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Amazon Web Services pitches customers on cloud savings, makes bigger push into applications

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and made it clear that Amazon’s own ambitions increasingly extend well beyond its core cloud capabilities.

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The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

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For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably the world’s edgiest edge: a satellite in low Earth orbit. An artist’s conception shows D-Orbit’s ION spacecraft deploying smaller satellites. (D-Orbit D-Orbit Illustration).

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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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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 31, 2024

GeekWire

… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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GeekWire Podcast: Seattle region’s new tech giant; ‘Slackforce’ analysis; AWS re:Invent takeaways

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billion; Amazon Web Services makes some surprising news at its annual re:Invent cloud conference ; and a new tech giant arrives in our backyard. McIlwain invests in software and data-oriented companies in areas including cloud computing, intelligent applications, and the intersection of life science and data science.

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How AI can boost customer satisfaction, retention, and loyalty in the contact center

CIO Business Intelligence

AI First in the Contact Center IBM Consulting and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are working together to bring an AI-first strategy to contact center transformation. The initiative used the AWS Cloud for deploying and scaling AI applications. offers and recommendations based on customer profiles and preferences.

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Cropin’s agriculture industry cloud to provide apps, data frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company claims to have deployed such predictive maintenance or analysis across 200 million acres of land globally.

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