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Amazon Web Services inks deal with the PGA Tour, its latest cloud computing sports deal

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Amazon Web Services continues to expand its reach into the sports world. The latest deal, announced Tuesday, is with the PGA Tour, which will make AWS its official cloud provider. East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Ga. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). The PGA Tour will also migrate nearly a century of content to AWS.

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Amazon bets big on sports streaming in bid to boost Prime memberships, advertising revenue

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(Amazon Photo / Cooper Neill) When Charlie Neiman arrived at Amazon in 2016, the company had never streamed a live event, let alone live sports. Fast forward eight years later, and Amazon has emerged as a leader in the burgeoning sports streaming world. Live sports remains one of the most-watched telecasts. million viewers.

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From NASA to AWS to Momento: Seattle startup’s journey to reinvent cloud caching

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Caching is a big part of how low latency interactive applications like live sports, streaming apps are enabled — it is a necessary but unglamorous piece of cloud infrastructure. From Mars Rovers to Cloud Computing Shams’ journey to cloud entrepreneurship began in an unexpected place: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Seattle Seahawks’ deep dive into analytics starts with a ‘data lake’ built by Amazon Web Services

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It’s trendy these days to turn to sports data analytics for a deep dive into how a team is set up to compete and what metrics make the most sense for how players perform in a game. For the Seattle Seahawks, that dive starts with a “data lake” built with Amazon Web Services. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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

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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. Selipsky rejoined Amazon’s cloud division in May 2021 after five years as head of Tableau Software.

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Behind release of NFL’s new schedule, Amazon Web Services helped sort endless matchup options

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The NFL leverages its partnership with Amazon Web Services to sort through some of the endless scenarios that come into play when figuring out how to match 32 teams across 17 games during an 18-week period, all while optimizing for fairness, travel, and availability of particular venues.

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Tagboard lands $4M to boost cloud production studio, build off partnerships with ESPN and NBA

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Tagboard provides various cloud production tools to help engage viewers. Tagboard screenshot) Tagboard , a Seattle-area startup that helps sports, news, entertainment, and other brands produce live broadcasts, raised another $4 million. It has more than 600 clients, including FOX Sports and UFC. Tagboard is ranked No.

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