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

GeekWire

JULY 11, 2023

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

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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. Axiom Space is also partnering with Microsoft Azure and LEOCloud on a separate project to put cloud infrastructure in orbit.).

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Internal memo: Amazon Web Services plans reorg of Sales, Marketing, and Global Services team

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will reorganize its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) group to “lay the foundation for accelerated customer impact and growth in the years ahead,” according to an internal memo Monday morning.

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Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform

GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Series C round is a vote of confidence in Pulumi, which helps developers build underlying cloud computing infrastructure using general purpose languages such as JavaScript and Python. Its tools work across platforms and technologies including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and others.

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Amazon Web Services launches new tool to detect bias and blind spots in machine learning

GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Nashlie Sephus, an applied science manager for Amazon Web Services AI, introduces the new Sagemaker Clarify feature at AWS re:Invent Tuesday. Screenshot via webcast). “So even with the best possible intentions, and a whole lot of expertise, removing bias in machine learning models is difficult.”

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Amazon updates AWS Bedrock with new capability to import custom AI models

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APRIL 23, 2024

(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services is releasing new capabilities for its Bedrock artificial intelligence service, including the ability for customers to import their own custom AI models to run alongside models from major providers.

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Former Tableau execs launch new Seattle startup that helps companies manage cloud costs

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

(Millworks Analytics Photo) Former Tableau CFO Damon Fletcher is coming out of retirement to launch a startup that helps tech companies get a hold of their cloud costs amid a surge in spending driven by artificial intelligence. Fletcher said the startup will soon roll out generative AI features.

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

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic , the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded two years ago by former OpenAI executives and considered one of the world’s top AI labs. (Photo by Stuart Isett/Fortune, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0 , via Flickr.)

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Bud Financial helps banks and their customers make more informed decisions using AI with DataStax and Google Cloud

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

With the power of real-time data and artificial intelligence (AI), new online tools accelerate, simplify, and enrich insights for better decision-making. Choose trusted partners Bud’s collaboration with DataStax and Google Cloud highlights the significance of choosing reliable partners. They can be applied in any industry.

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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2024

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East.

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AWS re:Invent: Faster chips, smarter AI, and developer tools grab the spotlight

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This week, Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) kicked off its tenth re:Invent conference, an event where it typically announces the biggest changes in the cloud computing industry’s dominant platform.

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Amazon earnings preview: AWS growth and AI strategy in the spotlight

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Investors will be paying close attention to Amazon’s cloud business growth and any updates to the company’s AI strategy on Thursday after the release of its third quarter earnings report. Alphabet, meanwhile, missed expectations for its cloud business. billion and EPS of $0.28

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Amazon looks to boost generative AI projects with new $100M cloud initiative

GeekWire

JUNE 22, 2023

Amazon Web Services say a new initiative will connect internal experts with customers and partners to accelerate generative AI applications. The company sought to dispel that notion in a news release announcing the investment.

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AWS unveils ‘Amazon Q’ AI assistant, jabs at Microsoft and OpenAI at re:Invent

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Reporting from Las Vegas … Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky doubled down on the new era of artificial intelligence with a series of product announcements and thinly veiled but repeated criticism of Microsoft and OpenAI. ” Later, he showed a Nov.

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Microsoft doubles down on cloud data with new products, makes new appeal to Amazon’s rivals

GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces the company’s new cloud data products. Microsoft is rolling out new cloud technologies for wrangling, protecting and analyzing large amounts of corporate data, escalating its competition with Google, Snowflake and Amazon in the $25 billion global market for data analytics and business intelligence.

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AWS on bringing machine learning and artificial intelligence to the cloud masses

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Amazon Web Services used Re:Invent 2016 to stake its claim as an early adopter of machine learning, while revealing details of its plans to boost the technology's take-up among everyday developers

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Microsoft unveils custom AI chip, with help from OpenAI, playing catch-up with Amazon

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Microsoft describes the Azure Maia AI Accelerator as the first designed by Microsoft for large language model training and inferencing in the Microsoft Cloud. One of the Microsoft-designed chips, the Azure Maia AI Accelerator, is optimized for AI tasks, including generative artificial intelligence.

