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What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic times

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Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).

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Amazon Web Services pitches customers on cloud savings, makes bigger push into applications

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and made it clear that Amazon’s own ambitions increasingly extend well beyond its core cloud capabilities.

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Amazon Web Services launches new tool to detect bias and blind spots in machine learning

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Nashlie Sephus, an applied science manager for Amazon Web Services AI, introduces the new Sagemaker Clarify feature at AWS re:Invent Tuesday. The feature, SageMaker Clarify, was announced at the AWS re:Invent conference Tuesday as a new component of the AWS SageMaker machine learning platform. Screenshot via webcast).

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

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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. An artist’s conception shows D-Orbit’s ION spacecraft deploying smaller satellites. (D-Orbit D-Orbit Illustration).

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Can AI be holistic in spirit, soul, body, and mind? Insights from the PowerHER conference in Seattle

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At the JPMorgan Chase’s PowerHER conference on Wednesday in Seattle, moderator Monika Panpaliya, left, head of the Global Technology Product & Agility Office for JPMorgan Chase & Co., Sinead O’Donovan, a Microsoft vice president of product management, at JPMorgan Chase’s PowerHER conference.

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Amazon Web Services posts record $13.5B in *profits* for 2020 in Andy Jassy’s AWS swan song

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Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing giant led by the now-future Amazon CEO , closed out 2020 with more than $13.5 Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing giant led by the now-future Amazon CEO , closed out 2020 with more than $13.5 Turns out Andy Jassy was basically running most of Amazon already.

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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).