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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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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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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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NFL reveals new ‘Expected Rush Yards’ stat, with help from Amazon Web Services

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Football fans wondering whether the next handoff to a running back could be another Beast Quake have another stat to track thanks to Next Gen Stats , the platform powered by Amazon Web Services. The NFL has used AWS cloud computing technology for Next Gen Stats since 2015 and introduced machine learning to the mix in 2017.

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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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Amazon provides key tools in the cloud for designing Formula 1’s race car of the future

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Amazon’s interest in sports has taken the tech giant from NFL stadiums to NHL hockey arenas and now onto the racetracks of Formula 1 as Amazon Web Services has played a key role in the design of new F1 race cars. The next-generation Formula 1 race car. Formula 1 Photo).

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Amazon inks another sports deal as AWS will power NHL’s digital transformation and in-game analytics

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Amazon Web Services is broadening its reach across the professional sports landscape, announcing a new partnership with the National Hockey League Wednesday to be the official cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine learning infrastructure provider for the league. (AWS Image).

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