GeekWire

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Answers are at the bottom of this post — but remember not to cheat by peeking at them or checking the internet! Who did Amazon tap to lead its Amazon Web Services cloud business in March 2021? Seattle text messaging startup Zipwhip was acquired by this cloud-based communications company this summer for $850 million.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 27, 2009

Amazon Cloud - Becoming a Storm? When Amazon Web Services came out with S3 and EC2, I was skeptical even though I was and continue to be a strong proponent of SaaS. Why would I buy hosting from a large internet retailer when there are so many companies offering inexpensive hosting models? cloud computing. (6).

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GeekWire

JULY 30, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Amazon’s plans for a Project Kuiper constellation of 3,236 satellites that would provide broadband internet access across a wide swath of the globe — but on the condition that it doesn’t unduly interfere with previously authorized satellite ventures. (Credit: OneWeb).

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

He was also VP of business development at SinglePoint which was founded as Wireless Services Corporation by Steve Wood. Seattle hybrid cloud storage startup Qumulo appointed Craig Bumpus as its first chief revenue officer. Bluecrew is owned and operated by internet and media giant IAC. based job marketplace for hourly workers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2022

Creatives in government-controlled media (RT News, Sputnik) also no longer have access to the software company’s cloud offerings (Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, Experience Cloud). Amazon: Amazon customers will have to forgo retail deliveries in Russia and Belarus. Höttges spoke of a “very humane solution.”.

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GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2021

Microsoft, for example, failed to recognize how its hold on the PC industry would be disrupted first by the internet and later by mobile devices. With TeamOn, my plan was to ride the wave of SaaS applications with the shift from IT-installed on-prem (on premises) solutions to applications that operated in the cloud.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

The realm of edge computing has witnessed a substantial surge in recent years, propelled by the proliferation of remote work, the Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies, which have necessitated connectivity at the network’s periphery and novel applications.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2021

But it could have been worse: the internet could have crashed, or not been there at all. Just look at how much of our lives shifted to the internet as a result of the pandemic. Imagine what things would have been like without the internet. Obviously, Google’s and Microsoft’s services relied on their own clouds.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. Expanding the Cloud â??

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Bezos built Amazon up from a small online bookstore to the massive conglomerate with dealings in cloud computing, groceries, physical retail, personal electronics, TV and film production, video games, and more that the company is today. to found an internet-based bookstore. Shaw & Co.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. ” Sharma joined Madrona last year from Amazon Web Services. Battle is a longtime board member at Netflix, LinkedIn and OpenTable. Redmond, Wash.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Andy Jassy , who currently serves as CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), will replace Bezos as Amazon CEO. He has led the Amazon Web Services team since it was founded in 2003 and was named the CEO of AWS in 2016. Being the CEO of Amazon is a deep responsibility, and it’s consuming.

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Vox

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In his 2020 letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos said it accounted for nearly 60 percent of Amazon’s retail sales, which come from nearly 2 million sellers. That revenue translates to a lot of profit — more than even Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing platform typically believed to be the company’s most profitable arm.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption. Take Peterborough City Council as an example.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Amazon announced Thursday, with a strange lack of ceremony , that it’s making an attempt to break into the cloud-based gaming business. The new service is called Luna and is a subscription-based streaming service for video games, meant to compete with similar offerings such as Google Stadia or Microsoft’s Project xCloud.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

While company founder Jeff Bezos once said that “advertising is the price you pay for having an unremarkable product or service,” Amazon has in recent years become an ad-selling machine, driven by the substantial profit margins and the rising value of digital retail estate on the most popular shopping site in the West.

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The Investing Edge

MARCH 4, 2014

But hosting the worl d’s largest auction database (over 58 million records) requires a hybrid of public and private cloud providers, which together allow for spikes in traffic, zero latency in bidding (since the difference between winning or losing could be a second), and enable auction houses to access Invaluable’s database in real time.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The exec helped Amazon soar in the cloud, and now he’ll determine the company’s future Amazon is getting a new CEO for the first time in its 27-year-history: cloud computing chief Andy Jassy, who will be replacing co-founder Jeff Bezos later this year. So very quietly around 2000, we became a services company with really no fanfare.”.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Tony Hsieh, former CEO of Zappos who sold online shoe retailer to Amazon for $1.2B, dies at 46. Tony Hsieh, a revered internet entrepreneur who led Zappos and sold the online retailer to Amazon for $1.2 Amazon Web Services outage affects Adobe, Roku, Twilio, Flickr, others. Most popular stories on GeekWire.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 25, 2023

It is intended to be embedded into Adobe Creative Cloud applications such as Photoshop in the future. Image courtesy: Devo Sensity : This is an AI platform that uses deep learning and computer vision to monitor and analyze visual media on the internet. GPTZero : Edward Tian, a senior at Princeton, developed the GPTZero.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 4, 2023

What is Anything as a Service (XaaS)? Anything as a Service is a cloud computing model that refers to the delivery of various services, applications, and resources over the internet. How do XaaS technologies enable businesses to access a wide range of services and solutions?

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Dataconomy

APRIL 4, 2023

What is Anything as a Service (XaaS)? Anything as a Service is a cloud computing model that refers to the delivery of various services, applications, and resources over the internet. How do XaaS technologies enable businesses to access a wide range of services and solutions?

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

But there will be a new CEO starting in the third quarter: Andy Jassy, the long-serving leader of Amazon Web Services. And, nobody thought that the Internet could be leveraged to order anything we can imagine for rapid delivery. He will continue to be influential in many decisions within the company.

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Vox

JANUARY 13, 2022

This follows reports that the Federal Trade Commission is ramping up its years-long antitrust investigation into Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, or AWS. It’s a delivery service. It powers about a third of the internet. It’s a movie studio and a streaming service. It’s a technology company.

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