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Amazon Funds Urban Greening Program to Increase Climate-Resilience of German Cities

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05/26/2020 05:00:00

Amazon Funds Urban Greening Program to Increase Climate-Resilience of German Cities

05/26/2020

2020

The effects of climate change, such as extreme heat, urban flooding and biodiversity loss, have an increasing impact on cities. Amazon is supporting The Nature Conservancy in their partnership with municipalities to develop nature-based solutions that enhance biodiversity and climate adaptation. These nature-based solutions are part of an urban greening program which will develop models for green urban design in three German locations and enable the sharing of best practices with cities across Europe. This is the first project outside the U.S. of Amazon's $100 millionRight Now Climate Fund to support its Climate Pledge commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040 – 10 years ahead of the Paris Climate Agreement. BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2020-- Amazon today announced a €3.75 million commitment to The Nature Conservancy in an effort to reduce climate change risks and increase species biodiversity in three German cities. The initial project is in Berlin's Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. Learnings will be applied in two other German locations, and then shared across other European cities. With this, Amazon is recognizing the urgency of the climate crisis and its impacts on urban communities. The announcement follows The Climate Pledge, the company's commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040. Amazon's commitment will fund The Nature Conservancy's Urban Greening program, which uses nature-based solutions to help cities become more climate-change resilient. The program will collaborate with city officials and local community organizations to create and implement plans for: reducing flood risk by improving rainwater retention through tree planting, revitalizing urban wetlands, and adapting existing green spaces, reducing extreme heat and pollution by leveraging unused public spaces to plant trees and improving urban water bodies, and increasing urban biodiversity by introducing pollinator-friendly species, climate resilient plants, and urban grasslands. The program starts in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin and uses a science-based, municipality-wide, and stakeholder-based approach to urban greening to ensure that projects are complementing existing local efforts. Two additional German cities will be chosen, in which the initial learnings from Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf will be applied. The goal is to share a guide to urban greening with municipalities across Europe by the end of the five-year project. In recent years, Berlin has experienced extreme weather, and people have been affected by intense heat waves and floods. For example, storm "Axel" in May 2019 released 70 liters of rainfall per square meter, leading to severe flooding. "We believe that cities play an important role to lead on climate action at the local level in the coming decades, in support of Germany's strong national commitment of climate neutrality by 2050," said Dr. Kerstin Pfliegner, Germany Director of The Nature Conservancy. "The people of Berlin are experiencing climate change first-hand – with urban floods and extreme heat events in the past years," said Dr. Ulrich Heink, Director of the Department of Nature Conservation, Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. "The nature-based climate solutions in this urban greening program will help to reduce these impacts while at the same time increase biodiversity and citizen well-being." Dr. Kerstin Pfliegner added: "Our research shows that nature can offer cost-effective options for resilience in this changing environment." "Cities like Berlin are on the front line in the fight against climate change", said Oliver Schruoffenegger, City Councilor, Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. "I welcome the commitment of The Nature Conservancy and Amazon to work together with the city of Berlin in our efforts to become greener. I look forward to working with both partners and local communities to define the best programs for our district." Ralf Kleber, Vice President and Country Manager for Amazon Germany added: "In addition to all our efforts in the fight against COVID-19, we must also maintain our efforts to protect the planet. The Nature Conservancy and its municipal partners will apply a science-based approach to developing a model that can be applied more broadly across German and European cities. As the program progresses, we will measure the impacts to ensure that the actions result in tangible benefits to urban residents, such as more greened spaces, greater counts of wild bees and other pollinators, more cubic liters of storm water safely managed, and lower average surface temperatures." The Urban Greening program is the first project outside the U.S. for Amazon's $100 millionRight Now Climate Fund, which is part of Amazon's commitment to The Climate Pledge. Last year, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge with Global Optimism and became its first signatory. The Climate Pledge is a collaborative initiative for companies that commit to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early, to be net zero carbon by 2040 through decarbonization of operations and the use of nature-based solutions. In April, Amazon announced two other projects out of the Right Now Climate Fund, committing $10 million to accelerate the restoration and conservation of millions of acres of forest in the Northeastern U.S. For more information about Amazon's commitment to sustainability and the Right Now Climate Fund, visit sustainability.aboutamazon.com. For more information about The Climate Pledge, visit 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 aboutamazon.de and follow @AmazonNewsDE. About The Nature Conservancy The Nature Conservancy is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Guided by science, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world's toughest challenges so that nature and people can thrive together. We are tackling climate change, conserving lands, waters and oceans at an unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more sustainable. Working in 79 countries and territories, we use a collaborative approach that engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners. To learn more, visit nature.org or follow @nature_press on Twitter. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200526005151/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>The effects of climate change, such as extreme heat, urban flooding and biodiversity loss, have an increasing impact on cities. Amazon is supporting The Nature Conservancy in their partnership with municipalities to develop nature-based solutions that enhance biodiversity and climate adaptation.</em></p><p><em>These nature-based solutions are part of an urban greening program which will develop models for green urban design in three German locations and enable the sharing of best practices with cities across Europe.</em></p><p><em>This is the first project outside the U.S. of Amazon's $100 millionRight Now Climate Fund to support its Climate Pledge commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040 – 10 years ahead of the Paris Climate Agreement.</em></p><p>BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2020-- Amazon today announced a €3.75 million commitment to The Nature Conservancy in an effort to reduce climate change risks and increase species biodiversity in three German cities. The initial project is in Berlin's Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. Learnings will be applied in two other German locations, and then shared across other European cities. With this, Amazon is recognizing the urgency of the climate crisis and its impacts on urban communities. The announcement follows The Climate Pledge, the company's commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040.</p><p>Amazon's commitment will fund The Nature Conservancy's Urban Greening program, which uses nature-based solutions to help cities become more climate-change resilient. The program will collaborate with city officials and local community organizations to create and implement plans for:</p><ul><li>reducing flood risk by improving rainwater retention through tree planting, revitalizing urban wetlands, and adapting existing green spaces,</li><li>reducing extreme heat and pollution by leveraging unused public spaces to plant trees and improving urban water bodies, and</li><li>increasing urban biodiversity by introducing pollinator-friendly species, climate resilient plants, and urban grasslands.</li></ul><p>The program starts in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin and uses a science-based, municipality-wide, and stakeholder-based approach to urban greening to ensure that projects are complementing existing local efforts. Two additional German cities will be chosen, in which the initial learnings from Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf will be applied. The goal is to share a guide to urban greening with municipalities across Europe by the end of the five-year project.</p><p>In recent years, Berlin has experienced extreme weather, and people have been affected by intense heat waves and floods. For example, storm "Axel" in May 2019 released 70 liters of rainfall per square meter, leading to severe flooding. "We believe that cities play an important role to lead on climate action at the local level in the coming decades, in support of Germany's strong national commitment of climate neutrality by 2050," said Dr. Kerstin Pfliegner, Germany Director of The Nature Conservancy.</p><p>"The people of Berlin are experiencing climate change first-hand – with urban floods and extreme heat events in the past years," said Dr. Ulrich Heink, Director of the Department of Nature Conservation, Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. "The nature-based climate solutions in this urban greening program will help to reduce these impacts while at the same time increase biodiversity and citizen well-being." Dr. Kerstin Pfliegner added: "Our research shows that nature can offer cost-effective options for resilience in this changing environment."</p><p>"Cities like Berlin are on the front line in the fight against climate change", said Oliver Schruoffenegger, City Councilor, Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. "I welcome the commitment of The Nature Conservancy and Amazon to work together with the city of Berlin in our efforts to become greener. I look forward to working with both partners and local communities to define the best programs for our district."</p><p>Ralf Kleber, Vice President and Country Manager for Amazon Germany added: "In addition to all our efforts in the fight against COVID-19, we must also maintain our efforts to protect the planet. The Nature Conservancy and its municipal partners will apply a science-based approach to developing a model that can be applied more broadly across German and European cities. As the program progresses, we will measure the impacts to ensure that the actions result in tangible benefits to urban residents, such as more greened spaces, greater counts of wild bees and other pollinators, more cubic liters of storm water safely managed, and lower average surface temperatures."</p><p>The Urban Greening program is the first project outside the U.S. for Amazon's $100 millionRight Now Climate Fund, which is part of Amazon's commitment to The Climate Pledge. Last year, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge with Global Optimism and became its first signatory. The Climate Pledge is a collaborative initiative for companies that commit to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early, to be net zero carbon by 2040 through decarbonization of operations and the use of nature-based solutions. In April, Amazon announced two other projects out of the Right Now Climate Fund, committing $10 million to accelerate the restoration and conservation of millions of acres of forest in the Northeastern U.S.</p><p>For more information about Amazon's commitment to sustainability and the Right Now Climate Fund, visit sustainability.aboutamazon.com. For more information about The Climate Pledge, visit 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 aboutamazon.de and follow @AmazonNewsDE.</p><p>About The Nature Conservancy</p><p>The Nature Conservancy is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Guided by science, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world's toughest challenges so that nature and people can thrive together. We are tackling climate change, conserving lands, waters and oceans at an unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more sustainable. Working in 79 countries and territories, we use a collaborative approach that engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners. To learn more, visit nature.org or follow @nature_press on Twitter.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200526005151/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Web Services and Bundesliga to Deliver Real Time Game Analysis with "Bundesliga Match Facts Powered by AWS"

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05/26/2020 03:00:00

Amazon Web Services and Bundesliga to Deliver Real Time Game Analysis with "Bundesliga Match Facts Powered by AWS"

05/26/2020

2020

AWS machine learning and analytics to enhance the fan experience for Germany's top football league, delivering new advanced statistics including Average Positions and xGoals SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the German Bundesliga will debut the first two Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS during tonight's highlight match at 18:30 CET featuring Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayern Muenchen on broadcast television in over 200 countries. The two new statistics, Average Positions and Expected Goals (xGoals), will give fans deeper insights into a team's intended playing style based on real-time analysis performed of data captured from tracking players' locations on the field, and the probability of a player scoring a goal. Germany's top national football league will leverage AWS's unmatched set of cloud services, including machine learning and analytics, to introduce additional advanced statistics in 2020 and upcoming seasons. AWS and the Bundesliga are the first to deliver this unique combination of real-time advanced statistics and game analyses to football (soccer) fans around the world. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200526005205/en/ Using Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service to build, train and deploy machine learning models, the Bundesliga can now assess the probability of a player scoring a goal when shooting from any position on the field with the Bundesliga Match Fact, xGoals. (Photo: Business Wire) Bundesliga Match Facts are generated by gathering data from the live game video feeds that are streamed into AWS for analysis, and then provided back to broadcast viewers around the world in real-time as statistics. These statistics help audiences better understand things like the strategy involved in decision-making on the pitch and the probability of a goal for each shot. As of May 26, Average Positions will be available during future broadcasts of Bundesliga matches, while xGoals will be available during highlight matches. A look at the two new Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS Average Positions: Fans will now be able to see the positioning of a team's players on the pitch and gain insight into the team's intended playing style. Average Positions provides new insights based on analysis performed on data captured from tracking a player's average location on the field, which is then displayed in real-time. This Bundesliga Match Fact allows viewers to identify the current momentum on the field and understand tactical changes. The new statistic will help pinpoint if a team is setting up in an attacking or defending style, pressing up the middle, or utilizing the wings. By displaying the average location and position of each player in real-time, Average Positions helps fans understand tactical changes as the game progresses. xGoals: Using Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service to build, train and deploy machine learning models, the Bundesliga can now assess the probability of a player scoring a goal when shooting from any position on the field. The goal probability is calculated in real-time for every shot to give viewers insight into the difficulty of a shot and the likelihood of a goal. To calculate the precision of xGoals, machine learning models were trained by analyzing 40,000 historical shots on goal in addition to an array of features derived from positional data, including distance to goal, angle to goal, player speed, number of defenders in line of shot, and goalkeeper coverage. "We at Bundesliga are able to use this advanced technology from AWS, including statistics, analytics and machine learning, to interpret the data and deliver more in-depth insight and better understanding of the split-second decisions made on the pitch," said Andreas Heyden, Executive Vice President of Digital Innovations for the DFL Group. "The use of Bundesliga Match Facts enables viewers to gain a deeper insight into the key decisions in each match." "AWS is helping the Bundesliga enhance the broadcast viewing experience by delivering deeper insights into the game that didn't previously exist," said Andy Isherwood, Vice President and Managing Director EMEA, AWS. "With AWS, Bundesliga is able to provide real-time statistics to predict future plays and outcomes. These two new statistics are just the beginning of what we'll be able to deliver for football fans as we look forward to unlocking new ways to better educate, engage, and entertain viewers around the world." Football fans can follow all of the latest Bundesliga action, with Match Facts powered by AWS, on Bundesliga.com and via the official Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram channels. 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 the Bundesliga The Bundesliga is the top professional association football league in Germany. The league was established in 1963 and comprises 18 teams which operate on a system of promotion and relegation with the Bundesliga 2. The Bundesliga is broadcast on television in over 200 countries and is operated by the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200526005205/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>AWS machine learning and analytics to enhance the fan experience for Germany's top football league, delivering new advanced statistics including Average Positions and xGoals</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the German Bundesliga will debut the first two Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS during tonight's highlight match at 18:30 CET featuring Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayern Muenchen on broadcast television in over 200 countries. The two new statistics, Average Positions and Expected Goals (xGoals), will give fans deeper insights into a team's intended playing style based on real-time analysis performed of data captured from tracking players' locations on the field, and the probability of a player scoring a goal. Germany's top national football league will leverage AWS's unmatched set of cloud services, including machine learning and analytics, to introduce additional advanced statistics in 2020 and upcoming seasons. AWS and the Bundesliga are the first to deliver this unique combination of real-time advanced statistics and game analyses to football (soccer) fans around the world.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200526005205/en/</p><div><p>Using Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service to build, train and deploy machine learning models, the Bundesliga can now assess the probability of a player scoring a goal when shooting from any position on the field with the Bundesliga Match Fact, xGoals. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Bundesliga Match Facts are generated by gathering data from the live game video feeds that are streamed into AWS for analysis, and then provided back to broadcast viewers around the world in real-time as statistics. These statistics help audiences better understand things like the strategy involved in decision-making on the pitch and the probability of a goal for each shot. As of May 26, Average Positions will be available during future broadcasts of Bundesliga matches, while xGoals will be available during highlight matches.</p><p>A look at the two new Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS</p><p>Average Positions: Fans will now be able to see the positioning of a team's players on the pitch and gain insight into the team's intended playing style. Average Positions provides new insights based on analysis performed on data captured from tracking a player's average location on the field, which is then displayed in real-time. This Bundesliga Match Fact allows viewers to identify the current momentum on the field and understand tactical changes. The new statistic will help pinpoint if a team is setting up in an attacking or defending style, pressing up the middle, or utilizing the wings. By displaying the average location and position of each player in real-time, Average Positions helps fans understand tactical changes as the game progresses.</p><p>xGoals: Using Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service to build, train and deploy machine learning models, the Bundesliga can now assess the probability of a player scoring a goal when shooting from any position on the field. The goal probability is calculated in real-time for every shot to give viewers insight into the difficulty of a shot and the likelihood of a goal. To calculate the precision of xGoals, machine learning models were trained by analyzing 40,000 historical shots on goal in addition to an array of features derived from positional data, including distance to goal, angle to goal, player speed, number of defenders in line of shot, and goalkeeper coverage.</p><p>"We at Bundesliga are able to use this advanced technology from AWS, including statistics, analytics and machine learning, to interpret the data and deliver more in-depth insight and better understanding of the split-second decisions made on the pitch," said Andreas Heyden, Executive Vice President of Digital Innovations for the DFL Group. "The use of Bundesliga Match Facts enables viewers to gain a deeper insight into the key decisions in each match."</p><p>"AWS is helping the Bundesliga enhance the broadcast viewing experience by delivering deeper insights into the game that didn't previously exist," said Andy Isherwood, Vice President and Managing Director EMEA, AWS. "With AWS, Bundesliga is able to provide real-time statistics to predict future plays and outcomes. These two new statistics are just the beginning of what we'll be able to deliver for football fans as we look forward to unlocking new ways to better educate, engage, and entertain viewers around the world."</p><p>Football fans can follow all of the latest Bundesliga action, with Match Facts powered by AWS, on Bundesliga.com and via the official Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram channels.</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 the Bundesliga</p><p>The Bundesliga is the top professional association football league in Germany. The league was established in 1963 and comprises 18 teams which operate on a system of promotion and relegation with the Bundesliga 2. The Bundesliga is broadcast on television in over 200 countries and is operated by the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200526005205/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

Mary's Place Opens Washington State's Largest Family Shelter Within Amazon's Seattle HQ – Providing Safe and Supportive Housing for Hundreds of Family Members Experiencing Homelessness Amid COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

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05/21/2020 09:10:00

Mary's Place Opens Washington State's Largest Family Shelter Within Amazon's Seattle HQ – Providing Safe and Supportive Housing for Hundreds of Family Members Experiencing Homelessness Amid COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

05/21/2020

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63,000 square foot shelter with private rooms allows for effective social distancing during unprecedented time, providing a "home for now" for more than 1,000 family members annually and offering new model for the future of family shelter space design Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade—part of Amazon's more than $100 million commitment to Mary's Place — is a first-of-its-kind family shelter with intentional design features to foster health and wellness for Mary's Place families SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2020-- Mary's Place and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today that the Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade, a one-of-a-kind, permanent family shelter built inside an Amazon office building with capacity for up to 200 moms, dads, and children experiencing homelessness each night, is now open. The shelter, which began housing families at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Seattle, is expected to support more than 1,000 family members per year. Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade increased Mary's Place's overall shelter capacity in King County by 40%. It is the largest family shelter in Washington state at 63,000 square feet and is nestled within the heart of Amazon's downtown Seattle headquarters. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200521005153/en/ The eight-floor shelter began welcoming families in March, and the timing of its opening was critical for families experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 outbreak. The unique design, which includes private rooms, enables Mary's Place to provide safe, dignified, and socially distanced accommodation, and the shelter's durability allows for extensive deep cleaning practices. The facility has tripled the size of the Mary's Place Popsicle Place program, which provides shelter and support for families experiencing homelessness with medically-fragile children. The shelter is also safely supporting Babies Best Start, a Mary's Place program for expecting and new moms and their babies. "At Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade, our kids are able to safely finish school – our employees watch children for extended hours to support working parents who lost access to childcare – and moms and dads are able to search for new jobs on new laptops," explained Marty Hartman, Executive Director of Mary's Place. "This new shelter, opening when it did, has been our saving grace. It was our neighbors at Amazon who recognized what we needed before we ever realized it, and this space ensures we don't have to return families to homelessness during this unprecedented and trying time. I always knew this shelter would be a beacon of light in the community, and the critical support we've received from our neighbors at Amazon and beyond has been life-saving ever since this pandemic began." Born from a unique partnership between Amazon and Mary's Place, Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade opened just as vulnerable communities, such as the elderly, low-income families, and families with members with certain pre-existing conditions, were impacted disproportionately by the COVID-19 outbreak. In addition to new families seeking shelter, Mary's Place moved some of its most vulnerable families out of other smaller congregate shelters and into The Regrade, including children with muscular dystrophy, babies waiting on cleft palate and ear reconstruction surgeries, older adults aged 60+, and many other families with high-risk individuals. Nearly one-third of families staying at Mary's Place have family members who are at high-risk for contracting the virus. The family center's intentional layout and dedicated onsite health services have made it a safe space for families experiencing homelessness to practice social distancing with access to medical support and isolation, if needed. In addition, Amazon purchased critical items for the shelter to give its guests and frontline staff more peace of mind about their health and safety during the COVID-19 outbreak, including face protectors, ear thermometers, medicines, and more. "The opening of this facility helps to fill a critical gap – a place for families where they can find safety, access to services, and begin the process of finding stable permanent housing. I am appreciative of businesses such as Amazon, who are stepping up to help those in need and continuing to build a stronger sense of community," said Washington Governor Jay Inslee. "Amazon's partnership with Mary's Place helps bring families in from the cold and rain and helps them find a sense of hope for the future." "No family facing an emergency should feel they are without a place to go," said King County Executive Dow Constantine. "This new emergency shelter will serve hundreds of parents and kids, and provide pathways to permanent homes. The partnership between Mary's Place and Amazon exemplifies the collaborative solutions between community organizations and local businesses that will help solve the homelessness crisis in our region and serve our community during the pandemic." "Now more than ever we need strong partnerships and support for our service providers to help sustain our most vulnerable through this public health emergency. The opening of the new Mary's Place shelter came at a crucial moment, helping to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and saving lives," said Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. "Mary's Place and Amazon are using their unique resources and skills to address the crisis of families with children living outside, during this unprecedented time." "I've long been excited for this shelter to open, but I never could have imagined how critical the timing would be. I'm so glad we could provide this safe and dignified space to Mary's Place that's a "home for now" for many," said John Schoettler, Vice President, Amazon Global Real Estate and Facilities. "During a time when it's so easy to feel isolated and disconnected, I want everyone at Mary's Place – the moms, dads, children, and incredible staff – to know that we are in this together, and they are not alone." To provide Mary's Place guests privacy, the new shelter is separated from Amazon's offices with its own private entrances and acoustical isolation. Additional features include: a large dining room for social distancing, an industrial kitchen with commercial cooking equipment that will serve the entire Mary's Place organization, space for Amazon's legal team to provide pro bono support – both in person and now virtually – recreation spaces for children and teens, and more. The proximity of the shelter to downtown Seattle will help families overcome barriers to housing through direct access to community services, mass transit, healthcare and hospital systems, and more. Amid COVID-19, the unique setup and design of the Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade has served as inspiration for future Mary's Place shelters. Mary's Place recently secured a new temporary shelter in Seattle's Central District with ample space for social distancing, isolation, or quarantine if needed. Read more about Mary's Place's swift and expansive response to COVID-19 across their shelter network here. About Mary's Place Mary's Place believes that no one's child should sleep outside. They provide safe, inclusive shelter and services to support women, children and families on their journey out of homelessness. Mary's Place operates seven family night shelters and a day center for single women experiencing homelessness that offer employment, housing, and wellness resources. More info is available at marysplaceseattle.org. 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 try 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. Read more about how Amazon is providing support for communities, partners, employees, and customers amid COVID-19 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 amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200521005153/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>63,000 square foot shelter with private rooms allows for effective social distancing during unprecedented time, providing a "home for now" for more than 1,000 family members annually and offering new model for the future of family shelter space design</em></p><p><em>Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade—part of Amazon's more than $100 million commitment to Mary's Place — is a first-of-its-kind family shelter with intentional design features to foster health and wellness for Mary's Place families</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2020-- Mary's Place and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today that the Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade, a one-of-a-kind, permanent family shelter built inside an Amazon office building with capacity for up to 200 moms, dads, and children experiencing homelessness each night, is now open. The shelter, which began housing families at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Seattle, is expected to support more than 1,000 family members per year. Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade increased Mary's Place's overall shelter capacity in King County by 40%. It is the largest family shelter in Washington state at 63,000 square feet and is nestled within the heart of Amazon's downtown Seattle headquarters.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200521005153/en/</p><p>The eight-floor shelter began welcoming families in March, and the timing of its opening was critical for families experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 outbreak. The unique design, which includes private rooms, enables Mary's Place to provide safe, dignified, and socially distanced accommodation, and the shelter's durability allows for extensive deep cleaning practices. The facility has tripled the size of the Mary's Place Popsicle Place program, which provides shelter and support for families experiencing homelessness with medically-fragile children. The shelter is also safely supporting Babies Best Start, a Mary's Place program for expecting and new moms and their babies.</p><p>"At Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade, our kids are able to safely finish school – our employees watch children for extended hours to support working parents who lost access to childcare – and moms and dads are able to search for new jobs on new laptops," explained Marty Hartman, Executive Director of Mary's Place. "This new shelter, opening when it did, has been our saving grace. It was our neighbors at Amazon who recognized what we needed before we ever realized it, and this space ensures we don't have to return families to homelessness during this unprecedented and trying time. I always knew this shelter would be a beacon of light in the community, and the critical support we've received from our neighbors at Amazon and beyond has been life-saving ever since this pandemic began."</p><p>Born from a unique partnership between Amazon and Mary's Place, Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade opened just as vulnerable communities, such as the elderly, low-income families, and families with members with certain pre-existing conditions, were impacted disproportionately by the COVID-19 outbreak. In addition to new families seeking shelter, Mary's Place moved some of its most vulnerable families out of other smaller congregate shelters and into The Regrade, including children with muscular dystrophy, babies waiting on cleft palate and ear reconstruction surgeries, older adults aged 60+, and many other families with high-risk individuals. Nearly one-third of families staying at Mary's Place have family members who are at high-risk for contracting the virus. The family center's intentional layout and dedicated onsite health services have made it a safe space for families experiencing homelessness to practice social distancing with access to medical support and isolation, if needed. In addition, Amazon purchased critical items for the shelter to give its guests and frontline staff more peace of mind about their health and safety during the COVID-19 outbreak, including face protectors, ear thermometers, medicines, and more.</p><p>"The opening of this facility helps to fill a critical gap – a place for families where they can find safety, access to services, and begin the process of finding stable permanent housing. I am appreciative of businesses such as Amazon, who are stepping up to help those in need and continuing to build a stronger sense of community," said Washington Governor Jay Inslee. "Amazon's partnership with Mary's Place helps bring families in from the cold and rain and helps them find a sense of hope for the future."</p><p>"No family facing an emergency should feel they are without a place to go," said King County Executive Dow Constantine. "This new emergency shelter will serve hundreds of parents and kids, and provide pathways to permanent homes. The partnership between Mary's Place and Amazon exemplifies the collaborative solutions between community organizations and local businesses that will help solve the homelessness crisis in our region and serve our community during the pandemic."</p><p>"Now more than ever we need strong partnerships and support for our service providers to help sustain our most vulnerable through this public health emergency. The opening of the new Mary's Place shelter came at a crucial moment, helping to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and saving lives," said Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. "Mary's Place and Amazon are using their unique resources and skills to address the crisis of families with children living outside, during this unprecedented time."</p><p>"I've long been excited for this shelter to open, but I never could have imagined how critical the timing would be. I'm so glad we could provide this safe and dignified space to Mary's Place that's a "home for now" for many," said John Schoettler, Vice President, Amazon Global Real Estate and Facilities. "During a time when it's so easy to feel isolated and disconnected, I want everyone at Mary's Place – the moms, dads, children, and incredible staff – to know that we are in this together, and they are not alone."</p><p>To provide Mary's Place guests privacy, the new shelter is separated from Amazon's offices with its own private entrances and acoustical isolation. Additional features include: a large dining room for social distancing, an industrial kitchen with commercial cooking equipment that will serve the entire Mary's Place organization, space for Amazon's legal team to provide pro bono support – both in person and now virtually – recreation spaces for children and teens, and more. The proximity of the shelter to downtown Seattle will help families overcome barriers to housing through direct access to community services, mass transit, healthcare and hospital systems, and more.</p><p>Amid COVID-19, the unique setup and design of the Mary's Place Family Center in The Regrade has served as inspiration for future Mary's Place shelters. Mary's Place recently secured a new temporary shelter in Seattle's Central District with ample space for social distancing, isolation, or quarantine if needed. Read more about Mary's Place's swift and expansive response to COVID-19 across their shelter network here.</p><p>About Mary's Place</p><p>Mary's Place believes that no one's child should sleep outside. They provide safe, inclusive shelter and services to support women, children and families on their journey out of homelessness. Mary's Place operates seven family night shelters and a day center for single women experiencing homelessness that offer employment, housing, and wellness resources. More info is available at marysplaceseattle.org.</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 try 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. Read more about how Amazon is providing support for communities, partners, employees, and customers amid COVID-19 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 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/20200521005153/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Announces Five New Utility-Scale Solar Projects to Power Global Operations in China, Australia, and the U.S.

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Amazon Announces Five New Utility-Scale Solar Projects to Power Global Operations in China, Australia, and the U.S.

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The five projects include Amazon's first renewable energy project in China, second in Australia, second and third in Ohio, and 12th in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with a combined 615 MW of additional renewable capacity and an expected generation of 1.2 million MWh of energy annually, or enough to power 113,000 average U.S. homes Projects will supply renewable energy for the fulfillment centers and AWS data centers that support millions of customers globally Globally, Amazon has 91 renewable energy projects that have the capacity to generate over 2,900 MW and deliver more than 7.6 million MWh of energy annually, further supporting the Company's Climate Pledge commitment to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early and reach net zero carbon by 2040 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced five new renewable energy projects in China, Australia and the U.S. that further support Amazon's commitment to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030 (and potentially as early as 2025), as well as to reach net zero carbon by 2040. Amazon's first renewable energy project in China is a 100 megawatt (MW) solar project in Shandong. Once complete, the project is expected to generate 128,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of clean energy annually. Amazon's second renewable energy project in Australia is a 105 MW solar project in New South Wales. This project will have the capacity to generate 250,000 MWh of clean energy each year, which is enough to power the equivalent of 40,000 average Australian homes. Amazon's newest renewable energy projects in the U.S. include two new projects in Ohio, a 200 MW solar project and an 80 MW solar project. Additionally, a new 130 MW solar project in Virginia brings the total number of renewable energy projects in the Commonwealth to 12. Once enabled, these three U.S.-based projects have the capacity to power the equivalent of 69,000 average U.S. homes each year. When complete, the five new Amazon renewable energy projects totaling 615 MW of installed capacity will supply approximately 1.2 million MWh of additional renewable energy for the company's fulfillment network and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers, which power Amazon and millions of customers globally. To date, Amazon has announced 31 utility-scale wind and solar renewable energy projects and 60 solar rooftops on fulfillment centers and sort centers 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. "As a signatory to The Climate Pledge, we're committed to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and reaching net zero carbon across Amazon by 2040," said Kara Hurst, Vice President of Sustainability, Amazon. "These five new renewable energy projects are a critical part of our roadmap to reach this goal. In fact, we believe it is possible to reach 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of the goals we announced last fall. While this will be challenging, we have a credible plan to get there." "Virginia's energy future is bright. Through investments in clean energy we can reduce carbon emissions and create jobs to help drive long-term economic development," said Virginia Senator Jennifer L. McClellan. "The announcement of this new Amazon solar project helps the Commonwealth meet our climate goals and contributes to our economic growth. The Virginia Clean Economy Act will help to drive more clean energy investments like this, to make Virginia a national hub for clean energy jobs." "Clean energy job creation is a crucial driver for long-term economic development in the Commonwealth," said Virginia Delegate Richard C. Sullivan Jr. "I am pleased that Amazon continues to invest in Virginia's clean energy future. The Virginia Clean Economy Act has put us on a path to 100 percent clean energy, and companies like Amazon are critical to helping us achieve that goal." Visit Amazon's sustainability website for information and sustainability metrics that share the progress the company is making towards reaching The Climate Pledge. The goals, commitments, investments, and programs build on Amazon's long-term commitment to sustainability through existing innovative programs, including Shipment Zero – Amazon's vision to make all shipments net zero carbon, with 50% net zero carbon by 2030; sustainable packaging initiatives like Frustration-Free Packaging and Ship in Own Container, which have reduced packaging waste by 25% since 2015; renewable energy programs; investments in the circular economy with the Closed Loop Fund; and numerous other initiatives happening every day and led by teams across Amazon. 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 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. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200521005212/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>The five projects include Amazon's first renewable energy project in China, second in Australia, second and third in Ohio, and 12^th in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with a combined 615 MW of additional renewable capacity and an expected generation of 1.2 million MWh of energy annually, or enough to power 113,000 average U.S. homes</em></p><p><em>Projects will supply renewable energy for the fulfillment centers and AWS data centers that support millions of customers globally</em></p><p><em>Globally, Amazon has 91 renewable energy projects that have the capacity to generate over 2,900 MW and deliver more than 7.6 million MWh of energy annually, further supporting the Company's Climate Pledge commitment to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early and reach net zero carbon by 2040</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2020-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced five new renewable energy projects in China, Australia and the U.S. that further support Amazon's commitment to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030 (and potentially as early as 2025), as well as to reach net zero carbon by 2040.</p><p>Amazon's first renewable energy project in China is a 100 megawatt (MW) solar project in Shandong. Once complete, the project is expected to generate 128,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of clean energy annually.</p><p>Amazon's second renewable energy project in Australia is a 105 MW solar project in New South Wales. This project will have the capacity to generate 250,000 MWh of clean energy each year, which is enough to power the equivalent of 40,000 average Australian homes.</p><p>Amazon's newest renewable energy projects in the U.S. include two new projects in Ohio, a 200 MW solar project and an 80 MW solar project. Additionally, a new 130 MW solar project in Virginia brings the total number of renewable energy projects in the Commonwealth to 12. Once enabled, these three U.S.-based projects have the capacity to power the equivalent of 69,000 average U.S. homes each year.</p><p>When complete, the five new Amazon renewable energy projects totaling 615 MW of installed capacity will supply approximately 1.2 million MWh of additional renewable energy for the company's fulfillment network and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers, which power Amazon and millions of customers globally.</p><p>To date, Amazon has announced 31 utility-scale wind and solar renewable energy projects and 60 solar rooftops on fulfillment centers and sort centers 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.</p><p>"As a signatory to The Climate Pledge, we're committed to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and reaching net zero carbon across Amazon by 2040," said Kara Hurst, Vice President of Sustainability, Amazon. "These five new renewable energy projects are a critical part of our roadmap to reach this goal. In fact, we believe it is possible to reach 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of the goals we announced last fall. While this will be challenging, we have a credible plan to get there."</p><p>"Virginia's energy future is bright. Through investments in clean energy we can reduce carbon emissions and create jobs to help drive long-term economic development," said Virginia Senator Jennifer L. McClellan. "The announcement of this new Amazon solar project helps the Commonwealth meet our climate goals and contributes to our economic growth. The Virginia Clean Economy Act will help to drive more clean energy investments like this, to make Virginia a national hub for clean energy jobs."</p><p>"Clean energy job creation is a crucial driver for long-term economic development in the Commonwealth," said Virginia Delegate Richard C. Sullivan Jr. "I am pleased that Amazon continues to invest in Virginia's clean energy future. The Virginia Clean Economy Act has put us on a path to 100 percent clean energy, and companies like Amazon are critical to helping us achieve that goal."</p><p>Visit Amazon's sustainability website for information and sustainability metrics that share the progress the company is making towards reaching The Climate Pledge. The goals, commitments, investments, and programs build on Amazon's long-term commitment to sustainability through existing innovative programs, including Shipment Zero – Amazon's vision to make all shipments net zero carbon, with 50% net zero carbon by 2030; sustainable packaging initiatives like Frustration-Free Packaging and Ship in Own Container, which have reduced packaging waste by 25% since 2015; renewable energy programs; investments in the circular economy with the Closed Loop Fund; and numerous other initiatives happening every day and led by teams across Amazon.</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 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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200521005212/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Hunt. Level. Adapt. Amazon Games Launches Crucible

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Hunt. Level. Adapt. Amazon Games Launches Crucible

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Free-to-play team-based shooter from Amazon's Relentless Studios available now for PC SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN): Crucible, the free-to-play competitive team-based shooter from Relentless Studios, an Amazon Games development studio, is now available to download for PC. In Crucible, players work with teammates to hunt their opponents and take down hostile creatures on a lush rogue planet in pursuit of Essence, a valuable resource that amplifies hunters' powers. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200520005855/en/ In Crucible, players choose from a diverse roster of 10 hunters, and work with teammates to hunt their opponents and take down hostile creatures on a lush rogue planet in pursuit of Essence, a valuable resource that amplifies hunters' powers. (Photo: Business Wire) Crucible Launch Trailer: https://youtu.be/zlWgiHRvx30 At launch, players can choose from a diverse roster of 10 hunters, including Earl, an interstellar trucker, Summer, a dual-flame-thrower-wielding former welder, and Bugg, a robot botanist. Each hunter in Crucible has their own unique weapons and abilities, and as they defeat opponents and the planet's flora and fauna, they level up, gaining strength and enhancing their abilities. Crucible's fast-paced combat challenges players to constantly re-evaluate and adjust their strategies, adapting to their opponents' moves and the deadly planet itself. "I knew Crucible was something special the very first time I played it, and it somehow keeps getting even better," said Twitch creator Sasslyn. "The hunters are unique, but welcomingly familiar. Whether you want to stick to one or be a jack-of-all-trades, there is a hunter that will fit your preferred style of play. Throughout Crucible's development, I've had the pleasure of seeing first-hand how much the team cares about their players, and the way they take feedback and use it to make Crucible into an even more innovative and unique game." "One thing that separates Crucible is the diversity in its characters," said Twitch creator Bartonologist. "There's something there for everyone. Each character approaches the game differently and matches up against the other hunters in a unique way. Brings a whole new level of strategy and competition to this world." "The three game modes in Crucible represent three completely different kinds of teamwork required to come out on top," said Twitch creator Stevo. "There's unlimited ways you can strategize and compose your team to win, but of course, you never know what your opposition will do either!" Crucible begins an 8-week Pre-Season today. During this period, players can learn the game, discover and build skill playing their favorite hunters, and begin honing their strategy before Season 1 kicks off. Players who log into Crucible by June 2 will get an early adopter gift of 1,000 Credits deposited into their in-game account. Credits can be redeemed for cosmetic in-game items like skins and emotes, as well as a Pre-Season Battle Pass, available for 950 Credits. The Pre-Season Battle Pass offers players a series of challenges and rewards, including hunter and account customization options. "As players around the world enter Crucible for the first time today, we're eager to see how they adapt their strategies to hunt and survive in a constantly changing world," said Christoph Hartmann, vice president at Amazon Games. "Each new match in Crucible requires fast thinking and quick adaptation to tackle each challenge that comes their way." Crucible launches with three game modes: Heart of the Hives: A 4 vs. 4 battle against giant boss Hives that spawn throughout the world. Each Hive contains a valuable Heart, and the first team to capture three Hearts wins, making each match a dangerous balance between racing the opposing team and surviving the powerful Hives. Alpha Hunters: Eight teams of two take the battlefield and fight to be the final team standing. Harvester Command: Two eight-person teams battle to capture and hold Harvesters spread across the map, vying for control of the Essence that drew them all to the planet. Teams earn points by controlling Harvesters and defeating opponents, and the first team to 100 points wins. Crucible is available for free on PC via Steam. Founder's Pack bundles, featuring exclusive skins, customization items like in-game decals, and in-game currency, are available for purchase at Amazon or on Steam. Crucible was developed by Relentless Studios, an Amazon Games development studio located in Seattle. The studio is led by Louis Castle, co-founder of Westwood Studios, and includes industry veterans with previous experience at companies including Activision Blizzard, ArenaNet, and Electronic Arts. The launch of Crucible will be followed by the release of New World from Amazon Games on August 25, 2020. For more information, visit http://playcrucible.com. Crucible has an ESRB rating of T. About Amazon Games At Amazon Games, our ambition is to create bold new gaming experiences that foster community in and around games. Our team of game industry veterans is building within the sandbox of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Twitch, and more to push boundaries and deliver captivating experiences to our customers. Current Amazon Games projects include New World, an MMO set on a supernatural continent in the 17th century, multiplayer shooter Crucible, and the forthcoming The Lord of the Rings MMO. 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/20200520005855/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Free-to-play team-based shooter from Amazon's Relentless Studios available now for PC</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN): <em>Crucible</em>, the free-to-play competitive team-based shooter from Relentless Studios, an Amazon Games development studio, is now available to download for PC. In <em>Crucible</em>, players work with teammates to hunt their opponents and take down hostile creatures on a lush rogue planet in pursuit of Essence, a valuable resource that amplifies hunters' powers.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200520005855/en/</p><div><p>In Crucible, players choose from a diverse roster of 10 hunters, and work with teammates to hunt their opponents and take down hostile creatures on a lush rogue planet in pursuit of Essence, a valuable resource that amplifies hunters' powers. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Crucible Launch Trailer: https://youtu.be/zlWgiHRvx30</p><p>At launch, players can choose from a diverse roster of 10 hunters, including Earl, an interstellar trucker, Summer, a dual-flame-thrower-wielding former welder, and Bugg, a robot botanist. Each hunter in <em>Crucible </em>has their own unique weapons and abilities, and as they defeat opponents and the planet's flora and fauna, they level up, gaining strength and enhancing their abilities. <em>Crucible</em>'s fast-paced combat challenges players to constantly re-evaluate and adjust their strategies, adapting to their opponents' moves and the deadly planet itself.</p><p>"I knew Crucible was something special the very first time I played it, and it somehow keeps getting even better," said Twitch creator Sasslyn. "The hunters are unique, but welcomingly familiar. Whether you want to stick to one or be a jack-of-all-trades, there is a hunter that will fit your preferred style of play. Throughout Crucible's development, I've had the pleasure of seeing first-hand how much the team cares about their players, and the way they take feedback and use it to make Crucible into an even more innovative and unique game."</p><p>"One thing that separates Crucible is the diversity in its characters," said Twitch creator Bartonologist. "There's something there for everyone. Each character approaches the game differently and matches up against the other hunters in a unique way. Brings a whole new level of strategy and competition to this world."</p><p>"The three game modes in Crucible represent three completely different kinds of teamwork required to come out on top," said Twitch creator Stevo. "There's unlimited ways you can strategize and compose your team to win, but of course, you never know what your opposition will do either!"</p><p><em>Crucible </em>begins an 8-week Pre-Season today. During this period, players can learn the game, discover and build skill playing their favorite hunters, and begin honing their strategy before Season 1 kicks off. Players who log into <em>Crucible</em> by June 2 will get an early adopter gift of 1,000 Credits deposited into their in-game account. Credits can be redeemed for cosmetic in-game items like skins and emotes, as well as a Pre-Season Battle Pass, available for 950 Credits. The Pre-Season Battle Pass offers players a series of challenges and rewards, including hunter and account customization options.</p><p>"As players around the world enter <em>Crucible </em>for the first time today, we're eager to see how they adapt their strategies to hunt and survive in a constantly changing world," said Christoph Hartmann, vice president at Amazon Games. "Each new match in <em>Crucible </em>requires fast thinking and quick adaptation to tackle each challenge that comes their way."</p><p><em>Crucible</em> launches with three game modes:</p><ul><li>Heart of the Hives: A 4 vs. 4 battle against giant boss Hives that spawn throughout the world. Each Hive contains a valuable Heart, and the first team to capture three Hearts wins, making each match a dangerous balance between racing the opposing team and surviving the powerful Hives.</li><li>Alpha Hunters: Eight teams of two take the battlefield and fight to be the final team standing.</li><li>Harvester Command: Two eight-person teams battle to capture and hold Harvesters spread across the map, vying for control of the Essence that drew them all to the planet. Teams earn points by controlling Harvesters and defeating opponents, and the first team to 100 points wins.</li></ul><p><em>Crucible</em> is available for free on PC via Steam. Founder's Pack bundles, featuring exclusive skins, customization items like in-game decals, and in-game currency, are available for purchase at Amazon or on Steam.</p><p><em>Crucible </em>was developed by Relentless Studios, an Amazon Games development studio located in Seattle. The studio is led by Louis Castle, co-founder of Westwood Studios, and includes industry veterans with previous experience at companies including Activision Blizzard, ArenaNet, and Electronic Arts. The launch of <em>Crucible</em> will be followed by the release of <em>New World</em> from Amazon Games on August 25, 2020.</p><p>For more information, visit http://playcrucible.com. Crucible has an ESRB rating of T.</p><p>About Amazon Games</p><p>At Amazon Games, our ambition is to create bold new gaming experiences that foster community in and around games. Our team of game industry veterans is building within the sandbox of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Twitch, and more to push boundaries and deliver captivating experiences to our customers. Current Amazon Games projects include<em> New World</em>, an MMO set on a supernatural continent in the 17th century, multiplayer shooter <em>Crucible</em>, and the forthcoming <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> MMO.</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/20200520005855/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Singapore to help local retailers grow their businesses online

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Amazon supports local retailers on business continuity during COVID-19 and beyond through Enterprise Singapore's Singapore E-Commerce Programme Amazon introduces additional incentives for local retailers to sell online, including complimentary account management support, monthly subscription fee waiver, and more SINGAPORE – May 20, 2020 – (NASDAQ:AMZN) – As part of Enterprise Singapore's Singapore E-Commerce Programme, Amazon is inviting local small and medium-sized (SME) retailers interested in making their products available to more customers and growing their businesses online, to sign up with Amazon.sg. Eligible small and medium businesses qualify for a one-time grant from Enterprise Singapore of up to S$9,000 per retailer over 6 months when they register to sell with Amazon.sg. The grant can be used to subsidize content development, product listing, channel management, fulfilment, advertising and promotion, trainings and workshops to help local retailers enhance their eCommerce capabilities and reach more customers in Singapore. Amazon is also offering participating local retailers a one year complimentary account management support, waiver of monthly subscription fees of S$29.90 per seller, waiver of fees for all deal exposure on Amazon.sg, and additional incentives from OCBC and AWS. This comes on top of the benefits of selling on Amazon, which enables retailers to make their products easier to find and easier to buy. Retailers can enjoy participation in Amazon's promotional campaigns, data analysis of sales on Amazon, access to training workshops, and access to over 200 innovative tools and features to help them manage their businesses effectively on Amazon. Interested SME retailers can find out more information here: https://services.amazon.sg/esg-e-commerce-booster-package.html "Small businesses are a part of Amazon's DNA and we are proud to collaborate with Enterprise Singapore on this initiative to help local retailers grow their business online and succeed in the long term. We remain committed to empowering retailers to sell their products on Amazon, reach more customers, and expand their business in Singapore," said Bernard Tay, Country Leader, Amazon.sg Seller Services and Head of Amazon Global Selling Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Alan Yeo, Director for Retail & Design, Enterprise Singapore, said: "To remain competitive, retailers need to bring their businesses online. E-commerce enables retailers to diversify their revenue stream, expand their customer base and engage customers 24/7. This was already a growing consumer trend before COVID-19 and has become even more critical during the current period.  It is a trend set to stay post COVID-19. We are pleased to have Amazon join us in our initiative to support our local retailers with their transformation efforts." One year complimentary Amazon account management supportRetailers who kick-start their online business with Amazon through the Singapore E-Commerce Programme will enjoy one year complimentary dedicated account management support. This includes guided registration, listing of products, and selection of fulfilment channels and tools on Amazon to promote and grow their businesses. Retailers will also benefit from payment processing and credit card fraud protection, promotional features that will help them get discovered more by customers, and reports and analytics to improve their business. In addition, Amazon can assist retailers in obtaining support from third-party service providers for various business management aspects, including tax advisory, financial management and trademark consultations. Waiver of monthly subscription fees and fees for all deal exposure on Amazon.sgFrom now until 31 December 2020, Amazon will waive monthly subscription fees of S$29.90 per seller. This offer is valid for all retailers, new and existing, who sell on Amazon.sg. Additionally for new local retailers, Amazon is waiving fees for all deal exposure on Amazon.sg, including Deals of the Day (featuring one-day deals on popular products), and Lightning Deals (limited-time promotions in which a limited number of discounts are offered on an item). Additional incentives from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OCBCAmazon has teamed up with OCBC to offer two additional benefits for SMEs participating in the Programme: Firstly, the first 200 eligible OCBC SME customers will receive a one-time S$100 account rebate when they sign up to sell with Amazon.sg. Secondly, these SMEs will also receive S$1,500 in credit for AWS services for use within six months of launching on Amazon.sg. AWS offers reliable, scalable and inexpensive cloud computing services. Retailers can utilise the AWS credit for hosting mobile application or product landing page on Amazon.sg to drive further eCommerce growth. "As part of our commitment to helping SMEs tide through this challenging period, we have been finding ways to encourage and enable them to operate online. Through this collaboration with Amazon, our customers will be able to kick-start their e-commerce business, which is not only essential for surviving the Circuit Breaker period, but will also be a welcome stream of revenue even after the crisis blows over," said Melvyn Low, Head, Global Transaction Banking, OCBC Bank. Grow and reach a global audience with AmazonBeyond the Singapore E-Commerce Programme, local retailers can easily scale their business to reach a global audience through 16 other Amazon marketplaces around the world. Retailers who sign up with Amazon will be able to access Amazon Global Selling services to expand their footprint across borders, accessing over 150 million paid Prime members globally and hundreds of millions of active customer accounts worldwide. Being able to sell to a wider base allows retailers to build stronger brands online and grow their sales, offering them the viability to compete with the biggest brands locally and globally. Scale swiftly with Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) serviceRetailers who want to scale their business operations quickly and seamlessly can leverage the Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) service. FBA allows retailers to access Amazon's warehouse capabilities such as housing inventory, picking and packing of products, and shipment of orders, thereby reducing additional operational resources. All FBA inventory is eligible for Prime FREE Shipping, which means Amazon will handle all returns and refunds, and 24/7 customer support. FBA listings are displayed with the Prime logo, so customers know that Amazon handles the fulfilment for the orders. When retailers utilise FBA with Amazon.sg, Amazon will take care of the customer delivery on their behalf, allowing retailers to focus on building their brands online and meeting their customers' needs. RegistrationInterested retailersshould meet the following criteria: Business entity is registered / incorporated in Singapore; Have a minimum of 30% local shareholding; and Group annual turnover should not exceed S$100 million per annum based on the most recent audited report, or group employment should not exceed 200 employees. Eligible local retailers will receive a one-time support of up to S$9,000 from Enterprise Singapore to defray 90% of eligible costs for up to 6 months. Registration is open to local retailers who are new to Amazon.sg and sign up for the Programme, from now until 30 September 2020. Limited slots are available for the Programme. To find out more about selling on Amazon and the Singapore eCommerce Programme, please visit: https://services.amazon.sg/esg-e-commerce-booster-package.html. ### About AmazonAmazon 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, Fulfilment 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.sg. Media Contact Anushka Shrivastavaamazonsg@archetype.co Deborah Ngpress@amazon.sg APPEND IX: 5 simple steps on how to sign up and sell on Amazon.sg [1]  The Singapore E-Commerce Programme is part of the E-Commerce Booster Package by Enterprise Singapore. Amazon is one of the e-commerce platforms supporting this Programme. Through the Package, Enterprise Singapore provides retailers with a one-time 90% support on qualifying costs for the fees charged by participating online retailers capped at S$9,000. More information on the E-Commerce Booster Package can be found here.  [2] Based on Enterprise Singapore requirements, retailers should be businesses registered with '47' as the first two digits of the ACRA SSIC, and have a physical retail shopfront retailing B2C products.

<p><em>Amazon supports local retailers on business continuity during COVID-19 and beyond through Enterprise Singapore's Singapore E-Commerce Programme</em></p><p><em>Amazon introduces additional incentives for local retailers to sell online, including complimentary account management support, monthly subscription fee waiver, and more</em></p><p>SINGAPORE – May 20, 2020 – (NASDAQ:AMZN) – As part of Enterprise Singapore's Singapore E-Commerce Programme, Amazon is inviting local small and medium-sized (SME) retailers interested in making their products available to more customers and growing their businesses online, to sign up with Amazon.sg. Eligible small and medium businesses qualify for a one-time grant from Enterprise Singapore of up to S$9,000 per retailer over 6 months when they register to sell with Amazon.sg. The grant can be used to subsidize content development, product listing, channel management, fulfilment, advertising and promotion, trainings and workshops to help local retailers enhance their eCommerce capabilities and reach more customers in Singapore. Amazon is also offering participating local retailers a one year complimentary account management support, waiver of monthly subscription fees of S$29.90 per seller, waiver of fees for all deal exposure on Amazon.sg, and additional incentives from OCBC and AWS.</p><p>This comes on top of the benefits of selling on Amazon, which enables retailers to make their products easier to find and easier to buy. Retailers can enjoy participation in Amazon's promotional campaigns, data analysis of sales on Amazon, access to training workshops, and access to over 200 innovative tools and features to help them manage their businesses effectively on Amazon. Interested SME retailers can find out more information here: https://services.amazon.sg/esg-e-commerce-booster-package.html</p><p>"Small businesses are a part of Amazon's DNA and we are proud to collaborate with Enterprise Singapore on this initiative to help local retailers grow their business online and succeed in the long term. We remain committed to empowering retailers to sell their products on Amazon, reach more customers, and expand their business in Singapore," said Bernard Tay, Country Leader, Amazon.sg Seller Services and Head of Amazon Global Selling Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.</p><p>Alan Yeo, Director for Retail &amp; Design, Enterprise Singapore, said: "To remain competitive, retailers need to bring their businesses online. E-commerce enables retailers to diversify their revenue stream, expand their customer base and engage customers 24/7. This was already a growing consumer trend before COVID-19 and has become even more critical during the current period.  It is a trend set to stay post COVID-19. We are pleased to have Amazon join us in our initiative to support our local retailers with their transformation efforts."</p><p>One year complimentary Amazon account management supportRetailers who kick-start their online business with Amazon through the Singapore E-Commerce Programme will enjoy one year complimentary dedicated account management support. This includes guided registration, listing of products, and selection of fulfilment channels and tools on Amazon to promote and grow their businesses. Retailers will also benefit from payment processing and credit card fraud protection, promotional features that will help them get discovered more by customers, and reports and analytics to improve their business. In addition, Amazon can assist retailers in obtaining support from third-party service providers for various business management aspects, including tax advisory, financial management and trademark consultations.</p><p>Waiver of monthly subscription fees and fees for all deal exposure on Amazon.sgFrom now until 31 December 2020, Amazon will waive monthly subscription fees of S$29.90 per seller. This offer is valid for all retailers, new and existing, who sell on Amazon.sg. Additionally for new local retailers, Amazon is waiving fees for all deal exposure on Amazon.sg, including Deals of the Day (featuring one-day deals on popular products), and Lightning Deals (limited-time promotions in which a limited number of discounts are offered on an item).</p><p>Additional incentives from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OCBCAmazon has teamed up with OCBC to offer two additional benefits for SMEs participating in the Programme: Firstly, the first 200 eligible OCBC SME customers will receive a one-time S$100 account rebate when they sign up to sell with Amazon.sg. Secondly, these SMEs will also receive S$1,500 in credit for AWS services for use within six months of launching on Amazon.sg. AWS offers reliable, scalable and inexpensive cloud computing services. Retailers can utilise the AWS credit for hosting mobile application or product landing page on Amazon.sg to drive further eCommerce growth.</p><p>"As part of our commitment to helping SMEs tide through this challenging period, we have been finding ways to encourage and enable them to operate online. Through this collaboration with Amazon, our customers will be able to kick-start their e-commerce business, which is not only essential for surviving the Circuit Breaker period, but will also be a welcome stream of revenue even after the crisis blows over," said Melvyn Low, Head, Global Transaction Banking, OCBC Bank.</p><p>Grow and reach a global audience with AmazonBeyond the Singapore E-Commerce Programme, local retailers can easily scale their business to reach a global audience through 16 other Amazon marketplaces around the world. Retailers who sign up with Amazon will be able to access Amazon Global Selling services to expand their footprint across borders, accessing over 150 million paid Prime members globally and hundreds of millions of active customer accounts worldwide. Being able to sell to a wider base allows retailers to build stronger brands online and grow their sales, offering them the viability to compete with the biggest brands locally and globally.</p><p>Scale swiftly with Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) serviceRetailers who want to scale their business operations quickly and seamlessly can leverage the Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) service. FBA allows retailers to access Amazon's warehouse capabilities such as housing inventory, picking and packing of products, and shipment of orders, thereby reducing additional operational resources. All FBA inventory is eligible for Prime FREE Shipping, which means Amazon will handle all returns and refunds, and 24/7 customer support. FBA listings are displayed with the Prime logo, so customers know that Amazon handles the fulfilment for the orders. When retailers utilise FBA with Amazon.sg, Amazon will take care of the customer delivery on their behalf, allowing retailers to focus on building their brands online and meeting their customers' needs.</p><p>RegistrationInterested retailersshould meet the following criteria:</p><ul><li>Business entity is registered / incorporated in Singapore;</li><li>Have a minimum of 30% local shareholding; <u>and</u></li><li>Group annual turnover should not exceed S$100 million per annum based on the most recent audited report, <u>or</u> group employment should not exceed 200 employees.</li></ul><p>Eligible local retailers will receive a one-time support of up to S$9,000 from Enterprise Singapore to defray 90% of eligible costs for up to 6 months.</p><p>Registration is open to local retailers who are new to Amazon.sg and sign up for the Programme, from now until 30 September 2020. Limited slots are available for the Programme.</p><p>To find out more about selling on Amazon and the Singapore eCommerce Programme, please visit: https://services.amazon.sg/esg-e-commerce-booster-package.html.</p><p>###</p><p>About AmazonAmazon 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, Fulfilment 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.sg.</p><p>Media Contact</p><table><tbody><tr><td>Anushka Shrivastavaamazonsg@archetype.co</td><td><p>Deborah Ngpress@amazon.sg</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><u>APPEND IX</u><u>: 5 simple steps on how to sign up and sell on Amazon.sg</u></p><div><p>^[1] The Singapore E-Commerce Programme is part of the E-Commerce Booster Package by Enterprise Singapore. Amazon is one of the e-commerce platforms supporting this Programme. Through the Package, Enterprise Singapore provides retailers with a one-time 90% support on qualifying costs for the fees charged by participating online retailers capped at S$9,000. More information on the E-Commerce Booster Package can be found here.</p></div><div><p> ^[2]Based on Enterprise Singapore requirements, retailers should be businesses registered with '47' as the first two digits of the ACRA SSIC, and have a physical retail shopfront retailing B2C products.</p></div>

Lyell Immunopharma Goes All-In on AWS as its Cloud Provider

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Lyell Immunopharma Goes All-In on AWS as its Cloud Provider

05/19/2020

2020

Cellular therapy company seeks to accelerate research of cell-based immunotherapies for cancer and other diseases by relying upon AWS's unmatched portfolio of cloud services SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Lyell Immunopharma is going all-in on AWS—running its cloud infrastructure on AWS—and has selected AWS as its standard for machine learning (ML) workloads. Lyell leverages AWS's highly performant and scalable infrastructure to run its secure data and analytics platform as well as support its high-performance computing workloads to accelerate the research of new cell therapies as it searches for cures for cancer. AWS's breadth and depth of services is helping Lyell to uncover insights in scientific data on how the immune system can fight cancer, as well as speed up its research. One of Lyell's approaches to developing immunotherapies is using high performance computing (HPC) clusters to help scientists design new protein structures to engineer immune cells that are more capable of fighting cancer. Using AWS's secure and elastic compute capacity, Lyell is able to design and test potential new cell therapy constructs at a faster rate, going from conducting a single simulation in four weeks to completing 30 simulations in 10 hours. By building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and leveraging AWS analytics services such as Amazon Athena and Amazon EMR, Lyell can now analyze petabytes of research, clinical, and manufacturing data to gain insights into immune cell functionality faster than ever before. Lyell is also using Amazon SageMaker to enable scientists to build, train, and deploy ML models. These models enable automated image analysis and optimization of protein structures, which will facilitate Lyell's mission to cure cancer. "We chose AWS because its unmatched portfolio of cloud services provides us with the environment and resources we need to research, design, and develop immunotherapies, all of which wouldn't be possible at the speed and scale we are looking for, without the elasticity of the cloud," said Rick Klausner, M.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Our prominent team of scientists are now equipped to gain better research insights faster. AWS gives us the ability to scale quickly while meeting security and compliance requirements, which is essential to accomplishing our goal of creating a new generation of cell-based therapies to cure cancer." "By adopting cloud-first strategies on AWS and leveraging the most comprehensive set of cloud services in the industry, innovators like Lyell are able to build and scale their businesses, disrupting longstanding business models and inventing new ones," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "Lyell runs on AWS because we enable them to build and test applications quickly, and gain insights into vast amounts of data, with the goal of enabling them to bring new therapies to market, which is so important in a world where we are all touched by someone who has been afflicted with cancer. We're excited to continue our work with Lyell as they innovate to deliver promising new therapies to treat cancer." 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 Lyell Immunopharma Lyell is addressing the unsolved problem of creating reliable, curative adoptive cell therapy for solid tumors. Lyell brings together an unrivalled scientific team with a collection of novel technologies aimed at tackling the three barriers to this unsolved challenge: Redefining the starting cell preparations for cell-based immunotherapy by taking a cell-and developmental-biology approach, following the decades-long work of two Lyell scientific leaders, Stan Riddell and Nick Restifo Modulating T cells to maintain their functionality within the solid tumor microenvironment, with special attention to preventing, controlling and reversing the differentiation of T cells into dysfunctional states within solid tumors Controlling the specificity and safety of solid tumor-directed T cells armed with TCRs, CARs or other targeting modalities using state-of-the-art protein engineering These three goals define the scientific triad of approaches that we believe will overcome the functional barriers to reliable and successful curative therapies. While we are focused on autologous T cells, we believe that we are developing technologies that will be useful to cell therapies broadly, potentially including allogeneic approaches. For further information please visit www.lyell.com or follow us on LinkedIn. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200519005109/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Cellular therapy company seeks to accelerate research of cell-based immunotherapies for cancer and other diseases by relying upon AWS's unmatched portfolio of cloud services</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Lyell Immunopharma is going all-in on AWS—running its cloud infrastructure on AWS—and has selected AWS as its standard for machine learning (ML) workloads. Lyell leverages AWS's highly performant and scalable infrastructure to run its secure data and analytics platform as well as support its high-performance computing workloads to accelerate the research of new cell therapies as it searches for cures for cancer.</p><p>AWS's breadth and depth of services is helping Lyell to uncover insights in scientific data on how the immune system can fight cancer, as well as speed up its research. One of Lyell's approaches to developing immunotherapies is using high performance computing (HPC) clusters to help scientists design new protein structures to engineer immune cells that are more capable of fighting cancer. Using AWS's secure and elastic compute capacity, Lyell is able to design and test potential new cell therapy constructs at a faster rate, going from conducting a single simulation in four weeks to completing 30 simulations in 10 hours. By building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and leveraging AWS analytics services such as Amazon Athena and Amazon EMR, Lyell can now analyze petabytes of research, clinical, and manufacturing data to gain insights into immune cell functionality faster than ever before. Lyell is also using Amazon SageMaker to enable scientists to build, train, and deploy ML models. These models enable automated image analysis and optimization of protein structures, which will facilitate Lyell's mission to cure cancer.</p><p>"We chose AWS because its unmatched portfolio of cloud services provides us with the environment and resources we need to research, design, and develop immunotherapies, all of which wouldn't be possible at the speed and scale we are looking for, without the elasticity of the cloud," said Rick Klausner, M.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Our prominent team of scientists are now equipped to gain better research insights faster. AWS gives us the ability to scale quickly while meeting security and compliance requirements, which is essential to accomplishing our goal of creating a new generation of cell-based therapies to cure cancer."</p><p>"By adopting cloud-first strategies on AWS and leveraging the most comprehensive set of cloud services in the industry, innovators like Lyell are able to build and scale their businesses, disrupting longstanding business models and inventing new ones," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "Lyell runs on AWS because we enable them to build and test applications quickly, and gain insights into vast amounts of data, with the goal of enabling them to bring new therapies to market, which is so important in a world where we are all touched by someone who has been afflicted with cancer. We're excited to continue our work with Lyell as they innovate to deliver promising new therapies to treat cancer."</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 Lyell Immunopharma</p><p>Lyell is addressing the unsolved problem of creating reliable, curative adoptive cell therapy for solid tumors. Lyell brings together an unrivalled scientific team with a collection of novel technologies aimed at tackling the three barriers to this unsolved challenge:</p><ul><li>Redefining the starting cell preparations for cell-based immunotherapy by taking a cell-and developmental-biology approach, following the decades-long work of two Lyell scientific leaders, Stan Riddell and Nick Restifo</li><li>Modulating T cells to maintain their functionality within the solid tumor microenvironment, with special attention to preventing, controlling and reversing the differentiation of T cells into dysfunctional states within solid tumors</li><li>Controlling the specificity and safety of solid tumor-directed T cells armed with TCRs, CARs or other targeting modalities using state-of-the-art protein engineering</li></ul><p>These three goals define the scientific triad of approaches that we believe will overcome the functional barriers to reliable and successful curative therapies. While we are focused on autologous T cells, we believe that we are developing technologies that will be useful to cell therapies broadly, potentially including allogeneic approaches. For further information please visit www.lyell.com or follow us on LinkedIn.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200519005109/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Studios to Provide $1 Million for Jon & Vinny's Restaurant to Feed Angelenos in Need

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Amazon Studios to Provide $1 Million for Jon & Vinny's Restaurant to Feed Angelenos in Need

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2020

Amazon Studios to Provide Funds for Jon & Vinny's and Other Local Restaurants to Prepare and Deliver Meals to No Kid Hungry, Off Their Plate, the Los Angeles Mission, and MPTF CULVER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2020-- Amazon Studios announced today that it was providing $1 million for the catering team at the award-winning Jon & Vinny's restaurant group to prepare meals for local charities feeding those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic, including No Kid Hungry, Off Their Plate, the Los Angeles Mission and the Motion Picture & Television Fund. As part of the initiative, Jon & Vinny's will team with other L.A. restaurants including the Culver City restaurant Hatchet Hall, whose kitchen staffs will also work to prepare and deliver food to be distributed. "This unprecedented crisis has impacted all of us in immeasurable ways, and it's more important than ever that we all do our part to give back at every level — and particularly to our own community," said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. "At Amazon Studios and Prime Video, we're truly honored to be able to show our support to the community that has always supported us, and to team up with Jon and Vinny's to provide food to those who so desperately need it along with a lifeline to local businesses." "We're super excited to partner with Amazon Studios and Prime Video in their initiative to help small local businesses," said Jon Shook, Co-Owner of Jon & Vinny's. "Now with this $1 million contribution, they are continuing to help us during this time as well as give us the opportunity to lend a hand to other independent businesses and restaurants in Los Angeles." "The coronavirus pandemic has put a huge financial burden on California families, with lost jobs and wages leaving many struggling to pay their bills and put food on the table," said No Kid Hungry California Director Kathy Saile. "We're proud to team up with Amazon Studios and Jon & Vinny's to help school nutrition teams ease the burden felt by families in the Los Angeles region by providing meals for kids while schools are closed." Some of the local farms and business supported by this new initiative include: The Garden of… Fairhills Apple Farm Garcias Family Farm Schaner Family Farms Pudwell Berry Farm Tamai Family Farm Wong Farms Coleman Family Farms Thao Farms Peads and Barnett Danny Duran, DuraClean Premier Meats Guidi Marcello Gjusta Bakery Schwartz Bakery Cadoro Bakery As part of Amazon Studios' efforts to give back to the community in this time of crisis, the studio has converted its plans for "For Your Consideration" billboards promoting its Emmy contenders to "For Your Community," promoting COVID-related non-profit organizations. The billboards — which drive awareness for World Health Organization, Feeding America, Save the Children, the American Red Cross, and the World Food Programme — are now live in LA. "Los Angeles is a company town, and our local businesses are a key part of that. It's just as important to support our community as it is to support our contenders," said Debra Birnbaum, Head of Awards, Amazon Studios. "Tapping our resources to lend them support while also raising awareness for worthy causes counts as more than a win for us — and, more importantly, them." Amazon Studios previously worked with Jon & Vinny's on "Dinner and a Movie," replacing what would have been traditional film premieres with deliveries that included dinner for two, a bottle of wine and other small gifts from local businesses for tastemakers and press, while providing more than 25,000 meals to No Kid Hungry and the Los Angeles Mission. Amazon is committed to supporting our most vulnerable neighbors amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the country, we are leveraging our logistical expertise and delivery network to deliver meals. Amazon is partnering with food banks to donate delivery services of shelf-stable groceries and pre-packaged foods – using our network of drivers, we will serve 6 million meals through the end of June. We will expand these efforts to 25 U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, and international locations to help those disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Through local partnerships, Amazon is also helping to donate and deliver tens of thousands of meals to those who can't safely leave their homes during the pandemic, first responders, and hospitals. To learn more about how Amazon is supporting communities and nonprofit partners across the world, check out our blog. About No Kid HungryNo child should go hungry in America. But millions don't know where their next meal is coming from. No Kid Hungry is ending childhood hunger by helping launch and improve programs that give all kids the healthy food they need to thrive. This is a problem we know how to solve. No Kid Hungry is a campaign by Share Our Strength, an organization working to end hunger and poverty. About the Los Angeles MissionFor more than 84 years, the Los Angeles Mission has served the people of Skid Row, providing emergency services such as shelter, food, clothing, as well as professional medical and dental services. In addition, the Los Angeles Mission also offers long-term residential rehabilitation programs including education, professional mental health counseling, job training/placement, and transitional housing. Visit www.losangelesmission.org to help make a difference in the lives of others. Off Their Plate is a grassroots organization that raises funds to deliver nutritious meals to frontline healthcare workers battling COVID-19, while restoring work and providing economic relief to our local restaurants and their teams. Started in Boston in March, Off Their Plate is 100% volunteer run, operates in nine cities and has served more than 100,000 meals to date. OTP's work creates a conduit for the community to support vulnerable communities in a moment of crisis. Together, we can help take one thing Off Their Plate. MPTF supports working and retired members of the entertainment community with a safety net of health and social services, including temporary financial assistance, case management, and residential living. From childcare to living and aging well with dignity and purpose, MPTF is there to guide the industry workforce through the enormous obstacles life presents. For nearly 100 years, the extraordinary generosity of the entertainment community has enabled MPTF to deliver charitable services to industry members in need. To learn more, visit mptf.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200514005933/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Studios

<p>Amazon Studios to Provide Funds for Jon &amp; Vinny's and Other Local Restaurants to Prepare and Deliver Meals to No Kid Hungry, Off Their Plate, the Los Angeles Mission, and MPTF</p><p>CULVER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2020-- Amazon Studios announced today that it was providing $1 million for the catering team at the award-winning Jon &amp; Vinny's restaurant group to prepare meals for local charities feeding those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic, including No Kid Hungry, Off Their Plate, the Los Angeles Mission and the Motion Picture &amp; Television Fund. As part of the initiative, Jon &amp; Vinny's will team with other L.A. restaurants including the Culver City restaurant Hatchet Hall, whose kitchen staffs will also work to prepare and deliver food to be distributed.</p><p>"This unprecedented crisis has impacted all of us in immeasurable ways, and it's more important than ever that we all do our part to give back at every level — and particularly to our own community," said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. "At Amazon Studios and Prime Video, we're truly honored to be able to show our support to the community that has always supported us, and to team up with Jon and Vinny's to provide food to those who so desperately need it along with a lifeline to local businesses."</p><p>"We're super excited to partner with Amazon Studios and Prime Video in their initiative to help small local businesses," said Jon Shook, Co-Owner of Jon &amp; Vinny's. "Now with this $1 million contribution, they are continuing to help us during this time as well as give us the opportunity to lend a hand to other independent businesses and restaurants in Los Angeles."</p><p>"The coronavirus pandemic has put a huge financial burden on California families, with lost jobs and wages leaving many struggling to pay their bills and put food on the table," said No Kid Hungry California Director Kathy Saile. "We're proud to team up with Amazon Studios and Jon &amp; Vinny's to help school nutrition teams ease the burden felt by families in the Los Angeles region by providing meals for kids while schools are closed."</p><p>Some of the local farms and business supported by this new initiative include:</p><ul><li>The Garden of…</li><li>Fairhills Apple Farm</li><li>Garcias Family Farm</li><li>Schaner Family Farms</li><li>Pudwell Berry Farm</li><li>Tamai Family Farm</li><li>Wong Farms</li><li>Coleman Family Farms</li><li>Thao Farms</li><li>Peads and Barnett</li><li>Danny Duran, DuraClean</li><li>Premier Meats</li><li>Guidi Marcello</li><li>Gjusta Bakery</li><li>Schwartz Bakery</li><li>Cadoro Bakery</li></ul><p>As part of Amazon Studios' efforts to give back to the community in this time of crisis, the studio has converted its plans for "For Your Consideration" billboards promoting its Emmy contenders to "For Your Community," promoting COVID-related non-profit organizations. The billboards — which drive awareness for World Health Organization, Feeding America, Save the Children, the American Red Cross, and the World Food Programme — are now live in LA.</p><p>"Los Angeles is a company town, and our local businesses are a key part of that. It's just as important to support our community as it is to support our contenders," said Debra Birnbaum, Head of Awards, Amazon Studios. "Tapping our resources to lend them support while also raising awareness for worthy causes counts as more than a win for us — and, more importantly, them."</p><p>Amazon Studios previously worked with Jon &amp; Vinny's on "Dinner and a Movie," replacing what would have been traditional film premieres with deliveries that included dinner for two, a bottle of wine and other small gifts from local businesses for tastemakers and press, while providing more than 25,000 meals to No Kid Hungry and the Los Angeles Mission.</p><p>Amazon is committed to supporting our most vulnerable neighbors amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the country, we are leveraging our logistical expertise and delivery network to deliver meals. Amazon is partnering with food banks to donate delivery services of shelf-stable groceries and pre-packaged foods – using our network of drivers, we will serve 6 million meals through the end of June. We will expand these efforts to 25 U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, and international locations to help those disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Through local partnerships, Amazon is also helping to donate and deliver tens of thousands of meals to those who can't safely leave their homes during the pandemic, first responders, and hospitals. To learn more about how Amazon is supporting communities and nonprofit partners across the world, check out our blog.</p><p>About No Kid HungryNo child should go hungry in America. But millions don't know where their next meal is coming from. No Kid Hungry is ending childhood hunger by helping launch and improve programs that give all kids the healthy food they need to thrive. This is a problem we know how to solve. No Kid Hungry is a campaign by Share Our Strength, an organization working to end hunger and poverty.</p><p>About the Los Angeles MissionFor more than 84 years, the Los Angeles Mission has served the people of Skid Row, providing emergency services such as shelter, food, clothing, as well as professional medical and dental services. In addition, the Los Angeles Mission also offers long-term residential rehabilitation programs including education, professional mental health counseling, job training/placement, and transitional housing. Visit www.losangelesmission.org to help make a difference in the lives of others.</p><p>Off Their Plate is a grassroots organization that raises funds to deliver nutritious meals to frontline healthcare workers battling COVID-19, while restoring work and providing economic relief to our local restaurants and their teams. Started in Boston in March, Off Their Plate is 100% volunteer run, operates in nine cities and has served more than 100,000 meals to date. OTP's work creates a conduit for the community to support vulnerable communities in a moment of crisis. Together, we can help take one thing Off Their Plate.</p><p>MPTF supports working and retired members of the entertainment community with a safety net of health and social services, including temporary financial assistance, case management, and residential living. From childcare to living and aging well with dignity and purpose, MPTF is there to guide the industry workforce through the enormous obstacles life presents. For nearly 100 years, the extraordinary generosity of the entertainment community has enabled MPTF to deliver charitable services to industry members in need. To learn more, visit mptf.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200514005933/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Studios</p>

AWS Announces Major Enhancements to Amazon Macie

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AWS Announces Major Enhancements to Amazon Macie

05/13/2020

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Fully managed data security and privacy service gets a slew of new features, greater global availability, and an 80%+ price decrease TIBCO and Edmunds among the customers using Amazon Macie SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced a series of major enhancements to Amazon Macie, delivering important new features, greater availability worldwide, and substantially reduced pricing. The new features include updated machine learning models for more accurate detection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), support for customer-defined data types, and native multi-account management with AWS Organizations. As of today, Amazon Macie expands to 17 AWS Regions worldwide, with more regions coming online over the next few months. And, new Amazon Macie service optimizations enable customers to discover and protect their sensitive data in AWS at an 80% or greater discount compared to previous pricing. There are no additional charges or upfront commitments required to use Amazon Macie, and customers pay only for the data processed and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets evaluated. To get started with Amazon Macie, visit http://aws.amazon.com/macie/. As organizations continue to manage growing volumes of information, they need to identify and locate their sensitive data to ensure it is properly protected and being maintained in accordance with various regulatory compliance requirements. However, discovering and protecting this data at scale is an expensive and time-consuming process that can be prone to error. Amazon Macie reduces this burden by providing a scalable and cost-efficient service that helps customers more easily discover and protect their sensitive data in AWS. Once enabled with one click in the AWS Management Console, Amazon Macie automatically provides customers with a full inventory of their Amazon S3 buckets. Customers simply select the buckets they would like to submit for sensitive data discovery, and Amazon Macie scans these buckets using machine learning and pattern matching to identify and categorize the data against a predefined set of common sensitive data types. Customers receive actionable security findings enumerating any data that fits these sensitive data types, including PII (e.g. customer names and credit cards numbers) and categories defined by privacy regulations, such as The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Amazon Macie also automatically and continually evaluates bucket-level preventative controls for any buckets that are unencrypted, publicly accessible, or shared with accounts outside of a customer's organization, allowing customers to quickly address unintended settings on buckets that have been identified to contain potentially sensitive data. Over the last several months, Amazon Macie's data discovery engine has been completely rearchitected to make better use of the underlying storage and compute resources and perform even faster and more scalable detection. These optimizations have enabled an 80% reduction in price from $5 per GB processed to $1 per GB, with the price decrease exceeding 90% for high-volume customers. Complementing the price reduction, the service now features several new or evolved capabilities. Amazon Macie's machine learning models have been updated to deliver even more accurate detection across a growing list of PII types. For example, the models have been enhanced to better support international customers by more effectively recognizing geographic variations in data types, such as the differences in mailing address formats in the U.S. and Germany or regional naming conventions that are difficult to detect through standard pattern matching. Customers can also now create their own data types using regular expression – a widely used standard for defining search patterns – enabling Amazon Macie to discover sensitive data that is specific to a customer's business or formatted uniquely within an organization (e.g. patient ID numbers or internal product designations). And, with the new integration between Amazon Macie and AWS Organizations, a single administrator can now manage up to 5,000 member accounts (for centralized administration across large enterprises), automatically enable and link all future accounts (without needing to manually onboard new users), create and administer Amazon Macie data discovery jobs across accounts, and manage findings across an entire organization. "Virtually every customer we talk to says they can benefit from having more complete visibility into their sensitive data, but it's currently expensive and time-consuming to discover and catalog this information on their own," said Dan Plastina, Vice President for External Security Services at AWS. "Customers have consistently told us that Amazon Macie solves this challenge much better than other tools, but that it needed to be more cost-effective to use at the scale they wanted. Today's launch culminates a year of rearchitecting work to make Macie 80% to over 90% less expensive, giving far more customers around the world the ability to use Macie to protect their sensitive data at scale and effectively meet compliance requirements like GDPR." Getting started with Amazon Macie is fast and easy with one click in the AWS Management Console or a single API call. Customers can try Amazon Macie now with a 30-day free trial using this same simple process. The trial includes 30 days of Amazon S3 bucket inventory and bucket-level security assessment at no cost. Customers can view a cost estimate in the Amazon Macie console to see what their estimated total monthly spend would be once the trial ends. Amazon Macie also includes 1 GB of data processed for sensitive data discovery per month at no cost. This free tier offer does not expire and is not bound by the 30-day free trial period. Amazon Macie is available today in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, with availability in additional Regions in the coming months. TIBCO Software Inc. unlocks the potential of real-time data for making faster, smarter decisions. "The security of our customers' data is a top priority for TIBCO and we developed comprehensive data privacy policies to ensure sensitive information in Amazon S3 is continuously protected using encryption and access control," said Matt Quinn, Chief Operating Officer, TIBCO. "With its enhancements and lower cost, we look forward to using Amazon Macie to help us identify sensitive data at scale, and use its findings to help ensure that our sensitive data is where it should be – tagged according to our security policies – and under tight access controls at all times." Edmunds guides car shoppers online from research to purchase. "We prefer AWS-native security services because of their seamless integration with other AWS services, their cost effectiveness, and ease of use," said Stephen Felisan, CTO, Edmunds. "Amazon Macie's full API coverage for programmatic use of the service and its integration with AWS Organizations helps us to easily use the service and allows us to manage data security across all our accounts from a single place." Digital Guardian delivers enterprise-class data loss prevention (DLP) spanning endpoints to cloud storage. "We're focused on a comprehensive approach to safeguarding our customers' sensitive data from all threats, so providing seamless integrations with the best complementary technologies available is an important part of that strategy," said Mo Rosen, CEO, Digital Guardian. "Amazon Macie has always been a powerful tool for discovering and protecting sensitive data in AWS, and these updates make it even more valuable. Our integration will provide unified data protection by recognizing Macie classification tags and mirroring the required security controls when data moves from the AWS cloud to an endpoint device." 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/20200513005890/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services Inc.

