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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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Snowflake launches Retail Data Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

After launching the Healthcare and Life Sciences Data Cloud Platform just a week ago, Snowflake has announced a Retail Data Cloud aimed at helping retail and consumer goods companies make the most of their data.

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Google Cloud brings its search smarts to retail customers

CIO Business Intelligence

Google Cloud has released a new fully managed search tool, called Retail Search, which is aimed at retailers who are concerned about product discovery on their digital platforms. Bringing Google Search to Retail Search. Retail Search: a market share and data play.

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Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services to open new office just down the road from Microsoft HQ

GeekWire

The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up. Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot office for more than 600 Amazon Web Services workers in Redmond, Wash. AWS is the market leader in the cloud computing industry, but Microsoft’s Azure has been gaining ground in recent years.

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Amazon Web Services debuts 5-week accelerator for clean energy startups

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Amazon Web Services is announcing the creation of a 5-week accelerator to support clean technology startups. The Seattle-based cloud and online retail giant is partnering with Freshwater Advisors ? (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). The company will select 10 participants.

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Amazon downsizes AWS in a fresh cost-cutting round

CIO Business Intelligence

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon’s cloud computing division has long been a key driver of its profitability. Amazon Web Services, Technology Industry Just Walk Out was a pet project of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

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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).