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Taking Serverless to the Edge

by Todd Bishop on March 6, 2018March 6, 2018 at 3:59 pmComment

AWS Lambda enables you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. Today, you can write your Lambda functions once and execute them at multiple locations, closer to your end… Read More

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Introducing AWS Cloud9

by Todd Bishop on January 31, 2018January 31, 2018 at 4:28 pmComment

Come learn all about AWS Cloud9, the newly announced integrated development environment (IDE) in the cloud. With Cloud9 you can write, run, and debug code with just a browser. You… Read More

Tech Moves: Concur co-founder Mike Hilton joins Apptentive board; Samsung cloud leader lands at AWS; and more

by Clare McGrane on January 16, 2018January 15, 2018 at 9:40 pmComment

Mike Hilton, the longtime Seattle tech executive best known as the co-founder of expense management company Concur, has signed onto the board of directors of mobile tech startup Apptentive, the… Read More

Tech Moves: Uber taps former Orbitz CEO as COO; Longtime AWS leader goes to Zendesk

by Clare McGrane on December 21, 2017December 22, 2017 at 11:45 am 2 Comments

Former Orbitz CEO and longtime Seattle technology leader Barney Harford has been named the COO of Uber, marking yet another Seattle leader who has joined the embattled ride-hailing company. Former… Read More

Future of live sports? How Amazon streamed NFL games to 200 countries and 600 types of devices

by Taylor Soper on December 20, 2017December 20, 2017 at 8:12 am1 Comment

Signal acquisition, content ingestion, transcoding, ad insertion, playback optimization, and end-to-end monitoring probably weren’t top of mind for NFL fans who watched Thursday Night Football this season on Amazon. But… Read More

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Amazon partners with NFL; Brooks uses biomechanics for new shoes; and more from this week in sports tech

by Taylor Soper on December 1, 2017December 1, 2017 at 1:35 pm1 Comment

[Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every week.] TAYLOR’S TAKE ON THE WEEK IN SPORTS TECH: Amazon Web… Read More

Report: Amazon to unveil ‘Alexa for Business,’ expanding voice assistant into workplace

by Todd Bishop on November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 at 5:17 pm 2 Comments

Amazon is preparing to bring its Alexa voice-based assistant into the workplace, according to a report by CNBC this afternoon. The news could be announced as early as Thursday at… Read More

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Amazon continues sports push, partners with NFL to power ‘Next Gen Stats’ with AWS

by Taylor Soper on November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 at 12:33 pm1 Comment

The National Football League is tapping Amazon Web Services to help power its “Next Gen Stats” platform. The NFL announced Wednesday that it will use machine learning and data analytics… Read More

Amazon Web Services unveils a $249 wireless deep learning video camera for developers

by Taylor Soper on November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 at 11:18 am 2 Comments

Amazon’s newest hardware product is meant to help developers run deep learning and image recognition models directly from a video camera. At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Web… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands cloud business with NFL, Expedia, and Disney deals

by Todd Bishop on November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 at 8:55 amComment

Amazon Web Services, aiming to boost its reach among big corporate customers, announced major expansions of its relationships with the National Football League, Walt Disney Company and Expedia this morning.… Read More

Amazon moves into AR and VR with ‘Sumerian’ service to create 3D scenes for Oculus, Vive, iOS, Android

by Todd Bishop on November 27, 2017November 27, 2017 at 6:45 amComment

Amazon Web Services made the first major announcement of its re:Invent cloud conference in Las Vegas overnight: a new service called Sumerian that the company touts as the “fastest and… Read More

‘Alexa, tell me about my blood glucose:’ Health tech startup Wellpepper wins Alexa Diabetes Challenge

by Clare McGrane on October 16, 2017October 15, 2017 at 6:21 pmComment

Type 2 Diabetes has become a health crisis in the U.S. The rate of type 2 diabetes has nearly doubled in the last twenty years and the disease is now… Read More

Amazon Web Services shakes up cloud pricing with per-second billing

by Todd Bishop on September 18, 2017September 18, 2017 at 4:43 pmComment

Pay by the hour for cloud computing? That’s so last decade. Amazon Web Services today announced a new pricing structure that lets users pay by the second for Linux instances… Read More

Zillow shifts Zestimate home valuation tool to the cloud, claims better accuracy than ever

by Nat Levy on August 25, 2017August 25, 2017 at 1:32 pmComment

As thousands of scientists work to improve Zillow’s Zestimate, the company said today its home valuation tool is more accurate than it has ever been. Zillow said it released a… Read More

Amazon Web Services working on mysterious Alexa-powered enterprise collaboration service

by Nat Levy on August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 at 10:45 amComment

Amazon is looking to staff up a “New AWS/Alexa Service” focused on enterprise collaboration, communication and document sharing, according to postings on its jobs website. “This effort is in direct… Read More

