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

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and made it clear that Amazon’s own ambitions increasingly extend well beyond its core cloud capabilities.

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Amazon Web Services AI leader on the future of large language models and autonomous agents

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Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon Web Services vice president of AI and data, speaks at a Seattle Tech Week event hosted by Madrona at Amazon on Monday evening. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The old saying in tech is that companies date their computing vendor, and marry their database vendor.

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

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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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Amazon Web Services outage affects Adobe, Roku, Twilio, Flickr, others

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Amazon Web Services suffered an outage Wednesday that affected several applications and services that rely on Amazon’s cloud computing platform. An update posted to the AWS Service Health Dashboard just before 10 a.m. PT detailed an issue with the Kinesis Data Streams API affecting the US-East-1 Region.

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To the moon! Amazon Web Services lists first startups for AWS Space Accelerator

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The first 10 companies to participate in Amazon Web Services’ accelerator program for space-centric startups are targeting territory ranging from low Earth orbit to the surface of the moon and Mars. Lunar Outpost via YouTube). Today’s announcement follows up on the unveiling of the AWS Space Accelerator in March.

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Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group

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GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred jobs on its Physical Stores Technology team, executives in the tech giant’s cloud computing division informed employees Wednesday morning in internal emails.

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

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The 14 startups selected for Amazon Web Services’ third annual AWS Space Accelerator program include a company that’s building 3D-printed space capsules, a company that’s developing a fleet of space robots — and even a company that’s headquartered in Amazon’s neck of the woods.