Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Firebrand, the leader in Accelerated Learning , has recently announced it's 2017 delivery schedule for their accelerated CloudMASTER® training course. You’ll learn how the technologies work in each cloud system, from multiple perspectives. You’ll then move on to learning the specifics of how the cloud systems operate in your business.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Its tools work across platforms and technologies including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and others. CTO Luke Hoban spent 12 years at Microsoft and more recently was at Amazon Web Services.

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GeekWire

JUNE 7, 2023

He served in 2017 as co-chair at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Amazon Web Services India and Southeast Asia President Puneet Chandok stepped down. Van Houten serves on the board of pharmaceutical giant Novartis and acts as an advisor to private equity companies. Absci began commercial operations in 2018.

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Computer Weekly

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Amazon Web Services opens up about the progress it is making with ramping up the amount of renewable energy its datacentres consume

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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 Specific terms of the investment and the size of Amazon’s stake were not disclosed. billion acquisition of One Medical this year.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote (general session) at HashiConf 2017 in Austin, TX. Speakers today will (apparently, based on the schedule) include someone from Amazon Web Services and Kelsey Hightower from Google.

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2021

The deal at that price tag would be Amazon’s second largest behind its 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods for $13.7 ” Amazon competes with Netflix, Hulu, Disney and other streaming services and has had major awards season success at the Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes, among others.

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GeekWire

MAY 3, 2021

Spun out of Pioneer Square Labs in 2017, Ad Lightning provides tools for publishers and ad networks to identify non-compliant ads. Frechtling was most recently president of G2 Web Services, a Verisk Analytics company. Frechtling was most recently president of G2 Web Services, a Verisk Analytics company.

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The Verge

JULY 24, 2021

Amazon’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS) already has a managed blockchain service. Amazon.com doesn’t accept cryptocurrency as payment, but a spokesperson told Insider that the company was “inspired by the innovation happening in the cryptocurrency space and are exploring what this could look like on Amazon.”.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

The closure news comes on the same day that Amazon Web Services announced it would be cutting hundreds of jobs , including on its Physical Stores Technology team. Amazon said the store will be closed Wednesday and Thursday before reopening Friday through Sunday, with items discounted at 75%.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

Snowflake partners and also competes with other cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Frank Slootman, who ran ServiceNow as chairman and CEO from 2011 to 2017, now leads the company.

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

Bezos said in 2017 that he was selling $1 billion a year to fund his Blue Origin space venture, but he has been increasing the size and frequency of the stock sales recently. He is stepping down as CEO later this year and will be replaced by Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 , and its $8.5 In 2021, the company shut down its Haven healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, and last year it closed its Amazon Care primary care service. RELATED: Can Amazon change healthcare? Experts sound off on tech giant’s $3.9B

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GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

. “Given Amazon’s exposure to both consumer and corporate spending we see the company as well positioned to benefit from a greater consumer confidence (through subscription, online stores, physical stores, and third-party seller services) and from increased corporate spending (through AWS and advertising services),” Pachter added.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017. Brad Stone, author of the new book “ Amazon Unbound ,” wrote this week that Bezos gathered Amazon media execs in 2017 and said, “I want my Game of Thrones.” It’s official: Amazon will buy MGM for $8.45 billion the year prior, CNBC reported. He starts June 7.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. He brings out Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, to the stage. Prior to the keynote, a number of announcements were released; here’s a quick look at a few of them: VMware and AWS Announce Initial Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS.

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2021

Connor Folley , an ex-Amazon marketing manager, and Salim Hamed , who worked in business intelligence engineering for Amazon Web Services, launched the company in late 2017. The Techstars Seattle grad said it has had year-over-year revenue growth of more than 200% since it launched.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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 Web Services: Amazon’s cloud business was up 20% at $21.3 Shares of Amazon were down as much as 6% in after-hours trading. billion, with $5.2

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2020

A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with the Seattle company and risks exposing valuable competitive information to one of its biggest rivals.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Its Amazon Web Service (AWS) “cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others,” the letter to Peikoff states , adding that Parler “poses a very real risk to public safety.”.

