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Amazon Promotes Over 35,000 Employees Across North America Operations Network This Year, Opens 100,000 New Seasonal Jobs Heading Into the Holidays

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10/27/2020 08:22:00

Amazon Promotes Over 35,000 Employees Across North America Operations Network This Year, Opens 100,000 New Seasonal Jobs Heading Into the Holidays

10/27/2020

2020

In addition, as part of Amazon's commitment to investing in the long-term success of its employees and impact on communities, the company announced it has provided upskilling training for more than 30,000 employees through its Career Choice program, which pre-pays tuition and provides on-site classrooms to help employees pursue a career in high-demand fields SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2020-- Amazon today announced it has promoted more than 35,000 Operations employees in 2020, that 30,000 employees have taken advantage of Amazon's Career Choice program, and that it's creating an additional 100,000 seasonal jobs. With more than 12 million Americans out of work according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics1 these new seasonal roles in several locations across the US and Canada will complement its regular full- and part-time positions. Amazon offers jobs for people of all backgrounds and skill levels, and these 100,000 new, seasonal jobs offer opportunities for pay incentives, benefits, and a path to a longer-term career, or can simply provide extra income and flexibility during the holiday season. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201027005667/en/ Amazon today announced it has promoted more than 35,000 Operations employees in 2020, that 30,000 employees have taken advantage of Amazon's Career Choice program, and that it's creating an additional 100,000 seasonal jobs. Amazon offers jobs for people of all backgrounds and skill levels. A job at Amazon offers opportunities for pay incentives, benefits, a path to a longer-term career, and access to training through its Career Choice program. Read employee success stories here. (Graphic: Business Wire) Amazon was recently named #2 on the Forbes World's Best Employers list, a list based entirely on anonymous employee input, which reflects Amazon's highly-competitive pay, benefits from day one, and training programs for in-demand jobs, among other criteria. On top of an industry-leading $15 minimum wage, full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits on day one, including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401K with 50 percent company match, and a network to succeed. "At Amazon, we believe in providing our employees with great jobs and better futures. We're proud to see our employees grow through promotions to the next level at Amazon and also through programs like Career Choice, which help them pursue careers in high demand fields," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's Vice President of Global Customer Fulfillment. "These 35,000 newly-promoted Amazonians came from a variety of backgrounds, and many started in seasonal jobs like we're announcing today. They have made a big impact for our customers and contributed to a positive and safe work environment, and we're thrilled to congratulate them on their next step." Marcus Vegas is an Amazon employee from New Jersey who first joined the company as a seasonal employee in 2018 with the goal of making money for the holidays, but quickly found that Amazon offered him opportunities for growth and long-term career success. Vegas has received four promotions since he transitioned to a full-time, permanent employee in 2019 and is now a Delivery Operations Manager at his delivery station in Kearny, New Jersey. "Amazon has given me so many opportunities," Vegas said. "At every level I've achieved, there's always been a clear path for the next step and for growth. Leaders have trusted me to deliver results and there's endless support at every turn." As it continues to create jobs across the country, Amazon leverages its scale for good and makes investments to support employees and communities. For example, Amazon has invested more than $60 million in Career Choice—an innovative program designed to help upskill people who are interested in pursuing a future in a high-demand field. With more than half of participants from underrepresented minority groups, the program offers courses covering 20 different career paths, including computer support specialist, web developer, nurse, aircraft mechanic, commercial trucker, paralegal/legal assistant, IT security assistant, and network technician, among others. Amazon has partnered with more than 85 education partners and community colleges in the U.S. and continues to grow its educator network. "Career Choice is one way we help people think big about their careers, and we offer training across a wide variety of skills needed for high-demand fields," said Darcie Henry, Vice President of Global HR for Amazon Operations. "We're excited for the 30,000 people who have already participated in the program to continue contributing to their communities and creating better futures for their families. And we hope that number will continue to grow—people hired today could be the Career Choice graduates of tomorrow." Patricia Soto is a former Amazon employee who went through Career Choice and is now a certified clinical medical assistant at Sutter Gould Medical Foundation. "I had worked in a warehouse setting for years but knew I wanted to help people and had been curious about healthcare. In just nine months, I became a certified clinical medical assistant while working at Amazon in Tracy, California, thanks to Career Choice," she said. "A career in healthcare would have been difficult to obtain without tuition support from Amazon and an internship opportunity to apply my new skills. For anyone thinking about it, you only have something to gain from participating in the Career Choice program." You can read more stories from Amazon employees on our Day One blog. In addition to promoting and upskilling employees across its network, Amazon will be hiring more than 100,000 additional people in seasonal roles for its peak season, giving people flexible working options to earn money during the holidays and explore a career with Amazon. Many job locations also include bonus holiday incentives. Jobs in Amazon's operations network include stowing, picking, packing shipping and delivering customer orders, and can also include a wide variety of other jobs including managing people, being a safety ambassador, working in HR, IT, operating robotics, and more. New hires will be fully trained and all facilities follow strict COVID-19 health and safety protocols. A job with Amazon can be the start of a future, long-term career inside or outside of the company. Interested candidates can visit amazon.com/apply to learn more about locally available jobs of all kinds. Amazon prioritizes the safety and health of its employees and has invested millions of dollars to provide a safe workplace. The company has made over 150 significant process changes since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and invested over $800 million on COVID-19 safety measures in the first half of the year alone, including personal protective equipment, enhanced cleaning, staggered and flexible shifts, revisions at workstations, and developing in-house COVID-19 testing capabilities, to name a few. More information is available on the company's COVID-19 Safety blog. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. 1 https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201027005667/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>In addition, as part of Amazon's commitment to investing in the long-term success of its employees and impact on communities, the company announced it has provided upskilling training for more than 30,000 employees through its Career Choice program, which pre-pays tuition and provides on-site classrooms to help employees pursue a career in high-demand fields</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2020-- Amazon today announced it has promoted more than 35,000 Operations employees in 2020, that 30,000 employees have taken advantage of Amazon's Career Choice program, and that it's creating an additional 100,000 seasonal jobs. With more than 12 million Americans out of work according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics¹ these new seasonal roles in several locations across the US and Canada will complement its regular full- and part-time positions. Amazon offers jobs for people of all backgrounds and skill levels, and these 100,000 new, seasonal jobs offer opportunities for pay incentives, benefits, and a path to a longer-term career, or can simply provide extra income and flexibility during the holiday season.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201027005667/en/</p><div><p>Amazon today announced it has promoted more than 35,000 Operations employees in 2020, that 30,000 employees have taken advantage of Amazon's Career Choice program, and that it's creating an additional 100,000 seasonal jobs. Amazon offers jobs for people of all backgrounds and skill levels. A job at Amazon offers opportunities for pay incentives, benefits, a path to a longer-term career, and access to training through its Career Choice program. Read employee success stories here. (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Amazon was recently named #2 on the Forbes World's Best Employers list, a list based entirely on anonymous employee input, which reflects Amazon's highly-competitive pay, benefits from day one, and training programs for in-demand jobs, among other criteria. On top of an industry-leading $15 minimum wage, full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits on day one, including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401K with 50 percent company match, and a network to succeed.</p><p>"At Amazon, we believe in providing our employees with great jobs and better futures. We're proud to see our employees grow through promotions to the next level at Amazon and also through programs like Career Choice, which help them pursue careers in high demand fields," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's Vice President of Global Customer Fulfillment. "These 35,000 newly-promoted Amazonians came from a variety of backgrounds, and many started in seasonal jobs like we're announcing today. They have made a big impact for our customers and contributed to a positive and safe work environment, and we're thrilled to congratulate them on their next step."</p><p>Marcus Vegas is an Amazon employee from New Jersey who first joined the company as a seasonal employee in 2018 with the goal of making money for the holidays, but quickly found that Amazon offered him opportunities for growth and long-term career success. Vegas has received four promotions since he transitioned to a full-time, permanent employee in 2019 and is now a Delivery Operations Manager at his delivery station in Kearny, New Jersey.</p><p>"Amazon has given me so many opportunities," Vegas said. "At every level I've achieved, there's always been a clear path for the next step and for growth. Leaders have trusted me to deliver results and there's endless support at every turn."</p><p>As it continues to create jobs across the country, Amazon leverages its scale for good and makes investments to support employees and communities. For example, Amazon has invested more than $60 million in Career Choice—an innovative program designed to help upskill people who are interested in pursuing a future in a high-demand field. With more than half of participants from underrepresented minority groups, the program offers courses covering 20 different career paths, including computer support specialist, web developer, nurse, aircraft mechanic, commercial trucker, paralegal/legal assistant, IT security assistant, and network technician, among others. Amazon has partnered with more than 85 education partners and community colleges in the U.S. and continues to grow its educator network.</p><p>"Career Choice is one way we help people think big about their careers, and we offer training across a wide variety of skills needed for high-demand fields," said Darcie Henry, Vice President of Global HR for Amazon Operations. "We're excited for the 30,000 people who have already participated in the program to continue contributing to their communities and creating better futures for their families. And we hope that number will continue to grow—people hired today could be the Career Choice graduates of tomorrow."</p><p>Patricia Soto is a former Amazon employee who went through Career Choice and is now a certified clinical medical assistant at Sutter Gould Medical Foundation.</p><p>"I had worked in a warehouse setting for years but knew I wanted to help people and had been curious about healthcare. In just nine months, I became a certified clinical medical assistant while working at Amazon in Tracy, California, thanks to Career Choice," she said. "A career in healthcare would have been difficult to obtain without tuition support from Amazon and an internship opportunity to apply my new skills. For anyone thinking about it, you only have something to gain from participating in the Career Choice program."</p><p>You can read more stories from Amazon employees on our Day One blog.</p><p>In addition to promoting and upskilling employees across its network, Amazon will be hiring more than 100,000 additional people in seasonal roles for its peak season, giving people flexible working options to earn money during the holidays and explore a career with Amazon. Many job locations also include bonus holiday incentives. Jobs in Amazon's operations network include stowing, picking, packing shipping and delivering customer orders, and can also include a wide variety of other jobs including managing people, being a safety ambassador, working in HR, IT, operating robotics, and more. New hires will be fully trained and all facilities follow strict COVID-19 health and safety protocols. A job with Amazon can be the start of a future, long-term career inside or outside of the company. Interested candidates can visit amazon.com/apply to learn more about locally available jobs of all kinds.</p><p>Amazon prioritizes the safety and health of its employees and has invested millions of dollars to provide a safe workplace. The company has made over 150 significant process changes since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and invested over $800 million on COVID-19 safety measures in the first half of the year alone, including personal protective equipment, enhanced cleaning, staggered and flexible shifts, revisions at workstations, and developing in-house COVID-19 testing capabilities, to name a few. More information is available on the company's COVID-19 Safety blog.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>¹ https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201027005667/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces First Fulfillment Center in Waco, TX

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10/23/2020 15:40:00

Amazon Announces First Fulfillment Center in Waco, TX

10/23/2020

2020

New 700,000 square-foot site to create over 1,000 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in Waco, Texas, which is anticipated to launch in 2021 and will create over 1,000 new full-time jobs with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. See Our Fulfillment Centers in Action "We are proud to be bringing our newest Amazon facility to the city of Waco and we look forward to bringing in new jobs and supporting this great community," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We are excited for our future in Central Texas, and for what this means for our customers as we continue to grow. We'd also like to thank local and state leaders for their strong support in making this project possible." Every day at Amazon, incredible employees come together to deliver magical experiences for customers. In the 700,000 square-foot robotics fulfillment center, Amazon employees will pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys. "The Lone Star State is proud to celebrate another economic achievement for Central Texas with Amazon's new investment in Waco," said Texas Governor Greg Abbott. "Texas continues to thrive as the nation's premier destination for companies like Amazon thanks to our skilled workforce, diverse economy, and business-friendly model that promotes economic growth. This facility is the latest milestone in the strong partnership between Amazon and Texas, and I look forward to seeing the prosperity this facility will bring to the Waco community." On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum $15 per hour wage, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. Amazon prioritizes the safety and health of its employees and has invested millions of dollars to provide a safe workplace. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families. "We are delighted to welcome Amazon to Waco. This is an especially exciting economic development success for the City of Waco and our entire region. Within two years after opening, Amazon plans to have more than 1,000 new jobs in Waco," said Kyle Deaver, Mayor of Waco. "Amazon's investment and commitment to job growth in Waco will help drive our economic recovery forward. We appreciate the work of the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce, the Waco/McLennan County Economic Development Corporation, and the Waco Industrial Foundation in attracting Amazon, and we look forward to having this innovative fulfillment center as a showpiece in the Central Texas Industrial Park." Amazon is a great place to work with highly competitive pay, benefits from day-one, and training programs for in-demand jobs. Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in-demand jobs. The programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. "I would like to join the McLennan County Commissioners Court in welcoming Amazon and its state-of-the-art robotics fulfillment center to Waco. This project is definitely a breakthrough collaboration of the Waco McLennan County Economic Development Corporation working with the Waco Industrial Foundation," said McLennan County Judge, Scott Felton. "We can draw the interest of Fortune 100 companies, we can do the big deals, and we can meet the infrastructure and resource needs of most companies. We continue to promote workforce development and are creating a growing skilled workforce." Amazon in Texas: Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 43,000 jobs in Texas and invested more than $16.9 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to our employees. Amazon's investments have contributed more than $18.8 billion in GDP to the Texas economy and have helped create over 49,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. More than 116,000 independent authors and small and medium businesses in Texas are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state. Additional Resources: See an Amazon Fulfillment Center In Action Amazon Job Creation and Investment U.S. U.S. Investment Map About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201023005385/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New 700,000 square-foot site to create over 1,000 new, full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in Waco, Texas, which is anticipated to launch in 2021 and will create over 1,000 new full-time jobs with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one.</p><p>See Our Fulfillment Centers in Action</p><p>"We are proud to be bringing our newest Amazon facility to the city of Waco and we look forward to bringing in new jobs and supporting this great community," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We are excited for our future in Central Texas, and for what this means for our customers as we continue to grow. We'd also like to thank local and state leaders for their strong support in making this project possible."</p><p>Every day at Amazon, incredible employees come together to deliver magical experiences for customers. In the 700,000 square-foot robotics fulfillment center, Amazon employees will pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys.</p><p>"The Lone Star State is proud to celebrate another economic achievement for Central Texas with Amazon's new investment in Waco," said Texas Governor Greg Abbott. "Texas continues to thrive as the nation's premier destination for companies like Amazon thanks to our skilled workforce, diverse economy, and business-friendly model that promotes economic growth. This facility is the latest milestone in the strong partnership between Amazon and Texas, and I look forward to seeing the prosperity this facility will bring to the Waco community."</p><p>On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum $15 per hour wage, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. Amazon prioritizes the safety and health of its employees and has invested millions of dollars to provide a safe workplace. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families.</p><p>"We are delighted to welcome Amazon to Waco. This is an especially exciting economic development success for the City of Waco and our entire region. Within two years after opening, Amazon plans to have more than 1,000 new jobs in Waco," said Kyle Deaver, Mayor of Waco. "Amazon's investment and commitment to job growth in Waco will help drive our economic recovery forward. We appreciate the work of the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce, the Waco/McLennan County Economic Development Corporation, and the Waco Industrial Foundation in attracting Amazon, and we look forward to having this innovative fulfillment center as a showpiece in the Central Texas Industrial Park."</p><p>Amazon is a great place to work with highly competitive pay, benefits from day-one, and training programs for in-demand jobs. Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in-demand jobs. The programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>"I would like to join the McLennan County Commissioners Court in welcoming Amazon and its state-of-the-art robotics fulfillment center to Waco. This project is definitely a breakthrough collaboration of the Waco McLennan County Economic Development Corporation working with the Waco Industrial Foundation," said McLennan County Judge, Scott Felton. "We can draw the interest of Fortune 100 companies, we can do the big deals, and we can meet the infrastructure and resource needs of most companies. We continue to promote workforce development and are creating a growing skilled workforce."</p><p>Amazon in Texas:</p><ul><li>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 43,000 jobs in Texas and invested more than $16.9 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to our employees.</li><li>Amazon's investments have contributed more than $18.8 billion in GDP to the Texas economy and have helped create over 49,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services.</li><li>More than 116,000 independent authors and small and medium businesses in Texas are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state.</li></ul><p>Additional Resources:</p><ul><li>See an Amazon Fulfillment Center In Action</li><li>Amazon Job Creation and Investment U.S.</li><li>U.S. Investment Map</li></ul><p>About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201023005385/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon and small business J.L. Childress File Joint Lawsuit against Counterfeiters

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10/22/2020 07:00:00

Amazon and small business J.L. Childress File Joint Lawsuit against Counterfeiters

10/22/2020

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and J.L. Childress unsealed a jointly filed lawsuit against 11 named individuals (collectively, the "defendants") for counterfeiting J.L. Childress' products, including travel bags for car seats and strollers. The defendants, by offering the infringing products for sale in Amazon's store, violated Amazon's policies, J.L. Childress' intellectual property rights, and the law. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington on August 10 and alleges the defendants conspired and operated in concert with each other to sell counterfeit J.L. Childress products. Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products in its stores, and in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million to protect customers and brands from fraud, abuse, and counterfeit. Amazon's proactive investments in preventing counterfeit include robust seller vetting, advanced machine-learning based technologies, and industry-leading brand protection tools like Project Zero, Brand Registry, and Transparency. As a result of Amazon's efforts, 99.9% of all products viewed by customers on Amazon have not received a valid counterfeit complaint. In June 2020, Amazon launched its Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a global team with specialized experience in investigating and bringing legal action against bad actors. J.L. Childress is a California-based family business started more than thirty years ago by Jan Childress. Today, her two daughters, Kate and Sarah, co-own and operate the family business. J.L. Childress is one of more than a million small and medium-sized businesses worldwide that sell their products in Amazon's store. J.L. Childress goes to great lengths to protect its consumers from counterfeits of its products, and they are committed to efforts to combat counterfeits. Statement, attributable to Amazon: "Whether a product comes from a large brand, family business, or a new entrepreneur, our priority is preventing counterfeits from entering our store and damaging our customers' experience and a brand's reputation. We invest significant resources in proactively protecting our store, and in addition, we take aggressive action to hold bad actors accountable as we've done here," said Cristina Posa, Associate General Counsel and Director, Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit. Statement, attributable to J.L. Childress: "For over 35 years and two generations, our family has worked to establish a brand that parents can trust and to provide families with products that give them peace of mind while traveling, knowing that their valuable car seats and strollers are protected. We appreciate the partnership with Amazon and hope our joint action will hold all bad actors accountable, as well as educate other small businesses to take due diligence in protecting their brands. Protecting the J.L. Childress trademark is more than just a business function, it is safeguarding our mother's name and our family's legacy." Additional Background: You can see the court filing here: Case: C20-1215RSM, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Amazon Project Zero Amazon Project Zero launches in 7 new countries Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit Amazon Transparency protects more than 10,000 brands Amazon has an extensive history of taking action to hold bad actors accountable for fraud and abuse: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-and-valentino-file-joint-lawsuit-against-new-york-based https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-resolution-3m-case-against-fraudsters https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-investigation-and-prosecution-four-new-york https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-and-kf-beauty-file-joint-lawsuit-against-counterfeiters View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201022005360/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and J.L. Childress unsealed a jointly filed lawsuit against 11 named individuals (collectively, the "defendants") for counterfeiting J.L. Childress' products, including travel bags for car seats and strollers. The defendants, by offering the infringing products for sale in Amazon's store, violated Amazon's policies, J.L. Childress' intellectual property rights, and the law.</p><p>The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington on August 10 and alleges the defendants conspired and operated in concert with each other to sell counterfeit J.L. Childress products.</p><p>Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products in its stores, and in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million to protect customers and brands from fraud, abuse, and counterfeit. Amazon's proactive investments in preventing counterfeit include robust seller vetting, advanced machine-learning based technologies, and industry-leading brand protection tools like Project Zero, Brand Registry, and Transparency. As a result of Amazon's efforts, 99.9% of all products viewed by customers on Amazon have not received a valid counterfeit complaint. In June 2020, Amazon launched its Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a global team with specialized experience in investigating and bringing legal action against bad actors.</p><p>J.L. Childress is a California-based family business started more than thirty years ago by Jan Childress. Today, her two daughters, Kate and Sarah, co-own and operate the family business. J.L. Childress is one of more than a million small and medium-sized businesses worldwide that sell their products in Amazon's store. J.L. Childress goes to great lengths to protect its consumers from counterfeits of its products, and they are committed to efforts to combat counterfeits.</p><p>Statement, attributable to Amazon:</p><p>"Whether a product comes from a large brand, family business, or a new entrepreneur, our priority is preventing counterfeits from entering our store and damaging our customers' experience and a brand's reputation. We invest significant resources in proactively protecting our store, and in addition, we take aggressive action to hold bad actors accountable as we've done here," said Cristina Posa, Associate General Counsel and Director, Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit.</p><p>Statement, attributable to J.L. Childress:</p><p>"For over 35 years and two generations, our family has worked to establish a brand that parents can trust and to provide families with products that give them peace of mind while traveling, knowing that their valuable car seats and strollers are protected. We appreciate the partnership with Amazon and hope our joint action will hold all bad actors accountable, as well as educate other small businesses to take due diligence in protecting their brands. Protecting the J.L. Childress trademark is more than just a business function, it is safeguarding our mother's name and our family's legacy."</p><p>Additional Background:</p><p>You can see the court filing here:</p><ul><li>Case: C20-1215RSM, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington</li></ul><ul><li>Amazon Project Zero</li><li>Amazon Project Zero launches in 7 new countries</li><li>Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit</li><li>Amazon Transparency protects more than 10,000 brands</li></ul><p>Amazon has an extensive history of taking action to hold bad actors accountable for fraud and abuse:</p><ul><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-and-valentino-file-joint-lawsuit-against-new-york-based</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-resolution-3m-case-against-fraudsters</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-investigation-and-prosecution-four-new-york</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-and-kf-beauty-file-joint-lawsuit-against-counterfeiters</li></ul><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201022005360/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Donates Millions of Items to More Than One Thousand Charities Worldwide this Holiday Season

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Amazon announces a season of giving, donating millions of items through product and monetary donations to charities around the world that support the communities hit hardest by the events of this year As part of this effort, Gabrielle Union has teamed up with Amazon to fulfill the AmazonSmile Charity Lists of charities close to her heart—she will be joined by celebrity friends across the globe, who are surprising charitable organizations with donations all season long AmazonSmile Charity Lists is an easy way for charities to create wish lists of needed products, giving customers a convenient way to donate directly to organizations they want to support SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Today, Amazon announced that it will support more than a thousand charities around the world with product and monetary donations to help them get millions of items they need. Organizations in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Singapore, Japan, Italy, India, Germany, France, China, Canada, Australia and more will receive donations starting today. To help distribute the donations, Amazon will team up with celebrity friends, including Gabrielle Union, Mitch Marner from the Toronto Maple Leafs, Singaporean actor and musician, Nathan Hartono, among others who will continue to be announced throughout the holidays. In addition, Amazon will fulfill hundreds of AmazonSmile Charity Lists across the U.S., supporting organizations in communities hit hard by the events of this year including those that support causes such as homelessness, hunger and disaster relief, among others. Customers can also join Amazon in its season of giving by shopping through AmazonSmile, donating an item via AmazonSmile Charity Lists, or making a monetary donation to the organization of their choice by saying, "Alexa, I want to make a donation." "Charitable organizations around the world serve a vital role in their communities, and they're facing new challenges—often with fewer resources—as we all continue to fight through a global pandemic," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer. "Amazon is proud to support over one thousand organizations by donating millions of the items they need to help their communities and, hopefully, deliver much-needed smiles along the way." Find out more about how Amazon is delivering smiles this holiday season and ways to get involved below. A Season of Smiles with Gabrielle Union. Amazon has teamed up with actress, author, and philanthropist Gabrielle Union to deliver smiles all season long to charitable organizations close to her heart. She will be joined by a number of celebrities worldwide who will be surprising local charities in their communities with the support and smiles they need this holiday season. From large-scale product donations to virtual events to Amazon Live interviews, customers can follow along via @Amazon and #DeliveringSmiles to discover the various ways these celebrities will be bringing the spirit of the holidays to these wonderful organizations. "The events of this year have been devastating in so many ways," said Gabrielle Union. "I'm honored to join Amazon in Delivering Smiles to more than a thousand charities who are helping those who need it most this holiday season, including many close to my heart. I'm excited to share on social how Amazon and I will be surprising incredible, deserving organizations with the items they need throughout this holiday." Amazon Fulfills Hundreds of AmazonSmile Charity Lists. Starting today, Amazon will fulfill hundreds of AmazonSmile Charity Lists for nonprofit organizations supporting causes including homelessness, hunger and disaster relief, among others, with a focus on charities serving communities that have been hit hard in 2020. Recipients include organizations such as Covenant House, which will be receiving hundreds of warm clothing and bedding items to provide youth overcoming homelessness with a safe, warm place to sleep, and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, which will receive shelf stable pantry items to help feed hundreds of families. Also among the list of charities to receive donations are the organizations featured in the new unscripted global Amazon Original series, The Pack, hosted bygold medalist Lindsey Vonn, and her canine co-host Lucy that celebrates the bond between dogs and their human companions. Donations—including food and pantry items, blankets, sheets, toys, educational items for kids, socks, outerwear and other apparel items, as well as monetary donations to put towards the purchase of these items—will provide organizations with the essential items they requested on their Charity Lists, to help deliver smiles to communities across the U.S. Helping Customers Give Back While They Shop. It's easy for customers to give back this holiday season on Amazon.com. While shopping for holiday supplies and gifts for family and friends, customers can support their favorite charitable organization by shopping AmazonSmile via the Amazon app on iPhones and Android phones, or by starting at smile.amazon.com on a web browser. AmazonSmile has the same low prices and convenient shopping experience customers have come to expect from Amazon, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to a charity of your choice. AmazonSmile has donated more than $215 million globally to hundreds of thousands of charitable organizations—from global humanitarian efforts and animal welfare groups, to school PTAs, hospitals, and more. In addition, customers can directly donate items to charitable organizations through AmazonSmile Charity Lists, where nonprofits create wish lists of the products they need most. Visit smile.amazon.com/charitylists to learn more and to donate essential items to charitable organizations across the U.S. "Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots." Looking to make a difference for a child this holiday season? Amazon is giving customers an easy way to donate to a child in need: just say, "Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots." Plus, Amazon will match all toy donations with a toy for toy match. Customers can choose to donate money or a toy to the organization. If customers choose to donate a toy, Alexa will offer a reasonably priced item appropriate for kids from the Toys for Tots wish list. After a customer confirms the order, Amazon ships directly to Toys for Tots. Customers can donate now through January 11, 2021. For more information, visit amazon.com/toysfortotsdonate. With Alexa, it's also easy for customers to help other charities. Simply say, "Alexa, I want to make a donation," and you can make a monetary donation to the organization of your choice. For more information and charities to support, visit pay.amazon.com/alexadonations. Additional Ways Amazon is Giving Back to Communities.In addition to delivering smiles and donations, Amazon is supporting communities in a range of ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has donated more than 13,000 laptops to students in need, distributed more than $5 million worth of Amazon devices to help healthcare workers and nonprofits, delivered more than 7 million meals across 25 U.S. cities, launched free, virtual computer science resources for thousands of students, donated more than $20 million to help accelerate COVID-19 research, donated $10 million in critically needed PPE supplies, and more. To learn more about what Amazon is doing in response to COVID-19 for communities, employees, partners, and customers, check out the Amazon Blog: Day One. About AmazonSmile AmazonSmile is a simple way for customers to support their favorite charity every time they shop with Amazon. When shopping at AmazonSmile, customers will find tens of millions of eligible items offered at the same low prices and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with an added bonus that the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5 percent of the purchase price to charitable organizations customers choose, at no extra cost to them. Customers can choose from over one million organizations to support by visiting smile.amazon.com on web browsers or by activating AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping app for iPhones and Android phones. AmazonSmile customers can support charitable organizations even further with AmazonSmile Charity Lists, a meaningful way to donate items directly to charities based on lists of what the organizations need most. To support a favorite charity when shopping throughout the holidays, visit smile.amazon.com or smile.amazon.com/about to learn more. About Amazon in the Community Amazon is committed to helping more children and young adults, especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities, have the resources and skills they need to build their best future. Amazon focuses on building long-term, innovative, and high impact programs that leverage Amazon's unique assets and culture. Initiatives include Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and excite tens of thousands of children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities each year to pursue computer science, as well as programs that support immediate needs, including addressing family homelessness through donations and housing a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters, as well as global relief efforts for people in need following natural disasters. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201019005911/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon announces a season of giving, donating millions of items through product and monetary donations to charities around the world that support the communities hit hardest by the events of this year</em></p><p><em>As part of this effort, Gabrielle Union has teamed up with Amazon to fulfill the AmazonSmile Charity Lists of charities close to her heart—she will be joined by celebrity friends across the globe, who are surprising charitable organizations with donations all season long</em></p><p><em>AmazonSmile Charity Lists is an easy way for charities to create wish lists of needed products, giving customers a convenient way to donate directly to organizations they want to support</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Today, Amazon announced that it will support more than a thousand charities around the world with product and monetary donations to help them get millions of items they need. Organizations in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Singapore, Japan, Italy, India, Germany, France, China, Canada, Australia and more will receive donations starting today. To help distribute the donations, Amazon will team up with celebrity friends, including Gabrielle Union, Mitch Marner from the Toronto Maple Leafs, Singaporean actor and musician, Nathan Hartono, among others who will continue to be announced throughout the holidays. In addition, Amazon will fulfill hundreds of AmazonSmile Charity Lists across the U.S., supporting organizations in communities hit hard by the events of this year including those that support causes such as homelessness, hunger and disaster relief, among others. Customers can also join Amazon in its season of giving by shopping through AmazonSmile, donating an item via AmazonSmile Charity Lists, or making a monetary donation to the organization of their choice by saying, "Alexa, I want to make a donation."</p><p>"Charitable organizations around the world serve a vital role in their communities, and they're facing new challenges—often with fewer resources—as we all continue to fight through a global pandemic," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer. "Amazon is proud to support over one thousand organizations by donating millions of the items they need to help their communities and, hopefully, deliver much-needed smiles along the way."</p><p>Find out more about how Amazon is delivering smiles this holiday season and ways to get involved below.</p><p><em>A Season of Smiles with Gabrielle Union. </em>Amazon has teamed up with actress, author, and philanthropist Gabrielle Union to deliver smiles all season long to charitable organizations close to her heart. She will be joined by a number of celebrities worldwide who will be surprising local charities in their communities with the support and smiles they need this holiday season. From large-scale product donations to virtual events to Amazon Live interviews, customers can follow along via @Amazon and #DeliveringSmiles to discover the various ways these celebrities will be bringing the spirit of the holidays to these wonderful organizations.</p><p>"The events of this year have been devastating in so many ways," said Gabrielle Union. "I'm honored to join Amazon in Delivering Smiles to more than a thousand charities who are helping those who need it most this holiday season, including many close to my heart. I'm excited to share on social how Amazon and I will be surprising incredible, deserving organizations with the items they need throughout this holiday."</p><p><em>Amazon Fulfills Hundreds of AmazonSmile Charity Lists. </em>Starting today, Amazon will fulfill hundreds of AmazonSmile Charity Lists for nonprofit organizations supporting causes including homelessness, hunger and disaster relief, among others, with a focus on charities serving communities that have been hit hard in 2020. Recipients include organizations such as Covenant House, which will be receiving hundreds of warm clothing and bedding items to provide youth overcoming homelessness with a safe, warm place to sleep, and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, which will receive shelf stable pantry items to help feed hundreds of families. Also among the list of charities to receive donations are the organizations featured in the new unscripted global Amazon Original series, <em>The Pack</em>, hosted bygold medalist Lindsey Vonn, and her canine co-host Lucy that celebrates the bond between dogs and their human companions. Donations—including food and pantry items, blankets, sheets, toys, educational items for kids, socks, outerwear and other apparel items, as well as monetary donations to put towards the purchase of these items—will provide organizations with the essential items they requested on their Charity Lists, to help deliver smiles to communities across the U.S.</p><p><em>Helping Customers Give Back While They Shop</em>. It's easy for customers to give back this holiday season on Amazon.com. While shopping for holiday supplies and gifts for family and friends, customers can support their favorite charitable organization by shopping AmazonSmile via the Amazon app on iPhones and Android phones, or by starting at smile.amazon.com on a web browser. AmazonSmile has the same low prices and convenient shopping experience customers have come to expect from Amazon, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to a charity of your choice. AmazonSmile has donated more than $215 million globally to hundreds of thousands of charitable organizations—from global humanitarian efforts and animal welfare groups, to school PTAs, hospitals, and more. In addition, customers can directly donate items to charitable organizations through AmazonSmile Charity Lists, where nonprofits create wish lists of the products they need most. Visit smile.amazon.com/charitylists to learn more and to donate essential items to charitable organizations across the U.S.</p><p><em>"Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots."</em> Looking to make a difference for a child this holiday season? Amazon is giving customers an easy way to donate to a child in need: just say, "Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots." Plus, Amazon will match all toy donations with a toy for toy match. Customers can choose to donate money or a toy to the organization. If customers choose to donate a toy, Alexa will offer a reasonably priced item appropriate for kids from the Toys for Tots wish list. After a customer confirms the order, Amazon ships directly to Toys for Tots. Customers can donate now through January 11, 2021. For more information, visit amazon.com/toysfortotsdonate. With Alexa, it's also easy for customers to help other charities. Simply say, "Alexa, I want to make a donation," and you can make a monetary donation to the organization of your choice. For more information and charities to support, visit pay.amazon.com/alexadonations.</p><p><em>Additional Ways Amazon is Giving Back to Communities</em>.In addition to delivering smiles and donations, Amazon is supporting communities in a range of ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has donated more than 13,000 laptops to students in need, distributed more than $5 million worth of Amazon devices to help healthcare workers and nonprofits, delivered more than 7 million meals across 25 U.S. cities, launched free, virtual computer science resources for thousands of students, donated more than $20 million to help accelerate COVID-19 research, donated $10 million in critically needed PPE supplies, and more. To learn more about what Amazon is doing in response to COVID-19 for communities, employees, partners, and customers, check out the Amazon Blog: Day One.</p><p>About AmazonSmile</p><p>AmazonSmile is a simple way for customers to support their favorite charity every time they shop with Amazon. When shopping at AmazonSmile, customers will find tens of millions of eligible items offered at the same low prices and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with an added bonus that the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5 percent of the purchase price to charitable organizations customers choose, at no extra cost to them. Customers can choose from over one million organizations to support by visiting smile.amazon.com on web browsers or by activating AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping app for iPhones and Android phones. AmazonSmile customers can support charitable organizations even further with AmazonSmile Charity Lists, a meaningful way to donate items directly to charities based on lists of what the organizations need most.</p><p>To support a favorite charity when shopping throughout the holidays, visit smile.amazon.com or smile.amazon.com/about to learn more.</p><p>About Amazon in the Community</p><p>Amazon is committed to helping more children and young adults, especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities, have the resources and skills they need to build their best future. Amazon focuses on building long-term, innovative, and high impact programs that leverage Amazon's unique assets and culture. Initiatives include Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and excite tens of thousands of children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities each year to pursue computer science, as well as programs that support immediate needs, including addressing family homelessness through donations and housing a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters, as well as global relief efforts for people in need following natural disasters.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201019005911/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Announces Two New Fulfillment Centers in Kansas

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New operations facilities to create over 1,000 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open two new fulfillment centers in Kansas. The new fulfillment centers, which are anticipated to launch in 2021, will together create over 1,000 new, full-time jobs with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. See Our Fulfillment Centers in Action "We're excited to continue our growth and investment across Kansas so we can better serve our customers throughout the state," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We are grateful for the strong support we've received from local and state leaders, and we look forward to ingraining ourselves in the communities in which we serve." In both of the new one million square-foot fulfillment centers located at 9700 Leavenworth Road in Kansas City, Kansas and at 7130 North Broadway Avenue in Park City, Kansas, Amazon associates will work to pick, pack, and ship bulky or larger-sized customer items such as patio furniture, outdoor equipment, or rugs. In addition to the two new fulfillment centers, Amazon also plans to open a new delivery station in Wichita, Kansas which is expected to launch later in 2020. "With an unrivaled workforce and a strong economy, Kansas has proven itself to be a first-rate destination for Amazon as they continue to expand operations and bring more than 1,000 new jobs to our great state," said Governor Laura Kelly. "From Day One, my administration has prioritized rebuilding Kansas' foundation, and significant economic announcements like these prove that our state is on the right track. I want to thank our city partners, staff members and Amazon for making this possible." On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum $15 per hour wage, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families. "Park City is excited and honored to have a leading business and household name such as Amazon located here because their team recognized that our community offers a business-friendly environment in a prime location," said Park City Mayor Ray Mann. "Park City looks forward to working with Amazon and the tremendous economic benefits and employment opportunities it brings. While 2020 hasn't always brought the best news, this announcement makes today a great day for Park City, Sedgwick County and our region, and Kansas." Amazon is a great place to work with highly competitive pay, benefits from day one, and training programs for in-demand jobs. Amazon has pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in-demand jobs. The programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. "We are excited that Amazon is continuing their investment in our community with a second facility in Kansas City, Kansas, further highlighting the benefits our central Midwest location offers for logistics and access to a quality workforce," said Mayor David Alvey of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County, Kansas City, Kansas. "We look forward to this new center creating additional jobs, with a focus on employing local residents, and are pleased that this location will generate revenue immediately to maintain and improve services in neighborhoods throughout our community." Amazon leverages its scale for good and makes investments to support communities. Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 4,500 jobs in Kansas and invested more than $2.9 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to our employees. These investments have contributed an additional $2.3 billion in GDP to the Kansas economy and have helped create over 4,100 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. In addition, more than 10,500 independent authors and small and medium businesses in Kansas are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state. About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201016005504/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New operations facilities to create over 1,000 new, full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open two new fulfillment centers in Kansas. The new fulfillment centers, which are anticipated to launch in 2021, will together create over 1,000 new, full-time jobs with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one.</p><p>See Our Fulfillment Centers in Action</p><p>"We're excited to continue our growth and investment across Kansas so we can better serve our customers throughout the state," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We are grateful for the strong support we've received from local and state leaders, and we look forward to ingraining ourselves in the communities in which we serve."</p><p>In both of the new one million square-foot fulfillment centers located at 9700 Leavenworth Road in Kansas City, Kansas and at 7130 North Broadway Avenue in Park City, Kansas, Amazon associates will work to pick, pack, and ship bulky or larger-sized customer items such as patio furniture, outdoor equipment, or rugs.</p><p>In addition to the two new fulfillment centers, Amazon also plans to open a new delivery station in Wichita, Kansas which is expected to launch later in 2020.</p><p>"With an unrivaled workforce and a strong economy, Kansas has proven itself to be a first-rate destination for Amazon as they continue to expand operations and bring more than 1,000 new jobs to our great state," said Governor Laura Kelly. "From Day One, my administration has prioritized rebuilding Kansas' foundation, and significant economic announcements like these prove that our state is on the right track. I want to thank our city partners, staff members and Amazon for making this possible."</p><p>On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum $15 per hour wage, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families.</p><p>"Park City is excited and honored to have a leading business and household name such as Amazon located here because their team recognized that our community offers a business-friendly environment in a prime location," said Park City Mayor Ray Mann. "Park City looks forward to working with Amazon and the tremendous economic benefits and employment opportunities it brings. While 2020 hasn't always brought the best news, this announcement makes today a great day for Park City, Sedgwick County and our region, and Kansas."</p><p>Amazon is a great place to work with highly competitive pay, benefits from day one, and training programs for in-demand jobs. Amazon has pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in-demand jobs. The programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>"We are excited that Amazon is continuing their investment in our community with a second facility in Kansas City, Kansas, further highlighting the benefits our central Midwest location offers for logistics and access to a quality workforce," said Mayor David Alvey of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County, Kansas City, Kansas. "We look forward to this new center creating additional jobs, with a focus on employing local residents, and are pleased that this location will generate revenue immediately to maintain and improve services in neighborhoods throughout our community."</p><p>Amazon leverages its scale for good and makes investments to support communities. Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 4,500 jobs in Kansas and invested more than $2.9 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to our employees. These investments have contributed an additional $2.3 billion in GDP to the Kansas economy and have helped create over 4,100 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. In addition, more than 10,500 independent authors and small and medium businesses in Kansas are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state.</p><p>About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201016005504/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Shop Now, Save Now—Amazon's Holiday Dash Event Starts Today with Black Friday-Worthy Deals Dropping Daily

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Shop Now, Save Now—Amazon's Holiday Dash Event Starts Today with Black Friday-Worthy Deals Dropping Daily

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‘Tis the season for early holiday savings with deep discounts, fast, free shipping and more than a million deals worldwide Black Friday-worthy deals across the most giftable categories—from small businesses and top brands, including toys, fashion, electronics, home, kitchen, beauty and more—all available at amazon.com/holidaydash  Beat the holiday hustle with epic deals from brands including Levi's, LEGO, SharkNinja, Marvel, Nintendo, Samsung and more SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2020-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)– Customers can shop now and score Black Friday-worthy deals with Amazon's Holiday Dash deals event—deep discounts from small businesses and top brands are available across the hottest categories from toys to fashion, electronics, home, kitchen, beauty and more at amazon.com/holidaydash. With new deals dropping every day starting today, customers can shop early and with confidence that they are getting Black Friday-worthy deals and incredible savings on a huge selection of products—making it easy to check everyone off the gift list earlier than ever. Plus, Amazon will offer customers over a million deals worldwide throughout the season, in addition to the biggest-ever collection of Holiday Gift Guides and a wide selection of products at everyday low prices, making it truly a season of savings for customers all around the world. Customers can start snatching up deals at amazon.com/holidaydash, on the Amazon App, or by simply asking, "Alexa, what are my deals?" Customers can also shop on smile.amazon.com/holidaydash or use AmazonSmile on the Amazon App and support their favorite charities while they check gifts off their lists—they'll find the same amazing deals and Amazon shopping experience, with the added bonus that AmazonSmile will donate a portion of the purchase price of eligible products to a charity of their choice. See below for more details on Amazon's Holiday Dash deals event, more ways to shop all season long, and fast, free and convenient delivery options. Holiday Dash: Early Black Friday Deals Daily Amazon's Holiday Dash deals event is serving up holiday cheer and epic savings early this year to give customers more time to shop and save. There's no need to wait to secure great deals—with Holiday Dash, Amazon is making it easier than ever to find top gifts at amazing prices ahead of the holiday hustle—plus most items shipped now through December 31, 2020 can be returned until January 31, 2021. The deals included below, and many more, will be available on various dates and times beginning today, while supplies last. Amazon Brands Save up to 30% on select kid's clothing and more from our brands including Amazon Essentials, Spotted Zebra, and Simple Joys by Carter's Save up to 30% on select men's and women's clothing and more from our brands including Amazon Essentials, Daily Ritual and Goodthreads Save up to 20% on AmazonBasics Save 40% on Wag dog food, and treats Save 20% on household and personal care products from Solimo Save 20% on Presto! Refillable Cleaners Save 20% on baby care products from Mama Bear and Solimo Save 20% on Belei skincare Save 20% on nutrition and wellness products from Amazon Elements and Revly Save 20% on coffee, snacks, and other grocery essentials from Solimo, Happy Belly, and Amazon Fresh Toys & Games Save up to 40% on Star Wars toys Save up to 40% on Collectible toys from L.O.L. Surprise!, Calico Critters, Fingerlings, and more Save up to 30% on Hot Wheels toys Save up to 30% on Building Sets from LEGO, Magna-Tiles, and PlayMonster Save up to 30% on Marvel toys Save up to 30% on Fortnite, Pokemon, Roblox and more Save up to 40% on Tegu Building Blocks Save up to 30% on Funko POPs! Save up to 30% on Arts & Crafts sets Save 30% on Evenflo Pivot Explore Wagon Save up to 30% on preschool toys from Jazwares, Spin Master, Hape, and more Save on AmScope 52-piece kids beginner microscope STEM kit Fashion Save up to 40% on select apparel from Calvin Klein Save up to 40% on select Levi's apparel for the whole family Save up to 40% on Star Wars apparel Save up to 30% on select New Balance footwear and apparel Save up to 40% on select Tommy Hilfiger apparel Save up to 40% on select kids' clothing from Gerber, Hudson Baby, and more Save up to 50% on select watches from Citizen, Bulova, Anne Klein, and more Save up to 30% on select Lacoste apparel, shoes, and accessories Save up to 30% on Marvel apparel Save up to 30% on select seasonal fashion trends Save up to 25% on select Nautica men's and women's apparel Save up to 48% on select Hanna Anderson pajama sets and underwear styles Save up to 30% on select styles from The Drop Save up to 40% on select women's shoes from Shopbop Save up to 15% on select women's accessories from Shopbop Household, Kitchen, Home Improvement & Smart Home Save on Le Creuset Cast Iron and Stoneware, including up to 48% on select Le Creuset 3.5Qt Oval Dutch Ovens Save up to 50% on select Bissell Vacuums Save up to 40% on SharkNinja Shark Navigator Lift-Away Save up to 35% on Eufy by Anker RoboVac Save up to 30% on Eureka Stick Vacuum Save on iRobot Robotic vacuums and mops Save up to 30% on iLife Robotic vacuum cleaner Save up to 25% or more on Samsung vacuums Save up to 36% on select Blueair air purifiers Save up to 20% on select Molekule air purifiers Save up to 40% on KitchenAid tools Save up to 20% on the Instant Pot Duo Mini Plus Save up to 30% on Hallmark gift wrap, ornaments, and cards Save up to 20% on select Breville Smart Ovens Save up to 20% on OXO BREW coffee makers Save up to 30% on Tineco floorcare products Save on Ninja AF161 Air Fryer and Ninja FG551 Foodi Indoor Smart Grill Save on select SodaStream Fizzi Sparkling Water Maker Bundles Save on the Keurig K-Mini Coffee Maker Save up to 20% on OXO Good Grips Smart Seal and bakeware Save up to 35% on Ayesha Curry Cookware Save 30% on Linenspa 10" hybrid mattresses Save up to 30% on Zinus furniture and mattresses Save 30% on Sweetnight mattresses Save up to 30% on Moen bathroom fixtures and up to 20% off on Moen kitchen products Save up to 25% on select Hansgrohe products Save 15% on GE Profile Ice Maker Save 20% on select Broan appliances Save up to 15% on select Delta Faucet products Save up to 15% on Whirlpool softeners Save 15% or more on gaming, home education and home office furniture Save on select August Smart Locks Save on select Kwikset Smart and Mechanical Locks Save on Smart Home products from Emerson, Kasa TP-Link, and more Beauty, Health & Personal Care Save up to 50% on your favorite Premium Beauty brands from Elemis, Mario Badescu, Redken, and more Save up to 40% on Premium Beauty appliances from T3, Foreo and more Save up to 40% on Waterpik and Colgate oral care appliances Save up to 45% on skin care from NIVEA, Aquaphor, and Eucerin Save up to 30% on hair dryers and products from Revlon, Bed Head, and more Save up to 35% on razors from Braun, Gillette, and more Save 33% on Panasonic and Norelco shavers Save up to 20% on Fitbit Activity and Fitness Trackers Electronics Save up to 33% on select Nintendo Switch games Save up to 35% on Nixplay Digital Frames Save up to 30% on Kodak Instant Cameras and Printers Save 25% on Adobe Creative Cloud Entire Collection Save up to 20% on Samsung TVs Save up to 20% on Sony TVs Save up to 50% on JBL Speakers Save up to 33% on Sony Headphones Save up to 33% on Bose Headphones Save up to 40% on select Mynt 3D printing pens and accessories Save 30% on Mynt 3D PRO Pen with OLED Display Save up to 30% on VAVA 4K Projectors Save up to 30% on TaoTronics Headphones Small Businesses on Amazon Launchpad Save up to 50% on Kids Against Maturity: Card Game for Kids and Families Save up to 30% on the SOLIOM S600 Outdoor Security Camera Save up to 25% on the Zen Laboratory DIY Jumbo Slime Kit for Kids From October 26 to November 19, Prime members can save 10% or more on select unique products from small brands on Amazon Launchpad like: Mobile Pixels Duex Portable Monitor for Laptops and Scentered Travel Essentials Aromatherapy Balm gift set Entertainment: Amazon Music, Audible, Books & Prime Video Amazon Music: Beginning October 23, new Amazon Music Unlimited customers can get three months of the premium streaming tier free, to enjoy unlimited access to more than 60 million songs, ad-free and a wide selection of popular podcasts. Amazon Music: Beginning October 29, current Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers can upgrade to the Family Plan free for three months, with access for up to six accounts. Audible: Between November 1 and December 31, new members save nearly 40% on the first six months of an Audible Plus membership at just $4.95 per month. Membership includes unlimited access to more than 10 thousand Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Books: Deals on select multi-genre books and ebooks throughout the season Prime Video: This holiday season, Prime Video will offer up to 50% off select popular Halloween, family and holiday movies to rent or buy. Deals will roll out over the next few months, so be sure to check www.amazon.com/pmd for updates. Amazon Gift Cards Starting today, customers using Amazon Reload to replenish their Amazon Gift Card balance for the first time will receive a $10 bonus with their reload of $100 or more. Offer available through December 31. Starting October 26, first-time Amazon Gift Card shoppers will receive a $15 promotional credit with the purchase of $50 or more in Amazon Gift Cards. Offer available through December 20. The promotional credit expires on February 6, 2021. Other restrictions apply. Amazon Credit Cards: Now through December 22, with an eligible Prime membership, customers who apply and are approved for the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card will instantly receive a $100 Gift Card. Prime Cardmembers earn 5% back at Whole Foods Market and Amazon.com. Additionally, starting November 1 through December 22, customers without a Prime membership can apply for the Amazon Rewards Visa Card and receive a $60 Gift Card upon approval, in addition to earning 3% back at Whole Foods Market and Amazon.com as a cardmember. Restrictions apply. Visit amazon.com/visa for details. Automotive, Tools and Lawn & Garden Save 50% on tire installation Save up to 25% on Miracle-Gro Expand 'n Gro concentrated planting mix Save 25% on Castrol GTX Conventional motor oil Save 20% on Select Tonno Pro Tonneau covers Save up to 20% on select Streamlight flashlights Save on select DEWALT cordless drills and tools Save up to 30% on select SKIL tools Save up to 15% off on select ZGrills Pellet Grills & Smokers Save up to 15% on Shintenchi 4 piece wicker rattan outdoor patio furniture set Save on select Renogy monocrystalline solar panels Sports & Outdoors Save up to 20% on Select Coleman Tents & Gear Save up to 20% on select CamelBak kids water bottles Save up to 25% on select Sawyer Products water filters Save up to 30% on select Stanley drinkware Save up to 28% on select Segway scooters and kids bikes Save up to 30% on select Stiga table tennis rackets and Zume badminton set Save up to 30% on select Legendary Whitetails apparel Save up to 30% on select Osprey Outdoor Packs Pets Save 20% on Catit Creamy cat treats Save on Petsafe electronic dog toys Save on The Honest Kitchen human grade pet treats Save on Friends Forever donut pet beds Whole Foods Market: Both in-store and online, Prime members can receive discounts on customer favorites including 35% off Bare Bones broths and 35% off all packaged teas, available now through October 27. Available now through October 20, customers can get 20% off pumpkins and gourds – excluding squash. More Ways to Shop, All Season Long Gift Guides: Get an early start on holiday shopping with Amazon's biggest-ever selection of gift guides and exclusive storefronts, available earlier than ever before at amazon.com/gifts. Amazon's gift guides are easy to navigate and include thoughtful collections with something for everyone on your list, no matter your budget. Small Business Gift Guide: amazon.com/smallbusinessgiftguide Beauty Gift Guide: amazon.com/beautyguide Fashion Gift Guide: amazon.com/fashiongiftguide Holiday Toy List: amazon.com/holidaytoylist Home Holiday Guide: amazon.com/homeholidayguide Electronics Gift Guide: amazon.com/techgifts Amazon Launchpad Gift Guide: amazon.com/launchpadgiftideas (RED) Gift Guide: For the fourth consecutive year, (RED) is teaming up with Amazon to provide customers a single destination to shop an array of products that give back, spanning tech, fashion, health and wellness, kitchen and home, and more: amazon.com/red Amazon App: Shop anytime, anywhere with the Amazon App and ensure you never miss a deal. Amazon.com in Spanish: Customers can visit Amazon.com/espanol or use the Amazon App to shop, browse and search for millions of products, view their carts, and place orders in Spanish. On the mobile App customers can go to Settings and tap on "Country and Language" to select Spanish. Amazon.com in Spanish gives customers the same convenient shopping experience in their preferred language. Alexa Shopping: Alexa makes it easy to find the best holiday deals. Just ask, "Alexa, what are my deals?" Alexa Donations: Simply say, "Alexa, I want to make a donation," and you can make a monetary donation to the organization of your choice. For more information and charities to support, visit pay.amazon.com/alexadonations. AmazonSmile: This holiday season, customers can visit smile.amazon.com and find the exact same Amazon experience – amazing deals, wide selection, fast and free delivery options – with the added bonus that AmazonSmile will donate a portion of the purchase price on eligible products to a charity of their choice. Customers can shop with AmazonSmile via the Amazon app on iPhones and Android phones, or by starting at smile.amazon.com on a web browser. Charity Lists: Charity Lists give charitable organizations an easy way to create wish lists of needed products while providing customers a convenient way to donate items directly to these causes. Customers can shop thousands of Charity Lists this holiday season by visiting smile.amazon.com/charitylists, with new charities joining all the time. Climate Pledge Friendly: Customers can discover and shop for products that have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications, which help preserve the natural world. Get details at amazon.com/ClimatePledgeFriendly Amazon's Holiday Wish Book: Discover the top toys and gifts for kids in Amazon's "Joy Delivered" shoppable look book, which arrives in homes this week and is available digitally at amazon.com/wishbook Amazon Live: Throughout the holiday season, tune-in to amazon.com/live for shoppable livestreams featuring holiday inspiration, gift guides, and live demonstrations of this season's top deals and gift ideas from influencers and celebrities. Shop In-Store: Customers can visit Amazon's retail locations, including Amazon Books, Amazon 4-star, Amazon Pop Up, Amazon Fresh, and Whole Foods Market to find incredible deals and amazing savings this holiday season.Find your nearest store at amazon.com/stores or wholefoodsmarket.com/stores. Fast, Free & Convenient Delivery Options At Amazon, incredible employees come together to deliver magical experiences for customers—every day and throughout the holiday season—and that includes offering fast, free and convenient delivery options for customers. Amazon announced just last month that it is hiring an additional 100,000 regular full-time and part-time jobs in its fulfillment and logistics network throughout the U.S. and Canada. With more than 150 new process improvements and safety measures implemented over the last several months, these permanent positions will work safely alongside the hundreds of thousands of employees already across Amazon's network to ensure fast and efficient delivery for customers throughout the holiday season, and beyond. In addition to free delivery on millions of items for all Amazon customers, Amazon offers a number of ways for customers to shop for and receive holiday gifts. Fast One-Day & Same-Day Delivery: Prime members in the U.S. can shop a selection of over 10 million items eligible for Prime Free One-Day Delivery with no minimum purchase, and millions of items available for Same-Day Delivery in 47 major metropolitan areas. These delivery options are not only convenient for customers but they're better for the planet because One-Day and Same-Day deliveries ship from local fulfillment centers so they travel shorter distances and generate less carbon emissions. This is just another way that Amazon is leveraging its scale for good to make investments that support communities. Learn more at amazon.com/primedelivery. Not a Prime member yet? Join Prime or start a 30-day free trial at amazon.com/prime. Ultrafast & Free Grocery Delivery: Prime members in more than 2,000 cities and towns have access to free, two-hour delivery on more than 170,000 products from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. Plus, in addition to groceries, Prime members can find toys, gifts, household products, and everyday essentials, electronics, Amazon devices, and more available with free, two-hour delivery from Amazon Fresh. Prime members also get free one-hour pickup at all U.S. Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh locations. Delivery Where it's Needed Most: Whether road-tripping to see family, staying home and need a secure delivery location, or sending a gift to a loved one or friend, there are thousands of alternative package pickup options customers can choose from via Amazon Hub. These locations are conveniently located near or in offices, convenience stores, malls, apartment buildings, and grocery stores, in more than 900 cities and towns across the country. Tens of millions of products can be easily and conveniently delivered to an Amazon Hub pickup point at Whole Foods Market, 7-11, Chase Bank, Rite-Aid, HealthMart, GNC, Stage Stores, and more. To find an Amazon Hub location, visit amazon.com/hub. Extended Returns Window: Customers can buy gifts with confidence on Amazon knowing that millions of items are eligible for free and convenient returns at over 18,000 locations in the U.S. and this year's return window is even longer—items shipped between October 1 and December 31, 2020 can now be returned until January 31, 2021. In addition, over 5,800 locations including Amazon Books, Amazon 4-star, UPS Store locations and Kohl's—and new this year Whole Foods Market—offer label-free, box-free returns, making it even easier than ever to check returns off your list. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201016005107/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>‘Tis the season for early holiday savings with deep discounts, fast, free shipping and more than a million deals worldwide</em></p><p><em>Black Friday-worthy deals across the most giftable categories—from small businesses and top brands, including toys, fashion, electronics, home, kitchen, beauty and more—all available at amazon.com/holidaydash </em></p><p><em>Beat the holiday hustle with epic deals from brands including Levi's, LEGO, SharkNinja, Marvel, Nintendo, Samsung and more</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2020-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)– Customers can shop now and score Black Friday-worthy deals with Amazon's Holiday Dash deals event—deep discounts from small businesses and top brands are available across the hottest categories from toys to fashion, electronics, home, kitchen, beauty and more at amazon.com/holidaydash. With new deals dropping every day starting today, customers can shop early and with confidence that they are getting Black Friday-worthy deals and incredible savings on a huge selection of products—making it easy to check everyone off the gift list earlier than ever. Plus, Amazon will offer customers over a million deals worldwide throughout the season, in addition to the biggest-ever collection of Holiday Gift Guides and a wide selection of products at everyday low prices, making it truly a season of savings for customers all around the world.</p><p>Customers can start snatching up deals at amazon.com/holidaydash, on the Amazon App, or by simply asking, "Alexa, what are my deals?" Customers can also shop on smile.amazon.com/holidaydash or use AmazonSmile on the Amazon App and support their favorite charities while they check gifts off their lists—they'll find the same amazing deals and Amazon shopping experience, with the added bonus that AmazonSmile will donate a portion of the purchase price of eligible products to a charity of their choice.</p><p>See below for more details on Amazon's Holiday Dash deals event, more ways to shop all season long, and fast, free and convenient delivery options.</p><p>Holiday Dash: Early Black Friday Deals Daily</p><p>Amazon's Holiday Dash deals event is serving up holiday cheer and epic savings early this year to give customers more time to shop and save. There's no need to wait to secure great deals—with Holiday Dash, Amazon is making it easier than ever to find top gifts at amazing prices ahead of the holiday hustle—plus most items shipped now through December 31, 2020 can be returned until January 31, 2021. The deals included below, and many more, will be available on various dates and times beginning today, while supplies last.</p><p>Amazon Brands</p><ul><li>Save up to 30% on select kid's clothing and more from our brands including Amazon Essentials, Spotted Zebra, and Simple Joys by Carter's</li><li>Save up to 30% on select men's and women's clothing and more from our brands including Amazon Essentials, Daily Ritual and Goodthreads</li><li>Save up to 20% on AmazonBasics</li><li>Save 40% on Wag dog food, and treats</li><li>Save 20% on household and personal care products from Solimo</li><li>Save 20% on Presto! Refillable Cleaners</li><li>Save 20% on baby care products from Mama Bear and Solimo</li><li>Save 20% on Belei skincare</li><li>Save 20% on nutrition and wellness products from Amazon Elements and Revly</li><li>Save 20% on coffee, snacks, and other grocery essentials from Solimo, Happy Belly, and Amazon Fresh</li></ul><p>Toys &amp; Games</p><ul><li>Save up to 40% on Star Wars toys</li><li>Save up to 40% on Collectible toys from L.O.L. Surprise!, Calico Critters, Fingerlings, and more</li><li>Save up to 30% on Hot Wheels toys</li><li>Save up to 30% on Building Sets from LEGO, Magna-Tiles, and PlayMonster</li><li>Save up to 30% on Marvel toys</li><li>Save up to 30% on Fortnite, Pokemon, Roblox and more</li><li>Save up to 40% on Tegu Building Blocks</li><li>Save up to 30% on Funko POPs!</li><li>Save up to 30% on Arts &amp; Crafts sets</li><li>Save 30% on Evenflo Pivot Explore Wagon</li><li>Save up to 30% on preschool toys from Jazwares, Spin Master, Hape, and more</li><li>Save on AmScope 52-piece kids beginner microscope STEM kit</li></ul><p>Fashion</p><ul><li>Save up to 40% on select apparel from Calvin Klein</li><li>Save up to 40% on select Levi's apparel for the whole family</li><li>Save up to 40% on Star Wars apparel</li><li>Save up to 30% on select New Balance footwear and apparel</li><li>Save up to 40% on select Tommy Hilfiger apparel</li><li>Save up to 40% on select kids' clothing from Gerber, Hudson Baby, and more</li><li>Save up to 50% on select watches from Citizen, Bulova, Anne Klein, and more</li><li>Save up to 30% on select Lacoste apparel, shoes, and accessories</li><li>Save up to 30% on Marvel apparel</li><li>Save up to 30% on select seasonal fashion trends</li><li>Save up to 25% on select Nautica men's and women's apparel</li><li>Save up to 48% on select Hanna Anderson pajama sets and underwear styles</li><li>Save up to 30% on select styles from The Drop</li><li>Save up to 40% on select women's shoes from Shopbop</li><li>Save up to 15% on select women's accessories from Shopbop</li></ul><p>Household, Kitchen, Home Improvement &amp; Smart Home</p><ul><li>Save on Le Creuset Cast Iron and Stoneware, including up to 48% on select Le Creuset 3.5Qt Oval Dutch Ovens</li><li>Save up to 50% on select Bissell Vacuums</li><li>Save up to 40% on SharkNinja Shark Navigator Lift-Away</li><li>Save up to 35% on Eufy by Anker RoboVac</li><li>Save up to 30% on Eureka Stick Vacuum</li><li>Save on iRobot Robotic vacuums and mops</li><li>Save up to 30% on iLife Robotic vacuum cleaner</li><li>Save up to 25% or more on Samsung vacuums</li><li>Save up to 36% on select Blueair air purifiers</li><li>Save up to 20% on select Molekule air purifiers</li><li>Save up to 40% on KitchenAid tools</li><li>Save up to 20% on the Instant Pot Duo Mini Plus</li><li>Save up to 30% on Hallmark gift wrap, ornaments, and cards</li><li>Save up to 20% on select Breville Smart Ovens</li><li>Save up to 20% on OXO BREW coffee makers</li><li>Save up to 30% on Tineco floorcare products</li><li>Save on Ninja AF161 Air Fryer and Ninja FG551 Foodi Indoor Smart Grill</li><li>Save on select SodaStream Fizzi Sparkling Water Maker Bundles</li><li>Save on the Keurig K-Mini Coffee Maker</li><li>Save up to 20% on OXO Good Grips Smart Seal and bakeware</li><li>Save up to 35% on Ayesha Curry Cookware</li><li>Save 30% on Linenspa 10" hybrid mattresses</li><li>Save up to 30% on Zinus furniture and mattresses</li><li>Save 30% on Sweetnight mattresses</li><li>Save up to 30% on Moen bathroom fixtures and up to 20% off on Moen kitchen products</li><li>Save up to 25% on select Hansgrohe products</li><li>Save 15% on GE Profile Ice Maker</li><li>Save 20% on select Broan appliances</li><li>Save up to 15% on select Delta Faucet products</li><li>Save up to 15% on Whirlpool softeners</li><li>Save 15% or more on gaming, home education and home office furniture</li><li>Save on select August Smart Locks</li><li>Save on select Kwikset Smart and Mechanical Locks</li><li>Save on Smart Home products from Emerson, Kasa TP-Link, and more</li></ul><p>Beauty, Health &amp; Personal Care</p><ul><li>Save up to 50% on your favorite Premium Beauty brands from Elemis, Mario Badescu, Redken, and more</li><li>Save up to 40% on Premium Beauty appliances from T3, Foreo and more</li><li>Save up to 40% on Waterpik and Colgate oral care appliances</li><li>Save up to 45% on skin care from NIVEA, Aquaphor, and Eucerin</li><li>Save up to 30% on hair dryers and products from Revlon, Bed Head, and more</li><li>Save up to 35% on razors from Braun, Gillette, and more</li><li>Save 33% on Panasonic and Norelco shavers</li><li>Save up to 20% on Fitbit Activity and Fitness Trackers</li></ul><p>Electronics</p><ul><li>Save up to 33% on select Nintendo Switch games</li><li>Save up to 35% on Nixplay Digital Frames</li><li>Save up to 30% on Kodak Instant Cameras and Printers</li><li>Save 25% on Adobe Creative Cloud Entire Collection</li><li>Save up to 20% on Samsung TVs</li><li>Save up to 20% on Sony TVs</li><li>Save up to 50% on JBL Speakers</li><li>Save up to 33% on Sony Headphones</li><li>Save up to 33% on Bose Headphones</li><li>Save up to 40% on select Mynt 3D printing pens and accessories</li><li>Save 30% on Mynt 3D PRO Pen with OLED Display</li><li>Save up to 30% on VAVA 4K Projectors</li><li>Save up to 30% on TaoTronics Headphones</li></ul><p>Small Businesses on Amazon Launchpad</p><ul><li>Save up to 50% on Kids Against Maturity: Card Game for Kids and Families</li><li>Save up to 30% on the SOLIOM S600 Outdoor Security Camera</li><li>Save up to 25% on the Zen Laboratory DIY Jumbo Slime Kit for Kids</li><li>From October 26 to November 19, Prime members can save 10% or more on select unique products from small brands on Amazon Launchpad like: Mobile Pixels Duex Portable Monitor for Laptops and Scentered Travel Essentials Aromatherapy Balm gift set</li></ul><p>Entertainment: Amazon Music, Audible, Books &amp; Prime Video</p><ul><li>Amazon Music: Beginning October 23, new Amazon Music Unlimited customers can get three months of the premium streaming tier free, to enjoy unlimited access to more than 60 million songs, ad-free and a wide selection of popular podcasts.</li><li>Amazon Music: Beginning October 29, current Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers can upgrade to the Family Plan free for three months, with access for up to six accounts.</li><li>Audible: Between November 1 and December 31, new members save nearly 40% on the first six months of an Audible Plus membership at just $4.95 per month. Membership includes unlimited access to more than 10 thousand Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts.</li><li>Books: Deals on select multi-genre books and ebooks throughout the season</li><li>Prime Video: This holiday season, Prime Video will offer up to 50% off select popular Halloween, family and holiday movies to rent or buy. Deals will roll out over the next few months, so be sure to check www.amazon.com/pmd for updates.</li></ul><p>Amazon Gift Cards</p><ul><li>Starting today, customers using Amazon Reload to replenish their Amazon Gift Card balance for the first time will receive a $10 bonus with their reload of $100 or more. Offer available through December 31.</li><li>Starting October 26, first-time Amazon Gift Card shoppers will receive a $15 promotional credit with the purchase of $50 or more in Amazon Gift Cards. Offer available through December 20. The promotional credit expires on February 6, 2021. Other restrictions apply.</li></ul><p>Amazon Credit Cards:</p><ul><li>Now through December 22, with an eligible Prime membership, customers who apply and are approved for the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card will instantly receive a $100 Gift Card. Prime Cardmembers earn 5% back at Whole Foods Market and Amazon.com. Additionally, starting November 1 through December 22, customers without a Prime membership can apply for the Amazon Rewards Visa Card and receive a $60 Gift Card upon approval, in addition to earning 3% back at Whole Foods Market and Amazon.com as a cardmember. Restrictions apply. Visit amazon.com/visa for details.</li></ul><p>Automotive, Tools and Lawn &amp; Garden</p><ul><li>Save 50% on tire installation</li><li>Save up to 25% on Miracle-Gro Expand 'n Gro concentrated planting mix</li><li>Save 25% on Castrol GTX Conventional motor oil</li><li>Save 20% on Select Tonno Pro Tonneau covers</li><li>Save up to 20% on select Streamlight flashlights</li><li>Save on select DEWALT cordless drills and tools</li><li>Save up to 30% on select SKIL tools</li><li>Save up to 15% off on select ZGrills Pellet Grills &amp; Smokers</li><li>Save up to 15% on Shintenchi 4 piece wicker rattan outdoor patio furniture set</li><li>Save on select Renogy monocrystalline solar panels</li></ul><p>Sports &amp; Outdoors</p><ul><li>Save up to 20% on Select Coleman Tents &amp; Gear</li><li>Save up to 20% on select CamelBak kids water bottles</li><li>Save up to 25% on select Sawyer Products water filters</li><li>Save up to 30% on select Stanley drinkware</li><li>Save up to 28% on select Segway scooters and kids bikes</li><li>Save up to 30% on select Stiga table tennis rackets and Zume badminton set</li><li>Save up to 30% on select Legendary Whitetails apparel</li><li>Save up to 30% on select Osprey Outdoor Packs</li></ul><p>Pets</p><ul><li>Save 20% on Catit Creamy cat treats</li><li>Save on Petsafe electronic dog toys</li><li>Save on The Honest Kitchen human grade pet treats</li><li>Save on Friends Forever donut pet beds</li></ul><p>Whole Foods Market:</p><ul><li>Both in-store and online, Prime members can receive discounts on customer favorites including 35% off Bare Bones broths and 35% off all packaged teas, available now through October 27.</li><li>Available now through October 20, customers can get 20% off pumpkins and gourds – excluding squash.</li></ul><p>More Ways to Shop, All Season Long</p><ul><li>Gift Guides: Get an early start on holiday shopping with Amazon's biggest-ever selection of gift guides and exclusive storefronts, available earlier than ever before at amazon.com/gifts. Amazon's gift guides are easy to navigate and include thoughtful collections with something for everyone on your list, no matter your budget.<ul><li>Small Business Gift Guide: amazon.com/smallbusinessgiftguide</li><li>Beauty Gift Guide: amazon.com/beautyguide</li><li>Fashion Gift Guide: amazon.com/fashiongiftguide</li><li>Holiday Toy List: amazon.com/holidaytoylist</li><li>Home Holiday Guide: amazon.com/homeholidayguide</li><li>Electronics Gift Guide: amazon.com/techgifts</li><li>Amazon Launchpad Gift Guide: amazon.com/launchpadgiftideas</li><li>(RED) Gift Guide: For the fourth consecutive year, (RED) is teaming up with Amazon to provide customers a single destination to shop an array of products that give back, spanning tech, fashion, health and wellness, kitchen and home, and more: amazon.com/red</li></ul></li><li>Amazon App: Shop anytime, anywhere with the Amazon App and ensure you never miss a deal.</li><li>Amazon.com in Spanish: Customers can visit Amazon.com/espanol or use the Amazon App to shop, browse and search for millions of products, view their carts, and place orders in Spanish. On the mobile App customers can go to Settings and tap on "Country and Language" to select Spanish. Amazon.com in Spanish gives customers the same convenient shopping experience in their preferred language.</li><li>Alexa Shopping: Alexa makes it easy to find the best holiday deals. Just ask, "Alexa, what are my deals?"</li><li>Alexa Donations: Simply say, "Alexa, I want to make a donation," and you can make a monetary donation to the organization of your choice. For more information and charities to support, visit pay.amazon.com/alexadonations.</li><li>AmazonSmile: This holiday season, customers can visit smile.amazon.com and find the exact same Amazon experience – amazing deals, wide selection, fast and free delivery options – with the added bonus that AmazonSmile will donate a portion of the purchase price on eligible products to a charity of their choice. Customers can shop with AmazonSmile via the Amazon app on iPhones and Android phones, or by starting at smile.amazon.com on a web browser.</li><li>Charity Lists: Charity Lists give charitable organizations an easy way to create wish lists of needed products while providing customers a convenient way to donate items directly to these causes. Customers can shop thousands of Charity Lists this holiday season by visiting smile.amazon.com/charitylists, with new charities joining all the time.</li><li>Climate Pledge Friendly: Customers can discover and shop for products that have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications, which help preserve the natural world. Get details at amazon.com/ClimatePledgeFriendly</li><li>Amazon's Holiday Wish Book: Discover the top toys and gifts for kids in Amazon's "Joy Delivered" shoppable look book, which arrives in homes this week and is available digitally at amazon.com/wishbook</li><li>Amazon Live: Throughout the holiday season, tune-in to amazon.com/live for shoppable livestreams featuring holiday inspiration, gift guides, and live demonstrations of this season's top deals and gift ideas from influencers and celebrities.</li><li>Shop In-Store: Customers can visit Amazon's retail locations, including Amazon Books, Amazon 4-star, Amazon Pop Up, Amazon Fresh, and Whole Foods Market to find incredible deals and amazing savings this holiday season.Find your nearest store at amazon.com/stores or wholefoodsmarket.com/stores.</li></ul><p>Fast, Free &amp; Convenient Delivery Options</p><p>At Amazon, incredible employees come together to deliver magical experiences for customers—every day and throughout the holiday season—and that includes offering fast, free and convenient delivery options for customers. Amazon announced just last month that it is hiring an additional 100,000 regular full-time and part-time jobs in its fulfillment and logistics network throughout the U.S. and Canada. With more than 150 new process improvements and safety measures implemented over the last several months, these permanent positions will work safely alongside the hundreds of thousands of employees already across Amazon's network to ensure fast and efficient delivery for customers throughout the holiday season, and beyond. In addition to free delivery on millions of items for all Amazon customers, Amazon offers a number of ways for customers to shop for and receive holiday gifts.</p><ul><li>Fast One-Day &amp; Same-Day Delivery: Prime members in the U.S. can shop a selection of over 10 million items eligible for Prime Free One-Day Delivery with no minimum purchase, and millions of items available for Same-Day Delivery in 47 major metropolitan areas. These delivery options are not only convenient for customers but they're better for the planet because One-Day and Same-Day deliveries ship from local fulfillment centers so they travel shorter distances and generate less carbon emissions. This is just another way that Amazon is leveraging its scale for good to make investments that support communities. Learn more at amazon.com/primedelivery. Not a Prime member yet? Join Prime or start a 30-day free trial at amazon.com/prime.</li><li>Ultrafast &amp; Free Grocery Delivery: Prime members in more than 2,000 cities and towns have access to free, two-hour delivery on more than 170,000 products from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. Plus, in addition to groceries, Prime members can find toys, gifts, household products, and everyday essentials, electronics, Amazon devices, and more available with free, two-hour delivery from Amazon Fresh. Prime members also get free one-hour pickup at all U.S. Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh locations.</li><li>Delivery Where it's Needed Most: Whether road-tripping to see family, staying home and need a secure delivery location, or sending a gift to a loved one or friend, there are thousands of alternative package pickup options customers can choose from via Amazon Hub. These locations are conveniently located near or in offices, convenience stores, malls, apartment buildings, and grocery stores, in more than 900 cities and towns across the country. Tens of millions of products can be easily and conveniently delivered to an Amazon Hub pickup point at Whole Foods Market, 7-11, Chase Bank, Rite-Aid, HealthMart, GNC, Stage Stores, and more. To find an Amazon Hub location, visit amazon.com/hub.</li><li>Extended Returns Window: Customers can buy gifts with confidence on Amazon knowing that millions of items are eligible for free and convenient returns at over 18,000 locations in the U.S. and this year's return window is even longer—items shipped between October 1 and December 31, 2020 can now be returned until January 31, 2021. In addition, over 5,800 locations including Amazon Books, Amazon 4-star, UPS Store locations and Kohl's—and new this year Whole Foods Market—offer label-free, box-free returns, making it even easier than ever to check returns off your list.</li></ul><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201016005107/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon.com to Webcast Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results Conference Call

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2020 financial results on October 29, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET. The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at www.amazon.com/ir. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201015005958/en/ Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2020 financial results on October 29, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET.</p><p>The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at www.amazon.com/ir.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201015005958/en/</p><p>Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com</p>

Amazon Prime Day 2020 Marked the Two Biggest Days Ever for Small & Medium Businesses in Amazon's Stores Worldwide

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Third-party sellers—most of which are small and medium-sized businesses—surpassed $3.5 billion in sales on Prime Day—a nearly 60% year-over-year increase, growing even more than Amazon's retail business Prime members saved more than $1.4 billion during Prime Day, taking advantage of deep discounts and incredible deals over the two-day event—some of the top categories members shopped and saved globally included Home, Electronics and Nutrition & Wellness, with best-selling products around the world including the Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, iRobot Roomba Robot Vacuum, LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, and Lego Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet, among others SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2020-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – After holding Prime Day in India in August, Amazon just wrapped the two-day event across 19 additional countries, delivering big sales for small businesses and big savings for Prime members in the U.S., U.K., U.A.E., Turkey, Spain, Singapore, Netherlands, Mexico, Luxembourg, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, China, Canada, Brazil, Belgium, Austria, and Australia. Amazon is on track to invest $18 billion this year to help small and medium-sized businesses succeed in its store, and designed this Prime Day to support small businesses even more—including funding a promotion that helped drive over $900 million in sales for small businesses in the two weeks leading up to Prime Day. This Prime Day delivered the two biggest days ever for third-party sellers, nearly all of which are small and medium-sized businesses. Sellers saw record-breaking sales, surpassing $3.5 billion in total across 19 countries. In addition, Prime members around the world saved over $1.4 billion during the epic deals event, securing deep discounts and getting a jump start on their holiday shopping. "We are thrilled that Prime Day was a record-breaking event for small and medium businesses worldwide, with sales surpassing $3.5 billion—an increase of nearly 60% from last year," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer. "We're also proud that Prime members saved more than $1.4 billion, and we look forward to providing more opportunities for our selling partners to grow and customers to save throughout the holiday season. I'm incredibly thankful to our employees and partners around the world who helped make Prime Day possible, especially the dedicated front-line teams in our fulfillment centers and delivery operations." Members shopped and found great deals across a variety of categories from small businesses to top brands, with Home, Electronics, Nutrition & Wellness, and Arts, Crafts & Sewing as some of the best-selling categories. In addition, Prime members enjoyed deep discounts, snatching up incredible deals with best-selling products globally including, Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, iRobot Roomba Robot Vacuum, LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, and Lego Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet, among others. Here are some additional highlights from Prime Day 2020. Global Highlights from Prime Day 2020 Supporting Small Businesses Amazon held its biggest small business promotion ever in the lead-up to Prime Day, and had hundreds of thousands of deals from both small and medium-sized businesses available globally over the two-day event. "2020 has been a rollercoaster for small businesses like mine, but Prime Day helped us sell a whole month's worth of inventory in two days. In addition, with the Spend $10, Get $10 promotion my business saw sales double on Amazon Handmade even before Prime Day started. The increase in sales will definitely help support operations as we prepare for the rest of the holiday season." – Kennedy Lowery, Live by Being, a skincare and wellness goods company based in Houston, TX. "This year's Prime Day exceeded all of our expectations. On day one we saw a 700% lift in units sold, leading to a record sales day for us. Prime Day has become one of the most important events of the year for us as a small business, not only for its sales boost, but also as a way for us to build awareness with new customers. Amazon helps us reach an audience that would be difficult to reach on our own."— Caron Proschan, Simply Gum, natural chewing gum and mint company based in New York, NY. Independent third-party sellers—most of which are small and medium-sized businesses—surpassed $3.5 billion in sales on Prime Day—a nearly 60% increase over Prime Day 2019, growing even more than Amazon's retail business. Top-selling categories for third-party sellers include Bedding, Wireless Accessories, Nutrition & Wellness, Arts, Crafts & Sewing, and Health Care. Tens of millions of customers supported small businesses in the two-week lead-up to Prime Day, generating more than $900 million in sales for small businesses included in the Spend $10, Get $10 promotion. During the two weeks leading up to Prime Day, customers shopped from small businesses across all 50 U.S. states, with small businesses included in the promotion in Utah, California, and New Jersey seeing the biggest sales per capita. Prime Member Savings With early promotions and more than one million deals globally, members had an opportunity to save big this Prime Day. Prime members saved more than $1.4 billion on Prime Day 2020. Prime members earned tens of millions of dollars in Amazon.com credits from this year's Spend $10, Get $10 Prime Day promotion while shopping Whole Foods Market, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go, Amazon Go Grocery, Amazon Books, Amazon Pop Up, and Amazon 4-star stores. Amazon Devices Members took advantage of incredible savings on Amazon Devices throughout Prime Day. Echo Dot was the most popular item purchased on Prime Day globally. Companies building devices with Alexa built-in had a record Prime Day with Bose QuietComfort 35 (Series II) Wireless Headphones and Fitbit Versa 2 Health and Fitness Smartwatch being some of the most popular items during the Prime Day event. Customers purchased millions of Alexa compatible devices during the Prime Day event. Customers purchased even more Fire TV Edition Smart TVs than during previous Prime Day events, buying a record-setting number of Fire TV Edition Smart TVs from brands including Toshiba and Insignia. Prime Day Best Sellers by Country Members shopped across a wide selection of products in a variety of categories including electronics, beauty, fashion, grocery, toys, furniture, everyday essentials, school supplies, and more. Globally: Some of the top categories that members shopped and saved globally included Home, Electronics, Nutrition & Wellness, among others. Prime members enjoyed deep discounts as they snatched-up incredible deals with best-selling products globally, including Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, iRobot Roomba Robot Vacuum, LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, and Lego Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet, among others. During the two-week lead up to Prime Day, Holiday Favorites was the most popular holiday station and 50 Great Holiday Songs, Christmas Classics and Caroling at Christmas were the most streamed holiday playlists for Amazon Music listeners on the Prime tier in the U.S. Some of the top-selling deals from around the world, excluding Amazon Devices, included: United States: iRobot Roomba Robot Vacuum, MyQ Wireless & WiFi Enabled Smart Garage Door Opener, LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, Goli Apple Cider Vinegar Vitamins, and Kids Against Maturity: Card Game for Kids and Families. United Kingdom: Shark Upright Vacuum Cleaner, Celebrations Chocolate Bulk Box, Halloween Party Bag Fillers, Oral-B Smart 6 6000N CrossAction Electric Toothbrush. United Arab Emirates: Listerine Cool Mint Mouthwash, Sony Extra Bass Smartphone Headset with Mic Headphone, and Nescafe Dolce Mini Me Coffee Machine. Turkey: HP Laptop, Baby Turco Islak Havlu Mendil, and Familia Plus Paper Towels. Spain: Finish Powerball All in 1 Max Detergent, L'Oréal Paris Men Expert - 24H Hydra Energetic Daily Moisturizer, BRITA MAXTRA universal cartridge, and Oral B CrossAction Electric Toothbrush. Singapore: Cocolife Coconut Water, Learning Resources Sight Word Auditory Learning Game, Wolf Blass Red Label, Australia Cabernet Merlot, LEGO Classic 10698 Large Creative Brick Box. Netherlands: Lego Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet, Dettol Cleaning Wipes Power & Fresh, Oral-B Pro CrossAction Electric Toothbrush. Mexico: Lloyd's WiFi Smart Bulb Compatible with Alexa, iOS, Android and Google Assistant, Lysol Multipurpose Disinfectant, and TECHVIDA Automatic Water Dispenser. Luxembourg: Christmas Magic Yankee Candle, SanDisk Extreme microSDXC Memory Card, and Sagrotan Hand Disinfectant Gel with Aloe Vera. Japan: SwitchBot, Detergent Wide Hiter, and Water Bottles I Ro Ha Su. Italy: FIFA 21 PlayStation 4, includes PS5 upgrade, Borbone Respresso Coffee Capsules, and Protective Face Mask FFP2 by Jiandi. France: Pampers Premium Protection diapers, Braun Oral-B Pro 2 2500 rechargeable electric toothbrush, and the Harry Potter owl building set from LEGO. Germany and Austria: SanDisk Extreme microSDXC Memory Card (128 GB), Lavazza Coffee Beans - Caffè Crema Classico, and Tefal Jamie Oliver Pan. China: L'Oreal Paris Golden Age Repair Cream, Dove Creme Body Scrub, Western Digital Desktop External Hard Drive, Philips Sonicare Genuine Replacement Brush Head. Canada: LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, Govee LED Light Strip compatible with Alexa, All Natural Advice Anti-Aging Vitamin C Serum, Instant Pot Duo Nova, and Donut Shop Variety Box Keurig K-Cup Pods. Brazil: Positivo Wi-Fi Smart LED Light Bulb Compatible with Alexa, Faber-Castell Highlighter Pen, 6 Pastel Colors, and Lysoform Disinfectant. Belgium: SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I Memory card 128 GB, Sagrotan Hand Disinfectant Gel with Aloe Vera, and Samsung Internal SSD. Australia: Philips Hue Smart Lighting, Skin Care from WELEDA and Palmolive. Operations and Delivery Every day at Amazon, incredible employees come together to deliver magical experiences for customers. Amazon announced just last month that it is creating an additional 100,000 regular full-time and part-time jobs in its fulfillment and logistics network throughout the U.S. and Canada. With more than 150 new process improvements and safety measures implemented by Amazon over the last several months, hundreds of thousands of employees across Amazon's network are working to ensure fast and efficient delivery for customers throughout Prime Day, the rest of the year, and beyond. On Prime Day, the fastest delivery was delivered in 29 minutes and 54 seconds, and included Febreze Car Air Freshener Vent Clips. In the U.S., of those Prime members who selected Amazon Day as their preferred delivery option on Prime Day, Saturday was the most popular delivery day selected. This year, even more Prime members opted to ship items to an Amazon Hub pickup location versus last year. As of the end of October 13, the top ten U.S. cities where Prime members used a Hub Locker or Counter service are Brooklyn, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, San Jose, and Seattle. Every Day Made Better with Prime Prime was designed to make your life better every single day. Over 150 million paid members around the world enjoy the many benefits of Prime, including the best of shopping and entertainment. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs plus thousands of stations and playlists with Amazon Music, unlimited access to more than 1,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, free in-game content and games with Prime Gaming, as well as incredible deals with Prime Day, and more. Prime members can also get exclusive discounts on select popular products at Whole Foods Market plus an additional 10 percent off hundreds of sale items. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. In addition to more than 10 million items eligible for free One-Day Delivery coast to coast, Prime members in thousands of cities and towns across 47 major metropolitan areas have access to millions of items with free Same-Day Delivery and the option to pick up and return their Amazon packages for free through Amazon Hub, a contactless, click and collect service at no additional cost. Prime members also have access to free and fast grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 2,000 cities and towns. Prime is $119 a year or $12.99 a month and new members can start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime. College students can join Prime Student for 50% off and enjoy the benefits of Prime with a six-month trial at amazon.com/primestudent. Plus, for an additional $0.99 a month, student members can get Amazon Music Unlimited and stream over 60 million songs ad-free. Customers receiving government assistance through EBT can also qualify for a discounted Prime membership of $5.99 a month at amazon.com/qualify. Amazon Business customers—from small businesses to large enterprises, as well as education, government and non-profit organizations—can also take advantage of Prime's fast, free shipping and exclusive business-relevant benefits with Business Prime, which starts at $69 per year as an add-on for customers with Amazon Prime on their personal account or $179 per year for up to three users at amazon.com/businessprime.

<p><em>Third-party sellers—most of which are small and medium-sized businesses—surpassed $3.5 billion in sales on Prime Day—a nearly 60% year-over-year increase, growing even more than Amazon's retail business</em></p><p><em>Prime members saved more than $1.4 billion during Prime Day, taking advantage of deep discounts and incredible deals over the two-day event—some of the top categories members shopped and saved globally included Home, Electronics and Nutrition &amp; Wellness, with best-selling products around the world including the Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, iRobot Roomba Robot Vacuum, LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, and Lego Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet</em>,<em> among others</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2020-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)<em> –</em> After holding Prime Day in India in August, Amazon just wrapped the two-day event across 19 additional countries, delivering big sales for small businesses and big savings for Prime members in the U.S., U.K., U.A.E., Turkey, Spain, Singapore, Netherlands, Mexico, Luxembourg, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, China, Canada, Brazil, Belgium, Austria, and Australia. Amazon is on track to invest $18 billion this year to help small and medium-sized businesses succeed in its store, and designed this Prime Day to support small businesses even more—including funding a promotion that helped drive over $900 million in sales for small businesses in the two weeks leading up to Prime Day. This Prime Day delivered the two biggest days ever for third-party sellers, nearly all of which are small and medium-sized businesses. Sellers saw record-breaking sales, surpassing $3.5 billion in total across 19 countries. In addition, Prime members around the world saved over $1.4 billion during the epic deals event, securing deep discounts and getting a jump start on their holiday shopping.</p><p>"We are thrilled that Prime Day was a record-breaking event for small and medium businesses worldwide, with sales surpassing $3.5 billion—an increase of nearly 60% from last year," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer. "We're also proud that Prime members saved more than $1.4 billion, and we look forward to providing more opportunities for our selling partners to grow and customers to save throughout the holiday season. I'm incredibly thankful to our employees and partners around the world who helped make Prime Day possible, especially the dedicated front-line teams in our fulfillment centers and delivery operations."</p><p>Members shopped and found great deals across a variety of categories from small businesses to top brands, with Home, Electronics, Nutrition &amp; Wellness, and Arts, Crafts &amp; Sewing as some of the best-selling categories. In addition, Prime members enjoyed deep discounts, snatching up incredible deals with best-selling products globally including, Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, iRobot Roomba Robot Vacuum, LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, and Lego Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet, among others.</p><p>Here are some additional highlights from Prime Day 2020.</p><p>Global Highlights from Prime Day 2020</p><p>Supporting Small Businesses</p><p>Amazon held its biggest small business promotion ever in the lead-up to Prime Day, and had hundreds of thousands of deals from both small and medium-sized businesses available globally over the two-day event.</p><p>"2020 has been a rollercoaster for small businesses like mine, but Prime Day helped us sell a whole month's worth of inventory in two days. In addition, with the Spend $10, Get $10 promotion my business saw sales double on Amazon Handmade even before Prime Day started. The increase in sales will definitely help support operations as we prepare for the rest of the holiday season." – Kennedy Lowery, Live by Being, a skincare and wellness goods company based in Houston, TX.</p><p>"This year's Prime Day exceeded all of our expectations. On day one we saw a 700% lift in units sold, leading to a record sales day for us. Prime Day has become one of the most important events of the year for us as a small business, not only for its sales boost, but also as a way for us to build awareness with new customers. Amazon helps us reach an audience that would be difficult to reach on our own."— Caron Proschan, Simply Gum, natural chewing gum and mint company based in New York, NY.</p><ul><li>Independent third-party sellers—most of which are small and medium-sized businesses—surpassed $3.5 billion in sales on Prime Day—a nearly 60% increase over Prime Day 2019, growing even more than Amazon's retail business.</li><li>Top-selling categories for third-party sellers include Bedding, Wireless Accessories, Nutrition &amp; Wellness, Arts, Crafts &amp; Sewing, and Health Care.</li><li>Tens of millions of customers supported small businesses in the two-week lead-up to Prime Day, generating more than $900 million in sales for small businesses included in the Spend $10, Get $10 promotion.</li><li>During the two weeks leading up to Prime Day, customers shopped from small businesses across all 50 U.S. states, with small businesses included in the promotion in Utah, California, and New Jersey seeing the biggest sales per capita.</li></ul><p>Prime Member Savings</p><p>With early promotions and more than one million deals globally, members had an opportunity to save big this Prime Day.</p><ul><li>Prime members saved more than $1.4 billion on Prime Day 2020.</li><li>Prime members earned tens of millions of dollars in Amazon.com credits from this year's Spend $10, Get $10 Prime Day promotion while shopping Whole Foods Market, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go, Amazon Go Grocery, Amazon Books, Amazon Pop Up, and Amazon 4-star stores.</li></ul><p>Amazon Devices</p><p>Members took advantage of incredible savings on Amazon Devices throughout Prime Day.</p><ul><li>Echo Dot was the most popular item purchased on Prime Day globally.</li><li>Companies building devices with Alexa built-in had a record Prime Day with Bose QuietComfort 35 (Series II) Wireless Headphones and Fitbit Versa 2 Health and Fitness Smartwatch being some of the most popular items during the Prime Day event.</li><li>Customers purchased millions of Alexa compatible devices during the Prime Day event.</li><li>Customers purchased even more Fire TV Edition Smart TVs than during previous Prime Day events, buying a record-setting number of Fire TV Edition Smart TVs from brands including Toshiba and Insignia.</li></ul><p>Prime Day Best Sellers by Country</p><p>Members shopped across a wide selection of products in a variety of categories including electronics, beauty, fashion, grocery, toys, furniture, everyday essentials, school supplies, and more.</p><p>Globally:</p><ul><li>Some of the top categories that members shopped and saved globally included Home, Electronics, Nutrition &amp; Wellness, among others.</li><li>Prime members enjoyed deep discounts as they snatched-up incredible deals with best-selling products globally, including Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, iRobot Roomba Robot Vacuum, LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, and Lego Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet, among others.</li><li>During the two-week lead up to Prime Day, Holiday Favorites was the most popular holiday station and 50 Great Holiday Songs, Christmas Classics and Caroling at Christmas were the most streamed holiday playlists for Amazon Music listeners on the Prime tier in the U.S.</li></ul><p>Some of the top-selling deals from around the world, excluding Amazon Devices, included:</p><ul><li>United States: iRobot Roomba Robot Vacuum, MyQ Wireless &amp; WiFi Enabled Smart Garage Door Opener, LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, Goli Apple Cider Vinegar Vitamins, and Kids Against Maturity: Card Game for Kids and Families.</li><li>United Kingdom: Shark Upright Vacuum Cleaner, Celebrations Chocolate Bulk Box, Halloween Party Bag Fillers, Oral-B Smart 6 6000N CrossAction Electric Toothbrush.</li><li>United Arab Emirates: Listerine Cool Mint Mouthwash, Sony Extra Bass Smartphone Headset with Mic Headphone, and Nescafe Dolce Mini Me Coffee Machine.</li><li>Turkey: HP Laptop, Baby Turco Islak Havlu Mendil, and Familia Plus Paper Towels.</li><li>Spain: Finish Powerball All in 1 Max Detergent, L'Oréal Paris Men Expert - 24H Hydra Energetic Daily Moisturizer, BRITA MAXTRA universal cartridge, and Oral B CrossAction Electric Toothbrush.</li><li>Singapore: Cocolife Coconut Water, Learning Resources Sight Word Auditory Learning Game, Wolf Blass Red Label, Australia Cabernet Merlot, LEGO Classic 10698 Large Creative Brick Box.</li><li>Netherlands: Lego Star Wars Stormtrooper Helmet, Dettol Cleaning Wipes Power &amp; Fresh, Oral-B Pro CrossAction Electric Toothbrush.</li><li>Mexico: Lloyd's WiFi Smart Bulb Compatible with Alexa, iOS, Android and Google Assistant, Lysol Multipurpose Disinfectant, and TECHVIDA Automatic Water Dispenser.</li><li>Luxembourg: Christmas Magic Yankee Candle, SanDisk Extreme microSDXC Memory Card, and Sagrotan Hand Disinfectant Gel with Aloe Vera.</li><li>Japan: SwitchBot, Detergent Wide Hiter, and Water Bottles I Ro Ha Su.</li><li>Italy: FIFA 21 PlayStation 4, includes PS5 upgrade, Borbone Respresso Coffee Capsules, and Protective Face Mask FFP2 by Jiandi.</li><li>France: Pampers Premium Protection diapers, Braun Oral-B Pro 2 2500 rechargeable electric toothbrush, and the Harry Potter owl building set from LEGO.</li><li>Germany and Austria: SanDisk Extreme microSDXC Memory Card (128 GB), Lavazza Coffee Beans - Caffè Crema Classico, and Tefal Jamie Oliver Pan.</li><li>China: L'Oreal Paris Golden Age Repair Cream, Dove Creme Body Scrub, Western Digital Desktop External Hard Drive, Philips Sonicare Genuine Replacement Brush Head.</li><li>Canada: LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, Govee LED Light Strip compatible with Alexa, All Natural Advice Anti-Aging Vitamin C Serum, Instant Pot Duo Nova, and Donut Shop Variety Box Keurig K-Cup Pods.</li><li>Brazil: Positivo Wi-Fi Smart LED Light Bulb Compatible with Alexa, Faber-Castell Highlighter Pen, 6 Pastel Colors, and Lysoform Disinfectant.</li><li>Belgium: SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I Memory card 128 GB, Sagrotan Hand Disinfectant Gel with Aloe Vera, and Samsung Internal SSD.</li><li>Australia: Philips Hue Smart Lighting, Skin Care from WELEDA and Palmolive.</li></ul><p>Operations and Delivery</p><p>Every day at Amazon, incredible employees come together to deliver magical experiences for customers. Amazon announced just last month that it is creating an additional 100,000 regular full-time and part-time jobs in its fulfillment and logistics network throughout the U.S. and Canada. With more than 150 new process improvements and safety measures implemented by Amazon over the last several months, hundreds of thousands of employees across Amazon's network are working to ensure fast and efficient delivery for customers throughout Prime Day, the rest of the year, and beyond.</p><ul><li>On Prime Day, the fastest delivery was delivered in 29 minutes and 54 seconds, and included Febreze Car Air Freshener Vent Clips. In the U.S., of those Prime members who selected Amazon Day as their preferred delivery option on Prime Day, Saturday was the most popular delivery day selected.</li><li>This year, even more Prime members opted to ship items to an Amazon Hub pickup location versus last year. As of the end of October 13, the top ten U.S. cities where Prime members used a Hub Locker or Counter service are Brooklyn, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, San Jose, and Seattle.</li></ul><p>Every Day Made Better with Prime</p><p>Prime was designed to make your life better every single day. Over 150 million paid members around the world enjoy the many benefits of Prime, including the best of shopping and entertainment. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs plus thousands of stations and playlists with Amazon Music, unlimited access to more than 1,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, free in-game content and games with Prime Gaming, as well as incredible deals with Prime Day, and more. Prime members can also get exclusive discounts on select popular products at Whole Foods Market plus an additional 10 percent off hundreds of sale items. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. In addition to more than 10 million items eligible for free One-Day Delivery coast to coast, Prime members in thousands of cities and towns across 47 major metropolitan areas have access to millions of items with free Same-Day Delivery and the option to pick up and return their Amazon packages for free through Amazon Hub, a contactless, click and collect service at no additional cost. Prime members also have access to free and fast grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 2,000 cities and towns. Prime is $119 a year or $12.99 a month and new members can start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime. College students can join Prime Student for 50% off and enjoy the benefits of Prime with a six-month trial at amazon.com/primestudent. Plus, for an additional $0.99 a month, student members can get Amazon Music Unlimited and stream over 60 million songs ad-free. Customers receiving government assistance through EBT can also qualify for a discounted Prime membership of $5.99 a month at amazon.com/qualify. Amazon Business customers—from small businesses to large enterprises, as well as education, government and non-profit organizations—can also take advantage of Prime's fast, free shipping and exclusive business-relevant benefits with Business Prime, which starts at $69 per year as an add-on for customers with Amazon Prime on their personal account or $179 per year for up to three users at amazon.com/businessprime.</p>

Amazon Music Releases "The First One" Podcast with DJ Khaled

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Episode 1 of "The First One" features an interview between DJ Khaled and Lil Wayne, premiering today on all tiers of Amazon Music at no additional cost in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan Future episodes will air every Thursday, including interviews with J Balvin, Big Sean, Kelly Rowland, Jon Bon Jovi, Rick Ross, T.I., Fat Joe and more SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2020-- Amazon Music announced today the premiere of "The First One," a new podcast hosted by one of the most prolific hit makers of the 21st century, DJ Khaled. Developed by Amazon Music and the Springhill Company, the media conglomerate founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, "The First One" features the mogul and superstar delving into the biggest hits of all-time with his favorite artists to learn about the songs that made them iconic and eventually legendary. To hear the new podcast, simply ask "Alexa, play The First One podcast" in the Amazon Music mobile app for iOS and Android, on Alexa-enabled devices, or visit https://amzn.to/TheFirstOne. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201015005570/en/ "The First One" podcast with DJ Khaled is now available only on Amazon Music (Graphic: Business Wire) Watch the trailer here (CREDIT: The SpringHill Company) and find images here  "Fans everywhere are not only going to love my new podcast series ‘The First One,' but will have the opportunity to learn about the lives of some of the greatest musicians," said DJ Khaled. "I'm excited to collaborate with Amazon Music and SpringHill Company to share intimate conversations with my friends to such a large audience, and there are plenty of gems in there. Be on the lookout for every episode of ‘The First One,' because you never know who's on next." In the inaugural episode of "The First One," premiering today, Lil Wayne dissects the industry around him during the making of "Tha Block is Hot," and how his Hot Boys roots taught him to always be ready for the next opportunity. The hip-hop legend reflects on how growing up in New Orleans influenced the song that would eventually change his life and set him on a trajectory to become one of the most prolific and successful musicians and moguls in history. Lil Wayne, who has appeared on every single DJ Khaled album ever, also discusses his long and storied history with Khaled, including the producer's debut record, "Holla At Me Baby," as well as "We Takin' Over" and the first verse after Wayne's release from prison, "Welcome To My Hood (Remix)." Elsewhere, Lil Wayne speaks at length about the artists who've inspired him throughout his career including Mannie Fresh, Cee-Lo Green, Jay Z and Missy Elliott. Additionally, the Young Money CEO also explains to Khaled why a song called "Block Burner" from the debut Hot Boys album, Get It How U Live, inspired the otherworldly sounds that would come to define his career. New episodes will be released every Thursday, only on Amazon Music, and will include interviews with artists like J Balvin, Big Sean, Kelly Rowland, Jon Bon Jovi, Rick Ross, T.I., Fat Joe and more. Excerpts from episode one include: Lil Wayne on realizing his dreams and performing for his family - "I always wanted the stage, it ain't about nothin' else." Lil Wayne on his mom's reaction to his growing interest in hip-hop at a young age: "My mom was like, ‘You ain't no rapper.' It was school for me. Rap sh*t ain't gonna go." Lil Wayne on pursuing the chance to work with Birdman - "I was 11 years old. I must have paged [Birdman] at least 10 times a day. That's how I got from point A to point B. I didn't let him forget about me." Lil Wayne on the making of "Tha Block is Hot" with Mannie Fresh - "Every time I was in (the) booth with (Mannie) Fresh, he knew exactly what to feed off of. I might've just said ‘The Block Is Hot, The Block is Hot'. Mannie would remind me. Hey, you need to throw that ("Ha-Ha") You need to throw that in there...and that became the hottest part of the damn song." Lil Wayne on "Block Burner" - "'Block Burner' was my favorite song because I was a kid in a toy store. I wanted to make a sound every line in the damn song, and the only reason why I was doing that because at the time my favorite artist was Missy Elliott. Stunna, not that he didn't like it, but Stunna is Stunna! He would say ‘say a line, f**k a sound!' But Missy was into all the sounds so that was the difference." Amazon Music recently announced the launch of podcasts in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan, across all tiers of service at no additional cost. Amazon Music customers can access a wide selection of podcasts including new Originals such as "The First One" in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android, on Amazon Echo devices, and at music.amazon.com/podcasts. About DJ Khaled For over two decades, the very mention of DJ Khaled has implied an elevated level of musical greatness, entrepreneurial excellence, and cultural impact. You've heard him across a GRAMMY® Award-winning multiplatinum catalog, seen him in blockbusters such as Bad Boys For Life, caught him on the cover of Rolling Stone, watched him on numerous television programs, and felt his presence from the streets all the way up to the Barack Obama White House. He has achieved dozens of multiplatinum and gold certifications, including the sextuple-platinum Billboard Hot 100 #1 "I'm The One" [feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, & Lil Wayne], quadruple-platinum "Wild Thoughts" [feat. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller], and double-platinum "No Brainer" [feat. Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper, & Quavo]. The latter propelled his 2019 album, Father of Asahd [We The Best Music Group/Epic Records], to the top of the charts. Not only did it garner a platinum certification, but it also became his third consecutive Top 2 debut on the Billboard Top 200 and emerged as the "#1 Most-Streamed Record" upon release. To date, he has moved 20 million singles and 6 million albums in addition to gathering 4 billion-plus streams. Not to mention, he launched We The Best Music Group—a record label, management, publishing, and production company and in-demand studio. As a committed philanthropist, he founded his 501(c)3 organization The We The Best Foundation. It uplifts individuals throughout underserved communities across the United States and supports various non-profits. He has supported the fight against COVID-19, U2 frontman Bono recruited him as the first social media ambassador for Project Red, and he serves as the national spokesperson for Get Schooled. Now, the power of this legacy defines his thirteenth full-length album—which bears his birth name—Khaled Khaled [We The Best Music Group/Epic Records], preceded by two chart-busting bangers alongside frequent collaborator Drake, namely the certified Platinum record "POPSTAR" and certified Gold record "GREECE." About The SpringHill Company The SpringHill Company is a global consumer and entertainment brand created to empower greatness in every individual. The SpringHill Company unites three companies built by LeBron James and Maverick Carter: UNINTERRUPTED, the athlete empowerment media and consumer product company, SpringHill Entertainment, the premium scripted and unscripted film and television production company and The Robot Company, the brand and culture consultancy. With a dynamic and diverse team committed to creating the most culturally inspired content, entertainment and products, The SpringHill Company is built to be the defining brand for a new generation. About Amazon Music Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 60 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Customers also have free access to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations on Amazon Music. All Amazon Music tiers now offer a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, and live streaming in partnership with Twitch. Engaging with music and culture has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201015005570/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Episode 1 of "The First One" features an interview between DJ Khaled and Lil Wayne, premiering today on all tiers of Amazon Music at no additional cost in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan</em></p><p><em>Future episodes will air every Thursday, including interviews with J Balvin, Big Sean, Kelly Rowland, Jon Bon Jovi, Rick Ross, T.I., Fat Joe and more</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2020-- Amazon Music announced today the premiere of "The First One," a new podcast hosted by one of the most prolific hit makers of the 21st century, DJ Khaled. Developed by Amazon Music and the Springhill Company, the media conglomerate founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, "The First One" features the mogul and superstar delving into the biggest hits of all-time with his favorite artists to learn about the songs that made them iconic and eventually legendary. To hear the new podcast, simply ask "Alexa, play The First One podcast" in the Amazon Music mobile app for iOS and Android, on Alexa-enabled devices, or visit https://amzn.to/TheFirstOne.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201015005570/en/</p><div><p>"The First One" podcast with DJ Khaled is now available only on Amazon Music (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p><em>Watch the trailer here (CREDIT: The SpringHill Company) and find images here </em></p><p>"Fans everywhere are not only going to love my new podcast series ‘The First One,' but will have the opportunity to learn about the lives of some of the greatest musicians," said DJ Khaled. "I'm excited to collaborate with Amazon Music and SpringHill Company to share intimate conversations with my friends to such a large audience, and there are plenty of gems in there. Be on the lookout for every episode of ‘The First One,' because you never know who's on next."</p><p>In the inaugural episode of "The First One," premiering today, Lil Wayne dissects the industry around him during the making of "Tha Block is Hot," and how his Hot Boys roots taught him to always be ready for the next opportunity. The hip-hop legend reflects on how growing up in New Orleans influenced the song that would eventually change his life and set him on a trajectory to become one of the most prolific and successful musicians and moguls in history. Lil Wayne, who has appeared on every single DJ Khaled album ever, also discusses his long and storied history with Khaled, including the producer's debut record, "Holla At Me Baby," as well as "We Takin' Over" and the first verse after Wayne's release from prison, "Welcome To My Hood (Remix)." Elsewhere, Lil Wayne speaks at length about the artists who've inspired him throughout his career including Mannie Fresh, Cee-Lo Green, Jay Z and Missy Elliott. Additionally, the Young Money CEO also explains to Khaled why a song called "Block Burner" from the debut Hot Boys album, <em>Get It How U Live</em>, inspired the otherworldly sounds that would come to define his career. New episodes will be released every Thursday, only on Amazon Music, and will include interviews with artists like J Balvin, Big Sean, Kelly Rowland, Jon Bon Jovi, Rick Ross, T.I., Fat Joe and more.</p><p>Excerpts from episode one include:</p><ul><li>Lil Wayne on realizing his dreams and performing for his family - <em>"I always wanted the stage, it ain't about nothin' else."</em></li><li>Lil Wayne on his mom's reaction to his growing interest in hip-hop at a young age: <em>"My mom was like, ‘You ain't no rapper.' It was school for me. Rap sh*t ain't gonna go."</em></li><li>Lil Wayne on pursuing the chance to work with Birdman - <em>"I was 11 years old. I must have paged [Birdman] at least 10 times a day. That's how I got from point A to point B. I didn't let him forget about me."</em></li><li>Lil Wayne on the making of "Tha Block is Hot" with Mannie Fresh - <em>"Every time I was in (the) booth with (Mannie) Fresh, he knew exactly what to feed off of. I might've just said ‘The Block Is Hot, The Block is Hot'. Mannie would remind me. Hey, you need to throw that ("Ha-Ha") You need to throw that in there...and that became the hottest part of the damn song."</em></li><li>Lil Wayne on "Block Burner" <em>- "'Block Burner' was my favorite song because I was a kid in a toy store. I wanted to make a sound every line in the damn song, and the only reason why I was doing that because at the time my favorite artist was Missy Elliott. Stunna, not that he didn't like it, but Stunna is Stunna! He would say ‘say a line, f**k a sound!' But Missy was into all the sounds so that was the difference."</em></li></ul><p>Amazon Music recently announced the launch of podcasts in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan, across all tiers of service at no additional cost. Amazon Music customers can access a wide selection of podcasts including new Originals such as "The First One" in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android, on Amazon Echo devices, and at music.amazon.com/podcasts.</p><p>About DJ Khaled</p><p>For over two decades, the very mention of DJ Khaled has implied an elevated level of musical greatness, entrepreneurial excellence, and cultural impact. You've heard him across a GRAMMY® Award-winning multiplatinum catalog, seen him in blockbusters such as <em>Bad Boys For Life</em>, caught him on the cover of <em>Rolling Stone</em>, watched him on numerous television programs, and felt his presence from the streets all the way up to the Barack Obama White House. He has achieved dozens of multiplatinum and gold certifications, including the sextuple-platinum Billboard Hot 100 #1 "I'm The One" [feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, &amp; Lil Wayne], quadruple-platinum "Wild Thoughts" [feat. Rihanna &amp; Bryson Tiller], and double-platinum "No Brainer" [feat. Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper, &amp; Quavo]. The latter propelled his 2019 album, <em>Father of Asahd</em> [We The Best Music Group/Epic Records], to the top of the charts. Not only did it garner a platinum certification, but it also became his third consecutive Top 2 debut on the <em>Billboard</em> Top 200 and emerged as the <em>"#1 Most-Streamed Record"</em> upon release. To date, he has moved 20 million singles and 6 million albums in addition to gathering 4 billion-plus streams. Not to mention, he launched We The Best Music Group—a record label, management, publishing, and production company and in-demand studio. As a committed philanthropist, he founded his 501(c)3 organization The We The Best Foundation. It uplifts individuals throughout underserved communities across the United States and supports various non-profits. He has supported the fight against COVID-19, U2 frontman Bono recruited him as the first social media ambassador for Project Red, and he serves as the national spokesperson for Get Schooled. Now, the power of this legacy defines his thirteenth full-length album—which bears his birth name—<em>Khaled Khaled</em> [We The Best Music Group/Epic Records], preceded by two chart-busting bangers alongside frequent collaborator Drake, namely the certified Platinum record "POPSTAR" and certified Gold record "GREECE."</p><p>About The SpringHill Company</p><p>The SpringHill Company is a global consumer and entertainment brand created to empower greatness in every individual. The SpringHill Company unites three companies built by LeBron James and Maverick Carter: UNINTERRUPTED, the athlete empowerment media and consumer product company, SpringHill Entertainment, the premium scripted and unscripted film and television production company and The Robot Company, the brand and culture consultancy. With a dynamic and diverse team committed to creating the most culturally inspired content, entertainment and products, The SpringHill Company is built to be the defining brand for a new generation.</p><p>About Amazon Music</p><p>Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 60 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Customers also have free access to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations on Amazon Music. All Amazon Music tiers now offer a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, and live streaming in partnership with Twitch. Engaging with music and culture has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201015005570/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Prime Day Deals Revealed! Jumpstart Your Holiday Shopping on October 13 & 14

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Prime Day Deals Revealed! Jumpstart Your Holiday Shopping on October 13 & 14