<p><em>Fully managed data security and privacy service gets a slew of new features, greater global availability, and an 80%+ price decrease</em></p><p><em>TIBCO and Edmunds among the customers using Amazon Macie</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced a series of major enhancements to Amazon Macie, delivering important new features, greater availability worldwide, and substantially reduced pricing. The new features include updated machine learning models for more accurate detection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), support for customer-defined data types, and native multi-account management with AWS Organizations. As of today, Amazon Macie expands to 17 AWS Regions worldwide, with more regions coming online over the next few months. And, new Amazon Macie service optimizations enable customers to discover and protect their sensitive data in AWS at an 80% or greater discount compared to previous pricing. There are no additional charges or upfront commitments required to use Amazon Macie, and customers pay only for the data processed and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets evaluated. To get started with Amazon Macie, visit http://aws.amazon.com/macie/.</p><p>As organizations continue to manage growing volumes of information, they need to identify and locate their sensitive data to ensure it is properly protected and being maintained in accordance with various regulatory compliance requirements. However, discovering and protecting this data at scale is an expensive and time-consuming process that can be prone to error. Amazon Macie reduces this burden by providing a scalable and cost-efficient service that helps customers more easily discover and protect their sensitive data in AWS. Once enabled with one click in the AWS Management Console, Amazon Macie automatically provides customers with a full inventory of their Amazon S3 buckets. Customers simply select the buckets they would like to submit for sensitive data discovery, and Amazon Macie scans these buckets using machine learning and pattern matching to identify and categorize the data against a predefined set of common sensitive data types. Customers receive actionable security findings enumerating any data that fits these sensitive data types, including PII (e.g. customer names and credit cards numbers) and categories defined by privacy regulations, such as The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Amazon Macie also automatically and continually evaluates bucket-level preventative controls for any buckets that are unencrypted, publicly accessible, or shared with accounts outside of a customer's organization, allowing customers to quickly address unintended settings on buckets that have been identified to contain potentially sensitive data.</p><p>Over the last several months, Amazon Macie's data discovery engine has been completely rearchitected to make better use of the underlying storage and compute resources and perform even faster and more scalable detection. These optimizations have enabled an 80% reduction in price from $5 per GB processed to $1 per GB, with the price decrease exceeding 90% for high-volume customers. Complementing the price reduction, the service now features several new or evolved capabilities. Amazon Macie's machine learning models have been updated to deliver even more accurate detection across a growing list of PII types. For example, the models have been enhanced to better support international customers by more effectively recognizing geographic variations in data types, such as the differences in mailing address formats in the U.S. and Germany or regional naming conventions that are difficult to detect through standard pattern matching. Customers can also now create their own data types using regular expression – a widely used standard for defining search patterns – enabling Amazon Macie to discover sensitive data that is specific to a customer's business or formatted uniquely within an organization (e.g. patient ID numbers or internal product designations). And, with the new integration between Amazon Macie and AWS Organizations, a single administrator can now manage up to 5,000 member accounts (for centralized administration across large enterprises), automatically enable and link all future accounts (without needing to manually onboard new users), create and administer Amazon Macie data discovery jobs across accounts, and manage findings across an entire organization.</p><p>"Virtually every customer we talk to says they can benefit from having more complete visibility into their sensitive data, but it's currently expensive and time-consuming to discover and catalog this information on their own," said Dan Plastina, Vice President for External Security Services at AWS. "Customers have consistently told us that Amazon Macie solves this challenge much better than other tools, but that it needed to be more cost-effective to use at the scale they wanted. Today's launch culminates a year of rearchitecting work to make Macie 80% to over 90% less expensive, giving far more customers around the world the ability to use Macie to protect their sensitive data at scale and effectively meet compliance requirements like GDPR."</p><p>Getting started with Amazon Macie is fast and easy with one click in the AWS Management Console or a single API call. Customers can try Amazon Macie now with a 30-day free trial using this same simple process. The trial includes 30 days of Amazon S3 bucket inventory and bucket-level security assessment at no cost. Customers can view a cost estimate in the Amazon Macie console to see what their estimated total monthly spend would be once the trial ends. Amazon Macie also includes 1 GB of data processed for sensitive data discovery per month at no cost. This free tier offer does not expire and is not bound by the 30-day free trial period.</p><p>Amazon Macie is available today in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, with availability in additional Regions in the coming months.</p><p>TIBCO Software Inc. unlocks the potential of real-time data for making faster, smarter decisions. "The security of our customers' data is a top priority for TIBCO and we developed comprehensive data privacy policies to ensure sensitive information in Amazon S3 is continuously protected using encryption and access control," said Matt Quinn, Chief Operating Officer, TIBCO. "With its enhancements and lower cost, we look forward to using Amazon Macie to help us identify sensitive data at scale, and use its findings to help ensure that our sensitive data is where it should be – tagged according to our security policies – and under tight access controls at all times."</p><p>Edmunds guides car shoppers online from research to purchase. "We prefer AWS-native security services because of their seamless integration with other AWS services, their cost effectiveness, and ease of use," said Stephen Felisan, CTO, Edmunds. "Amazon Macie's full API coverage for programmatic use of the service and its integration with AWS Organizations helps us to easily use the service and allows us to manage data security across all our accounts from a single place."</p><p>Digital Guardian delivers enterprise-class data loss prevention (DLP) spanning endpoints to cloud storage. "We're focused on a comprehensive approach to safeguarding our customers' sensitive data from all threats, so providing seamless integrations with the best complementary technologies available is an important part of that strategy," said Mo Rosen, CEO, Digital Guardian. "Amazon Macie has always been a powerful tool for discovering and protecting sensitive data in AWS, and these updates make it even more valuable. Our integration will provide unified data protection by recognizing Macie classification tags and mirroring the required security controls when data moves from the AWS cloud to an endpoint device."</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/20200513005890/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 Tablets for the Entire Family – the All-New Fire HD 8, Fire HD 8 Plus, and Fire HD 8 Kids Edition

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05/13/2020 09:49:00

Amazon Announces New Tablets for the Entire Family – the All-New Fire HD 8, Fire HD 8 Plus, and Fire HD 8 Kids Edition

05/13/2020

2020

The all-new Fire HD 8 comes with an 8" HD display, 30% faster performance with 2GB RAM, 2x the storage expandable up to 1TB via a microSD card, up to 12 hours of battery life, easier charging with USB-C, and access to millions of movies, TV shows, songs, eBooks, magazines, games, and educational and entertainment apps – only $89.99 Introducing Fire HD 8 Plus, an enhanced Fire HD 8 experience with 3GB of RAM, hassle-free wireless charging, a 9W in-box USB-C charger for faster charging, and, for a limited time, six months of Kindle Unlimited included – only $109.99 The all-new Fire HD 8 Kids Edition comes bundled with the Fire HD 8 tablet, one year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited with access to over 20,000 kid-friendly books, Audible books, videos, educational apps and games, a new kid-proof case with an adjustable stand, and a two-year worry-free guarantee – only $139.99 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon today announced the next generation of its Fire HD 8 tablet lineup, designed with the entire family in mind: the all-new Fire HD 8, Fire HD 8 Plus, and Fire HD 8 Kids Edition. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200513005440/en/ The All-New Amazon Fire HD 8 (Photo: Business Wire) "The new Fire HD 8 tablets offer the features that everyone in the family wants – great content, more storage, longer battery life – at a price that is incredibly affordable," said Kevin Keith, Vice President, Amazon Devices. "We've made the all-new Fire HD 8 even better with faster performance, 32GB of internal storage, up to 12 hours of battery life, and easier charging with USB-C—all for only $89.99. For only $20 more, the Fire HD 8 Plus packs even more power with 50% more RAM, hassle-free wireless charging, and six months of Kindle Unlimited included. With access to millions of movies, TV shows, books, songs, magazines, Alexa, and more—Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus are the perfect tablets for entertainment." The All-New Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus: Built for Entertainment The all-new Fire HD 8 includes: Beautiful display– Featuring a vibrant 8" 1280 x 800 high definition display with over one million pixels. New faster processor – Now 30% faster with a 2.0 GHz quad-core processor and 2GB RAM to easily multi-task when watching movies, playing games and browsing the web. Now even more storage – With options for 32GB or 64GB of internal storage and support for up to 1TB of expandable storage via microSD. Plus, enjoy free unlimited cloud storage for all Amazon content and photos taken with Fire tablets. New longer battery life – Up to 12 hours of mixed-use battery life for browsing the web, watching videos, listening to music, and more. New easier charging– Comes with USB-C for easy charging in less than 5 hours. Introducing Game Mode – A distraction-free, optimized gaming experience that lets you focus on your game without interference from notifications. Wide selection of content– Access to millions of movies, TV shows, songs, Kindle eBooks, magazines, apps, and games. Watch downloaded videos with Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, Hulu (No Ads), or SHOWTIME subscriptions, and enjoy picture-in-picture videos with apps like Twitch and Red Bull TV. Discover content that helps you and your family to be entertained, connected, and informed with family-friendly movies, and supplemental e-learning on the #AtHome destination on Fire Tablets. Stay connected – Download an app, such as Zoom, or ask Alexa to make a video call, to keep in touch with family and friends using your Fire HD 8. Always-ready, hands-free Alexa – When connected to wifi, simply ask Alexa to Drop In on a friend or family member, play a song, start an Audible book, launch a trivia game, find your favorite movies, show your calendar, and more – using only your voice. Fire HD 8 is designed to protect your privacy. To learn more, visit: www.amazon.com/alexaprivacyhub. Amazon-exclusive features – Enjoy customer favorites like For You, X-Ray, Family Library, Blue Shade, and more. For more information, click here. For only $20 more, the new Fire HD 8 Plus adds: Fast and responsive performance – With 3GB RAM, 50% more RAM than the Fire HD 8, and a 2.0 GHz quad-core processor, Fire HD 8 Plus delivers a smooth experience whether you're browsing the web, playing a game, or watching your favorite show. Hassle-free wireless charging – When bundled with a compatible wireless charging dock, seamlessly transition Fire HD 8 Plus from a portable tablet experience to a countertop smart display with hands-free Alexa access in Show Mode. Faster in-box adapter – Includes a 9W in-box adapter that charges your tablet in less than four hours. Six months of Kindle Unlimited– As a special introductory offer, Fire HD 8 Plus customers will get six months of Kindle Unlimited included with their tablet purchase. After six months, the Kindle Unlimited membership renews at the regular price of just $9.99 per month. Availability The all-new Fire HD 8 is available for pre-order today, starting at $89.99 at www.amazon.com/firehd8. For a limited time, it is available in a two-pack bundle for $159.99. Fire HD 8 is offered in White, Black, Twilight Blue, and Plum, and will begin shipping on June 3. The Fire HD 8 Plus comes in a new Slate color, and can be pre-ordered today starting at $109.99 at www.amazon.com/firehd8plus. It begins shipping June 3. The Fire HD 8 Plus can also be purchased as a bundle with the all-new Made for Amazon Wireless Charging Dock by ANGREAT for $139.99. Accessory Cases are available for both Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus tablets in Twilight Blue, Charcoal Black, Sandstone White, and Plum for $29.99. All-New Fire HD 8 Kids Edition: Built from the Ground-Up for Kids The all-new Fire HD 8 Kids Edition includes the Fire HD 8 tablet with an 8" HD display, 32GB of storage with up to 1TB of expandable storage via microSD, up to 12 hours of mixed-use battery life, and USB-C for reversible charging. It also comes bundled with a kid-proof case with a new adjustable stand in blue, pink, or purple, a two-year worry-free guarantee, and a year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited—all for $139.99. With Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, kids can enjoy over 20,000 premium, age-appropriate books, Audible books, educational apps, games, and videos on their Fire HD 8 Kids Edition, including new and popular titles such as Pinkfong Baby Shark, Sonic Dash, Descendants Junior Novel, and Barbie Dreamtopia from brands like Smartstudy, PBS KIDS, SEGA, and Mattel. Kids can also enjoy over 2,000 Spanish language titles, like Pinkfong! Car Songs, Plaza Sesamo, National Geographic Readers: Los Tiburones (Sharks), and Los Sentidos de Los Insectos. Within FreeTime, kids can easily discover over 1,500 educational titles organized by core curriculum and extracurricular topics, such as math, science, exercise, art, and virtual fieldtrips. In addition, for a limited time, families will also have access to additional premium content from HOMER and PBS Kids within FreeTime Unlimited. All of the FreeTime Unlimited content is kid-friendly and hand-selected by the Amazon FreeTime team with new titles added regularly. "Over 20 million kids (and their parents) have enjoyed the award-winning Amazon FreeTime service and we're excited to make it even better with new educational content that helps to keep kids learning and entertained," said Kurt Beidler, Director of Kids and Family, Amazon. "The all-new Fire HD 8 Kids Edition is built from the ground up to offer the FreeTime Unlimited content kids love and the parental controls parents trust—all wrapped in a colorful kid-proof case with a two-year worry-free guarantee." Fire HD 8 Kids Edition comes with access to award-winning parental controls that encourage learning before play. With FreeTime, parents can manage their child's FreeTime settings, such as the ability to set daily goals, age filters, and time limits for both weekdays and weekends. Parents can also use parental controls to choose what content kids can access and to add more content. These settings can be managed on the device or parents can visit the Parent Dashboard at parents.amazon.com to view daily activity reports and easily adjust their child's FreeTime settings from any web browser, whether they're on a mobile device or computer. Availability The all-new Fire HD 8 Kids Edition is available for pre-order today, starting at $139.99 at www.amazon.com/firehd8kidsedition and will begin shipping on June 3. As an introductory offer, if customers purchase two Fire HD 8 Kids Edition tablets together, they will receive a 25% discount. After one year, customers can continue their FreeTime Unlimited subscription starting at $2.99 per month for Prime members and $4.99 per month for customers who are not yet Prime members. The subscription can be used on any compatible device, including Fire tablets, Fire TV, Kindle, Echo, iOS, Chrome OS, and Android devices. 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/20200513005440/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>The all-new Fire HD 8 comes with an 8" HD display, 30% faster performance with 2GB RAM, 2x the storage expandable up to 1TB via a microSD card, up to 12 hours of battery life, easier charging with USB-C, and access to millions of movies, TV shows, songs, eBooks, magazines, games, and educational and entertainment apps – only $89.99</em></p><p><em>Introducing Fire HD 8 Plus, an enhanced Fire HD 8 experience with 3GB of RAM, hassle-free wireless charging, a 9W in-box USB-C charger for faster charging, and, for a limited time, six months of Kindle Unlimited included – only $109.99</em></p><p><em>The all-new Fire HD 8 Kids Edition comes bundled with the Fire HD 8 tablet, one year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited with access to over 20,000 kid-friendly books, Audible books, videos, educational apps and games, a new kid-proof case with an adjustable stand, and a two-year worry-free guarantee – only $139.99</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon today announced the next generation of its Fire HD 8 tablet lineup, designed with the entire family in mind: the all-new Fire HD 8, Fire HD 8 Plus, and Fire HD 8 Kids Edition.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200513005440/en/</p><div><p>The All-New Amazon Fire HD 8 (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"The new Fire HD 8 tablets offer the features that everyone in the family wants – great content, more storage, longer battery life – at a price that is incredibly affordable," said Kevin Keith, Vice President, Amazon Devices. "We've made the all-new Fire HD 8 even better with faster performance, 32GB of internal storage, up to 12 hours of battery life, and easier charging with USB-C—all for only $89.99. For only $20 more, the Fire HD 8 Plus packs even more power with 50% more RAM, hassle-free wireless charging, and six months of Kindle Unlimited included. With access to millions of movies, TV shows, books, songs, magazines, Alexa, and more—Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus are the perfect tablets for entertainment."</p><p>The All-New Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus: Built for Entertainment</p><p>The all-new Fire HD 8 includes:</p><ul><li>Beautiful display– Featuring a vibrant 8" 1280 x 800 high definition display with over one million pixels.</li><li>New faster processor – Now 30% faster with a 2.0 GHz quad-core processor and 2GB RAM to easily multi-task when watching movies, playing games and browsing the web.</li><li>Now even more storage – With options for 32GB or 64GB of internal storage and support for up to 1TB of expandable storage via microSD. Plus, enjoy free unlimited cloud storage for all Amazon content and photos taken with Fire tablets.</li><li>New longer battery life – Up to 12 hours of mixed-use battery life for browsing the web, watching videos, listening to music, and more.</li><li>New easier charging– Comes with USB-C for easy charging in less than 5 hours.</li><li>Introducing Game Mode – A distraction-free, optimized gaming experience that lets you focus on your game without interference from notifications.</li><li>Wide selection of content– Access to millions of movies, TV shows, songs, Kindle eBooks, magazines, apps, and games. Watch downloaded videos with Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, Hulu (No Ads), or SHOWTIME subscriptions, and enjoy picture-in-picture videos with apps like Twitch and Red Bull TV. Discover content that helps you and your family to be entertained, connected, and informed with family-friendly movies, and supplemental e-learning on the #AtHome destination on Fire Tablets.</li><li>Stay connected – Download an app, such as Zoom, or ask Alexa to make a video call, to keep in touch with family and friends using your Fire HD 8.</li><li>Always-ready, hands-free Alexa – When connected to wifi, simply ask Alexa to Drop In on a friend or family member, play a song, start an Audible book, launch a trivia game, find your favorite movies, show your calendar, and more – using only your voice. Fire HD 8 is designed to protect your privacy. To learn more, visit: www.amazon.com/alexaprivacyhub.</li><li>Amazon-exclusive features – Enjoy customer favorites like For You, X-Ray, Family Library, Blue Shade, and more. For more information, click here.</li></ul><p>For only $20 more, the new Fire HD 8 Plus adds:</p><ul><li>Fast and responsive performance – With 3GB RAM, 50% more RAM than the Fire HD 8, and a 2.0 GHz quad-core processor, Fire HD 8 Plus delivers a smooth experience whether you're browsing the web, playing a game, or watching your favorite show.</li><li>Hassle-free wireless charging – When bundled with a compatible wireless charging dock, seamlessly transition Fire HD 8 Plus from a portable tablet experience to a countertop smart display with hands-free Alexa access in Show Mode.</li><li>Faster in-box adapter – Includes a 9W in-box adapter that charges your tablet in less than four hours.</li><li>Six months of Kindle Unlimited– As a special introductory offer, Fire HD 8 Plus customers will get six months of Kindle Unlimited included with their tablet purchase. After six months, the Kindle Unlimited membership renews at the regular price of just $9.99 per month.</li></ul><p>Availability</p><p>The all-new Fire HD 8 is available for pre-order today, starting at $89.99 at www.amazon.com/firehd8. For a limited time, it is available in a two-pack bundle for $159.99. Fire HD 8 is offered in White, Black, Twilight Blue, and Plum, and will begin shipping on June 3.</p><p>The Fire HD 8 Plus comes in a new Slate color, and can be pre-ordered today starting at $109.99 at www.amazon.com/firehd8plus. It begins shipping June 3. The Fire HD 8 Plus can also be purchased as a bundle with the all-new Made for Amazon Wireless Charging Dock by ANGREAT for $139.99.</p><p>Accessory Cases are available for both Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Plus tablets in Twilight Blue, Charcoal Black, Sandstone White, and Plum for $29.99.</p><p>All-New Fire HD 8 Kids Edition: Built from the Ground-Up for Kids</p><p>The all-new Fire HD 8 Kids Edition includes the Fire HD 8 tablet with an 8" HD display, 32GB of storage with up to 1TB of expandable storage via microSD, up to 12 hours of mixed-use battery life, and USB-C for reversible charging. It also comes bundled with a kid-proof case with a new adjustable stand in blue, pink, or purple, a two-year worry-free guarantee, and a year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited—all for $139.99.</p><p>With Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, kids can enjoy over 20,000 premium, age-appropriate books, Audible books, educational apps, games, and videos on their Fire HD 8 Kids Edition, including new and popular titles such as<em> Pinkfong Baby Shark, Sonic Dash, Descendants Junior Novel, and Barbie Dreamtopia </em>from brands like Smartstudy, PBS KIDS, SEGA, and Mattel. Kids can also enjoy over 2,000 Spanish language titles, like<em> Pinkfong! Car Songs, Plaza Sesamo, National Geographic Readers: Los Tiburones (Sharks)</em>, and <em>Los Sentidos de Los Insectos.</em></p><p>Within FreeTime, kids can easily discover over 1,500 educational titles organized by core curriculum and extracurricular topics, such as math, science, exercise, art, and virtual fieldtrips. In addition, for a limited time, families will also have access to additional premium content from HOMER and PBS Kids within FreeTime Unlimited. All of the FreeTime Unlimited content is kid-friendly and hand-selected by the Amazon FreeTime team with new titles added regularly.</p><p>"Over 20 million kids (and their parents) have enjoyed the award-winning Amazon FreeTime service and we're excited to make it even better with new educational content that helps to keep kids learning and entertained," said Kurt Beidler, Director of Kids and Family, Amazon. "The all-new Fire HD 8 Kids Edition is built from the ground up to offer the FreeTime Unlimited content kids love and the parental controls parents trust—all wrapped in a colorful kid-proof case with a two-year worry-free guarantee."</p><p>Fire HD 8 Kids Edition comes with access to award-winning parental controls that encourage learning before play. With FreeTime, parents can manage their child's FreeTime settings, such as the ability to set daily goals, age filters, and time limits for both weekdays and weekends. Parents can also use parental controls to choose what content kids can access and to add more content. These settings can be managed on the device or parents can visit the Parent Dashboard at parents.amazon.com to view daily activity reports and easily adjust their child's FreeTime settings from any web browser, whether they're on a mobile device or computer.</p><p>Availability</p><p>The all-new Fire HD 8 Kids Edition is available for pre-order today, starting at $139.99 at www.amazon.com/firehd8kidsedition and will begin shipping on June 3. As an introductory offer, if customers purchase two Fire HD 8 Kids Edition tablets together, they will receive a 25% discount.</p><p>After one year, customers can continue their FreeTime Unlimited subscription starting at $2.99 per month for Prime members and $4.99 per month for customers who are not yet Prime members. The subscription can be used on any compatible device, including Fire tablets, Fire TV, Kindle, Echo, iOS, Chrome OS, and Android devices.</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/20200513005440/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

TC Energy Goes All-In on AWS

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TC Energy Goes All-In on AWS

05/13/2020

2020

North American energy company turns to AWS to automate workflows, unlock data, and improve efficiency for its pipeline and power generation businesses SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that TC Energy is going all-in on the world's leading cloud, moving its entire infrastructure to AWS. The North American energy company, headquartered in Canada, has migrated almost 90 percent of its corporate and commercial applications, including its SAP platform, to AWS. TC Energy is leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS services, including machine learning, analytics, database, serverless, storage, and compute to deliver energy and generate power more efficiently for millions of homes in North America. The migration also positioned TC Energy to respond quickly to the evolving COVID-19 situation, with TC Energy employees using Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops remotely – which extend the functionality of in-office software resources to at-home users – to work securely from home. In 2017, TC Energy began migrating workloads to AWS to modernize its infrastructure and improve operational efficiencies. A year later, the company decided to go all-in, moving all of its business-critical applications, including its SAP platform, to AWS. The TC Energy team carefully planned and architected the migration, ultimately moving its entire SAP platform to AWS with zero downtime and no impact on operations. The company reports a 30 percent decrease in overall costs related to its SAP workloads since migrating to AWS. As part of the overall infrastructure migration, TC Energy also focused on optimization, using AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans to drive efficiency in its cloud computing usage and capacity planning. With AWS's Instance Scheduler tool (a solution that enables customers to easily configure custom start and stop schedules for their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Relational Database Service instances), TC Energy takes advantage of the elasticity of the cloud to scale down capacity at night, turning off its workloads unrelated to energy production. By going all-in on AWS, TC Energy was able to achieve significant savings that the company is redirecting into further investments in research, development, and innovation, including new machine learning projects. "Since moving to AWS, we've shifted our focus to automating workflows and unlocking efficiencies, rather than operating infrastructure and managing costly and complex upgrades," said Chris Foster, Vice President, Information Services and Chief Information Officer of TC Energy. "The visibility we now have across our business has helped us to drive efficiency in our operations and explore new solutions to advance our efforts on environmental stewardship to reduce our impact on land disturbance, carbon intensity, and energy consumption. Our teams identify business hurdles and work with Information Services to develop new cloud-native applications in a way that just wasn't possible before we started running on AWS." "TC Energy is a prime example of how the cloud contributes to changing the way a company does business, enabling innovation to permeate deep into its culture and operations," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "By going-all in on AWS, the company is innovating at a faster clip and unlocking insights that are helping to improve the operational efficiency of energy delivery, as well as enhancing its conservation and sustainability practices. They're finding ways to boost capacity and changing the way they approach business issues. TC Energy is an example of how organizations today can use the power of the cloud to transform their business." 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 TC Energy We are a vital part of everyday life – delivering the energy millions of people rely on to power their lives in a sustainable way. Thanks to a safe, reliable network of natural gas and crude oil pipelines, along with power generation and storage facilities, wherever life happens – we're there. Guided by our core values of safety, responsibility, collaboration and integrity, our more than 7,300 people make a positive difference in the communities where we operate across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. TC Energy's common shares trade on the Toronto (TSX) and New York (NYSE) stock exchanges under the symbol TRP. To learn more, visit us at TCEnergy.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200513005022/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>North American energy company turns to AWS to automate workflows, unlock data, and improve efficiency for its pipeline and power generation businesses</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that TC Energy is going all-in on the world's leading cloud, moving its entire infrastructure to AWS. The North American energy company, headquartered in Canada, has migrated almost 90 percent of its corporate and commercial applications, including its SAP platform, to AWS. TC Energy is leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS services, including machine learning, analytics, database, serverless, storage, and compute to deliver energy and generate power more efficiently for millions of homes in North America. The migration also positioned TC Energy to respond quickly to the evolving COVID-19 situation, with TC Energy employees using Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops remotely – which extend the functionality of in-office software resources to at-home users – to work securely from home.</p><p>In 2017, TC Energy began migrating workloads to AWS to modernize its infrastructure and improve operational efficiencies. A year later, the company decided to go all-in, moving all of its business-critical applications, including its SAP platform, to AWS. The TC Energy team carefully planned and architected the migration, ultimately moving its entire SAP platform to AWS with zero downtime and no impact on operations. The company reports a 30 percent decrease in overall costs related to its SAP workloads since migrating to AWS. As part of the overall infrastructure migration, TC Energy also focused on optimization, using AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans to drive efficiency in its cloud computing usage and capacity planning. With AWS's Instance Scheduler tool (a solution that enables customers to easily configure custom start and stop schedules for their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Relational Database Service instances), TC Energy takes advantage of the elasticity of the cloud to scale down capacity at night, turning off its workloads unrelated to energy production. By going all-in on AWS, TC Energy was able to achieve significant savings that the company is redirecting into further investments in research, development, and innovation, including new machine learning projects.</p><p>"Since moving to AWS, we've shifted our focus to automating workflows and unlocking efficiencies, rather than operating infrastructure and managing costly and complex upgrades," said Chris Foster, Vice President, Information Services and Chief Information Officer of TC Energy. "The visibility we now have across our business has helped us to drive efficiency in our operations and explore new solutions to advance our efforts on environmental stewardship to reduce our impact on land disturbance, carbon intensity, and energy consumption. Our teams identify business hurdles and work with Information Services to develop new cloud-native applications in a way that just wasn't possible before we started running on AWS."</p><p>"TC Energy is a prime example of how the cloud contributes to changing the way a company does business, enabling innovation to permeate deep into its culture and operations," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "By going-all in on AWS, the company is innovating at a faster clip and unlocking insights that are helping to improve the operational efficiency of energy delivery, as well as enhancing its conservation and sustainability practices. They're finding ways to boost capacity and changing the way they approach business issues. TC Energy is an example of how organizations today can use the power of the cloud to transform their business."</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 TC Energy</p><p>We are a vital part of everyday life – delivering the energy millions of people rely on to power their lives in a sustainable way. Thanks to a safe, reliable network of natural gas and crude oil pipelines, along with power generation and storage facilities, wherever life happens – we're there. Guided by our core values of safety, responsibility, collaboration and integrity, our more than 7,300 people make a positive difference in the communities where we operate across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.</p><p>TC Energy's common shares trade on the Toronto (TSX) and New York (NYSE) stock exchanges under the symbol TRP. To learn more, visit us at TCEnergy.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200513005022/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 Kendra

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Amazon Kendra reinvents enterprise search across all of an organization's data silos by using machine learning to provide high-quality results to natural language queries instead of a random list of links in response to keyword searches 3M, PwC, and Allen Institute among customers and partners using Amazon Kendra SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service powered by machine learning. With just a few clicks, Amazon Kendra uses machine learning to enable organizations to index all of their internal data sources, make that data searchable, and allow users to get precise answers to natural language queries. When users ask a question, Amazon Kendra uses finely tuned machine learning algorithms to understand the context and return the most relevant results, whether that be a precise answer or an entire document. For example, businesses can use Amazon Kendra to search internal documents spread across portals and wikis, research organizations can create a searchable archive of experiments and notes, and contact centers can use Amazon Kendra to find the right answer to customer questions across the complete library of support documentation. Amazon Kendra requires no machine learning expertise and can be set up completely within the AWS Management Console. To get started with Amazon Kendra, visit https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ Despite many attempts over many years, searching for information within an organization remains a vexing problem for today's enterprises. Many businesses and organizations struggle implementing internal search across their siloed troves of data, requiring their end-users to use keywords to find information. Organizations have vast amounts of unstructured text data, much of it incredibly useful if it can be discovered, stored in many formats, and spread across different data sources (e.g. SharePoint, Intranet, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and on-premises file storage systems). Even with common web-based search tools widely available, organizations still find internal search difficult because none of the available tools do a good job indexing across existing data silos, don't provide natural language queries, and can't deliver accurate results. When end-users have questions, they are required to use keywords that may appear in multiple documents in different contexts, and these searches typically generate long lists of random links that end-users have to sift through to find the information they seek – if they find it at all. Amazon Kendra reinvents enterprise search by allowing end-users to search across multiple silos of data using real questions (not just keywords) and leverages machine learning models under the hood to understand the content of documents and the relationships between them to deliver the precise answers they seek (instead of a random list of links). Because natural language understanding is at the core of Amazon Kendra's search engine, employees can run their searches using natural language (keywords still work, but most users prefer natural language searches). As an example, an employee can ask a specific question like "when does the IT help desk open?" and Amazon Kendra will give them a specific answer like "9:30 AM," and highlight the passage in the source document where it found the answer, along with links back to the IT ticketing portal and other relevant sites. Amazon Kendra is also optimized to understand complex language from multiple domains, including IT (e.g. "How do I set up my VPN?"), healthcare and life sciences (e.g. "What is the genetic marker for ALS?"), and insurance (e.g. "How long does it take for policy changes to go into effect?"). Currently, Amazon Kendra supports industry-specific language from IT, healthcare, and insurance, plus energy, industrial, financial services, legal, media and entertainment, travel and hospitality, human resources, news, telecommunications, mining, food and beverage, and automotive, with additional industry support coming in the second half of this year. "Our customers often tell us that search in their organizations is difficult to implement, slows down productivity, and frequently doesn't work because their data is scattered across many silos in many formats. Using keywords is also counterintuitive, and the results returned often require scanning through many irrelevant links and documents to find useful information," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Today, we're excited to make Amazon Kendra available to our customers and enable them to empower their employees with highly accurate, machine learning-powered enterprise search, which makes it easier for them to find the answers they seek across the full wealth of an organization's data." Amazon Kendra encrypts data in transit and at rest and easily integrates with commonly used data repository types such as file systems, applications, Intranet, and relational databases, so developers can index their company's content with just a few clicks, and provide end-users with highly accurate search without writing a single line of code. Amazon Kendra provides a wide range of native cloud and on-premises connectors to popular data sources such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and relational databases, with more being added throughout this year. Developers can quickly and easily add data sources to their Amazon Kendra search index by selecting the connector type, and those connectors will maintain document access rights. Data connectors can be scheduled to automatically sync between the index and data sources to ensure end-users are always securely searching the most up to date content. Amazon Kendra also helps to ensure that search results adhere to existing document access policies by scanning permissions on documents, so that search results only contain documents for which the user has permission to access. Developers simply log into the Amazon Kendra console, point the service at their unstructured and semi-structured documents, and Amazon Kendra then creates an index across silos of data. Customers can then deploy Amazon Kendra across their applications from the console by copying short code samples provided in the documentation. Amazon Kendra is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU West (Ireland), with other regions coming soon. 3M is a multinational corporation and a leading manufacturer of products including abrasives, chemicals and advanced materials, films, filtration, adhesives, and more. 3M applies science in collaborative ways to improve lives, daily. "Research and development is the heartbeat of 3M, and we invest deeply in the science that makes us strong. When our material scientists lead new research, they need to access past research that may be relevant. This information is often buried in our patents and expansive knowledge repositories," said David Frazee, Technical Director, 3M Corporate Research Systems Lab. "Finding the right information is often exhausting, time consuming, and sometimes incomplete. With Amazon Kendra, our scientists find the information they need quickly and accurately using natural language queries. With Kendra, our engineers and researchers are enthusiastic about the ability to quickly find information which will enable them to innovate faster, collaborate more effectively, and accelerate the ongoing stream of unique products for our customers." PwC is a network of firms in 157 countries with over 276,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory, and tax services."PwC designed RegRanger for regulated industries, providing access to regulatory and compliance information as well as proprietary PwC insights," said Chris Curran, Partner and Chief Technology Officer of PwC's New Ventures organization. "Our goal is to help our customers get to the answers they need faster – even when the right answers may be buried within documents over 100 pages long – so they can understand regulatory information faster and make decisions more quickly and confidently. As an early adopter of Amazon Kendra, PwC is now developing and testing enhanced search capabilities to be implemented in our next version of RegRanger. These enhanced capabilities will allow users to ask natural language questions, which is a dramatic improvement over traditional keyword searching methods and manual reviews of documents. We are excited about the added value that Kendra will bring to our customers in regulated industries." The Allen Institute is fiercely committed to solving some of the biggest mysteries of bioscience, researching the unknown of human biology, in the brain, the human cell, and the immune system. At the same time, they are pushing the frontiers of bioscience to continue to explore the edges of scientific discovery. "One of the most impactful things AI like Amazon Kendra can do right now is help scientists, academics, and technologists quickly find the right information in a sea of scientific literature and move important research faster," said Dr. Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer of the Allen Institute for AI. "The Semantic Scholar team at Allen Institute for AI, along with our partners, is proud to provide CORD-19 and to support the AI resources the community is building to leverage this resource to tackle this crucial problem." Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax, and assurance firm dedicated to building long-lasting relationships and helping customers with their most pressing problems — and enabling them to create new opportunities. Baker Tilly works with clients on rationalizing their data to provide insights on market conditions and customer preference and trends, thus enabling them to quickly anticipate and adapt to change. "Amazon Kendra provides direct connection with unbelievable levels of efficiency and accuracy. We found that by using Kendra, our clients are able to surface relevant information 10 times faster when compared to SharePoint full text search," said Ollie East, Director of Advanced Analytics and Data Engineering at Baker Tilly. "As an example, Amazon Kendra allows product managers to ask questions in everyday language such as ‘What parts are made of titanium?' quickly surfacing an answer such as a list of relevant product manuals, technical bulletins, service alerts, and patent registrations previously not possible with keyword search and connecting them to relevant content across an enterprise-wide repository, or providing marketing managers quick access to crucial research on customer behavior." Onix, an award-winning cloud consulting company with nearly 20 years of deep enterprise search experience, has helped hundreds of customers adapt to the ever-changing search landscape. "Search capabilities have evolved over the years. Users now expect the same experience they get from the semantic and natural language search engines and conversational interfaces they use in their personal lives," said Tim Needles, President and CEO at Onix. "Powered by machine learning and natural language understanding, Kendra improves employee productivity by up to 25%. With more accurate enterprise search, Kendra opens new opportunities for keyword-based on-premises and SaaS search users to migrate to the cloud and avoid contract lock-ins." Haufe Group takes companies into the digital age and creates the workplace of the future, with competence, passion, and experience. "At Haufe Group we continuously explore ways to improve the customer experience and seek to increase employee productivity through better technology. One key element to being efficient in today's working environment is fast access to relevant data, including bringing together data that resides on distributed systems. Everybody has experienced challenges in finding the right information in the right place at the right time. Often, we are frustrated by the effort associated with finding the data we are searching for. Poor search experiences compound themselves when the search is performed on text-based content, especially for document search," said Andreas Plaul, Head of ICT Services at Haufe Group. "While there are already various approaches in place to optimize this search experience at Haufe Group, we are confident that Amazon Kendra will contribute significant additional optimization, such as providing a single search experience across at least seven key information repositories across the group and will be key to achieving the speed and ease of access we desire. With its predefined connectors for different data repositories, and the option to create custom connectors, we expect Amazon Kendra to help with a broad range of use cases for improved customer experience and employee productivity." 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/20200511005867/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>Amazon Kendra reinvents enterprise search across all of an organization's data silos by using machine learning to provide high-quality results to natural language queries instead of a random list of links in response to keyword searches</em></p><p><em>3M, PwC, and Allen Institute among customers and partners using Amazon Kendra</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service powered by machine learning. With just a few clicks, Amazon Kendra uses machine learning to enable organizations to index all of their internal data sources, make that data searchable, and allow users to get precise answers to natural language queries. When users ask a question, Amazon Kendra uses finely tuned machine learning algorithms to understand the context and return the most relevant results, whether that be a precise answer or an entire document. For example, businesses can use Amazon Kendra to search internal documents spread across portals and wikis, research organizations can create a searchable archive of experiments and notes, and contact centers can use Amazon Kendra to find the right answer to customer questions across the complete library of support documentation. Amazon Kendra requires no machine learning expertise and can be set up completely within the AWS Management Console. To get started with Amazon Kendra, visit https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/</p><p>Despite many attempts over many years, searching for information within an organization remains a vexing problem for today's enterprises. Many businesses and organizations struggle implementing internal search across their siloed troves of data, requiring their end-users to use keywords to find information. Organizations have vast amounts of unstructured text data, much of it incredibly useful if it can be discovered, stored in many formats, and spread across different data sources (e.g. SharePoint, Intranet, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and on-premises file storage systems). Even with common web-based search tools widely available, organizations still find internal search difficult because none of the available tools do a good job indexing across existing data silos, don't provide natural language queries, and can't deliver accurate results. When end-users have questions, they are required to use keywords that may appear in multiple documents in different contexts, and these searches typically generate long lists of random links that end-users have to sift through to find the information they seek – if they find it at all.</p><p>Amazon Kendra reinvents enterprise search by allowing end-users to search across multiple silos of data using real questions (not just keywords) and leverages machine learning models under the hood to understand the content of documents and the relationships between them to deliver the precise answers they seek (instead of a random list of links). Because natural language understanding is at the core of Amazon Kendra's search engine, employees can run their searches using natural language (keywords still work, but most users prefer natural language searches). As an example, an employee can ask a specific question like <em>"when does the IT help desk open?"</em> and Amazon Kendra will give them a specific answer like <em>"9:30 AM,"</em> and highlight the passage in the source document where it found the answer, along with links back to the IT ticketing portal and other relevant sites. Amazon Kendra is also optimized to understand complex language from multiple domains, including IT (e.g. "<em>How do I set up my VPN?</em>"), healthcare and life sciences (e.g. "<em>What is the genetic marker for ALS</em>?"), and insurance (e.g. <em>"How long does it take for policy changes to go into effect?"</em>). Currently, Amazon Kendra supports industry-specific language from IT, healthcare, and insurance, plus energy, industrial, financial services, legal, media and entertainment, travel and hospitality, human resources, news, telecommunications, mining, food and beverage, and automotive, with additional industry support coming in the second half of this year.</p><p>"Our customers often tell us that search in their organizations is difficult to implement, slows down productivity, and frequently doesn't work because their data is scattered across many silos in many formats. Using keywords is also counterintuitive, and the results returned often require scanning through many irrelevant links and documents to find useful information," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Today, we're excited to make Amazon Kendra available to our customers and enable them to empower their employees with highly accurate, machine learning-powered enterprise search, which makes it easier for them to find the answers they seek across the full wealth of an organization's data."</p><p>Amazon Kendra encrypts data in transit and at rest and easily integrates with commonly used data repository types such as file systems, applications, Intranet, and relational databases, so developers can index their company's content with just a few clicks, and provide end-users with highly accurate search without writing a single line of code. Amazon Kendra provides a wide range of native cloud and on-premises connectors to popular data sources such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and relational databases, with more being added throughout this year. Developers can quickly and easily add data sources to their Amazon Kendra search index by selecting the connector type, and those connectors will maintain document access rights. Data connectors can be scheduled to automatically sync between the index and data sources to ensure end-users are always securely searching the most up to date content. Amazon Kendra also helps to ensure that search results adhere to existing document access policies by scanning permissions on documents, so that search results only contain documents for which the user has permission to access. Developers simply log into the Amazon Kendra console, point the service at their unstructured and semi-structured documents, and Amazon Kendra then creates an index across silos of data. Customers can then deploy Amazon Kendra across their applications from the console by copying short code samples provided in the documentation. Amazon Kendra is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU West (Ireland), with other regions coming soon.</p><p>3M is a multinational corporation and a leading manufacturer of products including abrasives, chemicals and advanced materials, films, filtration, adhesives, and more. 3M applies science in collaborative ways to improve lives, daily. "Research and development is the heartbeat of 3M, and we invest deeply in the science that makes us strong. When our material scientists lead new research, they need to access past research that may be relevant. This information is often buried in our patents and expansive knowledge repositories," said David Frazee, Technical Director, 3M Corporate Research Systems Lab. "Finding the right information is often exhausting, time consuming, and sometimes incomplete. With Amazon Kendra, our scientists find the information they need quickly and accurately using natural language queries. With Kendra, our engineers and researchers are enthusiastic about the ability to quickly find information which will enable them to innovate faster, collaborate more effectively, and accelerate the ongoing stream of unique products for our customers."</p><p>PwC is a network of firms in 157 countries with over 276,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory, and tax services."PwC designed RegRanger for regulated industries, providing access to regulatory and compliance information as well as proprietary PwC insights," said Chris Curran, Partner and Chief Technology Officer of PwC's New Ventures organization. "Our goal is to help our customers get to the answers they need faster – even when the right answers may be buried within documents over 100 pages long – so they can understand regulatory information faster and make decisions more quickly and confidently. As an early adopter of Amazon Kendra, PwC is now developing and testing enhanced search capabilities to be implemented in our next version of RegRanger. These enhanced capabilities will allow users to ask natural language questions, which is a dramatic improvement over traditional keyword searching methods and manual reviews of documents. We are excited about the added value that Kendra will bring to our customers in regulated industries."</p><p>The Allen Institute is fiercely committed to solving some of the biggest mysteries of bioscience, researching the unknown of human biology, in the brain, the human cell, and the immune system. At the same time, they are pushing the frontiers of bioscience to continue to explore the edges of scientific discovery. "One of the most impactful things AI like Amazon Kendra can do right now is help scientists, academics, and technologists quickly find the right information in a sea of scientific literature and move important research faster," said Dr. Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer of the Allen Institute for AI. "The Semantic Scholar team at Allen Institute for AI, along with our partners, is proud to provide CORD-19 and to support the AI resources the community is building to leverage this resource to tackle this crucial problem."</p><p>Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax, and assurance firm dedicated to building long-lasting relationships and helping customers with their most pressing problems — and enabling them to create new opportunities. Baker Tilly works with clients on rationalizing their data to provide insights on market conditions and customer preference and trends, thus enabling them to quickly anticipate and adapt to change. "Amazon Kendra provides direct connection with unbelievable levels of efficiency and accuracy. We found that by using Kendra, our clients are able to surface relevant information 10 times faster when compared to SharePoint full text search," said Ollie East, Director of Advanced Analytics and Data Engineering at Baker Tilly. "As an example, Amazon Kendra allows product managers to ask questions in everyday language such as ‘What parts are made of titanium?' quickly surfacing an answer such as a list of relevant product manuals, technical bulletins, service alerts, and patent registrations previously not possible with keyword search and connecting them to relevant content across an enterprise-wide repository, or providing marketing managers quick access to crucial research on customer behavior."</p><p>Onix, an award-winning cloud consulting company with nearly 20 years of deep enterprise search experience, has helped hundreds of customers adapt to the ever-changing search landscape. "Search capabilities have evolved over the years. Users now expect the same experience they get from the semantic and natural language search engines and conversational interfaces they use in their personal lives," said Tim Needles, President and CEO at Onix. "Powered by machine learning and natural language understanding, Kendra improves employee productivity by up to 25%. With more accurate enterprise search, Kendra opens new opportunities for keyword-based on-premises and SaaS search users to migrate to the cloud and avoid contract lock-ins."</p><p>Haufe Group takes companies into the digital age and creates the workplace of the future, with competence, passion, and experience. "At Haufe Group we continuously explore ways to improve the customer experience and seek to increase employee productivity through better technology. One key element to being efficient in today's working environment is fast access to relevant data, including bringing together data that resides on distributed systems. Everybody has experienced challenges in finding the right information in the right place at the right time. Often, we are frustrated by the effort associated with finding the data we are searching for. Poor search experiences compound themselves when the search is performed on text-based content, especially for document search," said Andreas Plaul, Head of ICT Services at Haufe Group. "While there are already various approaches in place to optimize this search experience at Haufe Group, we are confident that Amazon Kendra will contribute significant additional optimization, such as providing a single search experience across at least seven key information repositories across the group and will be key to achieving the speed and ease of access we desire. With its predefined connectors for different data repositories, and the option to create custom connectors, we expect Amazon Kendra to help with a broad range of use cases for improved customer experience and employee productivity."</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/20200511005867/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

Amazon Original Series Regular Heroes to Premiere May 8 Highlighting Courageous Stories From the Front-Lines of COVID-19

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Eight-Episode Docuseries to Feature Special Guest Appearance by Alicia Keys in the Premiere Episode New Episodes Available Weekly on Prime Video Featuring New Heroes Who Are Making a Difference in Their Local Communities Across America CLICK HERE FOR AVAILABLE IMAGES CLICK HERE TO VIEW FIRST LOOK FOOTAGE CULVER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2020-- Regular Heroes is an eight-episode docuseries highlighting the contributions and personal sacrifices of just some of today's most generous individuals who are going above and beyond to support their communities during the COVID-19 crisis. The series premieres on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia on Friday, May 8. In addition to shining the spotlight on the heroes' tireless work and amplifying their efforts in cities including New York City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Chicago, and Seattle among others, the series will offer support and assistance with donations of goods, services and more so that they can continue to pay it forward and help their communities. New episodes of Regular Heroes will be available every Friday. The series will premiere in all other Amazon Prime Video territories May 12, 2020. In the premiere episode of Regular Heroes, Native New Yorker and 15-time Grammy Award-winning singer, producer and author Alicia Keys will help shine a light on Trevor Henry, Burnell Cotlon and Athena Hayley as they each make personal sacrifices for their families and communities. Additionally, Keys' moving new song, "Good Job," will be featured in the series. Subsequent episodes with additional talent and heroes will be announced at a later date. "This show is Amazzziinngg!!! So pure and genuine! I'm happy to know this series will not only give support to but also put a face on the incredible people like Trevor, Burnell and Hayley. They are the ones we clap for each night at 7pm in New York. These are the Heroes. And I'm so honored to celebrate them!!" said Keys. "We are so proud to celebrate people who are doing so much to transform the lives of people in their communities. This show is inspired by the individuals who give so much to others every day of the year but even more so during this challenging time. They are true role models and we can't wait to share their stories with Prime Video customers everywhere," said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. Episode One (May 8, 2020): "A New Type Of Hero" with a special appearance by Alicia Keys. Featuring: TREVOR HENRY (NEW YORK CITY)Trevor Henry, born and raised in the Bronx, is a husband and father of four who works as a Senior Inventory Specialist at HSS (Hospital for Special Surgery).He spends his 10-hour days supporting doctors and nurses as they tend to the sickest COVID-19 patients in the unit. When Trevor isn't at the hospital, he's helping his children with their schoolwork as he swaps shifts with his wife who also is an essential worker at a different hospital in New York. BURNELL COTLON (NEW ORLEANS)For the last 10 years, Burnell Cotlon has been a staple in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. After Hurricane Katrina wiped out all viable businesses in the town, Burnell invested his life savings into building a grocery store – "Burnell's 9thWard Grocery." As the only grocery store within a 5-mile radius, Burnell continues to service his customers who have been struck with massive layoffs, including donating food to those in need. His life mission is to get the Lower 9th Ward back on par with the rest of New Orleans. ATHENA HAYLEY (LOS ANGELES)After overcoming homelessness, Athena Hayley, who goes by her last name, set out on a mission to help others who found themselves in a similar situation. Never one to give up, once she was off the streets, Hayley rented out the living room of her apartment, just so she could make ends meet and put aside some money to start the "Love My Neighbor Foundation." For the last five years, Hayley has served as a family figure to the residents at the infamous Skid Row, and through her organization, she helps feed and clothe those in need. Regular Heroes will feature people making a difference in their cities and communities from all walks of life: Health care and emergency workers, grocery store employees, farmers, bus drivers, delivery personnel, sanitation workers, police officers, and others. If you or someone you know is making an extraordinary difference in their community please visit Regular-Heroes.com to apply. Regular Heroes is produced by Amazon Studios in association with Philymack, TyTy & Jay Brown Productions and MGM's Big Fish Entertainment. Philip McIntyre, John Lloyd Taylor, Laurence "Jay" Brown, Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith, Dan Cesareo, Lucilla D'Agostino and Jordana Starr serve as Executive Producers. About Prime Video Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of digital videos—all available to watch on practically any device. Included with Prime Video: Watch tons of popular movies and TV shows, award-winning Amazon Originals and other exclusives, sports, and more. Think Emmy Award winners Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Mindy Kaling's Late Night,Donald Glover's Guava Island, Academy Award-nominated The Big Sick, Troop Zero, The Boys, Homecoming, Thursday Night Football and licensed and self-published content. Prime Video is available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide (offers and titles vary based on location). Prime Video Channels: Prime members can add channels like HBO, Cinemax, STARZ, SHOWTIME, CBS All Access, NBA League Pass and MLB.tv —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, with 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 benefits included with a Prime membership, along with fast free shipping on millions of 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 free trial of Amazon Prime visit: amazon.com/prime. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200507005887/en/ PUBLICITY CONTACTS: For Amazon Studios:Kristen HallKristen.Hall@AmazonStudios.com For Philymack:Alexis RastenAlexis@Philymack.com For Big Fish Entertainment:Leslie Oren, Babygrande PRleslie@babygrandepr.com Source: Amazon Prime Video

<p><em>Eight-Episode Docuseries to Feature Special Guest Appearance by Alicia Keys in the Premiere Episode</em></p><p><em>New Episodes Available Weekly on Prime Video Featuring New Heroes Who Are Making a Difference in Their Local Communities Across America</em></p><p><em>CLICK HERE FOR AVAILABLE IMAGES</em></p><p><em>CLICK HERE TO VIEW FIRST LOOK FOOTAGE</em></p><p>CULVER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2020-- <em>Regular Heroes</em> is an eight-episode docuseries highlighting the contributions and personal sacrifices of just some of today's most generous individuals who are going above and beyond to support their communities during the COVID-19 crisis. The series premieres on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia on Friday, May 8. In addition to shining the spotlight on the heroes' tireless work and amplifying their efforts in cities including New York City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Chicago, and Seattle among others, the series will offer support and assistance with donations of goods, services and more so that they can continue to pay it forward and help their communities. New episodes of <em>Regular Heroes </em>will be available every Friday. The series will premiere in all other Amazon Prime Video territories May 12, 2020.</p><p>In the premiere episode of <em>Regular Heroes, </em>Native New Yorker and 15-time Grammy Award-winning singer, producer and author Alicia Keys will help shine a light on Trevor Henry, Burnell Cotlon and Athena Hayley as they each make personal sacrifices for their families and communities. Additionally, Keys' moving new song, "Good Job," will be featured in the series. Subsequent episodes with additional talent and heroes will be announced at a later date.</p><p>"This show is Amazzziinngg!!! So pure and genuine! I'm happy to know this series will not only give support to but also put a face on the incredible people like Trevor, Burnell and Hayley. They are the ones we clap for each night at 7pm in New York. These are the Heroes. And I'm so honored to celebrate them!!" said Keys.</p><p>"We are so proud to celebrate people who are doing so much to transform the lives of people in their communities. This show is inspired by the individuals who give so much to others every day of the year but even more so during this challenging time. They are true role models and we can't wait to share their stories with Prime Video customers everywhere," said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios.</p><p>Episode One (May 8, 2020): "A New Type Of Hero" with a special appearance by Alicia Keys. Featuring:</p><p>TREVOR HENRY (NEW YORK CITY)Trevor Henry, born and raised in the Bronx, is a husband and father of four who works as a Senior Inventory Specialist at HSS (Hospital for Special Surgery).He spends his 10-hour days supporting doctors and nurses as they tend to the sickest COVID-19 patients in the unit. When Trevor isn't at the hospital, he's helping his children with their schoolwork as he swaps shifts with his wife who also is an essential worker at a different hospital in New York.</p><p>BURNELL COTLON (NEW ORLEANS)For the last 10 years, Burnell Cotlon has been a staple in New Orleans' Lower 9^th Ward. After Hurricane Katrina wiped out all viable businesses in the town, Burnell invested his life savings into building a grocery store – "Burnell's 9^thWard Grocery." As the only grocery store within a 5-mile radius, Burnell continues to service his customers who have been struck with massive layoffs, including donating food to those in need. His life mission is to get the Lower 9^th Ward back on par with the rest of New Orleans.</p><p>ATHENA HAYLEY (LOS ANGELES)After overcoming homelessness, Athena Hayley, who goes by her last name, set out on a mission to help others who found themselves in a similar situation. Never one to give up, once she was off the streets, Hayley rented out the living room of her apartment, just so she could make ends meet and put aside some money to start the "Love My Neighbor Foundation." For the last five years, Hayley has served as a family figure to the residents at the infamous Skid Row, and through her organization, she helps feed and clothe those in need.</p><p><em>Regular Heroes</em> will feature people making a difference in their cities and communities from all walks of life: Health care and emergency workers, grocery store employees, farmers, bus drivers, delivery personnel, sanitation workers, police officers, and others. If you or someone you know is making an extraordinary difference in their community please visit Regular-Heroes.com to apply.</p><p><em>Regular Heroes </em>is produced by Amazon Studios in association with Philymack, TyTy &amp; Jay Brown Productions and MGM's Big Fish Entertainment. Philip McIntyre, John Lloyd Taylor, Laurence "Jay" Brown, Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith, Dan Cesareo, Lucilla D'Agostino and Jordana Starr serve as Executive Producers.</p><p>About Prime Video</p><p>Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of digital videos—all available to watch on practically any device.</p><ul><li>Included with Prime Video: Watch tons of popular movies and TV shows, award-winning Amazon Originals and other exclusives, sports, and more. Think Emmy Award winners <em>Fleabag </em>and <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, </em>Mindy Kaling's <em>Late Night</em>,Donald Glover's <em>Guava Island</em>, Academy Award-nominated<em> The Big Sick, Troop Zero, The Boys, Homecoming</em>, <em>Thursday Night Football</em> and licensed and self-published content. Prime Video is available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide (offers and titles vary based on location).</li><li>Prime Video Channels: Prime members can add channels like HBO, Cinemax, STARZ, SHOWTIME, CBS All Access, NBA League Pass and MLB.tv —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, with 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 benefits included with a Prime membership, along with fast free shipping on millions of 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 free trial of Amazon Prime visit: amazon.com/prime.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200507005887/en/</p><p>PUBLICITY CONTACTS:</p><p>For Amazon Studios:Kristen HallKristen.Hall@AmazonStudios.com</p><p>For Philymack:Alexis RastenAlexis@Philymack.com</p><p>For Big Fish Entertainment:Leslie Oren, Babygrande PRleslie@babygrandepr.com</p><p>Source: Amazon Prime Video</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service

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AWS Announces General Availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service

05/05/2020

2020

UltraWarm offers a new, highly performant warm storage tier for Amazon Elasticsearch Service that enables customers to keep more log data accessible for a longer period of time at one-tenth the cost of existing options Sophos, Asurion, and SparkPost among customers using UltraWarm SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, a new, 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. Amazon Elasticsearch Service makes it simple to collect, analyze, and visualize machine-generated log data from websites, mobile devices, and sensors. 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 snappy, interactive experience that Elasticsearch customers expect. There are no up-front investments required to use UltraWarm, and customers pay a simple hourly rate for the storage provisioned. To get started with UltraWarm please visit https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service. As more and more applications are built using microservices, containers, and purpose-built data stores, the volume of machine-generated log data is growing exponentially. Real-time analysis of this data has become essential to customers in order to quickly resolve operational and security issues. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a popular service for log analytics because of its ability to ingest high volumes of log data and analyze it interactively. With this explosive growth of log data, storing and analyzing months' or even years' worth of data is cost-prohibitive at scale. This has led customers to use multiple analytics tools, or delete valuable data, missing out on important insights that the longer-term data could yield. To solve for this customer challenge, AWS built UltraWarm, which gives Elasticsearch customers a warm storage tier that both stores large amounts of data cost-effectively, and provides the type of snappy, interactive experience that Elasticsearch customers expect. Now Amazon Elasticsearch Service supports two storage tiers, hot and UltraWarm. The hot tier is used for indexing, updating, and providing the fastest access to data. UltraWarm provides a distributed cache for more frequently accessed data, while using advanced placement techniques to determine the blocks of data that are accessed less frequently, and can be moved outside of the cache to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). UltraWarm stores data in Amazon S3, providing up to 50% faster query execution versus competing warm-tier solutions, and 80% lower cost than the warm-tier storage from other managed Elasticsearch offerings. With UltraWarm, customers can manage current and historical log data for interactive operational analysis and visualization in a single cluster. UltraWarm is a seamless extension of the Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Customers can easily visualize search results across both their recent and longer-term operational data, all from their Kibana interface. Additionally, UltraWarm supports all of the Elasticsearch Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), tools, and features, including enterprise-grade security with fine-grained access control, encryption at rest and in flight, integrated alerting, SQL querying, and more. This allows developers, DevOps engineers, and InfoSec experts to use Amazon Elasticsearch Service for the analysis of recent (weeks) and longer-term (months or years) operational data without needing to spend days restoring data from archives (Amazon S3 or Amazon Glacier) to an active searchable state in an Elasticsearch cluster. "Our customers tell us that log data offers a wealth of operational and security insights, but that the storage of log data quickly adds up, and proves cost-prohibitive over the medium and long term," said Raju Gulabani, VP of Databases and Analytics, AWS. "UltraWarm is the most cost-effective Elasticsearch-compatible storage solution available. It is also performance-optimized, so customers can investigate and interactively visualize their data while they embrace data at scale." UltraWarm can be enabled on existing or new domains using the AWS Management console, CLI, or SDK. UltraWarm is available today on Amazon Elasticsearch version 6.8 and above in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), AWS GovCloud (US-Gov-East, US-Gov-West), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong), China (Beijing, Ningxia), and Middle East (Bahrain), with additional regions coming soon. Sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, protecting organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today's most advanced cyber threats. "Sophos uses Amazon Elasticsearch Service to run a large-scale security monitoring and alerting system, because it is highly performant and scalable," said Prakash Talreja, Architect, Sophos. "We are excited that UltraWarm will enable us to retain log data for much longer in a cost-effective way. We see great value in leveraging UltraWarm to bring down cost and reduce operational overhead." Asurion is a leading provider of device insurance, warranty, and support services for cell phones, consumer electronics, and home appliances. "All our application and infrastructure logs are loaded into Amazon Elasticsearch Service for real-time data analysis, API performance metrics, and alerting based on log events," said Shyam Rayaprolu, Principal Architect, Retail and SBX Platforms, Asurion. "We are always looking to bring costs down. Even though we automated our data backup process operationally, it has become overhead for our DevOps and Support teams. We are really excited that UltraWarm removes the operational overhead, and reduces cost significantly. We were able to easily migrate our data from the hot nodes to UltraWarm nodes, and use our existing Kibana dashboards, without the need to make any changes." SparkPost is the world's first and only predictive email intelligence platform, helping brands predict and optimize email performance with data analytics solutions. "Amazon Elasticsearch Service powers one of our most used features – Event Search – which indexes billions of email message and engagement events in real-time every day. Our customers can quickly resolve support issues by easily looking up the delivery and open status for an email sent to a particular recipient," says Chris McFadden, VP of Engineering, SparkPost. "We love the simplicity and performance of Amazon Elasticsearch Service and are excited to use UltraWarm to further reduce our operational costs, while simultaneously offering our customers access to raw event data beyond our current ten day retention period. We believe offering up to 30 days of data will make our Event Search feature even more valuable as a go-to troubleshooting tool 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 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. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200505006041/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>UltraWarm offers a new, highly performant warm storage tier for Amazon Elasticsearch Service that enables customers to keep more log data accessible for a longer period of time at one-tenth the cost of existing options</em></p><p><em>Sophos, Asurion, and SparkPost among customers using UltraWarm</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, a new, 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. Amazon Elasticsearch Service makes it simple to collect, analyze, and visualize machine-generated log data from websites, mobile devices, and sensors. 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 snappy, interactive experience that Elasticsearch customers expect. There are no up-front investments required to use UltraWarm, and customers pay a simple hourly rate for the storage provisioned. To get started with UltraWarm please visit https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service.</p><p>As more and more applications are built using microservices, containers, and purpose-built data stores, the volume of machine-generated log data is growing exponentially. Real-time analysis of this data has become essential to customers in order to quickly resolve operational and security issues. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a popular service for log analytics because of its ability to ingest high volumes of log data and analyze it interactively. With this explosive growth of log data, storing and analyzing months' or even years' worth of data is cost-prohibitive at scale. This has led customers to use multiple analytics tools, or delete valuable data, missing out on important insights that the longer-term data could yield.</p><p>To solve for this customer challenge, AWS built UltraWarm, which gives Elasticsearch customers a warm storage tier that both stores large amounts of data cost-effectively, and provides the type of snappy, interactive experience that Elasticsearch customers expect. Now Amazon Elasticsearch Service supports two storage tiers, hot and UltraWarm. The hot tier is used for indexing, updating, and providing the fastest access to data. UltraWarm provides a distributed cache for more frequently accessed data, while using advanced placement techniques to determine the blocks of data that are accessed less frequently, and can be moved outside of the cache to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). UltraWarm stores data in Amazon S3, providing up to 50% faster query execution versus competing warm-tier solutions, and 80% lower cost than the warm-tier storage from other managed Elasticsearch offerings. With UltraWarm, customers can manage current and historical log data for interactive operational analysis and visualization in a single cluster. UltraWarm is a seamless extension of the Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Customers can easily visualize search results across both their recent and longer-term operational data, all from their Kibana interface. Additionally, UltraWarm supports all of the Elasticsearch Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), tools, and features, including enterprise-grade security with fine-grained access control, encryption at rest and in flight, integrated alerting, SQL querying, and more. This allows developers, DevOps engineers, and InfoSec experts to use Amazon Elasticsearch Service for the analysis of recent (weeks) and longer-term (months or years) operational data without needing to spend days restoring data from archives (Amazon S3 or Amazon Glacier) to an active searchable state in an Elasticsearch cluster.</p><p>"Our customers tell us that log data offers a wealth of operational and security insights, but that the storage of log data quickly adds up, and proves cost-prohibitive over the medium and long term," said Raju Gulabani, VP of Databases and Analytics, AWS. "UltraWarm is the most cost-effective Elasticsearch-compatible storage solution available. It is also performance-optimized, so customers can investigate and interactively visualize their data while they embrace data at scale."</p><p>UltraWarm can be enabled on existing or new domains using the AWS Management console, CLI, or SDK. UltraWarm is available today on Amazon Elasticsearch version 6.8 and above in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), AWS GovCloud (US-Gov-East, US-Gov-West), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong), China (Beijing, Ningxia), and Middle East (Bahrain), with additional regions coming soon.</p><p>Sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, protecting organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today's most advanced cyber threats. "Sophos uses Amazon Elasticsearch Service to run a large-scale security monitoring and alerting system, because it is highly performant and scalable," said Prakash Talreja, Architect, Sophos. "We are excited that UltraWarm will enable us to retain log data for much longer in a cost-effective way. We see great value in leveraging UltraWarm to bring down cost and reduce operational overhead."</p><p>Asurion is a leading provider of device insurance, warranty, and support services for cell phones, consumer electronics, and home appliances. "All our application and infrastructure logs are loaded into Amazon Elasticsearch Service for real-time data analysis, API performance metrics, and alerting based on log events," said Shyam Rayaprolu, Principal Architect, Retail and SBX Platforms, Asurion. "We are always looking to bring costs down. Even though we automated our data backup process operationally, it has become overhead for our DevOps and Support teams. We are really excited that UltraWarm removes the operational overhead, and reduces cost significantly. We were able to easily migrate our data from the hot nodes to UltraWarm nodes, and use our existing Kibana dashboards, without the need to make any changes."</p><p>SparkPost is the world's first and only predictive email intelligence platform, helping brands predict and optimize email performance with data analytics solutions. "Amazon Elasticsearch Service powers one of our most used features – Event Search – which indexes billions of email message and engagement events in real-time every day. Our customers can quickly resolve support issues by easily looking up the delivery and open status for an email sent to a particular recipient," says Chris McFadden, VP of Engineering, SparkPost. "We love the simplicity and performance of Amazon Elasticsearch Service and are excited to use UltraWarm to further reduce our operational costs, while simultaneously offering our customers access to raw event data beyond our current ten day retention period. We believe offering up to 30 days of data will make our Event Search feature even more valuable as a go-to troubleshooting tool 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 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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200505006041/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results

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Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results