Amazon brings the boom to Bellevue: Here are the teams expanding into the tech giant’s big new office

by Nat Levy on August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 at 5:24 pmComment

Amazon is staffing up its big new Bellevue, Wash. office building, which looks ready for the coming deluge of badge-wearing, coffee-toting techies. Amazon’s jobs site shows 85 open positions in… Read More

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Week in Geek: Everything we know about Microsoft’s layoffs and Redfin’s IPO announcement

by Clare McGrane on July 8, 2017July 7, 2017 at 3:34 pmComment

It might have been a holiday week, but it was still a busy one for the Seattle tech scene. First up: Microsoft finally confirmed a big sales reorganization that will cut… Read More

Tech Moves: Syntonic appoints AT&T, Sprint exec as chairman; former AWS engineering director leading new Russian cloud service

by Clare McGrane on July 6, 2017July 6, 2017 at 1:23 pm 4 Comments

Syntonic, a Seattle-based mobile services startup, announced a new chairman of the board Thursday: former AT&T and Sprint executive Steve Elfman. Elfman has a storied career in the mobile world, including… Read More

Amazon Web Services quietly forms a mixed reality team, but what is it building?

by Nat Levy on June 20, 2017June 20, 2017 at 11:03 am1 Comment

Amazon is building a new “two pizza team” within Amazon Web Services focused on mixed-reality technology, another sign that the cloud powerhouse is expanding its reach and branching out into… Read More

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Week in Geek: Why Amazon is suing a former AWS exec, former Swype CEO’s new venture, and more

by Clare McGrane on June 17, 2017June 17, 2017 at 3:56 amComment

It was a busy week for Amazon: on Friday, the company announced plans to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, it’s the biggest acquisition yet. But before that news broke,… Read More

Tech Moves: Cambia Grove founder joins AWS as liaison to healthcare industry; VC Sheila Gulati joins Snapsheet board; etc.

by Clare McGrane on June 14, 2017June 15, 2017 at 1:26 pmComment

Cambia Grove, a hub for healthcare startups and entrepreneurs, announced Wednesday that founder and executive director Nicole Bell is leaving the company to join Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a… Read More

Former AWS executive temporarily barred from working at Smartsheet as non-compete lawsuit moves forward

by Nat Levy on June 12, 2017June 12, 2017 at 10:19 pm 2 Comments

A King County Superior Court Commissioner sided with Amazon in the opening salvo of a court battle over Smartsheet’s hiring of a former Amazon Web Services executive earlier this month.… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet scoops up AWS VP; theMaven adds new co-chairman; and more

by Clare McGrane & Nat Levy on June 8, 2017June 8, 2017 at 10:22 amComment

Smartsheet has some serious momentum. Fresh off a $52 million funding round, the Bellevue-based collaborative work management technology company brought in Gene Farrell to be its senior vice president of… 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

News Brief

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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AWS

Tech Moves: Concur co-founder Mike Hilton joins Apptentive board; Samsung cloud leader lands at AWS; and more

Tech Moves: Uber taps former Orbitz CEO as COO; Longtime AWS leader goes to Zendesk

Future of live sports? How Amazon streamed NFL games to 200 countries and 600 types of devices

Amazon partners with NFL; Brooks uses biomechanics for new shoes; and more from this week in sports tech

Report: Amazon to unveil ‘Alexa for Business,’ expanding voice assistant into workplace

Amazon continues sports push, partners with NFL to power ‘Next Gen Stats’ with AWS

Amazon Web Services unveils a $249 wireless deep learning video camera for developers

Amazon Web Services expands cloud business with NFL, Expedia, and Disney deals

Amazon moves into AR and VR with ‘Sumerian’ service to create 3D scenes for Oculus, Vive, iOS, Android

‘Alexa, tell me about my blood glucose:’ Health tech startup Wellpepper wins Alexa Diabetes Challenge

Amazon Web Services shakes up cloud pricing with per-second billing

Zillow shifts Zestimate home valuation tool to the cloud, claims better accuracy than ever

Amazon Web Services working on mysterious Alexa-powered enterprise collaboration service

Amazon brings the boom to Bellevue: Here are the teams expanding into the tech giant’s big new office

Tech Moves: Syntonic appoints AT&T, Sprint exec as chairman; former AWS engineering director leading new Russian cloud service

Amazon Web Services quietly forms a mixed reality team, but what is it building?

Week in Geek: Why Amazon is suing a former AWS exec, former Swype CEO’s new venture, and more

Tech Moves: Cambia Grove founder joins AWS as liaison to healthcare industry; VC Sheila Gulati joins Snapsheet board; etc.

Former AWS executive temporarily barred from working at Smartsheet as non-compete lawsuit moves forward

Tech Moves: Smartsheet scoops up AWS VP; theMaven adds new co-chairman; and more

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

Women In Tech Regatta

RetailLoco: Following The Location Cookie

City of Seattle/King County Information Technology Vendor Forum