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Amazon downsizes AWS in a fresh cost-cutting round

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In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The layoffs will affect AWS’ sales, marketing, and brick-and-mortar technology development teams. Amazon’s cloud computing division has long been a key driver of its profitability.

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GenAI demand helps AWS accelerate revenue growth

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon, posted a 13% growth in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023 buoyed by demand for generative AI -related services, despite continued cost optimization activity by enterprises. “Similar to what we shared last quarter, we continue to see the diminishing impact of cost optimizations.

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IBM and AWS Partnership Accelerates Cloud Modernization

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A majority of companies are confident in a future built around hybrid cloud, according to a recent poll conducted by The Harris Poll and IBM. What they are less decisive about is how to map the right cloud modernization journey, one that is efficient and secure while delivering business agility and competitive advantage.

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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. billion to launch new cloud areas.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Download this eBook to learn about: The changing state of containers in the cloud and explore why orchestration technologies have become an essential part of today’s container ecosystem. Key metrics to monitor when leveraging two container orchestration systems.

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AWS revenue growth stabilizes with a boost from generative AI-led services

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AWS posted a stable 12% revenue growth in the third quarter of 2023 buoyed by demand for generative AI-led services, despite customers trying to optimize their cloud spending. For the last few sequential quarters, revenue growth for AWS has been on a constant decline. AWS posted revenue of $23.06

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Salesforce adds Contact Center updates to Service Cloud

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Salesforce has announced new Contact Center updates to its Service Cloud — an offering targeted at bettering customer experience and boosting the productivity of service teams. The generative AI-driven Survey Summarization feature, on the other hand, uses the Data Cloud and Einstein to identify trends. Salesforce.com

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Cloud-Scale Monitoring With AWS and Datadog

In this eBook, find out about the benefits and complexities of migrating workloads to AWS, and dive into services that AWS offers for containers and serverless computing. Find out the key performance metrics for each service to track in order to ensure workloads are operating efficiently.

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Zeroing in on Cloud Technical Risk for Targeted Customer Impact

The best proof of the power of cloud tools and business models? Yet keeping all the moving parts of cloud running right – especially in a fast-moving, competitive market – can cause conflict between technical and business objectives. Keeping your customers confident and loyal.

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Cloud-Based Solutions: The Sky Is the Limit for Retail Success

Speaker: Ryan Bryers, SVP of Global Engineering

In a rapidly evolving industry, the shift from traditional on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions has become crucial for retail success. While many businesses still rely on store-level infrastructure, it's time to embrace the unlimited potential of the cloud!

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Data Analytics in the Cloud for Developers and Founders

Speaker: Javier Ramírez, Senior AWS Developer Advocate, AWS

You have lots of data, and you are probably thinking of using the cloud to analyze it. But how will you move data into the cloud? In this session, we address common pitfalls of building data lakes and show how AWS can help you manage data and analytics more efficiently. In which format? What about streaming data?