Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 26, 2017.
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Update: AWS cloud storage back online after outage cripples popular sites
An outage of Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (S3) impacted sites across the internet Tuesday. … Read More
Amazon explains big AWS outage, says employee error took servers offline, promises changes
Amazon has released an explanation of the events that caused the big outage of its Simple Storage Service Tuesday, also known as S3, crippling significant portions of the web for several hours. … Read More
Amazon Web Services outage reveals critical lack of redundancy across the internet
The digital snow day is over, as Amazon Web Services has fixed the issues with its Simple Storage Service, or S3 for short, that crippled significant chunks of the internet Tuesday. … Read More
Amazon wins 3 Oscars in a first for streaming studio — and Jeff Bezos gets a fun shout-out
Amazon Studios won its first-ever Academy Awards on Sunday night, taking home three Oscar statues in what was a historic achievement for the streaming industry. … Read More
Inside Tableau’s new Seattle HQ: An ode to data visualization, collaboration and landscaped dog art
Tableau Software is a data visualization company, so it makes sense that the first thing that you see when entering its new headquarters building in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood is a sculpture depicting an enormous piece of data: a giant inverted model of the topography of Mount Rainier. … Read More
Watch Uber CEO Travis Kalanick have it out with a driver over the direction of the company
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick can’t even catch a break in the back of one of his company’s cars these days. … Read More
SpaceX reveals plan to send two private citizens around the moon in 2018
SpaceX says it’s making plans to send two private citizens around the moon late next year – using its yet-to-be-flown Falcon Heavy rocket and its crew-capable Dragon capsule, which is still under development. … Read More
Report: Amazon plans to bring Alexa and cloud-based deep learning tools to call centers
Amazon is gearing up to disrupt another industry, and this time it’s call centers. … Read More
Amazon quiet on big AWS outage, but an explanation could come soon
UPDATE: Amazon has released an explanation of what caused the big outage this week and has started putting safeguards in place so it doesn’t happen again. … Read More
How the tech industry uses H-1B visas and what could change under President Trump
One of Donald Trump’s first priorities in office has been to restrict the entry of foreigners into the U.S. … Read More