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

GeekWire

Chris Vonderhaar, former Amazon Web Services data center leader, will serve as Google Cloud’s vice president of demand and supply management. LinkedIn Photo) Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.

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

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky during a rehearsal session with his professional dance partner Lauren Smith. But a group of notable personalities in the city, including Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky , will do their best to use dance to raise money to help combat the issue.

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AWS re:Inforce Recap: The Cloud Isn’t Going Away, But Scare Tactics Should

Forrester IT

Boston’s bustling Seaport District played host to the first-ever AWS re:Inforce 2019 cloud security conference, with over 5,000 reported attendees. Amazon Web Services set the tone of the event to be a “learning conference,” with hopes that those who attended would come away better at their jobs.

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More than one-third of cloud environments are critically exposed, says Tenable

Network World

In the first half of this year, 38% of organizations had at least one cloud workload that was critically vulnerable, highly privileged, and publicly exposed, according to a study of telemetry from customers of cloud security vendor Tenable released this week. The cloud is a tool like any other; how you use it is what matters,” he said.

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CEOs of Amazon Web Services and Redapt join Seattle Sounders FC ownership group

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky (left) and his wife Laura Selipsky. Seattle Sounders FC announced Wednesday that the families of Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky and Redapt CEO Rick Cantu are now owners. They join several other tech execs, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who became owners in 2019.

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Amazon Web Services is launching Space Accelerator for final-frontier startups

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Amazon Web Services is raising the curtain on AWS Space Accelerator, a four-week business support program that’s open to space startups seeking to use Amazon’s cloud computing services. AWS Ground Station makes use of a network of satellite dishes. AWS Photoillustration).

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Amazon Web Services hires former Flex and Intel exec Raejeanne Skillern as new CMO and VP

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(LinkedIn Photo) Raejeanne Skillern , a former executive at Flex and Intel, joined Amazon Web Services as its new chief marketing officer and vice president, GeekWire has learned. Skillern spent more than a decade at Intel, most recently as vice president of the chip giant’s cloud service provider business.