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Fortune
Matt Garman rose from intern to AWS CEO. Inside the ‘unflappable’ exec’s plan to defend Amazon’s $100 billion profit machine in the age of AI
Six months into his tenure leading the world's dominant cloud computing provider, Garman must navigate a confluence of new challenges.
VentureBeat
Stable Diffusion 3.5 hits Amazon Bedrock: What it means for enterprise AI workflows
Stability AI CEO drives enterprise AI focus home as the flagship Stable Diffusion models land on Amazon Bedrock.
Fortune
AWS CEO Matt Garman on startups, nuclear power, and soaring AI compute costs
X-energy CEO J. Clay Sell told Fortune via email: "Amazon needs clean, safe, secure electricity as it scales its data center growth and experiences higher power demand. We see this collaboration as an ...
ARPU
Amazon Delays Return-to-Office Mandate for Thousands

Amazon.com Inc. is delaying its return-to-office mandate for thousands of employees in multiple cities, pushing back full-time in-office work by as much as four months, reports Bloomberg. The move comes as the company struggles to accommodate its large workforce in existing office spaces.

The company recently informed employees in

ARPU
Amazon Workers Stage Major Strike During Key Holiday Period

Thousands of Amazon workers across multiple US warehouses will walk off the job Thursday, disrupting the online retailer's operations during its busiest time of year, reports Reuters. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Teamsters) union, representing approximately 1% of Amazon's US hourly workforce, says the strike is

Reuters
Amazon workers go on strike in US ahead of Christmas rush as union seeks contract talks
Amazon.com workers at seven U.S. facilities walked off the job early on Thursday during the holiday shopping rush, aiming to pressure the retailer into contract talks with their union.
CRN
Amazon Security Chief On Stopping 2.7 Trillion EC2 Attacks, 28 Billion S3 Storage Attempts
Amazon cybersecurity leader CJ Moses on stopping trillions of EC2 cyberattacks, billions of AWS S3 storage and DDoS attacks, and threat actors.
Reuters
Italian police search couriers in tax and labour probe into Amazon, SDA and GLS
Italy's tax police on Tuesday searched the headquarters of nine courier companies for alleged false invoices benefiting ecommerce and logistics giants Amazon, SDA and GLS, a search order reviewed by ...
Inc
Temu Leaves Amazon in E-Commerce Dust, Topping Apple’s Most-Downloaded Apps List
Shopping, social media apps and ChatGPT are consumers’ favorite apps this year, reflecting the strength of AI's rise and the clout of Chinese-owned digital offerings.
Wall Street Journal
Amazon Teamsters Authorize Third Strike at U.S. Facility
Illinois union members join workers in New York City in calling for a work stoppage.
CRN
The 10 Biggest AWS News Stories Of 2024: CEO Exit, AI And Partners
AWS news stories in 2024 include Adam Selipsky leaving, AI innovation, chip products, cloud market share, VMware Broadcom and CEO Matt Garman.
Fortune
Amazon’s AGI boss: You don’t need a PhD in machine learning to build with AI anymore
The bar to build with AI has suddenly reduced,” Rohit Prasad said at Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference this week in San Francisco.
SiliconANGLE
AWS aims to strengthen AI and data with GraphRAG support and InfluxDB partnership
Foundational elements are coming together to drive innovation, including when it comes to the AWS InfluxData partnership.
TechCrunch
Amazon is officially in the online car sales business
Amazon expanded Tuesday into online car sales with the launch of Amazon Autos, an e-commerce business that lets customers find, order, and buy new cars, ...
TechCrunch
Amazon forms a new AI agent-focused lab led by Adept co-founder
Amazon says that it's establishing a new R&D lab in San Francisco, the Amazon AGI SF Lab, to focus on building AI agents.
SiliconANGLE
Reimagining data: How AWS S3 Tables redefine analytics and scalability
Learn how AWS S3 Tables redefine data storage with mutable SQL-like datasets, seamless integrations and enhanced scalability through Nitro disaggregation.
TechCrunch
Amazon forms an AI agent-focused lab led by Adept’s co-founder
Amazon says that it's establishing a new R&D lab in San Francisco, the Amazon AGI SF Lab, to focus on building AI agents.
Fortune
Amazon’s top AI exec says industry concerns that LLMs hit a ‘wall’ are overblown, says Jeff Bezos ‘very involved’ in AI efforts
Speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco, Amazon SVP and head of Artificial General Intelligence Rohit Prasad dismissed concerns of the industry's feared "AI wall." ...
Reuters
Amazon joins India's quick commerce race with trials for 15-minute grocery delivery
Amazon will begin trials for quick commerce operations in India that would see the U.S. e-commerce giant deliver grocery items in 15 minutes or less, it said on Tuesday.
CRN
Storing, Feeding And Managing Data For Cloud, AI: The Biggest Storage News At AWS re:Invent 2024
Multiple storage vendors, along with Amazon itself, took advantage of this month’s AWS re:Invent 2024 conference to introduce and demonstrate new storage technologies aimed at helping businesses ...
SiliconANGLE
AWS re:Invent 2024: Builder ethos embraces simplicity
In this Breaking Analysis, we explore the critical takeaways from re:Invent 2024. Leveraging insights from Enterprise Technology Research data, we’ll unpack AWS’ strategy, the implications for the ...
Fortune
Exclusive: Leaked Amazon documents identify critical flaws in the delayed AI reboot of Alexa
The planned update to voice assistant Alexa is bogged down with problems including latency, which requires "significant improvements,” an internal memo said.
CRN
CEO Antonio Neri On HPE’s Supercomputing Advantage Over AWS, ‘Huge’ VM Essentials Opportunity And 'Super Strong’ Results
HPE CEO Antonio Neri said he does not see traditional supercomputing workloads moving to AWS’ just announced UltraCluster AI supercomputer.
ARPU
GitLab and AWS Team Up to Integrate AI Agents into Developer Workflow

GitLab and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to integrate Amazon's Q autonomous AI agents into GitLab's Duo AI assistant, aiming to boost developer productivity and accelerate software innovation, reports TechCrunch.

This collaboration goes beyond a simple integration, involving joint engineering efforts to seamlessly link the

SiliconANGLE
Andy Jassy returns to AWS re:Invent as Amazon beefs up its AI chops
And if anyone doubted its AI resolve, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (pictured) was the one to introduce the Nova models, signaling in no uncertain terms that Amazon intends to be among the major players in AI ...
VentureBeat
AWS now allows prompt caching with 90% cost reduction
AWS added Intelligent Prompt Routing and Prompt Caching to Bedrock in hopes of getting model usage prices down.
CRN
Amazon Nova AI Models And New ‘Killer Feature’ In Bedrock Are Huge AWS Partner Opportunities
Amazon Nova foundational models and Amazon Bedrock new latency inference for AI foundational models are wins for AWS, partners said at AWS re:Invent 2024.
VentureBeat
Amazon HyperPod Task Governance keeps GPUs running, cutting costs 40%
HyperPod Task Governance can increase GPU utilization, helping enterprises to optimize AI costs and producing potentially significant savings.
Fortune
Amazon’s new AI cloud strategy feels strangely familiar
Andrew Nusca Want to send thoughts or suggestions to Data Sheet? Drop a line here. This story was originally featured on Fortune.com ...
Inc
What It Means That Amazon Just Unveiled a New AI Supercomputer, and New Gen-AI Models
The e-commerce and cloud computing giant is pushing to join the top tier of AI players and is spending big money to get there.
ARPU
Amazon and Anthropic Team Up to Build World's Largest AI Supercomputer

Amazon is collaborating with Anthropic, a leading AI company, to construct one of the world's most powerful AI supercomputers, according to a report by WIRED. This mega-project, codenamed "Project Rainer," will be five times larger than the cluster used to build Anthropic's current most