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Prime Day kicks off Tuesday, October 13 at 12am PT and runs for 48 hours, delivering two full days of shopping on more than a million deals worldwide for Prime members Through October 12, Amazon is offering a $10 credit to use on Prime Day to members who spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon's store Through October 14, members can ‘Spend $10' to ‘Get $10' while shopping in store at Whole Foods Market, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go or Amazon Go Grocery, Amazon Books or Amazon Pop Up and Amazon 4-star stores and earn up to $50 in credits to use on Amazon.com during Prime Day Shop with Alexa on an Echo device beginning Sunday, October 11, to get early access to select deals on devices. Just ask, "Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?" Members will also find select device deals early on Amazon.com starting Monday, October 12 at 12pm PT / 3pm ET SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2020-- Two full days of can't-miss savings are almost here as Amazon prepares to kick off Prime Day at 12am PT / 3am ET on October 13 in 19 countries worldwide. Prime members will have exclusive access to more than one million deals on everything they need and love, including the most popular, beloved brands and must-have holiday gifts across every category from toys, electronics, fashion, Amazon devices and more. Shop with Alexa on an Echo device beginning Sunday, October 11 to get early access to select deals on devices. Just ask, "Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?" Anyone can get a jump-start on their holiday shopping and savings this Prime Day by joining Prime or starting a free 30-day trial at amazon.com/primeday. Support Small Businesses Prime members can support small businesses this Prime Day by shopping deals featured in the Support Small storefront, Amazon Handmade and Amazon Launchpad. More than half of the items sold in Amazon's store worldwide are from third-party sellers – mostly small and medium-sized businesses, and last Prime Day, these sellers surpassed $2 billion in sales. To make it easier than ever for customers to support small businesses, Amazon has launched new, curated collections to connect customers with local small businesses. Through October 12, Amazon is offering a $10 credit to use on Prime Day to members who spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon's store. Visit amazon.com/supportsmall to start shopping. "We've been thrilled with the increased traffic and revenue Pawstruck has experienced this week since the Spend $10, Get $10 small business promotion launched," said Kyle Goguen, founder of Pawstruck in El Segundo, CA. "We're anxiously awaiting Prime Day 2020, where we expect even greater results." Prime Day Deals Preview When it comes to incredible deals on amazing products, Prime Day 2020 delivers in a big way with more deals than any Prime Day event before. Additionally, members can shop featured lightning deals, which offer jaw-dropping prices on top-tier brands and products. Watch for deals on Nintendo Switch Titles, Barbie & Hot Wheels toys, iRobot Roomba vacuums, Panasonic Cameras and Premium Beauty brands this Prime Day. These offers could sell out quickly so be sure to come back and shop the entire 48 hours of Prime Day to cash in on the biggest savings. A preview of Prime Day deals members can expect include: Amazon Devices Save 60% on our most popular smart speaker, Echo Dot (3rd Gen), just $18.99 Save up to $80 on Echo Show devices. Get the Echo Show 5 for $44.99, Echo Show 8 for $64.99, and Echo Show (2nd Gen) for $149.99 Take Alexa on the road with $30 off Echo Auto, now with Auto Mode in the Alexa App and Start My Commute features, just $19.99 Fire TV Edition Smart TVs start at just $79.99. Plus, get the Insignia 32-inch Smart HD Fire TV Edition TV for $109.99 and the Toshiba 43-inch Smart 4K UHD Fire TV Edition TV for $209.99 Save $40 on Fire TV Cube and use your voice to control your entertainment experience, just $79.99 Save up to 45% on Fire tablets. Get the Fire HD 10 for $79.99 and Fire 7 Kids Edition tablet for $59.99 Save $75 on eero Mesh WiFi system ensuring you have whole home WiFi coverage, just $174.00 Save $20 on Ring Stick Up Cam, just $79.99. Save 30% on Ring Video Doorbell devices and get Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Gen) for $69.99 Get Blink Mini Indoor Cam, just $24.99 Get your smart home started with Ring Video Doorbell 3 and Echo Show 5, just $149.99 Get an Echo Dot and LIFX Smart Bulb (Wi-Fi set up), just $18.99 Save $50 on Kindle Paperwhite, just $79.99 Save $35 on the Kindle Kids Edition, just $74.99 Electronics Save 36% on 12 Month Nintendo Switch Online Family Membership + SanDisk 128GB Memory Card Save up to 33% on select Nintendo Switch titles Save up to 33% on DJI Mavic Mini Drone and Osmo cameras Save up to 35% on Nixplay WIFI digital frames Save up to 40% off on Panasonic cameras Save up to 46% on Garmin GPS units and smartwatches Save up to 30% on Tile trackers Save 30% on select cell phone cases Save on JBL Boombox Save up to 30% on headphones from top brands Save up to 30% on select Samsung and Sony TVs Save 20% on Mynt 3D pens Save 20% on Sindoh 3D printers Save 30% on Dremel 3D20 DigiLab 3D Printer Smart Home Save $75 on Select August Locks and get a free Echo Dot(3rd Gen) Save up to 30% off Arlo Smart Home Security Products Save up to 33% on iRobot Roomba vacuums Save on myQ Smart Garage Hub Save up to 35% on Smart Home products from Moen, Leviton, Kasa and more Save on ecobee3 lite Smart Thermostat Save up to 44% on Shark vacuums Save up to 22% on Hamilton Beach Works with Alexa Smart Coffee Maker Small Businesses Including Amazon Launchpad and Amazon Handmade Save up to 47% on Parker Baby Co. baby products and gear Save up to 40% on Pawstruck natural dog treats Save up to 25% on Simply Gum natural breath mints and chewing gum Save 20% on select Amazon Launchpad products including Skoolzy STEM Peg Board Toddler Stacking Toys and Taco vs. Burrito, the surprisingly strategic card game Save up to 25% on select Amazon Launchpad products including Trifo Robot Vacuum Cleaners Save up to 20% on handcrafted gifts and décor from Amazon Handmade Save 20% on pumpkin bakery soy candles from Amazon Handmade Maker, Lorenzen Candle Co Save 20% on rose embossing rolling pins from Amazon Handmade Maker, Algis Crafts Save 20% on blue simulated turquoise hoop earrings from Amazon Handmade Maker, MJLuLu Save 20% on dog leash holders from Amazon Handmade Maker, G3 Studios Home & Kitchen Save up to 30% on Classic Brands, Furrino, and Sauder furniture Save up to 30% on Zinus furniture Save up to 30% on Casper mattresses Save up to 35% on Bissell floorcare Save up to 40% on kitchen essentials from Le Creuset, Pyrex, Corelle and more Save up to 50% on Instant Pot products Save up to 30% on Cuisinart appliances and cookware Save up to 37% on Ninja kitchen products Toys & Games Save up to 30% on Arts & Crafts sets for kids Save up to 30% on Barbie & Hot Wheels toys Save up to 40% on Fashion Dolls and Accessories from brands like L.O.L. Surprise!, Calico Critters and Journey Girls Save up to 30% on NERF Toys Save up to 30% on Playskool, Sesame Street and Littlest Pet Shop toys Save up to 30% on toys from Marvel, Star Wars and more Save up to 30% on toys from Melissa & Doug, V-Tech, Battat, Hape and more Save up to 30% on Outdoor and Ride-on products Save up to 30% on games from Magic the Gathering, Exploding Kittens and more Save up to 30% on STEM toys and building sets Save 15% on AmScope Microscopes for Kids Fashion Save up to 40% on select Levi's for the whole family Save up to 35% on select Calvin Klein underwear Save up to 50% on select watches from Citizen, Bulova, Anne Klein, Fossil and more Save up to 30% on select men's and women's clothing and more from our brands Save up to 30% on select Cubcoats for kids Save up to 15% on select Fall fashion from Shopbop Save up to 40% on select dresses from Shopbop Save up to 30% on select styles from The Drop Save up to 40% on select Champion apparel Save up to 30% on select Tommy Hilfiger apparel Save up to 30% on select New Balance for the family Beauty Save up to 43% on Panasonic's men's grooming products Save more than 35% on Waterpik Counterop Aquarius products Save up to 55% on select oral care favorites from Crest Save up to 50% on select Conair products Save up to 50% on select men's grooming favorites from Braun and Gillette Save 20% on skin care products from brands including Aquaphor, Coppertone, Eucerin and Nivea Save up to 40% on Premium Beauty hair and skin care appliances from top brands like BaBylissPro, ghd, Foreo, NuFace, Paul Mitchell, PMD Beauty, Rusk and T3 Save up to 40% on Premium Beauty favorites from brands including Bioderma, Elemis, HAUS Laboratories by Lady Gaga, Mustela, Oribe, Redken and Stila Save 30% or more on Mario Badescu, Pureology, Nioxin, Philosophy, R+Co, Dermablend, Stila, BaBylisspRO, Glo Science, NuFace, PMD Beauty and many more Premium Beauty brands Health & Personal Care Save 50% on 23andMe Health + Ancestry Personal Genetic Service Kit Save up to 30% on Fitbit Versa 2, Versa Lite and Aria Air Save up to 30% on household essentials from Proctor & Gamble (P&G) Save up to 30% on ‘on the go' snack bars and ready to drink beverages Save up to 20% on select products from Nature's Bounty Save up to 20% on nutrition & wellness favorites from brands including Garden of Life, Culturelle and Dymatize Save up to 20% on Marpac white noise machines Save up to 25% on home air fresheners from brands including Finish, Air Wick, Woolite and Rid-X Save 15% on First Aid Only 299 All-Purpose First Aid Kit Save 20% on Scott washroom essentials Amazon Brands Save up to 35% on coffee and espresso from Happy Belly and Solimo Save up to 50% on Belei skin care products Save 20% on baby essentials from Mama Bear Save 20% on health and personal care products from Solimo Save 20% on snacks and grocery essentials from Happy Belly Save 20% on health and wellness products from Revly, Amazon Elements and Amazon Basic Care Save up to 40% on AmazonBasics products including luggage and travel gear, home furnishings, and kitchen essentials Automotive, Tools & Home Improvement Save 50% on Tire Installation Save 35% off on NOCO Products Save 20% on Shell Rotella T6 Full Synthetic 5W-40 Diesel Engine Oil Save 20% on Select Chemical Guys Kits and Microfiber Towels Save 20% on Select Chemical Guys Kits Save 30% on Select Camco Rhino Heavy Duty Tote Tanks Save up to 40% on DEWALT tools Save up to 40% on CRAFTSMAN tools Save on Sylvania light bulbs Save up to 15% on select Kidde smoke & carbon monoxide alarms Lawn & Garden Save on select Scotts lawn and garden products Save up to 20% on select Shop Succulents live plants Save up to 20% on select Costa Farms live plants Save up to 20% on select Briggs & Stratton power products Save up to 20% on select Classic Accessories patio covers Save up to 20% on select Worx fall clean up equipment and power tools Save up to 15% on select Worx Hydroshot pressure washer and PowerShare products Save up to 30% on select BLACK+DECKER string and hedge trimmers Baby Save up to 35% on baby feeding essentials Save up to 20% on baby bath essentials Save 20% on 4-Star baby products Save 20% or more on baby nursery essentials Save up to 20% on Evenflo products Sports & Outdoors Save up to 30% on select Segway self-balancing electric scooters Save up to 20% on select Speedo Swim apparel and equipment Save up to 35% on select adidas clothing, footwear and accessories Save up to 40% on Coleman Outdoor Essentials Pets Save 30% on Wellness dog & cat food and treats Save up to 20% on Bayer K9 Advantix Major Appliances Save up to 15% on GE Profile Ice Maker Save up to 20% on Midea Fridges and Freezers Save up to 20% on Winia Compact Appliances Save up to 15% on New Air Appliances Save up to 20% on Broan Range Hoods Save up to 20% on Cosmo Appliances Grocery Save up to 35% on select products from Orgain Save 35% on customer favorite beverages from brands including Keurig, Crystal Light and more Save 30% on Hershey's Halloween candy favorites Save up to 25% on ConAgra products Save 30% or more on select pantry staples from Campbell's, Izze's, Planters, Quaker, RX Bar and more Additional Deals from Across Amazon Spend $10, Get $10 In-Store: Prime members who shop online or in store at Whole Foods Market, as well as at Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go or Amazon Go Grocery, Amazon Books or Amazon Pop Up, and Amazon 4-star can receive up to $50 in Amazon.com credit to use on Prime Day by earning the "Spend $10, Get $10" in-store offer. Amazon Fresh: New Fresh customers can enjoy $15 off their first order of $50 or more on Amazon Fresh. Amazon Music Unlimited: For just $0.99, Prime members who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get four months of the premium streaming tier with unlimited access to more than 60 million songs ad-free, and now a wide selection of popular podcasts. With purchase of select Amazon Echo devices on Prime Day, Prime members new to Amazon Music Unlimited can get six months free access to the premium music streaming tier now featuring podcasts. Prime Video: Enjoy a selection of titles to rent or buy at up to 50% off and for a limited time, customers will be able to subscribe to select channels for $0.99 per month for up to two months if they are not already subscribed. Only pay for the channels you want and cancel anytime. A full list of Prime Video deals, including the offer window for each, can be found at amazon.com/primememberdeals. Kindle Unlimited: New customers to Kindle Unlimited get 3 months free with a new subscription Kindle Book Deals: Receive a $5 credit on any Kindle book with the purchase of select Kindle devices. Books: Discover discount and flash deals on select multi-genre books and ebooks, including kids content Crown Channel: Prime members can grab free in-game content for Yahtzee with Buddies from Prime Gaming. Yahtzee with Buddies is featured in Season 2 of Chasing the Crown on Crown Channel. Chasing the Crown supports up-and-coming Twitch streamers, helping them build their audiences and hone their skills as they compete for a $50,000 cash prize. Season 2 starts Friday, Oct. 9 at twitch.tv/crown. Amazon Gift Cards: On October 13 and 14, Prime members will receive a $10 promotional credit when they purchase an Amazon Gift Card of $40 or more (including newly-launched Amazon Video eGift Cards, available on mobile) or reload their own gift card balance with $40 or more. This limited-time offer is available while supplies last and has a limit of one per Amazon customer account. The promotional credit will expire on November 29, 2020. Other restrictions apply. Audible: Prime members can save $50 on a year of Audible Premium Plus. Audible members will also get access to the Plus catalog, featuring more than 10K Audible Originals, audiobooks, wellness programs and podcasts, all available on an all-you-can-listen basis. One upcoming highlight of the Plus catalog is The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley & Friends, releasing only on Audible on October 14. This first podcast of its kind from the iconic children's show introduces preschool listeners to brand new Sesame Street character Foley, and includes original music, interactive games, jokes, and visits from friends like Elmo. IMDbPro: Prime members receive a 30-day free trial and save 60% on a new annual membership to IMDbPro at imdbpro.com, the essential resource for the entertainment industry, making it just $95 – the lowest price of the year – for a full year of access. IMDbPro members who join through the Prime Day offer are also eligible for 50% off Dropbox Plus for one year – the largest discount offered ever. This exclusive, limited-time offer is available for new and returning IMDbPro memberships. Amazon Warehouse: Members save an extra 20% on thousands of quality pre-owned, used and open box items for the kitchen, home, office, sports and outdoors, including major appliances, furniture, home décor and more. Visit amazon.com/amazonwarehouse. Woot!:Amazon's daily deal site will have deals with deep discounts and free shipping available only to Prime members from October 11 through October 17. Visit woot.com or download the Woot! app. Ways to Shop This Prime Day Shop with Alexa: Prime members can discover deals by asking "Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?" Plus, starting today and for a limited time, new Prime members who sign up for Prime using an Echo device will receive a $5 Amazon credit. Just say, "Alexa, sign me up for Prime." Holiday Gift Guides: Get an early start on holiday shopping with Amazon's biggest-ever selection of gift guides and exclusive storefronts, available earlier than ever before at amazon.com/gifts. Launching in time for Prime Day, Amazon's gift guides offer Prime members exclusive gifting selection and Prime Day deals from some of the hottest brands in toys, electronics, home, beauty, fashion and more. Amazon Prime Credit Cards: Now through October 31, eligible Prime members who apply and are approved for the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card will instantly receive a $100 Gift Card. To apply, visit amazon.com/primevisa. Additionally, from October 12 through October 18, eligible Prime members with an Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card or Amazon Prime Store Card will receive up to 25% back on a curated selection of best-selling products across categories including consumer electronics, home, digital gaming, and more. More details can be found at amazon.com/pcb. Go In-Store: Prime members can visit Amazon's physical retail locations, including Whole Foods Market, Amazon 4-star, Amazon Books, Amazon Pop Up, and Amazon Fresh to find in-store deals. Amazon Live: Tune in to Amazon Live throughout Prime Day to see live product demonstrations, hear directly from brands, and shop can't miss deals the minute they go live. Customers will see products in action through cooking demonstrations, try-on hauls, and more, and celebrities and influencers will be joining live to surprise customers with exclusive experiences. Viewers can easily shop the products and brands featured through a carousel that updates in real-time as hosts discuss the products. To watch, visit amazon.com/primeday and via the Amazon Shopping app on Fire TV. AmazonSmile: Customers can visitsmile.amazon.com and find the exact same Amazon experience – amazing deals, wide selection, fast and free delivery options – with the added bonus that AmazonSmile will donate a portion of the purchase price of eligible purchases to the charity of their choice. AmazonSmile customers can now shop AmazonSmile on the latest version of the Amazon app by opening the app and finding ‘Settings' in the main menu (☰), tap on ‘AmazonSmile' and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on AmazonSmile on your phone. Climate Pledge Friendly: Customers can discover and shop for products that have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications, which help preserve the natural world. Get details at amazon.com/ClimatePledgeFriendly. Amazon Photos Prime Day Photos Sweepstakes: Customers can enter for a chance to win the Prime Day Photos Sweepstakes by downloading the Amazon Photos app, sharing a photo that shows how Prime delivers joy, tagging Amazon Photos (@amazon.photos on Instagram and @amazonphotos on Facebook and Twitter), and using the hashtag #PrimeDayPhotos. A total of 30 winners will receive $1,000 Amazon.com Gift Cards good for purchases on Amazon.com. Get details at amazon.com/primedayphotos. Amazon.com in Spanish: Customers can visit amazon.com/espanol or use the Amazon App to shop, browse, search for millions of products, read reviews, view their carts, and place orders in Spanish. On the mobile App customers can go to Settings and tap on "Country and Language" to select Spanish. Amazon.com in Spanish gives customers the same convenient shopping experience in their preferred language on any device. Amazon App: Prime members can shop anytime, anywhere with the Amazon App to ensure you never miss a Prime Day deal. Every Day Made Better with Prime Prime was designed to make your life better every single day. Over 150 million paid members around the world enjoy the many benefits of Prime, including the best of shopping and entertainment. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs plus thousands of stations and playlists with Amazon Music, unlimited access to more than 1,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, free in-game content and games with Prime Gaming, Prime Day, and more. Prime members can also get deep discounts on select popular products at Whole Foods Market plus an additional 10 percent off hundreds of sale items. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. In addition to more than 10 million items eligible for free One-Day Delivery coast to coast, Prime members in thousands of cities and towns across 47 major metropolitan areas have access to millions of items with free Same-Day Delivery and the option to pick up and return their Amazon packages for free through Amazon Hub, a contactless, click and collect service at no additional cost. Prime members also have access to free and fast grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 2,000 cities and towns. Prime is $119 a year or $12.99 a month and new members can start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime. College students can join Prime Student for 50% off and enjoy the benefits of Prime with a six-month trial at amazon.com/primestudent. Plus, for an additional $0.99 a month, student members can get Amazon Music Unlimited and stream over 60 million songs ad-free. Customers receiving government assistance through EBT can also qualify for a discounted Prime membership of $5.99 a month at amazon.com/qualify. Amazon Business customers—from small businesses to large enterprises, as well as education, government and non-profit organizations—can also take advantage of Prime's fast, free shipping and exclusive business-relevant benefits with Business Prime, which starts at $69 per year as an add-on for customers with Amazon Prime on their personal account or $179 per year for up to three users at amazon.com/businessprime. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. 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<p><em>Prime Day kicks off Tuesday, October 13 at 12am PT and runs for 48 hours, delivering two full days of shopping on more than a million deals worldwide for Prime members</em></p><p><em>Through October 12, Amazon is offering a $10 credit to use on Prime Day to members who spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon's store</em></p><p><em>Through October 14, members can ‘Spend $10' to ‘Get $10' while shopping in store at Whole Foods Market, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go or Amazon Go Grocery, Amazon Books or Amazon Pop Up and Amazon 4-star stores and earn up to $50 in credits to use on Amazon.com during Prime Day</em></p><p><em>Shop with Alexa on an Echo device beginning Sunday, October 11, to get early access to select deals on devices. Just ask, "Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?" Members will also find select device deals early on Amazon.com starting Monday, October 12 at 12pm PT / 3pm ET</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2020-- Two full days of can't-miss savings are almost here as Amazon prepares to kick off Prime Day at 12am PT / 3am ET on October 13 in 19 countries worldwide. Prime members will have exclusive access to more than one million deals on everything they need and love, including the most popular, beloved brands and must-have holiday gifts across every category from toys, electronics, fashion, Amazon devices and more. Shop with Alexa on an Echo device beginning Sunday, October 11 to get early access to select deals on devices. Just ask, "Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?" Anyone can get a jump-start on their holiday shopping and savings this Prime Day by joining Prime or starting a free 30-day trial at amazon.com/primeday.</p><p>Support Small Businesses</p><p>Prime members can support small businesses this Prime Day by shopping deals featured in the Support Small storefront, Amazon Handmade and Amazon Launchpad. More than half of the items sold in Amazon's store worldwide are from third-party sellers – mostly small and medium-sized businesses, and last Prime Day, these sellers surpassed $2 billion in sales.</p><p>To make it easier than ever for customers to support small businesses, Amazon has launched new, curated collections to connect customers with local small businesses. Through October 12, Amazon is offering a $10 credit to use on Prime Day to members who spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon's store. Visit amazon.com/supportsmall to start shopping.</p><p>"We've been thrilled with the increased traffic and revenue Pawstruck has experienced this week since the Spend $10, Get $10 small business promotion launched," said Kyle Goguen, founder of Pawstruck in El Segundo, CA. "We're anxiously awaiting Prime Day 2020, where we expect even greater results."</p><p>Prime Day Deals Preview</p><p>When it comes to incredible deals on amazing products, Prime Day 2020 delivers in a big way with more deals than any Prime Day event before. Additionally, members can shop featured lightning deals, which offer jaw-dropping prices on top-tier brands and products. Watch for deals on Nintendo Switch Titles, Barbie &amp; Hot Wheels toys, iRobot Roomba vacuums, Panasonic Cameras and Premium Beauty brands this Prime Day. These offers could sell out quickly so be sure to come back and shop the entire 48 hours of Prime Day to cash in on the biggest savings.</p><p>A preview of Prime Day deals members can expect include:</p><p>Amazon Devices</p><ul><li>Save 60% on our most popular smart speaker, Echo Dot (3rd Gen), just $18.99</li><li>Save up to $80 on Echo Show devices. Get the Echo Show 5 for $44.99, Echo Show 8 for $64.99, and Echo Show (2nd Gen) for $149.99</li><li>Take Alexa on the road with $30 off Echo Auto, now with Auto Mode in the Alexa App and Start My Commute features, just $19.99</li><li>Fire TV Edition Smart TVs start at just $79.99. Plus, get the Insignia 32-inch Smart HD Fire TV Edition TV for $109.99 and the Toshiba 43-inch Smart 4K UHD Fire TV Edition TV for $209.99</li><li>Save $40 on Fire TV Cube and use your voice to control your entertainment experience, just $79.99</li><li>Save up to 45% on Fire tablets. Get the Fire HD 10 for $79.99 and Fire 7 Kids Edition tablet for $59.99</li><li>Save $75 on eero Mesh WiFi system ensuring you have whole home WiFi coverage, just $174.00</li><li>Save $20 on Ring Stick Up Cam, just $79.99.</li><li>Save 30% on Ring Video Doorbell devices and get Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Gen) for $69.99</li><li>Get Blink Mini Indoor Cam, just $24.99</li><li>Get your smart home started with Ring Video Doorbell 3 and Echo Show 5, just $149.99</li><li>Get an Echo Dot and LIFX Smart Bulb (Wi-Fi set up), just $18.99</li><li>Save $50 on Kindle Paperwhite, just $79.99</li><li>Save $35 on the Kindle Kids Edition, just $74.99</li></ul><p>Electronics</p><ul><li>Save 36% on 12 Month Nintendo Switch Online Family Membership + SanDisk 128GB Memory Card</li><li>Save up to 33% on select Nintendo Switch titles</li><li>Save up to 33% on DJI Mavic Mini Drone and Osmo cameras</li><li>Save up to 35% on Nixplay WIFI digital frames</li><li>Save up to 40% off on Panasonic cameras</li><li>Save up to 46% on Garmin GPS units and smartwatches</li><li>Save up to 30% on Tile trackers</li><li>Save 30% on select cell phone cases</li><li>Save on JBL Boombox</li><li>Save up to 30% on headphones from top brands</li><li>Save up to 30% on select Samsung and Sony TVs</li><li>Save 20% on Mynt 3D pens</li><li>Save 20% on Sindoh 3D printers</li><li>Save 30% on Dremel 3D20 DigiLab 3D Printer</li></ul><p>Smart Home</p><ul><li>Save $75 on Select August Locks and get a free Echo Dot(3rd Gen)</li><li>Save up to 30% off Arlo Smart Home Security Products</li><li>Save up to 33% on iRobot Roomba vacuums</li><li>Save on myQ Smart Garage Hub</li><li>Save up to 35% on Smart Home products from Moen, Leviton, Kasa and more</li><li>Save on ecobee3 lite Smart Thermostat</li><li>Save up to 44% on Shark vacuums</li><li>Save up to 22% on Hamilton Beach Works with Alexa Smart Coffee Maker</li></ul><p>Small Businesses Including Amazon Launchpad and Amazon Handmade</p><ul><li>Save up to 47% on Parker Baby Co. baby products and gear</li><li>Save up to 40% on Pawstruck natural dog treats</li><li>Save up to 25% on Simply Gum natural breath mints and chewing gum</li><li>Save 20% on select Amazon Launchpad products including Skoolzy STEM Peg Board Toddler Stacking Toys and Taco vs. Burrito, the surprisingly strategic card game</li><li>Save up to 25% on select Amazon Launchpad products including Trifo Robot Vacuum Cleaners</li><li>Save up to 20% on handcrafted gifts and décor from Amazon Handmade</li><li>Save 20% on pumpkin bakery soy candles from Amazon Handmade Maker, Lorenzen Candle Co</li><li>Save 20% on rose embossing rolling pins from Amazon Handmade Maker, Algis Crafts</li><li>Save 20% on blue simulated turquoise hoop earrings from Amazon Handmade Maker, MJLuLu</li><li>Save 20% on dog leash holders from Amazon Handmade Maker, G3 Studios</li></ul><p>Home &amp; Kitchen</p><ul><li>Save up to 30% on Classic Brands, Furrino, and Sauder furniture</li><li>Save up to 30% on Zinus furniture</li><li>Save up to 30% on Casper mattresses</li><li>Save up to 35% on Bissell floorcare</li><li>Save up to 40% on kitchen essentials from Le Creuset, Pyrex, Corelle and more</li><li>Save up to 50% on Instant Pot products</li><li>Save up to 30% on Cuisinart appliances and cookware</li><li>Save up to 37% on Ninja kitchen products</li></ul><p>Toys &amp; Games</p><ul><li>Save up to 30% on Arts &amp; Crafts sets for kids</li><li>Save up to 30% on Barbie &amp; Hot Wheels toys</li><li>Save up to 40% on Fashion Dolls and Accessories from brands like L.O.L. Surprise!, Calico Critters and Journey Girls</li><li>Save up to 30% on NERF Toys</li><li>Save up to 30% on Playskool, Sesame Street and Littlest Pet Shop toys</li><li>Save up to 30% on toys from Marvel, Star Wars and more</li><li>Save up to 30% on toys from Melissa &amp; Doug, V-Tech, Battat, Hape and more</li><li>Save up to 30% on Outdoor and Ride-on products</li><li>Save up to 30% on games from Magic the Gathering, Exploding Kittens and more</li><li>Save up to 30% on STEM toys and building sets</li><li>Save 15% on AmScope Microscopes for Kids</li></ul><p>Fashion</p><ul><li>Save up to 40% on select Levi's for the whole family</li><li>Save up to 35% on select Calvin Klein underwear</li><li>Save up to 50% on select watches from Citizen, Bulova, Anne Klein, Fossil and more</li><li>Save up to 30% on select men's and women's clothing and more from our brands</li><li>Save up to 30% on select Cubcoats for kids</li><li>Save up to 15% on select Fall fashion from Shopbop</li><li>Save up to 40% on select dresses from Shopbop</li><li>Save up to 30% on select styles from The Drop</li><li>Save up to 40% on select Champion apparel</li><li>Save up to 30% on select Tommy Hilfiger apparel</li><li>Save up to 30% on select New Balance for the family</li></ul><p>Beauty</p><ul><li>Save up to 43% on Panasonic's men's grooming products</li><li>Save more than 35% on Waterpik Counterop Aquarius products</li><li>Save up to 55% on select oral care favorites from Crest</li><li>Save up to 50% on select Conair products</li><li>Save up to 50% on select men's grooming favorites from Braun and Gillette</li><li>Save 20% on skin care products from brands including Aquaphor, Coppertone, Eucerin and Nivea</li><li>Save up to 40% on Premium Beauty hair and skin care appliances from top brands like BaBylissPro, ghd, Foreo, NuFace, Paul Mitchell, PMD Beauty, Rusk and T3</li><li>Save up to 40% on Premium Beauty favorites from brands including Bioderma, Elemis, HAUS Laboratories by Lady Gaga, Mustela, Oribe, Redken and Stila</li><li>Save 30% or more on Mario Badescu, Pureology, Nioxin, Philosophy, R+Co, Dermablend, Stila, BaBylisspRO, Glo Science, NuFace, PMD Beauty and many more Premium Beauty brands</li></ul><p>Health &amp; Personal Care</p><ul><li>Save 50% on 23andMe Health + Ancestry Personal Genetic Service Kit</li><li>Save up to 30% on Fitbit Versa 2, Versa Lite and Aria Air</li><li>Save up to 30% on household essentials from Proctor &amp; Gamble (P&amp;G)</li><li>Save up to 30% on ‘on the go' snack bars and ready to drink beverages</li><li>Save up to 20% on select products from Nature's Bounty</li><li>Save up to 20% on nutrition &amp; wellness favorites from brands including Garden of Life, Culturelle and Dymatize</li><li>Save up to 20% on Marpac white noise machines</li><li>Save up to 25% on home air fresheners from brands including Finish, Air Wick, Woolite and Rid-X</li><li>Save 15% on First Aid Only 299 All-Purpose First Aid Kit</li><li>Save 20% on Scott washroom essentials</li></ul><p>Amazon Brands</p><ul><li>Save up to 35% on coffee and espresso from Happy Belly and Solimo</li><li>Save up to 50% on Belei skin care products</li><li>Save 20% on baby essentials from Mama Bear</li><li>Save 20% on health and personal care products from Solimo</li><li>Save 20% on snacks and grocery essentials from Happy Belly</li><li>Save 20% on health and wellness products from Revly, Amazon Elements and Amazon Basic Care</li><li>Save up to 40% on AmazonBasics products including luggage and travel gear, home furnishings, and kitchen essentials</li></ul><p>Automotive, Tools &amp; Home Improvement</p><ul><li>Save 50% on Tire Installation</li><li>Save 35% off on NOCO Products</li><li>Save 20% on Shell Rotella T6 Full Synthetic 5W-40 Diesel Engine Oil</li><li>Save 20% on Select Chemical Guys Kits and Microfiber Towels</li><li>Save 20% on Select Chemical Guys Kits</li><li>Save 30% on Select Camco Rhino Heavy Duty Tote Tanks</li><li>Save up to 40% on DEWALT tools</li><li>Save up to 40% on CRAFTSMAN tools</li><li>Save on Sylvania light bulbs</li><li>Save up to 15% on select Kidde smoke &amp; carbon monoxide alarms</li></ul><p>Lawn &amp; Garden</p><ul><li>Save on select Scotts lawn and garden products</li><li>Save up to 20% on select Shop Succulents live plants</li><li>Save up to 20% on select Costa Farms live plants</li><li>Save up to 20% on select Briggs &amp; Stratton power products</li><li>Save up to 20% on select Classic Accessories patio covers</li><li>Save up to 20% on select Worx fall clean up equipment and power tools</li><li>Save up to 15% on select Worx Hydroshot pressure washer and PowerShare products</li><li>Save up to 30% on select BLACK+DECKER string and hedge trimmers</li></ul><p>Baby</p><ul><li>Save up to 35% on baby feeding essentials</li><li>Save up to 20% on baby bath essentials</li><li>Save 20% on 4-Star baby products</li><li>Save 20% or more on baby nursery essentials</li><li>Save up to 20% on Evenflo products</li></ul><p>Sports &amp; Outdoors</p><ul><li>Save up to 30% on select Segway self-balancing electric scooters</li><li>Save up to 20% on select Speedo Swim apparel and equipment</li><li>Save up to 35% on select adidas clothing, footwear and accessories</li><li>Save up to 40% on Coleman Outdoor Essentials</li></ul><p>Pets</p><ul><li>Save 30% on Wellness dog &amp; cat food and treats</li><li>Save up to 20% on Bayer K9 Advantix</li></ul><p>Major Appliances</p><ul><li>Save up to 15% on GE Profile Ice Maker</li><li>Save up to 20% on Midea Fridges and Freezers</li><li>Save up to 20% on Winia Compact Appliances</li><li>Save up to 15% on New Air Appliances</li><li>Save up to 20% on Broan Range Hoods</li><li>Save up to 20% on Cosmo Appliances</li></ul><p>Grocery</p><ul><li>Save up to 35% on select products from Orgain</li><li>Save 35% on customer favorite beverages from brands including Keurig, Crystal Light and more</li><li>Save 30% on Hershey's Halloween candy favorites</li><li>Save up to 25% on ConAgra products</li><li>Save 30% or more on select pantry staples from Campbell's, Izze's, Planters, Quaker, RX Bar and more</li></ul><p>Additional Deals from Across Amazon</p><ul><li>Spend $10, Get $10 In-Store: Prime members who shop online or in store at Whole Foods Market, as well as at Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go or Amazon Go Grocery, Amazon Books or Amazon Pop Up, and Amazon 4-star can receive up to $50 in Amazon.com credit to use on Prime Day by earning the "Spend $10, Get $10" in-store offer.</li><li>Amazon Fresh: New Fresh customers can enjoy $15 off their first order of $50 or more on Amazon Fresh.</li><li>Amazon Music Unlimited: For just $0.99, Prime members who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get four months of the premium streaming tier with unlimited access to more than 60 million songs ad-free, and now a wide selection of popular podcasts. With purchase of select Amazon Echo devices on Prime Day, Prime members new to Amazon Music Unlimited can get six months free access to the premium music streaming tier now featuring podcasts.</li><li>Prime Video: Enjoy a selection of titles to rent or buy at up to 50% off and for a limited time, customers will be able to subscribe to select channels for $0.99 per month for up to two months if they are not already subscribed. Only pay for the channels you want and cancel anytime. A full list of Prime Video deals, including the offer window for each, can be found at amazon.com/primememberdeals.</li><li>Kindle Unlimited: New customers to Kindle Unlimited get 3 months free with a new subscription</li><li>Kindle Book Deals: Receive a $5 credit on any Kindle book with the purchase of select Kindle devices.</li><li>Books: Discover discount and flash deals on select multi-genre books and ebooks, including kids content</li><li>Crown Channel: Prime members can grab free in-game content for <em>Yahtzee with Buddies </em>from Prime Gaming. <em>Yahtzee with Buddies</em> is featured in Season 2 of <em>Chasing the Crown </em>on Crown Channel. <em>Chasing the Crown</em> supports up-and-coming Twitch streamers, helping them build their audiences and hone their skills as they compete for a $50,000 cash prize. Season 2 starts Friday, Oct. 9 at twitch.tv/crown.</li><li>Amazon Gift Cards: On October 13 and 14, Prime members will receive a $10 promotional credit when they purchase an Amazon Gift Card of $40 or more (including newly-launched Amazon Video eGift Cards, available on mobile) or reload their own gift card balance with $40 or more. This limited-time offer is available while supplies last and has a limit of one per Amazon customer account. The promotional credit will expire on November 29, 2020. Other restrictions apply.</li><li>Audible: Prime members can save $50 on a year of Audible Premium Plus. Audible members will also get access to the Plus catalog, featuring more than 10K Audible Originals, audiobooks, wellness programs and podcasts, all available on an all-you-can-listen basis. One upcoming highlight of the Plus catalog is <em>The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley &amp; Friends</em>, releasing only on Audible on October 14. This first podcast of its kind from the iconic children's show introduces preschool listeners to brand new Sesame Street character Foley, and includes original music, interactive games, jokes, and visits from friends like Elmo.</li><li>IMDbPro: Prime members receive a 30-day free trial and save 60% on a new annual membership to IMDbPro at imdbpro.com, the essential resource for the entertainment industry, making it just $95 – the lowest price of the year – for a full year of access. IMDbPro members who join through the Prime Day offer are also eligible for 50% off Dropbox Plus for one year – the largest discount offered ever. This exclusive, limited-time offer is available for new and returning IMDbPro memberships.</li><li>Amazon Warehouse: Members save an extra 20% on thousands of quality pre-owned, used and open box items for the kitchen, home, office, sports and outdoors, including major appliances, furniture, home décor and more. Visit amazon.com/amazonwarehouse.</li><li>Woot!:Amazon's daily deal site will have deals with deep discounts and free shipping available only to Prime members from October 11 through October 17. Visit woot.com or download the Woot! app.</li></ul><p>Ways to Shop This Prime Day</p><ul><li>Shop with Alexa: Prime members can discover deals by asking "Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?" Plus, starting today and for a limited time, new Prime members who sign up for Prime using an Echo device will receive a $5 Amazon credit. Just say, "Alexa, sign me up for Prime."</li><li>Holiday Gift Guides: Get an early start on holiday shopping with Amazon's biggest-ever selection of gift guides and exclusive storefronts, available earlier than ever before at amazon.com/gifts. Launching in time for Prime Day, Amazon's gift guides offer Prime members exclusive gifting selection and Prime Day deals from some of the hottest brands in toys, electronics, home, beauty, fashion and more.</li><li>Amazon Prime Credit Cards: Now through October 31, eligible Prime members who apply and are approved for the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card will instantly receive a $100 Gift Card. To apply, visit amazon.com/primevisa. Additionally, from October 12 through October 18, eligible Prime members with an Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card or Amazon Prime Store Card will receive up to 25% back on a curated selection of best-selling products across categories including consumer electronics, home, digital gaming, and more. More details can be found at amazon.com/pcb.</li><li>Go In-Store: Prime members can visit Amazon's physical retail locations, including Whole Foods Market, Amazon 4-star, Amazon Books, Amazon Pop Up, and Amazon Fresh to find in-store deals.</li><li>Amazon Live: Tune in to Amazon Live throughout Prime Day to see live product demonstrations, hear directly from brands, and shop can't miss deals the minute they go live. Customers will see products in action through cooking demonstrations, try-on hauls, and more, and celebrities and influencers will be joining live to surprise customers with exclusive experiences. Viewers can easily shop the products and brands featured through a carousel that updates in real-time as hosts discuss the products. To watch, visit amazon.com/primeday and via the Amazon Shopping app on Fire TV.</li><li>AmazonSmile: Customers can visitsmile.amazon.com and find the exact same Amazon experience – amazing deals, wide selection, fast and free delivery options – with the added bonus that AmazonSmile will donate a portion of the purchase price of eligible purchases to the charity of their choice. AmazonSmile customers can now shop AmazonSmile on the latest version of the Amazon app by opening the app and finding ‘Settings' in the main menu (☰), tap on ‘AmazonSmile' and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on AmazonSmile on your phone.</li><li>Climate Pledge Friendly: Customers can discover and shop for products that have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications, which help preserve the natural world. Get details at amazon.com/ClimatePledgeFriendly.</li><li>Amazon Photos Prime Day Photos Sweepstakes: Customers can enter for a chance to win the Prime Day Photos Sweepstakes by downloading the Amazon Photos app, sharing a photo that shows how Prime delivers joy, tagging Amazon Photos (@amazon.photos on Instagram and @amazonphotos on Facebook and Twitter), and using the hashtag #PrimeDayPhotos. A total of 30 winners will receive $1,000 Amazon.com Gift Cards good for purchases on Amazon.com. Get details at amazon.com/primedayphotos.</li><li>Amazon.com in Spanish: Customers can visit amazon.com/espanol or use the Amazon App to shop, browse, search for millions of products, read reviews, view their carts, and place orders in Spanish. On the mobile App customers can go to Settings and tap on "Country and Language" to select Spanish. Amazon.com in Spanish gives customers the same convenient shopping experience in their preferred language on any device.</li><li>Amazon App: Prime members can shop anytime, anywhere with the Amazon App to ensure you never miss a Prime Day deal.</li></ul><p>Every Day Made Better with Prime</p><p>Prime was designed to make your life better every single day. Over 150 million paid members around the world enjoy the many benefits of Prime, including the best of shopping and entertainment. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs plus thousands of stations and playlists with Amazon Music, unlimited access to more than 1,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, free in-game content and games with Prime Gaming, Prime Day, and more. Prime members can also get deep discounts on select popular products at Whole Foods Market plus an additional 10 percent off hundreds of sale items. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. In addition to more than 10 million items eligible for free One-Day Delivery coast to coast, Prime members in thousands of cities and towns across 47 major metropolitan areas have access to millions of items with free Same-Day Delivery and the option to pick up and return their Amazon packages for free through Amazon Hub, a contactless, click and collect service at no additional cost. Prime members also have access to free and fast grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 2,000 cities and towns. Prime is $119 a year or $12.99 a month and new members can start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime. College students can join Prime Student for 50% off and enjoy the benefits of Prime with a six-month trial at amazon.com/primestudent. Plus, for an additional $0.99 a month, student members can get Amazon Music Unlimited and stream over 60 million songs ad-free. Customers receiving government assistance through EBT can also qualify for a discounted Prime membership of $5.99 a month at amazon.com/qualify. Amazon Business customers—from small businesses to large enterprises, as well as education, government and non-profit organizations—can also take advantage of Prime's fast, free shipping and exclusive business-relevant benefits with Business Prime, which starts at $69 per year as an add-on for customers with Amazon Prime on their personal account or $179 per year for up to three users at amazon.com/businessprime.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201008006027/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Carrier and AWS Collaborate to Transform How Food, Medicine, Vaccines, and Other Perishable Goods Are Moved and Monitored Globally

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Carrier and AWS Collaborate to Transform How Food, Medicine, Vaccines, and Other Perishable Goods Are Moved and Monitored Globally

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Carrier's new Lynx digital platform will provide customers with greater connectivity, visibility, and intelligence across the cold chain to improve safe transport of temperature-controlled items SEATTLE & PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), a leading global provider of healthy, safe, and sustainable building and cold chain solutions, announced a multi-year agreement to co-develop Carrier's new Lynx™ digital platform. This suite of tools will provide Carrier customers around the world with enhanced visibility, increased connectivity, and actionable intelligence across their cold chain operations to improve outcomes for temperature-sensitive cargo, including food, medicine, and vaccines. The collaboration builds on Carrier's selection of AWS as its preferred cloud services provider in February 2020. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201008005287/en/ Carrier's new Lynx digital platform, being co-developed with AWS, will provide Carrier customers around the world with enhanced visibility, increased connectivity, and actionable intelligence across their cold chain operations to improve outcomes for temperature-sensitive cargo, including food, medicine, and vaccines. (Graphic: Business Wire) The Lynx platform will combine AWS's IoT, analytics, and machine learning services with Carrier's refrigeration and monitoring solutions, extending Carrier's current digital offerings for managing the temperature-controlled transport and storage of perishables. Customers using the Lynx platform will benefit from end-to-end tracking, real-time alerts, automated processes, and predictive analytics to help them deliver temperature-controlled cargo more efficiently, in turn decreasing the cost of cold chain operations by optimizing resource utilization and reducing cargo loss and spoilage. Leveraging AWS IoT services to collect, integrate, organize, and analyze data from Carrier's large installed base of refrigeration equipment and monitoring solutions, along with sources such as traffic and weather reports, the Lynx platform will provide a comprehensive view of cargo location, temperature conditions, and external events that could impact cold chain operations. This information will feed into a data lake built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) where Carrier can use AWS machine learning services to identify potential issues that could impact cargo, as well as run sophisticated analytics to develop recommendations for improving outcomes. For example, by analyzing historic and real-time performance data from Carrier's cloud-connected equipment, the Lynx platform could suggest proactive maintenance to maximize a specific piece of equipment's availability. Looking ahead, Carrier and AWS plan to introduce a capability for the Lynx platform to provide recommendations related to cargo routing and improved fleet utilization, adding greater resilience into the cold chain that will help Carrier's customers to manage costs, schedules, and resources. "Carrier is committed to delivering a healthier, safer, and more sustainable cold chain. Through this collaboration with AWS, we are developing a uniquely powerful ecosystem to give our customers greater flexibility, visibility, and intelligence across the cold chain," said David Appel, President, Carrier Refrigeration. "The Lynx platform will help our customers make faster, data-driven decisions to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of their supply chains. This digital solution will enhance connectivity across the cold chain, decreasing delays for cargo that is critical to global health and well-being, while reducing cargo damage, loss, and unanticipated costs." "Carrier and AWS are tackling the complexity and fragmentation of the cold chain to give supply chain customers the transparency, flexibility, and insights they require to reduce risk and deliver food, medicine, and vaccines when and where they're needed," said Sarah Cooper, General Manager, IoT Solutions at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "This project, which combines Carrier's cold chain expertise with AWS's digital experience and unparalleled portfolio of services, highlights how entire industries stand to benefit from digital transformation through increased efficiency, reduced costs, and greater dependability." Visit Carrier.com/Lynx to learn more. About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

<p><em>Carrier's new Lynx digital platform will provide customers with greater connectivity, visibility, and intelligence across the cold chain to improve safe transport of temperature-controlled items</em></p><p>SEATTLE &amp; PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), a leading global provider of healthy, safe, and sustainable building and cold chain solutions, announced a multi-year agreement to co-develop Carrier's new Lynx^™ digital platform. This suite of tools will provide Carrier customers around the world with enhanced visibility, increased connectivity, and actionable intelligence across their cold chain operations to improve outcomes for temperature-sensitive cargo, including food, medicine, and vaccines. The collaboration builds on Carrier's selection of AWS as its preferred cloud services provider in February 2020.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201008005287/en/</p><div><p>Carrier's new Lynx digital platform, being co-developed with AWS, will provide Carrier customers around the world with enhanced visibility, increased connectivity, and actionable intelligence across their cold chain operations to improve outcomes for temperature-sensitive cargo, including food, medicine, and vaccines. (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>The Lynx platform will combine AWS's IoT, analytics, and machine learning services with Carrier's refrigeration and monitoring solutions, extending Carrier's current digital offerings for managing the temperature-controlled transport and storage of perishables. Customers using the Lynx platform will benefit from end-to-end tracking, real-time alerts, automated processes, and predictive analytics to help them deliver temperature-controlled cargo more efficiently, in turn decreasing the cost of cold chain operations by optimizing resource utilization and reducing cargo loss and spoilage.</p><p>Leveraging AWS IoT services to collect, integrate, organize, and analyze data from Carrier's large installed base of refrigeration equipment and monitoring solutions, along with sources such as traffic and weather reports, the Lynx platform will provide a comprehensive view of cargo location, temperature conditions, and external events that could impact cold chain operations. This information will feed into a data lake built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) where Carrier can use AWS machine learning services to identify potential issues that could impact cargo, as well as run sophisticated analytics to develop recommendations for improving outcomes. For example, by analyzing historic and real-time performance data from Carrier's cloud-connected equipment, the Lynx platform could suggest proactive maintenance to maximize a specific piece of equipment's availability. Looking ahead, Carrier and AWS plan to introduce a capability for the Lynx platform to provide recommendations related to cargo routing and improved fleet utilization, adding greater resilience into the cold chain that will help Carrier's customers to manage costs, schedules, and resources.</p><p>"Carrier is committed to delivering a healthier, safer, and more sustainable cold chain. Through this collaboration with AWS, we are developing a uniquely powerful ecosystem to give our customers greater flexibility, visibility, and intelligence across the cold chain," said David Appel, President, Carrier Refrigeration. "The Lynx platform will help our customers make faster, data-driven decisions to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of their supply chains. This digital solution will enhance connectivity across the cold chain, decreasing delays for cargo that is critical to global health and well-being, while reducing cargo damage, loss, and unanticipated costs."</p><p>"Carrier and AWS are tackling the complexity and fragmentation of the cold chain to give supply chain customers the transparency, flexibility, and insights they require to reduce risk and deliver food, medicine, and vaccines when and where they're needed," said Sarah Cooper, General Manager, IoT Solutions at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "This project, which combines Carrier's cold chain expertise with AWS's digital experience and unparalleled portfolio of services, highlights how entire industries stand to benefit from digital transformation through increased efficiency, reduced costs, and greater dependability."</p><p>Visit Carrier.com/Lynx to learn more.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p>

Amazon Launches Innovative "Right Now Needs Fund" to Help Remove Barriers to Learning for Thousands of Students In Need Across 59 Northern Virginia Schools Amid COVID-19

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Amazon Launches Innovative "Right Now Needs Fund" to Help Remove Barriers to Learning for Thousands of Students In Need Across 59 Northern Virginia Schools Amid COVID-19

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Amazon's $1 million donation to ensure students within Arlington Public Schools and Alexandria City Public Schools can secure basic necessities, including food, school supplies, hygiene products, and more ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Communities In Schools NOVA today announced Amazon is making a $1 million donation to support the immediate needs of thousands of students from underserved communities in Northern Virginia amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities In Schools NOVA will distribute Amazon's donation through its innovative "Right Now Needs Fund"—a flexible fund designed to meet the basic needs of schoolchildren and help eliminate barriers to learning. The Right Now Needs Fund in Northern Virginia will provide students with immediate access to urgently needed items including food, clothing, and school supplies across all 41 Arlington Public Schools and programs and all 18 Alexandria City Public Schools. Site Coordinators and school social workers within each of the school districts and schools will work with families to identify individual student needs and request assistance from the Fund. Communities In Schools NOVA, leveraging existing relationships with both school districts, will distribute Amazon Education Assistance Product Vouchers – a prepaid payment designed specifically for education-related needs. Students and their families can redeem the vouchers for a wide variety of carefully curated items that students need to be successful at school, including food, school supplies for at-home learning, warm clothing, hygiene items, and more. By using the prepaid vouchers, students and families can redeem much-needed items in a dignified and convenient way. "The start of this school year has been difficult for many families across our new home of Northern Virginia, and we are determined to provide support to the students who need it most," said Jay Carney, Amazon Senior Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs. "At Amazon, we are always looking for innovative solutions to tough challenges, and we are confident that the flexibility and speed built into our new Right Now Needs Fund will help ensure that more students from underserved communities can focus on their studies, and not fall behind as the COVID-19 pandemic continues." In 2018, Amazon launched its first Right Now Needs Fund in its hometown of Seattle. To date, the initial investment has already provided Seattle Public Schools students with over 17,000 instances of support for basic needs. Moreover, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, the Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle distributed 27% more funds from the same time last year. Since March, Amazon expanded its Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle and launched a new Right Now Needs Fund in Bellevue, Washington to support an additional 133 schools in the Greater Seattle area. Amazon recently donated nearly 800 Mi-Fi devices and $75,000 to secure thousands of headsets for students across Northern Virginia starting the school year from home. In addition, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Amazon's HQ2 region, Amazon donated $1 million to kick-start emergency response efforts, provided thousands of devices to groups supporting students in need, donated cash and in-kind products to local nonprofits and food banks, paid local restaurants to prepare and deliver 10,000 lunches and dinners for first responders, frontline healthcare workers, and vulnerable neighbors, and funded delivery services to provide more than 50,000 meals—60,000 pounds of food—directly to the doorsteps of local seniors and those disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Amazon also donated $3.9 million to nonprofit CodeVA to help make virtual computer science curriculum and training available Virginia teachers and students so that they don't fall behind in learning this increasingly important skillset. There are currently more than 50 schools and counting in the state of Virginia part of the Amazon Future Engineer program. "Communities In Schools NOVA appreciates the trust Amazon has placed in our ability to collaborate with schools and community partners on implementing the Right Now Needs Fund," said Patrick Brennan, Executive Director, Communities In Schools NOVA. "Every student, regardless of circumstance, deserves a seamless system of support so they can stay in school and achieve in life." "Many families are facing hardship in the pandemic, and these vouchers are a wonderful way to provide direct support to students so that they can purchase food, clothing, school supplies, and other essentials," said Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Francisco Durán. "I would also like to thank Amazon for providing 500 MiFi's to help us bridge the digital divide some of our students are facing during this pandemic. We appreciate the commitment and support of Amazon and Communities In Schools for coming together to help our students and their families. It truly takes a village to support our equity efforts, and this is another step that will allow our students in need to focus on learning while at home." "In keeping with our goal of expanding the "plus" in our Virtual PLUS+ model, we are grateful to Amazon for their generous donation to one of our Virtual PLUS+ partners, Communities In Schools (CIS). CIS will work closely with Alexandria City Public Schools to identify families that need additional supports to be academically successful, and this will help our students in greatest need stay connected to their school and community during this pandemic while providing targeted relief, resources and supplies for our families," said Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. In response to COVID-19, Amazon has supported communities, employees, partners and customers across the country. Since March, Amazon has donated more than 13,000 laptops to students in need, distributed more than $5 million worth of Amazon devices to help healthcare workers and nonprofits, delivered more than 9 million meals across 25 U.S. cities, launched free, virtual computer science resources and expanded its Amazon Future Engineer program to more than 550,000 students, donated more than $20 million to help accelerate COVID-19 research, donated $10 million in critically needed PPE supplies, and more. To learn more about what Amazon is doing in response to COVID-19, check out the Amazon Blog: Day One. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Amazon in the Community Amazon is committed to helping more children and young adults, especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities, have the resources and skills they need to build their best future. Amazon focuses on building long-term, innovative, and high impact programs that leverage Amazon's unique assets and culture. Initiatives include Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and excite hundreds of thousands of children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities each year to pursue computer science, as well as programs that support immediate needs, including addressing family homelessness through donations and housing a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters, as well as global relief efforts for people in need following natural disasters. About Communities In Schools NOVA Communities In Schools builds relationships that empower students to stay in school and succeed in life. Our school-based staff partner with teachers to identify challenges students face in class or at home and coordinate with community partners to bring outside resources inside schools. We remove barriers for students at risk of dropping out and leverage evidence, relationships, and local resources to drive results. While schools are closed, we're working in and across communities to bring resources like meals, educational materials, and emotional support to the kids that need them the most. CIS NOVA has partnered with Arlington Public Schools since 2013 and Alexandria City Public Schools since 2015. In the 2019-2020 school year, 100% of our case-managed students stayed in school and 97% were promoted to the next grade level. To learn more about Communities in Schools NOVA, visit https://cisofnova.org/. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201007005295/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon's $1 million donation to ensure students within Arlington Public Schools and Alexandria City Public Schools can secure basic necessities, including food, school supplies, hygiene products, and more</em></p><p>ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Communities In Schools NOVA today announced Amazon is making a $1 million donation to support the immediate needs of thousands of students from underserved communities in Northern Virginia amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities In Schools NOVA will distribute Amazon's donation through its innovative "Right Now Needs Fund"—a flexible fund designed to meet the basic needs of schoolchildren and help eliminate barriers to learning. The Right Now Needs Fund in Northern Virginia will provide students with immediate access to urgently needed items including food, clothing, and school supplies across all 41 Arlington Public Schools and programs and all 18 Alexandria City Public Schools.</p><p>Site Coordinators and school social workers within each of the school districts and schools will work with families to identify individual student needs and request assistance from the Fund. Communities In Schools NOVA, leveraging existing relationships with both school districts, will distribute Amazon Education Assistance Product Vouchers – a prepaid payment designed specifically for education-related needs. Students and their families can redeem the vouchers for a wide variety of carefully curated items that students need to be successful at school, including food, school supplies for at-home learning, warm clothing, hygiene items, and more. By using the prepaid vouchers, students and families can redeem much-needed items in a dignified and convenient way.</p><p>"The start of this school year has been difficult for many families across our new home of Northern Virginia, and we are determined to provide support to the students who need it most," said Jay Carney, Amazon Senior Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs. "At Amazon, we are always looking for innovative solutions to tough challenges, and we are confident that the flexibility and speed built into our new Right Now Needs Fund will help ensure that more students from underserved communities can focus on their studies, and not fall behind as the COVID-19 pandemic continues."</p><p>In 2018, Amazon launched its first Right Now Needs Fund in its hometown of Seattle. To date, the initial investment has already provided Seattle Public Schools students with over 17,000 instances of support for basic needs. Moreover, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, the Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle distributed 27% more funds from the same time last year. Since March, Amazon expanded its Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle and launched a new Right Now Needs Fund in Bellevue, Washington to support an additional 133 schools in the Greater Seattle area.</p><p>Amazon recently donated nearly 800 Mi-Fi devices and $75,000 to secure thousands of headsets for students across Northern Virginia starting the school year from home. In addition, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Amazon's HQ2 region, Amazon donated $1 million to kick-start emergency response efforts, provided thousands of devices to groups supporting students in need, donated cash and in-kind products to local nonprofits and food banks, paid local restaurants to prepare and deliver 10,000 lunches and dinners for first responders, frontline healthcare workers, and vulnerable neighbors, and funded delivery services to provide more than 50,000 meals—60,000 pounds of food—directly to the doorsteps of local seniors and those disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Amazon also donated $3.9 million to nonprofit CodeVA to help make virtual computer science curriculum and training available Virginia teachers and students so that they don't fall behind in learning this increasingly important skillset. There are currently more than 50 schools and counting in the state of Virginia part of the Amazon Future Engineer program.</p><p>"Communities In Schools NOVA appreciates the trust Amazon has placed in our ability to collaborate with schools and community partners on implementing the Right Now Needs Fund," said Patrick Brennan, Executive Director, Communities In Schools NOVA<em>. </em>"Every student, regardless of circumstance, deserves a seamless system of support so they can stay in school and achieve in life."</p><p>"Many families are facing hardship in the pandemic, and these vouchers are a wonderful way to provide direct support to students so that they can purchase food, clothing, school supplies, and other essentials," said Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Francisco Durán. "I would also like to thank Amazon for providing 500 MiFi's to help us bridge the digital divide some of our students are facing during this pandemic. We appreciate the commitment and support of Amazon and Communities In Schools for coming together to help our students and their families. It truly takes a village to support our equity efforts, and this is another step that will allow our students in need to focus on learning while at home."</p><p>"In keeping with our goal of expanding the "plus" in our Virtual PLUS+ model, we are grateful to Amazon for their generous donation to one of our Virtual PLUS+ partners, Communities In Schools (CIS). CIS will work closely with Alexandria City Public Schools to identify families that need additional supports to be academically successful, and this will help our students in greatest need stay connected to their school and community during this pandemic while providing targeted relief, resources and supplies for our families," said Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr.</p><p>In response to COVID-19, Amazon has supported communities, employees, partners and customers across the country. Since March, Amazon has donated more than 13,000 laptops to students in need, distributed more than $5 million worth of Amazon devices to help healthcare workers and nonprofits, delivered more than 9 million meals across 25 U.S. cities, launched free, virtual computer science resources and expanded its Amazon Future Engineer program to more than 550,000 students, donated more than $20 million to help accelerate COVID-19 research, donated $10 million in critically needed PPE supplies, and more. To learn more about what Amazon is doing in response to COVID-19, check out the Amazon Blog: Day One.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Amazon in the Community</p><p>Amazon is committed to helping more children and young adults, especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities, have the resources and skills they need to build their best future. Amazon focuses on building long-term, innovative, and high impact programs that leverage Amazon's unique assets and culture. Initiatives include Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and excite hundreds of thousands of children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities each year to pursue computer science, as well as programs that support immediate needs, including addressing family homelessness through donations and housing a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters, as well as global relief efforts for people in need following natural disasters.</p><p>About Communities In Schools NOVA</p><p>Communities In Schools builds relationships that empower students to stay in school and succeed in life. Our school-based staff partner with teachers to identify challenges students face in class or at home and coordinate with community partners to bring outside resources inside schools. We remove barriers for students at risk of dropping out and leverage evidence, relationships, and local resources to drive results. While schools are closed, we're working in and across communities to bring resources like meals, educational materials, and emotional support to the kids that need them the most. CIS NOVA has partnered with Arlington Public Schools since 2013 and Alexandria City Public Schools since 2015. In the 2019-2020 school year, 100% of our case-managed students stayed in school and 97% were promoted to the next grade level. To learn more about Communities in Schools NOVA, visit https://cisofnova.org/.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201007005295/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Introducing eero for Service Providers

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Introducing eero for Service Providers

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eero's all-new premium hardware and software offering helps internet service providers (ISPs) improve customer retention and enhance the customer wifi experience centered around the home SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Today eero, an Amazon company, introduced eero for Service Providers—an all-new premium hardware and software offering designed specifically to help internet service providers (ISPs) meet customers' increasing demands for exceptional home wifi. Beginning this November, eero for Service Providers will bring together real-time, actionable insights, advanced security measures and whole-home mesh wifi systems to help ISPs offer fast, reliable wifi and create new opportunities to improve the customer experience. "Customers want an ISP that can deliver a fast, reliable and secure foundation for their smart home so they can work, learn and play without disruption," said Mark Sieglock, GM of Software Services at eero. "Today, we're significantly expanding our current ISP offering to help simplify the customer experience and enable high-performing wifi throughout the whole home. We gathered insight from our partners to craft a solution that helps service providers solve their biggest challenges and meet the evolving needs of their customers." eero for Service Providers Benefits eero for Service Providers offers a tailored solution to give ISPs a premium combination of tools at attractive price points, in order to improve customer satisfaction, retention and growth. eero for Service Providers consists of three key elements: eero Insight: This all-new premium feature adds on to eero's existing Remote Network Management software, combining history, aggregation and actionable insights to predict and address customer problems before they escalate. With up to an estimated 30 percent reduction in time spent resolving wifi issues, technicians and service teams can focus on core service-related issues resulting in an overall better customer experience. Advanced IT capabilities include a network topology viewer, historical speed tests and bandwidth usage, RF diagnostics, alerts, audit logs, outage detection, fleet analysis and network health. With a dedicated eero customer service line and API support, service providers will have the tools required to give their customers a reliable, secure wifi experience. eero Secure: For additional peace of mind, we offer advanced security and privacy features and parental controls with eero Secure. This security subscription service blocks malware, spyware, phishing and other malicious threats from customers' devices and is equipped with world-class security protocols, ad blocking, content filtering and connected device security. When eero Secure is deployed with eero mesh wifi systems, eero has seen customer retention increase by up to 40 percent. All-new eero 6 Series Mesh Wifi Systems: In addition to our existing series of whole-home mesh wifi systems, we are also offering ISPs eero's all-new eero 6 series featuring Wi-Fi 6, the latest technology supporting faster speeds, higher performance and more simultaneously connected devices. Featuring a built-in Zigbee smart home hub, the eero 6 series connects compatible devices on customers' networks so they don't need a separate Zigbee hub. We also make it easy for customers to self-install in minutes and manage their eero experience with an eero and ISP co-branded mobile app that allows them to pause the internet, share their network with friends or guests, and more. eero for Service Providers will be available beginning this November for initial release in the U.S. and Canada, with additional feature releases in December and throughout 2021. This offering builds on eero's growing service provider business with ISPs across North America, Latin America, Europe and Australia. For more information about eero wifi systems visit eero.com. About eero The first mesh home wifi system, eero blankets any home in reliable and secure wifi. eero's digital security services, eero Secure and eero Secure+, protect connected devices, privacy, and family. Available through participating retailers and internet service providers, eero is simple to set up, even easier to manage, and improves over time with regular, automatic software updates. Founded in San Francisco in 2014 by Amos Schallich, Nate Hardison, and Nick Weaver, eero is an Amazon company. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201006005740/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>eero's all-new premium hardware and software offering helps internet service providers (ISPs) improve customer retention and enhance the customer wifi experience centered around the home</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Today eero, an Amazon company, introduced eero for Service Providers—an all-new premium hardware and software offering designed specifically to help internet service providers (ISPs) meet customers' increasing demands for exceptional home wifi. Beginning this November, eero for Service Providers will bring together real-time, actionable insights, advanced security measures and whole-home mesh wifi systems to help ISPs offer fast, reliable wifi and create new opportunities to improve the customer experience.</p><p>"Customers want an ISP that can deliver a fast, reliable and secure foundation for their smart home so they can work, learn and play without disruption," said Mark Sieglock, GM of Software Services at eero. "Today, we're significantly expanding our current ISP offering to help simplify the customer experience and enable high-performing wifi throughout the whole home. We gathered insight from our partners to craft a solution that helps service providers solve their biggest challenges and meet the evolving needs of their customers."</p><p>eero for Service Providers Benefits</p><p>eero for Service Providers offers a tailored solution to give ISPs a premium combination of tools at attractive price points, in order to improve customer satisfaction, retention and growth. eero for Service Providers consists of three key elements:</p><ul><li>eero Insight: This all-new premium feature adds on to eero's existing Remote Network Management software, combining history, aggregation and actionable insights to predict and address customer problems before they escalate. With up to an estimated 30 percent reduction in time spent resolving wifi issues, technicians and service teams can focus on core service-related issues resulting in an overall better customer experience. Advanced IT capabilities include a network topology viewer, historical speed tests and bandwidth usage, RF diagnostics, alerts, audit logs, outage detection, fleet analysis and network health. With a dedicated eero customer service line and API support, service providers will have the tools required to give their customers a reliable, secure wifi experience.</li></ul><ul><li>eero Secure: For additional peace of mind, we offer advanced security and privacy features and parental controls with eero Secure. This security subscription service blocks malware, spyware, phishing and other malicious threats from customers' devices and is equipped with world-class security protocols, ad blocking, content filtering and connected device security. When eero Secure is deployed with eero mesh wifi systems, eero has seen customer retention increase by up to 40 percent.</li></ul><ul><li>All-new eero 6 Series Mesh Wifi Systems: In addition to our existing series of whole-home mesh wifi systems, we are also offering ISPs eero's all-new eero 6 series featuring Wi-Fi 6, the latest technology supporting faster speeds, higher performance and more simultaneously connected devices. Featuring a built-in Zigbee smart home hub, the eero 6 series connects compatible devices on customers' networks so they don't need a separate Zigbee hub. We also make it easy for customers to self-install in minutes and manage their eero experience with an eero and ISP co-branded mobile app that allows them to pause the internet, share their network with friends or guests, and more.</li></ul><p>eero for Service Providers will be available beginning this November for initial release in the U.S. and Canada, with additional feature releases in December and throughout 2021. This offering builds on eero's growing service provider business with ISPs across North America, Latin America, Europe and Australia. For more information about eero wifi systems visit eero.com.</p><p>About eero</p><p>The first mesh home wifi system, eero blankets any home in reliable and secure wifi. eero's digital security services, eero Secure and eero Secure+, protect connected devices, privacy, and family. Available through participating retailers and internet service providers, eero is simple to set up, even easier to manage, and improves over time with regular, automatic software updates. Founded in San Francisco in 2014 by Amos Schallich, Nate Hardison, and Nick Weaver, eero is an Amazon company.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201006005740/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Fired Amazon Employee Arrested After Amazon Reported Him to Federal Bureau of Investigation

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Fired Amazon Employee Arrested After Amazon Reported Him to Federal Bureau of Investigation

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN): What: Amazon reported Vu Anh Nguyen to authorities in July 2020 for falsely issuing refunds for products ordered on Amazon.com to himself and his associates. Amazon has systems and processes in place to mitigate misuse of our tools, and to monitor and detect suspicious behavior. Amazon's systems identified the suspicious refunds and Amazon conducted a thorough investigation. Nguyen's employment was immediately terminated and Amazon reported the case to law enforcement. The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday brought charges against Nguyen for federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The formal federal complaint can be found on the US Government Public Access to Court Electronic Record (PACER) site, under U.S. v. Vu Anh Nguyen (Case: 2:20-mj-08266). Subscription required. Statement from Amazon: We thank the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation for their swift work to hold this fraudster accountable. There is no place for misconduct or fraud at Amazon. We hold our employees to a high bar, have systems in place to proactively prevent fraud, continue to monitor activity, and will pursue all measures to protect our store and hold bad actors accountable. Amazon has an extensive history of taking action to hold bad actors accountable for fraud and abuse: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-investigation-and-prosecution-four-new-york https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes https://www.cnet.com/news/ftc-gets-11m-settlement-from-get-rich-quick-scammers-targeting-amazon/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/amazon-is-working-with-the-ftcs-fraud-investigation-against-sellers-playbook/ View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201005005767/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN):</p><p>What:</p><p>Amazon reported Vu Anh Nguyen to authorities in July 2020 for falsely issuing refunds for products ordered on Amazon.com to himself and his associates. Amazon has systems and processes in place to mitigate misuse of our tools, and to monitor and detect suspicious behavior. Amazon's systems identified the suspicious refunds and Amazon conducted a thorough investigation. Nguyen's employment was immediately terminated and Amazon reported the case to law enforcement.</p><p>The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday brought charges against Nguyen for federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.</p><p>The formal federal complaint can be found on the US Government Public Access to Court Electronic Record (PACER) site, under U.S. v. Vu Anh Nguyen (Case: 2:20-mj-08266). Subscription required.</p><p>Statement from Amazon:</p><p>We thank the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation for their swift work to hold this fraudster accountable. There is no place for misconduct or fraud at Amazon. We hold our employees to a high bar, have systems in place to proactively prevent fraud, continue to monitor activity, and will pursue all measures to protect our store and hold bad actors accountable.</p><p>Amazon has an extensive history of taking action to hold bad actors accountable for fraud and abuse:</p><ul><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-investigation-and-prosecution-four-new-york</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes</li><li>https://www.cnet.com/news/ftc-gets-11m-settlement-from-get-rich-quick-scammers-targeting-amazon/</li><li>https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/amazon-is-working-with-the-ftcs-fraud-investigation-against-sellers-playbook/</li></ul><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201005005767/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

More Games, More Talent, and More Control for Fans—Amazon Delivers the Future of Football with TNF on Prime Video

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More Games, More Talent, and More Control for Fans—Amazon Delivers the Future of Football with TNF on Prime Video

10/05/2020

2020

Thursday Night Football Presented by Bud Light Platinum returns to Prime Video and Twitch with Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer in the booth once again, in addition to new announcer options and original content from an energizing lineup of top sports personalities including Andrew Hawkins, Bucky Brooks, Cari Champion, Chad Johnson, Chris Long, Daniel Jeremiah, James Koh, Joy Taylor, Kay Adams, Kyle Long, and Denver Broncos LB Von Miller. A new, interactive replay experience for X-Ray on Prime Video puts fans in the broadcaster's seat, letting them re-watch top plays throughout the game in real-time. Prime Video and NFL Films to produce a weekly slate of original content airing on Twitch; another exciting lineup of co-streamers to broadcast Thursday Night Football once again this season. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) — Today, Amazon announced a slate of new features and original programming for Thursday Night Football (TNF) Presented by Bud Light Platinum on Prime Video and Twitch, which kicks off on Oct. 8 as Tom Brady and the new-look Tampa Bay Buccaneers travel to the Windy City to take on the Chicago Bears. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201005005162/en/ (Graphic: Business Wire) "We are always looking for ways to delight customers and enhance the value of a Prime membership, and are thrilled to bring Thursday Night Football back to Prime Video and Twitch for a fourth season," said Marie Donoghue, VP of Global Sports Video at Amazon. "We know these are unusual times, and have developed a wall-to-wall lineup of exclusive features and original content from across Amazon that prioritizes real-time data and insights, provides expert analysis, and gives fanatic and casual football fans alike access to more games, more talent, and more options than ever before." Announcer Options Put Fans in Control Prime Video is once again producing multiple announcer options for TNF alongside the default FOX broadcast featuring Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer return for their third season on Prime Video, and new this year Prime members can tune-in to a ‘Scout's Feed,' which features podcasters and former NFL scouts Bucky Brooks and Daniel Jeremiah alongside sports podcast, radio, and TV host Joy Taylor. These feeds are exclusive to Amazon and give football fans around the world the ability to customize their viewing experience from wherever they are watching. Prime members in the US and Mexico will once again have access to the FOX Deportes Spanish-language broadcast. To switch between announcers, Prime members can simply open the settings on their device, select the broadcast of their choice, and enjoy the game. A New Day for ‘NFL Next' On the heels of a successful first season, ‘NFL Next' returns this year to Prime Video with two-time Super Bowl Champion Chris Long, NFL Network's Kay Adams, and Next Gen Stats Analyst James Koh. New this year, former NFL receiver and Academy Award winner Andrew Hawkins joins the show as a co-host, rounding out refreshing group of talent that provides a unique perspective on the NFL. This season ‘NFL Next' is shifting from a live pre-game show on Thursdays to a live and on-demand release on Tuesday evenings at 8p.m. ET, giving die-hard fans more time to discover, watch, and share their favorite moments each week. ‘NFL Next' will include compelling moments and stories from the prior weekend's games presented through the lens of Next Gen Stats; it will amplify the social media pulse of the league; it will provide a fantasy football-themed look ahead to the upcoming week's action; and it will give fans an in-depth preview of the upcoming weeks' TNF matchup utilizing the NFL Films "mic'd up" vault. ‘NFL Next' returns Oct. 6 at 8p.m. ET on Prime Video. Andrew Hawkins will also join Cari Champion for a new weekly TNF livestream that will air exclusively on Twitch every Thursday, with either Chris Long or Von Miller joining each week throughout the season. Beginning Oct. 8, the ‘NFL Next Live' stream will give fans a one-of-a-kind NFL broadcast that marries Amazon's suite of sports offerings including Next Gen Stats, Twitch, and Prime Video with a traditional NFL broadcast. X-Ray Lets Fans Catch All the Action on Prime Video X-Ray for TNF gives Prime members real-time access to live stats and key insights, allowing fans to watch and understand the game without taking their eyes off the screen or missing a play. With Next Gen Stats, fans watching TNF on Prime Video have access to data previously only available to coaches and announcers. New this season to X-Ray is an interactive in-game on-demand replay experience, which allows fans to re-watch top plays from throughout the game in real-time, giving them deeper analysis and insights derived from in-game team and player performance data. This new feature gives fans more information about the key players involved in that play, the Next Gen Stats specific to that play including time to throw, running speeds, and completion probability, as well as trivia, which provides interesting facts or relevant milestones for that play. In-game on-demand replays with X-Ray will be available on all Fire TV, Android, and iOS devices, and will launch on web browsers later this season. X-Ray is available for football fans streaming TNF on web, Android, iOS, and Fire TV. To access X-Ray during the game, fans watching on Prime Video can simply flip their mobile device or click up on their Fire TV remote. New Original Content on Twitch Also new this season, in collaboration with NFL Films, Prime Video is producing a lineup of original content available exclusively on Twitch, which will air throughout the week leading up to the game each Thursday. On Mondays at 2p.m. ET, Kyle Long and Andrew Hawkins will host ‘The NFL Comment Box,' an Ask Me Anything show giving fans the chance to engage with Long and Hawkins in an authentic and informative way. On Wednesdays at 6p.m. ET, on the heels of Tuesday night's ‘NFL Next' broadcast on Prime Video, fans can join Kyle Long and Chad Johnson on ‘The NFL Machine,' a show that gives fans access to the NFL Films archive and allows hosts to walk through footage in the most live and interactive manner possible. To round out a week of programming on Twitch, on Thursdays fans will be able to watch a live simulcast of the ‘Scout's Feed,' as well as an ‘NFL Next Live' broadcast starring Andrew Hawkins and Cari Champion, who will be joined weekly by either Chris Long or Von Miller, which will give fans a unique game day viewing experience unlike any other broadcast. TNF will once again be available on the Prime Video Twitch channel as well as via a handful of co-streamers. TNF on Twitch allows viewers to interact with the content through additional features including live chat, custom extensions with stats or polls, custom emotes, and more. The TNF extension on Twitch allows streamers to make live predictions with correct answers earning points and placing top scorers on a leaderboard. ‘The NFL Comment Box,' ‘The NFL Machine,' and ‘NFL Next Live' will be available via the Twitch Sports channel at twitch.tv/twitchsports, and the ‘Scout's Feed' will be available via the Move the Sticks channel at twitch.tv/movethesticks. TNF on FOX, NFL Network, and Prime Video kicks off Thursday, Oct. 8 at 8:20p.m. ET with the Chicago Bears hosting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. TNF will also be available to stream on Twitch in addition to NFL, FOX and FOX Deportes digital properties across devices, on mobile via Club properties (for their respective games), and via Yahoo Sports. NFL Network availability subject to change. To stay up to date with the latest sports on Prime Video, follow @SportsOnPrime on Twitter and Instagram. About Prime Video Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports— all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. Included with Prime Video: Watch movies, series and sports, including Thursday Night Football, award-winning Amazon Originals, and other exclusives. Enjoy hits like The Boys, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Chemical Hearts, Utopia, Troop Zero, and Late Night with Mindy Kaling, plus Emmy Award winners Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, andAcademy Award-nominated The Big Sick. Prime members also get access to licensed and self-published content. Prime Video Channels: Prime members can add channels like CBS All Access, BET+, EPIX, Noggin, NBA League Pass, MLB.tv, STARZ and SHOWTIME—no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Only pay for the ones you want, and cancel anytime. View the full list of channels available at amazon.com/channels. Rent or Buy: Enjoy new-release movies to rent or buy, entire seasons of current TV shows available to buy, and special deals just for Prime members. Instant access: Watch at home or on the go with your choice of hundreds of compatible devices. Stream from the web or using the Prime Video app on your smartphone, tablet, set-top box, game console, or select smart TV. For a complete list of compatible devices, visit amazon.com/howtostream. Enhanced experiences: Make the most of every viewing with 4K Ultra HD- and High Dynamic Range (HDR)-compatible content. Go behind the scenes of your favorite movies and TV shows with exclusive X-Ray access, powered by IMDb. Save it for later with select mobile downloads for offline viewing. Prime Video is just one of many shopping and entertainment benefits included with a Prime membership, along with fast, free shipping on millions of Prime-eligible items at Amazon.com, unlimited photo storage, exclusive deals and discounts, and access to ad-free music and Kindle ebooks. To sign up or start a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, visit: amazon.com/prime. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201005005162/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Thursday Night Football Presented by Bud Light Platinum returns to Prime Video and Twitch with Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer in the booth once again, in addition to new announcer options and original content from an energizing lineup of top sports personalities including Andrew Hawkins, Bucky Brooks, Cari Champion, Chad Johnson, Chris Long, Daniel Jeremiah, James Koh, Joy Taylor, Kay Adams, Kyle Long, and Denver Broncos LB Von Miller.</em></p><p><em>A new, interactive replay experience for X-Ray on Prime Video puts fans in the broadcaster's seat, letting them re-watch top plays throughout the game in real-time.</em></p><p><em>Prime Video and NFL Films to produce a weekly slate of original content airing on Twitch; another exciting lineup of co-streamers to broadcast Thursday Night Football once again this season.</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) — Today, Amazon announced a slate of new features and original programming for <em>Thursday Night Football (TNF) Presented by Bud Light Platinum </em>on Prime Video and Twitch, which kicks off on Oct. 8 as Tom Brady and the new-look Tampa Bay Buccaneers travel to the Windy City to take on the Chicago Bears.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201005005162/en/</p><div><p>(Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"We are always looking for ways to delight customers and enhance the value of a Prime membership, and are thrilled to bring <em>Thursday Night Football</em> back to Prime Video and Twitch for a fourth season," said Marie Donoghue, VP of Global Sports Video at Amazon. "We know these are unusual times, and have developed a wall-to-wall lineup of exclusive features and original content from across Amazon that prioritizes real-time data and insights, provides expert analysis, and gives fanatic and casual football fans alike access to more games, more talent, and more options than ever before."</p><p>Announcer Options Put Fans in Control</p><p>Prime Video is once again producing multiple announcer options for <em>TNF</em> alongside the default FOX broadcast featuring Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer return for their third season on Prime Video, and new this year Prime members can tune-in to a <em>‘Scout's Feed,'</em> which features podcasters and former NFL scouts Bucky Brooks and Daniel Jeremiah alongside sports podcast, radio, and TV host Joy Taylor. These feeds are exclusive to Amazon and give football fans around the world the ability to customize their viewing experience from wherever they are watching. Prime members in the US and Mexico will once again have access to the FOX Deportes Spanish-language broadcast. To switch between announcers, Prime members can simply open the settings on their device, select the broadcast of their choice, and enjoy the game.</p><p>A New Day for <em>‘NFL Next'</em></p><p>On the heels of a successful first season,<em> ‘NFL Next' </em>returns this year to Prime Video with two-time Super Bowl Champion Chris Long, NFL Network's Kay Adams, and Next Gen Stats Analyst James Koh. New this year, former NFL receiver and Academy Award winner Andrew Hawkins joins the show as a co-host, rounding out refreshing group of talent that provides a unique perspective on the NFL.</p><p>This season ‘<em>NFL Next'</em> is shifting from a live pre-game show on Thursdays to a live and on-demand release on Tuesday evenings at 8p.m. ET, giving die-hard fans more time to discover, watch, and share their favorite moments each week. ‘<em>NFL Next' </em>will include compelling moments and stories from the prior weekend's games presented through the lens of Next Gen Stats; it will amplify the social media pulse of the league; it will provide a fantasy football-themed look ahead to the upcoming week's action; and it will give fans an in-depth preview of the upcoming weeks' <em>TNF</em> matchup utilizing the NFL Films "mic'd up" vault. ‘<em>NFL Next' </em>returns Oct. 6 at 8p.m. ET on Prime Video.</p><p>Andrew Hawkins will also join Cari Champion for a new weekly <em>TNF</em> livestream that will air exclusively on Twitch every Thursday, with either Chris Long or Von Miller joining each week throughout the season. Beginning Oct. 8, the ‘<em>NFL Next Live' </em>stream will give fans a one-of-a-kind NFL broadcast that marries Amazon's suite of sports offerings including Next Gen Stats, Twitch, and Prime Video with a traditional NFL broadcast.</p><p>X-Ray Lets Fans Catch All the Action on Prime Video</p><p>X-Ray for <em>TNF </em>gives Prime members real-time access to live stats and key insights, allowing fans to watch and understand the game without taking their eyes off the screen or missing a play. With Next Gen Stats, fans watching <em>TNF </em>on Prime Video have access to data previously only available to coaches and announcers. New this season to X-Ray is an interactive in-game on-demand replay experience, which allows fans to re-watch top plays from throughout the game in real-time, giving them deeper analysis and insights derived from in-game team and player performance data. This new feature gives fans more information about the key players involved in that play, the Next Gen Stats specific to that play including time to throw, running speeds, and completion probability, as well as trivia, which provides interesting facts or relevant milestones for that play.</p><p>In-game on-demand replays with X-Ray will be available on all Fire TV, Android, and iOS devices, and will launch on web browsers later this season. X-Ray is available for football fans streaming <em>TNF</em> on web, Android, iOS, and Fire TV. To access X-Ray during the game, fans watching on Prime Video can simply flip their mobile device or click up on their Fire TV remote.</p><p>New Original Content on Twitch</p><p>Also new this season, in collaboration with NFL Films, Prime Video is producing a lineup of original content available exclusively on Twitch, which will air throughout the week leading up to the game each Thursday. On Mondays at 2p.m. ET, Kyle Long and Andrew Hawkins will host <em>‘The NFL Comment Box,'</em> an Ask Me Anything show giving fans the chance to engage with Long and Hawkins in an authentic and informative way. On Wednesdays at 6p.m. ET, on the heels of Tuesday night's ‘<em>NFL Next'</em> broadcast on Prime Video, fans can join Kyle Long and Chad Johnson on ‘<em>The NFL Machine</em>,' a show that gives fans access to the NFL Films archive and allows hosts to walk through footage in the most live and interactive manner possible. To round out a week of programming on Twitch, on Thursdays fans will be able to watch a live simulcast of the <em>‘Scout's Feed,'</em> as well as an ‘<em>NFL Next Live'</em> broadcast starring Andrew Hawkins and Cari Champion, who will be joined weekly by either Chris Long or Von Miller, which will give fans a unique game day viewing experience unlike any other broadcast.</p><p><em>TNF </em>will once again be available on the Prime Video Twitch channel as well as via a handful of co-streamers.<em> TNF</em> on Twitch allows viewers to interact with the content through additional features including live chat, custom extensions with stats or polls, custom emotes, and more. The <em>TNF</em> extension on Twitch allows streamers to make live predictions with correct answers earning points and placing top scorers on a leaderboard.</p><p><em>‘The NFL Comment Box,' ‘The NFL Machine,' </em>and<em> ‘NFL Next Live' </em>will be available via the Twitch Sports channel at twitch.tv/twitchsports, and the <em>‘Scout's Feed'</em> will be available via the Move the Sticks channel at twitch.tv/movethesticks.</p><p>TNF on FOX, NFL Network, and Prime Video kicks off Thursday, Oct. 8 at 8:20p.m. ET with the Chicago Bears hosting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. TNF will also be available to stream on Twitch in addition to NFL, FOX and FOX Deportes digital properties across devices, on mobile via Club properties (for their respective games), and via Yahoo Sports. NFL Network availability subject to change.</p><p>To stay up to date with the latest sports on Prime Video, follow @SportsOnPrime on Twitter and Instagram.</p><p>About Prime Video</p><p>Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports— all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices.</p><ul><li>Included with Prime Video: Watch movies, series and sports, including Thursday Night Football, award-winning Amazon Originals, and other exclusives. Enjoy hits like <em>The Boys, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Chemical Hearts, Utopia</em>, <em>Troop Zero</em>, and <em>Late Night</em> with Mindy Kaling, plus Emmy Award winners <em>Fleabag </em>and <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, </em>andAcademy Award-nominated<em> The Big Sick. </em>Prime members also get access to licensed and self-published content.</li><li>Prime Video Channels: Prime members can add channels like CBS All Access, BET+, EPIX, Noggin, NBA League Pass, MLB.tv, STARZ and SHOWTIME—no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Only pay for the ones you want, and cancel anytime. View the full list of channels available at amazon.com/channels.</li><li>Rent or Buy: Enjoy new-release movies to rent or buy, entire seasons of current TV shows available to buy, and special deals just for Prime members.</li><li>Instant access: Watch at home or on the go with your choice of hundreds of compatible devices. Stream from the web or using the Prime Video app on your smartphone, tablet, set-top box, game console, or select smart TV. For a complete list of compatible devices, visit amazon.com/howtostream.</li><li>Enhanced experiences: Make the most of every viewing with 4K Ultra HD- and High Dynamic Range (HDR)-compatible content. Go behind the scenes of your favorite movies and TV shows with exclusive X-Ray access, powered by IMDb. Save it for later with select mobile downloads for offline viewing.</li></ul><p>Prime Video is just one of many shopping and entertainment benefits included with a Prime membership, along with fast, free shipping on millions of Prime-eligible items at Amazon.com, unlimited photo storage, exclusive deals and discounts, and access to ad-free music and Kindle ebooks. To sign up or start a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, visit: amazon.com/prime.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201005005162/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Music Partners with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to Exclusively Remaster and Deliver Thousands of Songs and Albums at the Highest Quality Streaming Audio Available

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Amazon Music Partners with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to Exclusively Remaster and Deliver Thousands of Songs and Albums at the Highest Quality Streaming Audio Available

10/02/2020

2020

For the first time, music from Eagles, Marvin Gaye, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Diana Ross, Linkin Park, J. Cole, Waylon Jennings, Ramones, 2 Chainz, Lady Gaga, The Notorious B.I.G., Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez and more, has been newly remastered to the highest quality streaming audio, available exclusively on Amazon Music HD SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Music today announced a partnership with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to remaster thousands of songs and albums to Ultra High Definition, upgrading the digital streaming audio quality of these songs to the highest available. For the first time, fans will be able to stream music from artists across a broad range of genres and eras, with all of the depth, vibrancy, and emotion from their original recordings, launching exclusively on Amazon Music HD. In addition, music from artists including Eagles, Elton John, Linkin Park, Tom Petty, Ariana Grande, Jon Pardi, Shawn Mendes, Lady Gaga, Lil Tecca, Selena Gomez, Post Malone and more has been remixed in 3D Audio formats including Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA, offering a truly immersive listening experience for customers. Learn more about Amazon Music HD here. "We launched Amazon Music HD last year with a promise to always offer our customers the best quality recording available for streaming," said Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music. "With this partnership, we are building upon that promise by upgrading existing recordings to make the listening experience even better, and preserving artistic legacy for future generations. We are thrilled to have the support from Universal Music and Warner Music to deliver key recordings from their catalogs, exclusively for Amazon Music customers. We'll continue to work with more labels to upgrade the digital quality of even more audio recordings, and provide customers with all of the emotion, power, clarity, and nuance of original recordings across all genres." With Amazon Music HD, customers can already stream 5 million songs in Ultra HD (better than CD quality), with a bit depth of 24 bits and a sample rate up to 192 kHz. Customers can also stream more than 60 million lossless High Definition songs, with a bit depth of 16 bits and a sample rate of 44.1kHz (CD quality), and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Now, Amazon Music is making the biggest catalog of Ultra HD music even bigger, revealing nuances that were once flattened in files compressed for digital streaming or CD manufacturing. All titles resulting from this Ultra HD music partnership will be delivered in 24 bit and 96 kHz or 192 kHz. Hundreds of albums including Kid Cudi's Man On The Moon: The End of Day; Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York; Waylon Jennings' Don't Think Twice; Diana Ross' Diana & Marvin; B.B. King's Lucille; Lady Gaga's Joanne; Ariana Grande's debut album, Yours Truly; 2 Chainz' The Play Don't Care who Makes It; J. Cole's album KOD; and Bob Marley and the Wailers' Natty Dread, have already been remastered and will soon be available to stream in Ultra HD. "Amazon Music continues to push the boundaries in sound fidelity and innovation, and we're thrilled to partner with them to accelerate the availability of our catalog in the highest quality formats possible and to provide new experiences in immersive audio," said Michael Nash, Executive Vice President of Digital Strategy at Universal Music Group. "Our announcement today is the next big step in an ongoing partnership and music fans on Amazon Music HD can look forward to incredible new ways to experience the latest releases, as well as their favorite songs from Universal Music Group and our labels." "We're always excited about new opportunities for fans to experience music in the highest sound quality available, exactly as the artist intended," said Kevin Gore, President of Global Catalog, Recorded Music at Warner Music Group. "With Amazon Music HD, 3D Audio, and with the Echo Studio, music lovers are now able to immerse themselves in the original recordings at an unprecedented level of fidelity for a price that had previously been out of range. Warner Music is proud to partner with Amazon Music on this initiative and will continue to deliver groundbreaking new music from the world's greatest artists along with iconic albums and songs from our unparalleled catalog." In addition to Ultra HD remasters, select albums and songs will be remixed in 3D Audio formats such as Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA. Listeners will be able to stream these 3D mixes when listening through Amazon Music HD on Amazon's groundbreaking high-fidelity smart speaker, Echo Studio. When paired with an Echo Studio, customers will experience immersive audio, which brings listeners closer to their favorite artists and songs, allowing them to experience music the way artists intended. The world's biggest recording artists are quickly adapting these immersive formats. Albums including Tom Petty's upcoming Wildflowers & All the Rest; Eagles Live From The Forum MMXVIII; Linkin Park's 20th anniversary edition of Hybrid Theory; the Ramones' eponymous debut album; Lady Gaga's Chromatica; Post Malone's Hollywood is Bleeding; and Selena Gomez' Rare, will soon be available to stream in 3D Audio. Gregory Porter's newest album ALL RISE, available from Blue Note Records, was released August 28 exclusively on Amazon Music HD in Ultra HD and 3D/Dolby Atmos. "I'm excited for everyone to hear my new album ALL RISE in the very highest audio quality possible," said Porter, a two-time Grammy winner for Best Jazz Vocal Album. "When I first heard my songs mixed in Dolby Atmos, I was amazed by the way it sounded – almost like being back in the studio! I'm looking forward to sharing my music in this new, immersive way." At just $12.99/month for Prime members and $14.99/month for Amazon customers, or an additional $5/month for current subscribers (Individual or Family Plan), Amazon Music HD makes high quality, lossless audio accessible to all music fans. Amazon Music HD is currently available to stream in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan. Learn more at amazon.com/music/unlimited/hd. About Amazon Music Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 60 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), 5 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Customers also have free access to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations on Amazon Music. All Amazon Music tiers now offer a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, and live streaming in partnership with Twitch. Engaging with music and culture has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201002005135/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>For the first time, music from Eagles, Marvin Gaye, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Diana Ross, Linkin Park, J. Cole, Waylon Jennings, Ramones, 2 Chainz, Lady Gaga, The Notorious B.I.G., Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez and more, has been newly remastered to the highest quality streaming audio, available exclusively on Amazon Music HD</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Music today announced a partnership with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to remaster thousands of songs and albums to Ultra High Definition, upgrading the digital streaming audio quality of these songs to the highest available. For the first time, fans will be able to stream music from artists across a broad range of genres and eras, with all of the depth, vibrancy, and emotion from their original recordings, launching exclusively on Amazon Music HD. In addition, music from artists including Eagles, Elton John, Linkin Park, Tom Petty, Ariana Grande, Jon Pardi, Shawn Mendes, Lady Gaga, Lil Tecca, Selena Gomez, Post Malone and more has been remixed in 3D Audio formats including Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA, offering a truly immersive listening experience for customers. Learn more about Amazon Music HD here.</p><p><em>"We launched Amazon Music HD last year with a promise to always offer our customers the best quality recording available for streaming," </em>said Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music.<em> "With this partnership, we are building upon that promise by upgrading existing recordings to make the listening experience even better, and preserving artistic legacy for future generations. We are thrilled to have the support from Universal Music and Warner Music to deliver key recordings from their catalogs, exclusively for Amazon Music customers. We'll continue to work with more labels to upgrade the digital quality of even more audio recordings, and provide customers with all of the emotion, power, clarity, and nuance of original recordings across all genres."</em></p><p>With Amazon Music HD, customers can already stream 5 million songs in Ultra HD (better than CD quality), with a bit depth of 24 bits and a sample rate up to 192 kHz. Customers can also stream more than 60 million lossless High Definition songs, with a bit depth of 16 bits and a sample rate of 44.1kHz (CD quality), and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Now, Amazon Music is making the biggest catalog of Ultra HD music even bigger, revealing nuances that were once flattened in files compressed for digital streaming or CD manufacturing. All titles resulting from this Ultra HD music partnership will be delivered in 24 bit and 96 kHz or 192 kHz. Hundreds of albums including Kid Cudi's <em>Man On The Moon: The End of Day</em>; Nirvana's <em>MTV Unplugged in New York; </em>Waylon Jennings' <em>Don't Think Twice</em>; Diana Ross' <em>Diana &amp; Marvin; </em>B.B. King's <em>Lucille</em>; Lady Gaga's <em>Joanne; </em>Ariana Grande's debut album, <em>Yours Truly</em>; 2 Chainz' <em>The Play Don't Care who Makes It</em>; J. Cole's album <em>KOD;</em> and Bob Marley and the Wailers' <em>Natty Dread</em>, have already been remastered and will soon be available to stream in Ultra HD.</p><p>"<em>Amazon Music continues to push the boundaries in sound fidelity and innovation, and we're thrilled to partner with them to accelerate the availability of our catalog in the highest quality formats possible and to provide new experiences in immersive audio," </em>said Michael Nash, Executive Vice President of Digital Strategy at Universal Music Group. <em>"Our announcement today is the next big step in an ongoing partnership and music fans on Amazon Music HD can look forward to incredible new ways to experience the latest releases, as well as their favorite songs from Universal Music Group and our labels</em>."</p><p><em>"We're always excited about new opportunities for fans to experience music in the highest sound quality available, exactly as the artist intended," </em>said Kevin Gore, President of Global Catalog, Recorded Music at Warner Music Group.<em> "With Amazon Music HD, 3D Audio, and with the Echo Studio, music lovers are now able to immerse themselves in the original recordings at an unprecedented level of fidelity for a price that had previously been out of range. Warner Music is proud to partner with Amazon Music on this initiative and will continue to deliver groundbreaking new music from the world's greatest artists along with iconic albums and songs from our unparalleled catalog."</em></p><p>In addition to Ultra HD remasters, select albums and songs will be remixed in 3D Audio formats such as Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA. Listeners will be able to stream these 3D mixes when listening through Amazon Music HD on Amazon's groundbreaking high-fidelity smart speaker, Echo Studio. When paired with an Echo Studio, customers will experience immersive audio, which brings listeners closer to their favorite artists and songs, allowing them to experience music the way artists intended. The world's biggest recording artists are quickly adapting these immersive formats. Albums including Tom Petty's upcoming <em>Wildflowers &amp; All the Rest</em>; Eagles <em>Live From The Forum MMXVIII</em>; Linkin Park's 20^th anniversary edition of <em>Hybrid Theory;</em> the Ramones' eponymous debut album; Lady Gaga's <em>Chromatica</em>; Post Malone's <em>Hollywood is Bleeding</em>; and Selena Gomez' <em>Rare</em>, will soon be available to stream in 3D Audio.</p><p>Gregory Porter's newest album <em>ALL RISE</em>, available from Blue Note Records, was released August 28 exclusively on Amazon Music HD in Ultra HD and 3D/Dolby Atmos.</p><p><em>"I'm excited for everyone to hear my new album ALL RISE in the very highest audio quality possible," said Porter, a two-time Grammy winner for Best Jazz Vocal Album. "When I first heard my songs mixed in Dolby Atmos, I was amazed by the way it sounded – almost like being back in the studio! I'm looking forward to sharing my music in this new, immersive way."</em></p><p>At just $12.99/month for Prime members and $14.99/month for Amazon customers, or an additional $5/month for current subscribers (Individual or Family Plan), Amazon Music HD makes high quality, lossless audio accessible to all music fans. Amazon Music HD is currently available to stream in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan. Learn more at amazon.com/music/unlimited/hd.</p><p>About Amazon Music</p><p>Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 60 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), 5 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Customers also have free access to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations on Amazon Music. All Amazon Music tiers now offer a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, and live streaming in partnership with Twitch. Engaging with music and culture has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201002005135/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Expands Support to Address Immediate Needs – Including Shelter, Food and Basic Necessities – for Students In Need Across 133 Schools in Puget Sound Region Amid COVID-19

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Amazon Expands Support to Address Immediate Needs – Including Shelter, Food and Basic Necessities – for Students In Need Across 133 Schools in Puget Sound Region Amid COVID-19

10/01/2020

2020

Nonprofits Bellevue LifeSpring and The Alliance for Education to receive more than $2.5 million from Amazon to help remove barriers to learning for students with greatest needs within Bellevue School District and Seattle Public Schools  Donation launches first ever Right Now Needs Fund in Bellevue and expands Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle, which has distributed more than $500,000 to Seattle students in need since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Bellevue LifeSpring and The Alliance for Education today announced Amazon is making a more than $2.5 million donation to support the immediate needs of thousands of students from underserved communities within the Puget Sound region amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With this donation, Amazon is expanding its innovative Right Now Needs Fund, designed to meet the basic needs of schoolchildren and their families and eliminate barriers to learning, such as challenges with food, shelter, clothing, school supplies, and more. Amazon will donate more than $1.4 million to Bellevue LifeSpring to launch a new Right Now Needs Fund in Bellevue to support students in need at all 29 Bellevue School District schools through 2022. The Right Now Needs Fund in Bellevue can be distributed to students immediately. Amazon's $1.3 million donation to The Alliance for Education will expand the existing Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle across 104 schools. The Fund was established by Amazon in late 2018 with an initial $2 million investment and has already provided Seattle Public Schools students with over 17,000 instances of support since inception for basic needs including everything from new eyeglasses to an asthma inhaler. To date, every Seattle Public School has used the Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle to help their students. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, the Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle has quickly distributed more than $500,000 to students, a 27% increase from the same time last year, with the vast majority of those donations going towards food insecurity and housing assistance. "The start of this school year is difficult for many families in need across the Puget Sound, and we want to provide more students from underserved communities with what they need to be successful while learning from home, whether that's new technology, healthy meals, or a lifeline to call in a pinch," said David Zapolsky, Amazon General Counsel and Senior Vice President and Alliance for Education board member. "At Amazon, we value speed, flexibility, and scale when we build and operate. Our Right Now Needs Funds help schools exercise these same values to support students in the community, and we're excited to extend this support to Bellevue with our support of Bellevue LifeSpring." Family Engagement Specialists within each of the districts and schools work with families on identifying needs and put in requests for financial assistance through their respective nonprofit partner. In addition, any school community member can put in a request if they notice a specific student need. Amazon recently donated $1 million to the City of Bellevue's Health and Human Services Fund to support local families in need disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Amazon also recently donated more than 7,000 headsets and hundreds of additional technical devices – including MiFi hotspots - to support students learning from home across the Puget Sound region. At the beginning of the pandemic, Amazon, Bellevue LifeSpring and the Bellevue School District created and implemented pilot programs to provide immediate food and hygiene products to families living in poverty in Bellevue. Amazon also donated more than $200,000 in emergency cash funds and product vouchers to support students in Bellevue and Seattle and donated nearly 9,000 laptops to Seattle Public School students. "Our partnership with Amazon will provide every child living in poverty in Bellevue with basic needs and reduce barriers to accessing critically needed support," said Jennifer Fischer Executive Director, Bellevue LifeSpring. "Together, with our community, we can ensure efficient services to improve educational outcomes for all students. Amazon's investment reflects a true partnership where we innovate together to achieve our goals of preventing hunger and homelessness for children in our Bellevue community. We will also work together to close the achievement gap for low-income students, so they graduate at the same rate as their peers." "Thank you Amazon for supporting our students in need with this unique investment – we are excited to be your neighbors," said Dr. Ivan Duran, Superintendent, Bellevue School District. "I know that the start of this school year has been tough for so many families, and I am confident that this new Right Now Needs Fund in Bellevue will quickly and effectively provide targeted relief for our hard working students." "At a time when COVID-19 is making life so much more difficult for thousands of Seattle children and families, the Right Now Needs Fund is designed to directly address the most basic of needs of Seattle Public School students, to ensure our students can focus on learning," said Petaki Cobell, Director of the Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle at the Alliance for Education. "The Alliance for Education's vision of a deeply invested community that supports student learning and an equitable education is realized through the help of partners like Amazon. Through this contribution, we can continue to address our students' basic needs, like clothing, adequate food, shelter, and necessary school supplies, and ensure they can focus on learning even in these challenging times." "I'm glad that Amazon is expanding its Right Now Needs Fund to benefit some of our most vulnerable Seattle public school students," said Jenny A. Durkan, Mayor of Seattle. "I appreciate the flexibility of this fund to ensure that students' needs – both big and small – can be met during this unprecedented time. I am proud of how our Seattle students and families have adapted to the challenges of the past few months, and know that with this extra support, they'll continue to do their best amidst immense challenges." "For many of our students and families this pandemic has just added even more challenge and difficulty to so many tasks that many of us take for granted," said Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Denise Juneau. "The Right Now Needs Fund is such a crucial and wonderful help to so many. We are deeply grateful for Amazon's leadership and partnership." In response to COVID-19, Amazon has also donated more than 13,000 laptops to students in need, distributed more than $5 million worth of Amazon devices to help healthcare workers and nonprofits, delivered more than 9 million meals across 25 U.S. cities, launched free, virtual computer science resources and expanded its Amazon Future Engineer program to more than 550,000 students, donated more than $20 million to help accelerate COVID-19 research, donated $10 million in critically needed PPE supplies, and more. To learn more about what Amazon is doing in response to COVID-19 for communities, employees, partners, and customers, check out the Amazon Blog: Day One. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Amazon in the Community Amazon is committed to helping more children and young adults, especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities, have the resources and skills they need to build their best future. Amazon focuses on building long-term, innovative, and high impact programs that leverage Amazon's unique assets and culture. Initiatives include Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and excite hundreds of thousands of children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities each year to pursue computer science, as well as programs that support immediate needs, including addressing family homelessness through donations and housing a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters, as well as global relief efforts for people in need following natural disasters. About Bellevue LifeSpring Bellevue LifeSpring has worked closely with the community since its inception in 1911. It is supported by thousands of local residents, community partners and corporate sponsors in its mission to foster stability and self-sufficiency for Bellevue's children and their families through programs that provide food, clothing, education and emergency assistance. In addition to their goal of closing the graduation gap by 2025, Bellevue LifeSpring is also working to ensure no student in Bellevue experiences hunger or homelessness due to COVID-19. You can learn more about Bellevue LifeSpring at www.bellevuelifespring.org. About The Alliance for Education  The Alliance for Education works in close partnership with Seattle Public Schools and other community partners to convene stakeholders, create programs and raise funds designed to advance educational justice and racial equity in Seattle's public school system. To learn more about the Alliance for Education, visit www.alliance4ed.org. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201001005354/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Nonprofits Bellevue LifeSpring and The Alliance for Education to receive more than $2.5 million from Amazon to help remove barriers to learning for students with greatest needs within Bellevue School District and Seattle Public Schools </em></p><p><em>Donation launches first ever Right Now Needs Fund in Bellevue and expands Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle, which has distributed more than $500,000 to Seattle students in need since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Bellevue LifeSpring and The Alliance for Education today announced Amazon is making a more than $2.5 million donation to support the immediate needs of thousands of students from underserved communities within the Puget Sound region amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With this donation, Amazon is expanding its innovative Right Now Needs Fund, designed to meet the basic needs of schoolchildren and their families and eliminate barriers to learning, such as challenges with food, shelter, clothing, school supplies, and more. Amazon will donate more than $1.4 million to Bellevue LifeSpring to launch a new Right Now Needs Fund in Bellevue to support students in need at all 29 Bellevue School District schools through 2022. The Right Now Needs Fund in Bellevue can be distributed to students immediately.</p><p>Amazon's $1.3 million donation to The Alliance for Education will expand the existing Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle across 104 schools. The Fund was established by Amazon in late 2018 with an initial $2 million investment and has already provided Seattle Public Schools students with over 17,000 instances of support since inception for basic needs including everything from new eyeglasses to an asthma inhaler. To date, every Seattle Public School has used the Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle to help their students. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, the Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle has quickly distributed more than $500,000 to students, a 27% increase from the same time last year, with the vast majority of those donations going towards food insecurity and housing assistance.</p><p>"The start of this school year is difficult for many families in need across the Puget Sound, and we want to provide more students from underserved communities with what they need to be successful while learning from home, whether that's new technology, healthy meals, or a lifeline to call in a pinch," said David Zapolsky, Amazon General Counsel and Senior Vice President and Alliance for Education board member. "At Amazon, we value speed, flexibility, and scale when we build and operate. Our Right Now Needs Funds help schools exercise these same values to support students in the community, and we're excited to extend this support to Bellevue with our support of Bellevue LifeSpring."</p><p>Family Engagement Specialists within each of the districts and schools work with families on identifying needs and put in requests for financial assistance through their respective nonprofit partner. In addition, any school community member can put in a request if they notice a specific student need.</p><p>Amazon recently donated $1 million to the City of Bellevue's Health and Human Services Fund to support local families in need disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Amazon also recently donated more than 7,000 headsets and hundreds of additional technical devices – including MiFi hotspots - to support students learning from home across the Puget Sound region. At the beginning of the pandemic, Amazon, Bellevue LifeSpring and the Bellevue School District created and implemented pilot programs to provide immediate food and hygiene products to families living in poverty in Bellevue. Amazon also donated more than $200,000 in emergency cash funds and product vouchers to support students in Bellevue and Seattle and donated nearly 9,000 laptops to Seattle Public School students.</p><p>"Our partnership with Amazon will provide every child living in poverty in Bellevue with basic needs and reduce barriers to accessing critically needed support," said Jennifer Fischer Executive Director, Bellevue LifeSpring. "Together, with our community, we can ensure efficient services to improve educational outcomes for all students. Amazon's investment reflects a true partnership where we innovate together to achieve our goals of preventing hunger and homelessness for children in our Bellevue community. We will also work together to close the achievement gap for low-income students, so they graduate at the same rate as their peers."</p><p>"Thank you Amazon for supporting our students in need with this unique investment – we are excited to be your neighbors," said Dr. Ivan Duran, Superintendent, Bellevue School District. "I know that the start of this school year has been tough for so many families, and I am confident that this new Right Now Needs Fund in Bellevue will quickly and effectively provide targeted relief for our hard working students."</p><p>"At a time when COVID-19 is making life so much more difficult for thousands of Seattle children and families, the Right Now Needs Fund is designed to directly address the most basic of needs of Seattle Public School students, to ensure our students can focus on learning," said Petaki Cobell, Director of the Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle at the Alliance for Education. "The Alliance for Education's vision of a deeply invested community that supports student learning and an equitable education is realized through the help of partners like Amazon. Through this contribution, we can continue to address our students' basic needs, like clothing, adequate food, shelter, and necessary school supplies, and ensure they can focus on learning even in these challenging times."</p><p>"I'm glad that Amazon is expanding its Right Now Needs Fund to benefit some of our most vulnerable Seattle public school students," said Jenny A. Durkan, Mayor of Seattle. "I appreciate the flexibility of this fund to ensure that students' needs – both big and small – can be met during this unprecedented time. I am proud of how our Seattle students and families have adapted to the challenges of the past few months, and know that with this extra support, they'll continue to do their best amidst immense challenges."</p><p>"For many of our students and families this pandemic has just added even more challenge and difficulty to so many tasks that many of us take for granted," said Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Denise Juneau. "The Right Now Needs Fund is such a crucial and wonderful help to so many. We are deeply grateful for Amazon's leadership and partnership."</p><p>In response to COVID-19, Amazon has also donated more than 13,000 laptops to students in need, distributed more than $5 million worth of Amazon devices to help healthcare workers and nonprofits, delivered more than 9 million meals across 25 U.S. cities, launched free, virtual computer science resources and expanded its Amazon Future Engineer program to more than 550,000 students, donated more than $20 million to help accelerate COVID-19 research, donated $10 million in critically needed PPE supplies, and more. To learn more about what Amazon is doing in response to COVID-19 for communities, employees, partners, and customers, check out the Amazon Blog: Day One.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Amazon in the Community</p><p>Amazon is committed to helping more children and young adults, especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities, have the resources and skills they need to build their best future. Amazon focuses on building long-term, innovative, and high impact programs that leverage Amazon's unique assets and culture. Initiatives include Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and excite hundreds of thousands of children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities each year to pursue computer science, as well as programs that support immediate needs, including addressing family homelessness through donations and housing a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters, as well as global relief efforts for people in need following natural disasters.</p><p>About Bellevue LifeSpring</p><p>Bellevue LifeSpring has worked closely with the community since its inception in 1911. It is supported by thousands of local residents, community partners and corporate sponsors in its mission to foster stability and self-sufficiency for Bellevue's children and their families through programs that provide food, clothing, education and emergency assistance. In addition to their goal of closing the graduation gap by 2025, Bellevue LifeSpring is also working to ensure no student in Bellevue experiences hunger or homelessness due to COVID-19. You can learn more about Bellevue LifeSpring at www.bellevuelifespring.org.</p><p>About The Alliance for Education </p><p>The Alliance for Education works in close partnership with Seattle Public Schools and other community partners to convene stakeholders, create programs and raise funds designed to advance educational justice and racial equity in Seattle's public school system. To learn more about the Alliance for Education, visit www.alliance4ed.org.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201001005354/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Timestream

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New serverless time series database for IoT and operational applications can scale to process trillions of time series events per day up to 1,000 times faster than relational databases, and at as low as 1/10th the cost Guardian Life, Autodesk, and PubNub among customers and partners using Amazon Timestream SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 30, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Timestream, a new time series database for IoT and operational applications that can scale to process trillions of time series events per day up to 1,000 times faster than relational databases, and at as low as 1/10th the cost. Amazon Timestream saves customers effort and expense by keeping recent data in-memory and moving historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based upon user-defined policies, while its query processing gives customers the ability to access and combine recent and historical data transparently across tiers with a single query, without needing to specify explicitly in the query whether the data resides in the in-memory or cost-optimized tier. Amazon Timestream's analytics features provide time series-specific functionality to help customers identify trends and patterns in data in near real time. Because Amazon Timestream is serverless, it automatically scales up or down to adjust capacity based on load, without customers needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. There are no upfront costs or commitments required to use Amazon Timestream, and customers pay only for the data they write, store, or query. To get started with Amazon Timestream, visit https://aws.amazon.com/timestream. Today's customers want to build IoT, edge, and operational applications that collect, synthesize, and derive insights from enormous amounts of data that change over time (known as time series data). For example, manufacturers might want to track IoT sensor data that measure changes in equipment across a facility, online marketers might want to analyze clickstream data that capture how a user navigates a website over time, and data center operators might want to view data that measure changes in infrastructure performance metrics. This type of time series data can be generated from multiple sources in extremely high volumes, needs to be cost-effectively collected in near real time, and requires efficient storage that helps customers organize and analyze the data. To do this today, customers can either use existing relational databases or self-managed time series databases. Neither of these options are attractive. Relational databases have rigid schemas that need to be predefined and are inflexible if new attributes of an application need to be tracked. For example, when new devices come online and start emitting time series data, rigid schemas mean that customers either have to discard the new data or redesign their tables to support the new devices, which can be costly and time-consuming. In addition to rigid schemas, relational databases also require multiple tables and indexes that need to be updated as new data arrives and lead to complex and inefficient queries as the data grows over time. Additionally, relational databases lack the required time series analytical functions like smoothing, approximation, and interpolation that help customers identify trends and patterns in near real time. Alternatively, time series database solutions that customers build and manage themselves have limited data processing and storage capacity, making them difficult to scale. Many of the existing time series database solutions fail to support data retention policies, creating storage complexity as data grows over time. To access the data, customers must build custom query engines and tools, which are difficult to configure and maintain, and can require complicated, multi-year engineering initiatives. Furthermore, these solutions do not integrate with the data collection, visualization, and machine learning tools customers are already using today. The result is that many customers just don't bother saving or analyzing time series data, missing out on the valuable insights it can provide. Amazon Timestream addresses these challenges by giving customers a purpose-built, serverless time series database for collecting, storing, and processing time series data. Amazon Timestream automatically detects the attributes of the data, so customers no longer need to predefine a schema. Amazon Timestream simplifies the complex process of data lifecycle management with automated storage tiering that stores recent data in memory and automatically moves historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based on predefined user policies. Amazon Timestream also uses a purpose-built adaptive query engine to transparently access and combine recent and historical data across tiers with a single SQL statement, without having to specify which storage tier houses the data. This enables customers to query all of their data using a single query without requiring them to write complicated application logic that looks up where their data is stored, queries each tier independently, and then combines the results into a complete view. Amazon Timestream provides built-in time series analytics, with functions for smoothing, approximation, and interpolation, so customers don't have to extract raw data from their databases and then perform their time series analytics with external tools and libraries or write complex stored procedures that not all databases support. Amazon Timestream's serverless architecture is built with fully decoupled data ingestion and query processing systems, giving customers virtually infinite scale and the ability to grow storage and query processing independently and automatically, without requiring customers to manage the underlying infrastructure. In addition, Amazon Timestream integrates with popular data collection, visualization, and machine learning tools that customers use today, including services like AWS IoT Core (for IoT data collection), Amazon Kinesis and Amazon MSK (for streaming data), Amazon QuickSight (for serverless Business Intelligence), and Amazon SageMaker (for building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly), as well as open source, third-party tools like Grafana (for observability dashboards) and Telegraf (for metrics collection). "What we hear from customers is that they have a lot of insightful data buried in their industrial equipment, website clickstream logs, data center infrastructure, and many other places, but managing time series data at scale is too complex, expensive, and slow," said Shawn Bice, VP, Databases, AWS. "Solving this problem required us to build something entirely new. Amazon Timestream provides a serverless database service that is purpose-built to manage the scale and complexity of time series data in the cloud, so customers can store more data more easily and cost effectively, giving them the ability to derive additional insights and drive better business decisions from their IoT and operational monitoring applications." Amazon Timestream is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland), with availability in additional regions in the coming months. The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (Guardian Life) is a Fortune 250 mutual company and a leading provider of life, disability, dental, and other benefits for individuals, at the workplace, and through government sponsored programs. "Our team is building applications that collect and process metrics from our build systems and artifact repositories. We currently store this data in a self-hosted time series database," said Eric Fiorillo, Head of Application Platform Strategy, Guardian Life. "We started evaluating Amazon Timestream for storing and processing this data. We're impressed with Amazon Timestream's serverless, autoscaling, and data lifecycle management capabilities. We're also thrilled to see that we can visualize our time series data stored in Amazon Timestream with Grafana." Autodesk is a global leader in software for architecture, engineering, construction, media and entertainment, and manufacturing industries. "At Autodesk, we make software for people who make things. This includes everything from buildings, bridges, roads, cars, medical devices, and consumer electronics, to the movies and video games that we all know and love," said Scott Reese, SVP of Manufacturing, Cloud, and Production Products, Autodesk. "We see that Amazon Timestream has the potential to help deliver new workflows by providing a cloud-hosted, scalable time series database. We anticipate that this will improve product performance and reduce waste in manufacturing. The key differentiator that excites us is the promise that this value will come without adding a data management burden for the customers nor Autodesk." PubNub's Realtime Communication Platform processes trillions of messages per month on behalf of thousands of customers and millions of end users. "To effectively operate the PubNub platform it is essential to monitor the enormous number of high-cardinality metrics that this traffic generates. As our traffic volumes and the number of tracked metrics have grown over time the challenges of scaling our self-managed monitoring solution have grown as well, and it is prohibitively expensive for us to use a SaaS monitoring solution for this data. Amazon Timestream has helped address both of these needs perfectly," said Dan Genzale, Director of Operations, PubNub. "We've been working with AWS as a Timestream preview customer, providing feedback throughout the preview process. AWS has built an amazing product in Timestream, in part by incorporating PubNub's feedback. We truly appreciate the fully-managed and autoscaling aspects that we have come to expect of AWS services, and we're delighted that we can use our existing visualization tools with Amazon Timestream." Since 1998, Rackspace Technology has delivered enterprise-class hosting, professional services, and managed public cloud for businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. "At Rackspace, we believe Amazon Timestream fills a longstanding need for a fully managed service to capture time series data in a cloud native way. In our work with Amazon Timestream we've observed the platform to be performant and easy to use, with a developer experience that is familiar and consistent with other AWS services," said Eric Miller, Senior Director of Technical Strategy, Rackspace Technology. "Cloud Native and IoT are both core competencies for us, so we're very pleased to see that Amazon Timestream is 100% serverless, and that it has tight integration with AWS IoT Core rule actions to easily ingest data without any custom code. Organizations who have a use case to capture and process time series data should consider using AWS Timestream as a scalable and reliable solution." Cake is a performance marketing software company that stores and analyzes billions of clickstream events. "Previously we used a DIY time series solution that was cumbersome to manage and was starting to tip over at scale," said Tyler Agee, Principal Architect, Cake Software. "When we heard AWS was building a time series database service—Amazon Timestream—we signed up for the preview and started testing our workloads. We've worked very closely with the AWS service team, giving them feedback and data on our use case to help ensure Amazon Timestream really excels in production for the size and scale of time series data we're dealing with. The result is phenomenal—a highly scalable and fully serverless database. It's the first time we've had a single solution for our time series data. We're looking forward to continuing our close work with AWS and cannot wait to see what's in store for Amazon Timestream." Trimble Inc., is a leading technology provider of productivity solutions for the construction, resources, geospatial, and transportation industries. "Whenever possible, we leverage AWS's managed service offerings. We are excited to now use Amazon Timestream as a serverless time series database supporting our IoT monitoring solution," said David Kohler, Engineering Director, Trimble. "Timestream is purpose-built for our IoT-generated time series data, and will allow us to reduce management overhead, improve performance, and reduce costs of our existing monitoring system." With over 60 years of fashion retailing experience, River Island is one of the most well known and loved brands with over 350 stores across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and six dedicated online sites operating in four currencies. "The Cloud Engineering team have been excited about the release of Amazon Timestream for some time. We've struggled to find a time series data store that is simple, easy, and affordable," said Tonino Greco, Head of Cloud and Infrastructure, River Island. "With Amazon Timestream we get that and more. Amazon Timestream will enable us to build a central monitoring capability across all of our heritage systems, as well as our AWS hosted microservices. Interesting times!" D2L is a global leader in educational technology, and the pioneer of the Brightspace learning platform used by customers in K-12, higher education, healthcare, government, and the corporate sector. "Our team is excited to use Amazon Timestream for our internal synthetic monitoring tool, which currently stores data in a relational database," said Andrew Alkema, Sr. Software Developer, D2L. "By switching to Amazon Timestream, a fully managed time series database, we can maintain performance while reducing cost by over 80%. Timestream's built-in storage tiering and configurable data retention policies are game-changers, and will save our team a lot of time spent on mundane activities." Fleetilla is a leading provider of end-to-end solutions for managing trailers, land-based intermodal containers, construction equipment, unpowered assets, and conventional commercial telematics for over-the-road vehicles. "Fleetilla works with real-time telematics data from IoT devices around the world. Recently we saw a need to integrate a variety of different data feeds to provide a unified ‘single pane of glass' view for complex mixed fleet environments. We are using Amazon Timestream to provide a cost-effective database system which will replace our existing complex solution composed of multiple other tools," said Marc Wojtowicz, VP of IT and Cloud Services, Fleetilla. "The fully managed Amazon Timestream service means less work for our DevOps team, the SDKs available in our preferred programming language mean simpler implementation for our developers, and the familiar SQL-based language means less learning curve for our data analysts. Timestream's built-in scalability and analytics features allow us to offer faster and richer experiences to our customers, and the machine learning integration allows us to continue innovating and improving our services for our customers." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

<p><em>New serverless time series database for IoT and operational applications can scale to process trillions of time series events per day up to 1,000 times faster than relational databases, and at as low as 1/10th the cost</em></p><p><em>Guardian Life, Autodesk, and PubNub among customers and partners using Amazon Timestream</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 30, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Timestream, a new time series database for IoT and operational applications that can scale to process trillions of time series events per day up to 1,000 times faster than relational databases, and at as low as 1/10th the cost. Amazon Timestream saves customers effort and expense by keeping recent data in-memory and moving historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based upon user-defined policies, while its query processing gives customers the ability to access and combine recent and historical data transparently across tiers with a single query, without needing to specify explicitly in the query whether the data resides in the in-memory or cost-optimized tier. Amazon Timestream's analytics features provide time series-specific functionality to help customers identify trends and patterns in data in near real time. Because Amazon Timestream is serverless, it automatically scales up or down to adjust capacity based on load, without customers needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. There are no upfront costs or commitments required to use Amazon Timestream, and customers pay only for the data they write, store, or query. To get started with Amazon Timestream, visit https://aws.amazon.com/timestream.</p><p>Today's customers want to build IoT, edge, and operational applications that collect, synthesize, and derive insights from enormous amounts of data that change over time (known as time series data). For example, manufacturers might want to track IoT sensor data that measure changes in equipment across a facility, online marketers might want to analyze clickstream data that capture how a user navigates a website over time, and data center operators might want to view data that measure changes in infrastructure performance metrics. This type of time series data can be generated from multiple sources in extremely high volumes, needs to be cost-effectively collected in near real time, and requires efficient storage that helps customers organize and analyze the data. To do this today, customers can either use existing relational databases or self-managed time series databases. Neither of these options are attractive. Relational databases have rigid schemas that need to be predefined and are inflexible if new attributes of an application need to be tracked. For example, when new devices come online and start emitting time series data, rigid schemas mean that customers either have to discard the new data or redesign their tables to support the new devices, which can be costly and time-consuming. In addition to rigid schemas, relational databases also require multiple tables and indexes that need to be updated as new data arrives and lead to complex and inefficient queries as the data grows over time. Additionally, relational databases lack the required time series analytical functions like smoothing, approximation, and interpolation that help customers identify trends and patterns in near real time. Alternatively, time series database solutions that customers build and manage themselves have limited data processing and storage capacity, making them difficult to scale. Many of the existing time series database solutions fail to support data retention policies, creating storage complexity as data grows over time. To access the data, customers must build custom query engines and tools, which are difficult to configure and maintain, and can require complicated, multi-year engineering initiatives. Furthermore, these solutions do not integrate with the data collection, visualization, and machine learning tools customers are already using today. The result is that many customers just don't bother saving or analyzing time series data, missing out on the valuable insights it can provide.</p><p>Amazon Timestream addresses these challenges by giving customers a purpose-built, serverless time series database for collecting, storing, and processing time series data. Amazon Timestream automatically detects the attributes of the data, so customers no longer need to predefine a schema. Amazon Timestream simplifies the complex process of data lifecycle management with automated storage tiering that stores recent data in memory and automatically moves historical data to a cost-optimized storage tier based on predefined user policies. Amazon Timestream also uses a purpose-built adaptive query engine to transparently access and combine recent and historical data across tiers with a single SQL statement, without having to specify which storage tier houses the data. This enables customers to query all of their data using a single query without requiring them to write complicated application logic that looks up where their data is stored, queries each tier independently, and then combines the results into a complete view. Amazon Timestream provides built-in time series analytics, with functions for smoothing, approximation, and interpolation, so customers don't have to extract raw data from their databases and then perform their time series analytics with external tools and libraries or write complex stored procedures that not all databases support. Amazon Timestream's serverless architecture is built with fully decoupled data ingestion and query processing systems, giving customers virtually infinite scale and the ability to grow storage and query processing independently and automatically, without requiring customers to manage the underlying infrastructure. In addition, Amazon Timestream integrates with popular data collection, visualization, and machine learning tools that customers use today, including services like AWS IoT Core (for IoT data collection), Amazon Kinesis and Amazon MSK (for streaming data), Amazon QuickSight (for serverless Business Intelligence), and Amazon SageMaker (for building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly), as well as open source, third-party tools like Grafana (for observability dashboards) and Telegraf (for metrics collection).</p><p>"What we hear from customers is that they have a lot of insightful data buried in their industrial equipment, website clickstream logs, data center infrastructure, and many other places, but managing time series data at scale is too complex, expensive, and slow," said Shawn Bice, VP, Databases, AWS. "Solving this problem required us to build something entirely new. Amazon Timestream provides a serverless database service that is purpose-built to manage the scale and complexity of time series data in the cloud, so customers can store more data more easily and cost effectively, giving them the ability to derive additional insights and drive better business decisions from their IoT and operational monitoring applications."</p><p>Amazon Timestream is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland), with availability in additional regions in the coming months.</p><p>The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (Guardian Life) is a Fortune 250 mutual company and a leading provider of life, disability, dental, and other benefits for individuals, at the workplace, and through government sponsored programs. "Our team is building applications that collect and process metrics from our build systems and artifact repositories. We currently store this data in a self-hosted time series database," said Eric Fiorillo, Head of Application Platform Strategy, Guardian Life. "We started evaluating Amazon Timestream for storing and processing this data. We're impressed with Amazon Timestream's serverless, autoscaling, and data lifecycle management capabilities. We're also thrilled to see that we can visualize our time series data stored in Amazon Timestream with Grafana."</p><p>Autodesk is a global leader in software for architecture, engineering, construction, media and entertainment, and manufacturing industries. "At Autodesk, we make software for people who make things. This includes everything from buildings, bridges, roads, cars, medical devices, and consumer electronics, to the movies and video games that we all know and love," said Scott Reese, SVP of Manufacturing, Cloud, and Production Products, Autodesk. "We see that Amazon Timestream has the potential to help deliver new workflows by providing a cloud-hosted, scalable time series database. We anticipate that this will improve product performance and reduce waste in manufacturing. The key differentiator that excites us is the promise that this value will come without adding a data management burden for the customers nor Autodesk."</p><p>PubNub's Realtime Communication Platform processes trillions of messages per month on behalf of thousands of customers and millions of end users. "To effectively operate the PubNub platform it is essential to monitor the enormous number of high-cardinality metrics that this traffic generates. As our traffic volumes and the number of tracked metrics have grown over time the challenges of scaling our self-managed monitoring solution have grown as well, and it is prohibitively expensive for us to use a SaaS monitoring solution for this data. Amazon Timestream has helped address both of these needs perfectly," said Dan Genzale, Director of Operations, PubNub. "We've been working with AWS as a Timestream preview customer, providing feedback throughout the preview process. AWS has built an amazing product in Timestream, in part by incorporating PubNub's feedback. We truly appreciate the fully-managed and autoscaling aspects that we have come to expect of AWS services, and we're delighted that we can use our existing visualization tools with Amazon Timestream."</p><p>Since 1998, Rackspace Technology has delivered enterprise-class hosting, professional services, and managed public cloud for businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. "At Rackspace, we believe Amazon Timestream fills a longstanding need for a fully managed service to capture time series data in a cloud native way. In our work with Amazon Timestream we've observed the platform to be performant and easy to use, with a developer experience that is familiar and consistent with other AWS services," said Eric Miller, Senior Director of Technical Strategy, Rackspace Technology. "Cloud Native and IoT are both core competencies for us, so we're very pleased to see that Amazon Timestream is 100% serverless, and that it has tight integration with AWS IoT Core rule actions to easily ingest data without any custom code. Organizations who have a use case to capture and process time series data should consider using AWS Timestream as a scalable and reliable solution."</p><p>Cake is a performance marketing software company that stores and analyzes billions of clickstream events. "Previously we used a DIY time series solution that was cumbersome to manage and was starting to tip over at scale," said Tyler Agee, Principal Architect, Cake Software. "When we heard AWS was building a time series database service—Amazon Timestream—we signed up for the preview and started testing our workloads. We've worked very closely with the AWS service team, giving them feedback and data on our use case to help ensure Amazon Timestream really excels in production for the size and scale of time series data we're dealing with. The result is phenomenal—a highly scalable and fully serverless database. It's the first time we've had a single solution for our time series data. We're looking forward to continuing our close work with AWS and cannot wait to see what's in store for Amazon Timestream."</p><p>Trimble Inc., is a leading technology provider of productivity solutions for the construction, resources, geospatial, and transportation industries. "Whenever possible, we leverage AWS's managed service offerings. We are excited to now use Amazon Timestream as a serverless time series database supporting our IoT monitoring solution," said David Kohler, Engineering Director, Trimble. "Timestream is purpose-built for our IoT-generated time series data, and will allow us to reduce management overhead, improve performance, and reduce costs of our existing monitoring system."</p><p>With over 60 years of fashion retailing experience, River Island is one of the most well known and loved brands with over 350 stores across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and six dedicated online sites operating in four currencies. "The Cloud Engineering team have been excited about the release of Amazon Timestream for some time. We've struggled to find a time series data store that is simple, easy, and affordable," said Tonino Greco, Head of Cloud and Infrastructure, River Island. "With Amazon Timestream we get that and more. Amazon Timestream will enable us to build a central monitoring capability across all of our heritage systems, as well as our AWS hosted microservices. Interesting times!"</p><p>D2L is a global leader in educational technology, and the pioneer of the Brightspace learning platform used by customers in K-12, higher education, healthcare, government, and the corporate sector. "Our team is excited to use Amazon Timestream for our internal synthetic monitoring tool, which currently stores data in a relational database," said Andrew Alkema, Sr. Software Developer, D2L. "By switching to Amazon Timestream, a fully managed time series database, we can maintain performance while reducing cost by over 80%. Timestream's built-in storage tiering and configurable data retention policies are game-changers, and will save our team a lot of time spent on mundane activities."</p><p>Fleetilla is a leading provider of end-to-end solutions for managing trailers, land-based intermodal containers, construction equipment, unpowered assets, and conventional commercial telematics for over-the-road vehicles. "Fleetilla works with real-time telematics data from IoT devices around the world. Recently we saw a need to integrate a variety of different data feeds to provide a unified ‘single pane of glass' view for complex mixed fleet environments. We are using Amazon Timestream to provide a cost-effective database system which will replace our existing complex solution composed of multiple other tools," said Marc Wojtowicz, VP of IT and Cloud Services, Fleetilla<em>.</em> "The fully managed Amazon Timestream service means less work for our DevOps team, the SDKs available in our preferred programming language mean simpler implementation for our developers, and the familiar SQL-based language means less learning curve for our data analysts. Timestream's built-in scalability and analytics features allow us to offer faster and richer experiences to our customers, and the machine learning integration allows us to continue innovating and improving our services for our customers."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p>

Amazon Transparency Launches in Japan, Australia

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Transparency protects more than 10,000 brands and has prevented 500k suspected counterfeits SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 30, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the expansion of Transparency to two new countries – Japan and Australia - making it available in 10 countries where Amazon has a store. Amazon Transparency is also celebrating a milestone of enrolling over 10,000 brands into the program. Transparency, launched in 2018, is a product serialization service that builds on Amazon's long-standing work and innovative solutions focused on ensuring that customers always receive authentic goods when shopping in Amazon's stores. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200930006006/en/ (Graphic: Business Wire) "Transparency is a powerful technology-driven solution that gives brands the ability to uniquely identify every product unit they manufacture and allows Amazon to use this to prevent counterfeits from reaching customers," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President of Worldwide Customer Trust and Partner Support. Transparency allows brands to uniquely identify each unit they produce through the application of unique codes on the product or its packaging. These codes allow Amazon to inspect and authenticate every unit enrolled in Transparency proactively, detecting and stopping counterfeits before they ever reach customers. Additionally, customers can use a mobile app to scan the code and verify authenticity regardless of where they purchased the brand's products. Over 10,000 brands – from Fortune 500 companies and global brands, to startups and small businesses in countries around the world including LG Electronics USA, Spectrum Brands, Cards Against Humanity LLC, Neato, Petrichor, Skullcandy, Salom, Nomader, and Naples Naturals – have already enrolled in Transparency. Across these brands, Transparency has prevented the shipment of over 500K suspected counterfeits in Amazon's stores. LG Electronics USA, a leading innovator in home appliances, said "LG sees Transparency as a great way to ensure that consumers use genuine LG filters while protecting them from counterfeit products." Spectrum Brands, a Fortune 500 company that owns several pet care companies, said: "By having the Transparency seal on our products, we give consumers confidence that the products they are purchasing for their pets are authentic, effective and formulated as labeled." Cards Against Humanity LLC, said: "With Transparency, we're now more confident than ever that our customers are receiving legitimate products — which is a win for us and for customers." Neato, a maker of robotic vacuum cleaners, said: "Transparency has allowed us to grow consumer confidence in our products and prevent inauthentic products from ending up in the hands of our customers." Sumeet Raj Aggarwal, owner of the small business in India, Petrichor, said: "With Transparency, consumers can buy with confidence knowing that the products are authentic and high quality. This program grows confidence in our brand and prevents counterfeits from being delivered to consumers. It's a win-win for brands and consumers." In addition to Japan and Australia, Transparency is available in Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. To learn more about Transparency and how to enroll, visit: http://www.transparency.com/ Transparency is one of many innovations that Amazon has introduced to partner with brands to ensure customers receive authentic products and to protect brands' intellectual property. Most recently, Amazon launched the Amazon Counterfeit Crime Unit (ACCU), a global team that will investigate and bring legal action against bad actors, protecting customers, brands, and Amazon's selling partners. To learn more: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters Amazon's Project Zero, which empowers brands to drive counterfeits to zero. Project Zero uses automated protections to proactively and continuously scan more than 5 billion attempted product listing updates daily to look for suspicious listings, provides a self-service tool for brands with an unprecedented ability to directly remove listings from Amazon's stores, and leverages product serialization as an optional service. To join the more than 10,000 enrolled brands, learn more at: http://www.projectzero.com. Amazon IP Accelerator helps businesses more quickly obtain intellectual property (IP) rights and brand protection in Amazon's stores. The program was designed specifically with small and medium businesses in mind and is available to entrepreneurs worldwide that are looking to secure intellectual property in the U.S. IP Accelerator connects entrepreneurs with US law firms with expertise in trademark applications. Entrepreneurs also benefit from pre-negotiated rates. To learn more: https://brandservices.amazon.com/ipaccelerator Amazon Brand Registry, a free service that gives brand owners access to a powerful set of tools that help them deliver an accurate and trusted customer experience on Amazon while protecting a brand's IP. More than 350,000 brands are enrolled. To enroll and learn more: https://brandservices.amazon.com/ About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. 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<p><em>Transparency protects more than 10,000 brands and has prevented 500k suspected counterfeits</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 30, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the expansion of Transparency to two new countries – Japan and Australia - making it available in 10 countries where Amazon has a store. Amazon Transparency is also celebrating a milestone of enrolling over 10,000 brands into the program. Transparency, launched in 2018, is a product serialization service that builds on Amazon's long-standing work and innovative solutions focused on ensuring that customers always receive authentic goods when shopping in Amazon's stores.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200930006006/en/</p><div><p>(Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"Transparency is a powerful technology-driven solution that gives brands the ability to uniquely identify every product unit they manufacture and allows Amazon to use this to prevent counterfeits from reaching customers," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President of Worldwide Customer Trust and Partner Support.</p><p>Transparency allows brands to uniquely identify each unit they produce through the application of unique codes on the product or its packaging. These codes allow Amazon to inspect and authenticate every unit enrolled in Transparency proactively, detecting and stopping counterfeits before they ever reach customers. Additionally, customers can use a mobile app to scan the code and verify authenticity regardless of where they purchased the brand's products. Over 10,000 brands – from Fortune 500 companies and global brands, to startups and small businesses in countries around the world including LG Electronics USA, Spectrum Brands, Cards Against Humanity LLC, Neato, Petrichor, Skullcandy, Salom, Nomader, and Naples Naturals – have already enrolled in Transparency. Across these brands, Transparency has prevented the shipment of over 500K suspected counterfeits in Amazon's stores.</p><p>LG Electronics USA, a leading innovator in home appliances, said<em> "LG sees Transparency as a great way to ensure that consumers use genuine LG filters while protecting them from counterfeit products."</em></p><p>Spectrum Brands, a Fortune 500 company that owns several pet care companies, said: <em>"By having the Transparency seal on our products, we give consumers confidence that the products they are purchasing for their pets are authentic, effective and formulated as labeled."</em></p><p>Cards Against Humanity LLC, said: <em>"With Transparency, we're now more confident than ever that our customers are receiving legitimate products — which is a win for us and for customers."</em></p><p>Neato, a maker of robotic vacuum cleaners, said:<em> "Transparency has allowed us to grow consumer confidence in our products and prevent inauthentic products from ending up in the hands of our customers."</em></p><p>Sumeet Raj Aggarwal, owner of the small business in India, Petrichor, said:<em> "With Transparency, consumers can buy with confidence knowing that the products are authentic and high quality. This program grows confidence in our brand and prevents counterfeits from being delivered to consumers. It's a win-win for brands and consumers."</em></p><p>In addition to Japan and Australia, Transparency is available in Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. To learn more about Transparency and how to enroll, visit: http://www.transparency.com/</p><p>Transparency is one of many innovations that Amazon has introduced to partner with brands to ensure customers receive authentic products and to protect brands' intellectual property.</p><ul><li>Most recently, Amazon launched the Amazon Counterfeit Crime Unit (ACCU), a global team that will investigate and bring legal action against bad actors, protecting customers, brands, and Amazon's selling partners. To learn more: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters</li><li>Amazon's Project Zero, which empowers brands to drive counterfeits to zero. Project Zero uses automated protections to proactively and continuously scan more than 5 billion attempted product listing updates daily to look for suspicious listings, provides a self-service tool for brands with an unprecedented ability to directly remove listings from Amazon's stores, and leverages product serialization as an optional service. To join the more than 10,000 enrolled brands, learn more at: http://www.projectzero.com.</li><li>Amazon IP Accelerator helps businesses more quickly obtain intellectual property (IP) rights and brand protection in Amazon's stores. The program was designed specifically with small and medium businesses in mind and is available to entrepreneurs worldwide that are looking to secure intellectual property in the U.S. IP Accelerator connects entrepreneurs with US law firms with expertise in trademark applications. Entrepreneurs also benefit from pre-negotiated rates. To learn more: https://brandservices.amazon.com/ipaccelerator</li><li>Amazon Brand Registry, a free service that gives brand owners access to a powerful set of tools that help them deliver an accurate and trusted customer experience on Amazon while protecting a brand's IP. More than 350,000 brands are enrolled. To enroll and learn more: https://brandservices.amazon.com/</li></ul><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200930006006/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Surpasses $215 Million in Donations to Charities Through AmazonSmile

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Amazon Surpasses $215 Million in Donations to Charities Through AmazonSmile

09/30/2020

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Hundreds of thousands of charitable organizations – from global humanitarian efforts and animal welfare groups to school PTAs, hospitals, and more – received donations from Amazon, generated by customers who shopped using AmazonSmile Charities that focus on animals, education, health, and disaster relief were most favored by AmazonSmile customers Boulder, Colorado; Alexandria, Virginia; and Ann Arbor, Michigan love to give back—ranking as the top three cities on a per capita basis with the most AmazonSmile donations generated with the help of local customers shopping with AmazonSmile SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 30, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that the company has donated more than $215 million globally to charitable organizations through the AmazonSmile program since its launch in 2013. AmazonSmile provides a convenient way for customers to support charities they care about every time they shop with Amazon – from global humanitarian efforts to local hospitals and school PTAs. Since 2013, charities that focus on animals, education, health, and disaster relief were most favored by AmazonSmile customers in the U.S., making up almost 50% of all AmazonSmile customer-supported charitable organizations. Customers can begin supporting their favorite charity with AmazonSmile in time for Prime Day and throughout the holidays. "Donations from AmazonSmile have resulted in hundreds of thousands of charities expanding their meaningful work across global communities making a difference in people's lives," said Llew Mason, Vice President of Consumer Engagement at Amazon. "We are thrilled to have given over $215 million on behalf of customers to the causes they care about most." A review of AmazonSmile donations reveals: Boulder, Colorado; Alexandria, Virginia; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Seattle; Orlando, Florida; Berkeley, California; Pittsburgh; Portland, Oregon; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Bend, Oregon are the top 10 U.S. cities generating the most AmazonSmile donations, per capita. AmazonSmile customers love animals, with more choosing to support animal-related nonprofits over any other cause. Customers in Alexandria, Boulder, and Orlando, generated the most AmazonSmile donations towards animal-related nonprofits, per capita. Education-related charities are the second most-supported cause by AmazonSmile customers. Boulder is the top city in the U.S. donating to support education-related nonprofits, per capita. Charities with a focus on civil rights and social action saw nearly 70% growth in donations from AmazonSmile in the last year. "Over the last five years, compassionate AmazonSmile customers have helped generate millions of dollars in donations to help us rescue and protect countless animals in need across the country," said Matt Bershadker, President and CEO of the ASPCA. "That support covers a range of animal welfare programs for dogs, cats, horses, and farm animals, and we're grateful to Amazon and their customers for helping us provide vulnerable animals with the care they need and deserve." "Education is the most powerful tool we can use to change the world," said Tanya Ramos, CEO for Pencils of Promise. "Thanks to the generosity of AmazonSmile customers, Pencils of Promise has helped provide access to quality education for over 100,000 children around the globe." About AmazonSmile AmazonSmile is a simple way for customers to support their favorite charity every time they shop with Amazon. When shopping at AmazonSmile, customers will find tens of millions of eligible items offered at the same low prices and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added benefit that the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of eligible purchases to charitable organizations customers choose, at no extra cost to them. Customers can choose from over one million charities to support by visiting smile.amazon.com on their web browser or by activating AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping app for iPhones and Android phones. AmazonSmile customers can also support charitable organizations with AmazonSmile Charity Lists, an easy way to donate items directly to charities based on a list of what the organizations need most. To support a favorite charity and begin shopping in time for Prime Day and throughout the holidays, visit smile.amazon.com or smile.amazon.com/about to learn more. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. *Note to editors: Data outlined reflects AmazonSmile purchases in the U.S. from March 2013 to September 2020. City rankings were compiled on a per capita basis in cities with over 100,000 residents. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200930005458/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Hundreds of thousands of charitable organizations – from global humanitarian efforts and animal welfare groups to school PTAs, hospitals, and more – received donations from Amazon, generated by customers who shopped using AmazonSmile</em></p><p><em>Charities that focus on animals, education, health, and disaster relief were most favored by AmazonSmile customers</em></p><p><em>Boulder, Colorado; Alexandria, Virginia; and Ann Arbor, Michigan love to give back—ranking as the top three cities on a per capita basis with the most AmazonSmile donations generated with the help of local customers shopping with AmazonSmile</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 30, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that the company has donated more than $215 million globally to charitable organizations through the AmazonSmile program since its launch in 2013. AmazonSmile provides a convenient way for customers to support charities they care about every time they shop with Amazon – from global humanitarian efforts to local hospitals and school PTAs. Since 2013, charities that focus on animals, education, health, and disaster relief were most favored by AmazonSmile customers in the U.S., making up almost 50% of all AmazonSmile customer-supported charitable organizations. Customers can begin supporting their favorite charity with AmazonSmile in time for Prime Day and throughout the holidays.</p><p>"Donations from AmazonSmile have resulted in hundreds of thousands of charities expanding their meaningful work across global communities making a difference in people's lives," said Llew Mason, Vice President of Consumer Engagement at Amazon. "We are thrilled to have given over $215 million on behalf of customers to the causes they care about most."</p><p>A review of AmazonSmile donations reveals:</p><ul><li>Boulder, Colorado; Alexandria, Virginia; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Seattle; Orlando, Florida; Berkeley, California; Pittsburgh; Portland, Oregon; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Bend, Oregon are the top 10 U.S. cities generating the most AmazonSmile donations, per capita.</li><li>AmazonSmile customers love animals, with more choosing to support animal-related nonprofits over any other cause. Customers in Alexandria, Boulder, and Orlando, generated the most AmazonSmile donations towards animal-related nonprofits, per capita.</li><li>Education-related charities are the second most-supported cause by AmazonSmile customers. Boulder is the top city in the U.S. donating to support education-related nonprofits, per capita.</li><li>Charities with a focus on civil rights and social action saw nearly 70% growth in donations from AmazonSmile in the last year.</li></ul><p>"Over the last five years, compassionate AmazonSmile customers have helped generate millions of dollars in donations to help us rescue and protect countless animals in need across the country," said Matt Bershadker, President and CEO of the ASPCA. "That support covers a range of animal welfare programs for dogs, cats, horses, and farm animals, and we're grateful to Amazon and their customers for helping us provide vulnerable animals with the care they need and deserve."</p><p>"Education is the most powerful tool we can use to change the world," said Tanya Ramos, CEO for Pencils of Promise. "Thanks to the generosity of AmazonSmile customers, Pencils of Promise has helped provide access to quality education for over 100,000 children around the globe."</p><p>About AmazonSmile</p><p>AmazonSmile is a simple way for customers to support their favorite charity every time they shop with Amazon. When shopping at AmazonSmile, customers will find tens of millions of eligible items offered at the same low prices and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added benefit that the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of eligible purchases to charitable organizations customers choose, at no extra cost to them. Customers can choose from over one million charities to support by visiting smile.amazon.com on their web browser or by activating AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping app for iPhones and Android phones. AmazonSmile customers can also support charitable organizations with AmazonSmile Charity Lists, an easy way to donate items directly to charities based on a list of what the organizations need most.</p><p>To support a favorite charity and begin shopping in time for Prime Day and throughout the holidays, visit smile.amazon.com or smile.amazon.com/about to learn more.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p><em>*Note to editors: Data outlined reflects AmazonSmile purchases in the U.S. from March 2013 to September 2020. City rankings were compiled on a per capita basis in cities with over 100,000 residents.</em></p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200930005458/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Mark Your Calendars! Prime Day Is Here in Time for the Holidays on October 13 & 14

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Mark Your Calendars! Prime Day Is Here in Time for the Holidays on October 13 & 14

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To further its support of small businesses during COVID-19 and beyond, Amazon is investing an additional $100 million in special Prime Day and holiday promotional programs, and today through October 12, Amazon will offer a $10 credit to use on Prime Day to members who spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon's store Prime members get an early start to a season of savings with deep discounts on holiday must-haves across toys, electronics, fashion, beauty, kitchen, home, Amazon Devices, and everything else you need and love Prime Day will feature more than one million deals globally from top brands including Panasonic, Roborock, Keurig, Under Armour, Coleman, Simple Joys by Carter's, adidas, Lacoste, Marvel, Ticwatch, and many more SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 28, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) —Amazon's annual Prime Day event is back in time for the holidays on October 13-14. The two-day shopping event delivers Prime members incredible savings and deep discounts on over one million deals across every category. Prime Day kicks off at midnight PT on Tuesday, October 13 and runs through Wednesday, October 14, for Prime members in the U.S., U.K, U.A.E, Spain, Singapore, Netherlands, Mexico, Luxembourg, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, China, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Australia, and – participating for the first time this year – Turkey and Brazil. Members can shop deals and top products for the holiday season including toys, TVs, electronics, fashion, beauty, kitchen, home, and Amazon Devices starting today and throughout the two-day epic deals event at amazon.com/primeday. Not a Prime member yet? Anyone can join Prime or start a 30-day free trial at amazon.com/primeday to participate in Prime Day. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200927005049/en/ Prime Day is here! (Graphic: Business Wire) Amazon is increasing its commitment to small business selling partners by designing Prime Day to support them with our biggest small business promotion yet. Starting today through October 12, Amazon will offer Prime members a $10 credit to use on Prime Day when members spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon's store. This Prime Day, and throughout the holiday season, Amazon will spend more than $100 million on new promotional activities to help small businesses around the world increase their sales and reach new customers. This has been a challenging year for many small businesses, and selling in Amazon's stores has enabled hundreds of thousands of smaller companies to sustain and even grow their sales despite the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. "In the midst of an unprecedented year, we're committed to making this the most successful Prime Day ever for our small businesses and excited for Prime members worldwide to discover new ways to support local entrepreneurs and save big on everything they need and love," said Jeff Wilke, Amazon CEO Worldwide Consumer. "This year's Prime Day is the perfect opportunity for Prime members to get their holiday shopping done early from the comfort of their homes – and to have more time to spend with their families and friends throughout the season." Support Small Businesses There are many ways to discover products from small businesses now through Prime Day. Curated Small Business Collections: To make it easier than ever for customers to support small businesses, Amazon has created new curated collections to connect customers with local small businesses. Customers in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Singapore, Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, and Australia will be able to shop curated small business collections, in both the lead-up to and on Prime Day. Visit amazon.com/supportsmall to start shopping collections in the U.S based on product category, business location, and owner profiles. Spend $10, Get $10: Amazon will offer a $10 credit to use on Prime Day to members who spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon's store today through October 12. This promotion is fully funded by Amazon to connect customers with local small businesses selling in its store. Small business promotions kicked off today in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Germany, Italy, France, and Japan. Prime Day Deals: Once Prime Day begins, members can use their $10 credit to purchase almost any product in Amazon's store, including from small businesses. More than half of the items sold in Amazon's store worldwide are from third-party sellers – mostly small and medium-sized businesses. This year, Prime members around the globe can shop hundreds of thousands of Prime Day deals from these businesses. Shop on Amazon Live: Throughout Prime Day, Amazon Live will spotlight exciting deals curated from small businesses across Amazon. Viewers will also have the opportunity to hear directly from business owners, learn more about their products, and shop their Prime Day deals during a reoccurring segment called Small Business Showcase. "In such an unsettled economy, we've actually been able to grow our sales with Amazon, allowing us to pay our employees more and pivot quickly when supply chain shortages struck," said Colleen Sundlie, owner of Date Lady in Springfield, MO. "Selling online has helped us stay connected with customers and continue growing our small business despite the challenging times." Early Prime Day Deals Start Now Starting today, Prime members can shop early offers and deals everyday leading up to Prime Day on October 13 & 14. Amazon Devices: Starting today, get two Echo Dot devices for $39.98 and Fire TV Recast for $129.99 to store up to 75 hours of HD programming. Plus, save up to $100 on Fire TV Edition Smart TVs and get the all-new Toshiba 43-inch Smart HD Fire TV Edition TV for $179.99. Starting October 6, get the Toshiba 32-inch Smart HD Fire TV Edition TV for $119.99 and the Insignia 43-inch Smart 4K UHD Fire TV Edition TV for $199.99; save $40 on Echo Show 5; get Echo Auto and enjoy hands free access to Alexa in your car plus six months of Amazon Music Unlimited for $19.99; and save on smart home security with Blink Mini indoor cameras—one for $24.99, two for $49.98, or get Echo Show 5 and Blink Mini for $54.99. Amazon Music: For just $0.99, Prime members who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get four months of the premium streaming tier with unlimited access to more than 60 million songs ad-free, and now a wide selection of popular podcasts. Audible: Prime members can save $50 on a year of Audible Premium Plus. Audible members will also get access to the Plus catalog, featuring more than 10K Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts, all at no additional cost. Kindle Unlimited: New customers to Kindle Unlimited save 50% off a 6-month subscription. Kindle Book Deals: Spend $20 on ebooks and get a $5 ebook credit; Plus, Prime members can choose two, new select Kindle books for free. Amazon Fashion: Save up to 30% on select Vineyard Vines clothing for men, up to 15% on select fall fashion from Shopbop including boots, denim, and more, up to 30% on select top trends from premium women's fashion, including ASTR the Label, Splendid, and Alo Yoga, up to 30% on select kids' and baby clothing and shoes, up to 30% on select styles from Calvin Klein, up to 30% on select Dress the Population, 4SI3NNA, and Black Halo dresses. Amazon Brands: Save up to 40% on select clothing styles including Amazon Essentials and Goodthreads, 40% on pet essentials from Wag, 20% on Belei skin care products, 20% on baby essentials from Mama Bear, 20% on health and personal care products from Solimo, 20% on coffee and snacks from Amazon Fresh, Happy Belly, and Solimo, and 20% on health and wellness products from Revly, Amazon Elements, and Amazon Basic Care. Amazon Fresh: Members can enjoy $15 off their first order of $50 or more on Amazon Fresh plus item level offers throughout the store. Visit amazon.com/Fresh for more. Home: Save up to 20% or more on furniture brands including Modway, Lane Home Furnishings, Walker Edison Furniture Company, and Nathan James. Save up to 20% or more on select rugs from brands including nuLOOM and Artistic Weavers. Save on Martha Stewart Hunts Table Lamp Living Room Decor and Madison Park Signature Colette table lamp. Prime Video: Today through Prime Day, Prime members can enjoy a selection of titles to rent or buy with up to 50% off on select titles. Tools: Save up to 20% on select DEWALT saws and drills and up to 15% on select DEWALT impact driver and drill combo Kits. Toys: Save up to 30% on select toys from Green Toys. Smart Home and Appliances: Save 20% on Broan Appliances and 15% on Midea compact refrigerators. Save on Kasa Smart Dimmer Switch by TP-Link and SYLVANIA Tungsten halogen light bulbs. Lawn & Garden: Save on Masterbuilt Electric Smoker and accessories, select BLACK+DECKER outdoor tools, Back to the Roots Water Garden, American Lawn Mower Company electric lawn mower, Champion 3400-Watt Portable Generator, and more. Ways to Shop and Save Big this Prime Day Prime members have many convenient ways to shop and discover big savings and deep discounts this Prime Day. Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Cards: Starting September 28 through October 31, eligible Prime members who apply and are approved for the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card will instantly receive a $100 Gift Card. Cardmembers receive 5% back at Whole Foods Market and at Amazon.com with an eligible Prime membership, plus 2% back at restaurants, gas stations and drugstores, among other benefits. Restrictions apply. For more information, visit amazon.com/primevisa. Shop with Alexa: Prime members can discover deals by asking "Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?" Plus, starting today and for a limited time, new Prime members who sign up for Prime using an Echo device will receive a $5 Amazon credit. Just say, "Alexa, sign me up for Prime." Go In-Store: Prime members can visit Amazon's physical retail locations, including Whole Foods Market, Amazon 4-star, Amazon Books, Amazon Pop Up, and Amazon Fresh to find in-store deals. Stay tuned for more details about in-store promotions. Amazon Live: Tune in to Amazon Live throughout Prime Day to see live product demonstrations, hear directly from brands, and shop can't miss deals the minute they go live. Customers will see products in action through cooking demonstrations, try-on hauls, and more, and celebrities and influencers will be joining live to surprise customers with exclusive experiences. Viewers can easily shop the products and brands featured through a carousel that updates in real-time as hosts discuss the products. To watch, visit amazon.com/primeday and via the Amazon Shopping app on Fire TV. Personal Shopper by Prime Wardrobe: Personal Shopper by Prime Wardrobe, our monthly styling service exclusively for Prime members, extends to men's fashion. Starting September 28, the service will provide a convenient way for customers to receive curated recommendations for both men's and women's fashion from our in-house team of stylists. AmazonSmile: Customers can visitsmile.amazon.com and find the exact same Amazon experience – amazing deals, wide selection, fast and free delivery options – with the added bonus that AmazonSmile will donate a portion of the purchase price of eligible purchases to the charity of their choice. AmazonSmile customers can now shop AmazonSmile on the latest version of the Amazon app by opening the app and finding ‘Settings' in the main menu (☰), tap on ‘AmazonSmile' and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on AmazonSmile on your phone. Amazon Photos Prime Day Photos Sweepstakes: Customers can enter for a chance to win the Prime Day Photos Sweepstakes by downloading the Amazon Photos app, sharing a photo that shows how Prime delivers joy, tagging Amazon Photos (@amazon.photos on Instagram and @amazonphotos on Facebook and Twitter), and using the hashtag #PrimeDayPhotos. A total of 30 winners will receive $1,000 Amazon.com Gift Cards good for purchases on Amazon.com. Get details at amazon.com/primedayphotos. Amazon.com in Spanish: Customers can visit amazon.com/espanol or use the Amazon App to shop, browse, search for millions of products, read reviews, view their carts, and place orders in Spanish. On the mobile App customers can go to Settings and tap on "Country and Language" to select Spanish. Amazon.com in Spanish gives customers the same convenient shopping experience in their preferred language on any device. Amazon App: Prime members can shop anytime, anywhere with the Amazon App to ensure you never miss a Prime Day deal. Earlier this month, Amazon announced it is hiring an additional 100,000 regular full-time and part-time jobs in its fulfillment and logistics network throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as opening 100 new Operations buildings across fulfillment centers, delivery stations, sortation centers and other sites in September alone. These permanent positions will join the hundreds of thousands of employees already working across Amazon's networks to ensure fast and efficient delivery for customers through the rest of the year, and beyond. Interested candidates can find out more at amazon.com/apply. Every Day Made Better with Prime Prime was designed to make your life better every single day. Over 150 million paid members around the world enjoy the many benefits of Prime, including the best of shopping and entertainment. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs plus thousands of stations and playlists with Amazon Music, unlimited access to more than 1,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, free in-game content and games with Prime Gaming, Prime Day, and more. Prime members can also get deep discounts on select popular products at Whole Foods Market plus an additional 10 percent off hundreds of sale items. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. In addition to more than 10 million items eligible for free One-Day Delivery coast to coast, Prime members in thousands of cities and towns across 47 major metropolitan areas have access to millions of items with free Same-Day Delivery and the option to pick up and return their Amazon packages for free through Amazon Hub, a contactless, click and collect service at no additional cost. Prime members also have access to free and fast grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 2,000 cities and towns. Prime is $119 a year or $12.99 a month and customers can start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime. College students can join Prime Student for 50% off and enjoy the benefits of Prime with a six-month trial at amazon.com/primestudent. Plus, for an additional $0.99 a month, student members can get Amazon Music Unlimited and stream over 50 million songs ad-free. Customers receiving government assistance through EBT or Medicaid can also qualify for a discounted Prime membership of $5.99 a month at amazon.com/qualify. Amazon Business customers—from small businesses to large enterprises, as well as education, government and non-profit organizations—can also take advantage of Prime's fast, free shipping and exclusive business-relevant benefits with Business Prime, which starts at $69 per year as an add-on for customers with Amazon Prime on their personal account or $179 per year for up to three users at amazon.com/businessprime.

<p><em>To further its support of small businesses during COVID-19 and beyond, Amazon is investing an additional $100 million in special Prime Day and holiday promotional programs, and today through October 12, Amazon will offer a $10 credit to use on Prime Day to members who spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon's store</em></p><p><em>Prime members get an early start to a season of savings with deep discounts on holiday must-haves across toys, electronics, fashion, beauty, kitchen, home, Amazon Devices, and everything else you need and love</em></p><p><em>Prime Day will feature more than one million deals globally from top brands including Panasonic, Roborock, Keurig, Under Armour, Coleman, Simple Joys by Carter's, adidas, Lacoste, Marvel, Ticwatch, and many more</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 28, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) —Amazon's annual Prime Day event is back in time for the holidays on October 13-14. The two-day shopping event delivers Prime members incredible savings and deep discounts on over one million deals across every category. Prime Day kicks off at midnight PT on Tuesday, October 13 and runs through Wednesday, October 14, for Prime members in the U.S., U.K, U.A.E, Spain, Singapore, Netherlands, Mexico, Luxembourg, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, China, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Australia, and – participating for the first time this year – Turkey and Brazil. Members can shop deals and top products for the holiday season including toys, TVs, electronics, fashion, beauty, kitchen, home, and Amazon Devices starting today and throughout the two-day epic deals event at amazon.com/primeday. Not a Prime member yet? Anyone can join Prime or start a 30-day free trial at amazon.com/primeday to participate in Prime Day.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200927005049/en/</p><div><p>Prime Day is here! (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Amazon is increasing its commitment to small business selling partners by designing Prime Day to support them with our biggest small business promotion yet. Starting today through October 12, Amazon will offer Prime members a $10 credit to use on Prime Day when members spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon's store. This Prime Day, and throughout the holiday season, Amazon will spend more than $100 million on new promotional activities to help small businesses around the world increase their sales and reach new customers. This has been a challenging year for many small businesses, and selling in Amazon's stores has enabled hundreds of thousands of smaller companies to sustain and even grow their sales despite the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.</p><p>"In the midst of an unprecedented year, we're committed to making this the most successful Prime Day ever for our small businesses and excited for Prime members worldwide to discover new ways to support local entrepreneurs and save big on everything they need and love," said Jeff Wilke, Amazon CEO Worldwide Consumer. "This year's Prime Day is the perfect opportunity for Prime members to get their holiday shopping done early from the comfort of their homes – and to have more time to spend with their families and friends throughout the season."</p><p>Support Small Businesses</p><p>There are many ways to discover products from small businesses now through Prime Day.</p><ul><li>Curated Small Business Collections: To make it easier than ever for customers to support small businesses, Amazon has created new curated collections to connect customers with local small businesses. Customers in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Singapore, Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, and Australia will be able to shop curated small business collections, in both the lead-up to and on Prime Day. Visit amazon.com/supportsmall to start shopping collections in the U.S based on product category, business location, and owner profiles.</li><li>Spend $10, Get $10: Amazon will offer a $10 credit to use on Prime Day to members who spend $10 on items sold by select small businesses in Amazon's store today through October 12. This promotion is fully funded by Amazon to connect customers with local small businesses selling in its store. Small business promotions kicked off today in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Germany, Italy, France, and Japan.</li><li>Prime Day Deals: Once Prime Day begins, members can use their $10 credit to purchase almost any product in Amazon's store, including from small businesses. More than half of the items sold in Amazon's store worldwide are from third-party sellers – mostly small and medium-sized businesses. This year, Prime members around the globe can shop hundreds of thousands of Prime Day deals from these businesses.</li><li>Shop on Amazon Live: Throughout Prime Day, Amazon Live will spotlight exciting deals curated from small businesses across Amazon. Viewers will also have the opportunity to hear directly from business owners, learn more about their products, and shop their Prime Day deals during a reoccurring segment called Small Business Showcase.</li></ul><p>"In such an unsettled economy, we've actually been able to grow our sales with Amazon, allowing us to pay our employees more and pivot quickly when supply chain shortages struck," said Colleen Sundlie, owner of Date Lady in Springfield, MO. "Selling online has helped us stay connected with customers and continue growing our small business despite the challenging times."</p><p>Early Prime Day Deals Start Now</p><p>Starting today, Prime members can shop early offers and deals everyday leading up to Prime Day on October 13 &amp; 14.</p><ul><li>Amazon Devices: Starting today, get two Echo Dot devices for $39.98 and Fire TV Recast for $129.99 to store up to 75 hours of HD programming. Plus, save up to $100 on Fire TV Edition Smart TVs and get the all-new Toshiba 43-inch Smart HD Fire TV Edition TV for $179.99. Starting October 6, get the Toshiba 32-inch Smart HD Fire TV Edition TV for $119.99 and the Insignia 43-inch Smart 4K UHD Fire TV Edition TV for $199.99; save $40 on Echo Show 5; get Echo Auto and enjoy hands free access to Alexa in your car plus six months of Amazon Music Unlimited for $19.99; and save on smart home security with Blink Mini indoor cameras—one for $24.99, two for $49.98, or get Echo Show 5 and Blink Mini for $54.99.</li><li>Amazon Music: For just $0.99, Prime members who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get four months of the premium streaming tier with unlimited access to more than 60 million songs ad-free, and now a wide selection of popular podcasts.</li><li>Audible: Prime members can save $50 on a year of Audible Premium Plus. Audible members will also get access to the Plus catalog, featuring more than 10K Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts, all at no additional cost.</li><li>Kindle Unlimited: New customers to Kindle Unlimited save 50% off a 6-month subscription.</li><li>Kindle Book Deals: Spend $20 on ebooks and get a $5 ebook credit; Plus, Prime members can choose two, new select Kindle books for free.</li><li>Amazon Fashion: Save up to 30% on select Vineyard Vines clothing for men, up to 15% on select fall fashion from Shopbop including boots, denim, and more, up to 30% on select top trends from premium women's fashion, including ASTR the Label, Splendid, and Alo Yoga, up to 30% on select kids' and baby clothing and shoes, up to 30% on select styles from Calvin Klein, up to 30% on select Dress the Population, 4SI3NNA, and Black Halo dresses.</li><li>Amazon Brands: Save up to 40% on select clothing styles including Amazon Essentials and Goodthreads, 40% on pet essentials from Wag, 20% on Belei skin care products, 20% on baby essentials from Mama Bear, 20% on health and personal care products from Solimo, 20% on coffee and snacks from Amazon Fresh, Happy Belly, and Solimo, and 20% on health and wellness products from Revly, Amazon Elements, and Amazon Basic Care.</li><li>Amazon Fresh: Members can enjoy $15 off their first order of $50 or more on Amazon Fresh plus item level offers throughout the store. Visit amazon.com/Fresh for more.</li><li>Home: Save up to 20% or more on furniture brands including Modway, Lane Home Furnishings, Walker Edison Furniture Company, and Nathan James. Save up to 20% or more on select rugs from brands including nuLOOM and Artistic Weavers. Save on Martha Stewart Hunts Table Lamp Living Room Decor and Madison Park Signature Colette table lamp.</li><li>Prime Video: Today through Prime Day, Prime members can enjoy a selection of titles to rent or buy with up to 50% off on select titles.</li><li>Tools: Save up to 20% on select DEWALT saws and drills and up to 15% on select DEWALT impact driver and drill combo Kits.</li><li>Toys: Save up to 30% on select toys from Green Toys.</li><li>Smart Home and Appliances: Save 20% on Broan Appliances and 15% on Midea compact refrigerators. Save on Kasa Smart Dimmer Switch by TP-Link and SYLVANIA Tungsten halogen light bulbs.</li><li>Lawn &amp; Garden: Save on Masterbuilt Electric Smoker and accessories, select BLACK+DECKER outdoor tools, Back to the Roots Water Garden, American Lawn Mower Company electric lawn mower, Champion 3400-Watt Portable Generator, and more.</li></ul><p>Ways to Shop and Save Big this Prime Day</p><p>Prime members have many convenient ways to shop and discover big savings and deep discounts this Prime Day.</p><ul><li>Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Cards: Starting September 28 through October 31, eligible Prime members who apply and are approved for the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card will instantly receive a $100 Gift Card. Cardmembers receive 5% back at Whole Foods Market and at Amazon.com with an eligible Prime membership, plus 2% back at restaurants, gas stations and drugstores, among other benefits. Restrictions apply. For more information, visit amazon.com/primevisa.</li><li>Shop with Alexa: Prime members can discover deals by asking "Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?" Plus, starting today and for a limited time, new Prime members who sign up for Prime using an Echo device will receive a $5 Amazon credit. Just say, "Alexa, sign me up for Prime."</li><li>Go In-Store: Prime members can visit Amazon's physical retail locations, including Whole Foods Market, Amazon 4-star, Amazon Books, Amazon Pop Up, and Amazon Fresh to find in-store deals. Stay tuned for more details about in-store promotions.</li><li>Amazon Live: Tune in to Amazon Live throughout Prime Day to see live product demonstrations, hear directly from brands, and shop can't miss deals the minute they go live. Customers will see products in action through cooking demonstrations, try-on hauls, and more, and celebrities and influencers will be joining live to surprise customers with exclusive experiences. Viewers can easily shop the products and brands featured through a carousel that updates in real-time as hosts discuss the products. To watch, visit amazon.com/primeday and via the Amazon Shopping app on Fire TV.</li><li>Personal Shopper by Prime Wardrobe: Personal Shopper by Prime Wardrobe, our monthly styling service exclusively for Prime members, extends to men's fashion. Starting September 28, the service will provide a convenient way for customers to receive curated recommendations for both men's and women's fashion from our in-house team of stylists.</li><li>AmazonSmile: Customers can visitsmile.amazon.com and find the exact same Amazon experience – amazing deals, wide selection, fast and free delivery options – with the added bonus that AmazonSmile will donate a portion of the purchase price of eligible purchases to the charity of their choice. AmazonSmile customers can now shop AmazonSmile on the latest version of the Amazon app by opening the app and finding ‘Settings' in the main menu (☰), tap on ‘AmazonSmile' and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on AmazonSmile on your phone.</li><li>Amazon Photos Prime Day Photos Sweepstakes: Customers can enter for a chance to win the Prime Day Photos Sweepstakes by downloading the Amazon Photos app, sharing a photo that shows how Prime delivers joy, tagging Amazon Photos (@amazon.photos on Instagram and @amazonphotos on Facebook and Twitter), and using the hashtag #PrimeDayPhotos. A total of 30 winners will receive $1,000 Amazon.com Gift Cards good for purchases on Amazon.com. Get details at amazon.com/primedayphotos.</li><li>Amazon.com in Spanish: Customers can visit amazon.com/espanol or use the Amazon App to shop, browse, search for millions of products, read reviews, view their carts, and place orders in Spanish. On the mobile App customers can go to Settings and tap on "Country and Language" to select Spanish. Amazon.com in Spanish gives customers the same convenient shopping experience in their preferred language on any device.</li><li>Amazon App: Prime members can shop anytime, anywhere with the Amazon App to ensure you never miss a Prime Day deal.</li></ul><p>Earlier this month, Amazon announced it is hiring an additional 100,000 regular full-time and part-time jobs in its fulfillment and logistics network throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as opening 100 new Operations buildings across fulfillment centers, delivery stations, sortation centers and other sites in September alone. These permanent positions will join the hundreds of thousands of employees already working across Amazon's networks to ensure fast and efficient delivery for customers through the rest of the year, and beyond. Interested candidates can find out more at amazon.com/apply.</p><p>Every Day Made Better with Prime</p><p>Prime was designed to make your life better every single day. Over 150 million paid members around the world enjoy the many benefits of Prime, including the best of shopping and entertainment. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs plus thousands of stations and playlists with Amazon Music, unlimited access to more than 1,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, free in-game content and games with Prime Gaming, Prime Day, and more. Prime members can also get deep discounts on select popular products at Whole Foods Market plus an additional 10 percent off hundreds of sale items. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. In addition to more than 10 million items eligible for free One-Day Delivery coast to coast, Prime members in thousands of cities and towns across 47 major metropolitan areas have access to millions of items with free Same-Day Delivery and the option to pick up and return their Amazon packages for free through Amazon Hub, a contactless, click and collect service at no additional cost. Prime members also have access to free and fast grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 2,000 cities and towns. Prime is $119 a year or $12.99 a month and customers can start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime. College students can join Prime Student for 50% off and enjoy the benefits of Prime with a six-month trial at amazon.com/primestudent. Plus, for an additional $0.99 a month, student members can get Amazon Music Unlimited and stream over 50 million songs ad-free. Customers receiving government assistance through EBT or Medicaid can also qualify for a discounted Prime membership of $5.99 a month at amazon.com/qualify. Amazon Business customers—from small businesses to large enterprises, as well as education, government and non-profit organizations—can also take advantage of Prime's fast, free shipping and exclusive business-relevant benefits with Business Prime, which starts at $69 per year as an add-on for customers with Amazon Prime on their personal account or $179 per year for up to three users at amazon.com/businessprime.</p>

Wi-Fi 6 Is Here—Amazon Introduces All-New eero 6 Series Mesh Wifi Systems Starting at $129

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Wi-Fi 6 Is Here—Amazon Introduces All-New eero 6 Series Mesh Wifi Systems Starting at $129

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The fastest eero series yet—eero Pro 6 and eero 6 deliver Wi-Fi 6 performance and a built-in Zigbee smart home hub SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced the newest additions to the eero family—eero Pro 6 and eero 6. These all-new mesh wifi systems feature Wi-Fi 6, the latest technology delivering faster speeds, higher performance, and better support for simultaneously connected devices. eero Pro 6 and eero 6 are available for pre-order starting today on amazon.com/devices and www.eero.com, and will be available later this year. Getting fast, reliable coverage throughout your home is easy with the eero 6 series, which offers Wi-Fi 6 coverage for more than 75 devices simultaneously. Featuring a built-in Zigbee smart home hub, the eero 6 series connects compatible devices on your network so you don't need a separate Zigbee hub. Plus, eero Pro 6 and eero 6 work with your existing internet service, and are backward compatible with all eero generations, making it easy to expand or upgrade your network. "Customers need reliable home wifi now more than ever. Many of us are working from home, helping kids with online learning, keeping in touch with friends and family, and streaming and gaming in 4K—often at the same time," said Nick Weaver, Co-Founder and CEO of eero. "The eero 6 series is the fastest eero series yet, giving our customers the speed and reliability of Wi-Fi 6 at an affordable price." Choose The Right eero 6 System for You With an elegant, compact design that blends into any décor, you can mix and match eero devices to create a custom system that's right for your home. New options include: eero Pro 6: Perfect for homes with Gigabit internet connections, a single eero Pro 6 is a tri-band, high-performance mesh Wi-Fi 6 router with two Ethernet ports and a built-in Zigbee smart home hub. A single eero Pro 6 covers up to 2,000 square feet. An eero Pro 6 two-pack includes two eero Pro 6 routers, covering up to 3,500 square feet. An eero Pro 6 three-pack includes three eero Pro 6 routers that connect wired or wirelessly to cover up to 6,000 square feet. eero 6: Designed for homes with internet connections up to 500 Mbps, a single eero 6 is a dual-band mesh Wi-Fi 6 router with two Ethernet ports and a built-in Zigbee smart home hub. A single eero 6 covers up to 1,500 square feet. An eero 6 two-pack covers up to 3,000 square feet and includes an eero 6 mesh router and the all-new eero 6 mesh wifi extender. An eero 6 three-pack, which provides up to 5,000 square feet of coverage, includes an eero 6 and two eero 6 mesh wifi extenders. All eero devices use TrueMesh technology to intelligently route network traffic to avoid congestion, buffering, and drop-offs so customers can stream in 4K, play games, and video conference with ease. Simple Setup Setting up your eero 6 series takes just minutes using the in-app instructions. Simply unplug your old router, connect your eero 6 series router to your modem, sign in to the app, and you're ready to go—no expertise required. And, once your new eero is up and running, you can also connect your smart home devices to your wifi network in fewer steps with Amazon's Frustration Free Setup. After linking your eero account with your Amazon account, compatible devices join the network instantly and stay connected when you change your network name or password. If you need help with your eero devices, access our free world-class customer support for the life of your eero products. Seamlessly Manage Your Smart Home With a built-in Zigbee smart home hub, the eero 6 series eliminates the need for additional Zigbee hubs. After you link your eero and Amazon accounts, Zigbee devices like smart lights, locks, plugs, and other compatible devices can connect directly to your eero network. You can use the eero app to manage your network, pause the internet, share your network with friends or guests, and more—whether you're at home or on-the-go. With the eero skill for Alexa, customers can use an Alexa-enabled device or the Alexa app to manage features with their voice using commands like, "Alexa, turn on the guest network." Safe and Secure Wifi eero is constantly working in the background to keep your network safe and secure. Traditional routers require customers to proactively search for, download, and install security updates. With eero, automatic software updates provide the latest security patches, bug fixes, and feature upgrades. For additional peace of mind, you can add advanced security and privacy features and parental controls with eero Secure. Or sign up for eero Secure+, which provides the additional protection of top-rated security apps like 1Password for password management, Malwarebytes for malware protection, and Encrypt.me for VPN for all your devices. Availability The eero 6 family of devices is available for pre-order starting today and will be available at leading retailers later this year at the following prices: eero Pro 6: $229 (one-pack), $399 (two-pack), $599 (three-pack) eero 6: $129 (one-pack), $199 (two-pack), $279 (three-pack) eero Secure or eero Secure+: $2.99 per month or $9.99 per month The new eero 6 series will also be available to customers later this year through participating internet service providers, custom installation professionals, and homebuilders. About eero The first mesh home wifi system, eero blankets any home in reliable and secure wifi. eero's digital security services, eero Secure and eero Secure+, protect connected devices, privacy, and family. eero is simple to set up, even easier to manage, and improves over time with regular, automatic software updates. Founded in San Francisco in 2014 by Amos Schallich, Nate Hardison, and Nick Weaver, eero is an Amazon company. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200924005811/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>The fastest eero series yet—eero Pro 6 and eero 6 deliver Wi-Fi 6 performance and a built-in Zigbee smart home hub</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced the newest additions to the eero family—eero Pro 6 and eero 6. These all-new mesh wifi systems feature Wi-Fi 6, the latest technology delivering faster speeds, higher performance, and better support for simultaneously connected devices. eero Pro 6 and eero 6 are available for pre-order starting today on amazon.com/devices and www.eero.com, and will be available later this year.</p><p>Getting fast, reliable coverage throughout your home is easy with the eero 6 series, which offers Wi-Fi 6 coverage for more than 75 devices simultaneously. Featuring a built-in Zigbee smart home hub, the eero 6 series connects compatible devices on your network so you don't need a separate Zigbee hub. Plus, eero Pro 6 and eero 6 work with your existing internet service, and are backward compatible with all eero generations, making it easy to expand or upgrade your network.</p><p>"Customers need reliable home wifi now more than ever. Many of us are working from home, helping kids with online learning, keeping in touch with friends and family, and streaming and gaming in 4K—often at the same time," said Nick Weaver, Co-Founder and CEO of eero. "The eero 6 series is the fastest eero series yet, giving our customers the speed and reliability of Wi-Fi 6 at an affordable price."</p><p>Choose The Right eero 6 System for You</p><p>With an elegant, compact design that blends into any décor, you can mix and match eero devices to create a custom system that's right for your home. New options include:</p><ul><li>eero Pro 6: Perfect for homes with Gigabit internet connections, a single eero Pro 6 is a tri-band, high-performance mesh Wi-Fi 6 router with two Ethernet ports and a built-in Zigbee smart home hub. A single eero Pro 6 covers up to 2,000 square feet. An eero Pro 6 two-pack includes two eero Pro 6 routers, covering up to 3,500 square feet. An eero Pro 6 three-pack includes three eero Pro 6 routers that connect wired or wirelessly to cover up to 6,000 square feet.</li><li>eero 6: Designed for homes with internet connections up to 500 Mbps, a single eero 6 is a dual-band mesh Wi-Fi 6 router with two Ethernet ports and a built-in Zigbee smart home hub. A single eero 6 covers up to 1,500 square feet. An eero 6 two-pack covers up to 3,000 square feet and includes an eero 6 mesh router and the all-new eero 6 mesh wifi extender. An eero 6 three-pack, which provides up to 5,000 square feet of coverage, includes an eero 6 and two eero 6 mesh wifi extenders.</li></ul><p>All eero devices use TrueMesh technology to intelligently route network traffic to avoid congestion, buffering, and drop-offs so customers can stream in 4K, play games, and video conference with ease.</p><p>Simple Setup</p><p>Setting up your eero 6 series takes just minutes using the in-app instructions. Simply unplug your old router, connect your eero 6 series router to your modem, sign in to the app, and you're ready to go—no expertise required. And, once your new eero is up and running, you can also connect your smart home devices to your wifi network in fewer steps with Amazon's Frustration Free Setup. After linking your eero account with your Amazon account, compatible devices join the network instantly and stay connected when you change your network name or password. If you need help with your eero devices, access our free world-class customer support for the life of your eero products.</p><p>Seamlessly Manage Your Smart Home</p><p>With a built-in Zigbee smart home hub, the eero 6 series eliminates the need for additional Zigbee hubs. After you link your eero and Amazon accounts, Zigbee devices like smart lights, locks, plugs, and other compatible devices can connect directly to your eero network. You can use the eero app to manage your network, pause the internet, share your network with friends or guests, and more—whether you're at home or on-the-go. With the eero skill for Alexa, customers can use an Alexa-enabled device or the Alexa app to manage features with their voice using commands like, "Alexa, turn on the guest network."</p><p>Safe and Secure Wifi</p><p>eero is constantly working in the background to keep your network safe and secure. Traditional routers require customers to proactively search for, download, and install security updates. With eero, automatic software updates provide the latest security patches, bug fixes, and feature upgrades. For additional peace of mind, you can add advanced security and privacy features and parental controls with eero Secure. Or sign up for eero Secure+, which provides the additional protection of top-rated security apps like 1Password for password management, Malwarebytes for malware protection, and Encrypt.me for VPN for all your devices.</p><p>Availability</p><p>The eero 6 family of devices is available for pre-order starting today and will be available at leading retailers later this year at the following prices:</p><ul><li>eero Pro 6: $229 (one-pack), $399 (two-pack), $599 (three-pack)</li><li>eero 6: $129 (one-pack), $199 (two-pack), $279 (three-pack)</li><li>eero Secure or eero Secure+: $2.99 per month or $9.99 per month</li></ul><p>The new eero 6 series will also be available to customers later this year through participating internet service providers, custom installation professionals, and homebuilders.</p><p>About eero</p><p>The first mesh home wifi system, eero blankets any home in reliable and secure wifi. eero's digital security services, eero Secure and eero Secure+, protect connected devices, privacy, and family. eero is simple to set up, even easier to manage, and improves over time with regular, automatic software updates. Founded in San Francisco in 2014 by Amos Schallich, Nate Hardison, and Nick Weaver, eero is an Amazon company.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200924005811/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces Next-Generation Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Stick Lite, and Redesigned User Experience

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2020

Best-selling Fire TV Stick is now 50% more powerful with HDR and Dolby Atmos support—also includes Alexa Voice Remote with AV device controls Fire TV Stick Lite is our most affordable Fire TV device ever—features full-HD streaming, HDR support, and Alexa Voice Remote Lite Redesigned Fire TV experience provides new content-discovery features, enhanced Alexa voice integration, and user profiles for personalized recommendations SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- With more than 100 million devices sold globally, Fire TV customers are streaming billions of hours each month. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today made Fire TV even better, with the next-generation Fire TV Stick, the all-new Fire TV Stick Lite, and a reimagined Fire TV experience that is more personal and customized. "We are passionate about inventing on behalf of our customers to make it even easier to enjoy the best in entertainment," said Marc Whitten, Vice President, Amazon Entertainment Devices and Services. "With a redesigned Fire TV experience tailored to each user, it's even simpler to stream your favorite shows with our more powerful, next-generation Fire TV Stick and our even more affordable Fire TV Stick Lite." Best-Selling Fire TV Stick Now 50% More Powerful with HDR and Dolby Atmos Support—Just $39.99 The all-new Fire TV Stick features an enhanced 1.7 GHz quad-core processor that makes it 50% more powerful than the previous generation. The new Fire TV Stick delivers fast streaming in 1080p at 60fps with HDR compatibility. The dual-band, dual-antenna wifi supports 5 GHz networks for more stable streaming and fewer dropped connections. Fire TV Stick also features Dolby Atmos for immersive sound with compatible content and speakers, and an Alexa Voice Remote with dedicated power, volume, and mute buttons for easy control of TVs, soundbars, and A/V receivers. The all-new Fire TV Stick delivers improved performance while consuming 50% less power than the previous generation. Fire TV Stick Lite—Affordable, Full-HD Streaming on Fire TV—Just $29.99 Fire TV Stick Lite is a new, even more affordable way to begin streaming in full-HD. Fire TV Stick Lite is 50% more powerful than the previous-generation Fire TV Stick and includes the most processing power of any streaming media player under $30. It features HDR support and comes with Alexa Voice Remote Lite, a new remote that allows you to use voice to find, launch, and control content. All-New Personalized Fire TV Experience Fire TV's most significant experience update is redesigned to offer a more intuitive, simple, and customized experience. The Main Menu is at the center of your screen and makes it easy to find what you're looking for. You can now jump into your favorite streaming service directly, or scroll over supported apps to quickly peek at what's inside and begin playback. A brand-new Find experience makes it easier than ever to discover great movies, TV shows, and more, with browsing capabilities that allow for broad and specific searches based on genre (e.g. comedies, action), helpful categories (e.g. free, sports, Live TV), and more. Alexa is at the core of the new Fire TV experience, featuring improved voice controls that give you greater control of your entertainment. Just say, "Alexa, go to Live," to jump to the Live TV guide, or say, "Alexa, go to Find," to browse shows. With user profiles, Fire TV now delivers a personalized experience for up to six members of a household, providing individual content recommendations, viewing history, watch lists, preferred settings, and more. Changing user profiles is simple by saying, "Alexa, switch to my profile." After initial setup, Alexa will automatically recognize the voice and switch to your profile. Alexa is getting smarter every day, and the redesigned Fire TV experience features a dedicated Alexa Explore destination, which displays popular Alexa features and helps you discover new recipes, view stocks, and more. You can also see and control connected smart devices in your home and multi-task while viewing a picture-in-picture feed of your Ring security camera. With the new Fire TV experience, Fire TV Cube can be used for video calling with Alexa. Connect a compatible Logitech webcam to stay in touch with friends and family on the biggest screen in your home. Alexa video calling will be available later this year, while other services like Zoom will be added over time. The redesigned Fire TV experience will begin rolling out globally later this year, starting with the all-new Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite. Availability The all-new Fire TV Stick is $39.99 and begins shipping in select countries next week. Customers in Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States can begin pre-ordering today at www.amazon.com/firetvstick. Fire TV Stick Lite is $29.99 and begins shipping in select countries next week. Customers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States can begin pre-ordering today at www.amazon.com/firetvsticklite. Fire TV Stick Lite will bring dedicated Fire TV experiences with Alexa to Australia, Brazil and Mexico for the first time. The redesigned Fire TV experience will begin rolling out globally later this year, starting with the all-new Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite. Exact features will vary by country. It will be available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

<p><em>Best-selling Fire TV Stick is now 50% more powerful with HDR and Dolby Atmos support—also includes Alexa Voice Remote with AV device controls</em></p><p><em>Fire TV Stick Lite is our most affordable Fire TV device ever—features full-HD streaming, HDR support, and Alexa Voice Remote Lite</em></p><p><em>Redesigned Fire TV experience provides new content-discovery features, enhanced Alexa voice integration, and user profiles for personalized recommendations</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- With more than 100 million devices sold globally, Fire TV customers are streaming billions of hours each month. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today made Fire TV even better, with the next-generation Fire TV Stick, the all-new Fire TV Stick Lite, and a reimagined Fire TV experience that is more personal and customized.</p><p>"We are passionate about inventing on behalf of our customers to make it even easier to enjoy the best in entertainment," said Marc Whitten, Vice President, Amazon Entertainment Devices and Services. "With a redesigned Fire TV experience tailored to each user, it's even simpler to stream your favorite shows with our more powerful, next-generation Fire TV Stick and our even more affordable Fire TV Stick Lite."</p><p>Best-Selling Fire TV Stick Now 50% More Powerful with HDR and Dolby Atmos Support—Just $39.99</p><p>The all-new Fire TV Stick features an enhanced 1.7 GHz quad-core processor that makes it 50% more powerful than the previous generation. The new Fire TV Stick delivers fast streaming in 1080p at 60fps with HDR compatibility. The dual-band, dual-antenna wifi supports 5 GHz networks for more stable streaming and fewer dropped connections. Fire TV Stick also features Dolby Atmos for immersive sound with compatible content and speakers, and an Alexa Voice Remote with dedicated power, volume, and mute buttons for easy control of TVs, soundbars, and A/V receivers. The all-new Fire TV Stick delivers improved performance while consuming 50% less power than the previous generation.</p><p>Fire TV Stick Lite—Affordable, Full-HD Streaming on Fire TV—Just $29.99</p><p>Fire TV Stick Lite is a new, even more affordable way to begin streaming in full-HD. Fire TV Stick Lite is 50% more powerful than the previous-generation Fire TV Stick and includes the most processing power of any streaming media player under $30. It features HDR support and comes with Alexa Voice Remote Lite, a new remote that allows you to use voice to find, launch, and control content.</p><p>All-New Personalized Fire TV Experience</p><p>Fire TV's most significant experience update is redesigned to offer a more intuitive, simple, and customized experience. The Main Menu is at the center of your screen and makes it easy to find what you're looking for. You can now jump into your favorite streaming service directly, or scroll over supported apps to quickly peek at what's inside and begin playback. A brand-new Find experience makes it easier than ever to discover great movies, TV shows, and more, with browsing capabilities that allow for broad and specific searches based on genre (e.g. comedies, action), helpful categories (e.g. free, sports, Live TV), and more.</p><p>Alexa is at the core of the new Fire TV experience, featuring improved voice controls that give you greater control of your entertainment. Just say, "Alexa, go to Live," to jump to the Live TV guide, or say, "Alexa, go to Find," to browse shows. With user profiles, Fire TV now delivers a personalized experience for up to six members of a household, providing individual content recommendations, viewing history, watch lists, preferred settings, and more. Changing user profiles is simple by saying, "Alexa, switch to my profile." After initial setup, Alexa will automatically recognize the voice and switch to your profile.</p><p>Alexa is getting smarter every day, and the redesigned Fire TV experience features a dedicated Alexa Explore destination, which displays popular Alexa features and helps you discover new recipes, view stocks, and more. You can also see and control connected smart devices in your home and multi-task while viewing a picture-in-picture feed of your Ring security camera. With the new Fire TV experience, Fire TV Cube can be used for video calling with Alexa. Connect a compatible Logitech webcam to stay in touch with friends and family on the biggest screen in your home. Alexa video calling will be available later this year, while other services like Zoom will be added over time.</p><p>The redesigned Fire TV experience will begin rolling out globally later this year, starting with the all-new Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite.</p><p>Availability</p><p>The all-new Fire TV Stick is $39.99 and begins shipping in select countries next week. Customers in Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States can begin pre-ordering today at www.amazon.com/firetvstick.</p><p>Fire TV Stick Lite is $29.99 and begins shipping in select countries next week. Customers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States can begin pre-ordering today at www.amazon.com/firetvsticklite. Fire TV Stick Lite will bring dedicated Fire TV experiences with Alexa to Australia, Brazil and Mexico for the first time.</p><p>The redesigned Fire TV experience will begin rolling out globally later this year, starting with the all-new Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite. Exact features will vary by country. It will be available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.</p>

Introducing the All-New Echo Family—Reimagined, Inside and Out

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Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Dot with clock, and Echo Dot Kids Edition feature all-new spherical designs and improved audio Echo Show 10 makes interacting with Alexa even more natural—intelligent motion means the display moves with you, so you will not miss a moment of your favorite show, the next step in a recipe, or a smile from a loved one on a video call Powered by the all-new Amazon AZ1 Neural Edge processor—a custom-designed silicon module built to accelerate machine learning applications and make Alexa even faster New Echo family is Climate Pledge Friendly, built with recycled materials, and will support Low Power Mode for energy savings SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced its all-new line-up of Echo devices, featuring completely new designs, enhanced audio, more powerful hardware, and experiences that make Alexa even smarter, more engaging, and helpful. To learn about all of the products, features, and services that Amazon announced, visit: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/. "These are the best Echo devices we have ever made," said Tom Taylor, Senior Vice President, Amazon Alexa. "Echo and Echo Dot look beautiful and sound even better, and Echo Show 10 completely reimagines Alexa with a screen—the display moves with you, staying in view as you move around. It's as natural as having a conversation. Plus, Alexa continues to get smarter—just ask to watch Netflix, make group calls, join video meetings on Zoom, upgrade your smart home with Alexa Guard and Amazon Sidewalk, and much more." The New Echo—New Spherical Design, Dolby Stereo Sound, Built-in Zigbee Hub, and Sidewalk Bridge  The next-generation Echo (www.amazon.com/Echo) combines the best of Echo and Echo Plus into a single device at the same affordable Echo price. Its all-new design and fabric finish look great in any space, with a bright LED light ring at the base of the sphere that reflects off of surfaces for added visibility. The new Echo also sounds significantly better thanks to a 3.0-inch woofer, dual-firing tweeters, and Dolby processing that delivers stereo sound with clear highs, dynamic-mids, and deep bass. As with Echo Studio, the new Echo automatically senses the acoustics of your space and fine-tunes audio playback—just ask to listen to your favorite music, and the rich, detailed sound will automatically adapt to your room. For the first time, Echo comes with a built-in smart home hub, with support for Zigbee, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Amazon Sidewalk. Amazon Sidewalk can help you set up new devices quickly, extend the working range of devices like Ring Smart Lighting that may be beyond the range of your home wifi, and offer new support for devices like Tile to locate misplaced items. The new Echo is powered by Amazon's first-generation AZ1 Neural Edge processor—an all-new silicon module that's purpose-built for accelerating machine learning applications. With AZ1, powerful inference engines can run quickly on the edge—starting with an all-neural speech recognition model that will process requests faster, making Alexa even more responsive. New Echo Dot & Echo Dot with clock—New Spherical Design and Crisp, Full Sound Customers have made Echo Dot (www.amazon.com/EchoDot) the best-selling speaker ever—and now it's even better. The all-new Echo Dot has the same spherical design and fabric finish as Echo, making it a stylish way to add Alexa to any space. It's compact, but packs in a powerful 1.6-inch, front-firing speaker, producing crisp vocals and balanced bass for full sound you can enjoy in any room of your home. The new Echo Dot with clock, already the best-selling clock on Amazon.com, comes with the same enhancements as the new Echo Dot, plus a simple LED display so you can glance at the time, temperature, timers, and alarms. And now, the tap-to-snooze feature that customers love on Echo Dot with clock will also be available on Echo Dot and Echo. Echo Dot Kids Edition—Playful Designs for Kids and Peace of Mind for Parents The all-new Echo Dot Kids Edition builds on the new spherical design with fun, colorful Panda and Tiger prints. Alexa's custom-built kids experience means kids can ask Alexa questions, set animal sound alarms, get help with homework, and call approved friends and family, with extensive controls that give parents peace of mind. Parents will also be able to create Alexa voice profiles for their kids, so Alexa automatically shifts to a kid's profile when she recognizes a kid's voice—extending the kids experience, and parental controls, to any Echo device in the house. Kids can also enjoy a new Alexa feature called Reading Sidekick. Alexa can help kids build fluency and foster a love for reading—simply say, "Alexa, let's read," and Alexa will take turns reading with your child, providing encouragement when they are reading well and offering support when they struggle. Previews of Alexa voice profiles for kids and Reading Sidekick will be available in the coming months. Echo Dot Kids Edition comes with a 1-year Amazon Kids+ subscription, giving families access to thousands of hours of kid-friendly Audible books, interactive games, and educational skills. Echo Dot Kids Edition also comes with a 2-year worry-free guarantee. Echo Show 10—Designed to Move with You The all-new Echo Show 10 (www.amazon.com/EchoShow10) is a complete reimagination of Alexa with a screen and has been upgraded in every way. It features a brilliant 10-inch, adaptive HD display that automatically stays in view when you interact with Alexa—no matter where you are in the room. Plus, the new brushless motor is completely silent, meaning you won't hear a thing as Echo Show 10 rotates. Ask Alexa to make a video call without worrying about being out of frame—as you move, the screen does too, and the new 13-megapixel, wide-angle camera pans and zooms to keep you at the center of the frame. Plus, with new Alexa Group Calling you can create a group of up to eight friends and family members, and simply say, "Alexa, call my family." Later this year, Echo Show devices will also support Zoom and Amazon Chime video conferencing. Say, "Alexa, join my Zoom meeting," or "Alexa, start my Chime meeting," to join a video call. As Echo Show 10 moves, so does its dual, front-firing tweeters and powerful woofer, providing premium, directional sound that automatically adapts to your space, making it great for music, videos, and more. Echo Show 10 will also rotate as you watch the news, flash briefings, or TV shows from Hulu + Live TV and Prime Video. And, coming soon, you will also be able to watch Netflix simply by asking Alexa, with the ability to search, browse, and stream the entire catalog, including Netflix Originals such as Stranger Things, The Crown, and The Irishman, using just your voice. "Improving our member experience includes making Netflix available where people want it. We're excited to partner with Amazon on bringing the Netflix experience that people know and love to Echo Show, making it easier for our members to browse their favorite shows and films using their voice," said Barry Smith, Partner Engagement Manager, Netflix. Echo Show 10 uses advanced computer vision algorithms to help make your home smarter and more secure. When Alexa Guard is in Away Mode, Echo Show 10 can periodically pan the room and will send you a Smart Alert if it detects someone in its field of view. You can also securely access a live feed from another Echo Show device or the Alexa app, with the ability to remotely zoom or pan the display and camera to see the entire room; or set up a Routine that automatically turns on the lights when someone enters the room. Echo Show 10 will use AZ1 to process speech faster and make Alexa more responsive. Plus, its built-in smart home capabilities include support for Zigbee, BLE, and Amazon Sidewalk for devices that stay connected and work great inside and outside your home. As with all Alexa-enabled devices, Echo Show 10 is designed and built with privacy in mind. It uses a fusion of audio-based localization and computer vision—all processed locally and securely on-device—to power the intelligent motion that keeps the screen facing you or detect someone when in Away Mode. Turn motion off at any time by sliding the built-in camera shutter closed, adjusting settings on-device or in the Alexa app, or just by saying, "Alexa, turn off motion." Learn more about how we invented the Echo Show 10 experience: www.amazon.science. Climate Pledge Friendly All Echo devices announced today have the Climate Pledge Friendly badge and are built with 100% post-consumer recycled fabric, 100% recycled die-cast aluminum, and post-consumer recycled plastic. Plus, all wood fiber-based materials used in Echo device packaging are made entirely from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources. In addition to using sustainable materials, these Echo devices also have a Low Power Mode to intelligently conserve energy during periods of inactivity and deliver energy savings over the lifetime of the device. Later this year, Alexa will help you see the energy consumed by compatible smart home devices through a new personalized energy dashboard in the Alexa app. Pricing and Availability Echo ($99.99) and Echo Dot ($49.99) will be available in Charcoal, Glacier White, and Twilight Blue. Echo Dot with clock ($59.99) will be available in Glacier White and Twilight Blue. Echo Dot Kids Edition ($59.99) will be available in Panda and Tiger animal designs. Pre-order starts today, with devices shipping later this year. The all-new Echo Show 10 ($249.99) will be available in Charcoal and Glacier White, and will start shipping in time for the holidays. You can sign up to be notified when the all-new Echo Show 10 is available at www.amazon.com/echoshow10. All new Echo Show features announced today will be available by the end of the year. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200924005809/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p> <em>Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Dot with clock, and Echo Dot Kids Edition feature all-new spherical designs and improved audio</em></p><p><em>Echo Show 10 makes interacting with Alexa even more natural—intelligent motion means the display moves with you</em>, <em>so you will not miss a moment of your favorite show, the next step in a recipe, or a smile from a loved one on a video call</em></p><p><em>Powered by the all-new Amazon AZ1 Neural Edge processor—a custom-designed silicon module built to accelerate machine learning applications and make Alexa even faster</em></p><p><em>New Echo family is Climate Pledge Friendly, built with recycled materials, and will support Low Power Mode for energy savings</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced its all-new line-up of Echo devices, featuring completely new designs, enhanced audio, more powerful hardware, and experiences that make Alexa even smarter, more engaging, and helpful. To learn about all of the products, features, and services that Amazon announced, visit: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/.</p><p>"These are the best Echo devices we have ever made," said Tom Taylor, Senior Vice President, Amazon Alexa. "Echo and Echo Dot look beautiful and sound even better, and Echo Show 10 completely reimagines Alexa with a screen—the display moves with you, staying in view as you move around. It's as natural as having a conversation. Plus, Alexa continues to get smarter—just ask to watch Netflix, make group calls, join video meetings on Zoom, upgrade your smart home with Alexa Guard and Amazon Sidewalk, and much more."</p><p>The New Echo—New Spherical Design, Dolby Stereo Sound, Built-in Zigbee Hub, and Sidewalk Bridge </p><p>The next-generation Echo (www.amazon.com/Echo) combines the best of Echo and Echo Plus into a single device at the same affordable Echo price. Its all-new design and fabric finish look great in any space, with a bright LED light ring at the base of the sphere that reflects off of surfaces for added visibility. The new Echo also sounds significantly better thanks to a 3.0-inch woofer, dual-firing tweeters, and Dolby processing that delivers stereo sound with clear highs, dynamic-mids, and deep bass. As with Echo Studio, the new Echo automatically senses the acoustics of your space and fine-tunes audio playback—just ask to listen to your favorite music, and the rich, detailed sound will automatically adapt to your room.</p><p>For the first time, Echo comes with a built-in smart home hub, with support for Zigbee, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Amazon Sidewalk. Amazon Sidewalk can help you set up new devices quickly, extend the working range of devices like Ring Smart Lighting that may be beyond the range of your home wifi, and offer new support for devices like Tile to locate misplaced items. The new Echo is powered by Amazon's first-generation AZ1 Neural Edge processor—an all-new silicon module that's purpose-built for accelerating machine learning applications. With AZ1, powerful inference engines can run quickly on the edge—starting with an all-neural speech recognition model that will process requests faster, making Alexa even more responsive.</p><p>New Echo Dot &amp; Echo Dot with clock—New Spherical Design and Crisp, Full Sound</p><p>Customers have made Echo Dot (www.amazon.com/EchoDot) the best-selling speaker ever—and now it's even better. The all-new Echo Dot has the same spherical design and fabric finish as Echo, making it a stylish way to add Alexa to any space. It's compact, but packs in a powerful 1.6-inch, front-firing speaker, producing crisp vocals and balanced bass for full sound you can enjoy in any room of your home. The new Echo Dot with clock, already the best-selling clock on Amazon.com, comes with the same enhancements as the new Echo Dot, plus a simple LED display so you can glance at the time, temperature, timers, and alarms. And now, the tap-to-snooze feature that customers love on Echo Dot with clock will also be available on Echo Dot and Echo.</p><p>Echo Dot Kids Edition—Playful Designs for Kids and Peace of Mind for Parents</p><p>The all-new Echo Dot Kids Edition builds on the new spherical design with fun, colorful Panda and Tiger prints. Alexa's custom-built kids experience means kids can ask Alexa questions, set animal sound alarms, get help with homework, and call approved friends and family, with extensive controls that give parents peace of mind. Parents will also be able to create Alexa voice profiles for their kids, so Alexa automatically shifts to a kid's profile when she recognizes a kid's voice—extending the kids experience, and parental controls, to any Echo device in the house. Kids can also enjoy a new Alexa feature called Reading Sidekick. Alexa can help kids build fluency and foster a love for reading—simply say, "Alexa, let's read," and Alexa will take turns reading with your child, providing encouragement when they are reading well and offering support when they struggle. Previews of Alexa voice profiles for kids and Reading Sidekick will be available in the coming months.</p><p>Echo Dot Kids Edition comes with a 1-year Amazon Kids+ subscription, giving families access to thousands of hours of kid-friendly Audible books, interactive games, and educational skills. Echo Dot Kids Edition also comes with a 2-year worry-free guarantee.</p><p>Echo Show 10—Designed to Move with You</p><p>The all-new Echo Show 10 (www.amazon.com/EchoShow10) is a complete reimagination of Alexa with a screen and has been upgraded in every way. It features a brilliant 10-inch, adaptive HD display that automatically stays in view when you interact with Alexa—no matter where you are in the room. Plus, the new brushless motor is completely silent, meaning you won't hear a thing as Echo Show 10 rotates.</p><p>Ask Alexa to make a video call without worrying about being out of frame—as you move, the screen does too, and the new 13-megapixel, wide-angle camera pans and zooms to keep you at the center of the frame. Plus, with new Alexa Group Calling you can create a group of up to eight friends and family members, and simply say, "Alexa, call my family." Later this year, Echo Show devices will also support Zoom and Amazon Chime video conferencing. Say, "Alexa, join my Zoom meeting," or "Alexa, start my Chime meeting," to join a video call.</p><p>As Echo Show 10 moves, so does its dual, front-firing tweeters and powerful woofer, providing premium, directional sound that automatically adapts to your space, making it great for music, videos, and more. Echo Show 10 will also rotate as you watch the news, flash briefings, or TV shows from Hulu + Live TV and Prime Video. And, coming soon, you will also be able to watch Netflix simply by asking Alexa, with the ability to search, browse, and stream the entire catalog, including Netflix Originals such as <em>Stranger Things, The Crown, </em>and<em> The Irishman,</em> using just your voice.</p><p>"Improving our member experience includes making Netflix available where people want it. We're excited to partner with Amazon on bringing the Netflix experience that people know and love to Echo Show, making it easier for our members to browse their favorite shows and films using their voice," said Barry Smith, Partner Engagement Manager, Netflix.</p><p>Echo Show 10 uses advanced computer vision algorithms to help make your home smarter and more secure. When Alexa Guard is in Away Mode, Echo Show 10 can periodically pan the room and will send you a Smart Alert if it detects someone in its field of view. You can also securely access a live feed from another Echo Show device or the Alexa app, with the ability to remotely zoom or pan the display and camera to see the entire room; or set up a Routine that automatically turns on the lights when someone enters the room. Echo Show 10 will use AZ1 to process speech faster and make Alexa more responsive. Plus, its built-in smart home capabilities include support for Zigbee, BLE, and Amazon Sidewalk for devices that stay connected and work great inside and outside your home.</p><p>As with all Alexa-enabled devices, Echo Show 10 is designed and built with privacy in mind. It uses a fusion of audio-based localization and computer vision—all processed locally and securely on-device—to power the intelligent motion that keeps the screen facing you or detect someone when in Away Mode. Turn motion off at any time by sliding the built-in camera shutter closed, adjusting settings on-device or in the Alexa app, or just by saying, "Alexa, turn off motion." Learn more about how we invented the Echo Show 10 experience: www.amazon.science.</p><p>Climate Pledge Friendly</p><p>All Echo devices announced today have the Climate Pledge Friendly badge and are built with 100% post-consumer recycled fabric, 100% recycled die-cast aluminum, and post-consumer recycled plastic. Plus, all wood fiber-based materials used in Echo device packaging are made entirely from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources. In addition to using sustainable materials, these Echo devices also have a Low Power Mode to intelligently conserve energy during periods of inactivity and deliver energy savings over the lifetime of the device. Later this year, Alexa will help you see the energy consumed by compatible smart home devices through a new personalized energy dashboard in the Alexa app.</p><p>Pricing and Availability</p><p>Echo ($99.99) and Echo Dot ($49.99) will be available in Charcoal, Glacier White, and Twilight Blue. Echo Dot with clock ($59.99) will be available in Glacier White and Twilight Blue. Echo Dot Kids Edition ($59.99) will be available in Panda and Tiger animal designs. Pre-order starts today, with devices shipping later this year.</p><p>The all-new Echo Show 10 ($249.99) will be available in Charcoal and Glacier White, and will start shipping in time for the holidays. You can sign up to be notified when the all-new Echo Show 10 is available at www.amazon.com/echoshow10. All new Echo Show features announced today will be available by the end of the year.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200924005809/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Introducing Luna—Amazon's New Cloud Gaming Service Where it's Easy to Play on the Devices You Already Own

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Introducing Luna—Amazon's New Cloud Gaming Service Where it's Easy to Play on the Devices You Already Own

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Starting today, customers in the U.S. can request an invitation for early access and help shape the future of gaming on Luna Luna Controller with Cloud Direct technology provides low latency control and effortless play across screens Ubisoft game channel gives players access to new titles the same day they release SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Starting today, customers in the U.S. can request early access to Amazon Luna, a new cloud gaming service designed for instant play. With Luna and the incredible scale and capability of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it's easy to stream high-quality, immersive games. Players can enjoy Luna games on their favorite devices without lengthy downloads or updates, expensive hardware or complicated configuration. They can even start playing on one screen and seamlessly pick up and continue on another. At launch, Luna will be available on Fire TV, PC, and Mac as well as on web apps for iPhone and iPad, with Android coming soon. "We created Luna to make it easy to play great games on the devices customers already own and love," said Marc Whitten, Vice President, Amazon Entertainment Devices and Services. "It's Day One for Luna—we are excited to work with gamers, streamers, and publishers like Ubisoft and Remedy Entertainment to build a great gaming experience for everyone." Great Games, Anywhere You Want to Play Players can subscribe to the Luna+ game channel, which offers a growing library of games to play on Fire TV, PC, and Mac, or through web apps on iOS, with Android coming soon. During early access, Luna+ will include action games like Resident Evil 7, Control, and Panzer Dragoon; adventure games like A Plague Tale: Innocence and The Surge 2; platformers like Yooka-Laylee and The Impossible Lair and Iconoclasts; and fan favorites like GRID, ABZU and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Luna+ will be offered at an introductory price of $5.99/month during the early access period, with more titles to be added over time. Additionally, Luna+ subscribers can play on two devices simultaneously and get resolutions of 4K/60fps for select titles. Amazon also announced a new gaming channel with leading global video game publisher Ubisoft, available directly through Luna. Players who subscribe to this channel will have access to their favorite Ubisoft titles in up to 4K resolution, mobile gameplay, and access to new titles when the channel launches like Assassins Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6, and Immortals Fenyx Rising the same day they release. This is the first of multiple Luna game channels in development, where customers can play games from their favorite publishers and genres. "We're proud to be working alongside Amazon on Luna, utilizing the power of cloud gaming to provide our players with another way to access our games, wherever they are," said Chris Early, SVP of Partnerships and Revenue, Ubisoft. "Ubisoft's channel on Luna will allow players to experience our new releases along with many of our catalog games, while enjoying player-friendly features like Alexa and Twitch integrations." Play from Twitch Gaming is more social than ever before and Twitch is where the world's best streamers meet the world's most engaged gaming community. Twitch is one of the most important ways that audiences discover great games and experiences, and we think cloud streaming can make that kind of discovery even easier. Inside the Luna experience, players will see Twitch streams for games in the service, and from Twitch, they'll be able to instantly start playing Luna games. Amazon Luna Controller Delivers Low Latency with Cloud Direct Technology Customers can play Luna with a keyboard and mouse, a Bluetooth game controller, or the new Luna Controller with Cloud Direct technology. Luna Controller is Alexa-enabled and connects directly to the cloud to effortlessly control your game, featuring a multiple-antenna design that prioritizes un-interrupted wifi for lower latency gaming. In fact, our testing showed a reduction in roundtrip latency when playing Luna Controller with Cloud Direct vs. Luna Controller via Bluetooth, with reductions of between 17 to 30 milliseconds among PC, Fire TV, and Mac. Because the Luna Controller connects directly to cloud servers, players can easily switch between screens—such as Fire TV to mobile phone—without additional pairing or configuration changes. Luna Controller is available at an introductory price of $49.99 during the early access period. Powered by AWS Game Servers Luna is built on AWS and harnesses the power of the industry's broadest and deepest cloud platform. What's more, as new features and content are added for Luna customers, the backend tech that's driving it all will also be frequently refreshed, ensuring a consistently improving experience whether they're playing on their Fire TV, their phone, or anywhere else. Availability Customers in the U.S. can request an invitation today for early access to Luna. By choosing to participate, invited gamers will have the opportunity to contribute feedback that will inform future Luna features and development. Request an invitation to Luna today at http://amazon.com/Luna/. At launch, Luna will be available on Fire TV, PC, and Mac as well as on web apps for iPhone and iPad, with Android coming soon. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200924005810/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Starting today, customers in the U.S. can request an invitation for early access and help shape the future of gaming on Luna</em></p><p><em>Luna Controller with Cloud Direct technology provides low latency control and effortless play across screens</em></p><p><em>Ubisoft game channel gives players access to new titles the same day they release</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Starting today, customers in the U.S. can request early access to Amazon Luna, a new cloud gaming service designed for instant play. With Luna and the incredible scale and capability of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it's easy to stream high-quality, immersive games. Players can enjoy Luna games on their favorite devices without lengthy downloads or updates, expensive hardware or complicated configuration. They can even start playing on one screen and seamlessly pick up and continue on another. At launch, Luna will be available on Fire TV, PC, and Mac as well as on web apps for iPhone and iPad, with Android coming soon.</p><p>"We created Luna to make it easy to play great games on the devices customers already own and love," said Marc Whitten, Vice President, Amazon Entertainment Devices and Services. "It's Day One for Luna—we are excited to work with gamers, streamers, and publishers like Ubisoft and Remedy Entertainment to build a great gaming experience for everyone."</p><p>Great Games, Anywhere You Want to Play</p><p>Players can subscribe to the Luna+ game channel, which offers a growing library of games to play on Fire TV, PC, and Mac, or through web apps on iOS, with Android coming soon. During early access, Luna+ will include action games like <em>Resident Evil 7</em>, <em>Control,</em> and <em>Panzer Dragoon</em>; adventure games like <em>A Plague Tale: Innocence</em> and <em>The Surge 2</em>; platformers like <em>Yooka-Laylee</em> <em>and The Impossible Lair</em> and <em>Iconoclasts</em>; and fan favorites like <em>GRID</em>, <em>ABZU</em> and <em>Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. </em>Luna+ will be offered at an introductory price of $5.99/month during the early access period, with more titles to be added over time. Additionally, Luna+ subscribers can play on two devices simultaneously and get resolutions of 4K/60fps for select titles.</p><p>Amazon also announced a new gaming channel with leading global video game publisher Ubisoft, available directly through Luna. Players who subscribe to this channel will have access to their favorite Ubisoft titles in up to 4K resolution, mobile gameplay, and access to new titles when the channel launches like <em>Assassins Creed Valhalla</em>, <em>Far Cry 6</em>, and <em>Immortals Fenyx Rising</em> the same day they release. This is the first of multiple Luna game channels in development, where customers can play games from their favorite publishers and genres.</p><p>"We're proud to be working alongside Amazon on Luna, utilizing the power of cloud gaming to provide our players with another way to access our games, wherever they are," said Chris Early, SVP of Partnerships and Revenue, Ubisoft. "Ubisoft's channel on Luna will allow players to experience our new releases along with many of our catalog games, while enjoying player-friendly features like Alexa and Twitch integrations."</p><p>Play from Twitch</p><p>Gaming is more social than ever before and Twitch is where the world's best streamers meet the world's most engaged gaming community. Twitch is one of the most important ways that audiences discover great games and experiences, and we think cloud streaming can make that kind of discovery even easier. Inside the Luna experience, players will see Twitch streams for games in the service, and from Twitch, they'll be able to instantly start playing Luna games.</p><p>Amazon Luna Controller Delivers Low Latency with Cloud Direct Technology</p><p>Customers can play Luna with a keyboard and mouse, a Bluetooth game controller, or the new Luna Controller with Cloud Direct technology. Luna Controller is Alexa-enabled and connects directly to the cloud to effortlessly control your game, featuring a multiple-antenna design that prioritizes un-interrupted wifi for lower latency gaming. In fact, our testing showed a reduction in roundtrip latency when playing Luna Controller with Cloud Direct vs. Luna Controller via Bluetooth, with reductions of between 17 to 30 milliseconds among PC, Fire TV, and Mac. Because the Luna Controller connects directly to cloud servers, players can easily switch between screens—such as Fire TV to mobile phone—without additional pairing or configuration changes. Luna Controller is available at an introductory price of $49.99 during the early access period.</p><p>Powered by AWS Game Servers</p><p>Luna is built on AWS and harnesses the power of the industry's broadest and deepest cloud platform. What's more, as new features and content are added for Luna customers, the backend tech that's driving it all will also be frequently refreshed, ensuring a consistently improving experience whether they're playing on their Fire TV, their phone, or anywhere else.</p><p>Availability</p><p>Customers in the U.S. can request an invitation today for early access to Luna. By choosing to participate, invited gamers will have the opportunity to contribute feedback that will inform future Luna features and development. Request an invitation to Luna today at http://amazon.com/Luna/.</p><p>At launch, Luna will be available on Fire TV, PC, and Mac as well as on web apps for iPhone and iPad, with Android coming soon.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200924005810/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Howard University and Amazon Studios Announce Continuation of Howard Entertainment Program

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Howard University and Amazon Studios Announce Continuation of Howard Entertainment Program

09/24/2020

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The first-of-its-kind program will increase in size for its second year, with new opportunities for students WASHINGTON & CULVER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- Today, Howard University and Amazon Studios announced a second year of the Howard Entertainment program, an experience designed to diversify the entertainment industry by creating a pipeline for African-American students and other underrepresented populations to train and study alongside entertainment executives. Applications will open Monday, Sept. 28, with the program set to restart in January 2021, with increased slots available for current Howard students. "The continuation of Howard Entertainment is a testament to the immediate impact of the program and the resonance of its long-term vision to strive for greater representation across the industry," said Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick, M.D., MBA. "At Howard, we are always seeking to expand the education of our students by connecting them to experiences that will prepare them to succeed and make a difference. Considering the size and importance of the entertainment industry, I am excited to see our students become leaders in this space. Whether they pursue paths in front of the camera or behind the scenes, Howard Entertainment aims to broaden the range and inclusivity of Hollywood story-telling through the fresh new voices of talent from underrepresented communities." "After a great experience this year, we are thrilled to not only continue but to expand the Howard Entertainment program for 2021," said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. "The Howard Entertainment program is one of the ways Amazon Studios is creating new diverse pipeline programs in the entertainment industry for talented students and for employees. We are committed to making Amazon Studios a place where new voices with fresh perspectives are heard and valued, both on and off screen. We know these programs will benefit our industry as a whole in the future." "We had extremely high expectations for the Howard Entertainment program and even still, our first cohort surpassed them all. The Howard students were insightful and engaged us in a way that allowed for two-way learning. Their contributions had an enormous impact across every department at Amazon Studios as well as with partners like UTA," said Latasha Gillespie, Amazon Studios Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. "We're happy to work with Howard again and to open up the program to even more talented students this year." "This program allows me to be a part of the movement to end the gatekeeping of this industry so that one day, a little Black or Brown girl can look at me and say to herself, ‘I can do that too,'" said Jasmine Oshiyemi, marketing major, fellow, 2020 Howard Entertainment program. The Howard Entertainment program is an immersive, two semester experience that offers Howard University students the opportunity to take academic courses during the spring semester and participate in a fellowship in the entertainment industry during the summer semester. The coursework is applied toward the students' graduation requirements and the fellowship provides much needed hands-on experience and an opportunity to make invaluable networking connections. Guest lecturers for the 2020 cohort included industry notables and Howard alumni, including actress Susan Kelechi Watson; Jeron Smith, CEO and Co-Founder, Unanimous Media; actress Ashley Blaine Featherson; and Charles and Stacy King, the CEO and Chief Brand Officer, and Co-Founders, MACRO. For 2021, the spring semester (Jan.-May) will be virtual; summer internships may be virtual or in-person, pending COVID-19 restrictions and local regulations. All fellows in the 2021 Howard Entertainment program will have their tuition fully covered by Amazon Studios and Howard University. In its first year, feedback from Howard students and faculty has been overwhelmingly positive. Students had opportunities to learn about and gain experience in all aspects of entertainment, including development, casting, marketing, production, business affairs, and music. "As a Black Entertainer, I understand the value and comfort of having people like me engrained in the purposeful action of protecting Black storytellers, and this program opened the door for me to do so," said Drew Emerson, J.D./MBA Candidate, fellow, 2020 Howard Entertainment program. To qualify, students must be enrolled as a Howard University student, as an upperclassman or graduate student. Prospective participants must complete an application and interview to be considered for the program. Students will be taught by Howard faculty who will be supported by Amazon Studios employees and other industry professionals invited by Amazon. Students who wish to apply for admission to Howard Entertainment can contact HowardEntertainment@howard.edu. For more information visit on the program, please visit https://entertainment.howard.edu/. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200924005750/en/ Alonda Thomas Director of Public RelationsHoward University202-578-1679Alonda.thomas@howard.edu Source: Amazon Studios

<p><em>The first-of-its-kind program will increase in size for its second year, with new opportunities for students</em></p><p>WASHINGTON &amp; CULVER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- Today, Howard University and Amazon Studios announced a second year of the Howard Entertainment program, an experience designed to diversify the entertainment industry by creating a pipeline for African-American students and other underrepresented populations to train and study alongside entertainment executives. Applications will open Monday, Sept. 28, with the program set to restart in January 2021, with increased slots available for current Howard students.</p><p>"The continuation of Howard Entertainment is a testament to the immediate impact of the program and the resonance of its long-term vision to strive for greater representation across the industry," said Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick, M.D., MBA. "At Howard, we are always seeking to expand the education of our students by connecting them to experiences that will prepare them to succeed and make a difference. Considering the size and importance of the entertainment industry, I am excited to see our students become leaders in this space. Whether they pursue paths in front of the camera or behind the scenes, Howard Entertainment aims to broaden the range and inclusivity of Hollywood story-telling through the fresh new voices of talent from underrepresented communities."</p><p>"After a great experience this year, we are thrilled to not only continue but to expand the Howard Entertainment program for 2021," said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. "The Howard Entertainment program is one of the ways Amazon Studios is creating new diverse pipeline programs in the entertainment industry for talented students and for employees. We are committed to making Amazon Studios a place where new voices with fresh perspectives are heard and valued, both on and off screen. We know these programs will benefit our industry as a whole in the future."</p><p>"We had extremely high expectations for the Howard Entertainment program and even still, our first cohort surpassed them all. The Howard students were insightful and engaged us in a way that allowed for two-way learning. Their contributions had an enormous impact across every department at Amazon Studios as well as with partners like UTA," said Latasha Gillespie, Amazon Studios Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. "We're happy to work with Howard again and to open up the program to even more talented students this year."</p><p>"This program allows me to be a part of the movement to end the gatekeeping of this industry so that one day, a little Black or Brown girl can look at me and say to herself, ‘I can do that too,'" said Jasmine Oshiyemi, marketing major, fellow, 2020 Howard Entertainment program.</p><p>The Howard Entertainment program is an immersive, two semester experience that offers Howard University students the opportunity to take academic courses during the spring semester and participate in a fellowship in the entertainment industry during the summer semester. The coursework is applied toward the students' graduation requirements and the fellowship provides much needed hands-on experience and an opportunity to make invaluable networking connections. Guest lecturers for the 2020 cohort included industry notables and Howard alumni, including actress Susan Kelechi Watson; Jeron Smith, CEO and Co-Founder, Unanimous Media; actress Ashley Blaine Featherson; and Charles and Stacy King, the CEO and Chief Brand Officer, and Co-Founders, MACRO.</p><p>For 2021, the spring semester (Jan.-May) will be virtual; summer internships may be virtual or in-person, pending COVID-19 restrictions and local regulations. All fellows in the 2021 Howard Entertainment program will have their tuition fully covered by Amazon Studios and Howard University.</p><p>In its first year, feedback from Howard students and faculty has been overwhelmingly positive. Students had opportunities to learn about and gain experience in all aspects of entertainment, including development, casting, marketing, production, business affairs, and music.</p><p>"As a Black Entertainer, I understand the value and comfort of having people like me engrained in the purposeful action of protecting Black storytellers, and this program opened the door for me to do so," said Drew Emerson, J.D./MBA Candidate, fellow, 2020 Howard Entertainment program.</p><p>To qualify, students must be enrolled as a Howard University student, as an upperclassman or graduate student. Prospective participants must complete an application and interview to be considered for the program. Students will be taught by Howard faculty who will be supported by Amazon Studios employees and other industry professionals invited by Amazon.</p><p>Students who wish to apply for admission to Howard Entertainment can contact HowardEntertainment@howard.edu. For more information visit on the program, please visit https://entertainment.howard.edu/.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200924005750/en/</p><p><em>Alonda Thomas </em>Director of Public RelationsHoward University202-578-1679Alonda.thomas@howard.edu</p><p>Source: Amazon Studios</p>

Best Buy, McKinstry, Real Betis, Schneider Electric, and Siemens Sign The Climate Pledge

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The Climate Pledge, a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism, calls on signatories to take urgent action to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early Signatories are implementing real, science-based, high-impact changes to their businesses, including deploying renewable energy, investing in sustainable buildings, and mobilizing supply chains to reach net zero by 2040 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Global Optimism announced that Best Buy, McKinstry, Real Betis, Schneider Electric, and Siemens have joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Accord's goal of 2050. These new signatories to The Climate Pledge agree to: Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis; Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies; Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially-beneficial offsets to achieve net-zero annual carbon emissions by 2040. "From hurricanes to forest fires, climate change is leading to very real, negative impacts to our daily lives even sooner than scientists expected. Every company has a role to play in fighting climate change, and we welcome these new Climate Pledge signatories who are stepping up and committing to reach net-zero carbon by 2040," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "They are showing important leadership in accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy to protect the planet for future generations." To achieve a net-zero carbon footprint, Best Buy will continue to measure, manage and decarbonize its emissions, increase the energy efficiency of its operations, and invest in carbon offsetting projects. Since 2009, the company has reduced its carbon emissions by 56% through investments in LED lighting, controls systems and hybrid vehicles. The company has also undertaken investments in utility-scale solar generation like the Best Buy Solar Field, which powers the equivalent of 260 Best Buy stores each year. Through its previously established science-based target, the company aims to reduce emissions in its operations by 75% and help customers reduce product emissions by 20%, saving the company $5 billion on utility costs by 2030. And as it looks to the future and meeting the 2040 requirements of The Climate Pledge, Best Buy's focus areas may include fleet electrification, energy efficiency, renewable energy investments, and the development of carbon offset projects. "We are a purposeful, values-driven company, with a long history of environmental work that includes meaningfully reducing our carbon footprint and helping our customers do the same," said Corie Barry, Best Buy CEO. "We are proud to take the next step by committing to The Climate Pledge. Simply put, our customers and employees expect this degree of commitment from us and the planet demands it." McKinstry, a U.S. engineering, construction and energy services firm, has a three-fold plan. McKinstry will reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2025 and reach net-zero carbon by 2030. McKinstry will use its impact and influence to support community organizations who are leading approaches to preserve the planet. It will also work with building owners and operators to deliver more buildings that aim for zero-carbon, energy-sharing, high-efficiency operations, and optimal building-to-grid interactions. This leads to occupant behavior that helps to transform buildings from blind energy consumers to valuable assets that serve the grid. "Buildings account for 40% of energy use in the United States and 36% globally," said Dean Allen, McKinstry CEO. "Emerging, complex building technologies are unlocking the potential to radically reduce carbon emissions and operate buildings with startling efficiency. It will take working together across industries to deploy these technologies and decarbonize the global building stock and dramatically improve energy efficiency. Working with other Climate Pledge companies, I believe we can meet this goal and drive real, lasting change." Real Betis, a professional football club based in Seville, Spain, has measured its carbon footprint and is implementing plans to reduce its emissions while at the same time purchasing carbon offsets from certified climate protection projects. In an effort to reduce its carbon emissions, the club is installing a "smart illumination system" in its 60,000-capacity Estadio Benito Villamarín stadium and is attempting to reduce its reliance on single-use plastic. It is also focused on serving as a role model for its fans: for the upcoming season, Real Betis is developing a list of sustainable initiatives to help fans reduce carbon emissions. "At Real Betis, we are committed to tackling climate change," said Ramón Alarcón, Real Betis general business director. "We are also helping to raise awareness to address the climate crisis, by engaging with our players and fans. We understand that climate change is a threat to the livelihoods and the wellbeing of everyone on the planet, and we are committed to doing our part. We are very excited to be the first football club in the world to join this program, and we can't wait to work with Climate Pledge companies to ramp up our efforts." Fighting climate change has long been at the heart of Schneider Electric's strategy and innovation roadmap, much ahead of its COP 21 Carbon Pledge endorsement. For Climate Week 2020, Schneider is accelerating its own carbon neutrality commitments and reaffirming that it will be carbon neutral in its operations by 2025 and have net-zero (no offset) emissions by 2030. It is also promising to have all of its products be carbon neutral by 2040, with full end-to-end neutrality, as well as having a net-zero supply chain by 2050. Schneider's corporate pledge was amongst the first +1.5 degree Celsius roadmaps approved by the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi). "Sustainability is at the core of everything we do at Schneider, and digital innovation is critical to address the challenge of climate change," said Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Schneider Electric chairman and CEO. "We will progress faster towards a sustainable and inclusive world if we progress together. This is why we joined The Climate Pledge – to deliver carbon neutrality." Siemens' goal is clear: all production facilities and buildings worldwide are to achieve a net-zero carbon footprint by 2030. To reach this objective, Siemens is focusing on four levers: green energy procurement, improving energy efficiency, decentralized energy systems (e.g. photovoltaics on factory rooftops), and the electrification of its car fleet. Besides, Siemens has initiated a new Managing Board compensation system that is also linked to sustainability targets, such as CO2 emissions reduction targets. "Climate change is one of humanity's greatest challenges of our time. Businesses need to lead the way towards accelerated decarbonization. In September 2015, Siemens became the first global industrial company to commit to achievingcarbon neutrality for our global operations by 2030. Today, we reemphasize our commitment to this goal and are looking forward to joining forces with other Climate Pledge companies to help ramp up global efforts," said Joe Kaeser, Siemens AG president and CEO. "The Paris Agreement set out a unifying roadmap for all countries and all people to address the climate crisis by taking action. The IPCC has informed us that we cannot warm the planet beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius and that the faster we achieve net-zero emissions, the better," said Christiana Figueres, the UN's former climate change chief and Global Optimism founding partner. "By joining The Climate Pledge, signatories are not just making a statement of commitment to the future, they are setting a pathway to significant actions and investments that will create jobs, spur innovation, regenerate the natural environment and help consumers to buy better starting now. This is what leadership looks like in resetting the global economy." Last year, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. Eleven organizations have now signed The Climate Pledge including: Amazon, Best Buy, Infosys, McKinstry, Mercedes-Benz, Oak View Group, Real Betis, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Verizon—sending an important signal that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. For more information visit www.theclimatepledge.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about. About Global Optimism Global Optimism exists to precipitate transformational, sector-wide change. Achieving a zero emissions future is not a far-off challenge. It's one we must get on track for now. Every scientific assessment shows that to meet the goal of net -zero emissions by 2050, to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees Celsius, we must halve our emissions between 2020 and 2030. Tackling the climate crisis is only possible when everyone, everywhere plays their part. We work with like-minded collectives from all sectors who are willing to invest in the choices required to be on this challenging – and life-affirming – journey. For more information, visit https://globaloptimism.com/. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200924005390/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/p Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>The Climate Pledge, a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism, calls on signatories to take urgent action to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early</em></p><p><em>Signatories are implementing real, science-based, high-impact changes to their businesses, including deploying renewable energy, investing in sustainable buildings, and mobilizing supply chains to reach net zero by 2040</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 24, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Global Optimism announced that Best Buy, McKinstry, Real Betis, Schneider Electric, and Siemens have joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Accord's goal of 2050.</p><p>These new signatories to The Climate Pledge agree to:</p><ul><li>Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis;</li><li>Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies;</li><li>Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially-beneficial offsets to achieve net-zero annual carbon emissions by 2040.</li></ul><p>"From hurricanes to forest fires, climate change is leading to very real, negative impacts to our daily lives even sooner than scientists expected. Every company has a role to play in fighting climate change, and we welcome these new Climate Pledge signatories who are stepping up and committing to reach net-zero carbon by 2040," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "They are showing important leadership in accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy to protect the planet for future generations."</p><p>To achieve a net-zero carbon footprint, Best Buy will continue to measure, manage and decarbonize its emissions, increase the energy efficiency of its operations, and invest in carbon offsetting projects. Since 2009, the company has reduced its carbon emissions by 56% through investments in LED lighting, controls systems and hybrid vehicles. The company has also undertaken investments in utility-scale solar generation like the Best Buy Solar Field, which powers the equivalent of 260 Best Buy stores each year. Through its previously established science-based target, the company aims to reduce emissions in its operations by 75% and help customers reduce product emissions by 20%, saving the company $5 billion on utility costs by 2030. And as it looks to the future and meeting the 2040 requirements of The Climate Pledge, Best Buy's focus areas may include fleet electrification, energy efficiency, renewable energy investments, and the development of carbon offset projects.</p><p>"We are a purposeful, values-driven company, with a long history of environmental work that includes meaningfully reducing our carbon footprint and helping our customers do the same," said Corie Barry, Best Buy CEO. "We are proud to take the next step by committing to The Climate Pledge. Simply put, our customers and employees expect this degree of commitment from us and the planet demands it."</p><p>McKinstry, a U.S. engineering, construction and energy services firm, has a three-fold plan. McKinstry will reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2025 and reach net-zero carbon by 2030. McKinstry will use its impact and influence to support community organizations who are leading approaches to preserve the planet. It will also work with building owners and operators to deliver more buildings that aim for zero-carbon, energy-sharing, high-efficiency operations, and optimal building-to-grid interactions. This leads to occupant behavior that helps to transform buildings from blind energy consumers to valuable assets that serve the grid.</p><p>"Buildings account for 40% of energy use in the United States and 36% globally," said Dean Allen, McKinstry CEO. "Emerging, complex building technologies are unlocking the potential to radically reduce carbon emissions and operate buildings with startling efficiency. It will take working together across industries to deploy these technologies and decarbonize the global building stock and dramatically improve energy efficiency. Working with other Climate Pledge companies, I believe we can meet this goal and drive real, lasting change."</p><p>Real Betis, a professional football club based in Seville, Spain, has measured its carbon footprint and is implementing plans to reduce its emissions while at the same time purchasing carbon offsets from certified climate protection projects. In an effort to reduce its carbon emissions, the club is installing a "smart illumination system" in its 60,000-capacity Estadio Benito Villamarín stadium and is attempting to reduce its reliance on single-use plastic. It is also focused on serving as a role model for its fans: for the upcoming season, Real Betis is developing a list of sustainable initiatives to help fans reduce carbon emissions.</p><p>"At Real Betis, we are committed to tackling climate change," said Ramón Alarcón, Real Betis general business director. "We are also helping to raise awareness to address the climate crisis, by engaging with our players and fans. We understand that climate change is a threat to the livelihoods and the wellbeing of everyone on the planet, and we are committed to doing our part. We are very excited to be the first football club in the world to join this program, and we can't wait to work with Climate Pledge companies to ramp up our efforts."</p><p>Fighting climate change has long been at the heart of Schneider Electric's strategy and innovation roadmap, much ahead of its COP 21 Carbon Pledge endorsement. For Climate Week 2020, Schneider is accelerating its own carbon neutrality commitments and reaffirming that it will be carbon neutral in its operations by 2025 and have net-zero (no offset) emissions by 2030. It is also promising to have all of its products be carbon neutral by 2040, with full end-to-end neutrality, as well as having a net-zero supply chain by 2050. Schneider's corporate pledge was amongst the first +1.5 degree Celsius roadmaps approved by the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi).</p><p>"Sustainability is at the core of everything we do at Schneider, and digital innovation is critical to address the challenge of climate change," said Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Schneider Electric chairman and CEO. "We will progress faster towards a sustainable and inclusive world if we progress together. This is why we joined The Climate Pledge – to deliver carbon neutrality."</p><p>Siemens' goal is clear: all production facilities and buildings worldwide are to achieve a net-zero carbon footprint by 2030. To reach this objective, Siemens is focusing on four levers: green energy procurement, improving energy efficiency, decentralized energy systems (e.g. photovoltaics on factory rooftops), and the electrification of its car fleet. Besides, Siemens has initiated a new Managing Board compensation system that is also linked to sustainability targets, such as CO2 emissions reduction targets.</p><p>"Climate change is one of humanity's greatest challenges of our time. Businesses need to lead the way towards accelerated decarbonization. In September 2015, Siemens became the first global industrial company to commit to achievingcarbon neutrality for our global operations by 2030. Today, we reemphasize our commitment to this goal and are looking forward to joining forces with other Climate Pledge companies to help ramp up global efforts," said Joe Kaeser, Siemens AG president and CEO.</p><p>"The Paris Agreement set out a unifying roadmap for all countries and all people to address the climate crisis by taking action. The IPCC has informed us that we cannot warm the planet beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius and that the faster we achieve net-zero emissions, the better," said Christiana Figueres, the UN's former climate change chief and Global Optimism founding partner. "By joining The Climate Pledge, signatories are not just making a statement of commitment to the future, they are setting a pathway to significant actions and investments that will create jobs, spur innovation, regenerate the natural environment and help consumers to buy better starting now. This is what leadership looks like in resetting the global economy."</p><p>Last year, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. Eleven organizations have now signed The Climate Pledge including: Amazon, Best Buy, Infosys, McKinstry, Mercedes-Benz, Oak View Group, Real Betis, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Verizon—sending an important signal that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. For more information visit www.theclimatepledge.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about.</p><p>About Global Optimism</p><p>Global Optimism exists to precipitate transformational, sector-wide change. Achieving a zero emissions future is not a far-off challenge. It's one we must get on track for now. Every scientific assessment shows that to meet the goal of net -zero emissions by 2050, to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees Celsius, we must halve our emissions between 2020 and 2030. Tackling the climate crisis is only possible when everyone, everywhere plays their part. We work with like-minded collectives from all sectors who are willing to invest in the choices required to be on this challenging – and life-affirming – journey. For more information, visit https://globaloptimism.com/.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200924005390/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/p</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Launches ‘Climate Pledge Friendly' to Make It Easier for Customers to Discover and Shop for Sustainable Products

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Amazon Launches ‘Climate Pledge Friendly' to Make It Easier for Customers to Discover and Shop for Sustainable Products

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Program launches with over 25,000 Climate Pledge Friendly products with one or more of 19 sustainability certifications Amazon launches ‘Compact by Design,' a new certification program for products designed to reduce carbon emissions through increased efficiency and better packaging SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 23, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced Climate Pledge Friendly, a new program to help make it easy for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products. Customers will now see the Climate Pledge Friendly label when searching for more than 25,000 products to signify that the products have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications that help preserve the natural world, such as reducing the carbon footprint of shipments to customers. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200923005297/en/ Climate Pledge Friendly, a new program to help make it easy for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products (Graphic: Business Wire) Climate Pledge Friendly selection includes grocery, household, fashion, beauty, and personal electronics products, as well as items from a range of other categories—from brands including Seventh Generation, Burt's Bees Baby, and HP Inc. Climate Pledge Friendly products are clearly labeled in shopping results, have additional sustainability information on the product page, and are featured in a dedicated section of our store. Amazon has partnered with trusted third-party certifications, and customers will be able to discover sustainable products that meet sustainability standards that help preserve the natural world. For example, Amazon is partnering with the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, a global non-profit dedicated to transforming the safety, health, and sustainability of products. Cradle to Cradle Certified products are safe, sustainable products made to support a circular economy. As part of the Climate Pledge Friendly initiative, Amazon is also announcing Compact by Design, a new externally-validated certification that identifies products which, while they may not always look very different, have a more efficient design. With the removal of excess air and water, products require less packaging and become more efficient to ship. At scale, these small differences in product size and weight lead to significant carbon emission reductions. Seventh Generation offers a Compact by Design-certified super-concentrated laundry detergent that uses 60% less plastic and 50% less water than the standard 100-ounce laundry bottle, enabling significant energy and material savings. If every household in the U.S. were to buy one bottle of Easy Dose ultra-concentrated laundry detergent instead of Seventh Generation's conventional 100-ounce laundry detergent, this would save 220,000 tons of CO2e every year, equivalent to not driving 540 million miles. Mrs. Meyer's multi-surface concentrate is another Climate Pledge Friendly product that has earned the Compact by Design certification. It is a concentrated formula designed to eliminate excess water, with one 32-ounce bottle able to make more than 16 gallons of cleaning solution. Using concentrated cleaning products reduces repeat purchases and enables customers to contribute to carbon emission savings. If all households in the U.S. purchased concentrated cleaners like Mrs. Meyer's multi-surface concentrate instead of non-concentrated cleaners, it would result in savings of 200,000 metric tons of customer CO2e—equivalent to the emissions of 500 million miles driven per year. "Climate Pledge Friendly is a simple way for customers to discover more sustainable products that help preserve the natural world," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "With 18 external certification programs and our own Compact by Design certification, we're incentivizing selling partners to create sustainable products that help protect the planet for future generations." "Cradle to Cradle certification provides a framework for product optimization based on the principles of designing with safe and healthy materials, using clean renewable energy and water, celebrating diversity, and eliminating the concept of waste," said William McDonough, co-founder of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. "We love that Amazon is making it simple for customers to find sustainable products. Amazon's new program will expand our reach and enable us to empower more brands to deliver safer and more sustainable products for the circular economy." "In line with our mission to make sustainable living commonplace, we are delighted to partner with Amazon on its Climate Pledge Friendly initiative," said Fabian Garcia, President of Unilever North America, makers of Seventh Generation, Love Beauty Planet, and Dove, among other brands available through the program. "Amazon's initiative will drive scale and impact for more sustainable consumption by helping customers easily discover products that are Climate Pledge Friendly and encourage the manufacturers to make their products more sustainable. Unilever is committed to delivering products that provide the best experience for consumers while reducing the impact that our products and our operations have on the environment." The Climate Pledge Friendly initiative supports Amazon's commitment to reach the Paris Agreement ten years early and be net zero carbon by 2040. The company has already committed to reaching 100% renewable energy by 2025, ordered over 100,000 fully-electric delivery vehicles, and plans to invest $100 million in reforestation projects around the world. Amazon also launched the Climate Pledge Fund, a $2 billion fund to back visionary companies whose products and services will facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy. Building on these actions, Amazon will now make it easier for customers to access product choices that align with our commitment to a more sustainable future. For detailed information on the program qualification criteria and to start shopping for these products visit www.amazon.com/ClimatePledgeFriendly or look for the Climate Pledge Friendly badge on qualifying products. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200923005297/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Program launches with over 25,000 Climate Pledge Friendly products with one or more of 19 sustainability certifications</em></p><p><em>Amazon launches ‘Compact by Design,' a new certification program for products designed to reduce carbon emissions through increased efficiency and better packaging</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 23, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced Climate Pledge Friendly, a new program to help make it easy for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products. Customers will now see the Climate Pledge Friendly label when searching for more than 25,000 products to signify that the products have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications that help preserve the natural world, such as reducing the carbon footprint of shipments to customers.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200923005297/en/</p><div><p>Climate Pledge Friendly, a new program to help make it easy for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Climate Pledge Friendly selection includes grocery, household, fashion, beauty, and personal electronics products, as well as items from a range of other categories—from brands including Seventh Generation, Burt's Bees Baby, and HP Inc. Climate Pledge Friendly products are clearly labeled in shopping results, have additional sustainability information on the product page, and are featured in a dedicated section of our store. Amazon has partnered with trusted third-party certifications, and customers will be able to discover sustainable products that meet sustainability standards that help preserve the natural world. For example, Amazon is partnering with the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, a global non-profit dedicated to transforming the safety, health, and sustainability of products. Cradle to Cradle Certified products are safe, sustainable products made to support a circular economy.</p><p>As part of the Climate Pledge Friendly initiative, Amazon is also announcing Compact by Design, a new externally-validated certification that identifies products which, while they may not always look very different, have a more efficient design. With the removal of excess air and water, products require less packaging and become more efficient to ship. At scale, these small differences in product size and weight lead to significant carbon emission reductions.</p><p>Seventh Generation offers a Compact by Design-certified super-concentrated laundry detergent that uses 60% less plastic and 50% less water than the standard 100-ounce laundry bottle, enabling significant energy and material savings. If every household in the U.S. were to buy one bottle of Easy Dose ultra-concentrated laundry detergent instead of Seventh Generation's conventional 100-ounce laundry detergent, this would save 220,000 tons of CO2e every year, equivalent to not driving 540 million miles.</p><p>Mrs. Meyer's multi-surface concentrate is another Climate Pledge Friendly product that has earned the Compact by Design certification. It is a concentrated formula designed to eliminate excess water, with one 32-ounce bottle able to make more than 16 gallons of cleaning solution. Using concentrated cleaning products reduces repeat purchases and enables customers to contribute to carbon emission savings. If all households in the U.S. purchased concentrated cleaners like Mrs. Meyer's multi-surface concentrate instead of non-concentrated cleaners, it would result in savings of 200,000 metric tons of customer CO2e—equivalent to the emissions of 500 million miles driven per year.</p><p>"Climate Pledge Friendly is a simple way for customers to discover more sustainable products that help preserve the natural world," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "With 18 external certification programs and our own Compact by Design certification, we're incentivizing selling partners to create sustainable products that help protect the planet for future generations."</p><p>"Cradle to Cradle certification provides a framework for product optimization based on the principles of designing with safe and healthy materials, using clean renewable energy and water, celebrating diversity, and eliminating the concept of waste," said William McDonough, co-founder of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. "We love that Amazon is making it simple for customers to find sustainable products. Amazon's new program will expand our reach and enable us to empower more brands to deliver safer and more sustainable products for the circular economy."</p><p>"In line with our mission to make sustainable living commonplace, we are delighted to partner with Amazon on its Climate Pledge Friendly initiative," said Fabian Garcia, President of Unilever North America, makers of Seventh Generation, Love Beauty Planet, and Dove, among other brands available through the program. "Amazon's initiative will drive scale and impact for more sustainable consumption by helping customers easily discover products that are Climate Pledge Friendly and encourage the manufacturers to make their products more sustainable. Unilever is committed to delivering products that provide the best experience for consumers while reducing the impact that our products and our operations have on the environment."</p><p>The Climate Pledge Friendly initiative supports Amazon's commitment to reach the Paris Agreement ten years early and be net zero carbon by 2040. The company has already committed to reaching 100% renewable energy by 2025, ordered over 100,000 fully-electric delivery vehicles, and plans to invest $100 million in reforestation projects around the world. Amazon also launched the Climate Pledge Fund, a $2 billion fund to back visionary companies whose products and services will facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy. Building on these actions, Amazon will now make it easier for customers to access product choices that align with our commitment to a more sustainable future.</p><p>For detailed information on the program qualification criteria and to start shopping for these products visit www.amazon.com/ClimatePledgeFriendly or look for the Climate Pledge Friendly badge on qualifying products.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200923005297/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Supports Department of Justice's Prosecution of Six Defendants Charged with Fraud, Among Others

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09/18/2020 14:35:00

Amazon Supports Department of Justice's Prosecution of Six Defendants Charged with Fraud, Among Others

09/18/2020

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 18, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN): What: The United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington today brought charges against six individuals for conspiracy to use a communication facility to commit commercial bribery, conspiracy to access a protected computer without authorization, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud. Amazon supported this lengthy investigation and the defendants were indicted this morning. You can see the Indictment and related press release here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/six-indicted-connection-multi-million-dollar-scheme-bribe-amazon-employees-and Statement from Amazon: Amazon is grateful to have worked with the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations, and the Department of Justice Office of International Affairs in their thorough pursuit of this case. We work hard to build a great experience for our customers and sellers, and bad actors like those in this case detract from the flourishing community of honest entrepreneurs that make up the vast majority of our sellers. Amazon has systems in place to detect suspicious behavior by sellers or employees, and teams in place to investigate and stop prohibited activity. We are especially disappointed by the actions of this limited group of now former employees, and appreciate the collaboration and support from law enforcement to bring them and the bad actors they were entwined with to justice. There is no place for fraud at Amazon and we will continue to pursue all measures to protect our store and hold bad actors accountable. Amazon has an extensive history of protecting its customers from fraud and abuse: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-investigation-and-prosecution-four-new-york https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes https://www.cnet.com/news/ftc-gets-11m-settlement-from-get-rich-quick-scammers-targeting-amazon/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/amazon-is-working-with-the-ftcs-fraud-investigation-against-sellers-playbook/ View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200918005533/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 18, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN):</p><p>What:</p><p>The United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington today brought charges against six individuals for conspiracy to use a communication facility to commit commercial bribery, conspiracy to access a protected computer without authorization, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud. Amazon supported this lengthy investigation and the defendants were indicted this morning.</p><p>You can see the Indictment and related press release here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/six-indicted-connection-multi-million-dollar-scheme-bribe-amazon-employees-and</p><p>Statement from Amazon:</p><p>Amazon is grateful to have worked with the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations, and the Department of Justice Office of International Affairs in their thorough pursuit of this case. We work hard to build a great experience for our customers and sellers, and bad actors like those in this case detract from the flourishing community of honest entrepreneurs that make up the vast majority of our sellers.</p><p>Amazon has systems in place to detect suspicious behavior by sellers or employees, and teams in place to investigate and stop prohibited activity. We are especially disappointed by the actions of this limited group of now former employees, and appreciate the collaboration and support from law enforcement to bring them and the bad actors they were entwined with to justice.</p><p>There is no place for fraud at Amazon and we will continue to pursue all measures to protect our store and hold bad actors accountable.</p><p>Amazon has an extensive history of protecting its customers from fraud and abuse:</p><ul><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-investigation-and-prosecution-four-new-york</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes</li><li>https://www.cnet.com/news/ftc-gets-11m-settlement-from-get-rich-quick-scammers-targeting-amazon/</li><li>https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/amazon-is-working-with-the-ftcs-fraud-investigation-against-sellers-playbook/</li></ul><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200918005533/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces First Recipients of Investments from $2 Billion Climate Pledge Fund

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CarbonCure Technologies, Pachama, Redwood Materials, Rivian, and Turntide Technologies receive investments to develop decarbonizing technologies and services that support Amazon's commitment to meeting The Climate Pledge The Climate Pledge is a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and achieve net-zero carbon by 2040 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 17, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the first recipients of investments from The Climate Pledge Fund: CarbonCure Technologies, Pachama, Redwood Materials, Rivian, and Turntide Technologies. The Climate Pledge Fund is a dedicated $2 billion venture investment program backing sustainable technologies and services that will help Amazon and other companies to meet The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040. "The Climate Pledge Fund invests in visionary companies whose products and services can empower a low carbon economy," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Today, I am excited to announce that we are investing in a group of companies that are channeling their entrepreneurial energy into helping Amazon and other companies reach net zero by 2040 and keep the planet safer for future generations." The Climate Pledge Fund is investing in companies in multiple industries, including transportation and logistics, energy generation, storage and utilization, manufacturing and materials, circular economy, and food and agriculture. Over time, Amazon will also look for opportunities to involve other Climate Pledge signatories in this venture investment program and help them find solutions to help them reach net zero carbon by 2040. "The Climate Pledge Fund is another important example of how the collaborative effort of The Climate Pledge can accelerate the transition to a net zero world. These investments will scale new technologies, helping these organizations speed up the pace at which operational emissions can be reduced," said Christiana Figueres, the UN's former climate change chief and founding partner of Global Optimism. "This is how a whole-economy approach to tackling the climate crisis looks. Together these companies demonstrate that there are endless possibilities in the clean, healthy recovery we must create together." The first five companies that the Climate Pledge Fund is investing in are: CarbonCure Technologies: Has commercialized a portfolio of carbon removal technologies that consume carbon dioxide (CO2) in concrete during production, permanently sequestering CO2 and enabling the reduction of cement content in mixes without impacting concrete performance. Amazon is working to lower the embodied carbon footprint of its buildings by using CarbonCure concrete in many of its new buildings, including HQ2 in Virginia. Pachama: Pachama is a climate technology company that is democratizing access to nature-based carbon markets. Pachama's technology verifies the impact of carbon capture in the world's forests, allowing organizations and individuals to compensate their emissions with confidence by supporting reforestation and forest conservation projects. Pachama will help Amazon monitor and evaluate nature-based solutions, including investments made by the Right Now Climate Fund. Redwood Materials: Developing and commercializing a full process and suite of technologies for recycling end-of-life Lithium-ion batteries and e-waste into high value metals and chemicals. With Amazon's firm commitment to electric delivery and electrification infrastructure, Redwood Materials will help Amazon properly recycle Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries and reuse their components. Redwood Materials can also help recycle the lithium batteries and e-waste from other parts of Amazon's businesses. Rivian: As part of The Climate Pledge announcement in 2019, Amazon revealed it had purchased 100,000 EVs from Rivian, with plans to have 10,000 of the new electric vehicles on the road as early as 2022 and all 100,000 vehicles on the road by 2030. The Climate Pledge Fund participated in Rivian's latest investment round in July, and with proceeds from that investment, Rivian is further developing and integrating its connected electric platform with Amazon's last mile delivery network. Turntide Technologies:Turntide's motors reduce energy use by 64% on average by optimizing efficiency and control without using expensive materials or rare earth minerals. Amazon is piloting Turntide's motors in a number of its buildings and the results so far have demonstrated significantly reduced electricity usage. "This investment is a great endorsement of CarbonCure as the go-to Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) solution for the growing tech construction space and the overall shift towards low embodied carbon construction materials," said Robert Niven, CarbonCure Technologies founder and CEO. "This investment in CDR signals a broader change for public and private infrastructure projects as industries and governments turn their focus toward the reduction of embodied carbon." "We are incredibly excited to be one of the first recipients of The Climate Pledge Fund as we join forces to protect and restore Planet Earth and achieve a net zero carbon economy," said Diego Saez-Gil, Pachama founder and CEO. "We started this company two years ago with the mission of unlocking the full potential that forests and natural ecosystems have to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a key activity to solve climate change. As the climate crisis becomes a more urgent reality every day, we are thrilled to be able to accelerate our work with the support of Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund." "To fight climate change, we need to solve the impact products have on the environment. We're honored to be part of the Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund and to build the closed-loop supply chain that will recycle batteries, electronics and other end of life products for Amazon," said JB Straubel, Redwood Materials Co-founder and CEO. "Amazon's commitment to addressing climate change is perfectly aligned with Rivian's mission. We are proud to be part of The Climate Pledge Fund," said RJ Scaringe, Rivian founder and CEO. "Electric motors consume half the world's electricity, making them one of the largest contributors to climate change," said Ryan Morris, Turntide Technologies Chairman and CEO. "Today, 98% of motors are based on an 1888 design by Nikola Tesla but have been difficult to improve without resorting to expensive materials, including rare earth minerals. Turntide's mission is to replace the world's electric motors with optimal efficiency motor systems, an essential step to help companies decrease their carbon footprint and reach their goal of net zero carbon. We share Amazon's information technology DNA and are excited to have them as partners in tackling climate change." To learn more about the Climate Pledge Fund, please visit: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/about/climate-pledge-fund. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200917005481/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>CarbonCure Technologies, Pachama, Redwood Materials, Rivian, and Turntide Technologies receive investments to develop decarbonizing technologies and services that support Amazon's commitment to meeting The Climate Pledge</em></p><p><em>The Climate Pledge is a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and achieve net-zero carbon by 2040</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 17, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the first recipients of investments from The Climate Pledge Fund: CarbonCure Technologies, Pachama, Redwood Materials, Rivian, and Turntide Technologies. The Climate Pledge Fund is a dedicated $2 billion venture investment program backing sustainable technologies and services that will help Amazon and other companies to meet The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040.</p><p>"The Climate Pledge Fund invests in visionary companies whose products and services can empower a low carbon economy," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Today, I am excited to announce that we are investing in a group of companies that are channeling their entrepreneurial energy into helping Amazon and other companies reach net zero by 2040 and keep the planet safer for future generations."</p><p>The Climate Pledge Fund is investing in companies in multiple industries, including transportation and logistics, energy generation, storage and utilization, manufacturing and materials, circular economy, and food and agriculture. Over time, Amazon will also look for opportunities to involve other Climate Pledge signatories in this venture investment program and help them find solutions to help them reach net zero carbon by 2040.</p><p>"The Climate Pledge Fund is another important example of how the collaborative effort of The Climate Pledge can accelerate the transition to a net zero world. These investments will scale new technologies, helping these organizations speed up the pace at which operational emissions can be reduced," said Christiana Figueres, the UN's former climate change chief and founding partner of Global Optimism. "This is how a whole-economy approach to tackling the climate crisis looks. Together these companies demonstrate that there are endless possibilities in the clean, healthy recovery we must create together."</p><p>The first five companies that the Climate Pledge Fund is investing in are:</p><ul><li>CarbonCure Technologies: Has commercialized a portfolio of carbon removal technologies that consume carbon dioxide (CO₂) in concrete during production, permanently sequestering CO₂ and enabling the reduction of cement content in mixes without impacting concrete performance. Amazon is working to lower the embodied carbon footprint of its buildings by using CarbonCure concrete in many of its new buildings, including HQ2 in Virginia.</li><li>Pachama: Pachama is a climate technology company that is democratizing access to nature-based carbon markets. Pachama's technology verifies the impact of carbon capture in the world's forests, allowing organizations and individuals to compensate their emissions with confidence by supporting reforestation and forest conservation projects. Pachama will help Amazon monitor and evaluate nature-based solutions, including investments made by the Right Now Climate Fund.</li><li>Redwood Materials: Developing and commercializing a full process and suite of technologies for recycling end-of-life Lithium-ion batteries and e-waste into high value metals and chemicals. With Amazon's firm commitment to electric delivery and electrification infrastructure, Redwood Materials will help Amazon properly recycle Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries and reuse their components. Redwood Materials can also help recycle the lithium batteries and e-waste from other parts of Amazon's businesses.</li><li>Rivian: As part of The Climate Pledge announcement in 2019, Amazon revealed it had purchased 100,000 EVs from Rivian, with plans to have 10,000 of the new electric vehicles on the road as early as 2022 and all 100,000 vehicles on the road by 2030. The Climate Pledge Fund participated in Rivian's latest investment round in July, and with proceeds from that investment, Rivian is further developing and integrating its connected electric platform with Amazon's last mile delivery network.</li><li>Turntide Technologies:Turntide's motors reduce energy use by 64% on average by optimizing efficiency and control without using expensive materials or rare earth minerals. Amazon is piloting Turntide's motors in a number of its buildings and the results so far have demonstrated significantly reduced electricity usage.</li></ul><p>"This investment is a great endorsement of CarbonCure as the go-to Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) solution for the growing tech construction space and the overall shift towards low embodied carbon construction materials," said Robert Niven, CarbonCure Technologies founder and CEO. "This investment in CDR signals a broader change for public and private infrastructure projects as industries and governments turn their focus toward the reduction of embodied carbon."</p><p>"We are incredibly excited to be one of the first recipients of The Climate Pledge Fund as we join forces to protect and restore Planet Earth and achieve a net zero carbon economy," said Diego Saez-Gil, Pachama founder and CEO. "We started this company two years ago with the mission of unlocking the full potential that forests and natural ecosystems have to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a key activity to solve climate change. As the climate crisis becomes a more urgent reality every day, we are thrilled to be able to accelerate our work with the support of Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund."</p><p>"To fight climate change, we need to solve the impact products have on the environment. We're honored to be part of the Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund and to build the closed-loop supply chain that will recycle batteries, electronics and other end of life products for Amazon," said JB Straubel, Redwood Materials Co-founder and CEO.</p><p>"Amazon's commitment to addressing climate change is perfectly aligned with Rivian's mission. We are proud to be part of The Climate Pledge Fund," said RJ Scaringe, Rivian founder and CEO.</p><p>"Electric motors consume half the world's electricity, making them one of the largest contributors to climate change," said Ryan Morris, Turntide Technologies Chairman and CEO. "Today, 98% of motors are based on an 1888 design by Nikola Tesla but have been difficult to improve without resorting to expensive materials, including rare earth minerals. Turntide's mission is to replace the world's electric motors with optimal efficiency motor systems, an essential step to help companies decrease their carbon footprint and reach their goal of net zero carbon. We share Amazon's information technology DNA and are excited to have them as partners in tackling climate change."</p><p>To learn more about the Climate Pledge Fund, please visit: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/about/climate-pledge-fund.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200917005481/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Career Day 2020 – More Than 300,000 People Attended the Event and Over 380,000 Applied for a Job at Amazon

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09/17/2020 06:30:00

Amazon Career Day 2020 – More Than 300,000 People Attended the Event and Over 380,000 Applied for a Job at Amazon

09/17/2020

2020

Amazon recruiters conducted 20,000 free 1-on-1 career coaching sessions with job seekers across the country in a single day All Amazon jobs come with industry-leading pay and competitive benefits – including a minimum wage of $15/hour, health insurance from day one, up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, and company-funded upskilling opportunities SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 17, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that over 300,000 people attended Amazon Career Day yesterday. Additionally, a record-setting 384,000 people applied for a job at Amazon in the U.S. and Canada over the last week since the event was announced. In the span of 24 hours, Amazon recruiters completed over 20,000 1-on-1 career coaching sessions with participants, and another 6,000 people joined group breakout sessions. Americans in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico attended Amazon Career Day, an online event designed to help people – regardless of their level of experience, professional field, or background – get advice, insights, and information to help them find new opportunities either at Amazon or another company. "Our vision for Career Day was to help job seekers from all walks of life and career stages fulfill their professional goals, using our scale to support those who need it the most," said Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of HR at Amazon. "We have tens of thousands of jobs available – from roles in finance, robotics, software development or AI, to entry-level positions with highly competitive pay and benefits across our operations network. We're looking forward to welcoming many Career Day participants to Amazon as full-time employees in the coming months." Amazon Career Day highlights include: Over 300,000 job seekers attended the event and discovered new tools to navigate the job market and learn about the 33,000 corporate and tech roles available at Amazon, as well as the 100,000 open positions across the company's operations network. Participants joined from all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico – with over 55,000 attending from California alone. Since announcing Career Day on September 9, Amazon has received more than 384,000 job applications for roles at the company in the U.S. and Canada – 38 job applications every minute. Amazon recruiters conducted 20,000 1-on-1 career coaching sessions to help attendees prepare for their next job, providing a total of 6,600 hours of advice. Job seekers filled the 20,000 slots within 12 hours of Amazon making them available. More than 3,600 attendees participated in interactive coding review workshops hosted by senior Amazon software development engineers, and 2,600 joined breakout sessions dedicated to hourly opportunities at Amazon's fulfillment centers and physical stores. Attendees asked more than 7,000 questions to the participating HR experts, career coaches, and industry leaders. With more than 875,000 employees worldwide, Amazon has been consistently recognized on LinkedIn's Top Companies, currently ranks #2 in the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies, and was selected by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators. Amazon has more than 600,000 full- and part-time employees in the U.S., across more than 40 states and 250 different counties, two headquarters, 18 Tech Hubs, more than 150 fulfillment centers, sortation centers and delivery stations, and more than two dozen Amazon Go, 4 Star and Amazon Books retail stores. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $350 billion in the U.S., including in infrastructure and employee compensation. Learn more about Amazon's economic impact across the U.S. here. On top of the company's employees, there are more than 2 million businesses, content creators, developers and delivery providers in the U.S. using Amazon products and services to start or grow their careers. Small and medium-sized businesses selling their products on Amazon.com have created more than 1.1 million jobs. There are more than 700,000 developers building skills for Alexa, last-mile and middle-mile delivery partners working with Amazon employ more than 95,000 drivers across the country. There are also hundreds of thousands of authors from around the world have self-published millions of books through Kindle Direct Publishing. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200917005326/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon recruiters conducted 20,000 free 1-on-1 career coaching sessions with job seekers across the country in a single day</em></p><p><em>All Amazon jobs come with industry-leading pay and competitive benefits – including a minimum wage of $15/hour, health insurance from day one, up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, and company-funded upskilling opportunities</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 17, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that over 300,000 people attended Amazon Career Day yesterday. Additionally, a record-setting 384,000 people applied for a job at Amazon in the U.S. and Canada over the last week since the event was announced. In the span of 24 hours, Amazon recruiters completed over 20,000 1-on-1 career coaching sessions with participants, and another 6,000 people joined group breakout sessions.</p><p>Americans in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico attended Amazon Career Day, an online event designed to help people – regardless of their level of experience, professional field, or background – get advice, insights, and information to help them find new opportunities either at Amazon or another company.</p><p>"Our vision for Career Day was to help job seekers from all walks of life and career stages fulfill their professional goals, using our scale to support those who need it the most," said Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of HR at Amazon. "We have tens of thousands of jobs available – from roles in finance, robotics, software development or AI, to entry-level positions with highly competitive pay and benefits across our operations network. We're looking forward to welcoming many Career Day participants to Amazon as full-time employees in the coming months."</p><p>Amazon Career Day highlights include:</p><ul><li>Over 300,000 job seekers attended the event and discovered new tools to navigate the job market and learn about the 33,000 corporate and tech roles available at Amazon, as well as the 100,000 open positions across the company's operations network.</li><li>Participants joined from all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico – with over 55,000 attending from California alone.</li><li>Since announcing Career Day on September 9, Amazon has received more than 384,000 job applications for roles at the company in the U.S. and Canada – 38 job applications every minute.</li><li>Amazon recruiters conducted 20,000 1-on-1 career coaching sessions to help attendees prepare for their next job, providing a total of 6,600 hours of advice. Job seekers filled the 20,000 slots within 12 hours of Amazon making them available.</li><li>More than 3,600 attendees participated in interactive coding review workshops hosted by senior Amazon software development engineers, and 2,600 joined breakout sessions dedicated to hourly opportunities at Amazon's fulfillment centers and physical stores.</li><li>Attendees asked more than 7,000 questions to the participating HR experts, career coaches, and industry leaders.</li></ul><p>With more than 875,000 employees worldwide, Amazon has been consistently recognized on LinkedIn's Top Companies, currently ranks #2 in the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies, and was selected by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators. Amazon has more than 600,000 full- and part-time employees in the U.S., across more than 40 states and 250 different counties, two headquarters, 18 Tech Hubs, more than 150 fulfillment centers, sortation centers and delivery stations, and more than two dozen Amazon Go, 4 Star and Amazon Books retail stores. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $350 billion in the U.S., including in infrastructure and employee compensation. Learn more about Amazon's economic impact across the U.S. here.</p><p>On top of the company's employees, there are more than 2 million businesses, content creators, developers and delivery providers in the U.S. using Amazon products and services to start or grow their careers. Small and medium-sized businesses selling their products on Amazon.com have created more than 1.1 million jobs. There are more than 700,000 developers building skills for Alexa, last-mile and middle-mile delivery partners working with Amazon employ more than 95,000 drivers across the country. There are also hundreds of thousands of authors from around the world have self-published millions of books through Kindle Direct Publishing.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200917005326/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Music Launches Podcasts for Customers Across the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan

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Amazon Music Launches Podcasts for Customers Across the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan

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Podcasts are now available on all tiers of Amazon Music, at no additional cost New and original podcasts rooted in music and entertainment will soon become available, including shows from DJ Khaled, Becky G, Will Smith, Dan Patrick, and more The number one music podcast, Disgraceland, to arrive exclusively on Amazon Music in 2021 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 16, 2020-- Amazon Music announced today the launch of podcasts in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan, across all tiers of service at no additional cost. For the first time, customers will be able to stream top podcasts they already know and love, as well as new, original shows produced exclusively for Amazon Music and hosted by creators including DJ Khaled, Becky G, Will Smith, Dan Patrick, and more. Amazon Music customers can access podcasts in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android, on Amazon Echo devices, and at music.amazon.com/podcasts. "Our customers' listening habits are constantly evolving, and we know they're looking to us to provide them with a rich experience rooted in music and entertainment," said Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music. "With this launch, we're bringing customers even more forms of entertainment to enjoy, while enabling creators to reach new audiences globally, just as we've done with music streaming. Podcasts, paired with our recent partnership with Twitch to bring live streaming into the app, makes Amazon Music a premiere destination for creators." Popular shows such as Crime Junkie, What A Day, Radiolab, Revisionist History, Planet Money, Ear Hustle, Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer, and Stuff You Should Know are available now, and millions of episodes from top shows, with more being added all the time. Amazon Music will also soon be the exclusive home of the music-meets-true-crime podcast, Disgraceland, a show exploring the criminal antics and connections of some of the world's favorite musicians, from the Rolling Stones to Tupac. Disgraceland's narrative storytelling highlights tales of getting away with murder and behaving badly, chronicling some of the craziest criminal stories surrounding some of the most interesting and infamous pop stars. Disgraceland will arrive exclusively on Amazon Music in February 2021. "Partnering with Amazon Music allows me to really give my listeners what they've always asked for: more Disgraceland content," said Jake Brennan, host of Disgraceland and cofounder at Double Elvis Productions. "Through this partnership with Amazon Music, we're enhancing the future of the show for fans, expanding our output of content by moving to an ‘always on' weekly schedule, which will translate to more episodes for listeners on a more consistent basis." Amazon Music has also partnered with creators to produce original, exclusive podcasts. Coming soon, customers will be able to listen to "The First One," a new audio experience hosted by one of the most prolific hit makers of the 21st century, DJ Khaled. Developed by Amazon Music and the Springhill Company, in "The First One" the mogul and superstar will interview his all-time favorite artists about the hits that made them iconic and eventually legendary. "I'm recording my podcast with the greatest musicians of all time, and with some of my best friends who also happen to be the most iconic artists on the planet," said DJ Khaled. "We'll talk about fame, fortune, life, and success. These stories are here to motivate you because everybody starts from somewhere, from the ordinary to extraordinary. Before you get to another one, you got to get to 'The First One,' only on Amazon Music." Also coming to Amazon Music is a brand-new multimedia podcast hosted and curated by superstar Becky G, featuring audio and corresponding video broadcast on Amazon Music's Twitch Channel. Titled "En la Sala," every week, you're invited to join Becky G as she calls on some of the biggest names in music and entertainment, her familia and friends, to discuss Latinx pride, women empowerment, LGBTQ+ rights, relationships, politics and sports, all while unpacking the most important issues facing the Latinx community today. Developed by Amazon Music and Gema Productions, Becky G has also dedicated each episode to a nonprofit organization related to the theme of the week. With a charitable donation attached to each episode to pay it forward to organizations directly impacting the Latinx community in a positive way, Becky sets the standard for her guests and listeners, since En La Sala, you can't just talk about it - you have to be about it too. "To me, my voice has always been about more than just singing, it's using it for the greater good and creating a destination for change," said Becky G. "In quarantine, with so much time to consider the world around us, it felt like the perfect opportunity to open a new line of communication and pay it forward, and I'm so thankful that Amazon Music and Gema approached me with the opportunity to create this podcast. I'm excited to be joining forces with Amazon Music so we can start to have conversations about looking within to see how we can all be better." Broadcasting legend Dan Patrick and IMDb will soon give movie fanatics exclusive interviews with top Hollywood stars in his new show, "That Scene with Dan Patrick." Produced in collaboration with IMDb, this new podcast will dissect memorable scenes from some of the biggest films and television series. And coming soon to Amazon Music and Audible, is a project from Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith's Westbrook Audio, a co-production with Audible. With Amazon Music visual apps on mobile and web, customers will be able to discover new favorites through curated recommendations across top categories, popular podcasts charts, and access to trailers on show pages. Whether listening on mobile, web, or on Echo devices with Alexa, Amazon Music makes it easy for customers to find, start, and continue listening to their favorite podcasts throughout the day. Only with Amazon Music can customers ask for the latest episode of their favorite show on Echo Auto during their morning commute, resume playback on their phone while working out, and seamlessly move to their Echo device when getting home - just by asking Alexa, with no additional sign in or device linking needed. "We're thrilled to offer customers a convenient podcast listening experience that fits their lifestyle," said Kintan Brahmbhatt, Director of Podcasts for Amazon Music. "Never before has listening to podcasts on the move, in the car, or at home been so simple. Our customers will be able to utilize the voice functionality they know and love with music, to now enjoy a superior podcast experience and uncover a brand-new selection of favorites." Podcasts are now available to stream on all tiers of Amazon Music at no additional cost, including free access on Echo, web, and in the Amazon Music mobile app. To learn more, or to add your own podcast to Amazon Music, visit amazon.com/podcasts. About Amazon Music Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 60 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Customers also have free access to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations on Amazon Music. All Amazon Music tiers now offer a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, and live streaming in partnership with Twitch. Engaging with music and culture has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200916005550/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc

<p><em>Podcasts are now available on all tiers of Amazon Music, at no additional cost</em></p><p><em>New and original podcasts rooted in music and entertainment will soon become available, including shows from DJ Khaled, Becky G, Will Smith, Dan Patrick, and more</em></p><p><em>The number one music podcast, Disgraceland, to arrive exclusively on Amazon Music in 2021</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 16, 2020-- Amazon Music announced today the launch of podcasts in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan, across all tiers of service at no additional cost. For the first time, customers will be able to stream top podcasts they already know and love, as well as new, original shows produced exclusively for Amazon Music and hosted by creators including DJ Khaled, Becky G, Will Smith, Dan Patrick, and more. Amazon Music customers can access podcasts in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android, on Amazon Echo devices, and at music.amazon.com/podcasts.</p><p>"Our customers' listening habits are constantly evolving, and we know they're looking to us to provide them with a rich experience rooted in music and entertainment," said Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music. "With this launch, we're bringing customers even more forms of entertainment to enjoy, while enabling creators to reach new audiences globally, just as we've done with music streaming. Podcasts, paired with our recent partnership with Twitch to bring live streaming into the app, makes Amazon Music a premiere destination for creators."</p><p>Popular shows such as Crime Junkie, What A Day, Radiolab, Revisionist History, Planet Money, Ear Hustle, Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer, and Stuff You Should Know are available now, and millions of episodes from top shows, with more being added all the time. Amazon Music will also soon be the exclusive home of the music-meets-true-crime podcast, Disgraceland, a show exploring the criminal antics and connections of some of the world's favorite musicians, from the Rolling Stones to Tupac. Disgraceland's narrative storytelling highlights tales of getting away with murder and behaving badly, chronicling some of the craziest criminal stories surrounding some of the most interesting and infamous pop stars. Disgraceland will arrive exclusively on Amazon Music in February 2021.</p><p>"Partnering with Amazon Music allows me to really give my listeners what they've always asked for: more Disgraceland content," said Jake Brennan, host of Disgraceland and cofounder at Double Elvis Productions. "Through this partnership with Amazon Music, we're enhancing the future of the show for fans, expanding our output of content by moving to an ‘always on' weekly schedule, which will translate to more episodes for listeners on a more consistent basis."</p><p>Amazon Music has also partnered with creators to produce original, exclusive podcasts. Coming soon, customers will be able to listen to "The First One," a new audio experience hosted by one of the most prolific hit makers of the 21st century, DJ Khaled. Developed by Amazon Music and the Springhill Company, in "The First One" the mogul and superstar will interview his all-time favorite artists about the hits that made them iconic and eventually legendary.</p><p>"I'm recording my podcast with the greatest musicians of all time, and with some of my best friends who also happen to be the most iconic artists on the planet," said DJ Khaled. "We'll talk about fame, fortune, life, and success. These stories are here to motivate you because everybody starts from somewhere, from the ordinary to extraordinary. Before you get to another one, you got to get to 'The First One,' only on Amazon Music."</p><p>Also coming to Amazon Music is a brand-new multimedia podcast hosted and curated by superstar Becky G, featuring audio and corresponding video broadcast on Amazon Music's Twitch Channel. Titled "En la Sala," every week, you're invited to join Becky G as she calls on some of the biggest names in music and entertainment, her familia and friends, to discuss Latinx pride, women empowerment, LGBTQ+ rights, relationships, politics and sports, all while unpacking the most important issues facing the Latinx community today. Developed by Amazon Music and Gema Productions, Becky G has also dedicated each episode to a nonprofit organization related to the theme of the week. With a charitable donation attached to each episode to pay it forward to organizations directly impacting the Latinx community in a positive way, Becky sets the standard for her guests and listeners, since En La Sala, you can't just talk about it - you have to be about it too.</p><p>"To me, my voice has always been about more than just singing, it's using it for the greater good and creating a destination for change," said Becky G. "In quarantine, with so much time to consider the world around us, it felt like the perfect opportunity to open a new line of communication and pay it forward, and I'm so thankful that Amazon Music and Gema approached me with the opportunity to create this podcast. I'm excited to be joining forces with Amazon Music so we can start to have conversations about looking within to see how we can all be better."</p><p>Broadcasting legend Dan Patrick and IMDb will soon give movie fanatics exclusive interviews with top Hollywood stars in his new show, "That Scene with Dan Patrick." Produced in collaboration with IMDb, this new podcast will dissect memorable scenes from some of the biggest films and television series. And coming soon to Amazon Music and Audible, is a project from Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith's Westbrook Audio, a co-production with Audible.</p><p>With Amazon Music visual apps on mobile and web, customers will be able to discover new favorites through curated recommendations across top categories, popular podcasts charts, and access to trailers on show pages. Whether listening on mobile, web, or on Echo devices with Alexa, Amazon Music makes it easy for customers to find, start, and continue listening to their favorite podcasts throughout the day. Only with Amazon Music can customers ask for the latest episode of their favorite show on Echo Auto during their morning commute, resume playback on their phone while working out, and seamlessly move to their Echo device when getting home - just by asking Alexa, with no additional sign in or device linking needed.</p><p>"We're thrilled to offer customers a convenient podcast listening experience that fits their lifestyle," said Kintan Brahmbhatt, Director of Podcasts for Amazon Music. "Never before has listening to podcasts on the move, in the car, or at home been so simple. Our customers will be able to utilize the voice functionality they know and love with music, to now enjoy a superior podcast experience and uncover a brand-new selection of favorites."</p><p>Podcasts are now available to stream on all tiers of Amazon Music at no additional cost, including free access on Echo, web, and in the Amazon Music mobile app. To learn more, or to add your own podcast to Amazon Music, visit amazon.com/podcasts.</p><p>About Amazon Music</p><p>Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 60 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Customers also have free access to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations on Amazon Music. All Amazon Music tiers now offer a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, and live streaming in partnership with Twitch. Engaging with music and culture has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200916005550/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc</p>

Arçelik Chooses AWS to Transform its Appliance Manufacturing Business into a Data-Driven Organization

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Arçelik Chooses AWS to Transform its Appliance Manufacturing Business into a Data-Driven Organization

09/16/2020

2020

Leading global manufacturer of household appliances selects AWS as preferred cloud provider for machine learning and analytics to increase efficiency and innovate new services SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 16, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Arçelik, one of the world's leading manufacturers of household appliances, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for machine learning and analytics across its entire operations. Arçelik, which owns 12 global appliance brands including Beko and Grundig, is relying on the breadth and depth of AWS services to transform itself into a data-driven organization and provide enhanced customer experiences, innovate new services, and lower costs across its operations in nearly 150 countries. By adopting AWS analytics, compute, database services, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and storage, Arçelik is gaining deeper visibility across its organization, optimizing processes related to production and quality control, and driving efficiency across all business segments, from customer care to manufacturing. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200916005095/en/ Arçelik is establishing a company-wide analytics and machine learning program, powered by AWS. This will aggregate and examine data from its supply chain, maintenance, manufacturing, quality control, and sales operations to achieve predictive insights for evaluating customer satisfaction ratings, forecasting growth, and managing inventory. Arçelik began this program by building a data lake with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using AWS Lake Formation, for quickly ingesting, cataloging, cleaning, and securing data, and AWS Glue, for preparing and loading data for analytics. All of Arçelik's business units have access to this data lake, which feeds into new machine learning solutions powered by Amazon SageMaker – AWS's service that enables data scientists and developers to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly – to uncover patterns and identify process improvements. The company is leveraging machine learning to examine anonymized data from millions of call center inquiries and service requests to help its field technicians make better inventory decisions and predict the tools and parts they will need for maintenance appointments. Arçelik also leverages Amazon SageMaker BlazingText, an algorithm providing highly optimized implementations of word2vec and text classification, to power its ‘Quality Intelligence' solution. This service reviews notes from service technicians and identifies emerging trends in service requests, for Arçelik's customer care and quality control teams, to help them proactively address customer needs. Arçelik is expanding its use of AWS analytics, IoT, and machine learning services to its factories and product lines, building on a project to develop cloud-connected appliances. The company currently collects data from more than 1 million deployed smart appliances, using AWS IoT Core to easily and securely connect these appliances to the cloud and other devices. It also uses Amazon Elasticsearch Service to gain insights from this machine-generated data, enabling Arçelik to analyze consumer usage patterns and diagnose potential performance issues remotely. Arçelik is rolling out a number of solutions on its manufacturing lines, using machine learning models built with Amazon SageMaker, to identify process improvements and enhance quality control. For example, Arçelik's ‘Smart Sampling for Auditing Purposes' solution examines production and sales data to predict which finished appliances are best suited for quality control testing, enabling Arçelik to automate this step in the auditing process. In addition, Arçelik developed a ‘Smart Component Matching' solution on AWS, enabling the company to examine real-time and historical production line data with service data to help the factory's automatic-production system identify the product parts that are compatible with other components, resulting in better production quality. Arçelik is currently implementing these solutions at its award-winning washing machine factory in Romania, which was recently included in the World Economic Forum's ‘Global Lighthouse Network' – an initiative recognizing some of the world's most innovative and advanced manufacturing facilities. The company plans to work with AWS to roll out these solutions to additional Arçelik factories around the world. "AWS is a strategic resource in Arçelik's digital transformation and global growth, by keeping us agile and solidifying our position as an industry pioneer through the use of advanced analytics, IoT, and machine learning services," said Utku Barış Pazar, Arçelik's Chief Strategy and Digital Officer. "We greatly benefit from the insights delivered from AWS's vast portfolio of services to guide our business decisions, innovate quickly, and remain responsive to our customers' needs. As the uncertainty of the past few months makes clear, it is critical to have an integrated view of our global operations in order to adapt effectively to change. AWS is helping us navigate our business through this unprecedented time and to keep our commitments to our customers." "Modern corporations are awash in data that can help them create value for their business and better serve their customers, if they have the tools to harness it," said Andy Isherwood, Managing Director of AWS EMEA. "Arçelik is a leader in the manufacturing industry, leveraging the proven performance of the world's leading cloud to transform itself into a data-driven organization, on a global scale. We look forward to continuing to support their efforts with the most comprehensive set of analytics and machine learning services available today, to drive innovation, and deliver improved customer experiences." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are just some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Arçelik With over 30,000 employees throughout the world, 12 brands (Arçelik, Beko, Grundig, Blomberg, ElektraBregenz, Arctic, Leisure, Flavel, Defy, Altus, Dawlance, Voltas Beko), sales and marketing offices in 34 countries, and 23 production facilities in 9 countries, Arçelik offers products and services in more than 140 countries. Arçelik is the second largest white goods company in Europe according to market share based on quantity. Arçelik is a recognized industry leader in innovation holding more than 3,000 international patent applications to date with the efforts of 1,600 researchers working at 20 R&D and Design Centers and Offices across the world. www.arcelikglobal.com View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200916005095/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Leading global manufacturer of household appliances selects AWS as preferred cloud provider for machine learning and analytics to increase efficiency and innovate new services</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 16, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Arçelik, one of the world's leading manufacturers of household appliances, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for machine learning and analytics across its entire operations. Arçelik, which owns 12 global appliance brands including Beko and Grundig, is relying on the breadth and depth of AWS services to transform itself into a data-driven organization and provide enhanced customer experiences, innovate new services, and lower costs across its operations in nearly 150 countries. By adopting AWS analytics, compute, database services, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and storage, Arçelik is gaining deeper visibility across its organization, optimizing processes related to production and quality control, and driving efficiency across all business segments, from customer care to manufacturing.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200916005095/en/</p><p>Arçelik is establishing a company-wide analytics and machine learning program, powered by AWS. This will aggregate and examine data from its supply chain, maintenance, manufacturing, quality control, and sales operations to achieve predictive insights for evaluating customer satisfaction ratings, forecasting growth, and managing inventory. Arçelik began this program by building a data lake with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using AWS Lake Formation, for quickly ingesting, cataloging, cleaning, and securing data, and AWS Glue, for preparing and loading data for analytics. All of Arçelik's business units have access to this data lake, which feeds into new machine learning solutions powered by Amazon SageMaker – AWS's service that enables data scientists and developers to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly – to uncover patterns and identify process improvements. The company is leveraging machine learning to examine anonymized data from millions of call center inquiries and service requests to help its field technicians make better inventory decisions and predict the tools and parts they will need for maintenance appointments. Arçelik also leverages Amazon SageMaker BlazingText, an algorithm providing highly optimized implementations of word2vec and text classification, to power its ‘Quality Intelligence' solution. This service reviews notes from service technicians and identifies emerging trends in service requests, for Arçelik's customer care and quality control teams, to help them proactively address customer needs.</p><p>Arçelik is expanding its use of AWS analytics, IoT, and machine learning services to its factories and product lines, building on a project to develop cloud-connected appliances. The company currently collects data from more than 1 million deployed smart appliances, using AWS IoT Core to easily and securely connect these appliances to the cloud and other devices. It also uses Amazon Elasticsearch Service to gain insights from this machine-generated data, enabling Arçelik to analyze consumer usage patterns and diagnose potential performance issues remotely.</p><p>Arçelik is rolling out a number of solutions on its manufacturing lines, using machine learning models built with Amazon SageMaker, to identify process improvements and enhance quality control. For example, Arçelik's ‘Smart Sampling for Auditing Purposes' solution examines production and sales data to predict which finished appliances are best suited for quality control testing, enabling Arçelik to automate this step in the auditing process. In addition, Arçelik developed a ‘Smart Component Matching' solution on AWS, enabling the company to examine real-time and historical production line data with service data to help the factory's automatic-production system identify the product parts that are compatible with other components, resulting in better production quality. Arçelik is currently implementing these solutions at its award-winning washing machine factory in Romania, which was recently included in the World Economic Forum's ‘Global Lighthouse Network' – an initiative recognizing some of the world's most innovative and advanced manufacturing facilities. The company plans to work with AWS to roll out these solutions to additional Arçelik factories around the world.</p><p>"AWS is a strategic resource in Arçelik's digital transformation and global growth, by keeping us agile and solidifying our position as an industry pioneer through the use of advanced analytics, IoT, and machine learning services," said Utku Barış Pazar, Arçelik's Chief Strategy and Digital Officer. "We greatly benefit from the insights delivered from AWS's vast portfolio of services to guide our business decisions, innovate quickly, and remain responsive to our customers' needs. As the uncertainty of the past few months makes clear, it is critical to have an integrated view of our global operations in order to adapt effectively to change. AWS is helping us navigate our business through this unprecedented time and to keep our commitments to our customers."</p><p>"Modern corporations are awash in data that can help them create value for their business and better serve their customers, if they have the tools to harness it," said Andy Isherwood, Managing Director of AWS EMEA. "Arçelik is a leader in the manufacturing industry, leveraging the proven performance of the world's leading cloud to transform itself into a data-driven organization, on a global scale. We look forward to continuing to support their efforts with the most comprehensive set of analytics and machine learning services available today, to drive innovation, and deliver improved customer experiences."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are just some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Arçelik</p><p>With over 30,000 employees throughout the world, 12 brands (Arçelik, Beko, Grundig, Blomberg, ElektraBregenz, Arctic, Leisure, Flavel, Defy, Altus, Dawlance, Voltas Beko), sales and marketing offices in 34 countries, and 23 production facilities in 9 countries, Arçelik offers products and services in more than 140 countries. Arçelik is the second largest white goods company in Europe according to market share based on quantity.</p><p>Arçelik is a recognized industry leader in innovation holding more than 3,000 international patent applications to date with the efforts of 1,600 researchers working at 20 R&amp;D and Design Centers and Offices across the world. www.arcelikglobal.com</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200916005095/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces New Shopping Experience, "Luxury Stores"

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09/15/2020 07:00:00

Amazon Announces New Shopping Experience, "Luxury Stores"

09/15/2020

2020

Launching with Oscar de la Renta's Store Featuring Pre-Fall and Fall/Winter 2020 Collections Luxury Fashion and Beauty Brands Tap Amazon's Innovative, Content-Driven Tools to Reach and Engage More Shoppers More Customers Turning to Mobile Shopping – In the Past Year, Amazon Customers Ordered More Than One Billion Fashion Items On Mobile Devices SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 15, 2020-- Today, Amazon announced the launch of Luxury Stores, a new shopping experience offering both established and emerging luxury fashion and beauty brands. Iconic American fashion house, Oscar de la Renta, unveils the first store featuring its Pre-Fall and Fall/Winter 2020 collections, inclusive of ready-to-wear, handbags, jewelry, accessories, and a new perfume, with childrenswear coming soon. More brands will launch within Luxury Stores in the coming weeks and seasons. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200915005426/en/ Available in the Amazon app by invitation only, Luxury Stores combines the convenience customers have come to know and love from Amazon with innovative technology like "View in 360." This interactive feature will begin rolling out with select garments at launch, allowing customers to explore styles in 360-degree detail to better visualize fit, and making shopping for luxury easier and more engaging. With collections sold directly from the participating brands as a ‘store within a store' experience, brands independently make decisions regarding their inventory, selection, and pricing – and Amazon offers the merchandising tools for brands to create and personalize content in each of their unique brand voices. By seamlessly tying content and commerce together, both fashion and beauty brands can engage and entertain customers through immersive storytelling, including enhanced, auto-play imagery and in-motion graphics. "We are always listening to and learning from our customers, and we are inspired by feedback from Prime members who want the ability to shop their favorite luxury brands in Amazon's store," said Christine Beauchamp, President of Amazon Fashion. "We are excited to offer luxury brands the services and technology to build an inspiring, elevated customer experience. It's still Day One, and we look forward to growing Luxury Stores, innovating on behalf of our customers, and opening a new door for designers all over the world to access existing and new luxury customers." Currently available to eligible U.S. Prime members, invited shoppers can browse exclusive styles from Oscar de la Renta throughout the season, including select ready-to-wear and a new perfume. In addition, they can receive early access to the Fall/Winter 2020 collection, which is currently only available in Oscar de la Renta's boutiques and website. To entertain and engage invited shoppers, Amazon and Oscar de la Renta collaborated on a launch video, starring Cara Delevingne, directed by Bunny Kinney, and styled by Jason Bolden, celebrating the imaginative intersection of fashion and technology. "Oscar de la Renta is thrilled to partner with Amazon for the launch of Luxury Stores," stated Alex Bolen, CEO of Oscar de la Renta. "As a global leader in retail, Amazon has a relentless focus on improving the customer experience through constant innovation, utilizing technology and customer feedback. We admire Amazon's customer-centric focus and look forward to telling our brand's story in compelling and engaging ways to even more customers through the Luxury Stores experience." Eligible U.S. Prime members are the first invited to experience Luxury Stores. Prime members that did not yet receive an invitation via email can request an invitation by visiting amazon.com/LuxuryStores. Over time, Luxury Stores will extend invitations to more shoppers. About Amazon Fashion Amazon Fashion, the fashion retail division of Seattle-based Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), is a one-stop destination for head-to-toe style. Find apparel, shoes, accessories, jewelry, watches, handbags, and luggage from a wide range of designer, contemporary, and emerging brands for any occasion, any style and any budget. Amazon Fashion continues to expand its wide selection and create new experiences on behalf of its customers, including Prime exclusive programs like Prime Wardrobe, allowing you try before you buy, and Personal Shopper by Prime Wardrobe, a service that provides style inspiration and curated recommendations. Amazon Fashion also recently introduced The Drop, an innovative shopping experience that gives customers access to limited-edition street-style collections designed by fashion influencers around the world. Amazon Fashion aims to reinvent the online fashion shopping experience for everyone and uses technology to serve customers with products and brands that are relevant to them. For more information, please visit www.amazon.com/fashion. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. About Oscar de la Renta Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading luxury goods firms. The New York-based company was established in 1965, and encompasses a full line of women's accessories, bridal, childrenswear, fragrance, beauty and home goods, in addition to its internationally renowned women's ready-to-wear collection. The design house is built on the foundation of femininity, craftsmanship and timeless style. From romantic silhouettes and impeccable tailoring to intricate embroideries and exquisite detailing, each piece has the power to transport the woman who wears it. Through the decades, the brand philosophy has always been to make women look and feel beautiful. As Oscar always said, "Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on." View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200915005426/en/ Amazon FashionDanielle Siriannisiriannd@amazon.com Source: Amazon

<p><em>Launching with Oscar de la Renta's Store Featuring Pre-Fall and Fall/Winter 2020 Collections</em></p><p><em>Luxury Fashion and Beauty Brands Tap Amazon's Innovative, Content-Driven Tools to Reach and Engage More Shoppers</em></p><p><em>More Customers Turning to Mobile Shopping – In the Past Year, Amazon Customers Ordered More Than One Billion Fashion Items On Mobile Devices</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 15, 2020-- Today, Amazon announced the launch of Luxury Stores, a new shopping experience offering both established and emerging luxury fashion and beauty brands. Iconic American fashion house, Oscar de la Renta, unveils the first store featuring its Pre-Fall and Fall/Winter 2020 collections, inclusive of ready-to-wear, handbags, jewelry, accessories, and a new perfume, with childrenswear coming soon. More brands will launch within Luxury Stores in the coming weeks and seasons.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200915005426/en/</p><p>Available in the Amazon app by invitation only, Luxury Stores combines the convenience customers have come to know and love from Amazon with innovative technology like "View in 360." This interactive feature will begin rolling out with select garments at launch, allowing customers to explore styles in 360-degree detail to better visualize fit, and making shopping for luxury easier and more engaging. With collections sold directly from the participating brands as a ‘store within a store' experience, brands independently make decisions regarding their inventory, selection, and pricing – and Amazon offers the merchandising tools for brands to create and personalize content in each of their unique brand voices. By seamlessly tying content and commerce together, both fashion and beauty brands can engage and entertain customers through immersive storytelling, including enhanced, auto-play imagery and in-motion graphics.</p><p>"We are always listening to and learning from our customers, and we are inspired by feedback from Prime members who want the ability to shop their favorite luxury brands in Amazon's store," said Christine Beauchamp, President of Amazon Fashion. "We are excited to offer luxury brands the services and technology to build an inspiring, elevated customer experience. It's still Day One, and we look forward to growing Luxury Stores, innovating on behalf of our customers, and opening a new door for designers all over the world to access existing and new luxury customers."</p><p>Currently available to eligible U.S. Prime members, invited shoppers can browse exclusive styles from Oscar de la Renta throughout the season, including select ready-to-wear and a new perfume. In addition, they can receive early access to the Fall/Winter 2020 collection, which is currently only available in Oscar de la Renta's boutiques and website. To entertain and engage invited shoppers, Amazon and Oscar de la Renta collaborated on a launch video, starring Cara Delevingne, directed by Bunny Kinney, and styled by Jason Bolden, celebrating the imaginative intersection of fashion and technology.</p><p>"Oscar de la Renta is thrilled to partner with Amazon for the launch of Luxury Stores," stated Alex Bolen, CEO of Oscar de la Renta. "As a global leader in retail, Amazon has a relentless focus on improving the customer experience through constant innovation, utilizing technology and customer feedback. We admire Amazon's customer-centric focus and look forward to telling our brand's story in compelling and engaging ways to even more customers through the Luxury Stores experience."</p><p>Eligible U.S. Prime members are the first invited to experience Luxury Stores. Prime members that did not yet receive an invitation via email can request an invitation by visiting amazon.com/LuxuryStores. Over time, Luxury Stores will extend invitations to more shoppers.</p><p>About Amazon Fashion</p><p>Amazon Fashion, the fashion retail division of Seattle-based Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), is a one-stop destination for head-to-toe style. Find apparel, shoes, accessories, jewelry, watches, handbags, and luggage from a wide range of designer, contemporary, and emerging brands for any occasion, any style and any budget. Amazon Fashion continues to expand its wide selection and create new experiences on behalf of its customers, including Prime exclusive programs like Prime Wardrobe, allowing you try before you buy, and Personal Shopper by Prime Wardrobe, a service that provides style inspiration and curated recommendations. Amazon Fashion also recently introduced The Drop, an innovative shopping experience that gives customers access to limited-edition street-style collections designed by fashion influencers around the world. Amazon Fashion aims to reinvent the online fashion shopping experience for everyone and uses technology to serve customers with products and brands that are relevant to them. For more information, please visit www.amazon.com/fashion.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Oscar de la Renta</p><p>Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading luxury goods firms.</p><p>The New York-based company was established in 1965, and encompasses a full line of women's accessories, bridal, childrenswear, fragrance, beauty and home goods, in addition to its internationally renowned women's ready-to-wear collection.</p><p>The design house is built on the foundation of femininity, craftsmanship and timeless style. From romantic silhouettes and impeccable tailoring to intricate embroideries and exquisite detailing, each piece has the power to transport the woman who wears it.</p><p>Through the decades, the brand philosophy has always been to make women look and feel beautiful. As Oscar always said, "Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on."</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200915005426/en/</p><p>Amazon FashionDanielle Siriannisiriannd@amazon.com</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon to Provide Computer Science Education for More Than 550,000 K-12 Students Annually Across More Than 5,000 Schools Nationwide Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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Amazon to Provide Computer Science Education for More Than 550,000 K-12 Students Annually Across More Than 5,000 Schools Nationwide Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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Amazon more than doubling reach of its childhood-to-career computer science education program – Amazon Future Engineer – extending program to over 3,000 more schools Nearly all Amazon Future Engineer schools include a significant percentage of students from groups currently underrepresented in computer science, including Black, LatinX, and Indigenous students More than 80% of Amazon Future Engineer schools have Title I designation, indicating a high percentage of students come from families who need financial assistance; and, hundreds of schools are in rural communities Bureau of Labor Statistics projects market for computer science professionals will grow twice as fast as the rest of the labor market through 2024 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 15, 2020-- Today, Amazon announced it is expanding its computer science education program, Amazon Future Engineer, to more than 5,000 schools, benefitting over 550,000 students in need each year. The expansion more than doubles Amazon Future Engineer's reach, adding more than 3,000 new schools across the U.S. Nearly all Amazon Future Engineer schools serve a student body with a significant percentage of students from groups currently underrepresented in computer science and tech, hundreds of schools are rural, and more than 80% are Title I schools. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon Future Engineer coursework can be done virtually to help ensure students stay on track and continue to prepare for the jobs of the future. "The start of this new school year is unlike any before, with students, parents, and teachers adjusting to remote learning," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "This is a challenge for all students, but particularly those from underserved and underrepresented communities. We are hopeful that our Amazon Future Engineer coursework, which adapts easily to a virtual setting, will continue to equip these hard-working students with the skills they'll need—and that society will need—for a bright future." Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that from 2014 to 2024, the market for computer science professionals will grow twice as fast as the rest of the labor market and, in 2019, the median annual salary for computer science occupations was approximately $48,000 greater than the median wage for all occupations in the U.S. What's more, while the number of Black students obtaining STEM degrees has increased over the last two decades, Black professionals remain underrepresented within American science and engineering enterprises. The National Science Board (NSB) estimates that the number of Black professionals in science and engineering must more than double to be representative of Black people in the U.S. population in 2030. "I'm very excited that Amazon Future Engineer is in 14 high schools and 5 elementary schools in and around my district of Matteson, IL. By exposing our young people to fun and cutting edge engineering and computer science, we can spark a lifelong curiosity and interest in them that opens the door to fulfilling careers," said Congresswoman Robin Kelly. "I'm hopeful that programs like these will lead to a tech workforce that better represents America." "This fall has brought about huge changes in teaching and learning for all of us," said Lisa Bagley, Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Award Recipient, from West Mesquite High School in Texas. "My district has returned to school in a virtual setting, and the flexibility of having our Amazon Future Engineer computer science curriculum available online anytime, anywhere has given me much-needed support and consistency in a world of a lot of unknowns. For my students, it's especially important that they can stay on track during this challenging time. It's becoming more and more clear that the skills they're picking up in their computer science coursework will be critical to whatever career they choose to pursue." Amazon's funding will support more than 1,000 elementary schools and more than 4,000 middle and high schools with high-quality computer science courses, online support, and teacher professional development. Amazon Future Engineer's expansion to elementary schools helps bridge equity skill gaps at a critical age, when students are just beginning to formulate ideas about their futures. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon employees are volunteering virtually in Amazon Future Engineer classrooms, talking to the students about the importance of their own computer science education. Amazon Future Engineer also launched the Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge – a free, virtual, first of its kind coding competition that teaches students the basics of computer science in the context of a real-life industry challenge. Teachers from Title I schools who complete this competition will also be eligible for free, expanded virtual robotics lessons to further support their students while they learn from home. In addition to supporting computer science education, Amazon is supporting communities in a range of ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has donated more than 13,000 laptops to students in need, distributed more than $5 million worth of Amazon devices to help healthcare workers and nonprofits, delivered more than 6 million meals across 25 U.S. cities, launched free, virtual computer science resources for thousands of students, donated more than $20 million to help accelerate COVID-19 research, donated $10 million in critically needed PPE supplies, and more. To learn more about what Amazon is doing in response to COVID-19 for communities, employees, partners, and customers, check out the Amazon Blog: Day One. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Amazon Future Engineer Amazon Future Engineer intends to inspire, educate, and prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities to pursue computer science. The program is part of Amazon's $50 million investment in computer science and STEM education. In addition, Amazon Future Engineer has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science and STEM education across the country. Each year, Amazon Future Engineer aims to inspire 550,000 K-12 students across more than 5,000 schools to explore computer science through elementary school curriculum, middle and high school courses, and teacher professional development; awards 100 students with four-year $10,000 scholarships, as well as offers guaranteed and paid Amazon internships to gain work experience; awards $25,000 Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards, and forms unique partnerships with trusted institutions to bring new coding experiences to students. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200915005450/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon more than doubling reach of its childhood-to-career computer science education program – Amazon Future Engineer – extending program to over 3,000 more schools</em></p><p><em>Nearly all Amazon Future Engineer schools include a significant percentage of students from groups currently underrepresented in computer science, including Black, LatinX, and Indigenous students</em></p><p><em>More than 80% of Amazon Future Engineer schools have Title I designation, indicating a high percentage of students come from families who need financial assistance; and, hundreds of schools are in rural communities</em></p><p><em>Bureau of Labor Statistics projects market for computer science professionals will grow twice as fast as the rest of the labor market through 2024</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 15, 2020-- Today, Amazon announced it is expanding its computer science education program, Amazon Future Engineer, to more than 5,000 schools, benefitting over 550,000 students in need each year. The expansion more than doubles Amazon Future Engineer's reach, adding more than 3,000 new schools across the U.S. Nearly all Amazon Future Engineer schools serve a student body with a significant percentage of students from groups currently underrepresented in computer science and tech, hundreds of schools are rural, and more than 80% are Title I schools. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon Future Engineer coursework can be done virtually to help ensure students stay on track and continue to prepare for the jobs of the future.</p><p>"The start of this new school year is unlike any before, with students, parents, and teachers adjusting to remote learning," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "This is a challenge for all students, but particularly those from underserved and underrepresented communities. We are hopeful that our Amazon Future Engineer coursework, which adapts easily to a virtual setting, will continue to equip these hard-working students with the skills they'll need—and that society will need—for a bright future."</p><p>Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that from 2014 to 2024, the market for computer science professionals will grow twice as fast as the rest of the labor market and, in 2019, the median annual salary for computer science occupations was approximately $48,000 greater than the median wage for all occupations in the U.S. What's more, while the number of Black students obtaining STEM degrees has increased over the last two decades, Black professionals remain underrepresented within American science and engineering enterprises. The National Science Board (NSB) estimates that the number of Black professionals in science and engineering must more than double to be representative of Black people in the U.S. population in 2030.</p><p>"I'm very excited that Amazon Future Engineer is in 14 high schools and 5 elementary schools in and around my district of Matteson, IL. By exposing our young people to fun and cutting edge engineering and computer science, we can spark a lifelong curiosity and interest in them that opens the door to fulfilling careers," said Congresswoman Robin Kelly. "I'm hopeful that programs like these will lead to a tech workforce that better represents America."</p><p>"This fall has brought about huge changes in teaching and learning for all of us," said Lisa Bagley, Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Award Recipient, from West Mesquite High School in Texas. "My district has returned to school in a virtual setting, and the flexibility of having our Amazon Future Engineer computer science curriculum available online anytime, anywhere has given me much-needed support and consistency in a world of a lot of unknowns. For my students, it's especially important that they can stay on track during this challenging time. It's becoming more and more clear that the skills they're picking up in their computer science coursework will be critical to whatever career they choose to pursue."</p><p>Amazon's funding will support more than 1,000 elementary schools and more than 4,000 middle and high schools with high-quality computer science courses, online support, and teacher professional development. Amazon Future Engineer's expansion to elementary schools helps bridge equity skill gaps at a critical age, when students are just beginning to formulate ideas about their futures.</p><p>Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon employees are volunteering virtually in Amazon Future Engineer classrooms, talking to the students about the importance of their own computer science education. Amazon Future Engineer also launched the Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge – a free, virtual, first of its kind coding competition that teaches students the basics of computer science in the context of a real-life industry challenge. Teachers from Title I schools who complete this competition will also be eligible for free, expanded virtual robotics lessons to further support their students while they learn from home.</p><p>In addition to supporting computer science education, Amazon is supporting communities in a range of ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has donated more than 13,000 laptops to students in need, distributed more than $5 million worth of Amazon devices to help healthcare workers and nonprofits, delivered more than 6 million meals across 25 U.S. cities, launched free, virtual computer science resources for thousands of students, donated more than $20 million to help accelerate COVID-19 research, donated $10 million in critically needed PPE supplies, and more. To learn more about what Amazon is doing in response to COVID-19 for communities, employees, partners, and customers, check out the Amazon Blog: Day One.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Amazon Future Engineer</p><p>Amazon Future Engineer intends to inspire, educate, and prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities to pursue computer science. The program is part of Amazon's $50 million investment in computer science and STEM education. In addition, Amazon Future Engineer has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science and STEM education across the country. Each year, Amazon Future Engineer aims to inspire 550,000 K-12 students across more than 5,000 schools to explore computer science through elementary school curriculum, middle and high school courses, and teacher professional development; awards 100 students with four-year $10,000 scholarships, as well as offers guaranteed and paid Amazon internships to gain work experience; awards $25,000 Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards, and forms unique partnerships with trusted institutions to bring new coding experiences to students.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200915005450/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Creating More Job Opportunities: Amazon Hiring 100,000 New Full- and Part-Time Employees Across the U.S. and Canada

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09/14/2020 03:01:00

Creating More Job Opportunities: Amazon Hiring 100,000 New Full- and Part-Time Employees Across the U.S. and Canada

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The new 100,000 Operations network jobs include industry leading pay of at least $15 per hour and benefits from day one, sign-on bonuses up to $1,000 in select cities, and access to training programs like Career Choice that make these roles a springboard into a career at Amazon or other companies Amazon to open 100 new Operations buildings in September alone across fulfillment centers, delivery stations, sortation centers and other sites – many of the new jobs are at the company's newest state-of-the-art buildings SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 14, 2020-- Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) continues to provide opportunities for regular full-time and part-time jobs in its fulfillment and logistics network as it expands its footprint to better serve customers in communities where they live. Today the company announced that it is hiring an additional 100,000 regular employment opportunities throughout the U.S. and Canada on top of the 33,000 Corporate and Technology jobs announced last week. The roles offer a starting wage of at least $15 per hour, and in select cities Amazon is offering sign-on bonuses up to $1,000 to new hires. On top of Amazon's minimum $15 wage, the company offers full-time employees industry-leading benefits, which include health, vision and dental insurance from day one, 401(k) with 50 percent company match, up to 20 weeks paid parental leave and Amazon's innovative Career Choice program, which pre-pays 95% of tuition for courses in high-demand fields. "We are opening 100 buildings this month alone across new fulfillment and sortation centers, delivery stations, and other sites," said Dave Clark, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations at Amazon. "We are proud to be hiring 100,000 new associates with pay of $15 per hour or more across those buildings and in our network. Our expansion also comes with an unwavering commitment to safety. Collectively, our new team members have already completed more than 1,200,000 hours of safety training, with over 500,000 more hours expected, to ensure that in addition to fast and efficient delivery for our customers, we're providing a safe and modern environment for our employees and partners." Hiring for the new roles is already underway. Interested candidates can visit amazon.com/apply to learn more and apply. Amazon has already opened over 75 new fulfillment, sortation centers, regional air hubs, and delivery stations in the U.S. and Canada in 2020 to serve customers. Since 2010, Amazon has directly created more than 600,000 jobs in the U.S across its corporate offices and operations sites, and invested more than $350 billion across more than 40 states, including infrastructure and compensation. You can see all the states with jobs available at amazon.com/apply but some of the locations with the most roles include: Arizona California Colorado Illinois Indiana Kentucky Maryland Michigan New Jersey Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Utah Washington Wisconsin In addition to job creation, Amazon is committed to being a good neighbor in the communities where its employees live and work. Over the last five months alone, Amazon's Operations team has positively impacted the lives of millions of people, donating $6 million to non-profit organizations from coast to coast. This is in addition to Amazon's ongoing efforts to inspire and increase access to STEM and computer science education via initiatives such as Amazon Future Engineer, the commitment to addressing right now need of children and their families by increasing access to food, shelter, and basic goods and continuing relief efforts globally. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200914005300/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>The new 100,000 Operations network jobs include industry leading pay of at least $15 per hour and benefits from day one, sign-on bonuses up to $1,000 in select cities, and access to training programs like Career Choice that make these roles a springboard into a career at Amazon or other companies</em></p><p><em>Amazon to open 100 new Operations buildings in September alone across fulfillment centers, delivery stations, sortation centers and other sites – many of the new jobs are at the company's newest state-of-the-art buildings</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 14, 2020-- Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) continues to provide opportunities for regular full-time and part-time jobs in its fulfillment and logistics network as it expands its footprint to better serve customers in communities where they live. Today the company announced that it is hiring an additional 100,000 regular employment opportunities throughout the U.S. and Canada on top of the 33,000 Corporate and Technology jobs announced last week. The roles offer a starting wage of at least $15 per hour, and in select cities Amazon is offering sign-on bonuses up to $1,000 to new hires. On top of Amazon's minimum $15 wage, the company offers full-time employees industry-leading benefits, which include health, vision and dental insurance from day one, 401(k) with 50 percent company match, up to 20 weeks paid parental leave and Amazon's innovative Career Choice program, which pre-pays 95% of tuition for courses in high-demand fields.</p><p>"We are opening 100 buildings this month alone across new fulfillment and sortation centers, delivery stations, and other sites," said Dave Clark, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations at Amazon. "We are proud to be hiring 100,000 new associates with pay of $15 per hour or more across those buildings and in our network. Our expansion also comes with an unwavering commitment to safety. Collectively, our new team members have already completed more than 1,200,000 hours of safety training, with over 500,000 more hours expected, to ensure that in addition to fast and efficient delivery for our customers, we're providing a safe and modern environment for our employees and partners."</p><p>Hiring for the new roles is already underway. Interested candidates can visit amazon.com/apply to learn more and apply.</p><p>Amazon has already opened over 75 new fulfillment, sortation centers, regional air hubs, and delivery stations in the U.S. and Canada in 2020 to serve customers. Since 2010, Amazon has directly created more than 600,000 jobs in the U.S across its corporate offices and operations sites, and invested more than $350 billion across more than 40 states, including infrastructure and compensation. You can see all the states with jobs available at amazon.com/apply but some of the locations with the most roles include:</p><ul><li>Arizona</li><li>California</li><li>Colorado</li><li>Illinois</li><li>Indiana</li><li>Kentucky</li><li>Maryland</li><li>Michigan</li><li>New Jersey</li><li>Ohio</li><li>Oregon</li><li>Pennsylvania</li><li>Utah</li><li>Washington</li><li>Wisconsin</li></ul><p>In addition to job creation, Amazon is committed to being a good neighbor in the communities where its employees live and work. Over the last five months alone, Amazon's Operations team has positively impacted the lives of millions of people, donating $6 million to non-profit organizations from coast to coast. This is in addition to Amazon's ongoing efforts to inspire and increase access to STEM and computer science education via initiatives such as Amazon Future Engineer, the commitment to addressing right now need of children and their families by increasing access to food, shelter, and basic goods and continuing relief efforts globally.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200914005300/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon's Beaumont fulfillment center is now open for business

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Amazon's Beaumont fulfillment center is now open for business

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 9, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that its new fulfillment center in Beaumont, California is officially open for business. Amazon welcomed new employees inside the more than 640,000 sq. ft. building for the first time on September 6 to celebrate its Day One of operation. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200909005362/en/ An Amazon associate on Day One at the PSP1 building launch in Beaumont, California. (Photo: Business Wire) "It's an exciting day as we officially open our doors at our new fulfillment center in Beaumont," said Amazon Beaumont General Manager Prateek Dahiya. "We have an incredible staff on board, and we're excited to be offering industry leading jobs with comprehensive benefits. We look forward to being an active member of the Beaumont community." The fulfillment center currently employs more than 1,000 full-time associates who will pick, pack and ship small items such as books, electronics, school supplies and home goods. After a morning of safety training and celebration, associates received the first item into the new building: a box of Keurig K-Cup pods. "We are pleased to officially welcome Amazon to the Beaumont community," said Beaumont City Manager, Todd Parton. "The opening of this cutting-edge facility solidifies Beaumont as a pivotal location within the inland empire for international trade and commerce. We look forward to the multitude of employment opportunities the fulfillment center brings to the pass area and all that means for Beaumont's families." On top of Amazon's competitive pay, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits starting on day one. These benefits include: Industry-leading minimum starting wage of $15 an hour Full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. Up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. Access to innovative programs like Career Choice, where up to 95 percent of tuition is paid for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program's launch, more than 25,000 employees across the globe have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few. Positions are available at the Beaumont fulfillment center. Interested candidates can visit amazon.com/IEjobs to learn more and apply online or text COACHELLANOW to 77088. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Amazon is doing everything they can to keep their employees as safe as possible. Across its operations, Amazon has invested more than $4 billion from April to June on COVID-19 safety measures. This includes spending more than $800 million on safety supplies such as masks, hand sanitizer, thermal cameras, sanitizing wipes, gloves, adding disinfectant spraying in buildings and procuring COVID testing supplies, along with redeploying team members from their typical roles to perform safety related tasks and audits at sites around the world like "social distancing ambassadors" to team members helping with temperature checks. Amazon's teams are adjusting rapidly implementing policy changes on a daily, and sometimes hourly, basis to support our employees and customers. We're continually learning and reinforcing protocols through a variety of channels to ensure all our associates understand and abide by our safety procedures. A full list of current preventative health measures Amazon is taking to protect its employees can be found here. New COVID-19 content from Amazon is pushed out via the Amazon News Twitter handle. Follow the handle to receive these updates in real-time: https://twitter.com/amazonnews. Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 91,000 jobs in California and invested more than $50 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to employees in the state. These investments have contributed an additional $49 billion the California economy and have helped create 125,500 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. In addition, more than 240,000 independent authors and small and medium businesses in California are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200909005362/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 9, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that its new fulfillment center in Beaumont, California is officially open for business. Amazon welcomed new employees inside the more than 640,000 sq. ft. building for the first time on September 6 to celebrate its Day One of operation.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200909005362/en/</p><div><p>An Amazon associate on Day One at the PSP1 building launch in Beaumont, California. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"It's an exciting day as we officially open our doors at our new fulfillment center in Beaumont," said Amazon Beaumont General Manager Prateek Dahiya. "We have an incredible staff on board, and we're excited to be offering industry leading jobs with comprehensive benefits. We look forward to being an active member of the Beaumont community."</p><p>The fulfillment center currently employs more than 1,000 full-time associates who will pick, pack and ship small items such as books, electronics, school supplies and home goods. After a morning of safety training and celebration, associates received the first item into the new building: a box of Keurig K-Cup pods.</p><p>"We are pleased to officially welcome Amazon to the Beaumont community," said Beaumont City Manager, Todd Parton. "The opening of this cutting-edge facility solidifies Beaumont as a pivotal location within the inland empire for international trade and commerce. We look forward to the multitude of employment opportunities the fulfillment center brings to the pass area and all that means for Beaumont's families."</p><p>On top of Amazon's competitive pay, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits starting on day one. These benefits include:</p><ul><li>Industry-leading minimum starting wage of $15 an hour</li><li>Full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one.</li><li>Up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families.</li><li>Access to innovative programs like Career Choice, where up to 95 percent of tuition is paid for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program's launch, more than 25,000 employees across the globe have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few.</li></ul><p>Positions are available at the Beaumont fulfillment center. Interested candidates can visit amazon.com/IEjobs to learn more and apply online or text COACHELLANOW to 77088.</p><p>As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Amazon is doing everything they can to keep their employees as safe as possible. Across its operations, Amazon has invested more than $4 billion from April to June on COVID-19 safety measures. This includes spending more than $800 million on safety supplies such as masks, hand sanitizer, thermal cameras, sanitizing wipes, gloves, adding disinfectant spraying in buildings and procuring COVID testing supplies, along with redeploying team members from their typical roles to perform safety related tasks and audits at sites around the world like "social distancing ambassadors" to team members helping with temperature checks.</p><p>Amazon's teams are adjusting rapidly implementing policy changes on a daily, and sometimes hourly, basis to support our employees and customers. We're continually learning and reinforcing protocols through a variety of channels to ensure all our associates understand and abide by our safety procedures. A full list of current preventative health measures Amazon is taking to protect its employees can be found here. New COVID-19 content from Amazon is pushed out via the Amazon News Twitter handle. Follow the handle to receive these updates in real-time: https://twitter.com/amazonnews.</p><p>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 91,000 jobs in California and invested more than $50 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to employees in the state.</p><p>These investments have contributed an additional $49 billion the California economy and have helped create 125,500 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. In addition, more than 240,000 independent authors and small and medium businesses in California are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200909005362/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS and the National Football League Announce New Next Gen Stats Powered by AWS for the 2020 Season

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AWS and the National Football League Announce New Next Gen Stats Powered by AWS for the 2020 Season

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The six new advanced statistics, which combine player tracking and machine learning, will launch on September 10 during NFL season opener to bring new insights to game play SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 9, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the National Football League (NFL) announced they will debut six new insights through the NFL's Next Gen Stats platform powered by AWS during the September 10th season kickoff game between the Houston Texans and the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs. The new advanced stats will appear in live broadcasts and online throughout the 2020 season, offering fans a better understanding of the game, their favorite players, and teams' performances. Covering everything from the expected yards a team will gain on a rush, to the probability a team will win a game, the new stats combine on-field action and cloud technology, including machine learning, to engage fans in real time from season kickoff through the Super Bowl. The NFL has used AWS compute technology for its Next Gen Stats platform since 2015, and began using AWS machine learning services to enhance Next Gen Stats in 2017. These stats help teams, players, broadcasters, and fans better understand and appreciate football, using more than 300 million data points collected each season to generate compelling new content, including data from sensors in players' gear and game balls, as well as reference points throughout NFL stadiums. The new Next Gen Stats powered by AWS for the 2020 NFL Season are: Expected Rush Yards – Helps showcase the speed, elusiveness, and abilities of running backs by predicting how many yards a rusher is likely to gain with the ball upon handoff. A team of independent data scientists created the algorithm that powers the stat during the 2020 Big Data Bowl, the NFL's annual sports analytics contest. Route Classification – Automatically identifies in real time the route a player runs on a pass play – go, post, or out – providing the groundwork for a new understanding of offensive strategy and tendencies, while also delivering metrics to rank the performance of individual players, team offenses, and team defenses by route. Expected Points – Calculates the likelihood of either team scoring next and by what means (i.e., touchdown, field goal, and safety), enabling analysts, coaches, and fans to quantify the impact of an individual play on helping a team score. Win Probability –Assigns a win likelihood percentage to each team—adjusted in real time throughout the game—to identify changes in momentum and the plays that are most likely to impact game outcome. Expected Yards After Catch (xYAC) –Predicts how far a receiver is likely to gain with the ball upon completing a catch. Similar to Expected Rush Yards, this stat helps identify how receivers are able to improvise and elude defenders to gain yards after receiving the ball. Field Goal Probability –Quantifies the likelihood of a team scoring a field goal given the distance of the kick and weather conditions. The NFL will rely on the breadth and depth of AWS services to generate these insights and scale its analysis of action on the field, processing more than one million data points during every game. Leveraging Amazon SageMaker, AWS's fully managed service for easily building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly, the NFL was able to rapidly iterate and train multiple variations of the machine learning models that power the stats to achieve the best performance. In addition, the NFL uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store on-field data for quick and secure reference, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to process that data, making it possible to provide real-time insights to fans at home. The full set of Next Gen Stats from 2020 and earlier NFL seasons are available for use in live broadcasts and afterwards in online replays. "This season's Next Gen Stats powered by AWS represent the NFL's continued investment in cloud technology to improve not only the fan experience for millions of people around the world, but also the way the game is played," said Matt Swensson, Vice President, Emerging Products and Technology at the NFL. "Our partnership with AWS and the use of machine learning have enabled our fans to better understand the remarkable performance of the athletes on the field. They have also uncovered opportunities for NFL teams to use this data to improve their performance by breaking down the action in new ways and analyzing plays at a deeper level after the game." "AWS is proud to continue its partnership with the NFL to bring engaging data to life through Next Gen Stats and enhance the football experience for everyone in the NFL community – fans, players, coaches, broadcasters, and more," said Greg Pearson, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "In the 2020 season, we're going to expand on the already compelling set of Next Gen Stats to underscore the talent on the field and help people better understand and appreciate the strategic decisions needed to be made and the incredible athletic feats on the field." To learn more about the 2020 Next Gen Stats powered by AWS and AWS's involvement with the NFL, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/nfl. About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200909005345/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>The six new advanced statistics, which combine player tracking and machine learning, will launch on September 10 during NFL season opener to bring new insights to game play</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 9, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the National Football League (NFL) announced they will debut six new insights through the NFL's Next Gen Stats platform powered by AWS during the September 10th season kickoff game between the Houston Texans and the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs. The new advanced stats will appear in live broadcasts and online throughout the 2020 season, offering fans a better understanding of the game, their favorite players, and teams' performances. Covering everything from the expected yards a team will gain on a rush, to the probability a team will win a game, the new stats combine on-field action and cloud technology, including machine learning, to engage fans in real time from season kickoff through the Super Bowl.</p><p>The NFL has used AWS compute technology for its Next Gen Stats platform since 2015, and began using AWS machine learning services to enhance Next Gen Stats in 2017. These stats help teams, players, broadcasters, and fans better understand and appreciate football, using more than 300 million data points collected each season to generate compelling new content, including data from sensors in players' gear and game balls, as well as reference points throughout NFL stadiums. The new Next Gen Stats powered by AWS for the 2020 NFL Season are:</p><ul><li>Expected Rush Yards – Helps showcase the speed, elusiveness, and abilities of running backs by predicting how many yards a rusher is likely to gain with the ball upon handoff. A team of independent data scientists created the algorithm that powers the stat during the 2020 Big Data Bowl, the NFL's annual sports analytics contest.</li><li>Route Classification – Automatically identifies in real time the route a player runs on a pass play – go, post, or out – providing the groundwork for a new understanding of offensive strategy and tendencies, while also delivering metrics to rank the performance of individual players, team offenses, and team defenses by route.</li><li>Expected Points – Calculates the likelihood of either team scoring next and by what means (i.e., touchdown, field goal, and safety), enabling analysts, coaches, and fans to quantify the impact of an individual play on helping a team score.</li><li>Win Probability –Assigns a win likelihood percentage to each team—adjusted in real time throughout the game—to identify changes in momentum and the plays that are most likely to impact game outcome.</li><li>Expected Yards After Catch (xYAC) –Predicts how far a receiver is likely to gain with the ball upon completing a catch. Similar to Expected Rush Yards, this stat helps identify how receivers are able to improvise and elude defenders to gain yards after receiving the ball.</li><li>Field Goal Probability –Quantifies the likelihood of a team scoring a field goal given the distance of the kick and weather conditions.</li></ul><p>The NFL will rely on the breadth and depth of AWS services to generate these insights and scale its analysis of action on the field, processing more than one million data points during every game. Leveraging Amazon SageMaker, AWS's fully managed service for easily building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly, the NFL was able to rapidly iterate and train multiple variations of the machine learning models that power the stats to achieve the best performance. In addition, the NFL uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store on-field data for quick and secure reference, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to process that data, making it possible to provide real-time insights to fans at home. The full set of Next Gen Stats from 2020 and earlier NFL seasons are available for use in live broadcasts and afterwards in online replays.</p><p>"This season's Next Gen Stats powered by AWS represent the NFL's continued investment in cloud technology to improve not only the fan experience for millions of people around the world, but also the way the game is played," said Matt Swensson, Vice President, Emerging Products and Technology at the NFL. "Our partnership with AWS and the use of machine learning have enabled our fans to better understand the remarkable performance of the athletes on the field. They have also uncovered opportunities for NFL teams to use this data to improve their performance by breaking down the action in new ways and analyzing plays at a deeper level after the game."</p><p>"AWS is proud to continue its partnership with the NFL to bring engaging data to life through Next Gen Stats and enhance the football experience for everyone in the NFL community – fans, players, coaches, broadcasters, and more," said Greg Pearson, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "In the 2020 season, we're going to expand on the already compelling set of Next Gen Stats to underscore the talent on the field and help people better understand and appreciate the strategic decisions needed to be made and the incredible athletic feats on the field."</p><p>To learn more about the 2020 Next Gen Stats powered by AWS and AWS's involvement with the NFL, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/nfl.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200909005345/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces Career Day 2020: 33,000 Corporate and Tech Jobs Open Across the U.S., plus 20,000 Free Career Coaching Sessions Available for Attendees

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Amazon Announces Career Day 2020: 33,000 Corporate and Tech Jobs Open Across the U.S., plus 20,000 Free Career Coaching Sessions Available for Attendees

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Nationwide event on September 16 open to all job seekers – with a team of 1,000 Amazon recruiters offering 20,000 free career coaching sessions in a single day Company currently has 33,000 job openings for corporate and tech positions supporting areas that include Alexa, AWS, Operations Technology, and Prime Video – with thousands of additional hourly roles in Amazon's Operations network to be announced soon All Amazon jobs come with industry-leading pay and competitive benefits – including a minimum wage of $15/hour, health insurance, up to 20 weeks of parental leave, and company-funded upskilling opportunities New survey shows 61% of American job seekers are looking for work in a different industry; one third see learning new technical skills as key to landing their next job SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 9, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it will host its 2020 Career Day on Wednesday, September16. As a part of the nationwide virtual event, Amazon – the largest job creator in the U.S. over the last decade – will give attendees the opportunity to learn about the 33,000 corporate and tech jobs currently available across the country, and the thousands of additional hourly positions in the company's operations network to be announced soon. Amazon will also mobilize 1,000 of its recruiters to provide 20,000 career coaching sessions to attendees in a single day. Anyone can participate in Career Day 2020 by going to amazon.jobs/careerday to register and book an appointment with an Amazon recruiter. With many people left unemployed by the economic impact of COVID-19 and searching for new jobs, Career Day is designed to support all job seekers, regardless of their level of experience, professional field, or background – or whether they are looking for a job at Amazon or another company. On top of the 20,000 one-on-one coaching sessions, Career Day also includes three hours of mainstage programming that will feature fireside chats, panel discussions, and interviews with leading career-advice experts and Amazon executives. Starting today, participants will be able to register for live software-code review workshops, as well as breakout sessions to learn more about jobs in Amazon's growing logistics network. "COVID-19 continues to affect millions of people across the country, and people are eager for the opportunity to get back to work," said Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President Human Resources at Amazon. "We've created more jobs in the U.S. over the past decade than any other company – and we are continuing to hire people from all backgrounds and at all skill levels. We are glad to be able to mobilize more than 1,000 experienced recruiters and HR professionals to help job seekers across the country learn about opportunities at Amazon and elsewhere." Last year, 17,000 job seekers attended Amazon Career Day events in six U.S. cities – and more than 200,000 people applied for jobs in the week leading up to the event. Building on that success, Amazon is taking the event virtual and opening Amazon Career Day 2020 to everyone, regardless of their location. The event will give participants the chance to: Receive individualized career coaching. A team of 1,000 Amazon recruiters will conduct 20,000 free, one-on-one career coaching sessions with job seekers across the country. Attendees will be able to select their fields of interest: hourly roles; tech and non-tech positions at the company's headquarters, corporate offices, and Tech Hubs; jobs for veterans; and opportunities for students and recent graduates. Amazon will match the attendees with an appropriate recruiter to help them prepare for their next job. Discover new tools to navigate the current job market. The mainstage event will be headlined by award winning television host, activist, and life coach Karamo Brown and former professional football player and NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, who will share their personal stories of career change and overcoming adversity. Attendees will also hear from recruiting experts and career coaches giving advice on how they can adapt their skills and experiences, build their professional brands, and reimagine their resumes in order to improve their chances of landing a job. Learn more about open roles at Amazon. Participants will be able to apply for a wide range of roles at Amazon, with recruiters on hand to talk about entry-level positions in the company's operations network; corporate roles at its 18 Tech Hubs; as well as engineering, data science, marketing, human resources, and finance roles that support Alexa, AWS, Operations Technology, and Prime Video. Amazon leaders Kara Hurst, Vice President Worldwide Sustainability; David Bozeman, Vice President Amazon Transportation Services; and Cherris Armour, Director of Amazon Worldwide Operations will discuss their roles and share insights about Amazon's culture. Attendees will also be able to learn more about Amazon's industry-leading employee pay and benefits – including a $15-an-hour minimum wage, comprehensive healthcare from day one, 401(k) matching, up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, and access to the Upskilling 2025 program, Amazon's $700 million commitment to upskill 100,000 employees for higher-wage, in-demand jobs. Participate in interactive Amazon career workshops. Attendees will have the opportunity to join smaller breakout sessions for those interested in hourly opportunities at Amazon's fulfillment centers and physical stores, led by staffing specialists, and live coding reviews with senior Amazon software development engineers. Majority of American job seekers looking for a job in a different industry due to COVID-19 Half of the Americans currently looking for a new job (53%) have been forced to do so because of COVID-19, according to a new Morning Consult survey on job-seeker insights commissioned by Amazon. A majority of those job seekers are trying to transition into fields such as healthcare and technology, sectors that Americans expect to continue to grow and hire. Research shows how the pandemic has prompted 61 percent of job seekers to look for a job in a different industry than they currently work, while 36 percent feel their current job does not utilize their main skills or training. The Morning Consult survey also found that more than one-quarter of American workers (27%) expect that some or all of their current skills will become irrelevant in the next five years, with nearly half of job seekers willing to quit their jobs to go to another company if that employer provides company-funded upskilling training. Of those looking for work, almost a third see learning technical skills as the most important tool to help them land their next job. Learn more about the Amazon Job Seeker survey here. Working at Amazon  With more than 875,000 employees worldwide, Amazon has been consistently recognized on LinkedIn's Top Companies, currently ranks #2 in the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies, and was selected by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators. Amazon has more than 600,000 full- and part-time employees in the U.S., across more than 40 states and 250 different counties, two headquarters, 18 Tech Hubs, more than 150 fulfillment centers, sortation centers and delivery stations, and more than two dozen Amazon Go, 4 Star and Amazon Books retail stores. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $350 billion in the U.S., including infrastructure and employee compensation. Learn more about Amazon's economic impact across the U.S. here. On top of the company's direct hires, there are more than 2 million businesses, content creators, developers and delivery providers in the U.S. using Amazon products and services to start or grow their careers. Small and medium-sized businesses selling their products on Amazon.com have created more than 1.1 million jobs. There are more than 700,000 developers building skills for Alexa, last-mile and middle-mile delivery partners working with Amazon employ more than 95,000 drivers across the country, and hundreds of thousands of authors from around the world have self-published millions of books through Kindle Direct Publishing. For more information about Career Day 2020 – including how to register for the event, book your one-on-one session with an Amazon recruiter, and apply for open roles – visit amazon.jobs/careerday. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200909005618/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Nationwide event on September 16 open to all job seekers – with a team of 1,000 Amazon recruiters offering 20,000 free career coaching sessions in a single day</em></p><p><em>Company currently has 33,000 job openings for corporate and tech positions supporting areas that include Alexa, AWS, Operations Technology, and Prime Video – with thousands of additional hourly roles in Amazon's Operations network to be announced soon</em></p><p><em>All Amazon jobs come with industry-leading pay and competitive benefits – including a minimum wage of $15/hour, health insurance, up to 20 weeks of parental leave, and company-funded upskilling opportunities</em></p><p><em>New survey shows 61% of American job seekers are looking for work in a different industry; one third see learning new technical skills as key to landing their next job</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 9, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it will host its 2020 Career Day on Wednesday, September16. As a part of the nationwide virtual event, Amazon – the largest job creator in the U.S. over the last decade – will give attendees the opportunity to learn about the 33,000 corporate and tech jobs currently available across the country, and the thousands of additional hourly positions in the company's operations network to be announced soon. Amazon will also mobilize 1,000 of its recruiters to provide 20,000 career coaching sessions to attendees in a single day. Anyone can participate in Career Day 2020 by going to amazon.jobs/careerday to register and book an appointment with an Amazon recruiter.</p><p>With many people left unemployed by the economic impact of COVID-19 and searching for new jobs, Career Day is designed to support all job seekers, regardless of their level of experience, professional field, or background – or whether they are looking for a job at Amazon or another company. On top of the 20,000 one-on-one coaching sessions, Career Day also includes three hours of mainstage programming that will feature fireside chats, panel discussions, and interviews with leading career-advice experts and Amazon executives. Starting today, participants will be able to register for live software-code review workshops, as well as breakout sessions to learn more about jobs in Amazon's growing logistics network.</p><p>"COVID-19 continues to affect millions of people across the country, and people are eager for the opportunity to get back to work," said Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President Human Resources at Amazon. "We've created more jobs in the U.S. over the past decade than any other company – and we are continuing to hire people from all backgrounds and at all skill levels. We are glad to be able to mobilize more than 1,000 experienced recruiters and HR professionals to help job seekers across the country learn about opportunities at Amazon and elsewhere."</p><p>Last year, 17,000 job seekers attended Amazon Career Day events in six U.S. cities – and more than 200,000 people applied for jobs in the week leading up to the event. Building on that success, Amazon is taking the event virtual and opening Amazon Career Day 2020 to everyone, regardless of their location. The event will give participants the chance to:</p><ul><li>Receive individualized career coaching. A team of 1,000 Amazon recruiters will conduct 20,000 free, one-on-one career coaching sessions with job seekers across the country. Attendees will be able to select their fields of interest: hourly roles; tech and non-tech positions at the company's headquarters, corporate offices, and Tech Hubs; jobs for veterans; and opportunities for students and recent graduates. Amazon will match the attendees with an appropriate recruiter to help them prepare for their next job.</li><li>Discover new tools to navigate the current job market. The mainstage event will be headlined by award winning television host, activist, and life coach Karamo Brown and former professional football player and NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, who will share their personal stories of career change and overcoming adversity. Attendees will also hear from recruiting experts and career coaches giving advice on how they can adapt their skills and experiences, build their professional brands, and reimagine their resumes in order to improve their chances of landing a job.</li><li>Learn more about open roles at Amazon. Participants will be able to apply for a wide range of roles at Amazon, with recruiters on hand to talk about entry-level positions in the company's operations network; corporate roles at its 18 Tech Hubs; as well as engineering, data science, marketing, human resources, and finance roles that support Alexa, AWS, Operations Technology, and Prime Video. Amazon leaders Kara Hurst, Vice President Worldwide Sustainability; David Bozeman, Vice President Amazon Transportation Services; and Cherris Armour, Director of Amazon Worldwide Operations will discuss their roles and share insights about Amazon's culture. Attendees will also be able to learn more about Amazon's industry-leading employee pay and benefits – including a $15-an-hour minimum wage, comprehensive healthcare from day one, 401(k) matching, up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, and access to the Upskilling 2025 program, Amazon's $700 million commitment to upskill 100,000 employees for higher-wage, in-demand jobs.</li><li>Participate in interactive Amazon career workshops. Attendees will have the opportunity to join smaller breakout sessions for those interested in hourly opportunities at Amazon's fulfillment centers and physical stores, led by staffing specialists, and live coding reviews with senior Amazon software development engineers.</li></ul><p>Majority of American job seekers looking for a job in a different industry due to COVID-19</p><p>Half of the Americans currently looking for a new job (53%) have been forced to do so because of COVID-19, according to a new Morning Consult survey on job-seeker insights commissioned by Amazon. A majority of those job seekers are trying to transition into fields such as healthcare and technology, sectors that Americans expect to continue to grow and hire. Research shows how the pandemic has prompted 61 percent of job seekers to look for a job in a different industry than they currently work, while 36 percent feel their current job does not utilize their main skills or training.</p><p>The Morning Consult survey also found that more than one-quarter of American workers (27%) expect that some or all of their current skills will become irrelevant in the next five years, with nearly half of job seekers willing to quit their jobs to go to another company if that employer provides company-funded upskilling training. Of those looking for work, almost a third see learning technical skills as the most important tool to help them land their next job. Learn more about the Amazon Job Seeker survey here.</p><p>Working at Amazon </p><p>With more than 875,000 employees worldwide, Amazon has been consistently recognized on LinkedIn's Top Companies, currently ranks #2 in the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies, and was selected by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators. Amazon has more than 600,000 full- and part-time employees in the U.S., across more than 40 states and 250 different counties, two headquarters, 18 Tech Hubs, more than 150 fulfillment centers, sortation centers and delivery stations, and more than two dozen Amazon Go, 4 Star and Amazon Books retail stores. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $350 billion in the U.S., including infrastructure and employee compensation. Learn more about Amazon's economic impact across the U.S. here.</p><p>On top of the company's direct hires, there are more than 2 million businesses, content creators, developers and delivery providers in the U.S. using Amazon products and services to start or grow their careers. Small and medium-sized businesses selling their products on Amazon.com have created more than 1.1 million jobs. There are more than 700,000 developers building skills for Alexa, last-mile and middle-mile delivery partners working with Amazon employ more than 95,000 drivers across the country, and hundreds of thousands of authors from around the world have self-published millions of books through Kindle Direct Publishing.</p><p>For more information about Career Day 2020 – including how to register for the event, book your one-on-one session with an Amazon recruiter, and apply for open roles – visit amazon.jobs/careerday.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200909005618/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Launchpad Celebrates Five Years of Empowering Startups, Reveals Top-Selling Categories and Brands

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Amazon Launchpad Celebrates Five Years of Empowering Startups, Reveals Top-Selling Categories and Brands

09/03/2020

2020

Amazon Launchpad, Amazon's program to empower innovative new brands to grow in its store, reveals top-selling categories in the U.S. include Health & Personal Care, Home, and Grocery, led by Smarter Nutrition, Ambesonne, and Palouse Brand Launchpad has helped nearly 400 U.S.-based startup and small business brands surpass $1 million in annual sales in Amazon's store and nearly 40 surpass $10 million in annual sales since the program launched in 2015 Launchpad is part of a portfolio of programs and services that help hundreds of thousands of unique brands grow in Amazon's U.S. store SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 3, 2020-- (Nasdaq:AMZN) Today, Amazon Launchpad, a program dedicated to empowering startups and other innovative new brands to grow in Amazon's store, announced the top five product categories and top brands selling in each of the top categories. The data is based on the highest-grossing Launchpad categories in the U.S. over the past twelve months and top-selling U.S.-based startups and small businesses in each of those categories. Amazon Launchpad, which recently turned five years old, makes it easy for startups and small businesses to launch, market, and distribute their products to hundreds of millions of Amazon customers across the globe. The program has helped startups and small businesses launch tens of thousands of products across 30 categories in the U.S. alone, with nearly 400 U.S.-based startups and small businesses having surpassed $1 million in annual sales in Amazon's store since the program launched in 2015 – and nearly 40 have surpassed $10 million in annual sales. Amazon Launchpad is part of a portfolio of programs, tools, and services Amazon offers to help brands grow. There are hundreds of thousands of unique brand owners currently selling in Amazon's U.S. store. In 2020, Amazon has launched more than 135 new tools and services to help sellers manage and grow their business. "We know customers are looking for ways to support small businesses, and Launchpad helps them find some of the most innovative, unique products out there," said Nick Love, Head of Amazon Launchpad. "On the small business and startup side, our main priority is to help brands build quality product detail pages highlighting the uniqueness of the product, tell customers about their brand story, share best practices for selling in Amazon's store, drive product awareness, and ultimately, increase sales. The Amazon Launchpad program's 2020 class, fueled by small business and startup companies, has grown sales more than 75 percent year-over-year as of the end of August. This growth allows them to focus on the innovation. We continue to be inspired by the success many startups have seen over the past five years in the Launchpad program and the big ideas that these small brands have brought to customers." "Our game's success is a testament to Amazon Launchpad's power to develop unexpected entrepreneurs: two working moms who created a game as a side hustle — ascending to a top seller in Toys & Games," said Maximina Juson, co-creator of Not Parent Approved game. "We made a strategic decision to sell exclusively on Amazon from Day 1 and are now expanding with Amazon Launchpad globally - spreading burps and belly laughs worldwide!" "Amazon Launchpad has been the largest pivotal factor in the success of our business. In Q4 of 2019, we saw a 500% increase sales which allowed us to scale our production, product RnD, and brand awareness on an exponential level," said Kevin Meyer, co-founder of The CrunchCup. "The benefits we've seen by joining the program have allowed us to retain a lean internal team so we can focus on doing what we love; creating amazing, fun products that make people feel like kids again." Top 5 categories for Amazon Launchpad in the U.S. and top brands in each category: Health & Personal Care Smarter Nutrition – based in Santa Ana, CA G Fuel – based in West Babylon, NY InnovixLabs – based in Calabasas, CA  Recoup Fitness – based in Denver, CO  Bella Terra Cosmetics – based in Houston, TX Home Ambesonne – based in Boston, MA  Cabeau – based in Woodland Hills, CA Gravity Blanket – based in Brooklyn, NY  Sheets & Giggles – based in Denver, CO Buffy Inc. – based in New York, NY  Grocery Palouse Brand – based in Palouse, WA More Labs – based in Los Angeles, CA Ashley Food Company – based in Sudbury, MA Neuro – based in Los Angeles, CA Shrewd Food – based in Long Island, NY Toys Kids Against Maturity – based in Powell, OH Skoolzy – based in Aptos, CA  Not Parent Approved – based in Los Angeles, CA Zen Laboratory – based in Phoenix, AZ  ASM Games – based in San Francisco, CA Kitchen PowerXL – based in Fairfield, NJ RÖD Wine – based in Las Vegas, NV The CrunchCup – based in Austin, TX MAX'IS Creations – based in Boston, MA Zip Top – based in Austin, TX With Amazon Launchpad, startups and other small businesses and new brands can overcome many of the challenges associated with launching new products by leveraging Amazon's marketing tools, ecommerce expertise, and fulfillment network, while receiving unique merchandising opportunities, curated webinars, content creation tools, AWS credits, and more. Launchpad also helps brands take advantage of all that Amazon offers to help small businesses grow, including new pilot programs, promotions, and events. Launchpad then makes it easier for customers to discover these brands with a dedicated shopping destination. In addition to programs like Amazon Launchpad, Amazon also offers educational tools and programs to help small businesses and new brands thrive in its store. This week, Amazon is hosting Amazon Accelerate – a three-day virtual summit for U.S. small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) currently selling or interested in selling in Amazon's store. Amazon Accelerate is the company's largest-ever U.S. event focused on guiding new and aspiring SMB sellers about how to capitalize on the opportunities of working with Amazon. To learn more about the millions of small and medium-sized businesses growing with Amazon, visit: aboutamazon.com/supporting-small-businesses. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200903005321/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon Launchpad, Amazon's program to empower innovative new brands to grow in its store, reveals top-selling categories in the U.S. include Health &amp; Personal Care, Home, and Grocery, led by Smarter Nutrition, Ambesonne, and Palouse Brand</em></p><p><em>Launchpad has helped nearly 400 U.S.-based startup and small business brands surpass $1 million in annual sales in Amazon's store and nearly 40 surpass $10 million in annual sales since the program launched in 2015</em></p><p><em>Launchpad is part of a portfolio of programs and services that help hundreds of thousands of unique brands grow in Amazon's U.S. store</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 3, 2020-- (Nasdaq:AMZN) Today, Amazon Launchpad, a program dedicated to empowering startups and other innovative new brands to grow in Amazon's store, announced the top five product categories and top brands selling in each of the top categories. The data is based on the highest-grossing Launchpad categories in the U.S. over the past twelve months and top-selling U.S.-based startups and small businesses in each of those categories.</p><p>Amazon Launchpad, which recently turned five years old, makes it easy for startups and small businesses to launch, market, and distribute their products to hundreds of millions of Amazon customers across the globe. The program has helped startups and small businesses launch tens of thousands of products across 30 categories in the U.S. alone, with nearly 400 U.S.-based startups and small businesses having surpassed $1 million in annual sales in Amazon's store since the program launched in 2015 – and nearly 40 have surpassed $10 million in annual sales.</p><p>Amazon Launchpad is part of a portfolio of programs, tools, and services Amazon offers to help brands grow. There are hundreds of thousands of unique brand owners currently selling in Amazon's U.S. store. In 2020, Amazon has launched more than 135 new tools and services to help sellers manage and grow their business.</p><p>"We know customers are looking for ways to support small businesses, and Launchpad helps them find some of the most innovative, unique products out there," said Nick Love, Head of Amazon Launchpad. "On the small business and startup side, our main priority is to help brands build quality product detail pages highlighting the uniqueness of the product, tell customers about their brand story, share best practices for selling in Amazon's store, drive product awareness, and ultimately, increase sales. The Amazon Launchpad program's 2020 class, fueled by small business and startup companies, has grown sales more than 75 percent year-over-year as of the end of August. This growth allows them to focus on the innovation. We continue to be inspired by the success many startups have seen over the past five years in the Launchpad program and the big ideas that these small brands have brought to customers."</p><p>"Our game's success is a testament to Amazon Launchpad's power to develop unexpected entrepreneurs: two working moms who created a game as a side hustle — ascending to a top seller in Toys &amp; Games," said Maximina Juson, co-creator of Not Parent Approved game. "We made a strategic decision to sell exclusively on Amazon from Day 1 and are now expanding with Amazon Launchpad globally - spreading burps and belly laughs worldwide!"</p><p>"Amazon Launchpad has been the largest pivotal factor in the success of our business. In Q4 of 2019, we saw a 500% increase sales which allowed us to scale our production, product RnD, and brand awareness on an exponential level," said Kevin Meyer, co-founder of The CrunchCup. "The benefits we've seen by joining the program have allowed us to retain a lean internal team so we can focus on doing what we love; creating amazing, fun products that make people feel like kids again."</p><p>Top 5 categories for Amazon Launchpad in the U.S. and top brands in each category:</p><ol><li>Health &amp; Personal Care<ul><li>Smarter Nutrition – based in Santa Ana, CA</li><li>G Fuel – based in West Babylon, NY</li><li>InnovixLabs – based in Calabasas, CA </li><li>Recoup Fitness – based in Denver, CO </li><li>Bella Terra Cosmetics – based in Houston, TX</li></ul></li><li>Home<ul><li>Ambesonne – based in Boston, MA </li><li>Cabeau – based in Woodland Hills, CA</li><li>Gravity Blanket – based in Brooklyn, NY </li><li>Sheets &amp; Giggles – based in Denver, CO</li><li>Buffy Inc. – based in New York, NY </li></ul></li><li>Grocery<ul><li>Palouse Brand – based in Palouse, WA</li><li>More Labs – based in Los Angeles, CA</li><li>Ashley Food Company – based in Sudbury, MA</li><li>Neuro – based in Los Angeles, CA</li><li>Shrewd Food – based in Long Island, NY</li></ul></li><li>Toys<ul><li>Kids Against Maturity – based in Powell, OH</li><li>Skoolzy – based in Aptos, CA </li><li>Not Parent Approved – based in Los Angeles, CA</li><li>Zen Laboratory – based in Phoenix, AZ </li><li>ASM Games – based in San Francisco, CA</li></ul></li><li>Kitchen<ul><li>PowerXL – based in Fairfield, NJ</li><li>RÖD Wine – based in Las Vegas, NV</li><li>The CrunchCup – based in Austin, TX</li><li>MAX'IS Creations – based in Boston, MA</li><li>Zip Top – based in Austin, TX</li></ul></li></ol><p>With Amazon Launchpad, startups and other small businesses and new brands can overcome many of the challenges associated with launching new products by leveraging Amazon's marketing tools, ecommerce expertise, and fulfillment network, while receiving unique merchandising opportunities, curated webinars, content creation tools, AWS credits, and more. Launchpad also helps brands take advantage of all that Amazon offers to help small businesses grow, including new pilot programs, promotions, and events. Launchpad then makes it easier for customers to discover these brands with a dedicated shopping destination.</p><p>In addition to programs like Amazon Launchpad, Amazon also offers educational tools and programs to help small businesses and new brands thrive in its store. This week, Amazon is hosting Amazon Accelerate – a three-day virtual summit for U.S. small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) currently selling or interested in selling in Amazon's store. Amazon Accelerate is the company's largest-ever U.S. event focused on guiding new and aspiring SMB sellers about how to capitalize on the opportunities of working with Amazon.</p><p>To learn more about the millions of small and medium-sized businesses growing with Amazon, visit: aboutamazon.com/supporting-small-businesses.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200903005321/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Weta Digital Advances Visual Effects and Animation in the Cloud with AWS

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09/02/2020 09:00:00

Weta Digital Advances Visual Effects and Animation in the Cloud with AWS

09/02/2020

2020

Premier visual effects company, known for The Lord of the Rings and Avatar, goes all-in on AWS to accelerate innovation and content production, while enabling artists globally to create and render visual effects SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 2, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Weta Digital is going all-in on AWS, leveraging the proven performance of the world's leading cloud to create a new, cloud-based visual effects (VFX) workflow. This workflow includes a set of technologies for VFX artists that will underpin the studio's global expansion, accelerate key portions of film production, and expand Weta Digital's New Zealand operations, enabling its team of artists to collaborate on visual effects remotely. In the past 25 years, Weta Digital has brought to life some of the most memorable worlds and characters in film, including Middle-earth and Gollum in New Line's The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Na'vi and beautiful landscapes of Pandora in Avatar. Over the course of this multi-year deal, the studio will migrate the vast majority of its IT infrastructure to AWS to support a pipeline that includes 100 proprietary tools and its LED-stage virtual production service, which creates immersive new worlds onset. In addition, Weta Digital will use AWS to produce and render original content from the newly announced ‘Weta Animated' and deliver on its multi-year movie slate. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200902005251/en/ Disney: Avatar (Graphic: Business Wire) Visual effects artists use a wide range of animation and compositing software to integrate computer-generated imagery with live action footage, creating scenes that go beyond what can easily be captured with film alone. This imagery generates a massive volume of video and image files that can put a strain on IT resources and requires delicate load balancing efforts to keep production facilities operating at peak capacity. Leveraging AWS's global infrastructure and AWS services, including compute, storage, security, machine learning (ML) and analytics, Weta Digital can spread its workloads more efficiently around the world, freeing up talent and resources to continue to create ground-breaking visual effects, and gain the flexibility to render VFX scenes remotely wherever its creative staff is based. With Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Weta Digital will have expanded access to a broad range of specialized Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) instances for better integration of ML into the VFX creation process, enabling artists to create more life-like, detailed movie creations. "Weta Digital has been an innovator in the visual effects industry for decades. By adopting AWS's ultra-scale infrastructure, we can implement a proprietary cloud pipeline and globally scale our production to greater levels than ever before," said Prem Akkaraju, CEO of Weta Digital. "Weta established a remote collaborative workflow in March due to the pandemic to seamlessly continue work on the Avatar sequels and other films. With the power of AWS, we can now take that success to a global scale. Drawing on AWS's virtually unlimited compute capacity, we can empower our artists to work safely and securely where they want without technical limitations. In addition, using the breadth and depth of AWS services we can more easily test new ideas and technologies as we continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in visual effects today. AWS services, such as machine learning and data analytics, will help Weta deliver projects faster and more cost effectively, and our customers will enjoy the fruits of Weta Digital's continuous innovation." "Weta Digital has earned fans around the world through its innovative approach of combining technology and creativity to push the boundaries of visual effects in the movie industry while bringing some of cinema's most memorable characters to life," said Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS. "Weta Digital will rely on AWS's unmatched portfolio of services to continue redefining what is possible on screen and at a scale that was not previously possible. Through its collaboration with AWS, Weta Digital is reducing technology barriers for those in the filmmaking industry, strengthening its operations in New Zealand and globally, and paving the way for immersive, new experiences for moviegoers." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Weta Digital  Weta Digital is the standard-bearer for creativity and innovation in visual effects and animation, attracting talent, partners, and clients that seek to push what is possible in pursuit of their artistic vision. Weta's proprietary pipeline continues to evolve and provide artists with the tools they need to create their best work. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Weta Digital is the largest single-site VFX studio in the world drawing artists from over 40 countries. They are some of the most creative and ambitious artists, engineers, and executives in entertainment and their work has earned six visual effects Academy Awards, ten Academy Sci-Tech Awards and six visual effects BAFTA Awards in addition to the 34 Visual Effects Society Awards awarded to them by their peers. Ground-breaking, performance-driven animated characters from Gollum to Caesar, and worlds from Middle-earth to Pandora, are regarded as some of the best visual effects ever to appear on screen. For more information, visit www.wetafx.co.nz and follow @weta_digital. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200902005251/en/ Press ContactsFor Weta DigitalLydia You, ID TeamWetaDigital@id-pr.comCarol Marshall, CMPR carol@cmarshallpr.comDave Gougé, Weta Digital dgouge@wetafx.co.nz Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Premier visual effects company, known for The Lord of the Rings and Avatar, goes all-in on AWS to accelerate innovation and content production, while enabling artists globally to create and render visual effects</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 2, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Weta Digital is going all-in on AWS, leveraging the proven performance of the world's leading cloud to create a new, cloud-based visual effects (VFX) workflow. This workflow includes a set of technologies for VFX artists that will underpin the studio's global expansion, accelerate key portions of film production, and expand Weta Digital's New Zealand operations, enabling its team of artists to collaborate on visual effects remotely. In the past 25 years, Weta Digital has brought to life some of the most memorable worlds and characters in film, including Middle-earth and Gollum in New Line's <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> trilogy and the Na'vi and beautiful landscapes of Pandora in <em>Avatar</em>. Over the course of this multi-year deal, the studio will migrate the vast majority of its IT infrastructure to AWS to support a pipeline that includes 100 proprietary tools and its LED-stage virtual production service, which creates immersive new worlds onset. In addition, Weta Digital will use AWS to produce and render original content from the newly announced ‘Weta Animated' and deliver on its multi-year movie slate.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200902005251/en/</p><div><p>Disney: Avatar (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Visual effects artists use a wide range of animation and compositing software to integrate computer-generated imagery with live action footage, creating scenes that go beyond what can easily be captured with film alone. This imagery generates a massive volume of video and image files that can put a strain on IT resources and requires delicate load balancing efforts to keep production facilities operating at peak capacity. Leveraging AWS's global infrastructure and AWS services, including compute, storage, security, machine learning (ML) and analytics, Weta Digital can spread its workloads more efficiently around the world, freeing up talent and resources to continue to create ground-breaking visual effects, and gain the flexibility to render VFX scenes remotely wherever its creative staff is based. With Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Weta Digital will have expanded access to a broad range of specialized Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) instances for better integration of ML into the VFX creation process, enabling artists to create more life-like, detailed movie creations.</p><p>"Weta Digital has been an innovator in the visual effects industry for decades. By adopting AWS's ultra-scale infrastructure, we can implement a proprietary cloud pipeline and globally scale our production to greater levels than ever before," said Prem Akkaraju, CEO of Weta Digital. "Weta established a remote collaborative workflow in March due to the pandemic to seamlessly continue work on the Avatar sequels and other films. With the power of AWS, we can now take that success to a global scale. Drawing on AWS's virtually unlimited compute capacity, we can empower our artists to work safely and securely where they want without technical limitations. In addition, using the breadth and depth of AWS services we can more easily test new ideas and technologies as we continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in visual effects today. AWS services, such as machine learning and data analytics, will help Weta deliver projects faster and more cost effectively, and our customers will enjoy the fruits of Weta Digital's continuous innovation."</p><p>"Weta Digital has earned fans around the world through its innovative approach of combining technology and creativity to push the boundaries of visual effects in the movie industry while bringing some of cinema's most memorable characters to life," said Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS. "Weta Digital will rely on AWS's unmatched portfolio of services to continue redefining what is possible on screen and at a scale that was not previously possible. Through its collaboration with AWS, Weta Digital is reducing technology barriers for those in the filmmaking industry, strengthening its operations in New Zealand and globally, and paving the way for immersive, new experiences for moviegoers."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Weta Digital </p><p>Weta Digital is the standard-bearer for creativity and innovation in visual effects and animation, attracting talent, partners, and clients that seek to push what is possible in pursuit of their artistic vision. Weta's proprietary pipeline continues to evolve and provide artists with the tools they need to create their best work. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Weta Digital is the largest single-site VFX studio in the world drawing artists from over 40 countries. They are some of the most creative and ambitious artists, engineers, and executives in entertainment and their work has earned six visual effects Academy Awards, ten Academy Sci-Tech Awards and six visual effects BAFTA Awards in addition to the 34 Visual Effects Society Awards awarded to them by their peers. Ground-breaking, performance-driven animated characters from Gollum to Caesar, and worlds from Middle-earth to Pandora, are regarded as some of the best visual effects ever to appear on screen. For more information, visit www.wetafx.co.nz and follow @weta_digital.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200902005251/en/</p><p>Press ContactsFor Weta DigitalLydia You, ID TeamWetaDigital@id-pr.comCarol Marshall, CMPR carol@cmarshallpr.comDave Gougé, Weta Digital dgouge@wetafx.co.nz</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon's Blink Unveils New Wireless Security Cameras with HD Video, Flexible Storage Options, and New Battery Expansion Pack – Cameras Start at $79.99

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09/02/2020 09:00:00

Amazon's Blink Unveils New Wireless Security Cameras with HD Video, Flexible Storage Options, and New Battery Expansion Pack – Cameras Start at $79.99

09/02/2020

2020

Blink's all-new Outdoor and Indoor cameras offer a powerful two-year battery life, 1080p HD video, IR night vision, and two-way audio Also announced today is Blink's battery expansion pack – a new accessory that extends camera battery life an additional two years Video clips can be saved using Blink's cloud storage plan, and locally with no monthly fees using the included Sync Module 2 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 2, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced Blink Outdoor and Blink Indoor – Blink's all-new wireless smart home security cameras that run on two AA lithium batteries for up to two years with normal use, making them easy to use and maintain. The cameras boast a sleek new hardware design and offer 1080p HD video, IR night vision, motion detection, and two-way audio. Blink also announced today a new battery expansion pack – which doubles the camera battery life to up to four years in total with normal use, helping customers never miss an important moment. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200902005605/en/ Blink Outdoor and Indoor Cameras (Photo: Business Wire) Using a smartphone and the Blink Home Monitor app, Blink Outdoor and Indoor customers can see a live view of their home, receive motion detection alerts, and use two-way audio to speak to people or pets around their home. Customers can create custom "activity zones" to cut down on unnecessary alerts in high-traffic areas as well as remove sections in their camera's field-of-view from video recording using Blink's all-new privacy zone feature. "For Blink, providing peace-of-mind and exciting new products to our customers is everything," said Mike Harris, General Manager of Blink. "While Blink's Outdoor and Indoor cameras include many of the innovative features our customers have come to love and expect – like a powerful two-year battery life – we now offer more options and customizations than ever. From new features like privacy zones to a new battery expansion pack that provides up to two additional years of battery power, we're excited to deliver our new cameras to our customers." Blink Outdoor and Indoor are available for pre-order today in the U.S. and Canada on Amazon and in select retailers in the U.S. like Best Buy, Lowe's, and The Home Depot. Shipping to customers begins later this month. Blink Outdoor and Indoor will also be available in select European countries soon. Flexible Storage Options Customers want choices when it comes to how their video clips are stored. That's why Blink now offers two video storage options: cloud and local storage. All Blink Outdoor and Indoor cameras include a free trial to Blink's cloud storage plan – valid through Dec. 31, 2020. After that date, customers who prefer the convenience and added benefits of cloud storage can continue their subscription starting at $3 a month for one camera or $10 a month for unlimited cameras at a single location, with no long-term contract required. More information about Blink's cloud storage plan can be found here. Customers can also choose to store video clips locally, with no monthly fees, using the included Sync Module 2 and a USB flash drive (sold separately). Blink's Sync Module 2 connects up to 10 Blink cameras, allowing customers to create a robust network of devices they can control with ease – and right from their smartphone. Extended Battery Life Blink's all-new battery expansion pack allows cameras to run on four AA lithium batteries instead of two – doubling the camera battery life to up to four years in total with normal use. While Blink's cameras already have a powerful two-year battery life due to Blink's proprietary chip technology, the new battery expansion pack is especially compelling to customers with cameras placed in high-traffic or hard-to-reach areas who want the convenience and flexibility of a wireless solution – without the hassle of frequently replacing batteries. Works with Alexa Blink Outdoor and Indoor are Alexa compatible. Customers can ask Alexa to arm and disarm their cameras, watch recorded motion clips, or say "Alexa, show me the front door camera" to see a live view through an Echo Show, Fire TV, or Fire tablet. Customers can also set up motion announcements and customized routines, like turning on smart lights when a smart home camera detects motion. For hassle-free battery maintenance, customers can have Alexa send reminders when batteries run low and set up smart reorders. Pricing and Availability Blink Indoor and Outdoor cameras are available for preorder starting today at $79.99 and $99.99, respectively. Blink's all-new battery expansion pack (sold separately) will be available later this year. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200902005605/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Blink's all-new Outdoor and Indoor cameras offer a powerful two-year battery life, 1080p HD video, IR night vision, and two-way audio</em></p><p><em>Also announced today is Blink's battery expansion pack – a new accessory that extends camera battery life an additional two years</em></p><p><em>Video clips can be saved using Blink's cloud storage plan, and locally with no monthly fees using the included Sync Module 2</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 2, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced Blink Outdoor and Blink Indoor – Blink's all-new wireless smart home security cameras that run on two AA lithium batteries for up to two years with normal use, making them easy to use and maintain. The cameras boast a sleek new hardware design and offer 1080p HD video, IR night vision, motion detection, and two-way audio. Blink also announced today a new battery expansion pack – which doubles the camera battery life to up to four years in total with normal use, helping customers never miss an important moment.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200902005605/en/</p><div><p>Blink Outdoor and Indoor Cameras (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Using a smartphone and the Blink Home Monitor app, Blink Outdoor and Indoor customers can see a live view of their home, receive motion detection alerts, and use two-way audio to speak to people or pets around their home. Customers can create custom "activity zones" to cut down on unnecessary alerts in high-traffic areas as well as remove sections in their camera's field-of-view from video recording using Blink's all-new privacy zone feature.</p><p>"For Blink, providing peace-of-mind and exciting new products to our customers is everything," said Mike Harris, General Manager of Blink. "While Blink's Outdoor and Indoor cameras include many of the innovative features our customers have come to love and expect – like a powerful two-year battery life – we now offer more options and customizations than ever. From new features like privacy zones to a new battery expansion pack that provides up to two additional years of battery power, we're excited to deliver our new cameras to our customers."</p><p>Blink Outdoor and Indoor are available for pre-order today in the U.S. and Canada on Amazon and in select retailers in the U.S. like Best Buy, Lowe's, and The Home Depot. Shipping to customers begins later this month. Blink Outdoor and Indoor will also be available in select European countries soon.</p><p>Flexible Storage Options</p><p>Customers want choices when it comes to how their video clips are stored. That's why Blink now offers two video storage options: cloud and local storage. All Blink Outdoor and Indoor cameras include a free trial to Blink's cloud storage plan – valid through Dec. 31, 2020. After that date, customers who prefer the convenience and added benefits of cloud storage can continue their subscription starting at $3 a month for one camera or $10 a month for unlimited cameras at a single location, with no long-term contract required. More information about Blink's cloud storage plan can be found here.</p><p>Customers can also choose to store video clips locally, with no monthly fees, using the included Sync Module 2 and a USB flash drive (sold separately). Blink's Sync Module 2 connects up to 10 Blink cameras, allowing customers to create a robust network of devices they can control with ease – and right from their smartphone.</p><p>Extended Battery Life</p><p>Blink's all-new battery expansion pack allows cameras to run on four AA lithium batteries instead of two – doubling the camera battery life to up to four years in total with normal use. While Blink's cameras already have a powerful two-year battery life due to Blink's proprietary chip technology, the new battery expansion pack is especially compelling to customers with cameras placed in high-traffic or hard-to-reach areas who want the convenience and flexibility of a wireless solution – without the hassle of frequently replacing batteries.</p><p>Works with Alexa</p><p>Blink Outdoor and Indoor are Alexa compatible. Customers can ask Alexa to arm and disarm their cameras, watch recorded motion clips, or say "Alexa, show me the front door camera" to see a live view through an Echo Show, Fire TV, or Fire tablet. Customers can also set up motion announcements and customized routines, like turning on smart lights when a smart home camera detects motion. For hassle-free battery maintenance, customers can have Alexa send reminders when batteries run low and set up smart reorders.</p><p>Pricing and Availability</p><p>Blink Indoor and Outdoor cameras are available for preorder starting today at $79.99 and $99.99, respectively. Blink's all-new battery expansion pack (sold separately) will be available later this year.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200902005605/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Is on Track to Invest $18 Billion in 2020 to Help Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Grow Their Sales

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09/01/2020 12:30:00

Amazon Is on Track to Invest $18 Billion in 2020 to Help Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Grow Their Sales

09/01/2020

2020

More than 25,000 entrepreneurs and brand owners are set to attend Amazon Accelerate this week, the company's largest-ever U.S. event dedicated to seller success Amazon has launched more than 135 new tools and services this year to help sellers manage and grow their businesses, including new ways to connect brands with customers Amazon announces it will spend an additional $100 million this year to promote small businesses during Prime Day and through the holiday season Amazon commits to educate and support more than 500,000 U.S. SMBs and onboard 100,000 new U.S. sellers, helping them succeed and build thriving businesses selling with Amazon SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 1, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it is on course to invest $18 billion this year to help independent businesses sell to customers, including investments in logistics, tools, services, programs, and people. Since the beginning of the year, Amazon has launched more than 135 free tools and services to help sellers grow their sales in Amazon's store. In the next twelve months, the company will provide more than 500,000 U.S. small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) currently selling on Amazon with online selling guidance, education, and support, and the company plans to onboard an additional 100,000 U.S. businesses as new sellers in its store. The announcements were made at Amazon Accelerate – a three-day virtual summit for U.S. SMBs who are currently selling in Amazon's store or interested in doing so. Amazon Accelerate is the company's largest-ever U.S. event focused on providing existing and aspiring sellers with insights and ideas for how small businesses can thrive in Amazon's store. Despite the impact COVID-19 has had on small businesses, many American SMBs selling through Amazon have experienced continued growth. Third-party sellers continue to account for more than half of all units sold in Amazon's store, and even during the pandemic, third-party sales continued to grow faster than Amazon's first-party sales. In the twelve-month period ending in May, American SMB sellers sold more than 3.4 billion products, up from 2.7 billion year-over-year, and averaged $160,000 in sales, up from approximately $100,000 a year prior. Accelerate features Amazon executives, sellers, and independent online selling experts sharing insights on how sellers can sustain and grow their companies through 2020 and into the future. "At Amazon, our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company, and part of fulfilling that mission is connecting small businesses with customers," says Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer at Amazon, who opened the event with a fireside chat with Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Customer Trust & Partner Support at Amazon. "Amazon's success is directly tied to the success of independent businesses across the U.S. We are passionate about supporting small businesses, investing and inventing on their behalf to help them be resilient through COVID-19 and beyond." Amazon also announced plans to invest an additional $100 million to help small businesses around the world increase their sales and reach new customers this Prime Day and throughout the holiday season. Last year during Prime Day, third-party sellers – mostly SMBs – exceeded $2 billion in global sales. This new investment will go toward putting a spotlight on the diversity of small businesses selling in Amazon's store, positioning them for increased sales during Prime Day and throughout Q4. Further details will be announced closer to Prime Day. Amazon has launched 135 free tools this year for sellers to help them gain insights, protect and build their brands, and delight customers. For example, "Repeat Purchase Behavior" provides insights that let sellers leverage data on how customers engage with brands. "Brand Follow" represents Amazon's investment in customer relationship management tools, allowing sellers to connect with customers who have shown an interest in the brand through features like personalized posts on the homepage. To learn more about the millions of small and medium-sized businesses growing with Amazon, visit: aboutamazon.com/supporting-small-businesses. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. Forward-Looking Statements This press release includes forward-looking statements which are inherently difficult to predict, including statements regarding planned investments and growth in SMB sellers. Actual results could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet, online commerce, and cloud services, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products and services sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income or other taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of claims, litigation, government investigations, and other proceedings, fulfillment, sortation, delivery, and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, seasonality, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains, and develops commercial agreements, proposed and completed acquisitions and strategic transactions, payments risks, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. Other risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks related to new products, services, and technologies, system interruptions, government regulation and taxation, and fraud. In addition, additional or unforeseen effects from the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic climate may give rise to or amplify many of these risks. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200901005891/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>More than 25,000 entrepreneurs and brand owners are set to attend Amazon Accelerate this week, the company's largest-ever U.S. event dedicated to seller success</em></p><p><em>Amazon has launched more than 135 new tools and services this year to help sellers manage and grow their businesses, including new ways to connect brands with customers</em></p><p><em>Amazon announces it will spend an additional $100 million this year to promote small businesses during Prime Day and through the holiday season</em></p><p><em>Amazon commits to educate and support more than 500,000 U.S. SMBs and onboard 100,000 new U.S. sellers, helping them succeed and build thriving businesses selling with Amazon</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 1, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it is on course to invest $18 billion this year to help independent businesses sell to customers, including investments in logistics, tools, services, programs, and people. Since the beginning of the year, Amazon has launched more than 135 free tools and services to help sellers grow their sales in Amazon's store. In the next twelve months, the company will provide more than 500,000 U.S. small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) currently selling on Amazon with online selling guidance, education, and support, and the company plans to onboard an additional 100,000 U.S. businesses as new sellers in its store. The announcements were made at Amazon Accelerate – a three-day virtual summit for U.S. SMBs who are currently selling in Amazon's store or interested in doing so.</p><p>Amazon Accelerate is the company's largest-ever U.S. event focused on providing existing and aspiring sellers with insights and ideas for how small businesses can thrive in Amazon's store. Despite the impact COVID-19 has had on small businesses, many American SMBs selling through Amazon have experienced continued growth. Third-party sellers continue to account for more than half of all units sold in Amazon's store, and even during the pandemic, third-party sales continued to grow faster than Amazon's first-party sales. In the twelve-month period ending in May, American SMB sellers sold more than 3.4 billion products, up from 2.7 billion year-over-year, and averaged $160,000 in sales, up from approximately $100,000 a year prior. Accelerate features Amazon executives, sellers, and independent online selling experts sharing insights on how sellers can sustain and grow their companies through 2020 and into the future.</p><p>"At Amazon, our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company, and part of fulfilling that mission is connecting small businesses with customers," says Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer at Amazon, who opened the event with a fireside chat with Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Customer Trust &amp; Partner Support at Amazon. "Amazon's success is directly tied to the success of independent businesses across the U.S. We are passionate about supporting small businesses, investing and inventing on their behalf to help them be resilient through COVID-19 and beyond."</p><p>Amazon also announced plans to invest an additional $100 million to help small businesses around the world increase their sales and reach new customers this Prime Day and throughout the holiday season. Last year during Prime Day, third-party sellers – mostly SMBs – exceeded $2 billion in global sales. This new investment will go toward putting a spotlight on the diversity of small businesses selling in Amazon's store, positioning them for increased sales during Prime Day and throughout Q4. Further details will be announced closer to Prime Day.</p><p>Amazon has launched 135 free tools this year for sellers to help them gain insights, protect and build their brands, and delight customers. For example, "Repeat Purchase Behavior" provides insights that let sellers leverage data on how customers engage with brands. "Brand Follow" represents Amazon's investment in customer relationship management tools, allowing sellers to connect with customers who have shown an interest in the brand through features like personalized posts on the homepage.</p><p>To learn more about the millions of small and medium-sized businesses growing with Amazon, visit: aboutamazon.com/supporting-small-businesses.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>Forward-Looking Statements</p><p>This press release includes forward-looking statements which are inherently difficult to predict, including statements regarding planned investments and growth in SMB sellers. Actual results could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet, online commerce, and cloud services, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products and services sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income or other taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of claims, litigation, government investigations, and other proceedings, fulfillment, sortation, delivery, and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, seasonality, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains, and develops commercial agreements, proposed and completed acquisitions and strategic transactions, payments risks, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. Other risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks related to new products, services, and technologies, system interruptions, government regulation and taxation, and fraud. In addition, additional or unforeseen effects from the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic climate may give rise to or amplify many of these risks. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200901005891/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Indeed Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud to Drive Efficiencies across its Global Operations

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The world's leading job site runs on AWS to gain operational efficiencies, unlock data-driven insights, and accelerate innovation of new products SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 1, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Indeed, the world's leading job site, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud. As part of the multi-year agreement, Indeed will migrate more than 30 petabytes of data to AWS, moving its customer-facing products, business-critical workloads, and legacy databases to AWS. As a result of the move, Indeed expects to reduce its global data center footprint by 40% while streamlining its overall IT operations. By running on the world's leading cloud, Indeed can scale its core data platform on top of AWS's reliable infrastructure, enhancing the site's availability and reliability to give users around the world better performance even during periods of peak demand. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200901005230/en/ Indeed is leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS services, including analytics, machine learning, managed databases, compute, storage, serverless, security, and data warehousing, to accelerate innovation of new customer-facing products and services while reducing development costs for those products by more than 20%. Indeed will leverage AWS to analyze more than one petabyte of data per day, delivering powerful new insights into customer interests, activities, and outcomes to inform how it connects job seekers and employers. "AWS is our preferred choice for cloud infrastructure and services, and we are excited to provide our data platform users with the increased availability, performance, and security that come with running on AWS," said Doug Gray, SVP and General Manager of Platforms at Indeed. "By giving our developers access to the wide range of AWS services, we are empowering them to build the most powerful and efficient tools so that we can continue to deliver on our mission to help people get jobs." "Indeed is a trusted resource for hundreds of millions of job seekers and employers, and its platform is more critical than ever during this time when so many people are searching for work. Powered by the world's leading cloud, Indeed has the reliability, scale, and services it needs to help those job seekers find favorable outcomes," said Greg Pearson, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Data is at the heart of Indeed's business, and by moving its data platform to AWS, Indeed can leverage the broadest and deepest array of services, including analytics and machine learning, to fuel innovation and better match employers with prospective talent. Growing and streamlining its business on AWS will enable Indeed to remain lean and nimble as it creates new experiences for its users so that it can continue to lead the field for job search." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Indeed More people find jobs on Indeed than anywhere else. Indeed is the #1 job site in the world (comScore, March 2020) and allows job seekers to search millions of jobs in more than 60 countries and 28 languages. Over 3 million employers use Indeed to find and hire new employees and more than 250 million people each month search for jobs, post resumes, and research companies. Indeed delivers 3X more hires than any other job site (SilkRoad Technology Source of Hire Report, 2018). For more information, visit indeed.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200901005230/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>The world's leading job site runs on AWS to gain operational efficiencies, unlock data-driven insights, and accelerate innovation of new products</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 1, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Indeed, the world's leading job site, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud. As part of the multi-year agreement, Indeed will migrate more than 30 petabytes of data to AWS, moving its customer-facing products, business-critical workloads, and legacy databases to AWS. As a result of the move, Indeed expects to reduce its global data center footprint by 40% while streamlining its overall IT operations. By running on the world's leading cloud, Indeed can scale its core data platform on top of AWS's reliable infrastructure, enhancing the site's availability and reliability to give users around the world better performance even during periods of peak demand.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200901005230/en/</p><p>Indeed is leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS services, including analytics, machine learning, managed databases, compute, storage, serverless, security, and data warehousing, to accelerate innovation of new customer-facing products and services while reducing development costs for those products by more than 20%. Indeed will leverage AWS to analyze more than one petabyte of data per day, delivering powerful new insights into customer interests, activities, and outcomes to inform how it connects job seekers and employers.</p><p>"AWS is our preferred choice for cloud infrastructure and services, and we are excited to provide our data platform users with the increased availability, performance, and security that come with running on AWS," said Doug Gray, SVP and General Manager of Platforms at Indeed. "By giving our developers access to the wide range of AWS services, we are empowering them to build the most powerful and efficient tools so that we can continue to deliver on our mission to help people get jobs."</p><p>"Indeed is a trusted resource for hundreds of millions of job seekers and employers, and its platform is more critical than ever during this time when so many people are searching for work. Powered by the world's leading cloud, Indeed has the reliability, scale, and services it needs to help those job seekers find favorable outcomes," said Greg Pearson, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Data is at the heart of Indeed's business, and by moving its data platform to AWS, Indeed can leverage the broadest and deepest array of services, including analytics and machine learning, to fuel innovation and better match employers with prospective talent. Growing and streamlining its business on AWS will enable Indeed to remain lean and nimble as it creates new experiences for its users so that it can continue to lead the field for job search."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Indeed</p><p>More people find jobs on Indeed than anywhere else. Indeed is the #1 job site in the world (comScore, March 2020) and allows job seekers to search millions of jobs in more than 60 countries and 28 languages. Over 3 million employers use Indeed to find and hire new employees and more than 250 million people each month search for jobs, post resumes, and research companies. Indeed delivers 3X more hires than any other job site (SilkRoad Technology Source of Hire Report, 2018). For more information, visit indeed.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200901005230/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Music and Twitch partner to combine live streaming with on-demand listening

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2020

For the first time, artists across the globe will be able to connect live with Amazon Music's more than 55 million customers through Twitch, providing music fans with the best live in-app experience possible, and further engagement with an artist's recorded catalog SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 1, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) Today, Amazon Music and Twitch have partnered to announce the incorporation of Twitch's live streaming functionality into the Amazon Music app, enabling fans to engage with artists in brand-new ways and move seamlessly between live streams and recorded music. Launching today on iOS and Android, artists across the globe will now be able to connect live with Amazon Music's more than 55 million customers across all streaming tiers. Learn more at https://artists.amazonmusic.com/live. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200901005434/en/ Amazon Music and Twitch partner to combine live streaming with on-demand listening (Graphic: Business Wire) "The combination of live streaming, coupled with the on-demand playback of songs on Amazon Music is groundbreaking," said Ryan Redington, Director, Amazon Music. "We're providing artists with more tools to instantly engage with fans, and this new feature couldn't arrive at a more crucial time in the industry. More than 1,000 artists have already connected their Amazon Music accounts to Twitch, and this is just day one. Together with Twitch, we're making it possible for artists across all genres, at all moments of their careers, to harness the social power of live streaming to create more engagement with their recorded catalog." At a time when in-person events are limited, artists will for the first time be able to establish a real-time connection with their existing fans on Amazon Music. Artists from superstars to those emerging in their careers can now leverage Twitch and Amazon Music to engage with stadium-size audiences. "Twitch has always been about connecting amazingly talented creators live with fans everywhere," said Tracy Chan, VP, Head of Music at Twitch. "That's why we're excited to announce the next phase of our ongoing partnership with Amazon Music that unlocks an entirely new world of live music experiences and engagement by connecting Twitch live streams and Amazon's catalog of recorded music. Especially now, in a time when traditional venues are closed and tours have been cancelled, musicians are looking for new ways to continue creating, connect with fans, and build community. Twitch has become the place to co-create shared live experiences, and it's now accessible in-app for Amazon Music's 55 million customers." Amazon Music and Twitch are committed to developing new and improved ways to help artists engage with their fans and are excited to offer this feature to music creators. Twitch has long been at the forefront of connecting creators and fans through live streaming experiences, and Amazon Music has worked extensively with Twitch and with artists and labels to help them utilize live streaming to connect more deeply with fans, including developing innovative ways to incorporate live streaming into release campaigns; creating a virtual stage for festivals and charitable fundraising events; and providing more intimate moments for artist Q&As. This year, Twitch and Amazon Music have also worked with artists across all genres to support and produce livestreams to raise millions of dollars for COVID-19 Relief efforts including Twitch StreamAid, Willie Nelson's Luck Reunion, and more. Fans will have a variety of ways to discover artist live streams within the Amazon Music app, including a push notification from artists they follow when they go live on Twitch; and through Amazon Music's new "Live" browse page. Amazon Music has also made it simple for artists to link their Twitch channel with Amazon Music, using the newly-launched Amazon Music for Artists app. Artists can visit artists.amazonmusic.com/live for more information about the feature, step-by-step visuals outlining how to connect their Twitch channel, and more. Starting this week, fans can check out artists spanning all different genres who are taking advantage of the feature and finding new and innovative ways to connect with audiences live on Amazon Music's Twitch channel, including: The Killers' Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. will join Amazon Music September 4th at 1PM ET to answer fan questions about their latest album, Imploding the Mirage. Soul singer and storyteller Nicole Atkins will host a variety series Wednesdays at 7PM ET with performances and interviews with friends and artists including Elle King, Cut Worms and Whitney. Amazon Music UK will stream the Heavy Music Awards 2020 live from the HMA's London offices September 3, 2020 at 8:30pm BST / 3:30pm ET and feature performances from The Hunna, Holding Absence, Heart Of A Coward, Wargasm, Coldbones and HAWXX. Capital One City Parks Foundation's SummerStage Anywhere will stream exclusive digital performances (Tuesday's at 7PM EST) spanning Latin, World, Hip-Hop, Jazz and more for its weekly concert series. About Amazon Music Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 60 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Engaging with music has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app. About Twitch Launched in 2011, Twitch is a global community that comes together each day to create multiplayer entertainment: unique, live, unpredictable experiences created by the interactions of millions. It brings the joy of co-op to everything, from casual gaming and world-class esports to anime marathons, music, and art streams. Twitch also hosts TwitchCon, the biggest community event of the year, where tens of thousands of people come together to celebrate and connect with others who share their interests and passions. We're always live at Twitch. Stay up to date on all things Twitch on Twitter and on our Blog. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. 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<p><em>For the first time, artists across the globe will be able to connect live with Amazon Music's more than 55 million customers through Twitch, providing music fans with the best live in-app experience possible, and further engagement with an artist's recorded catalog</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 1, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) Today, Amazon Music and Twitch have partnered to announce the incorporation of Twitch's live streaming functionality into the Amazon Music app, enabling fans to engage with artists in brand-new ways and move seamlessly between live streams and recorded music. Launching today on iOS and Android, artists across the globe will now be able to connect live with Amazon Music's more than 55 million customers across all streaming tiers. Learn more at https://artists.amazonmusic.com/live.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200901005434/en/</p><div><p>Amazon Music and Twitch partner to combine live streaming with on-demand listening (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"The combination of live streaming, coupled with the on-demand playback of songs on Amazon Music is groundbreaking," said Ryan Redington, Director, Amazon Music. "We're providing artists with more tools to instantly engage with fans, and this new feature couldn't arrive at a more crucial time in the industry. More than 1,000 artists have already connected their Amazon Music accounts to Twitch, and this is just day one. Together with Twitch, we're making it possible for artists across all genres, at all moments of their careers, to harness the social power of live streaming to create more engagement with their recorded catalog."</p><p>At a time when in-person events are limited, artists will for the first time be able to establish a real-time connection with their existing fans on Amazon Music. Artists from superstars to those emerging in their careers can now leverage Twitch and Amazon Music to engage with stadium-size audiences.</p><p>"Twitch has always been about connecting amazingly talented creators live with fans everywhere," said Tracy Chan, VP, Head of Music at Twitch. "That's why we're excited to announce the next phase of our ongoing partnership with Amazon Music that unlocks an entirely new world of live music experiences and engagement by connecting Twitch live streams and Amazon's catalog of recorded music. Especially now, in a time when traditional venues are closed and tours have been cancelled, musicians are looking for new ways to continue creating, connect with fans, and build community. Twitch has become the place to co-create shared live experiences, and it's now accessible in-app for Amazon Music's 55 million customers."</p><p>Amazon Music and Twitch are committed to developing new and improved ways to help artists engage with their fans and are excited to offer this feature to music creators. Twitch has long been at the forefront of connecting creators and fans through live streaming experiences, and Amazon Music has worked extensively with Twitch and with artists and labels to help them utilize live streaming to connect more deeply with fans, including developing innovative ways to incorporate live streaming into release campaigns; creating a virtual stage for festivals and charitable fundraising events; and providing more intimate moments for artist Q&amp;As. This year, Twitch and Amazon Music have also worked with artists across all genres to support and produce livestreams to raise millions of dollars for COVID-19 Relief efforts including Twitch StreamAid, Willie Nelson's Luck Reunion, and more.</p><p>Fans will have a variety of ways to discover artist live streams within the Amazon Music app, including a push notification from artists they follow when they go live on Twitch; and through Amazon Music's new "Live" browse page. Amazon Music has also made it simple for artists to link their Twitch channel with Amazon Music, using the newly-launched Amazon Music for Artists app. Artists can visit artists.amazonmusic.com/live for more information about the feature, step-by-step visuals outlining how to connect their Twitch channel, and more.</p><p>Starting this week, fans can check out artists spanning all different genres who are taking advantage of the feature and finding new and innovative ways to connect with audiences live on Amazon Music's Twitch channel, including:</p><ul><li>The Killers' Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. will join Amazon Music September 4^th at 1PM ET to answer fan questions about their latest album, <em>Imploding the Mirage</em>.</li><li>Soul singer and storyteller Nicole Atkins will host a variety series Wednesdays at 7PM ET with performances and interviews with friends and artists including Elle King, Cut Worms and Whitney.</li><li>Amazon Music UK will stream the Heavy Music Awards 2020 live from the HMA's London offices September 3, 2020 at 8:30pm BST / 3:30pm ET and feature performances from The Hunna, Holding Absence, Heart Of A Coward, Wargasm, Coldbones and HAWXX.</li><li>Capital One City Parks Foundation's SummerStage Anywhere will stream exclusive digital performances (Tuesday's at 7PM EST) spanning Latin, World, Hip-Hop, Jazz and more for its weekly concert series.</li></ul><p>About Amazon Music</p><p>Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 60 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Engaging with music has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app.</p><p>About Twitch</p><p>Launched in 2011, Twitch is a global community that comes together each day to create multiplayer entertainment: unique, live, unpredictable experiences created by the interactions of millions. It brings the joy of co-op to everything, from casual gaming and world-class esports to anime marathons, music, and art streams. Twitch also hosts TwitchCon, the biggest community event of the year, where tens of thousands of people come together to celebrate and connect with others who share their interests and passions. We're always live at Twitch. Stay up to date on all things Twitch on Twitter and on our Blog.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200901005434/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Mercedes-Benz Joins The Climate Pledge and Delivers More Than 1,800 Electric Vehicles to Amazon's Delivery Fleet in Europe

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Mercedes-Benz Joins The Climate Pledge and Delivers More Than 1,800 Electric Vehicles to Amazon's Delivery Fleet in Europe

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This order marks the largest electric vehicle commitment for Mercedes-Benz Vans to date The electric vehicles from this order will begin making deliveries to customers in 2020, helping to save thousands of metric tons of carbon The Climate Pledge, co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism, is a commitment to reach net zero carbon by 2040—ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced it is adding more than 1,800 electric vehicles from Mercedes-Benz Vans to its delivery fleet in Europe this year. Amazon and Mercedes-Benz share a commitment to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, and Mercedes-Benz also announced today it has joined The Climate Pledge, which calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement goal of 2050. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200828005049/en/ Electric vehicle (Photo: Business Wire) "We welcome the bold leadership demonstrated by Mercedes-Benz by signing up to The Climate Pledge and committing to ambitious action to address climate change. We need continued innovation and partnership from auto manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz to decarbonize the transportation sector and tackle the climate crisis," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Amazon is adding 1,800 electric delivery vehicles from Mercedes-Benz as part of our journey to build the most sustainable transportation fleet in the world, and we will be moving fast to get these vans on the road this year." "At Mercedes-Benz, we have set ourselves the ambitious target to make the transformation of mobility a success story. By joining ‘The Climate Pledge' we are building on our goal to consistently pursue emission-free mobility and sustainable vehicle production," said Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG. "We stand with Amazon, Global Optimism and the other signatories of The Climate Pledge, in a commitment to being net zero carbon by 2040 – ten years ahead of The Paris Agreement. I am pleased that we will be able to gain even more momentum on our sustainability offensive with this step." As part of Mercedes-Benz's commitment as the latest signatory of The Climate Pledge, the company is doubling down on its commitment to "Ambition2039," a roadmap to CO2-neutral mobility. The company is evaluating ways to remove carbon from its entire value chain, from development to the supplier network, from its own production to the electrification of products and beyond, as well as to ensuring renewable energies for the use phase of electric vehicles. With its goal to have a CO2-neutral fleet of new cars in less than 20 years, Mercedes-Benz is making an important contribution to slowing climate change. The company is already making good progress in this direction: By the end of this year, the vehicle portfolio will comprise five fully electric models and more than 20 plug-in hybrids. Signatories to The Climate Pledge also have the opportunity to share access to technologies, best practices and innovations in supply chain enhancements. They are also able to co-invest in new technologies and emerging solutions. Amazon's Delivery Service Partners will have access to the new fleet of zero-emission vehicles to make deliveries to customers in Europe this year, helping to save thousands of metric tons of carbon. The order is a milestone for Mercedes-Benz Vans, marking the largest order of electric vehicles for the manufacturer to date, and makes Amazon its largest sustainable transportation partner worldwide. More than 1,200 EVs in the order will be comprised of the newest electric commercial van available at Mercedes-Benz – the eSprinter, a larger model than the manufacturer's first zero-emission vehicle, the eVito. The eSprinter includes state-of-the-art safety features including, electrical parking brake, active brake assist, reverse camera, blind spot assist, and more. The remaining 600 vehicles will be comprised of the manufacturer's midsize electric van, the eVito, to give Delivery Service Partners operating in geographies that require a smaller-format vehicle access to a zero-emissions delivery option. "I am delighted that we are further intensifying our long-standing partnership with Amazon and working together on the battery-electric future of transportation," said Marcus Breitschwerdt, Head of Mercedes-Benz Vans. "With the eVito and the eSprinter, we have electric vehicles in our portfolio, which are ideally suited for the requirements of the courier-, express- and parcel-service industry for goods delivery on the so-called ‘last mile' in terms of their equipment and range. They show that local emission-free driving, convincing performance, comfort and low operating costs can be combined perfectly." "Amazon's investment is a strong and concrete sign of its commitment and alignment to EU priorities," said Fabio Massimo Castaldo, Vice President at the European Parliament. "Amazon continues to contribute to the achievement of the EU Green Deal goals, foster technological innovation and generate resilient and sustainable jobs in Europe. I hope that other corporations will follow Amazon's example in the near future." Amazon is also committed to powering its growing electric fleet with clean energy. As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon is investing in renewable energy as a critical step toward addressing our carbon footprint globally and has committed to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025. Globally, Amazon has 91 renewable energy projects that have the capacity to generate over 2,900 MW and deliver more than 7.5 million MWh of energy annually. These projects include 31 utility-scale wind and solar renewable energy projects and 60 solar rooftops on fulfillment centers and sort centers around the globe. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200828005049/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>This order marks the largest electric vehicle commitment for Mercedes-Benz Vans to date</em></p><p><em>The electric vehicles from this order will begin making deliveries to customers in 2020, helping to save thousands of metric tons of carbon</em></p><p><em>The Climate Pledge, co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism, is a commitment to reach net zero carbon by 2040—ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced it is adding more than 1,800 electric vehicles from Mercedes-Benz Vans to its delivery fleet in Europe this year. Amazon and Mercedes-Benz share a commitment to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, and Mercedes-Benz also announced today it has joined The Climate Pledge, which calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement goal of 2050.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200828005049/en/</p><div><p>Electric vehicle (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"We welcome the bold leadership demonstrated by Mercedes-Benz by signing up to The Climate Pledge and committing to ambitious action to address climate change. We need continued innovation and partnership from auto manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz to decarbonize the transportation sector and tackle the climate crisis," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Amazon is adding 1,800 electric delivery vehicles from Mercedes-Benz as part of our journey to build the most sustainable transportation fleet in the world, and we will be moving fast to get these vans on the road this year."</p><p>"At Mercedes-Benz, we have set ourselves the ambitious target to make the transformation of mobility a success story. By joining ‘The Climate Pledge' we are building on our goal to consistently pursue emission-free mobility and sustainable vehicle production," said Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG. "We stand with Amazon, Global Optimism and the other signatories of The Climate Pledge, in a commitment to being net zero carbon by 2040 – ten years ahead of The Paris Agreement. I am pleased that we will be able to gain even more momentum on our sustainability offensive with this step."</p><p>As part of Mercedes-Benz's commitment as the latest signatory of The Climate Pledge, the company is doubling down on its commitment to "Ambition2039," a roadmap to CO2-neutral mobility. The company is evaluating ways to remove carbon from its entire value chain, from development to the supplier network, from its own production to the electrification of products and beyond, as well as to ensuring renewable energies for the use phase of electric vehicles. With its goal to have a CO2-neutral fleet of new cars in less than 20 years, Mercedes-Benz is making an important contribution to slowing climate change. The company is already making good progress in this direction: By the end of this year, the vehicle portfolio will comprise five fully electric models and more than 20 plug-in hybrids. Signatories to The Climate Pledge also have the opportunity to share access to technologies, best practices and innovations in supply chain enhancements. They are also able to co-invest in new technologies and emerging solutions.</p><p>Amazon's Delivery Service Partners will have access to the new fleet of zero-emission vehicles to make deliveries to customers in Europe this year, helping to save thousands of metric tons of carbon. The order is a milestone for Mercedes-Benz Vans, marking the largest order of electric vehicles for the manufacturer to date, and makes Amazon its largest sustainable transportation partner worldwide. More than 1,200 EVs in the order will be comprised of the newest electric commercial van available at Mercedes-Benz – the eSprinter, a larger model than the manufacturer's first zero-emission vehicle, the eVito. The eSprinter includes state-of-the-art safety features including, electrical parking brake, active brake assist, reverse camera, blind spot assist, and more. The remaining 600 vehicles will be comprised of the manufacturer's midsize electric van, the eVito, to give Delivery Service Partners operating in geographies that require a smaller-format vehicle access to a zero-emissions delivery option.</p><p>"I am delighted that we are further intensifying our long-standing partnership with Amazon and working together on the battery-electric future of transportation," said Marcus Breitschwerdt, Head of Mercedes-Benz Vans. "With the eVito and the eSprinter, we have electric vehicles in our portfolio, which are ideally suited for the requirements of the courier-, express- and parcel-service industry for goods delivery on the so-called ‘last mile' in terms of their equipment and range. They show that local emission-free driving, convincing performance, comfort and low operating costs can be combined perfectly."</p><p>"Amazon's investment is a strong and concrete sign of its commitment and alignment to EU priorities," said Fabio Massimo Castaldo, Vice President at the European Parliament. "Amazon continues to contribute to the achievement of the EU Green Deal goals, foster technological innovation and generate resilient and sustainable jobs in Europe. I hope that other corporations will follow Amazon's example in the near future."</p><p>Amazon is also committed to powering its growing electric fleet with clean energy. As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon is investing in renewable energy as a critical step toward addressing our carbon footprint globally and has committed to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025. Globally, Amazon has 91 renewable energy projects that have the capacity to generate over 2,900 MW and deliver more than 7.5 million MWh of energy annually. These projects include 31 utility-scale wind and solar renewable energy projects and 60 solar rooftops on fulfillment centers and sort centers around the globe.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200828005049/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Introducing Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band—A New Service that Helps Customers Improve Their Health and Wellness

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Introducing Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band—A New Service that Helps Customers Improve Their Health and Wellness

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Amazon Halo combines a suite of AI-powered health tools with an innovative and stylish wrist band Body feature uses new computer vision technology to give an accurate body fat percentage measurement from the comfort and privacy of home—as accurately as methods a doctor would use Tone feature uses machine learning to help customers get a more complete view of their health and wellness by understanding how they sound to others Use Amazon Halo to monitor Activity and Sleep; plus, discover new tips with Labs—guided programs that help customers discover healthier habits with content from Headspace, Orangetheory Fitness, SWEAT, WW, and more SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced Amazon Halo, a new service dedicated to helping customers improve their individual health and wellness. Amazon Halo combines a suite of AI-powered health features that provide actionable insights into overall wellness via the new Amazon Halo app with the Amazon Halo Band, which uses multiple advanced sensors to provide the highly accurate information necessary to power Halo insights. Customers in the U.S. can request early access to Amazon Halo starting today, with the Amazon Halo Band and 6 months of Halo membership available for a special price of $64.99. Learn more at www.amazon.com/haloband. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200827005453/en/ Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band are available for early access in the U.S. starting today. (Photo: Business Wire) "Despite the rise in digital health services and devices over the last decade, we have not seen a corresponding improvement in population health in the U.S. We are using Amazon's deep expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning to offer customers a new way to discover, adopt, and maintain personalized wellness habits," said Dr. Maulik Majmudar, Principal Medical Officer, Amazon Halo. "Health is much more than just the number of steps you take in a day or how many hours you sleep. Amazon Halo combines the latest medical science, highly accurate data via the Halo Band sensors, and cutting-edge artificial intelligence to offer a more comprehensive approach to improving your health and wellness." Amazon Halo Band—Comfortable, Stylish, and Distraction-Free Amazon Halo Band is purpose-built to focus on your health and wellness—unlike smartwatches and fitness trackers, it doesn't have a screen or constant notifications. The small sensor capsule delivers highly accurate data, and includes an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, a heart rate monitor, two microphones, an LED indicator light, and a button to turn the microphones on or off, among other functions. Amazon Halo Band is water resistant for all-day wear and the comfortable fit means it won't snag or irritate at night. Plus, the battery lasts up to seven days and fully charges in under 90 minutes. Customers can choose from three fabric band colors at purchase, with fabric and silicone sport accessory bands available in 15 additional colors. A More Comprehensive Approach to Health and Wellness The Amazon Halo app is a suite of five core features designed to give customers a comprehensive understanding of their health and wellness—and the tools to take action to make measurable improvements: Activity: Informed by American Heart Association physical activity guidelines and the latest medical research, Amazon Halo awards points based on the intensity and duration of movement, not just the number of steps taken. For example, customers will earn points for walking, but will earn more points for running. Medical guidelines also advise that a sedentary lifestyle can negatively impact health, so Amazon Halo deducts one activity point for every hour over eight hours of sedentary time in a day, outside of sleep. A baseline goal of 150 activity points is set and measured weekly. Sleep: The health benefits of consistently good, sufficient sleep are well documented—as are the potential negative health impacts of not enough or consistently poor sleep. Amazon Halo uses motion, heart rate, and temperature to measure time asleep and time awake; time spent in the various phases of sleep including deep, light, and REM; and skin temperature while sleeping. The sensors in the band allow for continuous sleep monitoring, so customers get rich, detailed information without having to charge the band every day. In the morning, Amazon Halo delivers a sleep score out of 100, any deviation from baseline sleep temperature, and a hypnogram showing time spent in each sleep phase. Body: Medical research has shown for years that body fat percentage is a better measure of overall health than just weight or body mass index (BMI) alone, but the tools that measure body fat percentage can be expensive or difficult to access. Using new innovations in computer vision and machine learning, Amazon Halo lets customers measure their body fat percentage from the comfort and privacy of their own home, making this important information easily accessible. The Amazon Halo body fat measurement is as accurate as methods a doctor would use—and nearly twice as accurate as leading at-home smart scales. Learn more about the Body feature. Tone: The globally accepted definition of health includes not just physical but also social and emotional well-being. The innovative Tone feature uses machine learning to analyze energy and positivity in a customer's voice so they can better understand how they may sound to others, helping improve their communication and relationships. For example, Tone results may reveal that a difficult work call leads to less positivity in communication with a customer's family, an indication of the impact of stress on emotional well-being. Learn more about the Tone feature. Labs: AmazonHalo Labs are science-backed challenges, experiments, and workouts that allow customers to discover what works best for them specifically, so they can build healthier habits—for example, some customers might discover that cutting out afternoon caffeine improves their sleep quality, or that a certain type of at-home workout is more effective than others. Customers can choose from labs created by Amazon Halo experts, as well as brands and personalities they already know, including 8fit, Aaptiv, American Heart Association, Exhale On Demand, Harvard Health Publishing, Headspace, Julian Treasure, Lifesum, Mayo Clinic, Openfit, Orangetheory Fitness, P.volve, Russell Wilson, Relax Melodies, SWEAT, and WW. Additional content from more providers will be added to Labs regularly. "The American Heart Association is excited about technology that focuses on new and interesting ways for people to improve their cardiovascular health, quality of life, and healthy life years. We're thrilled to see companies like Amazon innovating in this space," said Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., MPH, Chief Medical Officer for Prevention, American Heart Association. "The Association is committed to helping people live longer, healthier lives—both physically and mentally. The first step is knowing your current status, and features like Body composition are important advances. Through our Center for Health Technology and Innovation, we are pleased to provide our evidence-based science as part of this solution, which we believe has the potential to drive behavior change towards healthier lives." Privacy by Design Privacy is foundational to Amazon Halo, and multiple layers of privacy and security are built into the service to keep data safe and in customers' control. Health data is encrypted in transit and in the cloud, and customers can download or delete their data at any time directly from the app. Body scan images are automatically deleted from the cloud after processing, so only the customer sees them. Tone is enabled by creating a personal voice profile, after which it begins capturing short samples of speech and providing insights and daily recaps. Speech samples are always analyzed locally on the customer's phone and automatically deleted after processing—nobody, not even the customer, ever hears them. Learn more about Amazon Halo privacy features. Get More with Third Party Program Integrations Amazon has collaborated with leading health and wellness companies to enable customers to connect their Amazon Halo account to third party programs for even more ways to enhance their health journey. Account linking occurs via the explicit opt-in of the Amazon Halo customer and they can opt back out any time directly from the Halo app. Members of both WW (formerly Weight Watchers) and Amazon Halo can choose to link their accounts to share Halo Activity information, which the WW app translates to FitPoints. Amazon Halo members also have access to all of WW's labs any time in the Halo app. WW will offer a variety of promotions, including the ability to get a free Amazon Halo Band and 6 months of membership as part of signing up for a new WW membership. Learn more. "WW is committed to inspiring healthy habits for real life and we are continuously looking for ways to enhance the WW ecosystem. The Amazon Halo Body composition tool is an important complement to weight measurement, and we are thrilled our members will have access to this information on a regular basis from the comfort and privacy of their own homes," said Mindy Grossman, CEO, WW. "WW members who previewed the Body feature said it was highly motivating in their journey and we are excited to offer WW members a more comprehensive understanding of their wellness through Amazon Halo." Amazon Halo will be the featured complimentary wearable for the John Hancock Vitality wellness program, including three years of Halo membership. Vitality members can choose to link their Amazon Halo Band to their account to earn Vitality Points for the things they do to try to live longer, healthier lives. Learn more. "At John Hancock, we are committed to helping our customers live longer, healthier lives. We know Amazon shares this goal and are excited to integrate with Amazon Halo and continue to transform the role our industry plays in our customers' lives," said Brooks Tingle, President and CEO, John Hancock Insurance. "This strategic endeavor allows us to offer our customers the latest in insights-driven personal health technology that can help them improve their overall wellness. We believe these enhancements will have a positive impact for our customers." Amazon Halo is now integrated into Cerner solutions to enable consumers to easily share health information with their care teams and directly into their electronic health record (EHR). Amazon Halo members will be able to share their body fat percentage with participating care providers as well as activity and sleep data with Cerner Consumer Well-being programs. Sharp HealthCare is the first Cerner client to benefit from this collaboration. "For more than 40 years, Cerner has ushered in health care's digital age by moving medical data from paper to electronic health records. Now we are seeking breakthrough innovation focused on making the health care experience more seamless and insightful," said Brent Shafer, Chairman and CEO, Cerner. "Integrating the revolutionary body fat percentage measurement from Amazon Halo directly into the EHR provides physicians an actionable and previously hard to obtain health metric without the need for a doctor's visit or costly technology. We believe our collaboration with Amazon Halo has the potential to improve the health of individuals and populations, reduce health care costs, and increase satisfaction for consumers and clinicians alike." Pricing, Availability, and Colors Customers in the U.S. can request early access to Amazon Halo starting today. Through the early access period, Amazon Halo will be available for a special price of $64.99 including 6 months of Halo membership (regular price: $99.99). The membership automatically renews for $3.99 per month after the initial 6 months. The membership unlocks access to all Amazon Halo features; non-members will have access to the basics, including steps, sleep time, and heart rate. Customers can choose from three color combinations for their Amazon Halo Band: a Black fabric band with an Onyx sensor capsule, a Blush fabric band with a Rose Gold sensor capsule, or a Winter fabric band with a Silver sensor capsule. Customers can purchase fabric accessory bands for the special early access price of $19.99 each. Six additional fabric color options include: Denim, Hummingbird, Mint Edge, Olive, Unicorn, and Volcano. Customers can purchase sport accessory bands for the special early access price of $15.99 each, with nine color options available: Ash, Black, Dark Mint, Domino, Lavender, Pink Slate, Seafoam, Sunset, and White. The Amazon Halo app is available on iOS and Android.

<p><em>Amazon Halo combines a suite of AI-powered health tools with an innovative and stylish wrist band</em></p><p><em>Body feature uses new computer vision technology to give an accurate body fat percentage measurement from the comfort and privacy of home—as accurately as methods a doctor would use</em></p><p><em>Tone feature uses machine learning to help customers get a more complete view of their health and wellness by understanding how they sound to others</em></p><p><em>Use Amazon Halo to monitor Activity and Sleep; plus, discover new tips with Labs—guided programs that help customers discover healthier habits with content from Headspace, Orangetheory Fitness, SWEAT, WW, and more</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced Amazon Halo, a new service dedicated to helping customers improve their individual health and wellness. Amazon Halo combines a suite of AI-powered health features that provide actionable insights into overall wellness via the new Amazon Halo app with the Amazon Halo Band, which uses multiple advanced sensors to provide the highly accurate information necessary to power Halo insights. Customers in the U.S. can request early access to Amazon Halo starting today, with the Amazon Halo Band and 6 months of Halo membership available for a special price of $64.99. Learn more at www.amazon.com/haloband.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200827005453/en/</p><div><p>Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band are available for early access in the U.S. starting today. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"Despite the rise in digital health services and devices over the last decade, we have not seen a corresponding improvement in population health in the U.S. We are using Amazon's deep expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning to offer customers a new way to discover, adopt, and maintain personalized wellness habits," said Dr. Maulik Majmudar, Principal Medical Officer, Amazon Halo. "Health is much more than just the number of steps you take in a day or how many hours you sleep. Amazon Halo combines the latest medical science, highly accurate data via the Halo Band sensors, and cutting-edge artificial intelligence to offer a more comprehensive approach to improving your health and wellness."</p><p>Amazon Halo Band—Comfortable, Stylish, and Distraction-Free</p><p>Amazon Halo Band is purpose-built to focus on your health and wellness—unlike smartwatches and fitness trackers, it doesn't have a screen or constant notifications. The small sensor capsule delivers highly accurate data, and includes an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, a heart rate monitor, two microphones, an LED indicator light, and a button to turn the microphones on or off, among other functions. Amazon Halo Band is water resistant for all-day wear and the comfortable fit means it won't snag or irritate at night. Plus, the battery lasts up to seven days and fully charges in under 90 minutes. Customers can choose from three fabric band colors at purchase, with fabric and silicone sport accessory bands available in 15 additional colors.</p><p>A More Comprehensive Approach to Health and Wellness</p><p>The Amazon Halo app is a suite of five core features designed to give customers a comprehensive understanding of their health and wellness—and the tools to take action to make measurable improvements:</p><ul><li><em>Activity:</em> Informed by American Heart Association physical activity guidelines and the latest medical research, Amazon Halo awards points based on the intensity and duration of movement, not just the number of steps taken. For example, customers will earn points for walking, but will earn more points for running. Medical guidelines also advise that a sedentary lifestyle can negatively impact health, so Amazon Halo deducts one activity point for every hour over eight hours of sedentary time in a day, outside of sleep. A baseline goal of 150 activity points is set and measured weekly.</li><li><em>Sleep:</em> The health benefits of consistently good, sufficient sleep are well documented—as are the potential negative health impacts of not enough or consistently poor sleep. Amazon Halo uses motion, heart rate, and temperature to measure time asleep and time awake; time spent in the various phases of sleep including deep, light, and REM; and skin temperature while sleeping. The sensors in the band allow for continuous sleep monitoring, so customers get rich, detailed information without having to charge the band every day. In the morning, Amazon Halo delivers a sleep score out of 100, any deviation from baseline sleep temperature, and a hypnogram showing time spent in each sleep phase.</li><li><em>Body:</em> Medical research has shown for years that body fat percentage is a better measure of overall health than just weight or body mass index (BMI) alone, but the tools that measure body fat percentage can be expensive or difficult to access. Using new innovations in computer vision and machine learning, Amazon Halo lets customers measure their body fat percentage from the comfort and privacy of their own home, making this important information easily accessible. The Amazon Halo body fat measurement is as accurate as methods a doctor would use—and nearly twice as accurate as leading at-home smart scales. Learn more about the Body feature.</li><li><em>Tone:</em> The globally accepted definition of health includes not just physical but also social and emotional well-being. The innovative Tone feature uses machine learning to analyze energy and positivity in a customer's voice so they can better understand how they may sound to others, helping improve their communication and relationships. For example, Tone results may reveal that a difficult work call leads to less positivity in communication with a customer's family, an indication of the impact of stress on emotional well-being. Learn more about the Tone feature.</li><li><em>Labs: </em>AmazonHalo Labs are science-backed challenges, experiments, and workouts that allow customers to discover what works best for them specifically, so they can build healthier habits—for example, some customers might discover that cutting out afternoon caffeine improves their sleep quality, or that a certain type of at-home workout is more effective than others. Customers can choose from labs created by Amazon Halo experts, as well as brands and personalities they already know, including 8fit, Aaptiv, American Heart Association, Exhale On Demand, Harvard Health Publishing, Headspace, Julian Treasure, Lifesum, Mayo Clinic, Openfit, Orangetheory Fitness, P.volve, Russell Wilson, Relax Melodies, SWEAT, and WW. Additional content from more providers will be added to Labs regularly.</li></ul><p>"The American Heart Association is excited about technology that focuses on new and interesting ways for people to improve their cardiovascular health, quality of life, and healthy life years. We're thrilled to see companies like Amazon innovating in this space," said Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., MPH, Chief Medical Officer for Prevention, American Heart Association. "The Association is committed to helping people live longer, healthier lives—both physically and mentally. The first step is knowing your current status, and features like Body composition are important advances. Through our Center for Health Technology and Innovation, we are pleased to provide our evidence-based science as part of this solution, which we believe has the potential to drive behavior change towards healthier lives."</p><p>Privacy by Design</p><p>Privacy is foundational to Amazon Halo, and multiple layers of privacy and security are built into the service to keep data safe and in customers' control. Health data is encrypted in transit and in the cloud, and customers can download or delete their data at any time directly from the app. Body scan images are automatically deleted from the cloud after processing, so only the customer sees them. Tone is enabled by creating a personal voice profile, after which it begins capturing short samples of speech and providing insights and daily recaps. Speech samples are always analyzed locally on the customer's phone and automatically deleted after processing—nobody, not even the customer, ever hears them. Learn more about Amazon Halo privacy features.</p><p>Get More with Third Party Program Integrations</p><p>Amazon has collaborated with leading health and wellness companies to enable customers to connect their Amazon Halo account to third party programs for even more ways to enhance their health journey. Account linking occurs via the explicit opt-in of the Amazon Halo customer and they can opt back out any time directly from the Halo app.</p><p>Members of both WW (formerly Weight Watchers) and Amazon Halo can choose to link their accounts to share Halo Activity information, which the WW app translates to FitPoints. Amazon Halo members also have access to all of WW's labs any time in the Halo app. WW will offer a variety of promotions, including the ability to get a free Amazon Halo Band and 6 months of membership as part of signing up for a new WW membership. Learn more. "<em>WW is committed to inspiring healthy habits for real life and we are continuously looking for ways to enhance the WW ecosystem. The Amazon Halo Body composition tool is an important complement to weight measurement, and we are thrilled our members will have access to this information on a regular basis from the comfort and privacy of their own homes," said Mindy Grossman, CEO, WW. "WW members who previewed the Body feature said it was highly motivating in their journey and we are excited to offer WW members a more comprehensive understanding of their wellness through Amazon Halo."</em></p><p>Amazon Halo will be the featured complimentary wearable for the John Hancock Vitality wellness program, including three years of Halo membership. Vitality members can choose to link their Amazon Halo Band to their account to earn Vitality Points for the things they do to try to live longer, healthier lives. Learn more. <em>"At John Hancock, we are committed to helping our customers live longer, healthier lives. We know Amazon shares this goal and are excited to integrate with Amazon Halo and continue to transform the role our industry plays in our customers' lives," said Brooks Tingle, President and CEO, John Hancock Insurance. "This strategic endeavor allows us to offer our customers the latest in insights-driven personal health technology that can help them improve their overall wellness. We believe these enhancements will have a positive impact for our customers."</em></p><p>Amazon Halo is now integrated into Cerner solutions to enable consumers to easily share health information with their care teams and directly into their electronic health record (EHR). Amazon Halo members will be able to share their body fat percentage with participating care providers as well as activity and sleep data with Cerner Consumer Well-being programs. Sharp HealthCare is the first Cerner client to benefit from this collaboration. <em>"For more than 40 years, Cerner has ushered in health care's digital age by moving medical data from paper to electronic health records. Now we are seeking breakthrough innovation focused on making the health care experience more seamless and insightful," said Brent Shafer, Chairman and CEO, Cerner. "Integrating the revolutionary body fat percentage measurement from Amazon Halo directly into the EHR provides physicians an actionable and previously hard to obtain health metric without the need for a doctor's visit or costly technology. We believe our collaboration with Amazon Halo has the potential to improve the health of individuals and populations, reduce health care costs, and increase satisfaction for consumers and clinicians alike."</em></p><p>Pricing, Availability, and Colors</p><p>Customers in the U.S. can request early access to Amazon Halo starting today. Through the early access period, Amazon Halo will be available for a special price of $64.99 including 6 months of Halo membership (regular price: $99.99). The membership automatically renews for $3.99 per month after the initial 6 months. The membership unlocks access to all Amazon Halo features; non-members will have access to the basics, including steps, sleep time, and heart rate.</p><p>Customers can choose from three color combinations for their Amazon Halo Band: a Black fabric band with an Onyx sensor capsule, a Blush fabric band with a Rose Gold sensor capsule, or a Winter fabric band with a Silver sensor capsule. Customers can purchase fabric accessory bands for the special early access price of $19.99 each. Six additional fabric color options include: Denim, Hummingbird, Mint Edge, Olive, Unicorn, and Volcano. Customers can purchase sport accessory bands for the special early access price of $15.99 each, with nine color options available: Ash, Black, Dark Mint, Domino, Lavender, Pink Slate, Seafoam, Sunset, and White.</p><p>The Amazon Halo app is available on iOS and Android.</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Volume

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New Amazon EBS volume delivers 100x higher durability and 10x more IOPS-to-storage ratio at the same price of current comparable volumes Bristol Myers Squibb, Salesforce, Cloudreach, and Rapid7 among customers using Amazon EBS io2 volumes for their highest performance storage SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc., (AWS), an Amazon Company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of io2, the next generation Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The new io2 volume is designed for 100x higher volume durability (99.999%) when compared to the 99.9% durability offered by io1 Amazon EBS volumes. Higher volume durability reduces the likelihood of storage failures and makes the primary copy of customers' data more resilient, resulting in better application availability. With io2, customers can drive 10x higher input/output operations per second (IOPS) from their provisioned storage at the same price as io1, so performance improves significantly without increasing storage cost. io2 is ideal for performance-intensive, business critical applications that need higher availability like ERP, CRM, and online transaction systems and the databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Apache Cassandra, MySQL, and PostreSQL that back them. To get started with io2 volumes visit: https://aws.amazon.com/ebs. Amazon EBS already offers four different volume types at various price points and performance benchmarks to support virtually any application that customers want to run in the cloud, including relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, and big data analytics. Customers specifically choose io1 volumes (the previous highest performance EBS volumes) to run their critical, performance-intensive applications, like SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, Splunk, Apache Cassandra, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases. For these applications, customers want greater volume durability to improve the resiliency of their primary data and get better application availability. Additionally, to meet their IOPS requirements for these applications, customers often provision more storage than needed, resulting in higher spend than they would otherwise incur. For these applications, customers only want to provision and pay for the storage that they actually need. Next-generation io2 volumes are designed to deliver 100x higher volume durability (from 99.9% to 99.999%), enhancing availability of business-critical applications. io2 volumes are priced the same as io1 volumes, keeping the same predictable cost for EBS customers, but now support 10x higher IOPS-to-storage ratio and up to 500 IOPS for every provisioned GB, so that customers can get more performance without increasing their storage spend. Similar to io1, io2 is designed to provide maximum performance of 64,000 IOPS, 1000 MB/s throughput, and single-digit millisecond latencies. Customers can create new io2 volumes or easily upgrade their existing volumes to io2 volumes using Elastic Volumes, which customers use modify the volume type without any downtime for applications running on their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. "Customers rely on highly durable AWS block storage to keep their business-critical applications running at any scale," said Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President, Block and Object Storage, AWS. "Today, we are excited to announce new high durability io2 volumes, that provide existing customers 100x higher volume durability than io1 at no additional cost. For new customers where five nines of storage durability is critical to migrate on-premises business critical applications to AWS, io2 brings together performance, durability, and agility all in a single EBS volume." Customers can create new io2 volumes with just a few clicks using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, or AWS SDKs. io2 volumes are available today in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain), with more regions coming soon. Bristol Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. "We love the performance benefits of io1 and use it for simulations that require high storage performance," said Mohammad Shaikh, Director, Scientific Computing Services, Cloud Computing & DevOps, at Bristol Myers Squibb. "However, we need to provision more storage to meet the IOPS requirements, adding to our cost. But with the 10x increase in IOPS per GB ratio, we can easily enable peak performance at a much lower cost than we ever could with traditional SAN hardware vendors." Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, internet of things, artificial intelligence, voice, and blockchain—to create a 360° view of their customers. "Our commitment to our core value of customer success includes ensuring Salesforce applications are available whenever our customers need them," said Paul Constantinides, Executive Vice President of Engineering, at Salesforce. "Delivering an always-on experience requires highly reliable storage. With AWS and EBS new io2 volumes designed for five nines durability, we will continue to meet and exceed our customers' expectations." Cloudreach, a Blackstone portfolio company, specializes in implementing and managing public cloud solutions for enterprise customers across Europe and North America. "Cloudreach has been using AWS for over a decade, and we love the incredible innovation shown by Amazon EBS in terms of feature releases and the ability to act on customer requests. The impact of downtime for our customers is high, and io1 volumes have been great in minimizing these risks. We rely on AWS' Multi-AZ architecture to keep our platforms running 24x7, but with increased volume durability we can further improve our application uptime," said Chris Bunch, GM for the AWS Practice at Cloudreach. "io2 is awesome for us, because the 100x higher volume durability further reduces the risk of downtime, and the new IOPS to GB ratio means we're actually paying less for performance per GB." Rapid7 is a leading provider of cloud security analytics and automation. "Historically, we've used EBS gp2 volumes to deliver block storage at low cost for our Product Analytics platform, which analyzes customer behavior to help us make more intelligent product decisions and innovate faster. As our customer base has grown, we have started relying more and more on the availability of this platform to guide our strategic decisions. So, higher volume durability is critical for minimizing any downtime," said Ulrich Dangel, Principal Infrastructure Architect, at Rapid7. "We love that in addition to gp2 volumes for our general purpose storage for EC2 instance, we now have the option of using io2 volumes for our highest performance applications, which have helped us increase our data durability by 100x without redesigning the platform." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200824005653/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New Amazon EBS volume delivers 100x higher durability and 10x more IOPS-to-storage ratio at the same price of current comparable volumes</em></p><p><em>Bristol Myers Squibb, Salesforce, Cloudreach, and Rapid7 among customers using Amazon EBS io2 volumes for their highest performance storage</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc., (AWS), an Amazon Company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of io2, the next generation Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The new io2 volume is designed for 100x higher volume durability (99.999%) when compared to the 99.9% durability offered by io1 Amazon EBS volumes. Higher volume durability reduces the likelihood of storage failures and makes the primary copy of customers' data more resilient, resulting in better application availability. With io2, customers can drive 10x higher input/output operations per second (IOPS) from their provisioned storage at the same price as io1, so performance improves significantly without increasing storage cost. io2 is ideal for performance-intensive, business critical applications that need higher availability like ERP, CRM, and online transaction systems and the databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Apache Cassandra, MySQL, and PostreSQL that back them. To get started with io2 volumes visit: https://aws.amazon.com/ebs.</p><p>Amazon EBS already offers four different volume types at various price points and performance benchmarks to support virtually any application that customers want to run in the cloud, including relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, and big data analytics. Customers specifically choose io1 volumes (the previous highest performance EBS volumes) to run their critical, performance-intensive applications, like SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, Splunk, Apache Cassandra, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases. For these applications, customers want greater volume durability to improve the resiliency of their primary data and get better application availability. Additionally, to meet their IOPS requirements for these applications, customers often provision more storage than needed, resulting in higher spend than they would otherwise incur. For these applications, customers only want to provision and pay for the storage that they actually need.</p><p>Next-generation io2 volumes are designed to deliver 100x higher volume durability (from 99.9% to 99.999%), enhancing availability of business-critical applications. io2 volumes are priced the same as io1 volumes, keeping the same predictable cost for EBS customers, but now support 10x higher IOPS-to-storage ratio and up to 500 IOPS for every provisioned GB, so that customers can get more performance without increasing their storage spend. Similar to io1, io2 is designed to provide maximum performance of 64,000 IOPS, 1000 MB/s throughput, and single-digit millisecond latencies. Customers can create new io2 volumes or easily upgrade their existing volumes to io2 volumes using Elastic Volumes, which customers use modify the volume type without any downtime for applications running on their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.</p><p>"Customers rely on highly durable AWS block storage to keep their business-critical applications running at any scale," said Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President, Block and Object Storage, AWS. "Today, we are excited to announce new high durability io2 volumes, that provide existing customers 100x higher volume durability than io1 at no additional cost. For new customers where five nines of storage durability is critical to migrate on-premises business critical applications to AWS, io2 brings together performance, durability, and agility all in a single EBS volume."</p><p>Customers can create new io2 volumes with just a few clicks using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, or AWS SDKs. io2 volumes are available today in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain), with more regions coming soon.</p><p>Bristol Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. "We love the performance benefits of io1 and use it for simulations that require high storage performance," said Mohammad Shaikh, Director, Scientific Computing Services, Cloud Computing &amp; DevOps, at Bristol Myers Squibb. "However, we need to provision more storage to meet the IOPS requirements, adding to our cost. But with the 10x increase in IOPS per GB ratio, we can easily enable peak performance at a much lower cost than we ever could with traditional SAN hardware vendors."</p><p>Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, internet of things, artificial intelligence, voice, and blockchain—to create a 360° view of their customers. "Our commitment to our core value of customer success includes ensuring Salesforce applications are available whenever our customers need them," said Paul Constantinides, Executive Vice President of Engineering, at Salesforce. "Delivering an always-on experience requires highly reliable storage. With AWS and EBS new io2 volumes designed for five nines durability, we will continue to meet and exceed our customers' expectations."</p><p>Cloudreach, a Blackstone portfolio company, specializes in implementing and managing public cloud solutions for enterprise customers across Europe and North America. "Cloudreach has been using AWS for over a decade, and we love the incredible innovation shown by Amazon EBS in terms of feature releases and the ability to act on customer requests. The impact of downtime for our customers is high, and io1 volumes have been great in minimizing these risks. We rely on AWS' Multi-AZ architecture to keep our platforms running 24x7, but with increased volume durability we can further improve our application uptime," said Chris Bunch, GM for the AWS Practice at Cloudreach. "io2 is awesome for us, because the 100x higher volume durability further reduces the risk of downtime, and the new IOPS to GB ratio means we're actually paying less for performance per GB."</p><p>Rapid7 is a leading provider of cloud security analytics and automation. "Historically, we've used EBS gp2 volumes to deliver block storage at low cost for our Product Analytics platform, which analyzes customer behavior to help us make more intelligent product decisions and innovate faster. As our customer base has grown, we have started relying more and more on the availability of this platform to guide our strategic decisions. So, higher volume durability is critical for minimizing any downtime," said Ulrich Dangel, Principal Infrastructure Architect, at Rapid7. "We love that in addition to gp2 volumes for our general purpose storage for EC2 instance, we now have the option of using io2 volumes for our highest performance applications, which have helped us increase our data durability by 100x without redesigning the platform."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200824005653/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Supports Resolution of 3M Case Against Fraudsters

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Amazon Supports Resolution of 3M Case Against Fraudsters

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Amazon and 3M Make Donation to COVID-19 Related Charity What: Yesterday, 3M announced the resolution of a lawsuit against numerous defendants alleging fraudulent activity including overcharging for fake, defective, or damaged respirator products in Amazon's stores. 3M and Amazon collaborated to identify and stop the fraudulent scheme and pursue legal action against the defendants. The resolution of this lawsuit will result in a donation by 3M and Amazon of more than $192,000 recovered from the defendants to Direct Relief's non-profit work to Provide PPE to health workers. You can see the announcement here: https://news.3m.com/English/press-releases/press-releases-details/2020/3M-Stops-Fake-N95-Scheme-Resolving-Lawsuit-Claims-Against-Sellers-on-Amazon/default.aspx You can see the original lawsuit announcement here: https://news.3m.com/English/press-releases/press-releases-details/2020/3M-Sues-Seller-on-Amazon-Who-Charged-Grossly-Inflated-Prices-for-Fake-Defective-and-Damaged-N95-Respirators-Falsely-Advertised-Under-3M-Brand/default.aspx Amazon has an extensive history of protecting consumers against price gouging as well as brands and their IP: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/price-gouging-has-no-place-in-our-stores https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/its-time-for-congress-to-establish-a-federal-price-gouging-law https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-partners-pfizer-3m-citi-alibaba-amazon-merck-protect-consumers-against-covid-19

<p><em>Amazon and 3M Make Donation to COVID-19 Related Charity</em></p><p>What: Yesterday, 3M announced the resolution of a lawsuit against numerous defendants alleging fraudulent activity including overcharging for fake, defective, or damaged respirator products in Amazon's stores.</p><p>3M and Amazon collaborated to identify and stop the fraudulent scheme and pursue legal action against the defendants. The resolution of this lawsuit will result in a donation by 3M and Amazon of more than $192,000 recovered from the defendants to Direct Relief's non-profit work to Provide PPE to health workers.</p><p>You can see the announcement here: https://news.3m.com/English/press-releases/press-releases-details/2020/3M-Stops-Fake-N95-Scheme-Resolving-Lawsuit-Claims-Against-Sellers-on-Amazon/default.aspx</p><p>You can see the original lawsuit announcement here: https://news.3m.com/English/press-releases/press-releases-details/2020/3M-Sues-Seller-on-Amazon-Who-Charged-Grossly-Inflated-Prices-for-Fake-Defective-and-Damaged-N95-Respirators-Falsely-Advertised-Under-3M-Brand/default.aspx</p><p>Amazon has an extensive history of protecting consumers against price gouging as well as brands and their IP:</p><ul><li>https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/price-gouging-has-no-place-in-our-stores</li><li>https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/its-time-for-congress-to-establish-a-federal-price-gouging-law</li><li>https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-partners-pfizer-3m-citi-alibaba-amazon-merck-protect-consumers-against-covid-19</li></ul>

Amazon Supports Investigation and Prosecution of Four New York Defendants Charged in Fraud Scheme

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Amazon Supports Investigation and Prosecution of Four New York Defendants Charged in Fraud Scheme

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc.: What: The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York today brought charges against four individuals for wire fraud and money laundering. Amazon supported this lengthy investigation and the four defendants were arrested this morning. You can see the Indictment and related press release here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/four-individuals-charged-19-million-fraudulent-invoicing-scheme-targeting-amazon-s Statement from Amazon: "Amazon is grateful to have worked with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, the Department of Homeland Security, and Homeland Security Investigations on their vigorous prosecution of these individuals," said Cristina Posa, Associate General Counsel and Director of the Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit. "While our proactive controls ensure the vast majority of sellers in our store are honest entrepreneurs, fraudsters attempt to violate our policies, victimize our customers, and damage our store, and we look forward to working with law enforcement agencies to hold these bad actors accountable for their illegal activities." Amazon has an extensive history of protecting its customers from fraud and abuse: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes https://news.3m.com/English/press-releases/press-releases-details/2020/3M-Sues-Seller-on-Amazon-Who-Charged-Grossly-Inflated-Prices-for-Fake-Defective-and-Damaged-N95-Respirators-Falsely-Advertised-Under-3M-Brand/default.aspx https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-launches-counterfeit-crimes-unit-to-target-bogus-products-sellers View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200819005770/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc.:</p><p>What:</p><p>The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York today brought charges against four individuals for wire fraud and money laundering. Amazon supported this lengthy investigation and the four defendants were arrested this morning.</p><p>You can see the Indictment and related press release here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/four-individuals-charged-19-million-fraudulent-invoicing-scheme-targeting-amazon-s</p><p>Statement from Amazon:</p><p>"Amazon is grateful to have worked with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, the Department of Homeland Security, and Homeland Security Investigations on their vigorous prosecution of these individuals," said Cristina Posa, Associate General Counsel and Director of the Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit. "While our proactive controls ensure the vast majority of sellers in our store are honest entrepreneurs, fraudsters attempt to violate our policies, victimize our customers, and damage our store, and we look forward to working with law enforcement agencies to hold these bad actors accountable for their illegal activities."</p><p>Amazon has an extensive history of protecting its customers from fraud and abuse:</p><ul><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes</li><li>https://news.3m.com/English/press-releases/press-releases-details/2020/3M-Sues-Seller-on-Amazon-Who-Charged-Grossly-Inflated-Prices-for-Fake-Defective-and-Damaged-N95-Respirators-Falsely-Advertised-Under-3M-Brand/default.aspx</li><li>https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-launches-counterfeit-crimes-unit-to-target-bogus-products-sellers</li></ul><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200819005770/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon to add thousands of jobs to Phoenix metro area

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08/19/2020

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New sites supporting operations network to open throughout the Valley by end of 2020; more to come in 2021 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced 11 new sites across the Phoenix metro area expected to be open by the end of 2020 to support customer fulfillment and delivery operations. The new sites are expected to create more than 3,000 new full- and part-time jobs with a minimum $15 per hour wage and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. The news follows Amazon's recent announcement of the company's Phoenix Tech Hub expansion at 100 Mill, which will bring more than 500 new jobs to the community. "This is big news, not only for the Phoenix area, but for the entire state of Arizona," said Governor Doug Ducey. "Amazon employs thousands of people in our state, and the company's decision to expand their operations here will create thousands more job opportunities for our citizens. We are grateful for Amazon's continued investment in Arizona." The new sites include seven delivery stations and two additional facilities that support fulfillment operations in Avondale, Chandler, Goodyear, Mesa, Phoenix and Tempe. Delivery stations power the last mile of Amazon's order fulfillment process. These sites will create hundreds of permanent, full-time and part-time jobs, in addition to offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to build their own small business delivering Amazon packages, and independent contractors the flexibility to be their own boss and create their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex. "Efficient delivery services are more critical now than ever, and this significant Amazon expansion will not only greatly enhance last mile fulfillment in greater Phoenix but will also create thousands of jobs for our residents," said Sandra Watson, Arizona Commerce Authority President & CEO. "We thank the team at Amazon for continuing to create new opportunities for employment in Arizona while providing exemplary customer service to our residents." Amazon's first cross-dock facility in the state is also slated to open by year's end in Phoenix with 1,000 full-time positions. The 600,000 square-foot building will support customer fulfillment by receiving large orders of inventory and redistributing products to fulfillment centers across the company's operations network. "We're grateful Amazon continues to intentionally invest in Greater Phoenix and creates an abundance of job opportunities for residents at a critical juncture," said Chris Camacho, president and CEO, Greater Phoenix Economic Council. "Their commitment to giving back to their employees and the community is indicative of the spirit of Greater Phoenix, making for a long-term successful partnership." Construction is also underway on an 855,000 square-foot fulfillment center in Goodyear, where employees will work alongside Amazon robotics to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys. The site, expected to launch by the end of the year, will create more than 1,000 new full-time jobs. In 2021, Amazon will launch additional sites to support customer fulfillment and operations, including a cross-dock facility in Goodyear and a delivery station in Surprise, creating more than 1,000 full-time jobs in the West Valley. "We're proud to be growing in the Phoenix metro area, where we opened our first fulfillment center in the state more than 13 years ago with just 300 full-time employees. We now have more than 17,500 full- and part-time Amazon employees who call Arizona home," said Matthew High, Regional Director, Amazon Fulfillment. "We greatly appreciate the strong, long-standing support we've received from local and state leaders as we continue to grow. We're excited to create 3,000 new full- and part-time jobs across the Valley, with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one." On top of Amazon's minimum $15 per hour wage, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families. All associates go through hours of safety training and ongoing coaching and have access to continuing education opportunities through Amazon's upskilling programs, such as Career Choice, in which the company will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program's launch, more than 25,000 employees have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few. In addition, Amazon has pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in-demand jobs. The programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. Amazon's facilities all follow health and safety protocols, including social distancing guidelines. Across operations, Amazon has invested more than $800 million dollars in the first half of this year on safety measures like temperature checks, masks, enhanced cleaning, gloves, sanitation stations, and onsite testing, to name a few. For more information about current job openings in the Phoenix metro area, visit www.amazon.com/phoenixjobs. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. 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<p><em>New sites supporting operations network to open throughout the Valley by end of 2020; more to come in 2021</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced 11 new sites across the Phoenix metro area expected to be open by the end of 2020 to support customer fulfillment and delivery operations. The new sites are expected to create more than 3,000 new full- and part-time jobs with a minimum $15 per hour wage and comprehensive benefits starting on day one.</p><p>The news follows Amazon's recent announcement of the company's Phoenix Tech Hub expansion at 100 Mill, which will bring more than 500 new jobs to the community.</p><p>"This is big news, not only for the Phoenix area, but for the entire state of Arizona," said Governor Doug Ducey. "Amazon employs thousands of people in our state, and the company's decision to expand their operations here will create thousands more job opportunities for our citizens. We are grateful for Amazon's continued investment in Arizona."</p><p>The new sites include seven delivery stations and two additional facilities that support fulfillment operations in Avondale, Chandler, Goodyear, Mesa, Phoenix and Tempe. Delivery stations power the last mile of Amazon's order fulfillment process. These sites will create hundreds of permanent, full-time and part-time jobs, in addition to offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to build their own small business delivering Amazon packages, and independent contractors the flexibility to be their own boss and create their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex.</p><p>"Efficient delivery services are more critical now than ever, and this significant Amazon expansion will not only greatly enhance last mile fulfillment in greater Phoenix but will also create thousands of jobs for our residents," said Sandra Watson, Arizona Commerce Authority President &amp; CEO. "We thank the team at Amazon for continuing to create new opportunities for employment in Arizona while providing exemplary customer service to our residents."</p><p>Amazon's first cross-dock facility in the state is also slated to open by year's end in Phoenix with 1,000 full-time positions. The 600,000 square-foot building will support customer fulfillment by receiving large orders of inventory and redistributing products to fulfillment centers across the company's operations network.</p><p>"We're grateful Amazon continues to intentionally invest in Greater Phoenix and creates an abundance of job opportunities for residents at a critical juncture," said Chris Camacho, president and CEO, Greater Phoenix Economic Council. "Their commitment to giving back to their employees and the community is indicative of the spirit of Greater Phoenix, making for a long-term successful partnership."</p><p>Construction is also underway on an 855,000 square-foot fulfillment center in Goodyear, where employees will work alongside Amazon robotics to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys. The site, expected to launch by the end of the year, will create more than 1,000 new full-time jobs.</p><p>In 2021, Amazon will launch additional sites to support customer fulfillment and operations, including a cross-dock facility in Goodyear and a delivery station in Surprise, creating more than 1,000 full-time jobs in the West Valley.</p><p>"We're proud to be growing in the Phoenix metro area, where we opened our first fulfillment center in the state more than 13 years ago with just 300 full-time employees. We now have more than 17,500 full- and part-time Amazon employees who call Arizona home," said Matthew High, Regional Director, Amazon Fulfillment. "We greatly appreciate the strong, long-standing support we've received from local and state leaders as we continue to grow. We're excited to create 3,000 new full- and part-time jobs across the Valley, with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one."</p><p>On top of Amazon's minimum $15 per hour wage, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families.</p><p>All associates go through hours of safety training and ongoing coaching and have access to continuing education opportunities through Amazon's upskilling programs, such as Career Choice, in which the company will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program's launch, more than 25,000 employees have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few.</p><p>In addition, Amazon has pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in-demand jobs. The programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>Amazon's facilities all follow health and safety protocols, including social distancing guidelines. Across operations, Amazon has invested more than $800 million dollars in the first half of this year on safety measures like temperature checks, masks, enhanced cleaning, gloves, sanitation stations, and onsite testing, to name a few.</p><p>For more information about current job openings in the Phoenix metro area, visit www.amazon.com/phoenixjobs.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200819005204/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com</p>

Amazon Announces Plans to Create 3,500 New Jobs in U.S. Tech Hubs in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York, Phoenix, and San Diego

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Amazon Announces Plans to Create 3,500 New Jobs in U.S. Tech Hubs in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York, Phoenix, and San Diego

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In addition to these future plans, the company is currently hiring for nearly 20,000 positions in the U.S., drawing from diverse pools of talent to fill roles across tech, corporate and customer fulfillment – candidates can apply here  Amazon has invested more than $350 billion in the United States since 2010, including infrastructure and compensation SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to create 3,500 new tech and corporate jobs across six cities in the United States. The company will expand its Tech Hubs in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York (Manhattan), Phoenix, and San Diego. Amazon will invest more than $1.4 billion in these new offices, which will host teams supporting businesses across the company. "People from all walks of life come to Amazon to develop their career – from recent graduates looking for a place to turn their ideas into high-impact products, to veterans accessing new jobs in cloud computing thanks to our upskilling programs," said Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Amazon. "These 3,500 new jobs will be in cities across the country with strong and diverse talent pools. We look forward to helping these communities grow their emerging tech workforce." Teams in these cities will support various businesses across Amazon, including AWS, Alexa, Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, OpsTech and Amazon Fresh, among others. The company expects to hire for a variety of roles, from cloud infrastructure architects and software engineers to data scientists, product managers, and user experience designers. Amazon's Tech Hub and corporate office expansions include: Dallas, TX - Amazon will expand the existing Dallas Tech Hub at its Galleria location in North Dallas, adding more than 100,000 square feet of space and 600 tech and corporate roles. Currently, Amazon employs 43,000 workers across the state of Texas. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $16 billion in the state. Detroit, MI – The acquisition of more than 25,000 square feet of office space in Detroit will provide space for an additional 100 jobs. Amazon has invested more than $2.5 billion in the state of Michigan since 2010 and employs more than 13,000 workers across the state. Denver, CO – Amazon's Denver Tech Hub will grow by an additional 100 jobs with the addition of 20,000 square feet of new office space. The roles will join the already existing 10,500 Amazon employees working in Colorado. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $2.8 billion in the state of Colorado. New York City, NY - In Manhattan, Amazon plans to create 2,000 new jobs and has acquired the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building, where the company plans to open a new 630,000 square foot office. Amazon has invested more than $7 billion in the state of New York since 2010 and currently employs 24,000 workers across the state. Phoenix, AZ - The company's 90,000 square foot Phoenix Tech Hub expansion at 100 Mill will bring more than 500 new jobs to the community. Amazon has invested more than $11 billion in Arizona since 2010 and directly employs more than 17,000 people across the state. San Diego, CA - In San Diego, an addition of more than 40,000 square feet of office space will allow for the creation of 200 new jobs. These new roles will join the 90,000 Amazon employees already working across the state of California. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $50 billion in California. Since 2010, Amazon has directly created more than 600,000 jobs in the U.S, and invested more than $350 billion across more than 40 states, including infrastructure and compensation. We estimate that Amazon's direct investments have contributed an additional $315 billion to the U.S economy over the last decade and supported more than 780,000 jobs on top of the company's direct hires in industries like construction, logistics or professional services. With more than 876,000 employees worldwide, Amazon has been recognized on LinkedIn's Top Companies list and considered one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune. The company also received a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. On top of highly competitive salaries and full benefits from day one, Amazon offers a wide range of programs to equip employees with the skills for new, in-demand jobs – from paid cloud computing apprenticeships, to Amazon Technical Academy to its innovative Career Choice initiative, which prepays 95 percent of the cost of tuition to pursue continuing education courses in in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. All of these programs are part of Upskilling 2025, a $700 million commitment by Amazon to support all employees looking to move into higher-skill, better-paying roles. To apply for a job at Amazon, visit www.amazon.jobs. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200818005306/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>In addition to these future plans, the company is currently hiring for nearly 20,000 positions in the U.S., drawing from diverse pools of talent to fill roles across tech, corporate and customer fulfillment – candidates can apply here </em></p><p><em>Amazon has invested more than $350 billion in the United States since 2010, including infrastructure and compensation</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to create 3,500 new tech and corporate jobs across six cities in the United States. The company will expand its Tech Hubs in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York (Manhattan), Phoenix, and San Diego. Amazon will invest more than $1.4 billion in these new offices, which will host teams supporting businesses across the company.</p><p>"People from all walks of life come to Amazon to develop their career – from recent graduates looking for a place to turn their ideas into high-impact products, to veterans accessing new jobs in cloud computing thanks to our upskilling programs," said Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Amazon. "These 3,500 new jobs will be in cities across the country with strong and diverse talent pools. We look forward to helping these communities grow their emerging tech workforce."</p><p>Teams in these cities will support various businesses across Amazon, including AWS, Alexa, Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, OpsTech and Amazon Fresh, among others. The company expects to hire for a variety of roles, from cloud infrastructure architects and software engineers to data scientists, product managers, and user experience designers.</p><p>Amazon's Tech Hub and corporate office expansions include:</p><ul><li>Dallas, TX - Amazon will expand the existing Dallas Tech Hub at its Galleria location in North Dallas, adding more than 100,000 square feet of space and 600 tech and corporate roles. Currently, Amazon employs 43,000 workers across the state of Texas. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $16 billion in the state.</li><li>Detroit, MI – The acquisition of more than 25,000 square feet of office space in Detroit will provide space for an additional 100 jobs. Amazon has invested more than $2.5 billion in the state of Michigan since 2010 and employs more than 13,000 workers across the state.</li><li>Denver, CO – Amazon's Denver Tech Hub will grow by an additional 100 jobs with the addition of 20,000 square feet of new office space. The roles will join the already existing 10,500 Amazon employees working in Colorado. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $2.8 billion in the state of Colorado.</li><li>New York City, NY - In Manhattan, Amazon plans to create 2,000 new jobs and has acquired the Lord &amp; Taylor Fifth Avenue building, where the company plans to open a new 630,000 square foot office. Amazon has invested more than $7 billion in the state of New York since 2010 and currently employs 24,000 workers across the state.</li><li>Phoenix, AZ - The company's 90,000 square foot Phoenix Tech Hub expansion at 100 Mill will bring more than 500 new jobs to the community. Amazon has invested more than $11 billion in Arizona since 2010 and directly employs more than 17,000 people across the state.</li><li>San Diego, CA - In San Diego, an addition of more than 40,000 square feet of office space will allow for the creation of 200 new jobs. These new roles will join the 90,000 Amazon employees already working across the state of California. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $50 billion in California.</li></ul><p>Since 2010, Amazon has directly created more than 600,000 jobs in the U.S, and invested more than $350 billion across more than 40 states, including infrastructure and compensation. We estimate that Amazon's direct investments have contributed an additional $315 billion to the U.S economy over the last decade and supported more than 780,000 jobs on top of the company's direct hires in industries like construction, logistics or professional services.</p><p>With more than 876,000 employees worldwide, Amazon has been recognized on LinkedIn's Top Companies list and considered one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune. The company also received a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. On top of highly competitive salaries and full benefits from day one, Amazon offers a wide range of programs to equip employees with the skills for new, in-demand jobs – from paid cloud computing apprenticeships, to Amazon Technical Academy to its innovative Career Choice initiative, which prepays 95 percent of the cost of tuition to pursue continuing education courses in in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. All of these programs are part of Upskilling 2025, a $700 million commitment by Amazon to support all employees looking to move into higher-skill, better-paying roles.</p><p>To apply for a job at Amazon, visit www.amazon.jobs.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200818005306/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Braket

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Amazon Braket helps developers and researchers get started with quantum computing, providing development tools, simulators, and access to a diverse set of quantum hardware Fidelity Investments, Volkswagen, Enel, University of Waterloo, Rahko, and Qu & Co among organizations using Amazon Braket SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a fully managed AWS service that provides a development environment to help customers explore and design quantum algorithms. Customers can use Amazon Braket to test and troubleshoot quantum algorithms on simulated quantum computers running on computing resources in AWS to help them verify their implementation. When ready, customers can use Amazon Braket to run their quantum algorithms on their choice of quantum processors based on different technologies, including systems from D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti. Both simulated and quantum hardware jobs are managed through a unified development experience, and customers pay only for the compute resources used. To get started with Amazon Braket visit: https://aws.amazon.com/braket This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200813005776/en/ Amazon Braket console (Graphic: Business Wire) Quantum computing has the potential to solve computational problems that are beyond the reach of classical computers by harnessing the laws of quantum mechanics to build more powerful tools for processing information. It has the potential to lead to new scientific discoveries that could transform energy storage, chemical engineering, drug discovery, financial portfolio optimization, machine learning, and much more. Today, making meaningful advances in quantum computing requires organizations to develop in-house expertise and seek out access to limited quantum hardware. Researchers who are interested in experimenting across a range of quantum hardware and technologies need to setup and manage the necessary infrastructure, negotiate access with multiple vendors, and write custom code to interface with different quantum processors. Having access to quantum hardware and managed infrastructure would help enterprises evaluate how quantum computing may eventually impact their businesses so they can begin to build the necessary skills to explore new opportunities. Managed quantum infrastructure from a range of hardware providers would also help facilitate research and education in quantum technologies that may accelerate new breakthroughs and the quantum computers of the future. Amazon Braket helps overcome these challenges by enabling developers and researchers in academia and industry to explore and evaluate quantum computing using the same, consistent experience AWS offers its customers today. Amazon Braket lets customers get started quickly, using familiar tools like Jupyter notebooks to access pre-installed developer tools that can be used to design quantum algorithms, visualize results, and collaborate with others. Amazon Braket offers cross-platform developer tools that let customers design their own quantum algorithms or choose from a growing library of pre-built algorithms, providing a consistent experience so that customers no longer need to learn multiple development environments. Customers can run, test, and troubleshoot their algorithms on quantum computer simulators that use Amazon EC2 computing resources. When ready, customers can then run their algorithm on the quantum computer of their choice without having to engage multiple providers or committing to a single technology. Today, Amazon Braket customers can choose superconducting quantum annealers from D-Wave, trapped ion processors from IonQ, or superconducting quantum processors from Rigetti. In addition to running quantum algorithms, customers can also use Amazon Braket to run hybrid algorithms, where the combined use of quantum and classical computing systems can help overcome the limitations that are inherent in today's quantum technology. "As we see quantum computing technologies make more meaningful progress, thousands of customers are asking for ways to experiment with quantum computers to explore the technology's potential and contribute to its development," said Bill Vass, Vice President, Technology, at AWS. "The cloud will be the main way that customers access quantum computers and combine those systems with high-performance classical computing for certain types of computationally-intensive research. Amazon Braket makes it easy for organizations to begin experimenting with quantum computing today—from those just beginning to explore the possibilities to those that are already familiar with different quantum technologies and are ready to use it as a research tool. Our goal for Amazon Braket is to be a catalyst for innovation across the quantum community, bringing together hardware and software developers, researchers, and end users." Amazon Braket is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions, with more regions planned for the future. The Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) is a catalyst for breakthrough ideas, contributing to a successful future for Fidelity and its customers. FCAT teams track emerging social and tech trends, test product concepts and ideas, and build scalable solutions that support more efficient operations and enhance customer satisfaction. "Amazon Braket enables FCAT to develop hardware-agnostic software so we can easily switch to new quantum systems as they become available. We're able to research the strengths of different quantum backends, build hybrid classical-to-quantum, and quantum-to-quantum workflows," said Adam Schouela, Head of Emerging Technology at the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology. "FCAT worked with Amazon's Quantum Solutions Lab to create proofs-of-concept that push the boundaries of what is possible today with cloud-based quantum computers for the financial sector, as part of our broader efforts to be able to quickly deliver innovative solutions to help meet the rapidly evolving needs of our customers." Volkswagen Group is one of the world's largest producers of passenger cars and Europe's largest automaker. "At Volkswagen, we want to gain in-depth understanding of the meaningful use of quantum computing in a corporate environment. The key will be the testing and continuous further development of algorithms on various quantum computers," said Florian Neukart, Director Advanced Technologies and IT Strategy, Volkswagen Group of America. "For the first time, Amazon Braket makes it possible to address and use quantum computers of different service providers via a standardized programming interface. This offers considerable opportunities for accelerating development work and improving our quantum algorithms. We are convinced that Amazon Braket can help deliver the benefits of quantum computing to society and industry even faster." Enel is a multinational power company and a leading integrated player in the global power, gas and renewables markets. It is present in over 30 countries worldwide, producing energy with over 88 GW of managed capacity. "Enel distributes electricity through a network of over 2.2 million kilometers and with around 74 million business and household end users worldwide. Because of our wide service network, the ability to optimize our resource planning is an essential component of digital transformation, and one that we can turn into a concrete advantage," said Fabio Veronese, Head of Infrastructure & Networks Digital Hub, Enel S.p.A. "During a collaboration with DATA Reply and AWS, we have tested innovative techniques to perform optimization using Amazon EC2 resources, as well as today's quantum computers through Amazon Braket. These techniques are promising, and we expect they will lead to solutions that can deliver savings to our operations, especially over time as quantum hardware matures." Amgen is one of the world's leading biotechnology companies, with a presence in approximately 100 countries. The firm focuses on the discovery, development, and manufacturing of innovative medicines. "Quantum computing has the potential to outperform existing computational methods when it comes to important questions in drug discovery. In fact, the computational demand of running accurate quantum calculations scales quickly out of reach for classical computers as the size of the molecular system in our research increases, and we must resort to approximations that sacrifice accuracy for efficiency," according to Yax Sun, Director and Narbe Mardirossian, Scientist, at Amgen. "By collaborating with the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab and QSimulate, we've been able to quickly build and test a cloud-based approach using multiple compute resources on AWS for a critical drug discovery process--a process we plan to transition to a quantum computer in the future when it is practical. Looking ahead, Amazon Braket has the potential to substantially benefit the research and scientific community by providing on-demand access to quantum computing technologies and accelerate innovation in biotechnology." The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is a world-leading quantum institute at the University of Waterloo. IQC is advancing the field of quantum information at the highest international level to discover and develop powerful new quantum technologies that will drive future economies. "While it's hard to predict which products and sectors will be disrupted the most by quantum computation, or when the disruptions will happen, there is great risk in being caught off-guard and great opportunity in managing the uncertainties wisely. The wise path involves continually exploring where the algorithmic advantages may lie and being ready to run on whichever quantum computer offers the resources needed to achieve the advantage," said Michele Mosca, Full Professor at the University of Waterloo. "A quantum computing service, like Amazon Braket, that offers ready access to multiple hardware devices enables quantum readiness and agility." Rahko is a London-based quantum machine learning company that is focused on chemical simulation for drugs, batteries, advanced materials and chemicals. "Quantum computing is enabling us to support customers to advance development in areas such as drug discovery and development, battery tech, and material science," said Miriam Cha, Chief Operating Officer, Rahko. "Working with Amazon Braket and with the support from the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab, the Rahko-led consortium with Johnson Matthey, King's College London, and the National Physical Laboratory, was awarded an Innovate UK Grant for Quantifi, a project focused on bringing near-term quantum computing capability to material science. The ability to model materials at the quantum level will allow us to pave the way for significant advance across many critical research areas." Qu & Co supports organizations' in-house discovery and optimization activities by developing novel quantum-computational chemistry methods and integrating those with customers' existing computational-chemistry and material-science workflows. "We are focused on delivering practical quantum-computational approaches for our clients' most challenging computational workflows," said Benno Broer, CEO of Qu & Co. "For this purpose, we evaluated different quantum software development platforms. Our experience developing our novel algorithms for quantum machine learning and computational chemistry with the new Amazon Braket service has been very positive. Amazon Braket promises a solid integration between classical and quantum hardware, and gives us a hardware-agnostic development environment, classical simulators, and access to different quantum computers. From that same AWS cloud environment, we can apply tools such as Amazon SageMaker to innovate on behalf of our customers." D-Wave Systems is a leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software and services and is the world's first commercial supplier of quantum computers. Its mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing for the world. "We share the goal with AWS to explore the practical, real-world applications that deliver customer value," said Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave. "And as a systems partner of Amazon Braket, we expect that its general availability will continue to drive the growth of the developer community and fuel innovations of pragmatic solutions in quantum computing." IonQ, a leader in universal quantum computing, takes a trapped-ion approach to quantum computing that frame its process around nature, using identical individual atoms that act as the building blocks for quantum processing units. "With the general availability of Amazon Braket, our quantum computers will be commercially available to the public for the first time," said Peter Chapman, President and CEO of IonQ. "Our trapped-ion technology is backed by decades of scientific progress, and we are excited that more customers than ever can access our ion-based computers through AWS to scale their use of this technology." Rigetti builds superconducting quantum computing systems and delivers access to them over the cloud. Rigetti systems are optimized for integration with existing computing infrastructure and tailored to support the development of practical software and applications. "Building useful quantum applications benefits from state-of-the-art access to quantum hardware," said Chad Rigetti, founder and CEO of Rigetti Computing. "AWS customers can now access our most advanced processor to date, Aspen-8, based on our 32-qubit node technology. By delivering access to our systems in collaboration with AWS we will be able to reach more customers and help accelerate the growth of this emerging industry." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200813005776/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon Braket helps developers and researchers get started with quantum computing, providing development tools, simulators, and access to a diverse set of quantum hardware</em></p><p><em>Fidelity Investments, Volkswagen, Enel, University of Waterloo, Rahko, and Qu &amp; Co among organizations using Amazon Braket</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a fully managed AWS service that provides a development environment to help customers explore and design quantum algorithms. Customers can use Amazon Braket to test and troubleshoot quantum algorithms on simulated quantum computers running on computing resources in AWS to help them verify their implementation. When ready, customers can use Amazon Braket to run their quantum algorithms on their choice of quantum processors based on different technologies, including systems from D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti. Both simulated and quantum hardware jobs are managed through a unified development experience, and customers pay only for the compute resources used. To get started with Amazon Braket visit: https://aws.amazon.com/braket</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200813005776/en/</p><div><p>Amazon Braket console (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Quantum computing has the potential to solve computational problems that are beyond the reach of classical computers by harnessing the laws of quantum mechanics to build more powerful tools for processing information. It has the potential to lead to new scientific discoveries that could transform energy storage, chemical engineering, drug discovery, financial portfolio optimization, machine learning, and much more. Today, making meaningful advances in quantum computing requires organizations to develop in-house expertise and seek out access to limited quantum hardware. Researchers who are interested in experimenting across a range of quantum hardware and technologies need to setup and manage the necessary infrastructure, negotiate access with multiple vendors, and write custom code to interface with different quantum processors. Having access to quantum hardware and managed infrastructure would help enterprises evaluate how quantum computing may eventually impact their businesses so they can begin to build the necessary skills to explore new opportunities. Managed quantum infrastructure from a range of hardware providers would also help facilitate research and education in quantum technologies that may accelerate new breakthroughs and the quantum computers of the future.</p><p>Amazon Braket helps overcome these challenges by enabling developers and researchers in academia and industry to explore and evaluate quantum computing using the same, consistent experience AWS offers its customers today. Amazon Braket lets customers get started quickly, using familiar tools like Jupyter notebooks to access pre-installed developer tools that can be used to design quantum algorithms, visualize results, and collaborate with others. Amazon Braket offers cross-platform developer tools that let customers design their own quantum algorithms or choose from a growing library of pre-built algorithms, providing a consistent experience so that customers no longer need to learn multiple development environments. Customers can run, test, and troubleshoot their algorithms on quantum computer simulators that use Amazon EC2 computing resources. When ready, customers can then run their algorithm on the quantum computer of their choice without having to engage multiple providers or committing to a single technology. Today, Amazon Braket customers can choose superconducting quantum annealers from D-Wave, trapped ion processors from IonQ, or superconducting quantum processors from Rigetti. In addition to running quantum algorithms, customers can also use Amazon Braket to run hybrid algorithms, where the combined use of quantum and classical computing systems can help overcome the limitations that are inherent in today's quantum technology.</p><p>"As we see quantum computing technologies make more meaningful progress, thousands of customers are asking for ways to experiment with quantum computers to explore the technology's potential and contribute to its development," said Bill Vass, Vice President, Technology, at AWS. "The cloud will be the main way that customers access quantum computers and combine those systems with high-performance classical computing for certain types of computationally-intensive research. Amazon Braket makes it easy for organizations to begin experimenting with quantum computing today—from those just beginning to explore the possibilities to those that are already familiar with different quantum technologies and are ready to use it as a research tool. Our goal for Amazon Braket is to be a catalyst for innovation across the quantum community, bringing together hardware and software developers, researchers, and end users."</p><p>Amazon Braket is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions, with more regions planned for the future.</p><p>The Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) is a catalyst for breakthrough ideas, contributing to a successful future for Fidelity and its customers. FCAT teams track emerging social and tech trends, test product concepts and ideas, and build scalable solutions that support more efficient operations and enhance customer satisfaction. "Amazon Braket enables FCAT to develop hardware-agnostic software so we can easily switch to new quantum systems as they become available. We're able to research the strengths of different quantum backends, build hybrid classical-to-quantum, and quantum-to-quantum workflows," said Adam Schouela, Head of Emerging Technology at the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology. "FCAT worked with Amazon's Quantum Solutions Lab to create proofs-of-concept that push the boundaries of what is possible today with cloud-based quantum computers for the financial sector, as part of our broader efforts to be able to quickly deliver innovative solutions to help meet the rapidly evolving needs of our customers."</p><p>Volkswagen Group is one of the world's largest producers of passenger cars and Europe's largest automaker. "At Volkswagen, we want to gain in-depth understanding of the meaningful use of quantum computing in a corporate environment. The key will be the testing and continuous further development of algorithms on various quantum computers," said Florian Neukart, Director Advanced Technologies and IT Strategy, Volkswagen Group of America. "For the first time, Amazon Braket makes it possible to address and use quantum computers of different service providers via a standardized programming interface. This offers considerable opportunities for accelerating development work and improving our quantum algorithms. We are convinced that Amazon Braket can help deliver the benefits of quantum computing to society and industry even faster."</p><p>Enel is a multinational power company and a leading integrated player in the global power, gas and renewables markets. It is present in over 30 countries worldwide, producing energy with over 88 GW of managed capacity. "Enel distributes electricity through a network of over 2.2 million kilometers and with around 74 million business and household end users worldwide. Because of our wide service network, the ability to optimize our resource planning is an essential component of digital transformation, and one that we can turn into a concrete advantage," said Fabio Veronese, Head of Infrastructure &amp; Networks Digital Hub, Enel S.p.A. "During a collaboration with DATA Reply and AWS, we have tested innovative techniques to perform optimization using Amazon EC2 resources, as well as today's quantum computers through Amazon Braket. These techniques are promising, and we expect they will lead to solutions that can deliver savings to our operations, especially over time as quantum hardware matures."</p><p>Amgen is one of the world's leading biotechnology companies, with a presence in approximately 100 countries. The firm focuses on the discovery, development, and manufacturing of innovative medicines. "Quantum computing has the potential to outperform existing computational methods when it comes to important questions in drug discovery. In fact, the computational demand of running accurate quantum calculations scales quickly out of reach for classical computers as the size of the molecular system in our research increases, and we must resort to approximations that sacrifice accuracy for efficiency," according to Yax Sun, Director and Narbe Mardirossian, Scientist, at Amgen. "By collaborating with the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab and QSimulate, we've been able to quickly build and test a cloud-based approach using multiple compute resources on AWS for a critical drug discovery process--a process we plan to transition to a quantum computer in the future when it is practical. Looking ahead, Amazon Braket has the potential to substantially benefit the research and scientific community by providing on-demand access to quantum computing technologies and accelerate innovation in biotechnology."</p><p>The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is a world-leading quantum institute at the University of Waterloo. IQC is advancing the field of quantum information at the highest international level to discover and develop powerful new quantum technologies that will drive future economies. "While it's hard to predict which products and sectors will be disrupted the most by quantum computation, or when the disruptions will happen, there is great risk in being caught off-guard and great opportunity in managing the uncertainties wisely. The wise path involves continually exploring where the algorithmic advantages may lie and being ready to run on whichever quantum computer offers the resources needed to achieve the advantage," said Michele Mosca, Full Professor at the University of Waterloo. "A quantum computing service, like Amazon Braket, that offers ready access to multiple hardware devices enables quantum readiness and agility."</p><p>Rahko is a London-based quantum machine learning company that is focused on chemical simulation for drugs, batteries, advanced materials and chemicals. "Quantum computing is enabling us to support customers to advance development in areas such as drug discovery and development, battery tech, and material science," said Miriam Cha, Chief Operating Officer, Rahko. "Working with Amazon Braket and with the support from the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab, the Rahko-led consortium with Johnson Matthey, King's College London, and the National Physical Laboratory, was awarded an Innovate UK Grant for Quantifi, a project focused on bringing near-term quantum computing capability to material science. The ability to model materials at the quantum level will allow us to pave the way for significant advance across many critical research areas."</p><p>Qu &amp; Co supports organizations' in-house discovery and optimization activities by developing novel quantum-computational chemistry methods and integrating those with customers' existing computational-chemistry and material-science workflows. "We are focused on delivering practical quantum-computational approaches for our clients' most challenging computational workflows," said Benno Broer, CEO of Qu &amp; Co. "For this purpose, we evaluated different quantum software development platforms. Our experience developing our novel algorithms for quantum machine learning and computational chemistry with the new Amazon Braket service has been very positive. Amazon Braket promises a solid integration between classical and quantum hardware, and gives us a hardware-agnostic development environment, classical simulators, and access to different quantum computers. From that same AWS cloud environment, we can apply tools such as Amazon SageMaker to innovate on behalf of our customers."</p><p>D-Wave Systems is a leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software and services and is the world's first commercial supplier of quantum computers. Its mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing for the world. "We share the goal with AWS to explore the practical, real-world applications that deliver customer value," said Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave. "And as a systems partner of Amazon Braket, we expect that its general availability will continue to drive the growth of the developer community and fuel innovations of pragmatic solutions in quantum computing."</p><p>IonQ, a leader in universal quantum computing, takes a trapped-ion approach to quantum computing that frame its process around nature, using identical individual atoms that act as the building blocks for quantum processing units. "With the general availability of Amazon Braket, our quantum computers will be commercially available to the public for the first time," said Peter Chapman, President and CEO of IonQ. "Our trapped-ion technology is backed by decades of scientific progress, and we are excited that more customers than ever can access our ion-based computers through AWS to scale their use of this technology."</p><p>Rigetti builds superconducting quantum computing systems and delivers access to them over the cloud. Rigetti systems are optimized for integration with existing computing infrastructure and tailored to support the development of practical software and applications. "Building useful quantum applications benefits from state-of-the-art access to quantum hardware," said Chad Rigetti, founder and CEO of Rigetti Computing. "AWS customers can now access our most advanced processor to date, Aspen-8, based on our 32-qubit node technology. By delivering access to our systems in collaboration with AWS we will be able to reach more customers and help accelerate the growth of this emerging industry."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200813005776/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces New Fulfillment Center and Delivery Station in Forney, TX

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New one million square-foot site to create over 500 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in Forney, Texas. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 500 new full-time jobs with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. "We're excited to be expanding our network of operations in Forney," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We are grateful for the strong support we've received from local and state leaders as we broaden our footprint around the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. We look forward to creating over 500 jobs for the local Forney community, with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one." "Bringing a transcendent company such as Amazon to Forney is a huge step for our community," said Mary Penn, Mayor of Forney. "One of my biggest priorities has been to create more jobs and bring economic opportunity to our citizens. Now more than ever, this is a crucial time for economic growth and I feel confident Amazon will bring that to the City of Forney. I'm grateful to Amazon, city council and staff for making this possible." In the new one million square-foot fulfillment center Amazon associates will work to pick, pack, and ship bulky or larger-sized customer items such as patio furniture, outdoor equipment, or rugs. Amazon is also planning a new 200,000 square-foot delivery station in Forney, which is anticipated to launch later in 2020. Delivery stations power the last mile of Amazon's order fulfillment process. Packages are transported to delivery stations from Amazon fulfillment and sortation centers, and then loaded into vehicles for delivery to customers. The delivery station will create over one hundred full- and part-time jobs, in addition to offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to build their own small business delivering Amazon packages, and independent contractors the flexibility to be their own boss and create their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex. To learn more, visit www.logistics.amazon.com and https://flex.amazon.com/. "I am incredibly proud to welcome Amazon to our growing community. This announcement shows that Forney offers a great climate and resources for businesses to thrive," said Derald Cooper, Forney city councilmember. "Our council believes it's critically important to bring more opportunities to Forney so residents have the opportunity to work where they live. This is a great step forward and I am excited to see how Amazon positively impacts our community." On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum starting wage from $15, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in demand jobs. Programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. "Creating new opportunities for members of this community is one of my biggest passions and I'm confident Amazon will offer that. It's important to pursue great companies like Amazon due to their ability to offer good pay, benefits, and other excellent resources to its employees," said Kevin Moon, Forney city councilmember. "This will prove to industry leaders that Forney is a great place to operate a business. The benefits of welcoming Amazon to our city will be felt community wide and I'm looking forward to seeing what other amazing opportunities it will bring." About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200813005525/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New one million square-foot site to create over 500 new, full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in Forney, Texas. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 500 new full-time jobs with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one.</p><p>"We're excited to be expanding our network of operations in Forney," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We are grateful for the strong support we've received from local and state leaders as we broaden our footprint around the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. We look forward to creating over 500 jobs for the local Forney community, with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one."</p><p>"Bringing a transcendent company such as Amazon to Forney is a huge step for our community," said Mary Penn, Mayor of Forney. "One of my biggest priorities has been to create more jobs and bring economic opportunity to our citizens. Now more than ever, this is a crucial time for economic growth and I feel confident Amazon will bring that to the City of Forney. I'm grateful to Amazon, city council and staff for making this possible."</p><p>In the new one million square-foot fulfillment center Amazon associates will work to pick, pack, and ship bulky or larger-sized customer items such as patio furniture, outdoor equipment, or rugs.</p><p>Amazon is also planning a new 200,000 square-foot delivery station in Forney, which is anticipated to launch later in 2020. Delivery stations power the last mile of Amazon's order fulfillment process. Packages are transported to delivery stations from Amazon fulfillment and sortation centers, and then loaded into vehicles for delivery to customers. The delivery station will create over one hundred full- and part-time jobs, in addition to offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to build their own small business delivering Amazon packages, and independent contractors the flexibility to be their own boss and create their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex. To learn more, visit www.logistics.amazon.com and https://flex.amazon.com/.</p><p>"I am incredibly proud to welcome Amazon to our growing community. This announcement shows that Forney offers a great climate and resources for businesses to thrive," said Derald Cooper, Forney city councilmember. "Our council believes it's critically important to bring more opportunities to Forney so residents have the opportunity to work where they live. This is a great step forward and I am excited to see how Amazon positively impacts our community."</p><p>On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum starting wage from $15, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families.</p><p>Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in demand jobs. Programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>"Creating new opportunities for members of this community is one of my biggest passions and I'm confident Amazon will offer that. It's important to pursue great companies like Amazon due to their ability to offer good pay, benefits, and other excellent resources to its employees," said Kevin Moon, Forney city councilmember. "This will prove to industry leaders that Forney is a great place to operate a business. The benefits of welcoming Amazon to our city will be felt community wide and I'm looking forward to seeing what other amazing opportunities it will bring."</p><p>About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200813005525/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon and KF Beauty File Joint Lawsuit against Counterfeiters

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What:Today, Amazon and KF Beauty jointly filed a lawsuit against four companies and 16 individuals for counterfeiting KF Beauty's award-winning WUNDER2 beauty products – including WUNDERBROW – and offering the infringing products for sale in Amazon's stores, in violation of Amazon's policies and KF Beauty's intellectual property rights and various trademarks.The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and alleges the defendants conspired and operated in concert with each other to counterfeit KF Beauty's products. The defendants operated a shell company in Wyoming and at least one of the individual defendants was identified as residing in Shenzhen, China. If the defendants are found liable and a judgement is collected, KF Beauty will receive the proceeds. Amazon refunded the purchases of all customers who received counterfeit KF Beauty products.KF Beauty goes to great lengths to protect consumers from counterfeits of its products, and is committed to leading efforts to combat counterfeit products. This includes being among the more than 350,000 brands to enroll in Brand Registry, a free service that gives rights owners access to a powerful set of tools that helps them manage and protect their brand and intellectual property rights and report potentially infringing products.Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products in its stores and in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million to protect customers and brands from fraud, abuse, and counterfeit. As a result of its efforts, 99.9% of all products viewed by customers on Amazon have not received a valid counterfeit complaint. In June 2020, Amazon launched its Counterfeit Crime Unit (CCU), a global team with specialized experience in investigating and bringing legal action against bad actors. The Amazon CCU works with brands, as it did here with KF Beauty, and supports law enforcement as they pursue counterfeiters.These actions follow June's joint lawsuit with Maison Valentino against counterfeiters of Valentino's iconic Valentino Garavani Rockstud Shoes, who offered the infringing products for sale in violation of Amazon's policies and Valentino's intellectual property rights.Statement, attributable to Amazon:"The majority of sellers in our store are law-abiding entrepreneurs, but we will take aggressive action to protect customers, brands, and our store from counterfeiters. Amazon and KF Beauty are holding these companies and individuals accountable and we appreciate the close cooperation we've had in this investigation," said Cristina Posa, Associate General Counsel and Director, Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit.Statement, attributable to KF Beauty:‘'It is of paramount importance that our customers can purchase KF Beauty cosmetics with confidence, knowing that they will always receive authentic, high-quality products. Our closely monitored and regulated processes – from product development to manufacturing to distribution – are put in place to ensure customers receive carefully controlled products that meet the highest standards. We greatly appreciate our close relationship with Amazon as a responsible trading partner, and their support in this matter has allowed KF Beauty to protect our WUNDER2 brand, our products and our joint customers, delivering on our promise of putting our customers first," said Agnes Hjelmer, CEO of KF Beauty.Additional Background:You can see the court filing here: Case: 2:20-cv-01217, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Amazon has an extensive history of protecting brands and their IP: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-and-valentino-file-joint-lawsuit-against-new-york-based https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-sues-alleged-international-counterfeiting-ring-escalating-battle-knock-off-products/ https://www.trademarksandbrandsonline.com/news/amazon-files-multiple-lawsuits-in-fight-against-counterfeiters-5195

<p>What:Today, Amazon and KF Beauty jointly filed a lawsuit against four companies and 16 individuals for counterfeiting KF Beauty's award-winning WUNDER2 beauty products – including WUNDERBROW – and offering the infringing products for sale in Amazon's stores, in violation of Amazon's policies and KF Beauty's intellectual property rights and various trademarks.The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and alleges the defendants conspired and operated in concert with each other to counterfeit KF Beauty's products. The defendants operated a shell company in Wyoming and at least one of the individual defendants was identified as residing in Shenzhen, China. If the defendants are found liable and a judgement is collected, KF Beauty will receive the proceeds. Amazon refunded the purchases of all customers who received counterfeit KF Beauty products.KF Beauty goes to great lengths to protect consumers from counterfeits of its products, and is committed to leading efforts to combat counterfeit products. This includes being among the more than 350,000 brands to enroll in Brand Registry, a free service that gives rights owners access to a powerful set of tools that helps them manage and protect their brand and intellectual property rights and report potentially infringing products.Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products in its stores and in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million to protect customers and brands from fraud, abuse, and counterfeit. As a result of its efforts, 99.9% of all products viewed by customers on Amazon have not received a valid counterfeit complaint. In June 2020, Amazon launched its Counterfeit Crime Unit (CCU), a global team with specialized experience in investigating and bringing legal action against bad actors. The Amazon CCU works with brands, as it did here with KF Beauty, and supports law enforcement as they pursue counterfeiters.These actions follow June's joint lawsuit with Maison Valentino against counterfeiters of Valentino's iconic Valentino Garavani Rockstud Shoes, who offered the infringing products for sale in violation of Amazon's policies and Valentino's intellectual property rights.Statement, attributable to Amazon:"The majority of sellers in our store are law-abiding entrepreneurs, but we will take aggressive action to protect customers, brands, and our store from counterfeiters. Amazon and KF Beauty are holding these companies and individuals accountable and we appreciate the close cooperation we've had in this investigation," said Cristina Posa, Associate General Counsel and Director, Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit.Statement, attributable to KF Beauty:‘'It is of paramount importance that our customers can purchase KF Beauty cosmetics with confidence, knowing that they will always receive authentic, high-quality products. Our closely monitored and regulated processes – from product development to manufacturing to distribution – are put in place to ensure customers receive carefully controlled products that meet the highest standards. We greatly appreciate our close relationship with Amazon as a responsible trading partner, and their support in this matter has allowed KF Beauty to protect our WUNDER2 brand, our products and our joint customers, delivering on our promise of putting our customers first," said Agnes Hjelmer, CEO of KF Beauty.Additional Background:You can see the court filing here:</p><ul><li>Case: 2:20-cv-01217, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington</li></ul><p>Amazon has an extensive history of protecting brands and their IP:</p><ul><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-and-valentino-file-joint-lawsuit-against-new-york-based</li><li>https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-sues-alleged-international-counterfeiting-ring-escalating-battle-knock-off-products/</li><li>https://www.trademarksandbrandsonline.com/news/amazon-files-multiple-lawsuits-in-fight-against-counterfeiters-5195</li></ul>

Jack in the Box Goes All-In on AWS

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One of the nation's largest restaurant chains leverages AWS to innovate new services and drive operational efficiency across its more than 2,200 restaurants SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Jack in the Box, Inc. (NASDAQ: JACK) is running its infrastructure on AWS – going all-in on the world's leading cloud – to drive flexibility and resiliency across its organization and enable the company to offer new cloud-based experiences for the more than half a billion customers who visit its restaurants every year. Jack in the Box migrated from its on-premises data centers to AWS, improving the performance and reliability of its IT infrastructure, and positioning the company to better serve customers in the digital age. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200811005054/en/ Jack in the Box chose AWS for its proven expertise in supporting the restaurant and hospitality industry, its comprehensive set of cloud services, and its scalable infrastructure, which are enabling the company to improve operational efficiency throughout the business. For example, by moving off of Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server legacy databases to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, Jack in the Box was able to automate time-consuming IT administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups, as well as cut software and hosting costs. Jack in the Box and its franchise restaurant operators now use a common operational dashboard powered by AWS to analyze sales, inventory, food safety, and labor patterns, enabling them to focus on the daily performance of the business rather than the undifferentiated heavy lifting of backing up their servers and other tasks. Jack in the Box is also leveraging the world's leading cloud to innovate enhanced digital ordering, dining, and customer service experiences for its guests. Going all-in on AWS means Jack in the Box can leverage AWS's broad portfolio of machine learning (ML) services to reveal more powerful insights into its customers' tastes and habits. This includes Contact Lens with Amazon Connect, a set of ML capabilities integrated into a cloud-based contact center service, to enable customer service to better understand customer conversation sentiment and trends. Jack in the Box will look to use these insights to more effectively train its customer service agents, replicate successful interactions, and identify product feedback that can be used to develop new menu offerings and promotions. Moving forward, Jack in the Box is actively planning future innovations, including helping its restaurants more accurately predict customer traffic and optimize service time and food costs using Amazon SageMaker, AWS's service for building, training, and deploying ML models. In addition, in response to increased use of its mobile app and delivery service as customers altered their routines this year, Jack in the Box also plans to use Amazon Personalize, an AWS ML service for creating individualized recommendations, to present customers with tailored suggestions on new food and beverage options and add-ons. "As one of the nation's first hamburger chains, we pride ourselves on being a leader in fast food innovation, offering customers creative new menu items and the ability to customize their meals. By using AWS's full portfolio of cloud services, we can continue to innovate new customer experiences while providing valuable information to our franchisees to help them operate more efficiently," said Drew Martin, Chief Information Officer, Jack in the Box. "AWS gives us the ability to be a more flexible, resilient, and data-driven organization, which is essential for our business to understand and adjust to the impacts of challenges such as COVID-19, flexibly scaling and contracting our resources to optimize how we operate." "Jack in the Box has been delighting restaurant goers for nearly 70 years. Now, with AWS's proven infrastructure and deep portfolio of services powering their IT operations, they are able to expand their use of digital channels like online ordering and delivery apps to continue earning the loyalty of future generations," said Greg Pearson, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "By going all-in on AWS, Jack in the Box can spend most of their time innovating versus having to navigate multiple platforms, giving the company and its restaurant franchise owners the ability to understand their customers better and anticipate their needs, while also providing the scale and flexibility to quickly respond to changing business operating conditions." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Jack in the Box  Jack in the Box Inc. (NASDAQ: JACK), based in San Diego, is a restaurant company that operates and franchises Jack in the Box® restaurants, one of the nation's largest hamburger chains, with more than 2,220 restaurants in 21 states. Known as the pioneer of all-day breakfast, and the late night category, Jack in the Box prides itself on being the curly fry in a world of regular fries. For more information on Jack in the Box, including franchising opportunities, visit www.jackinthebox.com. If you have media inquiries, please reach out to media@jackinthebox.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200811005054/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>One of the nation's largest restaurant chains leverages AWS to innovate new services and drive operational efficiency across its more than 2,200 restaurants</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Jack in the Box, Inc. (NASDAQ: JACK) is running its infrastructure on AWS – going all-in on the world's leading cloud – to drive flexibility and resiliency across its organization and enable the company to offer new cloud-based experiences for the more than half a billion customers who visit its restaurants every year. Jack in the Box migrated from its on-premises data centers to AWS, improving the performance and reliability of its IT infrastructure, and positioning the company to better serve customers in the digital age.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200811005054/en/</p><p>Jack in the Box chose AWS for its proven expertise in supporting the restaurant and hospitality industry, its comprehensive set of cloud services, and its scalable infrastructure, which are enabling the company to improve operational efficiency throughout the business. For example, by moving off of Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server legacy databases to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, Jack in the Box was able to automate time-consuming IT administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups, as well as cut software and hosting costs. Jack in the Box and its franchise restaurant operators now use a common operational dashboard powered by AWS to analyze sales, inventory, food safety, and labor patterns, enabling them to focus on the daily performance of the business rather than the undifferentiated heavy lifting of backing up their servers and other tasks.</p><p>Jack in the Box is also leveraging the world's leading cloud to innovate enhanced digital ordering, dining, and customer service experiences for its guests. Going all-in on AWS means Jack in the Box can leverage AWS's broad portfolio of machine learning (ML) services to reveal more powerful insights into its customers' tastes and habits. This includes Contact Lens with Amazon Connect, a set of ML capabilities integrated into a cloud-based contact center service, to enable customer service to better understand customer conversation sentiment and trends. Jack in the Box will look to use these insights to more effectively train its customer service agents, replicate successful interactions, and identify product feedback that can be used to develop new menu offerings and promotions.</p><p>Moving forward, Jack in the Box is actively planning future innovations, including helping its restaurants more accurately predict customer traffic and optimize service time and food costs using Amazon SageMaker, AWS's service for building, training, and deploying ML models. In addition, in response to increased use of its mobile app and delivery service as customers altered their routines this year, Jack in the Box also plans to use Amazon Personalize, an AWS ML service for creating individualized recommendations, to present customers with tailored suggestions on new food and beverage options and add-ons.</p><p>"As one of the nation's first hamburger chains, we pride ourselves on being a leader in fast food innovation, offering customers creative new menu items and the ability to customize their meals. By using AWS's full portfolio of cloud services, we can continue to innovate new customer experiences while providing valuable information to our franchisees to help them operate more efficiently," said Drew Martin, Chief Information Officer, Jack in the Box. "AWS gives us the ability to be a more flexible, resilient, and data-driven organization, which is essential for our business to understand and adjust to the impacts of challenges such as COVID-19, flexibly scaling and contracting our resources to optimize how we operate."</p><p>"Jack in the Box has been delighting restaurant goers for nearly 70 years. Now, with AWS's proven infrastructure and deep portfolio of services powering their IT operations, they are able to expand their use of digital channels like online ordering and delivery apps to continue earning the loyalty of future generations," said Greg Pearson, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "By going all-in on AWS, Jack in the Box can spend most of their time innovating versus having to navigate multiple platforms, giving the company and its restaurant franchise owners the ability to understand their customers better and anticipate their needs, while also providing the scale and flexibility to quickly respond to changing business operating conditions."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Jack in the Box </p><p>Jack in the Box Inc. (NASDAQ: JACK), based in San Diego, is a restaurant company that operates and franchises Jack in the Box® restaurants, one of the nation's largest hamburger chains, with more than 2,220 restaurants in 21 states. Known as the pioneer of all-day breakfast, and the late night category, Jack in the Box prides itself on being the curly fry in a world of regular fries. For more information on Jack in the Box, including franchising opportunities, visit www.jackinthebox.com. If you have media inquiries, please reach out to media@jackinthebox.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200811005054/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Project Zero Launches in Seven New Countries

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Amazon Project Zero now empowers brands and Amazon to drive counterfeit to zero in 17 stores worldwide SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the expansion of Project Zero to seven new countries - Australia, Brazil, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turkey, and the UAE - making it available in 17 countries where Amazon has a store. Project Zero combines Amazon's advanced technology, machine learning, and innovation with the sophisticated knowledge that brands have of their own intellectual property so we can together drive counterfeits to zero. Launched in 2019, Project Zero builds on Amazon's long-standing work and investments to ensure that customers always receive authentic goods when shopping on Amazon. Over 10,000 brands – from large, global brands to emerging entrepreneurs including Arduino, BMW, ChessCentral, LifeProof, OtterBox, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Veet – have already enrolled in Project Zero. "Amazon is committed to protecting our customers and the brands we collaborate with worldwide," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President of Worldwide Customer Trust and Partner Support. "Project Zero has been a leap forward in protecting brands, especially for those that use all three of its components." BMW, one of the world's leading automotive brands with a portfolio of global trademarks, said: "Project Zero has been a very easy and effective tool at protecting BMW on Amazon. We are very appreciative of the tools Amazon has built to enable us to protect our brand." "We are excited to see that Project Zero is expanding into the new marketplaces," said Adrienne McNicholas, Co-Founder and CEO of Food Huggers. "The program has already had a very positive impact on our enforcement efforts and we are glad to see Amazon's continued commitment to protecting our brand across the world." Brands that are enrolled in Amazon Project Zero and already have a trademark enrolled in one of the newly launched countries will automatically be able to use Project Zero in these additional stores. New brands can learn more about and enroll in Amazon Project Zero at: www.ProjectZero.com. Project Zero uses three key components to protect and empower brands: Amazon's automated protections proactively and continuously scan more than 5 billion attempted daily product listing updates globally to look for suspicious listings. These automated protections are powered by Amazon's machine learning and are continuously fed new information, so we continue to get better in automatically preventing and blocking potential counterfeit listings. We have invested significant resources over the years to proactively prevent counterfeits and continue to innovate and build technology-based solutions. Project Zero goes further with a self-service tool to empower brands and provides them with an unprecedented ability to directly remove listings from our store. These removals also feed into our automated protections, so we can better catch potential counterfeit listings proactively in the future. Product serialization is enabled by a unique code that brands apply within their manufacturing or packaging process, and it allows us to individually scan and confirm the authenticity of every single purchase of a brand's enrolled products from Amazon's stores. While product serialization is optional, brands enrolled in Project Zero are seeing the best results when using product serialization. Project Zero is among a suite of tools Amazon has introduced to empower brands to protect their IP. Most recently, Amazon launched the Amazon Counterfeit Crime Unit (ACCU), a global team that will investigate and bring legal action against bad actors, protecting customers, selling partners, and brands. To learn more: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters Amazon IP Accelerator helps businesses more quickly obtain intellectual property (IP) rights and brand protection in Amazon's stores. The program was designed specifically with small and medium businesses in mind and is available to entrepreneurs worldwide that are looking to secure intellectual property in the U.S. IP Accelerator connects entrepreneurs with US law firms with expertise in trademark applications. Entrepreneurs also benefit from pre-negotiated rates. To learn more: https://brandservices.amazon.com/ipaccelerator Amazon Brand Registry, a free service that gives brand owners access to a powerful set of tools that help them deliver an accurate and trusted customer experience on Amazon while protecting a brand's IP. To enroll and learn more: https://brandservices.amazon.com/

<p><em>Amazon Project Zero now empowers brands and Amazon to drive counterfeit to zero in 17 stores worldwide</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the expansion of Project Zero to seven new countries - Australia, Brazil, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turkey, and the UAE - making it available in 17 countries where Amazon has a store. Project Zero combines Amazon's advanced technology, machine learning, and innovation with the sophisticated knowledge that brands have of their own intellectual property so we can together drive counterfeits to zero.</p><p>Launched in 2019, Project Zero builds on Amazon's long-standing work and investments to ensure that customers always receive authentic goods when shopping on Amazon. Over 10,000 brands – from large, global brands to emerging entrepreneurs including Arduino, BMW, ChessCentral, LifeProof, OtterBox, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Veet – have already enrolled in Project Zero.</p><p>"Amazon is committed to protecting our customers and the brands we collaborate with worldwide," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President of Worldwide Customer Trust and Partner Support. "Project Zero has been a leap forward in protecting brands, especially for those that use all three of its components."</p><p>BMW, one of the world's leading automotive brands with a portfolio of global trademarks, said: "Project Zero has been a very easy and effective tool at protecting BMW on Amazon. We are very appreciative of the tools Amazon has built to enable us to protect our brand."</p><p>"We are excited to see that Project Zero is expanding into the new marketplaces," said Adrienne McNicholas, Co-Founder and CEO of Food Huggers. "The program has already had a very positive impact on our enforcement efforts and we are glad to see Amazon's continued commitment to protecting our brand across the world."</p><p>Brands that are enrolled in Amazon Project Zero and already have a trademark enrolled in one of the newly launched countries will automatically be able to use Project Zero in these additional stores. New brands can learn more about and enroll in Amazon Project Zero at: www.ProjectZero.com.</p><p>Project Zero uses three key components to protect and empower brands:</p><ul><li>Amazon's automated protections proactively and continuously scan more than 5 billion attempted daily product listing updates globally to look for suspicious listings. These automated protections are powered by Amazon's machine learning and are continuously fed new information, so we continue to get better in automatically preventing and blocking potential counterfeit listings.</li><li>We have invested significant resources over the years to proactively prevent counterfeits and continue to innovate and build technology-based solutions. Project Zero goes further with a self-service tool to empower brands and provides them with an unprecedented ability to directly remove listings from our store. These removals also feed into our automated protections, so we can better catch potential counterfeit listings proactively in the future.</li><li>Product serialization is enabled by a unique code that brands apply within their manufacturing or packaging process, and it allows us to individually scan and confirm the authenticity of every single purchase of a brand's enrolled products from Amazon's stores. While product serialization is optional, brands enrolled in Project Zero are seeing the best results when using product serialization.</li></ul><p>Project Zero is among a suite of tools Amazon has introduced to empower brands to protect their IP.</p><ul><li>Most recently, Amazon launched the Amazon Counterfeit Crime Unit (ACCU), a global team that will investigate and bring legal action against bad actors, protecting customers, selling partners, and brands. To learn more: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters</li><li>Amazon IP Accelerator helps businesses more quickly obtain intellectual property (IP) rights and brand protection in Amazon's stores. The program was designed specifically with small and medium businesses in mind and is available to entrepreneurs worldwide that are looking to secure intellectual property in the U.S. IP Accelerator connects entrepreneurs with US law firms with expertise in trademark applications. Entrepreneurs also benefit from pre-negotiated rates. To learn more: https://brandservices.amazon.com/ipaccelerator</li><li>Amazon Brand Registry, a free service that gives brand owners access to a powerful set of tools that help them deliver an accurate and trusted customer experience on Amazon while protecting a brand's IP. To enroll and learn more: https://brandservices.amazon.com/</li></ul>

AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area

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First two AWS Wavelength Zones in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area enable developers to build applications that deliver ultra-low latency to mobile devices and users by deploying AWS compute and storage at the edge of Verizon's 5G network Sony, LG, Tata Consultancy Services, Summit Tech, and Edgegap among the first customers and partners to build ultra-low latency applications on AWS Wavelength SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of AWS Wavelength on Verizon's 5G network, allowing developers to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area, beginning in San Jose today and extending to the rest of the Bay Area in the coming weeks. Customers can now deploy parts of their application that require ultra-low latency at the edge of 5G networks using the same AWS APIs, tools, and functionality they use today, while seamlessly connecting back to the rest of their application and the full range of cloud services running in an AWS Region. By embedding AWS compute and storage services at the edge of 5G networks, AWS Wavelength enables developers to serve edge computing use cases that require ultra-low latency like machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and video and game streaming. To get started with AWS Wavelength, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/wavelength. With 77 Availability Zones across 24 AWS Regions, AWS enables developers to serve end-users with low latencies worldwide. However, there are an increasingly a number of applications (e.g. smart manufacturing, machine learning inference, autonomous driving, live event streaming, IoT, and video games) that want very low latency across the mobile network. To perform their jobs, these applications need access to compute and storage, and like many applications today, they also seek to leverage the cloud. However, accessing the cloud using traditional mobile architectures requires several hops on the network (from a device, to a cell tower, to metro aggregation sites, to regional aggregation sites, to the Internet, to the cloud—and then back through those stops before getting back to the device). This creates tens of milliseconds (sometimes seconds) of latency. The 5G network is up to 10 times faster than 4G, but to take full advantage of the latency improvements that 5G offers, the number of network hops needs to be reduced. Wavelength addresses these problems by bringing AWS services to the edge of the 5G network, minimizing the latency to connect to an application from a mobile device. With Wavelength, AWS developers can deploy their applications to Wavelength Zones (AWS infrastructure deployments that embed AWS compute and storage services within the telecommunication providers' datacenters at the edge of the 5G network) so application traffic only needs to travel from the device to a cell tower to a Wavelength Zone running in a metro aggregation site. This removes the latency that results from multiple hops between regional aggregation sites and across the Internet, which enables customers to take full advantage of 5G networks. Wavelength will also deliver a consistent developer experience across multiple 5G networks around the world, and allows developers to build the next generation of ultra-low latency applications using the familiar AWS services, APIs, and tools they already use today. By providing a common developer experience, Wavelength makes it easy for developers to deploy across different telecommunications providers even if these providers have different deployment and operations semantics. AWS is partnering with Verizon to bring AWS Wavelength to customers across the United States. The first Wavelength Zones are available today in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area, and additional locations will be coming later this year. AWS is also working with other leading telecommunications providers, including Vodafone, SK Telecom, and KDDI, to launch Wavelength Zones across Europe, South Korea, and Japan. Developers that want to deploy their application to the 5G edge simply extend their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to the Wavelength Zones, and then they can start running a broad range of AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS). In addition, developers can continue to use familiar and powerful AWS services to manage, secure, and scale their applications, like AWS CloudFormation, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and AWS Auto Scaling, making it easy to run a wide variety of latency-sensitive workloads like analytics, IoT, machine learning, game streaming, and AR/VR on 5G networks. "Our customers tell us they are excited to build applications that take advantage of 5G networks, but in order for these applications to provide ultra-low latency to mobile end-users, customers need AWS compute and storage services embedded directly within the 5G network," said Dave Brown, Vice President, EC2, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "With AWS Wavelength, our customers can develop applications that take advantage of ultra-low latencies to address use cases like machine learning inference at the edge, smart cities and smart factories, and autonomous vehicles – all while using the same familiar AWS services, API, and tools to deploy them to 5G networks worldwide." Verizon is building the most powerful 5G network in the U.S. Launched in April 2019, Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband network is currently live in parts of 35 cities and will expand to more than 60 cities by the end of this year. "We're excited to bring AWS Wavelength to the edge of our network, unlocking the power of 5G Edge and mobile edge compute for developers around the world," said Kyle Malady, CTO of Verizon. "We built our 5G Ultra Wideband network from the ground up to support the transformative experiences enabled by the ultra-low latency and robust bandwidth delivered for mobile edge compute." Sony Corporation is a creative entertainment company with a solid foundation of technology. From game and network services to music, pictures, electronics, semiconductors and financial services - Sony's purpose is to fill the world with emotion through the power of creativity and technology. "Sony is using AWS Wavelength to improve how consumers live stream the world's most memorable live news, sports, and entertainment. AWS Wavelength and the 5G network provide Sony the ultra-low latency needed to live stream high-resolution video and high-fidelity audio, as well as to embed interactive experiences into live video streams," said Hisashi Tamai, Senior Vice President in charge of System and Platform Technology Development, Fundamental Technology Research and Development, R&D Center. LG Electronics is piloting next-generation Cellular-Vehicle to Everything (C-V2X) on AWS Wavelength at the Verizon 5G Edge. This includes LG's Authentication as a Service (LG AaaS), which improves driving safety with secure information sharing between motor vehicles, mobile devices, and transportation infrastructures. "Every millisecond counts in unexpected driving situations where blind spots, collisions and hydroplaning are involved," said Rick Kreifeldt, Senior Vice President, LG America R&D Lab. "What's critical is the ability to quickly scale computational resources with low latency and high throughput for timely delivery of security services while preserving the privacy of the system. Our C-V2X pilot with ultra-low latency access to AWS Wavelength allows for timely message filtering that only shares relevant and trusted information for improved road safety and enhanced mobility among vehicles." Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world's largest businesses in their transformation journeys for the last 50 years. "TCS recently piloted one of our cutting-edge Smart Factory solution, and leveraged AWS Wavelength to enable re-imagined business capabilities using real-time video and image analysis for quality inspection of high-speed assembly lines," said Shanky Viswanathan, CTO Communication, Media and Information Service Business Group, TCS. "With critical GPU workloads rendered from AWS Wavelength coupled with 5G's bandwidth, we can achieve the low latency and increased connectivity to deliver a pathway to truly connected factories, where data flows seamlessly between machines and cloud to enable AI powered real time decisioning at the edge." Summit Tech is a leader in developing voice, video, and text services for telecommunications operators, and optimizing streaming of next-generation user experiences such as Ultra HD (high definition) video and augmented and virtual reality calling for live event streaming, gaming, or shopping. "AWS infrastructure and Services has been powering our success stories for many years. AWS Wavelength eliminates the undifferentiated heavy lifting required to support these new kinds of immersive consumer experiences, and gives us the best of all worlds with a consistent deployment model," said Alido Di Giovanni, Co-founder and President of Summit Tech. "Technologies like Ultra HD and 360 AR/VR are challenging because they require ultra-low latency and high bandwidth, which outstrips traditional wireless network connections and forces telco operators to deliver "best-effort" quality of service to many viewers instead of optimizing experiences per viewer. These advanced applications also use massive compute power on the consumer side, draining device batteries. By combining AWS Wavelength with our Solution at the edge of telco providers' 5G networks, we can optimize video quality, instantly deliver high-quality of service experiences on a by-customer basis, and create more immersive content with much less reliance on end users' hardware. AWS and Wavelength are also giving us a much faster path to market." Edgegap is a pioneer in building next-generation infrastructures for global multiplayer gaming titles and esports tournaments, and leveraging edge computing to help studios reduce latency, increase player fairness, track and improve experiences, and scale on demand worldwide. "Allowing studios to get a real understanding of players' experiences and their online services is at the heart of what we do. As global gaming rapidly shifts from centralized to localized environments, Edgegap's ability to dramatically reduce latencies improve gaming experiences wherever players are located," said Mathieu Duperré, Edgegap founder and CEO. "With AWS Wavelength on the Verizon 5G edge, we get the ultra-low latency and proximity needed to reduce the distance between servers and end users with a single, elegant solution. By tightly integrating game studio backends and edge computing infrastructures with AWS Wavelength, Edgegap can reduce lag by more than half, increase fairness, improve total player experiences, and help reduce churn and increase revenue for studios." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200806005890/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>First two AWS Wavelength Zones in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area enable developers to build applications that deliver ultra-low latency to mobile devices and users by deploying AWS compute and storage at the edge of Verizon's 5G network</em></p><p><em>Sony, LG, Tata Consultancy Services, Summit Tech</em>,<em> and Edgegap among the first customers and partners to build ultra-low latency applications on AWS Wavelength</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of AWS Wavelength on Verizon's 5G network, allowing developers to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area, beginning in San Jose today and extending to the rest of the Bay Area in the coming weeks. Customers can now deploy parts of their application that require ultra-low latency at the edge of 5G networks using the same AWS APIs, tools, and functionality they use today, while seamlessly connecting back to the rest of their application and the full range of cloud services running in an AWS Region. By embedding AWS compute and storage services at the edge of 5G networks, AWS Wavelength enables developers to serve edge computing use cases that require ultra-low latency like machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and video and game streaming. To get started with AWS Wavelength, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/wavelength.</p><p>With 77 Availability Zones across 24 AWS Regions, AWS enables developers to serve end-users with low latencies worldwide. However, there are an increasingly a number of applications (e.g. smart manufacturing, machine learning inference, autonomous driving, live event streaming, IoT, and video games) that want very low latency across the mobile network. To perform their jobs, these applications need access to compute and storage, and like many applications today, they also seek to leverage the cloud. However, accessing the cloud using traditional mobile architectures requires several hops on the network (from a device, to a cell tower, to metro aggregation sites, to regional aggregation sites, to the Internet, to the cloud—and then back through those stops before getting back to the device). This creates tens of milliseconds (sometimes seconds) of latency. The 5G network is up to 10 times faster than 4G, but to take full advantage of the latency improvements that 5G offers, the number of network hops needs to be reduced.</p><p>Wavelength addresses these problems by bringing AWS services to the edge of the 5G network, minimizing the latency to connect to an application from a mobile device. With Wavelength, AWS developers can deploy their applications to Wavelength Zones (AWS infrastructure deployments that embed AWS compute and storage services within the telecommunication providers' datacenters at the edge of the 5G network) so application traffic only needs to travel from the device to a cell tower to a Wavelength Zone running in a metro aggregation site. This removes the latency that results from multiple hops between regional aggregation sites and across the Internet, which enables customers to take full advantage of 5G networks. Wavelength will also deliver a consistent developer experience across multiple 5G networks around the world, and allows developers to build the next generation of ultra-low latency applications using the familiar AWS services, APIs, and tools they already use today. By providing a common developer experience, Wavelength makes it easy for developers to deploy across different telecommunications providers even if these providers have different deployment and operations semantics.</p><p>AWS is partnering with Verizon to bring AWS Wavelength to customers across the United States. The first Wavelength Zones are available today in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area, and additional locations will be coming later this year. AWS is also working with other leading telecommunications providers, including Vodafone, SK Telecom, and KDDI, to launch Wavelength Zones across Europe, South Korea, and Japan.</p><p>Developers that want to deploy their application to the 5G edge simply extend their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to the Wavelength Zones, and then they can start running a broad range of AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS). In addition, developers can continue to use familiar and powerful AWS services to manage, secure, and scale their applications, like AWS CloudFormation, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and AWS Auto Scaling, making it easy to run a wide variety of latency-sensitive workloads like analytics, IoT, machine learning, game streaming, and AR/VR on 5G networks.</p><p>"Our customers tell us they are excited to build applications that take advantage of 5G networks, but in order for these applications to provide ultra-low latency to mobile end-users, customers need AWS compute and storage services embedded directly within the 5G network," said Dave Brown, Vice President, EC2, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "With AWS Wavelength, our customers can develop applications that take advantage of ultra-low latencies to address use cases like machine learning inference at the edge, smart cities and smart factories, and autonomous vehicles – all while using the same familiar AWS services, API, and tools to deploy them to 5G networks worldwide."</p><p>Verizon is building the most powerful 5G network in the U.S. Launched in April 2019, Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband network is currently live in parts of 35 cities and will expand to more than 60 cities by the end of this year. "We're excited to bring AWS Wavelength to the edge of our network, unlocking the power of 5G Edge and mobile edge compute for developers around the world," said Kyle Malady, CTO of Verizon. "We built our 5G Ultra Wideband network from the ground up to support the transformative experiences enabled by the ultra-low latency and robust bandwidth delivered for mobile edge compute."</p><p>Sony Corporation is a creative entertainment company with a solid foundation of technology. From game and network services to music, pictures, electronics, semiconductors and financial services - Sony's purpose is to fill the world with emotion through the power of creativity and technology. "Sony is using AWS Wavelength to improve how consumers live stream the world's most memorable live news, sports, and entertainment. AWS Wavelength and the 5G network provide Sony the ultra-low latency needed to live stream high-resolution video and high-fidelity audio, as well as to embed interactive experiences into live video streams," said Hisashi Tamai, Senior Vice President in charge of System and Platform Technology Development, Fundamental Technology Research and Development, R&amp;D Center.</p><p>LG Electronics is piloting next-generation Cellular-Vehicle to Everything (C-V2X) on AWS Wavelength at the Verizon 5G Edge. This includes LG's Authentication as a Service (LG AaaS), which improves driving safety with secure information sharing between motor vehicles, mobile devices, and transportation infrastructures. "Every millisecond counts in unexpected driving situations where blind spots, collisions and hydroplaning are involved," said Rick Kreifeldt, Senior Vice President, LG America R&amp;D Lab. "What's critical is the ability to quickly scale computational resources with low latency and high throughput for timely delivery of security services while preserving the privacy of the system. Our C-V2X pilot with ultra-low latency access to AWS Wavelength allows for timely message filtering that only shares relevant and trusted information for improved road safety and enhanced mobility among vehicles."</p><p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world's largest businesses in their transformation journeys for the last 50 years. "TCS recently piloted one of our cutting-edge Smart Factory solution, and leveraged AWS Wavelength to enable re-imagined business capabilities using real-time video and image analysis for quality inspection of high-speed assembly lines," said Shanky Viswanathan, CTO Communication, Media and Information Service Business Group, TCS. "With critical GPU workloads rendered from AWS Wavelength coupled with 5G's bandwidth, we can achieve the low latency and increased connectivity to deliver a pathway to truly connected factories, where data flows seamlessly between machines and cloud to enable AI powered real time decisioning at the edge."</p><p>Summit Tech is a leader in developing voice, video, and text services for telecommunications operators, and optimizing streaming of next-generation user experiences such as Ultra HD (high definition) video and augmented and virtual reality calling for live event streaming, gaming, or shopping. "AWS infrastructure and Services has been powering our success stories for many years. AWS Wavelength eliminates the undifferentiated heavy lifting required to support these new kinds of immersive consumer experiences, and gives us the best of all worlds with a consistent deployment model," said Alido Di Giovanni, Co-founder and President of Summit Tech. "Technologies like Ultra HD and 360 AR/VR are challenging because they require ultra-low latency and high bandwidth, which outstrips traditional wireless network connections and forces telco operators to deliver "best-effort" quality of service to many viewers instead of optimizing experiences per viewer. These advanced applications also use massive compute power on the consumer side, draining device batteries. By combining AWS Wavelength with our Solution at the edge of telco providers' 5G networks, we can optimize video quality, instantly deliver high-quality of service experiences on a by-customer basis, and create more immersive content with much less reliance on end users' hardware. AWS and Wavelength are also giving us a much faster path to market."</p><p>Edgegap is a pioneer in building next-generation infrastructures for global multiplayer gaming titles and esports tournaments, and leveraging edge computing to help studios reduce latency, increase player fairness, track and improve experiences, and scale on demand worldwide. "Allowing studios to get a real understanding of players' experiences and their online services is at the heart of what we do. As global gaming rapidly shifts from centralized to localized environments, Edgegap's ability to dramatically reduce latencies improve gaming experiences wherever players are located," said Mathieu Duperré, Edgegap founder and CEO. "With AWS Wavelength on the Verizon 5G edge, we get the ultra-low latency and proximity needed to reduce the distance between servers and end users with a single, elegant solution. By tightly integrating game studio backends and edge computing infrastructures with AWS Wavelength, Edgegap can reduce lag by more than half, increase fairness, improve total player experiences, and help reduce churn and increase revenue for studios."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200806005890/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

AWS Powers Moderna's Digital Biotechnology Platform to Develop New Class of Vaccines and Therapeutics

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AWS Powers Moderna's Digital Biotechnology Platform to Develop New Class of Vaccines and Therapeutics

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Biotechnology company leverages AWS's unmatched portfolio of services to accelerate development of messenger RNA medicines to prevent and fight diseases, including COVID-19 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering a new class of messenger RNA (mRNA) medicines, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, as well as its standard for analytics and machine learning workloads. Leveraging its mRNA platform and manufacturing facility with the AWS-powered research engine, Moderna delivered the first clinical batch of its vaccine candidate (mRNA-1273) against COVID-19 to the NIH for the Phase 1 trial 42 days after the initial sequencing of the virus. By building and scaling its operations on the world's leading cloud, Moderna is able to quickly design research experiments and uncover new insights, automate its laboratory and manufacturing processes to enhance its drug discovery pipeline, and more easily comply with applicable laws and regulations during production and testing of vaccine and therapeutic candidates. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200805005965/en/ Moderna's mRNA research platform and manufacturing facility are powered by AWS. (Image: Moderna) Researching and developing new drugs can be complex and expensive. Scientists have to conduct years of basic research to understand how new diseases act at a molecular level in the human body and need to screen thousands of different molecular compounds (the basis for many drugs) to assess their safety and efficacy as potential treatments. After they narrow down the pipeline, researchers perform multiple rounds of testing in the laboratory before advancing the most promising drug candidates for further study. In addition, because the manufacturing requirements for these drugs can be highly variable, pharmaceutical companies may also need to build expensive new infrastructure or redesign existing facilities in order to produce them. Moderna is managing these challenges, leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS services to simplify the research and manufacture of a new class of drugs, based on mRNA, to treat a wide range of diseases. Moderna has invented proprietary technologies and methods that run on AWS to create mRNA constructs that cells recognize as if they were produced in the body. This invention has empowered Moderna to experiment rapidly on virtually any mRNA sequence, easily shifting between research priorities, without investing in new technology. Moderna runs its Drug Design Studio on AWS's highly scalable compute and storage infrastructure to quickly design mRNA sequences for protein targets. It then uses analytics and machine learning to optimize those sequences for production so that the company's automated manufacturing platform can successfully convert them into physical mRNA for testing. In addition, by leveraging Amazon Redshift – AWS's fully managed data warehousing service – Moderna's scientists and engineers aggregate results from dozens of experiments that are running in parallel and can easily query and share insights to refine their design and production cycle quickly. Moderna runs all of its SAP S/4HANA workloads on AWS, including manufacturing, accounting, and inventory management, which enables the company to achieve greater efficiency and visibility across its operations. AWS also powers Moderna's highly automated production facility, which runs AWS IoT services to connect the manufacturing instruments, robotics, and other critical systems that quickly deliver the mRNA constructs for experimentation. Integrating its systems on AWS provides Moderna with the ability to trace its manufacturing process, facilitating industry best practices in its supply chain, manufacturing, and quality control processes. Moderna also used AWS to essentially copy and paste its digital manufacturing model onto its partner's facilities for technology transfer, giving Moderna rapid access to the additional production capacity it needs to address global demand. "The science behind mRNA medicines is advancing at a rapid pace, and building Moderna's technology platform on AWS gives our scientists the insights, agility, and security they need to continue to lead in the industry," said Stéphane Bancel, Moderna's Chief Executive Officer. "With AWS, our researchers have the ability to quickly design and execute research experiments and rapidly uncover new insights to get potentially life-saving treatments into production faster. AWS's breadth and depth of services are supporting our mission to create a new generation of medicines for patients and are instrumental in our quest to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 and other life-threatening diseases." "Running on AWS, Moderna has the agility to continuously refine its research, development, and manufacturing," said Matt Garman, Vice President, Sales and Marketing at AWS. "Moderna is relying on the proven performance and scale of the world's leading cloud to innovate and develop drug and vaccine candidates on timelines that may have been impossible even just a few years ago." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200805005965/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Biotechnology company leverages AWS's unmatched portfolio of services to accelerate development of messenger RNA medicines to prevent and fight diseases, including COVID-19</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering a new class of messenger RNA (mRNA) medicines, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, as well as its standard for analytics and machine learning workloads. Leveraging its mRNA platform and manufacturing facility with the AWS-powered research engine, Moderna delivered the first clinical batch of its vaccine candidate (mRNA-1273) against COVID-19 to the NIH for the Phase 1 trial 42 days after the initial sequencing of the virus. By building and scaling its operations on the world's leading cloud, Moderna is able to quickly design research experiments and uncover new insights, automate its laboratory and manufacturing processes to enhance its drug discovery pipeline, and more easily comply with applicable laws and regulations during production and testing of vaccine and therapeutic candidates.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200805005965/en/</p><div><p>Moderna's mRNA research platform and manufacturing facility are powered by AWS. (Image: Moderna)</p></div><p>Researching and developing new drugs can be complex and expensive. Scientists have to conduct years of basic research to understand how new diseases act at a molecular level in the human body and need to screen thousands of different molecular compounds (the basis for many drugs) to assess their safety and efficacy as potential treatments. After they narrow down the pipeline, researchers perform multiple rounds of testing in the laboratory before advancing the most promising drug candidates for further study. In addition, because the manufacturing requirements for these drugs can be highly variable, pharmaceutical companies may also need to build expensive new infrastructure or redesign existing facilities in order to produce them. Moderna is managing these challenges, leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS services to simplify the research and manufacture of a new class of drugs, based on mRNA, to treat a wide range of diseases.</p><p>Moderna has invented proprietary technologies and methods that run on AWS to create mRNA constructs that cells recognize as if they were produced in the body. This invention has empowered Moderna to experiment rapidly on virtually any mRNA sequence, easily shifting between research priorities, without investing in new technology. Moderna runs its Drug Design Studio on AWS's highly scalable compute and storage infrastructure to quickly design mRNA sequences for protein targets. It then uses analytics and machine learning to optimize those sequences for production so that the company's automated manufacturing platform can successfully convert them into physical mRNA for testing. In addition, by leveraging Amazon Redshift – AWS's fully managed data warehousing service – Moderna's scientists and engineers aggregate results from dozens of experiments that are running in parallel and can easily query and share insights to refine their design and production cycle quickly.</p><p>Moderna runs all of its SAP S/4HANA workloads on AWS, including manufacturing, accounting, and inventory management, which enables the company to achieve greater efficiency and visibility across its operations. AWS also powers Moderna's highly automated production facility, which runs AWS IoT services to connect the manufacturing instruments, robotics, and other critical systems that quickly deliver the mRNA constructs for experimentation. Integrating its systems on AWS provides Moderna with the ability to trace its manufacturing process, facilitating industry best practices in its supply chain, manufacturing, and quality control processes. Moderna also used AWS to essentially copy and paste its digital manufacturing model onto its partner's facilities for technology transfer, giving Moderna rapid access to the additional production capacity it needs to address global demand.</p><p>"The science behind mRNA medicines is advancing at a rapid pace, and building Moderna's technology platform on AWS gives our scientists the insights, agility, and security they need to continue to lead in the industry," said Stéphane Bancel, Moderna's Chief Executive Officer. "With AWS, our researchers have the ability to quickly design and execute research experiments and rapidly uncover new insights to get potentially life-saving treatments into production faster. AWS's breadth and depth of services are supporting our mission to create a new generation of medicines for patients and are instrumental in our quest to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 and other life-threatening diseases."</p><p>"Running on AWS, Moderna has the agility to continuously refine its research, development, and manufacturing," said Matt Garman, Vice President, Sales and Marketing at AWS. "Moderna is relying on the proven performance and scale of the world's leading cloud to innovate and develop drug and vaccine candidates on timelines that may have been impossible even just a few years ago."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200805005965/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces Plans to Expand in the Tampa Bay Area

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Amazon Announces Plans to Expand in the Tampa Bay Area

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New fulfillment center in Temple Terrace and new delivery station in Lutz will create hundreds of new full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to launch a new, state-of-the-art Amazon fulfillment center in Temple Terrace, Florida. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create 750 new, full-time jobs with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. Amazon currently operates seven fulfillment and sortation centers in the state in Jacksonville, Davenport, Orlando, Miami, Ruskin, and Lakeland. "We're excited to be growing our operations in Florida and we are excited to open a new fulfillment center in Temple Terrace," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "Amazon is committed to providing great jobs with industry leading pay and benefits, starting on day one, in a safe, innovative work environment. Amazon is grateful for the continued support we've received from local and state leaders and we look forward to creating over seven hundred jobs for the Temple Terrace community." "The City of Temple Terrace is very excited to welcome Amazon as our newest corporate citizen. Amazon's presence in our amazing city will bring more jobs and opportunities for residents and those throughout the region," said Temple Terrace Acting Mayor Andrew Ross. Amazon's new operations facility will span more than 600,000 square feet on the ground floor. Employees at the site will work alongside innovative technologies to pick, pack and ship smaller customer items such as books, electronics, small household goods and toys. In addition, Amazon will hire for roles in human resources, operations management, safety, security, finance and information technology. Temple Terrace City Manager Charles Stephenson echoes Ross's sentiments, saying, "The City of Temple Terrace looks forward to developing a mutually beneficial business relationship with Amazon. The City has strived in the past to expand its commercial base on the eastern border and the addition of Amazon is a vital piece to these expansion efforts. The site selected is ideal for access to major transportation corridors and will provide added economic growth and employment to this area of Temple Terrace." Amazon is also planning a new delivery station in Lutz that will power Amazon's last-mile delivery capabilities to speed up deliveries for customers in Pasco County. Delivery stations enable Amazon Logistics to supplement capacity and flexibility to Amazon's delivery capabilities. The Lutz delivery station is also anticipated to open in 2021. Amazon's delivery stations also offer entrepreneurs the opportunity to build their own business delivering Amazon packages, as well as independent contractors the flexibility to be their own boss and create their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex. Amazon has more than 150 delivery stations in the US. "I am thrilled to welcome Amazon and the additional jobs this facility will bring to our community," said Pasco County Commission Chairman Mike Moore. "This is another example of Pasco County government and the Pasco Economic Development Council working together to make Pasco County the premier place for business." On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum starting wage of $15 per hour, full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits, including full medical, vision and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent company match, starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200805005407/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New fulfillment center in Temple Terrace and new delivery station in Lutz will create hundreds of new full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to launch a new, state-of-the-art Amazon fulfillment center in Temple Terrace, Florida. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create 750 new, full-time jobs with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. Amazon currently operates seven fulfillment and sortation centers in the state in Jacksonville, Davenport, Orlando, Miami, Ruskin, and Lakeland.</p><p>"We're excited to be growing our operations in Florida and we are excited to open a new fulfillment center in Temple Terrace," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "Amazon is committed to providing great jobs with industry leading pay and benefits, starting on day one, in a safe, innovative work environment. Amazon is grateful for the continued support we've received from local and state leaders and we look forward to creating over seven hundred jobs for the Temple Terrace community."</p><p>"The City of Temple Terrace is very excited to welcome Amazon as our newest corporate citizen. Amazon's presence in our amazing city will bring more jobs and opportunities for residents and those throughout the region," said Temple Terrace Acting Mayor Andrew Ross.</p><p>Amazon's new operations facility will span more than 600,000 square feet on the ground floor. Employees at the site will work alongside innovative technologies to pick, pack and ship smaller customer items such as books, electronics, small household goods and toys. In addition, Amazon will hire for roles in human resources, operations management, safety, security, finance and information technology.</p><p>Temple Terrace City Manager Charles Stephenson echoes Ross's sentiments, saying, "The City of Temple Terrace looks forward to developing a mutually beneficial business relationship with Amazon. The City has strived in the past to expand its commercial base on the eastern border and the addition of Amazon is a vital piece to these expansion efforts. The site selected is ideal for access to major transportation corridors and will provide added economic growth and employment to this area of Temple Terrace."</p><p>Amazon is also planning a new delivery station in Lutz that will power Amazon's last-mile delivery capabilities to speed up deliveries for customers in Pasco County. Delivery stations enable Amazon Logistics to supplement capacity and flexibility to Amazon's delivery capabilities. The Lutz delivery station is also anticipated to open in 2021.</p><p>Amazon's delivery stations also offer entrepreneurs the opportunity to build their own business delivering Amazon packages, as well as independent contractors the flexibility to be their own boss and create their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex. Amazon has more than 150 delivery stations in the US.</p><p>"I am thrilled to welcome Amazon and the additional jobs this facility will bring to our community," said Pasco County Commission Chairman Mike Moore. "This is another example of Pasco County government and the Pasco Economic Development Council working together to make Pasco County the premier place for business."</p><p>On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum starting wage of $15 per hour, full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits, including full medical, vision and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent company match, starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200805005407/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Global Payments Joins Forces with AWS to Deliver the Future of Payments

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Global Payments Joins Forces with AWS to Deliver the Future of Payments

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AWS and Global Payments will collaborate to provide an industry leading cloud-based issuer processing platform to institutions of all sizes around the world Global Payments selects AWS as its preferred cloud provider for issuer processing; Companies will work together to broaden Global Payments' worldwide customer base SEATTLE & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2020-- Today, Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced a new, multi-year collaboration agreement to provide a cloud-based issuer processing platform to financial institutions around the world. As part of this agreement, Global Payments and AWS will strategically collaborate to transform Global Payments' core issuing platform to deliver secure, innovative solutions for the payment industry at scale. Global Payments will work with AWS to build on AWS's customer relationships, making innovative technologies available toinstitutions of all sizes worldwide and expand the customer baseforGlobal Payments'issuer processing services. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200803005187/en/ Global Payments' cloud-based issuer processing platform built on AWS will allow financial institutions of all sizes to more seamlessly operate the entire lifecycle of card issuance and management. The company is also leveraging the proven scalability of AWS's global infrastructure to support the rapid adoption of Global Payments' issuer processing platform around the world, which today handles approximately 27 billion transactions annually. Global Payments will rely on AWS as its preferred cloud provider for issuer processing and will use a range of AWS services, including storage, compute, database, security, analytics and machine learning to fulfill compliance requirements, enable new cloud-based services, and enhance customer experiences for its clients and their cardholders. In addition, Amazon and Global Payments will work together to explore additional opportunities for collaboration on innovative payments products and services across all of Global Payments. "We are excited to enter into this collaboration with AWS, which enables us to offer our solutions to institutions regardless of size, location or processing preference," said Jeff Sloan, Chief Executive Officer, Global Payments. "The new platform's cloud-based architecture will give clients the ability to use the services they need with greater speed-to-market, flexibility and best-in-class experiences for our customers and their cardholders. By strategically partnering with AWS, we can capitalize on the fintech and open banking movement, further expand our role in technology innovation, leapfrog existing distribution models and solidify our position as a leading provider of technology solutions for financial institutions, new market entrants, and retailers across the globe." "Global Payments is a leader in the payments technology industry, and working together, we will provide solutions to organizations—from traditional financial institutions to emerging payment players—to simplify commerce, so they can focus on innovation and growth," said Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS. "We look forward to working with Global Payments to bring payment issuer solutions to new geographic regions and more customers throughout the world. By leveraging the proven scalability and reliability of the world's leading cloud, Global Payments is providing the tools for businesses to manage the card issuance lifecycle and transform the way that the payments industry operates." About Global Payments Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) is a leading pure play payments technology company delivering innovative software and services to our customers globally. Our technologies, services and employee expertise enable us to provide a broad range of solutions that allow our customers to operate their businesses more efficiently across a variety of channels around the world. Headquartered in Georgia with nearly 24,000 employees worldwide, Global Payments is a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning over 100 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For more information, visit www.globalpaymentsinc.com and follow Global Payments on Twitter (@globalpayinc), LinkedIn and Facebook. About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200803005187/en/ Investor Contact:Winnie Smith 770.829.8478investor.relations@globalpay.comMedia Contact:Emily Edmonds 770.829.8755media.relations@globalpay.com Source: Global Payments Inc.

<p><em>AWS and Global Payments will collaborate to provide an industry leading cloud-based issuer processing platform to institutions of all sizes around the world</em></p><p><em>Global Payments selects AWS as its preferred cloud provider for issuer processing; Companies will work together to broaden Global Payments' worldwide customer base</em></p><p>SEATTLE &amp; ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2020-- Today, Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced a new, multi-year collaboration agreement to provide a cloud-based issuer processing platform to financial institutions around the world. As part of this agreement, Global Payments and AWS will strategically collaborate to transform Global Payments' core issuing platform to deliver secure, innovative solutions for the payment industry at scale. Global Payments will work with AWS to build on AWS's customer relationships, making innovative technologies available toinstitutions of all sizes worldwide and expand the customer baseforGlobal Payments'issuer processing services.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200803005187/en/</p><p>Global Payments' cloud-based issuer processing platform built on AWS will allow financial institutions of all sizes to more seamlessly operate the entire lifecycle of card issuance and management. The company is also leveraging the proven scalability of AWS's global infrastructure to support the rapid adoption of Global Payments' issuer processing platform around the world, which today handles approximately 27 billion transactions annually.</p><p>Global Payments will rely on AWS as its preferred cloud provider for issuer processing and will use a range of AWS services, including storage, compute, database, security, analytics and machine learning to fulfill compliance requirements, enable new cloud-based services, and enhance customer experiences for its clients and their cardholders. In addition, Amazon and Global Payments will work together to explore additional opportunities for collaboration on innovative payments products and services across all of Global Payments.</p><p>"We are excited to enter into this collaboration with AWS, which enables us to offer our solutions to institutions regardless of size, location or processing preference," said Jeff Sloan, Chief Executive Officer, Global Payments. "The new platform's cloud-based architecture will give clients the ability to use the services they need with greater speed-to-market, flexibility and best-in-class experiences for our customers and their cardholders. By strategically partnering with AWS, we can capitalize on the fintech and open banking movement, further expand our role in technology innovation, leapfrog existing distribution models and solidify our position as a leading provider of technology solutions for financial institutions, new market entrants, and retailers across the globe."</p><p>"Global Payments is a leader in the payments technology industry, and working together, we will provide solutions to organizations—from traditional financial institutions to emerging payment players—to simplify commerce, so they can focus on innovation and growth," said Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS. "We look forward to working with Global Payments to bring payment issuer solutions to new geographic regions and more customers throughout the world. By leveraging the proven scalability and reliability of the world's leading cloud, Global Payments is providing the tools for businesses to manage the card issuance lifecycle and transform the way that the payments industry operates."</p><p>About Global Payments</p><p>Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) is a leading pure play payments technology company delivering innovative software and services to our customers globally. Our technologies, services and employee expertise enable us to provide a broad range of solutions that allow our customers to operate their businesses more efficiently across a variety of channels around the world.</p><p>Headquartered in Georgia with nearly 24,000 employees worldwide, Global Payments is a member of the S&amp;P 500 with worldwide reach spanning over 100 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For more information, visit www.globalpaymentsinc.com and follow Global Payments on Twitter (@globalpayinc), LinkedIn and Facebook.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200803005187/en/</p><p>Investor Contact:Winnie Smith 770.829.8478investor.relations@globalpay.comMedia Contact:Emily Edmonds 770.829.8755media.relations@globalpay.com</p><p>Source: Global Payments Inc.</p>

N. K. Jemisin's Short Story Emergency Skin Wins 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette

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N. K. Jemisin's Short Story Emergency Skin Wins 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 31, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Tonight, New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin's short story Emergency Skin was named the winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Novelette. Published last fall as part of the Forward collection from Amazon Original Stories, Emergency Skin is Jemisin's first publication with the Amazon Publishing imprint. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200731005503/en/ N. K. Jemisin's Short Story Emergency Skin Wins 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (Photo: Business Wire) "I'm astonished and delighted that people like my little stranger-in-a-strange-land parable," said Jemisin. "Many thanks to the Hugo voters, and to Amazon for making the story available at low cost or free so that readers everywhere can enjoy it." "The Hugo Awards recognize the very best in the science fiction genre, and we are so pleased to celebrate this recognition of N.K. Jemisin's boundary-pushing short story, Emergency Skin," said Mikyla Bruder, Publisher of Amazon Publishing. "Time and again, N. K. Jemisin proves why she is one of today's most important voices in the genre, and we are thrilled that the Hugo Awards agree that this story is no different." In Jemisin's Emergency Skin, narrated by Star Trek: Discovery's Jason Isaacs, an explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet's finest, fled centuries ago. But the mission comes with a warning: a graveyard world awaits him, along with those who were left behind. This is the fourth Hugo Award win for Jemisin, whose novels The Fifth Season (2016), The Obelisk Gate (2017), and The Stone Sky (2018), all published within The Broken Earth trilogy by Orbit, won for Best Novel. Jemisin is the first Black writer to win in the Best Novel category, and the first author ever to win for all three books in a trilogy. The 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette nominees also included Caroline M. Yoahchim's The Archnology of Love; Sarah Gailey's Away With the Wolves; Sarah Pinsker's The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye; Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep; and Ted Chiang's Omphalos. Amazon Original Stories offers single-sitting, bingeable reads as e-book and audio downloads, available for free with a Prime or Kindle Unlimited subscription. Emergency Skin was acquired and edited by Kjersti Egerdahl, Amazon Original Stories Senior Editor, for the Forward collection, which also includes stories from Andy Weir (Randomize), Blake Crouch (Summer Frost), Veronica Roth (Ark), Amor Towles (You Have Arrived at Your Destination), and Paul Tremblay (The Last Conversation). This fall, Amazon Original Stories will publishing Mindy Kaling's latest collection of essays, all told with her signature warmth and wit. All Amazon Original Stories collections are available free to Prime members, as well as Kindle Unlimited subscribers. www.amazon.com/ForwardCollection About Amazon Publishing Amazon Publishing is a leading trade publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books with a mission to empower outstanding storytellers and connect them with readers worldwide. We publish emerging, bestselling and critically-acclaimed authors in digital, print, and audio formats. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200731005503/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 31, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Tonight, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author N. K. Jemisin's short story <em>Emergency Skin </em>was named the winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Novelette. Published last fall as part of the Forward collection from Amazon Original Stories, <em>Emergency Skin</em> is Jemisin's first publication with the Amazon Publishing imprint.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200731005503/en/</p><div><p>N. K. Jemisin's Short Story Emergency Skin Wins 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"I'm astonished and delighted that people like my little stranger-in-a-strange-land parable," said Jemisin. "Many thanks to the Hugo voters, and to Amazon for making the story available at low cost or free so that readers everywhere can enjoy it."</p><p>"The Hugo Awards recognize the very best in the science fiction genre, and we are so pleased to celebrate this recognition of N.K. Jemisin's boundary-pushing short story, <em>Emergency Skin</em>," said Mikyla Bruder, Publisher of Amazon Publishing. "Time and again, N. K. Jemisin proves why she is one of today's most important voices in the genre, and we are thrilled that the Hugo Awards agree that this story is no different."</p><p>In Jemisin's <em>Emergency Skin</em>, narrated by <em>Star Trek: Discovery</em>'s Jason Isaacs, an explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet's finest, fled centuries ago. But the mission comes with a warning: a graveyard world awaits him, along with those who were left behind.</p><p>This is the fourth Hugo Award win for Jemisin, whose novels <em>The Fifth Season </em>(2016), <em>The Obelisk Gate</em> (2017), and <em>The Stone Sky </em>(2018), all published within The Broken Earth trilogy by Orbit, won for Best Novel. Jemisin is the first Black writer to win in the Best Novel category, and the first author ever to win for all three books in a trilogy. The 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette nominees also included Caroline M. Yoahchim's <em>The Archnology of Love</em>; Sarah Gailey's <em>Away With the Wolves</em>; Sarah Pinsker's <em>The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye</em>; Siobhan Carroll's <em>For He Can Creep</em>; and Ted Chiang's <em>Omphalos</em>.</p><p>Amazon Original Stories offers single-sitting, bingeable reads as e-book and audio downloads, available for free with a Prime or Kindle Unlimited subscription. <em>Emergency Skin</em> was acquired and edited by Kjersti Egerdahl, Amazon Original Stories Senior Editor, for the Forward collection, which also includes stories from Andy Weir (<em>Randomize</em>), Blake Crouch (<em>Summer Frost</em>), Veronica Roth (<em>Ark</em>), Amor Towles (<em>You Have Arrived at Your Destination</em>), and Paul Tremblay (<em>The Last Conversation</em>). This fall, Amazon Original Stories will publishing Mindy Kaling's latest collection of essays, all told with her signature warmth and wit. All Amazon Original Stories collections are available free to Prime members, as well as Kindle Unlimited subscribers.</p><p>www.amazon.com/ForwardCollection</p><p>About Amazon Publishing</p><p>Amazon Publishing is a leading trade publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books with a mission to empower outstanding storytellers and connect them with readers worldwide. We publish emerging, bestselling and critically-acclaimed authors in digital, print, and audio formats.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200731005503/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 30, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2020. Operating cash flow increased 42% to $51.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $36.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019. Free cash flow increased to $31.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $25.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019. Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations increased to $21.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $16.1 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019. Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations increased to $19.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $13.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019. Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 517 million on June 30, 2020, compared with 510 million one year ago. Net sales increased 40% to $88.9 billion in the second quarter, compared with $63.4 billion in second quarter 2019. Excluding the $582 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 41% compared with second quarter 2019. Operating income increased to $5.8 billion in the second quarter, compared with operating income of $3.1 billion in second quarter 2019. Net income increased to $5.2 billion in the second quarter, or $10.30 per diluted share, compared with net income of $2.6 billion, or $5.22 per diluted share, in second quarter 2019. "This was another highly unusual quarter, and I couldn't be more proud of and grateful to our employees around the globe," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "As expected, we spent over $4 billion on incremental COVID-19-related costs in the quarter to help keep employees safe and deliver products to customers in this time of high demand—purchasing personal protective equipment, increasing cleaning of our facilities, following new safety process paths, adding new backup family care benefits, and paying a special thank you bonus of over $500 million to front-line employees and delivery partners. We've created over 175,000 new jobs since March and are in the process of bringing 125,000 of these employees into regular, full-time positions. And third-party sales again grew faster this quarter than Amazon's first-party sales. Lastly, even in this unpredictable time, we injected significant money into the economy this quarter, investing over $9 billion in capital projects, including fulfillment, transportation, and AWS." Highlights Supporting Employees Amazon's top priority is providing for the health and safety of our employees and partners, and the company spent more than $4 billion in the second quarter on incremental COVID-19 related initiatives to help keep employees safe, provide additional compensation to our employees and delivery partners, and deliver products to customers. Amazon provided a one-time Thank You bonus totaling over $500 million to all front-line employees and partners who were with the company throughout the month of June. Amazon introduced a new family backup care benefit through Care.com to 650,000 full and part-time Amazon and Whole Foods Market employees in the U.S. This benefit provides employees with up to 10 days of company-subsidized emergency backup child or adult care. Amazon introduced Distance Assistant to help keep employees safe by providing them with live feedback on their social distancing via a 50-inch monitor. Amazon made the software and AI behind this innovation available via open source so that anyone can create their own Distance Assistant at no cost and get up and running with just a monitor, computer, and camera. Amazon is collaborating with national medical care group Crossover Health to pilot Amazon Neighborhood Health Centers, which are new medical facilities available to Amazon employees and their families. The centers will provide access to quality, convenient care while reducing health care costs for employees and Amazon. The pilot includes 20 Crossover Health branded and operated centers in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; Louisville, Kentucky; Detroit, Michigan; and San Bernardino/Moreno Valley, California. Investing in Communities Amazon donated more than $10 million of personal protective equipment, including 4.4 million masks and thousands of contactless thermometers, to Direct Relief and Feeding America. The masks went to over 200 of Direct Relief's partner clinics and Feeding America's food banks and agencies in 47 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Amazon Business delivered more than 200 million essential health and safety products to healthcare and government organizations in tens of thousands of locations across the U.S. Amazon partnered with food banks and schools to deliver more than six million meals to underserved families and vulnerable seniors in 25 U.S. cities and in communities in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the U.K. Amazon plans to deliver one million more meals by the end of this summer. Amazon teamed up with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to launch Camp Prime, offering families fun, safe, and easy ways to help kids stay engaged this summer, including a digital handbook full of camp-themed activities using items from around the house. Camp Prime is free and available to all, and Prime members can extend their experience with content from Prime Video, Prime Reading, and Amazon Music. Amazon also donated $500,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs to help dozens of Club locations offer kids summer activities, including filling "curbside camp" kits available for pickup from Clubs that remain closed. Amazon announced a $10 million donation to 12 organizations that are working to bring about social justice for and improve the lives of Black and African Americans. In addition, Amazon also matched 100% of $8.5 million in donations by Amazon employees, bringing total donations to these organizations from the company and its employees to $27 million. Amazon announced its first ever Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Award honoring 10 teachers each with a grant valued at more than $50,000 to benefit their schools and students. Amazon also announced its second annual class of Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipients, awarding 100 students each with a $40,000 college scholarship and a guaranteed paid internship at Amazon. Protecting the Planet Verizon, Infosys, Reckitt Benckiser, and Oak View Group signed The Climate Pledge, the commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement. Amazon and We Mean Business, a global nonprofit coalition working with businesses to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy, announced a partnership to establish the world's most comprehensive effort to drive companies to adopt more ambitious carbon emissions reduction goals. The partnership encourages companies to accelerate their goals to meet The Climate Pledge. Amazon launched The Climate Pledge Fund with an initial $2 billion in funding to help support visionary companies whose product and service solutions will facilitate the transition to a zero carbon economy. Amazon announced it is on a path to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of schedule. As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon had previously committed to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030. Amazon Air secured up to six million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supplied by Shell Aviation and produced by World Energy. The investment will help increase production of SAF by demonstrating growing demand for low-carbon aviation fuel. The fuel is produced from a feedstock of inedible agricultural waste fats and oils and is expected to reduce carbon emissions by up to 20% compared to conventional jet fuel. Amazon secured the naming rights to the new home of Seattle's NHL team, Kraken, and WNBA team, Storm, and will name it Climate Pledge Arena. Opening in summer 2021, Climate Pledge Arena will be one of the world's most sustainable arenas. Through a partnership between Amazon, Oak View Group, and NHL Seattle, the rebuild of this venue is expected to be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world. In Germany, Amazon announced the first project in Europe from Amazon's $100 million Right Now Climate Fund. The €3.75 million commitment to The Nature Conservancy will support its work, which includes increasing species biodiversity in cities. Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Amazon released its 2020 Small and Medium-Sized Business (SMB) Impact Report, highlighting how SMBs selling in its U.S. store have sold more than 3.4 billion products in the past year and created an estimated 1.1 million jobs. In partnership with the British small business support network "Enterprise Nation," Amazon launched the Amazon Small Business Accelerator, which aims to support more than 200,000 small businesses across the U.K. negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Amazon hosted a week-long boot camp in the U.K. to help 1,000 offline businesses get online, and offered free services, AWS credits, training, and support. In the U.K., Amazon worked with the British Chambers of Commerce to give up to 1,000 businesses tours of Amazon fulfillment centers, helping other companies learn from the safety measures Amazon has put in place within its own operations so the businesses can re-open safely and kick-start the economy. Amazon in Japan launched Global Selling to allow Japanese sellers to reach new customers across 16 Amazon sites worldwide. Amazon in India announced plans to help digitally enable micro, small, and medium businesses across the country as part of a $1 billion investment pledge. Amazon launched Local Shops on Amazon.in, offering shopkeepers and retailers with physical stores the ability to register to serve more customers from their local areas. Since launch, more than 11,000 sellers have enrolled in the program. In addition, Amazon introduced seller registration and account management services in Hindi to help businesses overcome language barriers. Since launch, more than 10,000 sellers have used Hindi to register on Amazon.in. Shopping and Entertainment Amazon increased grocery delivery capacity by over 160% and tripled grocery pickup locations to support customers during COVID-19. Online grocery sales tripled in the second quarter when compared with the same period last year. Amazon continues working closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand access to online grocery shopping for people who rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Amazon now reaches beneficiaries in 39 states and the District of Columbia, providing more than 90% of SNAP households with the ability to use their SNAP benefits online. Amazon established the Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a team dedicated to bringing counterfeiters who violate the law and Amazon's policies by listing counterfeit products in its stores to justice. Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit is a global, multi-disciplinary group composed of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators, and data analysts who will join Amazon's existing Customer Trust team working to drive counterfeit to zero. Prime Video launched Watch Parties, a feature that enables Prime members to interact with each other via chat on a desktop while watching Prime Video content, including award-winning TV shows and movies. Prime Video introduced Prime Video Profiles, allowing customers to create and manage up to six profiles within a single account. Each profile offers individualized recommendations, season progress, and watchlists based on individual profile activity. Amazon premiered several Amazon Original series including Upload, from Emmy-winner Greg Daniels, Homecoming Season 2, Bosch Season 6, and Regular Heroes, a docuseries focusing on COVID-19 heroes. Additionally, Amazon premiered several Original movies including Selah and the Spades, The Goldfinch, The Vast of Night, 7500, and the family action-comedy My Spy, along with local Indian movies Ponmagal Vandhal and Gulabo Sitabo. Devices and Alexa Amazon expanded the portfolio of devices and features that are available to customers around the world. Echo Auto is now available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K.; Echo Dot with clock and Echo Studio are now available in Brazil; eero mesh WiFi systems are now available in Australia and Mexico; and Alexa Skill Blueprints are now available in France, Italy, Mexico, and Spain. Amazon announced new or expanded Alexa integrations with global automotive brands including General Motors, Volkswagen, Toyota, and Lexus. Amazon continues to make Alexa smarter and add more ways for customers to stay connected. Customers can now set reminders that play across all of their Alexa devices, use new notification capabilities with Routines, ask Alexa for nutrition tips, receive Announcements on their mobile phones as a push notification, and broadcast a response to an Announcement. The Alexa Fund is supporting the startup community through investments in Molekule, a leader in reinventing air purification, and Amira Learning, the first AI-powered reading assistant. The Alexa Fund also announced its newest cohort of companies participating in Alexa Next Stage powered by Techstars, a program empowering entrepreneurs who are innovating in the field of voice technology. Amazon announced new live content integrations on Fire TV from YouTube TV and Hulu, and expanded discovery options including the new Free tab which helps customers find free movies, TV shows, and more. Ring launched its next-generation original Ring Video Doorbell for improved home security, featuring a higher resolution camera, improved night vision and additional privacy features. Ring also announced Ring Alarm is now available in several additional European countries, including Germany, Norway, and Sweden. Amazon Web Services Customers are using AWS to lessen the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on families, communities, and businesses. Examples include: With the support of AWS hosting services, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched an app to support health workers around the world in caring for patients with COVID-19, as well as to protect themselves as they do this critical work. Zoom, a provider of enterprise video communications, has long utilized AWS to host a significant portion of its network. In addition to offering a robust free service, since March Zoom has also offered free access to over 100,000 schools to enable them to educate students remotely. Zoom and AWS have worked together to help businesses, schools, and healthcare institutions maintain mission and business continuity as they stay safe at home. Propel, a company focused on building software to help low-income Americans improve their financial health, developed Fresh Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), an app built on AWS that has helped more than three million individuals per month manage their benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), save with coupons, and find jobs. UNC Health built a chatbot on AWS to help address increased call volumes to its COVID-19 help line, answering questions from patients seeking guidance on COVID-19 testing and what to do if they or their loved ones were exposed to the virus. Orange County United Way built a highly-secure mobile and web-enabled app on AWS called AssistOC that allows individuals to submit requests for financial assistance to the nonprofit's Homelessness Prevention Program, launched in response to the current pandemic, via a smartphone or personal computer. AWS announced several significant new customer commitments and migrations during the quarter. Examples include: HSBC, one of the world's largest financial services organizations, selected AWS as a key, long-term strategic cloud provider to drive their digital transformation and deliver new and personalized banking services for millions of personal banking customers worldwide. Global market intelligence company IHS Markit selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help improve scalability and agility to respond to industry changes and develop new products and services. Formula 1 is using a range of AWS services, including machine learning, for six new F1 Insights powered by AWS that will roll out during the 2020 racing season to give fans the ability to compare their favorite drivers and cars and better predict race outcomes. Bundesliga is using AWS machine learning and analytics to enhance the fan experience for Germany's top football league, delivering new advanced statistics through Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS, including Average Positions and xGoals. Capella Space, a provider of on-demand Earth observation data via satellite-based radar, is all-in on AWS, running its entire infrastructure on AWS using a full portfolio of cloud services including AWS Ground Station to deliver satellite data to customers in minutes. Genesys has selected AWS as the preferred cloud provider for Genesys Cloud, an all-in-one solution and leading public cloud contact center platform used by organizations around the world to manage and improve customer relationships across any channel, including voice, text, web chat, and social. AWS announced Amazon Honeycode, a fully-managed service that allows customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required. With Amazon Honeycode, customers can create applications using the simplicity and familiarity of a spreadsheet, but with the data management capability of a database, the collaboration and notifications common in business applications, and a truly seamless web and mobile user experience to perform important business functions like managing field agents, performing PO approvals, scheduling weekly events, reporting employee or team activities, tracking task progress, following customer activity, surveying end users, managing content, inventorying resources, and more. AWS announced the general availability of AWS Snowcone, a small, ultra-portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device that can fit in a small backpack. At under five pounds, AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of devices, enabling customers to collect data, process it locally, and move it to AWS. AWS Snowcone is built to withstand harsh conditions, and is designed for a variety of use cases in environments outside of the traditional data center that lack consistent network connectivity and/or require portability. AWS announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that collects data from the plant floor, structures and labels the data, and generates real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to help industrial customers make better, data-driven decisions. Customers can use SiteWise to monitor operations across facilities, quickly compute industrial performance metrics, create applications that analyze industrial equipment data to prevent costly equipment issues, and reduce gaps in production. AWS announced the general availability of the sixth generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with three Arm-based instances (M6g, C6g, R6g) powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors, that deliver up to 40% better price and performance than current x86 processor-based instances. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer-quality service powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code. AWS announced the general availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, a highly performant, fully-managed, low-cost warm storage tier that provides fast, interactive analytics of log data at one-tenth the cost of existing storage options. UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service gives Elasticsearch customers a warm storage tier that both stores large amounts of data cost-effectively and provides the type of interactive experience that Elasticsearch customers expect. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service powered by machine learning. Amazon Kendra enables organizations to index all of their internal data sources across siloes, makes that data searchable, and allows users to get precise answers to natural language queries instead of trial-and-error keyword search – all with no machine learning expertise required. AWS and Slack announced a multi-year agreement to deliver solutions for enhanced enterprise workforce collaboration. Slack will migrate its Slack Calls capability for all voice and video calling to Amazon Chime, AWS's communications service that lets users meet, chat, and place business calls. Slack is also leveraging AWS's global infrastructure to support enterprise customers' rapid adoption of its platform and to offer them data residency – the ability to choose which country or region their data is stored at rest in while fulfilling compliance requirements. AWS announced a new, global team dedicated to accelerating innovation in the global aerospace and satellite industry. The Aerospace and Satellite Solutions team will bring AWS services and solutions to the space enterprise, and work with customers and partners around the world to: reimagine space system architectures; transform space enterprises; launch new services that process space data on Earth and in orbit; and provide secure, flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud solutions to support government missions and companies advancing space around the world. AWS announced Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), a managed service customers may use to set up live, interactive video streams for web or mobile applications in just a few minutes. Amazon IVS uses the same technology that powers Twitch and allows customers to configure live streams that can be delivered to millions of concurrent viewers globally with interactive features like virtual chat spaces, votes and polls, moderated question and answer sessions, and synchronized promotional elements. Financial Guidance The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of July 30, 2020, and are subject to substantial uncertainty. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet, online commerce, and cloud services, and the various factors detailed below. This guidance reflects our estimates as of July 30, 2020 regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, including those discussed above, and is highly dependent on numerous factors that we may not be able to predict or control, including: the duration and scope of the pandemic, including any recurrence; actions taken by governments, businesses, and individuals in response to the pandemic; the impact of the pandemic on global and regional economies and economic activity, workforce staffing and productivity, and our significant and continuing spending on employee safety measures; our ability to continue operations in affected areas; and consumer demand and spending patterns, as well as the effects on suppliers, creditors, and third-party sellers, all of which are uncertain. This guidance also assumes the impacts on consumer demand and spending patterns, including impacts due to concerns over the current economic outlook, will be in line with those experienced during the third quarter to date, and the additional assumptions set forth below. However, it is not possible to determine the ultimate impact on our operations for the third quarter, or whether other currently unanticipated direct or indirect consequences of the pandemic are reasonably likely to materially affect our operations. Third Quarter 2020 Guidance Net sales are expected to be between $87.0 billion and $93.0 billion, or to grow between 24% and 33% compared with third quarter 2019. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 20 basis points from foreign exchange rates. Operating income is expected to be between $2.0 billion and $5.0 billion, compared with $3.2 billion in third quarter 2019. This guidance assumes more than $2.0 billion of costs related to COVID-19. This guidance assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions, investments, restructurings, or legal settlements are concluded. A conference call will be webcast live today at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET, and will be available for at least three months at amazon.com/ir. This call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding the Company's financial and operating results. These forward-looking statements are inherently difficult to predict. 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<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 30, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2020.</p><ul><li>Operating cash flow increased 42% to $51.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $36.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019.</li><li>Free cash flow increased to $31.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $25.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019.</li><li>Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations increased to $21.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $16.1 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019.</li><li>Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations increased to $19.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $13.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019.</li><li>Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 517 million on June 30, 2020, compared with 510 million one year ago.</li><li>Net sales increased 40% to $88.9 billion in the second quarter, compared with $63.4 billion in second quarter 2019. Excluding the $582 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 41% compared with second quarter 2019.</li><li>Operating income increased to $5.8 billion in the second quarter, compared with operating income of $3.1 billion in second quarter 2019.</li><li>Net income increased to $5.2 billion in the second quarter, or $10.30 per diluted share, compared with net income of $2.6 billion, or $5.22 per diluted share, in second quarter 2019.</li></ul><p>"This was another highly unusual quarter, and I couldn't be more proud of and grateful to our employees around the globe," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "As expected, we spent over $4 billion on incremental COVID-19-related costs in the quarter to help keep employees safe and deliver products to customers in this time of high demand—purchasing personal protective equipment, increasing cleaning of our facilities, following new safety process paths, adding new backup family care benefits, and paying a special thank you bonus of over $500 million to front-line employees and delivery partners. We've created over 175,000 new jobs since March and are in the process of bringing 125,000 of these employees into regular, full-time positions. And third-party sales again grew faster this quarter than Amazon's first-party sales. Lastly, even in this unpredictable time, we injected significant money into the economy this quarter, investing over $9 billion in capital projects, including fulfillment, transportation, and AWS."</p><p>Highlights</p><p><em>Supporting Employees</em></p><ul><li>Amazon's top priority is providing for the health and safety of our employees and partners, and the company spent more than $4 billion in the second quarter on incremental COVID-19 related initiatives to help keep employees safe, provide additional compensation to our employees and delivery partners, and deliver products to customers.</li><li>Amazon provided a one-time Thank You bonus totaling over $500 million to all front-line employees and partners who were with the company throughout the month of June.</li><li>Amazon introduced a new family backup care benefit through Care.com to 650,000 full and part-time Amazon and Whole Foods Market employees in the U.S. This benefit provides employees with up to 10 days of company-subsidized emergency backup child or adult care.</li><li>Amazon introduced Distance Assistant to help keep employees safe by providing them with live feedback on their social distancing via a 50-inch monitor. Amazon made the software and AI behind this innovation available via open source so that anyone can create their own Distance Assistant at no cost and get up and running with just a monitor, computer, and camera.</li><li>Amazon is collaborating with national medical care group Crossover Health to pilot Amazon Neighborhood Health Centers, which are new medical facilities available to Amazon employees and their families. The centers will provide access to quality, convenient care while reducing health care costs for employees and Amazon. The pilot includes 20 Crossover Health branded and operated centers in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; Louisville, Kentucky; Detroit, Michigan; and San Bernardino/Moreno Valley, California.</li></ul><p><em>Investing in Communities</em></p><ul><li>Amazon donated more than $10 million of personal protective equipment, including 4.4 million masks and thousands of contactless thermometers, to Direct Relief and Feeding America. The masks went to over 200 of Direct Relief's partner clinics and Feeding America's food banks and agencies in 47 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.</li><li>Amazon Business delivered more than 200 million essential health and safety products to healthcare and government organizations in tens of thousands of locations across the U.S.</li><li>Amazon partnered with food banks and schools to deliver more than six million meals to underserved families and vulnerable seniors in 25 U.S. cities and in communities in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the U.K. Amazon plans to deliver one million more meals by the end of this summer.</li><li>Amazon teamed up with Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of America to launch Camp Prime, offering families fun, safe, and easy ways to help kids stay engaged this summer, including a digital handbook full of camp-themed activities using items from around the house. Camp Prime is free and available to all, and Prime members can extend their experience with content from Prime Video, Prime Reading, and Amazon Music. Amazon also donated $500,000 to Boys &amp; Girls Clubs to help dozens of Club locations offer kids summer activities, including filling "curbside camp" kits available for pickup from Clubs that remain closed.</li><li>Amazon announced a $10 million donation to 12 organizations that are working to bring about social justice for and improve the lives of Black and African Americans. In addition, Amazon also matched 100% of $8.5 million in donations by Amazon employees, bringing total donations to these organizations from the company and its employees to $27 million.</li><li>Amazon announced its first ever Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Award honoring 10 teachers each with a grant valued at more than $50,000 to benefit their schools and students. Amazon also announced its second annual class of Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipients, awarding 100 students each with a $40,000 college scholarship and a guaranteed paid internship at Amazon.</li></ul><p><em>Protecting the Planet</em></p><ul><li>Verizon, Infosys, Reckitt Benckiser, and Oak View Group signed The Climate Pledge, the commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement.</li><li>Amazon and We Mean Business, a global nonprofit coalition working with businesses to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy, announced a partnership to establish the world's most comprehensive effort to drive companies to adopt more ambitious carbon emissions reduction goals. The partnership encourages companies to accelerate their goals to meet The Climate Pledge.</li><li>Amazon launched The Climate Pledge Fund with an initial $2 billion in funding to help support visionary companies whose product and service solutions will facilitate the transition to a zero carbon economy.</li><li>Amazon announced it is on a path to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of schedule. As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon had previously committed to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030.</li><li>Amazon Air secured up to six million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supplied by Shell Aviation and produced by World Energy. The investment will help increase production of SAF by demonstrating growing demand for low-carbon aviation fuel. The fuel is produced from a feedstock of inedible agricultural waste fats and oils and is expected to reduce carbon emissions by up to 20% compared to conventional jet fuel.</li><li>Amazon secured the naming rights to the new home of Seattle's NHL team, Kraken, and WNBA team, Storm, and will name it Climate Pledge Arena. Opening in summer 2021, Climate Pledge Arena will be one of the world's most sustainable arenas. Through a partnership between Amazon, Oak View Group, and NHL Seattle, the rebuild of this venue is expected to be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world.</li><li>In Germany, Amazon announced the first project in Europe from Amazon's $100 million Right Now Climate Fund. The €3.75 million commitment to The Nature Conservancy will support its work, which includes increasing species biodiversity in cities.</li></ul><p><em>Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses</em></p><ul><li>Amazon released its 2020 Small and Medium-Sized Business (SMB) Impact Report, highlighting how SMBs selling in its U.S. store have sold more than 3.4 billion products in the past year and created an estimated 1.1 million jobs.</li><li>In partnership with the British small business support network "Enterprise Nation," Amazon launched the Amazon Small Business Accelerator, which aims to support more than 200,000 small businesses across the U.K. negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Amazon hosted a week-long boot camp in the U.K. to help 1,000 offline businesses get online, and offered free services, AWS credits, training, and support.</li><li>In the U.K., Amazon worked with the British Chambers of Commerce to give up to 1,000 businesses tours of Amazon fulfillment centers, helping other companies learn from the safety measures Amazon has put in place within its own operations so the businesses can re-open safely and kick-start the economy.</li><li>Amazon in Japan launched Global Selling to allow Japanese sellers to reach new customers across 16 Amazon sites worldwide.</li><li>Amazon in India announced plans to help digitally enable micro, small, and medium businesses across the country as part of a $1 billion investment pledge. Amazon launched Local Shops on Amazon.in, offering shopkeepers and retailers with physical stores the ability to register to serve more customers from their local areas. Since launch, more than 11,000 sellers have enrolled in the program. In addition, Amazon introduced seller registration and account management services in Hindi to help businesses overcome language barriers. Since launch, more than 10,000 sellers have used Hindi to register on Amazon.in.</li></ul><p><em>Shopping and Entertainment</em></p><ul><li>Amazon increased grocery delivery capacity by over 160% and tripled grocery pickup locations to support customers during COVID-19. Online grocery sales tripled in the second quarter when compared with the same period last year.</li><li>Amazon continues working closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand access to online grocery shopping for people who rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Amazon now reaches beneficiaries in 39 states and the District of Columbia, providing more than 90% of SNAP households with the ability to use their SNAP benefits online.</li><li>Amazon established the Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a team dedicated to bringing counterfeiters who violate the law and Amazon's policies by listing counterfeit products in its stores to justice. Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit is a global, multi-disciplinary group composed of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators, and data analysts who will join Amazon's existing Customer Trust team working to drive counterfeit to zero.</li><li>Prime Video launched Watch Parties, a feature that enables Prime members to interact with each other via chat on a desktop while watching Prime Video content, including award-winning TV shows and movies.</li><li>Prime Video introduced Prime Video Profiles, allowing customers to create and manage up to six profiles within a single account. Each profile offers individualized recommendations, season progress, and watchlists based on individual profile activity.</li><li>Amazon premiered several Amazon Original series including <em>Upload</em>, from Emmy-winner Greg Daniels, <em>Homecoming</em> Season 2, <em>Bosch </em>Season 6, and <em>Regular Heroes</em>, a docuseries focusing on COVID-19 heroes. Additionally, Amazon premiered several Original movies including <em>Selah and the Spades, The Goldfinch, The Vast of Night, 7500</em>, and the family action-comedy <em>My Spy</em>, along with local Indian movies <em>Ponmagal Vandhal</em> and <em>Gulabo Sitabo</em>.</li></ul><p><em>Devices and Alexa</em></p><ul><li>Amazon expanded the portfolio of devices and features that are available to customers around the world. Echo Auto is now available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K.; Echo Dot with clock and Echo Studio are now available in Brazil; eero mesh WiFi systems are now available in Australia and Mexico; and Alexa Skill Blueprints are now available in France, Italy, Mexico, and Spain.</li><li>Amazon announced new or expanded Alexa integrations with global automotive brands including General Motors, Volkswagen, Toyota, and Lexus.</li><li>Amazon continues to make Alexa smarter and add more ways for customers to stay connected. Customers can now set reminders that play across all of their Alexa devices, use new notification capabilities with Routines, ask Alexa for nutrition tips, receive Announcements on their mobile phones as a push notification, and broadcast a response to an Announcement.</li><li>The Alexa Fund is supporting the startup community through investments in Molekule, a leader in reinventing air purification, and Amira Learning, the first AI-powered reading assistant. The Alexa Fund also announced its newest cohort of companies participating in Alexa Next Stage powered by Techstars, a program empowering entrepreneurs who are innovating in the field of voice technology.</li><li>Amazon announced new live content integrations on Fire TV from YouTube TV and Hulu, and expanded discovery options including the new Free tab which helps customers find free movies, TV shows, and more.</li><li>Ring launched its next-generation original Ring Video Doorbell for improved home security, featuring a higher resolution camera, improved night vision and additional privacy features. Ring also announced Ring Alarm is now available in several additional European countries, including Germany, Norway, and Sweden.</li></ul><p><em>Amazon Web Services</em></p><ul><li>Customers are using AWS to lessen the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on families, communities, and businesses. Examples include:<ul><li>With the support of AWS hosting services, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched an app to support health workers around the world in caring for patients with COVID-19, as well as to protect themselves as they do this critical work.</li><li>Zoom, a provider of enterprise video communications, has long utilized AWS to host a significant portion of its network. In addition to offering a robust free service, since March Zoom has also offered free access to over 100,000 schools to enable them to educate students remotely. Zoom and AWS have worked together to help businesses, schools, and healthcare institutions maintain mission and business continuity as they stay safe at home.</li><li>Propel, a company focused on building software to help low-income Americans improve their financial health, developed Fresh Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), an app built on AWS that has helped more than three million individuals per month manage their benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), save with coupons, and find jobs.</li><li>UNC Health built a chatbot on AWS to help address increased call volumes to its COVID-19 help line, answering questions from patients seeking guidance on COVID-19 testing and what to do if they or their loved ones were exposed to the virus.</li><li>Orange County United Way built a highly-secure mobile and web-enabled app on AWS called AssistOC that allows individuals to submit requests for financial assistance to the nonprofit's Homelessness Prevention Program, launched in response to the current pandemic, via a smartphone or personal computer.</li></ul></li><li>AWS announced several significant new customer commitments and migrations during the quarter. Examples include:<ul><li>HSBC, one of the world's largest financial services organizations, selected AWS as a key, long-term strategic cloud provider to drive their digital transformation and deliver new and personalized banking services for millions of personal banking customers worldwide.</li><li>Global market intelligence company IHS Markit selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help improve scalability and agility to respond to industry changes and develop new products and services.</li><li>Formula 1 is using a range of AWS services, including machine learning, for six new F1 Insights powered by AWS that will roll out during the 2020 racing season to give fans the ability to compare their favorite drivers and cars and better predict race outcomes.</li><li>Bundesliga is using AWS machine learning and analytics to enhance the fan experience for Germany's top football league, delivering new advanced statistics through Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS, including Average Positions and xGoals.</li><li>Capella Space, a provider of on-demand Earth observation data via satellite-based radar, is all-in on AWS, running its entire infrastructure on AWS using a full portfolio of cloud services including AWS Ground Station to deliver satellite data to customers in minutes.</li><li>Genesys has selected AWS as the preferred cloud provider for Genesys Cloud, an all-in-one solution and leading public cloud contact center platform used by organizations around the world to manage and improve customer relationships across any channel, including voice, text, web chat, and social.</li></ul></li><li>AWS announced Amazon Honeycode, a fully-managed service that allows customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required. With Amazon Honeycode, customers can create applications using the simplicity and familiarity of a spreadsheet, but with the data management capability of a database, the collaboration and notifications common in business applications, and a truly seamless web and mobile user experience to perform important business functions like managing field agents, performing PO approvals, scheduling weekly events, reporting employee or team activities, tracking task progress, following customer activity, surveying end users, managing content, inventorying resources, and more.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of AWS Snowcone, a small, ultra-portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device that can fit in a small backpack. At under five pounds, AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of devices, enabling customers to collect data, process it locally, and move it to AWS. AWS Snowcone is built to withstand harsh conditions, and is designed for a variety of use cases in environments outside of the traditional data center that lack consistent network connectivity and/or require portability.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that collects data from the plant floor, structures and labels the data, and generates real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to help industrial customers make better, data-driven decisions. Customers can use SiteWise to monitor operations across facilities, quickly compute industrial performance metrics, create applications that analyze industrial equipment data to prevent costly equipment issues, and reduce gaps in production.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of the sixth generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with three Arm-based instances (M6g, C6g, R6g) powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors, that deliver up to 40% better price and performance than current x86 processor-based instances.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer-quality service powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, a highly performant, fully-managed, low-cost warm storage tier that provides fast, interactive analytics of log data at one-tenth the cost of existing storage options. UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service gives Elasticsearch customers a warm storage tier that both stores large amounts of data cost-effectively and provides the type of interactive experience that Elasticsearch customers expect.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service powered by machine learning. Amazon Kendra enables organizations to index all of their internal data sources across siloes, makes that data searchable, and allows users to get precise answers to natural language queries instead of trial-and-error keyword search – all with no machine learning expertise required.</li><li>AWS and Slack announced a multi-year agreement to deliver solutions for enhanced enterprise workforce collaboration. Slack will migrate its Slack Calls capability for all voice and video calling to Amazon Chime, AWS's communications service that lets users meet, chat, and place business calls. Slack is also leveraging AWS's global infrastructure to support enterprise customers' rapid adoption of its platform and to offer them data residency – the ability to choose which country or region their data is stored at rest in while fulfilling compliance requirements.</li><li>AWS announced a new, global team dedicated to accelerating innovation in the global aerospace and satellite industry. The Aerospace and Satellite Solutions team will bring AWS services and solutions to the space enterprise, and work with customers and partners around the world to: reimagine space system architectures; transform space enterprises; launch new services that process space data on Earth and in orbit; and provide secure, flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud solutions to support government missions and companies advancing space around the world.</li><li>AWS announced Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), a managed service customers may use to set up live, interactive video streams for web or mobile applications in just a few minutes. Amazon IVS uses the same technology that powers Twitch and allows customers to configure live streams that can be delivered to millions of concurrent viewers globally with interactive features like virtual chat spaces, votes and polls, moderated question and answer sessions, and synchronized promotional elements.</li></ul><p>Financial Guidance</p><p>The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of July 30, 2020, and are subject to substantial uncertainty. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet, online commerce, and cloud services, and the various factors detailed below. This guidance reflects our estimates as of July 30, 2020 regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, including those discussed above, and is highly dependent on numerous factors that we may not be able to predict or control, including: the duration and scope of the pandemic, including any recurrence; actions taken by governments, businesses, and individuals in response to the pandemic; the impact of the pandemic on global and regional economies and economic activity, workforce staffing and productivity, and our significant and continuing spending on employee safety measures; our ability to continue operations in affected areas; and consumer demand and spending patterns, as well as the effects on suppliers, creditors, and third-party sellers, all of which are uncertain. This guidance also assumes the impacts on consumer demand and spending patterns, including impacts due to concerns over the current economic outlook, will be in line with those experienced during the third quarter to date, and the additional assumptions set forth below. However, it is not possible to determine the ultimate impact on our operations for the third quarter, or whether other currently unanticipated direct or indirect consequences of the pandemic are reasonably likely to materially affect our operations.</p><p>Third Quarter 2020 Guidance</p><ul><li>Net sales are expected to be between $87.0 billion and $93.0 billion, or to grow between 24% and 33% compared with third quarter 2019. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 20 basis points from foreign exchange rates.</li><li>Operating income is expected to be between $2.0 billion and $5.0 billion, compared with $3.2 billion in third quarter 2019. This guidance assumes more than $2.0 billion of costs related to COVID-19.</li><li>This guidance assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions, investments, restructurings, or legal settlements are concluded.</li></ul><p>A conference call will be webcast live today at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET, and will be available for at least three months at amazon.com/ir. This call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding the Company's financial and operating results.</p><p><em>These forward-looking statements are inherently difficult to predict. Actual results could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including, in addition to the factors discussed above, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products and services sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income or other taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of claims, litigation, government investigations, and other proceedings, fulfillment, sortation, delivery, and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, seasonality, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains, and develops commercial agreements, proposed and completed acquisitions and strategic transactions, payments risks, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. Other risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks related to new products, services, and technologies, system interruptions, government regulation and taxation, and fraud. In addition, additional or unforeseen effects from the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic climate may give rise to or amplify many of these risks. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.</em></p><p>Our investor relations website is amazon.com/ir and we encourage investors to use it as a way of easily finding information about us. 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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Fraud Detector

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Amazon Fraud Detector helps businesses identify online identity and payment fraud in real time using machine learning, based on the same technology developed for Amazon.com GoDaddy, Truevo, and ActiveCampaign among customers and partners using Amazon Fraud Detector SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 28, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Fraud Detector, a fully managed service that makes it easy to quickly identify potentially fraudulent online activities like online payment and identity fraud. Using machine learning under the hood and based on over 20 years of fraud detection expertise from Amazon, Amazon Fraud Detector automatically identifies potentially fraudulent activity in milliseconds—with no machine learning expertise required. With just a few clicks in the Amazon Fraud Detector console, customers can select a pre-built machine learning model template, upload historical event data, and create decision logic to assign outcomes to the predictions (e.g. initiate a fraud investigation when the machine learning model predicts potentially fraudulent activity). There are no up-front payments, long-term commitments, or infrastructure to manage with Amazon Fraud Detector, and customers pay only for their actual usage of the service. To get started with Amazon Fraud Detector, visit http://aws.amazon.com/fraud-detector Today, tens of billions of dollars are lost to online fraud every year by organizations around the world. As a result, many businesses invest in large, expensive fraud management systems. These systems are often based on hand-coded rules that are time-consuming to set up, expensive to customize, and difficult to keep up-to-date as fraud patterns change—all of which leads to lower accuracy. This leads organizations to reject good customers as fraudsters, conduct more costly fraud reviews, and miss opportunities to drive down fraud rates. Amazon has made significant investments over the past 20 years to combat fraudulent activity using sophisticated machine learning techniques that minimize customer friction while staying one step ahead of bad actors, and customers have asked Amazon to share this expertise and experience to help them combat online fraud. Amazon Fraud Detector provides a fully managed service that uses machine learning for detecting potential fraud in real time (e.g. online payment and identity fraud, the creation of fake accounts, loyalty account and promotion code abuse, etc.), based on the same technology used by Amazon.com—with no machine learning experience required. With Amazon Fraud Detector, customers use their historical data of both fraudulent and legitimate transactions to build, train, and deploy machine learning models that provide real-time, low-latency fraud risk predictions. To get started, customers upload historical event data (e.g. transactions, account registrations, loyalty points redemptions, etc.) to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), where it is encrypted in transit and at rest and used to customize the model's training. Customers only need to provide any two attributes associated with an event (e.g. logins, new account creation, etc.) and can optionally add other data (e.g. billing address or phone number). Based upon the type of fraud customers want to predict, Amazon Fraud Detector will pre-process the data, select an algorithm, and train a model. Amazon Fraud Detector uses machine learning models based on Amazon's 20+ years of experience with fraud to help identify patterns commonly associated with fraudulent activity. This improves the accuracy of the trained model even if the number of fraudulent examples provided by a customer to Amazon Fraud Detector is low. Amazon Fraud Detector trains and deploys a model to a fully managed, private Application Programming Interface (API) end point. Customers can send new activity (e.g. signups or new purchases) to the API and receive a fraud risk response, which includes a precise fraud risk score. Based on the report, a customer's application can determine the right course of action (e.g. accept a purchase, or pass it to a human for review). With Amazon Fraud Detector, customers can detect fraud more quickly, easily, and accurately with machine learning while also preventing fraud from happening in the first place. "Customers of all sizes and across all industries have told us they spend a lot of time and effort trying to decrease the amount of fraud occurring on their websites and applications," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services Inc. "By leveraging 20 years of experience detecting fraud coupled with powerful machine learning technology, we're excited to bring customers Amazon Fraud Detector so they can automatically detect potential fraud, save time and money, and improve customer experiences—with no machine learning experience required." Developers with machine learning experience who want to extend what Amazon Fraud Detector delivers can customize Amazon Fraud Detector using a combination of machine learning models built with Amazon Fraud Detector and those built with Amazon SageMaker (a fully managed service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly). Amazon Fraud Detector is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney), with availability in additional regions in the coming months. GoDaddy is the world's largest services platform for entrepreneurs around the globe and is on a mission to empower their worldwide community of 19+ million customers by giving them all the help and tools they need to grow online. "GoDaddy is committed to preventing fraudulent accounts, and we're continually bolstering our capabilities to automatically detect such accounts during sign-up," said John Kercheval, Senior Director, Identity Services Group at GoDaddy. "We recently began using Amazon Fraud Detector, and we're pleased that it offers low cost of implementation and a self-service approach to building a machine learning model that is customized to our business. The model can be easily deployed and used in our new account process without impacting the signup experience for legitimate customers. The model we built with Amazon Fraud Detector is able to detect likely fraudulent sign-ups immediately, so we're very pleased with the results and look forward to accomplishing more." Truevo makes simple, intuitive and user-friendly payment products that allow their clients to receive payments effortlessly, so they can focus on growing their businesses. "Amazon Fraud Detector has enabled us to drastically improve operations, increase our flexibility to respond to bad actors, and have greater control of systems and processes. Initially, we were exploring an in-house and third-party solution. When Amazon Fraud Detector was announced, we immediately changed course. We have been an AWS customer for many years and have great trust in Amazon's products," said Charles Grech, COO at Truevo. "With Amazon Fraud Detector, we are no longer bound by the conventional limitations of on-premises or SaaS offerings. Instead, we have the flexibility to adapt a machine learning-powered service to meet our needs and the ability to use AWS's rules-only option while easily scaling to full machine learning capabilities when needed. This saved Truevo 3-6 months in development! In fact, we deployed our first prototype model within 30 minutes. Overall, we are operating with greater confidence in our ability to detect fraud in real-time. We are better equipped to deploy rule detections when we notice odd activity that we may not fully understand, but need to stop. We are able to respond and adapt to ever-changing regulatory and scheme requirements allowing us to stay on top of our game." ActiveCampaign provides category defining Customer Experience Automation software to 100k small and growing businesses around the globe. "In Q1/Q2 2020 we experienced a spike in accounts being used for phishing attacks. As a result, we needed to supplement our existing homegrown solution with stronger transaction data and signals to identify bad actors sooner. A scalable solution based on predictive machine learning was important to us as a growing business ourselves," said Alex Burch, Senior Email Operations Engineer at ActiveCampaign. "Amazon Fraud Detector made it easy to build a model using our own data that accurately identifies account signups that result in phishing attacks. More importantly, we were able to get these results with a very low false positive rate, which means no additional work for our operations staff. Amazon Fraud Detector has a competitive pricing model, and we can easily integrate the model into our existing workflow." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200728005790/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>Amazon Fraud Detector helps businesses identify online identity and payment fraud in real time using machine learning, based on the same technology developed for Amazon.com</em></p><p><em>GoDaddy, Truevo, and ActiveCampaign among customers and partners using Amazon Fraud Detector</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 28, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Fraud Detector, a fully managed service that makes it easy to quickly identify potentially fraudulent online activities like online payment and identity fraud. Using machine learning under the hood and based on over 20 years of fraud detection expertise from Amazon, Amazon Fraud Detector automatically identifies potentially fraudulent activity in milliseconds—with no machine learning expertise required. With just a few clicks in the Amazon Fraud Detector console, customers can select a pre-built machine learning model template, upload historical event data, and create decision logic to assign outcomes to the predictions (e.g. initiate a fraud investigation when the machine learning model predicts potentially fraudulent activity). There are no up-front payments, long-term commitments, or infrastructure to manage with Amazon Fraud Detector, and customers pay only for their actual usage of the service. To get started with Amazon Fraud Detector, visit http://aws.amazon.com/fraud-detector</p><p>Today, tens of billions of dollars are lost to online fraud every year by organizations around the world. As a result, many businesses invest in large, expensive fraud management systems. These systems are often based on hand-coded rules that are time-consuming to set up, expensive to customize, and difficult to keep up-to-date as fraud patterns change—all of which leads to lower accuracy. This leads organizations to reject good customers as fraudsters, conduct more costly fraud reviews, and miss opportunities to drive down fraud rates. Amazon has made significant investments over the past 20 years to combat fraudulent activity using sophisticated machine learning techniques that minimize customer friction while staying one step ahead of bad actors, and customers have asked Amazon to share this expertise and experience to help them combat online fraud.</p><p>Amazon Fraud Detector provides a fully managed service that uses machine learning for detecting potential fraud in real time (e.g. online payment and identity fraud, the creation of fake accounts, loyalty account and promotion code abuse, etc.), based on the same technology used by Amazon.com—with no machine learning experience required. With Amazon Fraud Detector, customers use their historical data of both fraudulent and legitimate transactions to build, train, and deploy machine learning models that provide real-time, low-latency fraud risk predictions. To get started, customers upload historical event data (e.g. transactions, account registrations, loyalty points redemptions, etc.) to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), where it is encrypted in transit and at rest and used to customize the model's training. Customers only need to provide any two attributes associated with an event (e.g. logins, new account creation, etc.) and can optionally add other data (e.g. billing address or phone number). Based upon the type of fraud customers want to predict, Amazon Fraud Detector will pre-process the data, select an algorithm, and train a model. Amazon Fraud Detector uses machine learning models based on Amazon's 20+ years of experience with fraud to help identify patterns commonly associated with fraudulent activity. This improves the accuracy of the trained model even if the number of fraudulent examples provided by a customer to Amazon Fraud Detector is low. Amazon Fraud Detector trains and deploys a model to a fully managed, private Application Programming Interface (API) end point. Customers can send new activity (e.g. signups or new purchases) to the API and receive a fraud risk response, which includes a precise fraud risk score. Based on the report, a customer's application can determine the right course of action (e.g. accept a purchase, or pass it to a human for review). With Amazon Fraud Detector, customers can detect fraud more quickly, easily, and accurately with machine learning while also preventing fraud from happening in the first place.</p><p>"Customers of all sizes and across all industries have told us they spend a lot of time and effort trying to decrease the amount of fraud occurring on their websites and applications," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services Inc. "By leveraging 20 years of experience detecting fraud coupled with powerful machine learning technology, we're excited to bring customers Amazon Fraud Detector so they can automatically detect potential fraud, save time and money, and improve customer experiences—with no machine learning experience required."</p><p>Developers with machine learning experience who want to extend what Amazon Fraud Detector delivers can customize Amazon Fraud Detector using a combination of machine learning models built with Amazon Fraud Detector and those built with Amazon SageMaker (a fully managed service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly). Amazon Fraud Detector is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney), with availability in additional regions in the coming months.</p><p>GoDaddy is the world's largest services platform for entrepreneurs around the globe and is on a mission to empower their worldwide community of 19+ million customers by giving them all the help and tools they need to grow online. "GoDaddy is committed to preventing fraudulent accounts, and we're continually bolstering our capabilities to automatically detect such accounts during sign-up," said John Kercheval, Senior Director, Identity Services Group at GoDaddy. "We recently began using Amazon Fraud Detector, and we're pleased that it offers low cost of implementation and a self-service approach to building a machine learning model that is customized to our business. The model can be easily deployed and used in our new account process without impacting the signup experience for legitimate customers. The model we built with Amazon Fraud Detector is able to detect likely fraudulent sign-ups immediately, so we're very pleased with the results and look forward to accomplishing more."</p><p>Truevo makes simple, intuitive and user-friendly payment products that allow their clients to receive payments effortlessly, so they can focus on growing their businesses. "Amazon Fraud Detector has enabled us to drastically improve operations, increase our flexibility to respond to bad actors, and have greater control of systems and processes. Initially, we were exploring an in-house and third-party solution. When Amazon Fraud Detector was announced, we immediately changed course. We have been an AWS customer for many years and have great trust in Amazon's products," said Charles Grech, COO at Truevo. "With Amazon Fraud Detector, we are no longer bound by the conventional limitations of on-premises or SaaS offerings. Instead, we have the flexibility to adapt a machine learning-powered service to meet our needs and the ability to use AWS's rules-only option while easily scaling to full machine learning capabilities when needed. This saved Truevo 3-6 months in development! In fact, we deployed our first prototype model within 30 minutes. Overall, we are operating with greater confidence in our ability to detect fraud in real-time. We are better equipped to deploy rule detections when we notice odd activity that we may not fully understand, but need to stop. We are able to respond and adapt to ever-changing regulatory and scheme requirements allowing us to stay on top of our game."</p><p>ActiveCampaign provides category defining Customer Experience Automation software to 100k small and growing businesses around the globe<em>.</em> "In Q1/Q2 2020 we experienced a spike in accounts being used for phishing attacks. As a result, we needed to supplement our existing homegrown solution with stronger transaction data and signals to identify bad actors sooner. A scalable solution based on predictive machine learning was important to us as a growing business ourselves," said Alex Burch, Senior Email Operations Engineer at ActiveCampaign. "Amazon Fraud Detector made it easy to build a model using our own data that accurately identifies account signups that result in phishing attacks. More importantly, we were able to get these results with a very low false positive rate, which means no additional work for our operations staff. Amazon Fraud Detector has a competitive pricing model, and we can easily integrate the model into our existing workflow."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200728005790/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

Amazon helps fight hunger: 6 million meals with 7.4 million pounds of food delivered to people in 25 cities across the country – with a million more meals on the way through August

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Amazon helps fight hunger: 6 million meals with 7.4 million pounds of food delivered to people in 25 cities across the country – with a million more meals on the way through August

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In the wake of COVID-19 – with over 30 million Americans unemployed and hunger on the rise – Amazon is donating delivery services to get millions of meals to tens of thousands of people in need SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 27, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced it has delivered more than 6 million meals with 7.4 million pounds of food since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to people in need in over 25 cities across the U.S.—with plans to deliver a million more meals by the end of summer. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200727005414/en/ An Amazon Flex driver loads his vehicle with groceries from Bread for the City, a Washington, D.C. food pantry. Amazon is donating delivery services so that food can be brought directly to the homes of people in need. (Photo: Business Wire) With communities facing record-high unemployment and many observing strict social distancing guidelines, food banks have experienced unprecedented demand. Amazon delivery drivers are stepping in to help by safely delivering meals directly to clients' homes. Amazon has donated delivery services to food banks and community organizations since March through its Amazon Flex network and other delivery partners. "Amazon has a longstanding commitment to addressing right now needs – with over $100 million in donations to homelessness, hunger, and disaster relief," said Alice Shobe, Director of Amazon in the Community. "The pandemic intensified the need for hunger relief efforts, and Amazon is committed to playing our part by donating delivery services to help food banks and community organizations get meals to the doorsteps of people in need." "COVID-19 and the ensuing health and economic fallout has disrupted the lives of people all over the D.C. area, hitting those we serve hardest," said George A. Jones, CEO of Bread for the City, a Washington, D.C.-based food pantry supported by Amazon. "Amazon's generous donation of delivery services has enabled us to reach even more of our families and seniors, helping ensure that they get the food they need to stay safe and healthy while maintaining social distancing." With the pandemic and economic hardship still hitting communities across the country hard, Amazon is doubling down on our commitment – donating delivery services to serve a million more meals by the end of August. We've also piloted deliveries of hundreds of thousands of meals with Portland Public Schools and Seattle Public Schools, and delivered meals and devices for Los Angeles Unified School District. In Seattle, our deliveries are specifically for students who are medically fragile and have disabilities. "Amazon has been a great community partner because they've helped to fill a gap that was a challenge for our normal operations," said Seattle Public Schools Nutrition Services Director Aaron Smith. "Besides stepping up to help do so much, they did it with the passion and dedication that these students and families deserve." Amazon made food deliveries in over 25 U.S. cities, across more than 12 states nationwide including: Arizona (Phoenix); California (Los Angeles, Riverside, Anaheim, Long Beach, San Francisco, Oakland); Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, St. Petersburg); Maryland (Baltimore); Michigan (Detroit); New York (New York City); Ohio (Cincinnati, Cleveland); Oklahoma (Oklahoma City); Oregon (Portland); Tennessee (Nashville); Texas (Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth); Washington (Seattle); and Washington D.C. Food deliveries are also taking place around the world in Melbourne, Tokyo, Singapore, Madrid, Valencia, and London. In U.K., Amazon teamed up with charity Magic Breakfast to help schools reach more children across the country at risk of hunger due to COVID-19 restrictions and deliver breakfast foods. About Amazon in the Community Amazon is committed to helping more children and young adults, especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities, have the resources and skills they need to build their best future. Amazon focuses on building long-term, innovative, and high impact programs that leverage Amazon's unique assets and culture. Initiatives include Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and excite tens of thousands of children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities each year to pursue computer science, as well as programs that support immediate needs, including addressing family homelessness through donations and housing a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters, as well as global relief efforts for people in need following natural disasters. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200727005414/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>In the wake of COVID-19 </em>– <em>with over 30 million Americans unemployed and hunger on the rise – Amazon is donating delivery services to get millions of meals to tens of thousands of people in need</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 27, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced it has delivered more than 6 million meals with 7.4 million pounds of food since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to people in need in over 25 cities across the U.S.—with plans to deliver a million more meals by the end of summer.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200727005414/en/</p><div><p>An Amazon Flex driver loads his vehicle with groceries from Bread for the City, a Washington, D.C. food pantry. Amazon is donating delivery services so that food can be brought directly to the homes of people in need. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>With communities facing record-high unemployment and many observing strict social distancing guidelines, food banks have experienced unprecedented demand. Amazon delivery drivers are stepping in to help by safely delivering meals directly to clients' homes. Amazon has donated delivery services to food banks and community organizations since March through its Amazon Flex network and other delivery partners.</p><p>"Amazon has a longstanding commitment to addressing right now needs – with over $100 million in donations to homelessness, hunger, and disaster relief," said Alice Shobe, Director of Amazon in the Community. "The pandemic intensified the need for hunger relief efforts, and Amazon is committed to playing our part by donating delivery services to help food banks and community organizations get meals to the doorsteps of people in need."</p><p>"COVID-19 and the ensuing health and economic fallout has disrupted the lives of people all over the D.C. area, hitting those we serve hardest," said George A. Jones, CEO of Bread for the City, a Washington, D.C.-based food pantry supported by Amazon. "Amazon's generous donation of delivery services has enabled us to reach even more of our families and seniors, helping ensure that they get the food they need to stay safe and healthy while maintaining social distancing."</p><p>With the pandemic and economic hardship still hitting communities across the country hard, Amazon is doubling down on our commitment – donating delivery services to serve a million more meals by the end of August. We've also piloted deliveries of hundreds of thousands of meals with Portland Public Schools and Seattle Public Schools, and delivered meals and devices for Los Angeles Unified School District. In Seattle, our deliveries are specifically for students who are medically fragile and have disabilities.</p><p>"Amazon has been a great community partner because they've helped to fill a gap that was a challenge for our normal operations," said Seattle Public Schools Nutrition Services Director Aaron Smith. "Besides stepping up to help do so much, they did it with the passion and dedication that these students and families deserve."</p><p>Amazon made food deliveries in over 25 U.S. cities, across more than 12 states nationwide including: Arizona (Phoenix); California (Los Angeles, Riverside, Anaheim, Long Beach, San Francisco, Oakland); Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, St. Petersburg); Maryland (Baltimore); Michigan (Detroit); New York (New York City); Ohio (Cincinnati, Cleveland); Oklahoma (Oklahoma City); Oregon (Portland); Tennessee (Nashville); Texas (Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth); Washington (Seattle); and Washington D.C.</p><p>Food deliveries are also taking place around the world in Melbourne, Tokyo, Singapore, Madrid, Valencia, and London. In U.K., Amazon teamed up with charity Magic Breakfast to help schools reach more children across the country at risk of hunger due to COVID-19 restrictions and deliver breakfast foods.</p><p>About Amazon in the Community</p><p>Amazon is committed to helping more children and young adults, especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities, have the resources and skills they need to build their best future. Amazon focuses on building long-term, innovative, and high impact programs that leverage Amazon's unique assets and culture. Initiatives include Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and excite tens of thousands of children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities each year to pursue computer science, as well as programs that support immediate needs, including addressing family homelessness through donations and housing a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters, as well as global relief efforts for people in need following natural disasters.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200727005414/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Continues Investment in Tennessee with Mt. Juliet Fulfillment Center

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Amazon Continues Investment in Tennessee with Mt. Juliet Fulfillment Center

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2020

New 855,000 square-foot site will create 1,000 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 24, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open a fulfillment center in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. The site, which is anticipated to launch in late 2021, will create more than 1,000 new, full-time jobs with benefits and opportunities to engage with advanced robotics. The company currently has fulfillment and sortation centers in Charleston, Chattanooga, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Memphis and Nashville. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200724005389/en/ Amazon Fulfillment Center Mt. Juliet , TN (Graphic: Business Wire) "Tennessee is a great state for business and gives us the opportunity to better serve our customers in the region," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We are excited about our growth and remain committed to creating a positive economic impact in the region with job opportunities with great pay and industry-leading benefits." "As Wilson County recovers from recent tornadoes and the COVID-19 crisis, Amazon's new 1,000-job facility is a tremendous development for Mt. Juliet. Tennessee has established itself as a logistics hub, and Amazon's significant investment promises to help Wilson County and Middle Tennessee's economy rebound," stated Tennessee Governor Bill Lee. The Mt. Juliet facility will be Amazon's second fulfillment center in Tennessee to use innovative robotics technology and the company's seventh fulfillment center in the Volunteer State. Amazon employees at the more than 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center will pick, pack and ship smaller customer items, such as books, electronics and consumer goods. On top of the company's industry-leading minimum starting wage from $15, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. In addition, Amazon has pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in demand jobs. Programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retails stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. "On behalf of our elected body, staff and the wonderful citizens of Mt. Juliet, we would like to thank Amazon for choosing Mt. Juliet for their newest location in the great state of Tennessee," said Mt. Juliet Mayor Ed Hagerty. "We are most appreciative of their confidence and investment in our beautiful city and truly believe they will find Mt. Juliet to be most welcoming." All associates will go through hours of safety training and have access to continuing education opportunities through Amazon's upskilling programs such as Career Choice. In this program, the company will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program's launch, more than 25,000 employees have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few. "It is my privilege to once again welcome Amazon to Wilson County. Amazon's second location serves as a confirmation to the existing business and economic partnerships required to locate world class companies," said Wilson County Mayor Randall Hutto. "We express our greatest appreciation to members of the Amazon team as well as to the State of Tennessee, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the JECDB of Wilson County." Amazon's fulfillment network supports millions of businesses of all sizes worldwide through its Fulfillment by Amazon offering, and many of those local organizations are based in Tennessee. There are more than 30,000 authors, small and medium-sized businesses, and developers in Tennessee growing their companies and reaching new customers on Amazon products and services. The project is being developed by Panattoni Development Company, Inc. To learn more about working at an Amazon fulfillment center, visit www.amazondelivers.jobs. About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200724005389/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New 855,000</em> <em>square-foot site will create 1,000 new, full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 24, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open a fulfillment center in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. The site, which is anticipated to launch in late 2021, will create more than 1,000 new, full-time jobs with benefits and opportunities to engage with advanced robotics. The company currently has fulfillment and sortation centers in Charleston, Chattanooga, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Memphis and Nashville.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200724005389/en/</p><div><p>Amazon Fulfillment Center Mt. Juliet , TN (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"Tennessee is a great state for business and gives us the opportunity to better serve our customers in the region," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We are excited about our growth and remain committed to creating a positive economic impact in the region with job opportunities with great pay and industry-leading benefits."</p><p>"As Wilson County recovers from recent tornadoes and the COVID-19 crisis, Amazon's new 1,000-job facility is a tremendous development for Mt. Juliet. Tennessee has established itself as a logistics hub, and Amazon's significant investment promises to help Wilson County and Middle Tennessee's economy rebound," stated Tennessee Governor Bill Lee.</p><p>The Mt. Juliet facility will be Amazon's second fulfillment center in Tennessee to use innovative robotics technology and the company's seventh fulfillment center in the Volunteer State. Amazon employees at the more than 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center will pick, pack and ship smaller customer items, such as books, electronics and consumer goods.</p><p>On top of the company's industry-leading minimum starting wage from $15, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. In addition, Amazon has pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in demand jobs. Programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retails stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>"On behalf of our elected body, staff and the wonderful citizens of Mt. Juliet, we would like to thank Amazon for choosing Mt. Juliet for their newest location in the great state of Tennessee," said Mt. Juliet Mayor Ed Hagerty. "We are most appreciative of their confidence and investment in our beautiful city and truly believe they will find Mt. Juliet to be most welcoming."</p><p>All associates will go through hours of safety training and have access to continuing education opportunities through Amazon's upskilling programs such as Career Choice. In this program, the company will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program's launch, more than 25,000 employees have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few.</p><p>"It is my privilege to once again welcome Amazon to Wilson County. Amazon's second location serves as a confirmation to the existing business and economic partnerships required to locate world class companies," said Wilson County Mayor Randall Hutto. "We express our greatest appreciation to members of the Amazon team as well as to the State of Tennessee, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the JECDB of Wilson County."</p><p>Amazon's fulfillment network supports millions of businesses of all sizes worldwide through its Fulfillment by Amazon offering, and many of those local organizations are based in Tennessee. There are more than 30,000 authors, small and medium-sized businesses, and developers in Tennessee growing their companies and reaching new customers on Amazon products and services.</p><p>The project is being developed by Panattoni Development Company, Inc.</p><p>To learn more about working at an Amazon fulfillment center, visit www.amazondelivers.jobs.</p><p>About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200724005389/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Contact Lens for Amazon Connect

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AWS Announces General Availability of Contact Lens for Amazon Connect

07/23/2020

2020

AWS's contact center service adds capabilities powered by machine learning that make it easier for businesses to identify customer issues and trends, search call transcripts, and improve agent performance Intuit, Accolade, and DH Enterprise are among customers using Contact Lens for Amazon Connect SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 23, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Contact Lens, a set of capabilities for Amazon Connect enabled by machine learning, that gives contact centers the ability to understand the sentiment, trends, and compliance of customer conversations to improve their experience and identify crucial feedback. Amazon Connect is a fully managed, easy-to-use cloud contact center service that helps companies of any size deliver superior customer service at lower cost—based on the same technology that powers Amazon's award-winning customer service. Companies like John Hancock, Capital One, Intuit, GE Appliances, Square, Fujitsu, Mutual of Omaha, and Dow Jones use Amazon Connect to run their contact centers at lower cost, while easily scaling to thousands of agents. With Contact Lens, contact center supervisors can discover emerging themes and trends from customer conversations, conduct fast, full-text search on call transcripts to troubleshoot customer issues, and improve contact center agents' performance with call analytics—all from within the Amazon Connect console. Coming late-2020, Contact Lens will also provide the ability for supervisors to be alerted to issues during in-progress calls, giving them the ability to intervene earlier when a customer is having a poor experience. Contact Lens requires no technical expertise, and getting started takes just a few clicks in Amazon Connect. To get started with Contact Lens for Amazon Connect, visit https://aws.amazon.com/connect/contact-lens Contact centers are often the only personal connection that a customer has with a company, and the experiences these customers have interacting with agents can have a profound impact on customer trust and loyalty. Contact centers field large volumes of customer calls every day, resulting in millions of hours of recorded calls. These conversations contain valuable customer feedback, but given the volume, companies struggle to extract and analyze this information in a timely fashion, if at all. Most companies that try to get value from this data use legacy contact center analytics offerings, but these technologies are expensive, slow at providing call transcripts, and lack the required level of transcription accuracy—all of which makes it difficult to quickly detect customer issues and provide precise feedback to customer service agents and supervisors. Existing contact center solutions also lack the ability to provide real-time analytics on in-progress calls, which prevents supervisors from identifying and helping frustrated customers before they hang up. As a result of these challenges, many organizations face high levels of customer churn, long hold times, agent turnover, and regulatory fines. Contact Lens helps contact center users address these problems by providing fully managed, machine learning-powered analytics capabilities within Amazon Connect, with no coding or machine learning experience required. Contact Lens uses highly accurate machine learning technology to transcribe calls, and automatically indexes call transcripts so they can be searched from the Amazon Connect console. Contact Lens also uses machine learning to make it easier for supervisors to search voice interactions based on call content (e.g. customers asking to cancel a subscription or return an item), customer sentiment (e.g. calls that ended with a negative customer sentiment score), and conversation characteristics (e.g. talk speed, long pauses, or customers and agents talking over one another). By clicking on the search results, supervisors can view a contact detail page to see the call transcript, customer and agent sentiment, a visual illustration of conversation characteristics, and use this information to share feedback with their agents to improve customer interactions. Contact Lens also uses natural language processing to help supervisors uncover new issues (e.g. a price discrepancy between a website and an email promotion) on the contact detail page by visually identifying words and phrases in call transcripts that indicate reasons for customer outreach. With Contact Lens, supervisors can automatically monitor all of their agents' interactions for customer experience, regulatory compliance, and adherence to script guidelines by defining custom categories on a new page in Amazon Connect that allows them to organize customer contacts based on words or phrases said by the customer or agent (e.g. a customer mentioning a competitor, membership in a customer loyalty program, certain regulatory disclosures, etc.). Contact Lens also includes machine learning capabilities to automatically detect and redact sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) like names, addresses, and social security numbers from call recordings and transcripts to help customers more easily protect customer data. Later this year, Contact Lens will introduce new features that provide supervisors with real-time assistance by offering a dashboard that shows the sentiment progression of live calls in a contact center. This dashboard continuously updates as the interactions evolve and allows supervisors to look across live calls to spot opportunities to help their customers. Real-time alerting gives supervisors the ability to engage and de-escalate situations earlier. "Amazon Connect has grown very quickly in its first few years as customers find it very attractive to use the same contact center technology (along with the high scale, strong performance, low cost, and embedded AI) that Amazon has used to scale Amazon.com in its first 25 years," said Larry Augustin, Vice President Productivity Applications, AWS. "Contact Lens leverages various AWS capabilities—such as storage, transcription, natural language processing, and search—but stitches them together for customers into an easy-to-use contact analysis tool, all usable from the Amazon Connect user interface and with no machine learning or heavy programming required." Contact Lens capabilities are built right into the Amazon Connect experience. Contact Lens provides metadata (such as transcriptions, sentiment, and categorization tags) in customers' Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets in a well-defined schema. Businesses can easily export this information and use additional tools like Amazon QuickSight or Tableau to do further analysis and combine it with data from other sources. Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) with availability in additional regions in the coming months. Intuit Inc. is a global financial platform company that gives everyone the opportunity to prosper. "Customers call us to get answers to their complex tax and accounting questions and our experts handle millions of calls from our customers every year. Amazon Connect made it easy to provide customer service reliably and securely," said Andy Palmer, Vice President of Engineering, Customer Success at Intuit. "With our customers' awareness of their calls being recorded and monitored, we have been using Contact Lens for Amazon Connect to gather insights from over 200 million minutes of customer interactions. Features like accurate turn-by turn transcription, redaction of sensitive data, and automated call categorization have allowed us to improve the effectiveness of our customer care organization." Accolade is a personalized health and benefits solution that serves employers across the country. "At Accolade, we are passionate about our customer experience, especially because we help our customers with life's most important questions—concerns about their healthcare. With the AWS launch of Contact Lens for Amazon Connect, we've transformed our contact center experience," said Stephen Murphy, Senior Director, Cloud Engineering at Accolade. "Since Contact Lens works seamlessly with Amazon Connect, it has allowed us to accomplish what other transcription and speech analytics vendors have struggled to achieve. With Contact Lens for Amazon Connect, we've processed thousands of calls and have been able to easily uncover emerging trends to provide our agents with the right guidance, improving our customer experience. Enabling Contact Lens for Amazon Connect took only minutes, saving us months of development time it would have taken to build the same powerful AI tools." DH Enterprise designs affordable vacations and turn-key solutions in the areas of travel technology, management, and operations. "Customers love vacations so we built our contact center on Amazon Connect to ensure a great customer experience before their flight even takes off," said Adam Zerlin, COO of DH Enterprise & Associates. "The demos of Contact Lens for Amazon Connect blew away our team. Enabling Contact Lens took seconds, the sentiment score is incredibly valuable, speech transcription is right out of the box, and the underlying data is incredibly detailed. Instead of manually entering results into monthly agent scorecard reviews, we now have an automated, holistic view of our agent's performance. Contact Lens has helped us derive valuable insights from customer interactions and enabled us to improve the experience for both our customers and agents." Traeger Pellet Grills is a privately held American manufacturer of wood-fired pellet grills and related accessories. "When we decided to migrate hundreds of agents from our incumbent telephony platform, we needed something that was simple, scalable, and open. We wanted something future proof. Amazon Connect was the solution. We were able to replicate and enhance our existing infrastructure within days of creating our AWS accounts. For us, one of the most powerful aspects of Amazon Connect is Contact Lens," said Bryan Teggart, Head of Customer Experience Operations and Analytics at Traeger Pellet Grills. "Contact Lens allows us to simplify agent workflows by systemically identifying key contact attributes (e.g. product model, contact reason, customer sentiment). Those attributes are invaluable to our CX leadership and product/engineering teams. Last month, we analyzed more than 15,000 hours of agent/customer interactions. We used to spend most of our time trying to identify issues. Now, we spend most of our time fixing them." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200723005678/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services Inc.

<p><em>AWS's contact center service adds capabilities powered by machine learning that make it easier for businesses to identify customer issues and trends, search call transcripts, and improve agent performance</em></p><p><em>Intuit, Accolade, and DH Enterprise are among customers using Contact Lens for Amazon Connect</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 23, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Contact Lens, a set of capabilities for Amazon Connect enabled by machine learning, that gives contact centers the ability to understand the sentiment, trends, and compliance of customer conversations to improve their experience and identify crucial feedback. Amazon Connect is a fully managed, easy-to-use cloud contact center service that helps companies of any size deliver superior customer service at lower cost—based on the same technology that powers Amazon's award-winning customer service. Companies like John Hancock, Capital One, Intuit, GE Appliances, Square, Fujitsu, Mutual of Omaha, and Dow Jones use Amazon Connect to run their contact centers at lower cost, while easily scaling to thousands of agents. With Contact Lens, contact center supervisors can discover emerging themes and trends from customer conversations, conduct fast, full-text search on call transcripts to troubleshoot customer issues, and improve contact center agents' performance with call analytics—all from within the Amazon Connect console. Coming late-2020, Contact Lens will also provide the ability for supervisors to be alerted to issues during in-progress calls, giving them the ability to intervene earlier when a customer is having a poor experience. Contact Lens requires no technical expertise, and getting started takes just a few clicks in Amazon Connect. To get started with Contact Lens for Amazon Connect, visit https://aws.amazon.com/connect/contact-lens</p><p>Contact centers are often the only personal connection that a customer has with a company, and the experiences these customers have interacting with agents can have a profound impact on customer trust and loyalty. Contact centers field large volumes of customer calls every day, resulting in millions of hours of recorded calls. These conversations contain valuable customer feedback, but given the volume, companies struggle to extract and analyze this information in a timely fashion, if at all. Most companies that try to get value from this data use legacy contact center analytics offerings, but these technologies are expensive, slow at providing call transcripts, and lack the required level of transcription accuracy—all of which makes it difficult to quickly detect customer issues and provide precise feedback to customer service agents and supervisors. Existing contact center solutions also lack the ability to provide real-time analytics on in-progress calls, which prevents supervisors from identifying and helping frustrated customers before they hang up. As a result of these challenges, many organizations face high levels of customer churn, long hold times, agent turnover, and regulatory fines.</p><p>Contact Lens helps contact center users address these problems by providing fully managed, machine learning-powered analytics capabilities within Amazon Connect, with no coding or machine learning experience required. Contact Lens uses highly accurate machine learning technology to transcribe calls, and automatically indexes call transcripts so they can be searched from the Amazon Connect console. Contact Lens also uses machine learning to make it easier for supervisors to search voice interactions based on call content (e.g. customers asking to cancel a subscription or return an item), customer sentiment (e.g. calls that ended with a negative customer sentiment score), and conversation characteristics (e.g. talk speed, long pauses, or customers and agents talking over one another). By clicking on the search results, supervisors can view a contact detail page to see the call transcript, customer and agent sentiment, a visual illustration of conversation characteristics, and use this information to share feedback with their agents to improve customer interactions. Contact Lens also uses natural language processing to help supervisors uncover new issues (e.g. a price discrepancy between a website and an email promotion) on the contact detail page by visually identifying words and phrases in call transcripts that indicate reasons for customer outreach. With Contact Lens, supervisors can automatically monitor all of their agents' interactions for customer experience, regulatory compliance, and adherence to script guidelines by defining custom categories on a new page in Amazon Connect that allows them to organize customer contacts based on words or phrases said by the customer or agent (e.g. a customer mentioning a competitor, membership in a customer loyalty program, certain regulatory disclosures, etc.). Contact Lens also includes machine learning capabilities to automatically detect and redact sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) like names, addresses, and social security numbers from call recordings and transcripts to help customers more easily protect customer data.</p><p>Later this year, Contact Lens will introduce new features that provide supervisors with real-time assistance by offering a dashboard that shows the sentiment progression of live calls in a contact center. This dashboard continuously updates as the interactions evolve and allows supervisors to look across live calls to spot opportunities to help their customers. Real-time alerting gives supervisors the ability to engage and de-escalate situations earlier.</p><p>"Amazon Connect has grown very quickly in its first few years as customers find it very attractive to use the same contact center technology (along with the high scale, strong performance, low cost, and embedded AI) that Amazon has used to scale Amazon.com in its first 25 years," said Larry Augustin, Vice President Productivity Applications, AWS. "Contact Lens leverages various AWS capabilities—such as storage, transcription, natural language processing, and search—but stitches them together for customers into an easy-to-use contact analysis tool, all usable from the Amazon Connect user interface and with no machine learning or heavy programming required."</p><p>Contact Lens capabilities are built right into the Amazon Connect experience. Contact Lens provides metadata (such as transcriptions, sentiment, and categorization tags) in customers' Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets in a well-defined schema. Businesses can easily export this information and use additional tools like Amazon QuickSight or Tableau to do further analysis and combine it with data from other sources. Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) with availability in additional regions in the coming months.</p><p>Intuit Inc. is a global financial platform company that gives everyone the opportunity to prosper. "Customers call us to get answers to their complex tax and accounting questions and our experts handle millions of calls from our customers every year. Amazon Connect made it easy to provide customer service reliably and securely," said Andy Palmer, Vice President of Engineering, Customer Success at Intuit. "With our customers' awareness of their calls being recorded and monitored, we have been using Contact Lens for Amazon Connect to gather insights from over 200 million minutes of customer interactions. Features like accurate turn-by turn transcription, redaction of sensitive data, and automated call categorization have allowed us to improve the effectiveness of our customer care organization."</p><p>Accolade is a personalized health and benefits solution that serves employers across the country. "At Accolade, we are passionate about our customer experience, especially because we help our customers with life's most important questions—concerns about their healthcare. With the AWS launch of Contact Lens for Amazon Connect, we've transformed our contact center experience," said Stephen Murphy, Senior Director, Cloud Engineering at Accolade. "Since Contact Lens works seamlessly with Amazon Connect, it has allowed us to accomplish what other transcription and speech analytics vendors have struggled to achieve. With Contact Lens for Amazon Connect, we've processed thousands of calls and have been able to easily uncover emerging trends to provide our agents with the right guidance, improving our customer experience. Enabling Contact Lens for Amazon Connect took only minutes, saving us months of development time it would have taken to build the same powerful AI tools."</p><p>DH Enterprise designs affordable vacations and turn-key solutions in the areas of travel technology, management, and operations. "Customers love vacations so we built our contact center on Amazon Connect to ensure a great customer experience before their flight even takes off," said Adam Zerlin, COO of DH Enterprise &amp; Associates. "The demos of Contact Lens for Amazon Connect blew away our team. Enabling Contact Lens took seconds, the sentiment score is incredibly valuable, speech transcription is right out of the box, and the underlying data is incredibly detailed. Instead of manually entering results into monthly agent scorecard reviews, we now have an automated, holistic view of our agent's performance. Contact Lens has helped us derive valuable insights from customer interactions and enabled us to improve the experience for both our customers and agents."</p><p>Traeger Pellet Grills is a privately held American manufacturer of wood-fired pellet grills and related accessories. "When we decided to migrate hundreds of agents from our incumbent telephony platform, we needed something that was simple, scalable, and open. We wanted something future proof. Amazon Connect was the solution. We were able to replicate and enhance our existing infrastructure within days of creating our AWS accounts. For us, one of the most powerful aspects of Amazon Connect is Contact Lens," said Bryan Teggart, Head of Customer Experience Operations and Analytics at Traeger Pellet Grills. "Contact Lens allows us to simplify agent workflows by systemically identifying key contact attributes (e.g. product model, contact reason, customer sentiment). Those attributes are invaluable to our CX leadership and product/engineering teams. Last month, we analyzed more than 15,000 hours of agent/customer interactions. We used to spend most of our time trying to identify issues. Now, we spend most of our time fixing them."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200723005678/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces First Fulfillment Center in El Paso

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New 625,000 square-foot site to create over 700 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 22, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in El Paso, Texas. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 700 new, full-time jobs with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. "We're excited to be growing our operations in West Texas and look forward to building out our network in El Paso," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We're grateful for the strong support we've received from local and state leaders and we look forward to creating over 700 full-time jobs for the El Paso community, with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one." "Three years ago we held a press conference about our plans to try and get Amazon to El Paso. Today my administration delivered," said El Paso Mayor Dee Margo. "I'm so proud of the teamwork and collaboration between Amazon, the City, the County, and Borderplex Alliance. We're making tremendous strides together, and our city has a bright future." In the new 625,000 square-foot fulfillment center, Amazon employees will work alongside Amazon robotics to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys. The site, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 700 new, full-time jobs. "Amazon is a transcendent company, and this is one of the most significant economic development projects for our region in decades," said Jon Barela, CEO of Borderplex Alliance. "For years we've worked diligently with our partners at Amazon to demonstrate our region's value and capabilities. We're grateful for Amazon's presence in our community during these difficult economic times and I remain optimistic that our region will help lead our nation's economic recovery." On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum starting wage from $15, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in demand jobs. Programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. "Creating new and better opportunities for El Pasoans is my passion. Now more than ever, it's essential our community proactively pursue and recruit great companies like Amazon," said El Paso County Judge Ricardo A. Samaniego. "Once again, El Paso County is leading when others are following. Together, with our partners at the Borderplex Alliance and the City of El Paso we are achieving what would have been considered impossible only a few short years ago." Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $10.5 billion into its local fulfillment center infrastructure and through compensation to thousands of employees in the state. Amazon's investments in Texas contributed an additional $9 billion into the Texas economy, and using methodology developed by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Amazon estimates its investments in the state have created an additional 32,000+ indirect jobs on top of the company's direct hires. About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200722005651/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>New 625,000 square-foot site to create over 700 new, full-time jobs</p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 22, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in El Paso, Texas. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 700 new, full-time jobs with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one.</p><p>"We're excited to be growing our operations in West Texas and look forward to building out our network in El Paso," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We're grateful for the strong support we've received from local and state leaders and we look forward to creating over 700 full-time jobs for the El Paso community, with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one."</p><p>"Three years ago we held a press conference about our plans to try and get Amazon to El Paso. Today my administration delivered," said El Paso Mayor Dee Margo. "I'm so proud of the teamwork and collaboration between Amazon, the City, the County, and Borderplex Alliance. We're making tremendous strides together, and our city has a bright future."</p><p>In the new 625,000 square-foot fulfillment center, Amazon employees will work alongside Amazon robotics to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys. The site, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 700 new, full-time jobs.</p><p>"Amazon is a transcendent company, and this is one of the most significant economic development projects for our region in decades," said Jon Barela, CEO of Borderplex Alliance. "For years we've worked diligently with our partners at Amazon to demonstrate our region's value and capabilities. We're grateful for Amazon's presence in our community during these difficult economic times and I remain optimistic that our region will help lead our nation's economic recovery."</p><p>On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum starting wage from $15, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families.</p><p>Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in demand jobs. Programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>"Creating new and better opportunities for El Pasoans is my passion. Now more than ever, it's essential our community proactively pursue and recruit great companies like Amazon," said El Paso County Judge Ricardo A. Samaniego. "Once again, El Paso County is leading when others are following. Together, with our partners at the Borderplex Alliance and the City of El Paso we are achieving what would have been considered impossible only a few short years ago."</p><p>Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $10.5 billion into its local fulfillment center infrastructure and through compensation to thousands of employees in the state. Amazon's investments in Texas contributed an additional $9 billion into the Texas economy, and using methodology developed by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Amazon estimates its investments in the state have created an additional 32,000+ indirect jobs on top of the company's direct hires.</p><p>About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200722005651/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon 2020 SMB Impact Report Highlights Success for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Despite COVID-19; American Sellers Average $160,000 in Annual Sales

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Amazon 2020 SMB Impact Report Highlights Success for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Despite COVID-19; American Sellers Average $160,000 in Annual Sales

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More than 2 million independent businesses work with Amazon in the U.S. American small and medium-sized businesses sold 3.4 billion products in Amazon stores U.S. delivery and logistics partners employ more than 95,000 drivers, while worldwide authors earned more than $319 million from the Kindle Direct Publishing Select Global Fund Amazon gave more than $1 billion in AWS credits to help startups accelerate their growth, and there are now more than 700,000 Alexa developers worldwide SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 21, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today published the 2020 Small and Medium Business (SMB) Impact Report, highlighting how the company benefits SMBs, including more than 2 million independent sellers, authors, content creators, delivery providers, developers and IT solution providers in the U.S. Despite the impact COVID-19 has had on many small businesses, American SMBs working with Amazon have been able to thrive and grow. View the full 2020 Amazon SMB Impact Report, here. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200721005239/en/ The 2020 Amazon SMB Impact Report highlights how millions of small and medium-sized businesses are growing with Amazon. (Photo: Business Wire) "At Amazon, supporting small and medium-sized businesses is a fundamental part of our work and an extension of our customer-centric culture. Our success depends on their success," said Jeff Wilke, CEO, Amazon Worldwide Consumer. "COVID-19 has changed the way we live and work and has created daunting challenges for small businesses around the world. Yet smaller companies have continued to grow with Amazon, despite the crisis. Third-party sellers have seen record sales in our stores and continue to outpace our first-party sales." Amazon provides small business owners, startups, and entrepreneurs with tools and opportunities to succeed – whether selling their products online, running delivery and logistics companies, using the cloud to launch and scale their businesses, creating voice apps, or publishing their own books. The 2020 Amazon SMB Impact Report findings include: American SMBs selling in Amazon's stores are growing. In the 12 months ending on May 31, 2020: American SMB sellers sold more than 3.4 billion products, up from 2.7 billion year-over-year, and averaged 6,500 products sold per minute. On average, American SMB sellers each had over $160,000 in sales, up year-over-year from approximately $100,000. The number of American SMB sellers that surpassed $1 million in sales grew by more than 20%, and more than 3,700 surpassed $1 million in sales for the first time. American SMB sales from business customers on Amazon Business were over $7 billion. SMBs selling on the Amazon.com U.S. store support an estimated 1.1 million jobs, up from 830,000 in 2019. Amazon delivery and logistics businesses are creating jobs There are now more than 1,000 Amazon Delivery Service Partner businesses in the U.S., employing more than 82,000 drivers. U.S. line haul service providers that move Amazon packages between fulfillment centers and to and from air hubs employ more than 13,000 drivers, up from 3,700 in 2018. Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) enables authors to self-publish and distribute their books to millions of readers around the world In the twelve months ending May 31, 2020, worldwide authors earned more than $319 million from the KDP Select Global Fund, totaling more than $1.28 billion since the launch of Kindle Unlimited. Thousands of independent authors have earned more than $50,000, with more than one thousand surpassing $100,000 in royalties. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping hundreds of thousands of SMB customers, startups and partners around the world launch and scale their businesses Since June 2019, Amazon has provided more than $1 billion in AWS credits to help startups accelerate their growth and development, up from $500 million in 2018. AWS Activate has provided hundreds of thousands of startups with a host of benefits, including AWS credits, technical support and training. Alexa enables SMB builders, developers and entrepreneurs around the world to innovate and create voice-first customer experiences There are now more than 700,000 developers building for Alexa, and more than 100,000 Alexa skills have been built with the Alexa Skills kit. Today, worldwide customers have hundreds of millions of Alexa devices, including more than 100,000 smart home products that can be controlled with Alexa from more than 9,500 unique brands. Amazon also recently revealed the top 10 states with the most SMBs selling in Amazon's stores per capita, and the top 10 states with the fastest growing SMBs selling in Amazon's stores. To help small businesses navigate this difficult time, Amazon provides an overview of practical resources, tools, and opportunities to partner with the company here. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. 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<p><em>More than 2 million independent businesses work with Amazon in the U.S.</em></p><p><em>American small and medium-sized businesses sold 3.4 billion products in Amazon stores</em></p><p><em>U.S. delivery and logistics partners employ more than 95,000 drivers, while worldwide authors earned more than $319 million from the Kindle Direct Publishing Select Global Fund</em></p><p><em>Amazon gave more than $1 billion in AWS credits to help startups accelerate their growth, and there are now more than 700,000 Alexa developers worldwide</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 21, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today published the 2020 Small and Medium Business (SMB) Impact Report, highlighting how the company benefits SMBs, including more than 2 million independent sellers, authors, content creators, delivery providers, developers and IT solution providers in the U.S. Despite the impact COVID-19 has had on many small businesses, American SMBs working with Amazon have been able to thrive and grow. View the full 2020 Amazon SMB Impact Report, here.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200721005239/en/</p><div><p>The 2020 Amazon SMB Impact Report highlights how millions of small and medium-sized businesses are growing with Amazon. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"At Amazon, supporting small and medium-sized businesses is a fundamental part of our work and an extension of our customer-centric culture. Our success depends on their success," said Jeff Wilke, CEO, Amazon Worldwide Consumer. "COVID-19 has changed the way we live and work and has created daunting challenges for small businesses around the world. Yet smaller companies have continued to grow with Amazon, despite the crisis. Third-party sellers have seen record sales in our stores and continue to outpace our first-party sales."</p><p>Amazon provides small business owners, startups, and entrepreneurs with tools and opportunities to succeed – whether selling their products online, running delivery and logistics companies, using the cloud to launch and scale their businesses, creating voice apps, or publishing their own books. The 2020 Amazon SMB Impact Report findings include:</p><p>American SMBs selling in Amazon's stores are growing. In the 12 months ending on May 31, 2020:</p><ul><li>American SMB sellers sold more than 3.4 billion products, up from 2.7 billion year-over-year, and averaged 6,500 products sold per minute.</li><li>On average, American SMB sellers each had over $160,000 in sales, up year-over-year from approximately $100,000.</li><li>The number of American SMB sellers that surpassed $1 million in sales grew by more than 20%, and more than 3,700 surpassed $1 million in sales for the first time.</li><li>American SMB sales from business customers on Amazon Business were over $7 billion.</li><li>SMBs selling on the Amazon.com U.S. store support an estimated 1.1 million jobs, up from 830,000 in 2019.</li></ul><p>Amazon delivery and logistics businesses are creating jobs</p><ul><li>There are now more than 1,000 Amazon Delivery Service Partner businesses in the U.S., employing more than 82,000 drivers.</li><li>U.S. line haul service providers that move Amazon packages between fulfillment centers and to and from air hubs employ more than 13,000 drivers, up from 3,700 in 2018.</li></ul><p>Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) enables authors to self-publish and distribute their books to millions of readers around the world</p><ul><li>In the twelve months ending May 31, 2020, worldwide authors earned more than $319 million from the KDP Select Global Fund, totaling more than $1.28 billion since the launch of Kindle Unlimited.</li><li>Thousands of independent authors have earned more than $50,000, with more than one thousand surpassing $100,000 in royalties.</li></ul><p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping hundreds of thousands of SMB customers, startups and partners around the world launch and scale their businesses</p><ul><li>Since June 2019, Amazon has provided more than $1 billion in AWS credits to help startups accelerate their growth and development, up from $500 million in 2018.</li><li>AWS Activate has provided hundreds of thousands of startups with a host of benefits, including AWS credits, technical support and training.</li></ul><p>Alexa enables SMB builders, developers and entrepreneurs around the world to innovate and create voice-first customer experiences</p><ul><li>There are now more than 700,000 developers building for Alexa, and more than 100,000 Alexa skills have been built with the Alexa Skills kit.</li><li>Today, worldwide customers have hundreds of millions of Alexa devices, including more than 100,000 smart home products that can be controlled with Alexa from more than 9,500 unique brands.</li></ul><p>Amazon also recently revealed the top 10 states with the most SMBs selling in Amazon's stores per capita, and the top 10 states with the fastest growing SMBs selling in Amazon's stores.</p><p>To help small businesses navigate this difficult time, Amazon provides an overview of practical resources, tools, and opportunities to partner with the company here.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered<em> by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</em></p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200721005239/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon.com to Webcast Second Quarter 2020 Financial Results Conference Call

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 16, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its second quarter 2020 financial results on July 30, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET. The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at www.amazon.com/ir. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200716005945/en/ Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 16, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its second quarter 2020 financial results on July 30, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET.</p><p>The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at www.amazon.com/ir.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200716005945/en/</p><p>Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com</p>

The Climate Pledge and the We Mean Business Coalition Partner on Comprehensive Effort to Drive Companies to Adopt More Ambitious Carbon Reduction Goals

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07/16/2020

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The Climate Pledge is a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and achieve net-zero carbon by 2040 Verizon, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), Infosys, and Oak View Group are new signatories to The Climate Pledge SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 16, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and We Mean Business, a global nonprofit coalition working with businesses to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy, today announced they have partnered to establish the world's most comprehensive effort to drive companies to adopt more ambitious carbon emissions reduction goals. The We Mean Business coalition works with over 1,200 companies, with a total market capitalization of more than $24.8 trillion, to drive business action and policy ambition on climate change and increase chances of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. The partnership will: Encourage companies to take a leadership position and accelerate their goals to meet The Climate Pledge — the commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement. Mobilize supply chains, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), to take and scale-up measurable and direct action on climate change. Determine ambitious and accountable means for companies to credibly integrate Nature-Based Solutions in their climate strategies. "The science is clear. We must hold temperature rise to 1.5°C. Thanks to the long-term vision of the IKEA Foundation, and the tireless work of the partners of the We Mean Business coalition, business is already taking bold action on climate," said María Mendiluce, CEO of the We Mean Business coalition. "Through The Climate Pledge, we will pick up the pace. With a commitment to collaboration and innovation, those at the head of the pack can reach net-zero emissions by 2040. To do that, we must accelerate supply chain action and develop a robust approach to Nature-Based Solutions in addition to deep decarbonization. We are delighted to be collaborating with Amazon, who have shown bold leadership and deep commitment to tackling the climate crisis." "The size and scale of the climate crisis demands that the business community joins forces and works together to invent, fund, and implement bold decarbonization programs to help protect the planet," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "No one company can solve this problem on its own. We look forward to working with the We Mean Business coalition to encourage businesses around the world to accelerate their commitments to tackle climate change." "Climate change is everybody's business. I am delighted that deeper and broader collaboration in The Climate Pledge will result from the partnership with the We Mean Business coalition," said former UN Climate Chief and co-founder of Global Optimism, Christiana Figueres. "We are not in a position to meander on the path to decarbonization – science tells us time is not on our side. If we are going to build back better, companies of all sizes need to safeguard the economy against the disruptive and devastating impacts of the climate crisis, which damages all of us. Large corporations decarbonizing their operations and supporting small and medium businesses to follow them in a whole-economy approach makes sense." Through this partnership, the We Mean Business coalition and The Climate Pledge are establishing the largest effort to date to mobilize the private sector to reach net-zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. The partnership will demonstrate that corporate leaders can go further and faster on climate action. Core partnership activities include: The We Mean Business coalition will encourage companies to accelerate their goals by committing to The Climate Pledge in addition to their existing We Mean Business commitments. Existing commitments include setting emission reduction targets in line with climate science through the Science Based Targets initiative and committing to 100% renewable power through RE100, among others. The We Mean Business coalition will engage with companies to help accelerate supply chain action (scope 3 emissions). This work will engage large companies and their supply chains to provide frameworks, toolkits for action and reporting, and capacity building to encourage suppliers, especially SMEs, to ramp up their climate goals. The We Mean Business coalition and The Climate Pledge will jointly support the Four Principles for Nature-Based Solutions published in May 2020 as a framework to help business decision makers distinguish credible carbon mitigation projects and to evaluate regenerative investments. Mitigation at pace remains a priority for all business. This work will enable companies to take a robust approach to investing in nature, alongside making significant and transformative emissions reductions in their direct operations and supply chains. Climate Pledge signatories will explore investment opportunities, including through Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund, in companies whose products and services will facilitate the transition to a zero-carbon economy. As part of this new partnership, The Climate Pledge and the We Mean Business coalition will also provide resources and support to the following partner initiatives that are urging companies to respond to the climate crisis by setting specific, measurable targets: TED Countdown: TED Countdown, a global initiative powered by TED and Future Stewards, aims to champion and accelerate solutions to address the climate crisis, turning ideas into action. Signatories to the Climate Pledge will be encouraged to participate in Countdown's global launch event on October 10, 2020, engage in cross-sector working groups in the year leading to the Countdown Summit in October 2021, promote and host local TEDx Countdown events, and participate in the 2021 Summit. Race to Zero: The Climate Pledge will support awareness-raising efforts to build momentum around the shift to a decarbonized economy ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) and advocate for governments to strengthen their contributions to the Paris Agreement. Race to Zero will support all businesses across value chains to take climate action. The Science Based Targets initiative: All signatories to The Climate Pledge will be encouraged to set targets through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce emissions and boost their competitive advantage in the transition to the zero-carbon economy. "When we helped launch the We Mean Business coalition back in 2014 it was a big bet," said Per Heggenes, CEO, the IKEA Foundation. "We did it because we felt business has both the responsibility and the capability to demonstrate leadership in the race to zero. Today we're excited that Amazon will be a part of this journey and strengthen the coalition's collective impact. By embracing both commitments to reduce GHG emissions and pursue Nature-Based Solutions as necessary, the We Mean Business coalition can accelerate private sector change at a faster pace to help secure the future livability of our planet. We applaud Amazon for showing real leadership by committing to and applying the four principles of Nature-Based Solutions." "I am delighted with Amazon's efforts to galvanize businesses to race to net-zero emissions as fast as possible," said Nigel Topping, UK High Level Climate Champion. "This announcement comes at a critical time when we need to strengthen capacity as economies rebuild from COVID-19. The Climate Pledge – which has been a close ally of the Race to Zero campaign – will help stimulate a healthy, green recovery that creates jobs and builds resilience." "The moment to act on climate change has been upon us for too long, and now is the time to unite all levels of society - business leaders, courageous political actors, scientists, and individuals," said Chris Anderson, Head of TED. "The global disruptions from COVID-19 are a prequel to what we can expect if we do not coalesce to take on the climate crisis. This partnership presents a thrilling opportunity to protect the planet, create new economic opportunities, and build back better. We are proud to be a part of this critical effort." "Like the COVID-19 epidemic, unchecked climate change will radically affect people's lives, businesses, and the economy. Governments alone cannot solve these problems. The innovation, dynamism, and drive fostered by the corporate sector are critical. Companies that have demonstrated the ability to innovate and revolutionize systems – none more than Amazon – can help set the pace through ambitious climate action," said Andrew Steer, President and CEO of World Resources Institute, one of the SBTi partners. "We urge all companies that sign The Climate Pledge to set a science-based target in line with 1.5°C to put them on track to reach net-zero emissions. WRI welcomes The Climate Pledge's new partnership with the We Mean Business coalition, and we look forward to working together to create a prosperous zero-carbon future." Last year, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. Verizon, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), Infosys, and Oak View Group joined the pledge this year—sending an important signal that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. For more information visit www.theclimatepledge.com. About We Mean Business We Mean Business is a global coalition of nonprofit organizations working with the world's most influential businesses to take action on climate change. Founded with the generous support of the IKEA Foundation in 2014, the coalition brings together seven organizations: BSR, CDP, Ceres, The B Team, The Climate Group, The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Together we catalyze business action to drive policy ambition and accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy. Find out more at www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about. About Global Optimism Global Optimism exists to precipitate transformational, sector-wide change. Achieving a zero emissions future is not a far-off challenge. It's one for which we must and we can get on track for now. Every scientific assessment shows that to meet the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 and not exceed 1.5C of global warming, we must halve our emissions between 2020 and 2030. Tackling the climate crisis is only possible when everyone, everywhere plays their part. We work with like-minded collectives from all sectors who are willing to invest in the choices required to be on this challenging – and life-affirming – journey. For more information, visit www.globaloptimism.com. About TED Countdown Powered by TED, Future Stewards and 50+ partner organizations, Countdown is a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis — and turn ideas into action. Countdown kicks off with a global virtual launch on 10.10.2020 designed to reach people worldwide with a powerful public program that vividly and compellingly explains the climate crisis and calls for leaders and citizens to act. Over the following year, cross-sector working groups will focus on delivering solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In October 2021, the Countdown Summit will be held to share an inspiring, actionable blueprint for a net-zero future and advance progress in the Race to Zero. These ideas and commitments will be further amplified by local events around the world. About Race to Zero Led by High-Level Climate Champions for Climate Action – Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Muñoz – Race to Zero is a global campaign to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions, investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery. All members are committed to the same overarching goal: achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 at the very latest. About the IKEA Foundation The IKEA Foundation (Stichting IKEA Foundation) works to create a better everyday life for the many people. The Foundation is funded by the INGKA Foundation, owner of the Ingka Group of companies. The IKEA Foundation is independent from the retail business with a sole focus on creating brighter lives on a liveable planet through philanthropy and grantmaking. Learn more at www.ikeafoundation.org or on www.facebook.com/IKEAfoundation. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200716006006/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>The Climate Pledge is a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and achieve net-zero carbon by 2040</em></p><p><em>Verizon, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), Infosys, and Oak View Group are new signatories to The Climate Pledge</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 16, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and We Mean Business, a global nonprofit coalition working with businesses to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy, today announced they have partnered to establish the world's most comprehensive effort to drive companies to adopt more ambitious carbon emissions reduction goals. The We Mean Business coalition works with over 1,200 companies, with a total market capitalization of more than $24.8 trillion, to drive business action and policy ambition on climate change and increase chances of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.</p><p>The partnership will:</p><ul><li>Encourage companies to take a leadership position and accelerate their goals to meet The Climate Pledge — the commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement.</li><li>Mobilize supply chains, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), to take and scale-up measurable and direct action on climate change.</li><li>Determine ambitious and accountable means for companies to credibly integrate Nature-Based Solutions in their climate strategies.</li></ul><p>"The science is clear. We must hold temperature rise to 1.5°C. Thanks to the long-term vision of the IKEA Foundation, and the tireless work of the partners of the We Mean Business coalition, business is already taking bold action on climate," said María Mendiluce, CEO of the We Mean Business coalition. "Through The Climate Pledge, we will pick up the pace. With a commitment to collaboration and innovation, those at the head of the pack can reach net-zero emissions by 2040. To do that, we must accelerate supply chain action and develop a robust approach to Nature-Based Solutions in addition to deep decarbonization. We are delighted to be collaborating with Amazon, who have shown bold leadership and deep commitment to tackling the climate crisis."</p><p>"The size and scale of the climate crisis demands that the business community joins forces and works together to invent, fund, and implement bold decarbonization programs to help protect the planet," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "No one company can solve this problem on its own. We look forward to working with the We Mean Business coalition to encourage businesses around the world to accelerate their commitments to tackle climate change."</p><p>"Climate change is everybody's business. I am delighted that deeper and broader collaboration in The Climate Pledge will result from the partnership with the We Mean Business coalition," said former UN Climate Chief and co-founder of Global Optimism, Christiana Figueres. "We are not in a position to meander on the path to decarbonization – science tells us time is not on our side. If we are going to build back better, companies of all sizes need to safeguard the economy against the disruptive and devastating impacts of the climate crisis, which damages all of us. Large corporations decarbonizing their operations and supporting small and medium businesses to follow them in a whole-economy approach makes sense."</p><p>Through this partnership, the We Mean Business coalition and The Climate Pledge are establishing the largest effort to date to mobilize the private sector to reach net-zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. The partnership will demonstrate that corporate leaders can go further and faster on climate action.</p><p>Core partnership activities include:</p><ul><li>The We Mean Business coalition will encourage companies to accelerate their goals by committing to The Climate Pledge in addition to their existing We Mean Business commitments. Existing commitments include setting emission reduction targets in line with climate science through the Science Based Targets initiative and committing to 100% renewable power through RE100, among others.</li><li>The We Mean Business coalition will engage with companies to help accelerate supply chain action (scope 3 emissions). This work will engage large companies and their supply chains to provide frameworks, toolkits for action and reporting, and capacity building to encourage suppliers, especially SMEs, to ramp up their climate goals.</li><li>The We Mean Business coalition and The Climate Pledge will jointly support the Four Principles for Nature-Based Solutions published in May 2020 as a framework to help business decision makers distinguish credible carbon mitigation projects and to evaluate regenerative investments. Mitigation at pace remains a priority for all business. This work will enable companies to take a robust approach to investing in nature, alongside making significant and transformative emissions reductions in their direct operations and supply chains.</li><li>Climate Pledge signatories will explore investment opportunities, including through Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund, in companies whose products and services will facilitate the transition to a zero-carbon economy.</li></ul><p>As part of this new partnership, The Climate Pledge and the We Mean Business coalition will also provide resources and support to the following partner initiatives that are urging companies to respond to the climate crisis by setting specific, measurable targets:</p><ul><li>TED Countdown: TED Countdown, a global initiative powered by TED and Future Stewards, aims to champion and accelerate solutions to address the climate crisis, turning ideas into action. Signatories to the Climate Pledge will be encouraged to participate in Countdown's global launch event on October 10, 2020, engage in cross-sector working groups in the year leading to the Countdown Summit in October 2021, promote and host local TEDx Countdown events, and participate in the 2021 Summit.</li><li>Race to Zero: The Climate Pledge will support awareness-raising efforts to build momentum around the shift to a decarbonized economy ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) and advocate for governments to strengthen their contributions to the Paris Agreement. Race to Zero will support all businesses across value chains to take climate action.</li><li>The Science Based Targets initiative: All signatories to The Climate Pledge will be encouraged to set targets through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce emissions and boost their competitive advantage in the transition to the zero-carbon economy.</li></ul><p>"When we helped launch the We Mean Business coalition back in 2014 it was a big bet," said Per Heggenes, CEO, the IKEA Foundation. "We did it because we felt business has both the responsibility and the capability to demonstrate leadership in the race to zero. Today we're excited that Amazon will be a part of this journey and strengthen the coalition's collective impact. By embracing both commitments to reduce GHG emissions and pursue Nature-Based Solutions as necessary, the We Mean Business coalition can accelerate private sector change at a faster pace to help secure the future livability of our planet. We applaud Amazon for showing real leadership by committing to and applying the four principles of Nature-Based Solutions."</p><p>"I am delighted with Amazon's efforts to galvanize businesses to race to net-zero emissions as fast as possible," said Nigel Topping, UK High Level Climate Champion. "This announcement comes at a critical time when we need to strengthen capacity as economies rebuild from COVID-19. The Climate Pledge – which has been a close ally of the Race to Zero campaign – will help stimulate a healthy, green recovery that creates jobs and builds resilience."</p><p>"The moment to act on climate change has been upon us for too long, and now is the time to unite all levels of society - business leaders, courageous political actors, scientists, and individuals," said Chris Anderson, Head of TED. "The global disruptions from COVID-19 are a prequel to what we can expect if we do not coalesce to take on the climate crisis. This partnership presents a thrilling opportunity to protect the planet, create new economic opportunities, and build back better. We are proud to be a part of this critical effort."</p><p>"Like the COVID-19 epidemic, unchecked climate change will radically affect people's lives, businesses, and the economy. Governments alone cannot solve these problems. The innovation, dynamism, and drive fostered by the corporate sector are critical. Companies that have demonstrated the ability to innovate and revolutionize systems – none more than Amazon – can help set the pace through ambitious climate action," said Andrew Steer, President and CEO of World Resources Institute, one of the SBTi partners. "We urge all companies that sign The Climate Pledge to set a science-based target in line with 1.5°C to put them on track to reach net-zero emissions. WRI welcomes The Climate Pledge's new partnership with the We Mean Business coalition, and we look forward to working together to create a prosperous zero-carbon future."</p><p>Last year, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. Verizon, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), Infosys, and Oak View Group joined the pledge this year—sending an important signal that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. For more information visit www.theclimatepledge.com.</p><p>About We Mean Business</p><p>We Mean Business is a global coalition of nonprofit organizations working with the world's most influential businesses to take action on climate change. Founded with the generous support of the IKEA Foundation in 2014, the coalition brings together seven organizations: BSR, CDP, Ceres, The B Team, The Climate Group, The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Together we catalyze business action to drive policy ambition and accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy. Find out more at www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about.</p><p>About Global Optimism</p><p>Global Optimism exists to precipitate transformational, sector-wide change. Achieving a zero emissions future is not a far-off challenge. It's one for which we must and we can get on track for now. Every scientific assessment shows that to meet the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 and not exceed 1.5C of global warming, we must halve our emissions between 2020 and 2030. Tackling the climate crisis is only possible when everyone, everywhere plays their part. We work with like-minded collectives from all sectors who are willing to invest in the choices required to be on this challenging – and life-affirming – journey. For more information, visit www.globaloptimism.com.</p><p>About TED Countdown</p><p>Powered by TED, Future Stewards and 50+ partner organizations, Countdown is a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis — and turn ideas into action. Countdown kicks off with a global virtual launch on 10.10.2020 designed to reach people worldwide with a powerful public program that vividly and compellingly explains the climate crisis and calls for leaders and citizens to act. Over the following year, cross-sector working groups will focus on delivering solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In October 2021, the Countdown Summit will be held to share an inspiring, actionable blueprint for a net-zero future and advance progress in the Race to Zero. These ideas and commitments will be further amplified by local events around the world.</p><p>About Race to Zero</p><p>Led by High-Level Climate Champions for Climate Action – Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Muñoz – Race to Zero is a global campaign to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions, investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery. All members are committed to the same overarching goal: achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 at the very latest.</p><p>About the IKEA Foundation</p><p>The IKEA Foundation (Stichting IKEA Foundation) works to create a better everyday life for the many people. The Foundation is funded by the INGKA Foundation, owner of the Ingka Group of companies. The IKEA Foundation is independent from the retail business with a sole focus on creating brighter lives on a liveable planet through philanthropy and grantmaking. Learn more at www.ikeafoundation.org or on www.facebook.com/IKEAfoundation.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200716006006/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS Announces Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS)

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AWS Announces Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS)

07/15/2020

2020

Amazon IVS gives customers the ability to add live and interactive video in their mobile and web applications in minutes, using the same technology as Twitch (one of the most popular live streaming services in the world) Amazon Live, Blackboard, 17Live, DeNa, and ScreenCloud among customers using Amazon IVS SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 15, 2020-- Today,Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), a new fully managed service that makes it easy to set up live, interactive video streams for a web or mobile application in just a few minutes. Amazon IVS uses the same technology that powers Twitch, one of the most popular live streaming services in the world with nearly 10 billion hours of video watched in 2019, giving customers live content with latency (the time video takes to go from the camera to the viewer) that can be less than three seconds (significantly lower than the 20-30 second latencies common with online streaming video today). Customers can easily configure and stream live video through their own website or mobile application, with scalable delivery that supports millions of concurrent viewers globally. With the Amazon IVS SDK and APIs, customers can also build interactive features into their live streams like virtual chat spaces, votes and polls, moderated question and answer sessions, and synchronized promotional elements. There are no additional charges or upfront commitments required to use Amazon IVS, and customers pay only for video input to Amazon IVS and video output delivered to viewers. To get started with Amazon IVS, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ivs. Online audiences are increasingly turning to mobile and web applications for live video across sports, entertainment, education, and work. Today's viewers require higher-resolution content and smooth video playback without buffering or delays no matter where they are or what device or application they are using. Viewers have also come to expect more interactivity in live streaming, so they can engage with those experiences (and others watching) as events unfold, not moments after they happen. Setting up the infrastructure to keep pace with consumer demand for live video is complex, time consuming, and expensive. Today, it takes customers months to build interactive applications with video workflows for content ingestion, processing, and distribution, and then they still need to configure transcoders for adaptive-bitrate-formatted streaming to support multiple types of devices, select the appropriate streaming protocols, set up the content delivery networks (CDNs), and integrate video players. Even after all this work, live-streamed interactive content still requires minimal latency for a good user experience. However, traditional video streaming requires video to be produced in various resolutions and divided into segments for delivery. Multiple segments are then stored in a buffer by the viewer's video player so that playback resolution can be changed depending on the viewer's network and device to optimize quality of service, all of which creates a lot of extra latency. This can mean that viewers experience latencies of 20-30 seconds, making it impossible for content creators to interact live with their audiences without sacrificing service quality. Amazon IVS removes the cost and complexity associated with setting up live, interactive video streams, allowing customers to focus on building engaging experiences for their viewers. Amazon IVS is a fully managed service that makes high-quality, live-streaming video available to viewers around the world with latency that can be less than three seconds (as opposed to 20-30 seconds), so customers no longer need to make a tradeoff between interactivity and quality of service. To get started, customers simply send their live video to Amazon IVS using standard streaming software like Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). Amazon IVS ingests the video, then automatically transcodes and optimizes it, making it available for live delivery across AWS-managed global infrastructure in seconds using the same video transfer technology Twitch uses for its live streaming service. Content creators and developers can use the Amazon IVS player SDK to give audiences a consistent, low-latency live streaming experience across different viewing platforms and devices, without compromising video quality or increasing buffering. Customers can then combine the Amazon IVS SDK and APIs to attach structured text data to video streams, and create interactive content, including polls, surveys, and leaderboards, all of which are automatically synchronized to the live video. For example, a developer making a trivia application or a virtual town hall can use the API to ensure that viewers see the same questions at the same moment in the live video stream. With Amazon IVS, customers can now directly access the same technology that powers Twitch to create engaging live video experiences in their own applications and deliver them to viewers around the world. "Customers have been asking to use Twitch's video streaming technology on their own platforms for a range of use cases like education, retail, sports, fitness, and more," said Martin Hess, GM, Amazon IVS. "Now with Amazon IVS, customers can leverage the same innovative technology that has taken Twitch over a decade to build and refine. Any developer can build an interactive live streaming experience into their own application without having to manage the underlying video infrastructure." Amazon Live is a page on Amazon.com where shoppers can discover livestream content and browse recorded livestreams. "With Amazon IVS, handling live video streams is very simple, which means we can devote more time to producing engaging content and features that allow viewers to interact with creators in real-time," said John Katsavrias, Senior Development Manager, Amazon Live. "Amazon IVS enabled us to move quickly to unlock our creators' ability to livestream so they can produce awesome content that inspires customers and helps them discover new products." Blackboard's mission is to advance learning in partnership with the world's education community. "Blackboard serves millions of users in countries in every region around the globe. As instructional techniques evolve and we continue to grow, we're exploring how we can improve our interactive video experiences for all users, which is where Amazon IVS is changing the game," said Scott Hurrey, Staff Engineering at Blackboard. "In one day, we were able to quickly integrate IVS into our teaching and learning workflow. It handles a majority of the work on the back end, freeing up more time for our team focus on creating and building standout experiences." 17Live is an interactive live video app that connects entertainers around the world with their fans. "Integrating with Amazon IVS allows us to help our entertainers engage larger audiences with more interactive experiences and expand into new geographies," said Eric Hsu, VP of Engineering at M17 Group. "The end-to-end service allows us to address our scaling, quality of service, and expansion challenges." DeNA's Pococha is a pioneer in Japanese live streaming. "Amazon IVS provides the leading edge of live video technology transformations and maintains high availability systems, all while reducing the operational burden of managing complex, distributed live video networks," said Daisuke Mizuta, Producer of Pococha at DeNA. "With it, we can focus more on enhancing user-oriented functions and interactivity to ensure we're providing an irreplaceable experience." ScreenCloud helps businesses communicate better with teams and customers by transforming their spaces with smart, connected digital signage. "The ease of use and simplicity of Amazon IVS allows us to focus on delivering innovation rather than worrying about video infrastructure," said Luke Hubbard, CTO of ScreenCloud. "We have been able to quickly integrate video conferencing tools with Amazon IVS to provide our customers an interactive broadcast solution." The Amazon IVS Management Console and APIs for control and creation of streams are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions, with video ingestion and delivery available around the globe over a separate managed network of infrastructure that is optimized for live video. About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200715005929/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon IVS gives customers the ability to add live and interactive video in their mobile and web applications in minutes, using the same technology as Twitch (one of the most popular live streaming services in the world)</em></p><p><em>Amazon Live, Blackboard, 17Live, DeNa, and ScreenCloud among customers using Amazon IVS</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 15, 2020-- Today,Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), a new fully managed service that makes it easy to set up live, interactive video streams for a web or mobile application in just a few minutes. Amazon IVS uses the same technology that powers Twitch, one of the most popular live streaming services in the world with nearly 10 billion hours of video watched in 2019, giving customers live content with latency (the time video takes to go from the camera to the viewer) that can be less than three seconds (significantly lower than the 20-30 second latencies common with online streaming video today). Customers can easily configure and stream live video through their own website or mobile application, with scalable delivery that supports millions of concurrent viewers globally. With the Amazon IVS SDK and APIs, customers can also build interactive features into their live streams like virtual chat spaces, votes and polls, moderated question and answer sessions, and synchronized promotional elements. There are no additional charges or upfront commitments required to use Amazon IVS, and customers pay only for video input to Amazon IVS and video output delivered to viewers. To get started with Amazon IVS, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ivs.</p><p>Online audiences are increasingly turning to mobile and web applications for live video across sports, entertainment, education, and work. Today's viewers require higher-resolution content and smooth video playback without buffering or delays no matter where they are or what device or application they are using. Viewers have also come to expect more interactivity in live streaming, so they can engage with those experiences (and others watching) as events unfold, not moments after they happen. Setting up the infrastructure to keep pace with consumer demand for live video is complex, time consuming, and expensive. Today, it takes customers months to build interactive applications with video workflows for content ingestion, processing, and distribution, and then they still need to configure transcoders for adaptive-bitrate-formatted streaming to support multiple types of devices, select the appropriate streaming protocols, set up the content delivery networks (CDNs), and integrate video players. Even after all this work, live-streamed interactive content still requires minimal latency for a good user experience. However, traditional video streaming requires video to be produced in various resolutions and divided into segments for delivery. Multiple segments are then stored in a buffer by the viewer's video player so that playback resolution can be changed depending on the viewer's network and device to optimize quality of service, all of which creates a lot of extra latency. This can mean that viewers experience latencies of 20-30 seconds, making it impossible for content creators to interact live with their audiences without sacrificing service quality.</p><p>Amazon IVS removes the cost and complexity associated with setting up live, interactive video streams, allowing customers to focus on building engaging experiences for their viewers. Amazon IVS is a fully managed service that makes high-quality, live-streaming video available to viewers around the world with latency that can be less than three seconds (as opposed to 20-30 seconds), so customers no longer need to make a tradeoff between interactivity and quality of service. To get started, customers simply send their live video to Amazon IVS using standard streaming software like Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). Amazon IVS ingests the video, then automatically transcodes and optimizes it, making it available for live delivery across AWS-managed global infrastructure in seconds using the same video transfer technology Twitch uses for its live streaming service. Content creators and developers can use the Amazon IVS player SDK to give audiences a consistent, low-latency live streaming experience across different viewing platforms and devices, without compromising video quality or increasing buffering. Customers can then combine the Amazon IVS SDK and APIs to attach structured text data to video streams, and create interactive content, including polls, surveys, and leaderboards, all of which are automatically synchronized to the live video. For example, a developer making a trivia application or a virtual town hall can use the API to ensure that viewers see the same questions at the same moment in the live video stream. With Amazon IVS, customers can now directly access the same technology that powers Twitch to create engaging live video experiences in their own applications and deliver them to viewers around the world.</p><p>"Customers have been asking to use Twitch's video streaming technology on their own platforms for a range of use cases like education, retail, sports, fitness, and more," said Martin Hess, GM, Amazon IVS. "Now with Amazon IVS, customers can leverage the same innovative technology that has taken Twitch over a decade to build and refine. Any developer can build an interactive live streaming experience into their own application without having to manage the underlying video infrastructure."</p><p>Amazon Live is a page on Amazon.com where shoppers can discover livestream content and browse recorded livestreams. "With Amazon IVS, handling live video streams is very simple, which means we can devote more time to producing engaging content and features that allow viewers to interact with creators in real-time," said John Katsavrias, Senior Development Manager, Amazon Live. "Amazon IVS enabled us to move quickly to unlock our creators' ability to livestream so they can produce awesome content that inspires customers and helps them discover new products."</p><p>Blackboard's mission is to advance learning in partnership with the world's education community. "Blackboard serves millions of users in countries in every region around the globe. As instructional techniques evolve and we continue to grow, we're exploring how we can improve our interactive video experiences for all users, which is where Amazon IVS is changing the game," said Scott Hurrey, Staff Engineering at Blackboard. "In one day, we were able to quickly integrate IVS into our teaching and learning workflow. It handles a majority of the work on the back end, freeing up more time for our team focus on creating and building standout experiences."</p><p>17Live is an interactive live video app that connects entertainers around the world with their fans. "Integrating with Amazon IVS allows us to help our entertainers engage larger audiences with more interactive experiences and expand into new geographies," said Eric Hsu, VP of Engineering at M17 Group. "The end-to-end service allows us to address our scaling, quality of service, and expansion challenges."</p><p>DeNA's Pococha is a pioneer in Japanese live streaming. "Amazon IVS provides the leading edge of live video technology transformations and maintains high availability systems, all while reducing the operational burden of managing complex, distributed live video networks," said Daisuke Mizuta, Producer of Pococha at DeNA. "With it, we can focus more on enhancing user-oriented functions and interactivity to ensure we're providing an irreplaceable experience."</p><p>ScreenCloud helps businesses communicate better with teams and customers by transforming their spaces with smart, connected digital signage. "The ease of use and simplicity of Amazon IVS allows us to focus on delivering innovation rather than worrying about video infrastructure," said Luke Hubbard, CTO of ScreenCloud. "We have been able to quickly integrate video conferencing tools with Amazon IVS to provide our customers an interactive broadcast solution."</p><p>The Amazon IVS Management Console and APIs for control and creation of streams are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions, with video ingestion and delivery available around the globe over a separate managed network of infrastructure that is optimized for live video.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200715005929/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces New Pflugerville Fulfillment Center

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Amazon Announces New Pflugerville Fulfillment Center

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New 820,000 square-foot site in the city of Pflugerville to create 1,000 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 15, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in the city of Pflugerville, Texas. The site, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create 1,000 new full-time jobs with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. "We're appreciative of the people of Texas for so warmly embracing Amazon into the community," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "There are now over 20,000 Texan Amazonians working for us in the state – and we're excited to be creating an additional 1,000 full-time jobs in Pflugerville with Amazon's industry leading benefits, and minimum starting wage from $15 an hour." At the new 820,000 square-foot fulfillment center employees will work alongside Amazon robotics to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys. "Serving our great city is an honor, and I am excited to see Pflugerville's continued growth during my service in office," Mayor Victor Gonzales said. "Pflugerville is a bustling area, and the addition of this fulfillment center with over 1,000 jobs shows that Pflugerville is the new frontier in Central Texas. Pflugerville's connectivity via the SH 130 corridor is a prime location for business expansion, and we welcome Amazon, a business that shares our belief that Pflugerville is a wonderful place to live and work." On top of Amazon's minimum starting wage from $15 an hour, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in demand jobs. Programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. "We are establishing a strong partnership with Amazon and welcome the first operation of its kind to Pflugerville," said Amy Madison, Executive Director of Pflugerville Community Development Corporation. "This economic development project brings a significant capital investment, new technology and needed employment to our diverse and skilled workforce which is a comprehensive win for all." Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $10.5 billion into its local fulfillment center infrastructure and through compensation to thousands of employees in the state. Amazon's investments in Texas contributed an additional $9 billion into the Texas economy, and using methodology developed by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Amazon estimates its investments in the state have created an additional 32,000+ indirect jobs on top of the company's direct hires. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200715005206/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New 820,000 square-foot site in the city of Pflugerville to create 1,000 new, full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 15, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in the city of Pflugerville, Texas. The site, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create 1,000 new full-time jobs with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one.</p><p>"We're appreciative of the people of Texas for so warmly embracing Amazon into the community," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "There are now over 20,000 Texan Amazonians working for us in the state – and we're excited to be creating an additional 1,000 full-time jobs in Pflugerville with Amazon's industry leading benefits, and minimum starting wage from $15 an hour."</p><p>At the new 820,000 square-foot fulfillment center employees will work alongside Amazon robotics to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys.</p><p>"Serving our great city is an honor, and I am excited to see Pflugerville's continued growth during my service in office," Mayor Victor Gonzales said. "Pflugerville is a bustling area, and the addition of this fulfillment center with over 1,000 jobs shows that Pflugerville is the new frontier in Central Texas. Pflugerville's connectivity via the SH 130 corridor is a prime location for business expansion, and we welcome Amazon, a business that shares our belief that Pflugerville is a wonderful place to live and work."</p><p>On top of Amazon's minimum starting wage from $15 an hour, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families.</p><p>Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in demand jobs. Programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>"We are establishing a strong partnership with Amazon and welcome the first operation of its kind to Pflugerville," said Amy Madison, Executive Director of Pflugerville Community Development Corporation. "This economic development project brings a significant capital investment, new technology and needed employment to our diverse and skilled workforce which is a comprehensive win for all."</p><p>Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $10.5 billion into its local fulfillment center infrastructure and through compensation to thousands of employees in the state. Amazon's investments in Texas contributed an additional $9 billion into the Texas economy, and using methodology developed by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Amazon estimates its investments in the state have created an additional 32,000+ indirect jobs on top of the company's direct hires.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200715005206/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Music Announces Breakthrough, a New Global Developing Artist Program

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Amazon Music Announces Breakthrough, a New Global Developing Artist Program

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Launching today, Breakthrough is a long-term initiative aimed at supporting up-and-coming artists at the most important moment of their career Breakthrough's first selection of artists from the U.S., U.K., and Germany are Gabby Barrett, Kiana Ledé, JAY1, Arlo Parks, Provinz, and Malik Harris SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 15, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Music today announced Breakthrough, a new developing artist program aimed at championing emerging artists at the most crucial moment in their careers, accelerating them to the mainstream. Breakthrough will actively support artists across a wide spectrum of genres, encompassing country, U.K. rap, R&B, indie, and more. Amazon Music's first selections for Breakthrough are rising country powerhouse Gabby Barrett, emerging R&B singer Kiana Ledé, breakout U.K. Rap star JAY1, 19-year-old rising alt R&B singer/poet Arlo Parks, critically acclaimed folk pop group Provinz, and rising German pop sensation Malik Harris.Drawn from the U.S., U.K., and Germany, Amazon Music will work with each Breakthrough artist and their teams to develop a long-term, customized global plan tailored to their specific needs. This support includes video and audio content, global marketing support, custom merch stores on Amazon.com, increased visibility across Amazon Music's playlists and programming, high-profile Amazon Original tracks available only on Amazon Music, support for the artists' Twitch channels, and more. "Amazon Music is uniquely positioned to support developing artists," said Kirdis Postelle, Global Head of Artist Marketing for Amazon Music. "By using Amazon's marketing resources, Breakthrough campaigns will be true collaborations between the artist and Amazon Music, with each campaign centered around the artist's brand and vision." As part of Breakthrough, fans can look forward to mini-documentaries on JAY1's rise in the Coventry U.K. rap scene, Kiana Ledé's jump from acting to music, and Provinz's place in the German music scene, and additional stories from Breakthrough artists. Amazon Music will work with each Breakthrough artist to create brand-new Amazon Original tracks, extensive out-of-home advertising in major cities across the globe, and much more. Amazon Music will also feature each artist extensively on key Amazon Music playlists—like Rap Rotation and Country Heat. Amazon Music has already devoted increased playlist space to songs like Gabby Barrett's "I Hope" and Malik Harris' recently released Black Lives Matter anthem "Faith." "Amazon Music has accompanied me since I took my very first steps in the music industry. They invited me to play gigs for them long before I could see what they saw in me, and knowing that I've been having their support since the very beginning makes me deeply thankful," said Malik Harris. "But most of all, having them by my side as I release a song that stands against racism shows me that the people at Amazon Music are not afraid to speak up for what's right—and that makes me even prouder to call them friends." Amazon Music launched Gabby Barrett's Breakthrough campaign as she began prepping her debut album, GOLDMINE, in early Spring of 2020. Amazon Music worked with the country singer/songwriter to develop a plan that included increased programming for Gabby on the streaming service, a spot on Amazon Music's billboards across the U.S., a custom Alexa utterance for her new album ("Alexa, take me to the GOLDMINE"), a livestreamed Q&A with Barrett and Charlie Puth on Amazon's homepage, and an exclusive listening event on Echo Studio smart speakers that featured select tracks from GOLDMINE in 3D Audio. Later this year, Amazon Music will also debut a mini-documentary on Gabby Barrett, a brand-new Amazon Original cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You," and much more. Released last month, Goldmine's first-day streams exceeded any other debut country album ever on Amazon Music globally, and the album ended the week as the most streamed debut country album in history, with Amazon Music delivering the highest percentage of streams for the album of any streaming service in the U.S. "I am very honored to be an Amazon Music Breakthrough artist," said Gabby Barrett. The last two years have been such an exciting whirlwind with ‘I Hope,' and to be chosen for an initiative like this is amazing. Thank you to Amazon Music, who has been so supportive of me and my music from the beginning, and to my team for always setting me up for success. I'm truly blessed and grateful, and can't wait to put out more music for you to enjoy." As part of Breakthrough, Amazon Music is also revealing a brand-new global playlist under the same name, which will serve as a new home for the best music from the best rising artists from around the world. Covering multiple genres and languages and available across all tiers of Amazon Music, the Breakthrough playlist is the destination for the best music from the emerging artists and can be heard here or by asking "Alexa, play Breakthrough." "Building a career as a developing artist is a marathon, not a sprint; that's why we wanted to create a program like Breakthrough that makes a long-term commitment to the artists we work with," said David Stuart, creator of Breakthrough. "We wanted artists to be able to pick up the phone and discuss how Amazon Music can help make an idea they have a reality, and with Breakthrough, we'll be able to do this while supporting the artists' needs and goals." For more information on Breakthrough, please visit amazon.com/breakthrough. About Amazon Music Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 60 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Engaging with music has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app. About Amazon  Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200715005516/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Music

<p><em>Launching today, Breakthrough is a long-term initiative aimed at supporting up-and-coming artists at the most important moment of their career</em></p><p><em>Breakthrough's first selection of artists from the U.S., U.K., and Germany are Gabby Barrett, Kiana Ledé, JAY1, Arlo Parks, Provinz, and Malik Harris</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 15, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Music today announced Breakthrough, a new developing artist program aimed at championing emerging artists at the most crucial moment in their careers, accelerating them to the mainstream. Breakthrough will actively support artists across a wide spectrum of genres, encompassing country, U.K. rap, R&amp;B, indie, and more.</p><p>Amazon Music's first selections for Breakthrough are rising country powerhouse Gabby Barrett, emerging R&amp;B singer Kiana Ledé, breakout U.K. Rap star JAY1, 19-year-old rising alt R&amp;B singer/poet Arlo Parks, critically acclaimed folk pop group Provinz, and rising German pop sensation Malik Harris.Drawn from the U.S., U.K., and Germany, Amazon Music will work with each Breakthrough artist and their teams to develop a long-term, customized global plan tailored to their specific needs. This support includes video and audio content, global marketing support, custom merch stores on Amazon.com, increased visibility across Amazon Music's playlists and programming, high-profile Amazon Original tracks available only on Amazon Music, support for the artists' Twitch channels, and more.</p><p>"Amazon Music is uniquely positioned to support developing artists," said Kirdis Postelle, Global Head of Artist Marketing for Amazon Music. "By using Amazon's marketing resources, Breakthrough campaigns will be true collaborations between the artist and Amazon Music, with each campaign centered around the artist's brand and vision."</p><p>As part of Breakthrough, fans can look forward to mini-documentaries on JAY1's rise in the Coventry U.K. rap scene, Kiana Ledé's jump from acting to music, and Provinz's place in the German music scene, and additional stories from Breakthrough artists. Amazon Music will work with each Breakthrough artist to create brand-new Amazon Original tracks, extensive out-of-home advertising in major cities across the globe, and much more. Amazon Music will also feature each artist extensively on key Amazon Music playlists—like Rap Rotation and Country Heat. Amazon Music has already devoted increased playlist space to songs like Gabby Barrett's "I Hope" and Malik Harris' recently released Black Lives Matter anthem "Faith."</p><p>"Amazon Music has accompanied me since I took my very first steps in the music industry. They invited me to play gigs for them long before I could see what they saw in me, and knowing that I've been having their support since the very beginning makes me deeply thankful," said Malik Harris. "But most of all, having them by my side as I release a song that stands against racism shows me that the people at Amazon Music are not afraid to speak up for what's right—and that makes me even prouder to call them friends."</p><p>Amazon Music launched Gabby Barrett's Breakthrough campaign as she began prepping her debut album, <em>GOLDMINE</em>, in early Spring of 2020. Amazon Music worked with the country singer/songwriter to develop a plan that included increased programming for Gabby on the streaming service, a spot on Amazon Music's billboards across the U.S., a custom Alexa utterance for her new album ("Alexa, take me to the <em>GOLDMINE</em>"), a livestreamed Q&amp;A with Barrett and Charlie Puth on Amazon's homepage, and an exclusive listening event on Echo Studio smart speakers that featured select tracks from <em>GOLDMINE</em> in 3D Audio. Later this year, Amazon Music will also debut a mini-documentary on Gabby Barrett, a brand-new Amazon Original cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You," and much more.</p><p>Released last month, <em>Goldmine</em>'s first-day streams exceeded any other debut country album ever on Amazon Music globally, and the album ended the week as the most streamed debut country album in history, with Amazon Music delivering the highest percentage of streams for the album of any streaming service in the U.S.</p><p>"I am very honored to be an Amazon Music Breakthrough artist," said Gabby Barrett. The last two years have been such an exciting whirlwind with ‘I Hope,' and to be chosen for an initiative like this is amazing. Thank you to Amazon Music, who has been so supportive of me and my music from the beginning, and to my team for always setting me up for success. I'm truly blessed and grateful, and can't wait to put out more music for you to enjoy."</p><p>As part of Breakthrough, Amazon Music is also revealing a brand-new global playlist under the same name, which will serve as a new home for the best music from the best rising artists from around the world. Covering multiple genres and languages and available across all tiers of Amazon Music, the Breakthrough playlist is the destination for the best music from the emerging artists and can be heard here or by asking "Alexa, play Breakthrough."</p><p>"Building a career as a developing artist is a marathon, not a sprint; that's why we wanted to create a program like Breakthrough that makes a long-term commitment to the artists we work with," said David Stuart, creator of Breakthrough. "We wanted artists to be able to pick up the phone and discuss how Amazon Music can help make an idea they have a reality, and with Breakthrough, we'll be able to do this while supporting the artists' needs and goals."</p><p>For more information on Breakthrough, please visit amazon.com/breakthrough.</p><p>About Amazon Music</p><p>Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 60 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Engaging with music has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app.</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200715005516/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Music</p>

AWS and HSBC Reach Long-Term Strategic Cloud Agreement

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AWS and HSBC Reach Long-Term Strategic Cloud Agreement

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One of the world's largest financial services organizations collaborates with AWS to deliver new products, enhance customer experiences, and drive digital transformation SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 15, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE: HSBC) has selected AWS as a key, long-term strategic cloud provider to drive their digital transformation and deliver new and personalized banking services. As part of a multi-year, global agreement, HSBC will make AWS technology available across the bank's lines of business, starting with customer-facing applications and application modernization in its Global Wealth & Personal Banking business. Migrating to AWS will enable HSBC to drive innovation, automate key processes, and enhance operational efficiency across a range of personal financial services. AWS's global infrastructure will enable HSBC to run and scale applications around the world with the highest availability and reliability. HSBC will use AWS's extensive portfolio of cloud services, including compute, containers, storage, database, analytics, machine learning, and security, to develop new digital products and support security and compliance standardsfor millions of personal banking customers worldwide. For example, HSBC plans to use AWS serverless and analytics services, including Amazon Kinesis, to create a more personalized and customer-centric banking experience. "Our work with AWS is an example of how HSBC continues to invest in secure and advanced technologies to make our digital banking experience even better for customers," said Dinesh Keswani, Chief Technology Officer and CIO for Digital, HSBC. "Our ambition is to make it easy, safe, and reliable for customers to bank with us, whenever and wherever they are. HSBC's collaboration with AWS helps us to deliver innovative banking solutions to customers at a faster rate, starting with our Wealth & Personal Banking business." "HSBC is continuing to expand its use of AWS to power its digital transformation and deliver innovative financial services that help customers manage, protect, and grow their wealth in new and more personalized ways," said Frank Fallon, Vice President, Financial Services at AWS. "We look forward to our continued collaboration with HSBC as they leverage AWS's proven capabilities, reliability, and security to drive efficiency across their business and become a more agile organization in the cloud." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. HSBC Holdings plc HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of HSBC, is headquartered in London. HSBC serves customers worldwide from offices in 64 countries and territories in its geographical regions: Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa. With assets of US$2,918bn at 31 March 2020, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200715005162/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>O<em>ne of the world's largest financial services organizations collaborates with AWS to deliver new products, enhance customer experiences, and drive digital transformation</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 15, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE: HSBC) has selected AWS as a key, long-term strategic cloud provider to drive their digital transformation and deliver new and personalized banking services. As part of a multi-year, global agreement, HSBC will make AWS technology available across the bank's lines of business, starting with customer-facing applications and application modernization in its Global Wealth &amp; Personal Banking business.</p><p>Migrating to AWS will enable HSBC to drive innovation, automate key processes, and enhance operational efficiency across a range of personal financial services. AWS's global infrastructure will enable HSBC to run and scale applications around the world with the highest availability and reliability. HSBC will use AWS's extensive portfolio of cloud services, including compute, containers, storage, database, analytics, machine learning, and security, to develop new digital products and support security and compliance standardsfor millions of personal banking customers worldwide. For example, HSBC plans to use AWS serverless and analytics services, including Amazon Kinesis, to create a more personalized and customer-centric banking experience.</p><p>"Our work with AWS is an example of how HSBC continues to invest in secure and advanced technologies to make our digital banking experience even better for customers," said Dinesh Keswani, Chief Technology Officer and CIO for Digital, HSBC. "Our ambition is to make it easy, safe, and reliable for customers to bank with us, whenever and wherever they are. HSBC's collaboration with AWS helps us to deliver innovative banking solutions to customers at a faster rate, starting with our Wealth &amp; Personal Banking business."</p><p>"HSBC is continuing to expand its use of AWS to power its digital transformation and deliver innovative financial services that help customers manage, protect, and grow their wealth in new and more personalized ways," said Frank Fallon, Vice President, Financial Services at AWS. "We look forward to our continued collaboration with HSBC as they leverage AWS's proven capabilities, reliability, and security to drive efficiency across their business and become a more agile organization in the cloud."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>HSBC Holdings plc</p><p>HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of HSBC, is headquartered in London. HSBC serves customers worldwide from offices in 64 countries and territories in its geographical regions: Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa. With assets of US$2,918bn at 31 March 2020, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200715005162/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Makes Health Care Access Even Easier for Employees with Launch of New Third-Party Health Centers

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Amazon Makes Health Care Access Even Easier for Employees with Launch of New Third-Party Health Centers

07/14/2020

2020

The company is collaborating with national provider Crossover Health to pilot convenient health centers near its fulfillment centers and operations facilities in Texas, with additional centers planned for other states in months ahead SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 14, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a health care pilot with Crossover Health, an expert in comprehensive primary care services, to establish local, convenient health centers near Amazon fulfillment centers and operations facilities across the country. The first Neighborhood Health Center location will be available for Amazon employees and their families in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200714005697/en/ Amazon is piloting a new, health care benefit for employees by establishing local, convenient health centers near Amazon fulfillment centers and operations facilities across the country. The launch of the new Neighborhood Health Centers will provide a range of quality primary care services exclusively for Amazon employees – further strengthening Amazon's industry-leading benefits program, which provides comprehensive healthcare for employees starting on day one of employment. Through this initial pilot program, Amazon expects to establish 20 health centers in five cities across the U.S., improving access and care for more than 115,000 associates and their families. (Photo: Business Wire) "Across the U.S., an increasing number of patients do not have easy access to a primary care physician and instead utilize emergency or urgent care options, which is not only more expensive for patients, but also overlooks important preventative care opportunities," said Darcie Henry, Amazon's Vice President of Human Resources. "We want to solve that for our employees, and the launch of these new Neighborhood Health Centers will provide a range of quality primary care services for employees across the country – further strengthening Amazon's industry-leading benefits program, which provides comprehensive healthcare for employees starting on day one of employment." Crossover Health is a national medical group that works with self-insured employers to connect every employee—in headquarters or in dispersed locations—to an integrated care team that delivers comprehensive primary care to the whole family. The first Neighborhood Health Center for Amazon will be located in Las Colinas, Texas, with extended hours to accommodate various employee work schedules. The Neighborhood Health Center will be available exclusively to all local Amazon employees and their families. Crossover Health will fully operate and staff the Neighborhood Health Centers, which will provide full-spectrum acute, chronic, and preventive primary care, prescription medications, vaccinations, behavioral health services, physical therapy, chiropractic care, health coaching, and care navigation to specialty referral services. To support families, same-day pediatric services will also be available. Crossover Health's proprietary technology platform allows patients to start nearly all of their care online and then transition to in-person care as needed. "Prevention and early detection is essential to remaining healthy, and the importance of primary care cannot be understated. I appreciate seeing the collaboration between Amazon and Crossover Health to ensure their employees have access to quality and convenient health care services. I am also pleased that this pilot program will run in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The health and wellness opportunities Amazon is providing its employees should spark inspiration for other companies to follow suit in providing similar benefits," said Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. Through this initial pilot program, Amazon expects to establish 20 health centers in five cities across the U.S., improving access and care for more than 115,000 associates and their families in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Louisville, KY; Detroit, MI; and San Bernardino/Moreno Valley, CA. If the pilot is successful, the company will look to roll out similar facilities in other cities and states. "We are proud to collaborate with Amazon to support the health and wellness of Amazon's employees. Crossover Health believes that exceptional primary care is central to continued health and well-being," said Scott Shreeve, MD, CEO and co-founder of Crossover Health. "Now it's more important than ever to make care available through multiple channels and across the full continuum. Our advanced primary care model will serve as vital infrastructure to deliver expanded access to care in-person and online to meet the needs of Amazon's employees and their families." This new benefit further strengthens Amazon's commitment to the health and wellness of its people and providing an industry-leading benefits package for employees, which includes a $15 minimum wage, comprehensive healthcare for full-time employees including full health, dental and vision, from day one, a 401(k) program with 50 percent company match, up to 20 weeks paid parental leave, infertility and adoption benefits, and flexible Leave Share and Ramp Back Programs that allow new parents to share their paid leave with their spouse or partner, then return to work at their own pace. The company also offers an innovative Career Choice Program, which pre-pays 95 percent of tuition for courses in high-demand fields. Since the program's launch eight years ago, more than 25,000 employees in 14 countries have pursued degrees in game design, visual communications, nursing, IT programming, and radiology, to name a few. Amazon also recently announced a new family care benefit through Care.com, which provides each of its 650,000 U.S. employees up to 10 days of subsidized emergency backup child or adult care between now and October 2. Read more about Amazon's comprehensive healthcare benefits. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200714005697/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>The company is collaborating with national provider Crossover Health to pilot convenient health centers near its fulfillment centers and operations facilities in Texas, with additional centers planned for other states in months ahead</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 14, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a health care pilot with Crossover Health, an expert in comprehensive primary care services, to establish local, convenient health centers near Amazon fulfillment centers and operations facilities across the country. The first Neighborhood Health Center location will be available for Amazon employees and their families in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200714005697/en/</p><div><p>Amazon is piloting a new, health care benefit for employees by establishing local, convenient health centers near Amazon fulfillment centers and operations facilities across the country. The launch of the new Neighborhood Health Centers will provide a range of quality primary care services exclusively for Amazon employees – further strengthening Amazon's industry-leading benefits program, which provides comprehensive healthcare for employees starting on day one of employment. Through this initial pilot program, Amazon expects to establish 20 health centers in five cities across the U.S., improving access and care for more than 115,000 associates and their families. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"Across the U.S., an increasing number of patients do not have easy access to a primary care physician and instead utilize emergency or urgent care options, which is not only more expensive for patients, but also overlooks important preventative care opportunities," said Darcie Henry, Amazon's Vice President of Human Resources. "We want to solve that for our employees, and the launch of these new Neighborhood Health Centers will provide a range of quality primary care services for employees across the country – further strengthening Amazon's industry-leading benefits program, which provides comprehensive healthcare for employees starting on day one of employment."</p><p>Crossover Health is a national medical group that works with self-insured employers to connect every employee—in headquarters or in dispersed locations—to an integrated care team that delivers comprehensive primary care to the whole family. The first Neighborhood Health Center for Amazon will be located in Las Colinas, Texas, with extended hours to accommodate various employee work schedules. The Neighborhood Health Center will be available exclusively to all local Amazon employees and their families. Crossover Health will fully operate and staff the Neighborhood Health Centers, which will provide full-spectrum acute, chronic, and preventive primary care, prescription medications, vaccinations, behavioral health services, physical therapy, chiropractic care, health coaching, and care navigation to specialty referral services. To support families, same-day pediatric services will also be available. Crossover Health's proprietary technology platform allows patients to start nearly all of their care online and then transition to in-person care as needed.</p><p>"Prevention and early detection is essential to remaining healthy, and the importance of primary care cannot be understated. I appreciate seeing the collaboration between Amazon and Crossover Health to ensure their employees have access to quality and convenient health care services. I am also pleased that this pilot program will run in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The health and wellness opportunities Amazon is providing its employees should spark inspiration for other companies to follow suit in providing similar benefits," said Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D.</p><p>Through this initial pilot program, Amazon expects to establish 20 health centers in five cities across the U.S., improving access and care for more than 115,000 associates and their families in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Louisville, KY; Detroit, MI; and San Bernardino/Moreno Valley, CA. If the pilot is successful, the company will look to roll out similar facilities in other cities and states.</p><p>"We are proud to collaborate with Amazon to support the health and wellness of Amazon's employees. Crossover Health believes that exceptional primary care is central to continued health and well-being," said Scott Shreeve, MD, CEO and co-founder of Crossover Health. "Now it's more important than ever to make care available through multiple channels and across the full continuum. Our advanced primary care model will serve as vital infrastructure to deliver expanded access to care in-person and online to meet the needs of Amazon's employees and their families."</p><p>This new benefit further strengthens Amazon's commitment to the health and wellness of its people and providing an industry-leading benefits package for employees, which includes a $15 minimum wage, comprehensive healthcare for full-time employees including full health, dental and vision, from day one, a 401(k) program with 50 percent company match, up to 20 weeks paid parental leave, infertility and adoption benefits, and flexible Leave Share and Ramp Back Programs that allow new parents to share their paid leave with their spouse or partner, then return to work at their own pace. The company also offers an innovative Career Choice Program, which pre-pays 95 percent of tuition for courses in high-demand fields. Since the program's launch eight years ago, more than 25,000 employees in 14 countries have pursued degrees in game design, visual communications, nursing, IT programming, and radiology, to name a few.</p><p>Amazon also recently announced a new family care benefit through Care.com, which provides each of its 650,000 U.S. employees up to 10 days of subsidized emergency backup child or adult care between now and October 2. Read more about Amazon's comprehensive healthcare benefits.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200714005697/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of AWS IoT SiteWise

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AWS Announces General Availability of AWS IoT SiteWise

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2020

SiteWise makes it easy to collect, organize, and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale Volkswagen, Bayer Crop Science, Pentair, and Genie among customers using SiteWise SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 9, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that collects data from the plant floor, structures and labels the data, and generates real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to help industrial customers make better, data-driven decisions. Customers can use SiteWise to monitor operations across facilities, quickly compute industrial performance metrics, create applications that analyze industrial equipment data to prevent costly equipment issues, and reduce gaps in production. This allows customers to collect data consistently across devices, identify issues with remote monitoring more quickly, and improve multi-site processes with centralized data. To learn more about SiteWise, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise. Industrial companies like manufacturers, energy utilities, and food processors want to utilize their equipment data to drive faster and better-informed decisions, but much of this data cannot easily be collected, processed, or monitored. Extracting data from thousands of sensors and equipment across different locations is time-consuming and expensive because sensor data is often stored locally in specialized servers that lack a common data format, and retrieving the data and placing it in a format useful for cross-site analysis requires significant developer resources and expertise. Once developers have a data collection pipeline to aggregate data across different pieces of equipment, they still have to attach context, such as the equipment type, facility location, and relationship to other equipment. Customers then have to write custom applications to calculate and compare performance metrics across multiple facilities to drive operational insights. SiteWise helps customers overcome these challenges by making it easier to collect data from the plant floor, structure and label the data, and generate real-time metrics. In SiteWise, customers begin by modeling their industrial equipment, processes, and facilities by adding context (e.g. equipment type and facility location) to the collected data, and defining common industrial performance metrics (e.g. overall equipment effectiveness and uptime) on top of the data using SiteWise's built-in library of mathematical functions. Once a customer's environment is modeled and their data ingested into AWS, the service automatically computes the metrics at the interval defined by the customer (e.g. report uptime every hour). All uploaded data and computed metrics are sent to a fully managed time series database, which is uniquely designed to store and retrieve time-stamped data with low latency, making it significantly easier for customers to analyze equipment performance over time. From within the SiteWise console, customers can also create custom web applications (without any coding) to visualize key metrics across end-user devices in near real-time. These portable web applications can help customers monitor equipment performance on any web-enabled desktop, tablet, or phone to spot anomalies, helping them reduce waste, make faster decisions, and optimize their plant performance. "Industrial customers tell us that getting their data into the cloud and using it to understand their operational performance is the biggest opportunity they see when evaluating IoT solutions," said Dirk Didascalou, Vice President of IoT, AWS. "With SiteWise, industrial customers can now use the power of AWS to collect, organize, and monitor their industrial equipment data at scale. SiteWise will help industrial customers move beyond data collection and enable them to visualize and monitor all their equipment, so they can focus on their main job of optimizing their operations." In addition to using software running on an edge device, SiteWise provides interfaces for collecting data from modern industrial applications through MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) messages or its Application Programming Interface (APIs). SiteWise is available today in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Ireland) AWS regions, with additional regions coming soon. Volkswagen Group, one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers and headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany, is developing the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud to further improve the efficiency of its manufacturing and logistics processes. "Machine data generally has no context when extracted from a machine. To make the data useful, it requires the addition of context through enrichment with other data, labelling, filtering and transforming that data before analyzing", said Dr. Roy Sauer, Director Enterprise & Platform Architecture, Volkswagen Group. "With SiteWise we are able to easily ingest manufacturing shop floor data into the cloud, model and organize those different machine assets within our plants, and then visualize operational data from our cylinder production line in a web application." Bayer Crop Science is a division of Bayer AG providing products and services to enable sustainable agriculture for farmers, and is working towards the goal of providing food for over 9 billion people by 2050. "We are constantly striving to optimize yield not only in the crop fields but also in our production plants", said Peri Subrahmanya, IoT Product Lead, Bayer Crop Science. "Visibility of operational metrics across our crop processing sites is critical in helping us identify production bottlenecks and then take corrective actions to increase productivity. Using SiteWise across 9 corn production plants in North America, we collect data from the plant floor, and then measure and analyze Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) of our machinery in near real-time to identify production inefficiencies. With SiteWise we are now able to onboard a crop site in less than a few hours instead of a few weeks, which is critical in allowing us to scale the use of SiteWise to other crop sites like soy, in a cost-effective manner." Pentair is a global provider of water filtration systems to breweries, fish farms, and other industrial and commercial customers. "To optimize filter maintenance windows and maintain production uptime for our Beer Membrane Filtration system, we are building machine learning models to predict the next filter cleaning cycle." says Rama Budampati, Senior Director, Smart Products & IoT, Pentair. "To support this predictive maintenance application, we created our own industrial asset management system, however we needed a more flexible data ingestion and data modeling capability that allowed us to quickly adjust data models for our different systems, and test new operational metrics in near real time and over historical data. With SiteWise, we are able to run a digital twin of several of our beer membrane filters, creating virtual representations of the different elements of our assets, which expanded our ability to model the machine behavior much closer to reality." Genie – A Terex Brand, is a global manufacturer of lifting and material processing products and services. "Our Genie brand of lift products is one of the strongest brands in the business", said Scott McNeal, VP of IT, Genie – A Terex Brand. "To help us improve the paint quality and durability that matches what is inside, we needed a secure, scalable and repeatable paint process monitoring solution, spanning the factory floor to the cloud. Using SiteWise, we are able to ingest, organize and analyze data from the paint process to identify inconsistent and improper pre-treatment in near real-time, which enables the application of necessary corrective actions to improve paint quality." TensorIoT, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, creates solutions to simplify the way enterprises incorporate intelligent edge computing devices and their data into their daily operations. "Our industrial customers come to us to help them optimize their operations, and improve productivity and availability of their production processes", said Ravikumar Raghunathan, CEO, TensorIoT. "These customers have plenty of data on the shop floor, but it is often untapped. With SiteWise, we can now create solutions to easily collect this data into the cloud and provide a unified view of the data from different devices and machines that resonates with the Operational Technology (OT) people. Such visibility into industrial processes is providing our customers the actionable insights to improve their production output." Softing Industrial provides products for the exchange of digital data and the provision of information for applications in networked industrial production. "Our customers look to us to connect disparate automation components to provide data from the shop floor for control tasks, monitoring, and further analysis," said Dr. Christopher Anhalt, Business Development Manager at Softing. "By integrating support for SiteWise in our software and hardware gateway products, our customers can now easily collect data from their existing automation equipment like programmable logic controllers (PLCs), without any modifications to their existing automation network and link their production line to the AWS Cloud in less than a day." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200709005928/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>SiteWise makes it easy to collect, organize, and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale</em></p><p><em>Volkswagen, Bayer Crop Science, Pentair, and Genie among customers using SiteWise</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 9, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that collects data from the plant floor, structures and labels the data, and generates real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to help industrial customers make better, data-driven decisions. Customers can use SiteWise to monitor operations across facilities, quickly compute industrial performance metrics, create applications that analyze industrial equipment data to prevent costly equipment issues, and reduce gaps in production. This allows customers to collect data consistently across devices, identify issues with remote monitoring more quickly, and improve multi-site processes with centralized data. To learn more about SiteWise, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise.</p><p>Industrial companies like manufacturers, energy utilities, and food processors want to utilize their equipment data to drive faster and better-informed decisions, but much of this data cannot easily be collected, processed, or monitored. Extracting data from thousands of sensors and equipment across different locations is time-consuming and expensive because sensor data is often stored locally in specialized servers that lack a common data format, and retrieving the data and placing it in a format useful for cross-site analysis requires significant developer resources and expertise. Once developers have a data collection pipeline to aggregate data across different pieces of equipment, they still have to attach context, such as the equipment type, facility location, and relationship to other equipment. Customers then have to write custom applications to calculate and compare performance metrics across multiple facilities to drive operational insights.</p><p>SiteWise helps customers overcome these challenges by making it easier to collect data from the plant floor, structure and label the data, and generate real-time metrics. In SiteWise, customers begin by modeling their industrial equipment, processes, and facilities by adding context (e.g. equipment type and facility location) to the collected data, and defining common industrial performance metrics (e.g. overall equipment effectiveness and uptime) on top of the data using SiteWise's built-in library of mathematical functions. Once a customer's environment is modeled and their data ingested into AWS, the service automatically computes the metrics at the interval defined by the customer (e.g. report uptime every hour). All uploaded data and computed metrics are sent to a fully managed time series database, which is uniquely designed to store and retrieve time-stamped data with low latency, making it significantly easier for customers to analyze equipment performance over time. From within the SiteWise console, customers can also create custom web applications (without any coding) to visualize key metrics across end-user devices in near real-time. These portable web applications can help customers monitor equipment performance on any web-enabled desktop, tablet, or phone to spot anomalies, helping them reduce waste, make faster decisions, and optimize their plant performance.</p><p>"Industrial customers tell us that getting their data into the cloud and using it to understand their operational performance is the biggest opportunity they see when evaluating IoT solutions," said Dirk Didascalou, Vice President of IoT, AWS. "With SiteWise, industrial customers can now use the power of AWS to collect, organize, and monitor their industrial equipment data at scale. SiteWise will help industrial customers move beyond data collection and enable them to visualize and monitor all their equipment, so they can focus on their main job of optimizing their operations."</p><p>In addition to using software running on an edge device, SiteWise provides interfaces for collecting data from modern industrial applications through MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) messages or its Application Programming Interface (APIs). SiteWise is available today in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Ireland) AWS regions, with additional regions coming soon.</p><p>Volkswagen Group, one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers and headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany, is developing the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud to further improve the efficiency of its manufacturing and logistics processes. "Machine data generally has no context when extracted from a machine. To make the data useful, it requires the addition of context through enrichment with other data, labelling, filtering and transforming that data before analyzing", said Dr. Roy Sauer, Director Enterprise &amp; Platform Architecture, Volkswagen Group. "With SiteWise we are able to easily ingest manufacturing shop floor data into the cloud, model and organize those different machine assets within our plants, and then visualize operational data from our cylinder production line in a web application."</p><p>Bayer Crop Science is a division of Bayer AG providing products and services to enable sustainable agriculture for farmers, and is working towards the goal of providing food for over 9 billion people by 2050. "We are constantly striving to optimize yield not only in the crop fields but also in our production plants", said Peri Subrahmanya, IoT Product Lead, Bayer Crop Science. "Visibility of operational metrics across our crop processing sites is critical in helping us identify production bottlenecks and then take corrective actions to increase productivity. Using SiteWise across 9 corn production plants in North America, we collect data from the plant floor, and then measure and analyze Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) of our machinery in near real-time to identify production inefficiencies. With SiteWise we are now able to onboard a crop site in less than a few hours instead of a few weeks, which is critical in allowing us to scale the use of SiteWise to other crop sites like soy, in a cost-effective manner."</p><p>Pentair is a global provider of water filtration systems to breweries, fish farms, and other industrial and commercial customers. "To optimize filter maintenance windows and maintain production uptime for our Beer Membrane Filtration system, we are building machine learning models to predict the next filter cleaning cycle." says Rama Budampati, Senior Director, Smart Products &amp; IoT, Pentair. "To support this predictive maintenance application, we created our own industrial asset management system, however we needed a more flexible data ingestion and data modeling capability that allowed us to quickly adjust data models for our different systems, and test new operational metrics in near real time and over historical data. With SiteWise, we are able to run a digital twin of several of our beer membrane filters, creating virtual representations of the different elements of our assets, which expanded our ability to model the machine behavior much closer to reality."</p><p>Genie – A Terex Brand, is a global manufacturer of lifting and material processing products and services. "Our Genie brand of lift products is one of the strongest brands in the business", said Scott McNeal, VP of IT, Genie – A Terex Brand. "To help us improve the paint quality and durability that matches what is inside, we needed a secure, scalable and repeatable paint process monitoring solution, spanning the factory floor to the cloud. Using SiteWise, we are able to ingest, organize and analyze data from the paint process to identify inconsistent and improper pre-treatment in near real-time, which enables the application of necessary corrective actions to improve paint quality."</p><p>TensorIoT, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, creates solutions to simplify the way enterprises incorporate intelligent edge computing devices and their data into their daily operations. "Our industrial customers come to us to help them optimize their operations, and improve productivity and availability of their production processes", said Ravikumar Raghunathan, CEO, TensorIoT. "These customers have plenty of data on the shop floor, but it is often untapped. With SiteWise, we can now create solutions to easily collect this data into the cloud and provide a unified view of the data from different devices and machines that resonates with the Operational Technology (OT) people. Such visibility into industrial processes is providing our customers the actionable insights to improve their production output."</p><p>Softing Industrial provides products for the exchange of digital data and the provision of information for applications in networked industrial production. "Our customers look to us to connect disparate automation components to provide data from the shop floor for control tasks, monitoring, and further analysis," said Dr. Christopher Anhalt, Business Development Manager at Softing. "By integrating support for SiteWise in our software and hardware gateway products, our customers can now easily collect data from their existing automation equipment like programmable logic controllers (PLCs), without any modifications to their existing automation network and link their production line to the AWS Cloud in less than a day."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200709005928/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Reveals the Top 10 States with the Most Digital Entrepreneurs Per Capita and the Top 10 States with the Fastest Growing Digital Entrepreneurs: Iowa Tops Both Lists

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Amazon Reveals the Top 10 States with the Most Digital Entrepreneurs Per Capita and the Top 10 States with the Fastest Growing Digital Entrepreneurs: Iowa Tops Both Lists

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Iowa, Delaware, and California have the most digital entrepreneurs – small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) selling in Amazon's stores – per capita Iowa, Washington, and Alabama have the fastest growing digital entrepreneurs based on year-over-year growth 47 states are home to more than 1,000 SMBs selling in Amazon's stores, and 26 states have more than 5,000 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 9, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today revealed the top 10 states with the most small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) selling in Amazon's stores per capita, and the top 10 states with the fastest growing SMBs selling in Amazon's stores. As companies and individuals have turned to selling online to grow sales amidst the pandemic, Iowa, Delaware, California, Wyoming, and New Jersey have the most SMBs per capita reaching customers in Amazon's stores, while SMBs in Iowa, Washington, Alabama, Virginia, and Louisiana are growing their businesses the fastest on average in Amazon's stores. Amazon also revealed that overall, 47 states are each home to more than 1,000 SMB sellers and 26 states each have more than 5,000 SMB sellers. This announcement comes ahead of the release of Amazon's 2020 SMB Impact Report, which will unveil more new data on the growth SMBs selling in Amazon's stores have seen in the past 12 months. "Iowa is home to thousands of small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores, and we're working hard to support their growth despite the global pandemic," said Keri Cusick, head of small business empowerment at Amazon. "Both top 10 lists we revealed today demonstrate innovation in every corner of the country, with states like Iowa, Delaware, Wyoming, and Alabama coming out on top." The top 10 states with the most digital entrepreneurs per capita: Iowa – with nearly 10,000 SMB sellers Delaware – with over 3,000 SMB sellers California – with over 100,000 SMB sellers Wyoming – with over 1,000 SMB sellers New Jersey – with over 20,000 SMB sellers Vermont – with over 1,000 SMB sellers New York – with nearly 50,000 SMB sellers Utah – with over 7,000 SMB sellers New Hampshire – with over 3,000 SMB sellers Florida – with over 50,000 SMB sellers The top 10 states with the fastest year-over-year growth by digital entrepreneurs: Iowa – 57% growth Washington – 56% growth Alabama – 53% growth Virginia – 50% growth Louisiana – 49% growth Georgia – 45% growth West Virginia – 45% growth South Dakota – 45% growth Rhode Island – 40% growth Alaska – 38% growth "It's always surprising to see what interesting businesses selling in Amazon's stores are hidden in all the different nooks and crannies around town," said Tahmi DeSchepper, one of more than a dozen Fairfield, IA businesses selling products in Amazon's stores. "My handmade jewelry business has been booming since joining Amazon. Amazon helped me double my sales last year, and I'm expecting another 50 to 75 percent increase in sales this year, despite the pandemic." "Launching on Amazon is by far the best decision I've made for my business," said Blake Anderson, CEO of Pet Parents® based in Ankeny, IA. "We've reached more customers than we ever could have on our own and have continued to grow more than 90 percent year-over-year. Thanks to our growth with Amazon, we now have 15 local employees in Ankeny, just moved into a 7,000 square foot office and warehouse, and are in the process of expanding further." Small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores come from every state in the U.S., and more than 130 countries around the world. In 2019, more than 15,000 American SMBs exceeded $1 million in sales in Amazon's stores worldwide, and nearly 25,000 surpassed $500,000 in sales. Products from small and medium-sized businesses make up more than half of all items sold in Amazon's stores worldwide. Amazon spent $15 billion last year on logistics, tools, services, programs, and people to help small and medium-sized businesses around the globe succeed in its online stores. As part of this investment, the company launched Amazon Small Business Academy to help small businesses in the U.S. harness the power of the internet to reach more customers, build their brand, and grow sales. Through a combination of free in-person seminar events, live webinars, and community college classes across the country, Amazon Small Business Academy will help thousands of American entrepreneurs gain digital strategy and brand building skills to make their ambitions reality. To learn more about the millions of small and medium-sized businesses growing with Amazon, visit: aboutamazon.com/supporting-small-businesses. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200709005276/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Iowa, Delaware, and California have the most digital entrepreneurs – small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) selling in Amazon's stores – per capita</em></p><p><em>Iowa, Washington, and Alabama have the fastest growing digital entrepreneurs based on year-over-year growth</em></p><p><em>47 states are home to more than 1,000 SMBs selling in Amazon's stores, and 26 states have more than 5,000</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 9, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today revealed the top 10 states with the most small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) selling in Amazon's stores per capita, and the top 10 states with the fastest growing SMBs selling in Amazon's stores. As companies and individuals have turned to selling online to grow sales amidst the pandemic, Iowa, Delaware, California, Wyoming, and New Jersey have the most SMBs per capita reaching customers in Amazon's stores, while SMBs in Iowa, Washington, Alabama, Virginia, and Louisiana are growing their businesses the fastest on average in Amazon's stores. Amazon also revealed that overall, 47 states are each home to more than 1,000 SMB sellers and 26 states each have more than 5,000 SMB sellers.</p><p>This announcement comes ahead of the release of Amazon's 2020 SMB Impact Report, which will unveil more new data on the growth SMBs selling in Amazon's stores have seen in the past 12 months.</p><p>"Iowa is home to thousands of small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores, and we're working hard to support their growth despite the global pandemic," said Keri Cusick, head of small business empowerment at Amazon. "Both top 10 lists we revealed today demonstrate innovation in every corner of the country, with states like Iowa, Delaware, Wyoming, and Alabama coming out on top."</p><p>The top 10 states with the most digital entrepreneurs per capita:</p><ol><li>Iowa – with nearly 10,000 SMB sellers</li><li>Delaware – with over 3,000 SMB sellers</li><li>California – with over 100,000 SMB sellers</li><li>Wyoming – with over 1,000 SMB sellers</li><li>New Jersey – with over 20,000 SMB sellers</li><li>Vermont – with over 1,000 SMB sellers</li><li>New York – with nearly 50,000 SMB sellers</li><li>Utah – with over 7,000 SMB sellers</li><li>New Hampshire – with over 3,000 SMB sellers</li><li>Florida – with over 50,000 SMB sellers</li></ol><p>The top 10 states with the fastest year-over-year growth by digital entrepreneurs:</p><ol><li>Iowa – 57% growth</li><li>Washington – 56% growth</li><li>Alabama – 53% growth</li><li>Virginia – 50% growth</li><li>Louisiana – 49% growth</li><li>Georgia – 45% growth</li><li>West Virginia – 45% growth</li><li>South Dakota – 45% growth</li><li>Rhode Island – 40% growth</li><li>Alaska – 38% growth</li></ol><p>"It's always surprising to see what interesting businesses selling in Amazon's stores are hidden in all the different nooks and crannies around town," said Tahmi DeSchepper, one of more than a dozen Fairfield, IA businesses selling products in Amazon's stores. "My handmade jewelry business has been booming since joining Amazon. Amazon helped me double my sales last year, and I'm expecting another 50 to 75 percent increase in sales this year, despite the pandemic."</p><p>"Launching on Amazon is by far the best decision I've made for my business," said Blake Anderson, CEO of Pet Parents® based in Ankeny, IA. "We've reached more customers than we ever could have on our own and have continued to grow more than 90 percent year-over-year. Thanks to our growth with Amazon, we now have 15 local employees in Ankeny, just moved into a 7,000 square foot office and warehouse, and are in the process of expanding further."</p><p>Small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores come from every state in the U.S., and more than 130 countries around the world. In 2019, more than 15,000 American SMBs exceeded $1 million in sales in Amazon's stores worldwide, and nearly 25,000 surpassed $500,000 in sales. Products from small and medium-sized businesses make up more than half of all items sold in Amazon's stores worldwide.</p><p>Amazon spent $15 billion last year on logistics, tools, services, programs, and people to help small and medium-sized businesses around the globe succeed in its online stores. As part of this investment, the company launched Amazon Small Business Academy to help small businesses in the U.S. harness the power of the internet to reach more customers, build their brand, and grow sales. Through a combination of free in-person seminar events, live webinars, and community college classes across the country, Amazon Small Business Academy will help thousands of American entrepreneurs gain digital strategy and brand building skills to make their ambitions reality.</p><p>To learn more about the millions of small and medium-sized businesses growing with Amazon, visit: aboutamazon.com/supporting-small-businesses.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered<em> by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</em></p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200709005276/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Announces First Fulfillment Center and Second Delivery Station in Little Rock

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New 825,000 square-foot site in the Port of Little Rock to create 1,000 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 7, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in Little Rock, Arkansas. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 1,000 new full-time jobs with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. The City of Little Rock's Board of Directors gave final approval for a sale of 80 acres at the Port of Little Rock to Amazon.com, Inc. during its meeting on April 7, 2020. This after the Little Rock Port Authority Board of Directors made a similar approval at their specially called meeting earlier that day. The acquisition gives the company exclusive control for the development of the Zeuber Road site. "We're delighted to be building out our network of operations in Little Rock, Arkansas," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We greatly appreciate the strong support from local and state leaders as we look to open our first fulfillment center and second delivery station in the state of Arkansas. We look forward to creating over a thousand jobs for the Little Rock community, with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one." "It's not surprising that Amazon has selected the Port of Little Rock as the newest location for its next project," Governor Hutchinson said. "Arkansas has a trained workforce and is centrally located with easy access to miles of interstate, rail, and navigable waterways. I am delighted by Amazon's decision and confident that the Port of Little Rock will be a great fit for the company." In the new 825,000 square-foot fulfillment center, Amazon employees will work alongside Amazon robotics to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys. The site, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 1,000 new full-time jobs. Amazon is also planning a new 85,000 square-foot delivery station which is anticipated to launch in late 2020. Delivery stations power the last mile of Amazon's order fulfillment process. Packages are transported to delivery stations from Amazon fulfillment and sortation centers, and then loaded into vehicles for delivery to customers. The delivery station will create hundreds of permanent, full-time and part-time jobs, in addition to offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to build their own small business delivering Amazon packages, and independent contractors the flexibility to be their own boss and create their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex. To learn more, visit www.logistics.amazon.com and https://flex.amazon.com/. "Little Rock welcomes Amazon in Arkansas' first major investment from the company and is excited to provide new economic opportunities to our residents," said Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott, Jr. "The COVID-19 public health crisis has caused deep concern among many Little Rock families as they struggle to stay afloat due to current economic uncertainty. Today's announcement provides reassurance that Little Rock will rebound and that jobs are on the way. Additionally, Little Rock's geographical location with river, rail, road, and air access make it ideal to expand Amazon's distribution throughout the South." "Central Arkansas is quickly becoming a magnet for new economic development, this is due to continued investment in our infrastructure. I'm proud to lead a group of committed partners whose hard work has led to one of the largest companies in the world opening a new center in Pulaski County," said Pulaski County Judge Barry Hyde. "Since we began planning industrial quality road and traffic infrastructure two years ago, we've attracted two international companies that are bringing new jobs to central Arkansas in large numbers." On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum starting wage from $15, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200707005205/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>New 825,000 square-foot site in the Port of Little Rock to create 1,000 new, full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 7, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in Little Rock, Arkansas. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 1,000 new full-time jobs with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one.</p><p>The City of Little Rock's Board of Directors gave final approval for a sale of 80 acres at the Port of Little Rock to Amazon.com, Inc. during its meeting on April 7, 2020. This after the Little Rock Port Authority Board of Directors made a similar approval at their specially called meeting earlier that day. The acquisition gives the company exclusive control for the development of the Zeuber Road site.</p><p>"We're delighted to be building out our network of operations in Little Rock, Arkansas," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We greatly appreciate the strong support from local and state leaders as we look to open our first fulfillment center and second delivery station in the state of Arkansas. We look forward to creating over a thousand jobs for the Little Rock community, with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one."</p><p>"It's not surprising that Amazon has selected the Port of Little Rock as the newest location for its next project," Governor Hutchinson said. "Arkansas has a trained workforce and is centrally located with easy access to miles of interstate, rail, and navigable waterways. I am delighted by Amazon's decision and confident that the Port of Little Rock will be a great fit for the company."</p><p>In the new 825,000 square-foot fulfillment center, Amazon employees will work alongside Amazon robotics to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and toys. The site, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 1,000 new full-time jobs.</p><p>Amazon is also planning a new 85,000 square-foot delivery station which is anticipated to launch in late 2020. Delivery stations power the last mile of Amazon's order fulfillment process. Packages are transported to delivery stations from Amazon fulfillment and sortation centers, and then loaded into vehicles for delivery to customers. The delivery station will create hundreds of permanent, full-time and part-time jobs, in addition to offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to build their own small business delivering Amazon packages, and independent contractors the flexibility to be their own boss and create their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex. To learn more, visit www.logistics.amazon.com and https://flex.amazon.com/.</p><p>"Little Rock welcomes Amazon in Arkansas' first major investment from the company and is excited to provide new economic opportunities to our residents," said Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott, Jr. "The COVID-19 public health crisis has caused deep concern among many Little Rock families as they struggle to stay afloat due to current economic uncertainty. Today's announcement provides reassurance that Little Rock will rebound and that jobs are on the way. Additionally, Little Rock's geographical location with river, rail, road, and air access make it ideal to expand Amazon's distribution throughout the South."</p><p>"Central Arkansas is quickly becoming a magnet for new economic development, this is due to continued investment in our infrastructure. I'm proud to lead a group of committed partners whose hard work has led to one of the largest companies in the world opening a new center in Pulaski County," said Pulaski County Judge Barry Hyde. "Since we began planning industrial quality road and traffic infrastructure two years ago, we've attracted two international companies that are bringing new jobs to central Arkansas in large numbers."</p><p>On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum starting wage from $15, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families.</p><p>About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200707005205/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Capella Space Goes All-In On AWS

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06/30/2020

2020

Provider of Earth observation data uses AWS's highly performant global infrastructure and unmatched portfolio of cloud services, including AWS Ground Station, to deliver satellite data to customers in minutes SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 30, 2020-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced today that Capella Space, a provider of on-demand Earth observation data via satellite-based radar, is going all-in on AWS. Capella runs its entire IT infrastructure on AWS to automate and scale its operations, including satellite command and control using AWS Ground Station. AWS Ground Station service makes it easy and cost-effective for customers to control satellites and download satellite data directly onto AWS using a fully managed network of ground station antennas located in AWS Regions around the world. Using AWS, Capella provides its customers with access to satellite data within minutes of its capture – far faster than traditional satellite data delivery services, which can take up to 24 hours – and at a lower cost. In addition, Capella leverages the breadth and depth of AWS services to process satellite data in real time as it is received, helping its customers in agriculture, infrastructure, defense, and disaster response immediately analyze and extract value from their data. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200630005287/en/ Satellite imagery catalog within the Capella Console, deployed on AWS. (Courtesy Capella Space) By leveraging and communicating directly with AWS Ground Station antennas, Capella's Earth observation solution is able to provide organizations with timely access to images of the Earth, while freeing them from the cost and complexity of managing their own ground station infrastructure, which includes ground antennas to communicate with the satellites, as well as servers, storage, and networking infrastructure in close proximity to process, store, and transport the satellite data. Capella's synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites also see through clouds and darkness to collect high-resolution imagery 24x7 in all weather conditions. The company uses AWS to manage the enormous amount of raw data that this persistent monitoring generates – an average of two to five terabytes per satellite per day – which Capella must prepare for analysis before it can be used by customers. Capella leverages AWS compute, storage, database, machine learning, and analytics services to process this data immediately upon downlink, helping its customers quickly gain insights for dynamic applications such as detecting illegal maritime activities and assessing the impact of natural disasters. In addition, Capella is developing a searchable archive of Earth observation data in the cloud, providing its customers with benchmark data so they can track subtle changes to the environment, discerning patterns over time to help them inform business and policy decisions. "Our customers rely on us to deliver precision satellite imagery quickly. Working with AWS and leveraging the global coverage provided by AWS Ground Station, we are redefining what is possible in the satellite industry and reducing the cost and time required for organizations to benefit from satellite data," said Payam Banazadeh, CEO of Capella Space. "Combining Capella's automated and real-time approach to collecting Earth observation data with AWS's proven infrastructure and unparalleled portfolio of services helps our customers achieve timely insights that can save lives and protect the health of the planet. We look forward to continuing to grow and innovate on AWS to create new opportunities for our customers who depend upon space technologies." "Capella Space leverages the breadth and depth of AWS services to provide its customers with on-demand access to data from space, as well as analytics to help them address some of the biggest challenges on Earth," said Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS. "Using AWS Ground Station, customers like Capella can connect the power of satellites with AWS's reliable, global infrastructure and unmatched portfolio of services to automate and scale their operations on demand. By removing the need for organizations to build and maintain their own ground stations, AWS is putting the power of satellite data into the hands of more customers in order to derive insights that potentially can improve our understanding of space and life on Earth." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Capella Space Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand sub-0.5m high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation imagery. Through a constellation of small satellites, Capella is providing easy access to frequent, timely and flexible information affecting dozens of industries worldwide. Capella's high-resolution SAR satellites are matched with unparalleled infrastructure to deliver reliable global insights that sharpen our understanding of the changing world – improving decisions about commerce, conservation and security on Earth. Learn more at capellaspace.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200630005287/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Provider of Earth observation data uses AWS's highly performant global infrastructure and unmatched portfolio of cloud services, including AWS Ground Station, to deliver satellite data to customers in minutes</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 30, 2020-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced today that Capella Space, a provider of on-demand Earth observation data via satellite-based radar, is going all-in on AWS. Capella runs its entire IT infrastructure on AWS to automate and scale its operations, including satellite command and control using AWS Ground Station. AWS Ground Station service makes it easy and cost-effective for customers to control satellites and download satellite data directly onto AWS using a fully managed network of ground station antennas located in AWS Regions around the world. Using AWS, Capella provides its customers with access to satellite data within minutes of its capture – far faster than traditional satellite data delivery services, which can take up to 24 hours – and at a lower cost. In addition, Capella leverages the breadth and depth of AWS services to process satellite data in real time as it is received, helping its customers in agriculture, infrastructure, defense, and disaster response immediately analyze and extract value from their data.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200630005287/en/</p><div><p>Satellite imagery catalog within the Capella Console, deployed on AWS. (Courtesy Capella Space)</p></div><p>By leveraging and communicating directly with AWS Ground Station antennas, Capella's Earth observation solution is able to provide organizations with timely access to images of the Earth, while freeing them from the cost and complexity of managing their own ground station infrastructure, which includes ground antennas to communicate with the satellites, as well as servers, storage, and networking infrastructure in close proximity to process, store, and transport the satellite data. Capella's synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites also see through clouds and darkness to collect high-resolution imagery 24x7 in all weather conditions. The company uses AWS to manage the enormous amount of raw data that this persistent monitoring generates – an average of two to five terabytes per satellite per day – which Capella must prepare for analysis before it can be used by customers. Capella leverages AWS compute, storage, database, machine learning, and analytics services to process this data immediately upon downlink, helping its customers quickly gain insights for dynamic applications such as detecting illegal maritime activities and assessing the impact of natural disasters. In addition, Capella is developing a searchable archive of Earth observation data in the cloud, providing its customers with benchmark data so they can track subtle changes to the environment, discerning patterns over time to help them inform business and policy decisions.</p><p>"Our customers rely on us to deliver precision satellite imagery quickly. Working with AWS and leveraging the global coverage provided by AWS Ground Station, we are redefining what is possible in the satellite industry and reducing the cost and time required for organizations to benefit from satellite data," said Payam Banazadeh, CEO of Capella Space. "Combining Capella's automated and real-time approach to collecting Earth observation data with AWS's proven infrastructure and unparalleled portfolio of services helps our customers achieve timely insights that can save lives and protect the health of the planet. We look forward to continuing to grow and innovate on AWS to create new opportunities for our customers who depend upon space technologies."</p><p>"Capella Space leverages the breadth and depth of AWS services to provide its customers with on-demand access to data from space, as well as analytics to help them address some of the biggest challenges on Earth," said Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS. "Using AWS Ground Station, customers like Capella can connect the power of satellites with AWS's reliable, global infrastructure and unmatched portfolio of services to automate and scale their operations on demand. By removing the need for organizations to build and maintain their own ground stations, AWS is putting the power of satellite data into the hands of more customers in order to derive insights that potentially can improve our understanding of space and life on Earth."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Capella Space</p><p>Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand sub-0.5m high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation imagery. Through a constellation of small satellites, Capella is providing easy access to frequent, timely and flexible information affecting dozens of industries worldwide. Capella's high-resolution SAR satellites are matched with unparalleled infrastructure to deliver reliable global insights that sharpen our understanding of the changing world – improving decisions about commerce, conservation and security on Earth. Learn more at capellaspace.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200630005287/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon CodeGuru

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06/29/2020

2020

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer uses machine learning to identify critical issues and hard-to-find bugs during application development to improve code quality Amazon CodeGuru Profiler optimizes performance for applications running in production and identifies the most expensive lines of code, reducing operational costs by up to 50% Atlassian, EagleDream, and DevFactory among customers and partners using Amazon CodeGuru SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 29, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code. Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer helps improve code quality by scanning for critical issues, identifying bugs, and recommending how to remediate them. Amazon CodeGuru Profiler helps developers find an application's most expensive lines of code along with specific visualizations and recommendations on how to improve code to save money. Amazon CodeGuru can be enabled with a few clicks in the AWS console, customers only pay for their actual use of Amazon CodeGuru, and it's easy and affordable enough to run on every code review and application in an organization. To get started with Amazon CodeGuru, visit http://aws.amazon.com/codeguru Just like Amazon.com, AWS customers write a lot of code. Software development is a well understood process. Developers write code, review it, compile the code and deploy the application, measure the performance of the application, and use that data to improve the code. Then, they rinse and repeat. Yet, all of this process doesn't matter if the code is incorrect to begin with, which is why teams perform code reviews to check the logic, syntax, and style before new code is added to an existing application code base. Even for a large organization like Amazon, it's challenging to have enough experienced developers with enough free time to do code reviews, given the amount of code that gets written every day. And even the most experienced reviewers miss problems before they impact customer-facing applications, resulting in bugs and performance issues. Even after an application is up and running, developers still need to monitor performance to make sure it is running efficiently. Typically, developers monitor application performance through logging, which allows them to observe how much time an application takes to complete a task. However, logging is cumbersome to implement (requiring developers to instrument every function in the application), negatively impacts application performance, and doesn't measure other metrics like CPU utilization that contribute to compute costs, leaving developers without a tool to effectively identify cost-saving opportunities for applications in production. Organizations often incur unnecessarily higher costs (sometimes upwards of tens of millions of dollars) for running applications that are in need of further optimizations because these applications consume more CPU and infrastructure than they should. Amazon CodeGuru is a new developer service that uses machine learning to automate both code reviews during application development and profiling of applications in production. Amazon CodeGuru has two components: Code Reviewer: Developers can use machine learning-powered Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer to automatically flag common issues that deviate from best practices (potentially leading to production issues), while also providing specific recommendations on how to fix them, including example code and links to relevant documentation. For code reviews, developers commit their code as usual to the repository of their choice (e.g. GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Cloud, AWS CodeCommit) and add Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer as one of the code reviewers, with no other changes to the normal development process. Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer analyzes existing code bases in the repository, identifies hard to find bugs and critical issues with high accuracy, provides intelligent suggestions on how to remediate them, and creates a baseline for successive code reviews. To do so, Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer opens a pull request and automatically starts evaluating the code using machine learning models that have been trained on several decades of code reviews at Amazon.com and over ten thousand open-source projects on GitHub. If Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer discovers an issue (e.g. thread safety issues, use of un-sanitized inputs, inappropriate handling of sensitive data such as credentials, resource leaks, redundant copy and pasted code, deviation from best practices for using Java and AWS APIs, etc.), it will add a human-readable comment to the pull request that identifies the line of code, specific issue, and recommended remediation. Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer also provides a pull request dashboard that lists information for all code reviews (e.g. status of the code review, number of lines of code analyzed, and the number of recommendations). Users may also give feedback on CodeGuru Reviewer recommendations by clicking on a thumbs up or thumbs down icon, which helps improve recommendations over time using machine learning. Application Profiler: Developers can use machine learning-powered Amazon CodeGuru Profiler to identify the most expensive lines of code (in terms of potential estimated dollar savings) by helping them understand the runtime behavior of their applications (including serverless applications running via AWS Lambda or AWS Fargate), identify and remove code inefficiencies, improve performance, and significantly decrease compute costs. For example, Amazon's internal teams have used Amazon CodeGuru Profiler on more than 30,000 production applications, resulting in tens of millions of dollars in savings on compute and infrastructure costs. Further, the Amazon.com Consumer Payments team used Amazon CodeGuru Profiler from 2017 to 2018 to gain efficiencies for the biggest shopping day of the year – Prime Day – and realized a 325% efficiency increase in CPU utilization across their applications and lowered costs by 39%. To get started with Amazon CodeGuru Profiler, customers install a small, low-profile agent in their application that can observe the application run time and profile the application to detect code quality issues (e.g. recreation of expensive objects, use of inefficient libraries, evaluating null or undefined values, etc.) along with details on latency and CPU usage. Amazon CodeGuru Profiler then uses machine learning to automatically identify code methods (reusable blocks of code also called functions) and anomalous behaviors that are most impacting latency and CPU usage. This information is brought together in a profile that clearly shows the areas of code that are most inefficient and provides visualizations that identify the code methods that are creating bottlenecks, along with a time-series graph of detected anomalies. The profile includes recommendations on how developers can fix issues to improve performance and also estimates the cost (in dollars) of continuing to run inefficient code so developers can prioritize remediation. Developers can now take advantage of the same technology deployed at Amazon to improve application performance and customer experiences, while also eliminating their most expensive lines of code. "Our customers develop and run a lot of applications that include millions and millions of lines of code. Ensuring the quality and efficiency of that code is incredibly important, as bugs and inefficiencies in even a few lines of code can be very costly. Today, the methods for identifying code quality issues are time-consuming, manual, and error-prone, especially at scale," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "CodeGuru combines Amazon's decades of experience developing and deploying applications at scale with considerable machine learning expertise to give customers a service that improves software quality, delights their customers with better application performance, and eliminates their most expensive lines of code." Amazon CodeGuru is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) with availability in additional regions in the coming months. Teams at more than 170,000 companies rely on Atlassian products to make teamwork easier, and help them organize, discuss, and complete their work. "At Atlassian, many of our services have hundreds of check-ins per deployment. While code reviews from our development team do a great job of preventing bugs from reaching production, it's not always possible to predict how systems will behave under stress or manage complex data shapes, especially as we have multiple deployments per day," said Zak Islam, Head of Engineering, Tech Teams, Atlassian. "When we detect anomalies in production, we have been able to reduce the investigation time from days to hours and sometimes minutes thanks to Amazon CodeGuru's continuous profiling feature. Our developers now focus more of their energy on delivering differentiated capabilities and less time investigating problems in our production environment." EagleDream Technologies is a trusted cloud-native transformation company and APN Premier Consulting Partner for businesses using AWS. "Part of application development is the creation of performant systems as well as the feedback and continuous improvement of existing systems. This starts with a strong architectural foundation but often ends in the details of the application code. When our team at EagleDream is digging into these details there are a variety of tools at our disposal, and using both static and dynamic analysis is helpful," said Dustin Potter, Principal Could Solutions Architect at EagleDream Technologies. "We've found that the runtime analysis offered by the CodeGuru Profiler is one of the simplest and fastest to get running, and generates insights into the application code that are easy to remediate. Using this tool we've been able to quickly hone in on portions of an application that represent bottlenecks that would have otherwise been difficult to spot, then develop changes that can be implemented and tested with a very fast feedback loop. This allows us to continuously deliver and improve our own workloads and the workloads of our customers, making them more performant while saving on cost at the same time." DevFactory manages over 600 million lines of code across over a hundred enterprise software products. "A key component of our future roadmap is to turn all our products into cloud-native products that leverage the incredible array of managed services available at AWS. Rebuilding old school, on-prem architectures, and transforming them for the cloud brings a whole set of engineering challenges that range from keeping abreast with all the latest services to adjusting to the paradigm shift that is associated with these architectures," said Rahul Subramaniam, CEO at DevFactory. "CodeGuru is an incredibly valuable tool that helps optimize our products' performance while making sure that we are leveraging these services with all the best practices in place. Without tools like CodeGuru Reviewer, we wouldn't have been able to rewrite entire products like FogBugz to be AWS cloud-native. We are now using CodeGuru Profiler to optimize a number of products including EngineYard's container-based ‘No Ops' platform and well as the next generation of the Jive collaboration platform." RENGA, Inc. is a company that operates one of Japan's largest condominium reviews and evaluation sites used by more than 1 million people every month. "Poor quality code adds complexity to the system and can become technical debt at some point. On the other hand, as long as consistent code quality is maintained, scaling the system won't prevent developers from extending features as the code itself is simple," said Kazuma Ohara, CTO at RENGA. "At RENGA, the code review process is important, however, it should not increase workload for reviewers or become a bottleneck in development. Powered by machine learning, Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer helped us automate code reviews and reduced the workload required on reviewers. We could seamlessly integrate Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer into our existing development pipeline. Furthermore, learning the best practices of coding – which we were not aware of – has helped us develop with more confidence." ​YouCanBook.me is a small, independent, and fully remote team, that loves solving scheduling problems all over the world. "Our use of Amazon CodeGuru Profiler is very simple but extremely valuable," said Sergio Delgado, Engineering Team Lead at YouCanBook.me. "We've optimized our worst performant service to reduce its latency by 15% for the 95th percentile in a typical work day." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200629005826/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer uses machine learning to identify critical issues and hard-to-find bugs during application development to improve code quality</em></p><p><em>Amazon CodeGuru Profiler optimizes performance for applications running in production and identifies the most expensive lines of code, reducing operational costs by up to 50%</em></p><p><em>Atlassian, EagleDream, and DevFactory among customers and partners using Amazon CodeGuru</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 29, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code. Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer helps improve code quality by scanning for critical issues, identifying bugs, and recommending how to remediate them. Amazon CodeGuru Profiler helps developers find an application's most expensive lines of code along with specific visualizations and recommendations on how to improve code to save money. Amazon CodeGuru can be enabled with a few clicks in the AWS console, customers only pay for their actual use of Amazon CodeGuru, and it's easy and affordable enough to run on every code review and application in an organization. To get started with Amazon CodeGuru, visit http://aws.amazon.com/codeguru</p><p>Just like Amazon.com, AWS customers write a lot of code. Software development is a well understood process. Developers write code, review it, compile the code and deploy the application, measure the performance of the application, and use that data to improve the code. Then, they rinse and repeat. Yet, all of this process doesn't matter if the code is incorrect to begin with, which is why teams perform code reviews to check the logic, syntax, and style before new code is added to an existing application code base. Even for a large organization like Amazon, it's challenging to have enough experienced developers with enough free time to do code reviews, given the amount of code that gets written every day. And even the most experienced reviewers miss problems before they impact customer-facing applications, resulting in bugs and performance issues. Even after an application is up and running, developers still need to monitor performance to make sure it is running efficiently. Typically, developers monitor application performance through logging, which allows them to observe how much time an application takes to complete a task. However, logging is cumbersome to implement (requiring developers to instrument every function in the application), negatively impacts application performance, and doesn't measure other metrics like CPU utilization that contribute to compute costs, leaving developers without a tool to effectively identify cost-saving opportunities for applications in production. Organizations often incur unnecessarily higher costs (sometimes upwards of tens of millions of dollars) for running applications that are in need of further optimizations because these applications consume more CPU and infrastructure than they should.</p><p>Amazon CodeGuru is a new developer service that uses machine learning to automate both code reviews during application development and profiling of applications in production. Amazon CodeGuru has two components:</p><ul><li>Code Reviewer: Developers can use machine learning-powered Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer to automatically flag common issues that deviate from best practices (potentially leading to production issues), while also providing specific recommendations on how to fix them, including example code and links to relevant documentation. For code reviews, developers commit their code as usual to the repository of their choice (e.g. GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Cloud, AWS CodeCommit) and add Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer as one of the code reviewers, with no other changes to the normal development process. Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer analyzes existing code bases in the repository, identifies hard to find bugs and critical issues with high accuracy, provides intelligent suggestions on how to remediate them, and creates a baseline for successive code reviews. To do so, Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer opens a pull request and automatically starts evaluating the code using machine learning models that have been trained on several decades of code reviews at Amazon.com and over ten thousand open-source projects on GitHub. If Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer discovers an issue (e.g. thread safety issues, use of un-sanitized inputs, inappropriate handling of sensitive data such as credentials, resource leaks, redundant copy and pasted code, deviation from best practices for using Java and AWS APIs, etc.), it will add a human-readable comment to the pull request that identifies the line of code, specific issue, and recommended remediation. Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer also provides a pull request dashboard that lists information for all code reviews (e.g. status of the code review, number of lines of code analyzed, and the number of recommendations). Users may also give feedback on CodeGuru Reviewer recommendations by clicking on a thumbs up or thumbs down icon, which helps improve recommendations over time using machine learning.</li></ul><ul><li>Application Profiler: Developers can use machine learning-powered Amazon CodeGuru Profiler to identify the most expensive lines of code (in terms of potential estimated dollar savings) by helping them understand the runtime behavior of their applications (including serverless applications running via AWS Lambda or AWS Fargate), identify and remove code inefficiencies, improve performance, and significantly decrease compute costs. For example, Amazon's internal teams have used Amazon CodeGuru Profiler on more than 30,000 production applications, resulting in tens of millions of dollars in savings on compute and infrastructure costs. Further, the Amazon.com Consumer Payments team used Amazon CodeGuru Profiler from 2017 to 2018 to gain efficiencies for the biggest shopping day of the year – Prime Day – and realized a 325% efficiency increase in CPU utilization across their applications and lowered costs by 39%. To get started with Amazon CodeGuru Profiler, customers install a small, low-profile agent in their application that can observe the application run time and profile the application to detect code quality issues (e.g. recreation of expensive objects, use of inefficient libraries, evaluating null or undefined values, etc.) along with details on latency and CPU usage. Amazon CodeGuru Profiler then uses machine learning to automatically identify code methods (reusable blocks of code also called functions) and anomalous behaviors that are most impacting latency and CPU usage. This information is brought together in a profile that clearly shows the areas of code that are most inefficient and provides visualizations that identify the code methods that are creating bottlenecks, along with a time-series graph of detected anomalies. The profile includes recommendations on how developers can fix issues to improve performance and also estimates the cost (in dollars) of continuing to run inefficient code so developers can prioritize remediation. Developers can now take advantage of the same technology deployed at Amazon to improve application performance and customer experiences, while also eliminating their most expensive lines of code.</li></ul><p>"Our customers develop and run a lot of applications that include millions and millions of lines of code. Ensuring the quality and efficiency of that code is incredibly important, as bugs and inefficiencies in even a few lines of code can be very costly. Today, the methods for identifying code quality issues are time-consuming, manual, and error-prone, especially at scale," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "CodeGuru combines Amazon's decades of experience developing and deploying applications at scale with considerable machine learning expertise to give customers a service that improves software quality, delights their customers with better application performance, and eliminates their most expensive lines of code."</p><p>Amazon CodeGuru is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) with availability in additional regions in the coming months.</p><p>Teams at more than 170,000 companies rely on Atlassian products to make teamwork easier, and help them organize, discuss, and complete their work. "At Atlassian, many of our services have hundreds of check-ins per deployment. While code reviews from our development team do a great job of preventing bugs from reaching production, it's not always possible to predict how systems will behave under stress or manage complex data shapes, especially as we have multiple deployments per day," said Zak Islam, Head of Engineering, Tech Teams, Atlassian. "When we detect anomalies in production, we have been able to reduce the investigation time from days to hours and sometimes minutes thanks to Amazon CodeGuru's continuous profiling feature. Our developers now focus more of their energy on delivering differentiated capabilities and less time investigating problems in our production environment."</p><p>EagleDream Technologies is a trusted cloud-native transformation company and APN Premier Consulting Partner for businesses using AWS. "Part of application development is the creation of performant systems as well as the feedback and continuous improvement of existing systems. This starts with a strong architectural foundation but often ends in the details of the application code. When our team at EagleDream is digging into these details there are a variety of tools at our disposal, and using both static and dynamic analysis is helpful," said Dustin Potter, Principal Could Solutions Architect at EagleDream Technologies. "We've found that the runtime analysis offered by the CodeGuru Profiler is one of the simplest and fastest to get running, and generates insights into the application code that are easy to remediate. Using this tool we've been able to quickly hone in on portions of an application that represent bottlenecks that would have otherwise been difficult to spot, then develop changes that can be implemented and tested with a very fast feedback loop. This allows us to continuously deliver and improve our own workloads and the workloads of our customers, making them more performant while saving on cost at the same time."</p><p>DevFactory manages over 600 million lines of code across over a hundred enterprise software products. "A key component of our future roadmap is to turn all our products into cloud-native products that leverage the incredible array of managed services available at AWS. Rebuilding old school, on-prem architectures, and transforming them for the cloud brings a whole set of engineering challenges that range from keeping abreast with all the latest services to adjusting to the paradigm shift that is associated with these architectures," said Rahul Subramaniam, CEO at DevFactory. "CodeGuru is an incredibly valuable tool that helps optimize our products' performance while making sure that we are leveraging these services with all the best practices in place. Without tools like CodeGuru Reviewer, we wouldn't have been able to rewrite entire products like FogBugz to be AWS cloud-native. We are now using CodeGuru Profiler to optimize a number of products including EngineYard's container-based ‘No Ops' platform and well as the next generation of the Jive collaboration platform."</p><p>RENGA, Inc. is a company that operates one of Japan's largest condominium reviews and evaluation sites used by more than 1 million people every month. "Poor quality code adds complexity to the system and can become technical debt at some point. On the other hand, as long as consistent code quality is maintained, scaling the system won't prevent developers from extending features as the code itself is simple," said Kazuma Ohara, CTO at RENGA. "At RENGA, the code review process is important, however, it should not increase workload for reviewers or become a bottleneck in development. Powered by machine learning, Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer helped us automate code reviews and reduced the workload required on reviewers. We could seamlessly integrate Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer into our existing development pipeline. Furthermore, learning the best practices of coding – which we were not aware of – has helped us develop with more confidence."</p><p>​YouCanBook.me is a small, independent, and fully remote team, that loves solving scheduling problems all over the world. "Our use of Amazon CodeGuru Profiler is very simple but extremely valuable," said Sergio Delgado, Engineering Team Lead at YouCanBook.me. "We've optimized our worst performant service to reduce its latency by 15% for the 95th percentile in a typical work day."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200629005826/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

IHS Markit Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Infrastructure Provider

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IHS Markit Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Infrastructure Provider

06/29/2020

2020

Global market intelligence leader accelerates migration to the cloud with AWS, improving scalability and agility to respond to market changes and develop new products and services SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 29, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that IHS Markit Ltd. (NYSE: INFO) has selected AWS as its preferred cloud infrastructure provider and is moving the majority of its data processing infrastructure, corporate platforms, and end user applications and services out of its data centers to AWS to accelerate innovation and improve resiliency. Under the new agreement, the company will migrate hundreds of additional applications over the next three years. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200629005060/en/ A global leader in delivering information, analytics, and solutions to more than 50,000 enterprise and government customers across the transportation, energy and natural resources, chemical and financial services industries, IHS Markit will leverage the breadth and depth of AWS services, including machine learning, analytics, database, containers, serverless, storage, and security to drive innovation and deliver new solutions to its customers. The company is also leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS, which offers organizations a faster, secure path to the cloud with reduced operational complexity, enabling IHS Markit to use the same VMware technologies to manage their on-premises data center environments and their AWS infrastructure. For the last several years, IHS Markit has developed and run several of its products on AWS. By broadening its utilization of AWS's storage, analytics, and machine learning services, IHS Markit will continue to organize and gain new insights from real-time market data to help clients get a more holistic view across markets, reduce risk, and operate more efficiently. AWS's resilient, secure, global infrastructure will give IHS Markit's customers around the world quicker access to critical information where and when they need it. IHS Markit is an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN), providing solutions that are integrated with AWS for the energy and natural resources, financial services, and transportation industries. "IHS Markit helps our customers across a variety of industries – across transportation, financial services, and energy and natural resources – to address strategic and operational challenges. Providing a comprehensive cloud based storage and processing platform across our vast range of data is an important next step in our digital transformation journey," said Yaacov Mutnikas, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Scientist, IHS Markit. "Through the collaboration with AWS, we will be able to analyze global data faster, giving companies an integrated view into the global economy and sectors, and provide the next generation of innovative, customer-focused solutions." "With the rapid increase in the velocity and volume of data delivery requirements, it is important that our infrastructure provides scalability and resilience with a standardized security posture," added Chad Moss, Chief Information Officer at IHS Markit. "Data security, integrity, and confidentiality across different jurisdictions are at the forefront of everything we do, and we will work with AWS to continue to deliver timely insights to clients in every corner of the world." "Across industries and around the globe, leading organizations rely on IHS Markit's analysis and expertise to help them make decisions around improving efficiency, outpacing competitors, and driving growth," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "The breadth and depth of AWS's portfolio, including our machine learning and analytics services, will enable IHS Markit to gain greater insights from data and expand their global reach by serving more clients worldwide. We look forward to helping IHS Markit on their digital transformation journey in the cloud as they innovate new services to further their industry leadership." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. IHS Markit  IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. The company delivers next-generation information, analytics and solutions to customers in business, finance and government, improving their operational efficiency and providing deep insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions. IHS Markit has more than 50,000 business and government customers, including 80 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and the world's leading financial institutions. Headquartered in London, IHS Markit is committed to sustainable, profitable growth. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200629005060/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>Global market intelligence leader accelerates migration to the cloud with AWS, improving scalability and agility to respond to market changes and develop new products and services</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 29, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that IHS Markit Ltd. (NYSE: INFO) has selected AWS as its preferred cloud infrastructure provider and is moving the majority of its data processing infrastructure, corporate platforms, and end user applications and services out of its data centers to AWS to accelerate innovation and improve resiliency. Under the new agreement, the company will migrate hundreds of additional applications over the next three years.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200629005060/en/</p><p>A global leader in delivering information, analytics, and solutions to more than 50,000 enterprise and government customers across the transportation, energy and natural resources, chemical and financial services industries, IHS Markit will leverage the breadth and depth of AWS services, including machine learning, analytics, database, containers, serverless, storage, and security to drive innovation and deliver new solutions to its customers. The company is also leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS, which offers organizations a faster, secure path to the cloud with reduced operational complexity, enabling IHS Markit to use the same VMware technologies to manage their on-premises data center environments and their AWS infrastructure.</p><p>For the last several years, IHS Markit has developed and run several of its products on AWS. By broadening its utilization of AWS's storage, analytics, and machine learning services, IHS Markit will continue to organize and gain new insights from real-time market data to help clients get a more holistic view across markets, reduce risk, and operate more efficiently. AWS's resilient, secure, global infrastructure will give IHS Markit's customers around the world quicker access to critical information where and when they need it.</p><p>IHS Markit is an Advanced Technology Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN), providing solutions that are integrated with AWS for the energy and natural resources, financial services, and transportation industries.</p><p>"IHS Markit helps our customers across a variety of industries – across transportation, financial services, and energy and natural resources – to address strategic and operational challenges. Providing a comprehensive cloud based storage and processing platform across our vast range of data is an important next step in our digital transformation journey," said Yaacov Mutnikas, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Scientist, IHS Markit. "Through the collaboration with AWS, we will be able to analyze global data faster, giving companies an integrated view into the global economy and sectors, and provide the next generation of innovative, customer-focused solutions."</p><p>"With the rapid increase in the velocity and volume of data delivery requirements, it is important that our infrastructure provides scalability and resilience with a standardized security posture," added Chad Moss, Chief Information Officer at IHS Markit. "Data security, integrity, and confidentiality across different jurisdictions are at the forefront of everything we do, and we will work with AWS to continue to deliver timely insights to clients in every corner of the world."</p><p>"Across industries and around the globe, leading organizations rely on IHS Markit's analysis and expertise to help them make decisions around improving efficiency, outpacing competitors, and driving growth," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "The breadth and depth of AWS's portfolio, including our machine learning and analytics services, will enable IHS Markit to gain greater insights from data and expand their global reach by serving more clients worldwide. We look forward to helping IHS Markit on their digital transformation journey in the cloud as they innovate new services to further their industry leadership."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>IHS Markit </p><p>IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. The company delivers next-generation information, analytics and solutions to customers in business, finance and government, improving their operational efficiency and providing deep insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions. IHS Markit has more than 50,000 business and government customers, including 80 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and the world's leading financial institutions. Headquartered in London, IHS Markit is committed to sustainable, profitable growth.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200629005060/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

Amazon Secures Naming Rights to Future Home of Seattle's New NHL Franchise, and Calls It Climate Pledge Arena

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06/25/2020 14:06:00

Amazon Secures Naming Rights to Future Home of Seattle's New NHL Franchise, and Calls It Climate Pledge Arena

06/25/2020

2020

Climate Pledge Arena will serve as a long-lasting and regular reminder of the urgent need for climate action to achieve net zero carbon by 2040 Site expected to be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world, developed in partnership with Amazon, Oak View Group, and NHL Seattle SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 25, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that it has secured the naming rights to the new home of Seattle's NHL team and WNBA's Seattle Storm, and is calling it Climate Pledge Arena rather than the name of the company. In 2019, Amazon and Global Optimism announced The Climate Pledge, which calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement. With significant investment from Amazon and Oak View Group, the venue is expected to be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world and set a new sustainability bar for the sports and events industry. "We've secured naming rights to the historic arena previously known as KeyArena. Instead of naming it after Amazon, we're calling it Climate Pledge Arena as a regular reminder of the importance of fighting climate change," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "We look forward to working together with Oak View Group, a new Climate Pledge signatory, and NHL Seattle to inspire global climate action." "There is no question that the state of our planet is a critical issue for all of us," said Tim Leiweke, CEO, Oak View Group. "We have a responsibility to future generations to try to leave them with a better world. We love that Amazon is using its naming rights for a cause we care deeply about—this partnership is a visionary step for the facilities business and sport and music industries. Our goal is to be the most progressive, responsible, and sustainable venue in the world. It is not just about one arena—it's a platform for us to step up and heal our planet." Highlights of the arena partnership include: First arena in the world targeting net Zero Carbon certification by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), a leading non-profit organization dedicated to advancing sustainable building practices. Arena will have all-electric operations and be powered with 100% renewable electricity, both from on-site solar panels and off-site renewable energy. Events at the arena will be made fully net zero carbon through investments in forestry projects with organizations such as The Nature Conservancy that will sequester any remaining carbon emissions from arena operations. Carbon emissions and sustainability performance of the arena and all events will be measured and publicly disclosed. All operations and events at the arena will be ‘zero waste' with durable and compostable containers. A minimum of 95% of all arena waste will be diverted from landfills on a weight basis. Arena will use reclaimed rainwater in the ice system to create the greenest ice in the NHL. Original 44-million-pound roof from the arena will be reused in construction to significantly reduce the embodied carbon of the building. At least 75% of the arena's food program will be sourced locally on a seasonal basis to support regional farmers and producers, and all viable unused food from events will be donated to local community food programs. NHL Seattle and WNBA Storm tickets will double as free public transit passes to promote use of public transportation for attendees, including on the refurbished Seattle Monorail. Amazon and OVG will form the Climate Pledge Arena Sustainability Advisory Council in partnership with community groups to support local environmental initiatives. "Climate Pledge Arena will set a new sustainability standard for sports and event spaces around the world. I commend the commitments from Amazon and Oak View Group to develop this one-of-a-kind venue and inspire climate action," said Jason F. McLennan, Founder of the International Living Future Institute and CEO of McLennan Design. "The group's innovative approach and sustainability mindset – embodied by naming the arena after The Climate Pledge – will provide a green, world-class event space at Seattle's City Center for the region to enjoy for years to come." "We have always set out to create the best home ice advantage; now we are innovating to create ice from reclaimed rainwater and the greenest ice in the country," said Tod Leiweke, CEO, NHL Seattle. "This is going to be the best arena in the NHL and we're proud that there will be many opportunities for our fans to make a difference nightly. This is truly remarkable and a testament to David Bonderman and our leadership." The 18,100-seat multi-purpose venue located at Seattle Center is expected to host 200 events each year, including NHL Seattle, three-time WNBA world champion Seattle Storm, live music and entertainment from the world's biggest stars, and City of Seattle community events. It is currently undergoing a transformation to construct a brand new arena under the landmark Paul Thiry-designed roof. To learn more about The Climate Pledge and Climate Pledge Arena, visit www.TheClimatePledge.com and www.ClimatePledgeArena.com. For downloadable, high-resolution renderings of the new arena, visit the Climate Pledge Arena section of the Images and Videos page on Amazon's Press Center. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about. About Oak View Group (OVG) Oak View Group (OVG) is a global sports and entertainment company founded by Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff in 2015. OVG is focused on being a positive disruption to business as usual in the sports and live entertainment industry and currently has 8 divisions across 4 global offices (Los Angeles, New York, London, and Philadelphia). OVG is leading the redevelopment and operations of Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center as well as leading arena development projects in Belmont, NY, Austin, TX, and Milan, Italy. OVG Global Partnerships, a division of OVG, is the sales and marketing arm responsible for selling across all OVG Arena Development projects. About Seattle Hockey Partners  Seattle Hockey Partners (NHL Seattle) is responsible for leading the development activities of the newly awarded Seattle National Hockey League franchise, which is set to play its inaugural season in 2021-22. Visit nhlseattle.com/news for the latest news and information from the team including press releases, multimedia content and the latest hires. Follow NHL Seattle on social media to find out the latest news via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Or search using the hashtag #NHLSeattle. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200625005798/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Climate Pledge Arena will serve as a long-lasting and regular reminder of the urgent need for climate action to achieve net zero carbon by 2040</em></p><p><em>Site expected to be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world, developed in partnership with Amazon, Oak View Group, and NHL Seattle</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 25, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that it has secured the naming rights to the new home of Seattle's NHL team and WNBA's Seattle Storm, and is calling it Climate Pledge Arena rather than the name of the company. In 2019, Amazon and Global Optimism announced The Climate Pledge, which calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement. With significant investment from Amazon and Oak View Group, the venue is expected to be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world and set a new sustainability bar for the sports and events industry.</p><p>"We've secured naming rights to the historic arena previously known as KeyArena. Instead of naming it after Amazon, we're calling it Climate Pledge Arena as a regular reminder of the importance of fighting climate change," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "We look forward to working together with Oak View Group, a new Climate Pledge signatory, and NHL Seattle to inspire global climate action."</p><p>"There is no question that the state of our planet is a critical issue for all of us," said Tim Leiweke, CEO, Oak View Group. "We have a responsibility to future generations to try to leave them with a better world. We love that Amazon is using its naming rights for a cause we care deeply about—this partnership is a visionary step for the facilities business and sport and music industries. Our goal is to be the most progressive, responsible, and sustainable venue in the world. It is not just about one arena—it's a platform for us to step up and heal our planet."</p><p>Highlights of the arena partnership include:</p><ul><li>First arena in the world targeting net Zero Carbon certification by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), a leading non-profit organization dedicated to advancing sustainable building practices.</li><li>Arena will have all-electric operations and be powered with 100% renewable electricity, both from on-site solar panels and off-site renewable energy. Events at the arena will be made fully net zero carbon through investments in forestry projects with organizations such as The Nature Conservancy that will sequester any remaining carbon emissions from arena operations.</li><li>Carbon emissions and sustainability performance of the arena and all events will be measured and publicly disclosed.</li><li>All operations and events at the arena will be ‘zero waste' with durable and compostable containers. A minimum of 95% of all arena waste will be diverted from landfills on a weight basis.</li><li>Arena will use reclaimed rainwater in the ice system to create the greenest ice in the NHL.</li><li>Original 44-million-pound roof from the arena will be reused in construction to significantly reduce the embodied carbon of the building.</li><li>At least 75% of the arena's food program will be sourced locally on a seasonal basis to support regional farmers and producers, and all viable unused food from events will be donated to local community food programs.</li><li>NHL Seattle and WNBA Storm tickets will double as free public transit passes to promote use of public transportation for attendees, including on the refurbished Seattle Monorail.</li><li>Amazon and OVG will form the Climate Pledge Arena Sustainability Advisory Council in partnership with community groups to support local environmental initiatives.</li></ul><p>"Climate Pledge Arena will set a new sustainability standard for sports and event spaces around the world. I commend the commitments from Amazon and Oak View Group to develop this one-of-a-kind venue and inspire climate action," said Jason F. McLennan, Founder of the International Living Future Institute and CEO of McLennan Design. "The group's innovative approach and sustainability mindset – embodied by naming the arena after The Climate Pledge – will provide a green, world-class event space at Seattle's City Center for the region to enjoy for years to come."</p><p>"We have always set out to create the best home ice advantage; now we are innovating to create ice from reclaimed rainwater and the greenest ice in the country," said Tod Leiweke, CEO, NHL Seattle. "This is going to be the best arena in the NHL and we're proud that there will be many opportunities for our fans to make a difference nightly. This is truly remarkable and a testament to David Bonderman and our leadership."</p><p>The 18,100-seat multi-purpose venue located at Seattle Center is expected to host 200 events each year, including NHL Seattle, three-time WNBA world champion Seattle Storm, live music and entertainment from the world's biggest stars, and City of Seattle community events. It is currently undergoing a transformation to construct a brand new arena under the landmark Paul Thiry-designed roof. To learn more about The Climate Pledge and Climate Pledge Arena, visit www.TheClimatePledge.com and www.ClimatePledgeArena.com. For downloadable, high-resolution renderings of the new arena, visit the Climate Pledge Arena section of the Images and Videos page on Amazon's Press Center.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about.</p><p>About Oak View Group (OVG)</p><p>Oak View Group (OVG) is a global sports and entertainment company founded by Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff in 2015. OVG is focused on being a positive disruption to business as usual in the sports and live entertainment industry and currently has 8 divisions across 4 global offices (Los Angeles, New York, London, and Philadelphia). OVG is leading the redevelopment and operations of Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center as well as leading arena development projects in Belmont, NY, Austin, TX, and Milan, Italy. OVG Global Partnerships, a division of OVG, is the sales and marketing arm responsible for selling across all OVG Arena Development projects.</p><p>About Seattle Hockey Partners </p><p>Seattle Hockey Partners (NHL Seattle) is responsible for leading the development activities of the newly awarded Seattle National Hockey League franchise, which is set to play its inaugural season in 2021-22. Visit nhlseattle.com/news for the latest news and information from the team including press releases, multimedia content and the latest hires. Follow NHL Seattle on social media to find out the latest news via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Or search using the hashtag #NHLSeattle.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200625005798/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces Amazon Honeycode

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06/24/2020 15:52:00

AWS Announces Amazon Honeycode

06/24/2020

2020

Amazon Honeycode makes it easy to build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required Slack and SmugMug among customers planning to use Amazon Honeycode SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 24, 2020-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service that allows customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required. Customers who need applications to track and manage things like process approvals, event scheduling, customer relationship management, user surveys, to-do lists, and content and inventory tracking no longer need to do so by error-prone methods like emailing spreadsheets or documents, or hiring and waiting for developers to build costly custom applications. With Amazon Honeycode, customers can use a simple visual application builder to create highly interactive web and mobile applications backed by a powerful AWS-built database to perform tasks like tracking data over time and notifying users of changes, routing approvals, and facilitating interactive business processes. Using Amazon Honeycode, customers can create applications that range in complexity from a task-tracking application for a small team to a project management system that manages a complex workflow for multiple teams or departments. Customers can get started creating applications in minutes, build applications with up to 20 users for free, and only pay for the users and storage for larger applications. To get started with Amazon Honeycode, visit http://honeycode.aws. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200624005803/en/ (Photo: Business Wire) Today's customers have a growing need to track data over time, manage workflows involving multiple people, and facilitate complex business processes. For example, customers regularly perform important business functions like managing field agents, performing PO approvals, scheduling weekly events, reporting employee or team activities, tracking task progress, following customer activity, surveying end users, managing content, inventorying resources, and many more of these activities. Many teams try to use simple spreadsheets as a Band-Aid to manage these tasks, but spreadsheets lack true database-like capabilities to sort and filter data, make collaboration with others hard to do, and are difficult to use on mobile devices. Customers try to solve for the static nature of spreadsheets by emailing them back and forth, but all of the emailing just compounds the inefficiency because email is slow, doesn't scale, and introduces versioning and data syncing errors. As a result, people often prefer having custom applications built, but the demand for custom programming often outstrips developer capacity, creating a situation where teams either need to wait for developers to free up or have to hire expensive consultants to build applications. What usually happens instead is that these applications just never get built. The chasm between using spreadsheets and building custom applications creates a situation where customers often experience unnecessary inefficiency, waste, and inaction. What customers want is the ability to create applications using the simplicity and familiarity of a spreadsheet, but with the data management capability of a database, the collaboration and notifications common in business applications, and a truly seamless web and mobile user experience. That's what Amazon Honeycode delivers. Amazon Honeycode relies on the familiar interface of a spreadsheet, but under the hood, offers the power of an AWS-developed database, so customers can easily sort, filter, and link data together to create data-driven, interactive applications. Users can easily create dynamic views and dashboards that are updated in real-time as the underlying data changes – something that is hard to do even with powerful relational databases. Applications built using Amazon Honeycode leverage the full power and scale of AWS, and can easily scale up to 100,000 rows in each workbook, without users having to worry about building, managing, and maintaining the underlying hardware and software. Amazon Honeycode does all of this under the covers by automating the process of building and linking the three tiers of functionality found in most business applications (database, business logic, and user interface), and then deploying fully interactive web and mobile applications to end users so customers can focus on creating great applications without having to worry about writing code or scaling infrastructure. In Amazon Honeycode, customers can get started by selecting a pre-built template, where the data model, business logic, and applications are pre-defined and ready-to-use (e.g. PO approvals, time-off reporting, inventory management, etc.). Or, they can import data into a blank workbook, use the familiar spreadsheet interface to define the data model, and design the application screens with objects like lists, buttons, and input fields. Builders can also add automations to their applications to drive notifications, reminders, approvals, and other actions based on conditions. Once the application is built, customers simply click a button to share it with team members. With Amazon Honeycode, customers can quickly and easily build multi-user, scalable, and collaborative web and mobile applications that allow them to act on the data that would otherwise be locked away in static spreadsheets. "Customers have told us that the need for custom applications far outstrips the capacity of developers to create them," said Larry Augustin, Vice President, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Now with Amazon Honeycode, almost anyone can create powerful custom mobile and web applications without the need to write code." Amazon Honeycode is available today in US West (Oregon) with more regions coming soon. Slack is the leading channel-based messaging platform. "We're excited about the opportunity that Amazon Honeycode creates for teams to build apps to drive and adapt to today's ever-changing business landscape," said Brad Armstrong, VP of Business and Corporate Development, Slack. "We see Amazon Honeycode as a great complement and extension to Slack and are excited about the opportunity to work together to create ways for our joint customers to work more efficiently and to do more with their data than ever before." SmugMug is a paid image sharing, image hosting service, and online video platform on which users can upload photos and videos. "We are excited to see the opportunity that Amazon Honeycode creates for our teams to build applications that help them respond to changing business conditions," said Don MacAskill, CEO & Chief Geek, SmugMug & Flickr. "Based upon how easy it is to create new applications, it should really help our teams, and we can see it really taking off." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200624005803/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon Honeycode makes it easy to build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required</em></p><p><em>Slack and SmugMug among customers planning to use Amazon Honeycode</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 24, 2020-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service that allows customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required. Customers who need applications to track and manage things like process approvals, event scheduling, customer relationship management, user surveys, to-do lists, and content and inventory tracking no longer need to do so by error-prone methods like emailing spreadsheets or documents, or hiring and waiting for developers to build costly custom applications. With Amazon Honeycode, customers can use a simple visual application builder to create highly interactive web and mobile applications backed by a powerful AWS-built database to perform tasks like tracking data over time and notifying users of changes, routing approvals, and facilitating interactive business processes. Using Amazon Honeycode, customers can create applications that range in complexity from a task-tracking application for a small team to a project management system that manages a complex workflow for multiple teams or departments. Customers can get started creating applications in minutes, build applications with up to 20 users for free, and only pay for the users and storage for larger applications. To get started with Amazon Honeycode, visit http://honeycode.aws.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200624005803/en/</p><div><p>(Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Today's customers have a growing need to track data over time, manage workflows involving multiple people, and facilitate complex business processes. For example, customers regularly perform important business functions like managing field agents, performing PO approvals, scheduling weekly events, reporting employee or team activities, tracking task progress, following customer activity, surveying end users, managing content, inventorying resources, and many more of these activities. Many teams try to use simple spreadsheets as a Band-Aid to manage these tasks, but spreadsheets lack true database-like capabilities to sort and filter data, make collaboration with others hard to do, and are difficult to use on mobile devices. Customers try to solve for the static nature of spreadsheets by emailing them back and forth, but all of the emailing just compounds the inefficiency because email is slow, doesn't scale, and introduces versioning and data syncing errors. As a result, people often prefer having custom applications built, but the demand for custom programming often outstrips developer capacity, creating a situation where teams either need to wait for developers to free up or have to hire expensive consultants to build applications. What usually happens instead is that these applications just never get built. The chasm between using spreadsheets and building custom applications creates a situation where customers often experience unnecessary inefficiency, waste, and inaction.</p><p>What customers want is the ability to create applications using the simplicity and familiarity of a spreadsheet, but with the data management capability of a database, the collaboration and notifications common in business applications, and a truly seamless web and mobile user experience. That's what Amazon Honeycode delivers. Amazon Honeycode relies on the familiar interface of a spreadsheet, but under the hood, offers the power of an AWS-developed database, so customers can easily sort, filter, and link data together to create data-driven, interactive applications. Users can easily create dynamic views and dashboards that are updated in real-time as the underlying data changes – something that is hard to do even with powerful relational databases. Applications built using Amazon Honeycode leverage the full power and scale of AWS, and can easily scale up to 100,000 rows in each workbook, without users having to worry about building, managing, and maintaining the underlying hardware and software. Amazon Honeycode does all of this under the covers by automating the process of building and linking the three tiers of functionality found in most business applications (database, business logic, and user interface), and then deploying fully interactive web and mobile applications to end users so customers can focus on creating great applications without having to worry about writing code or scaling infrastructure.</p><p>In Amazon Honeycode, customers can get started by selecting a pre-built template, where the data model, business logic, and applications are pre-defined and ready-to-use (e.g. PO approvals, time-off reporting, inventory management, etc.). Or, they can import data into a blank workbook, use the familiar spreadsheet interface to define the data model, and design the application screens with objects like lists, buttons, and input fields. Builders can also add automations to their applications to drive notifications, reminders, approvals, and other actions based on conditions. Once the application is built, customers simply click a button to share it with team members. With Amazon Honeycode, customers can quickly and easily build multi-user, scalable, and collaborative web and mobile applications that allow them to act on the data that would otherwise be locked away in static spreadsheets.</p><p>"Customers have told us that the need for custom applications far outstrips the capacity of developers to create them," said Larry Augustin, Vice President, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Now with Amazon Honeycode, almost anyone can create powerful custom mobile and web applications without the need to write code."</p><p>Amazon Honeycode is available today in US West (Oregon) with more regions coming soon.</p><p>Slack is the leading channel-based messaging platform. "We're excited about the opportunity that Amazon Honeycode creates for teams to build apps to drive and adapt to today's ever-changing business landscape," said Brad Armstrong, VP of Business and Corporate Development, Slack. "We see Amazon Honeycode as a great complement and extension to Slack and are excited about the opportunity to work together to create ways for our joint customers to work more efficiently and to do more with their data than ever before."</p><p>SmugMug is a paid image sharing, image hosting service, and online video platform on which users can upload photos and videos. "We are excited to see the opportunity that Amazon Honeycode creates for our teams to build applications that help them respond to changing business conditions," said Don MacAskill, CEO &amp; Chief Geek, SmugMug &amp; Flickr. "Based upon how easy it is to create new applications, it should really help our teams, and we can see it really taking off."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200624005803/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces 2020's Best Books of the Year So Far

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Amazon Books editorial team names Abi Daré's debut novel, The Girl with the Louding Voice, as the best book of the year to date The wide-ranging and diverse list spans genres, interests, and geographies to help customers discover their next great read SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 24, 2020-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Today, Amazon announced its choices for 2020's Best Books of the Year So Far, selecting Abi Daré's debut novel, The Girl with the Louding Voice, as the top pick. Throughout the year, the Amazon Books editorial team pores over thousands of pages to determine the Best Books of the Month, Best Books of the Year So Far, and Best Books of the Year, debating new releases across various categories—including literary fiction, mystery and thriller, biography, children's books, and young adult—all to help customers find their next great book. For Best Books of the Year So Far, the Amazon Books editorial team read and selected titles released between January 2020 and June 2020. This year's list includes the first adult novel of a longtime children's bookauthor, a sought-after tattoo artist's memoir on assimilating to American culture after leaving Vietnam, and a gripping true story of a family trying to understand how schizophrenia has affected their lives and future. "Determining the Best Books of the Year So Far took on even greater importance this year as many of us spent months at home and often turned to books to better understand our new normal or seek reprieve in another person's story. In every page and chapter of these profound books, we found opportunities to escape to different worlds, travel through time, and remind ourselves of the things that connect us all," said Sarah Gelman, Editorial Director, Amazon Books. "For the Amazon Books editors, The Girl with the Louding Voice stood out thanks to its unforgettable characters and message of hope and determination when all feels lost. It's impossible to walk away from this book without feeling hopeful." The Girl with the Louding Voice's altruistic protagonist resonated with readers as well, as the most highlighted passage from the Kindle edition of the book spoke to a desire to make an impact on oneself and others: "My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice," I say. "I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping." Upon hearing the news that her debut novel is at the top of the Best Books of the Year So Far list, Abi Daré said: "I am completely mind-blown by this! At a time when the world feels weightless and the days an endless, timeless thing filled with uncertainty, this news brought some laughter and color into my heart. A huge thank you to the brilliant editors at Amazon, who have read countless other fabulous books this season, and have loved and selected The Girl with the Louding Voice for this accolade. Thank you for shining a light on Adunni's inspiring and beautiful story with your very powerful beam! I am beyond thrilled and utterly grateful." Here are the Amazon Books editorial team's top 10 picks of 2020 so far: The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Novel by Abi Daré: In this rousing tale of courage and pluck, a 14-year-old Nigerian girl is sold into servitude by her father when her mother—a proponent of education—passes away. You will root for Adunni as she endeavors to escape her sorry—and often harrowing—lot, and applaud the kind strangers who buoy her efforts and her spirits. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker: Hidden Valley Road is a heartbreaking, expertly told story of an all-American family, the Galvins, six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia while still teenagers. Relying on exhaustive research, Kolker weaves together cultural, medical, and family history to show the ravages of mental illness on the six Galvin boys, on their parents, and, perhaps most movingly, on their other six siblings. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel by Suzanne Collins:The 10th anniversary of the Hunger Games is beginning, and 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow—President Snow, when we met him decades later in The Hunger Games—has an important role to play. Nearly impossible to put down, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is an exciting and thought-provoking novel that goes outside the arena to ask interesting questions about human nature and ambition. Deacon King Kong: A Novel by James McBride: Set in the 1960s, this propulsive and darkly comic neighborhood epic features a cast of characters that are beguiling, boozed-filled, and larger than life. National Book Award-winner McBride weaves a fictional story of one Brooklyn project, but in doing so tells a broader tale of race and religion, getting by and getting out, and how grudges and alliances become embedded in the foundations of our lives. Pretty Things: A Novel by Janelle Brown:When a second-generation grifter, Nina, and her shady boyfriend move to Lake Tahoe, they collide with a woman from Nina's past, heiress Vanessa Liebling. Behind a glittering façade of old money and fast living, a darker story of social climbing, social media, revenge, and betrayal starts to take menacing shape. Writers & Lovers: A Novel by Lily King: Writers & Lovers is about the uncertainty of relationships, and of pursuing the creative life, in a world that values success and stability. Life is not waiting for Casey to fulfill her dream of being a novelist, so she works as a waitress and she dates, and she tries to figure it out as she goes. Love and art require frequent, often imperceptible, leaps of faith—and this book captures that perfectly. Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran: Sigh, Gone is one of the funniest and most profound memoirs of the year so far. Without rose-colored glasses and with a flair for humor, Tran recounts his childhood as a Vietnamese kid growing up in a small Pennsylvania town: the racism, dislocation, and violence that surrounded him, how he fought to fit in, and how he fell in love with literature. The City We Became: A Novel by N. K. Jemisin: Five strangers unexpectedly become the living embodiments of New York City's boroughs and must battle an evil entity that threatens the city. Jemisin infuses this live-wire love letter to the city's diverse denizens with reality-ripping storytelling. Oona Out of Order: A Novel by Margarita Montimore: Oona Lockhart is celebrating New Year's Eve 1982 and the eve of her 19th birthday, but at midnight she passes out and wakes up as a 19-year-old trapped in the body of a 51-year-old. Thus begins Oona living life out of order. Although Oona Out of Order could be a fun romp through the adage "youth is wasted on the young" (and it is), it's also a deeper look at destiny, love, and family. The Mercies: A Novel by Kiran Millwood Hargrave: There isn't much that is not unforgiving when it comes to the far-flung and frigid town of Vardø, Norway, including the sea that surrounds it, which swallows the majority of its male population in an epic storm while they're fishing. Accusations of witchcraft quickly infect this grieving but resourceful community, threatening what hard-won normalcy they've regained. The Mercies is infuriating, baleful, but full of stubborn hope. The Girl with the Louding Voice joins the Amazon Book editors' past Best Book of the Year So Far selections, including Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls, Tara Westover's Educated, and Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. To view the complete list of the Best Books of the Year So Far spanning literary fiction, cookbooks, children's books and more, visit www.amazon.com/bestbookssofar. For more coverage of the books featured on the Best Books of the Year So Far list, as well as insightful reviews on new books, author interviews, and hand-curated roundups in popular categories, visit the Amazon Book Review at www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview, and subscribe to the Amazon Book Review Podcast on Apple or TuneIn. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200624005283/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com

<p><em>Amazon Books editorial team names Abi Daré's debut novel, </em>The Girl with the Louding Voice<em>, as the best book of the year to date</em></p><p><em>The wide-ranging and diverse list spans genres, interests, and geographies to help customers discover their next great read</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 24, 2020-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Today, Amazon announced its choices for 2020's Best Books of the Year So Far, selecting Abi Daré's debut novel, <em>The Girl with the Louding Voice, </em>as the top pick.</p><p>Throughout the year, the Amazon Books editorial team pores over thousands of pages to determine the Best Books of the Month, Best Books of the Year So Far, and Best Books of the Year, debating new releases across various categories—including literary fiction, mystery and thriller, biography, children's books, and young adult—all to help customers find their next great book. For Best Books of the Year So Far, the Amazon Books editorial team read and selected titles released between January 2020 and June 2020. This year's list includes the first adult novel of a longtime children's bookauthor, a sought-after tattoo artist's memoir on assimilating to American culture after leaving Vietnam, and a gripping true story of a family trying to understand how schizophrenia has affected their lives and future.</p><p>"Determining the Best Books of the Year So Far took on even greater importance this year as many of us spent months at home and often turned to books to better understand our new normal or seek reprieve in another person's story. In every page and chapter of these profound books, we found opportunities to escape to different worlds, travel through time, and remind ourselves of the things that connect us all," said Sarah Gelman, Editorial Director, Amazon Books. "For the Amazon Books editors, <em>The Girl with the Louding Voice</em> stood out thanks to its unforgettable characters and message of hope and determination when all feels lost. It's impossible to walk away from this book without feeling hopeful."</p><p><em>The Girl with the Louding Voice</em>'s altruistic protagonist resonated with readers as well, as the most highlighted passage from the Kindle edition of the book spoke to a desire to make an impact on oneself and others: "<em>My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice," I say. "I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping."</em></p><p>Upon hearing the news that her debut novel is at the top of the Best Books of the Year So Far list, Abi Daré said: "I am completely mind-blown by this! At a time when the world feels weightless and the days an endless, timeless thing filled with uncertainty, this news brought some laughter and color into my heart. A huge thank you to the brilliant editors at Amazon, who have read countless other fabulous books this season, and have loved and selected <em>The Girl with the Louding Voice</em> for this accolade. Thank you for shining a light on Adunni's inspiring and beautiful story with your very powerful beam! I am beyond thrilled and utterly grateful."</p><p>Here are the Amazon Books editorial team's top 10 picks of 2020 so far:</p><ol><li><em>The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Novel </em>by Abi Daré: In this rousing tale of courage and pluck, a 14-year-old Nigerian girl is sold into servitude by her father when her mother<em>—</em>a proponent of education<em>—</em>passes away. You will root for Adunni as she endeavors to escape her sorry<em>—</em>and often harrowing<em>—</em>lot, and applaud the kind strangers who buoy her efforts and her spirits.</li><li><em>Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family </em>by Robert Kolker: <em>Hidden Valley Road</em> is a heartbreaking, expertly told story of an all-American family, the Galvins, six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia while still teenagers. Relying on exhaustive research, Kolker weaves together cultural, medical, and family history to show the ravages of mental illness on the six Galvin boys, on their parents, and, perhaps most movingly, on their other six siblings.</li><li><em>The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel </em>by Suzanne Collins:The 10th anniversary of the Hunger Games is beginning, and 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow—President Snow, when we met him decades later in <em>The Hunger Games—</em>has an important role to play. Nearly impossible to put down, <em>The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes</em> is an exciting and thought-provoking novel that goes outside the arena to ask interesting questions about human nature and ambition.</li><li><em>Deacon King Kong: A Novel</em> by James McBride: Set in the 1960s, this propulsive and darkly comic neighborhood epic features a cast of characters that are beguiling, boozed-filled, and larger than life. National Book Award-winner McBride weaves a fictional story of one Brooklyn project, but in doing so tells a broader tale of race and religion, getting by and getting out, and how grudges and alliances become embedded in the foundations of our lives.</li><li><em>Pretty Things: A Novel by Janelle Brown</em>:When a second-generation grifter, Nina, and her shady boyfriend move to Lake Tahoe, they collide with a woman from Nina's past, heiress Vanessa Liebling. Behind a glittering façade of old money and fast living, a darker story of social climbing, social media, revenge, and betrayal starts to take menacing shape.</li><li><em>Writers &amp; Lovers: A Novel by Lily King</em>:<em> Writers &amp; Lovers</em> is about the uncertainty of relationships, and of pursuing the creative life, in a world that values success and stability. Life is not waiting for Casey to fulfill her dream of being a novelist, so she works as a waitress and she dates, and she tries to figure it out as she goes. Love and art require frequent, often imperceptible, leaps of faith—and this book captures that perfectly.</li><li><em>Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by </em>Phuc Tran: <em>Sigh, Gone</em> is one of the funniest and most profound memoirs of the year so far. Without rose-colored glasses and with a flair for humor, Tran recounts his childhood as a Vietnamese kid growing up in a small Pennsylvania town: the racism, dislocation, and violence that surrounded him, how he fought to fit in, and how he fell in love with literature.</li><li><em>The City We Became: A Novel </em>by N. K. Jemisin: Five strangers unexpectedly become the living embodiments of New York City's boroughs and must battle an evil entity that threatens the city. Jemisin infuses this live-wire love letter to the city's diverse denizens with reality-ripping storytelling.</li><li><em>Oona Out of Order: A Novel</em> by Margarita Montimore: Oona Lockhart is celebrating New Year's Eve 1982 and the eve of her 19th birthday, but at midnight she passes out and wakes up as a 19-year-old trapped in the body of a 51-year-old. Thus begins Oona living life out of order. Although <em>Oona Out of Order</em> could be a fun romp through the adage "youth is wasted on the young" (and it is), it's also a deeper look at destiny, love, and family.</li><li><em>The Mercies: A Novel</em> by Kiran Millwood Hargrave: There isn't much that is not unforgiving when it comes to the far-flung and frigid town of Vardø, Norway, including the sea that surrounds it, which swallows the majority of its male population in an epic storm while they're fishing. Accusations of witchcraft quickly infect this grieving but resourceful community, threatening what hard-won normalcy they've regained. <em>The Mercies</em> is infuriating, baleful, but full of stubborn hope.</li></ol><p><em>The Girl with the Louding Voice</em> joins the Amazon Book editors' past Best Book of the Year So Far selections, including Elizabeth Gilbert's <em>City of Girls</em>, Tara Westover's<em> Educated, </em>and Arundhati Roy's<em> The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.</em></p><p>To view the complete list of the Best Books of the Year So Far spanning literary fiction, cookbooks, children's books and more, visit www.amazon.com/bestbookssofar.</p><p>For more coverage of the books featured on the Best Books of the Year So Far list, as well as insightful reviews on new books, author interviews, and hand-curated roundups in popular categories, visit the Amazon Book Review at www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview, and subscribe to the Amazon Book Review Podcast on Apple or TuneIn.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200624005283/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com</p>

Amazon Establishes Counterfeit Crimes Unit to Bring Counterfeiters to Justice

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Amazon Establishes Counterfeit Crimes Unit to Bring Counterfeiters to Justice

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New, global team is dedicated to investigating, finding, and launching legal action and criminal referrals against counterfeiters SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 24, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced it has established a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit, dedicated to bringing counterfeiters that violate the law and Amazon's policies by listing counterfeit products in its store to justice. Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit is a global, multi-disciplinary team composed of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators, and data analysts, and will join Amazon's extensive work to drive counterfeit to zero. Amazon's first objective is to prevent a counterfeit from ever being listed in its store, and its comprehensive proactive anti-counterfeit programs have ensured that 99.9% of all Amazon products viewed by customers did not have a valid counterfeit complaint. In 2019, Amazon invested over $500 million and had more than 8,000 employees fighting fraud, including counterfeit. Amazon's efforts have blocked over 6 billion suspected bad listings in 2019 and blocked over 2.5 million suspected bad actor accounts before they were able to make a single product available for sale. Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit will investigate cases where a bad actor has attempted to evade Amazon's systems and listed a counterfeit in violation of Amazon's policies. The Counterfeit Crimes Unit will mine Amazon's data, cull information from external resources such as payment service providers and open source intelligence, and leverage on-the-ground assets to connect the dots between targets. The Counterfeit Crimes Unit enables Amazon to more effectively pursue civil litigation against bad actors, work with brands in joint or independent investigations, and aid law enforcement officials worldwide in criminal actions against counterfeiters. "Every counterfeiter is on notice that they will be held accountable to the maximum extent possible under the law, regardless of where they attempt to sell their counterfeits or where they're located," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Customer Trust and Partner Support, Amazon. "We are working hard to disrupt and dismantle these criminal networks, and we applaud the law enforcement authorities who are already part of this fight. We urge governments to give these authorities the investigative tools, funding, and resources they need to bring criminal counterfeiters to justice because criminal enforcement – through prosecution and other disruption measures such as freezing assets – is one of the most effective ways to stop them." The new unit builds on Amazon's established history of collaboration with brands and law enforcement to hold counterfeiters accountable through financial penalties, civil litigation, and criminal prosecution. Amazon actively engages with authorities like the National Intellectual Property Rights Center (US), Europol (EU), and relevant enforcement authorities in China and around the world. In May, Amazon identified counterfeiters based in Canada, China, Dominican Republic, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States and referred each to relevant national authorities. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200624005161/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New, global team is dedicated to investigating, finding, and launching legal action and criminal referrals against counterfeiters</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 24, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced it has established a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit, dedicated to bringing counterfeiters that violate the law and Amazon's policies by listing counterfeit products in its store to justice. Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit is a global, multi-disciplinary team composed of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators, and data analysts, and will join Amazon's extensive work to drive counterfeit to zero.</p><p>Amazon's first objective is to prevent a counterfeit from ever being listed in its store, and its comprehensive proactive anti-counterfeit programs have ensured that 99.9% of all Amazon products viewed by customers did not have a valid counterfeit complaint. In 2019, Amazon invested over $500 million and had more than 8,000 employees fighting fraud, including counterfeit. Amazon's efforts have blocked over 6 billion suspected bad listings in 2019 and blocked over 2.5 million suspected bad actor accounts before they were able to make a single product available for sale.</p><p>Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit will investigate cases where a bad actor has attempted to evade Amazon's systems and listed a counterfeit in violation of Amazon's policies. The Counterfeit Crimes Unit will mine Amazon's data, cull information from external resources such as payment service providers and open source intelligence, and leverage on-the-ground assets to connect the dots between targets. The Counterfeit Crimes Unit enables Amazon to more effectively pursue civil litigation against bad actors, work with brands in joint or independent investigations, and aid law enforcement officials worldwide in criminal actions against counterfeiters.</p><p>"Every counterfeiter is on notice that they will be held accountable to the maximum extent possible under the law, regardless of where they attempt to sell their counterfeits or where they're located," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Customer Trust and Partner Support, Amazon. "We are working hard to disrupt and dismantle these criminal networks, and we applaud the law enforcement authorities who are already part of this fight. We urge governments to give these authorities the investigative tools, funding, and resources they need to bring criminal counterfeiters to justice because criminal enforcement – through prosecution and other disruption measures such as freezing assets – is one of the most effective ways to stop them."</p><p>The new unit builds on Amazon's established history of collaboration with brands and law enforcement to hold counterfeiters accountable through financial penalties, civil litigation, and criminal prosecution. Amazon actively engages with authorities like the National Intellectual Property Rights Center (US), Europol (EU), and relevant enforcement authorities in China and around the world. In May, Amazon identified counterfeiters based in Canada, China, Dominican Republic, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States and referred each to relevant national authorities.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200624005161/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Funding Computer Science Education For 132 Elementary Schools in Prince George's County Public Schools, Benefitting More Than 49,000 Students in Need

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Amazon Funding Computer Science Education For 132 Elementary Schools in Prince George's County Public Schools, Benefitting More Than 49,000 Students in Need

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Funding from Amazon Future Engineer delivers teacher professional development and curriculum from BootUp – a nonprofit specializing in elementary school education, focusing on computer science concepts, practices, and standards for teachers and students Amazon Future Engineer program aims to bring high-quality computer science access to students from underserved and underrepresented communities across the country from childhood to career UPPER MARLBORO, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 23, 2020-- Amazon and Prince George's County Public Schools today announced that Amazon is funding computer science education and teacher professional development for 132 elementary schools in the district, impacting more than 49,000 students from underserved and underrepresented communities. Amazon is working with BootUp, a nonprofit professional development provider specializing in elementary school education, to bring computer science to each school as part of its Amazon Future Engineer program. Due to the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming school year, BootUp has modified its professional development to work in a virtual setting. In addition to Prince George's County Public Schools, Amazon Future Engineer is funding computer science education for nearly 200,000 elementary school students, at more than 400 schools across the country. Providing high-quality computer science education for elementary school students during their school day is a critical piece of Amazon's "childhood to career" approach because it helps bridge equity skill gaps at an age when students are just beginning to formulate ideas about their futures. "We are proud to once again partner with Amazon to increase access to STEM education across our district," said Dr. Monica Goldson, Chief Executive Officer for Prince George's County Public Schools. "This type of partnership allows us to personalize the educational experience to meet the unique needs of our students. As we continue to shift to online learning, this opportunity will drive innovation and inspire our students to become trailblazers for the future." Seniors at Prince George's County Public Schools previously participated in the Amazon Future Engineer high school program and were among the first to graduate. Since then, nearly all students who completed the program plan to continue their education and study computer science, mechanical engineering, programming, interactive media design, and cybersecurity to name a few. "Amazon Future Engineer will be a much needed and welcomed addition for the students in our County schools," said Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks. "When this pandemic hit our community in March, closing our schools, my concern was and remains the achievement gap that can widen without intervention. This STEM and computer science education will undoubtedly keep our young people on track to continue their education virtually." "We've been so impressed with the stories we hear of elementary school teachers who are going above and beyond to keep their young students engaged, nurtured, and smiling, especially during these difficult times," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "As virtual classrooms become more common, we are confident that a focus on younger students in need will be an important and timely asset for teachers as they prepare all of their students for a bright future." "This opportunity will close equity gaps by enabling professional computer science learning for students in under-served communities throughout the nation," said Clark Merkley, BootUp's Executive Director. "It's truly one of the first national sponsorships focused on implementing sustainable, district-wide technology initiatives. We're extremely proud to be a part of something that will have a measurable, positive impact for decades to come." Amazon's commitment to Prince George's County Public Schools is part of its $50 million investment to increase access to computer science/STEM education across the country, primarily through Amazon Future Engineer. In addition, Amazon has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education. Already in Maryland, there are more than 40 high schools participating in the Amazon Future Engineer program, and one student who has received a $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and guaranteed Amazon internship in the class of 2020. Amazon Future Engineer is still accepting applications for elementary school computer science education sponsorships with BootUp – US school districts can apply here. In addition, right now, Amazon Future Engineer is supporting students of all ages amid the COVID-19 pandemic with free, online curriculum. About Amazon Future Engineer Amazon is committed to bringing more resources to children and young adults to help them build their best future. Amazon's primary computer science access program, Amazon Future Engineer, is a four-part childhood-to-career program intended to inspire, educate, and prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities to try computer science. Each year, Amazon Future Engineer aims to inspire hundreds of thousands of young people to explore computer science; awards dozens of schools Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grants; provides over 100,000 young people in over 2,000 high schools access to Intro or AP Computer Science courses; awards 100 students with four-year $10,000 scholarships, as well as offers guaranteed and paid Amazon internships to gain work experience; and forms unique partnerships with trusted institutions to bring new coding experiences to students. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About BootUp Professional Development BootUp PD is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit specializing in district-wide elementary computer science initiatives that focus on creativity and problem-solving. Since 2015, BootUp has worked with almost 300 elementary schools in ten states, directly impacting over 150,000 students. BootUp prepares teachers to facilitate open-ended coding projects that are project-based and personally meaningful in the free platforms Scratch and ScratchJr. Students are empowered with creative and interactive curricula that allow them to explore their personal interests through coding with design, music, animation, games, or stories. APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED AT: www.afebootup.smapply.org. About PGCPS Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS), the nation's 20th largest school district, has 206 schools and centers, more than 136,500 students and 22,000 employees. Under the leadership of Dr. Monica Goldson, the school system serves a diverse student population from urban, suburban and rural communities located in the Washington, DC suburbs. PGCPS is nationally recognized for college and career-readiness programs that provide students with unique learning opportunities, including dual enrollment and language immersion. 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<p><em>Funding from Amazon Future Engineer delivers teacher professional development and curriculum from BootUp – a nonprofit specializing in elementary school education, focusing on computer science concepts, practices, and standards for teachers and students</em></p><p><em>Amazon Future Engineer</em><em> program aims to bring high-quality computer science access to students from underserved and underrepresented communities across the country from childhood to career</em></p><p>UPPER MARLBORO, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 23, 2020-- Amazon and Prince George's County Public Schools today announced that Amazon is funding computer science education and teacher professional development for 132 elementary schools in the district, impacting more than 49,000 students from underserved and underrepresented communities. Amazon is working with BootUp, a nonprofit professional development provider specializing in elementary school education, to bring computer science to each school as part of its Amazon Future Engineer program. Due to the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming school year, BootUp has modified its professional development to work in a virtual setting.</p><p>In addition to Prince George's County Public Schools, Amazon Future Engineer is funding computer science education for nearly 200,000 elementary school students, at more than 400 schools across the country. Providing high-quality computer science education for elementary school students during their school day is a critical piece of Amazon's "childhood to career" approach because it helps bridge equity skill gaps at an age when students are just beginning to formulate ideas about their futures.</p><p>"We are proud to once again partner with Amazon to increase access to STEM education across our district," said Dr. Monica Goldson, Chief Executive Officer for Prince George's County Public Schools. "This type of partnership allows us to personalize the educational experience to meet the unique needs of our students. As we continue to shift to online learning, this opportunity will drive innovation and inspire our students to become trailblazers for the future."</p><p>Seniors at Prince George's County Public Schools previously participated in the Amazon Future Engineer high school program and were among the first to graduate. Since then, nearly all students who completed the program plan to continue their education and study computer science, mechanical engineering, programming, interactive media design, and cybersecurity to name a few.</p><p>"Amazon Future Engineer will be a much needed and welcomed addition for the students in our County schools," said Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks. "When this pandemic hit our community in March, closing our schools, my concern was and remains the achievement gap that can widen without intervention. This STEM and computer science education will undoubtedly keep our young people on track to continue their education virtually."</p><p>"We've been so impressed with the stories we hear of elementary school teachers who are going above and beyond to keep their young students engaged, nurtured, and smiling, especially during these difficult times," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "As virtual classrooms become more common, we are confident that a focus on younger students in need will be an important and timely asset for teachers as they prepare all of their students for a bright future."</p><p>"This opportunity will close equity gaps by enabling professional computer science learning for students in under-served communities throughout the nation," said Clark Merkley, BootUp's Executive Director. "It's truly one of the first national sponsorships focused on implementing sustainable, district-wide technology initiatives. We're extremely proud to be a part of something that will have a measurable, positive impact for decades to come."</p><p>Amazon's commitment to Prince George's County Public Schools is part of its $50 million investment to increase access to computer science/STEM education across the country, primarily through Amazon Future Engineer. In addition, Amazon has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education. Already in Maryland, there are more than 40 high schools participating in the Amazon Future Engineer program, and one student who has received a $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and guaranteed Amazon internship in the class of 2020.</p><p>Amazon Future Engineer is still accepting applications for elementary school computer science education sponsorships with BootUp – US school districts can apply here. In addition, right now, Amazon Future Engineer is supporting students of all ages amid the COVID-19 pandemic with free, online curriculum.</p><p>About Amazon Future Engineer</p><p>Amazon is committed to bringing more resources to children and young adults to help them build their best future. Amazon's primary computer science access program, Amazon Future Engineer, is a four-part childhood-to-career program intended to inspire, educate, and prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities to try computer science. Each year, Amazon Future Engineer aims to inspire hundreds of thousands of young people to explore computer science; awards dozens of schools Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grants; provides over 100,000 young people in over 2,000 high schools access to Intro or AP Computer Science courses; awards 100 students with four-year $10,000 scholarships, as well as offers guaranteed and paid Amazon internships to gain work experience; and forms unique partnerships with trusted institutions to bring new coding experiences to students.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About BootUp Professional Development</p><p>BootUp PD is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit specializing in district-wide elementary computer science initiatives that focus on creativity and problem-solving. Since 2015, BootUp has worked with almost 300 elementary schools in ten states, directly impacting over 150,000 students. BootUp prepares teachers to facilitate open-ended coding projects that are project-based and personally meaningful in the free platforms Scratch and ScratchJr. Students are empowered with creative and interactive curricula that allow them to explore their personal interests through coding with design, music, animation, games, or stories. APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED AT: www.afebootup.smapply.org.</p><p>About PGCPS</p><p>Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS), the nation's 20th largest school district, has 206 schools and centers, more than 136,500 students and 22,000 employees. Under the leadership of Dr. Monica Goldson, the school system serves a diverse student population from urban, suburban and rural communities located in the Washington, DC suburbs. PGCPS is nationally recognized for college and career-readiness programs that provide students with unique learning opportunities, including dual enrollment and language immersion.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200623005218/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Announces $2 Billion Climate Pledge Fund to Invest in Companies Building Products, Services, and Technologies to Decarbonize the Economy and Protect the Planet

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Amazon Announces $2 Billion Climate Pledge Fund to Invest in Companies Building Products, Services, and Technologies to Decarbonize the Economy and Protect the Planet

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 23, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced The Climate Pledge Fund to support the development of sustainable technologies and services that will enable Amazon and other companies to meet The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040. This dedicated venture investment program—with an initial $2 billion in funding—will back visionary companies whose products and services will facilitate the transition to a zero carbon economy. Last year, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement ten years early and be net zero carbon by 2040. Verizon, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), and Infosys recently joined the pledge—sending an important signal to the market that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. Amazon's new Climate Pledge Fund will accelerate investment in innovations for the zero carbon economy of the future. "The Climate Pledge Fund will look to invest in the visionary entrepreneurs and innovators who are building products and services to help companies reduce their carbon impact and operate more sustainably," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Companies from around the world of all sizes and stages will be considered, from pre-product startups to well-established enterprises. Each prospective investment will be judged on its potential to accelerate the path to zero carbon and help protect the planet for future generations." The Climate Pledge Fund will invest in companies in multiple industries, including transportation and logistics, energy generation, storage and utilization, manufacturing and materials, circular economy, and food and agriculture. Over time, Amazon will also look for opportunities to involve other Climate Pledge signatories in this venture investment program. "Amazon has demonstrated its leadership in adopting low carbon technologies at scale," said Rivian CEO R.J. Scaringe. "Their investment in Rivian and subsequent order of 100,000 electric delivery vans will substantially shrink the carbon footprint of Amazon's package delivery network. We're excited about a future of decarbonized delivery services." Amazon today released its 2019 sustainability report and an update on the company's sustainability goals and programs, including: Amazon announced it's on a path to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of schedule. As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon had previously committed to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030. To date, Amazon has announced 91 renewable energy projects around the globe. Together, these projects totaling over 2,900 MW of capacity will deliver more than 7.6 million MWh of renewable energy annually, enough to power 680,000 U.S. homes. Amazon made two investments from its $100 million Right Now Climate Fund in nature-based solutions and reforestation projects around the world, including a reforestation project in the Appalachians in the U.S. and an urban greening initiative in Berlin, Germany. Since 2015, Amazon has reduced the weight of outbound packaging by 33% and eliminated more than 880,000 tons of packaging material, the equivalent of 1.5 billion shipping boxes. To learn more about Amazon's sustainability goals and programs, visit https://blog.aboutamazon.com/sustainability/staying-the-course-on-our-commitment-to-sustainability About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200623005360/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 23, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced The Climate Pledge Fund to support the development of sustainable technologies and services that will enable Amazon and other companies to meet The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040. This dedicated venture investment program—with an initial $2 billion in funding—will back visionary companies whose products and services will facilitate the transition to a zero carbon economy.</p><p>Last year, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement ten years early and be net zero carbon by 2040. Verizon, Reckitt Benckiser (RB), and Infosys recently joined the pledge—sending an important signal to the market that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. Amazon's new Climate Pledge Fund will accelerate investment in innovations for the zero carbon economy of the future.</p><p>"The Climate Pledge Fund will look to invest in the visionary entrepreneurs and innovators who are building products and services to help companies reduce their carbon impact and operate more sustainably," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Companies from around the world of all sizes and stages will be considered, from pre-product startups to well-established enterprises. Each prospective investment will be judged on its potential to accelerate the path to zero carbon and help protect the planet for future generations."</p><p>The Climate Pledge Fund will invest in companies in multiple industries, including transportation and logistics, energy generation, storage and utilization, manufacturing and materials, circular economy, and food and agriculture. Over time, Amazon will also look for opportunities to involve other Climate Pledge signatories in this venture investment program.</p><p>"Amazon has demonstrated its leadership in adopting low carbon technologies at scale," said Rivian CEO R.J. Scaringe. "Their investment in Rivian and subsequent order of 100,000 electric delivery vans will substantially shrink the carbon footprint of Amazon's package delivery network. We're excited about a future of decarbonized delivery services."</p><p>Amazon today released its 2019 sustainability report and an update on the company's sustainability goals and programs, including:</p><ul><li>Amazon announced it's on a path to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of schedule. As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon had previously committed to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030.</li><li>To date, Amazon has announced 91 renewable energy projects around the globe. Together, these projects totaling over 2,900 MW of capacity will deliver more than 7.6 million MWh of renewable energy annually, enough to power 680,000 U.S. homes.</li><li>Amazon made two investments from its $100 million Right Now Climate Fund in nature-based solutions and reforestation projects around the world, including a reforestation project in the Appalachians in the U.S. and an urban greening initiative in Berlin, Germany.</li><li>Since 2015, Amazon has reduced the weight of outbound packaging by 33% and eliminated more than 880,000 tons of packaging material, the equivalent of 1.5 billion shipping boxes.</li></ul><p>To learn more about Amazon's sustainability goals and programs, visit https://blog.aboutamazon.com/sustainability/staying-the-course-on-our-commitment-to-sustainability</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200623005360/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Funding Computer Science Education For All 154 Elementary Schools in Dallas Independent School District, Benefitting More Than 78,000 Students in Need

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Amazon Funding Computer Science Education For All 154 Elementary Schools in Dallas Independent School District, Benefitting More Than 78,000 Students in Need

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Funding from Amazon Future Engineer delivers teacher professional development and curriculum from BootUp – a nonprofit specializing in elementary school education, focusing on computer science concepts, practices, and standards for teachers and students Amazon Future Engineer program aims to bring high-quality computer science access to students from underserved and underrepresented communities across the country from childhood to career DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 23, 2020-- Amazon and Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD) today announced that Amazon is funding computer science education and teacher professional development for every elementary school – 154 schools – in the school district, impacting more than 78,000 students. Amazon is working with BootUp, a nonprofit professional development provider specializing in elementary school education, to bring computer science to each school as part of its Amazon Future Engineer program. Due to the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming school year, BootUp has modified its professional development to work in a virtual setting. "Programs like BootUp help further stimulate a student's appetite in STEM while challenging their mind to engage in computer science concepts," said Oswaldo Alvarenga, assistant superintendent of STEM for Dallas ISD. "We are grateful for our Amazon partner's vision to offer these resources to Dallas ISD students, which helps lay the groundwork to a career in STEM." In addition to helping support Dallas ISD, Amazon Future Engineer is funding computer science education for nearly 200,000 elementary school students, at more than 400 schools across the country. Amazon Future Engineer is already funding Introductory and AP computer science courses for more than 180 high schools in the state of Texas. High-quality computer science education for elementary school students during their school day is a critical piece of Amazon's "childhood to career" approach because it helps bridge equity skill gaps at an age when students are just beginning to formulate ideas about their futures. "I am thrilled that Dallas ISD is now part of the Amazon Future Engineer program," said Mayor Eric Johnson. "Professional development and early childhood education are top priorities of mine, and both are critical to our city's future. Early exposure to computer science skills will prepare our city's students for a changing world by teaching them to solve problems and think critically." "We've been so impressed with the stories we hear of elementary school teachers who are going above and beyond to keep their young students engaged, nurtured, and smiling, especially during these difficult times," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "As virtual classrooms become more common, we are confident that a focus on younger students in need will be an important and timely asset for teachers as they prepare all of their students for a bright future." "The Dallas Independent School District is one of the largest in the country and presently in their third year of a district-wide 'Computer Science for Elementary' initiative," said Clark Merkley, Executive Director of BootUp. "The Amazon Future Engineer sponsorship is in perfect alignment with their goals of providing underserved and underrepresented students with a solid technology foundation, and growing their pipeline of Computer Science students into the District's high school curriculum." Amazon's commitment to Dallas ISD is part of its $50 million investment to increase access to computer science/STEM education across the country, primarily through its childhood to career program, Amazon Future Engineer. In addition, Amazon has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education. Already in Texas, there are more than 180 high schools participating in the Amazon Future Engineer program, and three students who have received a $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and guaranteed Amazon internship. Amazon Future Engineer is still accepting applications for elementary school computer science education sponsorships with BootUp – US school districts can apply here. Due to the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming school year, BootUp has modified its professional development work in a virtual setting without compromising the ability to model and discuss the same high-quality computer science concepts and practices. In addition, right now, Amazon Future Engineer is supporting students of all ages amid the COVID-19 pandemic with free, online curriculum. About Amazon Future Engineer Amazon is committed to bringing more resources to children and young adults to help them build their best future. Amazon's primary computer science access program, Amazon Future Engineer, is a four-part childhood-to-career program intended to inspire, educate, and prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities to try computer science. Each year, Amazon Future Engineer aims to inspire hundreds of thousands of young people to explore computer science; awards dozens of schools Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grants; provides over 100,000 young people in over 2,000 high schools access to Intro or AP Computer Science courses; awards 100 students with four-year $10,000 scholarships, as well as offers guaranteed and paid Amazon internships to gain work experience; and forms unique partnerships with trusted institutions to bring new coding experiences to students. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About BootUp Professional Development BootUp PD is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit specializing in district-wide elementary computer science initiatives that focus on creativity and problem-solving. Since 2015, BootUp has worked with almost 300 elementary schools in ten states, directly impacting over 150,000 students. BootUp prepares teachers to facilitate open-ended coding projects that are project-based and personally meaningful in the free platforms Scratch and ScratchJr. Students are empowered with creative and interactive curricula that allow them to explore their personal interests through coding with design, music, animation, games, or stories. APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED AT: www.afebootup.smapply.org. About Dallas Independent School District The Dallas Independent School District is continually preparing its more than 153,000 students for college or a career. The district offers a competitive mix of innovative programs, choice programs and instructional initiatives that support the increased academic achievement and the social and emotional development of its students. To learn more, visit www.dallasisd.org. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200623005219/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Funding from Amazon Future Engineer delivers teacher professional development and curriculum from BootUp – a nonprofit specializing in elementary school education, focusing on computer science concepts, practices, and standards for teachers and students</em></p><p><em>Amazon Future Engineer</em> <em>program aims to bring high-quality computer science access to students from underserved and underrepresented communities across the country from childhood to career</em></p><p>DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 23, 2020-- Amazon and Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD) today announced that Amazon is funding computer science education and teacher professional development for every elementary school – 154 schools – in the school district, impacting more than 78,000 students. Amazon is working with BootUp, a nonprofit professional development provider specializing in elementary school education, to bring computer science to each school as part of its Amazon Future Engineer program. Due to the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming school year, BootUp has modified its professional development to work in a virtual setting.</p><p>"Programs like BootUp help further stimulate a student's appetite in STEM while challenging their mind to engage in computer science concepts," said Oswaldo Alvarenga, assistant superintendent of STEM for Dallas ISD. "We are grateful for our Amazon partner's vision to offer these resources to Dallas ISD students, which helps lay the groundwork to a career in STEM."</p><p>In addition to helping support Dallas ISD, Amazon Future Engineer is funding computer science education for nearly 200,000 elementary school students, at more than 400 schools across the country. Amazon Future Engineer is already funding Introductory and AP computer science courses for more than 180 high schools in the state of Texas. High-quality computer science education for elementary school students during their school day is a critical piece of Amazon's "childhood to career" approach because it helps bridge equity skill gaps at an age when students are just beginning to formulate ideas about their futures.</p><p>"I am thrilled that Dallas ISD is now part of the Amazon Future Engineer program," said Mayor Eric Johnson. "Professional development and early childhood education are top priorities of mine, and both are critical to our city's future. Early exposure to computer science skills will prepare our city's students for a changing world by teaching them to solve problems and think critically."</p><p>"We've been so impressed with the stories we hear of elementary school teachers who are going above and beyond to keep their young students engaged, nurtured, and smiling, especially during these difficult times," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "As virtual classrooms become more common, we are confident that a focus on younger students in need will be an important and timely asset for teachers as they prepare all of their students for a bright future."</p><p>"The Dallas Independent School District is one of the largest in the country and presently in their third year of a district-wide 'Computer Science for Elementary' initiative," said Clark Merkley, Executive Director of BootUp. "The Amazon Future Engineer sponsorship is in perfect alignment with their goals of providing underserved and underrepresented students with a solid technology foundation, and growing their pipeline of Computer Science students into the District's high school curriculum."</p><p>Amazon's commitment to Dallas ISD is part of its $50 million investment to increase access to computer science/STEM education across the country, primarily through its childhood to career program, Amazon Future Engineer. In addition, Amazon has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education. Already in Texas, there are more than 180 high schools participating in the Amazon Future Engineer program, and three students who have received a $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and guaranteed Amazon internship.</p><p>Amazon Future Engineer is still accepting applications for elementary school computer science education sponsorships with BootUp – US school districts can apply here. Due to the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming school year, BootUp has modified its professional development work in a virtual setting without compromising the ability to model and discuss the same high-quality computer science concepts and practices. In addition, right now, Amazon Future Engineer is supporting students of all ages amid the COVID-19 pandemic with free, online curriculum.</p><p>About Amazon Future Engineer</p><p>Amazon is committed to bringing more resources to children and young adults to help them build their best future. Amazon's primary computer science access program, Amazon Future Engineer, is a four-part childhood-to-career program intended to inspire, educate, and prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities to try computer science. Each year, Amazon Future Engineer aims to inspire hundreds of thousands of young people to explore computer science; awards dozens of schools Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grants; provides over 100,000 young people in over 2,000 high schools access to Intro or AP Computer Science courses; awards 100 students with four-year $10,000 scholarships, as well as offers guaranteed and paid Amazon internships to gain work experience; and forms unique partnerships with trusted institutions to bring new coding experiences to students.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About BootUp Professional Development</p><p>BootUp PD is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit specializing in district-wide elementary computer science initiatives that focus on creativity and problem-solving. Since 2015, BootUp has worked with almost 300 elementary schools in ten states, directly impacting over 150,000 students. BootUp prepares teachers to facilitate open-ended coding projects that are project-based and personally meaningful in the free platforms Scratch and ScratchJr. Students are empowered with creative and interactive curricula that allow them to explore their personal interests through coding with design, music, animation, games, or stories. APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED AT: www.afebootup.smapply.org.</p><p>About Dallas Independent School District</p><p>The Dallas Independent School District is continually preparing its more than 153,000 students for college or a career. The district offers a competitive mix of innovative programs, choice programs and instructional initiatives that support the increased academic achievement and the social and emotional development of its students. To learn more, visit www.dallasisd.org.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200623005219/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS and Formula 1 Announce New Racing Performance Stats for 2020 Season

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AWS and Formula 1 Announce New Racing Performance Stats for 2020 Season

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First of six real-time racing statistics to debut July 3-5 at FORMULA 1 ROLEX GROSSER PREIS VON ÖSTERREICH, giving fans more insight into the action on the track with combined driver, race team, and vehicle performance SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 23, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Formula 1 (F1) (NASDAQ: FWONA, FWONK) are introducing six new, real-time racing statistics that will roll out through the 2020 season, beginning with the launch of "Car Performance Scores" at the season opening Grand Prix in Spielberg, Austria July 3-5. "Car Performance Scores" isolate an individual car's performance and allows race fans to compare its performance to that of different vehicles head-to-head. The new set of statistics to be released this season will use a range of AWS services, including machine learning, to give fans the ability to compare their favorite drivers and cars and better predict race outcomes. Learn more at: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200623005380/en/ F1 Insights Powered by AWS - Car Performance Scores. Courtesy of F1. With 300 sensors on each F1 race car generating more than 1.1M data points per second transmitted from the cars to the pit, Formula 1 is a truly data-driven sport where much of the thrill comes from extracting exciting details on performance statistics. F1 relies on the breadth and depth of AWS services to stream, process, and analyze that flood of data in real-time, and then present it in a meaningful way for F1 global TV viewers. The new "Car Performance Scores" insight will display as an on-screen graphic that provides fans with a complete breakdown of a car's total performance using four core metrics: Low-Speed Cornering, High-Speed Cornering, Straight Line, and Car Handling. The new graphic will illustrate how those metrics compare from one car to another, enabling race fans to gauge a given car's relative performance in those different areas and see where each team and driver is leading the pack or losing crucial time to their rivals. F1 and AWS previously announced six F1 Insights, including Exit Speed, Predicted Pit Stop Strategy, Pit Window, Battle Forecast, Pit Strategy Battle, and Tyre Performance and will roll out the following six additional "F1 Insights powered by AWS" stats as on-screen graphics from July through December of this season, offering fans more visibility into the split-second decision-making and action on the track, as well as behind the pit wall where the team strategists operate: Car Performance Scores: Isolates an individual car's performance and allows race fans to compare its performance to that of different vehicles head-to-head (debuts July 3-5 at the FORMULA 1 ROLEX GROSSER PREIS VON ÖSTERREICH GRAND PRIX 2020). Ultimate Driver Speed Comparison: Allows race fans to see how their favorite drivers compare to other drivers in history, dating back to 1983, to help determine the fastest driver of all time (debuts August 7-9 at the EMIRATES FORMULA 1 70th ANNIVERSARY GRAND PRIX 2020). High-Speed/Low-Speed Corner Performance: Allows fans to see how well drivers tackle the fastest bends on the track travelling at more than 175 kph/109 mph and slow cornering (below 125 kph/78 mph) compared to other vehicles, which is critical to lap time (debuts August 28-30 at the FORMULA 1 ROLEX BELGIAN GRAND PRIX). Driver Skills Rating: Breaks down and scores driver skills, based on the most important factors for overall performance, to help identify the best "total driver" on the track. By calculating varying subsets of qualifying round performance, starts, race pace, tire management, and overtaking/defending styles, this insight will provide an overall driver ranking (debuts the second half of the season). Car/Team Development & Overall Season Performance: As the season unfolds,this will plot a team's cumulative performance from race to race to uncover the development rates of each team (debuts the second half of the season). Qualifying and Race Pace Predictions: Gather data from practice and qualifying laps to predict which team is poised for success ahead of each race session. These predictions will create heightened intrigue and excitement for the Saturday qualifying session and Sunday race (debuts the second half of the season). To create these new insights, Formula 1 will use 70 years of historical race data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), combined with live data that is streamed from sensors on F1 race cars and the trackside to the cloud through Amazon Kinesis, a service for real-time data collection, processing, and analysis. F1 engineers and scientists will use this data to leverage machine learning (ML) models with Amazon SageMaker, AWS's service for building, training, and deploying ML models. F1 is able to analyze race performance metrics in real-time by deploying those ML models on AWS Lambda, which runs code without the need to provision or manage servers. All of the insights will be integrated into the international broadcast feed of F1 races around the globe, including its digital platform F1.tv, helping fans to understand the split-second decisions and race strategies made by drivers or team strategists that can dramatically affect a race outcome. "Over the past two years, Formula 1 has embraced AWS's services to perform intense and dynamic data analysis. The F1 Insights we're delivering together are bringing fans closer to the track than ever before, and unlocking previously untold stories and insights from behind the pit wall," said Rob Smedley, Chief Engineer of Formula 1. "We're excited to be expanding this successful relationship to bring even more insights to life, allowing fans to go deeper into the many ways that drivers and racing teams work together to affect success." "Formula 1 racing mixes physics and human performance, yielding powerful, but complex data that AWS is helping them to harness. Our existing relationship with F1 has already produced statistics that have brought fans into the race paddocks, and our study of race car aerodynamics is influencing vehicle designs for the 2022 season," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "This year, we're thrilled to extend the power of F1 data in the cloud and unlock new insights that help fans understand more of F1's rich complexity." To learn more about the first 2020 F1 Insight, Car Performance Scores, please click here. For more information about AWS and its involvement with Formula 1, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/. For additional news on how AWS is helping Formula 1 develop the next-generation race car, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/news/. About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Formula 1® Formula 1® racing began in 1950 and is the world's most prestigious motor racing competition, as well as the world's most popular annual sporting series. The 2020 FIA Formula One World Championship™ runs from March to November and spans 22 races in 22 countries across five continents. Formula One World Championship Limited is part of Formula 1® and holds the exclusive commercial rights to the FIA Formula One World Championship™. Formula 1® is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, BATRA, BATRK, FWONA, FWONK) attributed to the Formula One Group tracking stock. The F1 logo, F1 FORMULA 1 logo, FORMULA 1, F1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX, PADDOCK CLUB and related marks are trademarks of Formula One Licensing BV, a Formula 1 company. All rights reserved. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200623005380/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>First of six real-time racing statistics to debut July 3-5 at FORMULA 1 ROLEX GROSSER PREIS VON ÖSTERREICH, giving fans more insight into the action on the track with combined driver, race team, and vehicle performance</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 23, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Formula 1 (F1) (NASDAQ: FWONA, FWONK) are introducing six new, real-time racing statistics that will roll out through the 2020 season, beginning with the launch of "Car Performance Scores" at the season opening Grand Prix in Spielberg, Austria July 3-5. "Car Performance Scores" isolate an individual car's performance and allows race fans to compare its performance to that of different vehicles head-to-head. The new set of statistics to be released this season will use a range of AWS services, including machine learning, to give fans the ability to compare their favorite drivers and cars and better predict race outcomes. Learn more at: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200623005380/en/</p><div><p>F1 Insights Powered by AWS - Car Performance Scores. Courtesy of F1.</p></div><p>With 300 sensors on each F1 race car generating more than 1.1M data points per second transmitted from the cars to the pit, Formula 1 is a truly data-driven sport where much of the thrill comes from extracting exciting details on performance statistics. F1 relies on the breadth and depth of AWS services to stream, process, and analyze that flood of data in real-time, and then present it in a meaningful way for F1 global TV viewers. The new "Car Performance Scores" insight will display as an on-screen graphic that provides fans with a complete breakdown of a car's total performance using four core metrics: Low-Speed Cornering, High-Speed Cornering, Straight Line, and Car Handling. The new graphic will illustrate how those metrics compare from one car to another, enabling race fans to gauge a given car's relative performance in those different areas and see where each team and driver is leading the pack or losing crucial time to their rivals.</p><p>F1 and AWS previously announced six F1 Insights, including Exit Speed, Predicted Pit Stop Strategy, Pit Window, Battle Forecast, Pit Strategy Battle, and Tyre Performance and will roll out the following six additional "F1 Insights powered by AWS" stats as on-screen graphics from July through December of this season, offering fans more visibility into the split-second decision-making and action on the track, as well as behind the pit wall where the team strategists operate:</p><ul><li>Car Performance Scores: Isolates an individual car's performance and allows race fans to compare its performance to that of different vehicles head-to-head (debuts July 3-5 at the FORMULA 1 ROLEX GROSSER PREIS VON ÖSTERREICH GRAND PRIX 2020).</li><li>Ultimate Driver Speed Comparison: Allows race fans to see how their favorite drivers compare to other drivers in history, dating back to 1983, to help determine the fastest driver of all time (debuts August 7-9 at the EMIRATES FORMULA 1 70^th ANNIVERSARY GRAND PRIX 2020).</li><li>High-Speed/Low-Speed Corner Performance: Allows fans to see how well drivers tackle the fastest bends on the track travelling at more than 175 kph/109 mph and slow cornering (below 125 kph/78 mph) compared to other vehicles, which is critical to lap time (debuts August 28-30 at the FORMULA 1 ROLEX BELGIAN GRAND PRIX).</li><li>Driver Skills Rating: Breaks down and scores driver skills, based on the most important factors for overall performance, to help identify the best "total driver" on the track. By calculating varying subsets of qualifying round performance, starts, race pace, tire management, and overtaking/defending styles, this insight will provide an overall driver ranking (debuts the second half of the season).</li><li>Car/Team Development &amp; Overall Season Performance: As the season unfolds,this will plot a team's cumulative performance from race to race to uncover the development rates of each team (debuts the second half of the season).</li><li>Qualifying and Race Pace Predictions: Gather data from practice and qualifying laps to predict which team is poised for success ahead of each race session. These predictions will create heightened intrigue and excitement for the Saturday qualifying session and Sunday race (debuts the second half of the season).</li></ul><p>To create these new insights, Formula 1 will use 70 years of historical race data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), combined with live data that is streamed from sensors on F1 race cars and the trackside to the cloud through Amazon Kinesis, a service for real-time data collection, processing, and analysis. F1 engineers and scientists will use this data to leverage machine learning (ML) models with Amazon SageMaker, AWS's service for building, training, and deploying ML models. F1 is able to analyze race performance metrics in real-time by deploying those ML models on AWS Lambda, which runs code without the need to provision or manage servers. All of the insights will be integrated into the international broadcast feed of F1 races around the globe, including its digital platform F1.tv, helping fans to understand the split-second decisions and race strategies made by drivers or team strategists that can dramatically affect a race outcome.</p><p>"Over the past two years, Formula 1 has embraced AWS's services to perform intense and dynamic data analysis. The F1 Insights we're delivering together are bringing fans closer to the track than ever before, and unlocking previously untold stories and insights from behind the pit wall," said Rob Smedley, Chief Engineer of Formula 1. "We're excited to be expanding this successful relationship to bring even more insights to life, allowing fans to go deeper into the many ways that drivers and racing teams work together to affect success."</p><p>"Formula 1 racing mixes physics and human performance, yielding powerful, but complex data that AWS is helping them to harness. Our existing relationship with F1 has already produced statistics that have brought fans into the race paddocks, and our study of race car aerodynamics is influencing vehicle designs for the 2022 season," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "This year, we're thrilled to extend the power of F1 data in the cloud and unlock new insights that help fans understand more of F1's rich complexity."</p><p>To learn more about the first 2020 F1 Insight, Car Performance Scores, please click here. For more information about AWS and its involvement with Formula 1, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/. For additional news on how AWS is helping Formula 1 develop the next-generation race car, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/news/.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Formula 1^®</p><p>Formula 1^® racing began in 1950 and is the world's most prestigious motor racing competition, as well as the world's most popular annual sporting series. The 2020 FIA Formula One World Championship™ runs from March to November and spans 22 races in 22 countries across five continents. Formula One World Championship Limited is part of Formula 1^® and holds the exclusive commercial rights to the FIA Formula One World Championship™. Formula 1^® is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, BATRA, BATRK, FWONA, FWONK) attributed to the Formula One Group tracking stock. The F1 logo, F1 FORMULA 1 logo, FORMULA 1, F1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX, PADDOCK CLUB and related marks are trademarks of Formula One Licensing BV, a Formula 1 company. All rights reserved.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200623005380/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon and Valentino File Joint Lawsuit Against New York-Based Counterfeiter

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Amazon and Valentino File Joint Lawsuit Against New York-Based Counterfeiter

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Lawsuit is a First for Both Brands: Amazon's First Joint Litigation with a Luxury Fashion Brand and Valentino's First Joint Litigation with an Online Retailer SEATTLE & MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 18, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Maison Valentino Italian luxury brand, today announced a joint lawsuit against Buffalo, New York-based Kaitlyn Pan Group, LLC and New York resident Hao Pan for counterfeiting Valentino's iconic Valentino Garavani Rockstud shoes, and offering the infringing products for sale on https://kaitlynpanshoes.com/ and Amazon.com, in violation of Amazon's policies and Valentino's intellectual property rights. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200618005160/en/ Amazon Company Statement: "The vast majority of sellers in our store are honest entrepreneurs but we do not hesitate to take aggressive action to protect customers, brands, and our store from counterfeiters. Amazon and Valentino are holding this company accountable in a court of law and we appreciate Valentino's collaboration throughout this investigation," said Dharmesh Mehta, vice president, Customer Trust and Partner Support. Valentino Company Statement: "The Maison Valentino is one of the main protagonists of International fashion and plays a major role in the luxury division by sustaining Made in Italy. The brand represents in the global market, one of the Italian excellences in the execution of the industrial process in Italy and of the artisanal and handmade workmanship that are entirely produced in the historic Atelier of Piazza Mignanelli in Rome. We consider Made in Italy to be a fundamental value to be fully endorsed, respected and at the forefront of our business and creations. Valentino is an Italian brand operating globally and is a mirror of society. One of our core missions is to safeguard our brand and protect the Valentino Community by celebrating inclusivity and with creativity at the heart of everything we do. We feel this connection with Amazon will highlight the importance also in fashion for greater awareness, knowledge and understanding by shielding the brand online and its resources." Amazon shut down Kaitlyn Pan's seller account in September 2019. Despite multiple notices of infringement and a cease and desist order, Kaitlyn Pan continues to import, distribute, sell, and offer infringing products on https://kaitlynpanshoes.com/. Kaitlyn Pan further attempted to apply for a US trademark for its infringing Valentino Garavani Rockstud shoes, flagrantly and willfully disregarding Valentino's intellectual property. Valentino implemented a Customs Surveillance System and enforced its Intellectual Property Rights specifically in the US. Thanks to the ongoing cooperation with US custom authorities, Valentino – in the past 3 years – seized more than 2,000 counterfeit products. Alongside with Customs enforcement, Valentino implemented a surveillance system aimed to detect counterfeit products on sale in the US market. With the help of US based local agents, Valentino has taken legal action against several companies selling both online and offline products bearing without authorization trademarks and industrial designs owned by Valentino. Valentino also carried out Online Brand Protection activity on online platforms, which led the company to remove more than 7,000 listings on several marketplaces, more than 360 websites and over 1,000 social media accounts selling counterfeit products bearing without authorization trademarks and industrial designs owned by Valentino. This joint lawsuit builds on Amazon's history of collaborating with brands to hold counterfeiters accountable. In line with Amazon's past joint litigation, Valentino will receive any proceeds from this suit. Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products and, in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million and had more than 8,000 employees protecting its store from fraud and abuse, including counterfeiting and IP infringing products. As a result of its efforts, 99.9% of all products viewed by customers on Amazon have not received a valid counterfeit complaint. Amazon also works closely with law enforcement agencies and reports all confirmed counterfeiters to US and European authorities to help them build stronger criminal cases. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Valentino The House of Valentino based in Italy expresses a point of view on the contemporary world using history as a playground and the Atelier in the heart of Rome, the Eternal City, as a place that produces both beauty and thought. The story began in 1959. The year 2016 marks a new beginning, under the Creative Direction of Pierpaolo Piccioli. A new set of values, that are both of the moment and faithful to its heritage, are created: grace and delicacy, both as an attitude and as a silhouette; a celebration of individuality; emotional beauty; the blending and merging of different languages. Style is essential and impalpable. The idea of contemporary humanism leads a creative quest that revolves around the personality of the wearer. Vision, products, retail spaces share the same traits: from the one-of-a-kind Haute Couture creations to Women's and Men's ready-to-wear and accessories, from eyewear to fragrances to the boutiques, Valentino is synonymous of elegance, pureness, craftsmanship, uniqueness. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200618005160/en/ Media Contacts:US: Cecilia Fan, ccfan@amazon.comIT: Federico Filippa, filippa@amazon.it Maison Valentino Media Contacts:valentinopressoffice@valentino.com Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Lawsuit is a First for Both Brands: Amazon's First Joint Litigation with a Luxury Fashion Brand and Valentino's First Joint Litigation with an Online Retailer</em></p><p>SEATTLE &amp; MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 18, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Maison Valentino Italian luxury brand, today announced a joint lawsuit against Buffalo, New York-based Kaitlyn Pan Group, LLC and New York resident Hao Pan for counterfeiting Valentino's iconic Valentino Garavani Rockstud shoes, and offering the infringing products for sale on https://kaitlynpanshoes.com/ and Amazon.com, in violation of Amazon's policies and Valentino's intellectual property rights.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200618005160/en/</p><p>Amazon Company Statement:</p><p>"The vast majority of sellers in our store are honest entrepreneurs but we do not hesitate to take aggressive action to protect customers, brands, and our store from counterfeiters. Amazon and Valentino are holding this company accountable in a court of law and we appreciate Valentino's collaboration throughout this investigation," said Dharmesh Mehta, vice president, Customer Trust and Partner Support.</p><p>Valentino Company Statement:</p><p>"The Maison Valentino is one of the main protagonists of International fashion and plays a major role in the luxury division by sustaining Made in Italy. The brand represents in the global market, one of the Italian excellences in the execution of the industrial process in Italy and of the artisanal and handmade workmanship that are entirely produced in the historic Atelier of Piazza Mignanelli in Rome. We consider Made in Italy to be a fundamental value to be fully endorsed, respected and at the forefront of our business and creations. Valentino is an Italian brand operating globally and is a mirror of society. One of our core missions is to safeguard our brand and protect the Valentino Community by celebrating inclusivity and with creativity at the heart of everything we do. We feel this connection with Amazon will highlight the importance also in fashion for greater awareness, knowledge and understanding by shielding the brand online and its resources."</p><p>Amazon shut down Kaitlyn Pan's seller account in September 2019. Despite multiple notices of infringement and a cease and desist order, Kaitlyn Pan continues to import, distribute, sell, and offer infringing products on https://kaitlynpanshoes.com/. Kaitlyn Pan further attempted to apply for a US trademark for its infringing Valentino Garavani Rockstud shoes, flagrantly and willfully disregarding Valentino's intellectual property.</p><p>Valentino implemented a Customs Surveillance System and enforced its Intellectual Property Rights specifically in the US. Thanks to the ongoing cooperation with US custom authorities, Valentino – in the past 3 years – seized more than 2,000 counterfeit products. Alongside with Customs enforcement, Valentino implemented a surveillance system aimed to detect counterfeit products on sale in the US market. With the help of US based local agents, Valentino has taken legal action against several companies selling both online and offline products bearing without authorization trademarks and industrial designs owned by Valentino. Valentino also carried out Online Brand Protection activity on online platforms, which led the company to remove more than 7,000 listings on several marketplaces, more than 360 websites and over 1,000 social media accounts selling counterfeit products bearing without authorization trademarks and industrial designs owned by Valentino.</p><p>This joint lawsuit builds on Amazon's history of collaborating with brands to hold counterfeiters accountable. In line with Amazon's past joint litigation, Valentino will receive any proceeds from this suit. Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products and, in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million and had more than 8,000 employees protecting its store from fraud and abuse, including counterfeiting and IP infringing products. As a result of its efforts, 99.9% of all products viewed by customers on Amazon have not received a valid counterfeit complaint. Amazon also works closely with law enforcement agencies and reports all confirmed counterfeiters to US and European authorities to help them build stronger criminal cases.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Valentino</p><p>The House of Valentino based in Italy expresses a point of view on the contemporary world using history as a playground and the Atelier in the heart of Rome, the Eternal City, as a place that produces both beauty and thought. The story began in 1959. The year 2016 marks a new beginning, under the Creative Direction of Pierpaolo Piccioli. A new set of values, that are both of the moment and faithful to its heritage, are created: grace and delicacy, both as an attitude and as a silhouette; a celebration of individuality; emotional beauty; the blending and merging of different languages. Style is essential and impalpable. The idea of contemporary humanism leads a creative quest that revolves around the personality of the wearer. Vision, products, retail spaces share the same traits: from the one-of-a-kind Haute Couture creations to Women's and Men's ready-to-wear and accessories, from eyewear to fragrances to the boutiques, Valentino is synonymous of elegance, pureness, craftsmanship, uniqueness.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200618005160/en/</p><p>Media Contacts:US: Cecilia Fan, ccfan@amazon.comIT: Federico Filippa, filippa@amazon.it</p><p>Maison Valentino Media Contacts:valentinopressoffice@valentino.com</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Snowcone

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AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Snowcone

06/17/2020

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AWS Snowcone is a small, ultra-portable, rugged, and secure edge computing device for collecting, processing, and moving data to AWS from disconnected environments Deluxe Entertainment Services, SmugMug, Federated Wireless, and Novetta among customers using AWS Snowcone SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 17, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Snowcone, a new small, ultra-portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device. At under 5 lbs and able to fit in a standard mailbox or a small backpack, AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of devices, enabling customers to collect data, process it locally, and move it to AWS either offline (by shipping the device to AWS) or online (by using AWS DataSync to send the data to AWS over the network). AWS Snowcone is built to withstand harsh conditions and is designed for a variety of use cases in environments outside of the traditional data center that lack consistent network connectivity and/or require portability, including healthcare, industrial IoT, drones, tactical edge computing, content distribution, data migration, video content creation, and transportation. To get started with AWS Snowcone, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200617005657/en/ AWS Snowcone E Ink Label Millions of customers have applications that rely on AWS for data processing, analytics, storage, IoT, and machine learning capabilities. Increasingly, edge computing use cases (like machine learning inference, industrial IoT, and autonomous machines) drive customers' need to move data capture, processing, and analysis closer to end users and devices. Running applications in disconnected environments or connected edge locations can be challenging because often these locations lack the space, power, and cooling common in data centers. Today, customers use the AWS Snow Family (a collection of physical devices designed to run outside the data center and ranging in size from the suitcase-sized AWS Snowball to the 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container AWS Snowmobile) to collect and process data, run local computing applications, and move large volumes of data from log files, digital media, genomic data, and sensor data from connected devices to AWS. As customers seek to extend the reach of their cloud infrastructure into more edge locations, new use cases are emerging for edge computing in more situations like vehicles (land, sea, and air), industrial operations, and remote and austere sites that require a rugged and secure device with even greater portability and a smaller form factor than the AWS Snow Family of devices has traditionally provided. AWS Snowcone provides maximum flexibility for edge computing environments, offering a small, ultra-portable, rugged, and military grade secure device to run applications and migrate data to AWS. AWS Snowcone measures 9 inches x 6 inches x 3 inches (23 cm x 15 cm x 8 cm) and weighs 4.5 lbs (2.1 kg). The device can easily fit in a backpack or messenger bag, standard mailbox, or any type of vehicle, and is light enough to be carried by drone. AWS Snowcone can move data to AWS offline by shipping the device (using its E Ink shipping label) and online using Ethernet or Wi-Fi with AWS DataSync, which are integrated into the device. AWS Snowcone features 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, 8 TB of storage, and USB-C power (or optional battery). AWS Snowcone is designed to operate in extreme environments or disconnected remote sites (including oil rigs, first responder vehicles, military operations, factory floors, remote offices, hospitals, or movie theaters) for long periods of time without traditional data center conditions. With support for AWS IoT Greengrass, the ability to run Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, and ample local storage, AWS Snowcone can be used as an IoT hub, data aggregation point, application monitor, or lightweight analytics engine. "Thousands of our customers have found AWS Snowball devices to be ideal for collecting data and running applications in remote and harsh environments. Since 2015, customer use of Snowball devices has greatly increased, as has their need for an even smaller device with even greater portability," said Bill Vass, VP of Storage, Automation and Management Services, AWS. "With more applications running at the edge for an expanding range of use cases, like analyzing IoT sensor data and machine learning inference, AWS Snowcone makes it easier to collect, store, pre-process, and transfer data from harsh environments with limited space to AWS for more intensive processing." Like other AWS Snow Family devices, all data on AWS Snowcone is encrypted using military grade 256-bit keys that customers can manage using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Additionally, AWS Snowcone contains anti-tamper and tamper-evident features to help ensure data on the device stays secure during transit. AWS Snowcone meets stringent ruggedization standards (it meets ISTA-3A, ASTM D4169, and MIL-STD-810G standards) for free-fall shock and operational vibration. The device is dust-tight and water resistant (it meets the IP65 International Protection Marking IEC standard). AWS Snowcone has a wide operating temperature range from freezing (0 degrees C/32 degrees F) to desert-like conditions (38 degrees C/100 degrees F), and withstands even harsher temperatures when in storage or being shipped (-32 degrees C/-25.6 degrees F to 63 degrees C/145.4 degrees F). Setting up an AWS Snowcone takes only 3 clicks, and once set-up, the device is easily used and managed through a simple-to-use graphical interface. AWS Snowcone is available in the US East (Northern Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions, with availability planned in additional AWS Regions in the coming months. Deluxe Entertainment Services (Deluxe) is the world's leading video creation-to-distribution company offering global, end-to-end services and technology. "Our work with AWS is a fundamental part of Deluxe's strategy. One VZN, our new cloud-based IP delivery solution, is a leap in innovation for digital cinema distribution which has been stagnant over the past decade, fundamentally changing not only the economics of film distribution for exhibitors and studios around the globe, but enabling new theatrical experiences for viewers as well," said Andy Shenkler, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Deluxe. "The combination of AWS Snowcone, AWS DataSync, and Amazon S3 are essential to One VZN – the collective services distinguish themselves from any other cloud offerings today. The secure, compact AWS Snowcone device, in conjunction with Deluxe's powerful cloud-based solutions create a truly differentiated solution of the industry." SmugMug+Flickr is the world's largest and most influential photographer-centric platform. "For over a decade SmugMug has been storing billions of photos and videos for our millions of users in an accessible, available, and secure way using Amazon S3. With the introduction of AWS Snowcone, our customers now have a small, ultra-portable device with 8 terabytes of storage that allows them to capture more content during a photography or videography shoot, process the data locally, and then upload it to the cloud faster than ever," Don MacAskill, CEO & Chief Geek, SmugMug and Flickr. "AWS Snowcone's small form factor and rugged, secure design allows us to simply ship these devices to customers so they can seamlessly copy and preserve their precious and valuable media whether in the comfort of their own home or out on a shoot off the grid in jungles, deserts, forests, mountains, in the middle of the ocean, and even in drone use cases. Customers can then ship the device back to AWS or retain the device for multiple shoots all while transferring their data online with AWS DataSync. AWS Snowcone helps our users and photographers effortlessly and flexibly share their passion, work, and inspiration with each other leveraging the SmugMug platform." Federated Wireless leads the industry in development of shared spectrum Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) capabilities. The company's partner ecosystem includes more than 40 device manufacturers along with cloud edge partners, dedicated to collaborate for the advancement of CBRS services. "The combination of AWS Snowcone and the Federated Wireless Connectivity-as-a-Service private wireless solution enables an expansive variety of new business models and indoor and outdoor scenarios at the edge of the cloud, and even beyond the edge of the network," said Iyad Tarazi, President and CEO of Federated Wireless. "The small form factor and robust capabilities of Snowcone provides us more flexibility in our technology architecture. The simplified, innovative delivery and proven cloud capabilities of the combined solution give organizations of all types and sizes the security, compute power, portability, and mobility they need to meet their most pressing business and operational objectives." Novetta is an advanced analytics solutions company focused on mission success for its customers in the public sector, defense, intelligence, and federal law enforcement communities. "AWS is leading in the development of practical, mission-ready edge computing technology that we use to build solutions to help our public sector clients save lives. AWS Snowcone is a great example of AWS innovation for the edge," said Rob Sheen, Senior Vice President, Client Operations at Novetta. "Snowcone gives us a rugged, secure, and portable edge computing platform that we can use in disaster zones and austere edge locations. In our recent field exercises, Snowcone performed admirably as a sensor hub at the edge to track people and assets in a disaster zone." CommScope pushes the boundaries of technology to create the world's most advanced wired and wireless networks. "Companies looking to deploy private LTE networks and need simple, easy install solutions will find AWS Snowcone, coupled with the CommScope CBRS portfolio, function as an optimal pairing in solving business challenges. Snowcone is a perfect fit for powering up 100s of edge network devices with private LTE mobility," said Upendra Pingle, Vice President, Distributed Coverage and Capacity Solutions, CommScope. "As an AWS technology partner, CommScope's CBRS solutions, including our Spectrum Access System and Radio Access Network offerings, will easily integrate for quick, frictionless deployments that give users total control of their data. The Snowcone device enables us to continue driving further innovations in our CBRS solutions all while transforming the barrier to entry for private LTE networks." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. 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<p><em>AWS Snowcone is a small, ultra-portable, rugged, and secure edge computing device for collecting, processing, and moving data to AWS from disconnected environments</em></p><p><em>Deluxe Entertainment Services, SmugMug, Federated Wireless, and Novetta among customers using AWS Snowcone</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 17, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Snowcone, a new small, ultra-portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device. At under 5 lbs and able to fit in a standard mailbox or a small backpack, AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of devices, enabling customers to collect data, process it locally, and move it to AWS either offline (by shipping the device to AWS) or online (by using AWS DataSync to send the data to AWS over the network). AWS Snowcone is built to withstand harsh conditions and is designed for a variety of use cases in environments outside of the traditional data center that lack consistent network connectivity and/or require portability, including healthcare, industrial IoT, drones, tactical edge computing, content distribution, data migration, video content creation, and transportation. To get started with AWS Snowcone, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200617005657/en/</p><div><p>AWS Snowcone E Ink Label</p></div><p>Millions of customers have applications that rely on AWS for data processing, analytics, storage, IoT, and machine learning capabilities. Increasingly, edge computing use cases (like machine learning inference, industrial IoT, and autonomous machines) drive customers' need to move data capture, processing, and analysis closer to end users and devices. Running applications in disconnected environments or connected edge locations can be challenging because often these locations lack the space, power, and cooling common in data centers. Today, customers use the AWS Snow Family (a collection of physical devices designed to run outside the data center and ranging in size from the suitcase-sized AWS Snowball to the 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container AWS Snowmobile) to collect and process data, run local computing applications, and move large volumes of data from log files, digital media, genomic data, and sensor data from connected devices to AWS. As customers seek to extend the reach of their cloud infrastructure into more edge locations, new use cases are emerging for edge computing in more situations like vehicles (land, sea, and air), industrial operations, and remote and austere sites that require a rugged and secure device with even greater portability and a smaller form factor than the AWS Snow Family of devices has traditionally provided.</p><p>AWS Snowcone provides maximum flexibility for edge computing environments, offering a small, ultra-portable, rugged, and military grade secure device to run applications and migrate data to AWS. AWS Snowcone measures 9 inches x 6 inches x 3 inches (23 cm x 15 cm x 8 cm) and weighs 4.5 lbs (2.1 kg). The device can easily fit in a backpack or messenger bag, standard mailbox, or any type of vehicle, and is light enough to be carried by drone. AWS Snowcone can move data to AWS offline by shipping the device (using its E Ink shipping label) and online using Ethernet or Wi-Fi with AWS DataSync, which are integrated into the device. AWS Snowcone features 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, 8 TB of storage, and USB-C power (or optional battery). AWS Snowcone is designed to operate in extreme environments or disconnected remote sites (including oil rigs, first responder vehicles, military operations, factory floors, remote offices, hospitals, or movie theaters) for long periods of time without traditional data center conditions. With support for AWS IoT Greengrass, the ability to run Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, and ample local storage, AWS Snowcone can be used as an IoT hub, data aggregation point, application monitor, or lightweight analytics engine.</p><p>"Thousands of our customers have found AWS Snowball devices to be ideal for collecting data and running applications in remote and harsh environments. Since 2015, customer use of Snowball devices has greatly increased, as has their need for an even smaller device with even greater portability," said Bill Vass, VP of Storage, Automation and Management Services, AWS. "With more applications running at the edge for an expanding range of use cases, like analyzing IoT sensor data and machine learning inference, AWS Snowcone makes it easier to collect, store, pre-process, and transfer data from harsh environments with limited space to AWS for more intensive processing."</p><p>Like other AWS Snow Family devices, all data on AWS Snowcone is encrypted using military grade 256-bit keys that customers can manage using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Additionally, AWS Snowcone contains anti-tamper and tamper-evident features to help ensure data on the device stays secure during transit. AWS Snowcone meets stringent ruggedization standards (it meets ISTA-3A, ASTM D4169, and MIL-STD-810G standards) for free-fall shock and operational vibration. The device is dust-tight and water resistant (it meets the IP65 International Protection Marking IEC standard). AWS Snowcone has a wide operating temperature range from freezing (0 degrees C/32 degrees F) to desert-like conditions (38 degrees C/100 degrees F), and withstands even harsher temperatures when in storage or being shipped (-32 degrees C/-25.6 degrees F to 63 degrees C/145.4 degrees F). Setting up an AWS Snowcone takes only 3 clicks, and once set-up, the device is easily used and managed through a simple-to-use graphical interface. AWS Snowcone is available in the US East (Northern Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions, with availability planned in additional AWS Regions in the coming months.</p><p>Deluxe Entertainment Services (Deluxe) is the world's leading video creation-to-distribution company offering global, end-to-end services and technology. "Our work with AWS is a fundamental part of Deluxe's strategy. One VZN, our new cloud-based IP delivery solution, is a leap in innovation for digital cinema distribution which has been stagnant over the past decade, fundamentally changing not only the economics of film distribution for exhibitors and studios around the globe, but enabling new theatrical experiences for viewers as well," said Andy Shenkler, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Deluxe. "The combination of AWS Snowcone, AWS DataSync, and Amazon S3 are essential to One VZN – the collective services distinguish themselves from any other cloud offerings today. The secure, compact AWS Snowcone device, in conjunction with Deluxe's powerful cloud-based solutions create a truly differentiated solution of the industry."</p><p>SmugMug+Flickr is the world's largest and most influential photographer-centric platform. "For over a decade SmugMug has been storing billions of photos and videos for our millions of users in an accessible, available, and secure way using Amazon S3. With the introduction of AWS Snowcone, our customers now have a small, ultra-portable device with 8 terabytes of storage that allows them to capture more content during a photography or videography shoot, process the data locally, and then upload it to the cloud faster than ever," Don MacAskill, CEO &amp; Chief Geek, SmugMug and Flickr. "AWS Snowcone's small form factor and rugged, secure design allows us to simply ship these devices to customers so they can seamlessly copy and preserve their precious and valuable media whether in the comfort of their own home or out on a shoot off the grid in jungles, deserts, forests, mountains, in the middle of the ocean, and even in drone use cases. Customers can then ship the device back to AWS or retain the device for multiple shoots all while transferring their data online with AWS DataSync. AWS Snowcone helps our users and photographers effortlessly and flexibly share their passion, work, and inspiration with each other leveraging the SmugMug platform."</p><p>Federated Wireless leads the industry in development of shared spectrum Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) capabilities. The company's partner ecosystem includes more than 40 device manufacturers along with cloud edge partners, dedicated to collaborate for the advancement of CBRS services. "The combination of AWS Snowcone and the Federated Wireless Connectivity-as-a-Service private wireless solution enables an expansive variety of new business models and indoor and outdoor scenarios at the edge of the cloud, and even beyond the edge of the network," said Iyad Tarazi, President and CEO of Federated Wireless. "The small form factor and robust capabilities of Snowcone provides us more flexibility in our technology architecture. The simplified, innovative delivery and proven cloud capabilities of the combined solution give organizations of all types and sizes the security, compute power, portability, and mobility they need to meet their most pressing business and operational objectives."</p><p>Novetta is an advanced analytics solutions company focused on mission success for its customers in the public sector, defense, intelligence, and federal law enforcement communities. "AWS is leading in the development of practical, mission-ready edge computing technology that we use to build solutions to help our public sector clients save lives. AWS Snowcone is a great example of AWS innovation for the edge," said Rob Sheen, Senior Vice President, Client Operations at Novetta. "Snowcone gives us a rugged, secure, and portable edge computing platform that we can use in disaster zones and austere edge locations. In our recent field exercises, Snowcone performed admirably as a sensor hub at the edge to track people and assets in a disaster zone."</p><p>CommScope pushes the boundaries of technology to create the world's most advanced wired and wireless networks. "Companies looking to deploy private LTE networks and need simple, easy install solutions will find AWS Snowcone, coupled with the CommScope CBRS portfolio, function as an optimal pairing in solving business challenges. Snowcone is a perfect fit for powering up 100s of edge network devices with private LTE mobility," said Upendra Pingle, Vice President, Distributed Coverage and Capacity Solutions, CommScope. "As an AWS technology partner, CommScope's CBRS solutions, including our Spectrum Access System and Radio Access Network offerings, will easily integrate for quick, frictionless deployments that give users total control of their data. The Snowcone device enables us to continue driving further innovations in our CBRS solutions all while transforming the barrier to entry for private LTE networks."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p>

AWS Is Preferred Cloud Provider for Genesys Cloud Customer Experience and Contact Center Platform

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Powered by AWS, Genesys Cloud improves customer engagement for companies of all sizes worldwide SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 17, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Genesys has selected AWS as the preferred cloud provider for Genesys Cloud, an all-in-one solution and leading public cloud contact center platform. Organizations around the world use the platform to manage and improve customer relationships across any channel, including voice, text, web chat, and social. Genesys Cloud is built on and relies upon AWS's comprehensive set of cloud services to quickly develop and deliver new features to customers, as well as to enable organizations to deploy and scale the platform rapidly. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Genesys Cloud has leveraged AWS's highly reliable and secure global infrastructure to help organizations swiftly transition from centralized contact centers to remote contact centers, allowing service representatives to work from home and manage higher interaction volumes as a result of the crisis. The Genesys Cloud platform uses a broad range of AWS services including compute, database, analytics, machine learning, storage, and security to enable organizations to deliver personalized experiences to their contact center customers even during peak demand. For example, to help generate real-time insights that guide human agents and chatbots during customer engagements, Genesys Cloud uses Amazon Athena for on-demand, serverless analysis of historical customer data, along with Amazon ElastiCache, a service that provides in-memory data storage and caching, to facilitate effective live interactions. To further enhance contact center responsiveness, Genesys Cloud indexes and queries customer interactions using Amazon DynamoDB, a key value database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, enabling users to identify patterns in customer service requests around the world and accommodate extreme concurrency of requests. Built on AWS's scalable and highly performant infrastructure, Genesys Cloud features a microservices architecture and robust application programming interfaces (API) to enable its customers to easily customize their experience by integrating third-party software such as business optimization and employee and customer engagement applications. "It's more important than ever for organizations' contact centers to be nimble so they can adjust their operations, pivot rapidly to remote work, and manage fluctuating demand at a moment's notice. The depth of AWS services contribute to Genesys Cloud's robust capabilities and scale, which enable organizations to ensure business continuity and maintain meaningful connections with their customers," said Olivier Jouve, Genesys Executive Vice President and General Manager of Genesys Cloud. "In addition, with AWS's global infrastructure, we are putting Genesys Cloud within reach for even more organizations around the world, helping them improve customer engagement while meeting data sovereignty requirements." "Genesys Cloud is a mission critical platform for some of the world's largest brands, and because it was built on AWS, its customers benefit from the security, proven performance, and high availability of the world's leading cloud," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "Using AWS's unmatched portfolio of services and our capacity to scale, Genesys can instantly address peaks in customer demand at any time and continue providing the tools organizations rely on to deliver exceptional customer service over any channel." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Genesys Every year, Genesys® delivers more than 70 billion remarkable customer experiences for organizations in over 100 countries. Through the power of the cloud and AI, our technology connects every customer moment across marketing, sales and service on any channel, while also improving employee experiences. Genesys pioneered Experience as a Service℠ so organizations of any size can provide true personalization at scale, interact with empathy, and foster customer trust and loyalty. This is enabled by Genesys Cloud™, an all-in-one solution and the world's leading public cloud contact center platform, designed for rapid innovation, scalability and flexibility. Visit www.genesys.com. Genesys® is part of the AWS Partner Network. Genesys Cloud™is available in the AWS Marketplace. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200617005124/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>Powered by AWS, Genesys Cloud improves customer engagement for companies of all sizes worldwide</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 17, 2020--</p><p>Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Genesys has selected AWS as the preferred cloud provider for Genesys Cloud, an all-in-one solution and leading public cloud contact center platform. Organizations around the world use the platform to manage and improve customer relationships across any channel, including voice, text, web chat, and social. Genesys Cloud is built on and relies upon AWS's comprehensive set of cloud services to quickly develop and deliver new features to customers, as well as to enable organizations to deploy and scale the platform rapidly. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Genesys Cloud has leveraged AWS's highly reliable and secure global infrastructure to help organizations swiftly transition from centralized contact centers to remote contact centers, allowing service representatives to work from home and manage higher interaction volumes as a result of the crisis.</p><p>The Genesys Cloud platform uses a broad range of AWS services including compute, database, analytics, machine learning, storage, and security to enable organizations to deliver personalized experiences to their contact center customers even during peak demand. For example, to help generate real-time insights that guide human agents and chatbots during customer engagements, Genesys Cloud uses Amazon Athena for on-demand, serverless analysis of historical customer data, along with Amazon ElastiCache, a service that provides in-memory data storage and caching, to facilitate effective live interactions. To further enhance contact center responsiveness, Genesys Cloud indexes and queries customer interactions using Amazon DynamoDB, a key value database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, enabling users to identify patterns in customer service requests around the world and accommodate extreme concurrency of requests. Built on AWS's scalable and highly performant infrastructure, Genesys Cloud features a microservices architecture and robust application programming interfaces (API) to enable its customers to easily customize their experience by integrating third-party software such as business optimization and employee and customer engagement applications.</p><p>"It's more important than ever for organizations' contact centers to be nimble so they can adjust their operations, pivot rapidly to remote work, and manage fluctuating demand at a moment's notice. The depth of AWS services contribute to Genesys Cloud's robust capabilities and scale, which enable organizations to ensure business continuity and maintain meaningful connections with their customers," said Olivier Jouve, Genesys Executive Vice President and General Manager of Genesys Cloud. "In addition, with AWS's global infrastructure, we are putting Genesys Cloud within reach for even more organizations around the world, helping them improve customer engagement while meeting data sovereignty requirements."</p><p>"Genesys Cloud is a mission critical platform for some of the world's largest brands, and because it was built on AWS, its customers benefit from the security, proven performance, and high availability of the world's leading cloud," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "Using AWS's unmatched portfolio of services and our capacity to scale, Genesys can instantly address peaks in customer demand at any time and continue providing the tools organizations rely on to deliver exceptional customer service over any channel."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Genesys</p><p>Every year, Genesys® delivers more than 70 billion remarkable customer experiences for organizations in over 100 countries. Through the power of the cloud and AI, our technology connects every customer moment across marketing, sales and service on any channel, while also improving employee experiences. Genesys pioneered Experience as a Service℠ so organizations of any size can provide true personalization at scale, interact with empathy, and foster customer trust and loyalty. This is enabled by Genesys Cloud™, an all-in-one solution and the world's leading public cloud contact center platform, designed for rapid innovation, scalability and flexibility. Visit www.genesys.com.</p><p>Genesys® is part of the AWS Partner Network. Genesys Cloud™is available in the AWS Marketplace.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200617005124/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

Infosys Joins The Climate Pledge, a Commitment Co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to Meet the Paris Agreement 10 Years Early

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Infosys Joins The Climate Pledge, a Commitment Co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to Meet the Paris Agreement 10 Years Early

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Infosys commits to become net zero carbon and will power its operations with 100% renewable energy well ahead of 2040, in an effort to protect the planet SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 16, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Global Optimism announced the second major signatory to The Climate Pledge—Infosys— making a commitment to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early. The Climate Pledge calls on new signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Accord's goal of 2050. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200616005369/en/ Planet Earth (Photo: Business Wire) Infosys and other companies that sign The Climate Pledge agree to: Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis; Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies; Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially-beneficial offsets to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040. "Infosys is showing bold leadership by signing up to The Climate Pledge and committing to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement ten years early," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "When significant companies like Infosys join The Climate Pledge, they send an important signal to the market that it's time to invest in low carbon products and services." "At Infosys, we recognized climate change as a serious threat to our planet early on, and realized our responsibility as a corporate institution to mitigate its impact by taking concrete steps," said Salil Parekh, CEO and MD, Infosys. "We believe that the way in which global organizations responded to this crisis would play a big role in defining how the rest of the world takes up the cause. As a result, we committed to climate action over a decade ago, and since then, the impact on climate and environment have been important considerations in the decisions we make as an organization. We are pleased to partner with Amazon and Global Optimism in The Climate Pledge initiative with a collective aim to work towards a low-carbon future." "The Paris Agreement set out a unifying roadmap for all countries and all people to address the climate crisis by taking action. The IPCC has informed us that we cannot warm the planet beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius." said Christiana Figueres, the UN's former climate change chief and founding partner of Global Optimism. "By committing to achieve net zero emissions by 2040, Infosys is not just making a statement of commitment to the future, it is committing to significant actions and investments that will create jobs, spur innovation, regenerate the natural environment and help consumers to buy better in the short term. This is what leadership looks like in resetting the global economy." Infosys Is All Set to Turn Carbon Neutral Infosys made a voluntary commitment in 2011, long before the Paris Agreement, to become carbon neutral and is on track to achieve it well ahead of 2040. Infosys is the first signatory to RE100 from India and is committed to completely transitioning to renewable power for its electricity requirements. Infosys has already invested in 60 MW of captive solar photovoltaic capacity and nearly 45% of its electricity is coming from renewable sources. Infosys is committed to transitioning to 100% renewable energy. Infosys was one of the first few companies to place an internal price on carbon. It also has a highly successful energy efficiency program that helped the company reduce its per-capita electricity consumption by 55% since 2008. As part of its path to climate neutrality, Infosys has made significant investments to a portfolio of community-based emission reduction projects to help meet its net zero carbon goal. These projects not only address climate change, but also benefit over 100,000 families today, contributing to the socio-economic development of rural India. By joining The Climate Pledge and agreeing to decarbonize on a faster time horizon, Infosys will play a critical role in stimulating investment in the development of low carbon products and services that will be required to help companies meet the pledge. Amazon previously announced an order of 100,000 electric delivery vehicles from Rivian, the largest order ever of electric vehicles, with vans starting to deliver packages to customers in 2021. Amazon plans to have 10,000 of the new electric vehicles on the road as early as 2022 and all 100,000 vehicles on the road by 2030 – saving millions of metric tons of carbon per year by 2030. Amazon plans to announce many more signatories throughout 2020. About Infosys Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 46 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With nearly four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem. About Global Optimism Global Optimism exists to precipitate transformational, sector-wide change. Achieving a zero emissions future is not a far-off challenge. It's one we must get on track for now. Every scientific assessment shows that to meet the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, to keep global heating below 1.5°C, we must halve our emissions between 2020 and 2030. Tackling the climate crisis is only possible when everyone, everywhere plays their part. We work with like-minded collectives from all sectors who are willing to invest in the choices required to be on this challenging – and life-affirming – journey. For more information, visit https://globaloptimism.com/.

<p><em>Infosys commits to become net zero carbon and will power its operations with 100% renewable energy well ahead of 2040, in an effort to protect the planet</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 16, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Global Optimism announced the second major signatory to The Climate Pledge—Infosys— making a commitment to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early. The Climate Pledge calls on new signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Accord's goal of 2050.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200616005369/en/</p><div><p>Planet Earth (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Infosys and other companies that sign The Climate Pledge agree to:</p><ul><li>Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis;</li><li>Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies;</li><li>Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially-beneficial offsets to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040.</li></ul><p>"Infosys is showing bold leadership by signing up to The Climate Pledge and committing to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement ten years early," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "When significant companies like Infosys join The Climate Pledge, they send an important signal to the market that it's time to invest in low carbon products and services."</p><p>"At Infosys, we recognized climate change as a serious threat to our planet early on, and realized our responsibility as a corporate institution to mitigate its impact by taking concrete steps," said Salil Parekh, CEO and MD, Infosys. "We believe that the way in which global organizations responded to this crisis would play a big role in defining how the rest of the world takes up the cause. As a result, we committed to climate action over a decade ago, and since then, the impact on climate and environment have been important considerations in the decisions we make as an organization. We are pleased to partner with Amazon and Global Optimism in The Climate Pledge initiative with a collective aim to work towards a low-carbon future."</p><p>"The Paris Agreement set out a unifying roadmap for all countries and all people to address the climate crisis by taking action. The IPCC has informed us that we cannot warm the planet beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius." said Christiana Figueres, the UN's former climate change chief and founding partner of Global Optimism. "By committing to achieve net zero emissions by 2040, Infosys is not just making a statement of commitment to the future, it is committing to significant actions and investments that will create jobs, spur innovation, regenerate the natural environment and help consumers to buy better in the short term. This is what leadership looks like in resetting the global economy."</p><p>Infosys Is All Set to Turn Carbon Neutral</p><p>Infosys made a voluntary commitment in 2011, long before the Paris Agreement, to become carbon neutral and is on track to achieve it well ahead of 2040. Infosys is the first signatory to RE100 from India and is committed to completely transitioning to renewable power for its electricity requirements. Infosys has already invested in 60 MW of captive solar photovoltaic capacity and nearly 45% of its electricity is coming from renewable sources. Infosys is committed to transitioning to 100% renewable energy.</p><p>Infosys was one of the first few companies to place an internal price on carbon. It also has a highly successful energy efficiency program that helped the company reduce its per-capita electricity consumption by 55% since 2008. As part of its path to climate neutrality, Infosys has made significant investments to a portfolio of community-based emission reduction projects to help meet its net zero carbon goal. These projects not only address climate change, but also benefit over 100,000 families today, contributing to the socio-economic development of rural India.</p><p>By joining The Climate Pledge and agreeing to decarbonize on a faster time horizon, Infosys will play a critical role in stimulating investment in the development of low carbon products and services that will be required to help companies meet the pledge. Amazon previously announced an order of 100,000 electric delivery vehicles from Rivian, the largest order ever of electric vehicles, with vans starting to deliver packages to customers in 2021. Amazon plans to have 10,000 of the new electric vehicles on the road as early as 2022 and all 100,000 vehicles on the road by 2030 – saving millions of metric tons of carbon per year by 2030. Amazon plans to announce many more signatories throughout 2020.</p><p>About Infosys</p><p>Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 46 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With nearly four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.</p><p>About Global Optimism</p><p>Global Optimism exists to precipitate transformational, sector-wide change. Achieving a zero emissions future is not a far-off challenge. It's one we must get on track for now. Every scientific assessment shows that to meet the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, to keep global heating below 1.5°C, we must halve our emissions between 2020 and 2030. Tackling the climate crisis is only possible when everyone, everywhere plays their part. We work with like-minded collectives from all sectors who are willing to invest in the choices required to be on this challenging – and life-affirming – journey. For more information, visit https://globaloptimism.com/.</p>

Verizon joins Amazon and Global Optimism in signing The Climate Pledge

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06/16/2020 06:00:00

Verizon joins Amazon and Global Optimism in signing The Climate Pledge

06/16/2020

2020

Commits to meeting the Paris Agreement 10 years early Verizon has committed to become carbon neutral by 2035 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 16, 2020-- The seventh paragraph of release has been updated. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200616005392/en/ Planet Earth (Photo: Business Wire) The corrected release reads: VERIZON JOINS AMAZON AND GLOBAL OPTIMISM IN SIGNING THE CLIMATE PLEDGE Commits to meeting the Paris Agreement 10 years early Verizon has committed to become carbon neutral by 2035 Today, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) announced it has joined The Climate Pledge—the commitment co-founded by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Global Optimism to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early. The Climate Pledge calls on new signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Accord's goal of 2050. Verizon is on track to be carbon neutral across scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 2035 and has issued a $1 billion green bond to invest in innovative solutions to accelerate the company's sustainability efforts. This includes powering operations with 50% renewable energy by 2025 and new virtual power purchase agreements (VPPA) for more than 380 MW of new wind and solar power capacity. "Climate change is a global challenge that impacts everyone, and that is why we considered it vital to join The Climate Pledge," said Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon. "Leaving future generations with a cleaner world is core to our values as a responsible business. At Verizon, it does not stop with reducing our carbon footprint. Through our technology and networks, we're innovating solutions for customers, increasing efficiencies and building resiliency across the company and the communities we serve." Verizon and other companies that sign The Climate Pledge agree to: Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis; Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies; Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040. "I'm excited that Verizon is signing The Climate Pledge and committing to reach the Paris Agreement ten years early. Tackling climate change requires innovation, leadership, and partnership—no one can do it alone," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Verizon has set aggressive goals to increase energy efficiency across its operations and power its business with 50% renewable energy by 2025—on the path to achieving net zero carbon by 2040." "As the climate crisis worsens, more companies will need to get serious and challenge themselves to achieve decarbonization at a faster pace," said Christiana Figueres, the UN's former climate change chief and founding partner of Global Optimism. "Verizon is committing to an accelerated timeline that will move the needle against the race to stop the continued warming of our planet. Actions like this will cut emissions and slow down the damage that has been done, but we have to act now." By joining The Climate Pledge and agreeing to decarbonize at a faster rate, Verizon will play a critical role in stimulating investment in the development of low carbon products and services that will be required to help companies meet the pledge. To learn more about Verizon's sustainability efforts, visit verizon.com/sustainability. About Verizon Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) was formed on June 30, 2000 and is celebrating its 20th year as one of the world's leading providers of technology, communications, information and entertainment products and services. Headquartered in New York City and with a presence around the world, Verizon generated revenues of $131.9 billion in 2019. The company offers voice, data and video services and solutions on its award-winning networks and platforms, delivering on customers' demand for mobility, reliable network connectivity, security and control. About Global Optimism Global Optimism exists to precipitate transformational, sector-wide change. Achieving a zero emissions future is not a far-off challenge. It's one we must get on track for now. Every scientific assessment shows that to meet the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, to keep global heating below 1.5°C, we must halve our emissions between 2020 and 2030. Tackling the climate crisis is only possible when everyone, everywhere plays their part. We work with like-minded collectives from all sectors who are willing to invest in the choices required to be on this challenging – and life-affirming – journey. For more information, visit https://globaloptimism.com/. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200616005392/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Commits to meeting the Paris Agreement 10 years early</em></p><p><em>Verizon has committed to become carbon neutral by 2035</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 16, 2020-- The seventh paragraph of release has been updated.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200616005392/en/</p><div><p>Planet Earth (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>The corrected release reads:</p><p>VERIZON JOINS AMAZON AND GLOBAL OPTIMISM IN SIGNING THE CLIMATE PLEDGE</p><p><em>Commits to meeting the Paris Agreement 10 years early</em></p><p><em>Verizon has committed to become carbon neutral by 2035</em></p><p>Today, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) announced it has joined The Climate Pledge—the commitment co-founded by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Global Optimism to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early. The Climate Pledge calls on new signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Accord's goal of 2050.</p><p>Verizon is on track to be carbon neutral across scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 2035 and has issued a $1 billion green bond to invest in innovative solutions to accelerate the company's sustainability efforts. This includes powering operations with 50% renewable energy by 2025 and new virtual power purchase agreements (VPPA) for more than 380 MW of new wind and solar power capacity.</p><p>"Climate change is a global challenge that impacts everyone, and that is why we considered it vital to join The Climate Pledge," said Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon. "Leaving future generations with a cleaner world is core to our values as a responsible business. At Verizon, it does not stop with reducing our carbon footprint. Through our technology and networks, we're innovating solutions for customers, increasing efficiencies and building resiliency across the company and the communities we serve."</p><p>Verizon and other companies that sign The Climate Pledge agree to:</p><ul><li>Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis;</li><li>Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies;</li><li>Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040.</li></ul><p>"I'm excited that Verizon is signing The Climate Pledge and committing to reach the Paris Agreement ten years early. Tackling climate change requires innovation, leadership, and partnership—no one can do it alone," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Verizon has set aggressive goals to increase energy efficiency across its operations and power its business with 50% renewable energy by 2025—on the path to achieving net zero carbon by 2040."</p><p>"As the climate crisis worsens, more companies will need to get serious and challenge themselves to achieve decarbonization at a faster pace," said Christiana Figueres, the UN's former climate change chief and founding partner of Global Optimism. "Verizon is committing to an accelerated timeline that will move the needle against the race to stop the continued warming of our planet. Actions like this will cut emissions and slow down the damage that has been done, but we have to act now."</p><p>By joining The Climate Pledge and agreeing to decarbonize at a faster rate, Verizon will play a critical role in stimulating investment in the development of low carbon products and services that will be required to help companies meet the pledge. To learn more about Verizon's sustainability efforts, visit verizon.com/sustainability.</p><p>About Verizon</p><p>Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) was formed on June 30, 2000 and is celebrating its 20th year as one of the world's leading providers of technology, communications, information and entertainment products and services. Headquartered in New York City and with a presence around the world, Verizon generated revenues of $131.9 billion in 2019. The company offers voice, data and video services and solutions on its award-winning networks and platforms, delivering on customers' demand for mobility, reliable network connectivity, security and control.</p><p>About Global Optimism</p><p>Global Optimism exists to precipitate transformational, sector-wide change. Achieving a zero emissions future is not a far-off challenge. It's one we must get on track for now. Every scientific assessment shows that to meet the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, to keep global heating below 1.5°C, we must halve our emissions between 2020 and 2030. Tackling the climate crisis is only possible when everyone, everywhere plays their part. We work with like-minded collectives from all sectors who are willing to invest in the choices required to be on this challenging – and life-affirming – journey. For more information, visit https://globaloptimism.com/.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200616005392/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of the Sixth Generation of Amazon EC2 Instances Powered By AWS Graviton2 Processors

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06/11/2020 18:18:00

AWS Announces General Availability of the Sixth Generation of Amazon EC2 Instances Powered By AWS Graviton2 Processors

06/11/2020

2020

Next generation of general purpose, compute optimized, and memory optimized Amazon EC2 instances deliver up to 40% better price/performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances CrowdStrike, Datadog, LexisNexis, Netflix, and Nielsen among customers using and partners supporting Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 11, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of its sixth generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with three new instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors. The new general purpose (M6g), compute-optimized (C6g), and memory-optimized (R6g) instances deliver up to 40% better price/performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances. These sixth generation Amazon EC2 instances include: M6g instances: designed for general-purpose workloads with balanced compute, memory, and networking, such as application servers, mid-size databases, microservices, and caching fleets. C6g instances: designed for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing, batch processing, video encoding, gaming, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, ad-serving, and CPU-based machine learning inference. R6g instances: designed for workloads that process large data sets in memory, such as open source databases (MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL) or in-memory caches (Redis, Memcached, and KeyDB), and real-time big data analytics. To get started with AWS Graviton2-based M6g, C6g, and R6g instances visit: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/. Since their introduction a year ago, Arm-based Amazon EC2 A1 instances (powered by AWS's first generation Graviton processor) have provided customers running scale-out workloads (e.g. containerized microservices and web tier applications) with significant cost savings. Given the cost savings, along with the increasing Arm support from a broad ecosystem of operating system and independent software vendors, customers now want to be able to run more demanding workloads on AWS Graviton-based instances. These diverse workloads require enhanced capabilities beyond those supported by A1 instances, such as faster processing, higher memory capacity, increased networking bandwidth, and larger instance sizes. The M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are powered by new AWS-designed, Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors that offer up to 7x more performance, 4x more compute cores, and 5x faster memory than the A1 instances–while also delivering up to 40% better price/performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances. "Today more than ever, customers are looking for innovative ways to increase performance and reduce cost, and Arm processors have emerged as an exciting and mainstream alternative to x86 processors for a wide variety of existing and emerging workloads," said David Brown, Vice President, Amazon EC2, at AWS. "The new Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based, Graviton2 processors represent a significant generational leap for customers, delivering 40% better price/performance over comparable x86-based instances, and already we've seen a broad set of customers embrace them across a wide variety of general purpose, compute optimized, and memory optimized workloads." In addition to superior price/performance, AWS Graviton2 processors also introduce a number of powerful optimizations, features, and capabilities. AWS Graviton2 processors use 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS, built using advanced 7 nanometer manufacturing technology. When compared to the first generation Graviton processors, AWS Graviton2 processors provide 2x faster floating point performance per core for scientific and high performance computing workloads, optimized instructions for faster machine learning inference, custom hardware acceleration for compression workloads, always-on fully encrypted DDR4 memory, and 50% faster per core encryption performance to further enhance security. AWS Graviton2-powered instances provide up to 64 vCPUs, 25 Gbps of enhanced networking, and 19 Gbps of EBS bandwidth. Already, AWS services like Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Elastic Map Reduce have found superior price/performance in testing, and plan to move the services into production on Graviton2-based instances in the coming months. M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enable the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in a bare metal option for workloads that benefit from access to physical resources. These instances will also be available soon with a local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage option (M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd) for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage. All AWS Graviton2-based instances are available to be purchased as On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, Savings Plans, or as Dedicated Hosts. All new AWS Graviton2-based instance types are supported by popular open source operating system distributions (Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Fedora, Debian, and FreeBSD), language runtimes (Amazon Corretto distribution of OpenJDK, NodeJS, Python, and Go), container services (Docker Desktop, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and Amazon ECR), agents (Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Systems Manager, and Amazon Inspector), developer tools (AWS Code Suite, Chef, Drone.io, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI), and security and monitoring solutions (CrowdStrike, Datadog, Honeycomb.io, Qualys, Rapid7, Tenable, and more). M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are generally available today and are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, with availability in additional regions planned in the coming months. Netflix is the world's leading internet entertainment service with 158 million memberships in 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. "We use Amazon EC2 M instance types for a number of workloads inclusive of our streaming, encoding, data processing, and monitoring applications," said Ed Hunter, Director of Performance and operating systems at Netflix. "We tested the new M6g instances using industry standard LMbench and certain Java benchmarks and saw up to 50% improvement over M5 instances. We're excited about the introduction of AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 instances." Nielsen is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. "Our OpenJDK based Java application is used to collect digital data, process incoming web requests, and redirect requests based on business needs. The application is I/O intensive and scaling out in a cost-effective manner is a key requirement," said Chris Nicotra, SVP Digital, at Nielsen. "We seamlessly transferred this Java application to Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by the AWS Graviton processor. We've since tested the new Graviton2-based M6g instances and it was able to handle twice the load of an A1. We look forward to running more workloads on the new Graviton2-based instances." Datadog is the monitoring and analytics platform for developers, operations, and business users in the cloud age. "We're excited the AWS Graviton2-based instances are now generally available. We've seen our own developer productivity increase as these instances have boosted the performance of key continuous integration pipelines by 50%," said Jimmy Caputo, Product Manager at Datadog. "With the Datadog Agent for Graviton/Arm, all AWS customers can use Datadog to monitor AWS Graviton2 instance performance alongside the rest of their infrastructure." Honeycomb.io provides an observability tool for introspecting and interrogating production systems, designed and evolved to meet the needs of platforms, microservices, serverless apps, and complex systems. "The initial transition process took about 15 hours to get Amazon EC2 M6g instances up and running as first-class citizens of our ingest worker test fleet," said Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate, at Honeycomb.io. "Comparing to existing C5 instances, we observe M6g instances to be superior in every aspect—they cost less, have more RAM, exhibit lower median and significantly narrower tail latency, and run cooler with the same proportional workload per host. Converting our entire ingest worker fleet to M6g instances has allowed us to run 30% fewer instances, and each instance costs 10% less." Hotelbeds is the world's leading bedbank, redefining accommodation, transfers, activities, and car rental products with a global network of travel distributors. "Hotelbeds is constantly exploring new technologies to ensure we offer the best products and services to our customers," said Guillem Cantallops, Technology Architect for Hotelbeds. "We were excited to test out the new AWS Graviton2 processors for our globally distributed API workload developed using Java11 + SpringBoot2. Our initial testing showed that the Amazon EC2 M6g instances deliver up to 43% better price/performance vs. the current generation M5 instances. Based on these results we foresee a seamless adoption of the M6g instances and expect to expand our use as soon they become available in additional regions." LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a global data and analytics company that provides data and technology services, analytics, predictive insights, and fraud prevention for a wide range of industries. "We tested our Java application based on OpenJDK8 on the Amazon EC2 M6g instances. This application handles a significant amount of encryption processes and is used to provide message level encryption to meet the security needs of our customers," said Tim Miller, Senior Consulting Software Engineer for the Health Care segment of LexisNexis Risk Solutions. "Compared to our baseline C5 instance, the M6g instance was able to handle 30% more traffic. These are very exciting results." CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader in cloud-native endpoint protection built from the ground up to stop breaches. "CrowdStrike Falcon delivers full spectrum runtime protection and visibility for hosts and hosted containers leveraging a cloud-native platform and a single lightweight sensor, without requiring any additional deployments or integrations," said Amol Kulkarni, Chief Product and Engineering Officer at CrowdStrike. "AWS Graviton2 Arm64-based instances offer compelling performance and cost benefits which will help drive adoption across a much wider variety of workloads. Under the shared responsibility model, AWS customers require consistent and seamless protection across their Amazon EC2 compute fleet, regardless of the underlying processor architectures. That is why we are delighted to extend CrowdStrike Falcon protection and visibility for all Graviton-based EC2 instances." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

<p><em>Next generation of general purpose, compute optimized, and memory optimized Amazon EC2 instances deliver up to 40% better price/performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances</em></p><p><em>CrowdStrike, Datadog, LexisNexis, Netflix, and Nielsen among customers using and partners supporting Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 11, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of its sixth generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with three new instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors. The new general purpose (M6g), compute-optimized (C6g), and memory-optimized (R6g) instances deliver up to 40% better price/performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances. These sixth generation Amazon EC2 instances include:</p><ul><li>M6g instances: designed for general-purpose workloads with balanced compute, memory, and networking, such as application servers, mid-size databases, microservices, and caching fleets.</li><li>C6g instances: designed for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing, batch processing, video encoding, gaming, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, ad-serving, and CPU-based machine learning inference.</li><li>R6g instances: designed for workloads that process large data sets in memory, such as open source databases (MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL) or in-memory caches (Redis, Memcached, and KeyDB), and real-time big data analytics.</li></ul><p>To get started with AWS Graviton2-based M6g, C6g, and R6g instances visit: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/.</p><p>Since their introduction a year ago, Arm-based Amazon EC2 A1 instances (powered by AWS's first generation Graviton processor) have provided customers running scale-out workloads (e.g. containerized microservices and web tier applications) with significant cost savings. Given the cost savings, along with the increasing Arm support from a broad ecosystem of operating system and independent software vendors, customers now want to be able to run more demanding workloads on AWS Graviton-based instances. These diverse workloads require enhanced capabilities beyond those supported by A1 instances, such as faster processing, higher memory capacity, increased networking bandwidth, and larger instance sizes. The M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are powered by new AWS-designed, Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors that offer up to 7x more performance, 4x more compute cores, and 5x faster memory than the A1 instances–while also delivering up to 40% better price/performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances.</p><p>"Today more than ever, customers are looking for innovative ways to increase performance and reduce cost, and Arm processors have emerged as an exciting and mainstream alternative to x86 processors for a wide variety of existing and emerging workloads," said David Brown, Vice President, Amazon EC2, at AWS. "The new Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based, Graviton2 processors represent a significant generational leap for customers, delivering 40% better price/performance over comparable x86-based instances, and already we've seen a broad set of customers embrace them across a wide variety of general purpose, compute optimized, and memory optimized workloads."</p><p>In addition to superior price/performance, AWS Graviton2 processors also introduce a number of powerful optimizations, features, and capabilities. AWS Graviton2 processors use 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS, built using advanced 7 nanometer manufacturing technology. When compared to the first generation Graviton processors, AWS Graviton2 processors provide 2x faster floating point performance per core for scientific and high performance computing workloads, optimized instructions for faster machine learning inference, custom hardware acceleration for compression workloads, always-on fully encrypted DDR4 memory, and 50% faster per core encryption performance to further enhance security. AWS Graviton2-powered instances provide up to 64 vCPUs, 25 Gbps of enhanced networking, and 19 Gbps of EBS bandwidth. Already, AWS services like Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Elastic Map Reduce have found superior price/performance in testing, and plan to move the services into production on Graviton2-based instances in the coming months.</p><p>M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enable the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in a bare metal option for workloads that benefit from access to physical resources. These instances will also be available soon with a local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage option (M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd) for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage. All AWS Graviton2-based instances are available to be purchased as On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, Savings Plans, or as Dedicated Hosts. All new AWS Graviton2-based instance types are supported by popular open source operating system distributions (Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Fedora, Debian, and FreeBSD), language runtimes (Amazon Corretto distribution of OpenJDK, NodeJS, Python, and Go), container services (Docker Desktop, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and Amazon ECR), agents (Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Systems Manager, and Amazon Inspector), developer tools (AWS Code Suite, Chef, Drone.io, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI), and security and monitoring solutions (CrowdStrike, Datadog, Honeycomb.io, Qualys, Rapid7, Tenable, and more). M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are generally available today and are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, with availability in additional regions planned in the coming months.</p><p>Netflix is the world's leading internet entertainment service with 158 million memberships in 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. "We use Amazon EC2 M instance types for a number of workloads inclusive of our streaming, encoding, data processing, and monitoring applications," said Ed Hunter, Director of Performance and operating systems at Netflix. "We tested the new M6g instances using industry standard LMbench and certain Java benchmarks and saw up to 50% improvement over M5 instances. We're excited about the introduction of AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 instances."</p><p>Nielsen is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. "Our OpenJDK based Java application is used to collect digital data, process incoming web requests, and redirect requests based on business needs. The application is I/O intensive and scaling out in a cost-effective manner is a key requirement," said Chris Nicotra, SVP Digital, at Nielsen. "We seamlessly transferred this Java application to Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by the AWS Graviton processor. We've since tested the new Graviton2-based M6g instances and it was able to handle twice the load of an A1. We look forward to running more workloads on the new Graviton2-based instances."</p><p>Datadog is the monitoring and analytics platform for developers, operations, and business users in the cloud age. "We're excited the AWS Graviton2-based instances are now generally available. We've seen our own developer productivity increase as these instances have boosted the performance of key continuous integration pipelines by 50%," said Jimmy Caputo, Product Manager at Datadog. "With the Datadog Agent for Graviton/Arm, all AWS customers can use Datadog to monitor AWS Graviton2 instance performance alongside the rest of their infrastructure."</p><p>Honeycomb.io provides an observability tool for introspecting and interrogating production systems, designed and evolved to meet the needs of platforms, microservices, serverless apps, and complex systems. "The initial transition process took about 15 hours to get Amazon EC2 M6g instances up and running as first-class citizens of our ingest worker test fleet," said Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate, at Honeycomb.io. "Comparing to existing C5 instances, we observe M6g instances to be superior in every aspect—they cost less, have more RAM, exhibit lower median and significantly narrower tail latency, and run cooler with the same proportional workload per host. Converting our entire ingest worker fleet to M6g instances has allowed us to run 30% fewer instances, and each instance costs 10% less."</p><p>Hotelbeds is the world's leading bedbank, redefining accommodation, transfers, activities, and car rental products with a global network of travel distributors. "Hotelbeds is constantly exploring new technologies to ensure we offer the best products and services to our customers," said Guillem Cantallops, Technology Architect for Hotelbeds. "We were excited to test out the new AWS Graviton2 processors for our globally distributed API workload developed using Java11 + SpringBoot2. Our initial testing showed that the Amazon EC2 M6g instances deliver up to 43% better price/performance vs. the current generation M5 instances. Based on these results we foresee a seamless adoption of the M6g instances and expect to expand our use as soon they become available in additional regions."</p><p>LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a global data and analytics company that provides data and technology services, analytics, predictive insights, and fraud prevention for a wide range of industries. "We tested our Java application based on OpenJDK8 on the Amazon EC2 M6g instances. This application handles a significant amount of encryption processes and is used to provide message level encryption to meet the security needs of our customers," said Tim Miller, Senior Consulting Software Engineer for the Health Care segment of LexisNexis Risk Solutions. "Compared to our baseline C5 instance, the M6g instance was able to handle 30% more traffic. These are very exciting results."</p><p>CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader in cloud-native endpoint protection built from the ground up to stop breaches. "CrowdStrike Falcon delivers full spectrum runtime protection and visibility for hosts and hosted containers leveraging a cloud-native platform and a single lightweight sensor, without requiring any additional deployments or integrations," said Amol Kulkarni, Chief Product and Engineering Officer at CrowdStrike. "AWS Graviton2 Arm64-based instances offer compelling performance and cost benefits which will help drive adoption across a much wider variety of workloads. Under the shared responsibility model, AWS customers require consistent and seamless protection across their Amazon EC2 compute fleet, regardless of the underlying processor architectures. That is why we are delighted to extend CrowdStrike Falcon protection and visibility for all Graviton-based EC2 instances."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p>

Amazon Stops Multiple Fraudulent Affiliate Marketing Schemes

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Amazon Stops Multiple Fraudulent Affiliate Marketing Schemes

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What:Amazon stopped multiple affiliate marketing fraud schemes across the United States to protect customers from bogus emails and phone calls.  Amazon filed three lawsuits in Georgia, Michigan, and Texas to stop fraudulent affiliate marketing schemes. The schemes identified in the lawsuits spammed email addresses with Amazon branded-emails to entice those receiving the emails to click on the links. The traffic was then directed to other online marketers operating phony Amazon-branded surveys. Amazon shut down the schemes at issue in the lawsuits. In Michigan, the defendants have agreed to a court order prohibiting them from using Amazon's brand. In a separate scheme, Amazon also stopped fake Amazon-branded email campaigns run by companies and individuals in Colorado and California. The bad actors responsible for the emails, Ryan Becker, Jeff Skeldum, Marc Barnum, and Steve Vernikov said they "acknowledge Amazon's strong interest in protecting consumers from deceptive advertising and agree to refrain from using Amazon's trademarks or brand in any internet marketing."  These actions follow last year's lawsuit against an Illinois-based affiliate marketer, First Impression Interactive, Inc. and its owners who were responsible for advertising fake work-from-home jobs with Amazon. As a result of Amazon's efforts, First Impression and its owners are now prohibited from using Amazon's brand in any future marketing. Amazon does not send unsolicited emails or texts. If customers encounter this activity, they can report it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/report-phishing.html Statement, attributable to an ‘Amazon spokesperson':"Amazon has no tolerance for schemes fraudulently using our brand, and we are appalled at these bad actors' attempts to deceive our customers. We are advocating for customers by holding these bad actors accountable to the fullest extent of the law." Additional Background:You can see the court filings here: Case: 20-cv-02338-AT, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Case: 20-cv-11422-BAF-APP, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Case: 20-cv-01920, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Case: 19-cv-00523-RSM, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Amazon has an extensive history of protecting customers and sellers from scammers https://www.cnet.com/news/ftc-gets-11m-settlement-from-get-rich-quick-scammers-targeting-amazon/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/amazon-is-working-with-the-ftcs-fraud-investigation-against-sellers-playbook/  Press ContactAmazon Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.com

<p>What:Amazon stopped multiple affiliate marketing fraud schemes across the United States to protect customers from bogus emails and phone calls. </p><p>Amazon filed three lawsuits in Georgia, Michigan, and Texas to stop fraudulent affiliate marketing schemes. The schemes identified in the lawsuits spammed email addresses with Amazon branded-emails to entice those receiving the emails to click on the links. The traffic was then directed to other online marketers operating phony Amazon-branded surveys. Amazon shut down the schemes at issue in the lawsuits. In Michigan, the defendants have agreed to a court order prohibiting them from using Amazon's brand.</p><p>In a separate scheme, Amazon also stopped fake Amazon-branded email campaigns run by companies and individuals in Colorado and California. The bad actors responsible for the emails, Ryan Becker, Jeff Skeldum, Marc Barnum, and Steve Vernikov said they "acknowledge Amazon's strong interest in protecting consumers from deceptive advertising and agree to refrain from using Amazon's trademarks or brand in any internet marketing." </p><p>These actions follow last year's lawsuit against an Illinois-based affiliate marketer, First Impression Interactive, Inc. and its owners who were responsible for advertising fake work-from-home jobs with Amazon. As a result of Amazon's efforts, First Impression and its owners are now prohibited from using Amazon's brand in any future marketing.</p><p>Amazon does not send unsolicited emails or texts. If customers encounter this activity, they can report it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/report-phishing.html</p><p>Statement, attributable to an ‘Amazon spokesperson':"Amazon has no tolerance for schemes fraudulently using our brand, and we are appalled at these bad actors' attempts to deceive our customers. We are advocating for customers by holding these bad actors accountable to the fullest extent of the law."</p><p>Additional Background:You can see the court filings here:</p><ul><li>Case: 20-cv-02338-AT, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia</li><li>Case: 20-cv-11422-BAF-APP, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan</li><li>Case: 20-cv-01920, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas</li><li>Case: 19-cv-00523-RSM, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington</li></ul><p>Amazon has an extensive history of protecting customers and sellers from scammers</p><ul><li>https://www.cnet.com/news/ftc-gets-11m-settlement-from-get-rich-quick-scammers-targeting-amazon/</li><li>https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/amazon-is-working-with-the-ftcs-fraud-investigation-against-sellers-playbook/</li></ul><p> Press ContactAmazon Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.com</p>

AWS and Slack Join Forces to Deliver the Future of the Enterprise Workplace

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06/04/2020 17:15:00

AWS and Slack Join Forces to Deliver the Future of the Enterprise Workplace

06/04/2020

2020

AWS and Slack collaborate to deliver tightly integrated, enterprise grade tools as Slack expands its use of AWS SEATTLE & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 4, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Slack Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: WORK) announced a new multi-year agreement to deliver solutions for enhanced enterprise workforce collaboration. Slack and AWS will strategically partner to help distributed development teams communicate and become more efficient and agile in managing their AWS resources from inside Slack. Slack will migrate its Slack Calls capability for all voice and video calling to Amazon Chime, AWS's communications service that lets users meet, chat, and place business calls. Slack is also leveraging AWS's global infrastructure to support enterprise customers' rapid adoption of its platform and to offer them data residency – the ability to choose which country or region their data is stored at rest in while fulfilling compliance requirements. Slack continues to rely on AWS as its preferred cloud provider and will use a range of AWS services, including storage, compute, database, security, analytics, and machine learning, to develop new collaboration features. Additionally, AWS has agreed to use Slack to simplify the way teams at AWS communicate and work together. Enterprise customers can rely on Slack's channel-based messaging solution, combined with AWS's proven infrastructure and security services, for secure, reliable, and scalable communication. Slack and AWS will also extend product integration and deepen interoperability to help developer teams manage their AWS resources in Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms with greater flexibility. These integrations include: Amazon Chime infrastructure with Slack Calls: Amazon Chime SDK (software development kit) will soon power audio, video, and screen-sharing capabilities in native Slack Calls. By relying on Amazon Chime to power its real-time communication, Slack will leverage AWS's proven infrastructure to deliver high-quality and reliable user experiences while eliminating the cost and complexity of maintaining its own unified communications infrastructure. AWS Key Management Service with Slack Enterprise Key Management (EKM): For EKM, Slack leverages AWS's proven security services, including AWS Key Management Service for distribution and control of cryptographic keys. Designed for security-conscious or regulated enterprise customers who seek increased visibility and control over their data in Slack, over 90 companies are now using the solution to manage their own encryption keys. Enhancements, such as EKM for Slack's Workflow Builder automation tool were released last month. AWS Chatbot integration with Slack: AWS Chatbot is a service that uses an interactive agent to help development teams stay updated, collaborate, and respond more quickly to operational events, security findings, workflows, and other alerts for applications running in AWS accounts. Only recently generally available, AWS Chatbot is already in use by many thousands of teams around the world to improve the application development process. Going forward, the AWS Chatbot service will incorporate AWS's more than 175 services to give developers the ability to collaborate with their teams to manage all of their cloud-based services without leaving Slack. Amazon AppFlow integration with Slack: The new Amazon AppFlow integration for Slack enables users to securely transfer data between Slack and AWS services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Redshift, simplifying tasks such as analyzing trends in customer engagement from helpdesk requests or measuring sentiment data. In the coming months, AWS and Slack will enhance this capability, enabling customers to transfer data bi-directionally between multiple Slack channels and AWS services in a single flow. "The future of enterprise software will be driven by the combination of cloud services and workstream collaboration tools," said Stewart Butterfield, CEO and co-founder of Slack. "Strategically partnering with AWS allows both companies to scale to meet demand and deliver enterprise-grade offerings to our customers. By integrating AWS services with Slack's channel-based messaging platform, we're helping teams easily and seamlessly manage their cloud infrastructure projects and launch cloud-based services without ever leaving Slack." "Together, AWS and Slack are giving developer teams the ability to collaborate and innovate faster on the front end with applications, while giving them the ability to efficiently manage their backend cloud infrastructure," said Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS. "AWS customers gain a powerful new means of managing their AWS resources that will help teams collaborate and build more applications using the broadest and deepest set of cloud services. We look forward to working with Slack to expand the ways we can help our customers innovate in the cloud." About Amazon Web Services For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Slack Slack has transformed business communication. It's the leading channel-based messaging platform, used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. Only Slack offers a secure, enterprise-grade environment that can scale with the largest companies in the world. It is a new layer of the business technology stack where people can work together more effectively, connect all their other software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work. Slack is where work happens. 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<p><em>AWS and Slack collaborate to deliver tightly integrated, enterprise grade tools as Slack expands its use of AWS</em></p><p>SEATTLE &amp; SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 4, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Slack Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: WORK) announced a new multi-year agreement to deliver solutions for enhanced enterprise workforce collaboration. Slack and AWS will strategically partner to help distributed development teams communicate and become more efficient and agile in managing their AWS resources from inside Slack. Slack will migrate its Slack Calls capability for all voice and video calling to Amazon Chime, AWS's communications service that lets users meet, chat, and place business calls. Slack is also leveraging AWS's global infrastructure to support enterprise customers' rapid adoption of its platform and to offer them data residency – the ability to choose which country or region their data is stored at rest in while fulfilling compliance requirements. Slack continues to rely on AWS as its preferred cloud provider and will use a range of AWS services, including storage, compute, database, security, analytics, and machine learning, to develop new collaboration features. Additionally, AWS has agreed to use Slack to simplify the way teams at AWS communicate and work together.</p><p>Enterprise customers can rely on Slack's channel-based messaging solution, combined with AWS's proven infrastructure and security services, for secure, reliable, and scalable communication. Slack and AWS will also extend product integration and deepen interoperability to help developer teams manage their AWS resources in Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms with greater flexibility. These integrations include:</p><ul><li>Amazon Chime infrastructure with Slack Calls: Amazon Chime SDK (software development kit) will soon power audio, video, and screen-sharing capabilities in native Slack Calls. By relying on Amazon Chime to power its real-time communication, Slack will leverage AWS's proven infrastructure to deliver high-quality and reliable user experiences while eliminating the cost and complexity of maintaining its own unified communications infrastructure.</li><li>AWS Key Management Service with Slack Enterprise Key Management (EKM): For EKM, Slack leverages AWS's proven security services, including AWS Key Management Service for distribution and control of cryptographic keys. Designed for security-conscious or regulated enterprise customers who seek increased visibility and control over their data in Slack, over 90 companies are now using the solution to manage their own encryption keys. Enhancements, such as EKM for Slack's Workflow Builder automation tool were released last month.</li><li>AWS Chatbot integration with Slack: AWS Chatbot is a service that uses an interactive agent to help development teams stay updated, collaborate, and respond more quickly to operational events, security findings, workflows, and other alerts for applications running in AWS accounts. Only recently generally available, AWS Chatbot is already in use by many thousands of teams around the world to improve the application development process. Going forward, the AWS Chatbot service will incorporate AWS's more than 175 services to give developers the ability to collaborate with their teams to manage all of their cloud-based services without leaving Slack.</li><li>Amazon AppFlow integration with Slack: The new Amazon AppFlow integration for Slack enables users to securely transfer data between Slack and AWS services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Redshift, simplifying tasks such as analyzing trends in customer engagement from helpdesk requests or measuring sentiment data. In the coming months, AWS and Slack will enhance this capability, enabling customers to transfer data bi-directionally between multiple Slack channels and AWS services in a single flow.</li></ul><p>"The future of enterprise software will be driven by the combination of cloud services and workstream collaboration tools," said Stewart Butterfield, CEO and co-founder of Slack. "Strategically partnering with AWS allows both companies to scale to meet demand and deliver enterprise-grade offerings to our customers. By integrating AWS services with Slack's channel-based messaging platform, we're helping teams easily and seamlessly manage their cloud infrastructure projects and launch cloud-based services without ever leaving Slack."</p><p>"Together, AWS and Slack are giving developer teams the ability to collaborate and innovate faster on the front end with applications, while giving them the ability to efficiently manage their backend cloud infrastructure," said Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS. "AWS customers gain a powerful new means of managing their AWS resources that will help teams collaborate and build more applications using the broadest and deepest set of cloud services. We look forward to working with Slack to expand the ways we can help our customers innovate in the cloud."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 76 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Slack</p><p>Slack has transformed business communication. It's the leading channel-based messaging platform, used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. Only Slack offers a secure, enterprise-grade environment that can scale with the largest companies in the world. It is a new layer of the business technology stack where people can work together more effectively, connect all their other software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work. Slack is where work happens.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200604005766/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Air Expands Aircraft Fleet

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06/03/2020 16:01:00

Amazon Air Expands Aircraft Fleet

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Amazon to lease 12 additional 767-300 converted cargo aircraft, increasing their fleet to over 80 aircraft as part of Amazon's dedicated air cargo network SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 3, 2020-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon continues to adapt to meet the changing needs of customers by investing in ways to provide fast, free delivery. Today, the company announced the lease of 12 Boeing 767-300 converted cargo aircraft from Air Transport Services Group (ATSG). These aircraft will join Amazon's existing fleet of 70 aircraft to bring its total network to over 80 aircraft. One of the new aircraft joined Amazon's air cargo operations in May 2020, with the remaining 11 to be delivered in 2021. Amazon Air's fleet expansion comes at a time when people in communities across the country continue to adjust to this unprecedented time, with many relying on having the items they need delivered directly to their doorstep. Amazon Air has played a central role during the COVID-19 pandemic by transporting essential PPE supplies for Amazon associates, frontline health workers and relief organizations across the U.S., all while maintaining capacity for regular cargo operations to ensure customers continue to receive the items they need. Now, with expanded cargo capacity to come, Amazon will continue to meet evolving demand and a growing customer base. "Amazon Air is critical to ensuring fast delivery for our customers – both in the current environment we are facing, and beyond," said Sarah Rhoads, Vice President of Amazon Global Air. "During a time when so many of our customers rely on us to get what they need without leaving their homes, expanding our dedicated air network ensures we have the capacity to deliver what our customers want: great selection, low prices and fast shipping speeds." "We are proud to continue to evolve our partnership with Amazon to support the fast, free delivery for which they are famous," said Rich Corrado, President and CEO of ATSG. "Our combined experience in the industry and access to a fleet of 767 cargo aircraft make us an ideal partner to support the growth of Amazon Air's fleet." Amazon continues to expand on-the-ground operations in addition to aircraft. Amazon will open new Regional Air Hubs at Lakeland Linder International Airport in Florida later this summer and at San Bernardino International Airport next year, along with the central Amazon Air Hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 2021. In May, Amazon Air began Gateway operations at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since Amazon Air's launch in 2016, Amazon has invested hundreds of millions of dollars and created thousands of new jobs at Amazon Air locations across the U.S. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200603005770/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon to lease 12 additional 767-300 converted cargo aircraft, increasing their fleet to over 80 aircraft as part of Amazon's dedicated air cargo network</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 3, 2020-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon continues to adapt to meet the changing needs of customers by investing in ways to provide fast, free delivery. Today, the company announced the lease of 12 Boeing 767-300 converted cargo aircraft from Air Transport Services Group (ATSG). These aircraft will join Amazon's existing fleet of 70 aircraft to bring its total network to over 80 aircraft. One of the new aircraft joined Amazon's air cargo operations in May 2020, with the remaining 11 to be delivered in 2021.</p><p>Amazon Air's fleet expansion comes at a time when people in communities across the country continue to adjust to this unprecedented time, with many relying on having the items they need delivered directly to their doorstep. Amazon Air has played a central role during the COVID-19 pandemic by transporting essential PPE supplies for Amazon associates, frontline health workers and relief organizations across the U.S., all while maintaining capacity for regular cargo operations to ensure customers continue to receive the items they need. Now, with expanded cargo capacity to come, Amazon will continue to meet evolving demand and a growing customer base.</p><p>"Amazon Air is critical to ensuring fast delivery for our customers – both in the current environment we are facing, and beyond," said Sarah Rhoads, Vice President of Amazon Global Air. "During a time when so many of our customers rely on us to get what they need without leaving their homes, expanding our dedicated air network ensures we have the capacity to deliver what our customers want: great selection, low prices and fast shipping speeds."</p><p>"We are proud to continue to evolve our partnership with Amazon to support the fast, free delivery for which they are famous," said Rich Corrado, President and CEO of ATSG. "Our combined experience in the industry and access to a fleet of 767 cargo aircraft make us an ideal partner to support the growth of Amazon Air's fleet."</p><p>Amazon continues to expand on-the-ground operations in addition to aircraft. Amazon will open new Regional Air Hubs at Lakeland Linder International Airport in Florida later this summer and at San Bernardino International Airport next year, along with the central Amazon Air Hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 2021. In May, Amazon Air began Gateway operations at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since Amazon Air's launch in 2016, Amazon has invested hundreds of millions of dollars and created thousands of new jobs at Amazon Air locations across the U.S.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200603005770/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2020 Grant Recipients

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Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2020 Grant Recipients

05/27/2020

2020

Following emergency relief donations to Artist Relief and PEN America Writer's Emergency Fund who are providing grants directly to writers impacted by COVID-19, the Amazon Literary Partnership expands support with more than $1 million in funding to 66 nonprofits dedicated to serving writers Since 2009, the Amazon Literary Partnership has awarded more than $13 million in grant funding to more than 175 literary organizations SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)— For more than 10 years, the Amazon Literary Partnership has supported efforts that help writers tell their stories and find their readers. Following the emergency relief donation to Artist Relief and PEN America Writer's Emergency Fund, both of which are providing grants directly to writers impacted by COVID-19, the Amazon Literary Partnership today announced an additional $1 million in grant funding to 66 organizations across the country. The funding will support groups that are working to empower writers, helping them to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive. The Amazon Literary Partnership strives to award grants to organizations that have a deep impact on writers' lives and the broader literary and publishing community. In addition to the 66 grants gifted this year, the Amazon Literary Partnership has also awarded $120,000 grants to the Academy of American Poets and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses to establish a Poetry Fund and Literary Magazine Fund. Since 2009, the Amazon Literary Partnership has awarded more than 175 organizations, all of which amplify and uplift overlooked and underrepresented writers, and connect writers with their readers, with more than $13 million in grant funding. Grant recipients include nonprofit writing centers, residencies, fellowships, after-school classes, literary magazines, national organizations supporting storytelling and free speech, and internationally acclaimed publishers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. "We're extremely grateful for the opportunity to work with the Amazon Literary Partnership to support poetry organizations, especially as more and more people are turning to poetry for comfort and courage in this crisis," said Jennifer Benka, Executive Director, the Academy of American Poets. "We appreciate that the Amazon Literary Partnership program was quick to respond in this time of great need." "Since its inception, CLMP has been dedicated to sustaining the health and extending the reach of the nation's literary magazines. Often the first places writers find their readers, these publications are essential to the publishing ecosystem, providing fertile ground for diverse voices to thrive," said Mary Gannon, Executive Director, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. "CLMP is honored to lend its expertise to the Amazon Literary Partnership's ongoing financial support of these underserved and uniquely vulnerable publishers." "The Amazon Literary Partnership champions organizations that support writers, poets, translators, and diverse voices at every stage in their career. Given the impact COVID-19 has had on the literary community, we are proud to continue to fund these remarkable organizations sustaining the literary culture in our communities now and for the future," said Alexandra Woodworth, Manager of the Amazon Literary Partnership. This year's grant recipients include a wide range of organizations from 24 states and Washington D.C. New grant recipients include Deep Vellum Publishing, City of Asylum Pittsburgh, The Center for Africa, LitNet as well as past grant recipients like the Asian American Writers Workshop, Lambda Literary, National Novel Writing Month, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35, Words without Borders, and Poets & Writers. "The pandemic's impact on the LGBTQ literary community has been, and will continue to be, devastating. So many of us are struggling to get by, are grieving, have fallen ill, or have been lost," said Sue Landers, Executive Director of Lambda Literary. "Generous support from the Amazon Literary Partnership will help ensure that Lambda Literary can continue to respond creatively and powerfully to LGBTQ writers' needs as we move through this historic time." "As a small organization hosting the world's largest writing event, NaNoWriMo has depended on Amazon Literary Partnership's support for more than 10 years to help create a global neighborhood of writers focused on inclusivity, empowerment, and encouragement," said Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month. "We want everyone to embrace their creativity and make it a priority, and Amazon Literary Partnership has been instrumental in helping thousands of people believe in their story and give it voice." "In times of danger and upheaval, writers help us make sense of what is happening, expand our capacity for empathy, and imagine the future. So we are especially grateful to have the renewed support of Amazon Literary Partnership this year," said Elliot Figman, Executive Director, Poets & Writers. "The grant will help us continue United States of Writing, an initiative to deepen our support for writers nationwide. In a field that is woefully under-capitalized, Amazon's support for the literary community is critical." 2020 Amazon Literary Partnership grants826 Valencia826NYCAcademy of American PoetsArchipelago BooksArtist ReliefArtist TrustAsian American Writers' WorkshopAspen WordsAssociation of Writers & Writing ProgramsBeverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain InstituteBrooklyn Book Festival.orgCenter for the Art of TranslationCentrumChicago Humanities FestivalCity of Asylum PittsburghClarion WestCoffee House PressCommunity of Literary Magazines & PressesCommunity-Word ProjectCreative Writing Program, University of WashingtonDeep Vellum PublishingFeminist Press, Inc.Girls Write NowGraywolf PressGrubStreetHedgebrookHouse of SpeakEasyHub City Writers ProjectHumanities WashingtonIndiana Writers CenterJack Jones Literary ArtsKenyon ReviewKundimanLambda LiteraryLighthouse Writers WorkshopLitNet: The Literary NetworkLoft, Inc. (The Loft Literary Center)Milkweed EditionsNarrative 4, Inc.National Book Critics Circle BoardNational Book FoundationNational Novel Writing MonthOpen Letter Books/Best Translated Book AwardPEN AmericaPEN America Writer's Emergency FundRestless BooksRichard Hugo HouseSeattle Arts & LecturesSeattle City of LiteratureSeattle Public LibrarySmall Press DistributionThe Center for FictionThe Corporation of YaddoThe Inner LoopThe MacDowell ColonyThe MothThe Africa CenterThe Telling RoomThe Writer's Block: Writing Downtown ResidencyTown Hall SeattleTransit BooksUcross FoundationWashington Center for the BookWords Without BordersWriteGirlWriters in the SchoolsYoung Writers ProjectZora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation To learn more about the Amazon Literary Partnership and Amazon in the Community visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/our-communities.

<p><em>Following emergency relief donations to Artist Relief and PEN America Writer's Emergency Fund who are providing grants directly to writers impacted by COVID-19, the Amazon Literary Partnership expands support with more than $1 million in funding to 66 nonprofits dedicated to serving writers</em></p><p><em>Since 2009, the Amazon Literary Partnership has awarded more than $13 million in grant funding to more than 175 literary organizations</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)— For more than 10 years, the Amazon Literary Partnership has supported efforts that help writers tell their stories and find their readers. Following the emergency relief donation to Artist Relief and PEN America Writer's Emergency Fund, both of which are providing grants directly to writers impacted by COVID-19, the Amazon Literary Partnership today announced an additional $1 million in grant funding to 66 organizations across the country. The funding will support groups that are working to empower writers, helping them to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive.</p><p>The Amazon Literary Partnership strives to award grants to organizations that have a deep impact on writers' lives and the broader literary and publishing community. In addition to the 66 grants gifted this year, the Amazon Literary Partnership has also awarded $120,000 grants to the Academy of American Poets and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses to establish a Poetry Fund and Literary Magazine Fund.</p><p>Since 2009, the Amazon Literary Partnership has awarded more than 175 organizations, all of which amplify and uplift overlooked and underrepresented writers, and connect writers with their readers, with more than $13 million in grant funding. Grant recipients include nonprofit writing centers, residencies, fellowships, after-school classes, literary magazines, national organizations supporting storytelling and free speech, and internationally acclaimed publishers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.</p><p>"We're extremely grateful for the opportunity to work with the Amazon Literary Partnership to support poetry organizations, especially as more and more people are turning to poetry for comfort and courage in this crisis," said Jennifer Benka, Executive Director, the Academy of American Poets. "We appreciate that the Amazon Literary Partnership program was quick to respond in this time of great need."</p><p>"Since its inception, CLMP has been dedicated to sustaining the health and extending the reach of the nation's literary magazines. Often the first places writers find their readers, these publications are essential to the publishing ecosystem, providing fertile ground for diverse voices to thrive," said Mary Gannon, Executive Director, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. "CLMP is honored to lend its expertise to the Amazon Literary Partnership's ongoing financial support of these underserved and uniquely vulnerable publishers."</p><p>"The Amazon Literary Partnership champions organizations that support writers, poets, translators, and diverse voices at every stage in their career. Given the impact COVID-19 has had on the literary community, we are proud to continue to fund these remarkable organizations sustaining the literary culture in our communities now and for the future," said Alexandra Woodworth, Manager of the Amazon Literary Partnership.</p><p>This year's grant recipients include a wide range of organizations from 24 states and Washington D.C. New grant recipients include Deep Vellum Publishing, City of Asylum Pittsburgh, The Center for Africa, LitNet as well as past grant recipients like the Asian American Writers Workshop, Lambda Literary, National Novel Writing Month, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35, Words without Borders, and Poets &amp; Writers.</p><p>"The pandemic's impact on the LGBTQ literary community has been, and will continue to be, devastating. So many of us are struggling to get by, are grieving, have fallen ill, or have been lost," said Sue Landers, Executive Director of Lambda Literary. "Generous support from the Amazon Literary Partnership will help ensure that Lambda Literary can continue to respond creatively and powerfully to LGBTQ writers' needs as we move through this historic time."</p><p>"As a small organization hosting the world's largest writing event, NaNoWriMo has depended on Amazon Literary Partnership's support for more than 10 years to help create a global neighborhood of writers focused on inclusivity, empowerment, and encouragement," said Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month. "We want everyone to embrace their creativity and make it a priority, and Amazon Literary Partnership has been instrumental in helping thousands of people believe in their story and give it voice."</p><p>"In times of danger and upheaval, writers help us make sense of what is happening, expand our capacity for empathy, and imagine the future. So we are especially grateful to have the renewed support of Amazon Literary Partnership this year," said Elliot Figman, Executive Director, Poets &amp; Writers. "The grant will help us continue United States of Writing, an initiative to deepen our support for writers nationwide. In a field that is woefully under-capitalized, Amazon's support for the literary community is critical."</p><p>2020 Amazon Literary Partnership grants826 Valencia826NYCAcademy of American PoetsArchipelago BooksArtist ReliefArtist TrustAsian American Writers' WorkshopAspen WordsAssociation of Writers &amp; Writing ProgramsBeverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain InstituteBrooklyn Book Festival.orgCenter for the Art of TranslationCentrumChicago Humanities FestivalCity of Asylum PittsburghClarion WestCoffee House PressCommunity of Literary Magazines &amp; PressesCommunity-Word ProjectCreative Writing Program, University of WashingtonDeep Vellum PublishingFeminist Press, Inc.Girls Write NowGraywolf PressGrubStreetHedgebrookHouse of SpeakEasyHub City Writers ProjectHumanities WashingtonIndiana Writers CenterJack Jones Literary ArtsKenyon ReviewKundimanLambda LiteraryLighthouse Writers WorkshopLitNet: The Literary NetworkLoft, Inc. (The Loft Literary Center)Milkweed EditionsNarrative 4, Inc.National Book Critics Circle BoardNational Book FoundationNational Novel Writing MonthOpen Letter Books/Best Translated Book AwardPEN AmericaPEN America Writer's Emergency FundRestless BooksRichard Hugo HouseSeattle Arts &amp; LecturesSeattle City of LiteratureSeattle Public LibrarySmall Press DistributionThe Center for FictionThe Corporation of YaddoThe Inner LoopThe MacDowell ColonyThe MothThe Africa CenterThe Telling RoomThe Writer's Block: Writing Downtown ResidencyTown Hall SeattleTransit BooksUcross FoundationWashington Center for the BookWords Without BordersWriteGirlWriters in the SchoolsYoung Writers ProjectZora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation</p><p>To learn more about the Amazon Literary Partnership and Amazon in the Community visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/our-communities.</p>