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Dancing with the cloud: Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky takes steps to fight homelessness

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky during a rehearsal session with his professional dance partner Lauren Smith. But a group of notable personalities in the city, including Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky , will do their best to use dance to raise money to help combat the issue.

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Amazon Web Services inks deal with the PGA Tour, its latest cloud computing sports deal

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Amazon Web Services continues to expand its reach into the sports world. The latest deal, announced Tuesday, is with the PGA Tour, which will make AWS its official cloud provider. East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Ga. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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Amazon Web Services outage affects Adobe, Roku, Twilio, Flickr, others

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Amazon Web Services suffered an outage Wednesday that affected several applications and services that rely on Amazon’s cloud computing platform. An update posted to the AWS Service Health Dashboard just before 10 a.m. PT detailed an issue with the Kinesis Data Streams API affecting the US-East-1 Region.

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

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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.

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Zoom revenue spikes to $328M in Q1; CEO thanks Amazon Web Services for help meeting demand

GeekWire

Zoom blew past expectations for its first quarter earnings as the video conferencing company added millions of new users amid the global pandemic. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan gave a special shout-out to longtime partner Amazon Web Services and its CEO Andy Jassy for helping the company meet demand. (Zoom Image). Zoom Chart).

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Sphere of influence? Google’s big Vegas ad buy clouds the landscape at Amazon re:Invent

GeekWire

Google Cloud’s ad on the Las Vegas Sphere, overlooking Amazon re:Invent. See video below. That’s the debate after Google Cloud bought advertising space on the Las Vegas Sphere to send a message to attendees this week at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference, taking place on the next block over.

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AWS uses its cloud experience to help telcos transform

TM Forum

In this video recorded at. event, TM Forum Chief Analyst Mark Newman talks with Adolfo Hernandez, Vice President – Global Telco Business Unit at Amazon Web Services (AWS), about the company’s recent partnerships with communications service providers including DISH Network, Swisscom and Verizon.

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