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Does Africa Present An Opportunity For The Chinese Clouds?

Forrester IT

Africa is home to 20% of our planet’s land and 16% of its people, but none of the hyperscale public clouds run from data centers there — yet. Microsoft will offer Azure from data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg later this year, and Amazon recently announced plans to follow suit with an Amazon Web Services […].

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Dancing with the cloud: Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky takes steps to fight homelessness

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky during a rehearsal session with his professional dance partner Lauren Smith. But a group of notable personalities in the city, including Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky , will do their best to use dance to raise money to help combat the issue.

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

GeekWire

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. Read the full memo from Garman below.

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Amazon Web Services partners with Brazil’s space agency to boost business on the final frontier

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services and the Brazilian Space Agency are joining forces to support long-term growth of the space industry in Latin America’s largest country. and Max Peterson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services. Alcantara Space Center serves as Brazil’s main launch site. AWS Photo).

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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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Chaos Kong is Coming: A Look At The Global Cloud and CDN Powering Netflix

Data Center Knowledge

Netflix is continuing to expand its infrastructure, both on the Amazon Web Services cloud and in data centers around the world. The streaming video titan''s infrastructure was the focus of a presentation by Jeremy Edberg at the O''Reilly Velocity 2013 NY conference. Featured'

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Cloud Credential Stealing Campaign Targets AWS, Azure, GCP

SecureWorld News

A recent report from cybersecurity firm SentinelOne sheds light on a concerning trend in the cyber threat landscape: the expansion of a cloud credential stealing campaign targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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