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Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with Microsoft and Google

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The investment and expanded partnership includes a commitment by Anthropic to make Amazon Web Services its main cloud provider. billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 and its $8.5 That partnership has given the Redmond company new momentum in deploying AI in its own products and for its cloud customers.

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Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

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Six-year Oracle veteran Clay Magouyrk is the new executive vice president in charge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, based in Seattle, reporting to co-founder Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer. Four years after Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s launch, Magouyrk says, a lot has changed.

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Silicon Valley mainstay NEA leads $37.5M investment in Seattle cloud startup Pulumi

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million investment led by NEA , representing a vote of confidence by the longtime venture capital firm in the Seattle startup’s software development tools for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud. Projects that may have been on the backburner are now all of a sudden imperative to get to the cloud.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

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Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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Madrona teams up with Advancing Women in Product to boost female tech leadership

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Wang recognized the need for a more formal organization and co-founded AWIP in 2017. In 2019, she moved to Seattle to work for Amazon and now has the role of general manager of AWS Backup at Amazon Web Services. A Coursera course on product management and an upcoming course on cloud fundamentals jointly created with AWS.

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Amazon reports $149B in revenue for holiday quarter, beating estimates, but shares fall 6%

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In a sign of the broader tech spending slowdown, revenue for Amazon Web Services grew just 20% in the fourth quarter, compared to 40% growth in the year-ago period. Amazon warned in October that companies were cutting their cloud spend and said that continued in Q4. billion, with $5.2

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In new NFL deal, Amazon to be exclusive home for ‘Thursday Night Football’ at a reported $1B per year

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Amazon first took over streaming rights for “TNF” from Twitter in 2017. As part of the deal, Prime Video also secured rights to a weekly slate of original NFL programming and expanded rights to in-game highlights for all NFL matchups. billion a year, or $14.5 billion over the length of the deal.

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