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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. Having the ability to provide these services locally enables Box to better serve Canadian enterprises looking for cloud solutions while ensuring their data is stored inside Canada. in the coming year.

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Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

In the first nine months of 2022, Amazon’s ad revenue surpassed the money the company makes from Prime, Prime Video, and its other audio and e-book subscriptions combined. Along with Amazon Web Services, advertising has emerged as one of the company’s top two profit engines. This evolution has been years in the making.