GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred jobs on its Physical Stores Technology team, executives in the tech giant’s cloud computing division informed employees Wednesday morning in internal emails.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 18, 2024

(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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GeekWire

JULY 30, 2024

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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Tech Republic Cloud

AUGUST 14, 2020

Amazon Web Services hopes to empower companies by letting them test quantum algorithms in its fully managed Braket service.

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GeekWire

MAY 31, 2024

” — outgoing Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Adam Selipsky spoke with GeekWire this week at Amazon Web Services headquarters in Seattle in an interview prior to his departure as AWS CEO. One analyst said the company was caught flat-footed by AI.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will reorganize its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) group to “lay the foundation for accelerated customer impact and growth in the years ahead,” according to an internal memo Monday morning. See full text below.)

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2024

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. The company, founded in 2021 by former Amazon Web Services engineers, enables faster access to databases and facilitates messaging at scale.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2024

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down from the role, three years after returning to the company to lead the cloud giant, according to an internal memo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to employees Tuesday morning. Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent 2023.

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Tech Republic Data Center

MAY 11, 2021

Microservices, such as containers and web services, are all the rage. But are they the best fit for your company? Jack Wallen poses and answers the question.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New companies are sprouting up every week, and it can be hard to keep up. Many established startups are ranked among the GeekWire 200 , our list of top privately held tech companies in Seattle and across the Pacific Northwest. Send us an email at tips@geekwire.com to flag other companies or startup news we should know about.

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Network World

MAY 3, 2023

Amazon Web Services has launched a service that secures user access to its cloud applications without requiring a VPN. AWS Verified Access, which the company previewed last November, validates every application request using Zero Trust principles before granting access to applications.

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2024

(Archera Photos) Archera , a Seattle-based startup that sells tools to help companies reduce cloud computing expenses, raised $17 million in a Series B investment round. ” Companies will often sign long-term commitments with cloud computing providers to receive discounts. It has more than 400 customers.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Most companies have settled somewhere in the middle, adopting hybrid policies that require in-office work on specific days, according to recent data from Gallup. Some companies, meanwhile, are going all-in on remote. Seattle-based Zillow Group was one of the first large tech companies to allow remote work in 2020.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Flexport Photo) Dave Clark , the former longtime Amazon executive, has resigned as CEO of Flexport , the San Francisco-based logistics company he joined a year ago. In light of that, I feel that he is best suited to lead the company in that direction.” The company’s revenue hit $3.3 Dave Clark.

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Network World

JANUARY 9, 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to invest $11 billion in the state of Georgia to expand its infrastructure in the US to support the growing demand for generative AI, AI, and other cloud technologies. AWS investment, which comes after the infusion of $18.5

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

(HackerOne Photo) Kara Sprague , chief product officer at F5, was named CEO at San Francisco-based cybersecurity company HackerOne. The company, founded in 2012, raised a $49 million Series E round in 2022. . She is a board director at Trimble, a publicly traded tech company. “As She was named CPO in December 2022.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The company announced his departure in an internal email Monday. Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) Panos Panay , the Microsoft chief product officer who oversees the Windows and Devices division, is leaving the company in a surprise departure. Team, After nearly 20 years at the company, Panos Panay has decided to leave Microsoft.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Julia White , a longtime Microsoft executive who spent the past four years at SAP, has been named the chief marketing officer and vice president at Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services surpassed $10 billion in quarterly profits for the first time in the most recent quarter, with revenue growing 19% to $27.4

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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2024

(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. The announcement is part of a new trend of the company announcing new AI features just prior to its quarterly earnings report.

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GeekWire

MAY 30, 2023

GeekWire File Photo The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation. Amazon confirmed the departure of Chris Vonderhaar, who had been at the company for nearly 13 years, in response to a GeekWire inquiry on Tuesday.

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TechSpot

APRIL 10, 2024

Google Axion is the company's first Arm-based processor specifically designed for data center applications, which is set to bring "industry-leading" performance to cloud customers and web services later this year. During the Cloud Next event held in Las Vegas, Google unveiled its much-rumored custom CPU. Read Entire Article

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Data warehousing, business intelligence, data analytics, and AI services are all coming together under one roof at Amazon Web Services. It combines SQL analytics, data processing, AI development, data streaming, business intelligence, and search analytics.

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GeekWire

MAY 13, 2024

Microsoft has an agreement with the startup to purchase its clean power — if the company is able to produce it. But the green power opportunities are getting harder to come by, said Sarah Delp, global director of buyer engagement for LevelTen Energy , a Seattle company helping organizations make renewable power purchases.

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TM Forum

APRIL 19, 2022

Liberty Latin America (LLA) has made its mark with an aggressive acquisition strategy meant to position the company as the leading integrated mobility and broadband provider in the Caribbean and Latin American region. Why communications service providers (CSPs) want to replace costly customizations with pre-built minimum viable products.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Amazon Web Services met expectations with $27.4 Amazon Web Services: Amazon’s cloud business was up 19% at $27.4 The company will increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers in its corporate workforce, as CEO Andy Jassy noted in a recent memo. Guidance: The company forecasts Q4 sales of $181.5

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GeekWire

MAY 22, 2024

Newly named Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, speaking here at a Madrona Venture Group event last fall, brings years of product and sales experience to his new role. Amazon Web Services’ revenue in the first quarte r was up 17% to $25 billion. “He got to it. . “He got to it. He solved it.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2025

(Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is creating a new engineering division, led by the former global head of engineering at Facebook (now Meta), that will be responsible for building fundamental AI technologies and tools for the company and its customers. Nadella described the company’s focus on AI agents as part of the memo.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2024

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. AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. Surreal Holdings of Alpharetta, Ga., Here’s the full text of the lawsuit.

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Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Amazon Connect contact center service to help enterprises offer a better end-to-end customer experience , the company announced at its ongoing annual re:Invent conference.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Its tools work across platforms and technologies including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and others. ” The company did not provide an updated valuation.

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TechSpot

JULY 5, 2024

The Australian government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, has officially announced a new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a "top secret" cloud platform for intelligence-related operations. Read Entire Article

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon, posted a 13% growth in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023 buoyed by demand for generative AI -related services, despite continued cost optimization activity by enterprises. “Similar to what we shared last quarter, we continue to see the diminishing impact of cost optimizations.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

In a reversal of earlier reports, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has clarified that it has not halted orders for Nvidia’s most advanced chip. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be among the first cloud service providers to offer Blackwell-powered instances, Nvidia said in its March announcement.

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Network World

JULY 12, 2024

Amazon Web Services announced the launch of its fourth-generation, Arm-based Graviton CPU, touting its energy efficiency and high performance for cloud workloads.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic , the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded two years ago by former OpenAI executives and considered one of the world’s top AI labs. Anthropic makes large-scale AI models and a chatbot called Claude. ”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

(Photo by Richard Owens , via Flickr, Creative Commons ) As tech companies scramble to secure new sources of energy, Microsoft on Friday announced a 20-year deal to restart a nuclear reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island — a facility made infamous by a partial meltdown in 1979. ” The partial meltdown impacted TMI-2.

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