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Amazon cloud chief Adam Selipsky hints at new directions for AWS as re:Invent begins

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Adam Selipsky, Amazon Web Services CEO. Amazon Web Services this week is holding its first re:Invent conference without Andy Jassy at the helm of the tech giant’s cloud unit. He cited the AWS Cloud Contact Center service for call centers as an example. Amazon Photo).

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Tech Moves: Former Expedia leader joins Peerspace; Flexport adds another Amazon exec

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(Acertus Photo) — Ross Rachey, formerly head of Amazon’s last mile fleet, was appointed chief operating officer of automotive logistics company Acertus. Louis-based Acertus supports vehicle “lifecycle management,” including transport, storage, maintenance and compliance services.

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AMD takes hybrid approach to engineering the cloud’s future

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s because chipmakers like AMD require mega cores of compute power and memory, as well as petabytes of storage, to run their design applications. Gartner analyst Sid Nag, however, points out that cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services offer instances that go up to 224 cores, with companies already running HPC workloads in the cloud.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. Comments (). At werner.ly

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