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CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky: The cloud is about to reinvent corporate cultures
On the surface, the timing of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week doesn’t seem ideal — but AWS Chief Executive Adam Selipsky doesn’t seem too worried. The event is always a relentlessly upbeat gathering, but this year Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit is facing, well, a lot of storm ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
AWS chief Adam Selipsky hints at the next-gen cloud
What’s going on at Amazon Web Services these days? What’s with the new CEO? What will we hear at re:Invent this year? I get these questions a lot these days, so recently I sat down with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at his office in Seattle to talk about its business, his vision, the new focus, ...
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AWS chief Andy Jassy on managing during COVID – and beyond
If there’s any year when Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference has resonated the most, it’s 2020. After all, the COVID-19 pandemic has sent nearly every business scrambling to reinvent themselves. And when it comes to technology, that means cloud computing — where AWS remains the far-and-away leader even amid heightening competition from the ...
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How AWS aims to democratize machine learning with cloud services
Amazon Web Services Inc. has made a big bet on artificial intelligence and machine learning, and just how big a bet is likely to become apparent Tuesday when its AI chief presents his keynote at the cloud giant’s re:Invent virtual conference that continues this week. Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Amazon AI, will hold the ...
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How AWS is computing the future of the cloud
The highlight of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference is always the marathon three-hour keynote by Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy, and despite the show going virtual this year, it’ll be the same today. As he always has, the longtime leader of Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing company will debut a dizzying array of new and upgraded ...
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How Amazon’s cloud chief aims to reset the competitive landscape
As Amazon Web Services Inc. opens its ninth annual re:Invent conference this week online rather than at its longtime Las Vegas venue, it confronts a world that needs its services more than ever during the worsening COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit has helped a raft of companies during the pandemic, enabling Zoom Inc. to handle rocketing growth from millions ...
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Exclusive with AWS chief Andy Jassy: The wakeup call for cloud adoption
Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March, many companies had to become digital businesses nearly overnight — and they turned quickly to Amazon.com Inc.’s massive cloud computing business to help them. Even for Amazon Web Services Inc., by far the leading provider of cloud services, it required scaling up to an unprecedented degree to ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT: THE GREAT MIGRATION
Exclusive: How AWS chief Andy Jassy plans to compete in the multicloud
Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos famously refuses to talk much about his competition, and Andy Jassy, CEO of the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud computing operation doesn’t much like it either — occasional jabs at Oracle Corp. aside. But the fact remains that in the midst of its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT: THE GREAT MIGRATION
Exclusive: With new tech, Andy Jassy aims to take Amazon’s cloud everywhere
The marquee appearance at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference is always the marathon two- to three-hour keynote by Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy. And as usual, the longtime leader of Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing company is expected to introduce a raft of new and upgraded services, from compute instances and databases to processors ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT: THE GREAT MIGRATION
Exclusive with Amazon’s cloud chief: Enterprises must use cloud to transform
As Amazon Web Services Inc. opens its eighth annual re:Invent conference this week in Las Vegas, it’s facing a new cloud computing landscape that it no longer has mostly to itself. Even as some rivals such as IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp. struggle in the cloud, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud infrastructure company now faces an increasingly credible ...