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Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

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Chris Vonderhaar, former Amazon Web Services data center leader, will serve as Google Cloud’s vice president of demand and supply management. LinkedIn Photo) Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.

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Cloud wars: Former Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell reportedly joins rival Microsoft

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Longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and a longtime linchpin of the company’s cloud business, left the Seattle company this month after more than 23 years. Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo). Update: Microsoft declined to comment.

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Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group

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GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred jobs on its Physical Stores Technology team, executives in the tech giant’s cloud computing division informed employees Wednesday morning in internal emails. .”

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Amazon Web Services Outage Borks the Internet Again

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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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Tech Moves: OpenAI hires former Amazon Web Services leader to lead new Tokyo office

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LinkedIn Photo) Tadao Nagasaki , a longtime tech exec who led Japan-related operations for Amazon Web Services and F5, is joining OpenAI to head up the company’s new hub in Tokyo, its first office in Asia. The cloud giant also said in January it would invest around $15 billion by 2027 in Japan. Tadao Nagasaki.

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AWS re:Inforce Recap: The Cloud Isn’t Going Away, But Scare Tactics Should

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Boston’s bustling Seaport District played host to the first-ever AWS re:Inforce 2019 cloud security conference, with over 5,000 reported attendees. Amazon Web Services set the tone of the event to be a “learning conference,” with hopes that those who attended would come away better at their jobs.

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Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

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were the first to be powered by the company’s Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, as part of a broader cloud infrastructure buildout. The Seattle angel investor and tech veteran has made a tradition of tracking capital expenditures on his blog, Platformonomics , to “separate the clouds from the clowns,” as he puts it.

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