04/30/2020

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 30, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2020. Operating cash flow increased 16% to $39.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $34.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2019. Free cash flow increased to $24.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $23.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2019. Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations decreased to $14.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $15.1 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2019. Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations decreased to $11.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.8 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2019. Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 513 million on March 31, 2020, compared with 507 million one year ago. Net sales increased 26% to $75.5 billion in the first quarter, compared with $59.7 billion in first quarter 2019. Excluding the $387 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 27% compared with first quarter 2019. Operating income decreased to $4.0 billion in the first quarter, compared with operating income of $4.4 billion in first quarter 2019. Net income decreased to $2.5 billion in the first quarter, or $5.01 per diluted share, compared with net income of $3.6 billion, or $7.09 per diluted share, in first quarter 2019. "From online shopping to AWS to Prime Video and Fire TV, the current crisis is demonstrating the adaptability and durability of Amazon's business as never before, but it's also the hardest time we've ever faced," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "We are inspired by all the essential workers we see doing their jobs — nurses and doctors, grocery store cashiers, police officers, and our own extraordinary frontline employees. The service we provide has never been more critical, and the people doing the frontline work — our employees and all the contractors throughout our supply chain — are counting on us to keep them safe as they do that work. We're not going to let them down. Providing for customers and protecting employees as this crisis continues for more months is going to take skill, humility, invention, and money. If you're a shareowner in Amazon, you may want to take a seat, because we're not thinking small. Under normal circumstances, in this coming Q2, we'd expect to make some $4 billion or more in operating profit. But these aren't normal circumstances. Instead, we expect to spend the entirety of that $4 billion, and perhaps a bit more, on COVID-related expenses getting products to customers and keeping employees safe. This includes investments in personal protective equipment, enhanced cleaning of our facilities, less efficient process paths that better allow for effective social distancing, higher wages for hourly teams, and hundreds of millions to develop our own COVID-19 testing capabilities. There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now, and the best investment we can make is in the safety and well-being of our hundreds of thousands of employees. I'm confident that our long-term oriented shareowners will understand and embrace our approach, and that in fact they would expect no less." COVID-19 What we are doing for employees Our top concern is ensuring the health and safety of our employees and contractors around the world. We made over 150 significant process changes in our operations network and Whole Foods Market stores to help teams stay healthy — and we conduct daily audits of the measures we've put into place. We have procured 100 million face masks and are requiring that they be worn by all associates, drivers, and support staff in our operations network. We purchased more than 1,000 thermal cameras and 31,000 thermometers, which we are using to conduct mandatory daily temperature checks for employees and support staff throughout our operations sites and Whole Foods Market stores. A team of Amazonians — from research scientists and program managers to procurement specialists and software engineers — has moved from their normal day jobs to a dedicated team working to build incremental testing capacity. The team is building its first lab and has begun a pilot to test front-line employees. We're not sure how far we will get in the relevant timeframe, but we think it's worth trying, and we stand ready to share anything we learn. In March and April, we announced plans to and have now hired 175,000 people in our fulfillment and delivery network in response to increased customer demand and to assist existing employees. We are happy to welcome these new hires to our team and are continuing to hire. In March, we increased pay for hourly employees by $2/hour in the U.S. and Canada, £2/hour in the U.K., and €2/hour in many European countries. We also doubled the regular hourly base pay for overtime hours worked — a minimum of $34 an hour in the U.S. — an increase from time and a half. Our investment in increased pay for our hourly employees and partners during COVID-19 will be nearly $700 million through May 16. What we are doing for customers We're prioritizing the stocking and delivery of essential items to ensure the fastest delivery of household staples, medical supplies, and other critical products. We're acting aggressively to help protect customers from bad actors and have removed over one million offers from our stores due to COVID-based price gouging. We've suspended more than 10,000 selling accounts globally for violating our fair-pricing policies. We're working hard to increase order capacity for Prime Now, Amazon Fresh, and Whole Foods Market. We've expanded Whole Foods Market grocery pickup from roughly 80 stores to more than 150, adjusted store hours for select locations to focus exclusively on fulfilling online grocery orders during certain times, and have made it easier for customers to see when the next delivery window is available on the Prime Now, Amazon Fresh, and Whole Foods Market homepages. We've implemented additional safety measures within our Whole Foods Market stores, including providing plexiglass barriers between cashiers and customers at checkout, rolling out enhanced cleanliness and sanitation protocols, and enforcing social distancing guidelines. Our Whole Foods Market locations are open to seniors one hour before opening the store to the general public, and we are reserving the first hour of grocery pickup at select Whole Foods Market locations for seniors. Alexa is helping customers stay informed and connected, and can now answer tens of thousands of questions related to COVID-19. We're working to provide accurate and timely information from official government and news sources, globally. Alexa also provides an experience that helps customers in Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Mexico, and the U.S. check their risk level for COVID-19. Customers can ask, "Alexa, what do I do if I think I have COVID-19?" or "Alexa, what do I do if I think I have coronavirus?" Alexa then asks a series of questions about the person's symptoms and possible exposure and provides guidance sourced from local health authorities. To support third-party sellers in Amazon's stores, many of whom are small and medium-sized businesses, we paused Amazon Lending loan repayments from March 26 to April 30. In recent weeks, we also waived one month of fees for long-term storage, Strategic Account Services account management, and the Launchpad program, as well as two weeks of inventory storage fees. Amazon is supporting small businesses by partnering with American Express and its Stand for Small initiative, providing free use of business tools that help with virtual communication and collaboration, such as Amazon Chime, Amazon WorkDocs, and Amazon WorkSpaces, as well as enabling small businesses to use the cloud at no charge for 12 months with AWS Free Tier. We're also giving complimentary access to training and educational tools from the Amazon Small Business Academy to help entrepreneurs learn how to build their businesses online. AWS is helping healthcare workers, medical researchers, scientists, and public health officials working to understand and fight COVID-19 by providing a centralized repository of curated, up-to-date, pre-processed, and publicly-readable datasets focused on the spread and characteristics of the virus. The AWS COVID-19 data lake, which includes data sets from Johns Hopkins University, Definitive Healthcare, Carnegie Mellon's Delphi Research Group, and other sources, is available for anyone researching, tracking, deploying vital resources, or developing other helpful solutions and applications to combat COVID-19. AWS is supporting the White House's COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, providing computing resources to advance research on diagnosis, treatment, and vaccines. Customers are using AWS to lessen the impact that COVID-19 has on families, communities, and businesses. Examples include: The New York City COVID-19 Rapid Response Coalition is using a conversational agent, which is running on AWS, to enable at-risk, elderly New Yorkers to receive accurate, timely information about medical needs. The Los Angeles Unified School District is using AWS to power a new call center that is fielding IT questions, providing remote support, and enabling staff to answer calls around remote learning for 700,000 students. Volunteer Surge, a nonprofit consortium, is running its online training platform on AWS to recruit, train, and deploy one million volunteer health workers. The World Health Organization is using AWS to build large-scale data lakes, aggregate epidemiological country data, rapidly translate medical training videos into different languages, and help global healthcare workers better treat patients. Cerner, a global healthcare technology company, is compiling de-identified patient data to help COVID-19 researchers and is leveraging AWS to secure and store critical information. The data is available free of charge and will support research, vaccine development, and new treatment options, allowing organizations to share information and accelerate understanding of the virus. In England, the National Health Service is using AWS to analyze hospital occupancy levels, emergency room capacity, and patient wait times in order to help decide where best to allocate resources. AWS is helping Kentucky and West Virginia authorities address the surge in call volumes to unemployment call centers by transitioning from legacy technology that often required agents to work in the states' offices to Amazon Connect which enables staff to work remotely via the AWS Cloud. Origin Energy, Australia's largest integrated energy retailer, is using Amazon Connect to operate its cloud-based contact center and successfully manage inbound calls by enabling their contact center agents to work remotely during the COVID-19 crisis. AWS is helping the state of Rhode Island address a surge in unemployment insurance applications —10 times the volume their legacy system could typically handle — by powering the Department of Labor and Training's website and online application portal. AWS is helping schools around the world quickly deploy and transition to online learning through its EdTech customers and partners. In Egypt, the Ministry of Education and CDSM Thinqi are standing up instant access to online learning content, where 22 million K-12 students are able to continue their education in the midst of COVID-19; and in India, EdTech startup Impartus is launching virtual classrooms for more than 530,000 students — the online equivalent of 13,000 physical classrooms. AWS is also working with Blackboard, the largest education technology and services company in the world, enabling them to scale to 50x their usual capacity within a 24-hour timeframe to meet the global surge in demand of daily users for their virtual teaching and learning platform. In collaboration with Salesforce, AWS is participating in the "Salesforce Care" campaign, a program to onboard up to 300 customers, like HCA Healthcare and Providence Health & Services, to help them quickly stand-up call center capacity to handle the spike in demand from their patients. What we are doing for communities Using our network of Amazon Flex drivers, we're partnering with food banks across the U.S. to donate delivery services of groceries to serve six million meals through the end of June. We've delivered 427,000 pounds of groceries, representing 336,000 meals. We've partnered with a Seattle catering company to distribute more than 73,000 meals to over 2,700 elderly and medically-vulnerable residents in Seattle and King County during the outbreak. We're donating $5 million in Amazon devices to support healthcare workers, patients, schools, teachers, and communities around the globe that have been impacted by COVID-19. We've provided $10 million in funding to provide relief to more than 800 small businesses in Seattle and the Puget Sound through cash grants and free rent as part of our Neighborhood Small Business Relief Fund. We have donated 12,200 laptops to students across the U.S. and are making online computer science resources, including exam prep, available at no cost to students, parents, and teachers through Amazon Future Engineer. We committed more than €21 million to relief organizations across Europe to support those most affected by COVID-19. In partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture we've expanded the list of states where Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits can be used online, which now includes Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, and Washington, with additional states to come online soon. With the AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative, a program to support customers working to bring more accurate diagnostic solutions to market for COVID-19, we're committing $20 million to accelerate this work and help our customers harness the cloud to tackle this challenge. Business Highlights Shopping and Entertainment Amazon ranked #1 in the 2019 American Customer Satisfaction Index Internet Retail Category and has been ranked in the top 10 for the past 11 years. In the U.K., the Institute of Customer Service named Amazon as the company with the best customer service score for the past decade. Prime Video launched Prime Video Cinema in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany. Prime Video Cinema is a premium movie rental offering that allows customers to stream in-theater movies at home, including titles such as Birds of Prey, Emma, The Invisible Man, Onward, and Trolls World Tour. Customers in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany can now rent or buy hundreds of thousands of video titles directly from the Prime Video app on Apple iOS 12 devices and the Apple TV Gen 4+, including new release movies, award-winning TV shows, and Oscar-nominated movies. Prime Video premiered several new Amazon Original series including the reality competition Making the Cut, hosted and executive produced by Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn; The Forgotten Army in India; Love Island in France; Celebrity Hunted in Italy; and the docuseries The Test: A New Era for Australia's Team in Australia. Prime Video and the National Football League (NFL) announced a multi-year agreement to renew their partnership to deliver a live digital stream of 11 Thursday Night Football games as well as exclusive global streaming rights to one additional regular season game. All NFL games on Prime Video are available at no extra cost to Prime members. Amazon launched Amazon Go Grocery in Seattle, the first grocery store to offer Just Walk Out Shopping. The store's checkout-free experience is enabled by the same Just Walk Out Technology used in 25 Amazon Go stores across the U.S. In addition, Amazon is now offering its Just Walk Out Technology to retailers for use in their stores, allowing more shoppers to enjoy the convenience of taking what they want and leaving without stopping to check out. Amazon launched Amazon.nl and a new Prime program for the Netherlands marketplace. Amazon Prime includes unlimited free shipping, Prime Video, Twitch Prime, and Amazon Photos. Amazon announced that more than 15,000 small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores in the U.S. surpassed $1 million in sales in 2019. Additionally, third-party sellers sold more than 700 million items that shipped with Prime Free One-Day Delivery or faster in the U.S. in 2019. Devices and Alexa Alexa is available on even more devices including TV, mobile, and auto and is now available on select LG and Samsung Smart TV 2020 models and the new OnePlus 8 mobile phone. Additionally, BMW customers in the U.S., and MINI customers in the U.S., France, Italy, Spain, and Austria can now access Alexa on select models. Amazon introduced a new speaking style for Alexa skills, enabling U.S. developers to build more natural long-form content experiences by adding conversational pauses to Alexa's speech when reading articles or blogs. Fire TV's content catalog continues to grow internationally with new apps, including Disney+, available on Fire TV and Fire Tablet devices in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Ring launched several new products and features, including two Ring Video Doorbells and its next-generation Ring Chime and Ring Chime Pro, in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Additionally, Ring launched mandatory two-step verification for all users, along with the ability to opt out of personalized advertising. Amazon launched Blink Mini, a new compact indoor smart security camera that works with Alexa in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Germany, and France. Amazon Web Services AWS announced the opening of the AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) Regions. AWS now spans 76 Availability Zones within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Detective, a security service that makes it easy for customers to conduct faster and more efficient investigations into security issues across their AWS workloads. Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from a customer's resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build interactive visualizations that help customers analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed database service for Cassandra workloads. Amazon Keyspaces supports the same application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and developer tools that customers running Cassandra workloads use today. With Amazon Keyspaces, customers can easily migrate on-premises Cassandra workloads to the cloud, without having to provision, configure, and operate servers or large Cassandra clusters, or needing to manually add or remove nodes or rebalance partitions as traffic scales up or down. AWS announced Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed service that provides an easy, secure way for customers to create and automate bidirectional data flows between AWS and SaaS applications — such as Salesforce, Slack, Infor Nexus, Marketo, ServiceNow, Trend Micro, and Zendesk — without writing custom integration code. Amazon AppFlow also works with AWS PrivateLink to route data flows through the AWS network instead of over the public Internet to provide even stronger data privacy and security. With Amazon AppFlow, customers can bring together and manage petabytes, even exabytes, of data spread across all of their applications without having to develop custom connectors or manage underlying API and network connectivity. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (Amazon A2I), a fully managed service that makes it easy to add human review to machine learning predictions to enhance model and application accuracy by continuously identifying and improving low confidence predictions. Human review for model predictions can be added to new or existing applications using reviewers from Mechanical Turk, third party vendors, or a customer's own employees. AWS helped power the NFL's first ever remote draft — the most watched ever, reaching more than 55 million viewers total. Through all seven rounds of the three-day event, AWS ensured that over 100 live feeds ran successfully, creating a seamless experience for the NFL, teams, coaches, players and their families, fans, and everyone watching. Community and Sustainability Amazon launched the first Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards, recognizing teachers working to help students in underserved communities gain the skills they need to build careers in computer science. Amazon donated $3.9 million to CodeVA, a Virginia non-profit organization, to expand computer science education for 500,000 students and training for 12,000 teachers in 700 underserved communities across Virginia — with virtual training starting now in light of COVID-19. Amazon leveraged its operational expertise and logistics network to provide relief and support to victims across the globe including those impacted by the Australian bushfire crisis, Indonesia's floods, earthquakes in Puerto Rico, and tornadoes in the Middle Tennessee region. Amazon has donated more than 750,000 relief items to help community partners responding to large-scale natural disasters. Amazon announced four new renewable energy projects across the U.S., Europe, and Australia that will support Amazon's commitment under The Climate Pledge to be net zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Globally, Amazon has 86 renewable energy projects that have the capacity to generate over 2,300 MW and deliver more than 6.3 million MWh of energy annually. Amazon announced its first donation of $10 million to The Nature Conservancy. This first project donation is part of Amazon's Right Now Climate Fund — a $100 million commitment to protect, restore, and support reforestation projects around the world in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy. Financial Guidance The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of April 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 April 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 spread of the pandemic; 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 consumer 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 Q2 to date, and the additional assumptions set forth below. However, it is not possible to determine the ultimate impact on our operations for the second quarter, or whether other currently unanticipated direct or indirect consequences of the pandemic are reasonably likely to materially affect our operations. Second Quarter 2020 Guidance Net sales are expected to be between $75.0 billion and $81.0 billion, or to grow between 18% and 28% compared with second quarter 2019. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 70 basis points from foreign exchange rates. Operating income (loss) is expected to be between $(1.5) billion and $1.5 billion, compared with $3.1 billion in second quarter 2019. This guidance assumes approximately $4.0 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. 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. 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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<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 30, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2020.</p><ul><li>Operating cash flow increased 16% to $39.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $34.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2019.</li><li>Free cash flow increased to $24.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $23.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2019.</li><li>Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations decreased to $14.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $15.1 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2019.</li><li>Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations decreased to $11.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.8 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2019.</li><li>Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 513 million on March 31, 2020, compared with 507 million one year ago.</li><li>Net sales increased 26% to $75.5 billion in the first quarter, compared with $59.7 billion in first quarter 2019. Excluding the $387 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 27% compared with first quarter 2019.</li><li>Operating income decreased to $4.0 billion in the first quarter, compared with operating income of $4.4 billion in first quarter 2019.</li><li>Net income decreased to $2.5 billion in the first quarter, or $5.01 per diluted share, compared with net income of $3.6 billion, or $7.09 per diluted share, in first quarter 2019.</li></ul><p>"From online shopping to AWS to Prime Video and Fire TV, the current crisis is demonstrating the adaptability and durability of Amazon's business as never before, but it's also the hardest time we've ever faced," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "We are inspired by all the essential workers we see doing their jobs — nurses and doctors, grocery store cashiers, police officers, and our own extraordinary frontline employees. The service we provide has never been more critical, and the people doing the frontline work — our employees and all the contractors throughout our supply chain — are counting on us to keep them safe as they do that work. We're not going to let them down. Providing for customers and protecting employees as this crisis continues for more months is going to take skill, humility, invention, and money. If you're a shareowner in Amazon, you may want to take a seat, because we're not thinking small. Under normal circumstances, in this coming Q2, we'd expect to make some $4 billion or more in operating profit. But these aren't normal circumstances. Instead, we expect to spend the entirety of that $4 billion, and perhaps a bit more, on COVID-related expenses getting products to customers and keeping employees safe. This includes investments in personal protective equipment, enhanced cleaning of our facilities, less efficient process paths that better allow for effective social distancing, higher wages for hourly teams, and hundreds of millions to develop our own COVID-19 testing capabilities. There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now, and the best investment we can make is in the safety and well-being of our hundreds of thousands of employees. I'm confident that our long-term oriented shareowners will understand and embrace our approach, and that in fact they would expect no less."</p><p>COVID-19</p><p><em>What we are doing for employees</em></p><ul><li>Our top concern is ensuring the health and safety of our employees and contractors around the world. We made over 150 significant process changes in our operations network and Whole Foods Market stores to help teams stay healthy — and we conduct daily audits of the measures we've put into place.</li><li>We have procured 100 million face masks and are requiring that they be worn by all associates, drivers, and support staff in our operations network. We purchased more than 1,000 thermal cameras and 31,000 thermometers, which we are using to conduct mandatory daily temperature checks for employees and support staff throughout our operations sites and Whole Foods Market stores.</li><li>A team of Amazonians — from research scientists and program managers to procurement specialists and software engineers — has moved from their normal day jobs to a dedicated team working to build incremental testing capacity. The team is building its first lab and has begun a pilot to test front-line employees. We're not sure how far we will get in the relevant timeframe, but we think it's worth trying, and we stand ready to share anything we learn.</li><li>In March and April, we announced plans to and have now hired 175,000 people in our fulfillment and delivery network in response to increased customer demand and to assist existing employees. We are happy to welcome these new hires to our team and are continuing to hire.</li><li>In March, we increased pay for hourly employees by $2/hour in the U.S. and Canada, £2/hour in the U.K., and €2/hour in many European countries. We also doubled the regular hourly base pay for overtime hours worked — a minimum of $34 an hour in the U.S. — an increase from time and a half. Our investment in increased pay for our hourly employees and partners during COVID-19 will be nearly $700 million through May 16.</li></ul><p><em>What we are doing for customers</em></p><ul><li>We're prioritizing the stocking and delivery of essential items to ensure the fastest delivery of household staples, medical supplies, and other critical products.</li><li>We're acting aggressively to help protect customers from bad actors and have removed over one million offers from our stores due to COVID-based price gouging. We've suspended more than 10,000 selling accounts globally for violating our fair-pricing policies.</li><li>We're working hard to increase order capacity for Prime Now, Amazon Fresh, and Whole Foods Market. We've expanded Whole Foods Market grocery pickup from roughly 80 stores to more than 150, adjusted store hours for select locations to focus exclusively on fulfilling online grocery orders during certain times, and have made it easier for customers to see when the next delivery window is available on the Prime Now, Amazon Fresh, and Whole Foods Market homepages.</li><li>We've implemented additional safety measures within our Whole Foods Market stores, including providing plexiglass barriers between cashiers and customers at checkout, rolling out enhanced cleanliness and sanitation protocols, and enforcing social distancing guidelines. Our Whole Foods Market locations are open to seniors one hour before opening the store to the general public, and we are reserving the first hour of grocery pickup at select Whole Foods Market locations for seniors.</li><li>Alexa is helping customers stay informed and connected, and can now answer tens of thousands of questions related to COVID-19. We're working to provide accurate and timely information from official government and news sources, globally. Alexa also provides an experience that helps customers in Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Mexico, and the U.S. check their risk level for COVID-19. Customers can ask, "Alexa, what do I do if I think I have COVID-19?" or "Alexa, what do I do if I think I have coronavirus?" Alexa then asks a series of questions about the person's symptoms and possible exposure and provides guidance sourced from local health authorities.</li><li>To support third-party sellers in Amazon's stores, many of whom are small and medium-sized businesses, we paused Amazon Lending loan repayments from March 26 to April 30. In recent weeks, we also waived one month of fees for long-term storage, Strategic Account Services account management, and the Launchpad program, as well as two weeks of inventory storage fees.</li><li>Amazon is supporting small businesses by partnering with American Express and its Stand for Small initiative, providing free use of business tools that help with virtual communication and collaboration, such as Amazon Chime, Amazon WorkDocs, and Amazon WorkSpaces, as well as enabling small businesses to use the cloud at no charge for 12 months with AWS Free Tier. We're also giving complimentary access to training and educational tools from the Amazon Small Business Academy to help entrepreneurs learn how to build their businesses online.</li><li>AWS is helping healthcare workers, medical researchers, scientists, and public health officials working to understand and fight COVID-19 by providing a centralized repository of curated, up-to-date, pre-processed, and publicly-readable datasets focused on the spread and characteristics of the virus. The AWS COVID-19 data lake, which includes data sets from Johns Hopkins University, Definitive Healthcare, Carnegie Mellon's Delphi Research Group, and other sources, is available for anyone researching, tracking, deploying vital resources, or developing other helpful solutions and applications to combat COVID-19.</li><li>AWS is supporting the White House's COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, providing computing resources to advance research on diagnosis, treatment, and vaccines.</li><li>Customers are using AWS to lessen the impact that COVID-19 has on families, communities, and businesses. Examples include:<ul><li>The New York City COVID-19 Rapid Response Coalition is using a conversational agent, which is running on AWS, to enable at-risk, elderly New Yorkers to receive accurate, timely information about medical needs.</li><li>The Los Angeles Unified School District is using AWS to power a new call center that is fielding IT questions, providing remote support, and enabling staff to answer calls around remote learning for 700,000 students.</li><li>Volunteer Surge, a nonprofit consortium, is running its online training platform on AWS to recruit, train, and deploy one million volunteer health workers.</li><li>The World Health Organization is using AWS to build large-scale data lakes, aggregate epidemiological country data, rapidly translate medical training videos into different languages, and help global healthcare workers better treat patients.</li><li>Cerner, a global healthcare technology company, is compiling de-identified patient data to help COVID-19 researchers and is leveraging AWS to secure and store critical information. The data is available free of charge and will support research, vaccine development, and new treatment options, allowing organizations to share information and accelerate understanding of the virus.</li><li>In England, the National Health Service is using AWS to analyze hospital occupancy levels, emergency room capacity, and patient wait times in order to help decide where best to allocate resources.</li><li>AWS is helping Kentucky and West Virginia authorities address the surge in call volumes to unemployment call centers by transitioning from legacy technology that often required agents to work in the states' offices to Amazon Connect which enables staff to work remotely via the AWS Cloud.</li><li>Origin Energy, Australia's largest integrated energy retailer, is using Amazon Connect to operate its cloud-based contact center and successfully manage inbound calls by enabling their contact center agents to work remotely during the COVID-19 crisis.</li><li>AWS is helping the state of Rhode Island address a surge in unemployment insurance applications —10 times the volume their legacy system could typically handle — by powering the Department of Labor and Training's website and online application portal.</li></ul></li><li>AWS is helping schools around the world quickly deploy and transition to online learning through its EdTech customers and partners. In Egypt, the Ministry of Education and CDSM Thinqi are standing up instant access to online learning content, where 22 million K-12 students are able to continue their education in the midst of COVID-19; and in India, EdTech startup Impartus is launching virtual classrooms for more than 530,000 students — the online equivalent of 13,000 physical classrooms. AWS is also working with Blackboard, the largest education technology and services company in the world, enabling them to scale to 50x their usual capacity within a 24-hour timeframe to meet the global surge in demand of daily users for their virtual teaching and learning platform.</li><li>In collaboration with Salesforce, AWS is participating in the "Salesforce Care" campaign, a program to onboard up to 300 customers, like HCA Healthcare and Providence Health &amp; Services, to help them quickly stand-up call center capacity to handle the spike in demand from their patients.</li></ul><p><em>What we are doing for communities</em></p><ul><li>Using our network of Amazon Flex drivers, we're partnering with food banks across the U.S. to donate delivery services of groceries to serve six million meals through the end of June. We've delivered 427,000 pounds of groceries, representing 336,000 meals.</li><li>We've partnered with a Seattle catering company to distribute more than 73,000 meals to over 2,700 elderly and medically-vulnerable residents in Seattle and King County during the outbreak.</li><li>We're donating $5 million in Amazon devices to support healthcare workers, patients, schools, teachers, and communities around the globe that have been impacted by COVID-19.</li><li>We've provided $10 million in funding to provide relief to more than 800 small businesses in Seattle and the Puget Sound through cash grants and free rent as part of our Neighborhood Small Business Relief Fund.</li><li>We have donated 12,200 laptops to students across the U.S. and are making online computer science resources, including exam prep, available at no cost to students, parents, and teachers through Amazon Future Engineer.</li><li>We committed more than €21 million to relief organizations across Europe to support those most affected by COVID-19.</li><li>In partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture we've expanded the list of states where Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits can be used online, which now includes Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, and Washington, with additional states to come online soon.</li><li>With the AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative, a program to support customers working to bring more accurate diagnostic solutions to market for COVID-19, we're committing $20 million to accelerate this work and help our customers harness the cloud to tackle this challenge.</li></ul><p>Business Highlights</p><p><em>Shopping and Entertainment</em></p><ul><li>Amazon ranked #1 in the 2019 American Customer Satisfaction Index Internet Retail Category and has been ranked in the top 10 for the past 11 years. In the U.K., the Institute of Customer Service named Amazon as the company with the best customer service score for the past decade.</li><li>Prime Video launched Prime Video Cinema in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany. Prime Video Cinema is a premium movie rental offering that allows customers to stream in-theater movies at home, including titles such as <em>Birds of Prey</em>, <em>Emma</em>, <em>The Invisible Man</em>, <em>Onward, </em>and<em> Trolls World Tour</em>.</li><li>Customers in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany can now rent or buy hundreds of thousands of video titles directly from the Prime Video app on Apple iOS 12 devices and the Apple TV Gen 4+, including new release movies, award-winning TV shows, and Oscar-nominated movies.</li><li>Prime Video premiered several new Amazon Original series including the reality competition <em>Making the Cut</em>, hosted and executive produced by Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn; <em>The Forgotten Army</em> in India; <em>Love Island</em> in France; <em>Celebrity Hunted</em> in Italy; and the docuseries <em>The Test: A New Era for Australia's Team</em> in Australia.</li><li>Prime Video and the National Football League (NFL) announced a multi-year agreement to renew their partnership to deliver a live digital stream of 11 Thursday Night Football games as well as exclusive global streaming rights to one additional regular season game. All NFL games on Prime Video are available at no extra cost to Prime members.</li><li>Amazon launched Amazon Go Grocery in Seattle, the first grocery store to offer Just Walk Out Shopping. The store's checkout-free experience is enabled by the same Just Walk Out Technology used in 25 Amazon Go stores across the U.S. In addition, Amazon is now offering its Just Walk Out Technology to retailers for use in their stores, allowing more shoppers to enjoy the convenience of taking what they want and leaving without stopping to check out.</li><li>Amazon launched Amazon.nl and a new Prime program for the Netherlands marketplace. Amazon Prime includes unlimited free shipping, Prime Video, Twitch Prime, and Amazon Photos.</li><li>Amazon announced that more than 15,000 small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores in the U.S. surpassed $1 million in sales in 2019. Additionally, third-party sellers sold more than 700 million items that shipped with Prime Free One-Day Delivery or faster in the U.S. in 2019.</li></ul><p><em>Devices and Alexa</em></p><ul><li>Alexa is available on even more devices including TV, mobile, and auto and is now available on select LG and Samsung Smart TV 2020 models and the new OnePlus 8 mobile phone. Additionally, BMW customers in the U.S., and MINI customers in the U.S., France, Italy, Spain, and Austria can now access Alexa on select models.</li><li>Amazon introduced a new speaking style for Alexa skills, enabling U.S. developers to build more natural long-form content experiences by adding conversational pauses to Alexa's speech when reading articles or blogs.</li><li>Fire TV's content catalog continues to grow internationally with new apps, including Disney+, available on Fire TV and Fire Tablet devices in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.</li><li>Ring launched several new products and features, including two Ring Video Doorbells and its next-generation Ring Chime and Ring Chime Pro, in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Additionally, Ring launched mandatory two-step verification for all users, along with the ability to opt out of personalized advertising.</li><li>Amazon launched Blink Mini, a new compact indoor smart security camera that works with Alexa in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Germany, and France.</li></ul><p><em>Amazon Web Services</em></p><ul><li>AWS announced the opening of the AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Africa (Cape Town) Regions. AWS now spans 76 Availability Zones within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Detective, a security service that makes it easy for customers to conduct faster and more efficient investigations into security issues across their AWS workloads. Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from a customer's resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build interactive visualizations that help customers analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed database service for Cassandra workloads. Amazon Keyspaces supports the same application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and developer tools that customers running Cassandra workloads use today. With Amazon Keyspaces, customers can easily migrate on-premises Cassandra workloads to the cloud, without having to provision, configure, and operate servers or large Cassandra clusters, or needing to manually add or remove nodes or rebalance partitions as traffic scales up or down.</li><li>AWS announced Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed service that provides an easy, secure way for customers to create and automate bidirectional data flows between AWS and SaaS applications — such as Salesforce, Slack, Infor Nexus, Marketo, ServiceNow, Trend Micro, and Zendesk — without writing custom integration code. Amazon AppFlow also works with AWS PrivateLink to route data flows through the AWS network instead of over the public Internet to provide even stronger data privacy and security. With Amazon AppFlow, customers can bring together and manage petabytes, even exabytes, of data spread across all of their applications without having to develop custom connectors or manage underlying API and network connectivity.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (Amazon A2I), a fully managed service that makes it easy to add human review to machine learning predictions to enhance model and application accuracy by continuously identifying and improving low confidence predictions. Human review for model predictions can be added to new or existing applications using reviewers from Mechanical Turk, third party vendors, or a customer's own employees.</li><li>AWS helped power the NFL's first ever remote draft — the most watched ever, reaching more than 55 million viewers total. Through all seven rounds of the three-day event, AWS ensured that over 100 live feeds ran successfully, creating a seamless experience for the NFL, teams, coaches, players and their families, fans, and everyone watching.</li></ul><p><em>Community and Sustainability</em></p><ul><li>Amazon launched the first Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards, recognizing teachers working to help students in underserved communities gain the skills they need to build careers in computer science.</li><li>Amazon donated $3.9 million to CodeVA, a Virginia non-profit organization, to expand computer science education for 500,000 students and training for 12,000 teachers in 700 underserved communities across Virginia — with virtual training starting now in light of COVID-19.</li><li>Amazon leveraged its operational expertise and logistics network to provide relief and support to victims across the globe including those impacted by the Australian bushfire crisis, Indonesia's floods, earthquakes in Puerto Rico, and tornadoes in the Middle Tennessee region. Amazon has donated more than 750,000 relief items to help community partners responding to large-scale natural disasters.</li><li>Amazon announced four new renewable energy projects across the U.S., Europe, and Australia that will support Amazon's commitment under The Climate Pledge to be net zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Globally, Amazon has 86 renewable energy projects that have the capacity to generate over 2,300 MW and deliver more than 6.3 million MWh of energy annually.</li><li>Amazon announced its first donation of $10 million to The Nature Conservancy. This first project donation is part of Amazon's Right Now Climate Fund — a $100 million commitment to protect, restore, and support reforestation projects around the world in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy.</li></ul><p>Financial Guidance</p><p>The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of April 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 April 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 spread of the pandemic; 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 consumer 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 Q2 to date, and the additional assumptions set forth below. However, it is not possible to determine the ultimate impact on our operations for the second quarter, or whether other currently unanticipated direct or indirect consequences of the pandemic are reasonably likely to materially affect our operations.</p><p>Second Quarter 2020 Guidance</p><ul><li>Net sales are expected to be between $75.0 billion and $81.0 billion, or to grow between 18% and 28% compared with second quarter 2019. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 70 basis points from foreign exchange rates.</li><li>Operating income (loss) is expected to be between $(1.5) billion and $1.5 billion, compared with $3.1 billion in second quarter 2019. This guidance assumes approximately $4.0 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. We promptly make available on this website, free of charge, the reports that we file or furnish with the SEC, corporate governance information (including our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics), and select press releases, which may contain material information about us, and you may subscribe to be notified of new information posted to this site.</p>

National Football League and Amazon Renew and Expand Streaming Partnership

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Thursday Night Football to be available on Amazon Prime Video and Twitch to more than 150 million paid Prime members worldwide, and in more than 200 countries and territories Amazon Prime Video and Twitch secure rights to exclusively stream one additional regular season NFL game in 2020 to a global audience SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 29, 2020-- The National Football League (NFL) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today they have reached a multi-year agreement to renew their exclusive partnership to deliver a live digital stream of Thursday Night Football Presented by Bud Light Platinum to a global audience across hundreds of compatible devices. Amazon Prime Video and Twitch will stream the 11 Thursday Night Football games broadcast by FOX, which will be available to more than 150 million paid Prime members worldwide, and in over 200 countries and territories on the Prime Video and Twitch sites and apps across connected living room devices, mobile phones, tablets and PCs. All Thursday Night Football games broadcast by FOX will also be distributed in Spanish on FOX Deportes and are expected to be simulcast on NFL Network, continuing the league's "Tri-Cast" model of broadcast (FOX), cable (NFL Network, FOX Deportes), and digital (Prime Video and Twitch) distribution. Additionally, the NFL and Amazon announced an agreement to exclusively stream one regular season game globally on Prime Video and Twitch, which will be played on a Saturday in the second half of the 2020 NFL regular season. In keeping with the NFL's long-standing commitment to make its games available on free, over-the-air television, the game will also be televised in the participating teams' home markets. "As our relationship has expanded, Amazon has become a trusted and valued partner of the NFL," said Brian Rolapp, Chief Media and Business Officer for the NFL. "Extending this partnership around Thursday Night Football continues our critical mission of delivering NFL games to as many fans in as many ways as possible both in the United States and around the world." "We are thrilled to renew our Thursday Night Football deal with the NFL, and are excited to expand our relationship to include exclusive global streaming rights to an additional regular season game in 2020," said Marie Donoghue, Vice President of Global Sports Video at Amazon. "We know Prime members and the Twitch community around the world love the NFL, and we remain committed to giving them the best and most customizable streaming experience possible, with a broad selection of premium content available at their fingertips." Thursday Night Football on Prime Video and Twitch will continue to provide members a unique viewing experience with interactive features like X-Ray and Next Gen Stats powered by AWS that bring fans closer to the game. On Prime Video, members can choose to watch the FOX broadcast, the FOX Deportes Spanish language coverage, and from multiple alternative audio options exclusive to Prime Video. The NFL and Amazon will continue to collaborate on additional NFL content and enhanced fan viewing experiences around Thursday Night Football. In 2019, Thursday Night Football Presented by Bud Light Platinum delivered an average audience of 15.4 million viewers, including FOX, NFL Network, FOX Deportes, NFL digital, FOX Sports digital, Prime Video, Twitch, and Verizon Media mobile properties – up +4% versus the 2018 Thursday Night Footballseason average (14.9 million). Digital streaming across Prime Video, Twitch, NFL digital, FOX Sports digital and Verizon Media mobile properties in 2019 surpassed an average minute audience of over 1.0 million – up +43% versus the previous year (729K). The NFL and Amazonfirst partnered to distribute Thursday Night Football during the 2017 season. This multi-year renewal continues a strong relationship between the NFL and Amazon which, in addition to Thursday Night Football, also features the Emmy-winning Amazon Original All or Nothing. Produced by NFL Films, season five of the sports documentary series premiered on Friday, February 7 with All or Nothing: The Philadelphia Eagles, available exclusively on Prime Video. Additionally, since 2017, the NFL has utilized Amazon Web Services as its official cloud and machine learning provider for the Next Gen Stats platform, which provides real-time location data, speed, and acceleration for every player during every play on every inch of the field. The NFL is the most valuable content in all of sports and entertainment with 42 of television's 50 most-watched programs of the calendar year in 2019. Thursday Night Football is a top-five show in all of television and the number two show in primetime. About Thursday Night Football Thursday Night Football started in 2006 with an eight-game schedule exclusively on NFL Network. By 2012, Thursday Night Football had grown to a 13-game schedule exclusively on NFL Network, where it remained through the 2013 season. For the 2014 and 2015 seasons, CBS partnered with NFL Network to present an expanded 16-game Thursday Night Football schedule. For the 2016 and 2017 seasons, NBC and CBS partnered with NFL Network to present Thursday Night Football with additional digital distribution via Twitter (2016 season) and Amazon (2017 season). In January 2018, it was announced FOX Sports would produce Thursday Night Footballfor the next five seasons with Amazonsigning a two-year extension to their original deal. For more information about Thursday Night Football, including ways to watch, visit: NFL.com/TNF. 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/20200429005159/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Thursday Night Football</em> to be available on Amazon Prime Video and Twitch to more than 150 million paid Prime members worldwide, and in more than 200 countries and territories</p><p>Amazon Prime Video and Twitch secure rights to exclusively stream one additional regular season NFL game in 2020 to a global audience</p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 29, 2020-- The National Football League (NFL) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today they have reached a multi-year agreement to renew their exclusive partnership to deliver a live digital stream of <em>Thursday Night Football</em> <em>Presented by Bud Light</em> <em>Platinum </em>to a global audience across hundreds of compatible devices. Amazon Prime Video and Twitch will stream the 11 <em>Thursday Night Football</em> games broadcast by FOX, which will be available to more than 150 million paid Prime members worldwide, and in over 200 countries and territories on the Prime Video and Twitch sites and apps across connected living room devices, mobile phones, tablets and PCs. All <em>Thursday Night Football</em> games broadcast by FOX will also be distributed in Spanish on FOX Deportes and are expected to be simulcast on NFL Network, continuing the league's "Tri-Cast" model of broadcast (FOX), cable (NFL Network, FOX Deportes), and digital (Prime Video and Twitch) distribution.</p><p>Additionally, the NFL and Amazon announced an agreement to exclusively stream one regular season game globally on Prime Video and Twitch, which will be played on a Saturday in the second half of the 2020 NFL regular season. In keeping with the NFL's long-standing commitment to make its games available on free, over-the-air television, the game will also be televised in the participating teams' home markets.</p><p>"As our relationship has expanded, Amazon has become a trusted and valued partner of the NFL," said Brian Rolapp, Chief Media and Business Officer for the NFL. "Extending this partnership around <em>Thursday Night Football</em> continues our critical mission of delivering NFL games to as many fans in as many ways as possible both in the United States and around the world."</p><p>"We are thrilled to renew our <em>Thursday Night Football</em> deal with the NFL, and are excited to expand our relationship to include exclusive global streaming rights to an additional regular season game in 2020," said Marie Donoghue, Vice President of Global Sports Video at Amazon. "We know Prime members and the Twitch community around the world love the NFL, and we remain committed to giving them the best and most customizable streaming experience possible, with a broad selection of premium content available at their fingertips."</p><p><em>Thursday Night Football</em> on Prime Video and Twitch will continue to provide members a unique viewing experience with interactive features like X-Ray and Next Gen Stats powered by AWS that bring fans closer to the game. On Prime Video, members can choose to watch the FOX broadcast, the FOX Deportes Spanish language coverage, and from multiple alternative audio options exclusive to Prime Video. The NFL and Amazon will continue to collaborate on additional NFL content and enhanced fan viewing experiences around <em>Thursday Night Football</em>.</p><p>In 2019, <em>Thursday Night Football</em> <em>Presented by Bud Light Platinum</em> delivered an average audience of 15.4 million viewers, including FOX, NFL Network, FOX Deportes, NFL digital, FOX Sports digital, Prime Video, Twitch, and Verizon Media mobile properties – up +4% versus the 2018 <em>Thursday Night Football</em>season average (14.9 million). Digital streaming across Prime Video, Twitch, NFL digital, FOX Sports digital and Verizon Media mobile properties in 2019 surpassed an average minute audience of over 1.0 million – up +43% versus the previous year (729K).</p><p>The NFL and Amazonfirst partnered to distribute <em>Thursday Night Football</em> during the 2017 season. This multi-year renewal continues a strong relationship between the NFL and Amazon which, in addition to <em>Thursday Night Football</em>, also features the Emmy-winning Amazon Original <em>All or Nothing</em>. Produced by NFL Films, season five of the sports documentary series premiered on Friday, February 7 with <em>All or Nothing: The Philadelphia Eagles</em>, available exclusively on Prime Video. Additionally, since 2017, the NFL has utilized Amazon Web Services as its official cloud and machine learning provider for the Next Gen Stats platform, which provides real-time location data, speed, and acceleration for every player during every play on every inch of the field.</p><p>The NFL is the most valuable content in all of sports and entertainment with 42 of television's 50 most-watched programs of the calendar year in 2019. <em>Thursday Night Football</em> is a top-five show in all of television and the number two show in primetime.</p><p>About <em>Thursday Night Football</em></p><p><em>Thursday Night Football</em> started in 2006 with an eight-game schedule exclusively on NFL Network. By 2012, <em>Thursday Night Football</em> had grown to a 13-game schedule exclusively on NFL Network, where it remained through the 2013 season. For the 2014 and 2015 seasons, CBS partnered with NFL Network to present an expanded 16-game <em>Thursday Night Football</em> schedule. For the 2016 and 2017 seasons, NBC and CBS partnered with NFL Network to present <em>Thursday Night Football</em> with additional digital distribution via Twitter (2016 season) and Amazon (2017 season). In January 2018, it was announced FOX Sports would produce <em>Thursday Night Football</em>for the next five seasons with Amazonsigning a two-year extension to their original deal.</p><p>For more information about <em>Thursday Night Football</em>, including ways to watch, visit: NFL.com/TNF.</p><p><em>About Amazon</em></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/20200429005159/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Donates $3.9 Million to CodeVA to Expand Computer Science Education for 500,000 Students and Training for 12,000 Teachers in 700 Underserved Communities across Virginia—with Virtual Training Starting Immediately

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In light of COVID-19, donation makes virtual computer science curriculum and training, including offline resources, available for thousands of teachers and students throughout Virginia, who are now learning from home for the remainder of the school year $3.9 million donation supplements Governor Ralph Northam's state grants to implement computer science standards throughout Virginia and doubles CodeVA's annual operating budget through 2022 Virginia's First Lady Pamela Northam, Chair of the Virginia STEM Education Commission, announced donation during a virtual visit to CodeRVA Regional High School computer science students learning from home The donation comes from Amazon Future Engineer – Amazon's childhood-to-career program aimed at expanding computer science access to students from underserved and underrepresented communities across the country ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 28, 2020-- (Nasdaq:AMZN) – Amazon will donate $3.9 million to CodeVA through 2022 to support their long-term plan to offer computer science education and training to every high needs school across Virginia – more than 700 schools, including rural regions like the Eastern Shore, the Tobacco Commission service region and Appalachia that may otherwise lack access, training or funding. The donation will support more than 500,000 students and more than 12,000 teachers, particularly those in underserved and underrepresented communities. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200428005842/en/ First Lady of Virginia, Pamela Northam, announces Amazon's$3.9 million donation to nonprofit CodeVA to help expand computer science education to underserved communities throughout the state during a virtual visit to computer science students from CodeRVA Regional High School. (Photo: Business Wire) Amazon has donated the first of three $1.3 million installments to CodeVA, and these funds will help CodeVA make virtual computer science curriculum and training available to tens of thousands of teachers and students throughout Virginia who are now learning from home for the remainder of the academic year. Amazon's donation supplements Governor Ralph Northam's state grants to implement computer science standards throughout Virginia and doubles CodeVA's annual operating budget through 2022. To accommodate at-home learning in response to COVID-19, CodeVA quickly developed virtual programming for students, teachers, and families learning from home; started conducting live, online code-along events, including free bi-weekly AP computer science exam prep sessions; shifted dozens of teacher training opportunities from in-person to online; and developed unplugged computer science education resources, including Snail Mail CS, for students with lower internet connectivity and for families who want students spending less time on screens. "Today's young people, especially our computer science students, are tomorrow's scientists, engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs and job creators," said Rebecca Dovi, CodeVA Founder and Director of Education. "Now more than ever, it's imperative more students have computer science resources to solve some of the big, unprecedented challenges our world faces. Amazon's donation is a game-changer during this unprecedented time for schools, teachers, students, and their families." Virginia's First Lady, Pamela Northam, a former science educator and Chair of the Virginia STEM Education Commission, announced Amazon's donation to CodeVA during a virtual visit to CodeRVA Regional High School computer science students who are learning from home. She was joined by Ardine Williams, Vice President of Workforce Development, HQ2 at Amazon. During the virtual visit, CodeRVA student Kaylie Nichols, winner of CodeVA's recent CS In Your Neighborhood competition, presented her winning computer science project. Dozens of students then participated in a Q&A session about computer science and STEM careers with First Lady Northam and Ms. Williams. "We have made great strides in recent years in igniting curiosity in STEM education and careers in an equitable way, and we won't let this pandemic slow us down," said First Lady of Virginia, Pamela Northam. "Amazon's donation to CodeVA strengthens Virginia's first-of-their-kind computer science standards and will help students develop these critical workforce skills while they learn from home and once they transition back to the classroom." In February, Governor Ralph Northam announced more than $1.3 million in state grants to support the implementation of Virginia's Computer Science Standards of Learning. In 2016, the Virginia General Assembly passed legislation requiring that the Standards of Learning include computer science and coding. The standards, which were adopted by the state Board of Education in 2017, are the nation's first mandatory K-12 computer science standards. "CodeVA is an innovative, respected, and results-driven nonprofit in our new home of Virginia," said Ardine Williams, Vice President of Workforce Development, HQ2 at Amazon. "We are confident that this donation will help the Commonwealth train more students from underserved communities and prepare our future Virginia workforce to be ready for exciting technology careers at Amazon and beyond. In this time of countless unknowns, we applaud CodeVA's ability to quickly change gears, and transition to providing hardworking students, teachers, and families what they need right now to stay on track and to stay focused day to day." Amazon is committed to bringing more resources to children and young adults to help them build their best future. Amazon has invested more than $50 million to increase access to computer science/STEM education and has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education across the country. 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. There are currently nearly 30 high schools in Virginia that are part of Amazon Future Engineer. Amazon Future Engineer is supporting students of all ages and high school AP computer science students amid the COVID-19 pandemic with free, online curriculum. Learn more about how Amazon is supporting its communities, partners, customers, and employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic here. About CodeVA CodeVA is a statewide nonprofit organization with a mission of broadening participation in computer science by expanding access for all students to computer science literacy across the Commonwealth. Its board of directors comprises Virginia superintendents of schools, professional educators, and corporate and industry leadership invested in Computer Science workforce pipeline development. CodeVA provides advocacy, direct student programs, teacher professional development and school division support at no cost to educators. Formed in 2013, CodeVA was the first national affiliate partner of Code.org, a national nonprofit with a similar mission and goals. For more information about advocacy, children's programs and free teacher professional development programs, visit codevirginia.org and follow @codeVirginia. 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 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. You can read more about how Amazon in the Community is supporting its HQ cities here. 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<p><em>In light of COVID-19, donation makes virtual computer science curriculum and training, including offline resources, available for thousands of teachers and students throughout Virginia, who are now learning from home for the remainder of the school year</em></p><p><em>$3.9 million donation supplements Governor Ralph Northam's state grants to implement computer science standards throughout Virginia and doubles CodeVA's annual operating budget through 2022</em></p><p><em>Virginia's First Lady Pamela Northam, Chair of the Virginia STEM Education Commission, announced donation during a virtual visit to CodeRVA Regional High School computer science students learning from home</em></p><p><em>The donation comes from Amazon Future Engineer – Amazon's childhood-to-career program aimed at expanding computer science access to students from underserved and underrepresented communities across the country</em></p><p>ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 28, 2020-- (Nasdaq:AMZN) – Amazon will donate $3.9 million to CodeVA through 2022 to support their long-term plan to offer computer science education and training to every high needs school across Virginia – more than 700 schools, including rural regions like the Eastern Shore, the Tobacco Commission service region and Appalachia that may otherwise lack access, training or funding. The donation will support more than 500,000 students and more than 12,000 teachers, particularly those in underserved and underrepresented communities.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200428005842/en/</p><div><p>First Lady of Virginia, Pamela Northam, announces Amazon's$3.9 million donation to nonprofit CodeVA to help expand computer science education to underserved communities throughout the state during a virtual visit to computer science students from CodeRVA Regional High School. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Amazon has donated the first of three $1.3 million installments to CodeVA, and these funds will help CodeVA make virtual computer science curriculum and training available to tens of thousands of teachers and students throughout Virginia who are now learning from home for the remainder of the academic year. Amazon's donation supplements Governor Ralph Northam's state grants to implement computer science standards throughout Virginia and doubles CodeVA's annual operating budget through 2022.</p><p>To accommodate at-home learning in response to COVID-19, CodeVA quickly developed virtual programming for students, teachers, and families learning from home; started conducting live, online code-along events, including free bi-weekly AP computer science exam prep sessions; shifted dozens of teacher training opportunities from in-person to online; and developed unplugged computer science education resources, including Snail Mail CS, for students with lower internet connectivity and for families who want students spending less time on screens.</p><p>"Today's young people, especially our computer science students, are tomorrow's scientists, engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs and job creators," said Rebecca Dovi, CodeVA Founder and Director of Education. "Now more than ever, it's imperative more students have computer science resources to solve some of the big, unprecedented challenges our world faces. Amazon's donation is a game-changer during this unprecedented time for schools, teachers, students, and their families."</p><p>Virginia's First Lady, Pamela Northam, a former science educator and Chair of the Virginia STEM Education Commission, announced Amazon's donation to CodeVA during a virtual visit to CodeRVA Regional High School computer science students who are learning from home. She was joined by Ardine Williams, Vice President of Workforce Development, HQ2 at Amazon. During the virtual visit, CodeRVA student Kaylie Nichols, winner of CodeVA's recent CS In Your Neighborhood competition, presented her winning computer science project. Dozens of students then participated in a Q&amp;A session about computer science and STEM careers with First Lady Northam and Ms. Williams.</p><p>"We have made great strides in recent years in igniting curiosity in STEM education and careers in an equitable way, and we won't let this pandemic slow us down," said First Lady of Virginia, Pamela Northam. "Amazon's donation to CodeVA strengthens Virginia's first-of-their-kind computer science standards and will help students develop these critical workforce skills while they learn from home and once they transition back to the classroom."</p><p>In February, Governor Ralph Northam announced more than $1.3 million in state grants to support the implementation of Virginia's Computer Science Standards of Learning. In 2016, the Virginia General Assembly passed legislation requiring that the Standards of Learning include computer science and coding. The standards, which were adopted by the state Board of Education in 2017, are the nation's first mandatory K-12 computer science standards.</p><p>"CodeVA is an innovative, respected, and results-driven nonprofit in our new home of Virginia," said Ardine Williams, Vice President of Workforce Development, HQ2 at Amazon. "We are confident that this donation will help the Commonwealth train more students from underserved communities and prepare our future Virginia workforce to be ready for exciting technology careers at Amazon and beyond. In this time of countless unknowns, we applaud CodeVA's ability to quickly change gears, and transition to providing hardworking students, teachers, and families what they need right now to stay on track and to stay focused day to day."</p><p>Amazon is committed to bringing more resources to children and young adults to help them build their best future. Amazon has invested more than $50 million to increase access to computer science/STEM education and has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education across the country. 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. There are currently nearly 30 high schools in Virginia that are part of Amazon Future Engineer. Amazon Future Engineer is supporting students of all ages and high school AP computer science students amid the COVID-19 pandemic with free, online curriculum.</p><p>Learn more about how Amazon is supporting its communities, partners, customers, and employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic here.</p><p>About CodeVA</p><p>CodeVA is a statewide nonprofit organization with a mission of broadening participation in computer science by expanding access for all students to computer science literacy across the Commonwealth. Its board of directors comprises Virginia superintendents of schools, professional educators, and corporate and industry leadership invested in Computer Science workforce pipeline development. CodeVA provides advocacy, direct student programs, teacher professional development and school division support at no cost to educators. Formed in 2013, CodeVA was the first national affiliate partner of Code.org, a national nonprofit with a similar mission and goals. For more information about advocacy, children's programs and free teacher professional development programs, visit codevirginia.org and follow @codeVirginia.</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 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. You can read more about how Amazon in the Community is supporting its HQ cities here.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200428005842/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS Launches Region in Italy

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04/28/2020 02:00:00

AWS Launches Region in Italy

04/28/2020

2020

New AWS Europe (Milan) Region expands cloud pioneer's global footprint, enabling customers to run applications and store their content in data centers in Italy SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 28, 2020-- Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Europe (Milan) Region. With this launch, AWS now spans 76 Availability Zones within 24 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the sixth AWS Region in Europe alongside Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, and Stockholm. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can run their applications and serve end-users from data centers located in Italy, as well as leverage advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation. Customers and partners can get started today at: https://aws.amazon.com/local/italy/milan/ "AWS customers in Italy are among the most creative and innovative organizations that we support anywhere in the world, and we are always inspired by the work they do with our technology," said Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services. "Cloud technology has been a key part of the transformation of industries across Italy – from automotive and utilities, to manufacturing and retail, and so much more. With the new AWS Milan Region we look forward to supporting even more customers as they grow their organizations and innovate for their users across virtually all industries." The AWS Europe (Milan) Region has three Availability Zones. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones, which each comprise of one or more data centers and are located in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting business continuity, yet near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networking. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault-tolerance. AWS infrastructure regions meet the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection. With the new region, customers with data residency requirements to store their content in Italy can do so with the assurance that they retain complete ownership of their data and it will not move unless they choose to move it. Additionally, customers building applications that comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have access to another secure AWS infrastructure region in the European Union (EU) that meets the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection. AWS continues to invest in Italy The AWS Europe (Milan) Region adds to AWS's ongoing investment in Italy. AWS first established a presence in the country in 2012, with the launch of an AWS Edge location in Milan. This was followed by an AWS office in the city in 2014 and another one in Rome in 2016, with significant and growing teams of account managers, business development managers, customer services representatives, partner managers, professional services consultants, solutions architects, technical account managers, and many more to help customers of all sizes as they move to the cloud. Also in 2016, AWS acquired Asti-based company NICE Software, a leading provider of software and services for high performance and technical computing, located in Piedmont. In 2017, an Edge location was opened in Palermo, and in 2019, an AWS Direct Connect endpoint launched in Milan, helping customers establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to AWS. Later in 2019, AWS launched two additional Edge locations in Milan and one in Rome. These investments are in addition to the thousands of permanent jobs and over €4 billion of investment from Amazon, since 2010. Developers and businesses can access the AWS Europe (Milan) Region beginning today. A full list of services and details on pricing is available at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ 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/20200427005932/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>New AWS Europe (Milan) Region expands cloud pioneer's global footprint, enabling customers to run applications and store their content in data centers in Italy</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 28, 2020-- Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Europe (Milan) Region. With this launch, AWS now spans 76 Availability Zones within 24 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain. The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the sixth AWS Region in Europe alongside Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, and Stockholm. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can run their applications and serve end-users from data centers located in Italy, as well as leverage advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation. Customers and partners can get started today at: https://aws.amazon.com/local/italy/milan/</p><p>"AWS customers in Italy are among the most creative and innovative organizations that we support anywhere in the world, and we are always inspired by the work they do with our technology," said Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services. "Cloud technology has been a key part of the transformation of industries across Italy – from automotive and utilities, to manufacturing and retail, and so much more. With the new AWS Milan Region we look forward to supporting even more customers as they grow their organizations and innovate for their users across virtually all industries."</p><p>The AWS Europe (Milan) Region has three Availability Zones. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones, which each comprise of one or more data centers and are located in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting business continuity, yet near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networking. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault-tolerance.</p><p>AWS infrastructure regions meet the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection. With the new region, customers with data residency requirements to store their content in Italy can do so with the assurance that they retain complete ownership of their data and it will not move unless they choose to move it. Additionally, customers building applications that comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have access to another secure AWS infrastructure region in the European Union (EU) that meets the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection.</p><p>AWS continues to invest in Italy</p><p>The AWS Europe (Milan) Region adds to AWS's ongoing investment in Italy. AWS first established a presence in the country in 2012, with the launch of an AWS Edge location in Milan. This was followed by an AWS office in the city in 2014 and another one in Rome in 2016, with significant and growing teams of account managers, business development managers, customer services representatives, partner managers, professional services consultants, solutions architects, technical account managers, and many more to help customers of all sizes as they move to the cloud. Also in 2016, AWS acquired Asti-based company NICE Software, a leading provider of software and services for high performance and technical computing, located in Piedmont. In 2017, an Edge location was opened in Palermo, and in 2019, an AWS Direct Connect endpoint launched in Milan, helping customers establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to AWS. Later in 2019, AWS launched two additional Edge locations in Milan and one in Rome. These investments are in addition to the thousands of permanent jobs and over €4 billion of investment from Amazon, since 2010.</p><p>Developers and businesses can access the AWS Europe (Milan) Region beginning today. A full list of services and details on pricing is available at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/</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/20200427005932/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I)

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04/24/2020 13:17:00

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I)

04/24/2020

2020

Amazon A2I makes it easier for developers to build and manage workflows to validate machine learning predictions with human reviewers National Health Service (NHSUK), T-Mobile, and Deloitte among customers and partners using Amazon A2I SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 24, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I), a fully managed service that makes it easy to add human review to machine learning predictions to improve model and application accuracy by continuously identifying and improving low confidence predictions. Amazon A2I helps developers add human review for model predictions to new or existing applications using reviewers from Mechanical Turk, third party vendors, or their own employees. Amazon A2I makes it easier for developers to build the human review system, structure the review process, and manage the human review workforce. For example, developers could use Amazon A2I to quickly spin up and manage a workforce of humans to review and validate the accuracy of machine learning predictions for an application that extracts financial information from scanned mortgage documents or an application that uses image recognition to identify counterfeit items online, so that the quality of results improve over time. There are no upfront commitments to use Amazon A2I, and users pay only for each review needed. To get started with Amazon A2I, visit aws.amazon.com/augmented-ai Today, machine learning provides highly accurate predictions (known as "inferences") for a variety of use cases, including identifying objects in images, extracting text from scanned documents, or transcribing and understanding spoken language. In each case, machine learning models provide an inference and a confidence score that expresses how certain the model is in its prediction. The higher the confidence number, the more the result can be trusted. Typically, when developers receive a high confidence result they can trust that the prediction is accurate, and, depending on the use case, they can use it to fully automate a process. For example, developers of a social media application that matches a user's photos to celebrity faces might rely on an 80% confidence score to generate and return a lot of entertaining matches. However, there are other times when it is strongly recommended to have both high confidence (up to 99%) and human review, such as public safety use cases involving law enforcement. In situations where the confidence score is lower than desired and/or human judgment is required, reviews can be used to validate the prediction. This interplay between machine learning and human reviewers is critical to the success of machine learning systems, but human reviews are challenging and expensive to build and operate at scale, often involving multiple workflow steps, operating custom software to manage human review tasks and results, and recruiting and managing large groups of reviewers. As a result, developers sometimes spend more time managing the human review process than building the intended application, or they have to forego having human reviews, which leads to less confidence in deploying applications that utilize machine learning. With Amazon A2I, developers can add human review to machine learning applications without the need to build or manage expensive and cumbersome systems for human review. Amazon A2I provides over 60 pre-built human review workflows for common machine learning tasks (e.g. object detection in images, transcription of speech, and content moderation, etc.) that allow machine learning predictions from Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Textract to be human-reviewed more easily. Developers who build custom machine learning models in Amazon SageMaker (or other on-premises or cloud tools) can set up human review for their specific use case in the Augmented AI console or via its Application Programming Interface (API). After setting a confidence threshold for model predictions, developers can choose to have predictions below that threshold reviewed by Amazon Mechanical Turk and its 500,000 global workforce of independent contractors, third-party organizations who specialize in business process outsourcing (e.g. iVision, CapeStart Inc., and iMerit), or their own private, in-house reviewers. Developers can specify the number of workers per review and Amazon A2I then routes each review to the precise number of reviewers. For example, a company building a system for processing financial loan applications using Amazon Textract can easily configure Amazon A2I to work with Amazon Textract outputs such that forms that have a confidence score less than 99% will be routed to human reviewers from their private workforce. Human-validated results are stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and developers can set up Amazon CloudWatch Events notifications to review metadata about inference accuracy and retrieve the results. "We often hear from our customers that Amazon SageMaker helps speed training, tuning, and deploying custom machine learning models, while fully managed services like Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Textract make it easy to build applications that incorporate machine learning without requiring any machine learning expertise. But even with these advancements, our customers still say there are critical use cases where human judgment is required like in law enforcement investigations, or times when human review can be used to resolve the ambiguity in predictions when confidence levels fall below a given threshold for less sensitive use cases, and the current human review process involves a lot of custom effort and cost," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Today, we're excited to help our customers remove another obstacle to building machine learning applications with the launch of Amazon A2I, which makes it significantly easier and faster to incorporate human judgment into machine learning applications in order to ensure higher quality predictions over a sustained period of time." Amazon A2I is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), EU West (London), EU West (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai). National Health Service, Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) is part of the UK National Health Service and provides a range of support services to NHS organizations, NHS contractors, and patients. As part of their business process services, they process 54 million paper prescriptions and other healthcare documents each month. "The NHS is investing in the promise of AI to improve the quality of public healthcare across the UK. Human judgment is critical and in fact is often required for decisions involving medical payments," said Chris Suter, Head of Cloud Platforms and Innovation, NHS BSA. "Amazon Textract is compelling because it offers AI powered extraction of text and structured data from virtually any document. We are excited about Amazon Augmented AI because it allows us to take advantage of machine learning while still applying human judgment. That's a game changer for us." As America's Un-carrier, T-Mobile US, Inc. is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services through leading product and service innovation. "Providing relevant information, such as account details and available discounts, in real time to our customer care agents while they are in live conversations with customers is one of the ways T-Mobile uses machine learning to improve customer experience. Using A2I, we will be able to ensure that our models continuously deliver top-quality insights by having humans validate random samples of model predictions," said Heather Nolis, Machine Learning Engineer, T-Mobile. "Trust is the hardest thing to build when it comes to machine learning, and A2I will allow us to make sure that our models are making the fewest mistakes." Deloitte is helping transform organizations around the globe. The organization continuously evolves how it works and how it looks at marketplace challenges so it can continue to deliver measurable, sustainable results for its clients and communities. "Part of setting our clients up for success is helping them leverage the latest technology. Using machine learning enables us to help improve our clients' systems and boost their productivity while reducing time to market for products, services, and applications. As part of providing the latest advancements in ML to our clients, we see the benefits of human-in-the-loop systems adding an extra layer of confidence to ML applications," said Beena Ammanath, Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting LLP. "Our clients in the insurance industry, for example, could use A2I to help verify the accuracy of ML models for automated image-based vehicle damage detection and analysis of text-based insurance claims. We're excited to see the many ways our clients across industries could benefit from incorporating A2I into their ML workflows." Belle Fleur believes the machine learning revolution is altering the way we live, work, and relate to one another, and will transform every business in every industry. "We started using Amazon Textract with one of our financial services clients and quickly realized that coupling that service with Amazon A2I allows them to go through huge quantities of documents and extract relevant data needed for their clients. Adding Amazon A2I helped us incorporate human judgment for documents that require contextual interpretation and validate the data," said Tia Dubuisson, President at Belle Fleur. "Not only did this decrease the time spent on human validation, but it also pulled all the relevant extracted data into one place in an easy to understand workflow for reviewers so that they are able to quickly and easily review machine learning outputs from Amazon Textract. Amazon A2I not only provides us and our customers peace of mind that the more nuanced data extracted is reviewed by humans, but it also helps train and improve our machine learning models over time through continuous auditing and improvement." 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 73 Availability Zones (AZs) within 23 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, 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/20200424005488/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>Amazon A2I makes it easier for developers to build and manage workflows to validate machine learning predictions with human reviewers</em></p><p><em>National Health Service (NHSUK), T-Mobile, and Deloitte among customers and partners using Amazon A2I</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 24, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I), a fully managed service that makes it easy to add human review to machine learning predictions to improve model and application accuracy by continuously identifying and improving low confidence predictions. Amazon A2I helps developers add human review for model predictions to new or existing applications using reviewers from Mechanical Turk, third party vendors, or their own employees. Amazon A2I makes it easier for developers to build the human review system, structure the review process, and manage the human review workforce. For example, developers could use Amazon A2I to quickly spin up and manage a workforce of humans to review and validate the accuracy of machine learning predictions for an application that extracts financial information from scanned mortgage documents or an application that uses image recognition to identify counterfeit items online, so that the quality of results improve over time. There are no upfront commitments to use Amazon A2I, and users pay only for each review needed. To get started with Amazon A2I, visit aws.amazon.com/augmented-ai</p><p>Today, machine learning provides highly accurate predictions (known as "inferences") for a variety of use cases, including identifying objects in images, extracting text from scanned documents, or transcribing and understanding spoken language. In each case, machine learning models provide an inference and a confidence score that expresses how certain the model is in its prediction. The higher the confidence number, the more the result can be trusted. Typically, when developers receive a high confidence result they can trust that the prediction is accurate, and, depending on the use case, they can use it to fully automate a process. For example, developers of a social media application that matches a user's photos to celebrity faces might rely on an 80% confidence score to generate and return a lot of entertaining matches. However, there are other times when it is strongly recommended to have both high confidence (up to 99%) and human review, such as public safety use cases involving law enforcement. In situations where the confidence score is lower than desired and/or human judgment is required, reviews can be used to validate the prediction. This interplay between machine learning and human reviewers is critical to the success of machine learning systems, but human reviews are challenging and expensive to build and operate at scale, often involving multiple workflow steps, operating custom software to manage human review tasks and results, and recruiting and managing large groups of reviewers. As a result, developers sometimes spend more time managing the human review process than building the intended application, or they have to forego having human reviews, which leads to less confidence in deploying applications that utilize machine learning.</p><p>With Amazon A2I, developers can add human review to machine learning applications without the need to build or manage expensive and cumbersome systems for human review. Amazon A2I provides over 60 pre-built human review workflows for common machine learning tasks (e.g. object detection in images, transcription of speech, and content moderation, etc.) that allow machine learning predictions from Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Textract to be human-reviewed more easily. Developers who build custom machine learning models in Amazon SageMaker (or other on-premises or cloud tools) can set up human review for their specific use case in the Augmented AI console or via its Application Programming Interface (API). After setting a confidence threshold for model predictions, developers can choose to have predictions below that threshold reviewed by Amazon Mechanical Turk and its 500,000 global workforce of independent contractors, third-party organizations who specialize in business process outsourcing (e.g. iVision, CapeStart Inc., and iMerit), or their own private, in-house reviewers. Developers can specify the number of workers per review and Amazon A2I then routes each review to the precise number of reviewers. For example, a company building a system for processing financial loan applications using Amazon Textract can easily configure Amazon A2I to work with Amazon Textract outputs such that forms that have a confidence score less than 99% will be routed to human reviewers from their private workforce. Human-validated results are stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and developers can set up Amazon CloudWatch Events notifications to review metadata about inference accuracy and retrieve the results.</p><p>"We often hear from our customers that Amazon SageMaker helps speed training, tuning, and deploying custom machine learning models, while fully managed services like Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Textract make it easy to build applications that incorporate machine learning without requiring any machine learning expertise. But even with these advancements, our customers still say there are critical use cases where human judgment is required like in law enforcement investigations, or times when human review can be used to resolve the ambiguity in predictions when confidence levels fall below a given threshold for less sensitive use cases, and the current human review process involves a lot of custom effort and cost," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Today, we're excited to help our customers remove another obstacle to building machine learning applications with the launch of Amazon A2I, which makes it significantly easier and faster to incorporate human judgment into machine learning applications in order to ensure higher quality predictions over a sustained period of time."</p><p>Amazon A2I is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), EU West (London), EU West (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai).</p><p>National Health Service, Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) is part of the UK National Health Service and provides a range of support services to NHS organizations, NHS contractors, and patients. As part of their business process services, they process 54 million paper prescriptions and other healthcare documents each month. "The NHS is investing in the promise of AI to improve the quality of public healthcare across the UK. Human judgment is critical and in fact is often required for decisions involving medical payments," said Chris Suter, Head of Cloud Platforms and Innovation, NHS BSA. "Amazon Textract is compelling because it offers AI powered extraction of text and structured data from virtually any document. We are excited about Amazon Augmented AI because it allows us to take advantage of machine learning while still applying human judgment. That's a game changer for us."</p><p>As America's Un-carrier, T-Mobile US, Inc. is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services through leading product and service innovation. "Providing relevant information, such as account details and available discounts, in real time to our customer care agents while they are in live conversations with customers is one of the ways T-Mobile uses machine learning to improve customer experience. Using A2I, we will be able to ensure that our models continuously deliver top-quality insights by having humans validate random samples of model predictions," said Heather Nolis, Machine Learning Engineer, T-Mobile. "Trust is the hardest thing to build when it comes to machine learning, and A2I will allow us to make sure that our models are making the fewest mistakes."</p><p>Deloitte is helping transform organizations around the globe. The organization continuously evolves how it works and how it looks at marketplace challenges so it can continue to deliver measurable, sustainable results for its clients and communities. "Part of setting our clients up for success is helping them leverage the latest technology. Using machine learning enables us to help improve our clients' systems and boost their productivity while reducing time to market for products, services, and applications. As part of providing the latest advancements in ML to our clients, we see the benefits of human-in-the-loop systems adding an extra layer of confidence to ML applications," said Beena Ammanath, Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting LLP. "Our clients in the insurance industry, for example, could use A2I to help verify the accuracy of ML models for automated image-based vehicle damage detection and analysis of text-based insurance claims. We're excited to see the many ways our clients across industries could benefit from incorporating A2I into their ML workflows."</p><p>Belle Fleur believes the machine learning revolution is altering the way we live, work, and relate to one another, and will transform every business in every industry. "We started using Amazon Textract with one of our financial services clients and quickly realized that coupling that service with Amazon A2I allows them to go through huge quantities of documents and extract relevant data needed for their clients. Adding Amazon A2I helped us incorporate human judgment for documents that require contextual interpretation and validate the data," said Tia Dubuisson, President at Belle Fleur. "Not only did this decrease the time spent on human validation, but it also pulled all the relevant extracted data into one place in an easy to understand workflow for reviewers so that they are able to quickly and easily review machine learning outputs from Amazon Textract. Amazon A2I not only provides us and our customers peace of mind that the more nuanced data extracted is reviewed by humans, but it also helps train and improve our machine learning models over time through continuous auditing and improvement."</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 73 Availability Zones (AZs) within 23 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, 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/20200424005488/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

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Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) provides a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service – that's serverless, too Halliburton, Elsevier, and HERE Technologies among customers using Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 23, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability ofAmazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed database service for Cassandra workloads. Amazon Keyspaces supports the same application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and developer tools that customers running Cassandra workloads use today. Customers can easily migrate on-premises Cassandra workloads to the cloud, without the worry of managing underlying infrastructure, while realizing superior scalability, availability, and manageability. With Amazon Keyspaces, there are no servers to manage, no need to provision, configure, and operate large Cassandra clusters, no need to manually add or remove nodes, and no need to rebalance partitions as traffic scales up or down. There are no up-front investments required to use Amazon Keyspaces, and customers only pay for the capacity they use. To get started with Amazon Keyspaces, visit: http://aws.amazon.com/keyspaces. Many customers using AWS have asked for help running, scaling, and managing their Cassandra database deployments because managing large Cassandra clusters on-premises with hundreds of terabytes of data and millions of reads and writes per second is difficult and complex. Cassandra requires specialized expertise to set up, configure, and maintain the underlying infrastructure, and necessitates a deep understanding of the entire application stack, including the Apache Cassandra open source software. Aside from scaling clusters, customers must secure, patch, and operate Cassandra. Managing and scaling Cassandra clusters requires regularly adjusting complex configuration settings, manually adding or removing nodes, and rebalancing partitions, which can adversely affect availability and performance. Most customers with variable workloads also find it challenging to scale clusters up and down, so they often end up building clusters for peak loads and incur the unnecessary cost of paying for unused capacity. And, many customers also complain that they are unable to upgrade their cluster reliably due to Cassandra's clunky rollback and debugging features, so instead they run outdated versions of Cassandra. Amazon Keyspaces provides a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service. Amazon Keyspaces is compatible with the open-source Apache Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API, enabling customers to migrate their workloads to Amazon Keyspaces and use the same Cassandra application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and tools that they use today. Amazon Keyspaces is serverless, so customers no longer need to provision, configure, and operate large Cassandra clusters, nor manually add or remove nodes, or rebalance partitions as traffic scales up or down. Amazon Keyspaces takes care of all of this. Amazon Keyspaces provides customers with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, and can scale tables up and down automatically based on actual application traffic, with virtually unlimited throughput and storage. Amazon Keyspaces offers both on-demand and provisioned capacity modes. On-demand capacity enables customers to pay only for the actual reads and writes performed by their application. With provisioned capacity with auto scaling, customers can optimize the cost of reads and writes for predictable workloads by specifying capacity per workload in advance. Customers with existing Cassandra tables running on-premises or on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can easily migrate those tables to Amazon Keyspaces using AWS services like Amazon EMR or open-source tools like the Cassandra Query Language Shell (cqlsh). Amazon Keyspaces integrates with other AWS services, so customers can secure access to their tables using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), monitor their tables using Amazon CloudWatch, manage their encryption keys with AWS Key Management Service (KMS), automate the creation of resources with AWS CloudFormation, and securely connect their tables to their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with AWS PrivateLink. "Many customers have self-managed Cassandra on Amazon EC2 or on-premises for some time, and these customers tell us that managing large Cassandra clusters is difficult because it requires specialized expertise to set up, configure, and maintain the underlying infrastructure, and necessitates a deep understanding of the entire application stack, including the Apache Cassandra open source software," said Shawn Bice, Vice President, Databases, AWS. "Amazon Keyspaces gives customers the ability to run Cassandra without having to worry about managing the underlying hardware, and because it's also serverless, customers can stand up Cassandra clusters in minutes and scale their database up and down with ease based on the needs of their application." Amazon Keyspaces is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, with more regions coming soon. Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. As part of Data Foundation, a DecisionSpace® 365 data platform, Halliburton uses a variety of purpose-built databases, including Cassandra. "We really like the flexibility that Cassandra offers our developers, and we are excited about using Amazon Keyspaces," said Amanda Smith, Technology Development Manager, Halliburton. "Amazon Keyspaces integrates with other AWS services, has built-in enterprise features, such as encryption, and provides us with a scalable, highly available, fully managed, and serverless option to run our Cassandra workloads." Elsevier is a global information analytics business that provides scientists and clinicians with digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education. "We are migrating one of our customer-facing big-data analytics products to leverage latest technologies, and Cassandra meets our use case to store information because of its performance and scalability. However, we were concerned about managing and monitoring the Cassandra infrastructure due to its complexity and time required to manage and support," said Edward Lewis, Manager of Information Technology, Elsevier. "Amazon Keyspaces is fully managed and serverless, giving us the scalability, fast performance, and reliability we need to run our applications." HERE Technologies enables people, enterprises, and cities to harness the power of location by providing mapping content, an integrated suite of solutions, services and development tools, and a marketplace for data to solve complex location-based problems. "We use Cassandra to store data for our applications because of its scalability and performance. However, deploying, managing, and tuning Cassandra is time-consuming and complex," says Sandhya Janagam, Lead Database Administrator, HERE Technologies. "Amazon Keyspaces makes provisioning and deploying Cassandra possible in just a few clicks, freeing up our developers to focus on innovating our applications instead of managing infrastructure." 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 73 Availability Zones (AZs) within 23 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, 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/20200423005964/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) provides a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service </em><em>– that's serverless, too</em></p><p><em>Halliburton, Elsevier, and HERE Technologies among customers using Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 23, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability ofAmazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed database service for Cassandra workloads. Amazon Keyspaces supports the same application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and developer tools that customers running Cassandra workloads use today. Customers can easily migrate on-premises Cassandra workloads to the cloud, without the worry of managing underlying infrastructure, while realizing superior scalability, availability, and manageability. With Amazon Keyspaces, there are no servers to manage, no need to provision, configure, and operate large Cassandra clusters, no need to manually add or remove nodes, and no need to rebalance partitions as traffic scales up or down. There are no up-front investments required to use Amazon Keyspaces, and customers only pay for the capacity they use. To get started with Amazon Keyspaces, visit: http://aws.amazon.com/keyspaces.</p><p>Many customers using AWS have asked for help running, scaling, and managing their Cassandra database deployments because managing large Cassandra clusters on-premises with hundreds of terabytes of data and millions of reads and writes per second is difficult and complex. Cassandra requires specialized expertise to set up, configure, and maintain the underlying infrastructure, and necessitates a deep understanding of the entire application stack, including the Apache Cassandra open source software. Aside from scaling clusters, customers must secure, patch, and operate Cassandra. Managing and scaling Cassandra clusters requires regularly adjusting complex configuration settings, manually adding or removing nodes, and rebalancing partitions, which can adversely affect availability and performance. Most customers with variable workloads also find it challenging to scale clusters up and down, so they often end up building clusters for peak loads and incur the unnecessary cost of paying for unused capacity. And, many customers also complain that they are unable to upgrade their cluster reliably due to Cassandra's clunky rollback and debugging features, so instead they run outdated versions of Cassandra.</p><p>Amazon Keyspaces provides a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service. Amazon Keyspaces is compatible with the open-source Apache Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API, enabling customers to migrate their workloads to Amazon Keyspaces and use the same Cassandra application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and tools that they use today. Amazon Keyspaces is serverless, so customers no longer need to provision, configure, and operate large Cassandra clusters, nor manually add or remove nodes, or rebalance partitions as traffic scales up or down. Amazon Keyspaces takes care of all of this. Amazon Keyspaces provides customers with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, and can scale tables up and down automatically based on actual application traffic, with virtually unlimited throughput and storage. Amazon Keyspaces offers both on-demand and provisioned capacity modes. On-demand capacity enables customers to pay only for the actual reads and writes performed by their application. With provisioned capacity with auto scaling, customers can optimize the cost of reads and writes for predictable workloads by specifying capacity per workload in advance. Customers with existing Cassandra tables running on-premises or on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can easily migrate those tables to Amazon Keyspaces using AWS services like Amazon EMR or open-source tools like the Cassandra Query Language Shell (cqlsh). Amazon Keyspaces integrates with other AWS services, so customers can secure access to their tables using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), monitor their tables using Amazon CloudWatch, manage their encryption keys with AWS Key Management Service (KMS), automate the creation of resources with AWS CloudFormation, and securely connect their tables to their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with AWS PrivateLink.</p><p>"Many customers have self-managed Cassandra on Amazon EC2 or on-premises for some time, and these customers tell us that managing large Cassandra clusters is difficult because it requires specialized expertise to set up, configure, and maintain the underlying infrastructure, and necessitates a deep understanding of the entire application stack, including the Apache Cassandra open source software," said Shawn Bice, Vice President, Databases, AWS. "Amazon Keyspaces gives customers the ability to run Cassandra without having to worry about managing the underlying hardware, and because it's also serverless, customers can stand up Cassandra clusters in minutes and scale their database up and down with ease based on the needs of their application."</p><p>Amazon Keyspaces is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, with more regions coming soon.</p><p>Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. As part of Data Foundation, a DecisionSpace® 365 data platform, Halliburton uses a variety of purpose-built databases, including Cassandra. "We really like the flexibility that Cassandra offers our developers, and we are excited about using Amazon Keyspaces," said Amanda Smith, Technology Development Manager, Halliburton. "Amazon Keyspaces integrates with other AWS services, has built-in enterprise features, such as encryption, and provides us with a scalable, highly available, fully managed, and serverless option to run our Cassandra workloads."</p><p>Elsevier is a global information analytics business that provides scientists and clinicians with digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&amp;D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education. "We are migrating one of our customer-facing big-data analytics products to leverage latest technologies, and Cassandra meets our use case to store information because of its performance and scalability. However, we were concerned about managing and monitoring the Cassandra infrastructure due to its complexity and time required to manage and support," said Edward Lewis, Manager of Information Technology, Elsevier. "Amazon Keyspaces is fully managed and serverless, giving us the scalability, fast performance, and reliability we need to run our applications."</p><p>HERE Technologies enables people, enterprises, and cities to harness the power of location by providing mapping content, an integrated suite of solutions, services and development tools, and a marketplace for data to solve complex location-based problems. "We use Cassandra to store data for our applications because of its scalability and performance. However, deploying, managing, and tuning Cassandra is time-consuming and complex," says Sandhya Janagam, Lead Database Administrator, HERE Technologies. "Amazon Keyspaces makes provisioning and deploying Cassandra possible in just a few clicks, freeing up our developers to focus on innovating our applications instead of managing infrastructure."</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 73 Availability Zones (AZs) within 23 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, 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/20200423005964/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

Happiness Continues for Jonas Brothers Fans With an All New Concert Documentary Premiering Tomorrow, Friday April 24, 2020 Exclusively on Amazon Prime Video

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Happiness Continues for Jonas Brothers Fans With an All New Concert Documentary Premiering Tomorrow, Friday April 24, 2020 Exclusively on Amazon Prime Video

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Happiness Continues: A Jonas Brothers Concert Film is a live concert experience and exclusive look into life on the road with Jonas Brothers during their sold out ‘Happiness Begins' concert tour Watchthe Trailer Here Now CULVER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 23, 2020-- Happiness Continues: A Jonas Brothers Concert Film, which offers a behind the scenes look at the GRAMMY-nominated multiplatinum powerhouse trio Jonas Brothers on their sold-out "Happiness Begins" 2019 concert tour, will premiere tomorrow, Friday April 24, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200423005868/en/ Happiness Continues: A Jonas Brothers Concert Film (Photo: Amazon Studios) - Key art can be found here: LINK- Watch Happiness Continues trailer HERE Continuing the journey that began with last year's Amazon Original documentary Chasing Happiness, Happiness Continues captures the band's live concert experience and provides an exclusive look into the Jonas Brothers' lives on the road, including performances of beloved hits like "Burnin' Up," "S.O.S.," and "Year 3000," and music from last year's chart-topping "Happiness Begins" album, including their Billboard #1 smash "Sucker." Happiness Continues gives viewers a front-row seat in fan-packed arenas in Miami, Vancouver, and Mexico City, as well as at the intimate Cobra Lounge in Chicago, in their first time performing there in 12 years. Happiness Continues gives fans a deeper look at how Nick, Joe, and Kevin navigate tour life while continuing to balance music, their relationship with one another, and their new families. Happiness Continues is from Philymack and Amazon Studios in association with Polygram Entertainment and Federal Films, with executive producers Phil McIntyre, John Lloyd Taylor, Monte Lipman, Wendy Goldstein, and Baz Halpin. Happiness Continuesis directed by Anthony Mandler, and produced by Kim Bradshaw, Ned Doyle and Anthony Mandler, through Mandler's production company Black Hand Cinema. Following a six-year hiatus, Jonas Brothers took the world by storm in 2019 with the surprise release of their critically acclaimed and widely successful single "Sucker."The double-platinum single debuted at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100, becoming the first #1 for the band and the first #1 debut from a group this century. The band went on to release Chasing Happiness, an Amazon Original film documenting the brothers rise and return to music, before going on to deliver their third #1 album debut with the release of their platinum-selling album Happiness Begins (Republic Records). Throughout the year the band continued to soar with their sold-out "Happiness Begins Tour," with over 1.2 million tickets sold. JONAS BROTHERS SOCIAL HANDLES:http://instagram.com/jonasbrothershttp://twitter.com/jonasbrothershttps://www.facebook.com/JonasBrothershttps://www.youtube.com/user/JonasBrothersMusic AMAZON PRIME VIDEO SOCIAL HANDLES:Hashtag: #HappinessContinuesTwitter: @PrimeVideoInstagram/Facebook: @AmazonPrimeVideo Happiness Continues is a global release and will be available exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories. Customers who are not already Prime members can sign up for a free trial at www.amazon.com/prime. For a list of all Prime Video compatible devices, visit www.amazon.com/howtostream. FEDERAL FILMS: Federal Films is a new division of Republic Records in strategic alliance with Universal Music Group's Polygram Entertainment. ABOUT POLYGRAM ENTERTAINMENT Polygram Entertainment produces film and television programs that provide deeper narratives and perspectives on the recording artists, music and cultural events that came to define generations. A partner of Universal Music Group, the world leader in music-based entertainment, Polygram develops, produces, finances and distributes documentary features and original, scripted projects for music fans of all ages and tastes around the world. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200423005868/en/ FOR MORE INFORMATION ON JONAS BROTHERS CONTACT: Marisa Bianco // Republic RecordsMarisa.Bianco@umusic.com Alexis Rasten // Philymackalexis@philymack.com MEDIA CONTACT FOR AMAZON STUDIOS:Alana Russoalana.russo@amazonstudios.com Brooke Jamesbrooke.james@amazonstudios.com Source: Amazon Prime Video

<p>Happiness Continues: A Jonas Brothers Concert Film<em> is a live concert experience and exclusive look into life on the road with Jonas Brothers during their sold out ‘Happiness Begins' concert tour</em></p><p>Watchthe Trailer Here Now</p><p>CULVER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 23, 2020-- <em>Happiness Continues: A Jonas Brothers Concert Film</em>, which offers a behind the scenes look at the GRAMMY-nominated multiplatinum powerhouse trio Jonas Brothers on their sold-out "Happiness Begins" 2019 concert tour, will premiere tomorrow, Friday April 24, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200423005868/en/</p><div><p>Happiness Continues: A Jonas Brothers Concert Film (Photo: Amazon Studios)</p></div><p>- Key art can be found here: LINK- Watch <em>Happiness Continues</em> trailer HERE</p><p>Continuing the journey that began with last year's Amazon Original documentary <em>Chasing Happiness, Happiness Continues</em> captures the band's live concert experience and provides an exclusive look into the Jonas Brothers' lives on the road, including performances of beloved hits like "Burnin' Up," "S.O.S.," and "Year 3000," and music from last year's chart-topping "Happiness Begins" album, including their Billboard #1 smash "Sucker." <em>Happiness Continues</em> gives viewers a front-row seat in fan-packed arenas in Miami, Vancouver, and Mexico City, as well as at the intimate Cobra Lounge in Chicago, in their first time performing there in 12 years. <em>Happiness Continues</em> gives fans a deeper look at how Nick, Joe, and Kevin navigate tour life while continuing to balance music, their relationship with one another, and their new families.</p><p><em>Happiness Continues </em>is from Philymack and Amazon Studios in association with Polygram Entertainment and Federal Films, with executive producers Phil McIntyre, John Lloyd Taylor, Monte Lipman, Wendy Goldstein, and Baz Halpin. <em>Happiness Continues</em>is directed by Anthony Mandler, and produced by Kim Bradshaw, Ned Doyle and Anthony Mandler, through Mandler's production company Black Hand Cinema.</p><p>Following a six-year hiatus, Jonas Brothers took the world by storm in 2019 with the surprise release of their critically acclaimed and widely successful single "Sucker."The double-platinum single debuted at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100, becoming the first #1 for the band and the first #1 debut from a group this century. The band went on to release <em>Chasing Happiness,</em> an Amazon Original film documenting the brothers rise and return to music, before going on to deliver their third #1 album debut with the release of their platinum-selling album <em>Happiness Begins </em>(Republic Records). Throughout the year the band continued to soar with their sold-out "<em>Happiness Begins Tour,</em>" with over 1.2 million tickets sold.</p><p>JONAS BROTHERS SOCIAL HANDLES:http://instagram.com/jonasbrothershttp://twitter.com/jonasbrothershttps://www.facebook.com/JonasBrothershttps://www.youtube.com/user/JonasBrothersMusic</p><p>AMAZON PRIME VIDEO SOCIAL HANDLES:Hashtag: #HappinessContinuesTwitter: @PrimeVideoInstagram/Facebook: @AmazonPrimeVideo</p><p><em>Happiness Continues </em>is a global release and will be available exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories.</p><p>Customers who are not already Prime members can sign up for a free trial at www.amazon.com/prime.</p><p>For a list of all Prime Video compatible devices, visit www.amazon.com/howtostream.</p><p>FEDERAL FILMS:</p><p>Federal Films is a new division of Republic Records in strategic alliance with Universal Music Group's Polygram Entertainment.</p><p>ABOUT POLYGRAM ENTERTAINMENT</p><p>Polygram Entertainment produces film and television programs that provide deeper narratives and perspectives on the recording artists, music and cultural events that came to define generations. A partner of Universal Music Group, the world leader in music-based entertainment, Polygram develops, produces, finances and distributes documentary features and original, scripted projects for music fans of all ages and tastes around the world.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200423005868/en/</p><p>FOR MORE INFORMATION ON JONAS BROTHERS CONTACT:</p><p>Marisa Bianco // Republic RecordsMarisa.Bianco@umusic.com</p><p>Alexis Rasten // Philymackalexis@philymack.com</p><p>MEDIA CONTACT FOR AMAZON STUDIOS:Alana Russoalana.russo@amazonstudios.com</p><p>Brooke Jamesbrooke.james@amazonstudios.com</p><p>Source: Amazon Prime Video</p>

AWS Announces Amazon AppFlow

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AWS Announces Amazon AppFlow

