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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. “Eventually” Gates wrote, “our software should be so fundamentally secure that customers never even worry about it.” Microsoft Photo).

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

GeekWire

Sharma was most recently a senior product manager at Amazon Web Services. Prior to Amazon, Sharma co-founded LifeLemon, a consumer apparel e-commerce startup, led marketing at Flipkart, and was a developer at Oracle. Day has held marketing roles at Amazon Web Services and sales engagement startup Highspot.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. Given this, enterprises, public sector bodies, startups, and small businesses are looking to adopt agile, scalable, and secure public cloud solutions. in the coming year. Increasing agility.

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