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Amazon Web Services Outage Borks the Internet Again

Gizmodo

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the web-hosting service that powers, well, most everything online suffered its third outage this month on Wednesday morning, bringing giant chunks of the web crashing down with it.

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Amazon Web Services is creating its very own space force for cloud computing

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services today unveiled a new business unit devoted to developing data infrastructure and cloud services for the aerospace and satellite industry — and headed by someone who helped set up the U.S. Amazon Web Services facilitates Capella Space’s catalog of satellite radar imagery. AWS Photo).

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Amazon Web Services security: 5 issues startups aim to fix

Venture Beast

Amid AWS re:Invent, cloud startups discussed Amazon Web Services security and how they're solving issues like misconfiguration and visibility. Read More.

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Project Kuiper plus AWS: How Amazon’s cloud and satellite internet ventures mesh

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure, which includes satellite ground stations, could come in handy for supporting Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband constellation. “We’re benefited a bit at Amazon by having this very good and reliable cloud service called AWS,” Limp said. AWS Photo).

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Can IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna make the elephant dance again

CTOvision

Critics of IBM say the American tech icon went the hybrid cloud way because it lost the fight to become a public cloud hyper-scaler to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Hybrid clouds are a combination of privately-owned computer servers and networks and machines and services rented off the internet.

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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. Jassy showed stats that put AWS’s share of the cloud infrastructure market at 45%, more than double its closest competitor, Microsoft Azure. Screenshot via webcast). Amazon Photo).

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Seattle Seahawks’ deep dive into analytics starts with a ‘data lake’ built by Amazon Web Services

GeekWire

For the Seattle Seahawks, that dive starts with a “data lake” built with Amazon Web Services. Amazon expanded its partnership with the NFL when it secured a deal with the Seahawks last year to become the team’s official cloud services provider.