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Amazon Web Services VP of AI, Matt Wood, is leaving the company

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Amazon Photo) Matt Wood, the Amazon Web Services vice president who was a longtime champion of the cloud giant’s machine learning and artificial intelligence initiatives, is leaving the company after 15 years. Matt Wood worked at Amazon for 15 years, most recently as AWS VP of AI.

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Seattle startup Momento, led by ex-AWS engineers, lands $15M to help companies ship faster

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Momento Images) Seattle startup Momento , which offers infrastructure tools to help companies speed up software development processes, raised a $15 million Series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures. It also makes it easier to add cloud caching services to a modern cloud stack. The company has 30 employees.

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What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic times

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Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).

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Cloud wars: Former Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell reportedly joins rival Microsoft

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Longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and a longtime linchpin of the company’s cloud business, left the Seattle company this month after more than 23 years. Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo).

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Amazon Q adds feature to create AI apps using natural language

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(Amazon Image) Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part of a new feature for Amazon Q , the AI assistant unveiled by Amazon Web Services last fall. Amazon is charging $20/user per month for Amazon Q Business, and $25/user per month for Amazon Q Developer.

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Software firm sues Amazon in contract dispute over Emirates VR experience at Dubai Airshow

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A lawsuit by Surreal Holdings against Amazon Web Services cites a segment in this video by popular aviation and travel vlogger Sam Chui as evidence that its work for Amazon and Emirates was not confidential. alleges that AWS wrongly terminated their broader software development agreement and owes more than $1.27

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Amazon senior cloud exec Charlie Bell is leaving the company after more than 23 years

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Charlie Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and a longtime linchpin of the company’s cloud business, is leaving the company after more than 23 years. Prasad Kalyanaraman, another AWS executive, will replace Desantis as the leader of AWS network and infrastructure services. ”

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