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

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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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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. ” Integrate’s digital platform is designed to help alleviate issues relating to program management, coordination and documentation for space missions as well as for down-to-earth projects. million in funding and secured a $1.25

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

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Panay joined the company in 2004 as a program manager and rose to prominence in the tech industry as the leader of Microsoft’s Surface hardware business, overseeing the development and launch of various products such as the dual-screen Surface Duo. Windows planning and release management will continue to be in this team.

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