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2020

New integration service simplifies and automates private, bidirectional data flows between AWS services and SaaS applications like Salesforce, Infor Nexus, Marketo, ServiceNow, Slack, Trend Micro, and Zendesk SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 22, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed service that provides an easy, secure way for customers to create and automate bidirectional data flows between AWS and SaaS applications without writing custom integration code. Amazon AppFlow also works with AWS PrivateLink to route data flows through the AWS network instead of over the public Internet to provide even stronger data privacy and security. There are no upfront charges or fees to use Amazon AppFlow, and customers only pay for the number of flows they run and the volume of data processed. Visit aws.amazon.com/appflow to get started. Millions of customers run applications, data lakes, large-scale analytics, machine learning, and IoT workloads on AWS. These customers often also have data stored in dozens of SaaS applications, resulting in silos that are disconnected from data stored in AWS. Organizations want to be able to combine their data from all of these sources, but that requires customers to spend days writing code to build custom connectors and data transformations to convert disparate data types and formats across different SaaS applications. Customers with multiple SaaS applications end up with a sprawl of connectors and complex code that is time-consuming and expensive to maintain. Further, custom connectors are often difficult to scale for large volumes of data or near real-time transfer, causing delays between when data is available in SaaS and when other systems access the data. In large enterprises, business users wait months for skilled developers to build custom connectors. In firms with limited in-house developer skills, users resort to manually uploading and downloading data between systems, which is tedious, error-prone and risks data leakage. Amazon AppFlow solves these problems, and allows customers with diverse technical skills, including CRM administrators and BI specialists, to easily configure private, bidirectional data flows between AWS services and SaaS applications without writing code or performing data transformation. Customers can get started using Amazon AppFlow's simple interface to build and execute data flows between sources in minutes, and Amazon AppFlow securely orchestrates and executes the data transfer. With just a few clicks in the Amazon AppFlow console, customers can configure multiple types of triggers for their data flows, including one-time on-demand transfers, routine data syncs scheduled at pre-determined times, or event-driven transfers when launching a campaign (e.g. converting a lead, closing an opportunity, or opening a case). For example, customers can backup millions of contacts and support cases from Salesforce to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), add sales opportunities from Salesforce to forecasts in Amazon Redshift, and transfer marketing leads from Amazon S3 to Salesforce after using Amazon SageMaker to add lead scores. Customers can also pull logs and metric data from monitoring tools like Datadog or Dynatrace for deep analytics in Amazon Redshift, or send customer engagement data from Slack, Marketo, Zendesk, Amplitude, or Singular to Amazon S3 for sentiment analysis. Customers can transform and process the data by combining fields (to calculate new values), filtering records (to reduce noise), masking sensitive data (to ensure privacy), and validating field values (to cleanse the data). Amazon AppFlow automatically encrypts data at rest and in motion using AWS or customer-managed encryption keys, and enables users to restrict data from flowing over the public Internet for applications that are integrated with AWS PrivateLink, reducing exposure to security threats. "Our customers tell us that they love having the ability to store, process, and analyze their data in AWS. They also use a variety of third party SaaS applications, and they tell us that it can be difficult to manage the flow of data between AWS and these applications," said Kurt Kufeld, Vice President, AWS. "Amazon AppFlow provides an intuitive and easy way for customers to combine data from AWS and SaaS applications without moving it across the public Internet. With Amazon AppFlow, our customers bring together and manage petabytes, even exabytes, of data spread across all of their applications – all without having to develop custom connectors or manage underlying API and network connectivity." Amazon AppFlow is available today in US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Toyko), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), and South America (São Paulo) with more regions to come. Experian is a credit reporting company that collects and aggregates information on over one billion people and businesses including 235 million individual U.S. consumers and more than 25 million US businesses. "We are extremely excited by Amazon AppFlow's potential for connecting our various marketing technology (martech) platforms," said Geoff Dzhafarov, VP & Chief Enterprise Architect, Experian Consumer Services. "Amazon AppFlow's ability to connect our 50+ martech platforms with our AWS back-end will empower us to work better as a team to empower our customers to take control of their financial future. Our business users will be able to leverage AWS for 360 degree customer insights and personalization, while our technical team is freed up to further innovate on behalf of the customer." Unum Group provides a broad portfolio of financial protection benefits and services through the workplace, and is the leading provider of disability income protection worldwide. Through its Unum US, Unum UK, Unum Poland, and Colonial Life businesses, the company provides disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision benefits that protect millions of working people and their families. "As the world's largest employee benefits provider, Unum leverages a tremendous amount of structured and unstructured data to ensure a great customer experience," Balaji Apparsamy, VP Data and Analytics, Unum Group. "Amazon AppFlow helps our data analytics team to simplify configuration allowing us to accelerate data-driven integrations and build data science applications at a much faster pace, which ultimately helps us enhance our customer satisfaction." Salesforce.com is a cloud-based software company that provides customer-relationship management service and also sells a complementary suite of enterprise applications focused on customer service, marketing automation, analytics, and application development. "With Amazon AppFlow integrating directly with Salesforce Private Connect, joint customers will be able to establish a secure, private connection for passing data back and forth between the Salesforce and AWS platforms," said Sarah Franklin, EVP & GM Platform, Trailhead & Developers, Salesforce. "And because these connections can be set up by Salesforce admins in just a few clicks, companies can cut down on costly and timely engineering resources, and begin doing more with their data faster than ever before." Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity solutions provider that provides layered security for data centers, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints. "The integration using Amazon AppFlow benefits our customers by reducing friction when distributing data from their Trend Micro Cloud One account to AWS services," said Sanjay Mehta, SVP, Business Development & Alliances, Trend Micro. "This no-code capability enables continuous audit automation and gives our customers' security and development teams a seamless and secure way to deliver data related to security agents." Slack is the leading channel-based messaging platform. "Amazon AppFlow helps our customers eliminate complex information silos by combining data from Slack and other SaaS tools with AWS services," said Brad Armstrong, VP of Business and Corporate Development, Slack. "Whether analyzing trends in customer engagement from helpdesk requests or measuring sentiment data, organizations of all sizes can spend more time on the critical work that moves their businesses forward." 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 73 Availability Zones (AZs) within 23 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, 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/20200422005973/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>New integration service simplifies and automates private, bidirectional data flows between AWS services and SaaS applications like Salesforce, Infor Nexus, Marketo, ServiceNow, Slack, Trend Micro, and Zendesk</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 22, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed service that provides an easy, secure way for customers to create and automate bidirectional data flows between AWS and SaaS applications without writing custom integration code. Amazon AppFlow also works with AWS PrivateLink to route data flows through the AWS network instead of over the public Internet to provide even stronger data privacy and security. There are no upfront charges or fees to use Amazon AppFlow, and customers only pay for the number of flows they run and the volume of data processed. Visit aws.amazon.com/appflow to get started.</p><p>Millions of customers run applications, data lakes, large-scale analytics, machine learning, and IoT workloads on AWS. These customers often also have data stored in dozens of SaaS applications, resulting in silos that are disconnected from data stored in AWS. Organizations want to be able to combine their data from all of these sources, but that requires customers to spend days writing code to build custom connectors and data transformations to convert disparate data types and formats across different SaaS applications. Customers with multiple SaaS applications end up with a sprawl of connectors and complex code that is time-consuming and expensive to maintain. Further, custom connectors are often difficult to scale for large volumes of data or near real-time transfer, causing delays between when data is available in SaaS and when other systems access the data. In large enterprises, business users wait months for skilled developers to build custom connectors. In firms with limited in-house developer skills, users resort to manually uploading and downloading data between systems, which is tedious, error-prone and risks data leakage.</p><p>Amazon AppFlow solves these problems, and allows customers with diverse technical skills, including CRM administrators and BI specialists, to easily configure private, bidirectional data flows between AWS services and SaaS applications without writing code or performing data transformation. Customers can get started using Amazon AppFlow's simple interface to build and execute data flows between sources in minutes, and Amazon AppFlow securely orchestrates and executes the data transfer. With just a few clicks in the Amazon AppFlow console, customers can configure multiple types of triggers for their data flows, including one-time on-demand transfers, routine data syncs scheduled at pre-determined times, or event-driven transfers when launching a campaign (e.g. converting a lead, closing an opportunity, or opening a case). For example, customers can backup millions of contacts and support cases from Salesforce to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), add sales opportunities from Salesforce to forecasts in Amazon Redshift, and transfer marketing leads from Amazon S3 to Salesforce after using Amazon SageMaker to add lead scores. Customers can also pull logs and metric data from monitoring tools like Datadog or Dynatrace for deep analytics in Amazon Redshift, or send customer engagement data from Slack, Marketo, Zendesk, Amplitude, or Singular to Amazon S3 for sentiment analysis. Customers can transform and process the data by combining fields (to calculate new values), filtering records (to reduce noise), masking sensitive data (to ensure privacy), and validating field values (to cleanse the data). Amazon AppFlow automatically encrypts data at rest and in motion using AWS or customer-managed encryption keys, and enables users to restrict data from flowing over the public Internet for applications that are integrated with AWS PrivateLink, reducing exposure to security threats.</p><p>"Our customers tell us that they love having the ability to store, process, and analyze their data in AWS. They also use a variety of third party SaaS applications, and they tell us that it can be difficult to manage the flow of data between AWS and these applications," said Kurt Kufeld, Vice President, AWS. "Amazon AppFlow provides an intuitive and easy way for customers to combine data from AWS and SaaS applications without moving it across the public Internet. With Amazon AppFlow, our customers bring together and manage petabytes, even exabytes, of data spread across all of their applications – all without having to develop custom connectors or manage underlying API and network connectivity."</p><p>Amazon AppFlow is available today in US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Toyko), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), and South America (São Paulo) with more regions to come.</p><p>Experian is a credit reporting company that collects and aggregates information on over one billion people and businesses including 235 million individual U.S. consumers and more than 25 million US businesses. "We are extremely excited by Amazon AppFlow's potential for connecting our various marketing technology (martech) platforms," said Geoff Dzhafarov, VP &amp; Chief Enterprise Architect, Experian Consumer Services. "Amazon AppFlow's ability to connect our 50+ martech platforms with our AWS back-end will empower us to work better as a team to empower our customers to take control of their financial future. Our business users will be able to leverage AWS for 360 degree customer insights and personalization, while our technical team is freed up to further innovate on behalf of the customer."</p><p>Unum Group provides a broad portfolio of financial protection benefits and services through the workplace, and is the leading provider of disability income protection worldwide. Through its Unum US, Unum UK, Unum Poland, and Colonial Life businesses, the company provides disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision benefits that protect millions of working people and their families. "As the world's largest employee benefits provider, Unum leverages a tremendous amount of structured and unstructured data to ensure a great customer experience," Balaji Apparsamy, VP Data and Analytics, Unum Group. "Amazon AppFlow helps our data analytics team to simplify configuration allowing us to accelerate data-driven integrations and build data science applications at a much faster pace, which ultimately helps us enhance our customer satisfaction."</p><p>Salesforce.com is a cloud-based software company that provides customer-relationship management service and also sells a complementary suite of enterprise applications focused on customer service, marketing automation, analytics, and application development. "With Amazon AppFlow integrating directly with Salesforce Private Connect, joint customers will be able to establish a secure, private connection for passing data back and forth between the Salesforce and AWS platforms," said Sarah Franklin, EVP &amp; GM Platform, Trailhead &amp; Developers, Salesforce. "And because these connections can be set up by Salesforce admins in just a few clicks, companies can cut down on costly and timely engineering resources, and begin doing more with their data faster than ever before."</p><p>Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity solutions provider that provides layered security for data centers, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints. "The integration using Amazon AppFlow benefits our customers by reducing friction when distributing data from their Trend Micro Cloud One account to AWS services," said Sanjay Mehta, SVP, Business Development &amp; Alliances, Trend Micro. "This no-code capability enables continuous audit automation and gives our customers' security and development teams a seamless and secure way to deliver data related to security agents."</p><p>Slack is the leading channel-based messaging platform. "Amazon AppFlow helps our customers eliminate complex information silos by combining data from Slack and other SaaS tools with AWS services," said Brad Armstrong, VP of Business and Corporate Development, Slack. "Whether analyzing trends in customer engagement from helpdesk requests or measuring sentiment data, organizations of all sizes can spend more time on the critical work that moves their businesses forward."</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 73 Availability Zones (AZs) within 23 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, 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/20200422005973/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

AWS Launches Region in South Africa

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AWS Launches Region in South Africa

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2020

New AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region expands cloud pioneer's global footprint, enabling customers to run applications and store their content in data centers in South Africa SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 22, 2020-- Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. With this launch, AWS now spans 73 Availability Zones within 23 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones across four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, Japan, and Spain. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can run their applications and serve end-users in Africa with even lower latency and leverage advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation. Customers and partners can get started today at: https://aws.amazon.com/local/africa/cape-town/ "The cloud is positively transforming lives and businesses across Africa and we are honored to be a part of that transformation," said Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services. "We have a long history in South Africa and have been working to support the growth of the local technology community for over 15 years. In that time, builders, developers, entrepreneurs, and organizations have asked us to bring an AWS Region to Africa and today we are answering these requests by opening the Cape Town Region. We look forward to seeing the creativity and innovation that will result from African organizations building in the cloud." The AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region has three Availability Zones. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones, which each comprise of one or more data centers and are located in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting business continuity, yet near enough to provide low latency for high-availability applications. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networking. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault-tolerance. Like all AWS infrastructure regions around the world, the Availability Zones in the Cape Town Region are equipped with back-up power to ensure continuous and reliable power availability to maintain operations during electrical failures and load shedding in the country. AWS infrastructure regions meet the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection. With the new region, customers with data residency requirements, and those looking to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), can now store their content in South Africa with the assurance that they retain complete ownership of their data and it will not move unless they choose to move it. AWS continues to invest in Africa The AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region adds to Amazon's ongoing investment in South Africa. Amazon first established a presence in Cape Town, setting up a Development Center in 2004, to build pioneering technologies focused on networking, next-generation software for customer support, the technology behind Amazon EC2, and much more. In 2015, Amazon expanded its presence in the country, opening an AWS office in Johannesburg, with significant and growing teams of account managers, business development managers, customer services representatives, partner managers, professional services consultants, solutions architects, technical account managers, and many more to help customers of all sizes as they move to the cloud. In 2017, the Amazon Global Network expanded to Africa through AWS Direct Connect, and in 2018, Amazon established its first infrastructure on the African continent, launching Amazon CloudFront locations in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, followed in 2020 by an edge location in Nairobi, Kenya. Developers and businesses can access the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region beginning today. A full list of services and details on pricing is available at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/ 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 73 Availability Zones (AZs) within 23 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, 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/20200422005324/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>New AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region expands cloud pioneer's global footprint, enabling customers to run applications and store their content in data centers in South Africa</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 22, 2020-- Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. With this launch, AWS now spans 73 Availability Zones within 23 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones across four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, Japan, and Spain. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can run their applications and serve end-users in Africa with even lower latency and leverage advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation. Customers and partners can get started today at: https://aws.amazon.com/local/africa/cape-town/</p><p>"The cloud is positively transforming lives and businesses across Africa and we are honored to be a part of that transformation," said Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services. "We have a long history in South Africa and have been working to support the growth of the local technology community for over 15 years. In that time, builders, developers, entrepreneurs, and organizations have asked us to bring an AWS Region to Africa and today we are answering these requests by opening the Cape Town Region. We look forward to seeing the creativity and innovation that will result from African organizations building in the cloud."</p><p>The AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region has three Availability Zones. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones, which each comprise of one or more data centers and are located in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting business continuity, yet near enough to provide low latency for high-availability applications. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networking. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault-tolerance. Like all AWS infrastructure regions around the world, the Availability Zones in the Cape Town Region are equipped with back-up power to ensure continuous and reliable power availability to maintain operations during electrical failures and load shedding in the country.</p><p>AWS infrastructure regions meet the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection. With the new region, customers with data residency requirements, and those looking to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), can now store their content in South Africa with the assurance that they retain complete ownership of their data and it will not move unless they choose to move it.</p><p>AWS continues to invest in Africa</p><p>The AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region adds to Amazon's ongoing investment in South Africa. Amazon first established a presence in Cape Town, setting up a Development Center in 2004, to build pioneering technologies focused on networking, next-generation software for customer support, the technology behind Amazon EC2, and much more. In 2015, Amazon expanded its presence in the country, opening an AWS office in Johannesburg, with significant and growing teams of account managers, business development managers, customer services representatives, partner managers, professional services consultants, solutions architects, technical account managers, and many more to help customers of all sizes as they move to the cloud. In 2017, the Amazon Global Network expanded to Africa through AWS Direct Connect, and in 2018, Amazon established its first infrastructure on the African continent, launching Amazon CloudFront locations in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, followed in 2020 by an edge location in Nairobi, Kenya.</p><p>Developers and businesses can access the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region beginning today. A full list of services and details on pricing is available at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/</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 73 Availability Zones (AZs) within 23 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, 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/20200422005324/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

As Part of Its Plan to be Net Zero Carbon by 2040, Amazon Commits $10 Million to Restore and Conserve 4 Million Acres of Forest in the Appalachians and other U.S. Regions in Partnership with The Nature Conservancy

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As Part of Its Plan to be Net Zero Carbon by 2040, Amazon Commits $10 Million to Restore and Conserve 4 Million Acres of Forest in the Appalachians and other U.S. Regions in Partnership with The Nature Conservancy

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Investment will help remove over 18 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – equivalent to 46 billion miles driven by an average passenger vehicle – by helping to restore and conserve family-owned forest lands Amazon launched the $100 millionRight Now Climate Fund last year to support its Climate Pledge commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040 – 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2020-- Amazon today announced a $10 million grant to conserve, restore, and support sustainable forestry, wildlife and nature-based solutions across the Appalachian Mountains, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy. Nature-based solutions refer to the sustainable management and use of nature for tackling challenges such as removing carbon from the atmosphere to slow climate change and helping maintain water and food security, biodiversity protection, human health, and disaster risk management. This funding will initially support projects in Pennsylvania and Vermont that will help family forest owners sequester carbon and support expansion across the Appalachians in a network of climate-resilient forests that scientists at The Nature Conservancy have identified as most able to thrive in the face of climate change. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200421005256/en/ The Appalachian Mountains in the U.S. (Photo: The Nature Conservancy) This is the first project from Amazon's $100 millionRight Now Climate Fund, an initiative to remove carbon from the atmosphere through the restoration and conservation of forests, wetlands, grasslands and peatlands around the world. Last year, Amazon co-founded with Global Optimism and became the first signatory of The Climate Pledge – committing to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net zero carbon by 2040 through decarbonization of its operations and use of nature-based solutions. Families across the country own 290 million acres of America's forests, more than the federal government or the forest industry, and have an opportunity to help reduce carbon in the atmosphere and slow climate change through sustainable forest management and restoration that conserves and maintains the ecosystems of forests for the benefit of present and future generations. Families will be provided the tools and resources needed to assess, plan and implement forest management practices that increase the economic and ecological values of their forests. Amazon, The Nature Conservancy, the American Forest Foundation, and the Vermont Land Trust are partnering on two innovative projects – the Family Forest Carbon Program and Forest Carbon Co-ops. The Family Forest Carbon Program will open up carbon credit markets to small family forest owners. Amazon's commitment will expand the program in the Appalachians and other U.S. regions, and go towards designing new methods for measuring and verifying reforestation and forest management practices. The Forest Carbon Co-op will help owners of mid-sized forests use sustainable forest management and protection measures to earn income through the carbon credit market. Amazon's grant will support efforts to expand the program in climate resilient forests across the Appalachians, develop a scientific approach to regional carbon impact measurement, and enhance the project verification methodology. Amazon is the largest funder of these programs and will help: Conserve and sustainably manage forest land and wildlife in Pennsylvania and Vermont, with plans to expand the projects across 4 million acres of the 2,000-mile span of the Appalachians, and beyond. Generate economic opportunities by creating a new source of income for family forest owners and rural communities that taps into the carbon storage potential of forests – in the U.S., families and individuals own the largest portion of forests (38%), more than the federal government or corporations. Achieve a net reduction of up to 18.5 million metric tons of CO2 in the atmosphere by 2031 – the equivalent of 46 billion miles driven by an average passenger vehicle. "These projects will conserve forests and wildlife for future generations – and the planet – and help remove carbon from the atmosphere," said Kara Hurst, Vice President, Sustainability, Amazon. "Amazon's Right Now Climate Fund will be investing $100 million in nature-based climate solutions like these that tackle the climate crisis while also having a positive economic impact in the community and in nature. We are delighted to work with The Nature Conservancy, the American Forest Foundation, and the Vermont Land Trust on our road to achieving Amazon's Climate Pledge goal of being net zero carbon by 2040." "Family forest owners are a critical piece of the puzzle when it comes to tackling climate change," said Lynn Scarlett, Chief External Affairs Officer, The Nature Conservancy. "But many of America's nearly 11 million family forest owners may face barriers that prevent them from taking action. Those who own small acreages have not been able to access existing carbon markets – which can provide income as well as help sequester carbon on their lands – due to high development costs. This funding from Amazon will, for the first time, allow small-scale forest landowners to tap into the economic opportunity linked to the carbon sequestration and storage potential of U.S. forests." "Across the U.S., 1 in 4 rural Americans owns forest land," said Tom Martin, President and CEO of the American Forest Foundation. "Collectively, they own the largest portion of forests in our country – making them key to addressing our climate challenges. More than their size is their dedication to the land – these individuals want to help the environment. Amazon's commitment will go a long way and open doors for nearly 11 million Americans families to do even more to remove carbon from the atmosphere." "In partnership with Amazon and The Nature Conservancy, we are creating something which has never existed before: the opportunity for small forest land owners to join together and manage their land in such a way that earns them revenue through the carbon credit market," said Nick Richardson, President and CEO of the Vermont Land Trust. "That's an incredible benefit for the forest landowners of Vermont and all of us who rely on their efforts. That's the future of our work and the future of conservation across the country." For more information about Amazon's commitment to sustainability, visit https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/. For more information about The Climate Pledge, visit https://www.theclimatepledge.com. To download images and video, click 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 amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About The Nature Conservancy The Nature Conservancy is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Guided by science, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world's toughest challenges so that nature and people can thrive together. We are tackling climate change, conserving lands, waters and oceans at an unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more sustainable. Working in 79 countries and territories, we use a collaborative approach that engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners. To learn more, visit www.nature.org or follow @nature_press on Twitter. About The American Forest Foundation The American Forest Foundation (AFF) is a non-profit conservation organization that protects and measurably increases clean water, wildlife habitat, and sustainable wood supplies that come from family-owned forests. AFF works with landowners, partners, leading businesses, and policymakers to address key issues such as conserving biodiversity, reducing risk of catastrophic wildfire, and addressing the threat of climate change.  To learn more about the American Forest Foundation and the Family Forest Carbon Program, go to www.forestfoundation.org/carbon. About the Vermont Land Trust The Vermont Land Trust is a statewide, member-supported, nonprofit land conservation organization. Since 1977, the Vermont Land Trust has protected 2,000 parcels of land covering more than 595,000 acres, or 11 percent of the state. This includes more than 900 working farms and farmland parcels, hundreds of thousands of acres of productive forest land, and many parcels of community lands. For more information, visit vlt.org. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200421005256/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Investment will help remove over 18 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere </em>– <em>equivalent to 46 billion miles driven by an average passenger vehicle </em>– <em>by helping to restore and conserve family-owned forest lands</em></p><p><em>Amazon launched the $100 millionRight Now Climate Fund last year to support its Climate Pledge commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040 </em>–<em> 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2020-- Amazon today announced a $10 million grant to conserve, restore, and support sustainable forestry, wildlife and nature-based solutions across the Appalachian Mountains, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy. Nature-based solutions refer to the sustainable management and use of nature for tackling challenges such as removing carbon from the atmosphere to slow climate change and helping maintain water and food security, biodiversity protection, human health, and disaster risk management. This funding will initially support projects in Pennsylvania and Vermont that will help family forest owners sequester carbon and support expansion across the Appalachians in a network of climate-resilient forests that scientists at The Nature Conservancy have identified as most able to thrive in the face of climate change.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200421005256/en/</p><div><p>The Appalachian Mountains in the U.S. (Photo: The Nature Conservancy)</p></div><p>This is the first project from Amazon's $100 millionRight Now Climate Fund, an initiative to remove carbon from the atmosphere through the restoration and conservation of forests, wetlands, grasslands and peatlands around the world. Last year, Amazon co-founded with Global Optimism and became the first signatory of The Climate Pledge – committing to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net zero carbon by 2040 through decarbonization of its operations and use of nature-based solutions.</p><p>Families across the country own 290 million acres of America's forests, more than the federal government or the forest industry, and have an opportunity to help reduce carbon in the atmosphere and slow climate change through sustainable forest management and restoration that conserves and maintains the ecosystems of forests for the benefit of present and future generations. Families will be provided the tools and resources needed to assess, plan and implement forest management practices that increase the economic and ecological values of their forests.</p><p>Amazon, The Nature Conservancy, the American Forest Foundation, and the Vermont Land Trust are partnering on two innovative projects – the Family Forest Carbon Program and Forest Carbon Co-ops. The Family Forest Carbon Program will open up carbon credit markets to small family forest owners. Amazon's commitment will expand the program in the Appalachians and other U.S. regions, and go towards designing new methods for measuring and verifying reforestation and forest management practices. The Forest Carbon Co-op will help owners of mid-sized forests use sustainable forest management and protection measures to earn income through the carbon credit market. Amazon's grant will support efforts to expand the program in climate resilient forests across the Appalachians, develop a scientific approach to regional carbon impact measurement, and enhance the project verification methodology.</p><p>Amazon is the largest funder of these programs and will help:</p><ul><li>Conserve and sustainably manage forest land and wildlife in Pennsylvania and Vermont, with plans to expand the projects across 4 million acres of the 2,000-mile span of the Appalachians, and beyond.</li><li>Generate economic opportunities by creating a new source of income for family forest owners and rural communities that taps into the carbon storage potential of forests – in the U.S., families and individuals own the largest portion of forests (38%), more than the federal government or corporations.</li><li>Achieve a net reduction of up to 18.5 million metric tons of CO2 in the atmosphere by 2031 – the equivalent of 46 billion miles driven by an average passenger vehicle.</li></ul><p>"These projects will conserve forests and wildlife for future generations – and the planet – and help remove carbon from the atmosphere," said Kara Hurst, Vice President, Sustainability, Amazon. "Amazon's Right Now Climate Fund will be investing $100 million in nature-based climate solutions like these that tackle the climate crisis while also having a positive economic impact in the community and in nature. We are delighted to work with The Nature Conservancy, the American Forest Foundation, and the Vermont Land Trust on our road to achieving Amazon's Climate Pledge goal of being net zero carbon by 2040."</p><p>"Family forest owners are a critical piece of the puzzle when it comes to tackling climate change," said Lynn Scarlett, Chief External Affairs Officer, The Nature Conservancy. "But many of America's nearly 11 million family forest owners may face barriers that prevent them from taking action. Those who own small acreages have not been able to access existing carbon markets – which can provide income as well as help sequester carbon on their lands – due to high development costs. This funding from Amazon will, for the first time, allow small-scale forest landowners to tap into the economic opportunity linked to the carbon sequestration and storage potential of U.S. forests."</p><p>"Across the U.S., 1 in 4 rural Americans owns forest land," said Tom Martin, President and CEO of the American Forest Foundation. "Collectively, they own the largest portion of forests in our country – making them key to addressing our climate challenges. More than their size is their dedication to the land – these individuals want to help the environment. Amazon's commitment will go a long way and open doors for nearly 11 million Americans families to do even more to remove carbon from the atmosphere."</p><p>"In partnership with Amazon and The Nature Conservancy, we are creating something which has never existed before: the opportunity for small forest land owners to join together and manage their land in such a way that earns them revenue through the carbon credit market," said Nick Richardson, President and CEO of the Vermont Land Trust. "That's an incredible benefit for the forest landowners of Vermont and all of us who rely on their efforts. That's the future of our work and the future of conservation across the country."</p><p>For more information about Amazon's commitment to sustainability, visit https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/. For more information about The Climate Pledge, visit https://www.theclimatepledge.com. To download images and video, click 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 by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About The Nature Conservancy</p><p>The Nature Conservancy is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Guided by science, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world's toughest challenges so that nature and people can thrive together. We are tackling climate change, conserving lands, waters and oceans at an unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more sustainable. Working in 79 countries and territories, we use a collaborative approach that engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners. To learn more, visit www.nature.org or follow @nature_press on Twitter.</p><p>About The American Forest Foundation</p><p>The American Forest Foundation (AFF) is a non-profit conservation organization that protects and measurably increases clean water, wildlife habitat, and sustainable wood supplies that come from family-owned forests. AFF works with landowners, partners, leading businesses, and policymakers to address key issues such as conserving biodiversity, reducing risk of catastrophic wildfire, and addressing the threat of climate change.  To learn more about the American Forest Foundation and the Family Forest Carbon Program, go to www.forestfoundation.org/carbon.</p><p>About the Vermont Land Trust</p><p>The Vermont Land Trust is a statewide, member-supported, nonprofit land conservation organization. Since 1977, the Vermont Land Trust has protected 2,000 parcels of land covering more than 595,000 acres, or 11 percent of the state. This includes more than 900 working farms and farmland parcels, hundreds of thousands of acres of productive forest land, and many parcels of community lands. For more information, visit vlt.org.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200421005256/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 First Quarter 2020 Financial Results Conference Call

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

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 16, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2020 financial results on April 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/20200416005860/en/ Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 16, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2020 financial results on April 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/20200416005860/en/</p><p>Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com</p>

Amazon Donates 8,200 Laptops to Seattle Public School Elementary Families, Helping to Close the "Continuous Learning" Gap for All Students Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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Amazon Donates 8,200 Laptops to Seattle Public School Elementary Families, Helping to Close the "Continuous Learning" Gap for All Students Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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Seattle Public Schools will prioritize distribution of laptops to elementary students who do not have access to a device at homeDonation, worth $2 million, kick starts new Alliance for Education "Education Equity Fund" designed to ensure students – especially students furthest from educational justice – have the support they need to continue to learn during the COVID-19 crisis  Businesses, community groups, and individuals interested in contributing support for students can get started here Seattle, WA – April 6, 2020 – Seattle Public Schools, the Alliance for Education, and Amazon today announced that a donation by Amazon to supply 8,200 laptops to students will help close the gap in Seattle Public Schools' continuous learning plan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon's permanent, direct to student donation, valued over $2 million, meets the estimated need for elementary students and will help toward the goal of providing all SPS students with access to a device while at home so they can participate in those parts of continuous learning that call for online access. This donation also kick starts a new fund – the "Education Equity Fund" – stewarded by the Alliance for Education, Seattle Public Schools' nonprofit partner. This new fund will support students furthest from educational justice in accessing the technology, technical support and additional learning resources required to continue to learn during the COVID-19 crisis. SPS closed schools on March 12 and immediately focused on providing students and families with core needs – meal distribution at 26 sites, as well as an overall approach to remote learning. As the breadth of the challenge for continuous learning came into focus, SPS and the Alliance for Education worked together on finding solutions to enhancing the effort. SPS will prioritize the laptop donations for elementary students who otherwise do not have access to a device at home. With this donation, SPS will be able to prioritize distributing district laptops to high school and middle school students. "Amazon's gift comes at a crucial time for our students," said SPS Superintendent Denise Juneau. "We've never lost sight of the need to continue our students' education -- even during this unprecedented time – and our community partner Amazon now makes it easier to keep moving forward with the critical work of teaching and learning." "Making sure our kids have the ability to keep learning is one of the most important things we can collectively do during the COVID-19 crisis," said Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon Web Services. "With this donation, we're focused on Seattle students from underserved and underrepresented communities who otherwise would not have access to these devices – which helps enable SPS to educate and assist all of their students during this pandemic." "Now more than ever, it is imperative to support those students most impacted by the COVID-19 crisis – our students furthest from educational justice. Providing them with the resources to quickly transition to online learning during this pandemic is a game-changer. Amazon's laptop donation fills a critical gap for thousands of Seattle students," said Lisa Chick, President and CEO, Alliance for Education. "The Alliance for Education is working in close partnership with Seattle Public Schools to ensure students, families, teachers and staff have the resources, technology and training they need to keep learning going, despite school closures. The Education Equity Fund is a direct way for our community members to join that partnership and support our students. I am excited for our community to step in with additional creative contributions to continue meeting these needs." Businesses, community groups, and individuals are encouraged to get involved and donate to the Alliance's Education Equity Fund to help provide students furthest from educational justice the support they need to continue to learn during the COVID-19 crisis. Since schools were closed, SPS educators have worked to provide continuous learning through a variety of channels: digital instruction as possible; paper-based and translated packets available online and distributed at 26 meal distribution sites; video learning opportunities on SPS TV, social media and local broadcast partner outlets; emails; and learning materials and engagement from SPS teachers through Schoology, the district's online learning management tool. Amazon is working closely with SPS to ship laptops directly to students. Students receiving laptops from Amazon will keep the laptops permanently, further supporting them in their educational journey beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon is also supporting SPS students and their families through the Right Now Needs Fund – an Amazon partnership with the Alliance for Education that helps principals, teachers, and parents collaborate to remove students' most basic barriers to learning such as the need for food, clothing, and housing. Created by Amazon in October 2018 with an initial $2 million grant, the fund supports SPS staff and communities with the resources to address the urgent and basic needs of their students. The Alliance for Education disburses funds to schools according to student needs, with schools that have higher rates of need receiving more support. Amazon has provided continuous support for the fund, including an additional $250,000 grant for 2019 summer programming and another $150,000 grant to enhance capacity to support families experiencing extra hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.

<p><em>Seattle Public Schools will prioritize distribution of laptops to elementary students who do not have access to a device at home</em><em>Donation, worth $2 million, kick starts new Alliance for Education "Education Equity Fund" designed to ensure students – especially students furthest from educational justice – have the support they need to continue to learn during the COVID-19 crisis</em></p><p><em> Businesses, community groups, and individuals interested in contributing support for students can get started </em><em>here</em></p><p>Seattle, WA – April 6, 2020 – Seattle Public Schools, the Alliance for Education, and Amazon today announced that a donation by Amazon to supply 8,200 laptops to students will help close the gap in Seattle Public Schools' continuous learning plan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon's permanent, direct to student donation, valued over $2 million, meets the estimated need for elementary students and will help toward the goal of providing all SPS students with access to a device while at home so they can participate in those parts of continuous learning that call for online access. This donation also kick starts a new fund – the "Education Equity Fund" – stewarded by the Alliance for Education, Seattle Public Schools' nonprofit partner. This new fund will support students furthest from educational justice in accessing the technology, technical support and additional learning resources required to continue to learn during the COVID-19 crisis.</p><p>SPS closed schools on March 12 and immediately focused on providing students and families with core needs – meal distribution at 26 sites, as well as an overall approach to remote learning. As the breadth of the challenge for continuous learning came into focus, SPS and the Alliance for Education worked together on finding solutions to enhancing the effort. SPS will prioritize the laptop donations for elementary students who otherwise do not have access to a device at home. With this donation, SPS will be able to prioritize distributing district laptops to high school and middle school students.</p><p>"Amazon's gift comes at a crucial time for our students," said SPS Superintendent Denise Juneau. "We've never lost sight of the need to continue our students' education -- even during this unprecedented time – and our community partner Amazon now makes it easier to keep moving forward with the critical work of teaching and learning."</p><p>"Making sure our kids have the ability to keep learning is one of the most important things we can collectively do during the COVID-19 crisis," said Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon Web Services. "With this donation, we're focused on Seattle students from underserved and underrepresented communities who otherwise would not have access to these devices – which helps enable SPS to educate and assist all of their students during this pandemic."</p><p>"Now more than ever, it is imperative to support those students most impacted by the COVID-19 crisis – our students furthest from educational justice. Providing them with the resources to quickly transition to online learning during this pandemic is a game-changer. Amazon's laptop donation fills a critical gap for thousands of Seattle students," said Lisa Chick, President and CEO, Alliance for Education. "The Alliance for Education is working in close partnership with Seattle Public Schools to ensure students, families, teachers and staff have the resources, technology and training they need to keep learning going, despite school closures. The Education Equity Fund is a direct way for our community members to join that partnership and support our students. I am excited for our community to step in with additional creative contributions to continue meeting these needs."</p><p>Businesses, community groups, and individuals are encouraged to get involved and donate to the Alliance's Education Equity Fund to help provide students furthest from educational justice the support they need to continue to learn during the COVID-19 crisis.</p><p>Since schools were closed, SPS educators have worked to provide continuous learning through a variety of channels: digital instruction as possible; paper-based and translated packets available online and distributed at 26 meal distribution sites; video learning opportunities on SPS TV, social media and local broadcast partner outlets; emails; and learning materials and engagement from SPS teachers through Schoology, the district's online learning management tool.</p><p>Amazon is working closely with SPS to ship laptops directly to students. Students receiving laptops from Amazon will keep the laptops permanently, further supporting them in their educational journey beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon is also supporting SPS students and their families through the Right Now Needs Fund – an Amazon partnership with the Alliance for Education that helps principals, teachers, and parents collaborate to remove students' most basic barriers to learning such as the need for food, clothing, and housing. Created by Amazon in October 2018 with an initial $2 million grant, the fund supports SPS staff and communities with the resources to address the urgent and basic needs of their students. The Alliance for Education disburses funds to schools according to student needs, with schools that have higher rates of need receiving more support. Amazon has provided continuous support for the fund, including an additional $250,000 grant for 2019 summer programming and another $150,000 grant to enhance capacity to support families experiencing extra hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic.</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>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Detective

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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Detective

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Amazon Detective analyzes trillions of data points to make it easier to visualize security data and conduct faster and more efficient investigations WarnerMedia and T-Systems among the customers using Amazon Detective SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 31, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Detective, a new security service that makes it easy for customers to conduct faster and more efficient investigations into security issues across their AWS workloads. Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from a customer's resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build interactive visualizations that help customers analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. There are no additional charges or upfront commitments required to use Amazon Detective, and customers pay only for data ingested from AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs, and Amazon GuardDuty findings. To get started with Amazon Detective, visit https://aws.amazon.com/detective/. When customers face a security issue like compromised user credentials or unauthorized access to a resource, security teams must conduct an investigation to understand the cause, assess the impact, and determine the remediation steps. Before an investigation can even begin, customers must first collect and combine terabytes of potentially relevant data from network, application, and security monitoring systems, and make it available in a way that allows their security analysts to infer related anomalies. In order to explore the data, analysts rely on data scientists and engineers to turn seemingly simple questions like "is this normal?" into mathematical models and queries that can help produce answers. Customers then typically build custom dashboards that analysts use to validate, compare, and correlate the data to reach their conclusions. Security teams must continually re-establish baselines of normal behavior, understand new patterns of activity, and revisit application configurations as resources, accounts, and applications are added or updated in an environment. These complex and time-consuming tasks impede security teams' ability to quickly investigate and respond to security issues. Amazon Detective helps security teams conduct faster and more effective investigations. Once enabled with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, Amazon Detective automatically begins distilling and organizing data from AWS CloudTrail, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, and Amazon GuardDuty findings into a graph model that summarizes resource behaviors and interactions observed across a customer's AWS environment. Using machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory, Amazon Detective produces tailored visualizations to help customers answer questions like "is this an unusual API call?" or "is this spike in traffic from this instance expected?" without having to organize any data or develop, configure, or tune their own queries and algorithms. Amazon Detective's visualizations provide the details, context, and guidance to help analysts quickly determine the nature and extent of issues identified by AWS security services like Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub. Amazon Detective's graph model and analytics are continuously updated as new telemetry becomes available from a customer's AWS resources, allowing security teams to spend less time tending to constantly changing data sources. By letting the Amazon Detective service perform the necessary data sifting, security teams can more quickly move on to remediation. "Even when customers tell us their security teams have the tools and information to confidently detect and remediate issues, they often say they need help when it comes to understanding what caused the issues in the first place," said Dan Plastina, Vice President for Security Services at AWS. "Gathering the information necessary to conduct effective security investigations has traditionally been a burdensome process, which can put crucial in-depth analysis out of reach for smaller organizations and strain resources for larger teams. Amazon Detective takes all of that extra work off of the customer's plate, allowing them to focus on finding the root cause of an issue and ensuring it doesn't happen again." Amazon Detective is available today in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, with more regions coming soon. T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is one of the world's leading digital service providers. "As part of protecting our clients' cloud applications and services, T-Systems' security experts analyze billions of security-relevant events every day," said Andrej Maya, Cloud Solutions Architect for T-Systems. "This has traditionally required using custom log management solutions that take considerable time and resources to maintain. Amazon Detective simplifies our security monitoring and helps our security analysts quickly understand potential issues without the complexity of managing the underlying data ourselves." WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content to global audiences. "Large security organizations are tasked with protecting huge environments with diverse workloads from a multitude of threats, while the smaller organizations I talk to often don't have the resources to replicate the tooling and expertise of their bigger counterparts," said Chris Farris who leads public cloud security for WarnerMedia and teaches Cloud Security for the SANS Institute. "Amazon Detective will help both of these groups reach faster, better-informed conclusions to their security investigations. It does the hard work of aggregating and analyzing high-volume telemetry sources like VPC Flow logs and CloudTrail. Larger organizations will see major efficiencies, and small teams will have access to information and tooling that they'd have a hard time collecting and building on their own." Expel provides transparent managed security, on-prem and in the cloud. "We have customers of all shapes and sizes running a diverse array of workloads on AWS, so it's critical that we have high-quality data sources that can aid us in conducting fast and accurate security investigations," said Peter Silberman, chief technology officer at Expel. "Amazon Detective offers our customers an additional layer of insight about what's happening in their environment, which gives our security analysts more data and context to use during investigations without adding complexity to that process. With Amazon Detective, we'll be able to process specific types of alerts faster, which means reducing investigation time and getting quicker, more detailed answers to our customers about what happened." 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 70 Availability Zones (AZs) within 22 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Africa, 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/20200331005748/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services Inc.

<p><em>Amazon Detective analyzes trillions of data points to make it easier to visualize security data and conduct faster and more efficient investigations</em></p><p><em>WarnerMedia and T-Systems among the customers using Amazon Detective</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 31, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Detective, a new security service that makes it easy for customers to conduct faster and more efficient investigations into security issues across their AWS workloads. Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from a customer's resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build interactive visualizations that help customers analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. There are no additional charges or upfront commitments required to use Amazon Detective, and customers pay only for data ingested from AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs, and Amazon GuardDuty findings. To get started with Amazon Detective, visit https://aws.amazon.com/detective/.</p><p>When customers face a security issue like compromised user credentials or unauthorized access to a resource, security teams must conduct an investigation to understand the cause, assess the impact, and determine the remediation steps. Before an investigation can even begin, customers must first collect and combine terabytes of potentially relevant data from network, application, and security monitoring systems, and make it available in a way that allows their security analysts to infer related anomalies. In order to explore the data, analysts rely on data scientists and engineers to turn seemingly simple questions like "<em>is this normal?</em>" into mathematical models and queries that can help produce answers. Customers then typically build custom dashboards that analysts use to validate, compare, and correlate the data to reach their conclusions. Security teams must continually re-establish baselines of normal behavior, understand new patterns of activity, and revisit application configurations as resources, accounts, and applications are added or updated in an environment. These complex and time-consuming tasks impede security teams' ability to quickly investigate and respond to security issues.</p><p>Amazon Detective helps security teams conduct faster and more effective investigations. Once enabled with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, Amazon Detective automatically begins distilling and organizing data from AWS CloudTrail, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, and Amazon GuardDuty findings into a graph model that summarizes resource behaviors and interactions observed across a customer's AWS environment. Using machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory, Amazon Detective produces tailored visualizations to help customers answer questions like <em>"is this an unusual API call?"</em> or "<em>is this spike in traffic from this instance expected?</em>" without having to organize any data or develop, configure, or tune their own queries and algorithms. Amazon Detective's visualizations provide the details, context, and guidance to help analysts quickly determine the nature and extent of issues identified by AWS security services like Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub. Amazon Detective's graph model and analytics are continuously updated as new telemetry becomes available from a customer's AWS resources, allowing security teams to spend less time tending to constantly changing data sources. By letting the Amazon Detective service perform the necessary data sifting, security teams can more quickly move on to remediation.</p><p>"Even when customers tell us their security teams have the tools and information to confidently detect and remediate issues, they often say they need help when it comes to understanding what caused the issues in the first place," said Dan Plastina, Vice President for Security Services at AWS. "Gathering the information necessary to conduct effective security investigations has traditionally been a burdensome process, which can put crucial in-depth analysis out of reach for smaller organizations and strain resources for larger teams. Amazon Detective takes all of that extra work off of the customer's plate, allowing them to focus on finding the root cause of an issue and ensuring it doesn't happen again."</p><p>Amazon Detective is available today in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, with more regions coming soon.</p><p>T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is one of the world's leading digital service providers. "As part of protecting our clients' cloud applications and services, T-Systems' security experts analyze billions of security-relevant events every day," said Andrej Maya, Cloud Solutions Architect for T-Systems. "This has traditionally required using custom log management solutions that take considerable time and resources to maintain. Amazon Detective simplifies our security monitoring and helps our security analysts quickly understand potential issues without the complexity of managing the underlying data ourselves."</p><p>WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content to global audiences. "Large security organizations are tasked with protecting huge environments with diverse workloads from a multitude of threats, while the smaller organizations I talk to often don't have the resources to replicate the tooling and expertise of their bigger counterparts," said Chris Farris who leads public cloud security for WarnerMedia and teaches Cloud Security for the SANS Institute. "Amazon Detective will help both of these groups reach faster, better-informed conclusions to their security investigations. It does the hard work of aggregating and analyzing high-volume telemetry sources like VPC Flow logs and CloudTrail. Larger organizations will see major efficiencies, and small teams will have access to information and tooling that they'd have a hard time collecting and building on their own."</p><p>Expel provides transparent managed security, on-prem and in the cloud. "We have customers of all shapes and sizes running a diverse array of workloads on AWS, so it's critical that we have high-quality data sources that can aid us in conducting fast and accurate security investigations," said Peter Silberman, chief technology officer at Expel. "Amazon Detective offers our customers an additional layer of insight about what's happening in their environment, which gives our security analysts more data and context to use during investigations without adding complexity to that process. With Amazon Detective, we'll be able to process specific types of alerts faster, which means reducing investigation time and getting quicker, more detailed answers to our customers about what happened."</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 70 Availability Zones (AZs) within 22 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Africa, 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/20200331005748/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services Inc.</p>

Amazon Continues Renewable Energy Investments with Wind and Solar Projects in Australia, Europe, and the US

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Amazon Continues Renewable Energy Investments with Wind and Solar Projects in Australia, Europe, and the US

03/12/2020

2020

The four projects include Amazon's first renewable energy project in Australia, second in Sweden, second in Spain, and 11th in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which combined, are expected to produce almost 300 MW of additional renewable capacity and approximately 840,000 MWh of energy annually, or enough to power more than 76,000 average US homes Projects will supply renewable energy to the grids powering the AWS data centers that support Amazon and millions of AWS customers globally Globally, Amazon has 86 renewable energy projects that have the capacity to generate over 2,300 MW and deliver more than 6.4 million MWh of energy annually SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced four new renewable energy projects in Australia, Spain, Sweden, and the US that further support Amazon's commitment to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030 on path to net zero carbon by 2040. Amazon is investing globally to enable new renewable energy projects as the company works towards net zero carbon by 2040. Amazon's first renewable energy project in Australia is a 60 megawatt (MW) solar project anticipated to come online in 2021 in northern New South Wales. Once complete, the project is expected to generate 142,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of clean energy annually, which is equivalent to the annual electricity of almost 23,000 average Australian households. Amazon's newest renewable energy projects in Europe include 122 MW from an onshore wind project in Västernorrland, Sweden, expected to come online 2022, and a new 50 MW solar farm in Zaragoza, Spain, expected to begin operations in 2021. Once enabled, these projects have the capacity to power the equivalent of 158,000 average European homes each year. Amazon's newest solar project in the US will be located in Halifax County, Virginia. The 65 MW solar project is expected to generate over 150,000 MWh of renewable energy annually and will be Amazon's 11th renewable energy project in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Separately, Amazon also recently announced a new solar project in Pittsylvania County that will power Amazon's new HQ2 headquarters along with other Amazon-owned operations across the Commonwealth, including Whole Foods Markets and fulfillment centers. More information about the 82-megawatt project can be found on the AmazonDay One blog: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/sustainability/powering-hq2-with-100-renewable-energy. Once complete, the four new Amazon renewable energy wind and solar projects will provide almost 300 MW and approximately 840,000 MWh of additional renewable capacity to the grids that supply energy to the company's AWS data centers, which power Amazon and millions of AWS customers globally. To date, Amazon has launched 26 utility-scale wind and solar renewable energy projects that will generate over 2,200 MW of renewable capacity and deliver more than 6.2 million MWh of clean energy annually – enough to power 560,000 U.S. homes. Amazon has also installed 60 solar rooftops on fulfillment centers and sort centers around the globe that generate 128 MW of renewable capacity and deliver 225,000 MWh of clean energy annually. "We're on a mission to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early as part of The Climate Pledge commitment to be net zero carbon across our operations by 2040. These new renewable energy projects are part of our roadmap to 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030," said Kara Hurst, Vice President of Sustainability, Amazon. "In addition to the environmental benefits inherently associated with running applications in the cloud, investing in renewable energy is a critical step toward addressing our carbon footprint globally." "I applaud Amazon for their investment in renewable energy projects in the Commonwealth of Virginia," said Virginia Congressman Denver Riggleman. "This solar energy project will generate 65 megawatts of renewable energy, which will create clean jobs for the region." To track progress toward these goals, Amazon launched a website to report on its sustainability commitments, initiatives, and performance. The site includes information on Amazon's carbon footprint and other sustainability metrics that share the progress the company is making towards reaching The Climate Pledge. The goals, commitments, investments, and programs build on Amazon's long-term commitment to sustainability through existing innovative programs, including Shipment Zero – Amazon's vision to make all shipments net zero carbon, with 50% net zero carbon by 2030; sustainable packaging initiatives like Frustration-Free Packaging and Ship in Own Container, which have reduced packaging waste by 25% since 2015; renewable energy programs; investments in the circular economy with the Closed Loop Fund; and numerous other initiatives happening every day and led by teams across Amazon. Visit https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/ to view the company's new sustainability report and 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. About Amazon Web Services For almost 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 69 Availability Zones (AZs) within 22 geographic regions, with announced plans for 16 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Africa, 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. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200312005107/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>The four projects include Amazon's first renewable energy project in Australia, second in Sweden, second in Spain, and 11th in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which combined, are expected to produce almost 300 MW of additional renewable capacity and approximately 840,000 MWh of energy annually, or enough to power more than 76,000 average US homes</em></p><p><em>Projects will supply renewable energy to the grids powering the AWS data centers that support Amazon and millions of AWS customers globally</em></p><p><em>Globally, Amazon has 86 renewable energy projects that have the capacity to generate over 2,300 MW and deliver more than 6.4 million MWh of energy annually</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced four new renewable energy projects in Australia, Spain, Sweden, and the US that further support Amazon's commitment to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030 on path to net zero carbon by 2040.</p><p>Amazon is investing globally to enable new renewable energy projects as the company works towards net zero carbon by 2040. Amazon's first renewable energy project in Australia is a 60 megawatt (MW) solar project anticipated to come online in 2021 in northern New South Wales. Once complete, the project is expected to generate 142,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of clean energy annually, which is equivalent to the annual electricity of almost 23,000 average Australian households.</p><p>Amazon's newest renewable energy projects in Europe include 122 MW from an onshore wind project in Västernorrland, Sweden, expected to come online 2022, and a new 50 MW solar farm in Zaragoza, Spain, expected to begin operations in 2021. Once enabled, these projects have the capacity to power the equivalent of 158,000 average European homes each year.</p><p>Amazon's newest solar project in the US will be located in Halifax County, Virginia. The 65 MW solar project is expected to generate over 150,000 MWh of renewable energy annually and will be Amazon's 11^th renewable energy project in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Separately, Amazon also recently announced a new solar project in Pittsylvania County that will power Amazon's new HQ2 headquarters along with other Amazon-owned operations across the Commonwealth, including Whole Foods Markets and fulfillment centers. More information about the 82-megawatt project can be found on the AmazonDay One blog: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/sustainability/powering-hq2-with-100-renewable-energy.</p><p>Once complete, the four new Amazon renewable energy wind and solar projects will provide almost 300 MW and approximately 840,000 MWh of additional renewable capacity to the grids that supply energy to the company's AWS data centers, which power Amazon and millions of AWS customers globally.</p><p>To date, Amazon has launched 26 utility-scale wind and solar renewable energy projects that will generate over 2,200 MW of renewable capacity and deliver more than 6.2 million MWh of clean energy annually – enough to power 560,000 U.S. homes. Amazon has also installed 60 solar rooftops on fulfillment centers and sort centers around the globe that generate 128 MW of renewable capacity and deliver 225,000 MWh of clean energy annually.</p><p>"We're on a mission to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early as part of The Climate Pledge commitment to be net zero carbon across our operations by 2040. These new renewable energy projects are part of our roadmap to 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030," said Kara Hurst, Vice President of Sustainability, Amazon. "In addition to the environmental benefits inherently associated with running applications in the cloud, investing in renewable energy is a critical step toward addressing our carbon footprint globally."</p><p>"I applaud Amazon for their investment in renewable energy projects in the Commonwealth of Virginia," said Virginia Congressman Denver Riggleman. "This solar energy project will generate 65 megawatts of renewable energy, which will create clean jobs for the region."</p><p>To track progress toward these goals, Amazon launched a website to report on its sustainability commitments, initiatives, and performance. The site includes information on Amazon's carbon footprint and other sustainability metrics that share the progress the company is making towards reaching The Climate Pledge. The goals, commitments, investments, and programs build on Amazon's long-term commitment to sustainability through existing innovative programs, including Shipment Zero – Amazon's vision to make all shipments net zero carbon, with 50% net zero carbon by 2030; sustainable packaging initiatives like Frustration-Free Packaging and Ship in Own Container, which have reduced packaging waste by 25% since 2015; renewable energy programs; investments in the circular economy with the Closed Loop Fund; and numerous other initiatives happening every day and led by teams across Amazon.</p><p>Visit https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/ to view the company's new sustainability report and 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>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For almost 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 69 Availability Zones (AZs) within 22 geographic regions, with announced plans for 16 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Africa, 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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200312005107/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

The Kids Are Back! Amazon Prime Video to Bring Back The Kids in the Hall With New Episodes as First Canadian Amazon Original Series

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The Kids Are Back! Amazon Prime Video to Bring Back The Kids in the Hall With New Episodes as First Canadian Amazon Original Series

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Brand new episodes of the beloved Canadian sketch series will come to Prime Video for Canada and around the world in more than 200 countries and territories Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video and Canadian production company Project 10 on board to produce TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (Nasdaq:AMZN) – Amazon today announced that the critically-acclaimed sketch comedy series, The Kids in the Hall, will be making a comeback on Prime Video. With the return of all of the original "Kids," the 8-episode Amazon Original series, which will be a continuation of the original show, will be available to Prime members in Canada and around the world in more than 200 countries and territories. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200305005813/en/ Amazon Prime Video to bring back The Kids in the Hall with new episodes as first Canadian Amazon Original Series (Photo: Business Wire) First premiering in 1989, the original Emmy Award-nominated The Kids in the Hall starred Canadian comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson. All of the original "Kids" will be reprising fan-favorite characters (and assuming some new ones) for the series' next iteration. The original series earned multiple Gemini Awards along with the cast being honored with the Canadian Screen Awards ICON AWARD in 2019. The series will be executive produced by Saturday Night Live creator, Lorne Michaels. "We've been investing in Canada for several years and are excited to add to that momentum by making The Kids in the Hall the first Canadian Amazon Original series," said James Farrell, Vice President of International Originals for Amazon Studios. "The Kids in the Hall is an iconic show with a deep-rooted fan base. Several of our global hits, including The Boys, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryanand The Expanse have been filmed in Canada and we are looking forward to continuing our work with talented producers and crew teams across the country to bring this series to our Prime members around the world." "Even after 30 years, The Kids in the Hall has retained its brilliance and originality," said Executive Producer, Lorne Michaels. "We are happy to be bringing back all of the original ‘Kids' for the new series." Since 2015, Prime Video has filmed 18 Amazon Original series and films in Canada, including The Man in the High Castle and the upcoming series Upload in Vancouver, The Boys and The Expanse in Toronto, the upcoming Tales from the Loop in Winnipeg, as well as parts of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryanand the upcoming film, The Voyeurs in Montreal. The Kids in the Hall will be the first Canadian Amazon Original series and follows the release of Amazon Original series that have been launched around the world in countries including Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. The series will join thousands of TV shows and movies in the Prime Video catalogue, including award winning and critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals such as 2020 Golden Globe and Emmy award-winner Fleabag, Emmy and Golden Globe award-winner The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the recently released Hunters, from Executive Producer Jordan Peele and starring Al Pacino. About Prime Video Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers Prime members a collection of award winning Amazon Original series, thousands of movies and TV shows—all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. Find out more at PrimeVideo.com. Included with Prime Video: Watch thousands of popular movies and TV shows, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals such as the Emmy Award-winning comedies Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, The Boys, Homecoming, Hanna, Good Omens, Carnival Row, Guava Islandfrom Donald Glover, exclusives, live sports including Thursday Night Football and licensed and self-published content available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Watch more with Prime Video Channels: Prime members can add channels they love such as Hayu, Starz and STACKTV, an all-in entertainment multipack offering the latest episodes of hit shows from 12 great networks. Most subscriptions start with a free trial, and you can cancel anytime. Instant Access: Watch where you want, when you want with the Prime Video app on Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android and iOS, compatible Smart TVs, select game consoles, select MVPDs including Shaw and Rogers, or online at PrimeVideo.com. In the Prime Video app on mobile and tablet, Prime members can download most videos and watch them anywhere offline at no additional cost. Included with Prime: Prime members have access to further entertainment benefits including music and reading, alongside free delivery on millions of items as fast as same-day for just CAD$ 79/year or CAD$ 7.99/month (plus applicable taxes). Eligible customers can sign-up for a free 30-day trial. Learn more at amazon.ca/prime. About 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 shopping and entertainment. For Canada, that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, Prime Video Channels, ad-free listening of over one million songs on Prime Music, unlimited access to hundreds of books with Prime Reading, free games and in-game loot with Twitch Prime, free unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, early access to select Lightning Deals, Prime Day, and more. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping and members receive Prime FREE Same-Day Delivery in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, Prime FREE One-Day Delivery in 33 cities and towns, and unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on millions of items. Prime is CDN $79 per year or CDN $7.99 a month and eligible customers can start a free trial at amazon.ca/prime. University and college students can join Prime Student for 50% off and enjoy the benefits of Prime with a six-month free trial at amazon.ca/primestudent. 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 CDN $109 per year for up to three users at amazon.ca/businessprime. About Broadway Video Broadway Video is a global media and entertainment company focused on the creation and distribution of premier content. Founded by Lorne Michaels in 1979, Broadway Video's legacy originated with the cultural icon Saturday Night Live. Broadway Video has since built a stable of television programs including The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Shrill, Los Espookys, Documentary Now!, Late Night with Seth Meyers, A.P. Bio, Miracle Workers, The Other Two, Detroiters, Portlandia, 30 Rock and feature films such as Wayne's World and Mean Girls. Broadway Video has also created and launched the digital studios Above Average, Más Mejor, and The Kicker. About Project 10 Productions Project 10 is a global television production company with offices in Toronto and Los Angeles specializing in scripted comedy. The company works closely with high-profile talent to develop and produce compelling content for the worldwide marketplace. The principal executives for Project 10 Productions Inc. are Andrew Barnsley, Ben Murray (Toronto) and Andrew Moncrief (Los Angeles). Leveraging their considerable strengths and decades of experience with those of partner and three-time MLB All-Star Vernon Wells, Project 10 has established itself as a go-to partner for domestic and international creators, broadcasters and distributors alike. 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<p><em>Brand new episodes of the beloved Canadian sketch series will come to Prime Video for Canada and around the world in more than 200 countries and territories</em></p><p><em>Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video and Canadian production company Project 10 on board to produce</em></p><p>TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (Nasdaq:AMZN) – Amazon today announced that the critically-acclaimed sketch comedy series, <em>The Kids in the Hall</em>, will be making a comeback on Prime Video. With the return of all of the original "Kids," the 8-episode Amazon Original series, which will be a continuation of the original show, will be available to Prime members in Canada and around the world in more than 200 countries and territories.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200305005813/en/</p><div><p>Amazon Prime Video to bring back The Kids in the Hall with new episodes as first Canadian Amazon Original Series (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>First premiering in 1989, the original Emmy Award-nominated <em>The Kids in the Hall</em> starred Canadian comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson. All of the original "Kids" will be reprising fan-favorite characters (and assuming some new ones) for the series' next iteration. The original series earned multiple Gemini Awards along with the cast being honored with the Canadian Screen Awards ICON AWARD in 2019. The series will be executive produced by <em>Saturday Night Live</em> creator, Lorne Michaels.</p><p>"We've been investing in Canada for several years and are excited to add to that momentum by making <em>The Kids in the Hall</em> the first Canadian Amazon Original series," said James Farrell, Vice President of International Originals for Amazon Studios. "<em>The Kids in the Hall</em> is an iconic show with a deep-rooted fan base. Several of our global hits, including <em>The Boys, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan</em>and <em>The Expanse </em>have been filmed in Canada and we are looking forward to continuing our work with talented producers and crew teams across the country to bring this series to our Prime members around the world."</p><p>"Even after 30 years, <em>The Kids in the Hall</em> has retained its brilliance and originality," said Executive Producer, Lorne Michaels. "We are happy to be bringing back all of the original ‘Kids' for the new series."</p><p>Since 2015, Prime Video has filmed 18 Amazon Original series and films in Canada, including <em>The Man in the High Castle</em> and the upcoming series <em>Upload </em>in Vancouver, <em>The Boys </em>and <em>The Expanse </em>in Toronto, the upcoming <em>Tales from the Loop</em> in Winnipeg, as well as parts of <em>Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan</em>and the upcoming film, <em>The Voyeurs </em>in Montreal. <em>The Kids in the Hall</em> will be the first Canadian Amazon Original series and follows the release of Amazon Original series that have been launched around the world in countries including Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. The series will join thousands of TV shows and movies in the Prime Video catalogue, including award winning and critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals such as 2020 Golden Globe and Emmy award-winner <em>Fleabag, </em>Emmy and Golden Globe award-winner <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em> and the recently released <em>Hunters</em>, from Executive Producer Jordan Peele and starring Al Pacino.</p><p>About Prime Video</p><p>Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers Prime members a collection of award winning Amazon Original series, thousands of movies and TV shows—all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. Find out more at PrimeVideo.com.</p><ul><li>Included with Prime Video: Watch thousands of popular movies and TV shows, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals such as the Emmy Award-winning comedies <em>Fleabag</em> and <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, The Boys, Homecoming, Hanna, Good Omens, Carnival Row, Guava Island</em>from Donald Glover, exclusives, live sports including <em>Thursday Night Football</em> and licensed and self-published content available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.</li><li>Watch more with Prime Video Channels: Prime members can add channels they love such as Hayu, Starz and STACKTV, an all-in entertainment multipack offering the latest episodes of hit shows from 12 great networks. Most subscriptions start with a free trial, and you can cancel anytime.</li><li>Instant Access: Watch where you want, when you want with the Prime Video app on Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android and iOS, compatible Smart TVs, select game consoles, select MVPDs including Shaw and Rogers, or online at PrimeVideo.com. In the Prime Video app on mobile and tablet, Prime members can download most videos and watch them anywhere offline at no additional cost.</li><li>Included with Prime: Prime members have access to further entertainment benefits including music and reading, alongside free delivery on millions of items as fast as same-day for just CAD$ 79/year or CAD$ 7.99/month (plus applicable taxes). Eligible customers can sign-up for a free 30-day trial. Learn more at amazon.ca/prime.</li></ul><p>About 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 shopping and entertainment. For Canada, that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, Prime Video Channels, ad-free listening of over one million songs on Prime Music, unlimited access to hundreds of books with Prime Reading, free games and in-game loot with Twitch Prime, free unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, early access to select Lightning Deals, Prime Day, and more. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping and members receive Prime FREE Same-Day Delivery in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, Prime FREE One-Day Delivery in 33 cities and towns, and unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on millions of items. Prime is CDN $79 per year or CDN $7.99 a month and eligible customers can start a free trial at amazon.ca/prime. University and college students can join Prime Student for 50% off and enjoy the benefits of Prime with a six-month free trial at amazon.ca/primestudent. 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 CDN $109 per year for up to three users at amazon.ca/businessprime.</p><p>About Broadway Video</p><p>Broadway Video is a global media and entertainment company focused on the creation and distribution of premier content. Founded by Lorne Michaels in 1979, Broadway Video's legacy originated with the cultural icon <em>Saturday Night Live</em>. Broadway Video has since built a stable of television programs including <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon</em>, <em>Shrill, Los Espookys, Documentary Now!</em>, <em>Late Night with Seth Meyers</em>,<em> A.P. Bio, Miracle Workers,</em> <em>The Other Two, Detroiters, Portlandia</em>, <em>30 Rock </em>and feature films such as<em> Wayne's World </em>and<em> Mean Girls. </em>Broadway Video has also created and launched the digital studios Above Average, Más Mejor, and The Kicker.</p><p>About Project 10 Productions</p><p>Project 10 is a global television production company with offices in Toronto and Los Angeles specializing in scripted comedy. The company works closely with high-profile talent to develop and produce compelling content for the worldwide marketplace. The principal executives for Project 10 Productions Inc. are Andrew Barnsley, Ben Murray (Toronto) and Andrew Moncrief (Los Angeles). Leveraging their considerable strengths and decades of experience with those of partner and three-time MLB All-Star Vernon Wells, Project 10 has established itself as a go-to partner for domestic and international creators, broadcasters and distributors alike.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200305005813/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Reveals Top 10 States, Cities and Top Categories with the Most Handmade Makers

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Amazon Reveals Top 10 States, Cities and Top Categories with the Most Handmade Makers

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California, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan, and Pennsylvania among the top states with the highest population of Makers selling in the Amazon Handmade store San Diego, Portland, and Las Vegas among the top cities with the highest population of Makers selling in the Amazon Handmade store The top categories for Makers are Home, Jewelry, and Accessories SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 10 states and cities with the most Makers selling in the Amazon Handmade store. Amazon looked at which states and cities the most Makers call home and found that the top states represent every region of the country, with thousands of Makers residing in California, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The top cities span across the four corners of the U.S., from New York, to Miami, to San Diego, to Seattle. Amazon also revealed the top product categories for Makers and found the largest number of Makers are selling products in the Home category. Amazon Handmade features genuinely handcrafted products from furniture, to jewelry, to toys, and more from tens of thousands of Makers in the U.S. and around the world. The top 10 states with the most Makers are: California Texas New York North Carolina Washington Georgia Pennsylvania Illinois Michigan Arizona The top 10 cities with the most Makers are: New York, NY Los Angeles, CA Miami, FL Las Vegas, NV Portland, OR Phoenix, AZ San Diego, CA Seattle, WA Chicago, IL Austin, TX The top product categories for Makers are: Home Jewelry Accessories Kitchen & Dining Clothing "Across the country, there are hundreds of thousands of creative, hard-working, and unique American small businesses that are thriving with Amazon," said Nicholas Denissen, VP of Small Business at Amazon. "Small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores had a record-breaking year in 2019, with nearly 25,000 American small and medium-sized businesses surpassing $500,000 in sales. We will continue to invest billions of dollars in tools, services, people, and programs – like Amazon Handmade – to help these businesses grow and succeed." Amazon Handmade is a store within Amazon.com that empowers Makers with the tools necessary to showcase their products to more than 300 million active customers around the world, regardless of their location. Makers selling with Amazon Handmade come from all 50 states and more than 80 countries around the world. "At Amazon Handmade, we obsess over customers and their desire for unique handcrafted goods, which is why we are so proud of our incredible Makers and the products they sell in our store," said Katie Harnetiaux, Head of Amazon Handmade. "The flourishing craft community selling with Amazon Handmade spans from coast-to-coast, with Makers from every corner of the U.S. building successful businesses and reaching new customers." "Amazon Handmade has been incredible for my small business. We grew our sales more than 200% last year, and had our best sales day ever on Amazon this Cyber Monday," said Ken Baker, owner of Dream Big Printables in Charlotte, North Carolina. "Our growth with Amazon has allowed Dream Big Printables to hire local employees as well as increase donations to local non-profits." The 2019 Amazon SMB Impact Report revealed that on average, American small and medium-sized businesses sell more than 4,000 items per minute in Amazon's stores. In 2019, Amazon invested more than $15 billion and launched more than 225 tools and services to help small and medium-sized businesses grow and succeed. These businesses have created more than 800,000 jobs in the U.S. To help American small and medium-sized businesses thrive, in September 2018, Amazon created Amazon Storefronts. With Storefronts, customers can shop a curated collection of more than 2.5 million products from nearly 30,000 U.S.-based businesses. In one year, U.S. small and medium-sized businesses with products in Storefronts sold more than 250 million items to more than 70 million customers. The company also launched Amazon Small Business Academy in November 2019 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 small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores, visit: aboutamazon.com/smallbusiness. 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/20200221005090/en/ Source: Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr

<p><em>California, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan, and Pennsylvania among the top states with the highest population of Makers selling in the Amazon Handmade store</em></p><p><em>San Diego, Portland, and Las Vegas among the top cities with the highest population of Makers selling in the Amazon Handmade store</em></p><p><em>The top categories for Makers are Home, Jewelry, and Accessories</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 10 states and cities with the most Makers selling in the Amazon Handmade store. Amazon looked at which states and cities the most Makers call home and found that the top states represent every region of the country, with thousands of Makers residing in California, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The top cities span across the four corners of the U.S., from New York, to Miami, to San Diego, to Seattle. Amazon also revealed the top product categories for Makers and found the largest number of Makers are selling products in the Home category. Amazon Handmade features genuinely handcrafted products from furniture, to jewelry, to toys, and more from tens of thousands of Makers in the U.S. and around the world.</p><p>The top 10 states with the most Makers are:</p><ol><li>California</li><li>Texas</li><li>New York</li><li>North Carolina</li><li>Washington</li><li>Georgia</li><li>Pennsylvania</li><li>Illinois</li><li>Michigan</li><li>Arizona</li></ol><p>The top 10 cities with the most Makers are:</p><ol><li>New York, NY</li><li>Los Angeles, CA</li><li>Miami, FL</li><li>Las Vegas, NV</li><li>Portland, OR</li><li>Phoenix, AZ</li><li>San Diego, CA</li><li>Seattle, WA</li><li>Chicago, IL</li><li>Austin, TX</li></ol><p>The top product categories for Makers are:</p><ol><li>Home</li><li>Jewelry</li><li>Accessories</li><li>Kitchen &amp; Dining</li><li>Clothing</li></ol><p>"Across the country, there are hundreds of thousands of creative, hard-working, and unique American small businesses that are thriving with Amazon," said Nicholas Denissen, VP of Small Business at Amazon. "Small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores had a record-breaking year in 2019, with nearly 25,000 American small and medium-sized businesses surpassing $500,000 in sales. We will continue to invest billions of dollars in tools, services, people, and programs – like Amazon Handmade – to help these businesses grow and succeed."</p><p>Amazon Handmade is a store within Amazon.com that empowers Makers with the tools necessary to showcase their products to more than 300 million active customers around the world, regardless of their location. Makers selling with Amazon Handmade come from all 50 states and more than 80 countries around the world.</p><p>"At Amazon Handmade, we obsess over customers and their desire for unique handcrafted goods, which is why we are so proud of our incredible Makers and the products they sell in our store," said Katie Harnetiaux, Head of Amazon Handmade. "The flourishing craft community selling with Amazon Handmade spans from coast-to-coast, with Makers from every corner of the U.S. building successful businesses and reaching new customers."</p><p>"Amazon Handmade has been incredible for my small business. We grew our sales more than 200% last year, and had our best sales day ever on Amazon this Cyber Monday," said Ken Baker, owner of Dream Big Printables in Charlotte, North Carolina. "Our growth with Amazon has allowed Dream Big Printables to hire local employees as well as increase donations to local non-profits."</p><p>The 2019 Amazon SMB Impact Report revealed that on average, American small and medium-sized businesses sell more than 4,000 items per minute in Amazon's stores. In 2019, Amazon invested more than $15 billion and launched more than 225 tools and services to help small and medium-sized businesses grow and succeed. These businesses have created more than 800,000 jobs in the U.S.</p><p>To help American small and medium-sized businesses thrive, in September 2018, Amazon created Amazon Storefronts. With Storefronts, customers can shop a curated collection of more than 2.5 million products from nearly 30,000 U.S.-based businesses. In one year, U.S. small and medium-sized businesses with products in Storefronts sold more than 250 million items to more than 70 million customers.</p><p>The company also launched Amazon Small Business Academy in November 2019 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 small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores, visit: aboutamazon.com/smallbusiness.</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/20200221005090/en/</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p>

3M Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider for Enterprise IT

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3M Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider for Enterprise IT

02/17/2020

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Global science and innovation leader uses AWS to modernize its infrastructure and drive efficiencies across its global manufacturing and supply chain SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that 3M (NYSE: MMM) is moving its enterprise IT infrastructure to AWS. As part of a company-wide enterprise IT transformation initiative, 3M is migrating its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, including accounting, supply chain management, manufacturing, product lifecycle management, and e-commerce, along with business-critical enterprise IT applications, to the world's leading cloud. Using AWS's proven global infrastructure and breadth and depth of services, 3M will modernize its infrastructure and drive operational efficiencies across its global operations. For more than 100 years, 3M has provided customers with thousands of innovative products and solutions that improve lives across diverse markets including healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and a variety of other industries. Today, 3M has 96,000 employees globally that use its 51 technology platforms and 117,000 patents to drive innovation and serve customers around the world. Going forward, 3M plans to leverage AWS's unmatched portfolio of services, including machine learning, analytics, storage, security, and databases to optimize and automate operational, manufacturing, and business processes, as well as product solutions. Through this move, 3M expects to drive efficiencies, and gain speed and agility in meeting 3M business and customer needs. "AWS is integral to our enterprise IT transformation as we look for better ways to serve our customers, streamline the way we work, and compete globally," said John Turner, Vice President, IT Systems and Chief Information Officer at 3M. "AWS, with its proven experience and highly performant global infrastructure, will deliver the agility, speed, and scalability 3M needs to launch new business processes and service models. We look forward to expanding our use of AWS's portfolio of services, including analytics and machine learning, to gain greater insights and become an even more agile company in the cloud." "3M is leveraging AWS to drive change within its IT organization, and it will transform those improvements into delivery of new applications and services to meet 3M business needs," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "For more than 100 years, 3M has had a relentless focus on innovation, making scientific discoveries that advance, enhance and improve every company, home, and life. AWS's breadth and depth of services will help 3M continue to launch new business processes, bring increased customer focus, and keep its position as one of the world's most successful diversified companies."

<p><em>Global science and innovation leader uses AWS to modernize its infrastructure and drive efficiencies across its global manufacturing and supply chain</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that 3M (NYSE: MMM) is moving its enterprise IT infrastructure to AWS. As part of a company-wide enterprise IT transformation initiative, 3M is migrating its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, including accounting, supply chain management, manufacturing, product lifecycle management, and e-commerce, along with business-critical enterprise IT applications, to the world's leading cloud. Using AWS's proven global infrastructure and breadth and depth of services, 3M will modernize its infrastructure and drive operational efficiencies across its global operations.</p><p>For more than 100 years, 3M has provided customers with thousands of innovative products and solutions that improve lives across diverse markets including healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and a variety of other industries. Today, 3M has 96,000 employees globally that use its 51 technology platforms and 117,000 patents to drive innovation and serve customers around the world. Going forward, 3M plans to leverage AWS's unmatched portfolio of services, including machine learning, analytics, storage, security, and databases to optimize and automate operational, manufacturing, and business processes, as well as product solutions. Through this move, 3M expects to drive efficiencies, and gain speed and agility in meeting 3M business and customer needs.</p><p>"AWS is integral to our enterprise IT transformation as we look for better ways to serve our customers, streamline the way we work, and compete globally," said John Turner, Vice President, IT Systems and Chief Information Officer at 3M. "AWS, with its proven experience and highly performant global infrastructure, will deliver the agility, speed, and scalability 3M needs to launch new business processes and service models. We look forward to expanding our use of AWS's portfolio of services, including analytics and machine learning, to gain greater insights and become an even more agile company in the cloud."</p><p>"3M is leveraging AWS to drive change within its IT organization, and it will transform those improvements into delivery of new applications and services to meet 3M business needs," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "For more than 100 years, 3M has had a relentless focus on innovation, making scientific discoveries that advance, enhance and improve every company, home, and life. AWS's breadth and depth of services will help 3M continue to launch new business processes, bring increased customer focus, and keep its position as one of the world's most successful diversified companies."</p>

Second Spectrum Selects AWS as its Preferred Cloud, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Media Services Provider

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Second Spectrum Selects AWS as its Preferred Cloud, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Media Services Provider

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The leader in real-time analytics and indexed video for international sports leagues relies on AWS to power predictive stats, enhanced visualizations, and high-quality viewing experiences SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Second Spectrum, the Official Optical Tracking and Analytics Provider of sports leagues such as the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the English Premier League, has chosen AWS as its preferred cloud, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) provider. Second Spectrum has also selected AWS media services to help deliver new kinds of live game-watching experiences to fans. Second Spectrum uses AWS's industry-leading services to help sports leagues and their media partners deliver analytics, visualizations, and easily searchable video clips during games and matches to enhance the fan experience and provide teams with deeper competitive insights. For example, Second Spectrum leverages AWS to produce and deliver Clippers CourtVision, an augmented reality, livestreaming product for the Los Angeles (L.A.) Clippers that displays player tracking information, real-time stats, and explanatory animations for fans watching from desktops and mobile devices. Second Spectrum's content-generation service runs on AWS. The process begins when Second Spectrum applies ML and computer vision techniques to its proprietary optical tracking system, which collects 3D spatial data from cameras at live sporting events, and then indexes the video in real time with metadata such as the identity and location of players, and the type of play in progress. Second Spectrum technology then references that real-time information against historical team and player data housed on AWS to rapidly generate stats, analytics, and its proprietary metrics like Quantified Shot Quality (expected effective field goal percentage) and Quantified Shooter Impact (impact of the player compared to league average), and uses AWS's highly scalable and performant infrastructure to construct 3D visualizations and augmented video to support live broadcasts. By expanding its relationship with AWS, Second Spectrum will begin working with Amazon SageMaker to explore ways of enhancing and tuning its ML models on years of video data captured in dozens of sports venues, enabling it to generate new predictive stats during live games. Second Spectrum minimizes latency in its streaming services and offers fans a high-quality viewing experience by using AWS Elemental Live, a service for encoding live video and compressing it for viewing on multiple devices, and AWS Elemental MediaStore, a storage service optimized for media, to allow television producers and sports commentators to quickly access key moments from sports events. In addition, Second Spectrum plans to begin working with AWS Outposts –which extend AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility –in select sports arenas to understand how to further reduce latency in ML inferences, graphical processing, and live broadcast video delivery. "Second Spectrum has created never-before-seen products and experiences for coaches, analysts, players, producers, storytellers, and fans everywhere. In addition, successful teams rely on our machine intelligence to find and share video, discover key insights, and make more informed decisions faster," said Rajiv Maheswaran, CEO of Second Spectrum. "Using AWS's breadth and depth of services, Second Spectrum will elevate its analytics and video processing capabilities to provide deeper insights into on-field and on-court action. We look forward to leveraging AWS to continue to innovate new and compelling content and give our customers and fans new and better ways to experience sports." "AWS and Second Spectrum have a history of working together to deliver stats and visualizations that make the world's most competitive sports even more engaging for fans, insightful for coaches and players, and profitable for media partners," Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "In expanding the relationship between AWS and Second Spectrum – bringing together a top provider of sports analytics with AWS's unmatched portfolio of services – we are adding new layers of depth to the spectator experience and helping teams uncover new ways to understand, evaluate, and elevate their performance."

