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‘Amazon Q’ and the new era of AI for business: A conversation with AWS VP Matt Wood

Conference attendees in Las Vegas are accustomed to encountering people standing on the street, aggressively trying to hand them flyers… Read More

A Project Kuiper satellite terminal is set up with a wind farm in the background. (Amazon Photo)

Amazon’s Project Kuiper highlights new connections to AWS and partners in Japan

As Amazon gears up to build and launch thousands of satellites for its Project Kuiper constellation, it’s talking up the… Read More

Amazon starts offering its palm recognition tech for building access and corporate security

Amazon is expanding its Amazon One palm recognition technology to corporate customers, allowing their employees to use their palms instead… Read More

Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its… Read More

Internal memo: Amazon Web Services plans reorg of Sales, Marketing, and Global Services team

Amazon Web Services will reorganize its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) group to “lay the foundation for accelerated customer… Read More

AI in the cloud: Microsoft boosts share; Amazon predicts ‘tens of billions’ in new revenue

AI is starting to generate real money for the big cloud providers. Global spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $68… Read More

UK regulator puts Amazon and Microsoft on notice with details of cloud investigation

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) outlined the scope of its planned investigation into major public cloud platforms, singling… Read More

Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with Microsoft and Google

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company… Read More

Amazon’s online store sales dip below 40% of net sales for first time, and other earnings notes

The chart below is what Amazon’s net sales look like in raw numbers over the past several years, broken down… Read More

Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Philips CEO joins Absci board; AWS exec departs; and more

— Vancouver, Wash.-based AI drug design and development company Absci named Frans van Houten to its board of directors. A… Read More

Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar

The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation.… Read More

Illustration: Three spacecraft planned by companies in AWS Space Accelerator program

Amazon Web Services gets set to ignite space accelerator program’s third stage

The 14 startups selected for Amazon Web Services’ third annual AWS Space Accelerator program include a company that’s building 3D-printed… Read More

Dancing with the cloud: Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky takes steps to fight homelessness

There’s no dancing around the seriousness of the homelessness crisis in Seattle. But a group of notable personalities in the… Read More

Visualization of electric field energy density for metamaterial waveguide

Quantum bits: AWS releases hardware design tool; Google reduces error rates

Today’s news from the frontier of quantum computing includes Amazon Web Services’ release of cloud-based simulation software for modeling the… Read More

UW's Xinxin Tang and IonQ's Peter Chapman at Northwest Quantum Nexus Summit

Northwest Quantum Nexus adds Amazon and Boeing to its team for a summit sequel

It’s been almost four years since Pacific Northwest leaders in the field of quantum computing gathered in Seattle for the… Read More

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Resetting Amazon: Why the tech giant should rethink its business from scratch

Amazon is resetting its business. Is it doing enough to change its mindset? In an analysis published this week, former… Read More

Amazon Web Services pitches customers on cloud savings, makes bigger push into applications

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and… Read More

The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably… Read More

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Amazon’s new reality: Where the tech giant is doubling down and cutting back in tough times

Amazon has grown dramatically over the past decade, surpassing 1.5 million employees and extending its reach into nearly every corner… Read More

Microsoft and Amazon take on new roles in Pentagon’s space communication plans

Microsoft Azure Space, Amazon Web Services and Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network are now among the Pentagon’s partners in a… Read More

Amazon moves physical retail tech teams into cloud division, looking to accelerate third-party adoption

Amazon is shifting tech teams for its physical stores from its consumer division to its Amazon Web Services cloud division,… Read More

Full text: Microsoft’s multi-cloud vision would keep Amazon from running away with federal deals

A draft document circulated by Microsoft calls for the use of multiple cloud vendors as “the de facto standard for… Read More

M1 Macs in the cloud: Amazon Web Services releases upgraded Mac EC2 instances

Amazon Web Services is doubling down on the latest Apple technologies with the general availability of its EC2 M1 Mac… Read More

More AI for devs: Amazon unveils CodeWhisperer machine-learning ‘coding companion’

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services showed a new service that uses machine learning to generate code suggestions for software… Read More

Here’s how Amazon plans to rein in costs in quest to restore its consumer business to profitability

After doubling its fulfillment capacity and hiring hundreds of thousands of workers to meet demand during the pandemic, Amazon is… Read More

Has Amazon found its fourth pillar? Revisiting a key question for the company’s future

One year ago, the last question put to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during his final shareholder meeting as the company’s… Read More

In its second year, Amazon Web Services’ Space Accelerator boosts 10 far-out startups

For the 10 startups participating this year in Amazon Web Services’ Space Accelerator program, the sky is not the limit.… Read More

Microsoft changes cloud practices in Europe, acknowledges missteps in rivalry with Amazon

Microsoft responded to criticism of its cloud licensing policies in Europe with a series of promises to change its licensing… Read More

Tech Moves: Netflix product leader lands at Google; YouTube CEO to join Code.org board; and more

— Keela Robison, former vice president of product innovation at Netflix, joined Google as vice president of product management leading… Read More