Amazon’s AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours A massive outage highlights why relying on a few companies to power much of the internet is far from ideal. Kris Holt UpdatedTue, October 21, 2025 SOPA Images via Getty Images It felt like half of the … Continue reading Amazon’s AWS outage knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline
AWS, Google Use AI For A New Spin On Searchable Video Content by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 3, 2024 Twelve Labs, a generative artificial intelligence (GAI) startup specializing in multimodal AI to understand video content, worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop technology that makes searching videos as easy as searching text. Jae Lee, … Continue reading AWS, Google Use AI For A New Spin On Searchable Video Content
October 18, 2024 Amazon AWS CEO says quit if you don’t want to return to office The policy has upset many of Amazon’s employees who say it wastes time with additional commuting and the benefits of working from the office are not supported by independent data. BY Reuters One of Amazon’s top executives defended the new, … Continue reading Amazon AWS CEO says quit if you don’t want to return to office
By AJ Dellinger October 26, 2023 E-commerce retail giant Amazon surpassed Wall Street expectations in the third quarter of 2023, driven by the strength of its growing advertising business and rebounding sales figures. Amazon reported a net income of $9.9 billion for the quarter, a significant increase over the $2.9 billion posted in the … Continue reading Amazon has a new story to tell: AWS falls short, but its advertising business is soaring
Amazon Advancing AWS, Ads, Search Businesses by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 11, 2023 Amazon this year will make up 7.5% of the overall global digital advertising market worldwide — growing to 9.2% by 2025, per the forecast from Insider Intelligence. Advertisers are finding they “can basically have a really nice attribution loop in terms of … Continue reading Amazon Advancing AWS, Ads, Search Businesses
The new identity resolution service is available for organizations of all sizes, with partner integrations coming soon. Chris Wood on July 26, 2023 Amazon Web Services announced that AWS Entity Resolution, an identity resolution service, is open to general availability for organizations of all sizes. Partner integrations are also in the works with identity companies … Continue reading AWS unveils AWS Entity Resolution
AWS Invests $100M To Build Gen AI Innovation Center, Omnicom Collaborates To Reimagine Creativity by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 22, 2023 Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest $100 million in a generative artificial intelligence (GAI) innovation center to give its customers help in building and deploying GAI. The announcement, made Thursday includes the AWS Generative … Continue reading AWS Invests $100M To Build Gen AI Innovation Center, Omnicom Collaborates To Reimagine Creativity
The new service will allow AWS Advertising and Marketing customers to pull insights from securely protected data to be used for campaigns and research. Chris Wood on December 2, 2022 This week, Amazon announced AWS Clean Rooms, a service that will enable customers who use AWS Advertising and Marketing, as well as other data and … Continue reading Amazon announces AWS Clean Rooms
Will Amazon’s AWS Destroy Ad Tech’s Margins? by Dave Morgan , Featured Contributor, December 1, 2022 More than 11 years ago, Silicon valley icon Marc Andreessen famously told us that “software will eat the world.” Over these past eleven years, Amazon’s AWS has definitely proven to all of us the enormous advantages that massively … Continue reading Will Amazon’s AWS Destroy Ad Tech’s Margins?
The Zeta Marketing Platform will now be available to the large market of AWS customers. Kim Davis on June 1, 2022 Zeta Global has announced that its Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) will become available in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. The Marketplace does list individual martech solutions such as marketing automation platform Mautic and Suite … Continue reading Zeta becomes first marketing platform to join the AWS marketplace
