Amazon Prime Day, AWS and jobs in the spotlight for Andy Jassy’s first earnings report as CEO Amazon’s earnings report Thursday will be its first with CEO Andy Jassy at the helm. While it may be tempting… Read More
Amazon plans to investigate discrimination within AWS after hundreds of employees sign petition Amazon says it plans to investigate allegations of discrimination and bias within its Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit after… Read More
Amazon’s BigCommerce deal seen as ‘important signal’ of tech giant’s broader shipping ambitions Look out, UPS and FedEx? A deal this week between Amazon and e-commerce platform BigCommerce is “a clear indication that… Read More
Amazon elevates two more execs to its senior leadership team under new CEO Andy Jassy Amazon bolstered its senior leadership team in the final days of Jeff Bezos’ tenure as CEO last week, making a… Read More
Andy Jassy will join Amazon’s board of directors as he replaces Jeff Bezos as CEO of tech giant Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will join the company’s board of directors as he takes over for Jeff Bezos… Read More
Play Episode Podcast A 15th Amazon leadership principle? Former exec floats new idea for tech giant’s next era Play Amazon is at a pivotal moment in its history, facing growing regulatory and legal scrutiny just as a new CEO,… Read More
Amazon Prime Day set for June 21-22; tech giant turns to actor Kristen Bell to help counter critics Amazon confirmed Tuesday night that it will hold its annual Prime Day sales event on Monday June 21 and Tuesday… Read More
Jeff Bezos to hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5, anniversary of company’s creation Amazon founder Jeff Bezos put an expiration date on his tenure as CEO, saying Wednesday morning that Andy Jassy will… Read More
Play Episode Podcast The antitrust case against Amazon: Analyzing the D.C. attorney general’s suit against the tech giant Play An antitrust lawsuit filed against Amazon by Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine this week promises to test the evidence… Read More
D.C. AG targets Amazon in new antitrust suit over third-party seller pricing policies A new lawsuit from the Washington, D.C., attorney general alleges that Amazon illegally manipulates the e-commerce market to its own… Read More
Incoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on why remote work hurts innovation: ‘You don’t riff the same way’ As GeekWire reported earlier Wednesday, Amazon is headed back to the office after letting people work from home for the… Read More
Internal memo: Key Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn officially leaving, hinting at new role elsewhere Another Jeff is moving on from his longtime Amazon executive role, filling out the picture of what has become a… Read More
Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks, challenge Amazon’s motives amid FBI investigation Update: In a court filing on Jan. 10, 2024, federal prosecutors vacated the prior guilty pleas of Christian Kirschner and… Read More
Play Episode Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Amazon, Andy Jassy and the cloud, with Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group Play What does Andy Jassy’s track record at Amazon Web Services say about how he’ll lead Amazon as the company’s next… Read More
Here’s the biggest challenge facing Amazon’s Andy Jassy — at least in the words of one partner Andy Jassy will have big shoes to fill when he takes over from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos later this year.… Read More
Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, is a music-loving, wing-eating, hard-charging disciple of Jeff Bezos When singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile sat down for a live video interview in December, the person asking the questions on stage… Read More
Amazon Web Services posts record $13.5B in *profits* for 2020 in Andy Jassy’s AWS swan song Turns out Andy Jassy was basically running most of Amazon already. Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing giant led by… Read More
After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention Kicking off the annual Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy pointed to a major milestone… Read More
Breonna Taylor case sparks Amazon Web Services CEO to call for police ‘culture change’ Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy, who has been at the center of the debate over the use of Amazon… Read More
Who will (eventually) replace Jeff Bezos? Amazon succession mystery deepens with key exec’s exit Jeff Wilke, the flannel-wearing CEO of Amazon’s vast consumer business, has been described as a natural business leader and the… Read More
Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches Amazon is seeking a court order to keep Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, from… Read More
AWS antitrust? How Amazon’s cloud unit would defend against an expanded FTC inquiry LAS VEGAS — Kicking off the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference earlier this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy offered an… Read More
Amazon Web Services CEO cites ‘significant political interference’ from Trump in JEDI contract LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy says he believes there was “significant political interference” in the U.S.… Read More
The buzz at AWS re:Invent: What tech leaders are talking about at Amazon’s big cloud confab LAS VEGAS — S. “Soma” Somasegar has a unique perspective on Amazon Web Services, as the former leader of Microsoft’s… Read More
Amazon cloud boss targets Microsoft’s core business, eyes $3.7 trillion enterprise IT market LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy put the company’s neighboring tech giant directly in his sights here… Read More
What’s at stake for Amazon’s $36B cloud business at its big AWS re:Invent conference this week Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its… Read More
Amazon Web Services rolls out Control Tower and Security Hub, courting big business customers After seven months in preview, Amazon Web Services on Monday night announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower and… Read More
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy supports federal regulation of facial-recognition technology After widespread criticism of Amazon Web Services’ decision to sell cloud-based facial-recognition technology to law enforcement agencies, CEO Andy Jassy… Read More
Amazon Web Services will sell hardware to hybrid cloud customers to run in their own data centers LAS VEGAS – The hybrid cloud has become an essential part of enterprise computing, and Amazon Web Services has decided… Read More
New machine-learning tech from Amazon Web Services includes GPU acceleration and a brand-new custom chip LAS VEGAS — Machine learning is one of the fastest growing cloud services at the moment, and Amazon Web Services… Read More
