For the first time ever, NASA has captured video of a rover landing on the surface of Mars, plus audio of the wind whistling past it after the landing —… Read More
Amazon Web Services is broadening its reach across the professional sports landscape, announcing a new partnership with the National Hockey League Wednesday to be the official cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine… Read More
What does Andy Jassy’s track record at Amazon Web Services say about how he’ll lead Amazon as the company’s next CEO? What will be Jeff Bezos’ ongoing influence as the… Read More
Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Daniel Li, partner at Madrona Venture Group, which first appeared in his weekly newsletter The DL. Open source software (OSS) started as… Read More
Turns out Andy Jassy was basically running most of Amazon already. Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing giant led by the now-future Amazon CEO, closed out 2020 with more than… Read More
[Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in journalist Eli Sanders’ “Wild West” newsletter, which covers internet-related legal issues. Subscribe here.] The social media platform Parler marketed itself as a place where Americans… Read More
Amazon’s cloud unit will no longer provide services to Parler, the social media platform popular with conservatives and extremists. BuzzFeed first reported that Amazon Web Services will suspend Parler on… Read More
Amazon Web Services and the Project Kuiper satellite internet venture may be separate domains of Jeff Bezos’ business empire, but even Amazon’s executives admit there’s a lot of potential for… Read More
If the Keanu Reeves’ pedal-to-the-metal thriller “Speed” had a COVID-19 sequel, James Heath would be a worthy candidate for a lead role. As the president of Seattle’s Institute for Systems… Read More
A new feature from Amazon Web Services will alert developers to potential bias in machine learning algorithms, part of a larger effort by the tech industry to keep automated predictions… Read More
Microsoft is rolling out new cloud technologies for wrangling, protecting and analyzing large amounts of corporate data, escalating its competition with Google, Snowflake and Amazon in the $25 billion global… Read More
Kicking off the annual Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy pointed to a major milestone for the tech giant’s cloud division: AWS has officially surpassed… Read More
Amazon Web Services will provide software developers with access to macOS on-demand in the cloud for the first time, promising to speed up the process and reduce the cost of… Read More
A “relatively small addition of capacity” to the Amazon Kinesis real-time data processing service triggered a widespread Amazon Web Services outage last week, the company said in a detailed technical… Read More
Amazon Web Services suffered an outage Wednesday that affected several applications and services that rely on Amazon’s cloud computing platform. An update posted to the AWS Service Health Dashboard just… Read More
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy, who has been at the center of the debate over the use of Amazon technology by law enforcement, has weighed in on the culture… Read More
— Peter Marquez has joined Amazon Web Services as the first head of space policy. “There are many exciting things happening in the space community and this is going to… Read More
Fans might not be able to engage in football by attending NFL games in person at the start of the upcoming season, but they can dive deeper into the sport… Read More
— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the… Read More
Football fans wondering whether the next handoff to a running back could be another Beast Quake have another stat to track thanks to Next Gen Stats, the platform powered by… Read More
As someone who was already interested in investing from a personal standpoint, Anu Sharma said it was always on her mind to turn her “side project” into a full time… Read More
Eight months after unveiling its Amazon Braket quantum computing platform, Amazon Web Services says the cloud-based service is officially open for business. In a video that pokes a bit of… Read More
[Update, Tuesday Aug. 11: U.S. Federal Claims Court Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith granted the one-month extension in an order today.] The federal government wants more time to sort through a legal… Read More
Amazon’s annual cloud conference is going fully digital this year as the global pandemic forces companies to move events online. Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent 2020 will be a 3-week free… Read More
Amazon Web Services is giving content creators a new way to include live streaming video into their apps and websites with Amazon Interactive Video Service. The new fully-managed offering takes… Read More
Amazon Web Services today unveiled a new business unit devoted to developing data infrastructure and cloud services for the aerospace and satellite industry — and headed by someone who helped… Read More
A new Amazon service called Honeycode promises to let non-developers quickly create interactive web and mobile apps without knowing how to develop software. Announced in beta on Wednesday afternoon, Honeycode… Read More
The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up. Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot office for more than 600 Amazon Web Services workers in… Read More
Amazon’s attempt to enforce a non-compete agreement with a former marketing executive who took a job at Google caused a splash this week in the tech industry, where the restrictive… Read More
Amazon’s surprise reversal on selling facial recognition software to police this week helped the company earn some goodwill at a time when law enforcement technology is under a microscope. But… Read More