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Major outage hits Amazon Web Services; takes down Kindle, Netflix, Disney and more for hours
•In a statement, Amazon spokesperson Richard Rocha confirmed that Amazon's warehouse and delivery operations had also experienced issues as a result of the AWS outage
In Brad Stone's book Amazon Unbound, critical perspectives on the transformation of Amazon, and Jeff Bezos
Nimish •Brad Stone’s Amazon Unbound is not just a sequel to The Everything Store which he wrote in 2013, but also a thorough look at just how Bezos was able to keep the innovation engine as well as the cash coffers at Amazon on an ascending curve.
Meet Andy Jassy, the new Amazon CEO who will now oversee the empire built by Jeff Bezos
Priyas •The 53-year-old Andy Jassy now takes over the e-commerce platform from Bezos who headed the tech giant for 27 years.
Amazon Internet Services India falls into losses in FY20 even as revenue swells up 58 percent
Techsamvad •The company reported a net loss of Rs 20 lakh for the financial year ended 31 March 2020 reported business intelligence platform Tofler.
Slack signs deal with Amazon, will move voice, video calling features to Amazon Web Services
Trendingdesk •Following the deal, all Amazon employees will get access to Slack’s office tools.
Amazon wants Donald Trump’s testimony on president's order to 'screw' e-retail giant in favour of Microsoft in Pentagon deal
•The Amazon.com Inc unit alleged that Trump exerted undue influence on the decision to deny it the $10 billion contract.
How Amazon's AWS arm allegedly makes profits off open-source software; leaving cloud computing startups languishing
•For Amazon itself, AWS has become crucial. The division generated $25 billion in sales last year and is Amazon’s most profitable business.
Amazon accuses Trump for losing out on $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract
•Amazon said Trump launched 'repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer' JEDI, away from Amazon.
Two plead guilty for extracting bounties from Uber, LinkedIn to delete info from Amazon
•The men downloaded 57 million Uber user records from Amazon.com Inc's cloud platform.
Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract ahead of Amazon
•The Pentagon said it had awarded more than $11 billion across 10 separate cloud contracts over the past two years.