<p><em>The leader in real-time analytics and indexed video for international sports leagues relies on AWS to power predictive stats, enhanced visualizations, and high-quality viewing experiences</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Second Spectrum, the Official Optical Tracking and Analytics Provider of sports leagues such as the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the English Premier League, has chosen AWS as its preferred cloud, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) provider. Second Spectrum has also selected AWS media services to help deliver new kinds of live game-watching experiences to fans. Second Spectrum uses AWS's industry-leading services to help sports leagues and their media partners deliver analytics, visualizations, and easily searchable video clips during games and matches to enhance the fan experience and provide teams with deeper competitive insights. For example, Second Spectrum leverages AWS to produce and deliver Clippers CourtVision, an augmented reality, livestreaming product for the Los Angeles (L.A.) Clippers that displays player tracking information, real-time stats, and explanatory animations for fans watching from desktops and mobile devices.</p><p>Second Spectrum's content-generation service runs on AWS. The process begins when Second Spectrum applies ML and computer vision techniques to its proprietary optical tracking system, which collects 3D spatial data from cameras at live sporting events, and then indexes the video in real time with metadata such as the identity and location of players, and the type of play in progress. Second Spectrum technology then references that real-time information against historical team and player data housed on AWS to rapidly generate stats, analytics, and its proprietary metrics like Quantified Shot Quality (expected effective field goal percentage) and Quantified Shooter Impact (impact of the player compared to league average), and uses AWS's highly scalable and performant infrastructure to construct 3D visualizations and augmented video to support live broadcasts. By expanding its relationship with AWS, Second Spectrum will begin working with Amazon SageMaker to explore ways of enhancing and tuning its ML models on years of video data captured in dozens of sports venues, enabling it to generate new predictive stats during live games.</p><p>Second Spectrum minimizes latency in its streaming services and offers fans a high-quality viewing experience by using AWS Elemental Live, a service for encoding live video and compressing it for viewing on multiple devices, and AWS Elemental MediaStore, a storage service optimized for media, to allow television producers and sports commentators to quickly access key moments from sports events. In addition, Second Spectrum plans to begin working with AWS Outposts –which extend AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility –in select sports arenas to understand how to further reduce latency in ML inferences, graphical processing, and live broadcast video delivery.</p><p>"Second Spectrum has created never-before-seen products and experiences for coaches, analysts, players, producers, storytellers, and fans everywhere. In addition, successful teams rely on our machine intelligence to find and share video, discover key insights, and make more informed decisions faster," said Rajiv Maheswaran, CEO of Second Spectrum. "Using AWS's breadth and depth of services, Second Spectrum will elevate its analytics and video processing capabilities to provide deeper insights into on-field and on-court action. We look forward to leveraging AWS to continue to innovate new and compelling content and give our customers and fans new and better ways to experience sports."</p><p>"AWS and Second Spectrum have a history of working together to deliver stats and visualizations that make the world's most competitive sports even more engaging for fans, insightful for coaches and players, and profitable for media partners," Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. "In expanding the relationship between AWS and Second Spectrum – bringing together a top provider of sports analytics with AWS's unmatched portfolio of services – we are adding new layers of depth to the spectator experience and helping teams uncover new ways to understand, evaluate, and elevate their performance."</p>

Amazon Announces First-Ever ‘Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards,' Awarding Seven All-Star Teachers $25,000 Prize Packages for Exemplar Work with Students Across the Country

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Amazon Announces First-Ever ‘Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards,' Awarding Seven All-Star Teachers $25,000 Prize Packages for Exemplar Work with Students Across the Country

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Awards recognize teachers and their schools inspiring students in underserved and underrepresented communities to build skills and careers in computer science and teachers with a focus on promoting diversity and inclusion in computer science All 2,400 Amazon Future Engineer high school and robotics teachers can be nominated and apply at AmazonFutureEngineer.com from February 13th to March 12th Seven award recipients will be chosen from across the country – two high school teachers from the Eastern U.S., two in the West, two in the Central region, and one Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grant teacher 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 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the first-ever Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards to honor and recognize seven all-star teachers and their schools working diligently to help students in underserved and underrepresented communities build life-changing skills to propel their futures in computer science–with prize packages valued at more than $25,000. The more than 2,400 teachers participating in the Amazon Future Engineer Program at over 2,100 schools nationwide can be nominated or apply at AmazonFutureEngineer.com from February 13th to March 12th. Amazon Future Engineer inspires, educates, and prepares hundreds of thousands of students from underserved and underrepresented communities each year in the field of computer science. Amazon Future Engineer teachers are the champions of the program – focusing especially on promoting diversity and inclusion in their computer science classrooms and beyond. Award recipients will be chosen based on a variety of criteria which includes their commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion within computer science education, a recommendation from a school administrator, and compelling, personal anecdotes about their school and students. Seven award recipients will be chosen from across the country – two high school teachers in the Eastern U.S., two in the West, two in the Central region, and one Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grant teacher. Scholarship America will judge applications and select the award recipients. "The more than 2,400 Amazon Future Engineer teachers go the extra mile to bring exciting and life-changing computer science education to their students. We are proud to be able to support the teachers' mission and the hundreds of thousands of hard-working students across the country who benefit," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "With this first round of awards, we are thrilled to recognize and celebrate these teachers as they make it possible for more students from a wide variety of backgrounds to have access to this increasingly important field." The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computer-science-related jobs available and only 400,000 computer science graduates with the skills to apply for those jobs. Computer science is the fastest-growing profession within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) field, but only 8% of STEM graduates earn a computer science degree, with a small percentage from underserved backgrounds. Students from underserved backgrounds are 8 to 10 times more likely to pursue college degrees in computer science if they have taken AP computer science in high school. Amazon Future Engineer funds Introductory and Advanced Placement computer science courses in more than 2,000 high schools serving more than 100,000 students in underserved and underrepresented communities. Amazon's funding also provides preparatory lessons, tutorials, professional development for teachers, fully sequenced and paced digital curriculum for students, and live online support every day of the week for both teachers and students. All educators and students participating in this program have access to a no-cost membership with AWS Educate, Amazon's global initiative to provide students comprehensive resources for building skills in cloud technology. Students will receive content to learn about cloud computing and access to the AWS cloud for their coding projects. The Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grant is currently in more than 150 schools, supporting thousands of students. This program provides a variety of elementary, middle, and high schools with robotics programming, which includes funding to launch FIRST robotics clubs along with teacher professional development, an additional $10,000 to expand access to computer science education at each school, which could include field trips, hardware, and technology upgrades, and access to a tour of an Amazon robotics fulfillment center. All Amazon Future Engineer teachers can apply to the Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards starting on February 13th through March 12th at AmazonFutureEngineer.com. School principals, administrators, peers, and students can also nominate Amazon Future Engineer teachers, encouraging them to apply. Amazon will notify award recipients later this year. The schools of award recipients will each receive a prize package valued at over $25,000, which may include a variety of needed donations to their classrooms, STEM toys and activities, school upgrades and enhancements and more. They will also receive an all-expenses paid trip to re:MARS, Amazon's AI event covering a diverse array of topics and themes related to Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space. Teachers with questions about the Awards can visit AmazonFutureEngineer.com. Launched in November 2018, 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 pursue careers in the fast-growing field of 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 – for example, in 2019, Amazon Future Engineer sponsored a music-based coding remix competition with Georgia Tech on their EarSketch platform. Amazon Future Engineer is part of Amazon's $50 million investment in computer science/STEM education. In addition, Amazon Future Engineer has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education across the country. 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 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. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200206005226/en/ Source: Amazon Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr

<p><em>Awards recognize teachers and their schools inspiring students in underserved and underrepresented communities to build skills and careers in computer science and teachers with a focus on promoting diversity and inclusion in computer science</em></p><p><em>All 2,400 Amazon Future Engineer high school and robotics teachers can be nominated and apply at AmazonFutureEngineer.com from February 13^th to March 12^th</em></p><p><em>Seven award recipients will be chosen from across the country – two high school teachers from the Eastern U.S., two in the West, two in the Central region, and one Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grant teacher</em></p><p><em>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</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the first-ever Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards to honor and recognize seven all-star teachers and their schools working diligently to help students in underserved and underrepresented communities build life-changing skills to propel their futures in computer science–with prize packages valued at more than $25,000. The more than 2,400 teachers participating in the Amazon Future Engineer Program at over 2,100 schools nationwide can be nominated or apply at AmazonFutureEngineer.com from February 13^th to March 12^th. Amazon Future Engineer inspires, educates, and prepares hundreds of thousands of students from underserved and underrepresented communities each year in the field of computer science. Amazon Future Engineer teachers are the champions of the program – focusing especially on promoting diversity and inclusion in their computer science classrooms and beyond.</p><p>Award recipients will be chosen based on a variety of criteria which includes their commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion within computer science education, a recommendation from a school administrator, and compelling, personal anecdotes about their school and students. Seven award recipients will be chosen from across the country – two high school teachers in the Eastern U.S., two in the West, two in the Central region, and one Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grant teacher. Scholarship America will judge applications and select the award recipients.</p><p>"The more than 2,400 Amazon Future Engineer teachers go the extra mile to bring exciting and life-changing computer science education to their students. We are proud to be able to support the teachers' mission and the hundreds of thousands of hard-working students across the country who benefit," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "With this first round of awards, we are thrilled to recognize and celebrate these teachers as they make it possible for more students from a wide variety of backgrounds to have access to this increasingly important field."</p><p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computer-science-related jobs available and only 400,000 computer science graduates with the skills to apply for those jobs. Computer science is the fastest-growing profession within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) field, but only 8% of STEM graduates earn a computer science degree, with a small percentage from underserved backgrounds. Students from underserved backgrounds are 8 to 10 times more likely to pursue college degrees in computer science if they have taken AP computer science in high school.</p><p>Amazon Future Engineer funds Introductory and Advanced Placement computer science courses in more than 2,000 high schools serving more than 100,000 students in underserved and underrepresented communities. Amazon's funding also provides preparatory lessons, tutorials, professional development for teachers, fully sequenced and paced digital curriculum for students, and live online support every day of the week for both teachers and students. All educators and students participating in this program have access to a no-cost membership with AWS Educate, Amazon's global initiative to provide students comprehensive resources for building skills in cloud technology. Students will receive content to learn about cloud computing and access to the AWS cloud for their coding projects.</p><p>The Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grant is currently in more than 150 schools, supporting thousands of students. This program provides a variety of elementary, middle, and high schools with robotics programming, which includes funding to launch <em>FIRST</em> robotics clubs along with teacher professional development, an additional $10,000 to expand access to computer science education at each school, which could include field trips, hardware, and technology upgrades, and access to a tour of an Amazon robotics fulfillment center.</p><p>All Amazon Future Engineer teachers can apply to the Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards starting on February 13^th through March 12^th at AmazonFutureEngineer.com. School principals, administrators, peers, and students can also nominate Amazon Future Engineer teachers, encouraging them to apply. Amazon will notify award recipients later this year. The schools of award recipients will each receive a prize package valued at over $25,000, which may include a variety of needed donations to their classrooms, STEM toys and activities, school upgrades and enhancements and more. They will also receive an all-expenses paid trip to re:MARS, Amazon's AI event covering a diverse array of topics and themes related to Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space. Teachers with questions about the Awards can visit AmazonFutureEngineer.com.</p><p>Launched in November 2018, 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 pursue careers in the fast-growing field of 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 – for example, in 2019, Amazon Future Engineer sponsored a music-based coding remix competition with Georgia Tech on their EarSketch platform. Amazon Future Engineer is part of Amazon's $50 million investment in computer science/STEM education. In addition, Amazon Future Engineer has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education across the country.</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 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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200206005226/en/</p><p>Source: Amazon</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p>

Amazon Announces First Iowa Fulfillment Center

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New 645,000 square-foot site in the city of Bondurant to create 1,000 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in the state of Iowa in the city of Bondurant. The site, which is anticipated to launch in late 2020, will create 1,000 new full-time jobs with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. "We are delighted to be opening our first Iowa fulfillment center in the city of Bondurant and look forward to creating 1,000 new, full-time jobs with Amazon's $15 minimum wage and industry-leading benefits," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "The site will help us continue to serve customers with great delivery options and we appreciate the strong support from local and state leaders." "Amazon's announcement is jet-fuel for Iowa's future. Amazon's investment in East Polk County, and the Bondurant community ushers in a new era of innovation, with lasting benefits for employees, our citizens, our local businesses, and our state. Bondurant's partnership with Amazon's fulfillment center will spark growth for Main Street entrepreneurs, builds on Iowa's high standard of living, and will improve hometown quality of life for families across Iowa," noted Senator Zach Nunn (R-Bondurant). At the new 645,000 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. "The city of Bondurant has seen tremendous growth and success over the last decade. Today's announcement by Amazon will add another chapter to our city's story. This is great news for the hundreds of Iowans who will be employed at the fulfillment center as well as the people of Bondurant," noted State Representative Brian Lohse. On top of Amazon's $15 minimum 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 with their growing families. "The city of Bondurant is excited to welcome and work with Amazon, who is creating more than 1,000 jobs in our region," said Curt Sullivan, Mayor of Bondurant. "Amazon's investment in our community will have significant impact throughout the greater Des Moines region. This project supports the City's vision to enhance economic development opportunities and diversify employment options. It also enables the City to upgrade the public infrastructure improvements around this site for the betterment of our community members. The investments and the jobs coming to Bondurant will enhance our ability to support future public improvements and spur additional economic development." "We are honored to be a part of the team that brought Amazon to Bondurant. Their investment in Eastern Polk county solidifies our area as a logistics hub. Amazon's leadership will create a positive impact for jobs and culture in Central Iowa," said Alex Lynch, Executive Director of East Polk Innovation Collaborative (EPIC). 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, retails stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. "We are excited that Amazon is establishing a highly advanced robotic sortation center in Bondurant. Amazon's project in Iowa further demonstrates the region is a logistics and technology hub and adds to the presence of other major tech companies with operations here," said Jay Byers, CEO of the Greater Des Moines Partnership. "This project shows that Iowa continues to be recognized nationally as a top place for businesses to relocate or expand." 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/20200206005551/en/ Source: Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr

<p><em>New 645,000</em> <em>square-foot site in the city of Bondurant to create 1,000 new, full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in the state of Iowa in the city of Bondurant. The site, which is anticipated to launch in late 2020, will create 1,000 new full-time jobs with industry leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one.</p><p>"We are delighted to be opening our first Iowa fulfillment center in the city of Bondurant and look forward to creating 1,000 new, full-time jobs with Amazon's $15 minimum wage and industry-leading benefits," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "The site will help us continue to serve customers with great delivery options and we appreciate the strong support from local and state leaders."</p><p>"Amazon's announcement is jet-fuel for Iowa's future. Amazon's investment in East Polk County, and the Bondurant community ushers in a new era of innovation, with lasting benefits for employees, our citizens, our local businesses, and our state. Bondurant's partnership with Amazon's fulfillment center will spark growth for Main Street entrepreneurs, builds on Iowa's high standard of living, and will improve hometown quality of life for families across Iowa," noted Senator Zach Nunn (R-Bondurant).</p><p>At the new 645,000 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>"The city of Bondurant has seen tremendous growth and success over the last decade. Today's announcement by Amazon will add another chapter to our city's story. This is great news for the hundreds of Iowans who will be employed at the fulfillment center as well as the people of Bondurant," noted State Representative Brian Lohse.</p><p>On top of Amazon's $15 minimum 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 with their growing families.</p><p>"The city of Bondurant is excited to welcome and work with Amazon, who is creating more than 1,000 jobs in our region," said Curt Sullivan, Mayor of Bondurant. "Amazon's investment in our community will have significant impact throughout the greater Des Moines region. This project supports the City's vision to enhance economic development opportunities and diversify employment options. It also enables the City to upgrade the public infrastructure improvements around this site for the betterment of our community members. The investments and the jobs coming to Bondurant will enhance our ability to support future public improvements and spur additional economic development."</p><p>"We are honored to be a part of the team that brought Amazon to Bondurant. Their investment in Eastern Polk county solidifies our area as a logistics hub. Amazon's leadership will create a positive impact for jobs and culture in Central Iowa," said Alex Lynch, Executive Director of East Polk Innovation Collaborative (EPIC).</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, retails stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>"We are excited that Amazon is establishing a highly advanced robotic sortation center in Bondurant. Amazon's project in Iowa further demonstrates the region is a logistics and technology hub and adds to the presence of other major tech companies with operations here," said Jay Byers, CEO of the Greater Des Moines Partnership. "This project shows that Iowa continues to be recognized nationally as a top place for businesses to relocate or expand."</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/20200206005551/en/</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p>

Carrier Selects AWS as its Preferred Cloud Provider to Drive Digital Transformation

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Global provider of HVAC, refrigeration, fire, security, and building automation technologies will rely on AWS to streamline operations, increase pace of innovation, and deliver on potential of more sustainable, more intelligent buildings SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Carrier, a leader in heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, refrigeration, fire, security, and building automation technologies, has chosen AWS as its preferred cloud provider. Carrier is moving up to 70 percent of its 4,000 servers and 996 applications away from legacy servers and databases to AWS, reducing IT infrastructure costs while also positioning the company to innovate and deliver more products and services to its customers around the world. In addition, Carrier will use AWS data warehouse, analytics, and machine learning (ML) services to identify efficiencies in its manufacturing processes and supply chains, and AWS Internet of Things (IoT) services to underpin a new line of intelligent, networked products and services for the home, workplace, and refrigerated logistics chain. Carrier, part of United Technologies (NYSE: UTX), expects to become a standalone public company in the first half of 2020 and plans to leverage AWS to drive its digital transformation and lead the next era of growth and expansion in the industry. Carrier plans to build its data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use AWS ML services to query and gain insights from real-time and historical data recorded across its manufacturing and supply chain lines. The gains in forecasting and efficiency derived from those insights will enable Carrier to more quickly develop new offerings and bring innovations to its customers. In addition, Carrier will use AWS's IoT services, such as AWS IoT Core, IoT Analytics, and IoT Events, to connect its products into intelligent systems, and AWS's ML and artificial intelligence services to allow those systems to learn from users' habits and adjust automatically to improve efficiency without sacrificing performance. For instance, a smart climate control system that processes data from linked sensors throughout an office tower could be used to identify occupancy patterns over different times and days of the week and then modulate temperature, humidity, and ventilation to provide a comfortable environment more aligned with demand. Moving forward, Carrier will build on AWS to deliver new software services that give customers the ability to monitor, optimize, report on, and forecast the performance and utilization of their IoT devices. "At Carrier, we are pushing to drive more innovation and connectivity to make buildings more sustainable, efficient, and comfortable," said Bobby George, Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Carrier. "Carrier's work with AWS is an integral part of our digital transformation, and AWS is the hyperscale platform on which we expect to turn connected product and ecosystem data into opportunities for segment growth, new market channels, and improved customer experiences." "For more than a century, Carrier products and services have shaped the indoor environments in which people around the world live and work," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS, Inc. "With AWS's unmatched set of cloud services, Carrier is positioned to leap ahead in its vision of transforming itself for the digital age, putting data to work to provide better customer experiences, and delivering agility that will enable it to remain a global leader in building technologies."

<p><em>Global provider of HVAC, refrigeration, fire, security, and building automation technologies will rely on AWS to streamline operations, increase pace of innovation, and deliver on potential of more sustainable, more intelligent buildings</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Carrier, a leader in heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, refrigeration, fire, security, and building automation technologies, has chosen AWS as its preferred cloud provider. Carrier is moving up to 70 percent of its 4,000 servers and 996 applications away from legacy servers and databases to AWS, reducing IT infrastructure costs while also positioning the company to innovate and deliver more products and services to its customers around the world. In addition, Carrier will use AWS data warehouse, analytics, and machine learning (ML) services to identify efficiencies in its manufacturing processes and supply chains, and AWS Internet of Things (IoT) services to underpin a new line of intelligent, networked products and services for the home, workplace, and refrigerated logistics chain. Carrier, part of United Technologies (NYSE: UTX), expects to become a standalone public company in the first half of 2020 and plans to leverage AWS to drive its digital transformation and lead the next era of growth and expansion in the industry.</p><p>Carrier plans to build its data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use AWS ML services to query and gain insights from real-time and historical data recorded across its manufacturing and supply chain lines. The gains in forecasting and efficiency derived from those insights will enable Carrier to more quickly develop new offerings and bring innovations to its customers. In addition, Carrier will use AWS's IoT services, such as AWS IoT Core, IoT Analytics, and IoT Events, to connect its products into intelligent systems, and AWS's ML and artificial intelligence services to allow those systems to learn from users' habits and adjust automatically to improve efficiency without sacrificing performance. For instance, a smart climate control system that processes data from linked sensors throughout an office tower could be used to identify occupancy patterns over different times and days of the week and then modulate temperature, humidity, and ventilation to provide a comfortable environment more aligned with demand. Moving forward, Carrier will build on AWS to deliver new software services that give customers the ability to monitor, optimize, report on, and forecast the performance and utilization of their IoT devices.</p><p>"At Carrier, we are pushing to drive more innovation and connectivity to make buildings more sustainable, efficient, and comfortable," said Bobby George, Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Carrier. "Carrier's work with AWS is an integral part of our digital transformation, and AWS is the hyperscale platform on which we expect to turn connected product and ecosystem data into opportunities for segment growth, new market channels, and improved customer experiences."</p><p>"For more than a century, Carrier products and services have shaped the indoor environments in which people around the world live and work," said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS, Inc. "With AWS's unmatched set of cloud services, Carrier is positioned to leap ahead in its vision of transforming itself for the digital age, putting data to work to provide better customer experiences, and delivering agility that will enable it to remain a global leader in building technologies."</p>

Amazon Expands in Santa Barbara and Announces Plans to Create 150 Tech Jobs in Central California

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New 48,000 square foot tech office is located downtown and has space for more than 275 employees With a range of positions already open, the company is looking to double its local workforce in the coming years to support local tech teams Amazon has already created over 45,000 jobs and invested more than $34.5 billion in California since 2010, including infrastructure and compensation SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced an expansion of the company's workforce in Santa Barbara, California and plans to create 150 additional tech jobs in the city. With plans to double its workforce, the company has opened a new 48,000 square foot office for Alexa tech teams located in downtown Santa Barbara. Amazon has created more than 45,000 full-time jobs in California since 2010 and invested over $34.5 billion in the state, including infrastructure and compensation to our employees. "We have been able to hire great talent in Santa Barbara and look forward to doubling our workforce here," said Kevin Davis, Site Lead of Amazon's Santa Barbara office. "Santa Barbara is an incredibly welcoming city with a high quality of life and innovative culture – and we're excited to create more jobs, and continue to invest locally in the community." "We welcome a new Amazon office in downtown Santa Barbara, adding to the mix of innovative, technology companies in our region. We encourage their employees to participate in community events and enjoy the amenities of local restaurants, shopping, and arts and culture," said Cathy Murillo, Mayor of Santa Barbara. The tech teams based in Santa Barbara help Alexa get even smarter every day, developing new ways to power Alexa's factual knowledge in devices such as Amazon Echo and Fire TV. The Santa Barbara-based teams work with scientists in Amazon's Development Center in Cambridge, England in this effort. Amazon currently has dozens of open roles located in Santa Barbara, including Software and Data Engineers, Knowledge Engineers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Associates, Product Managers, and more. The new Amazon office includes energy efficient appliances and sensors to reduce energy and water consumption, enhanced bike storage and lockers to encourage alternate modes of commuting, and open spaces to enhance collaboration and innovation between teams. Investing and creating jobs in California – and giving back in the Golden State Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 45,000 full-time jobs and invested over $34.5 billion in California, from customer fulfillment and cloud infrastructure to research facilities and compensation to our employees. The company estimates that these direct investments in the state contributed an additional $25.8 billion to California's economy and generated an additional 100,000 indirect jobs on top of the company's direct hires. There are also more than 338,000 small and medium-sized businesses, developers and authors growing their businesses with Amazon products and services in California. As a part of Amazon's ongoing commitment to the communities where employees live and work, the Amazon Future Engineer program — a childhood-to-career program to inspire, educate, and propel children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities to try computer science — serves millions of students each year across the country. In California specifically, Amazon Future Engineer is funding computer science classes in more than 170 California high schools, awarded 14 students from California the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship award, which includes $10,000 per year for the student to study computer science in college and a guaranteed, paid internship offer at Amazon, and more than 15 schools in California are part of the Amazon Future Engineer robotics grant program. Our employees in Santa Barbara have already dedicated hundreds of volunteer hours to support local charities, from local homeless shelter to food drives, such as Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, Alpha Resource Center, Hillside House, Organic Soup Kitchen, Toys for tots, Transition House and Domestic Violence Solutions. Amazon has been recognized on LinkedIn's Top Companies list for the past four years, ranked #2 in the Fortune 2017 and 2018 World's Most Admired Companies, and ranked #5 in Fast Company'sWorld's Most Innovative Companies. The company also receives a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. 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 these program are part of Upskilling 2025, a $700 million commitment by Amazon looking to support all employees in gaining critical skills to move into higher skill, better paying, technical or non-technical roles. 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/20200204005308/en/ Source: Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr

<p><em>New 48,000 square foot tech office is located downtown and has space for more than 275 employees</em></p><p><em>With a range of positions already open, the company is looking to double its local workforce in the coming years to support local tech teams</em></p><p><em>Amazon has already created over 45,000 jobs and invested more than $34.5 billion in California since 2010, including infrastructure and compensation</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced an expansion of the company's workforce in Santa Barbara, California and plans to create 150 additional tech jobs in the city. With plans to double its workforce, the company has opened a new 48,000 square foot office for Alexa tech teams located in downtown Santa Barbara. Amazon has created more than 45,000 full-time jobs in California since 2010 and invested over $34.5 billion in the state, including infrastructure and compensation to our employees.</p><p>"We have been able to hire great talent in Santa Barbara and look forward to doubling our workforce here," said Kevin Davis, Site Lead of Amazon's Santa Barbara office. "Santa Barbara is an incredibly welcoming city with a high quality of life and innovative culture – and we're excited to create more jobs, and continue to invest locally in the community."</p><p>"We welcome a new Amazon office in downtown Santa Barbara, adding to the mix of innovative, technology companies in our region. We encourage their employees to participate in community events and enjoy the amenities of local restaurants, shopping, and arts and culture," said Cathy Murillo, Mayor of Santa Barbara.</p><p>The tech teams based in Santa Barbara help Alexa get even smarter every day, developing new ways to power Alexa's factual knowledge in devices such as Amazon Echo and Fire TV. The Santa Barbara-based teams work with scientists in Amazon's Development Center in Cambridge, England in this effort. Amazon currently has dozens of open roles located in Santa Barbara, including Software and Data Engineers, Knowledge Engineers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Associates, Product Managers, and more.</p><p>The new Amazon office includes energy efficient appliances and sensors to reduce energy and water consumption, enhanced bike storage and lockers to encourage alternate modes of commuting, and open spaces to enhance collaboration and innovation between teams.</p><p>Investing and creating jobs in California – and giving back in the Golden State</p><p>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 45,000 full-time jobs and invested over $34.5 billion in California, from customer fulfillment and cloud infrastructure to research facilities and compensation to our employees. The company estimates that these direct investments in the state contributed an additional $25.8 billion to California's economy and generated an additional 100,000 indirect jobs on top of the company's direct hires. There are also more than 338,000 small and medium-sized businesses, developers and authors growing their businesses with Amazon products and services in California.</p><p>As a part of Amazon's ongoing commitment to the communities where employees live and work, the Amazon Future Engineer program — a childhood-to-career program to inspire, educate, and propel children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities to try computer science — serves millions of students each year across the country. In California specifically, Amazon Future Engineer is funding computer science classes in more than 170 California high schools, awarded 14 students from California the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship award, which includes $10,000 per year for the student to study computer science in college and a guaranteed, paid internship offer at Amazon, and more than 15 schools in California are part of the Amazon Future Engineer robotics grant program. Our employees in Santa Barbara have already dedicated hundreds of volunteer hours to support local charities, from local homeless shelter to food drives, such as Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, Alpha Resource Center, Hillside House, Organic Soup Kitchen, Toys for tots, Transition House and Domestic Violence Solutions.</p><p>Amazon has been recognized on LinkedIn's Top Companies list for the past four years, ranked #2 in the Fortune 2017 and 2018 World's Most Admired Companies, and ranked #5 in Fast Company'sWorld's Most Innovative Companies. The company also receives a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. 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 these program are part of Upskilling 2025, a $700 million commitment by Amazon looking to support all employees in gaining critical skills to move into higher skill, better paying, technical or non-technical roles.</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/20200204005308/en/</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p>

Amazon Invested $15 Billion and Launched 225 New Tools and Services in 2019 to Help Worldwide Third-Party Sellers – Mostly Small and Medium-Sized Businesses – Grow and Thrive

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American small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores had a record-breaking year, with more than 15,000 businesses surpassing $1 million in sales in 2019 – double-digit growth since last year Nearly 25,000 American small and medium-sized businesses surpassed $500,000 in sales in Amazon's stores in 2019 Third-party sellers sold more than 700 million items in Amazon's U.S. store that shipped with Prime Free One-Day Delivery or faster in 2019 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it launched more than 225 tools and services in 2019 to help third-party sellers – mostly small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) – succeed in its stores. The new tools and services were part of a more than $15 billion global investment in third-party seller success last year. As a result, American SMBs selling in Amazon's stores had a record-breaking year, with more than 15,000 businesses surpassing $1 million in sales and nearly 25,000 surpassing $500,000 in sales in 2019. Worldwide, nearly 225,000 SMBs surpassed $100,000 in sales in Amazon's stores in 2019, up from nearly 200,000 in 2018, and more than 140,000 in 2017. Amazon also invested billions of dollars in Prime Free One-Day Delivery last year. Driven by Prime Free One-Day Delivery, this was the largest one-year investment Amazon has ever made in Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). As a result, third-party sellers sold more than 700 million items in Amazon's U.S. store that shipped with Prime Free One-Day Delivery or faster in 2019. "More than half of the items sold in Amazon's stores are from small and medium-sized businesses, so our success is deeply tied to their success," said Nicholas Denissen, VP of Small Business at Amazon. "In many ways our store is a large collection of small businesses, and we love partnering with them to delight customers. With the investments we're making, we are giving small businesses around the globe powerful tools and technology to help them reach hundreds of millions of customers and build successful brands." Tools such as Target Inventory Levels, Inventory Performance Index, and the Inventory Performance Dashboard help sellers leverage Prime Free One-Day Delivery and reach more customers with their products. Additionally, Amazon launched many free tools within the Seller Central portal in 2019 to help sellers gain richer insights, protect their brands, grow their sales, and delight customers. Top tools and services launched in 2019 include: Brand Analytics and Brand Dashboard. Brand owner sellers enrolled in Brand Registry can use Brand Analytics and the Brand Dashboard to track product performance and access traffic and conversion recommendations.Amazon sellers viewed the metrics on their Brand Dashboard more than a million times in 2019. Manage Your Experiments. Manage Your Experiments letssellers run experiments like A/B testing to see how content on their listings performs. These learnings help sellers optimize product content and drive sales. New Product Optimizer. The New Product Optimizer provides recommendations and best practices to help brand owner sellers launch new products successfully. Growth Navigator. Growth Navigator gives sellers personalized guidance on additional selling programs and features to experiment with to accelerate growth in Amazon's stores. Each recommendation includes rich educational content, including Seller University videos, to help sellers learn more about the programs and features. Amazon Live features. U.S.-based sellers enrolled in Brand Registry can engage with customers in real-time and drive sales using interactive livestreams with Amazon Live. New in 2019, customers can now Follow brands that stream on Amazon Live, allowing sellers to connect directly with customers about their products and brands, and build an audience on Amazon. "In a recent survey of small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S., we found that 90% trust Amazon and SMBs selling in Amazon's stores are over two times more likely to see rapid sales and hiring growth than those who don't," said Shari Lava, Research Director, Small and Medium Business at IDC. "Strategic partners, like Amazon, can be invaluable to smaller firms looking to grow their online sales and the new growth figures Amazon released today certainly suggest this." Additional small and medium-sized business highlights include: It was a record-breaking holiday season for third-party sellers – mostly SMBs – with worldwide unit sales seeing double-digit year-over-year growth, surpassing a billion items sold in Amazon's stores. Sales by third-party sellers – mostly SMBs – in Amazon's stores far exceeded $2 billion on Prime Day 2019. Small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores have created an estimated 1.6 million jobs worldwide, with more than half in the U.S. Amazon Storefronts, Amazon's curated destination to shop exclusively from American SMBs, has surpassed 2.5 million products from nearly 30,000 U.S. companies. Amazon spends billions of dollars every year to help small and medium-sized businesses around the globe succeed in its online stores. In addition to infrastructure, personnel, tools and services, investments go towards programs such as Amazon Handmade, Amazon Launchpad, Amazon Business, Fulfillment by Amazon, Amazon Global Selling, Merch by Amazon, and Amazon Lending. To learn more about the millions of small and medium-sized businesses growing with Amazon, visit: aboutamazon.com/supporting-small-businesses. Learn more about new tools and services, here: https://services.amazon.com/brand-benefits/top-ten.html. 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/20200204005345/en/ Source: Amazon Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr

<p><em>American small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores had a record-breaking year, with more than 15,000 businesses surpassing $1 million in sales in 2019 – double-digit growth since last year</em></p><p><em>Nearly 25,000 American small and medium-sized businesses surpassed $500,000 in sales in Amazon's stores in 2019</em></p><p><em>Third-party sellers sold more than 700 million items in Amazon's U.S. store that shipped with Prime Free One-Day Delivery or faster in 2019</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it launched more than 225 tools and services in 2019 to help third-party sellers – mostly small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) – succeed in its stores. The new tools and services were part of a more than $15 billion global investment in third-party seller success last year. As a result, American SMBs selling in Amazon's stores had a record-breaking year, with more than 15,000 businesses surpassing $1 million in sales and nearly 25,000 surpassing $500,000 in sales in 2019. Worldwide, nearly 225,000 SMBs surpassed $100,000 in sales in Amazon's stores in 2019, up from nearly 200,000 in 2018, and more than 140,000 in 2017.</p><p>Amazon also invested billions of dollars in Prime Free One-Day Delivery last year. Driven by Prime Free One-Day Delivery, this was the largest one-year investment Amazon has ever made in Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). As a result, third-party sellers sold more than 700 million items in Amazon's U.S. store that shipped with Prime Free One-Day Delivery or faster in 2019.</p><p>"More than half of the items sold in Amazon's stores are from small and medium-sized businesses, so our success is deeply tied to their success," said Nicholas Denissen, VP of Small Business at Amazon. "In many ways our store is a large collection of small businesses, and we love partnering with them to delight customers. With the investments we're making, we are giving small businesses around the globe powerful tools and technology to help them reach hundreds of millions of customers and build successful brands."</p><p>Tools such as Target Inventory Levels, Inventory Performance Index, and the Inventory Performance Dashboard help sellers leverage Prime Free One-Day Delivery and reach more customers with their products. Additionally, Amazon launched many free tools within the Seller Central portal in 2019 to help sellers gain richer insights, protect their brands, grow their sales, and delight customers.</p><p>Top tools and services launched in 2019 include:</p><ul><li>Brand Analytics and Brand Dashboard. Brand owner sellers enrolled in Brand Registry can use Brand Analytics and the Brand Dashboard to track product performance and access traffic and conversion recommendations.Amazon sellers viewed the metrics on their Brand Dashboard more than a million times in 2019.</li><li>Manage Your Experiments. Manage Your Experiments letssellers run experiments like A/B testing to see how content on their listings performs. These learnings help sellers optimize product content and drive sales.</li><li>New Product Optimizer. The New Product Optimizer provides recommendations and best practices to help brand owner sellers launch new products successfully.</li><li>Growth Navigator. Growth Navigator gives sellers personalized guidance on additional selling programs and features to experiment with to accelerate growth in Amazon's stores. Each recommendation includes rich educational content, including Seller University videos, to help sellers learn more about the programs and features.</li><li>Amazon Live features. U.S.-based sellers enrolled in Brand Registry can engage with customers in real-time and drive sales using interactive livestreams with Amazon Live. New in 2019, customers can now Follow brands that stream on Amazon Live, allowing sellers to connect directly with customers about their products and brands, and build an audience on Amazon.</li></ul><p>"In a recent survey of small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S., we found that 90% trust Amazon and SMBs selling in Amazon's stores are over two times more likely to see rapid sales and hiring growth than those who don't," said Shari Lava, Research Director, Small and Medium Business at IDC. "Strategic partners, like Amazon, can be invaluable to smaller firms looking to grow their online sales and the new growth figures Amazon released today certainly suggest this."</p><p>Additional small and medium-sized business highlights include:</p><ul><li>It was a record-breaking holiday season for third-party sellers – mostly SMBs – with worldwide unit sales seeing double-digit year-over-year growth, surpassing a billion items sold in Amazon's stores.</li><li>Sales by third-party sellers – mostly SMBs – in Amazon's stores far exceeded $2 billion on Prime Day 2019.</li><li>Small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon's stores have created an estimated 1.6 million jobs worldwide, with more than half in the U.S.</li><li>Amazon Storefronts, Amazon's curated destination to shop exclusively from American SMBs, has surpassed 2.5 million products from nearly 30,000 U.S. companies.</li></ul><p>Amazon spends billions of dollars every year to help small and medium-sized businesses around the globe succeed in its online stores. In addition to infrastructure, personnel, tools and services, investments go towards programs such as Amazon Handmade, Amazon Launchpad, Amazon Business, Fulfillment by Amazon, Amazon Global Selling, Merch by Amazon, and Amazon Lending.</p><p>To learn more about the millions of small and medium-sized businesses growing with Amazon, visit: aboutamazon.com/supporting-small-businesses. Learn more about new tools and services, here: https://services.amazon.com/brand-benefits/top-ten.html.</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/20200204005345/en/</p><p>Source: Amazon</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p>

Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 21% to $87.4 Billion

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Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 21% to $87.4 Billion

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019. Operating cash flow increased 25% to $38.5 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $30.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2018. Free cash flow increased to $25.8 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $19.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2018. Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations increased to $16.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.6 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2018. Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations increased to $12.5 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $8.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2018. Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 512 million on December 31, 2019, compared with 507 million one year ago. Fourth Quarter 2019 Net sales increased 21% to $87.4 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $72.4 billion in fourth quarter 2018. Excluding the $120 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 21% compared with fourth quarter 2018. Operating income increased to $3.9 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with operating income of $3.8 billion in fourth quarter 2018. Net income increased to $3.3 billion in the fourth quarter, or $6.47 per diluted share, compared with net income of $3.0 billion, or $6.04 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2018. Full Year 2019 Net sales increased 20% to $280.5 billion, compared with $232.9 billion in 2018. Excluding the $2.6 billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the year, net sales increased 22% compared with 2018. Operating income increased to $14.5 billion, compared with operating income of $12.4 billion in 2018. Net income increased to $11.6 billion, or $23.01 per diluted share, compared with net income of $10.1 billion, or $20.14 per diluted share, in 2018. "Prime membership continues to get better for customers year after year. And customers are responding — more people joined Prime this quarter than ever before, and we now have over 150 million paid Prime members around the world," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "We've made Prime delivery faster — the number of items delivered to U.S. customers with Prime's free one-day and same-day delivery more than quadrupled this quarter compared to last year. Members now have free two-hour grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 2,000 U.S. cities and towns. Prime members watched double the hours of original movies and TV shows on Prime Video this quarter compared to last year, and Amazon Originals received a record 88 nominations and 26 wins at major awards shows. A huge thank you to teams across Amazon for their dedicated work to build, innovate, and deliver for customers this holiday." Highlights During this holiday season, customers ordered billions of items worldwide, including tens of millions of Amazon devices. Best-selling devices this holiday were Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, and Echo Show 5. Amazon announced that delivery through Amazon Fresh, which was previously $14.99 a month, is now a free benefit for Prime members. Members in more than 2,000 U.S. cities and towns can access free two-hour grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market. Grocery delivery orders from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market more than doubled in the fourth quarter year-over-year. Amazon announced Alexa integrations with new automotive brands at CES 2020. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is adding Alexa to the newest version of its infotainment system for cars, Uconnect 5.0, Lamborghini is adding Alexa to its Huracan Evo range, and Rivian is integrating Alexa into its electric vehicle lineup, including its upcoming fleet of 100,000 all-electric Amazon delivery vans. Alexa continues to get smarter and make customers' lives easier with new features, including medication reminders and voice refills, BuzzFeed Tasty recipe videos, the ability to pay utility bills, and purchase fuel at more than 11,500 Exxon and Mobil stations. Customers can also enjoy even more entertainment options for Alexa including content from Spotify Free, Spotify Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, SiriusXM's On Demand library, and Tubi TV. Additionally customers can say "Alexa, why did you do that?" to hear short explanations about her response. Amazon announced additional companies joined the Voice Interoperability Initiative, a program to ensure voice-enabled products provide customers with choice and flexibility through multiple, interoperable voice services. New participants include automakers such as Audi and Volkswagen; brands such as Acer, BBC, Hisense, TIM, TiVo, and Vestel; and technology brands Aspinity, Syntiant, and Vesper. Amazon announced there are now hundreds of millions of Alexa-enabled devices in customers' hands and customers interact with Alexa billions of times each week. Customers rely on Alexa to control smart home devices hundreds of millions of times each week, and can enjoy new features including the ability to pause or resume Wi-Fi access in their home using voice. Fire TV now has more than 40 million active users worldwide. Amazon announced the new Fire TV Edition at CES 2020, which includes a set of tools, features, and services that make it even easier for developers, operators, device makers, and manufacturers to integrate Fire TV into their products. BMW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles are among the first automakers to introduce Fire TV in their future vehicles. Fire TV announced the expansion of Fire TV Edition Smart TVs in India with Onida, adding to the growing list of Fire TV Edition Smart TVs and soundbars from brands like Toshiba, Insignia, and Grundig. Fire TV added more content for customers, including apps from Disney+, Apple TV, and Peloton. Amazon released several new products and services designed for kids, including the all-new Fire HD 10 Kids Edition, Kindle Kids Edition, Echo Glow, and expansion of FreeTime on Alexa to Echo Show devices — enabling kids to watch age-appropriate videos, make video calls with approved family and friends, take photos and add stickers, and more. Ring announced several new products and features, including additions to its smart lighting lineup and the all-new Control Center, a new, easy-to-use dashboard where customers can view and control privacy and security settings. Ring also launched Ring Alarm in the U.K., as well as the all-new Indoor Cam and Stick Up Cam in several countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Amazon Original series Hunters will premiere on Prime Video on February 21st. Produced by Academy Award-winner Jordan Peele and starring Academy Award-winner Al Pacino, Hunters follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City. Prime Video debuted several Original series and movies last quarter including The Report, The Aeronauts, The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Special, The Expanse, as well as the return of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, and the final season of The Man in the High Castle. Prime Video received eight Golden Globe Award nominations, with Fleabag winning Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy, as well as Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy, for Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Amazon Music has more than 55 million customers worldwide. Collectively, in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan, Amazon Music customers have grown nearly 50% year-over-year; and in newer marketplaces France, Italy, Spain, and Mexico, Amazon Music customers more than doubled in 2019. Additionally, Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers grew more than 50% in 2019. Amazon announced that free returns can now be made at more than 18,000 drop-off locations in the U.S., including Amazon Books and Amazon 4-star stores, Amazon Hub locations, Kohl's, select Whole Foods Market stores, UPS, and more. In support of Amazon's commitment to sustainability, more than 5,800 locations now offer label-free and box-free returns, limiting the amount of packaging used. Since launching Prime in September, Brazil has seen the fastest growth in paid Prime members in Amazon's history. Selection on amazon.com.br continues to expand and now includes millions of items, and in December the country opened its fourth fulfillment center to support growth. Additionally, Prime Video announced four new original productions for 2020, and will debut All or Nothing: Brazil National Football Team on January 31st. Amazon pledged to invest $1 billion to help digitize traders and micro, small, and medium-sized businesses (MSMBs) across India, with the goal of bringing more than 10 million MSMBs online by 2025. Today, there are more than 550,000 sellers on the Amazon India marketplace, more than 60,000 Indian manufacturers and brands are exporting their "Make in India" products to customers worldwide on Amazon, and we expect our new $1 billion investment to enable $10 billion in cumulative Indian exports by 2025. Since launching amazon.in in 2013, Amazon has created more than 700,000 direct and indirect jobs in India. In January, Amazon announced plans to create an additional one million jobs in India by 2025, with continued investments in technology, infrastructure, and logistics. Since 2014, Amazon has grown its employee base more than four times, and last year inaugurated its new campus building in Hyderabad — Amazon's first fully-owned campus outside the United States and the largest building globally in terms of employees and space. Amazon India announced it will have 10,000 electric vehicles in its delivery fleet by 2025. This investment is part of Amazon's recent co-founding of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early by achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040. Amazon Business launched in Canada and now serves commercial and public sector organizations of all sizes in Canada and eight other countries, including the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and India. Amazon Business also launched Business Prime in Canada. Business Prime offers member-only benefits to help save time and money, in addition to unlimited fast, free shipping on eligible items for every member on the account. Amazon Fashion produced its first holiday catalog featuring influencers Louise Roe, Ayana Iman Gibbs, Tylynn Nguyen, and their families in our favorite holiday looks. Additionally, Amazon Fashion and Amazon Home partnered with Refinery29 to open a holiday pop-up shop in New York City showcasing selection for the whole family. Amazon Fashion continues to increase its assortment with the introduction of new brands, such as Tissot, Swatch, and Vineyard Vines, as well as the expansion of the Amazon brand, Goodthreads, which now offers women's styles. In 2019, authors earned more than $300 million from the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select Global Fund, totaling more than $1.1 billion since the launch of Kindle Unlimited. Millions of independent authors have self-published millions of books through KDP since launching the service in 2007. Additionally, thousands of independent authors earned more than $50,000, with more than a thousand surpassing $100,000 in royalties in 2019 through KDP. Independent third-party sellers — mostly small and medium-sized businesses — sold more than a billion items during the holiday season, including more than 100 million items shipped with Prime Free One-Day Delivery. Amazon also announced nine winners of the Small Business Spotlight Awards in the U.K., Germany, and the U.S., including Small Business of the Year winners Gamely Games in the U.K., Snocks in Germany, and nutpods in the U.S. Amazon was recognized by the Drucker Institute as the #1 Best-Managed Company of 2019, based on a study that measures corporate performance across customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility, and financial strength. Amazon received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's 2020 Corporate Equality Index and the designation of being a "Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality." Employers earning top ratings took steps to ensure greater equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) workers and their families in the form of comprehensive policies, benefits, and practices. Amazon announced six new renewable energy projects across the U.S. and Europe that will support Amazon's commitment to The Climate Pledge to be net zero carbon by 2040 and supply renewable energy for the company's fulfillment network and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers. To date, Amazon has launched over 70 renewable energy projects that will provide over 1,900 MW of renewable capacity and are projected to deliver more than 5.3 million MWh of renewable energy annually. This holiday season, Amazon surprised hundreds of charities across the U.S. by donating hundreds of thousands of items from their AmazonSmile Charity Lists, including more than 5,000 blankets, sheets, and pillows; more than 30,000 toys and educational items for kids; more than 40,000 apparel items; and more than 60,000 pantry items. AWS announced several significant new customer commitments and migrations during the quarter spanning major industries, including finance with Western Union, FINRA CAT, LLC, a subsidiary of FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), and Klarna, a leading global payments provider and bank; media with Fox Corporation, and ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, Europe's leading satellite and cable broadcaster; sports with a new player health and safety initiative with the NFL, the Seattle Seahawks, Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league, and Formula One Group; energy with BP; pharmaceuticals with Novartis; and hospitality with Best Western Hotels & Resorts, among others. AWS announced three Arm-based instances (M6g, C6g, R6g) powered by AWS's new Graviton2 processors, that deliver up to 40% better price and performance than current x86 processor-based instances. These new Arm-based instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, enabling faster innovation and enhanced security for customers at a much lower cost. AWS announced the general availability of AWS Outposts, a fully-managed service that extends AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. AWS Outposts offers customers the same AWS hardware infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to build and run applications on premises and in the cloud for a truly consistent hybrid experience. AWS compute, storage, database, and other services run locally on Outposts, and customers can access the full range of AWS services available in the region to build, manage, and scale on-premises applications using familiar AWS services and tools. AWS announced AWS Local Zones, a new type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists today. With the opening of the first AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles (LA), developers will have the ability to deploy applications that require single-digit millisecond latencies to end-users also in LA. AWS Local Zone customers will be able to use their compute, storage, database, and other select services locally in LA, while also being able to seamlessly connect back to the rest of their workloads running in the AWS U.S. West (Oregon) Region or other AWS Regions a customer may be using. AWS announced AWS Wavelength, which enables developers to build applications that deliver single-digit millisecond latencies to mobile devices and users by deploying AWS compute and storage at the edge of the 5G network. With AWS Wavelength, developers can serve use cases that require ultra-low latency like machine learning inference at the edge, autonomous industrial equipment, smart cars and cities, Internet of Things (IoT), and Augmented and Virtual Reality. AWS is partnering with Verizon on making AWS Wavelength available across the U.S., and is collaborating with other leading telecommunications companies, including Vodafone and SK Telecom, to launch AWS Wavelength across Europe and South Korea in 2020, with more global partners coming soon. AWS announced six new capabilities for Amazon SageMaker, a fully-managed service that removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process. Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment for machine learning that makes it easier for developers to build, debug, train, deploy, monitor, and operate custom machine learning models; Amazon SageMaker Notebooks allows developers to spin up elastic machine learning notebooks in seconds, and automates the process of sharing notebooks with a single-click; Amazon SageMaker Experiments helps developers visualize and compare machine learning model iterations, training parameters, and outcomes; Amazon SageMaker Autopilot allows developers to submit simple data in CSV files and have machine learning models automatically generated, with full visibility to how the models are created so developers can evolve them over time; Amazon SageMaker Debugger provides real-time monitoring for machine learning models to improve predictive accuracy, reduce training times, and facilitate greater explainability; and Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor detects concept drift to discover when the performance of a model running in production begins to deviate from the original trained model. AWS announced five new artificial intelligence (AI) services designed to put machine learning in the hands of more developers — with no machine learning experience required. Amazon Kendra reinvents enterprise search by using natural language processing and other machine learning techniques to unite multiple data silos inside an enterprise and consistently provide high-quality results to common queries instead of a random list of links in response to keyword queries; Amazon CodeGuru helps software developers automate code reviews and identify an application's most expensive lines of code; Amazon Fraud Detector helps businesses identify online identity and payment fraud in real time, based on the same technology developed for Amazon.com; Amazon Transcribe Medical offers healthcare providers highly accurate, real-time speech-to-text transcription so they can focus on patient care; and Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I) helps developers validate machine learning predictions through human confirmation. AWS announced a set of machine learning-powered analytics capabilities for Amazon Connect called Contact Lens, which make it easier for businesses to identify customer issues and trends, search call and chat transcripts, and improve agent performance. Amazon Connect offers customers a fully-managed cloud contact center service. Now with Contact Lens, Amazon Connect customers have the ability to understand the sentiment, trends, and compliance of their own customer conversations to improve the experience and identify crucial feedback, with no machine learning experience required. AWS announced significant new analytics capabilities in Redshift that provide an order of magnitude better query performance, deliver greater flexibility, and help customers embrace data at scale. Amazon Redshift RA3 instances allow customers to optimize their data warehouse by scaling and paying for compute and storage independently, so they can choose the number of instances they need based on their data warehousing workload's performance requirements, and only pay for the managed storage that they use; AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift is a new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that brings compute to the storage layer, so data doesn't have to move back and forth between the two, giving customers up to 10x better query performance than other cloud data warehouse provider; Amazon Redshift Data Lake Export allows customers to export data directly from Amazon Redshift to Amazon S3 in an open data format optimized for analytics; and Amazon Redshift Federated Query lets customers analyze data across their Amazon Redshift data warehouse, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Data Lake, and Amazon RDS and Aurora databases. AWS announced a new innovative highly-scalable, cost-saving warm storage tier for Amazon Elasticsearch Service called UltraWarm that makes it easier for customers to retain any amount of current and historical log data at up to one-tenth the current cost and is 80% less than the cost of warm-tier storage from other managed Elasticsearch offerings. AWS announced Amazon Managed (Apache) Cassandra Service, a scalable, highly available, and fully-managed database service that supports Cassandra workloads. Developers can use the same Cassandra application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and tools as they do today to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon Managed Cassandra Service without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. And, because it's serverless, it also removes the need to provision, configure, and operate large Cassandra clusters, manually add or remove nodes, and rebalance partitions as traffic scales up or down. AWS announced three new services and capabilities that make it easier for customers to build and operate securely. Amazon Detective analyzes trillions of data points, using machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to make it easier to visualize and conduct faster and more efficient security investigations; AWS IAM Access Analyzer makes it simple for security teams and administrators to audit resource policies for unintended access by analyzing hundreds or even thousands of policies across a customer's environment in seconds, and delivering detailed findings about resources that are accessible from outside the account; and AWS Nitro Enclaves is a new Amazon EC2 capability that makes it easy for customers in healthcare, financial services, energy, media and entertainment, and other data-intensive industries to process highly sensitive data, like personally identifiable information and intellectual property on their compute instances, particularly from internal threats within their own accounts. AWS announced that customers can start using AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), making it easier for customers to run Kubernetes applications on AWS. AWS Fargate, which provides serverless computing for containers, has substantially changed the way developers manage and deploy their containers. Launched two years ago to work with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Fargate has been broadly requested by Kubernetes customers. Now, with AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS, customers can run Kubernetes-based applications on AWS without the need to manage servers and clusters. AWS announced three key initiatives as a part of its plans to help advance quantum computing technologies. Amazon Braket is a new, fully-managed AWS service that enables scientists, researchers, and developers to begin experimenting with computers from quantum hardware providers (including D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti) in a single place; AWS Center for Quantum Computing will bring together quantum computing experts from Amazon, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and other top academic research institutions to collaborate on the research and development of new quantum computing technologies; and the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab connects customers with quantum computing experts from Amazon and its partners to develop internal expertise aimed at identifying practical uses of quantum computing, and accelerating the development of quantum applications with meaningful impact. Financial Guidance The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of January 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. First Quarter 2020 Guidance Net sales are expected to be between $69.0 billion and $73.0 billion, or to grow between 16% and 22% compared with first quarter 2019. This guidance anticipates a favorable impact of approximately 5 basis points from foreign exchange rates. Operating income is expected to be between $3.0 billion and $4.2 billion, compared with $4.4 billion in first quarter 2019. This guidance includes approximately $800 million lower depreciation expense due to an increase in the estimated useful life of our servers beginning on January 1, 2020. 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. 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, the global economic climate amplifies 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. Our investor relations website is amazon.com/ir and we encourage investors to use it as a way of easily finding information about us. We promptly make available on this website, free of charge, the reports that we file or furnish with the SEC, corporate governance information (including our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics), and select press releases, which may contain material information about us, and you may subscribe to be notified of new information posted to this site. 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. AMAZON.COM, INC. Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (in millions) (unaudited) Three Months EndedDecember 31, Twelve Months EndedDecember 31, 2018 2019 2018 2019 CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, BEGINNING OF PERIOD $ 21,032 $ 23,554 $ 21,856 $ 32,173 OPERATING ACTIVITIES: Net income 3,027 3,268 10,073 11,588 Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash from operating activities: Depreciation and amortization of property and equipment and capitalized content costs, operating lease assets, and other 4,262 6,170 15,341 21,789 Stock-based compensation 1,417 1,840 5,418 6,864 Other operating expense (income), net 72 50 274 164 Other expense (income), net 197 (494 ) 219 (249 ) Deferred income taxes 173 185 441 796 Changes in operating assets and liabilities: Inventories (1,350 ) (1,516 ) (1,314 ) (3,278 ) Accounts receivable, net and other (1,395 ) (3,906 ) (4,615 ) (7,681 ) Accounts payable 6,882 10,683 3,263 8,193 Accrued expenses and other 2,665 2,894 472 (1,383 ) Unearned revenue 528 485 1,151 1,711 Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 16,478 19,659 30,723 38,514 INVESTING ACTIVITIES: Purchases of property and equipment (3,733 ) (5,312 ) (13,427 ) (16,861 ) Proceeds from property and equipment sales and incentives 614 1,371 2,104 4,172 Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and other (331 ) (777 ) (2,186 ) (2,461 ) Sales and maturities of marketable securities 1,938 7,626 8,240 22,681 Purchases of marketable securities (2,060 ) (6,444 ) (7,100 ) (31,812 ) Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities (3,572 ) (3,536 ) (12,369 ) (24,281 ) FINANCING ACTIVITIES: Proceeds from long-term debt and other 406 1,098 768 2,273 Repayments of long-term debt and other (134 ) (1,865 ) (668 ) (2,684 ) Principal repayments of finance leases (1,906 ) (2,780 ) (7,449 ) (9,628 ) Principal repayments of financing obligations (126 ) (24 ) (337 ) (27 ) Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities (1,760 ) (3,571 ) (7,686 ) (10,066 ) Foreign currency effect on cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash (5 ) 304 (351 ) 70 Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash 11,141 12,856 10,317 4,237 CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, END OF PERIOD $ 32,173 $ 36,410 $ 32,173 $ 36,410 SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION: Cash paid for interest on long-term debt $ 121 $ 155 $ 854 $ 875 Cash paid for operating leases — 941 — 3,361 Cash paid for interest on finance leases 103 166 381 647 Cash paid for interest on financing obligations 53 19 194 39 Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds 171 188 1,184 881 Assets acquired under operating leases — 2,476 — 7,870 Property and equipment acquired under finance leases 3,680 4,182 10,615 13,723 Property and equipment acquired under build-to-suit arrangements 1,143 252 3,641 1,362 ______________________________ On January 1, 2019, we adopted accounting guidance amending the accounting for leases, which did not have a material impact on our 2019 operating results. Prior period amounts were not retrospectively adjusted. Under this new guidance, leases we previously referred to as "capital leases" are now referred to as "finance leases." Leases we previously referred to as "finance leases" are now referred to as "financing obligations." AMAZON.COM, INC. Consolidated Statements of Operations (in millions, except per share data) (unaudited) Three Months EndedDecember 31, Twelve Months EndedDecember 31, 2018 2019 2018 2019 Net product sales $ 44,700 $ 50,542 $ 141,915 $ 160,408 Net service sales 27,683 36,895 90,972 120,114 Total net sales 72,383 87,437 232,887 280,522 Operating expenses: Cost of sales 44,786 53,977 139,156 165,536 Fulfillment 10,028 12,192 34,027 40,232 Technology and content 7,669 9,740 28,837 35,931 Marketing 4,911 6,172 13,814 18,878 General and administrative 1,117 1,412 4,336 5,203 Other operating expense (income), net 86 65 296 201 Total operating expenses 68,597 83,558 220,466 265,981 Operating income 3,786 3,879 12,421 14,541 Interest income 150 211 440 832 Interest expense (387 ) (455 ) (1,417 ) (1,600 ) Other income (expense), net (199 ) 418 (183 ) 203 Total non-operating income (expense) (436 ) 174 (1,160 ) (565 ) Income before income taxes 3,350 4,053 11,261 13,976 Provision for income taxes (327 ) (786 ) (1,197 ) (2,374 ) Equity-method investment activity, net of tax 4 1 9 (14 ) Net income $ 3,027 $ 3,268 $ 10,073 $ 11,588 Basic earnings per share $ 6.18 $ 6.58 $ 20.68 $ 23.46 Diluted earnings per share $ 6.04 $ 6.47 $ 20.14 $ 23.01 Weighted-average shares used in computation of earnings per share: Basic 490 496 487 494 Diluted 501 505 500 504 AMAZON.COM, INC. Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (in millions) (unaudited) Three Months EndedDecember 31, Twelve Months EndedDecember 31, 2018 2019 2018 2019 Net income $ 3,027 $ 3,268 $ 10,073 $ 11,588 Other comprehensive income (loss): Net change in foreign currency translation adjustments: Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax of $(13), $1, $6, and $(5) (25 ) 447 (538 ) 78 Reclassification adjustment for foreign currency translation included in "Other operating expense (income), net," net of tax of $0, $0, $0, and $29 — — — (108 ) Net foreign currency translation adjustments (25 ) 447 (538 ) (30 ) Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities: Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax of $0, $1, $0, and $(12) 5 (2 ) (17 ) 83 Reclassification adjustment for losses (gains) included in "Other income (expense), net," net of tax of $0, $0, $0, and $0 2 (2 ) 8 (4 ) Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities 7 (4 ) (9 ) 79 Total other comprehensive income (loss) (18 ) 443 (547 ) 49 Comprehensive income $ 3,009 $ 3,711 $ 9,526 $ 11,637 AMAZON.COM, INC. Segment Information (in millions) (unaudited) Three Months EndedDecember 31, Twelve Months EndedDecember 31, 2018 2019 2018 2019 North America Net sales $ 44,124 $ 53,670 $ 141,366 $ 170,773 Operating expenses 41,873 51,770 134,099 163,740 Operating income $ 2,251 $ 1,900 $ 7,267 $ 7,033 International Net sales $ 20,829 $ 23,813 $ 65,866 $ 74,723 Operating expenses 21,471 24,430 68,008 76,416 Operating income (loss) $ (642 ) $ (617 ) $ (2,142 ) $ (1,693 ) AWS Net sales $ 7,430 $ 9,954 $ 25,655 $ 35,026 Operating expenses 5,253 7,358 18,359 25,825 Operating income $ 2,177 $ 2,596 $ 7,296 $ 9,201 Consolidated Net sales $ 72,383 $ 87,437 $ 232,887 $ 280,522 Operating expenses 68,597 83,558 220,466 265,981 Operating income 3,786 3,879 12,421 14,541 Total non-operating income (expense) (436 ) 174 (1,160 ) (565 ) Provision for income taxes (327 ) (786 ) (1,197 ) (2,374 ) Equity-method investment activity, net of tax 4 1 9 (14 ) Net income $ 3,027 $ 3,268 $ 10,073 $ 11,588 Segment Highlights: Y/Y net sales growth: North America 18 % 22 % 33 % 21 % International 15 14 21 13 AWS 45 34 47 37 Consolidated 20 21 31 20 Net sales mix: North America 61 % 61 % 61 % 61 % International 29 27 28 27 AWS 10 12 11 12 Consolidated 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % AMAZON.COM, INC. Consolidated Balance Sheets (in millions, except per share data) December 31, 2018 December 31, 2019 (unaudited) ASSETS Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $ 31,750 $ 36,092 Marketable securities 9,500 18,929 Inventories 17,174 20,497 Accounts receivable, net and other 16,677 20,816 Total current assets 75,101 96,334 Property and equipment, net 61,797 72,705 Operating leases — 25,141 Goodwill 14,548 14,754 Other assets 11,202 16,314 Total assets $ 162,648 $ 225,248 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY Current liabilities: Accounts payable $ 38,192 $ 47,183 Accrued expenses and other 23,663 32,439 Unearned revenue 6,536 8,190 Total current liabilities 68,391 87,812 Long-term lease liabilities 9,650 39,791 Long-term debt 23,495 23,414 Other long-term liabilities 17,563 12,171 Commitments and contingencies Stockholders' equity: Preferred stock, $0.01 par value: Authorized shares — 500 Issued and outstanding shares — none — — Common stock, $0.01 par value: Authorized shares — 5,000 Issued shares — 514 and 521 Outstanding shares — 491 and 498 5 5 Treasury stock, at cost (1,837 ) (1,837 ) Additional paid-in capital 26,791 33,658 Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (1,035 ) (986 ) Retained earnings 19,625 31,220 Total stockholders' equity 43,549 62,060 Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 162,648 $ 225,248 AMAZON.COM, INC. Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics (in millions, except per share data) (unaudited) Q3 2018 Q4 2018 Q1 2019 Q2 2019 Q3 2019 Q4 2019 Y/Y % Change Cash Flows and Shares Operating cash flow -- trailing twelve months (TTM) $ 26,604 $ 30,723 $ 34,360 $ 36,029 $ 35,332 $ 38,514 25 % Operating cash flow -- TTM Y/Y growth 57 % 67 % 89 % 65 % 33 % 25 % N/A Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives -- TTM $ 11,239 $ 11,323 $ 11,316 $ 11,011 $ 11,868 $ 12,689 12 % Principal repayments of finance leases -- TTM (1) $ 7,016 $ 7,449 $ 7,649 $ 8,693 $ 8,754 $ 9,628 29 % Principal repayments of financing obligations -- TTM (1) $ 277 $ 337 $ 266 $ 211 $ 129 $ 27 (92 )% Equipment acquired under finance leases -- TTM (1) (2) $ 9,704 $ 10,615 $ 10,909 $ 11,656 $ 12,580 $ 12,916 22 % Principal repayments of all other finance leases -- TTM (1) (3) $ — $ — $ 76 $ 176 $ 302 $ 392 N/A Free cash flow -- TTM (4) $ 15,365 $ 19,400 $ 23,044 $ 25,018 $ 23,464 $ 25,825 33 % Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations -- TTM (1) (5) $ 8,072 $ 11,614 $ 15,129 $ 16,114 $ 14,581 $ 16,170 39 % Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations -- TTM (1) (6) $ 5,384 $ 8,448 $ 11,793 $ 12,975 $ 10,453 $ 12,490 48 % Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding 507 507 507 510 511 512 1 % Common shares outstanding 489 491 492 494 495 498 1 % Stock-based awards outstanding 18 16 15 16 16 14 (10 )% Stock-based awards outstanding -- % of common shares outstanding 3.7 % 3.2 % 3.0 % 3.3 % 3.2 % 2.9 % N/A Results of Operations Worldwide (WW) net sales $ 56,576 $ 72,383 $ 59,700 $ 63,404 $ 69,981 $ 87,437 21 % WW net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 30 % 21 % 19 % 21 % 25 % 21 % N/A WW net sales -- TTM $ 220,958 $ 232,887 $ 241,546 $ 252,064 $ 265,469 $ 280,522 20 % WW net sales -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 35 % 30 % 26 % 23 % 22 % 22 % N/A Operating income $ 3,724 $ 3,786 $ 4,420 $ 3,084 $ 3,157 $ 3,879 2 % F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ 90 $ 123 $ 84 $ 58 $ 22 $ 16 N/A Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X 948 % 72 % 125 % 1 % (16 )% 2 % N/A Operating margin -- % of WW net sales 6.6 % 5.2 % 7.4 % 4.9 % 4.5 % 4.4 % N/A Operating income -- TTM $ 10,762 $ 12,421 $ 14,914 $ 15,014 $ 14,448 $ 14,541 17 % Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X 231 % 197 % 190 % 99 % 32 % 16 % N/A Operating margin -- TTM % of WW net sales 4.9 % 5.3 % 6.2 % 6.0 % 5.4 % 5.2 % N/A Net income $ 2,883 $ 3,027 $ 3,561 $ 2,625 $ 2,134 $ 3,268 8 % Net income per diluted share $ 5.75 $ 6.04 $ 7.09 $ 5.22 $ 4.23 $ 6.47 7 % Net income -- TTM $ 8,902 $ 10,073 $ 12,005 $ 12,096 $ 11,347 $ 11,588 15 % Net income per diluted share -- TTM $ 17.85 $ 20.14 $ 23.96 $ 24.08 $ 22.57 $ 23.01 14 % ______________________________ (1) On January 1, 2019, we adopted accounting guidance amending the accounting for leases, which did not have a material impact on our 2019 operating results. Prior period amounts were not retrospectively adjusted. Under this new guidance, leases we previously referred to as "capital leases" are now referred to as "finance leases." Leases we previously referred to as "finance leases" are now referred to as "financing obligations." (2) For the twelve months ended December 31, 2019, this amount relates to equipment included in "Property and equipment acquired under finance leases" of $13,723 million. Amounts for periods prior to 2019 have not been retrospectively adjusted. (3) For the twelve months ended December 31, 2019, this amount relates to property included in "Principal repayments of finance leases" of $9,628 million. Amounts for periods prior to 2019 have not been retrospectively adjusted. (4) Free cash flow is cash flow from operations reduced by "Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives." (5) Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations is free cash flow reduced by "Principal repayments of finance leases" and "Principal repayments of financing obligations." (6) Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations is free cash flow reduced by equipment acquired under finance leases, which is included in "Property and equipment acquired under finance leases," principal repayments of all other finance lease liabilities, which is included in "Principal repayments of finance leases," and "Principal repayments of financing obligations." AMAZON.COM, INC. Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics (in millions) (unaudited) Q3 2018 Q4 2018 Q1 2019 Q2 2019 Q3 2019 Q4 2019 Y/Y % Change Segments North America Segment: Net sales $ 34,348 $ 44,124 $ 35,812 $ 38,653 $ 42,638 $ 53,670 22 % Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 35 % 18 % 17 % 20 % 24 % 22 % N/A Net sales -- TTM $ 134,545 $ 141,366 $ 146,453 $ 152,938 $ 161,228 $ 170,773 21 % Operating income $ 2,032 $ 2,251 $ 2,287 $ 1,564 $ 1,282 $ 1,900 (16 )% F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ 9 $ 17 $ 13 $ 7 $ 6 $ (3 ) N/A Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X N/A 32 % 98 % (15 )% (37 )% (16 )% N/A Operating margin -- % of North America net sales 5.9 % 5.1 % 6.4 % 4.0 % 3.0 % 3.5 % N/A Operating income -- TTM $ 6,708 $ 7,267 $ 8,405 $ 8,134 $ 7,384 $ 7,033 (3 )% Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales 5.0 % 5.1 % 5.7 % 5.3 % 4.6 % 4.1 % N/A International Segment: Net sales $ 15,549 $ 20,829 $ 16,192 $ 16,370 $ 18,348 $ 23,813 14 % Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 15 % 19 % 16 % 17 % 21 % 15 % N/A Net sales -- TTM $ 63,074 $ 65,866 $ 67,184 $ 68,941 $ 71,740 $ 74,723 13 % Operating income (loss) $ (385 ) $ (642 ) $ (90 ) $ (601 ) $ (386 ) $ (617 ) (4 )% F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ 47 $ 55 $ (39 ) $ (36 ) $ (34 ) $ (7 ) N/A Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X (54 )% (24 )% (92 )% 15 % (8 )% (5 )% N/A Operating margin -- % of International net sales (2.5 )% (3.1 )% (1.0 )% (3.7 )% (2.1 )% (2.6 )% N/A Operating income (loss) -- TTM $ (2,420 ) $ (2,142 ) $ (1,610 ) $ (1,718 ) $ (1,718 ) $ (1,693 ) (21 )% Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales (3.8 )% (3.3 )% (2.4 )% (2.5 )% (2.4 )% (2.3 )% N/A AWS Segment: Net sales $ 6,679 $ 7,430 $ 7,696 $ 8,381 $ 8,995 $ 9,954 34 % Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 46 % 46 % 42 % 37 % 35 % 34 % N/A Net sales -- TTM $ 23,339 $ 25,655 $ 27,909 $ 30,185 $ 32,501 $ 35,026 37 % Operating income $ 2,077 $ 2,177 $ 2,223 $ 2,121 $ 2,261 $ 2,596 19 % F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ 34 $ 51 $ 110 $ 87 $ 50 $ 26 N/A Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 75 % 57 % 51 % 24 % 6 % 18 % N/A Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales 31.1 % 29.3 % 28.9 % 25.3 % 25.1 % 26.1 % N/A Operating income -- TTM $ 6,473 $ 7,296 $ 8,119 $ 8,598 $ 8,782 $ 9,201 26 % Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales 27.7 % 28.4 % 29.1 % 28.5 % 27.0 % 26.3 % N/A AMAZON.COM, INC. Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics (in millions, except employee data) (unaudited) Q3 2018 Q4 2018 Q1 2019 Q2 2019 Q3 2019 Q4 2019 Y/Y % Change Net Sales Online stores (1) $ 29,061 $ 39,822 $ 29,498 $ 31,053 $ 35,039 $ 45,657 15 % Online stores -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 11 % 14 % 12 % 16 % 22 % 15 % N/A Physical stores (2) $ 4,248 $ 4,401 $ 4,307 $ 4,330 $ 4,192 $ 4,363 (1 )% Physical stores -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X N/A (3 )% 1 % 1 % (1 )% (1 )% N/A Third-party seller services (3) $ 10,395 $ 13,383 $ 11,141 $ 11,962 $ 13,212 $ 17,446 30 % Third-party seller services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 32 % 28 % 23 % 25 % 28 % 31 % N/A Subscription services (4) $ 3,698 $ 3,959 $ 4,342 $ 4,676 $ 4,957 $ 5,235 32 % Subscription services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 52 % 26 % 42 % 39 % 35 % 32 % N/A AWS $ 6,679 $ 7,430 $ 7,696 $ 8,381 $ 8,995 $ 9,954 34 % AWS -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 46 % 46 % 42 % 37 % 35 % 34 % N/A Other (5) $ 2,495 $ 3,388 $ 2,716 $ 3,002 $ 3,586 $ 4,782 41 % Other -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X (6) 123 % 97 % 36 % 37 % 45 % 41 % N/A Stock-based Compensation Expense Cost of sales $ 19 $ 21 $ 24 $ 43 $ 39 $ 43 103 % Fulfillment $ 269 $ 287 $ 234 $ 360 $ 301 $ 286 — % Technology and content $ 719 $ 750 $ 675 $ 1,077 $ 966 $ 1,007 34 % Marketing $ 201 $ 217 $ 209 $ 307 $ 298 $ 322 48 % General and administrative $ 142 $ 142 $ 132 $ 184 $ 175 $ 182 29 % Total stock-based compensation expense $ 1,350 $ 1,417 $ 1,274 $ 1,971 $ 1,779 $ 1,840 30 % Other WW shipping costs $ 6,568 $ 9,041 $ 7,320 $ 8,134 $ 9,608 $ 12,884 43 % WW shipping costs -- Y/Y growth 22 % 23 % 21 % 36 % 46 % 43 % N/A WW paid units -- Y/Y growth (7) 15 % 14 % 10 % 18 % 22 % 22 % N/A WW seller unit mix -- % of WW paid units (7) 53 % 52 % 53 % 54 % 53 % 53 % N/A Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) 613,300 647,500 630,600 653,300 750,000 798,000 23 % Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) -- Y/Y growth 13 % 14 % 12 % 13 % 22 % 23 % N/A ________________________ (1) Includes product sales and digital media content where we record revenue gross. We leverage our retail infrastructure to offer a wide selection of consumable and durable goods that includes media products available in both a physical and digital format, such as books, music, videos, games, and software. These product sales include digital products sold on a transactional basis. Digital product subscriptions that provide unlimited viewing or usage rights are included in "Subscription services." (2) Includes product sales where our customers physically select items in a store. Sales from customers who order goods online for delivery or pickup at our physical stores are included in "Online stores." (3) Includes commissions and any related fulfillment and shipping fees, and other third-party seller services. (4) Includes annual and monthly fees associated with Amazon Prime memberships, as well as audiobook, digital video, digital music, e-book, and other non-AWS subscription services. (5) Primarily includes sales of advertising services, as well as sales related to our other service offerings. (6) As a result of revenue recognition accounting guidance adopted on January 1, 2018, certain advertising services are classified as revenue rather than a reduction in cost of sales. (7) Excludes the impact of Whole Foods Market. Amazon.com, Inc. Certain Definitions Customer Accounts References to customers mean customer accounts established when a customer places an order through one of our stores. Customer accounts exclude certain customers, including customers associated with certain of our acquisitions, Amazon Payments customers, AWS customers, and the customers of select companies with whom we have a technology alliance or marketing and promotional relationship. Customers are considered active when they have placed an order during the preceding twelve-month period. Seller Accounts References to sellers means seller accounts, which are established when a seller receives an order from a customer account. Sellers are considered active when they have received an order from a customer during the preceding twelve-month period. AWS Customers References to AWS customers mean unique AWS customer accounts, which are unique customer account IDs that are eligible to use AWS services. This includes AWS accounts in the AWS free tier. Multiple users accessing AWS services via one account ID are counted as a single account. Customers are considered active when they have had AWS usage activity during the preceding one-month period. Units References to units mean physical and digital units sold (net of returns and cancellations) by us and sellers in our stores as well as Amazon-owned items sold in other stores. Units sold are paid units and do not include units associated with AWS, certain acquisitions, certain subscriptions, rental businesses, or advertising businesses, or Amazon gift cards. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200130005814/en/ Source: Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com Investor RelationsDave Fildes, amazon-ir@amazon.comamazon.com/ir Amazon.com Public RelationsDan Perlet, amazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019.</p><p>Operating cash flow increased 25% to $38.5 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $30.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2018. Free cash flow increased to $25.8 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $19.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2018. Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations increased to $16.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.6 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2018. Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations increased to $12.5 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $8.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2018.</p><p>Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 512 million on December 31, 2019, compared with 507 million one year ago.</p><p><em>Fourth Quarter 2019</em></p><p>Net sales increased 21% to $87.4 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $72.4 billion in fourth quarter 2018. Excluding the $120 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 21% compared with fourth quarter 2018.</p><p>Operating income increased to $3.9 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with operating income of $3.8 billion in fourth quarter 2018.</p><p>Net income increased to $3.3 billion in the fourth quarter, or $6.47 per diluted share, compared with net income of $3.0 billion, or $6.04 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2018.</p><p><em>Full Year 2019</em></p><p>Net sales increased 20% to $280.5 billion, compared with $232.9 billion in 2018. Excluding the $2.6 billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the year, net sales increased 22% compared with 2018.</p><p>Operating income increased to $14.5 billion, compared with operating income of $12.4 billion in 2018.</p><p>Net income increased to $11.6 billion, or $23.01 per diluted share, compared with net income of $10.1 billion, or $20.14 per diluted share, in 2018.</p><p>"Prime membership continues to get better for customers year after year. And customers are responding — more people joined Prime this quarter than ever before, and we now have over 150 million paid Prime members around the world," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "We've made Prime delivery faster — the number of items delivered to U.S. customers with Prime's free one-day and same-day delivery more than quadrupled this quarter compared to last year. Members now have free two-hour grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 2,000 U.S. cities and towns. Prime members watched double the hours of original movies and TV shows on Prime Video this quarter compared to last year, and Amazon Originals received a record 88 nominations and 26 wins at major awards shows. A huge thank you to teams across Amazon for their dedicated work to build, innovate, and deliver for customers this holiday."</p><p>Highlights</p><ul><li>During this holiday season, customers ordered billions of items worldwide, including tens of millions of Amazon devices. Best-selling devices this holiday were Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, and Echo Show 5.</li><li>Amazon announced that delivery through Amazon Fresh, which was previously $14.99 a month, is now a free benefit for Prime members. Members in more than 2,000 U.S. cities and towns can access free two-hour grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market. Grocery delivery orders from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market more than doubled in the fourth quarter year-over-year.</li><li>Amazon announced Alexa integrations with new automotive brands at CES 2020. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is adding Alexa to the newest version of its infotainment system for cars, Uconnect 5.0, Lamborghini is adding Alexa to its Huracan Evo range, and Rivian is integrating Alexa into its electric vehicle lineup, including its upcoming fleet of 100,000 all-electric Amazon delivery vans.</li><li>Alexa continues to get smarter and make customers' lives easier with new features, including medication reminders and voice refills, BuzzFeed Tasty recipe videos, the ability to pay utility bills, and purchase fuel at more than 11,500 Exxon and Mobil stations. Customers can also enjoy even more entertainment options for Alexa including content from Spotify Free, Spotify Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, SiriusXM's On Demand library, and Tubi TV. Additionally customers can say "Alexa, why did you do that?" to hear short explanations about her response.</li><li>Amazon announced additional companies joined the Voice Interoperability Initiative, a program to ensure voice-enabled products provide customers with choice and flexibility through multiple, interoperable voice services. New participants include automakers such as Audi and Volkswagen; brands such as Acer, BBC, Hisense, TIM, TiVo, and Vestel; and technology brands Aspinity, Syntiant, and Vesper.</li><li>Amazon announced there are now hundreds of millions of Alexa-enabled devices in customers' hands and customers interact with Alexa billions of times each week. Customers rely on Alexa to control smart home devices hundreds of millions of times each week, and can enjoy new features including the ability to pause or resume Wi-Fi access in their home using voice.</li><li>Fire TV now has more than 40 million active users worldwide. Amazon announced the new Fire TV Edition at CES 2020, which includes a set of tools, features, and services that make it even easier for developers, operators, device makers, and manufacturers to integrate Fire TV into their products. BMW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles are among the first automakers to introduce Fire TV in their future vehicles.</li><li>Fire TV announced the expansion of Fire TV Edition Smart TVs in India with Onida, adding to the growing list of Fire TV Edition Smart TVs and soundbars from brands like Toshiba, Insignia, and Grundig. Fire TV added more content for customers, including apps from Disney+, Apple TV, and Peloton.</li><li>Amazon released several new products and services designed for kids, including the all-new Fire HD 10 Kids Edition, Kindle Kids Edition, Echo Glow, and expansion of FreeTime on Alexa to Echo Show devices — enabling kids to watch age-appropriate videos, make video calls with approved family and friends, take photos and add stickers, and more.</li><li>Ring announced several new products and features, including additions to its smart lighting lineup and the all-new Control Center, a new, easy-to-use dashboard where customers can view and control privacy and security settings. Ring also launched Ring Alarm in the U.K., as well as the all-new Indoor Cam and Stick Up Cam in several countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.</li><li>Amazon Original series <em>Hunters</em> will premiere on Prime Video on February 21^st. Produced by Academy Award-winner Jordan Peele and starring Academy Award-winner Al Pacino, <em>Hunters</em> follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City. Prime Video debuted several Original series and movies last quarter including <em>The Report</em>, <em>The Aeronauts</em>, <em>The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Special, The Expanse</em>, as well as the return of <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em>, <em>Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan</em>, and the final season of <em>The Man in the High Castle</em>.</li><li>Prime Video received eight Golden Globe Award nominations, with<em> Fleabag</em> winning Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy, as well as Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy, for Phoebe Waller-Bridge.</li><li>Amazon Music has more than 55 million customers worldwide. Collectively, in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan, Amazon Music customers have grown nearly 50% year-over-year; and in newer marketplaces France, Italy, Spain, and Mexico, Amazon Music customers more than doubled in 2019. Additionally, Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers grew more than 50% in 2019.</li><li>Amazon announced that free returns can now be made at more than 18,000 drop-off locations in the U.S., including Amazon Books and Amazon 4-star stores, Amazon Hub locations, Kohl's, select Whole Foods Market stores, UPS, and more. In support of Amazon's commitment to sustainability, more than 5,800 locations now offer label-free and box-free returns, limiting the amount of packaging used.</li><li>Since launching Prime in September, Brazil has seen the fastest growth in paid Prime members in Amazon's history. Selection on amazon.com.br continues to expand and now includes millions of items, and in December the country opened its fourth fulfillment center to support growth. Additionally, Prime Video announced four new original productions for 2020, and will debut <em>All or Nothing: Brazil National Football Team</em> on January 31^st.</li><li>Amazon pledged to invest $1 billion to help digitize traders and micro, small, and medium-sized businesses (MSMBs) across India, with the goal of bringing more than 10 million MSMBs online by 2025. Today, there are more than 550,000 sellers on the Amazon India marketplace, more than 60,000 Indian manufacturers and brands are exporting their "Make in India" products to customers worldwide on Amazon, and we expect our new $1 billion investment to enable $10 billion in cumulative Indian exports by 2025.</li><li>Since launching amazon.in in 2013, Amazon has created more than 700,000 direct and indirect jobs in India. In January, Amazon announced plans to create an additional one million jobs in India by 2025, with continued investments in technology, infrastructure, and logistics. Since 2014, Amazon has grown its employee base more than four times, and last year inaugurated its new campus building in Hyderabad — Amazon's first fully-owned campus outside the United States and the largest building globally in terms of employees and space.</li><li>Amazon India announced it will have 10,000 electric vehicles in its delivery fleet by 2025. This investment is part of Amazon's recent co-founding of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early by achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040.</li><li>Amazon Business launched in Canada and now serves commercial and public sector organizations of all sizes in Canada and eight other countries, including the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and India. Amazon Business also launched Business Prime in Canada. Business Prime offers member-only benefits to help save time and money, in addition to unlimited fast, free shipping on eligible items for every member on the account.</li><li>Amazon Fashion produced its first holiday catalog featuring influencers Louise Roe, Ayana Iman Gibbs, Tylynn Nguyen, and their families in our favorite holiday looks. Additionally, Amazon Fashion and Amazon Home partnered with Refinery29 to open a holiday pop-up shop in New York City showcasing selection for the whole family.</li><li>Amazon Fashion continues to increase its assortment with the introduction of new brands, such as Tissot, Swatch, and Vineyard Vines, as well as the expansion of the Amazon brand, Goodthreads, which now offers women's styles.</li><li>In 2019, authors earned more than $300 million from the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select Global Fund, totaling more than $1.1 billion since the launch of Kindle Unlimited. Millions of independent authors have self-published millions of books through KDP since launching the service in 2007. Additionally, thousands of independent authors earned more than $50,000, with more than a thousand surpassing $100,000 in royalties in 2019 through KDP.</li><li>Independent third-party sellers — mostly small and medium-sized businesses — sold more than a billion items during the holiday season, including more than 100 million items shipped with Prime Free One-Day Delivery. Amazon also announced nine winners of the Small Business Spotlight Awards in the U.K., Germany, and the U.S., including Small Business of the Year winners Gamely Games in the U.K., Snocks in Germany, and nutpods in the U.S.</li><li>Amazon was recognized by the Drucker Institute as the #1 Best-Managed Company of 2019, based on a study that measures corporate performance across customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility, and financial strength. Amazon received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's 2020 Corporate Equality Index and the designation of being a "Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality." Employers earning top ratings took steps to ensure greater equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) workers and their families in the form of comprehensive policies, benefits, and practices.</li><li>Amazon announced six new renewable energy projects across the U.S. and Europe that will support Amazon's commitment to The Climate Pledge to be net zero carbon by 2040 and supply renewable energy for the company's fulfillment network and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers. To date, Amazon has launched over 70 renewable energy projects that will provide over 1,900 MW of renewable capacity and are projected to deliver more than 5.3 million MWh of renewable energy annually.</li><li>This holiday season, Amazon surprised hundreds of charities across the U.S. by donating hundreds of thousands of items from their AmazonSmile Charity Lists, including more than 5,000 blankets, sheets, and pillows; more than 30,000 toys and educational items for kids; more than 40,000 apparel items; and more than 60,000 pantry items.</li><li>AWS announced several significant new customer commitments and migrations during the quarter spanning major industries, including finance with Western Union, FINRA CAT, LLC, a subsidiary of FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), and Klarna, a leading global payments provider and bank; media with Fox Corporation, and ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, Europe's leading satellite and cable broadcaster; sports with a new player health and safety initiative with the NFL, the Seattle Seahawks, Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league, and Formula One Group; energy with BP; pharmaceuticals with Novartis; and hospitality with Best Western Hotels &amp; Resorts, among others.</li><li>AWS announced three Arm-based instances (M6g, C6g, R6g) powered by AWS's new Graviton2 processors, that deliver up to 40% better price and performance than current x86 processor-based instances. These new Arm-based instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, enabling faster innovation and enhanced security for customers at a much lower cost.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of AWS Outposts, a fully-managed service that extends AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. AWS Outposts offers customers the same AWS hardware infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to build and run applications on premises and in the cloud for a truly consistent hybrid experience. AWS compute, storage, database, and other services run locally on Outposts, and customers can access the full range of AWS services available in the region to build, manage, and scale on-premises applications using familiar AWS services and tools.</li><li>AWS announced AWS Local Zones, a new type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists today. With the opening of the first AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles (LA), developers will have the ability to deploy applications that require single-digit millisecond latencies to end-users also in LA. AWS Local Zone customers will be able to use their compute, storage, database, and other select services locally in LA, while also being able to seamlessly connect back to the rest of their workloads running in the AWS U.S. West (Oregon) Region or other AWS Regions a customer may be using.</li><li>AWS announced AWS Wavelength, which enables developers to build applications that deliver single-digit millisecond latencies to mobile devices and users by deploying AWS compute and storage at the edge of the 5G network. With AWS Wavelength, developers can serve use cases that require ultra-low latency like machine learning inference at the edge, autonomous industrial equipment, smart cars and cities, Internet of Things (IoT), and Augmented and Virtual Reality. AWS is partnering with Verizon on making AWS Wavelength available across the U.S., and is collaborating with other leading telecommunications companies, including Vodafone and SK Telecom, to launch AWS Wavelength across Europe and South Korea in 2020, with more global partners coming soon.</li><li>AWS announced six new capabilities for Amazon SageMaker, a fully-managed service that removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process. Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment for machine learning that makes it easier for developers to build, debug, train, deploy, monitor, and operate custom machine learning models; Amazon SageMaker Notebooks allows developers to spin up elastic machine learning notebooks in seconds, and automates the process of sharing notebooks with a single-click; Amazon SageMaker Experiments helps developers visualize and compare machine learning model iterations, training parameters, and outcomes; Amazon SageMaker Autopilot allows developers to submit simple data in CSV files and have machine learning models automatically generated, with full visibility to how the models are created so developers can evolve them over time; Amazon SageMaker Debugger provides real-time monitoring for machine learning models to improve predictive accuracy, reduce training times, and facilitate greater explainability; and Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor detects concept drift to discover when the performance of a model running in production begins to deviate from the original trained model.</li><li>AWS announced five new artificial intelligence (AI) services designed to put machine learning in the hands of more developers — with no machine learning experience required. Amazon Kendra reinvents enterprise search by using natural language processing and other machine learning techniques to unite multiple data silos inside an enterprise and consistently provide high-quality results to common queries instead of a random list of links in response to keyword queries; Amazon CodeGuru helps software developers automate code reviews and identify an application's most expensive lines of code; Amazon Fraud Detector helps businesses identify online identity and payment fraud in real time, based on the same technology developed for Amazon.com; Amazon Transcribe Medical offers healthcare providers highly accurate, real-time speech-to-text transcription so they can focus on patient care; and Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I) helps developers validate machine learning predictions through human confirmation.</li><li>AWS announced a set of machine learning-powered analytics capabilities for Amazon Connect called Contact Lens, which make it easier for businesses to identify customer issues and trends, search call and chat transcripts, and improve agent performance. Amazon Connect offers customers a fully-managed cloud contact center service. Now with Contact Lens, Amazon Connect customers have the ability to understand the sentiment, trends, and compliance of their own customer conversations to improve the experience and identify crucial feedback, with no machine learning experience required.</li><li>AWS announced significant new analytics capabilities in Redshift that provide an order of magnitude better query performance, deliver greater flexibility, and help customers embrace data at scale. Amazon Redshift RA3 instances allow customers to optimize their data warehouse by scaling and paying for compute and storage independently, so they can choose the number of instances they need based on their data warehousing workload's performance requirements, and only pay for the managed storage that they use; AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift is a new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that brings compute to the storage layer, so data doesn't have to move back and forth between the two, giving customers up to 10x better query performance than other cloud data warehouse provider; Amazon Redshift Data Lake Export allows customers to export data directly from Amazon Redshift to Amazon S3 in an open data format optimized for analytics; and Amazon Redshift Federated Query lets customers analyze data across their Amazon Redshift data warehouse, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Data Lake, and Amazon RDS and Aurora databases.</li><li>AWS announced a new innovative highly-scalable, cost-saving warm storage tier for Amazon Elasticsearch Service called UltraWarm that makes it easier for customers to retain any amount of current and historical log data at up to one-tenth the current cost and is 80% less than the cost of warm-tier storage from other managed Elasticsearch offerings.</li><li>AWS announced Amazon Managed (Apache) Cassandra Service, a scalable, highly available, and fully-managed database service that supports Cassandra workloads. Developers can use the same Cassandra application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and tools as they do today to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon Managed Cassandra Service without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. And, because it's serverless, it also removes the need to provision, configure, and operate large Cassandra clusters, manually add or remove nodes, and rebalance partitions as traffic scales up or down.</li><li>AWS announced three new services and capabilities that make it easier for customers to build and operate securely. Amazon Detective analyzes trillions of data points, using machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to make it easier to visualize and conduct faster and more efficient security investigations; AWS IAM Access Analyzer makes it simple for security teams and administrators to audit resource policies for unintended access by analyzing hundreds or even thousands of policies across a customer's environment in seconds, and delivering detailed findings about resources that are accessible from outside the account; and AWS Nitro Enclaves is a new Amazon EC2 capability that makes it easy for customers in healthcare, financial services, energy, media and entertainment, and other data-intensive industries to process highly sensitive data, like personally identifiable information and intellectual property on their compute instances, particularly from internal threats within their own accounts.</li><li>AWS announced that customers can start using AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), making it easier for customers to run Kubernetes applications on AWS. AWS Fargate, which provides serverless computing for containers, has substantially changed the way developers manage and deploy their containers. Launched two years ago to work with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Fargate has been broadly requested by Kubernetes customers. Now, with AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS, customers can run Kubernetes-based applications on AWS without the need to manage servers and clusters.</li><li>AWS announced three key initiatives as a part of its plans to help advance quantum computing technologies. Amazon Braket is a new, fully-managed AWS service that enables scientists, researchers, and developers to begin experimenting with computers from quantum hardware providers (including D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti) in a single place; AWS Center for Quantum Computing will bring together quantum computing experts from Amazon, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and other top academic research institutions to collaborate on the research and development of new quantum computing technologies; and the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab connects customers with quantum computing experts from Amazon and its partners to develop internal expertise aimed at identifying practical uses of quantum computing, and accelerating the development of quantum applications with meaningful impact.</li></ul><p>Financial Guidance</p><p>The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of January 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.</p><p>First Quarter 2020 Guidance</p><ul><li>Net sales are expected to be between $69.0 billion and $73.0 billion, or to grow between 16% and 22% compared with first quarter 2019. This guidance anticipates a favorable impact of approximately 5 basis points from foreign exchange rates.</li><li>Operating income is expected to be between $3.0 billion and $4.2 billion, compared with $4.4 billion in first quarter 2019. This guidance includes approximately $800 million lower depreciation expense due to an increase in the estimated useful life of our servers beginning on January 1, 2020.</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, the global economic climate amplifies 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. We promptly make available on this website, free of charge, the reports that we file or furnish with the SEC, corporate governance information (including our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics), and select press releases, which may contain material information about us, and you may subscribe to be notified of new information posted to this site.</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><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(in millions)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Three Months EndedDecember 31,</p></td><td><p>Twelve Months EndedDecember 31,</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, BEGINNING OF PERIOD</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>21,032</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23,554</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>21,856</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>32,173</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OPERATING ACTIVITIES:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income</p></td><td><p>3,027</p></td><td><p>3,268</p></td><td><p>10,073</p></td><td><p>11,588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash from operating activities:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Depreciation and amortization of property and equipment and capitalized content costs, operating lease assets, and other</p></td><td><p>4,262</p></td><td><p>6,170</p></td><td><p>15,341</p></td><td><p>21,789</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stock-based compensation</p></td><td><p>1,417</p></td><td><p>1,840</p></td><td><p>5,418</p></td><td><p>6,864</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other operating expense (income), net</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>274</p></td><td><p>164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other expense (income), net</p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>(494</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>219</p></td><td><p>(249</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deferred income taxes</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>441</p></td><td><p>796</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Changes in operating assets and liabilities:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inventories</p></td><td><p>(1,350</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,516</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,314</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(3,278</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accounts receivable, net and other</p></td><td><p>(1,395</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(3,906</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(4,615</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(7,681</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accounts payable</p></td><td><p>6,882</p></td><td><p>10,683</p></td><td><p>3,263</p></td><td><p>8,193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accrued expenses and other</p></td><td><p>2,665</p></td><td><p>2,894</p></td><td><p>472</p></td><td><p>(1,383</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unearned revenue</p></td><td><p>528</p></td><td><p>485</p></td><td><p>1,151</p></td><td><p>1,711</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities</p></td><td><p>16,478</p></td><td><p>19,659</p></td><td><p>30,723</p></td><td><p>38,514</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>INVESTING ACTIVITIES:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Purchases of property and equipment</p></td><td><p>(3,733</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(5,312</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(13,427</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(16,861</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proceeds from property and equipment sales and incentives</p></td><td><p>614</p></td><td><p>1,371</p></td><td><p>2,104</p></td><td><p>4,172</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and other</p></td><td><p>(331</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(777</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,186</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,461</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sales and maturities of marketable securities</p></td><td><p>1,938</p></td><td><p>7,626</p></td><td><p>8,240</p></td><td><p>22,681</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Purchases of marketable securities</p></td><td><p>(2,060</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(6,444</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(7,100</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(31,812</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities</p></td><td><p>(3,572</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(3,536</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(12,369</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(24,281</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FINANCING ACTIVITIES:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proceeds from long-term debt and other</p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td><p>1,098</p></td><td><p>768</p></td><td><p>2,273</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Repayments of long-term debt and other</p></td><td><p>(134</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,865</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(668</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,684</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal repayments of finance leases</p></td><td><p>(1,906</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,780</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(7,449</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(9,628</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal repayments of financing obligations</p></td><td><p>(126</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(24</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(337</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(27</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities</p></td><td><p>(1,760</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(3,571</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(7,686</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(10,066</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign currency effect on cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash</p></td><td><p>(5</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>304</p></td><td><p>(351</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash</p></td><td><p>11,141</p></td><td><p>12,856</p></td><td><p>10,317</p></td><td><p>4,237</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, END OF PERIOD</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>32,173</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>36,410</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>32,173</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>36,410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash paid for interest on long-term debt</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>854</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>875</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash paid for operating leases</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>941</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>3,361</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash paid for interest on finance leases</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>381</p></td><td><p>647</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash paid for interest on financing obligations</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>194</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds</p></td><td><p>171</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>1,184</p></td><td><p>881</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assets acquired under operating leases</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>2,476</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>7,870</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Property and equipment acquired under finance leases</p></td><td><p>3,680</p></td><td><p>4,182</p></td><td><p>10,615</p></td><td><p>13,723</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Property and equipment acquired under build-to-suit arrangements</p></td><td><p>1,143</p></td><td><p>252</p></td><td><p>3,641</p></td><td><p>1,362</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>______________________________</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>On January 1, 2019, we adopted accounting guidance amending the accounting for leases, which did not have a material impact on our 2019 operating results. Prior period amounts were not retrospectively adjusted. Under this new guidance, leases we previously referred to as "capital leases" are now referred to as "finance leases." Leases we previously referred to as "finance leases" are now referred to as "financing obligations."</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consolidated Statements of Operations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(in millions, except per share data)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Three Months EndedDecember 31,</p></td><td><p>Twelve Months EndedDecember 31,</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net product sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>44,700</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>50,542</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>141,915</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>160,408</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net service sales</p></td><td><p>27,683</p></td><td><p>36,895</p></td><td><p>90,972</p></td><td><p>120,114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total net sales</p></td><td><p>72,383</p></td><td><p>87,437</p></td><td><p>232,887</p></td><td><p>280,522</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating expenses:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost of sales</p></td><td><p>44,786</p></td><td><p>53,977</p></td><td><p>139,156</p></td><td><p>165,536</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fulfillment</p></td><td><p>10,028</p></td><td><p>12,192</p></td><td><p>34,027</p></td><td><p>40,232</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Technology and content</p></td><td><p>7,669</p></td><td><p>9,740</p></td><td><p>28,837</p></td><td><p>35,931</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Marketing</p></td><td><p>4,911</p></td><td><p>6,172</p></td><td><p>13,814</p></td><td><p>18,878</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General and administrative</p></td><td><p>1,117</p></td><td><p>1,412</p></td><td><p>4,336</p></td><td><p>5,203</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other operating expense (income), net</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>296</p></td><td><p>201</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total operating expenses</p></td><td><p>68,597</p></td><td><p>83,558</p></td><td><p>220,466</p></td><td><p>265,981</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>3,786</p></td><td><p>3,879</p></td><td><p>12,421</p></td><td><p>14,541</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Interest income</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>211</p></td><td><p>440</p></td><td><p>832</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Interest expense</p></td><td><p>(387</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(455</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,417</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,600</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other income (expense), net</p></td><td><p>(199</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>418</p></td><td><p>(183</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>203</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total non-operating income (expense)</p></td><td><p>(436</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>174</p></td><td><p>(1,160</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(565</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Income before income taxes</p></td><td><p>3,350</p></td><td><p>4,053</p></td><td><p>11,261</p></td><td><p>13,976</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Provision for income taxes</p></td><td><p>(327</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(786</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,197</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,374</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Equity-method investment activity, net of tax</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>(14</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,027</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,268</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,073</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Basic earnings per share</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6.18</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6.58</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>20.68</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23.46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diluted earnings per share</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6.04</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6.47</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>20.14</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23.01</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Weighted-average shares used in computation of earnings per share:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Basic</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>496</p></td><td><p>487</p></td><td><p>494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diluted</p></td><td><p>501</p></td><td><p>505</p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>504</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(in millions)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Three Months EndedDecember 31,</p></td><td><p>Twelve Months EndedDecember 31,</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,027</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,268</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,073</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other comprehensive income (loss):</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net change in foreign currency translation adjustments:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax of $(13), $1, $6, and $(5)</p></td><td><p>(25</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>447</p></td><td><p>(538</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reclassification adjustment for foreign currency translation included in "Other operating expense (income), net," net of tax of $0, $0, $0, and $29</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>(108</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net foreign currency translation adjustments</p></td><td><p>(25</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>447</p></td><td><p>(538</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(30</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax of $0, $1, $0, and $(12)</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>(2</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(17</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reclassification adjustment for losses (gains) included in "Other income (expense), net," net of tax of $0, $0, $0, and $0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>(2</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>(4</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>(4</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(9</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total other comprehensive income (loss)</p></td><td><p>(18</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>443</p></td><td><p>(547</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Comprehensive income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,009</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,711</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,526</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,637</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segment Information</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(in millions)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Three Months EndedDecember 31,</p></td><td><p>Twelve Months EndedDecember 31,</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North America</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>44,124</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>53,670</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>141,366</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>170,773</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating expenses</p></td><td><p>41,873</p></td><td><p>51,770</p></td><td><p>134,099</p></td><td><p>163,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,251</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,900</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,267</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,033</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>20,829</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23,813</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>65,866</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>74,723</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating expenses</p></td><td><p>21,471</p></td><td><p>24,430</p></td><td><p>68,008</p></td><td><p>76,416</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income (loss)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(642</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(617</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(2,142</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(1,693</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,430</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,954</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>25,655</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>35,026</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating expenses</p></td><td><p>5,253</p></td><td><p>7,358</p></td><td><p>18,359</p></td><td><p>25,825</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,177</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,596</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,296</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,201</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consolidated</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>72,383</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>87,437</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>232,887</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>280,522</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating expenses</p></td><td><p>68,597</p></td><td><p>83,558</p></td><td><p>220,466</p></td><td><p>265,981</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>3,786</p></td><td><p>3,879</p></td><td><p>12,421</p></td><td><p>14,541</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total non-operating income (expense)</p></td><td><p>(436</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>174</p></td><td><p>(1,160</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(565</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Provision for income taxes</p></td><td><p>(327</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(786</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,197</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,374</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Equity-method investment activity, net of tax</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>(14</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,027</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,268</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,073</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segment Highlights:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Y/Y net sales growth:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North America</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consolidated</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales mix:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North America</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consolidated</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consolidated Balance Sheets</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(in millions, except per share data)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 31, 2018</p></td><td><p>December 31, 2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ASSETS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Current assets:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash and cash equivalents</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>31,750</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>36,092</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Marketable securities</p></td><td><p>9,500</p></td><td><p>18,929</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inventories</p></td><td><p>17,174</p></td><td><p>20,497</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accounts receivable, net and other</p></td><td><p>16,677</p></td><td><p>20,816</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total current assets</p></td><td><p>75,101</p></td><td><p>96,334</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Property and equipment, net</p></td><td><p>61,797</p></td><td><p>72,705</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating leases</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>25,141</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Goodwill</p></td><td><p>14,548</p></td><td><p>14,754</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other assets</p></td><td><p>11,202</p></td><td><p>16,314</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total assets</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>162,648</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>225,248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Current liabilities:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accounts payable</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>38,192</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>47,183</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accrued expenses and other</p></td><td><p>23,663</p></td><td><p>32,439</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unearned revenue</p></td><td><p>6,536</p></td><td><p>8,190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total current liabilities</p></td><td><p>68,391</p></td><td><p>87,812</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long-term lease liabilities</p></td><td><p>9,650</p></td><td><p>39,791</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long-term debt</p></td><td><p>23,495</p></td><td><p>23,414</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other long-term liabilities</p></td><td><p>17,563</p></td><td><p>12,171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Commitments and contingencies</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockholders' equity:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Preferred stock, $0.01 par value:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Authorized shares — 500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Issued and outstanding shares — none</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>—</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Common stock, $0.01 par value:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Authorized shares — 5,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Issued shares — 514 and 521</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Outstanding shares — 491 and 498</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Treasury stock, at cost</p></td><td><p>(1,837</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,837</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Additional paid-in capital</p></td><td><p>26,791</p></td><td><p>33,658</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)</p></td><td><p>(1,035</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(986</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Retained earnings</p></td><td><p>19,625</p></td><td><p>31,220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total stockholders' equity</p></td><td><p>43,549</p></td><td><p>62,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total liabilities and stockholders' equity</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>162,648</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>225,248</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(in millions, except per share data)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q3 2018</p></td><td><p>Q4 2018</p></td><td><p>Q1 2019</p></td><td><p>Q2 2019</p></td><td><p>Q3 2019</p></td><td><p>Q4 2019</p></td><td><p>Y/Y %</p><p>Change</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash Flows and Shares</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating cash flow -- trailing twelve months (TTM)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>26,604</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>30,723</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>34,360</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>36,029</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>35,332</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>38,514</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating cash flow -- TTM Y/Y growth</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,239</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,323</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,316</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,011</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,868</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,689</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal repayments of finance leases -- TTM (1)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,016</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,449</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,649</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,693</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,754</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,628</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal repayments of financing obligations -- TTM (1)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>277</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>337</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>266</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>211</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>129</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>(92</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Equipment acquired under finance leases -- TTM (1) (2)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,704</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,615</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,909</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,656</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,580</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,916</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal repayments of all other finance leases -- TTM (1) (3)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>176</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>302</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>392</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Free cash flow -- TTM (4)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>15,365</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>19,400</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23,044</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>25,018</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23,464</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>25,825</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations -- TTM (1) (5)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,072</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,614</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>15,129</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>16,114</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14,581</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>16,170</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations -- TTM (1) (6)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5,384</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,448</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,793</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,975</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,453</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,490</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding</p></td><td><p>507</p></td><td><p>507</p></td><td><p>507</p></td><td><p>510</p></td><td><p>511</p></td><td><p>512</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Common shares outstanding</p></td><td><p>489</p></td><td><p>491</p></td><td><p>492</p></td><td><p>494</p></td><td><p>495</p></td><td><p>498</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stock-based awards outstanding</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>(10</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stock-based awards outstanding -- % of common shares outstanding</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Results of Operations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Worldwide (WW) net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>56,576</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>72,383</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>59,700</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>63,404</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>69,981</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>87,437</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW net sales -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>220,958</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>232,887</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>241,546</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>252,064</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>265,469</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>280,522</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW net sales -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,724</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,786</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,420</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,084</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,157</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,879</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>948</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>(16</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- % of WW net sales</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>4.5</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>4.4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,762</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,421</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14,914</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>15,014</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14,448</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14,541</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>231</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- TTM % of WW net sales</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>6.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,883</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,027</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,561</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,625</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,134</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,268</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income per diluted share</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5.75</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6.04</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7.09</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5.22</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4.23</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6.47</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,902</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,073</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,005</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,096</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,347</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,588</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income per diluted share -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>17.85</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>20.14</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23.96</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>24.08</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>22.57</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23.01</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>______________________________</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(1)</p></td><td><p>On January 1, 2019, we adopted accounting guidance amending the accounting for leases, which did not have a material impact on our 2019 operating results. Prior period amounts were not retrospectively adjusted. Under this new guidance, leases we previously referred to as "capital leases" are now referred to as "finance leases." Leases we previously referred to as "finance leases" are now referred to as "financing obligations."</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2)</p></td><td><p>For the twelve months ended December 31, 2019, this amount relates to equipment included in "Property and equipment acquired under finance leases" of $13,723 million. Amounts for periods prior to 2019 have not been retrospectively adjusted.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(3)</p></td><td><p>For the twelve months ended December 31, 2019, this amount relates to property included in "Principal repayments of finance leases" of $9,628 million. Amounts for periods prior to 2019 have not been retrospectively adjusted.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(4)</p></td><td><p>Free cash flow is cash flow from operations reduced by "Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives."</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5)</p></td><td><p>Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations is free cash flow reduced by "Principal repayments of finance leases" and "Principal repayments of financing obligations."</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(6)</p></td><td><p>Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations is free cash flow reduced by equipment acquired under finance leases, which is included in "Property and equipment acquired under finance leases," principal repayments of all other finance lease liabilities, which is included in "Principal repayments of finance leases," and "Principal repayments of financing obligations."</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(in millions)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q3 2018</p></td><td><p>Q4 2018</p></td><td><p>Q1 2019</p></td><td><p>Q2 2019</p></td><td><p>Q3 2019</p></td><td><p>Q4 2019</p></td><td><p>Y/Y %</p><p>Change</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North America Segment:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>34,348</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>44,124</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>35,812</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>38,653</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>42,638</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>53,670</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>134,545</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>141,366</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>146,453</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>152,938</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>161,228</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>170,773</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,032</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,251</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,287</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,564</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,282</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,900</p></td><td><p>(16</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(3</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>98</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>(15</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(37</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(16</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- % of North America net sales</p></td><td><p>5.9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>6.4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,708</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,267</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,405</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,134</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,384</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,033</p></td><td><p>(3</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.7</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>4.6</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International Segment:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>15,549</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>20,829</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>16,192</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>16,370</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>18,348</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23,813</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>63,074</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>65,866</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>67,184</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>68,941</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>71,740</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>74,723</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income (loss)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(385</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(642</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(90</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(601</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(386</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(617</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(4</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(39</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(36</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(34</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(7</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>(54</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(24</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(92</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>(8</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(5</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- % of International net sales</p></td><td><p>(2.5</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(3.1</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(1.0</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(3.7</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(2.1</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(2.6</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income (loss) -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(2,420</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(2,142</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(1,610</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(1,718</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(1,718</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(1,693</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(21</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales</p></td><td><p>(3.8</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(3.3</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(2.4</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(2.5</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(2.4</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(2.3</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS Segment:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,679</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,430</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,696</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,381</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,995</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,954</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23,339</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>25,655</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>27,909</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>30,185</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>32,501</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>35,026</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,077</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,177</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,223</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,121</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,261</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,596</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales</p></td><td><p>31.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>29.3</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>28.9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>25.3</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>25.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>26.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,473</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,296</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,119</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,598</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,782</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,201</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales</p></td><td><p>27.7</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>28.4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>29.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>28.5</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>27.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>26.3</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(in millions, except employee data)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q3 2018</p></td><td><p>Q4 2018</p></td><td><p>Q1 2019</p></td><td><p>Q2 2019</p></td><td><p>Q3 2019</p></td><td><p>Q4 2019</p></td><td><p>Y/Y %</p><p>Change</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net Sales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Online stores (1)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>29,061</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>39,822</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>29,498</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>31,053</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>35,039</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>45,657</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Online stores -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Physical stores (2)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,248</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,401</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,307</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,330</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,192</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,363</p></td><td><p>(1</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Physical stores -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>(3</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>(1</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(1</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Third-party seller services (3)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,395</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>13,383</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,141</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,962</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>13,212</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>17,446</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Third-party seller services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Subscription services (4)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,698</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,959</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,342</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,676</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,957</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5,235</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Subscription services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,679</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,430</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,696</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,381</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,995</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,954</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other (5)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,495</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,388</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,716</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,002</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,586</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,782</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X (6)</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stock-based Compensation Expense</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost of sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fulfillment</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>269</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>287</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>234</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>286</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Technology and content</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>719</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>675</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,077</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>966</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,007</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Marketing</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>217</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>209</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>307</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>298</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>322</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General and administrative</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>184</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>182</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total stock-based compensation expense</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,350</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,417</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,274</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,971</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,779</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,840</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW shipping costs</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,568</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,041</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,320</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,134</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,608</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,884</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW shipping costs -- Y/Y growth</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW paid units -- Y/Y growth (7)</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW seller unit mix -- % of WW paid units (7)</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors &amp; temporary personnel)</p></td><td><p>613,300</p></td><td><p>647,500</p></td><td><p>630,600</p></td><td><p>653,300</p></td><td><p>750,000</p></td><td><p>798,000</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors &amp; temporary personnel) -- Y/Y growth</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>________________________</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(1)</p></td><td><p>Includes product sales and digital media content where we record revenue gross. We leverage our retail infrastructure to offer a wide selection of consumable and durable goods that includes media products available in both a physical and digital format, such as books, music, videos, games, and software. These product sales include digital products sold on a transactional basis. Digital product subscriptions that provide unlimited viewing or usage rights are included in "Subscription services."</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2)</p></td><td><p>Includes product sales where our customers physically select items in a store. Sales from customers who order goods online for delivery or pickup at our physical stores are included in "Online stores."</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(3)</p></td><td><p>Includes commissions and any related fulfillment and shipping fees, and other third-party seller services.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(4)</p></td><td><p>Includes annual and monthly fees associated with Amazon Prime memberships, as well as audiobook, digital video, digital music, e-book, and other non-AWS subscription services.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5)</p></td><td><p>Primarily includes sales of advertising services, as well as sales related to our other service offerings.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(6)</p></td><td><p>As a result of revenue recognition accounting guidance adopted on January 1, 2018, certain advertising services are classified as revenue rather than a reduction in cost of sales.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(7)</p></td><td><p>Excludes the impact of Whole Foods Market.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Amazon.com, Inc.</p><p>Certain Definitions</p><p><em>Customer Accounts</em></p><ul><li>References to customers mean customer accounts established when a customer places an order through one of our stores. Customer accounts exclude certain customers, including customers associated with certain of our acquisitions, Amazon Payments customers, AWS customers, and the customers of select companies with whom we have a technology alliance or marketing and promotional relationship. Customers are considered active when they have placed an order during the preceding twelve-month period.</li></ul><p><em>Seller Accounts</em></p><ul><li>References to sellers means seller accounts, which are established when a seller receives an order from a customer account. Sellers are considered active when they have received an order from a customer during the preceding twelve-month period.</li></ul><p><em>AWS Customers</em></p><ul><li>References to AWS customers mean unique AWS customer accounts, which are unique customer account IDs that are eligible to use AWS services. This includes AWS accounts in the AWS free tier. Multiple users accessing AWS services via one account ID are counted as a single account. Customers are considered active when they have had AWS usage activity during the preceding one-month period.</li></ul><p><em>Units</em></p><ul><li>References to units mean physical and digital units sold (net of returns and cancellations) by us and sellers in our stores as well as Amazon-owned items sold in other stores. Units sold are paid units and do not include units associated with AWS, certain acquisitions, certain subscriptions, rental businesses, or advertising businesses, or Amazon gift cards.</li></ul><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200130005814/en/</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p><p>Amazon.com Investor RelationsDave Fildes, amazon-ir@amazon.comamazon.com/ir</p><p>Amazon.com Public RelationsDan Perlet, amazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p>

