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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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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Track sessions will focus on: Enabling Business Results with Big Data — How to enable agency programs that will yield enormous value through big data to deliver actionable information and measureable results. Steve was previously CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web application security testing and firewall software. www.intel.com.

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Integrate raises $3.4M and wins Space Force contract for management software

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Space Force to boost its program management software platform into a higher orbit. “With our new partners at Hyperplane, Riot Ventures and beyond, we have the resources to accelerate development and truly meet the needs of all companies pursuing ambitious hardware development programs,” Conafay said. ”

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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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Microsoft says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded

The Verge

It also exceeds the peak traffic volume of 2.3Tbps, the previous largest attack, which was directed at Amazon Web Services last year. DDoS attacks are typically used to force websites or services offline, thanks to a flood of traffic that a web host can’t handle. “The

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

GeekWire

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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Amazon may launch healthcare business line with at-home COVID test and other diagnostic services

GeekWire

The move at the time was part of a larger effort by Amazon to expand its COVID-19 testing capabilities, tapping employees from a variety of roles across the company, including research scientists, program managers, procurement specialists and software engineers. The company also sells Amazon Web Services to healthcare customers.