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

GeekWire

Longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Business Insider reported earlier Wednesday that Bell was headed to Microsoft, and CNBC later confirmed that the Redmond, Wash. We’ve reached out to Microsoft and Bell for comment. Update: Microsoft declined to comment.

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The Best Line of Code is the One You Didn't Have to Write!

Social, Agile and Transformation

This post isn''t about code reuse or developing web services. Surely, you and your development organization understand the benefits of developing modular code, packing it in libraries, developing APIs and web services, insuring that test cases are automated, and hopefully starting to enable continuous delivery.

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

GeekWire

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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‘An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to Linux

GeekWire

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon has a new use for AI: dumping Microsoft Windows. Amazon Q competes on different fronts with Microsoft’s market-leading GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot for businesses, Google Gemini, Salesforce Agentforce, and many other AI tools for businesses and developers.

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Amazon Q adds feature to create AI apps using natural language

GeekWire

(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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Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

GeekWire

These servers inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Wash., Microsoft Photo / John Brecher) Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and others to size up the industry’s bet on the cloud and artificial intelligence.

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Microsoft hit with more litigation accusing it of predatory pricing

CIO Business Intelligence

A UK law firm on Tuesday filed what amounts to a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of using its market share to overcharge clients running Windows Server on AWS, Google, or Alibaba cloud offerings instead of on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft is one of the biggest companies in the world. Kimball asked.

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