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

GeekWire

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 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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The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

GeekWire

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably the world’s edgiest edge: a satellite in low Earth orbit. Axiom Space is also partnering with Microsoft Azure and LEOCloud on a separate project to put cloud infrastructure in orbit.).

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To the moon! Amazon Web Services lists first startups for AWS Space Accelerator

GeekWire

Lunar Outpost is developing a robotic resource prospector called MAPP, or Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, and has already been given NASA’s go-ahead to collect material on the moon. Lunar Outpost via YouTube). They also come from a range of places on the funding-round timeline, from seed to Series C.

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Virtuous Teaming: Palantir And AWS Team Up For ERP Suite

CTOvision

Palantir Technologies Inc announced Friday its new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with Amazon.com, Inc. cloud service platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be available to all AWS customers. What […].

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Amazon would have posted $1.8 billion operating loss in Q4 2021 if not for Amazon Web Services

GeekWire

Another blockbuster quarter for Amazon Web Services masked one of the worst operating losses in the recent history of the rest of the company. Subtracting those cloud operating profits from the total shows that the rest of Amazon effectively posted an operating loss of $1.8 However, that total includes $5.3 billion, up 40%.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget.

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