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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. Business Insider reported earlier Wednesday that Bell was headed to Microsoft, and CNBC later confirmed that the Redmond, Wash. We’ve reached out to Microsoft and Bell for comment. Update: Microsoft declined to comment.

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Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

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These servers inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Wash., Microsoft Photo / John Brecher) Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and others to size up the industry’s bet on the cloud and artificial intelligence.

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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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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. Seattle Sounders FC announced Wednesday that the families of Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky and Redapt CEO Rick Cantu are now owners. They join several other tech execs, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who became owners in 2019.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services to open new office just down the road from Microsoft HQ

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The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up. Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot office for more than 600 Amazon Web Services workers in Redmond, Wash. next year, just three miles away from Microsoft’s headquarters. Amazon Photo).

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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). It is really key for Microsoft to try to limit both economic and reputational damage from a possible investigation.”