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Amazon: Pentagon should have tossed Microsoft’s JEDI bid over ‘noncompliant storage solution’

Amazon claims that Microsoft’s winning bid for the Pentagon’s coveted $10 billion cloud computing contract should have been disqualified after… Read More

Amazon Web Services VP Adam Bosworth exits, says secret AWS product ‘coming relatively soon’

Adam Bosworth, a veteran tech executive known for his work at companies including Microsoft, Salesforce and Google, is leaving his… Read More

Amazon asks to depose Trump in lawsuit challenging Pentagon’s award of major cloud contract to Microsoft

Amazon is asking a federal judge for permission to depose President Donald Trump and Defense Department officials to prove bias… Read More

Amazon Web Services makes nearly 67% of Amazon’s operating profit in blockbuster quarter

Amazon Web Services posted net sales of nearly $10 billion and operating profit of $2.6 billion in the fourth quarter,… Read More

NFL partners with Amazon Web Services to improve player safety and ‘shape the future of football’

The National Football League is turning to Amazon’s cloud technologies as it looks to improve the safety of its players.… 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 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

AWS launches Amazon Braket service as part of broad quantum computing initiative

Amazon Web Services is leaping into quantum computing with both feet — or maybe more than both feet, in keeping… Read More

Amazon unveils musical keyboard that uses AI to compose surprisingly good original songs

Amazon Web Services likes to spice things up at its annual AWS re:Invent conference with unexpected hardware announcements, with past… 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 adds new features to Rekognition software amid ongoing debate over facial recognition tech

Amazon is rolling out new features that make it easier for customers to search for specific items in large databases… Read More

Seattle Seahawks partner with Amazon Web Services for cloud deal to ‘fuel future championships’

Amazon is expanding its work with the NFL, scoring a deal with the Seattle Seahawks to provide the team with… Read More

15 years of blogging at Amazon: Lessons in DIY communications from Jeff Barr, the voice of AWS

Back in 2004, when Jeff Barr started a blog for Amazon Web Services, no one was really sure how it… Read More

Judge limits role of former Amazon sales exec in AWS vs. Google Cloud non-compete lawsuit

A lawsuit against a former Amazon Web Services sales executive who joined rival Google Cloud earlier this year took an… Read More

Amazon Web Services approaches $9B in quarterly revenue, but growth slows again, missing analyst expectations

Amazon Web Services yet again powered the tech giant’s bottom line in Q3, but for the second quarter in a… Read More

Amazon Web Services and NASA team up to stream video from space via the cloud

Amazon Web Services and NASA have demonstrated how cloud-based video processing can distribute live streams from space, with a shout-out… Read More

Senators Warren and Wyden ask FTC to investigate Amazon’s culpability in Capital One data breach

Two Democrats in the Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Amazon’s involvement in the Capital One data… Read More

Watch out, Coachella? Amazon gets into music festival business, releases lineup for ‘Intersect’

An impressive lineup of musicians will be assembling in the desert in December for a two-day festival, but it’s not… Read More

It’s true: Amazon has been profitable for nearly two years, even without AWS cloud windfall

Amazon has compiled a run of record profits over the last few years. There’s a perception that the highly profitable,… Read More

Amazon launches AWS IQ, a marketplace of third-party cloud experts for on-demand projects

Amazon.com opened up its online retail marketplace to third-party sellers early on, shaking up the e-commerce industry and extending the… Read More

NFL fans can access live Next Gen Stats for first time via Amazon’s Thursday Night Football stream

https://youtu.be/r1cnSpbPrnI Amazon is geeking out its Thursday Night Football streams this season by giving viewers access to advanced statistics during… Read More

Tech Moves: Goldman Sachs snags AWS exec; Vicis names COO; Leafly, Jama, FlavorCloud hire product chiefs

— Goldman Sachs hired former AWS exec Marco Argenti as co-chief information officer and former Verizon chief technology officer Atte… Read More

Amazon to double presence in Portland, Ore., adding 400 new tech roles

Amazon is growing its Portland, Ore. tech team by 400 people and moving into a new 84,000 square foot office… Read More

Senator Wyden wants answers from Amazon on Capital One hack

A U.S. senator from Oregon wants Amazon to explain the role it played in a hack that exposed sensitive data… Read More

Pentagon reconsiders $10B cloud contract as Trump sounds alarm over alleged Amazon favoritism

The Department of Defense announced Thursday it is reviewing a $10 billion, 10-year contract to build the military’s war cloud.… Read More

Amazon sues former AWS exec for joining rival Google division as cloud wars escalate

Amazon’s pioneering cloud business gave the company an early lead in an emerging and lucrative industry but competition is heating… Read More

Amazon acquires enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage

Amazon has acquired enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage. Founded in 2014, the company sold a rack-scale software storage solution… Read More

Seattle engineer arrested in Capital One hack that affected 106M people

Seattle-based engineer Paige Thompson was arrested Monday for allegedly hacking into Capital One’s databases and gaining access to approximately 140,000… Read More

Amazon R&D and infrastructure spending spikes as tech giant staffs up on technical talent

Amazon is spending more cash to hire top technical workers in key growth areas as the Seattle company competes for… Read More

Amazon hires lobbyist with Trump ties amid contentious Pentagon cloud contest

Amazon Web Services is enlisting Jeff Miller, a former fundraiser for President Donald Trump, according to a lobbying disclosure form… Read More