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Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

GeekWire

Chris Vonderhaar, former Amazon Web Services data center leader, will serve as Google Cloud’s vice president of demand and supply management. LinkedIn Photo) Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.

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Amazon Web Services bans accounts linked with Pegasus spyware

The Verge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant infrastructure and accounts,” an Amazon Web Services spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Amazon starts offering its palm recognition tech for building access and corporate security

GeekWire

Under the new Amazon One Enterprise service, companies will be able to install Amazon One scanners at their locations, and use the Amazon Web Services Management Console to manage users, devices and software updates.

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The great cloud computing surge

Network World

We reached a big milestone in 2020: Cloud services revenue finally surpassed enterprise spending on data centers, according to the Synergy Research Group. But the endless capacity to add horsepower without provisioning your own infrastructure isn’t the biggest draw. Machine learning libraries ?

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Larry Ellison makes first-ever visit to Redmond to announce Oracle databases in Microsoft cloud

GeekWire

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison made a rare joint appearance this afternoon to announce the next stage in their partnership, a new service that will let customers run Oracle’s database services and cloud infrastructure in Microsoft’s Azure data centers.

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Former Seattle entrepreneur and husband will get back most of funds seized by FBI in Amazon case

GeekWire

The government’s seizure of the funds in 2020 was related to an FBI investigation into Carleton Nelson’s role in arranging Amazon real estate transactions. 2 yrs ago, @amazon told FBI they'd been charged inflated lease prices for data centers & my husband committed a crime.

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Macroeconomic jitters further slow AWS growth in Q3

CIO Business Intelligence

Macroeconomic conditions led by the pandemic and the geopolitical crisis in Ukraine have further slowed down growth of Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), in the third quarter of 2022. dominance in 2020, Gartner said. Amazon on Thursday said AWS had raked in revenue of $20.5 year-on-year.

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