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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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Google enters custom CPU arena with Arm-based Axion processor

TechSpot

During the Cloud Next event held in Las Vegas, Google unveiled its much-rumored custom CPU. Google Axion is the company's first Arm-based processor specifically designed for data center applications, which is set to bring "industry-leading" performance to cloud customers and web services later this year.

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Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group

GeekWire

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred jobs on its Physical Stores Technology team, executives in the tech giant’s cloud computing division informed employees Wednesday morning in internal emails. .”

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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms, Q3 2022

Forrester IT

Artificial intelligence applications are beginning to hit their stride, delivering end-to-end experiences for customers and employees that match or exceed human capacities.

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Amazon Web Services hires former Flex and Intel exec Raejeanne Skillern as new CMO and VP

GeekWire

LinkedIn Photo) Raejeanne Skillern , a former executive at Flex and Intel, joined Amazon Web Services as its new chief marketing officer and vice president, GeekWire has learned. Skillern spent more than a decade at Intel, most recently as vice president of the chip giant’s cloud service provider business.

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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy at AWS re:Invent this week, in front of a slide showing some of the company’s customers and partners. Screenshot via webcast). Amazon Photo).

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Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with Microsoft and Google

GeekWire

The investment and expanded partnership includes a commitment by Anthropic to make Amazon Web Services its main cloud provider. Its founders include siblings Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, who led OpenAI’s engineering and policy/safety teams, respectively. billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 and its $8.5 ”