Fortune
Amazon’s new AI cloud strategy is ripped straight from the ecommerce playbook that built a $2 trillion juggernaut
Those have been crucial keys to Amazon’s e-commerce dominance for the past two decades. Now the tech titan seems to be doubling down on this winning playbook by borrowing pieces of it to propel a ...
TechCrunch
AWS wants Amazon Q to become your buddy for the entire software development life cycle
Invent conference, AWS today announced a series of updates to Q Developer, its coding assistant platform that competes with the likes of GitHub ...
CRN
AWS CEO re:Invent Keynote: 7 Bold Google, Windows, VMware And ‘Game-Changing’ Innovation Remarks
Invent 2024 keynote from Matt Garman touted new Amazon Q, chips and products to compete with Google Spanner, VMware and Microsoft Windows.
SiliconANGLE
AWS expands Amazon S3 with features to support Apache Iceberg and metadata management
The move to S3 supporting Apache Iceberg will deliver faster analytics and make it easier to store and manage tabular data on any scale. Additional new features announced include the ability to ...
SiliconANGLE
AWS details Project Rainier AI compute cluster with hundreds of thousands of chips
Amazon Web Services Inc. today detailed Project Rainer, a compute cluster powered by hundreds of thousands of its custom AWS Trainium2 chips.
Wired
Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic
Invent conference, Amazon also announced new tools to help customers build generative AI programs, including one that checks whether a chatbot’s outputs are accurate or not.
TechCrunch
AWS re:Invent 2024: Live updates from Amazon’s biggest event
Amazon's re:invent 2024 conference returns to Las Vegas for a series of reveals and keynotes through December 6. AI is expected to be the focus of the event, but there's plenty more in store for ...
SiliconANGLE
AWS integrates liquid cooling and simplifies electrical distribution to lower data center power consumption
AWS integrates liquid cooling and simplifies electrical distribution to lower data center power consumption - SiliconANGLE ...
Inc
Amazon Brings the Cloud to Earth With Data Upload Sites
Uploading data to a cloud service can be time-consuming and may carry security risks. Amazon says its new data sites can fix that.
SiliconANGLE
AWS re:Invent 2024: CEO Matt Garman unveils the future of cloud with generative AI and agentic workflows
In an exclusive interview at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Seattle headquarters, I sat down with Chief Executive Matt Garman (pictured) to delve into the themes that will shape re:Invent and AWS’ ...
Reuters
Amazon to pilot AI-designed material for carbon removal
Amazon.com Inc plans to pilot a new carbon-removal material for data centers, which are at risk of worsening emissions from artificial intelligence systems they power, a startup behind the deal said ...
Wall Street Journal
Amazon Web Services CEO Promises ‘Needle-Moving’ AI Updates
Invent conference, Chief Executive Matt Garman says there is no end in sight to the artificial intelligence race.
TechCrunch
The Browser Company teases Dia, its new AI browser
The Browser Company, the company behind Arc Browser for both desktop and mobile, teased its new web browser Monday called Dia — and this time, it focuses ...
TechCrunch
AWS opens physical outlets that let customers upload their data
Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing business, has opened physical locations where customers can upload their data.
SiliconANGLE
AWS upgrades Amazon Connect with new generative AI features
The first enhancement that AWS introduced for Amazon Connect today is an AI-powered segmentation tool. It can scan a company’s customer base for buyers with similar interests. An online retailer, for ...
TechCrunch
AWS launches an incident response service to combat cybersecurity threats
Amazon has launched AWS Security Incident Response, a service to help triage and respond to cybersecurity threats.
SiliconANGLE
Amazon reportedly develops new multimodal language model
Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly developed a multimodal large language model that could debut as early as next week.
SiliconANGLE
Inside the AI revolution: Swami Sivasubramanian on generative AI, agentic systems and AWS’ vision
Amazon Web Services Inc. is betting big on artificial intelligence as it scrambles to gain mindshare from perceived leaders such as Microsoft Corp., OpenAI and Google LLC, and AWS Vice President of AI ...