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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Jassy showed stats that put AWS’s share of the cloud infrastructure market at 45%, more than double its closest competitor, Microsoft Azure. Screenshot via webcast). A recent U.S.

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Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy

GeekWire

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Jassy led AWS since the cloud computing business launched in 2006.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO Business Intelligence

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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Microsoft cloud revenue up 22%, Windows business plunges 27% in first report since job cuts

GeekWire

The company reported strength in some of its products and services for businesses, led by a 22% increase in Microsoft Cloud revenue, to $27.1 This category includes Microsoft Azure, Office 365 Commercial, the commercial portion of LinkedIn, and other cloud-related revenue. Windows revenue fell 27% to $4.8

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‘Amazon Q’ and the new era of AI for business: A conversation with AWS VP Matt Wood

GeekWire

Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services VP of Product, shows some of the third-party services that Amazon Connects with in its new Amazon Q artificial intelligence tool for work. It’s a new world, and of course AI was the big theme inside the longrunning AWS re:Invent conference, as well. “NEED GPU?”

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Kuiper satellite network gets a big lift from Amazon’s CEO, but timeline is a bit hazy

GeekWire

Under the terms of the Federal Communications Commission’s license, half of that total would have to be deployed by mid-2026. He said broadband services would also be offered to “governments and enterprises seeking better connectivity and performance in more remote areas.”

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

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