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Amazon stock rises after beating Q3 estimates with $143.1B in revenue, $9.9B in profits

GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Investors are keeping a close watch on the company’s cloud business, which has seen revenue growth decline in recent quarters. Amazon Web Services reported $23 billion in revenue for the third quarter, up 12%, matching the growth rate from the second quarter. Here’s a breakdown of Amazon’s financials for the third quarter.

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Amazon’s cloud business and AI initiatives in the spotlight in advance of earnings report

GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Amazon’s cloud revenue growth rate and its artificial intelligence initiatives will be closely scrutinized when the company reports second-quarter earnings Thursday afternoon, Aug. Amazon Web Services revenue growth declined to 15.8% billion, up 8.5% from a year ago, as reported by Yahoo Finance.

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re:Invent-ing cloud computing: Amazon’s decade of innovation for AWS

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

Cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services, revealed new tech to support its vast array of tools at its conference this week. Read More.

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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. billion to launch new cloud areas.

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6 key considerations for selecting an AI systems vendor

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

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AI in the cloud: Microsoft boosts share; Amazon predicts ‘tens of billions’ in new revenue

GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2023

“AI projects are not just about AI meters, they have lots of other cloud meters as well,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, citing the impact of AI on the Azure cloud platform. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) AI is starting to generate real money for the big cloud providers. Google Cloud revenue rose 22% to $8.4

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ChatGPT coming to Azure: New integration shows how Microsoft will leverage OpenAI partnership

GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

The service is designed for business and developers using Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to integrate OpenAI technologies into their applications. Azure OpenAI Service was released in preview last spring , before ChatGPT was widely available. The technology also demonstrates the potential for AI to be misused.

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

GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2024

… 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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Microsoft and HPE team up to connect Azure cloud to International Space Station

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The sky’s not the limit for the cloud: Microsoft is partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to bring Azure cloud computing to the International Space Station. This won’t be the first time NASA has connected the space station to cloud computing services.

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Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

GeekWire

JULY 8, 2020

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of the artificial intelligence that the company previously contributed to an industry partnership to develop a COVID-19 search engine for researchers. Bigstock Photo.

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‘Amazon Q’ and the new era of AI for business: A conversation with AWS VP Matt Wood

GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services VP of Product, shows some of the third-party services that Amazon Connects with in its new Amazon Q artificial intelligence tool for work. “NEED GPU?” ” it read, in bold letters. “So we have we have really good working relationships.

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Amazon rolls out AI-generated summaries of customer reviews

GeekWire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Amazon Image) Amazon says it’s using artificial intelligence to automatically generate and present summaries of customer reviews, helping shoppers quickly understand the overall sentiment and key highlights about products before purchasing. It’s part of a boom in generative artificial intelligence across the tech industry.

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Microsoft cloud revenue up 22%, Windows business plunges 27% in first report since job cuts

GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

The company reported strength in some of its products and services for businesses, led by a 22% increase in Microsoft Cloud revenue, to $27.1 This category includes Microsoft Azure, Office 365 Commercial, the commercial portion of LinkedIn, and other cloud-related revenue. Windows revenue fell 27% to $4.8

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Amazon elevates two more execs to its senior leadership team under new CEO Andy Jassy

GeekWire

JULY 7, 2021

New Amazon “S-team” member James Hamilton worked under Jassy as vice president and distinguished engineer for Amazon Web Services. Dave Limp, SVP, Devices & Services. Rohit Prasad, SVP and head scientist, Alexa Artificial Intelligence. Adam Selipsky, CEO, Amazon Web Services.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

That is why artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a key role in enhancing and personalizing customer communication in the contact center. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The answer is a robust cloud and modern IT infrastructure, which would allow 1,200 employees to collaborate with one another, amidst nationwide lockdowns and supply chain disruptions. Key to this multi-cloud infrastructure was flexibility, scalability, and security, upon which its integrated, intelligent systems were built on.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 26, 2023

GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Google’s big Vegas ad buy clouds the landscape at Amazon re:Invent Reporting from Las Vegas … Brilliant marketing move or big waste of money? Physicists and neuroscientists search for answers Will artificial intelligence serve humanity — or will it spawn a new species of conscious digital beings with their own agenda?

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Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches

GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google Cloud Next in 2019. Amazon and a former Amazon Web Services vice president are fighting in court over his proposed assignment reviewing speeches for the upcoming virtual version of the conference this year. Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services vice president of AI. Google Photo).

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Amazon’s online store sales dip below 40% of net sales for first time, and other earnings notes

GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2023

The declining percentage comes from noticeably slower growth in the online segment over the past couple years (including year-over year declines in some recent quarters) and the continued growth of the company’s revenue from areas including third party seller services, Amazon Web Services, and advertising services.

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Microsoft acquires Seattle startup Suplari, which uses AI to analyze corporate spending

GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

Microsoft has acquired Suplari , a Seattle startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies understand and get a handle on their spending. Suplari said its “Suplari Spend Intelligence Cloud” will continue to remain available for existing customers. Suplari Photo).

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Biotech giant Moderna will open tech office in Seattle, plans to hire up to 220 workers

GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2023

The office will focus on artificial intelligence, cloud-based tools, and other technology applications. But it will also play a big role in growing the company’s capabilities in applying artificial intelligence to biomedical applications, said Miller. (Moderna Photo) Cambridge, Mass.-based

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

Enterprises that pushed in early to the cloud fared far better than their competition, Grant Thornton chief among them. But the benefits of buying in early to cloud-based productivity services didn’t stop there for Grant Thornton. It will also save the firm a bundle on hardware costs.

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Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he spoke Thursday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in San Francisco. Less than two weeks later, the OpenAI board removed him from the position.

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Amazon vets raise cash for Griptape, a Seattle startup that helps companies build AI apps

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

(LinkedIn Photos) A pair of Amazon alum is raising cash for a new startup that helps enterprises build and deploy secure artificial intelligence applications, preventing company data from slipping through the cracks. Founded earlier this year, Griptape is developing an open-source Python framework and cloud platform.

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IBM to acquire Octo to boost its US government business

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

This opens up opportunities for digital transformation service providers such as IBM to help US federal agencies leverage emerging technologies and applications to optimize costs and operational efficiencies while improving security, IBM said. billion for the quarter ended September 2022, an increase of 14% year-on-year.

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

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Internal memo: Amazon Web Services plans reorg of Sales, Marketing, and Global Services team

Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform

Amazon Web Services launches new tool to detect bias and blind spots in machine learning

Amazon updates AWS Bedrock with new capability to import custom AI models

Former Tableau execs launch new Seattle startup that helps companies manage cloud costs

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

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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

AWS re:Invent: Faster chips, smarter AI, and developer tools grab the spotlight

Amazon earnings preview: AWS growth and AI strategy in the spotlight

Amazon looks to boost generative AI projects with new $100M cloud initiative

AWS unveils ‘Amazon Q’ AI assistant, jabs at Microsoft and OpenAI at re:Invent

Microsoft doubles down on cloud data with new products, makes new appeal to Amazon’s rivals

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Microsoft unveils custom AI chip, with help from OpenAI, playing catch-up with Amazon

Amazon stock rises after beating Q3 estimates with $143.1B in revenue, $9.9B in profits

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Microsoft and HPE team up to connect Azure cloud to International Space Station

Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

‘Amazon Q’ and the new era of AI for business: A conversation with AWS VP Matt Wood

Amazon rolls out AI-generated summaries of customer reviews

Microsoft cloud revenue up 22%, Windows business plunges 27% in first report since job cuts

Amazon elevates two more execs to its senior leadership team under new CEO Andy Jassy

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Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches

Amazon’s online store sales dip below 40% of net sales for first time, and other earnings notes

Microsoft acquires Seattle startup Suplari, which uses AI to analyze corporate spending

Biotech giant Moderna will open tech office in Seattle, plans to hire up to 220 workers

Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft

Amazon vets raise cash for Griptape, a Seattle startup that helps companies build AI apps

IBM to acquire Octo to boost its US government business

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