GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2021

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a new book written by Shirish Nadkarni, a Seattle tech veteran who co-founded Livemocha (acquired by RosettaStone) and TeamOn (acquired by BlackBerry). Shirish Nadkarni. You think you have come up with a brilliant idea for your startup.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

The closure news comes on the same day that Amazon Web Services announced it would be cutting hundreds of jobs , including on its Physical Stores Technology team. Amazon previously closed its only two Amazon Fresh pickup locations, in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood in 2023 and in SoDo in January. ”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2022

During his tenure at Amazon, from 2002-2005, he helped to launch and build Amazon Marketplace, before leading the company’s Enterprise Services business. He has authored three books, including The Amazon Way , and he writes the weekly Digital Leader Newsletter , found at Substack. John Rossman. Take it all now.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2020

After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention. A “relatively small addition of capacity” to the Amazon Kinesis real-time data processing service triggered a widespread Amazon Web Services outage last week, the company said in a detailed technical analysis over the weekend.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith discusses his book, Tools and Weapons, at a 2019 event in Seattle. government agencies, Smith writes in a new update to his book, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age , originally published two years ago. A new paperback edition includes three new chapters. 11 attacks.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It comes from the same minds that figured out how to best sell books online and how to optimize computational power through cloud computing. Think of that next time you talk about Amazon Web Services or Cloud Computing in general.

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CIO Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

We get the fire trucks to the burning buildings faster, have better web services for citizens, keep the bad guys locked up, make sure the libraries have the book you want, make sure citizens have wifi access, and you get the idea. I will even teach you how to give a great interview and manage your career! And the best reason.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2021

While it may be tempting to view the numbers as setting the tone for a new era, it’s worth keeping in mind that these results were booked as of June 30, several days before Jassy officially took over from founder Jeff Bezos in early June. Amazon’s earnings report Thursday will be its first with CEO Andy Jassy at the helm.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2021

Andy Jassy is now listed as the company’s CEO on its investor relations website , after previously having run Amazon Web Services since 2003, while Bezos is listed as Executive Chair. Bezos is handing Jassy a company with ambitions extending far beyond electronic books. The end of a 27-year tenure.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

Brad Stone, author of the new book “ Amazon Unbound ,” wrote this week that Bezos gathered Amazon media execs in 2017 and said, “I want my Game of Thrones.” ” For the gentle folks at MGM, here are Jeff Bezos's twelve ingredients for every epic story, from the Hollywood chapter of my book Amazon Unbound.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A multi-partnered strategy for multicloud success IHG, which got its start on the cloud five years ago, is also taking a hybrid approach, continuing to migrate and develop new workloads on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform as it maintains data centers on the east and west coasts of the US.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

billion operating loss in Q4 2021 if not for Amazon Web Services. Another blockbuster quarter for Amazon Web Services masked one of the worst operating losses in the recent history of the rest of the company. … Read More. Amazon would have posted $1.8 … Read More. … Read More. … Read More.

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CIO Musings

MARCH 24, 2014

We get the fire trucks to the burning buildings faster, have better web services for citizens, keep the bad guys locked up, make sure the libraries have the book you want, make sure citizens have wifi access, and you get the idea. I will even teach you how to give a great interview and manage your career! And the best reason.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

A new book collects the writings of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, with an extended biographical intro by Walter Isaacson. Much of the content in the new book, “Invent & Wander,” will be familiar to those who follow Jeff Bezos and Amazon closely. This earlier story by Alan Murray in Fortune explains how the book came together.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2023

.” In an earlier memo , in November, Jassy listed some of the businesses where Amazon will continue to focus — citing “big opportunities ahead” in Amazon Stores (formerly Amazon Consumer); Advertising; Amazon Web Services; Prime Video; Alexa; Project Kuiper (satellite internet); Zoox (robo-taxis); and Amazon Healthcare.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

This book is a step-by-step tutorial filled with practical examples which will show readers how to configure and manage IaaS and DBaaS with Oracle Enterprise Manager. If you are a cloud administrator or a user of self-service provisioning systems offered by this Oracle product, this book is ideal for you. Sponsored Post] ?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says. Open and transparent communication with vendors is essential.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2021

John Rossman, a former Amazon executive, is the author books including The Amazon Way and Think Like Amazon. John Rossman, a former Amazon business leader, is floating the idea of a 15th leadership principle in a new edition of his book, The Amazon Way. Could a new leadership principle help to guide the company in its next era?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

