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

GeekWire

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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Amazon Web Services launches startup accelerator for generative AI companies

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(GeekWire File Photo) The newest startup accelerator from Amazon aims to attract companies building generative AI technologies. AWS does not take equity from participating companies. ” It also provides up to $300,000 in AWS credits. .” ” It also provides up to $300,000 in AWS credits.

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Amazon Web Services’ insights into gaming for 2021

Venture Beast

Eric Morales says Amazon Web Services has 90% of game publishers as its customers. That gives the company insight into 2021. Read More.

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

GeekWire

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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Amazon logistics leader John Felton takes new role as CFO of Amazon Web Services

GeekWire

(Amazon Photo) John Felton , a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team who most recently helped lead the company’s logistics operations, took a new role as senior vice president and CFO of Amazon Web Services. He’ll replace Richard Puccio , who is reportedly leaving the company.

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With new Amazon Web Services partnership, Oracle’s cloud database trade-off is complete

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Oracle Photo) Oracle announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services on Monday afternoon that will further integrate its database offerings and cloud infrastructure with the Seattle tech giant’s cloud platform. Cloud services revenues rose 21% to $5.6 Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison.