article thumbnail

Amazon Web Services pitches customers on cloud savings, makes bigger push into applications

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and made it clear that Amazon’s own ambitions increasingly extend well beyond its core cloud capabilities.

article thumbnail

The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

GeekWire

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably the world’s edgiest edge: a satellite in low Earth orbit. An artist’s conception shows D-Orbit’s ION spacecraft deploying smaller satellites. (D-Orbit D-Orbit Illustration).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

To the moon! Amazon Web Services lists first startups for AWS Space Accelerator

GeekWire

The first 10 companies to participate in Amazon Web Services’ accelerator program for space-centric startups are targeting territory ranging from low Earth orbit to the surface of the moon and Mars. Lunar Outpost via YouTube). Today’s announcement follows up on the unveiling of the AWS Space Accelerator in March.

article thumbnail

GeekWire Podcast: Seattle region’s new tech giant; ‘Slackforce’ analysis; AWS re:Invent takeaways

GeekWire

billion; Amazon Web Services makes some surprising news at its annual re:Invent cloud conference ; and a new tech giant arrives in our backyard. McIlwain invests in software and data-oriented companies in areas including cloud computing, intelligent applications, and the intersection of life science and data science.

Analysis 102
article thumbnail

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 31, 2024

GeekWire

… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

CTO 83
article thumbnail

Kyndryl bolsters its Bridge infrastructure services

Network World

Kyndryl is targeting new AI, mainframe modernization, and security services in the coming months as it looks to build out its Bridge infrastructure integration platform. Bridge is one of Kyndryl’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services.

article thumbnail

A New Job at AWS

Phil Windley

I'm retiring from BYU (after 29 years, albeit with some interruptions) and starting a new job with Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS Provable Security automatically generates mathematical proofs to assert universal statements about the security properties of your AWS application. Summary: I started a new job! Things have been busy.