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Amazon Recovers from Brief Outages for Retail Site, Some AWS Services

Data Center Knowledge

Amazon says it has resolved issues that briefly caused downtime for its flagship Amazon.com retail sites, along with about 45 minutes of lost functionality for some of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) businesses. Downtime AWS'

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Amazon Web Services debuts 5-week accelerator for clean energy startups

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services is announcing the creation of a 5-week accelerator to support clean technology startups. The Seattle-based cloud and online retail giant is partnering with Freshwater Advisors ? (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). Applications to the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator are being accepted starting today until June 4.

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Snowflake launches Retail Data Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

After launching the Healthcare and Life Sciences Data Cloud Platform just a week ago, Snowflake has announced a Retail Data Cloud aimed at helping retail and consumer goods companies make the most of their data. The Retail Data Cloud will also include prebuilt data applications from various technology and consulting partners.

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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy at AWS re:Invent this week, in front of a slide showing some of the company’s customers and partners. Screenshot via webcast). Amazon Photo).

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Amazon earnings reveal major shift: Total services revenue on track to surpass retail sales

GeekWire

Direct retail sales are poised to represent less than half of Amazon’s business for the first time in its history — a fundamental shift that reflects the e-commerce giant’s expansion beyond its roots as an online store. Leigh was an Amazon general manager and retail category leader for nearly 10 years.

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Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services to open new office just down the road from Microsoft HQ

GeekWire

Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot office for more than 600 Amazon Web Services workers in Redmond, Wash. The new Redmond outpost will house tech and engineering teams supporting AWS’ database services. next year, just three miles away from Microsoft’s headquarters.

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Walmart’s U.S. ecommerce sales top $10B as retail giant prepares to challenge Amazon Prime

GeekWire

The retail giant is increasingly going head-to-head with Amazon across digital and physical retail sales channels. Walmart’s ecommerce business in the United States grew 97% in the company’s second fiscal quarter, ended July 31, the retail giant reported Tuesday morning. retail sales kicked up in 2Q.

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