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Amazon downsizes AWS in a fresh cost-cutting round

CIO

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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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. With questions around ROI, increasing outlay, and corporate scrutiny on IT cost savings on the rise, CIOs must know not only what contributes to their organization’s overall cloud spend but also how to optimize it.

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IBM and AWS Partnership Accelerates Cloud Modernization

CIO

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

CIO

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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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?

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Salesforce adds Contact Center updates to Service Cloud

CIO

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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AWS re:Invent 2023: Cloud Development Environments

DevOps.com

At AWS re:Invent 2023, Shira Rubinoff talks with Rob Whiteley about Coder's cloud development environment.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources.