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What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic times

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Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).

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Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

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It’s a different beast, in part because its overall capital expenditures include not only its Amazon Web Services data centers but also fulfillment centers and other e-commerce facilities. billion in 2022 to $24.8 billion in 2022 to $24.8

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 30, 2022

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billion operating loss in Q4 2021 if not for Amazon Web Services. Another blockbuster quarter for Amazon Web Services masked one of the worst operating losses in the recent history of the rest of the company. Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Most popular stories on GeekWire.

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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

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She was also a software developer at Amazon soon after it went public. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Minarik joined Amazon in 2005, prior to the launch of Amazon Web Services, and was most recently the head of global data center supply. Zoe Hillenmeyer.

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Sibling founding team fuses tech and farm roots to land $2.2M for agriculture IoT startup

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The CODA Farm Technologies’ founding team, pictured at Wallace Farms, from left to right: Connor Wallace, chief technology officer; Gabe Martin, lead hardware engineer; David Wallace, CEO; and Daniel Oschrin, lead software developer. CODA Farm Technologies Photo). million in venture capital.

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Tech Moves: Google leaders join Seattle startup MotherDuck; Humanly adds a VP; and more

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The startup launched in April 2022. She most recently held leadership roles at Seattle software development firm Mason, and previous employers include Sauce Labs, Reflektive and others. Boeing announced Chris Raymond as CEO of Boeing Global Services and Brian Moran as chief sustainability officer, effective Jan.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

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It’s actually being delivered by a web service that’s run by IT. We put IT offered services right into the product.” So fast forward nearly a decade, and here we are with even blurrier lines between software engineering and IT, and with an even greater opportunity for all CIOs to take a page from the software CIO’s playbook.

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