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Former AWS engineers raise $3M to take on tech giants with ‘world’s fastest spreadsheet’

GeekWire

Founded in 2021 by former engineers at Amazon Web Services, the company is targeting a wide range of customers that use Row Zero for business intelligence, finance, operations, marketing, and more. It’s aiming to fill a gap between pricey spreadsheet tools and software that requires programming skills.

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

GeekWire

Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7 Former Amazon Web Services VP Steven Shure relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area from Seattle to join alternative search engine Neeva as chief business officer. Satya was most recently vice president of engineering for unstructured storage at Dell EMC. Steve Shure.

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Tech Moves: The Riveter’s Amy Nelson to lead new SaksWorks venture; Funko’s leadership transition

GeekWire

Services and features will include haircuts and blowouts, dry cleaning, meeting rooms, bike storage, yoga meditation, “Zoom rooms,” volunteer opportunities, fitness studios, cafes, portable power, as well as a speaking series and networking events. It’s the latest leadership change at Amazon Web Services.

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Schrier’s Technology Wish List for 2015

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

This is undeniably true simply because cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) have a tremendous economy of scale. A retraining program for such government technology employees coupled with a move to the cloud will benefit everyone – taxpayers, businesses, government officials and tech employees.

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12 most popular AI use cases in the enterprise today

CIO Business Intelligence

Airbnb is one company using AI to optimize pricing on AWS, utilizing AI to manage capacity, to build custom cost and usage data tools, and to optimize storage and computing capacity. Uptime/reliability optimization For companies that rely on web services or e-commerce, maintaining uptime and website reliability is a top priority.

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Inside the AI chip race: How a pivotal happy hour changed Amazon’s strategy in the cloud

GeekWire

Amazon’s custom silicon, including its chips for advanced artificial intelligence, will be in the spotlight this week as Amazon Web Services tries to stake its claim in the new era of AI at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. “I get this bill just before the meeting — it was $7.23.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. At re:Invent 2016 , AWS announced Greengrass (in limited preview), a new service designed to extend the AWS programming model to small, simple, field-based devices.

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