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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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To the moon! Amazon Web Services lists first startups for AWS Space Accelerator

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Lunar Outpost is developing a robotic resource prospector called MAPP, or Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, and has already been given NASA’s go-ahead to collect material on the moon. Lunar Outpost via YouTube).

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Amazon Web Services is creating its very own space force for cloud computing

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Amazon Web Services today unveiled a new business unit devoted to developing data infrastructure and cloud services for the aerospace and satellite industry — and headed by someone who helped set up the U.S. Amazon Web Services facilitates Capella Space’s catalog of satellite radar imagery. AWS Photo).

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Amazon would have posted $1.8 billion operating loss in Q4 2021 if not for Amazon Web Services

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Another blockbuster quarter for Amazon Web Services masked one of the worst operating losses in the recent history of the rest of the company. For the company as a whole, Amazon reported total operating profit of $3.5 billion for the fourth quarter of 2021 in its financial results Thursday afternoon. However, that total includes $5.3

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Virtuous Teaming: Palantir And AWS Team Up For ERP Suite

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Palantir Technologies Inc announced Friday its new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with Amazon.com, Inc. cloud service platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be available to all AWS customers. What […].

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The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

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For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably the world’s edgiest edge: a satellite in low Earth orbit. An artist’s conception shows D-Orbit’s ION spacecraft deploying smaller satellites. (D-Orbit D-Orbit Illustration).

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Spearline and Amazon Web Services Partnership

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Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform which offers compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow as required.