Amazon Donates $2 Million to Seattle-Based Nonprofits to Expand Access to STEM and Computer Science Education for Hundreds of Thousands of Students from Underserved and Underrepresented Communities Across Washington State

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Amazon Donates $2 Million to Seattle-Based Nonprofits to Expand Access to STEM and Computer Science Education for Hundreds of Thousands of Students from Underserved and Underrepresented Communities Across Washington State

01/23/2020

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Amazon is donating $1 million to Washington STEM – to support their work in making STEM more accessible, equitable, and meaningful for every Washington student, especially those furthest from opportunity – and $1 million to Pacific Science Center – to develop a new computer science curriculum and expand outreach to 200,000 students in low-income communities The donation is part of Amazon Future Engineer – a childhood to career program aimed at expanding computer science access to more students from underserved and underrepresented communities across the country SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced a $2 million total donation to two Washington nonprofit organizations working to make STEM and computer science education more accessible, equitable, and meaningful for hundreds of thousands of Washington State students, especially those from underserved and underrepresented communities. The donation includes $1 million to Washington STEM, a statewide nonprofit organization that advances excellence, innovation and equity in STEM for all Washington students, and $1 million to the Pacific Science Center (PacSci), a nonprofit focused on igniting curiosity and enabling access to science education. "We are thrilled to support more hard-working, curious students by helping improve equitable access to STEM and computer science education in our home state of Washington," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "We are excited to work with Washington STEM and PacSci – leaders in STEM and computer science education – as they work to create the resources, access, and innovative opportunities Washington students need to build their best futures, from Seattle to Spokane." Washington STEM will use the gift to support their work to ensure all students, regardless of skin color, income, or gender, have access to the education and opportunities that will help them thrive in family-wage careers in Washington State. The funds will help fill systems-level gaps—from childhood-to-career—specifically focused on students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, students living in rural areas, and girls and young women. PacSci will use the gift to grow Science On Wheels (SOW), its flagship outreach program that builds excitement for science, technology, engineering, and math through interactive workshops, live stage shows, and portable exhibits in schools, libraries, and community centers throughout Washington State. PacSci will increase the number of students that SOW serves in low-income Title I schools. PacSci will also add a computer science curriculum to go along with the existing curriculums, which will teach core concepts and key practices in computational thinking. "By 2030, 70 percent of all Washington jobs offering a family wage will require education beyond high school in the form of certificates, apprenticeships, two-year and four-year degrees. Two-thirds of these jobs will require STEM skills," said Angela Jones, CEO, Washington STEM. "But when you look at the data, only 40 percent of our state's youth are on track to obtain the education they'll need to access these STEM careers. Amazon's investment will help close the gaps we know exist – create access for students of color, rural students, students from low-income backgrounds, and young women – and help put Washington students on pathways to Washington jobs." "Pacific Science Center is committed to providing everyone with access to experiences that cultivate curiosity, discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking," said Will Daugherty, president and CEO, Pacific Science Center. "Science On Wheels has delivered high-quality science education throughout the state of Washington for almost 50 years. With Amazon's investment and ongoing partnership, Science On Wheels will have more impact than ever, especially in the schools and communities where resources are most scarce. We look forward to working together to serve students, families, and schools in this region." "Giving our students access to a modern STEM education will lead them to rich, successful and meaningful careers in Washington's modern economy," said Sen. Lisa Wellman (D-Mercer Island). "I'm grateful to Washington STEM and the Pacific Science Center for providing these educational opportunities and to Amazon for providing funding to help these organizations expand and grow." Washington STEM is a statewide nonprofit organization working in partnership with ten regional STEM Networks and statewide partners to increase equitable access to STEM education and opportunity. Washington STEM has a long-term vision of increasing equitable access from childhood-to-career with a focus on students of color, students living in rural areas, and students from low-income backgrounds. Through their Early STEM initiative, Washington STEM is supporting teachers, families, and caregivers in engaging more frequently and directly with children in math – giving students the best start possible in school and life. Through their Career Pathways initiative, Washington STEM is working with business, education, and community partners to expose and prepare students for exciting careers in tech, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, construction, maritime and other high-demand industries in which STEM fuels innovation, economic mobility and job growth. PacSci's mission is to ignite curiosity and fuel a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking. Their award-winning, interactive programs serve nearly 1 million people each year throughout the state of Washington in their communities, in classrooms, at the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue, and at its seven-acre campus at Seattle Center. PacSci is deeply committed to expanding access to science for traditionally underrepresented and underserved children and families. During the 2018-19 school year, PacSci's Science On Wheels outreach program served more than 115,000 students in 31 of Washington's 39 counties. More than 60,000 of these students were in Title I schools in low-income communities. Amazon is committed to bringing more resources to children and young adults to help them build their best future. Amazon has invested more than $50 million to increase access to computer science/STEM education and has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education across the country. 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. There are currently more than 40 high schools across Washington State that are part of the Amazon Future Engineer high school program, and three Washington State students won our Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship last year. There are more than 30 schools in Washington who received the Amazon Future Engineer Robotics grant. 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 tens of thousands of children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities each year to try 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. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200123005757/en/ Source: Amazon Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr

<p><em>Amazon is donating $1 million to Washington STEM – to support their work in making STEM more accessible, equitable, and meaningful for every Washington student, especially those furthest from opportunity – and $1 million to Pacific Science Center – to develop a new computer science curriculum and expand outreach to 200,000 students in low-income communities</em></p><p><em>The donation is part of Amazon Future Engineer – a childhood to career program aimed at expanding computer science access to more students from underserved and underrepresented communities across the country</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2020-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced a $2 million total donation to two Washington nonprofit organizations working to make STEM and computer science education more accessible, equitable, and meaningful for hundreds of thousands of Washington State students, especially those from underserved and underrepresented communities. The donation includes $1 million to Washington STEM, a statewide nonprofit organization that advances excellence, innovation and equity in STEM for all Washington students, and $1 million to the Pacific Science Center (PacSci), a nonprofit focused on igniting curiosity and enabling access to science education.</p><p>"We are thrilled to support more hard-working, curious students by helping improve equitable access to STEM and computer science education in our home state of Washington," said Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "We are excited to work with Washington STEM and PacSci – leaders in STEM and computer science education – as they work to create the resources, access, and innovative opportunities Washington students need to build their best futures, from Seattle to Spokane."</p><p>Washington STEM will use the gift to support their work to ensure all students, regardless of skin color, income, or gender, have access to the education and opportunities that will help them thrive in family-wage careers in Washington State. The funds will help fill systems-level gaps—from childhood-to-career—specifically focused on students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, students living in rural areas, and girls and young women.</p><p>PacSci will use the gift to grow Science On Wheels (SOW), its flagship outreach program that builds excitement for science, technology, engineering, and math through interactive workshops, live stage shows, and portable exhibits in schools, libraries, and community centers throughout Washington State. PacSci will increase the number of students that SOW serves in low-income Title I schools. PacSci will also add a computer science curriculum to go along with the existing curriculums, which will teach core concepts and key practices in computational thinking.</p><p>"By 2030, 70 percent of all Washington jobs offering a family wage will require education beyond high school in the form of certificates, apprenticeships, two-year and four-year degrees. Two-thirds of these jobs will require STEM skills," said Angela Jones, CEO, Washington STEM. "But when you look at the data, only 40 percent of our state's youth are on track to obtain the education they'll need to access these STEM careers. Amazon's investment will help close the gaps we know exist – create access for students of color, rural students, students from low-income backgrounds, and young women – and help put Washington students on pathways to Washington jobs."</p><p>"Pacific Science Center is committed to providing everyone with access to experiences that cultivate curiosity, discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking," said Will Daugherty, president and CEO, Pacific Science Center. "Science On Wheels has delivered high-quality science education throughout the state of Washington for almost 50 years. With Amazon's investment and ongoing partnership, Science On Wheels will have more impact than ever, especially in the schools and communities where resources are most scarce. We look forward to working together to serve students, families, and schools in this region."</p><p>"Giving our students access to a modern STEM education will lead them to rich, successful and meaningful careers in Washington's modern economy," said Sen. Lisa Wellman (D-Mercer Island). "I'm grateful to Washington STEM and the Pacific Science Center for providing these educational opportunities and to Amazon for providing funding to help these organizations expand and grow."</p><p>Washington STEM is a statewide nonprofit organization working in partnership with ten regional STEM Networks and statewide partners to increase equitable access to STEM education and opportunity. Washington STEM has a long-term vision of increasing equitable access from childhood-to-career with a focus on students of color, students living in rural areas, and students from low-income backgrounds. Through their Early STEM initiative, Washington STEM is supporting teachers, families, and caregivers in engaging more frequently and directly with children in math – giving students the best start possible in school and life. Through their Career Pathways initiative, Washington STEM is working with business, education, and community partners to expose and prepare students for exciting careers in tech, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, construction, maritime and other high-demand industries in which STEM fuels innovation, economic mobility and job growth.</p><p>PacSci's mission is to ignite curiosity and fuel a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking. Their award-winning, interactive programs serve nearly 1 million people each year throughout the state of Washington in their communities, in classrooms, at the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue, and at its seven-acre campus at Seattle Center. PacSci is deeply committed to expanding access to science for traditionally underrepresented and underserved children and families. During the 2018-19 school year, PacSci's Science On Wheels outreach program served more than 115,000 students in 31 of Washington's 39 counties. More than 60,000 of these students were in Title I schools in low-income communities.</p><p>Amazon is committed to bringing more resources to children and young adults to help them build their best future. Amazon has invested more than $50 million to increase access to computer science/STEM education and has donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education across the country. 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. There are currently more than 40 high schools across Washington State that are part of the Amazon Future Engineer high school program, and three Washington State students won our Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship last year. There are more than 30 schools in Washington who received the Amazon Future Engineer Robotics grant.</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 tens of thousands of children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities each year to try 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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200123005757/en/</p><p>Source: Amazon</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p>

Amazon.com to Webcast Fourth Quarter 2019 Financial Results Conference Call

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Amazon.com to Webcast Fourth Quarter 2019 Financial Results Conference Call

01/16/2020

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter 2019 financial results on January 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. SOURCE:Amazon.com View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200116005754/en/ Source: Amazon.com Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2020-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter 2019 financial results on January 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>SOURCE:Amazon.com</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200116005754/en/</p><p>Source: Amazon.com</p><p>Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p>

Bundesliga Goes All-In on AWS to Revolutionize Football Viewing Experience

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Bundesliga Goes All-In on AWS to Revolutionize Football Viewing Experience

01/13/2020

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Germany's premier football league to use AWS machine learning and analytics to enhance the fan experience and deliver new game and player statistics during the 2019-20 season and beyond SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Germany's Bundesliga has selected AWS as its official technology provider to deliver more in-depth insight into every live broadcast of Bundesliga games and enable new personalized fan experiences. Bundesliga will use AWS artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), analytics, compute, database, and storage services to deliver real-time statistics to predict future plays and game outcomes, and recommend personalized match footage across mobile, online, streaming, and television broadcasts. Using AWS technology, Germany's premier national football league will build new cloud-based services that automate processes, increase operational efficiency, and enhance the viewing experience for the league's rapidly growing global fan base. By developing a new, next-generation statistics platform on AWS, using Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service to build, train, and deploy ML models, Bundesliga will offer fans real-time predictions on when a goal is likely to be scored, identify potential goal-scoring opportunities, and highlight how teams are positioning and controlling the field, based on live data streams and historical data from over 10,000 Bundesliga games. Bundesliga also plans to leverage AWS ML services, such as Amazon Personalize, an ML service to create real-time and individualized recommendations, to offer fans personalized game footage, marketing promotions, and search results based on their favorite teams, players, or matches. Using other AWS ML services, including Amazon Rekognition, an intelligent image and video analysis service, Bundesliga will build a cloud-based media archive that will automatically tag specific frames, from its more than 150,000 hours of video, with metadata such as game, jersey, player, team, and venue, so that the league can easily search historical footage and surface pivotal plays for in-game broadcasts, in more than 200 countries. This archive will enable Bundesliga to search across its entire history of football footage to provide a more enhanced viewing experience for fans and automate the current manual process of searching and tagging match highlights. "We are extremely excited to be working alongside AWS to develop the next generation of football viewing experience," said Christian Seifert, CEO of Bundesliga. "Innovation means challenging the status quo. Working closely with AWS, as one of the most innovative technology companies in the world, significantly enhances the investment we've made in innovation over the past two decades, all of which contributes to us being able to deliver a world-class football experience for our fans." "As the league with the highest average number of goals per game, and the highest stadium attendance globally, the Bundesliga is one of the most entertaining sports leagues in the world," said Andy Isherwood, Vice President and Managing Director EMEA, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "We are thrilled to work with the Bundesliga and help them use cloud technology to give football fans around the world a more engaging match day experience and look forward to helping them leverage our deep portfolio of ML and AI services so they can deliver even greater insight into the world's favourite game." Football fans can follow all of the latest Bundesliga action, with statistics powered by AWS, on Bundesliga.com and via the official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram channels.

<p><em>Germany's premier football league to use AWS machine learning and analytics to enhance the fan experience and deliver new game and player statistics during the 2019-20 season and beyond</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2020-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Germany's Bundesliga has selected AWS as its official technology provider to deliver more in-depth insight into every live broadcast of Bundesliga games and enable new personalized fan experiences. Bundesliga will use AWS artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), analytics, compute, database, and storage services to deliver real-time statistics to predict future plays and game outcomes, and recommend personalized match footage across mobile, online, streaming, and television broadcasts.</p><p>Using AWS technology, Germany's premier national football league will build new cloud-based services that automate processes, increase operational efficiency, and enhance the viewing experience for the league's rapidly growing global fan base. By developing a new, next-generation statistics platform on AWS, using Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service to build, train, and deploy ML models, Bundesliga will offer fans real-time predictions on when a goal is likely to be scored, identify potential goal-scoring opportunities, and highlight how teams are positioning and controlling the field, based on live data streams and historical data from over 10,000 Bundesliga games. Bundesliga also plans to leverage AWS ML services, such as Amazon Personalize, an ML service to create real-time and individualized recommendations, to offer fans personalized game footage, marketing promotions, and search results based on their favorite teams, players, or matches.</p><p>Using other AWS ML services, including Amazon Rekognition, an intelligent image and video analysis service, Bundesliga will build a cloud-based media archive that will automatically tag specific frames, from its more than 150,000 hours of video, with metadata such as game, jersey, player, team, and venue, so that the league can easily search historical footage and surface pivotal plays for in-game broadcasts, in more than 200 countries. This archive will enable Bundesliga to search across its entire history of football footage to provide a more enhanced viewing experience for fans and automate the current manual process of searching and tagging match highlights.</p><p>"We are extremely excited to be working alongside AWS to develop the next generation of football viewing experience," said Christian Seifert, CEO of Bundesliga. "Innovation means challenging the status quo. Working closely with AWS, as one of the most innovative technology companies in the world, significantly enhances the investment we've made in innovation over the past two decades, all of which contributes to us being able to deliver a world-class football experience for our fans."</p><p>"As the league with the highest average number of goals per game, and the highest stadium attendance globally, the Bundesliga is one of the most entertaining sports leagues in the world," said Andy Isherwood, Vice President and Managing Director EMEA, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "We are thrilled to work with the Bundesliga and help them use cloud technology to give football fans around the world a more engaging match day experience and look forward to helping them leverage our deep portfolio of ML and AI services so they can deliver even greater insight into the world's favourite game."</p><p>Football fans can follow all of the latest Bundesliga action, with statistics powered by AWS, on Bundesliga.com and via the official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram channels.</p>

Amazon Fire TV Introduces Expanded Suite of Features and New Solution Providers for Fire TV Edition Partners

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Fire TV Edition now powers over 50 TV and soundbar models in more than 10 countries Fire TV Edition for Auto enables vehicle manufacturers to integrate Fire TV directly into in-car entertainment systems—BMW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles among first to use the service in future vehicles Fire TV Edition for Operators offers service providers more device choices and new opportunities to integrate their content into the Fire TV experience—Verizon and Tata Sky are the first to integrate SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Today, Amazon announced the expansion of the Fire TV Edition program, delivering a richer experience and more opportunities for developers, operators, device makers and manufacturers across multiple categories including automotive, smart TVs, soundbars and streaming media players. Fire TV has passed more than 40 million active users, and customers globally have access to tens of thousands of channels, apps, Alexa skills and more. With this expanded Fire TV Edition, it will be even easier for device makers to integrate Fire TV into their products, with new tools and services for each category that will enable companies to bring tailored entertainment experiences and great content to their customers. "At CES 2017, we announced the first Fire TV Edition smart TV. Now, just three years later, Fire TV Edition has grown into a worldwide program which will include more than 150 Fire TV Edition models across more than ten countries by the end of the year," said Marc Whitten, Vice President, Amazon Fire TV. "Our expanded Fire TV Edition program provides companies with the services and tools they need to bring Fire TV to more categories and more screens." Since 2017, Amazon has expanded its Fire TV Edition program each year to bring new features and services to partners. In 2018, Amazon and Best Buy announced an initiative to bring Fire TV Edition TVs to customers in the United States and Canada, and to date, they have sold millions of Insignia and Toshiba Fire TV Edition smart TVs. "Over the past year, Best Buy has sold millions of Fire TV Edition smart TVs on BestBuy.com, in our stores and as a third-party seller on Amazon.com. We've enjoyed working with the Amazon team to bring these high-quality TVs and the incredible Fire TV experience to our customers," said Luke Motschenbacher, Vice President of Merchandising, Best Buy. Following the success of Fire TV Edition smart TVs with Best Buy, Amazon announced plans to expand internationally, bringing the next generation of Fire TV Edition devices to customers in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Ireland and India. In 2019, more than 50 Fire TV Edition smart TVs and soundbars have launched from global brands like Grundig, JVC, Onida and Anker and retailers like Best Buy, Currys PC World and MediaMarktSaturn (coming 2020). Amazon will continue its international expansion with more brands launching Fire TV Edition smart TVs in the United States, Canada, India, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and Mexico in the coming year. Introducing Fire TV Edition for Soundbars This past September, Amazon and Anker Innovations announced the Nebula Soundbar–Fire TV Edition, the first Fire TV Edition soundbar featuring an all-in-one home cinema experience with expansive video streaming and stunning sound. Starting today, the TCL Alto 8+ Soundbar–Fire TV Edition is available on Amazon in the United States and Canada. Customers of amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.it and amazon.es can sign up today to be notified when the TCL TS8011 Soundbar–Fire TV Edition is available on Amazon. Both soundbars are designed to support premium acoustic performance, with carefully tuned speaker drivers and support for Dolby Digital Plus producing clear, dynamic and immersive sound. Amazon now works with a growing number of device manufacturers including Anker, Polk Audio and Tonly on soundbar solutions. Later this year, Fire TV Edition soundbars will offer new features including Dolby Atmos support, compatible device control, HDMI switching and far-field voice control, along with partner customizations. Introducing Fire TV Edition for Auto Building on the success of Fire TV Edition smart TVs and soundbars, Amazon is expanding the program to automakers, partnering with BMW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). With hands-free access to Alexa, touch screen interface and offline playback capabilities, parents and kids alike can enjoy the living room TV experience in the car and watch a wide variety of content and the latest shows from the most popular video services worldwide and shows recorded with Fire TV Recast or saved locally on-device. Content can be streamed using a vehicle's Wi-Fi or LTE connection, a mobile hotspot or any other WAN-enabled device. "Adding Fire TV to future BMW vehicles represents a big step in bringing the best of streamed entertainment to our products. With Amazon's approach, and with the help of Garmin, we are able to innovate and create a unique and special experience for BMW cars, providing the consistency of content and customer experience that Fire TV provides in the home. We look forward to working closely with Amazon to bring Fire TV to future vehicles," said Fathi El-Dwaik, Vice President User Interaction, Business Line My Car and Business Line My Life, BMW Group. Introducing Fire TV Edition for Operators Starting today, Fire TV is enabling television and telecommunication operators to quickly bring Fire TV Edition devices to their customers in a more customized and cost-effective way. After successfully introducing Fire TV partnerships with Tata Sky in India and Verizon in the United States, Fire TV is now expanding the device offerings available to operators, allowing them to choose the best solution that fits their customer and business needs as well as providing merchandising opportunities in the Fire TV Edition customer experience. The Fire TV Edition for Operators is available today in North America, Europe, India and Japan. Introducing Fire TV Edition – Certified Solutions Providers Fire TV is enabling partners across a variety of industries and categories to work with certified solutions providers to rapidly bring the latest Fire TV Edition devices to customers. Amazon currently works with a growing number of TV manufacturers who produce Fire TV Edition smart TVs. Vestel, Arcelik, Compal, TPV and others can now build Fire TV Edition smart TVs for their customers with manufacturing and assembly capabilities around the world. Today, Amazon announced Skyworth as the latest global ODM with turnkey solutions for smart TVs. These turnkey solutions enable Skyworth and other ODMs to work with the world's leading TV brands to bring high-quality, differentiated, cost-effective 4K and FHD smart TVs to customers. Starting in India, brands can choose from a selection of manufacturers with various industrial design and price options to bring an entire lineup of smart TVs to customers. The turnkey ODM solution offered in collaboration with Amazon includes out-of-the-box reference designs, schematics and boards designed with CVTE, a leading LCD TV mainboard provider for feature-rich 4K and FHD smart TVs; self-service tools and software customizations, such as settings SDK for custom picture and audio settings; and customized industrial design and hardware options. "We are excited to build a scalable, worldwide smart TV program with Fire TV Edition," said Tony Wang, CEO and Chairman of Skyworth TV Business Division. "ODMs & OEMs can offer customers the choice of a top-rated smart TV software experience along with the speed, value and high-quality hardware that they always expect from Skyworth." For auto partners, Amazon is working with leading system integrators VOXX Automotive and Garmin to deliver solutions and services that can significantly accelerate the development cycle for automakers. "By working with Amazon to enable Fire TV for in-vehicle entertainment, we have been able to create a reference implementation that automotive OEMs can build into their vehicle programs and bring all of the rich entertainment of Fire TV into automotive grade installations," said Ed Mas, President, VOXX Automotive, a division of VOXX International Corporation. For operators, Amazon also announced it is working with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) to enable its members the ability to deliver low cost Fire TV streaming media players directly to their customers. NCTC has over 750 members, including independent cable and telecommunication operators, delivering service to 16 million broadband and 8 million video customers in the aggregate. Device makers and operators interested in learning more about the Fire TV Edition program can visit: https://developer.amazon.com/apps-and-games/fire-tv-edition. 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/20200106005589/en/ Source: Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr

<p><em>Fire TV Edition now powers over 50 TV and soundbar models in more than 10 countries</em></p><p><em>Fire TV Edition for Auto enables vehicle manufacturers to integrate Fire TV directly into in-car entertainment systems—BMW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles among first to use the service in future vehicles</em></p><p><em>Fire TV Edition for Operators offers service providers more device choices and new opportunities to integrate their content into the Fire TV experience—Verizon and Tata Sky are the first to integrate</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2020-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Today, Amazon announced the expansion of the Fire TV Edition program, delivering a richer experience and more opportunities for developers, operators, device makers and manufacturers across multiple categories including automotive, smart TVs, soundbars and streaming media players. Fire TV has passed more than 40 million active users, and customers globally have access to tens of thousands of channels, apps, Alexa skills and more. With this expanded Fire TV Edition, it will be even easier for device makers to integrate Fire TV into their products, with new tools and services for each category that will enable companies to bring tailored entertainment experiences and great content to their customers.</p><p>"At CES 2017, we announced the first Fire TV Edition smart TV. Now, just three years later, Fire TV Edition has grown into a worldwide program which will include more than 150 Fire TV Edition models across more than ten countries by the end of the year," said Marc Whitten, Vice President, Amazon Fire TV. "Our expanded Fire TV Edition program provides companies with the services and tools they need to bring Fire TV to more categories and more screens."</p><p>Since 2017, Amazon has expanded its Fire TV Edition program each year to bring new features and services to partners. In 2018, Amazon and Best Buy announced an initiative to bring Fire TV Edition TVs to customers in the United States and Canada, and to date, they have sold millions of Insignia and Toshiba Fire TV Edition smart TVs.</p><p>"Over the past year, Best Buy has sold millions of Fire TV Edition smart TVs on BestBuy.com, in our stores and as a third-party seller on Amazon.com. We've enjoyed working with the Amazon team to bring these high-quality TVs and the incredible Fire TV experience to our customers," said Luke Motschenbacher, Vice President of Merchandising, Best Buy.</p><p>Following the success of Fire TV Edition smart TVs with Best Buy, Amazon announced plans to expand internationally, bringing the next generation of Fire TV Edition devices to customers in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Ireland and India. In 2019, more than 50 Fire TV Edition smart TVs and soundbars have launched from global brands like Grundig, JVC, Onida and Anker and retailers like Best Buy, Currys PC World and MediaMarktSaturn (coming 2020). Amazon will continue its international expansion with more brands launching Fire TV Edition smart TVs in the United States, Canada, India, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and Mexico in the coming year.</p><p><em>Introducing Fire TV Edition for Soundbars</em></p><p>This past September, Amazon and Anker Innovations announced the Nebula Soundbar–Fire TV Edition, the first Fire TV Edition soundbar featuring an all-in-one home cinema experience with expansive video streaming and stunning sound. Starting today, the TCL Alto 8+ Soundbar–Fire TV Edition is available on Amazon in the United States and Canada. Customers of amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.it and amazon.es can sign up today to be notified when the TCL TS8011 Soundbar–Fire TV Edition is available on Amazon. Both soundbars are designed to support premium acoustic performance, with carefully tuned speaker drivers and support for Dolby Digital Plus producing clear, dynamic and immersive sound.</p><p>Amazon now works with a growing number of device manufacturers including Anker, Polk Audio and Tonly on soundbar solutions. Later this year, Fire TV Edition soundbars will offer new features including Dolby Atmos support, compatible device control, HDMI switching and far-field voice control, along with partner customizations.</p><p><em>Introducing Fire TV Edition for Auto</em></p><p>Building on the success of Fire TV Edition smart TVs and soundbars, Amazon is expanding the program to automakers, partnering with BMW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). With hands-free access to Alexa, touch screen interface and offline playback capabilities, parents and kids alike can enjoy the living room TV experience in the car and watch a wide variety of content and the latest shows from the most popular video services worldwide and shows recorded with Fire TV Recast or saved locally on-device. Content can be streamed using a vehicle's Wi-Fi or LTE connection, a mobile hotspot or any other WAN-enabled device.</p><p>"Adding Fire TV to future BMW vehicles represents a big step in bringing the best of streamed entertainment to our products. With Amazon's approach, and with the help of Garmin, we are able to innovate and create a unique and special experience for BMW cars, providing the consistency of content and customer experience that Fire TV provides in the home. We look forward to working closely with Amazon to bring Fire TV to future vehicles," said Fathi El-Dwaik, Vice President User Interaction, Business Line My Car and Business Line My Life, BMW Group.</p><p><em>Introducing Fire TV Edition for Operators</em></p><p>Starting today, Fire TV is enabling television and telecommunication operators to quickly bring Fire TV Edition devices to their customers in a more customized and cost-effective way. After successfully introducing Fire TV partnerships with Tata Sky in India and Verizon in the United States, Fire TV is now expanding the device offerings available to operators, allowing them to choose the best solution that fits their customer and business needs as well as providing merchandising opportunities in the Fire TV Edition customer experience.</p><p>The Fire TV Edition for Operators is available today in North America, Europe, India and Japan.</p><p><em>Introducing Fire TV Edition – Certified Solutions Providers</em></p><p>Fire TV is enabling partners across a variety of industries and categories to work with certified solutions providers to rapidly bring the latest Fire TV Edition devices to customers. Amazon currently works with a growing number of TV manufacturers who produce Fire TV Edition smart TVs. Vestel, Arcelik, Compal, TPV and others can now build Fire TV Edition smart TVs for their customers with manufacturing and assembly capabilities around the world.</p><p>Today, Amazon announced Skyworth as the latest global ODM with turnkey solutions for smart TVs. These turnkey solutions enable Skyworth and other ODMs to work with the world's leading TV brands to bring high-quality, differentiated, cost-effective 4K and FHD smart TVs to customers. Starting in India, brands can choose from a selection of manufacturers with various industrial design and price options to bring an entire lineup of smart TVs to customers.</p><p>The turnkey ODM solution offered in collaboration with Amazon includes out-of-the-box reference designs, schematics and boards designed with CVTE, a leading LCD TV mainboard provider for feature-rich 4K and FHD smart TVs; self-service tools and software customizations, such as settings SDK for custom picture and audio settings; and customized industrial design and hardware options.</p><p>"We are excited to build a scalable, worldwide smart TV program with Fire TV Edition," said Tony Wang, CEO and Chairman of Skyworth TV Business Division. "ODMs &amp; OEMs can offer customers the choice of a top-rated smart TV software experience along with the speed, value and high-quality hardware that they always expect from Skyworth."</p><p>For auto partners, Amazon is working with leading system integrators VOXX Automotive and Garmin to deliver solutions and services that can significantly accelerate the development cycle for automakers.</p><p>"By working with Amazon to enable Fire TV for in-vehicle entertainment, we have been able to create a reference implementation that automotive OEMs can build into their vehicle programs and bring all of the rich entertainment of Fire TV into automotive grade installations," said Ed Mas, President, VOXX Automotive, a division of VOXX International Corporation.</p><p>For operators, Amazon also announced it is working with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) to enable its members the ability to deliver low cost Fire TV streaming media players directly to their customers. NCTC has over 750 members, including independent cable and telecommunication operators, delivering service to 16 million broadband and 8 million video customers in the aggregate.</p><p>Device makers and operators interested in learning more about the Fire TV Edition program can visit: https://developer.amazon.com/apps-and-games/fire-tv-edition.</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/20200106005589/en/</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p>

Amazon Announces Plans to Create 550 New Jobs at Phoenix Tech Hub

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Amazon Announces Plans to Create 550 New Jobs at Phoenix Tech Hub

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More than 400 corporate and tech roles are currently available at Amazon's Phoenix Tech Hub. Those interested can apply at amazon.jobs PHOENIX, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 2021-- Amazon today announced plans to create more than 550 corporate and tech jobs in Tempe, Arizona, over the next few years, further expanding the company's Phoenix Tech Hub. These new roles will support Amazon's growing teams in Consumer Retail, Amazon Web Services, and Operations, and include positions such as software development engineers, senior solution architects, project managers, and business analysts. "Not only do Phoenix and Tempe have an incredible existing talent pipeline, but this is a place where people want to move to as well," said Doug Welzel, site lead for Amazon's Phoenix Tech Hub. "We've experienced amazing growth over the last few years, creating jobs and economic opportunity for the wider community. We've already created more than 5,000 corporate and tech jobs in the Phoenix area and we are excited to continue investing here." "It's investments from companies like Amazon that will continue to help Tempe attract more businesses and tech talent to our city," said Corey Woods, Mayor of Tempe. "These types of investments not only create good jobs, but they help to power the economic engine of our community and provide more opportunities for our residents and citizens." "We are proud of Amazon's continued investments in Arizona and the more than 32,000 jobs they support," said Sandra Watson, President and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority. "The latest expansion of Amazon's Tech Hub in Tempe reflects our highly skilled and growing workforce as well as our premier attractiveness for technology and innovation." To accommodate its growth in Phoenix, Amazon has signed on to a 63,000-square-foot expansion at its existing offices at 100 S. Mill Avenue in Tempe, developed by Cousins Properties and Hines. The additional new office space is expected to open for employees in late 2022. Amazon currently has more than 5,000 tech and corporate employees working at its Phoenix Tech Hub. As part of its recruitment and hiring efforts, Amazon is constantly innovating and creating new programs to provide candidates of all backgrounds and levels of experience the opportunity to join the company. Two of the latest programs include: Amazon Returnship, an initiative to help professionals get back to work after they lost or left their jobs—including people displaced by the impacts of COVID-19. Through this 16-week paid initiative, Amazon is offering the program to people who have been without a job or underemployed for at least a year. The initiative provides them a new opportunity to rejoin the workforce by restarting their careers at Amazon. Candidates go through a customized and abbreviated interview process that takes into account their career trajectory. Once they start in their new role, they receive dedicated support and personalized coaching. During the program, returners work on a specific project and, after four months, have the possibility to move into full-time positions at Amazon. Best Fit, a new program that allows software engineers to apply once and be considered for thousands of jobs across hundreds of teams within the company—including some roles they may not have even thought of. This investment at Amazon's Phoenix Tech Hub is part of a multi-city expansion across the country and company. The company plans to create 3,000 jobs across Austin, Chicago, and Phoenix in the next few years. Last year, Amazon announced it would create 500 jobs in the Phoenix area, with an investment also at 100 S. Mill Avenue. There are currently more than 400 corporate and tech roles available at Amazon's Phoenix Tech Hub. Those interested in can find more information here. Committed to Arizona Amazon continues to provide support for communities across Arizona, including organizations such as the Foundation for Southern Arizona, which provides grants to local organizations that support the LGBTQ+ community, and the Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture Community, a Native American-governed nonprofit with a mission of supporting a sustainable and just local food system in Ajo, Arizona, and the surrounding region. Amazon also supports local schools through Amazon Future Engineer, a global computer science education program designed to inspire and educate millions of students each year to try computer science and coding. The program supports more than 40 schools across Phoenix, reaching almost 1,100 students with high-quality computer science curriculum, robotics clubs, and project-based learning. Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 32,000 full- and part-time jobs in Arizona and invested more than $16 billion across the state, including infrastructure from fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market locations, and the Phoenix Tech Hub. These investments have contributed an additional $13 billion to the Arizona economy and have supported 44,000 indirect jobs—in addition to the employees the company directly employs—from jobs in construction to positions in logistics and professional services. Currently, more than 37,500 independent authors and small and medium-sized businesses in Arizona are growing their businesses with Amazon. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211221005239/en/ For media inquiries:Zach Goldsztejn amazon-pr@amazon.com Source: Amazon

<p><em>More than 400 corporate and tech roles are currently available at Amazon's Phoenix Tech Hub. Those interested can apply at amazon.jobs</em></p><p>PHOENIX, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 2021-- Amazon today announced plans to create more than 550 corporate and tech jobs in Tempe, Arizona, over the next few years, further expanding the company's Phoenix Tech Hub. These new roles will support Amazon's growing teams in Consumer Retail, Amazon Web Services, and Operations, and include positions such as software development engineers, senior solution architects, project managers, and business analysts.</p><p>"Not only do Phoenix and Tempe have an incredible existing talent pipeline, but this is a place where people want to move to as well," said Doug Welzel, site lead for Amazon's Phoenix Tech Hub. "We've experienced amazing growth over the last few years, creating jobs and economic opportunity for the wider community. We've already created more than 5,000 corporate and tech jobs in the Phoenix area and we are excited to continue investing here."</p><p>"It's investments from companies like Amazon that will continue to help Tempe attract more businesses and tech talent to our city," said Corey Woods, Mayor of Tempe. "These types of investments not only create good jobs, but they help to power the economic engine of our community and provide more opportunities for our residents and citizens."</p><p>"We are proud of Amazon's continued investments in Arizona and the more than 32,000 jobs they support," said Sandra Watson, President and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority. "The latest expansion of Amazon's Tech Hub in Tempe reflects our highly skilled and growing workforce as well as our premier attractiveness for technology and innovation."</p><p>To accommodate its growth in Phoenix, Amazon has signed on to a 63,000-square-foot expansion at its existing offices at 100 S. Mill Avenue in Tempe, developed by Cousins Properties and Hines. The additional new office space is expected to open for employees in late 2022. Amazon currently has more than 5,000 tech and corporate employees working at its Phoenix Tech Hub.</p><p>As part of its recruitment and hiring efforts, Amazon is constantly innovating and creating new programs to provide candidates of all backgrounds and levels of experience the opportunity to join the company. Two of the latest programs include:</p><ul><li>Amazon Returnship, an initiative to help professionals get back to work after they lost or left their jobs—including people displaced by the impacts of COVID-19. Through this 16-week paid initiative, Amazon is offering the program to people who have been without a job or underemployed for at least a year. The initiative provides them a new opportunity to rejoin the workforce by restarting their careers at Amazon. Candidates go through a customized and abbreviated interview process that takes into account their career trajectory. Once they start in their new role, they receive dedicated support and personalized coaching. During the program, returners work on a specific project and, after four months, have the possibility to move into full-time positions at Amazon.</li><li>Best Fit, a new program that allows software engineers to apply once and be considered for thousands of jobs across hundreds of teams within the company—including some roles they may not have even thought of.</li></ul><p>This investment at Amazon's Phoenix Tech Hub is part of a multi-city expansion across the country and company. The company plans to create 3,000 jobs across Austin, Chicago, and Phoenix in the next few years. Last year, Amazon announced it would create 500 jobs in the Phoenix area, with an investment also at 100 S. Mill Avenue. There are currently more than 400 corporate and tech roles available at Amazon's Phoenix Tech Hub. Those interested in can find more information here.</p><p>Committed to Arizona</p><p>Amazon continues to provide support for communities across Arizona, including organizations such as the Foundation for Southern Arizona, which provides grants to local organizations that support the LGBTQ+ community, and the Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture Community, a Native American-governed nonprofit with a mission of supporting a sustainable and just local food system in Ajo, Arizona, and the surrounding region.</p><p>Amazon also supports local schools through Amazon Future Engineer, a global computer science education program designed to inspire and educate millions of students each year to try computer science and coding. The program supports more than 40 schools across Phoenix, reaching almost 1,100 students with high-quality computer science curriculum, robotics clubs, and project-based learning.</p><p>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 32,000 full- and part-time jobs in Arizona and invested more than $16 billion across the state, including infrastructure from fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market locations, and the Phoenix Tech Hub. These investments have contributed an additional $13 billion to the Arizona economy and have supported 44,000 indirect jobs—in addition to the employees the company directly employs—from jobs in construction to positions in logistics and professional services. Currently, more than 37,500 independent authors and small and medium-sized businesses in Arizona are growing their businesses with Amazon.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211221005239/en/</p><p>For media inquiries:Zach Goldsztejn amazon-pr@amazon.com</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Announces Plans to Create 2,000 New Jobs at Austin Tech Hub

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More than 1,000 corporate and tech roles are currently available at Amazon's Austin offices. Those interested can apply at amazon.jobs AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 2021-- Amazon today announced plans to create more than 2,000 corporate and tech jobs in Austin, Texas, over the next few years, further expanding the company's Austin Tech Hub. These new roles will support teams growing in Operations Technology, Amazon Retail, Amazon Business, and Amazon Web Services, and include positions such as senior data engineers, senior technical program managers, user experience designers, and financial analysts. "Our continued investment in Austin is a testament to the amazing talent and amenities that this city has to offer," said Doug Gray, site lead for Amazon's Austin Tech Hub. "With more than 3,000 jobs already created and more than 1,000 corporate and technology roles currently available, we're looking forward to continue offering exciting career opportunities to local residents." To accommodate its growth in Austin, Amazon has signed on to lease 330,000 square feet of space at a new building developed by Cousins Properties at The Domain in Austin. The new office space is expected to open for employees in early 2024. Amazon currently has more than 3,000 tech and corporate employees working at its Austin Tech Hub. This latest investment will join Amazon's three existing locations in Austin at The Domain, which provides access to local retail, restaurants, entertainment, and more. As part of its recruitment and hiring efforts, Amazon is constantly innovating and creating new programs to provide candidates of all backgrounds and levels of experience the opportunity to join the company. Two of the latest programs include: Amazon Returnship, an initiative to help professionals get back to work after they lost or left their jobs—including people displaced by the impacts of COVID-19. Through this 16-week paid initiative, Amazon is offering the program to people who have been without a job or underemployed for at least a year. The initiative provides them a new opportunity to rejoin the workforce by restarting their careers at Amazon. Candidates go through a customized and abbreviated interview process that takes into account their career trajectory. Once they start in their new role, they receive dedicated support and personalized coaching. During the program, returners work on a specific project and, after four months, have the possibility to move into full-time positions at Amazon. Best Fit, a new program that allows software engineers to apply once and be considered for thousands of jobs across hundreds of teams within the company—including some roles they may not have even thought of. This investment at Amazon's Austin Tech Hub is part of a multi-city expansion across the country and company. The company plans to create 3,000 jobs across Austin, Chicago, and Phoenix in the next few years. In the last 18 months, Amazon also announced expansions of its offices in Houston (150 new jobs) and Dallas (600 new jobs). Those interested in applying can learn more here. Committed to AustinBeyond its efforts to create jobs, Amazon continues to provide support for organizations in the Austin community, including the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce, the Equality Texas Foundation, and the University of Texas through the university's We Teach CS Conference. Amazon also worked with United Way and the City of Georgetown to donate relief supplies for those affected by winter storm Uri in February 2021. Additionally, Amazon has donated transportation services to deliver more than 80,000 meals to vulnerable groups across the Austin region through the Community Delivery program. Amazon also supports local schools through Amazon Future Engineer, a global computer science education program designed to inspire and educate millions of students each year to try computer science and coding. The program supports more than 20 schools across Austin, reaching almost 1,300 students with high-quality computer science curriculum, robotics clubs, and project-based learning. Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 70,000 full- and part-time jobs in Texas and invested more than $29 billion across the state, including infrastructure from fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market locations, and three tech hubs. These investments have contributed an additional $34 billion to the Texas economy and have supported 136,000 indirect jobs—in addition to the employees the company directly employs—from jobs in construction to positions in logistics and professional services. Currently, more than 112,000 independent authors and small and medium-sized businesses in Texas are growing their businesses with Amazon. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211221005234/en/ Media inquiries:Zach Goldsztejnamazon-pr@amazon.com Source: Amazon

<p><em>More than 1,000 corporate and tech roles are currently available at Amazon's Austin offices. Those interested can apply at </em><em>amazon.jobs</em></p><p>AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 2021-- Amazon today announced plans to create more than 2,000 corporate and tech jobs in Austin, Texas, over the next few years, further expanding the company's Austin Tech Hub. These new roles will support teams growing in Operations Technology, Amazon Retail, Amazon Business, and Amazon Web Services, and include positions such as senior data engineers, senior technical program managers, user experience designers, and financial analysts.</p><p>"Our continued investment in Austin is a testament to the amazing talent and amenities that this city has to offer," said Doug Gray, site lead for Amazon's Austin Tech Hub. "With more than 3,000 jobs already created and more than 1,000 corporate and technology roles currently available, we're looking forward to continue offering exciting career opportunities to local residents."</p><p>To accommodate its growth in Austin, Amazon has signed on to lease 330,000 square feet of space at a new building developed by Cousins Properties at The Domain in Austin. The new office space is expected to open for employees in early 2024. Amazon currently has more than 3,000 tech and corporate employees working at its Austin Tech Hub. This latest investment will join Amazon's three existing locations in Austin at The Domain, which provides access to local retail, restaurants, entertainment, and more.</p><p>As part of its recruitment and hiring efforts, Amazon is constantly innovating and creating new programs to provide candidates of all backgrounds and levels of experience the opportunity to join the company. Two of the latest programs include:</p><ul><li>Amazon Returnship, an initiative to help professionals get back to work after they lost or left their jobs—including people displaced by the impacts of COVID-19. Through this 16-week paid initiative, Amazon is offering the program to people who have been without a job or underemployed for at least a year. The initiative provides them a new opportunity to rejoin the workforce by restarting their careers at Amazon. Candidates go through a customized and abbreviated interview process that takes into account their career trajectory. Once they start in their new role, they receive dedicated support and personalized coaching. During the program, returners work on a specific project and, after four months, have the possibility to move into full-time positions at Amazon.</li><li>Best Fit, a new program that allows software engineers to apply once and be considered for thousands of jobs across hundreds of teams within the company—including some roles they may not have even thought of.</li></ul><p>This investment at Amazon's Austin Tech Hub is part of a multi-city expansion across the country and company. The company plans to create 3,000 jobs across Austin, Chicago, and Phoenix in the next few years. In the last 18 months, Amazon also announced expansions of its offices in Houston (150 new jobs) and Dallas (600 new jobs). Those interested in applying can learn more here.</p><p>Committed to AustinBeyond its efforts to create jobs, Amazon continues to provide support for organizations in the Austin community, including the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce, the Equality Texas Foundation, and the University of Texas through the university's We Teach CS Conference. Amazon also worked with United Way and the City of Georgetown to donate relief supplies for those affected by winter storm Uri in February 2021. Additionally, Amazon has donated transportation services to deliver more than 80,000 meals to vulnerable groups across the Austin region through the Community Delivery program.</p><p>Amazon also supports local schools through Amazon Future Engineer, a global computer science education program designed to inspire and educate millions of students each year to try computer science and coding. The program supports more than 20 schools across Austin, reaching almost 1,300 students with high-quality computer science curriculum, robotics clubs, and project-based learning.</p><p>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 70,000 full- and part-time jobs in Texas and invested more than $29 billion across the state, including infrastructure from fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market locations, and three tech hubs. These investments have contributed an additional $34 billion to the Texas economy and have supported 136,000 indirect jobs—in addition to the employees the company directly employs—from jobs in construction to positions in logistics and professional services. Currently, more than 112,000 independent authors and small and medium-sized businesses in Texas are growing their businesses with Amazon.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211221005234/en/</p><p>Media inquiries:Zach Goldsztejnamazon-pr@amazon.com</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Donates an Additional $1.5 Million to The Housing Fund in Nashville to Help Preserve Housing Affordability

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Amazon Donates an Additional $1.5 Million to The Housing Fund in Nashville to Help Preserve Housing Affordability

