world’s largest cloud computing business. He also just joined an NHL franchise ownership group trying to… Read More

Is hybrid cloud the best of both worlds? Five experts explain how to get it right

Fervent cloud computing evangelists used to look down their noses at the notion of hybrid cloud, seeing the approach a… Read More

TLDR: Amazon stock hits $2K, Microsoft’s new parental leave policy, Google debunks Trump video

Today’s featured stories Amazon stock hits $2,000, and why one analyst thinks it is on the road to a $2.5… Read More

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