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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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Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

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Chris Vonderhaar, former Amazon Web Services data center leader, will serve as Google Cloud’s vice president of demand and supply management. LinkedIn Photo) Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.

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Dancing with the cloud: Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky takes steps to fight homelessness

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky during a rehearsal session with his professional dance partner Lauren Smith. But a group of notable personalities in the city, including Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky , will do their best to use dance to raise money to help combat the issue.

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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.

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Amazon Web Services is launching Space Accelerator for final-frontier startups

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Amazon Web Services is raising the curtain on AWS Space Accelerator, a four-week business support program that’s open to space startups seeking to use Amazon’s cloud computing services. AWS Ground Station makes use of a network of satellite dishes. AWS Photoillustration).

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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.