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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. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy at AWS re:Invent this week, in front of a slide showing some of the company’s customers and partners. Screenshot via webcast).

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Microsoft unveils custom AI chip, with help from OpenAI, playing catch-up with Amazon

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Microsoft says the chips will roll out in its data centers starting early next year. The company plans to use them initially to run its own services, including Microsoft Copilot and Azure OpenAI Service, before expanding to more workloads.

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IonQ opens up Forte quantum computing platform for use on Amazon Braket Direct

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An artist’s conception shows a data center powered by IonQ’s Forte Enterprise servers. IonQ Forte joins two earlier generations of the company’s processing hardware, Harmony and Aria, as options for Amazon Web Service’s Braket quantum computing service.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO Business Intelligence

Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS.

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GeekWire Podcast: Seattle region’s new tech giant; ‘Slackforce’ analysis; AWS re:Invent takeaways

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billion; Amazon Web Services makes some surprising news at its annual re:Invent cloud conference ; and a new tech giant arrives in our backyard. McIlwain invests in software and data-oriented companies in areas including cloud computing, intelligent applications, and the intersection of life science and data science.

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‘Open for business’: Amazon shows off antennas for its Kuiper satellite network

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Satellite 2023 via YouTube) After years of development, Amazon is showing off the antennas it plans to use for it s Project Kuiper satellite broadband network — and says it plans to begin offering beta service for large customers next year. The smallest antenna, still under development, is just a little bigger than an ebook reader.

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Azure Orbital launches Microsoft into a cloud computing space race with Amazon

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Call it the Clash of the Cloud Titans: Today Microsoft is taking the wraps off Azure Orbital , a cloud-based satellite data processing platform that competes with Amazon Web Services’ Ground Station offering. “Satellites are becoming more and more important for a variety of reasons,” he said.

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