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GeekWire

JULY 19, 2021

New funding: Web monitoring service Visualping has raised a second $6 million seed round. based company, which launched in 2017, is now $8.5 Visualping’s Chief Technologist Xavier Raffin worked for Amazon Web Services (AWS). In March, the startup raised $2 million. Total funding for the Vancouver, B.C.-based

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Valid8 Photo) Founded in 2017 and a graduate of Techstars Seattle, Valid8 recently raised $1.25 ” The startup is built on Amazon Web Services, making it “much more secure than your average IT infrastructure,” McCall said. ” Valid8 co-founder and CEO Chris McCall. That follows a $6.3

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

These are in addition to core businesses of online and physical stores, Amazon Web Services, and advertising. ” Addressing the Whole Food Markets chain, which Amazon acquired in 2017, Jassy said he “really liked the progress that [Whole Foods] has made on profitability in the last year.”

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2023

The company today also started notifying employees impacted by its latest round of job cuts in Amazon Web Services, HR, Twitch and Amazon Advertising. In 2017, we envisioned building a new service and products dedicated to helping customers improve their individual health and wellness.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

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. Over time, AWIP has grown and evolved, with chapters in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C.,

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This won’t be the first time NASA has connected the space station to cloud computing services. In 2019, for example, Amazon Web Services participated in a demonstration that used cloud-based processing to distribute live video streams from space. It won’t be the first orbital go-round for HPE, either.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2021

The company raised $500,000 in 2017. Visualping’s Chief Technologist Xavier Raffin and its head of development Cyril Comparon both came to the startup from roles at Amazon, working for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Vancouver, B.C. startup launched in 2015 and has 16 employees.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2021

Amazon first took over streaming rights for “TNF” from Twitter in 2017. Beyond broadcasting, Amazon’s relationship with the NFL extends to the league’s use of Amazon Web Services as its official cloud and machine learning provider. billion a year, or $14.5 billion over the length of the deal.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The Seattle-based firm invested in 2017 when the company’s valuation was around $500 million, said Madrona Managing Director S. In 2017 Madrona invested in a Series E round for healthcare startup Accolade, which opened a second headquarters location in Seattle in 2015. Soma” Somasegar. Accolade went public earlier this year.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Fans might not be able to engage in football by attending NFL games in person at the start of the upcoming season, but they can dive deeper into the sport thanks to new Next Gen Stats powered by Amazon Web Services. RELATED: Can the Seahawks win without the 12th Man’s roar?

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2021

Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Consumer, at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. Wilke was long considered a leading candidate to succeed Jeff Bezos as CEO; Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will replace Bezos later this year. GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong). Customers include Toyota, Samsung, the DoD, PayPal, and Etsy.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy was named Amazon’s next CEO this week. ” The interviewer was Andy Jassy, the Amazon Web Services leader, during a session with Carlile at the virtual AWS re:Invent conference. . Amazon Photo). In hindsight, it was a glimpse into the personality of Amazon’s next CEO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). There are other startups across the world that offer solutions and services similar to Cropin.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

From the abstract: Amazon Aurora is a relational database service for OLTP workloads offered as part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). In a paper published this week at SIGMOD'17 , the Amazon Aurora team presents the design considerations for the new database engine and how they addressed them.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

Snowflake partners and also competes with other cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Frank Slootman, who ran ServiceNow as chairman and CEO from 2011 to 2017, now leads the company.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

He succeeded Scott Wagner, who took the reins in 2017 from Blake Irving, a former Microsoft and Yahoo executive. .” Bhutani, a longtime tech leader who was previously Brand Expedia Group president at the Seattle-based travel giant, was named GoDaddy CEO in 2019.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2020

Founded in 2012, Snowflake sits in a unique position among other cloud service providers, partnering with giants such as Amazon and Microsoft but also competing against them. In its IPO filing, Snowflake listed Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform under potential risk factors to the business.

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