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Analysis: Amazon earnings show AWS’ importance, but it needs more gen AI production workloads
Amazon.com Inc.’s third-quarter earnings demonstrate its Amazon Web Services Inc. unit’s financial strength and its role as a cornerstone for Amazon’s overall financial health. Key results were more on the cost-cutting side than the revenue side. Generative artificial intelligence is the big focus. Because of the late entry into the generative AI marketing war and ...
MongoDB unveils data encryption tech for developers to boost data privacy and compliance
MongoDB today announced at its developer conference MongoDB.local Chicago the general availability of Queryable Encryption, which it says is a first-of-its-kind technology that helps organizations protect sensitive data when it is queried and in-use on MongoDB. As data volumes skyrocket, so do the intricacies of modern applications. Coupled with growing regulatory demands, companies face a ...
AWS appoints Raejeanne Skillern as new chief marketing officer
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the hiring of Raejeanne Skillern as its new vice president and chief marketing officer. As the new AWS CMO, Skillern brings a wealth of industry experience and a proven track record of success, which will be instrumental in driving AWS’s marketing strategy forward. The news, sourced from an internal ...
Exclusive: MongoDB foresees AI-powered future as it navigates shifting software development landscape
Following a stellar first-quarter earnings performance, MongoDB Inc., the forerunner in the database platform domain, prepares for its global conference tour with MongoDB.local NYC this week. I had a chance to chat with MongoDB Chief Executive Dev Ittycheria (pictured) and Andrew Davidson, its senior vice president of products, in advance of this week’s conference to ...
Exclusive Q&A: MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on empowering developers and how AWS is changing
I had a chance to sit down for an exclusive conversation with the Dev Ittycheria, chief executive of MongoDB Inc., ahead of Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, where SiliconANGLE and its video studio theCUBE will be providing wall-to-cloud coverage of the event. We talked about how much AWS is changing and the role the partners ...
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, ...
EXCLUSIVE
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 ...
EXCLUSIVE
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 ...
EXCLUSIVE
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 ...