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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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Amazon Web Services gets set to ignite space accelerator program’s third stage

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The 14 startups selected for Amazon Web Services’ third annual AWS Space Accelerator program include a company that’s building 3D-printed space capsules, a company that’s developing a fleet of space robots — and even a company that’s headquartered in Amazon’s neck of the woods.

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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

In the early 2000s, companies like Amazon, eBay, and Salesforce drove a trend toward standardizing interfaces among web applications. The result was a complete overhaul of how applications were developed and integrated, thanks to a growing network of open web APIs that anyone could consume.

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Cloud wake-up call: Amazon Web Services outage illustrates the pitfalls of online infrastructure

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services is one of the greatest successes of modern business and technology, leveraging its first-mover advantage in the public cloud to empower companies with capabilities that they couldn’t build on their own, and creating a lucrative business for itself in the process. Bigstock Photo / klevo. What can be done?

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How Amazon’s new cloud chief Matt Garman will approach the big challenges ahead

GeekWire

Newly named Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, speaking here at a Madrona Venture Group event last fall, brings years of product and sales experience to his new role. Amazon Web Services’ revenue in the first quarte r was up 17% to $25 billion. “He got to it. . “He got to it. He solved it.”

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Inside the AI chip race: How a pivotal happy hour changed Amazon’s strategy in the cloud

GeekWire

Their meeting, and Amazon’s eventual acquisition of Annapurna, accelerated the tech giant’s then-fledgling initiative to create its own processors, laying the foundation for a key component of its current artificial intelligence strategy. He described this prospect as “a very heavy lift.”

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Amazon downsizes AWS in a fresh cost-cutting round

CIO Business Intelligence

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Rethinking physical retail strategy On Tuesday, AWS also downsized its team responsible for developing technology for Amazon’s physical retail stores. Amazon Web Services, Technology Industry