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Amazon Prime Day set for June 21-22; tech giant turns to actor Kristen Bell to help counter critics

Amazon confirmed Tuesday night that it will hold its annual Prime Day sales event on Monday June 21 and Tuesday… Read More

Jeff Bezos to hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5, anniversary of company’s creation

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos put an expiration date on his tenure as CEO, saying Wednesday morning that Andy Jassy will… Read More

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The antitrust case against Amazon: Analyzing the D.C. attorney general’s suit against the tech giant

An antitrust lawsuit filed against Amazon by Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine this week promises to test the evidence… Read More

D.C. AG targets Amazon in new antitrust suit over third-party seller pricing policies

A new lawsuit from the Washington, D.C., attorney general alleges that Amazon illegally manipulates the e-commerce market to its own… Read More

Incoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on why remote work hurts innovation: ‘You don’t riff the same way’

As GeekWire reported earlier Wednesday, Amazon is headed back to the office after letting people work from home for the… Read More

Internal memo: Key Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn officially leaving, hinting at new role elsewhere

Another Jeff is moving on from his longtime Amazon executive role, filling out the picture of what has become a… Read More

Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks, challenge Amazon’s motives amid FBI investigation

Update: In a court filing on Jan. 10, 2024, federal prosecutors vacated the prior guilty pleas of Christian Kirschner and… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Amazon, Andy Jassy and the cloud, with Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group

What does Andy Jassy’s track record at Amazon Web Services say about how he’ll lead Amazon as the company’s next… Read More

Here’s the biggest challenge facing Amazon’s Andy Jassy — at least in the words of one partner

Andy Jassy will have big shoes to fill when he takes over from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos later this year.… Read More

Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, is a music-loving, wing-eating, hard-charging disciple of Jeff Bezos

When singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile sat down for a live video interview in December, the person asking the questions on stage… Read More

Amazon Web Services posts record $13.5B in profits for 2020 in Andy Jassy’s AWS swan song

Turns out Andy Jassy was basically running most of Amazon already. Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing giant led by… Read More

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

Kicking off the annual Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy pointed to a major milestone… Read More

Breonna Taylor case sparks Amazon Web Services CEO to call for police ‘culture change’

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy, who has been at the center of the debate over the use of Amazon… Read More

Who will (eventually) replace Jeff Bezos? Amazon succession mystery deepens with key exec’s exit

Jeff Wilke, the flannel-wearing CEO of Amazon’s vast consumer business, has been described as a natural business leader and the… Read More

Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches

Amazon is seeking a court order to keep Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, from… Read More

AWS antitrust? How Amazon’s cloud unit would defend against an expanded FTC inquiry

LAS VEGAS — Kicking off the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference earlier this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy offered an… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO cites ‘significant political interference’ from Trump in JEDI contract

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy says he believes there was “significant political interference” in the U.S.… Read More

The buzz at AWS re:Invent: What tech leaders are talking about at Amazon’s big cloud confab

LAS VEGAS — S. “Soma” Somasegar has a unique perspective on Amazon Web Services, as the former leader of Microsoft’s… Read More

Amazon cloud boss targets Microsoft’s core business, eyes $3.7 trillion enterprise IT market

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy put the company’s neighboring tech giant directly in his sights here… Read More

What’s at stake for Amazon’s $36B cloud business at its big AWS re:Invent conference this week

Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its… Read More

Amazon Web Services rolls out Control Tower and Security Hub, courting big business customers

After seven months in preview, Amazon Web Services on Monday night announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower and… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy supports federal regulation of facial-recognition technology

After widespread criticism of Amazon Web Services’ decision to sell cloud-based facial-recognition technology to law enforcement agencies, CEO Andy Jassy… Read More

Amazon Web Services will sell hardware to hybrid cloud customers to run in their own data centers

LAS VEGAS – The hybrid cloud has become an essential part of enterprise computing, and Amazon Web Services has decided… Read More

New machine-learning tech from Amazon Web Services includes GPU acceleration and a brand-new custom chip

LAS VEGAS — Machine learning is one of the fastest growing cloud services at the moment, and Amazon Web Services… Read More

Amazon Web Services joins the blockchain party with managed blockchain service for Hyperledger Fabric or Ethereum

LAS VEGAS — Last year at re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy questioned whether blockchain technology was really… Read More

Amazon Web Services launches AWS Ground Station, a cloud service for satellite operators

LAS VEGAS — Space is hard, and getting data to and from orbiting satellites can be even harder. Amazon Web… Read More

Why this top Amazon exec just placed a bet on a future Seattle NHL franchise

Andy Jassy runs the world’s largest cloud computing business. He also just joined an NHL franchise ownership group trying to… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy joins NHL ownership group aiming to bring pro hockey to Seattle

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, has joined the investor group aiming to bring an NHL expansion team to… Read More

Amazon Web Services extends hybrid cloud push, reveals new database management service for VMware users

Amazon Web Services and VMware expanded their hybrid-cloud partnership Monday, announcing that AWS will ship a new version of its… Read More

Blockchain in the cloud: Microsoft and Amazon look to democratize the distributed ledger for developers

[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a 10th grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast, startup founder, blogger and event organizer. He attended Microsoft Build in… Read More