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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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Microsoft says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded

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Microsoft says it was able to mitigate a 2.4Tbps Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack in August. The attack targeted an Azure customer in Europe, and was 140 percent higher than the highest attack bandwidth volume Microsoft recorded in 2020. Image: Microsoft. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

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Panos Panay, the Microsoft chief product officer overseeing the Windows and Devices division, introduces Windows Copilot at Microsoft Build in May. Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) Panos Panay , the Microsoft chief product officer who oversees the Windows and Devices division, is leaving the company in a surprise departure.

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Amazon adding more space east of Seattle in Redmond for 800 new AWS jobs, Project Kuiper lab

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will be home to hundreds of Amazon Web Services employees. Amazon is making more real estate moves east of Seattle, adding hundreds of Amazon Web Services roles in Redmond, Wash. Redmond Town Center in Redmond, Wa., Invesco Photo). The majority of that growth has been centered on Bellevue, Wash.

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Additionally, he was part of the foundation team that launched the USAF/Joint Service Airborne Networking effort, recognized by MIT Technology Review in 2005 as one of the “Top Ten Emerging Technologies” that could change the world. Steve was previously CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web application security testing and firewall software.

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Tech Moves: Former Expedia leader joins Peerspace; Flexport adds another Amazon exec

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She also was previously director of product at Seattle mobile software development company Medio and spent nine years at Microsoft as a lead program manager. Uslu was also a client service partner at Slalom and an executive at IT services and consulting firm Avanade.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

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Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Microsoft Photo). And the security of Microsoft’s software is still falling well short of Gates’ vision. “Your code will be attacked.”

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