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14th Annual Foundations of Science Breakfast featuring Andy Jassy and Adriane Brown

by Clare McGrane on March 3, 2017March 3, 2017 at 3:22 pmComment

Imagine that in our lifetime, the next generation of inventors and innovators cure cancer, reverse climate change, end hunger, push the limits of time and space, and discover new frontiers.… Read More

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Tech Talk: Engineering through Cost and Efficiency

by Todd Bishop on April 6, 2017April 6, 2017 at 3:18 pmComment

Join Seattle tech leaders from TUNE, Convoy, and Zillow on April 27th for our Spring Tech Talk. How are they tackling challenges with AWS? What were key learnings from the… Read More

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First live ultra-HD video from space features oohs, ahhs and zero-G ping pong

by Alan Boyle on April 26, 2017April 26, 2017 at 6:25 pmComment

NASA and AWS Elemental showed off something completely different from the International Space Station today: the first live video in ultra-high-definition 4K detail beamed down from space. The technical achievement was… Read More

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‘Watch your back, Jeff Bezos’: Amazon sparks laughs on HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’

by Alan Boyle on April 24, 2017April 24, 2017 at 8:24 am 2 Comments

HBO’s “Silicon Valley” comedy series presents a California-centric view of how tech is done (and undone), but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Seattle-based Amazon Web Services came in for satirical… Read More

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Elemental Technologies changes name to AWS Elemental to reflect acquisition by Amazon

This was Amazon’s highest-earning employee in 2016 — and it wasn’t Jeff Bezos

by Nat Levy on April 12, 2017April 12, 2017 at 10:13 amComment

Amazon Web Services is a cloud powerhouse, a more than $12 billion enterprise that would be a significant company on its own. So it’s no surprise that Amazon is rewarding… Read More

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Amazon Web Services plays role in NASA’s first ultra-HD live video from space

by Alan Boyle on April 11, 2017April 12, 2017 at 10:54 amComment

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson stars in the highest-resolution video ever broadcast live from the International Space Station, bur Amazon Web Services will play a supporting role. The 4K ultra-high-definition live stream,… Read More

Snowflake cloud data warehouse startup raises $100M; Madrona’s role reunites ex-Microsoft execs

by Todd Bishop on April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 at 6:18 amComment

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region, has closed a $100 million funding round led by ICONIQ… Read More

Amazon Web Services to open data centers in Sweden in 2018, continuing global growth

by Nat Levy on April 4, 2017April 4, 2017 at 7:15 amComment

Amazon Web Services said it will open data centers in Sweden next year to serve customers in Nordic countries such as Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway. The new Stockholm region includes… Read More

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Building Secure and Scalable Mobile Applications of AWS

by Todd Bishop on March 13, 2017March 13, 2017 at 12:48 pmComment

AWS Mobile Hub is an entry level cloud platform for developers to ‘build, test, and monitor mobile apps’ that leverage AWS services. In this session, we will demo how to create… Read More

Powering ‘Cloud City’: What Seattle’s municipal utility has learned from using AWS and Azure

by Geof Wheelwright on March 30, 2017March 30, 2017 at 9:02 am 2 Comments

Sephir Hamilton is helping his organization grapple with major change. As the engineering and technology innovation officer at Seattle City Light, Hamilton says the city-owned utility is emerging from decades of… Read More

Cloud data warehouse startup Snowflake opens Seattle-area engineering office, plans big growth

by Todd Bishop on March 30, 2017March 30, 2017 at 6:33 amComment

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse company led by former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia, is opening an engineering office in the Seattle region — planning to hire 10 to 15… Read More

Public cloud could become a utility like electricity, lifting AWS, Azure and others, Morgan Stanley says

by Todd Bishop on March 27, 2017March 27, 2017 at 2:27 pm 2 Comments

The public cloud has the potential to become a global utility, analogous to electricity — driving higher valuations for cloud providers and more widespread adoption by business customers than many currently expect, according to… Read More

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Amazon Chime team responds to trademark suit, claims it wasn’t aware of competing Chime service

by Nat Levy on March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 at 12:35 pm 4 Comments

An Amazon Web Services employee claims the company had never heard of CafeX Communications and its competing Chime service when it decided to christen its new set of conferencing and collaboration… Read More

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Amazon Web Services makes another acquisition and then evidence of it disappears

by Nat Levy on March 9, 2017March 9, 2017 at 9:07 amComment

Amazon Web Services appears to have acquired Do.com, a San Francisco-based startup that aims to streamline meetings, for its new conferencing and collaboration service Chime. TechCrunch first reported on the… Read More

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Google Cloud touts new customers, reliability and machine learning — says it’s ‘here for real’

by Nat Levy & Todd Bishop on March 8, 2017March 8, 2017 at 5:44 pmComment

Google is on a mission to become a leading option for businesses making the shift to the cloud, and in the wake of the big Amazon Web Services outage last week, reliability is a… Read More

Analysis: Rethinking cloud architecture after the outage of Amazon Web Services

by Brian Guy on March 5, 2017March 5, 2017 at 3:32 pm 3 Comments

Editor’s Note: Brian Guy is Director of Cloud Services for Dev9, a custom software development firm focused on cloud services. Thanks to innovation from companies such as Amazon with AWS,… Read More

Amazon explains big AWS outage, says employee error took servers offline, promises changes

by Nat Levy on March 2, 2017March 2, 2017 at 11:05 am 14 Comments

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… Read More

Amazon plans massive solar energy installations on fulfillment center rooftops

by Todd Bishop on March 2, 2017March 2, 2017 at 5:42 am1 Comment

Amazon is pledging to install solar energy systems on 50 of its fulfillment center rooftops around the world by 2020, starting with 15 U.S. facilities this year. The initiative, announced this morning,… Read More

Amazon quiet on big AWS outage, but an explanation could come soon

by Nat Levy on March 1, 2017March 2, 2017 at 3:08 pm1 Comment

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. Original story below It’s… Read More

Amazon Web Services outage reveals critical lack of redundancy across the internet

by Nat Levy on February 28, 2017March 2, 2017 at 11:03 am1 Comment

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… Read More

Update: AWS cloud storage back online after outage cripples popular sites

by Nat Levy on February 28, 2017March 2, 2017 at 11:04 am 17 Comments

An outage of Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (S3) impacted sites across the internet Tuesday. Continue reading for our story and updates as events unfolded. RELATED: Amazon explains big AWS outage,… Read More

Report: Amazon plans to bring Alexa and cloud-based deep learning tools to call centers

by Nat Levy on February 28, 2017February 28, 2017 at 10:01 amComment

Amazon is gearing up to disrupt another industry, and this time it’s call centers. Amazon Web Services developing a suite of cloud-based tools to sell to enterprises that would help them manage… Read More

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Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy says this is the cloud giant’s top priority — by far

by Monica Nickelsburg on February 15, 2017February 15, 2017 at 4:28 pmComment

With the cloud revolution underway, everyone wants to know what computing will look like — and where the biggest market opportunities will be — when the dust settles. Amazon Web… Read More

Amazon hires former Sony online chief to lead team working on ‘ambitious new project’ using AWS and Twitch

by Monica Nickelsburg on February 15, 2017February 15, 2017 at 10:54 amComment

Amazon has tapped former Sony exec John Smedley to lead a San Diego game studio, which will develop new projects using some of the Seattle company’s most powerful businesses. The team… Read More

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Amazon unveils Chime, looks to reinvent the conference call with new Skype and GoToMeeting competitor

by John Cook on February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 at 9:58 pm 4 Comments

Amazon is looking to transform just about every industry. Now, the Seattle tech juggernaut wants to reinvent how you conduct meetings and conference calls. Amazon Web Services today unveiled Chime,… Read More

Event Calendar

14th Annual Foundations of Science Breakfast featuring Andy Jassy and Adriane Brown

First live ultra-HD video from space features oohs, ahhs and zero-G ping pong

Elemental Technologies changes name to AWS Elemental to reflect acquisition by Amazon

This was Amazon’s highest-earning employee in 2016 — and it wasn’t Jeff Bezos

Snowflake cloud data warehouse startup raises $100M; Madrona’s role reunites ex-Microsoft execs

Building Secure and Scalable Mobile Applications of AWS

Powering ‘Cloud City’: What Seattle’s municipal utility has learned from using AWS and Azure

Cloud data warehouse startup Snowflake opens Seattle-area engineering office, plans big growth

Public cloud could become a utility like electricity, lifting AWS, Azure and others, Morgan Stanley says

Amazon Chime team responds to trademark suit, claims it wasn’t aware of competing Chime service

Amazon Web Services makes another acquisition and then evidence of it disappears

Amazon explains big AWS outage, says employee error took servers offline, promises changes

Amazon plans massive solar energy installations on fulfillment center rooftops

Amazon quiet on big AWS outage, but an explanation could come soon

Report: Amazon plans to bring Alexa and cloud-based deep learning tools to call centers

Amazon hires former Sony online chief to lead team working on ‘ambitious new project’ using AWS and Twitch

Amazon unveils Chime, looks to reinvent the conference call with new Skype and GoToMeeting competitor

Cloud Report Card: Amazon Web Services is a $12B juggernaut, but Microsoft and Google are gaining

Amazon Web Services posts $3.5B in sales, up 47% from last year, reaches $14B annual run rate

Amazon earnings preview: Will Amazon Web Services again help bolster Amazon’s bottom line?

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