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Netflix Closed Their Last Data Center – Should You Do The Same?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The company sent an email out that announced that in a month they planned on shutting down their very last operational data center. Every month Netflix attempts to both sign up additional customers for their DVD delivery and, more recently, their video streaming service. How Netflix Moved To The Cloud. How did they do it?

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 9, 2023

GeekWire

… Read More Amazon Web Services hires former Flex and Intel exec Raejeanne Skillern as new CMO and VP Raejeanne Skillern, a former executive at Flex and Intel, joined Amazon Web Services as its new chief marketing officer and vice president, GeekWire has learned. … Read More . … Read More .

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Chaos Kong is Coming: A Look At The Global Cloud and CDN Powering Netflix

Data Center Knowledge

Netflix is continuing to expand its infrastructure, both on the Amazon Web Services cloud and in data centers around the world. The streaming video titan''s infrastructure was the focus of a presentation by Jeremy Edberg at the O''Reilly Velocity 2013 NY conference. Featured'

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4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. Some hyperscalers offer tools and advice on making AI more sustainable, such as Amazon Web Services, which provides tips on using serverless technologies to eliminate idle resources, data management tools, and datasets.

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper highlights new connections to AWS and partners in Japan

GeekWire

(Amazon Photo) As Amazon gears up to build and launch thousands of satellites for its Project Kuiper constellation , it’s talking up the space-based broadband network’s potential to enable new options for managing data traffic with Amazon Web Services — including private connectivity services that never touch the public internet.

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Video: The biggest challenges and opportunities facing Amazon Web Services

Tech Republic Data Center

At the 2016 AWS re:Invent conference, Forrester Research analyst Dave Bartoletti spoke about how Amazon has to balance the speed of its innovations with the rate at which businesses can consume them.

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‘Amazon Q’ and the new era of AI for business: A conversation with AWS VP Matt Wood

GeekWire

Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services VP of Product, shows some of the third-party services that Amazon Connects with in its new Amazon Q artificial intelligence tool for work. “NEED GPU?” ” it read, in bold letters. Amazon downplayed the issues and specifically denied some of the claims.