In the years since author Michael Lewis popularized sabermetrics in his 2003 book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , sports analytics has evolved considerably beyond baseball. Computer vision, AI, and machine learning (ML) all now play a role.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Amazon Web Services outage affects Adobe, Roku, Twilio, Flickr, others. Amazon Web Services suffered an outage Wednesday that affected several applications and services that rely on Amazon’s cloud computing platform. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More. … Read More.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2021

He led its consumer business through a period of unprecedented growth — stretching well beyond its origins in e-commerce and books to become a universal shopping destination. Wilke was long considered a leading candidate to succeed Jeff Bezos as CEO; Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will replace Bezos later this year.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

Didascalou was most recently VP of IoT at Amazon Web Services and previously Microsoft’s CVP of technology and research, where he worked on the Surface Hub and led the Smart Things team. Guzmán is also currently writing a book for publication in 2022 about staying curious and open-minded in divided times. Kirkland, Wash.-based

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2017

Exchange Web Services (EWS). However , IMAP/SMTP doesn’t provide address book lookup (you’d need LDAP support for that), which may make using these protocols in a larger corporate environment a bit more challenging. Browser-based access.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In a memo to employees posted to Amazon’s blog , Jassy confirmed that the company cut positions this week across the Devices and Books businesses, and offered voluntary reduction to employees in its People, Experience, and Technology (PXT) organization.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It launched in July 1995; the first book sold was Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. Within two months, the company sold books in all 50 states but was viewed as a bit player in the publishing industry compared to heavyweights like Barnes and Noble or Borders. Shaw & Co.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 19, 2022

Think of all the photo albums, the binders, the disc cases, the book shelves, the file cabinets you would need … it’s almost unfathomable. Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Can you imagine if all our data were made into hard copies? And t… Read More.

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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2023

“Quantum computing could very well revolutionize what an Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure will want to do for the world in terms of computing,” says Louis Terminello, associate laboratory director for physical and computational sciences at the U.S. .

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TM Forum

JULY 28, 2021

Below is how Tom McFadyen, Founder of marketplace developer McFadyen Digital, explains platforms and marketplaces in his book. the book by Geoffrey G. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the quintessential example of an infrastructure platform. Marketplace Best Practices: Transforming Commerce in the Platform Economy.

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GeekWire

JUNE 16, 2020

His new book is “Strategy First: How Businesses Win Big.” Chase explores the ingredients of successful business strategies in his new book, “Strategy First: How Businesses Win Big,” published today, with examples from across the world of business and technology. Amazon Web Services is a great product.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Some speculated on what type of leader Bezos’ successor Andy Jassy will be, and how Jassy’s impressive run as head of Amazon Web Services will inform his heading up of the entire company. Lex Luthor, the bald comic book supervillain who some say shares a likeness to Bezos, was trending on Twitter.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 29, 2020

Sharma, our latest Geek of the Week, spent eight years at Amazon and Amazon Web Services, most recently leading a product management team at AWS for a new service, AWS Outposts , which extends AWS infrastructure and services outside of AWS owned data centers to customer locations or colocation spaces.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2021

Books by young inaugural poet Amanda Gorman become quick best sellers on Amazon. Court filings show how Amazon Web Services is using Section 230 as a legal sword against Parler. Editor’s note: Story updated with Amazon’s response to questions about the timing of its letter. … Read More. … Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This approach goes a long way toward explaining how Amazon was able to externalize its computing infrastructure — first to Merchant.com, the company’s ecommerce-as-a-service platform for retailers to build their own online stores, and then to Amazon Web Services, a broader offering that has since taken a life of its own.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A tech veteran with previous startup and CEO experience, as well as a stint at Amazon Web Services, Rob Lipschutz sounds like he’s having the time of his life as a Gen Xer helping Gen Z find a better way to connect online. Lipschutz, of Bothell, Wash., Have you seen “The Social Dilemma” )?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Darren Rovell, a senior producer at Action Network and a former journalist at ESPN and CNBC , will share how sophisticated data newly available to bettors is equalizing the playing field with sports books. Throughout the summit, sponsors including Amazon Web Service will share innovative solutions for building your data strategy.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 27, 2023

This article is adapted from Chapter 12 of my new book Learning Digital Identity from O'Reilly Media. She's a security expert and focused many of her remarks on the relative security of different multi-factor authentication (MFA) techniques, a topic I cover in my book as well.

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