Amazon Web Services’ partner network has grown to more than 4,000 members, up from less than 1,000 a year ago — a key step for the company as it tries to expand its cloud-computing customer base beyond startups to more large companies. That’s the word from Reuters this morning in a piece on the company’s… Read More…
Is Netflix depending too heavily on Amazon? That’s one of the questions raised by a cover story about Netflix in the new issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine. The piece by Ashlee Vance focuses on Netflix’s recovery but also includes the back story on Netflix’s decision to go with Amazon Web Services for cloud computing rather… Read More…
Last week, we noted how difficult it is for startup companies to compete against Amazon.com and other tech giants in the region for software engineers. Well, here’s a counterexample. Relaborate, a new technology startup, just tapped software developer Grant Gavares as chief technology officer. Gavares most recently spent three years at Apptio, and before that… Read More…
Amazon.com caters to startups, largely so that early-stage companies will jump on its Web services platform. One of the ways that the Seattle online retailer has reached out to the startup community over the past six years is through its AWS Global Start-Up Challenge. And tonight we’re getting word on the winners, chosen from a pool… Read More…
What happened at Amazon Web Services to take down the Netflix streaming service for hours on Christmas Eve? It was a combination of human error and flawed access controls: An AWS developer was able to accidentally delete a key data set in the AWS Elastic Load Balancing Service, causing the disruption. That’s the word from AWS in… Read More…
The elves at Amazon.com are hard at work tonight trying to fix yet another outage at Amazon Web Services. The outage took down Netflix today, which means many can’t tune in to Love Actually, A Christmas Story or other holiday favorites. Netflix said it is working on the issues, trying to fix them alongside engineers… Read More…
How’s this for a milestone in the making? Amazon is on a trajectory to become larger than Microsoft in 2013, at least in terms of employees. Yes, their businesses are different. Amazon is an online retailer, at heart, and employs a lot of people in distribution centers. But even considering that, Amazon’s employee growth over… Read More…
Madrona Venture Group is finishing the year with a bang, bankrolling a series of startup companies. The latest is 2nd Watch, an Amazon Web Services premier partner and cloud services startup that just pulled in $4.2 million in funding. The 2nd Watch technology allows companies to operate more efficiently in the cloud, helping customers like… Read More…
Today Amazon launched Amazon Device Messaging API, its own cloud-based push notification platform for Kindle Fire apps on Amazon’s cloud. Amazon already has a system called SNS which offers push notifications for web apps, but the new beta system features a uniform way for developers to offer push notifications for apps on the Kindle Fire tablets…. Read More…
Jeff Bezos spoke this afternoon at the Amazon Web Services re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, interviewed on stage by Amazon technology chief Werner Vogels. It was a wide-ranging talk, covering not just AWS but also Bezos’ entrepreneurial advice, the principles of Amazon’s business, and even two of Bezos’ side projects: the 10,000 year clock… Read More…
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