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Donation follows initial $2.25 million investment from 2020 to help people at risk of losing their homes during challenging economic times Additional funds aim to ease tax burdens on eligible landlords committed to maintaining affordable rental housing NASHVILLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it was providing the affordable housing nonprofit The Housing Fund an additional $1.5 million donation to help housing residents in Nashville, Tennessee who have been battered by COVID-19 and the events over the past two years, including tax increases. Through this additional funding, The Housing Fund aims to further support local residents by easing the increased tax burdens on eligible landlords who are committed to maintaining affordable housing and might otherwise pass on rent increases to residents. This donation is on top of Amazon's first contribution to The Housing Fund of $2.25 million in 2020, which established The Housing Resiliency Fund, a program within the nonprofit aimed at supporting qualified homeowners with property tax relief. "Amazon's latest contribution will enable The Housing Resiliency Fund to expand its reach to help landlords of small multifamily and naturally occurring affordable housing dwellings of 50 units or less," said Marshall Crawford, president & CEO of The Housing Fund. "As their taxes go up, landlords also need relief so the burden is not passed on to tenants. These tenants are people who need to stay in their homes. We have been able to help hundreds of families so far and hope to continue that progress with Amazon's support." Earlier this year, Nashville Mayor John Cooper convened an affordable housing task force that determined that the Nashville region's projected population growth rate will require more than 53,000 new homes by 2030. To meet this goal, the task force recommended that the city preserve affordable housing stock and prioritize preservation of expiring subsidized and naturally occurring affordable housing. The task force's report also found that this support could even incentivize landlords to invest in the upkeep of their properties and keep them affordable. With this latest donation from Amazon, The Housing Resiliency Fund expands its support, beyond the original homeowner support, and provides funding to help eligible landlords. It also continues to make payments to mortgage companies and the Metro government on behalf of qualified homeowners to help mitigate the impact of rising housing costs. Since establishing The Housing Resiliency Fund last year, Amazon's donations have helped 412 households pay property taxes and remain in their homes, 76% of which are households of color and 74% of which make less than 80% of Nashville's Area Median Income (AMI). This translates to less than $68,000 annually for a family of four, and less than $48,000 for an individual. Through The Housing Resiliency Fund, the majority of recipients have a commitment for five years of support. "Financial challenges of late continue to weigh heavily on the residents of Nashville," said Catherine Buell, director of the Amazon Housing Equity Fund. "We are committed to helping them feel relief and assurance knowing that they can stay in their homes. We look forward to expanding our impact in the region even further by supporting our neighbors in keeping their communities stable, safe, and sustainable places to live." "We know that housing stability is tightly interwoven with job stability, school success, and decreasing dependence on social services. Providing landlords with a way to absorb higher taxes from rising property values can help keep rents affordable for the vulnerable populations who need that most," said Council Member Burkley Allen, At-Large, Nashville Metropolitan Council. "I am thankful for Amazon's commitment to affordable housing and their additional contribution to the Housing Resiliency Fund." Amazon's partnership with The Housing Resiliency Fund is part of Amazon's commitment to housing affordability initiatives in the communities where its employees live and work. Amazon launched the Amazon Housing Equity Fund in January 2021, which is a more than $2 billion commitment to preserve and create more than 20,000 affordable housing units in the Puget Sound region in Washington state; Arlington, Virginia; and Nashville, Tennessee. These are three communities where the company has a large and growing presence. The Amazon Housing Equity Fund's first commitment in Nashville consisted of $75 million in low-rate loans for developers to create 800 affordable homes in Nashville near WeGo transit corridors. Most recently, Amazon launched an accelerator program across all three locations, which offers professional development, mentorship, and early grant funding to emerging developers of color to help increase inclusive housing developments and community building. Locally, the accelerator program has partnered with the Urban League of Middle Tennessee. Since announcing a new office in Nashville in 2018, Amazon has created more than 2,500 corporate and technology jobs in the city—halfway towards our goal of 5,000 jobs—and is also committed to supporting the local community with contributions and delivery service for local food banks. Amazon Future Engineer supports more than 240 schools statewide, including Nashville schools, with a high-quality computer science curriculum, robotics clubs, and/or educator professional learning. 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 The Housing Fund The Housing Fund provides resources and creative leadership to help individuals and communities create and maintain affordable and healthy places in which low-and moderate-income people live. Through our various loan products and education programs, we strive to make affordable housing and healthy communities available for all Tennesseans. For more information about our programs, visit thehousingfund.org. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211215005187/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Donation follows initial $2.25 million investment from 2020 to help people at risk of losing their homes during challenging economic times</em></p><p><em>Additional funds aim to ease tax burdens on eligible landlords</em> <em>committed to maintaining affordable rental housing</em></p><p>NASHVILLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it was providing the affordable housing nonprofit The Housing Fund an additional $1.5 million donation to help housing residents in Nashville, Tennessee who have been battered by COVID-19 and the events over the past two years, including tax increases. Through this additional funding, The Housing Fund aims to further support local residents by easing the increased tax burdens on eligible landlords who are committed to maintaining affordable housing and might otherwise pass on rent increases to residents. This donation is on top of Amazon's first contribution to The Housing Fund of $2.25 million in 2020, which established The Housing Resiliency Fund, a program within the nonprofit aimed at supporting qualified homeowners with property tax relief.</p><p>"Amazon's latest contribution will enable The Housing Resiliency Fund to expand its reach to help landlords of small multifamily and naturally occurring affordable housing dwellings of 50 units or less," said Marshall Crawford, president &amp; CEO of The Housing Fund. "As their taxes go up, landlords also need relief so the burden is not passed on to tenants. These tenants are people who need to stay in their homes. We have been able to help hundreds of families so far and hope to continue that progress with Amazon's support."</p><p>Earlier this year, Nashville Mayor John Cooper convened an affordable housing task force that determined that the Nashville region's projected population growth rate will require more than 53,000 new homes by 2030. To meet this goal, the task force recommended that the city preserve affordable housing stock and prioritize preservation of expiring subsidized and naturally occurring affordable housing. The task force's report also found that this support could even incentivize landlords to invest in the upkeep of their properties and keep them affordable.</p><p>With this latest donation from Amazon, The Housing Resiliency Fund expands its support, beyond the original homeowner support, and provides funding to help eligible landlords. It also continues to make payments to mortgage companies and the Metro government on behalf of qualified homeowners to help mitigate the impact of rising housing costs. Since establishing The Housing Resiliency Fund last year, Amazon's donations have helped 412 households pay property taxes and remain in their homes, 76% of which are households of color and 74% of which make less than 80% of Nashville's Area Median Income (AMI). This translates to less than $68,000 annually for a family of four, and less than $48,000 for an individual. Through The Housing Resiliency Fund, the majority of recipients have a commitment for five years of support.</p><p>"Financial challenges of late continue to weigh heavily on the residents of Nashville," said Catherine Buell, director of the Amazon Housing Equity Fund. "We are committed to helping them feel relief and assurance knowing that they can stay in their homes. We look forward to expanding our impact in the region even further by supporting our neighbors in keeping their communities stable, safe, and sustainable places to live."</p><p>"We know that housing stability is tightly interwoven with job stability, school success, and decreasing dependence on social services. Providing landlords with a way to absorb higher taxes from rising property values can help keep rents affordable for the vulnerable populations who need that most," said Council Member Burkley Allen, At-Large, Nashville Metropolitan Council. "I am thankful for Amazon's commitment to affordable housing and their additional contribution to the Housing Resiliency Fund."</p><p>Amazon's partnership with The Housing Resiliency Fund is part of Amazon's commitment to housing affordability initiatives in the communities where its employees live and work. Amazon launched the Amazon Housing Equity Fund in January 2021, which is a more than $2 billion commitment to preserve and create more than 20,000 affordable housing units in the Puget Sound region in Washington state; Arlington, Virginia; and Nashville, Tennessee. These are three communities where the company has a large and growing presence.</p><p>The Amazon Housing Equity Fund's first commitment in Nashville consisted of $75 million in low-rate loans for developers to create 800 affordable homes in Nashville near WeGo transit corridors. Most recently, Amazon launched an accelerator program across all three locations, which offers professional development, mentorship, and early grant funding to emerging developers of color to help increase inclusive housing developments and community building. Locally, the accelerator program has partnered with the Urban League of Middle Tennessee.</p><p>Since announcing a new office in Nashville in 2018, Amazon has created more than 2,500 corporate and technology jobs in the city—halfway towards our goal of 5,000 jobs—and is also committed to supporting the local community with contributions and delivery service for local food banks. Amazon Future Engineer supports more than 240 schools statewide, including Nashville schools, with a high-quality computer science curriculum, robotics clubs, and/or educator professional learning.</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 The Housing Fund</p><p>The Housing Fund provides resources and creative leadership to help individuals and communities create and maintain affordable and healthy places in which low-and moderate-income people live. Through our various loan products and education programs, we strive to make affordable housing and healthy communities available for all Tennesseans. For more information about our programs, visit thehousingfund.org.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211215005187/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special With Amazon Music—Featuring Eric Wareheim, Macaulay Culkin, Christine Ko, and Aparna Nancherla—to Stream on December 22

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The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special With Amazon Music—Featuring Eric Wareheim, Macaulay Culkin, Christine Ko, and Aparna Nancherla—to Stream on December 22

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Tune in to watch LCD Soundsystem perform their biggest hits alongside an ensemble cast playing the band in All My Friends, a sitcom written and directed by Eric Wareheim Watch the All My Friendssitcom opening credits sequence HERE (Credit: Amazon Music)Watch The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Specialevent trailer HERE (Credit: Amazon Music)Download stills and artwork HERE (Credit: Amazon Music) SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) Today, Amazon Music announced The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special, an innovative virtual event streaming December 22, featuring the band on the heels of their sold-out 20-show residency in Brooklyn. Comedian, actor, and writer Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) will direct and star in the special, which also features a star-studded cast including Macaulay Culkin, Christine Ko, and Aparna Nancherla portraying the band in a ‘90s-inspired sitcom titled All My Friends. Amazon Music invites fans around the world to watch on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch and Prime Video beginning at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST on December 22. Named for the 2007 LCD anthem, the All My Friends sitcom is set inside a fictional home shared by all of the members of LCD Soundsystem, with Eric Wareheim playing the band's fearless leader, James Murphy. The cast also includes actors Christine Ko as Nancy Whang (vocals and keyboards), Macaulay Culkin as Pat Mahoney (drums), Tony Cavalero as Nick Millhiser (synth), Cory Loykasek as Al Doyle (guitar and synth), Aparna Nancherla as Abby Echiverri (synth), Jon Daly as Tyler Pope (bass), Rex Lee as Brian Graf (LCD Soundsystem's manager), Luenell as the band's tour manager, and Eric's puppet as Korey Richey (synth). After the sitcom opens the show, the real LCD Soundsystem will take the stage to perform a career-spanning set-capped off with a special rendition of the band's 2015 single, "Christmas Will Break Your Heart," performed live for the first time ever. "I've already conquered film, James has conquered music, but we have yet to conquer the sitcom—the HIGHEST form of art," said Eric Wareheim. "We've been working on this project for 15 years, and for this show we're unveiling a uniquely emotional perspective of the sitcom universe for the holidays—provided by one of the greatest bands of all time and my dear friends, LCD Soundsystem. I can't believe Amazon Music is letting us do this." "I am similarly stunned that someone let us do this," said James Murphy. "At least we finally get to use our Korey puppet." Emerging from New York in the early ‘00s, LCD Soundsystem released the acclaimed albums LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver, and This Is Happening, before playing a 2011 farewell concert at New York's Madison Square Garden immortalized as the recently reissued The Long Goodbye. The band reunited five years later, and in 2017 released their #1-charting fourth album, American Dream, which featured the Best Dance Recording GRAMMY-winning "Tonite." American Dream isavailable to stream here. The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special airs on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch and on Prime Video for all Amazon customers globally on December 22 at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST. The show will also be available only for Prime members to watch on-demand on Prime Video for a limited time. Earlier this month, Amazon Music announced its biggest season of holiday programming yet, with a variety of new Amazon Original songs, including Taylor Swift's reimagined version of her beloved hit "Christmas Tree Farm," Camila Cabello's cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas," a fresh original song from Dan + Shay called "Pick Out a Christmas Tree," Leon Bridges' reimagined version of Marvin Gaye's "Purple Snowflakes," Sech's new original song, "Carta Navideña," and George Ezra's "Come on Home for Christmas." Listeners can find new Amazon Originals and classic hits on the global playlist, "Merry Mix." For a limited time, customers who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get three months free—with unlimited access to more than 75 million songs, ad-free, in the highest-quality streaming audio and millions of podcast episodes. 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 75 million songs and the latest new releases. Amazon Music Unlimited customers also now have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 75 million songs available in High Definition (HD), more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of spatial 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. Watch the All My Friendssitcom opening credits sequence HERE (Credit: Amazon Music)Watch TheLCD Soundsystem Holiday Specialevent trailer HERE (Credit: Amazon Music)Download stills and artwork HERE (Credit: Amazon Music) View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211214005409/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Music

<p><em>Tune in to watch LCD Soundsystem perform their biggest hits alongside an ensemble cast playing the band in </em>All My Friends<em>, a sitcom written and directed by Eric Wareheim</em></p><p><em>Watch the </em>All My Friends<em>sitcom opening credits sequence </em>HERE <em>(Credit: Amazon Music)Watch </em>The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special<em>event trailer</em> HERE <em>(Credit: Amazon Music)Download stills and artwork </em>HERE <em>(Credit: Amazon Music)</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) Today, Amazon Music announced <em>The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special</em>, an innovative virtual event streaming December 22, featuring the band on the heels of their sold-out 20-show residency in Brooklyn. Comedian, actor, and writer Eric Wareheim (<em>Tim &amp;</em> <em>Eric)</em> will direct and star in the special, which also features a star-studded cast including Macaulay Culkin, Christine Ko, and Aparna Nancherla portraying the band in a ‘90s-inspired sitcom titled <em>All My Friends</em>. Amazon Music invites fans around the world to watch on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch and Prime Video beginning at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST on December 22.</p><p>Named for the 2007 LCD anthem, the <em>All My Friends</em> sitcom is set inside a fictional home shared by all of the members of LCD Soundsystem, with Eric Wareheim playing the band's fearless leader, James Murphy. The cast also includes actors Christine Ko as Nancy Whang (vocals and keyboards), Macaulay Culkin as Pat Mahoney (drums), Tony Cavalero as Nick Millhiser (synth), Cory Loykasek as Al Doyle (guitar and synth), Aparna Nancherla as Abby Echiverri (synth), Jon Daly as Tyler Pope (bass), Rex Lee as Brian Graf (LCD Soundsystem's manager), Luenell as the band's tour manager, and Eric's puppet as Korey Richey (synth). After the sitcom opens the show, the real LCD Soundsystem will take the stage to perform a career-spanning set-capped off with a special rendition of the band's 2015 single, "Christmas Will Break Your Heart," performed live for the first time ever.</p><p>"I've already conquered film, James has conquered music, but we have yet to conquer the sitcom—the HIGHEST form of art," said Eric Wareheim. "We've been working on this project for 15 years, and for this show we're unveiling a uniquely emotional perspective of the sitcom universe for the holidays—provided by one of the greatest bands of all time and my dear friends, LCD Soundsystem. I can't believe Amazon Music is letting us do this."</p><p>"I am similarly stunned that someone let us do this," said James Murphy. "At least we finally get to use our Korey puppet."</p><p>Emerging from New York in the early ‘00s, LCD Soundsystem released the acclaimed albums <em>LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver</em>, and <em>This Is Happening,</em> before playing a 2011 farewell concert at New York's Madison Square Garden immortalized as the recently reissued <em>The Long Goodbye.</em> The band reunited five years later, and in 2017 released their #1-charting fourth album, <em>American Dream</em>, which featured the Best Dance Recording GRAMMY-winning "Tonite." <em>American Dream </em>isavailable to stream here. <em>The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special</em> airs on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch and on Prime Video for all Amazon customers globally on December 22 at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST. The show will also be available only for Prime members to watch on-demand on Prime Video for a limited time.</p><p>Earlier this month, Amazon Music announced its biggest season of holiday programming yet, with a variety of new Amazon Original songs, including Taylor Swift's reimagined version of her beloved hit "Christmas Tree Farm," Camila Cabello's cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas," a fresh original song from Dan + Shay called "Pick Out a Christmas Tree," Leon Bridges' reimagined version of Marvin Gaye's "Purple Snowflakes," Sech's new original song, "Carta Navideña," and George Ezra's "Come on Home for Christmas." Listeners can find new Amazon Originals and classic hits on the global playlist, "Merry Mix."</p><p>For a limited time, customers who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get three months free—with unlimited access to more than 75 million songs, ad-free, in the highest-quality streaming audio and millions of podcast episodes.</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 75 million songs and the latest new releases. Amazon Music Unlimited customers also now have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 75 million songs available in High Definition (HD), more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of spatial 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p><em>Watch the </em>All My Friends<em>sitcom opening credits sequence </em>HERE <em>(Credit: Amazon Music)Watch </em>TheLCD Soundsystem Holiday Special<em>event trailer</em> HERE <em>(Credit: Amazon Music)Download stills and artwork </em>HERE <em>(Credit: Amazon Music)</em></p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211214005409/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Music</p>

AWS Launches Region in Indonesia

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New AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region allows customers to run workloads and securely store data in Indonesia while serving end users with even lower latency Newly released AWS economic impact study estimates that the new AWS Region will create 24,700 direct and indirect jobs through a planned investment of $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in Indonesia over the next 15 years Hundreds of thousands of customers across Asia Pacific are innovating on AWS, including Halodoc, MNC Group, Optik Melawai, PT Pos Indonesia, Shipper, and XL Axiata SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2021-- Amazon Web Services, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations can run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in Indonesia leveraging advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation. AWS also released an economic impact study (EIS) estimating that the company's spending on the construction and operation of the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will create 24,700 direct and indirect jobs with an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in planned investment in the local economy. The Region will also add an estimated $10.9 billion (IDR$155 trillion) over the next 15 years to Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). For more information about AWS Global Infrastructure, visit aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure. "The cloud provides organizations of all types and sizes—from businesses to educational institutions to government agencies—opportunities to transform their operations and reinvent experiences for their customers and end users," said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at AWS. "AWS is excited to announce our new Region in Asia Pacific and help Indonesian institutions, innovative startups, and world-leading companies deliver cloud-powered applications to fuel economic development across the country. Organizations across industries in Indonesia can now take advantage of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region to lower costs, increase agility, and drive innovation." "Infrastructure from the world's leading cloud provider plays a critical role in accelerating our digital economy," said Perry Warjiyo, Governor of Bank Indonesia, the nation's central bank. "We expect that AWS's cloud technology will help us achieve our vision and goals outlined in the Indonesia Payment Systems 2045 blueprint, fully digitalizing the nation's payment systems and integrating a multitude of stakeholders and economic activities under the guiding principles of security and data protection." With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, AWS has 84 Availability Zones across 26 geographic regions globally, with announced plans to launch 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. Availability Zones are located far enough from each other to support customers' business continuity but near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected through redundant, ultra-low latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance. The launch of an AWS Region in Indonesia provides customers with even lower latency across the country and supports disaster recovery applications for business continuity. AWS is planning to invest an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion)in Indonesia over the next 15 years through the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, which includes capital expenditures on the construction of data centers, operational expenses related to ongoing utilities and facility costs, and purchases of goods and services from regional businesses. The investment is also estimated to sustain an average of 24,700 direct and indirect jobs annually during this time. These jobs will be part of the AWS supply chain in Indonesia, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and jobs within the broader Indonesian economy. The construction and operation of AWS infrastructure in Indonesia is also estimated to add over $10 billion (IDR$155 trillion) to Indonesia's GDP over the next 15 years. Customers and AWS Partners welcome the news of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region Customers in Indonesia join millions of active customers using AWS every month in over 190 countries around the world to accelerate innovation, increase agility, and drive cost savings. Organizations across Indonesia that have moved their mission-critical workloads to the cloud include Adskom, Amartha, Anter Aja, ASEAN Foundation, Bhinekka, Bizzy, Bridestory, Bank Commonwealth Indonesia, Dinas Komunikasi dan Informatika Jawa Barat, Elevenia, FinAccel, Happyfresh, Haldin, Hara Token, Halodoc, Jawa Pos, Kumparan, Kompas, Lion Air, MNC Group, Mamikos, Optik Melawai, Optik Seis, Sayurbox, Sekolah.mu, Shipper, SiCepat, Simak Online, Sociolla, The Body Shop, Tokopedia, Traveloka, and XL Axiata. MNC Group, an Indonesian multinational conglomerate in the media, financial services, entertainment hospitality, ecommerce, and other digital businesses, picked AWS as its preferred cloud provider to further drive its digital transformation and improve customer experience. "AWS Cloud capabilities successfully drive the performance of MNC Portal Indonesia, providing unparalleled experience for its viewers. We have transformed our media business with AWS and are now looking to repeat this success with our digital financial services business," said Yudi Hamka, CTO of MNC Group. "We are looking forward to using advanced AWS capabilities like analytics and machine learning to better understand our customers, predict future trends and preferences, and solve their financial challenges in a more meaningful way. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will be instrumental in achieving this by providing the highest levels of security at reduced latency, which is of paramount importance for the financial services industry." PT Pos Indonesia (Persero), provider of the nation's postal services, works with AWS as part of its digitalization journey. "The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will help us align and digitally transform our business and social priorities to provide more efficient public services for the benefit of all Indonesians," said Dr. Faizal Rochmad Djoemadi, CEO of PT Pos Indonesia (Persero). "The digitization and automation of traditional processes, along with business expansion enabled by digital applications, will play a huge role in PT Pos Indonesia (Persero)'s future strategy. PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) plans to move its critical and core workloads including digital money transfer to AWS in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region." Ruparupa.com is one of the leading online shopping sites in Indonesia with over 700,000 customers in the country. The site combines online and conventional shopping experiences with STOPS (Store Pick Up Service), allowing customers to shop online and collect orders at selected stores throughout Indonesia. "Our ecommerce platform is growing rapidly as the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged more consumers to shop online, and with the scalability of AWS, we can easily handle this rising demand," said Ronny Winoto, CTO of Ruparupa.com. "We're already running the majority of our infrastructure on the world's leading cloud, and by tapping into the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, we can further improve our customer experience with innovative ecommerce services." Halodoc, a Jakarta-based health-tech startup running on AWS, is supporting Indonesia's national COVID-19 vaccination, testing, and telemedicine initiatives. "COVID-19 has pushed many to look for alternative, remotely accessible health care services. When our traffic soared significantly at the start of the pandemic, we were confident we could weather the challenges because of the solid extended team that includes AWS. Currently, we are also exploring other AWS technologies, such as machine learning, to elevate the user experience when using our application," said Alfonsius Timboel, Chief Product Officer of Halodoc. "The availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region helps us meet our mission to make quality health care accessible to all through our network of 20,000 licensed doctors, 2,000 hospitals/clinics/labs, and 4,000 registered pharmacies, which are spread across hundreds of cities in Indonesia and connected by our digital platform that uses AWS's reliable technology." Tokopedia, an Indonesian technology company and a leading online marketplace with over 100 million monthly active users and 11 million merchant partners, entrusts its mission-critical workloads to AWS. "Indonesia is seeing a surge in digital adoption and accelerated growth in ecommerce. Cloud services, such as AWS, reduce the heavy lifting needed to manage infrastructure and enable us to focus on our customers' needs. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will allow us to continue to focus on building and strengthening our business capabilities while using the best technology in terms of core computing and technology infrastructure to serve the needs of our business and customers," said Herman Widjaja, CTO of Tokopedia. The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the APN provides business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. AWS SIs, consulting partners, and ISVs help enterprise and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customers' cloud environments. Examples of AWS Partners in Indonesia include Metrodata, PT Berca Hardayaperkasa, PT Innovation Cloud Services (ICS Compute), Salesforce, and many others. For the full list of AWS Partners, visit aws.amazon.com/partners. PT Innovation Cloud Services (ICS Compute) is a cloud consulting and systems integration firm. "AWS provides us with a Well-Architected Framework to optimize time, costs, and the quality of the services we deliver. As a result, our sales value has grown 19 times since we founded the company," said Budhi Wibawa, founder and CEO of ICS Compute. "With the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, we look forward to helping our customers scale their innovation and accelerate growth. The Region launch further improves the security, scalability, flexibility, and reliability we offer to our 115-plus enterprise customers, including getplus and e-wallet mobile app LinkAja!. AWS's continuous innovation and infrastructure investments will also enable us to expand our business and help drive the growing tech community in Indonesia by hiring and training more cloud professionals to further support the local workforce." Leading global customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Salesforce, is planning to accelerate the digital transformation of their Indonesian customer base with the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. "We are excited to combine AWS's cloud services with our trusted Hyperforce platform to empower Indonesian companies, from startups to enterprises, to sell, service, market, and conduct commerce," said Sujith Abraham, Senior Vice President and General Manager, ASEAN at Salesforce. "AWS's continuous investments in new infrastructure Regions bring our Hyperforce platform to markets that are new to us like Jakarta, enabling customers to securely deploy Salesforce apps and services from anywhere with the scale and agility of the AWS Cloud." AWS Investing in Indonesia The new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region is the latest in AWS's ongoing investments in Indonesia. In 2018, AWS opened an office in Jakarta to support its rapidly growing customer base across the country with new jobs including technical experts, solutions architects, technical account managers (TAMs), partner managers, systems engineers, and professional services providers. In April 2020, AWS launched AWS Outposts, which offers Indonesian customers and partners access to the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, application programming interfaces (APIs), and tools in virtually any data center, colocation space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Today, AWS Outposts enable customers and partners to run key AWS services in their own data centers, while connecting to a broader range of services in the AWS Global Infrastructure. In March 2021, AWS launched its first Amazon CloudFront edge location in Indonesia, offering customers in Indonesia up to 30% lower latency. Amazon CloudFront is a highly secure and programmable content delivery network (CDN) that accelerates the delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users worldwide with low latency and high transfer speeds. In 2019, AWS made a commitment to empower hundreds of thousands of Indonesians from all backgrounds with cloud proficiency by 2025 in support of the "Freedom of Learning" (Merdeka Belajar) national initiative. To date, 200,000 Indonesians have been trained in cloud skills in collaboration with the Indonesian government and other agencies, including educational institutions and AWS Partners. The program invests in initiatives to help Indonesia's workforce prepare for the technology-focused, high-paying, in-demand jobs of the future. AWS also remains strongly committed to supporting startups and businesses in Indonesia. Since 2017, AWS has helped more than 1,700 Indonesian startups build and scale their businesses on AWS. In the next five years, AWS plans to reach more than 1 million beneficiaries in Indonesia through corporate social responsibility initiatives under AWS InCommunities, which include science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) education, local tech workforce development, community development, and environmental initiatives. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 84 Availability Zones within 26 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211212005164/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region allows customers to run workloads and securely store data in Indonesia while serving end users with even lower latency</em></p><p><em>Newly released AWS economic impact study estimates that the new AWS Region will create 24,700 direct and indirect jobs through a planned investment of $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in Indonesia over the next 15 years</em></p><p><em>Hundreds of thousands of customers across Asia Pacific are innovating on AWS, including Halodoc, MNC Group, Optik Melawai, PT Pos Indonesia, Shipper, and XL Axiata</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2021-- Amazon Web Services, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations can run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in Indonesia leveraging advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation. AWS also released an economic impact study (EIS) estimating that the company's spending on the construction and operation of the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will create 24,700 direct and indirect jobs with an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in planned investment in the local economy. The Region will also add an estimated $10.9 billion (IDR$155 trillion) over the next 15 years to Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). For more information about AWS Global Infrastructure, visit aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure.</p><p>"The cloud provides organizations of all types and sizes—from businesses to educational institutions to government agencies—opportunities to transform their operations and reinvent experiences for their customers and end users," said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at AWS. "AWS is excited to announce our new Region in Asia Pacific and help Indonesian institutions, innovative startups, and world-leading companies deliver cloud-powered applications to fuel economic development across the country. Organizations across industries in Indonesia can now take advantage of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region to lower costs, increase agility, and drive innovation."</p><p>"Infrastructure from the world's leading cloud provider plays a critical role in accelerating our digital economy," said Perry Warjiyo, Governor of Bank Indonesia, the nation's central bank. "We expect that AWS's cloud technology will help us achieve our vision and goals outlined in the Indonesia Payment Systems 2045 blueprint, fully digitalizing the nation's payment systems and integrating a multitude of stakeholders and economic activities under the guiding principles of security and data protection."</p><p>With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, AWS has 84 Availability Zones across 26 geographic regions globally, with announced plans to launch 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. Availability Zones are located far enough from each other to support customers' business continuity but near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected through redundant, ultra-low latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance. The launch of an AWS Region in Indonesia provides customers with even lower latency across the country and supports disaster recovery applications for business continuity.</p><p>AWS is planning to invest an estimated $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion)in Indonesia over the next 15 years through the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, which includes capital expenditures on the construction of data centers, operational expenses related to ongoing utilities and facility costs, and purchases of goods and services from regional businesses. The investment is also estimated to sustain an average of 24,700 direct and indirect jobs annually during this time. These jobs will be part of the AWS supply chain in Indonesia, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and jobs within the broader Indonesian economy. The construction and operation of AWS infrastructure in Indonesia is also estimated to add over $10 billion (IDR$155 trillion) to Indonesia's GDP over the next 15 years.</p><p>Customers and AWS Partners welcome the news of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region</p><p>Customers in Indonesia join millions of active customers using AWS every month in over 190 countries around the world to accelerate innovation, increase agility, and drive cost savings. Organizations across Indonesia that have moved their mission-critical workloads to the cloud include Adskom, Amartha, Anter Aja, ASEAN Foundation, Bhinekka, Bizzy, Bridestory, Bank Commonwealth Indonesia, Dinas Komunikasi dan Informatika Jawa Barat, Elevenia, FinAccel, Happyfresh, Haldin, Hara Token, Halodoc, Jawa Pos, Kumparan, Kompas, Lion Air, MNC Group, Mamikos, Optik Melawai, Optik Seis, Sayurbox, Sekolah.mu, Shipper, SiCepat, Simak Online, Sociolla, The Body Shop, Tokopedia, Traveloka, and XL Axiata.</p><p>MNC Group, an Indonesian multinational conglomerate in the media, financial services, entertainment hospitality, ecommerce, and other digital businesses, picked AWS as its preferred cloud provider to further drive its digital transformation and improve customer experience. "AWS Cloud capabilities successfully drive the performance of MNC Portal Indonesia, providing unparalleled experience for its viewers. We have transformed our media business with AWS and are now looking to repeat this success with our digital financial services business," said Yudi Hamka, CTO of MNC Group. "We are looking forward to using advanced AWS capabilities like analytics and machine learning to better understand our customers, predict future trends and preferences, and solve their financial challenges in a more meaningful way. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will be instrumental in achieving this by providing the highest levels of security at reduced latency, which is of paramount importance for the financial services industry."</p><p>PT Pos Indonesia (Persero), provider of the nation's postal services, works with AWS as part of its digitalization journey. "The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will help us align and digitally transform our business and social priorities to provide more efficient public services for the benefit of all Indonesians," said Dr. Faizal Rochmad Djoemadi, CEO of PT Pos Indonesia (Persero). "The digitization and automation of traditional processes, along with business expansion enabled by digital applications, will play a huge role in PT Pos Indonesia (Persero)'s future strategy. PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) plans to move its critical and core workloads including digital money transfer to AWS in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region."</p><p>Ruparupa.com is one of the leading online shopping sites in Indonesia with over 700,000 customers in the country. The site combines online and conventional shopping experiences with STOPS (Store Pick Up Service), allowing customers to shop online and collect orders at selected stores throughout Indonesia. "Our ecommerce platform is growing rapidly as the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged more consumers to shop online, and with the scalability of AWS, we can easily handle this rising demand," said Ronny Winoto, CTO of Ruparupa.com. "We're already running the majority of our infrastructure on the world's leading cloud, and by tapping into the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, we can further improve our customer experience with innovative ecommerce services."</p><p>Halodoc, a Jakarta-based health-tech startup running on AWS, is supporting Indonesia's national COVID-19 vaccination, testing, and telemedicine initiatives. "COVID-19 has pushed many to look for alternative, remotely accessible health care services. When our traffic soared significantly at the start of the pandemic, we were confident we could weather the challenges because of the solid extended team that includes AWS. Currently, we are also exploring other AWS technologies, such as machine learning, to elevate the user experience when using our application," said Alfonsius Timboel, Chief Product Officer of Halodoc. "The availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region helps us meet our mission to make quality health care accessible to all through our network of 20,000 licensed doctors, 2,000 hospitals/clinics/labs, and 4,000 registered pharmacies, which are spread across hundreds of cities in Indonesia and connected by our digital platform that uses AWS's reliable technology."</p><p>Tokopedia, an Indonesian technology company and a leading online marketplace with over 100 million monthly active users and 11 million merchant partners, entrusts its mission-critical workloads to AWS. "Indonesia is seeing a surge in digital adoption and accelerated growth in ecommerce. Cloud services, such as AWS, reduce the heavy lifting needed to manage infrastructure and enable us to focus on our customers' needs. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will allow us to continue to focus on building and strengthening our business capabilities while using the best technology in terms of core computing and technology infrastructure to serve the needs of our business and customers," said Herman Widjaja, CTO of Tokopedia.</p><p>The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the APN provides business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. AWS SIs, consulting partners, and ISVs help enterprise and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customers' cloud environments. Examples of AWS Partners in Indonesia include Metrodata, PT Berca Hardayaperkasa, PT Innovation Cloud Services (ICS Compute), Salesforce, and many others. For the full list of AWS Partners, visit aws.amazon.com/partners.</p><p>PT Innovation Cloud Services (ICS Compute) is a cloud consulting and systems integration firm. "AWS provides us with a Well-Architected Framework to optimize time, costs, and the quality of the services we deliver. As a result, our sales value has grown 19 times since we founded the company," said Budhi Wibawa, founder and CEO of ICS Compute. "With the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, we look forward to helping our customers scale their innovation and accelerate growth. The Region launch further improves the security, scalability, flexibility, and reliability we offer to our 115-plus enterprise customers, including getplus and e-wallet mobile app LinkAja!. AWS's continuous innovation and infrastructure investments will also enable us to expand our business and help drive the growing tech community in Indonesia by hiring and training more cloud professionals to further support the local workforce."</p><p>Leading global customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Salesforce, is planning to accelerate the digital transformation of their Indonesian customer base with the new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. "We are excited to combine AWS's cloud services with our trusted Hyperforce platform to empower Indonesian companies, from startups to enterprises, to sell, service, market, and conduct commerce," said Sujith Abraham, Senior Vice President and General Manager, ASEAN at Salesforce. "AWS's continuous investments in new infrastructure Regions bring our Hyperforce platform to markets that are new to us like Jakarta, enabling customers to securely deploy Salesforce apps and services from anywhere with the scale and agility of the AWS Cloud."</p><p>AWS Investing in Indonesia</p><p>The new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region is the latest in AWS's ongoing investments in Indonesia. In 2018, AWS opened an office in Jakarta to support its rapidly growing customer base across the country with new jobs including technical experts, solutions architects, technical account managers (TAMs), partner managers, systems engineers, and professional services providers. In April 2020, AWS launched AWS Outposts, which offers Indonesian customers and partners access to the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, application programming interfaces (APIs), and tools in virtually any data center, colocation space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Today, AWS Outposts enable customers and partners to run key AWS services in their own data centers, while connecting to a broader range of services in the AWS Global Infrastructure. In March 2021, AWS launched its first Amazon CloudFront edge location in Indonesia, offering customers in Indonesia up to 30% lower latency. Amazon CloudFront is a highly secure and programmable content delivery network (CDN) that accelerates the delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users worldwide with low latency and high transfer speeds.</p><p>In 2019, AWS made a commitment to empower hundreds of thousands of Indonesians from all backgrounds with cloud proficiency by 2025 in support of the "Freedom of Learning" (Merdeka Belajar) national initiative. To date, 200,000 Indonesians have been trained in cloud skills in collaboration with the Indonesian government and other agencies, including educational institutions and AWS Partners. The program invests in initiatives to help Indonesia's workforce prepare for the technology-focused, high-paying, in-demand jobs of the future.</p><p>AWS also remains strongly committed to supporting startups and businesses in Indonesia. Since 2017, AWS has helped more than 1,700 Indonesian startups build and scale their businesses on AWS. In the next five years, AWS plans to reach more than 1 million beneficiaries in Indonesia through corporate social responsibility initiatives under AWS InCommunities, which include science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) education, local tech workforce development, community development, and environmental initiatives.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 84 Availability Zones within 26 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211212005164/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Launches Accelerator Program to Grow Opportunities for Real Estate Developers of Color and Increase Affordable Housing

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12/08/2021 07:55:00

Amazon Launches Accelerator Program to Grow Opportunities for Real Estate Developers of Color and Increase Affordable Housing

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New pilot program is supported by a more than $21 million commitment from Amazon to provide real estate developers of color with education, mentorship, and access to capital in Amazon's hometown communities in Washington state's Puget Sound region; the Arlington, Virginia region; and Nashville, Tennessee SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2021-- Today Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced it is committing more than $21 million to pilot a professional training, mentorship, and capital funding program to help promote real estate developers of color. This two-year, part-time professional development program, which is free for participants, aims to teach real estate developers of color how to advance their careers. It also aims to lower the barriers these developers can face when bidding for affordable housing developments. The goal of the program is to increase the number of professional real estate developers of color who are focused on affordable housing and inclusive community building. This initiative is part of the $2 billion Amazon Housing Equity Fund, a commitment to create and preserve 20,000 affordable homes for individuals and families earning moderate to low incomes in Washington state's Puget Sound region; the Arlington, Virginia region; and Nashville, Tennessee. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211208005225/en/ Amazon Housing Equity Fund pilots new program to grow opportunities for real estate developers of color and increase affordable housing (Photo: Business Wire) "With this accelerator program, we are laser focused on lifting up emerging real estate developers of color. We want to foster their professional growth through education and training, as well as improve their access to capital, which can be elusive to developers of color," said Catherine Buell, director of the Amazon Housing Equity Fund. "If we are going to bring about lasting, holistic, and meaningful change to how affordable housing is developed, developers of color need to be a part of the solution." Not only are developers of color underrepresented in the real estate industry, but they also lack access to the capital and resources necessary to advance much-needed affordable housing projects to help their communities. According to a 2019 report from the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization for real estate and land use experts, 5% of its U.S. members are Black and 82% are white, though Blacks represent more than 13% of the U.S. population. This disparity translates into a lack of diversity at the project development level that can subsequently exclude developers of color from working on meaningful and lucrative housing deals as cities expand. Amazon has partnered with local social impact and economic justice organizations in each region—the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) in the Puget Sound region, Capital Impact Partners in the Arlington region, and the Urban League of Middle Tennessee in Nashville—to develop curriculums and networking opportunities that reflect the specific issues facing their communities. The accelerator program will initially support up to 30 total participants by providing: Virtual and in-person classroom instruction on real estate fundamentals, affordable housing trends, public policy, and financing best practices Small group mentoring Professional networking opportunities with industry leaders, researchers, and established real estate developers Access to capital for pre-development expenses, such as architectural and engineering costs; permitting, survey and site-planning fees; and market and feasibility studies "Developers of color bring enormous opportunity for creative and inclusive solutions to community-focused real estate development, but systemic issues continue to create multiple barriers to their success," said Ellis Carr, president and CEO of Capital Impact Partners and CDC Small Business Finance. "Through this program, we are partnering with Amazon in helping open doors for people of color who can then pay their experience forward." "With Amazon's support, our hope is to bridge the knowledge gap and build a bench of developers of color who are trusted in their communities," said Brian Surratt, executive director of LISC Puget Sound. "These developers are then likely to hire contractors and other workers of color, some of whom may live in those same neighborhoods." Participants in the program will be selected by each partner organization and will be based on the following eligibility guidelines: Identify as a person of color Work experience as a developer at a real estate development firm or organization Real estate development activities focused in the Puget Sound region, Arlington region, or Nashville Concurrent to the accelerator program, Amazon is also partnering with Enterprise Community Loan Fund, Inc. to administer grants of up to $200,000 to qualified real estate developers of color. These grants are open to anyone who applies to the Amazon Housing Equity Fund and needs assistance with the capacity-building and pre-development expenses associated with the preservation and creation of affordable housing within Amazon's three focus regions. The Amazon Housing Equity Fund is a more than $2 billion commitment to create or preserve existing housing and create inclusive housing developments through below-market loans and grants to housing partners, traditional and non-traditional public agencies, and minority-led organizations. Since its January launch, the fund's commitments will preserve or create over 5,600 affordable housing units, with more investments to come. Learn more about the Amazon Housing Equity Fund as well as opportunities with this accelerator program in Washington state's Puget Sound region, Northern Virginia or Nashville, Tennessee. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211208005225/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New pilot program is supported by a more than $21 million commitment from Amazon to provide real estate developers of color with education, mentorship, and access to capital in Amazon's hometown communities in Washington state's Puget Sound region; the Arlington, Virginia region; and Nashville, Tennessee</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2021-- Today Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced it is committing more than $21 million to pilot a professional training, mentorship, and capital funding program to help promote real estate developers of color. This two-year, part-time professional development program, which is free for participants, aims to teach real estate developers of color how to advance their careers. It also aims to lower the barriers these developers can face when bidding for affordable housing developments. The goal of the program is to increase the number of professional real estate developers of color who are focused on affordable housing and inclusive community building. This initiative is part of the $2 billion Amazon Housing Equity Fund, a commitment to create and preserve 20,000 affordable homes for individuals and families earning moderate to low incomes in Washington state's Puget Sound region; the Arlington, Virginia region; and Nashville, Tennessee.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211208005225/en/</p><div><p>Amazon Housing Equity Fund pilots new program to grow opportunities for real estate developers of color and increase affordable housing (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"With this accelerator program, we are laser focused on lifting up emerging real estate developers of color. We want to foster their professional growth through education and training, as well as improve their access to capital, which can be elusive to developers of color," said Catherine Buell, director of the Amazon Housing Equity Fund. "If we are going to bring about lasting, holistic, and meaningful change to how affordable housing is developed, developers of color need to be a part of the solution."</p><p>Not only are developers of color underrepresented in the real estate industry, but they also lack access to the capital and resources necessary to advance much-needed affordable housing projects to help their communities. According to a 2019 report from the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization for real estate and land use experts, 5% of its U.S. members are Black and 82% are white, though Blacks represent more than 13% of the U.S. population. This disparity translates into a lack of diversity at the project development level that can subsequently exclude developers of color from working on meaningful and lucrative housing deals as cities expand.</p><p>Amazon has partnered with local social impact and economic justice organizations in each region—the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) in the Puget Sound region, Capital Impact Partners in the Arlington region, and the Urban League of Middle Tennessee in Nashville—to develop curriculums and networking opportunities that reflect the specific issues facing their communities. The accelerator program will initially support up to 30 total participants by providing:</p><ul><li>Virtual and in-person classroom instruction on real estate fundamentals, affordable housing trends, public policy, and financing best practices</li><li>Small group mentoring</li><li>Professional networking opportunities with industry leaders, researchers, and established real estate developers</li><li>Access to capital for pre-development expenses, such as architectural and engineering costs; permitting, survey and site-planning fees; and market and feasibility studies</li></ul><p>"Developers of color bring enormous opportunity for creative and inclusive solutions to community-focused real estate development, but systemic issues continue to create multiple barriers to their success," said Ellis Carr, president and CEO of Capital Impact Partners and CDC Small Business Finance. "Through this program, we are partnering with Amazon in helping open doors for people of color who can then pay their experience forward."</p><p>"With Amazon's support, our hope is to bridge the knowledge gap and build a bench of developers of color who are trusted in their communities," said Brian Surratt, executive director of LISC Puget Sound. "These developers are then likely to hire contractors and other workers of color, some of whom may live in those same neighborhoods."</p><p>Participants in the program will be selected by each partner organization and will be based on the following eligibility guidelines:</p><ul><li>Identify as a person of color</li><li>Work experience as a developer at a real estate development firm or organization</li><li>Real estate development activities focused in the Puget Sound region, Arlington region, or Nashville</li></ul><p>Concurrent to the accelerator program, Amazon is also partnering with Enterprise Community Loan Fund, Inc. to administer grants of up to $200,000 to qualified real estate developers of color. These grants are open to anyone who applies to the Amazon Housing Equity Fund and needs assistance with the capacity-building and pre-development expenses associated with the preservation and creation of affordable housing within Amazon's three focus regions.</p><p>The Amazon Housing Equity Fund is a more than $2 billion commitment to create or preserve existing housing and create inclusive housing developments through below-market loans and grants to housing partners, traditional and non-traditional public agencies, and minority-led organizations. Since its January launch, the fund's commitments will preserve or create over 5,600 affordable housing units, with more investments to come.</p><p>Learn more about the Amazon Housing Equity Fund as well as opportunities with this accelerator program in Washington state's Puget Sound region, Northern Virginia or Nashville, Tennessee.</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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211208005225/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces AWS Cloud WAN

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12/02/2021 12:34:00

AWS Announces AWS Cloud WAN

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New managed WAN service makes it faster and easier for enterprises to build, manage, and monitor a global network that seamlessly connects cloud and on-premises environments Cisco, Deloitte, Swisscom, Verizon, VMware, and Flutter among customers and partners using AWS Cloud WAN LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Cloud WAN, a managed wide area network (WAN) service that makes it faster and easier for enterprises to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network that seamlessly connects cloud and on-premises environments. AWS Cloud WAN provides a central dashboard that enterprises can use to connect their on-premises branch offices, data centers, and Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) across the AWS global network in just a few clicks. With AWS Cloud WAN, enterprises can get a complete view of their global network and use simple network policies to centrally configure and automate network management and security tasks. AWS Cloud WAN enables enterprises to use the AWS global network to provide a single unified network, which allows them to improve network health, performance, and security. To learn more about AWS Cloud WAN, visit aws.amazon.com/cloud-wan. Many enterprises today run their operations across multiple environments, including on-premises data centers, branch offices, and AWS. To connect these environments together, customers build and manage their own global networks, while also leveraging networking, security, and internet services from multiple third-party providers. For connectivity between cloud environments, customers use AWS networking services like Amazon VPC to easily build a logically isolated virtual network on AWS, and AWS Transit Gateway to easily interconnect multiple VPCs. For connectivity between cloud and on-premises environments, customers use AWS Direct Connect to easily create a private connection between AWS and their data centers, or create a secure AWS virtual private network (VPN) connection. However, for connectivity between on-premises data centers and branch offices, customers must invest considerable time and money to build their own physical network or build a software-defined overlay network from third-party providers. All of these networks take a different approach to connectivity, security, monitoring, and managing performance, which results in an intricate patchwork of individual networks that is complicated to configure, secure, and manage. As a result of these burdens, networking teams struggle with managing an expanding mix of network technologies that are required to securely build, scale, and operate a global network. AWS Cloud WAN is a managed WAN service that connects on-premises data centers, branch offices, and cloud resources to simplify operating a global network. With AWS Cloud WAN, enterprises can use a central dashboard and network policies to build, manage, and monitor a global network that spans multiple locations and networks—eliminating the need to configure and manage different networks individually using different technologies. Network teams can use simple network policies to specify the Amazon VPCs and on-premises locations they want to connect through AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway, and third-party software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) products, and AWS Cloud WAN generates a complete view of the network to monitor network health, security, and performance. Teams can also use network policies to automate routine network-management tasks like adding new sites or branch locations, isolating traffic between sensitive applications or locations, segmenting groups of networks to make it easier to manage network isolation between AWS and on-premises environments, or enabling specialized network or security services. For example, customers can increase their security posture by creating a policy that ensures that any network traffic from their branch locations must be routed through a network firewall before reaching their cloud resources. AWS Cloud WAN integrates with major SD-WAN and network appliance providers—including Aruba (a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company), Cisco Systems, Palo Alto Networks, and VMware—allowing customers to use and manage products and services from these providers. Enterprises can now use AWS Cloud WAN to simplify the way they build, manage, and monitor their networks with a central control plane. "We hear from customers that they are tired of the complexity of managing multiple networks with different connectivity, security, and monitoring requirements using multiple third-party products and services," said David Brown, Vice President of Amazon EC2 at AWS. "With AWS Cloud WAN, customers can simplify how they manage a WAN by using a central dashboard to unify the multiple networks they manage today, implement network policies for performance and security, easily add locations, and automate advanced network settings. AWS Cloud WAN removes the difficulty of stitching together and managing multiple third-party tools so customers can now more easily keep their networks securely connected and high performing." To get started, customers connect their on-premises environments to AWS with the help of a telecommunications service provider. These connections bridge the gap between the customer's data centers or colocation facilities and the AWS network, extending their existing WAN network to the cloud. Customers can then deploy a highly available global network by selecting the AWS Regions closest to their on-premises locations and then easily add or remove remote locations, data centers, or Amazon VPCs to and from their global network with just a few clicks in the AWS Cloud WAN console or using the AWS Cloud WAN application programming interface (API). AWS Cloud WAN is available in preview today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), and South America (São Paulo) with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. Cisco is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. "Today's workforce demands more flexibility, meaning organizations must ultimately rethink how they provide simple, secure connectivity to cloud applications, no matter where the user is located," said JL Valente, Vice President of Product Management, Enterprise Routing, and SD-WAN at Cisco. "To help our customers not only meet the demands of a hybrid workforce, but also provide true end-to-end connectivity and security, Cisco has integrated Cisco SD-WAN with the AWS Cloud WAN service so customers can use automation to interconnect their users, sites and cloud workloads, reduce deployment time, and increase application performance with AWS's global cloud network." Deloitte is one of the largest professional services firms in the world and a leader in digital transformation strategy. Through a network of more than 345,000 professionals, industry specialists, and an ecosystem of alliances, Deloitte assists clients in turning complex business issues into opportunities for growth. "In our work with clients' networking challenges, Deloitte strives to streamline network configuration and operation/support of large-scale cloud network environments," said Richard Johnson, DC Managing Director at Deloitte. "AWS Cloud WAN addresses network complexity, provides visibility, and offers opportunity to become more operationally effective." Swisscom is Switzerland's leading telecom provider and one of its foremost IT companies, serving customers that range from small-to-medium enterprises to large international corporations that have operations in Switzerland. "We are always looking for innovations that help us deliver the network of the future to our customers, innovating ahead of their needs," said Christoph Aeschlimann, CTIO at Swisscom. "We look to services like AWS Cloud WAN as a powerful way to help our customers take their business to the next level in agility, scalability, and competitiveness." Verizon is one of the world's leading providers of technology and communications services. "As a company that's been a global innovator in SD-WAN since the inception of the technology with the first global SD-WAN offering, we look forward to collaborating with AWS on this service that will give enterprises a new tool set to manage their unified global networks," said Srini Kalapala, Vice President of Technology Development and Planning at Verizon. VMware is a leading innovator in enterprise software and cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. "AWS and VMware continue to help mutual customers shift to distributed work, extend environments to the edge, and optimize security and performance of their business-critical apps," said Sanjay Uppal, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Service Provider and Edge Business Unit at VMware. "Enterprises don't want to just connect to AWS; they want more controlled secure access and reliable connectivity to access apps and data inside AWS. Combining VMware Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with AWS Cloud WAN enables enterprises to deliver a more optimized and secure on-net experience for distributed environments. VMware SASE will better assure last mile reliability, maintain network segmentation end-to-end, and enable enterprise control and compliance." Flutter is a global leader in online sports betting and gaming, with over 14 million customers globally. "To keep up with rapid growth and demand for real-time data, we built a global network with services from AWS that seamlessly connects our group divisions around the world. We recently went live and we have already seen significant improvements," said Rupesh Kapadia, Head of Cloud, Operations & Workplace Technology at Sportsbet, the Australian division of Flutter. "Onboarding a new business to our legacy network would take months, however it now takes about five days to connect a new division to the group. AWS Cloud WAN will help us add new sites to our network even faster, whilst improving the visibility, security posture, and speed to change ahead of business expectations." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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 managed WAN service makes it faster and easier for enterprises to build, manage, and monitor a global network that seamlessly connects cloud and on-premises environments</em></p><p><em>Cisco, Deloitte, Swisscom, Verizon, VMware, and Flutter among customers and partners using AWS Cloud WAN</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Cloud WAN, a managed wide area network (WAN) service that makes it faster and easier for enterprises to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network that seamlessly connects cloud and on-premises environments. AWS Cloud WAN provides a central dashboard that enterprises can use to connect their on-premises branch offices, data centers, and Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) across the AWS global network in just a few clicks. With AWS Cloud WAN, enterprises can get a complete view of their global network and use simple network policies to centrally configure and automate network management and security tasks. AWS Cloud WAN enables enterprises to use the AWS global network to provide a single unified network, which allows them to improve network health, performance, and security. To learn more about AWS Cloud WAN, visit aws.amazon.com/cloud-wan.</p><p>Many enterprises today run their operations across multiple environments, including on-premises data centers, branch offices, and AWS. To connect these environments together, customers build and manage their own global networks, while also leveraging networking, security, and internet services from multiple third-party providers. For connectivity between cloud environments, customers use AWS networking services like Amazon VPC to easily build a logically isolated virtual network on AWS, and AWS Transit Gateway to easily interconnect multiple VPCs. For connectivity between cloud and on-premises environments, customers use AWS Direct Connect to easily create a private connection between AWS and their data centers, or create a secure AWS virtual private network (VPN) connection. However, for connectivity between on-premises data centers and branch offices, customers must invest considerable time and money to build their own physical network or build a software-defined overlay network from third-party providers. All of these networks take a different approach to connectivity, security, monitoring, and managing performance, which results in an intricate patchwork of individual networks that is complicated to configure, secure, and manage. As a result of these burdens, networking teams struggle with managing an expanding mix of network technologies that are required to securely build, scale, and operate a global network.</p><p>AWS Cloud WAN is a managed WAN service that connects on-premises data centers, branch offices, and cloud resources to simplify operating a global network. With AWS Cloud WAN, enterprises can use a central dashboard and network policies to build, manage, and monitor a global network that spans multiple locations and networks—eliminating the need to configure and manage different networks individually using different technologies. Network teams can use simple network policies to specify the Amazon VPCs and on-premises locations they want to connect through AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway, and third-party software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) products, and AWS Cloud WAN generates a complete view of the network to monitor network health, security, and performance. Teams can also use network policies to automate routine network-management tasks like adding new sites or branch locations, isolating traffic between sensitive applications or locations, segmenting groups of networks to make it easier to manage network isolation between AWS and on-premises environments, or enabling specialized network or security services. For example, customers can increase their security posture by creating a policy that ensures that any network traffic from their branch locations must be routed through a network firewall before reaching their cloud resources. AWS Cloud WAN integrates with major SD-WAN and network appliance providers—including Aruba (a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company), Cisco Systems, Palo Alto Networks, and VMware—allowing customers to use and manage products and services from these providers. Enterprises can now use AWS Cloud WAN to simplify the way they build, manage, and monitor their networks with a central control plane.</p><p>"We hear from customers that they are tired of the complexity of managing multiple networks with different connectivity, security, and monitoring requirements using multiple third-party products and services," said David Brown, Vice President of Amazon EC2 at AWS. "With AWS Cloud WAN, customers can simplify how they manage a WAN by using a central dashboard to unify the multiple networks they manage today, implement network policies for performance and security, easily add locations, and automate advanced network settings. AWS Cloud WAN removes the difficulty of stitching together and managing multiple third-party tools so customers can now more easily keep their networks securely connected and high performing."</p><p>To get started, customers connect their on-premises environments to AWS with the help of a telecommunications service provider. These connections bridge the gap between the customer's data centers or colocation facilities and the AWS network, extending their existing WAN network to the cloud. Customers can then deploy a highly available global network by selecting the AWS Regions closest to their on-premises locations and then easily add or remove remote locations, data centers, or Amazon VPCs to and from their global network with just a few clicks in the AWS Cloud WAN console or using the AWS Cloud WAN application programming interface (API). AWS Cloud WAN is available in preview today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), and South America (São Paulo) with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon.</p><p>Cisco is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. "Today's workforce demands more flexibility, meaning organizations must ultimately rethink how they provide simple, secure connectivity to cloud applications, no matter where the user is located," said JL Valente, Vice President of Product Management, Enterprise Routing, and SD-WAN at Cisco. "To help our customers not only meet the demands of a hybrid workforce, but also provide true end-to-end connectivity and security, Cisco has integrated Cisco SD-WAN with the AWS Cloud WAN service so customers can use automation to interconnect their users, sites and cloud workloads, reduce deployment time, and increase application performance with AWS's global cloud network."</p><p>Deloitte is one of the largest professional services firms in the world and a leader in digital transformation strategy. Through a network of more than 345,000 professionals, industry specialists, and an ecosystem of alliances, Deloitte assists clients in turning complex business issues into opportunities for growth. "In our work with clients' networking challenges, Deloitte strives to streamline network configuration and operation/support of large-scale cloud network environments," said Richard Johnson, DC Managing Director at Deloitte. "AWS Cloud WAN addresses network complexity, provides visibility, and offers opportunity to become more operationally effective."</p><p>Swisscom is Switzerland's leading telecom provider and one of its foremost IT companies, serving customers that range from small-to-medium enterprises to large international corporations that have operations in Switzerland. "We are always looking for innovations that help us deliver the network of the future to our customers, innovating ahead of their needs," said Christoph Aeschlimann, CTIO at Swisscom. "We look to services like AWS Cloud WAN as a powerful way to help our customers take their business to the next level in agility, scalability, and competitiveness."</p><p>Verizon is one of the world's leading providers of technology and communications services. "As a company that's been a global innovator in SD-WAN since the inception of the technology with the first global SD-WAN offering, we look forward to collaborating with AWS on this service that will give enterprises a new tool set to manage their unified global networks," said Srini Kalapala, Vice President of Technology Development and Planning at Verizon.</p><p>VMware is a leading innovator in enterprise software and cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. "AWS and VMware continue to help mutual customers shift to distributed work, extend environments to the edge, and optimize security and performance of their business-critical apps," said Sanjay Uppal, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Service Provider and Edge Business Unit at VMware. "Enterprises don't want to just connect to AWS; they want more controlled secure access and reliable connectivity to access apps and data inside AWS. Combining VMware Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with AWS Cloud WAN enables enterprises to deliver a more optimized and secure on-net experience for distributed environments. VMware SASE will better assure last mile reliability, maintain network segmentation end-to-end, and enable enterprise control and compliance."</p><p>Flutter is a global leader in online sports betting and gaming, with over 14 million customers globally. "To keep up with rapid growth and demand for real-time data, we built a global network with services from AWS that seamlessly connects our group divisions around the world. We recently went live and we have already seen significant improvements," said Rupesh Kapadia, Head of Cloud, Operations &amp; Workplace Technology at Sportsbet, the Australian division of Flutter. "Onboarding a new business to our legacy network would take months, however it now takes about five days to connect a new division to the group. AWS Cloud WAN will help us add new sites to our network even faster, whilst improving the visibility, security posture, and speed to change ahead of business expectations."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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 Announces AWS Amplify Studio

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New visual development environment for creating rich user interfaces extends AWS Amplify to make it easier for developers to create fully customizable web applications with minimal coding Rivian, QsrSoft, and Xerris among customers and partners using AWS Amplify Studio LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Amplify Studio, a new visual development environment that allows developers to create web application user interfaces (UIs) with minimal coding, while still empowering them to fully customize their applications' design and behavior using familiar programming languages (e.g. JavaScript and TypeScript). Today, customers like Neiman Marcus, Orangetheory Fitness, and Credit Genie use AWS Amplify to more easily build and deploy the AWS services (e.g. database, compute, storage, etc.) that power their web and mobile applications. AWS Amplify Studio extends the benefits of AWS Amplify to provide a unified point-and-click interface for creating application UIs and provisioning the AWS services that power the application, so customers have an end-to-end tool for building web applications on AWS in days instead of weeks. With AWS Amplify Studio, developers can now create a UI using a library of prebuilt components (e.g. buttons, newsfeeds, user registration forms, etc.), collaborate with user experience (UX) designers, and connect their UI to AWS services through a visual interface without writing any code. After a developer finalizes their UI using AWS Amplify Studio, the UI is converted into JavaScript or TypeScript code, which saves developers from writing thousands of lines of code and allows them to fully customize parts of their web application design and behavior. There are no upfront fees or commitments to use AWS Amplify Studio, and customers only pay for the AWS services used to run the application's backend. To learn more about AWS Amplify Studio, visit aws.amazon.com/amplify/studio. Most web applications that run in the cloud are broadly comprised of three parts—the UI that is familiar to users, business logic that defines how the web application works, and the backend cloud services that power a range of essential functions (e.g. user authentication, databases, object storage, etc.). Today, developers typically choose one of two paths for building a modern web application. They can write the application code themselves, which gives them precise control over the web application's design and behavior but can require months of time and effort to build, including provisioning the backend services, writing the business logic, and collaborating with UX designers on the UI. Alternatively, developers can use a low-code tool to quickly build an application, but these tools are less customizable and extensible, because developers cannot write their own custom application code or must use proprietary frameworks and programming languages that are more restrictive than common programming languages like JavaScript and TypeScript. What developers want instead is a solution that combines the precision of writing the code themselves with the speed of a low-code tool, so they can deliver innovative, new capabilities to their customers faster. AWS Amplify Studio allows developers to quickly build a web application on AWS with minimal coding, while still empowering them to fully customize their application's design and behavior using familiar programming languages. To get started, developers use AWS Amplify Studio's simple point-and-click visual interface to create their backend, and AWS Amplify automatically provisions the AWS services (e.g. Amazon Cognito for authentication, Amazon DynamoDB for a database, Amazon S3 for storage, etc.). Once those services are provisioned, developers use AWS Amplify Studio to create their web application UI. With AWS Amplify Studio, developers can build their UI using a library of prebuilt UI components, incorporate data or capabilities from AWS services into their UI, and collaborate with UX designers through an integration with Figma (a popular tool used to design and prototype UIs)—all without writing any code. Once the UI is complete, AWS Amplify Studio automatically translates it into either JavaScript or TypeScript code, so developers have the flexibility to completely customize their application's design or behavior to deliver the best end-user experience. By using AWS Amplify Studio to create a complete UI, developers avoid writing thousands of lines of code while still retaining the option to fully customize the application's design and behavior using familiar programming languages. "Developers love using AWS Amplify because it makes it easier to build a scalable web application backend powered by AWS, and they often tell us that they wish that we could extend that same fast, flexible development experience to the UI creation process," said Kurt Kufeld, VP of AWS Platform at AWS. "AWS Amplify Studio is a game changer for developers because it allows them to rapidly iterate on their UI using prebuilt components and then fully customize the UI with familiar programming languages to meet their exact needs. From setting up a robust backend powered by AWS to creating a dynamic UI, AWS Amplify now provides an intuitive, end-to-end workflow to build web applications in days instead of weeks, so developers can deliver new innovations to end users faster." AWS Amplify Studio is available in preview today in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. Rivian is an electric vehicle maker and automotive technology company focused on sustainable transportation. "We chose to build our supply chain management application with AWS Amplify because it eliminates the complexities of DevOps in the cloud, allows us to reduce our deployment cycle from every two weeks to every two days, and more easily adopt new technologies like serverless," said Arunkumar Chandran, Staff Software Engineer at Rivian. "We are excited about the launch of AWS Amplify Studio because it extends the benefits of AWS Amplify to our frontend development process. With AWS Amplify Studio, our developers will be able to save time and quickly iterate on their UI using a simple visual interface, while still having the option to dive into the code to fully customize the experience for end users." QsrSoft is a software-as-a-service company that develops solutions for clients in the restaurant, hospitality, and retail industries to help them achieve operational excellence. "We used AWS Amplify to develop QsrSoft TV, a new digital huddle board to help our customers improve employee engagement through gamification, real-time communication, and employee recognition programs, because it allowed us to create our application quickly, get to market faster, and take advantage of the performance and scalability of a fully serverless application stack," said Adam Pehas, Director of Development at QsrSoft. "By using AWS Amplify Studio's pre-built library of components and intuitive visual interface, we will be able to accelerate our development timelines, add additional value, and deliver new capabilities to our customers. AWS Amplify Studio will help us boost awareness, motivate our customers' employees, and achieve operational excellence." Xerris is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that specializes in providing technology-focused solutions for media and entertainment, energy, public sector, and retail companies. "Our development teams use AWS Amplify to create innovative applications for clients because it allows them to quickly build and ship web and mobile applications, rapidly iterate, and get them to market using scalable cloud services while providing extensibility so customers can take advantage of the breadth and depth of AWS as their needs evolve," said Jonathan McCracken, CTO at Xerris. "We look forward to using AWS Amplify Studio because it makes it even easier for our development and UX design teams to seamlessly collaborate and rapidly iterate on applications to meet our clients' needs. AWS Amplify Studio will save our developers time while providing the flexibility and control our developers want to fully optimize the end-user experience." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211202005810/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New visual development environment for creating rich user interfaces extends AWS Amplify to make it easier for developers to create fully customizable web applications with minimal coding</em></p><p><em>Rivian, QsrSoft, and Xerris among customers and partners using AWS Amplify Studio</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Amplify Studio, a new visual development environment that allows developers to create web application user interfaces (UIs) with minimal coding, while still empowering them to fully customize their applications' design and behavior using familiar programming languages (e.g. JavaScript and TypeScript). Today, customers like Neiman Marcus, Orangetheory Fitness, and Credit Genie use AWS Amplify to more easily build and deploy the AWS services (e.g. database, compute, storage, etc.) that power their web and mobile applications. AWS Amplify Studio extends the benefits of AWS Amplify to provide a unified point-and-click interface for creating application UIs and provisioning the AWS services that power the application, so customers have an end-to-end tool for building web applications on AWS in days instead of weeks. With AWS Amplify Studio, developers can now create a UI using a library of prebuilt components (e.g. buttons, newsfeeds, user registration forms, etc.), collaborate with user experience (UX) designers, and connect their UI to AWS services through a visual interface without writing any code. After a developer finalizes their UI using AWS Amplify Studio, the UI is converted into JavaScript or TypeScript code, which saves developers from writing thousands of lines of code and allows them to fully customize parts of their web application design and behavior. There are no upfront fees or commitments to use AWS Amplify Studio, and customers only pay for the AWS services used to run the application's backend. To learn more about AWS Amplify Studio, visit aws.amazon.com/amplify/studio.</p><p>Most web applications that run in the cloud are broadly comprised of three parts—the UI that is familiar to users, business logic that defines how the web application works, and the backend cloud services that power a range of essential functions (e.g. user authentication, databases, object storage, etc.). Today, developers typically choose one of two paths for building a modern web application. They can write the application code themselves, which gives them precise control over the web application's design and behavior but can require months of time and effort to build, including provisioning the backend services, writing the business logic, and collaborating with UX designers on the UI. Alternatively, developers can use a low-code tool to quickly build an application, but these tools are less customizable and extensible, because developers cannot write their own custom application code or must use proprietary frameworks and programming languages that are more restrictive than common programming languages like JavaScript and TypeScript. What developers want instead is a solution that combines the precision of writing the code themselves with the speed of a low-code tool, so they can deliver innovative, new capabilities to their customers faster.</p><p>AWS Amplify Studio allows developers to quickly build a web application on AWS with minimal coding, while still empowering them to fully customize their application's design and behavior using familiar programming languages. To get started, developers use AWS Amplify Studio's simple point-and-click visual interface to create their backend, and AWS Amplify automatically provisions the AWS services (e.g. Amazon Cognito for authentication, Amazon DynamoDB for a database, Amazon S3 for storage, etc.). Once those services are provisioned, developers use AWS Amplify Studio to create their web application UI. With AWS Amplify Studio, developers can build their UI using a library of prebuilt UI components, incorporate data or capabilities from AWS services into their UI, and collaborate with UX designers through an integration with Figma (a popular tool used to design and prototype UIs)—all without writing any code. Once the UI is complete, AWS Amplify Studio automatically translates it into either JavaScript or TypeScript code, so developers have the flexibility to completely customize their application's design or behavior to deliver the best end-user experience. By using AWS Amplify Studio to create a complete UI, developers avoid writing thousands of lines of code while still retaining the option to fully customize the application's design and behavior using familiar programming languages.</p><p>"Developers love using AWS Amplify because it makes it easier to build a scalable web application backend powered by AWS, and they often tell us that they wish that we could extend that same fast, flexible development experience to the UI creation process," said Kurt Kufeld, VP of AWS Platform at AWS. "AWS Amplify Studio is a game changer for developers because it allows them to rapidly iterate on their UI using prebuilt components and then fully customize the UI with familiar programming languages to meet their exact needs. From setting up a robust backend powered by AWS to creating a dynamic UI, AWS Amplify now provides an intuitive, end-to-end workflow to build web applications in days instead of weeks, so developers can deliver new innovations to end users faster."</p><p>AWS Amplify Studio is available in preview today in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon.</p><p>Rivian is an electric vehicle maker and automotive technology company focused on sustainable transportation. "We chose to build our supply chain management application with AWS Amplify because it eliminates the complexities of DevOps in the cloud, allows us to reduce our deployment cycle from every two weeks to every two days, and more easily adopt new technologies like serverless," said Arunkumar Chandran, Staff Software Engineer at Rivian. "We are excited about the launch of AWS Amplify Studio because it extends the benefits of AWS Amplify to our frontend development process. With AWS Amplify Studio, our developers will be able to save time and quickly iterate on their UI using a simple visual interface, while still having the option to dive into the code to fully customize the experience for end users."</p><p>QsrSoft is a software-as-a-service company that develops solutions for clients in the restaurant, hospitality, and retail industries to help them achieve operational excellence. "We used AWS Amplify to develop QsrSoft TV, a new digital huddle board to help our customers improve employee engagement through gamification, real-time communication, and employee recognition programs, because it allowed us to create our application quickly, get to market faster, and take advantage of the performance and scalability of a fully serverless application stack," said Adam Pehas, Director of Development at QsrSoft. "By using AWS Amplify Studio's pre-built library of components and intuitive visual interface, we will be able to accelerate our development timelines, add additional value, and deliver new capabilities to our customers. AWS Amplify Studio will help us boost awareness, motivate our customers' employees, and achieve operational excellence."</p><p>Xerris is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that specializes in providing technology-focused solutions for media and entertainment, energy, public sector, and retail companies. "Our development teams use AWS Amplify to create innovative applications for clients because it allows them to quickly build and ship web and mobile applications, rapidly iterate, and get them to market using scalable cloud services while providing extensibility so customers can take advantage of the breadth and depth of AWS as their needs evolve," said Jonathan McCracken, CTO at Xerris. "We look forward to using AWS Amplify Studio because it makes it even easier for our development and UX design teams to seamlessly collaborate and rapidly iterate on applications to meet our clients' needs. AWS Amplify Studio will save our developers time while providing the flexibility and control our developers want to fully optimize the end-user experience."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211202005810/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

AWS Helps Pfizer Accelerate Drug Development and Clinical Manufacturing

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AWS Helps Pfizer Accelerate Drug Development and Clinical Manufacturing

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AWS works with Pfizer to support more rapid innovation and improved clinical manufacturing operations to help develop tomorrow's therapies SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that it is working with Pfizer to create innovative, cloud-based solutions with the potential to improve how new medicines are developed, manufactured, and distributed for testing in clinical trials. The companies are exploring these advances through their newly created Pfizer Amazon Collaboration Team (PACT) initiative, which applies AWS capabilities in analytics, machine learning, compute, storage, security, and cloud data warehousing to Pfizer laboratory, clinical manufacturing, and clinical supply chain efforts. For instance, AWS is helping Pfizer enhance its continuous clinical manufacturing processes by incorporating predictive maintenance capabilities built with AWS machine learning services like Amazon Lookout for Equipment (AWS's service for detecting abnormal equipment behavior by analyzing sensor data). As a result, Pfizer can maximize uptime for equipment such as centrifuges, agitators, pulverizers, coaters, and air handlers used in clinical drug manufacturing. The overall focus of this collaboration is to support Pfizer in more rapidly and reliably producing new drugs and evaluating their potential health benefit for patients. "Our life sciences customers are increasingly looking for opportunities to scale expertise, insight, and secure access to the right information, at the right time, with the aim of reducing the time and cost for drug development and clinical trials," said Kathrin Renz, Vice President of Business Development and Industries at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "AWS's breadth and depth of cloud capabilities help support Pfizer's teams through secure, novel research methods as they work to optimize drug development and clinical manufacturing processes. The past two years have reinforced for the world just how much speed and agility matter at every step of the research, development, and clinical manufacturing cycle when lives are on the line. We're proud to work with Pfizer and lend our deep domain expertise to assist in developing solutions that could significantly improve the lives of patients globally." "Pfizer's goal with AWS is to expedite the processes for drug discovery and development in ways that can ultimately enhance patient experiences and deliver new therapies to market. Working closely with AWS experts in machine learning and analytics, we aim to provide our scientists and researchers with the insights they need to help deliver medical breakthroughs that change patients' lives," said Andrew McKillop, Vice President of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Worldwide Research, Development, and Medical at Pfizer. AWS is working with Pfizer to develop a prototype solution for detecting abnormal data points in its drug product continuous clinical manufacturing platform for solid, oral-dose medicines. The prototype solution uses Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly in the cloud and at the edge), Amazon Lookout for Equipment, Amazon Lookout for Metrics (AWS's service for automatically detecting anomalies in metrics and identifying their root cause), and Amazon QuickSight (AWS's scalable machine learning-powered business intelligence service for the cloud). The machine learning models used in the prototype were able to provide early warnings for alarms with minimal false positives and direct users to the relevant signals. As a result, Pfizer can process data from the equipment and sensors involved in Portable Continuous Miniature and Modular (PCMM) manufacturing to detect anomalies as they occur, predict maintenance needs, and reduce potential equipment downtime. Pfizer scientists will also collaborate with AWS healthcare and life sciences professionals to explore how researchers in Pfizer's Pharmaceutical Sciences Small Molecules teams can extract and mine information from legacy documents by leveraging AWS analytics and machine learning services. Pfizer has an extensive collection of documents that contain valuable data from a variety of drug development processes. The documents include data related to synthetic chemistry routes, recipes, analytical tests, method development, formulation composition, clinical manufacturing campaigns, batch records, technology transfer, and many other types of work. Housed within these documents are potentially powerful insights that could point Pfizer researchers in the right direction for developing new drugs or repurposing existing ones—if the researchers can identify and link the right information efficiently. To gain quick, secure access to the right information at the right time, Pfizer's Pharmaceutical Sciences Small Molecules teams are working with AWS to develop a prototype system that can automatically extract, ingest, and process data from this documentation to help in the design of lab experiments. The prototype system is powered by Amazon Comprehend Medical (AWS's HIPAA-eligible natural language processing (NLP) service to extract information from unstructured medical text accurately and quickly) and Amazon SageMaker, and uses Amazon Cognito to deliver secure user access control. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Pfizer: Breakthroughs That Change Patients' Lives At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health care products, including innovative medicines and vaccines. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time. Consistent with our responsibility as one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, we collaborate with health care providers, governments and local communities to support and expand access to reliable, affordable health care around the world. For more than 170 years, we have worked to make a difference for all who rely on us. We routinely post information that may be important to investors on our website at www.Pfizer.com. In addition, to learn more, please visit us on www.Pfizer.com and follow us on Twitter at @Pfizer and @Pfizer News, LinkedIn, YouTube and like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/Pfizer. Pfizer Disclosure Notice: The information contained in this release is as of November 29, 2021. Pfizer assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements contained in this release as the result of new information or future events or developments. This release contains forward-looking information about an initiative between Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) and Pfizer (the Pfizer Amazon Collaboration Team (PACT) initiative) that applies AWS capabilities in analytics, machine learning, compute, storage, security, and cloud data warehousing to Pfizer laboratory, clinical manufacturing and clinical supply chain efforts, including efforts by AWS and Pfizer to create innovative, cloud-based solutions with the potential to improve how new medicines are developed, manufactured, and distributed for testing in clinical trials, including its potential benefits, that involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the uncertainties inherent in research and development; uncertainties regarding the commercial success of and the ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the initiative; uncertainties regarding the impact of COVID-19 on our business, operations and financial results; other business effects, including the effects of industry, market, economic, political or regulatory conditions; and competitive developments. A further description of risks and uncertainties can be found in Pfizer's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and in its subsequent reports on Form 10-Q, including in the sections thereof captioned "Risk Factors" and "Forward-Looking Information and Factors That May Affect Future Results," as well as in its subsequent reports on Form 8-K, all of which are filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov and www.pfizer.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211202005591/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>AWS works with Pfizer to support more rapid innovation and improved clinical manufacturing operations to help develop tomorrow's therapies</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that it is working with Pfizer to create innovative, cloud-based solutions with the potential to improve how new medicines are developed, manufactured, and distributed for testing in clinical trials. The companies are exploring these advances through their newly created Pfizer Amazon Collaboration Team (PACT) initiative, which applies AWS capabilities in analytics, machine learning, compute, storage, security, and cloud data warehousing to Pfizer laboratory, clinical manufacturing, and clinical supply chain efforts. For instance, AWS is helping Pfizer enhance its continuous clinical manufacturing processes by incorporating predictive maintenance capabilities built with AWS machine learning services like Amazon Lookout for Equipment (AWS's service for detecting abnormal equipment behavior by analyzing sensor data). As a result, Pfizer can maximize uptime for equipment such as centrifuges, agitators, pulverizers, coaters, and air handlers used in clinical drug manufacturing. The overall focus of this collaboration is to support Pfizer in more rapidly and reliably producing new drugs and evaluating their potential health benefit for patients.</p><p>"Our life sciences customers are increasingly looking for opportunities to scale expertise, insight, and secure access to the right information, at the right time, with the aim of reducing the time and cost for drug development and clinical trials," said Kathrin Renz, Vice President of Business Development and Industries at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "AWS's breadth and depth of cloud capabilities help support Pfizer's teams through secure, novel research methods as they work to optimize drug development and clinical manufacturing processes. The past two years have reinforced for the world just how much speed and agility matter at every step of the research, development, and clinical manufacturing cycle when lives are on the line. We're proud to work with Pfizer and lend our deep domain expertise to assist in developing solutions that could significantly improve the lives of patients globally."</p><p>"Pfizer's goal with AWS is to expedite the processes for drug discovery and development in ways that can ultimately enhance patient experiences and deliver new therapies to market. Working closely with AWS experts in machine learning and analytics, we aim to provide our scientists and researchers with the insights they need to help deliver medical breakthroughs that change patients' lives," said Andrew McKillop, Vice President of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Worldwide Research, Development, and Medical at Pfizer.</p><p>AWS is working with Pfizer to develop a prototype solution for detecting abnormal data points in its drug product continuous clinical manufacturing platform for solid, oral-dose medicines. The prototype solution uses Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly in the cloud and at the edge), Amazon Lookout for Equipment, Amazon Lookout for Metrics (AWS's service for automatically detecting anomalies in metrics and identifying their root cause), and Amazon QuickSight (AWS's scalable machine learning-powered business intelligence service for the cloud). The machine learning models used in the prototype were able to provide early warnings for alarms with minimal false positives and direct users to the relevant signals. As a result, Pfizer can process data from the equipment and sensors involved in Portable Continuous Miniature and Modular (PCMM) manufacturing to detect anomalies as they occur, predict maintenance needs, and reduce potential equipment downtime.</p><p>Pfizer scientists will also collaborate with AWS healthcare and life sciences professionals to explore how researchers in Pfizer's Pharmaceutical Sciences Small Molecules teams can extract and mine information from legacy documents by leveraging AWS analytics and machine learning services. Pfizer has an extensive collection of documents that contain valuable data from a variety of drug development processes. The documents include data related to synthetic chemistry routes, recipes, analytical tests, method development, formulation composition, clinical manufacturing campaigns, batch records, technology transfer, and many other types of work. Housed within these documents are potentially powerful insights that could point Pfizer researchers in the right direction for developing new drugs or repurposing existing ones—if the researchers can identify and link the right information efficiently. To gain quick, secure access to the right information at the right time, Pfizer's Pharmaceutical Sciences Small Molecules teams are working with AWS to develop a prototype system that can automatically extract, ingest, and process data from this documentation to help in the design of lab experiments. The prototype system is powered by Amazon Comprehend Medical (AWS's HIPAA-eligible natural language processing (NLP) service to extract information from unstructured medical text accurately and quickly) and Amazon SageMaker, and uses Amazon Cognito to deliver secure user access control.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Pfizer: Breakthroughs That Change Patients' Lives</p><p>At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health care products, including innovative medicines and vaccines. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time. Consistent with our responsibility as one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, we collaborate with health care providers, governments and local communities to support and expand access to reliable, affordable health care around the world. For more than 170 years, we have worked to make a difference for all who rely on us. We routinely post information that may be important to investors on our website at www.Pfizer.com. In addition, to learn more, please visit us on www.Pfizer.com and follow us on Twitter at @Pfizer and @Pfizer News, LinkedIn, YouTube and like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/Pfizer.</p><p>Pfizer Disclosure Notice: The information contained in this release is as of November 29, 2021. Pfizer assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements contained in this release as the result of new information or future events or developments.</p><p>This release contains forward-looking information about an initiative between Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) and Pfizer (the Pfizer Amazon Collaboration Team (PACT) initiative) that applies AWS capabilities in analytics, machine learning, compute, storage, security, and cloud data warehousing to Pfizer laboratory, clinical manufacturing and clinical supply chain efforts, including efforts by AWS and Pfizer to create innovative, cloud-based solutions with the potential to improve how new medicines are developed, manufactured, and distributed for testing in clinical trials, including its potential benefits, that involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the uncertainties inherent in research and development; uncertainties regarding the commercial success of and the ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the initiative; uncertainties regarding the impact of COVID-19 on our business, operations and financial results; other business effects, including the effects of industry, market, economic, political or regulatory conditions; and competitive developments.</p><p>A further description of risks and uncertainties can be found in Pfizer's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and in its subsequent reports on Form 10-Q, including in the sections thereof captioned "Risk Factors" and "Forward-Looking Information and Factors That May Affect Future Results," as well as in its subsequent reports on Form 8-K, all of which are filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov and www.pfizer.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211202005591/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Rivian Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider to Drive Efficiency, Performance, and Refinement of Electric Vehicles

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12/02/2021 09:00:00

Rivian Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider to Drive Efficiency, Performance, and Refinement of Electric Vehicles

