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

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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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Ex-Amazon and Airbnb engineers raise $1.25M for enterprise AI agent developer Cimba.ai

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million pre-seed investment to accelerate development of its software that lets companies develop customizable AI agents to generate insights and actions based on internal data. Biswas co-founded Cimba with Vishal Das , a former applied scientist at Amazon Web Services and earned a Ph.D from Stanford.

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Tech Moves: OpenAI hires former Amazon Web Services leader to lead new Tokyo office

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LinkedIn Photo) Tadao Nagasaki , a longtime tech exec who led Japan-related operations for Amazon Web Services and F5, is joining OpenAI to head up the company’s new hub in Tokyo, its first office in Asia. Bogdan was most recently director of learning and development on the Windows team. Tadao Nagasaki.

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Amazon Web Services hires former Flex and Intel exec Raejeanne Skillern as new CMO and VP

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LinkedIn Photo) 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. Skillern spent more than a decade at Intel, most recently as vice president of the chip giant’s cloud service provider business.

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Amazon Web Services is creating its very own space force for cloud computing

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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. I am honored to join AWS to continue to transform the industry and propel the space enterprise forward.”

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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

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In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East. Oracle is helped by the fact that it has two offerings for enterprise applications, says Thompson.

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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). Amazon Photo).