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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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CEOs of Amazon Web Services and Redapt join Seattle Sounders FC ownership group

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky (left) and his wife Laura Selipsky. Sounders Photo) Seattle’s professional soccer club is adding more tech heavyweights to its ownership group. Seattle Sounders FC announced Wednesday that the families of Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky and Redapt CEO Rick Cantu are now owners.

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Amazon Web Services launches $40M initiative that aims to reduce health inequities

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Amazon Web Services will provide $40 million in credits and technical support over three years for organizations working to enhance health and reduce inequities in care. The new global program, announced Monday, will operate in parallel to another launched in early 2020 to support COVID-19 diagnostics research and development.

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky steps down; senior exec Matt Garman named AWS CEO

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GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down from the role, three years after returning to the company to lead the cloud giant, according to an internal memo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to employees Tuesday morning. Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent 2023.

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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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Internal memo: Amazon Web Services plans reorg of Sales, Marketing, and Global Services team

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Matt Garman, AWS senior vice president of sales and marketing, speaks at a Madrona Venture Group event in Seattle in October 2023. I am excited about this opportunity for us to think big, work backward from the voice of our customers, and lay the foundation for accelerated customer impact and growth in the years ahead.

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Cloud wars: Former Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell reportedly joins rival Microsoft

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Longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell joined Amazon in 1998 when it acquired his company, Server Technologies Group, an e-commerce transaction software company that he founded in 1996 after leaving Oracle, according to his LinkedIn bio. Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo).