Amazon has compiled a run of record profits over the last few years. There’s a perception that the highly profitable, market-leading Amazon Web Services cloud division has been the sole… Read More
Amazon.com opened up its online retail marketplace to third-party sellers early on, shaking up the e-commerce industry and extending the company’s influence and reach. Later, the company expanded into a… Read More
Amazon is geeking out its Thursday Night Football streams this season by giving viewers access to advanced statistics during live games for the first time. Fans watching TNF games via… Read More
— Goldman Sachs hired former AWS exec Marco Argenti as co-chief information officer and former Verizon chief technology officer Atte Lahtiranta as CTO. Argenti is the former vice president of… Read More
Amazon is growing its Portland, Ore. tech team by 400 people and moving into a new 84,000 square foot office in the city’s urban core. The company said Wednesday it… Read More
A U.S. senator from Oregon wants Amazon to explain the role it played in a hack that exposed sensitive data from more than 100 million Capital One credit card applicants.… Read More
The Department of Defense announced Thursday it is reviewing a $10 billion, 10-year contract to build the military’s war cloud. Amazon and Microsoft are the last contenders in the contest,… Read More
Amazon’s pioneering cloud business gave the company an early lead in an emerging and lucrative industry but competition is heating up between Amazon Web Services and newer entrants, like Microsoft… Read More
Amazon has acquired enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage. Founded in 2014, the company sold a rack-scale software storage solution for the cloud. Israel’s Globes pegged the deal at $50… Read More
Seattle-based engineer Paige Thompson was arrested Monday for allegedly hacking into Capital One’s databases and gaining access to approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers. Capital One… Read More
Amazon is spending more cash to hire top technical workers in key growth areas as the Seattle company competes for talent in a tight labor market. Amazon’s headcount rose 13… Read More
Amazon Web Services is enlisting Jeff Miller, a former fundraiser for President Donald Trump, according to a lobbying disclosure form published last week. Miller’s lobbying organization, Miller Strategies, will advocate… Read More
Amazon Web Services revolutionized the way that companies run their business online, allowing them to pay for as much compute power as needed without having to own or operate physical… Read More
June is a busy month for David Ham. The senior video program manager at Amazon Web Services has plenty to do during his day job. But as the president of… Read More
The Department of Homeland Security is migrating the system it uses to search for people using biometric data to Amazon’s cloud. The identification system is currently hosted on DHS servers… Read More
LAS VEGAS – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says his company has gotten so big that it has to branch out into business lines that “move the needle,” like the recently… Read More
— Natural language processing expert Jacob Eisenstein is taking a gig as a research scientist with Google AI in Seattle. Eisenstein is an associate professor at Georgia Tech and has… Read More
We’re just one week away from the third annual GeekWire Cloud Summit, which will feature some of the leading forces behind this incredible once-in-a-generation shift in how businesses use and… Read More
Six months after a sneak preview, Amazon Web Services has just raised the curtain on AWS Ground Station, its cloud-based system for controlling satellites and downloading satellite data. AWS says… Read More
Slack revealed Friday that it joined the parade of companies that renegotiated long-term deals with Amazon Web Services over the last few years as they grew from scrappy startups into… Read More
Is the final frontier the next frontier for cloud computing? One of the presentations planned for Amazon’s re:MARS conference in June suggests that Lockheed Martin is putting serious thought into… Read More
While the number of women working in tech jobs in the U.S. has doubled over the past 20 years, they’re still significantly outnumbered by men in the field. Only 24… Read More
Amazon wants to connect startups using its cloud computing platform with deep-pocketed investors, according to a new report from CNBC. The Seattle tech giant is testing a new program called… Read More
Work collaboration software company Smartsheet nabbed AWS veteran Praerit Garg to lead technology efforts as the company’s first official CTO. Garg was a general manager of identity, directory and access services at… Read More
In college, Washington State Sen. Patty Kuderer decided to take a programming class. She said she was excited about technology and created a simple program for the course, which she… Read More
Kevin Lin is computer software engineer who has an endless curiosity about technology and people and he likes to keep himself busy at the intersection of those two things. Born… Read More
Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure. Microsoft thinks it has a strategy to win them over.… Read More
Sorting through and analyzing medical records is incredibly time-consuming, limiting the ability of patients, doctors and administrators to make connections and fully grasp data. But technology giant Amazon is hoping to… Read More
Amazon is officially launching a new program it calls “Amazon Future Engineer,” a broad, community-based push into schools and education that represents a renewed emphasis on education, an area in… Read More
Andy Jassy runs the world’s largest cloud computing business. He also just joined an NHL franchise ownership group trying to bring professional hockey to Seattle. So the new team operations… Read More