12/02/2021

2021

Automaker uses breadth of AWS capabilities to aid vehicle engineering and deliver connected services, over-the-air software updates, and fleet management solutions at scale SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that electric vehicle maker Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN) has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, deepening the companies' existing relationship. Across its enterprise, the automaker applies AWS capabilities in analytics, compute, containers, and machine learning to help streamline its business and improve the performance of its customers' electric vehicles—for battery range, driving experience, and owner experience—while simultaneously innovating the technological foundations for customers' electric vehicle fleet management and more efficient vehicle charging. Rivian applies these innovations across its vehicle lines, including custom-built electric delivery vans (EDVs) for Amazon.com. Through these developments, Rivian aims to accelerate the consumer and commercial shift to electric vehicles and make transportation cleaner and more sustainable in accordance with its goals under The Climate Pledge. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211202005042/en/ Interior, 2022 Rivian R1T Launch Edition (Image: Rivian) "Rivian is focused on creating fantastic, category-defining products. Combining our vision with AWS's breadth and depth of services allows us to use data and connectivity to redefine what is possible in transportation, logistics, and delivery," said Wassym Bensaid, Rivian's Vice President of Software Development. "At Rivian, we have created a software-defined vehicle architecture with a technology foundation that powers advanced features such as deep over-the-air software updates to deliver continuous improvements to the vehicles, and the collection of a rich set of real-time vehicle data. By leveraging AWS, and building a central data lake to interconnect Rivian's operations, products, and services, we can enable proactive diagnostics and add intelligence to our vehicles, and then use what we learn to generate synergies and scale efficiencies. We look forward to furthering our work with AWS to continue to push the boundaries of innovation in engineering, customer service, fleet management solutions, and charging experiences." AWS powers Rivian's software-defined vehicle (SDV) architecture and over-the-air software updates, in which new and improved functionality can be delivered remotely. SDV architecture treats the entire vehicle as a single, fully integrated system that is connected to the cloud to allow for remote diagnostics, predictive maintenance, and rapid testing and deployment of new software-powered capabilities to enhance customers' enjoyment. Rivian uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to manage and orchestrate software updates, and Amazon CloudFront (AWS's content delivery network service) to allow deployment of updates at scale. Rivian plans to continuously improve features like infotainment options and fleet management resources over the lifetime of its vehicles. Rivian's Battery Data Science Team also uses AWS Managed Services to scale its analytics capabilities and more rapidly gain insights from its research, development, and vehicle test fleet. "AWS's broad and deep portfolio of services helps Rivian use data and connectivity as strategic differentiators in the auto industry. Our analytics, machine learning, containers, and customer service capabilities support Rivian's business model and will help it scale and continuously improve the customer experience as more and more individuals and organizations go electric," said Werner Vogels, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com, Inc. "Powered by the world's leading cloud, Rivian is reimagining vehicle ownership, operation, and service to usher in a new experience of efficient and enjoyable electric SUVs, trucks, and vans that delight its customers." In addition, Rivian uses AWS analytics, database, storage, and security capabilities to enhance visibility and agility throughout its vertically integrated business model, under which the company manages all of its design, production, distribution, sales, and vehicle servicing internally. Rivian built a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and uses AWS Glue (a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development) so that its teams can easily share data and gain insights that it believes can lead to structural cost and operational advantages over traditional automakers with less integrated business functions. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Rivian Rivian creates energy and transportation products and services with the goal of helping electrify the world. We design, develop, and manufacture category-defining electric vehicles and accessories and sell them directly to customers in the consumer and commercial markets. Rivian complements its vehicles with a full suite of proprietary, value-added services that address the entire lifecycle of the vehicle and deepen its customer relationships. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211202005042/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Automaker uses breadth of AWS capabilities to aid vehicle engineering and deliver connected services, over-the-air software updates, and fleet management solutions at scale</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that electric vehicle maker Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN) has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, deepening the companies' existing relationship. Across its enterprise, the automaker applies AWS capabilities in analytics, compute, containers, and machine learning to help streamline its business and improve the performance of its customers' electric vehicles—for battery range, driving experience, and owner experience—while simultaneously innovating the technological foundations for customers' electric vehicle fleet management and more efficient vehicle charging. Rivian applies these innovations across its vehicle lines, including custom-built electric delivery vans (EDVs) for Amazon.com. Through these developments, Rivian aims to accelerate the consumer and commercial shift to electric vehicles and make transportation cleaner and more sustainable in accordance with its goals under The Climate Pledge.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211202005042/en/</p><div><p>Interior, 2022 Rivian R1T Launch Edition (Image: Rivian)</p></div><p>"Rivian is focused on creating fantastic, category-defining products. Combining our vision with AWS's breadth and depth of services allows us to use data and connectivity to redefine what is possible in transportation, logistics, and delivery," said Wassym Bensaid, Rivian's Vice President of Software Development. "At Rivian, we have created a software-defined vehicle architecture with a technology foundation that powers advanced features such as deep over-the-air software updates to deliver continuous improvements to the vehicles, and the collection of a rich set of real-time vehicle data. By leveraging AWS, and building a central data lake to interconnect Rivian's operations, products, and services, we can enable proactive diagnostics and add intelligence to our vehicles, and then use what we learn to generate synergies and scale efficiencies. We look forward to furthering our work with AWS to continue to push the boundaries of innovation in engineering, customer service, fleet management solutions, and charging experiences."</p><p>AWS powers Rivian's software-defined vehicle (SDV) architecture and over-the-air software updates, in which new and improved functionality can be delivered remotely. SDV architecture treats the entire vehicle as a single, fully integrated system that is connected to the cloud to allow for remote diagnostics, predictive maintenance, and rapid testing and deployment of new software-powered capabilities to enhance customers' enjoyment. Rivian uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to manage and orchestrate software updates, and Amazon CloudFront (AWS's content delivery network service) to allow deployment of updates at scale. Rivian plans to continuously improve features like infotainment options and fleet management resources over the lifetime of its vehicles. Rivian's Battery Data Science Team also uses AWS Managed Services to scale its analytics capabilities and more rapidly gain insights from its research, development, and vehicle test fleet.</p><p>"AWS's broad and deep portfolio of services helps Rivian use data and connectivity as strategic differentiators in the auto industry. Our analytics, machine learning, containers, and customer service capabilities support Rivian's business model and will help it scale and continuously improve the customer experience as more and more individuals and organizations go electric," said Werner Vogels, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com, Inc. "Powered by the world's leading cloud, Rivian is reimagining vehicle ownership, operation, and service to usher in a new experience of efficient and enjoyable electric SUVs, trucks, and vans that delight its customers."</p><p>In addition, Rivian uses AWS analytics, database, storage, and security capabilities to enhance visibility and agility throughout its vertically integrated business model, under which the company manages all of its design, production, distribution, sales, and vehicle servicing internally. Rivian built a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and uses AWS Glue (a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development) so that its teams can easily share data and gain insights that it believes can lead to structural cost and operational advantages over traditional automakers with less integrated business functions.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Rivian</p><p>Rivian creates energy and transportation products and services with the goal of helping electrify the world. We design, develop, and manufacture category-defining electric vehicles and accessories and sell them directly to customers in the consumer and commercial markets. Rivian complements its vehicles with a full suite of proprietary, value-added services that address the entire lifecycle of the vehicle and deepen its customer relationships.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211202005042/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces Two New Initiatives That Make Machine Learning More Accessible

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12/01/2021 13:34:00

AWS Announces Two New Initiatives That Make Machine Learning More Accessible

12/01/2021

2021

New $10 million AWS Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Scholarship (AWS AI & ML Scholarship) program is designed to prepare underrepresented and underserved students globally for careers in machine learning Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab makes it easy for anyone to quickly set up a machine learning development environment for learning and experimentation at no cost LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced two new initiatives designed to make machine learning more accessible for anyone interested in learning and experimenting with the technology. The AWS AI & ML Scholarshipis a new education and scholarship program aimed at preparing underrepresented and underserved students globally for careers in machine learning. The program uses AWS DeepRacer and the new AWS DeepRacer Student League to teach students foundational machine learning concepts by giving them hands-on experience training machine learning models for autonomous race cars, while providing educational content centered on machine learning fundamentals. AWS is further increasing access to machine learning through Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, which gives everyone access to a no-cost version of Amazon SageMaker—an AWS service that helps customers build, train, and deploy machine learning models. "The two initiatives we are announcing today are designed to open up educational opportunities in machine learning to make it more widely accessible to anyone who is interested in the technology," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Amazon Machine Learning at AWS. "Machine learning will be one of the most transformational technologies of this generation. If we are going to unlock the full potential of this technology to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems, we need the best minds entering the field from all backgrounds and walks of life. We want to inspire and excite a diverse future workforce through this new scholarship program and break down the cost barriers that prevent many from getting started with machine learning." New $10 million education and scholarship program is designed to prepare underrepresented and underserved students globally for careers in machine learning The World Economic Forum estimates that technological advances and automation will create 97 million new technology jobs by 2025, including in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. While the job opportunities in technology are growing, diversity is lagging behind in science and technology careers. Making educational resources available to anyone interested in technology is critical to encouraging a more robust, diverse pipeline of people in artificial intelligence and machine learning careers. The new AWS AI & ML Scholarship aims to help underrepresented and underserved high school and college students learn foundational machine learning concepts and prepare them for careers in artificial intelligence and machine learning. In addition to no-cost access to dozens of hours of free machine learning model training and educational materials, 2,000 qualifying students from underrepresented and underserved communities will win a scholarship for the AI Programming with Python Udacity Nanodegree program, designed to give scholarship recipients the programming tools and techniques fundamental to machine learning. Graduates from the first Nanodegree program will be invited to take a technical assessment. Five hundred students who receive the highest scores in this assessment will earn a second Udacity Nanodegree program scholarship on deep learning and machine learning engineering to help further prepare them for a career in artificial intelligence and machine learning. These top 500 students will also have access to mentorship opportunities from tenured Amazon and Intel technology experts for career insights and advice. Delivered in collaboration with Intel and supported by the talent transformation platform Udacity, the AWS AI & ML Scholarship program allows students from around the world to access dozens of hours of free training modules and tutorials on the basics of machine learning and its real-world applications. Students can use AWS DeepRacer to turn theory into hands-on action by learning how to train machine learning models to power a virtual race car. Students who successfully complete educational modules by passing knowledge-check quizzes, meet certain AWS DeepRacer lap time performance targets, and submit an essay will be considered for Udacity Nanodegree program scholarships. Students can also put their virtual race cars to the test in the new AWS DeepRacer Student League. The AWS DeepRacer Student League helps people of all skill levels learn how to build machine learning models with a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by machine learning, a 3D racing simulator, and a global competition. AWS DeepRacer has been used by enterprises like Capital One, BMW, Deloitte, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, and Liberty Mutual to teach their employees to build, train, and deploy machine learning models in a hands-on way. To get started with the AWS AI & ML Scholarship, visit awsaimlscholarship.com. Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab provides no-cost access to a machine learning development environment to put machine learning in the hands of everyone Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab offers a free version of Amazon SageMaker, which is used by researchers and data scientists worldwide to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly. Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab removes the need to have an AWS account or provide billing details to get up and running with machine learning on AWS. Users simply sign up with an email address through a web browser, and Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab provides access to a machine learning development environment. Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab provides unlimited user sessions that include 15 gigabytes of persistent storage to store projects and up to 12 hours of CPU and four hours of GPU compute for training machine learning models at no cost. There are no cloud resources to build, scale, or manage with Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, so users can start, stop, and restart working on machine learning projects as easily as closing and opening a laptop. When users are done experimenting and want to take their ideas to production, they can easily export their machine learning projects to Amazon SageMaker Studio to deploy and scale their models on AWS. Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab can be used as a no-cost learning environment for students or a no-cost prototyping environment for data scientists where everyone can quickly and easily start building and training machine learning models with no financial obligation or long-term commitments. To learn more about Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, visit aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/studio-lab. Earlier this year, Amazon announced a new Leadership Principle: Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility. AWS is scaling and investing in initiatives to live up to this new Leadership Principle, including Amazon's commitment to provide 29 million people with access to free cloud computing skills training by 2025, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs for young learners including Amazon Future Engineer, AWS Girls' Tech Day, and AWS GetIT, as well as collaborations with colleges and universities. Now, AWS is making it easier for more people from underrepresented groups and underserved populations to get started with machine learning—with free education, scholarships, and access to the same machine learning technology used by the world's leading startups, research institutions, and enterprises. The two initiatives announced today further advance Amazon's efforts to make education and training opportunities widely accessible. AWS and Intel have a 15-year relationship dedicated to developing, building, and supporting cloud services that are designed to manage cost and complexity, accelerate business outcomes, and scale to meet current and future computing requirements. "As an industry, we must do more to create a diverse and inclusive tech workforce," said Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Executive Vice President and GM of the Sales, Marketing, and Communications Group at Intel. "Intel is proud to support initiatives like the AWS AI & ML Scholarship program, which aligns with our commitment to provide more access to STEM opportunities for underrepresented groups and helps diversify the future generation of machine learning practitioners. What makes this education and scholarship program unique is that students are given access to a rich set of learning materials at the outset. This is critical to really move the needle. Learning isn't contingent on winning but instead part of the process." Girls in Tech is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating the gender gap in tech. "Driving diversity in machine learning requires intentional programs that create opportunities and break down barriers like the new AWS AI & ML Scholarship program," said Adriana Gascoigne, Founder and CEO of Girls in Tech. "Progress in bringing more women and underrepresented communities into the field of machine learning will only be achieved if everyone works together to close the diversity gap. Girls in Tech is glad to see multi-faceted programs like the AWS AI & ML Scholarship to help close the gap in machine learning education and open career potential among these groups." Hugging Face is an AI community for building, training, and deploying state of the art models powered by the reference open source in machine learning. "At Hugging Face, our mission is to democratize state of the art machine learning," said Jeff Boudier, Director of Product Marketing at Hugging Face. "With Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, AWS is doing just that by enabling anyone to learn and experiment with ML through a web browser, without the need for a high-powered PC or a credit card to get started. This makes ML more accessible and easier to share with the community. We are excited to be part of this launch and contribute Hugging Face transformers examples and resources to make ML even more accessible!" Santa Clara University's mission with the Department of Finance is to educate students, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, to serve their organizations and society in the Jesuit tradition. "Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab will help my students learn the building blocks of machine learning by removing the cloud configuration steps required to get started. Now, in my natural language processing classes, students have more time to enhance their skills," said Sanjiv Das, Professor of Finance and Data Science at Santa Clara University. "Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab enables students to onboard to AWS quickly, work and experiment for a few hours, and easily pick up where they left off. Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab brings the ease of use of Jupyter notebooks in the cloud to both beginner and advanced students studying machine learning." University of Pennsylvania Engineering is the birthplace of the modern computer. It was there that ENIAC, the world's first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer, was developed in 1946. For over 70 years, the field of computer science at Penn has been marked by exciting innovations. "One of the hardest parts about programming with machine learning is configuring the environment to build. Students usually have to choose the compute instances, security polices, and provide a credit card," said Dan Roth, Professor of Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. "My students needed Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab to abstract away all of the complexity of setup and provide a free powerful sandbox to experiment. This lets them write code immediately without needing to spend time configuring the ML environment." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, and Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211201005992/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New $10 million AWS Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Scholarship (AWS AI &amp; ML Scholarship) program is designed to prepare underrepresented and underserved students globally for careers in machine learning</em></p><p><em>Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab makes it easy for anyone to quickly set up a machine learning development environment for learning and experimentation at no cost</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced two new initiatives designed to make machine learning more accessible for anyone interested in learning and experimenting with the technology. The AWS AI &amp; ML Scholarshipis a new education and scholarship program aimed at preparing underrepresented and underserved students globally for careers in machine learning. The program uses AWS DeepRacer and the new AWS DeepRacer Student League to teach students foundational machine learning concepts by giving them hands-on experience training machine learning models for autonomous race cars, while providing educational content centered on machine learning fundamentals. AWS is further increasing access to machine learning through Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, which gives everyone access to a no-cost version of Amazon SageMaker—an AWS service that helps customers build, train, and deploy machine learning models.</p><p>"The two initiatives we are announcing today are designed to open up educational opportunities in machine learning to make it more widely accessible to anyone who is interested in the technology," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Amazon Machine Learning at AWS. "Machine learning will be one of the most transformational technologies of this generation. If we are going to unlock the full potential of this technology to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems, we need the best minds entering the field from all backgrounds and walks of life. We want to inspire and excite a diverse future workforce through this new scholarship program and break down the cost barriers that prevent many from getting started with machine learning."</p><p><em>New $10 million education and scholarship program is designed to prepare underrepresented and underserved students globally for careers in machine learning</em></p><p>The World Economic Forum estimates that technological advances and automation will create 97 million new technology jobs by 2025, including in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. While the job opportunities in technology are growing, diversity is lagging behind in science and technology careers. Making educational resources available to anyone interested in technology is critical to encouraging a more robust, diverse pipeline of people in artificial intelligence and machine learning careers. The new AWS AI &amp; ML Scholarship aims to help underrepresented and underserved high school and college students learn foundational machine learning concepts and prepare them for careers in artificial intelligence and machine learning. In addition to no-cost access to dozens of hours of free machine learning model training and educational materials, 2,000 qualifying students from underrepresented and underserved communities will win a scholarship for the AI Programming with Python Udacity Nanodegree program, designed to give scholarship recipients the programming tools and techniques fundamental to machine learning. Graduates from the first Nanodegree program will be invited to take a technical assessment. Five hundred students who receive the highest scores in this assessment will earn a second Udacity Nanodegree program scholarship on deep learning and machine learning engineering to help further prepare them for a career in artificial intelligence and machine learning. These top 500 students will also have access to mentorship opportunities from tenured Amazon and Intel technology experts for career insights and advice.</p><p>Delivered in collaboration with Intel and supported by the talent transformation platform Udacity, the AWS AI &amp; ML Scholarship program allows students from around the world to access dozens of hours of free training modules and tutorials on the basics of machine learning and its real-world applications. Students can use AWS DeepRacer to turn theory into hands-on action by learning how to train machine learning models to power a virtual race car. Students who successfully complete educational modules by passing knowledge-check quizzes, meet certain AWS DeepRacer lap time performance targets, and submit an essay will be considered for Udacity Nanodegree program scholarships. Students can also put their virtual race cars to the test in the new AWS DeepRacer Student League. The AWS DeepRacer Student League helps people of all skill levels learn how to build machine learning models with a fully autonomous 1/18^th scale race car driven by machine learning, a 3D racing simulator, and a global competition. AWS DeepRacer has been used by enterprises like Capital One, BMW, Deloitte, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, and Liberty Mutual to teach their employees to build, train, and deploy machine learning models in a hands-on way. To get started with the AWS AI &amp; ML Scholarship, visit awsaimlscholarship.com.</p><p><em>Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab provides no-cost access to a machine learning development environment to put machine learning in the hands of everyone</em></p><p>Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab offers a free version of Amazon SageMaker, which is used by researchers and data scientists worldwide to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly. Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab removes the need to have an AWS account or provide billing details to get up and running with machine learning on AWS. Users simply sign up with an email address through a web browser, and Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab provides access to a machine learning development environment. Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab provides unlimited user sessions that include 15 gigabytes of persistent storage to store projects and up to 12 hours of CPU and four hours of GPU compute for training machine learning models at no cost. There are no cloud resources to build, scale, or manage with Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, so users can start, stop, and restart working on machine learning projects as easily as closing and opening a laptop. When users are done experimenting and want to take their ideas to production, they can easily export their machine learning projects to Amazon SageMaker Studio to deploy and scale their models on AWS. Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab can be used as a no-cost learning environment for students or a no-cost prototyping environment for data scientists where everyone can quickly and easily start building and training machine learning models with no financial obligation or long-term commitments. To learn more about Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, visit aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/studio-lab.</p><p>Earlier this year, Amazon announced a new Leadership Principle: Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility. AWS is scaling and investing in initiatives to live up to this new Leadership Principle, including Amazon's commitment to provide 29 million people with access to free cloud computing skills training by 2025, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs for young learners including Amazon Future Engineer, AWS Girls' Tech Day, and AWS GetIT, as well as collaborations with colleges and universities. Now, AWS is making it easier for more people from underrepresented groups and underserved populations to get started with machine learning—with free education, scholarships, and access to the same machine learning technology used by the world's leading startups, research institutions, and enterprises. The two initiatives announced today further advance Amazon's efforts to make education and training opportunities widely accessible.</p><p>AWS and Intel have a 15-year relationship dedicated to developing, building, and supporting cloud services that are designed to manage cost and complexity, accelerate business outcomes, and scale to meet current and future computing requirements. "As an industry, we must do more to create a diverse and inclusive tech workforce," said Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Executive Vice President and GM of the Sales, Marketing, and Communications Group at Intel. "Intel is proud to support initiatives like the AWS AI &amp; ML Scholarship program, which aligns with our commitment to provide more access to STEM opportunities for underrepresented groups and helps diversify the future generation of machine learning practitioners. What makes this education and scholarship program unique is that students are given access to a rich set of learning materials at the outset. This is critical to really move the needle. Learning isn't contingent on winning but instead part of the process."</p><p>Girls in Tech is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating the gender gap in tech. "Driving diversity in machine learning requires intentional programs that create opportunities and break down barriers like the new AWS AI &amp; ML Scholarship program," said Adriana Gascoigne, Founder and CEO of Girls in Tech. "Progress in bringing more women and underrepresented communities into the field of machine learning will only be achieved if everyone works together to close the diversity gap. Girls in Tech is glad to see multi-faceted programs like the AWS AI &amp; ML Scholarship to help close the gap in machine learning education and open career potential among these groups."</p><p>Hugging Face is an AI community for building, training, and deploying state of the art models powered by the reference open source in machine learning. "At Hugging Face, our mission is to democratize state of the art machine learning," said Jeff Boudier, Director of Product Marketing at Hugging Face. "With Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, AWS is doing just that by enabling anyone to learn and experiment with ML through a web browser, without the need for a high-powered PC or a credit card to get started. This makes ML more accessible and easier to share with the community. We are excited to be part of this launch and contribute Hugging Face transformers examples and resources to make ML even more accessible!"</p><p>Santa Clara University's mission with the Department of Finance is to educate students, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, to serve their organizations and society in the Jesuit tradition. "Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab will help my students learn the building blocks of machine learning by removing the cloud configuration steps required to get started. Now, in my natural language processing classes, students have more time to enhance their skills," said Sanjiv Das, Professor of Finance and Data Science at Santa Clara University. "Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab enables students to onboard to AWS quickly, work and experiment for a few hours, and easily pick up where they left off. Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab brings the ease of use of Jupyter notebooks in the cloud to both beginner and advanced students studying machine learning."</p><p>University of Pennsylvania Engineering is the birthplace of the modern computer. It was there that ENIAC, the world's first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer, was developed in 1946. For over 70 years, the field of computer science at Penn has been marked by exciting innovations. "One of the hardest parts about programming with machine learning is configuring the environment to build. Students usually have to choose the compute instances, security polices, and provide a credit card," said Dan Roth, Professor of Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. "My students needed Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab to abstract away all of the complexity of setup and provide a free powerful sandbox to experiment. This lets them write code immediately without needing to spend time configuring the ML environment."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, and Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211201005992/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces Three New Database Capabilities

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AWS Announces Three New Database Capabilities

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Amazon RDS Custom gives customers a managed service for business applications that require database and operating system customization Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) table class reduces DynamoDB costs by up to 60% for tables that store infrequently accessed data Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS uses machine learning to better detect, diagnose, and resolve hard-to-find database-related performance issues in minutes not days Mercado Libre, NetApp, and Amazon among customers and partners using new database capabilities LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced three new database capabilities that make it easier and more cost efficient for customers to scale and run the right databases for their job. Today's announcements introduce a new managed database service for business applications that allows customers to customize the underlying database and operating system, a new table class for Amazon DynamoDB designed to reduce storage costs for infrequently accessed data, and a service that uses machine learning to better diagnose and remediate database-related performance issues. Together, these innovations make it easier and more cost effective for customers to manage data at scale. As a growing number of applications need to work with petabytes—or even exabytes—of data with low latency and high performance, a one-size-fits-all database no longer meets the needs of customers who require highly available, reliable, and performant ways to leverage and manage data at scale. To meet these demands, more and more customers are looking to choose the right database for their unique needs. AWS offers the broadest and deepest selection of specialized database engines, including DynamoDB for key-value databases, Amazon Neptune for graph databases, Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis for in-memory databases, Amazon DocumentDB for document databases, Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) for wide-column databases, Amazon Timestream for time series databases, and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) for ledger databases. AWS is also the best place to run open-source databases, which is why more than 100,000 customers choose to run their MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible databases on Amazon Aurora and enjoy the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at one-tenth the cost. Many customers also choose to run commercial databases on AWS to take advantage of the superior scalability, security, and elasticity AWS provides. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers a fully managed relational database service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases in the cloud. When it comes to databases, AWS offers the right tools for the job, with more than 15 purpose-built database engines that provide customers with high availability, performance, reliability, and security for a wide range of use cases. The three new database capabilities announced today deliver significant new features to give customers even more choice and higher performance at lower costs. "Customers have told us they want databases that are optimized for their most important use cases to deliver flexible, scalable, and reliable user experiences without worrying about the resource-intensive burden of managing infrastructure or incurring excess costs," said Raju Gulabani, Vice President of Databases and Analytics at AWS. "With today's announcements, we're excited to provide customers with even more flexibility and choice to easily improve database performance, optimize cost, and power their most business-critical applications. No one else in the industry can match the depth of capability and breadth of selection in databases offered by AWS, and we're nowhere close to being done innovating for our customers." Amazon RDS Custom gives customers a managed database service for business applications that require customization of the underlying database and operating system Customers who want to run commercial databases like Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server in the cloud choose Amazon RDS because it is easy to set up, operate, and scale. With Amazon RDS, customers no longer need to worry about time-consuming administrative tasks like provisioning capacity, scaling, and backing up their data. However, some business applications require customization to their underlying Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database environment and operating system (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft SharePoint, and Oracle PeopleSoft). Today, customers often run these applications in a self-managed environment (e.g. on Amazon EC2 or on-premises) so they can have full control over the underlying database environment and operating system. While self-managed deployments are highly configurable, customers must spend time on administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups. What customers running applications that require database and operating system customization want instead is to automate these undifferentiated administrative tasks to make it easier to run these applications on AWS. Amazon RDS Custom automates the setup, operation, and scaling of the Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases that are tightly integrated with common business applications, while allowing customization to the database and underlying operating system these applications require. With Amazon RDS Custom, customers running these types of business applications no longer need to worry about time-consuming administrative tasks like provisioning and scaling hardware, database setup, patching, and backups. Customers can use Amazon RDS Custom to configure their database environment and underlying operating system to modify settings, install custom patches, and integrate third-party software to meet the requirements of their business applications (e.g. custom database minor versions, third-party security and diagnostic software, or specific file system configurations). Amazon RDS Custom automatically monitors the database environment and operating system to detect user-initiated configurations that impact the ability of Amazon RDS Custom to manage the database. If an issue is detected, Amazon RDS Custom will attempt to automatically resolve the issue. For configuration errors that cannot be automatically corrected, Amazon RDS Custom notifies the customer that corrective action is required and provides recommended steps for resolution. Customers can easily move their existing self-managed Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases that require specialized customizations to Amazon RDS Custom and no longer worry about having to manage databases themselves. To get started with Amazon RDS Custom, visit aws.amazon.com/rds/custom. Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) table class reduces DynamoDB costs by up to 60% for tables that store infrequently accessed data Customers choose DynamoDB for high-volume NoSQL workloads because it offers high throughput with consistent millisecond response times at virtually any scale without having to manage servers or clusters. As the patterns of DynamoDB workloads have become more diverse, there is a set of customers who have workloads where storage is the dominant cost for data that needs to be accessed less frequently over time but still requires fast response times when needed. For example, older social media posts, less recent ecommerce orders, and past video game achievements might represent a significant storage expense for customers due to their growing volume and the relatively high cost of storing this data, but they still require high throughput because when this data is requested it needs to be made immediately available. Today, customers optimize costs in these cases by writing code to move older, less frequently accessed data from DynamoDB to lower cost storage alternatives like Amazon S3. With the new Amazon DynamoDB Standard-IA table class, customers can reduce DynamoDB costs by up to 60% for tables that store infrequently accessed data. The DynamoDB Standard-IA table class offers up to 60% lower storage costs than Standard DynamoDB tables, making it the most cost-effective option for tables where storage is the dominant table cost. In contrast, the DynamoDB Standard table class offers up to 20% lower throughput costs than the Standard-IA table class and remains the most cost-effective option for tables where throughput is the dominant table cost. Customers can switch between DynamoDB Standard and DynamoDB Standard-IA table classes with no impact to table performance and no code changes required to optimize their spend for the type of data they are storing. To get started with the DynamoDB Standard-IA table class, visit aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/standard-ia. Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS uses machine learning to better detect and diagnose hard-to-find database-related performance issues and provides recommendations designed to resolve them in minutes not days Amazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning powered service that makes it easier for developers to improve application availability by automatically detecting operational issues and recommending specific actions for remediation. Today, Amazon DevOps Guru alerts customers to operational issues across Amazon RDS engines. However, it can be complicated and time-consuming to determine the exact cause of a database-related issue because developers often need to enlist database administrators to manually run diagnostic tools and queries to determine the factors contributing to the issue. Once the cause of the issue is identified, database experts often need to do additional analysis to fully understand the problem (e.g. analyze database-specific metrics, events, and wait conditions or extract and analyze relevant SQL statements) before providing guidance on how to fix it. As a result, it can take hours or days to uncover and remediate underlying database issues that put application availability or user experience at risk. Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS is a new machine learning powered capability in Amazon DevOps Guru that is designed to automatically detect and diagnose performance bottlenecks and operational issues in a database and provide detailed remediation recommendations, enabling developers to resolve issues in minutes rather than days. Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS builds on the capabilities of Amazon DevOps Guru for detecting database-related issues to include additional performance-related issues in Amazon RDS (e.g. resource over-utilization and misbehavior of certain SQL queries). Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS is designed to immediately notify developers when issues occur and provide diagnostic information on the root cause, details on the extent of the problem, and intelligent remediation recommendations to help customers quickly resolve database-related performance bottlenecks and operational issues. For example, if an application performance issue related to an unexpected high load on a database is detected, Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS conducts a root cause analysis to find the exact SQL statement causing the issue, sends a notification with the cause and scope of the issue, and recommends corrective actions to resolve the issue quickly. Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS currently works with Amazon Aurora and is planned to support additional Amazon RDS database engines in 2022. To get started with Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, visit aws.amazon.com/devops-guru/features/devops-guru-for-rds. Mercado Libre is a leading technology company in e-commerce in Latin America. "Even though our users may not need to check their past orders frequently, they expect to be able to view past orders, re-order items, and get product information at any time," said Oscar Mullin, Director of IT - Core Services and Cross SRE and DBA Head at Mercado Libre. "Amazon DynamoDB Standard-IA will provide us with the ability to store our users' infrequently accessed data at a significant cost savings, while continuing to deliver for our users by maintaining the same high performance, accessibility, and reliability we've come to expect from Amazon DynamoDB." NetApp is a cloud-led, data-centric software company that gives companies the freedom to put their data to work in the applications that elevate their business. "NetApp offers cloud services to enable organizations to easily run highly efficient, cost-effective relational database migration and operation programs from on premises to the cloud. However, some organizations running applications that require customization to the database environment and operating system have been unable to move to a fully managed database service in the cloud due to the customizations these applications require," said Ronen Schwartz, SVP and GM at NetApp Cloud Volumes. "With Amazon RDS Custom, these organizations now have a managed database service for applications that require operating system and database customization. Organizations can run Amazon RDS Custom on NetApp ONTAP to benefit from advanced data protection, autonomous efficiencies, and continuous optimizations." Amazon Fulfillment Technologies designs, develops, and operates fulfillment technology solutions for Amazon fulfillment centers, including automated Amazon Robotics worldwide. "My team manages a large fleet database. Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS helps us identify a wider range of performance anomalies than our threshold-based monitoring without being overly noisy," said Brent Bigonger, Principal Database Engineer at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies. "Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS's machine learning powered insights act as an early warning system that allows us to detect, diagnose, and remediate performance-related issues quickly." Jobvite is a recruiting software platform built to attract, hire, and onboard top talent. "Our usage patterns change time to time and as a result, our application interacts with Amazon Aurora databases in ways we can't always predict. When we see congestion on our AWS databases it can take us hours to figure out the source and remediate," said Ron Teeter, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Jobvite. "We are excited to use Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS to get alerts as soon as an event like this happens. With Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, we can quickly locate database queries in our application that are causing the performance or operational issues along with an explanation of why it's happening." Singular simplifies marketing data by unifying siloed data, applying attribution, and exposing insights to accelerate growth. "At Singular, we capture, analyze, and refine billions of data points to deliver the most accurate, timely, and actionable cross-platform analytics to our customers. Having immediate access to our data, even if it is infrequently used, is crucial for us to offer our customers the best insights to grow their business fast," said Ofir Nir, Head of Data Infrastructure at Singular. "The ability to simplify the management and access to our long-term data storage while still benefiting from Amazon DynamoDB performance, durability, and data availability with the Amazon DynamoDB Standard-IA table class could help us further optimize costs and provide an even better user experience to our customers." NTT DOCOMO, Inc. is a leading mobile phone operator in Japan. "We manage 45 independent applications for our customers and internal teams at NTT DOCOMO. These teams provide underlying components for public services by NTT DOCOMO and business applications for our company staffers," said Chikara Mitsui, Senior Manager, Service Design Department at NTT DOCOMO, Inc. "We are excited to use Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS and leverage its machine learning powered insights to quickly detect, diagnose, and remediate a wide range of database-related performance issues. Amazon DevOps Guru provides a single view of insights for our application stack and empowers my team to focus on building more reliable services instead of taking time to investigate operational issues." Delphix provides an automated DevOps data platform, masking data for privacy compliance, securing data from ransomware, and delivering efficient, virtualized data for CI/CD and digital transformation. "With Amazon RDS Custom, Delphix customers can accelerate database migrations to a managed service by eliminating data-related bottlenecks that slow down application development velocity," says Jason Grauel, VP of Product Management at Delphix. "Now, customers can ensure test data keeps pace with an accelerated DevOps cadence while enjoying the operational benefits of Amazon RDS Custom automation." Jungle Scout is an all-in-one platform for finding, launching, and selling Amazon products. "Data is the most critical component of our business offering at Jungle Scout. We collect and analyze hundreds of petabytes of data to deliver the most accurate marketplace analytics data in the world to our SMB and Enterprise customers," said Regan Wolfrom, DevSecOps and Builder Tools manager at Jungle Scout. "The new Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access table class is a massive win for us, allowing us to quickly and efficiently implement cost-effective long-term data storage while still enjoying the benefits of Amazon DynamoDB. The ability to switch between Amazon DynamoDB table classes without any code changes will allow us to easily optimize our costs as we scale and focus our engineering efforts on the features our customers require as they grow their business." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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>Amazon RDS Custom gives customers a managed service for business applications that require database and operating system customization</em></p><p><em>Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) table class reduces DynamoDB costs by up to 60% for tables that store infrequently accessed data</em></p><p><em>Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS uses machine learning to better detect, diagnose, and resolve hard-to-find database-related performance issues in minutes not days</em></p><p><em>Mercado Libre, NetApp, and Amazon among customers and partners using new database capabilities</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced three new database capabilities that make it easier and more cost efficient for customers to scale and run the right databases for their job. Today's announcements introduce a new managed database service for business applications that allows customers to customize the underlying database and operating system, a new table class for Amazon DynamoDB designed to reduce storage costs for infrequently accessed data, and a service that uses machine learning to better diagnose and remediate database-related performance issues. Together, these innovations make it easier and more cost effective for customers to manage data at scale.</p><p>As a growing number of applications need to work with petabytes—or even exabytes—of data with low latency and high performance, a one-size-fits-all database no longer meets the needs of customers who require highly available, reliable, and performant ways to leverage and manage data at scale. To meet these demands, more and more customers are looking to choose the right database for their unique needs. AWS offers the broadest and deepest selection of specialized database engines, including DynamoDB for key-value databases, Amazon Neptune for graph databases, Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis for in-memory databases, Amazon DocumentDB for document databases, Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) for wide-column databases, Amazon Timestream for time series databases, and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) for ledger databases. AWS is also the best place to run open-source databases, which is why more than 100,000 customers choose to run their MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible databases on Amazon Aurora and enjoy the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at one-tenth the cost. Many customers also choose to run commercial databases on AWS to take advantage of the superior scalability, security, and elasticity AWS provides. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers a fully managed relational database service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases in the cloud. When it comes to databases, AWS offers the right tools for the job, with more than 15 purpose-built database engines that provide customers with high availability, performance, reliability, and security for a wide range of use cases. The three new database capabilities announced today deliver significant new features to give customers even more choice and higher performance at lower costs.</p><p>"Customers have told us they want databases that are optimized for their most important use cases to deliver flexible, scalable, and reliable user experiences without worrying about the resource-intensive burden of managing infrastructure or incurring excess costs," said Raju Gulabani, Vice President of Databases and Analytics at AWS. "With today's announcements, we're excited to provide customers with even more flexibility and choice to easily improve database performance, optimize cost, and power their most business-critical applications. No one else in the industry can match the depth of capability and breadth of selection in databases offered by AWS, and we're nowhere close to being done innovating for our customers."</p><p><em>Amazon RDS Custom gives customers a managed database service for business applications that require customization of the underlying database and operating system</em></p><p>Customers who want to run commercial databases like Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server in the cloud choose Amazon RDS because it is easy to set up, operate, and scale. With Amazon RDS, customers no longer need to worry about time-consuming administrative tasks like provisioning capacity, scaling, and backing up their data. However, some business applications require customization to their underlying Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database environment and operating system (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft SharePoint, and Oracle PeopleSoft). Today, customers often run these applications in a self-managed environment (e.g. on Amazon EC2 or on-premises) so they can have full control over the underlying database environment and operating system. While self-managed deployments are highly configurable, customers must spend time on administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups. What customers running applications that require database and operating system customization want instead is to automate these undifferentiated administrative tasks to make it easier to run these applications on AWS.</p><p>Amazon RDS Custom automates the setup, operation, and scaling of the Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases that are tightly integrated with common business applications, while allowing customization to the database and underlying operating system these applications require. With Amazon RDS Custom, customers running these types of business applications no longer need to worry about time-consuming administrative tasks like provisioning and scaling hardware, database setup, patching, and backups. Customers can use Amazon RDS Custom to configure their database environment and underlying operating system to modify settings, install custom patches, and integrate third-party software to meet the requirements of their business applications (e.g. custom database minor versions, third-party security and diagnostic software, or specific file system configurations). Amazon RDS Custom automatically monitors the database environment and operating system to detect user-initiated configurations that impact the ability of Amazon RDS Custom to manage the database. If an issue is detected, Amazon RDS Custom will attempt to automatically resolve the issue. For configuration errors that cannot be automatically corrected, Amazon RDS Custom notifies the customer that corrective action is required and provides recommended steps for resolution. Customers can easily move their existing self-managed Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases that require specialized customizations to Amazon RDS Custom and no longer worry about having to manage databases themselves. To get started with Amazon RDS Custom, visit aws.amazon.com/rds/custom.</p><p><em>Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard-IA)</em><em> table class reduces DynamoDB costs by up to 60% for tables that store infrequently accessed data</em></p><p>Customers choose DynamoDB for high-volume NoSQL workloads because it offers high throughput with consistent millisecond response times at virtually any scale without having to manage servers or clusters. As the patterns of DynamoDB workloads have become more diverse, there is a set of customers who have workloads where storage is the dominant cost for data that needs to be accessed less frequently over time but still requires fast response times when needed. For example, older social media posts, less recent ecommerce orders, and past video game achievements might represent a significant storage expense for customers due to their growing volume and the relatively high cost of storing this data, but they still require high throughput because when this data is requested it needs to be made immediately available. Today, customers optimize costs in these cases by writing code to move older, less frequently accessed data from DynamoDB to lower cost storage alternatives like Amazon S3.</p><p>With the new Amazon DynamoDB Standard-IA table class, customers can reduce DynamoDB costs by up to 60% for tables that store infrequently accessed data. The DynamoDB Standard-IA table class offers up to 60% lower storage costs than Standard DynamoDB tables, making it the most cost-effective option for tables where storage is the dominant table cost. In contrast, the DynamoDB Standard table class offers up to 20% lower throughput costs than the Standard-IA table class and remains the most cost-effective option for tables where throughput is the dominant table cost. Customers can switch between DynamoDB Standard and DynamoDB Standard-IA table classes with no impact to table performance and no code changes required to optimize their spend for the type of data they are storing. To get started with the DynamoDB Standard-IA table class, visit aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/standard-ia.</p><p><em>Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS uses machine learning to better detect and diagnose hard-to-find database-related performance issues and provides recommendations designed to resolve them in minutes not days</em></p><p>Amazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning powered service that makes it easier for developers to improve application availability by automatically detecting operational issues and recommending specific actions for remediation. Today, Amazon DevOps Guru alerts customers to operational issues across Amazon RDS engines. However, it can be complicated and time-consuming to determine the exact cause of a database-related issue because developers often need to enlist database administrators to manually run diagnostic tools and queries to determine the factors contributing to the issue. Once the cause of the issue is identified, database experts often need to do additional analysis to fully understand the problem (e.g. analyze database-specific metrics, events, and wait conditions or extract and analyze relevant SQL statements) before providing guidance on how to fix it. As a result, it can take hours or days to uncover and remediate underlying database issues that put application availability or user experience at risk.</p><p>Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS is a new machine learning powered capability in Amazon DevOps Guru that is designed to automatically detect and diagnose performance bottlenecks and operational issues in a database and provide detailed remediation recommendations, enabling developers to resolve issues in minutes rather than days. Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS builds on the capabilities of Amazon DevOps Guru for detecting database-related issues to include additional performance-related issues in Amazon RDS (e.g. resource over-utilization and misbehavior of certain SQL queries). Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS is designed to immediately notify developers when issues occur and provide diagnostic information on the root cause, details on the extent of the problem, and intelligent remediation recommendations to help customers quickly resolve database-related performance bottlenecks and operational issues. For example, if an application performance issue related to an unexpected high load on a database is detected, Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS conducts a root cause analysis to find the exact SQL statement causing the issue, sends a notification with the cause and scope of the issue, and recommends corrective actions to resolve the issue quickly. Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS currently works with Amazon Aurora and is planned to support additional Amazon RDS database engines in 2022. To get started with Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, visit aws.amazon.com/devops-guru/features/devops-guru-for-rds.</p><p>Mercado Libre is a leading technology company in e-commerce in Latin America. "Even though our users may not need to check their past orders frequently, they expect to be able to view past orders, re-order items, and get product information at any time," said Oscar Mullin, Director of IT - Core Services and Cross SRE and DBA Head at Mercado Libre. "Amazon DynamoDB Standard-IA will provide us with the ability to store our users' infrequently accessed data at a significant cost savings, while continuing to deliver for our users by maintaining the same high performance, accessibility, and reliability we've come to expect from Amazon DynamoDB."</p><p>NetApp is a cloud-led, data-centric software company that gives companies the freedom to put their data to work in the applications that elevate their business. "NetApp offers cloud services to enable organizations to easily run highly efficient, cost-effective relational database migration and operation programs from on premises to the cloud. However, some organizations running applications that require customization to the database environment and operating system have been unable to move to a fully managed database service in the cloud due to the customizations these applications require," said Ronen Schwartz, SVP and GM at NetApp Cloud Volumes. "With Amazon RDS Custom, these organizations now have a managed database service for applications that require operating system and database customization. Organizations can run Amazon RDS Custom on NetApp ONTAP to benefit from advanced data protection, autonomous efficiencies, and continuous optimizations."</p><p>Amazon Fulfillment Technologies designs, develops, and operates fulfillment technology solutions for Amazon fulfillment centers, including automated Amazon Robotics worldwide. "My team manages a large fleet database. Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS helps us identify a wider range of performance anomalies than our threshold-based monitoring without being overly noisy," said Brent Bigonger, Principal Database Engineer at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies. "Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS's machine learning powered insights act as an early warning system that allows us to detect, diagnose, and remediate performance-related issues quickly."</p><p>Jobvite is a recruiting software platform built to attract, hire, and onboard top talent. "Our usage patterns change time to time and as a result, our application interacts with Amazon Aurora databases in ways we can't always predict. When we see congestion on our AWS databases it can take us hours to figure out the source and remediate," said Ron Teeter, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Jobvite. "We are excited to use Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS to get alerts as soon as an event like this happens. With Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, we can quickly locate database queries in our application that are causing the performance or operational issues along with an explanation of why it's happening."</p><p>Singular simplifies marketing data by unifying siloed data, applying attribution, and exposing insights to accelerate growth. "At Singular, we capture, analyze, and refine billions of data points to deliver the most accurate, timely, and actionable cross-platform analytics to our customers. Having immediate access to our data, even if it is infrequently used, is crucial for us to offer our customers the best insights to grow their business fast," said Ofir Nir, Head of Data Infrastructure at Singular. "The ability to simplify the management and access to our long-term data storage while still benefiting from Amazon DynamoDB performance, durability, and data availability with the Amazon DynamoDB Standard-IA table class could help us further optimize costs and provide an even better user experience to our customers."</p><p>NTT DOCOMO, Inc. is a leading mobile phone operator in Japan. "We manage 45 independent applications for our customers and internal teams at NTT DOCOMO. These teams provide underlying components for public services by NTT DOCOMO and business applications for our company staffers," said Chikara Mitsui, Senior Manager, Service Design Department at NTT DOCOMO, Inc. "We are excited to use Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS and leverage its machine learning powered insights to quickly detect, diagnose, and remediate a wide range of database-related performance issues. Amazon DevOps Guru provides a single view of insights for our application stack and empowers my team to focus on building more reliable services instead of taking time to investigate operational issues."</p><p>Delphix provides an automated DevOps data platform, masking data for privacy compliance, securing data from ransomware, and delivering efficient, virtualized data for CI/CD and digital transformation. "With Amazon RDS Custom, Delphix customers can accelerate database migrations to a managed service by eliminating data-related bottlenecks that slow down application development velocity," says Jason Grauel, VP of Product Management at Delphix. "Now, customers can ensure test data keeps pace with an accelerated DevOps cadence while enjoying the operational benefits of Amazon RDS Custom automation."</p><p>Jungle Scout is an all-in-one platform for finding, launching, and selling Amazon products. "Data is the most critical component of our business offering at Jungle Scout. We collect and analyze hundreds of petabytes of data to deliver the most accurate marketplace analytics data in the world to our SMB and Enterprise customers," said Regan Wolfrom, DevSecOps and Builder Tools manager at Jungle Scout. "The new Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access table class is a massive win for us, allowing us to quickly and efficiently implement cost-effective long-term data storage while still enjoying the benefits of Amazon DynamoDB. The ability to switch between Amazon DynamoDB table classes without any code changes will allow us to easily optimize our costs as we scale and focus our engineering efforts on the features our customers require as they grow their business."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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>

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AWS Announces Six New Amazon SageMaker Capabilities

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Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands access to machine learning by providing business analysts the ability to generate more accurate machine learning predictions using a point-and-click interface—no coding required Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus offers a fully managed data labeling service that uses a highly skilled workforce and built-in workflows to deliver high-quality annotated data for training machine learning models faster at lower cost Amazon SageMaker Studio now makes data engineering, analytics, and machine learning workflows accessible within a universal notebook Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler helps customers train deep learning models up to 50% faster by automatically compiling code to make it more efficient Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender automatically suggests the optimal AWS compute instances for running machine learning inference with the best price performance Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference offers serverless compute for machine learning inference at scale LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced six new capabilities for its industry-leading machine learning service, Amazon SageMaker, that make machine learning even more accessible and cost effective. Today's announcements bring together powerful new capabilities, including a no-code environment for creating accurate machine learning predictions, more accurate data labeling using highly skilled annotators, a universal Amazon SageMaker Studio notebook experience for greater collaboration across domains, a compiler for machine learning training that makes code more efficient, automatic compute instance selection machine learning inference, and serverless compute for machine learning inference. To get started with Amazon SageMaker, visit aws.amazon.com/sagemaker. Driven by the availability of virtually infinite compute capacity, a massive proliferation of data in the cloud, and the rapid advancement of the tools available to developers, machine learning has become mainstream across many industries. For years, AWS has focused on making machine learning more accessible to a broader audience of customers. Today, Amazon SageMaker is one of the fastest growing services in AWS history with tens of thousands of customers, including AstraZeneca, Aurora, Capital One, Cerner, Discovery, Hyundai, Intuit, Thomson Reuters, Tyson, Vanguard, and many more customers who use the service to train machine learning models of all sizes, some of which on the extreme now consist of billions of parameters capable of making hundreds of billions of predictions every month. As customers further scale their machine learning model training and inference on Amazon SageMaker, AWS has continued to invest in expanding the service's capability, delivering more than 60 new Amazon SageMaker features and functionalities in the past year alone. Today's announcements build on these advancements to make it even easier to prepare and gather data for machine learning, train models faster, optimize the type and amount of compute needed for inference, and expand machine learning to an even broader audience. Amazon SageMaker Canvas no-code machine learning predictions: Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands access to machine learning by providing business analysts (line-of-business employees supporting finance, marketing, operations, and human resources teams) with a visual interface that allows them to create more accurate machine learning predictions on their own—without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. As more companies seek to reinvent their businesses and customer experiences with machine learning, more people in their organizations need to be able to use advanced machine learning technology across different lines of business. However, machine learning has typically required specialized skills that can require years of formal education or intensive training with a challenging and evolving curriculum. Amazon SageMaker Canvas solves this challenge by providing a visual, point-and-click user interface that makes it easy for business analysts to generate predictions. Customers point Amazon SageMaker Canvas to their data stores (e.g. Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Snowflake, on-premises data stores, local files, etc.), and the Amazon SageMaker Canvas provides visual tools to help users intuitively prepare and analyze data. Amazon SageMaker Canvas then uses automated machine learning to build and train machine learning models without any coding. Business analysts can review and evaluate models in the Amazon SageMaker Canvas console for accuracy and efficacy for their use case. Amazon SageMaker Canvas also lets users export their models to Amazon SageMaker Studio, so they can share them with data scientists to validate and further refine their models. Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus expert data labeling: Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus is a fully managed data labeling service that uses an expert workforce with built-in annotation workflows to deliver high-quality data for training machine learning models faster and at lower cost with no coding required. Customers need increasingly larger datasets that are correctly labeled to train ever more accurate models and scale their machine learning deployments. However, producing large datasets can take anywhere from weeks to years and often requires companies to hire a workforce and create workflows to manage the process of labeling data. In 2018, AWS launched Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to make it easier for customers to produce labeled data using human annotators through Amazon Mechanical Turk, third-party vendors, or their own private workforce. Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus expands on this capability with a specialized workforce with specific domain and industry expertise, as well as qualifications to meet customers' data security, privacy, and compliance requirements for highly accurate data labeling. Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus has a multistep labeling workflow that includes pre-labeling powered by machine learning models, machine validation of human labeling to detect errors and low-quality labels, and assistive labeling features (e.g. 3D cuboid snapping, removal of distortion in 2D images, predict-next in video labeling, and auto-segment tools) to reduce the time required to label datasets and help reduce the cost of procuring high-quality annotated data. To get started, customers simply point Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus to their data source in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and provide their specific labeling requirements (e.g. instructions for how medical experts should label anomalies in radiology images of lungs). Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus then creates a data labeling workflow and provides dashboards that allow customers to follow data annotation progress, inspect samples of completed labels for quality, and provide feedback to generate high-quality data so customers can build, train, and deploy highly accurate machine learning models more quickly. Amazon SageMaker Studio universal notebooks: A universal notebook for Amazon SageMaker Studio (the first complete IDE for machine learning) provides a single, integrated environment to perform data engineering, analytics, and machine learning. Today, teams across different data domains want to collaborate using a range of data engineering, analytics, and machine learning workflows. The practitioners of these domains often cross areas of knowledge like data engineering, data analytics, and data science and want to be able to work across the various workflows without needing to switch data exploration tools. However, when customers are ready to integrate data across analytics and machine learning environments, they often have to juggle multiple tools and notebooks, which can be cumbersome, time consuming, and prone to error. Amazon SageMaker Studio now allows users to interactively access, transform, and analyze a wide range of data for multiple purposes all from within a universal notebook. With built-in integration with Spark, Hive, and Presto running on Amazon EMR clusters and data lakes running on Amazon S3, customers can now use Amazon SageMaker Studio to access and manipulate data in a universal notebook without having to switch services. In addition to developing machine learning models using their preferred framework (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, or MXNet) to build, train, and deploy machine learning models in Amazon SageMaker Studio, customers can browse and query data sources, explore metadata and schemas, and start processing jobs for analytics or machine learning workflows—without leaving the universal Amazon SageMaker Studio notebook. Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler for machine learning models: Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler is a new machine learning model compiler that automatically optimizes code to use compute resources more effectively and reduce the time it takes to train models by up to 50%. Today's state-of-the-art deep learning models are so large and complex that they require specialized compute instances to accelerate training and can consume thousands of hours of graphical processing unit (GPU) compute time to train a single model. To further accelerate training times, data scientists typically try to augment training data or tune hyperparameters (variables that govern the machine learning training process) to find the best performing and least resource-intensive version of a model. This work is technically complicated, and data scientists often do not have time to optimize the frameworks needed to train models to run on GPUs. Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler is a new machine learning model compiler that is integrated with the versions of TensorFlow and PyTorch in Amazon SageMaker that have been optimized to run more efficiently in the cloud, so data scientists can use their preferred frameworks to train machine learning models through more efficient use of GPUs. With a single click, Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler automatically optimizes the trained model and compiles it to execute training up to 50% faster. Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender automatic instance selection: Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender helps customers automatically select the best compute instance and configuration (e.g. instance count, container parameters, and model optimizations) to power a particular machine learning model. For large machine learning models commonly used for natural language processing or computer vision, selecting a compute instance with the best price performance is a complicated, iterative process that can take weeks of experimentation. Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender removes the guesswork and complexity of determining where to run a model and can reduce the time to deploy from weeks to hours by automatically recommending the ideal compute instance configuration. Data scientists can use Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender to deploy the model to one of the recommended compute instances, or they can use the service to run a performance benchmark simulation across a range of selected compute instances. Customers can review benchmark results in Amazon SageMaker Studio and evaluate the tradeoffs between different configuration settings including latency, throughput, cost, compute, and memory. Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference for machine learning models: Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference offers pay-as-you-go pricing inference for machine learning models deployed in production. Customers are always looking to optimize costs when using machine learning, and this becomes increasingly important for applications that have intermittent traffic patterns with long idle times. For example, applications like personalized recommendations based on consumer purchase patterns, chatbots fielding incoming customer calls, and forecasting demand based on real-time transactions can have peaks of activity based on external factors like weather conditions, promotional offerings, or holidays. Providing just the right amount of compute for machine learning inference is a difficult balancing act. In some cases, customers over-provision capacity to accommodate peak activity, which allows for consistent performance but wastes money when there is no traffic. In other cases, customers under-provision compute to constrain costs at the expense of providing enough compute capacity to perform inference when conditions change. Some customers try manually adjusting computing resources on the fly to accommodate changing conditions, but this is tedious and manual work. Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference for machine learning automatically provisions, scales, and turns off compute capacity based on the number of inference requests. When customers deploy their machine learning model into production, they simply select the serverless deployment option in Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference manages compute resources to provide the precise amount of compute needed. With Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference, customers only pay for the compute capacity they use for each request and the amount of data processed, without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. "Customers across all industries and sizes are excited about how Amazon SageMaker has helped them scale their use of machine learning such that it has become a core part of their operations and allows them to invent new products, services, and experiences for the world," said Bratin Saha, Vice President of Amazon Machine Learning at AWS. "We're excited to expand our industry-leading machine learning service to an even broader group of customers, so they too can drive innovation in their business and help solve challenging problems. With these new Amazon SageMaker tools, we're introducing a whole new group of users to the service while also providing additional capabilities for existing customers to make it easier to transform data into valuable insights, accelerate time to deployment, improve performance, and save money throughout the machine learning journey." The BMW Group, headquartered in Munich, Germany, is a global manufacturer of premium automobiles and motorcycles, covering the brands BMW, BMW Motorrad, MINI, and Rolls-Royce. It also provides premium financial and mobility services. "The use of artificial intelligence as a key technology is an integral element in the process of digital transformation at the BMW Group. The company already employs AI throughout the value chain, enabling it to generate added value for customers, products, employees, and processes. In the past few years, we have industrialized many top BMW Group use cases, measured by business value impact," said Marc Neumann, Product Owner, AI Platform at The BMW Group. "We believe Amazon SageMaker Canvas can add a boost to our AI/ML scaling across the BMW Group. With SageMaker Canvas, our business users can easily explore and build ML models to make accurate predictions without writing any code. SageMaker also allows our central data science team to collaborate and evaluate the models created by business users before publishing them to production." Siemens Energy is energizing society. They are transforming in key focus areas of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and their innovation is making the future of tomorrow different today, for both their partners—and their people. "The core of our data science strategy at Siemens Energy is to bring the power of machine learning to all business users by enabling them to experiment with different data sources and machine learning frameworks without requiring a data science expert. This enables us to increase the speed of innovation and digitalization of our energy solutions such as Dispatch Optimizer and Diagnostic services," said Davood Naderi, Data Science Team Lead at Industrial Applications for Siemens Energy. "We found Amazon SageMaker Canvas a great addition to the Siemens Energy machine learning toolkit, because it allows business users to perform experiments while also sharing and collaborating with data science teams. The collaboration is important because it helps us productionalize more ML models and ensure all models adhere to our quality standards and policies." Airbnb is one of the world's largest marketplaces for unique, authentic places to stay and things to do, offering over 7 million accommodations and 40,000 handcrafted activities, all powered by local hosts. "At Airbnb, we are increasingly integrating ML across all aspects of our business. As a result, our teams consistently need to generate and maintain high-quality data in order to train and test ML models," said Wei Luo, Data Scientist at Airbnb China. "We were looking for a way to generate high quality text classification data results on one hundred thousand paragraphs of customer service logs in Mandarin so we can better serve our customers and reduce dependencies on our customer service team. With Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus, the AWS team built a customized data labeling workflow, which included a customized ML model that was able to achieve 99% classification accuracy." The National Football League is America's most popular sports league, comprised of 32 franchises that compete each year to win the Super Bowl, the world's biggest annual sporting event. "At the NFL, we continue to look for new ways to use machine learning to help our fans, broadcasters, coaches, and teams benefit from deeper insights," said Jennifer Langton, SVP, Player Health and Innovation at NFL. "Football is a fast moving sport where plays can happen in a split second. While coaches and referees carefully watch the game, it can be difficult to watch all players on a field for safety. Computer vision allows us to accurately detect player safety incidents, but developing these algorithms requires expertly labeled data. Now with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus, we have custom workflows and user interfaces for sophisticated labeling tasks, which helps us improve player safety." Founded and headquartered in Orange County, California, VIZIO's mission is to deliver immersive entertainment and compelling lifestyle enhancements that make its products the center of the connected home. VIZIO is driving the future of televisions through its integrated platform of cutting-edge Smart TVs and powerful SmartCast operating system. VIZIO's platform gives content providers more ways to distribute their content and advertisers more tools to target and dynamically serve ads to a growing audience that is increasingly transitioning away from linear TV. "At VIZIO, we consistently look for ways to leverage ML to create personalized experiences for our customers. We were looking for a way to continuously review ad videos and generate commercial metadata for efficient ads classification," said Zeev Neumeier, Chief Innovation Officer at VIZIO. "With the use of Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus's streaming capability, we can now use a custom template which provides video classification, metadata collection, and an automated system that enables data collection in real time as ads air. With Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus, we are able to review the results in less than one business day." Litterati is a data science company empowering people to ‘crowdsource-clean' the planet. Litterati's platform empowers people to create better solutions for the litter and waste problems our world faces by developing behavioral insight, mapping problem areas, and mitigating future risk. From schools to scientists, environmental organizations, brands, and city governments, people are coming together using Litterati for the greater good to create a litter-free world. "For us, machine learning brings light to unseen challenges. In the US alone, each year billions of dollars are spent cleaning up litter," said Sean Doherty, CTO at Litterati. "With computer vision models, we transform images of litter all around the world into data, so cities can better allocate their litter management resources. However, building object detection models requires access to object, material, and brand information, as well as localized knowledge due to datasets being spread across the globe. Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus allows us to create a hierarchical annotation interface that captures these precise features within that localized context. In addition, the SageMaker Ground Truth Plus expert workforce created localized image annotations, which provides a standardized solution increasing our data labeling efficiency by up to 20%, accelerating our ability to ingest annotated results into our database by 200%, and reducing post-processing time by 90%." Provectus helps its customers build end-to-end data and machine learning engineering experiences from raw datasets, enterprise data lakes, and machine learning models. "We have been waiting for a feature to create and manage Amazon EMR clusters directly from Amazon SageMaker Studio so that our customers could run Spark, Hive, and Presto workflows directly from Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks," said Stepan Pushkarev, CEO at Provectus. "We are excited that Amazon SageMaker has now natively built this capability to simplify management of Spark and machine learning jobs. This will help our customers' data engineers and data scientists collaborate more effectively to perform interactive data analysis and develop machine learning pipelines with EMR-based data transformations." The Vanguard Group, Inc., is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with about $7 trillion in global assets under management. Vanguard is redefining the industry by doing what's right for investors and creating change for millions of clients worldwide. "We're excited that our Vanguard data scientists and data engineers can now collaborate in a single notebook for analytics and machine learning," said Doug Stewart, Senior Director of Data and Analytics at Vanguard. "Now that Amazon SageMaker Studio has built-in integrations with Spark, Hive, and Presto all running on Amazon EMR, our development teams can be more productive. This single development environment will allow our teams to focus on building, training, and deploying machine learning models." Quantum Health is on a mission to make healthcare navigation smarter, simpler, and more cost-effective for everyone. They use Amazon SageMaker for use cases like text classification, text summarization, predictive models, classification problems, and Q&A to help the Quantum team and the members they serve. "Iterating with NLP models can be a challenge because of their size. Long training times bog down workflows and high costs can discourage our team from trying larger models that might offer better performance," said Jorge Lopez Grisman, Senior Data Scientist at Quantum Health. "Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler is exciting because it has the potential to alleviate these frictions. Achieving a speedup with Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler is a real win for our team that will make us more agile and innovative moving forward." Guidewire is the platform property and casualty insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. The company combines digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver its platform as a cloud service, and it enables its customers to do advanced analytics and machine learning for their industry-specific workloads. More than 450 insurers, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world run on Guidewire. "One of Guidewire's services is to help customers develop cutting-edge NLP models for applications like risk assessment and claims operations. Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler is compelling because it offers time and cost savings to our customers while developing these NLP models," said Matt Pearson, Principal Product Manager, Analytics and Data Services at Guidewire Software. "We expect it to help us reduce training time by more than 20% through more efficient use of GPU resources. We are excited to implement Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler in our NLP workloads, helping us to accelerate the transformation of data to insight for our customers." Musixmatch is a leading music data company providing data, tools, and services that enrich the way we experience music such as searching for songs and sharing song lyrics. Musixmatch is the largest service of this kind in the world with over 80 million users and over 8 million distinct lyrics. "Musixmatch uses Amazon SageMaker to build natural language processing and audio processing models, and is experimenting using Hugging Face with Amazon SageMaker. We choose Amazon SageMaker because it allows data scientists to iteratively build, train, and tune models quickly without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure, which means data scientists can work more quickly and independently," said Loreto Parisi, AI Engineering Director at Musixmatch. "As the company has grown, so too have our requirements to train and tune larger and more complex NLP models. We are always looking for ways to accelerate training time while also lowering training costs which is why we are excited about Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler. SageMaker Training Compiler provides more efficient ways to use GPUs during the training process and, with the seamless integration between SageMaker Training Compiler, PyTorch, and high-level libraries like Hugging Face, we have seen a significant improvement in training time of our transformer-based models going from weeks to days as well as lower training costs." Loka, a machine learning consulting firm, helps its clients harness and build ML into their products across a wide range of use cases to deliver better customer experiences. "We spend a lot of time and effort optimizing models, tuning servers, and testing instance types to deliver performant, scalable, and cost effective ML environments for its client," said Bobby Mukherjee, CEO at Loka. "Now using Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender, our engineers are able to get an ML model deployed to production within minutes from any location." Holmusk, a digital health company, launched its FoodDX app to help people improve their diet and health. "Our food image recognition algorithms need low latency to ensure our users get the right diet recommendations at the right time. To achieve low latency, we were over-provisioning GPUs, which was expensive," said Sai Subramanian, CTO at Holmusk. "Using Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender, we can now easily conduct load tests across different instances and determine an instance configuration within hours to reduce our compute costs significantly while maintaining latency requirements. This is a huge win for our team and lets our ML scientists focus on creating algorithms to help people live healthier lives rather than managing infrastructure." Qualtrics is an experience management company that helps extract information from customer surveys using natural language processing (NLP) models. "Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender improves the efficiency of our MLOps teams with the tools required to test and deploy machine learning models at scale," saidSamir Joshi, ML Engineer at Qualtrics. "With Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender, our team can define latency and throughput requirements and quickly deploy these models faster, while also meeting our budget and production criteria." iFood, a leading player in online food delivery in Latin America fulfilling over 60 million orders each month, uses machine learning to make restaurant recommendations to its customers ordering online. "We have been using Amazon SageMaker for our machine learning models to build high-quality applications throughout our business," said Ivan Lima, Director of Machine Learning and Data Engineering at iFood. "With Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference, we expect to be able to deploy even faster and scale models without having to worry about selecting instances or keeping the endpoint active when there is no traffic. With this, we also expect to see a cost reduction to run these services." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. 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<p><em>Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands access to machine learning by providing business analysts the ability to generate more accurate machine learning predictions using a point-and-click interface—no coding required</em></p><p><em>Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus offers a fully managed data labeling service that uses a highly skilled workforce and built-in workflows to deliver high-quality annotated data for training machine learning models faster at lower cost</em></p><p><em>Amazon SageMaker Studio now makes data engineering, analytics, and machine learning workflows accessible within a universal notebook</em></p><p><em>Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler helps customers train deep learning models up to 50% faster by automatically compiling code to make it more efficient</em></p><p><em>Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender automatically suggests the optimal AWS compute instances for running machine learning inference with the best price performance</em></p><p><em>Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference offers serverless compute for machine learning inference at scale</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced six new capabilities for its industry-leading machine learning service, Amazon SageMaker, that make machine learning even more accessible and cost effective. Today's announcements bring together powerful new capabilities, including a no-code environment for creating accurate machine learning predictions, more accurate data labeling using highly skilled annotators, a universal Amazon SageMaker Studio notebook experience for greater collaboration across domains, a compiler for machine learning training that makes code more efficient, automatic compute instance selection machine learning inference, and serverless compute for machine learning inference. To get started with Amazon SageMaker, visit aws.amazon.com/sagemaker.</p><p>Driven by the availability of virtually infinite compute capacity, a massive proliferation of data in the cloud, and the rapid advancement of the tools available to developers, machine learning has become mainstream across many industries. For years, AWS has focused on making machine learning more accessible to a broader audience of customers. Today, Amazon SageMaker is one of the fastest growing services in AWS history with tens of thousands of customers, including AstraZeneca, Aurora, Capital One, Cerner, Discovery, Hyundai, Intuit, Thomson Reuters, Tyson, Vanguard, and many more customers who use the service to train machine learning models of all sizes, some of which on the extreme now consist of billions of parameters capable of making hundreds of billions of predictions every month. As customers further scale their machine learning model training and inference on Amazon SageMaker, AWS has continued to invest in expanding the service's capability, delivering more than 60 new Amazon SageMaker features and functionalities in the past year alone. Today's announcements build on these advancements to make it even easier to prepare and gather data for machine learning, train models faster, optimize the type and amount of compute needed for inference, and expand machine learning to an even broader audience.</p><ul><li>Amazon SageMaker Canvas no-code machine learning predictions: Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands access to machine learning by providing business analysts (line-of-business employees supporting finance, marketing, operations, and human resources teams) with a visual interface that allows them to create more accurate machine learning predictions on their own—without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. As more companies seek to reinvent their businesses and customer experiences with machine learning, more people in their organizations need to be able to use advanced machine learning technology across different lines of business. However, machine learning has typically required specialized skills that can require years of formal education or intensive training with a challenging and evolving curriculum. Amazon SageMaker Canvas solves this challenge by providing a visual, point-and-click user interface that makes it easy for business analysts to generate predictions. Customers point Amazon SageMaker Canvas to their data stores (e.g. Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Snowflake, on-premises data stores, local files, etc.), and the Amazon SageMaker Canvas provides visual tools to help users intuitively prepare and analyze data. Amazon SageMaker Canvas then uses automated machine learning to build and train machine learning models without any coding. Business analysts can review and evaluate models in the Amazon SageMaker Canvas console for accuracy and efficacy for their use case. Amazon SageMaker Canvas also lets users export their models to Amazon SageMaker Studio, so they can share them with data scientists to validate and further refine their models.</li><li>Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus expert data labeling: Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus is a fully managed data labeling service that uses an expert workforce with built-in annotation workflows to deliver high-quality data for training machine learning models faster and at lower cost with no coding required. Customers need increasingly larger datasets that are correctly labeled to train ever more accurate models and scale their machine learning deployments. However, producing large datasets can take anywhere from weeks to years and often requires companies to hire a workforce and create workflows to manage the process of labeling data. In 2018, AWS launched Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to make it easier for customers to produce labeled data using human annotators through Amazon Mechanical Turk, third-party vendors, or their own private workforce. Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus expands on this capability with a specialized workforce with specific domain and industry expertise, as well as qualifications to meet customers' data security, privacy, and compliance requirements for highly accurate data labeling. Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus has a multistep labeling workflow that includes pre-labeling powered by machine learning models, machine validation of human labeling to detect errors and low-quality labels, and assistive labeling features (e.g. 3D cuboid snapping, removal of distortion in 2D images, predict-next in video labeling, and auto-segment tools) to reduce the time required to label datasets and help reduce the cost of procuring high-quality annotated data. To get started, customers simply point Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus to their data source in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and provide their specific labeling requirements (e.g. instructions for how medical experts should label anomalies in radiology images of lungs). Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus then creates a data labeling workflow and provides dashboards that allow customers to follow data annotation progress, inspect samples of completed labels for quality, and provide feedback to generate high-quality data so customers can build, train, and deploy highly accurate machine learning models more quickly.</li><li>Amazon SageMaker Studio universal notebooks: A universal notebook for Amazon SageMaker Studio (the first complete IDE for machine learning) provides a single, integrated environment to perform data engineering, analytics, and machine learning. Today, teams across different data domains want to collaborate using a range of data engineering, analytics, and machine learning workflows. The practitioners of these domains often cross areas of knowledge like data engineering, data analytics, and data science and want to be able to work across the various workflows without needing to switch data exploration tools. However, when customers are ready to integrate data across analytics and machine learning environments, they often have to juggle multiple tools and notebooks, which can be cumbersome, time consuming, and prone to error. Amazon SageMaker Studio now allows users to interactively access, transform, and analyze a wide range of data for multiple purposes all from within a universal notebook. With built-in integration with Spark, Hive, and Presto running on Amazon EMR clusters and data lakes running on Amazon S3, customers can now use Amazon SageMaker Studio to access and manipulate data in a universal notebook without having to switch services. In addition to developing machine learning models using their preferred framework (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, or MXNet) to build, train, and deploy machine learning models in Amazon SageMaker Studio, customers can browse and query data sources, explore metadata and schemas, and start processing jobs for analytics or machine learning workflows—without leaving the universal Amazon SageMaker Studio notebook.</li><li>Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler for machine learning models: Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler is a new machine learning model compiler that automatically optimizes code to use compute resources more effectively and reduce the time it takes to train models by up to 50%. Today's state-of-the-art deep learning models are so large and complex that they require specialized compute instances to accelerate training and can consume thousands of hours of graphical processing unit (GPU) compute time to train a single model. To further accelerate training times, data scientists typically try to augment training data or tune hyperparameters (variables that govern the machine learning training process) to find the best performing and least resource-intensive version of a model. This work is technically complicated, and data scientists often do not have time to optimize the frameworks needed to train models to run on GPUs. Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler is a new machine learning model compiler that is integrated with the versions of TensorFlow and PyTorch in Amazon SageMaker that have been optimized to run more efficiently in the cloud, so data scientists can use their preferred frameworks to train machine learning models through more efficient use of GPUs. With a single click, Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler automatically optimizes the trained model and compiles it to execute training up to 50% faster.</li><li>Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender automatic instance selection: Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender helps customers automatically select the best compute instance and configuration (e.g. instance count, container parameters, and model optimizations) to power a particular machine learning model. For large machine learning models commonly used for natural language processing or computer vision, selecting a compute instance with the best price performance is a complicated, iterative process that can take weeks of experimentation. Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender removes the guesswork and complexity of determining where to run a model and can reduce the time to deploy from weeks to hours by automatically recommending the ideal compute instance configuration. Data scientists can use Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender to deploy the model to one of the recommended compute instances, or they can use the service to run a performance benchmark simulation across a range of selected compute instances. Customers can review benchmark results in Amazon SageMaker Studio and evaluate the tradeoffs between different configuration settings including latency, throughput, cost, compute, and memory.</li><li>Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference for machine learning models: Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference offers pay-as-you-go pricing inference for machine learning models deployed in production. Customers are always looking to optimize costs when using machine learning, and this becomes increasingly important for applications that have intermittent traffic patterns with long idle times. For example, applications like personalized recommendations based on consumer purchase patterns, chatbots fielding incoming customer calls, and forecasting demand based on real-time transactions can have peaks of activity based on external factors like weather conditions, promotional offerings, or holidays. Providing just the right amount of compute for machine learning inference is a difficult balancing act. In some cases, customers over-provision capacity to accommodate peak activity, which allows for consistent performance but wastes money when there is no traffic. In other cases, customers under-provision compute to constrain costs at the expense of providing enough compute capacity to perform inference when conditions change. Some customers try manually adjusting computing resources on the fly to accommodate changing conditions, but this is tedious and manual work. Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference for machine learning automatically provisions, scales, and turns off compute capacity based on the number of inference requests. When customers deploy their machine learning model into production, they simply select the serverless deployment option in Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference manages compute resources to provide the precise amount of compute needed. With Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference, customers only pay for the compute capacity they use for each request and the amount of data processed, without having to manage the underlying infrastructure.</li></ul><p>"Customers across all industries and sizes are excited about how Amazon SageMaker has helped them scale their use of machine learning such that it has become a core part of their operations and allows them to invent new products, services, and experiences for the world," said Bratin Saha, Vice President of Amazon Machine Learning at AWS. "We're excited to expand our industry-leading machine learning service to an even broader group of customers, so they too can drive innovation in their business and help solve challenging problems. With these new Amazon SageMaker tools, we're introducing a whole new group of users to the service while also providing additional capabilities for existing customers to make it easier to transform data into valuable insights, accelerate time to deployment, improve performance, and save money throughout the machine learning journey."</p><p>The BMW Group, headquartered in Munich, Germany, is a global manufacturer of premium automobiles and motorcycles, covering the brands BMW, BMW Motorrad, MINI, and Rolls-Royce. It also provides premium financial and mobility services. "The use of artificial intelligence as a key technology is an integral element in the process of digital transformation at the BMW Group. The company already employs AI throughout the value chain, enabling it to generate added value for customers, products, employees, and processes. In the past few years, we have industrialized many top BMW Group use cases, measured by business value impact," said Marc Neumann, Product Owner, AI Platform at The BMW Group. "We believe Amazon SageMaker Canvas can add a boost to our AI/ML scaling across the BMW Group. With SageMaker Canvas, our business users can easily explore and build ML models to make accurate predictions without writing any code. SageMaker also allows our central data science team to collaborate and evaluate the models created by business users before publishing them to production."</p><p>Siemens Energy is energizing society. They are transforming in key focus areas of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and their innovation is making the future of tomorrow different today, for both their partners—and their people. "The core of our data science strategy at Siemens Energy is to bring the power of machine learning to all business users by enabling them to experiment with different data sources and machine learning frameworks without requiring a data science expert. This enables us to increase the speed of innovation and digitalization of our energy solutions such as Dispatch Optimizer and Diagnostic services," said Davood Naderi, Data Science Team Lead at Industrial Applications for Siemens Energy. "We found Amazon SageMaker Canvas a great addition to the Siemens Energy machine learning toolkit, because it allows business users to perform experiments while also sharing and collaborating with data science teams. The collaboration is important because it helps us productionalize more ML models and ensure all models adhere to our quality standards and policies."</p><p>Airbnb is one of the world's largest marketplaces for unique, authentic places to stay and things to do, offering over 7 million accommodations and 40,000 handcrafted activities, all powered by local hosts. "At Airbnb, we are increasingly integrating ML across all aspects of our business. As a result, our teams consistently need to generate and maintain high-quality data in order to train and test ML models," said Wei Luo, Data Scientist at Airbnb China. "We were looking for a way to generate high quality text classification data results on one hundred thousand paragraphs of customer service logs in Mandarin so we can better serve our customers and reduce dependencies on our customer service team. With Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus, the AWS team built a customized data labeling workflow, which included a customized ML model that was able to achieve 99% classification accuracy."</p><p>The National Football League is America's most popular sports league, comprised of 32 franchises that compete each year to win the Super Bowl, the world's biggest annual sporting event. "At the NFL, we continue to look for new ways to use machine learning to help our fans, broadcasters, coaches, and teams benefit from deeper insights," said Jennifer Langton, SVP, Player Health and Innovation at NFL. "Football is a fast moving sport where plays can happen in a split second. While coaches and referees carefully watch the game, it can be difficult to watch all players on a field for safety. Computer vision allows us to accurately detect player safety incidents, but developing these algorithms requires expertly labeled data. Now with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus, we have custom workflows and user interfaces for sophisticated labeling tasks, which helps us improve player safety."</p><p>Founded and headquartered in Orange County, California, VIZIO's mission is to deliver immersive entertainment and compelling lifestyle enhancements that make its products the center of the connected home. VIZIO is driving the future of televisions through its integrated platform of cutting-edge Smart TVs and powerful SmartCast operating system. VIZIO's platform gives content providers more ways to distribute their content and advertisers more tools to target and dynamically serve ads to a growing audience that is increasingly transitioning away from linear TV. "At VIZIO, we consistently look for ways to leverage ML to create personalized experiences for our customers. We were looking for a way to continuously review ad videos and generate commercial metadata for efficient ads classification," said Zeev Neumeier, Chief Innovation Officer at VIZIO. "With the use of Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus's streaming capability, we can now use a custom template which provides video classification, metadata collection, and an automated system that enables data collection in real time as ads air. With Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus, we are able to review the results in less than one business day."</p><p>Litterati is a data science company empowering people to ‘crowdsource-clean' the planet. Litterati's platform empowers people to create better solutions for the litter and waste problems our world faces by developing behavioral insight, mapping problem areas, and mitigating future risk. From schools to scientists, environmental organizations, brands, and city governments, people are coming together using Litterati for the greater good to create a litter-free world. "For us, machine learning brings light to unseen challenges. In the US alone, each year billions of dollars are spent cleaning up litter," said Sean Doherty, CTO at Litterati. "With computer vision models, we transform images of litter all around the world into data, so cities can better allocate their litter management resources. However, building object detection models requires access to object, material, and brand information, as well as localized knowledge due to datasets being spread across the globe. Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus allows us to create a hierarchical annotation interface that captures these precise features within that localized context. In addition, the SageMaker Ground Truth Plus expert workforce created localized image annotations, which provides a standardized solution increasing our data labeling efficiency by up to 20%, accelerating our ability to ingest annotated results into our database by 200%, and reducing post-processing time by 90%."</p><p>Provectus helps its customers build end-to-end data and machine learning engineering experiences from raw datasets, enterprise data lakes, and machine learning models. "We have been waiting for a feature to create and manage Amazon EMR clusters directly from Amazon SageMaker Studio so that our customers could run Spark, Hive, and Presto workflows directly from Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks," said Stepan Pushkarev, CEO at Provectus. "We are excited that Amazon SageMaker has now natively built this capability to simplify management of Spark and machine learning jobs. This will help our customers' data engineers and data scientists collaborate more effectively to perform interactive data analysis and develop machine learning pipelines with EMR-based data transformations."</p><p>The Vanguard Group, Inc., is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with about $7 trillion in global assets under management. Vanguard is redefining the industry by doing what's right for investors and creating change for millions of clients worldwide. "We're excited that our Vanguard data scientists and data engineers can now collaborate in a single notebook for analytics and machine learning," said Doug Stewart, Senior Director of Data and Analytics at Vanguard. "Now that Amazon SageMaker Studio has built-in integrations with Spark, Hive, and Presto all running on Amazon EMR, our development teams can be more productive. This single development environment will allow our teams to focus on building, training, and deploying machine learning models."</p><p>Quantum Health is on a mission to make healthcare navigation smarter, simpler, and more cost-effective for everyone. They use Amazon SageMaker for use cases like text classification, text summarization, predictive models, classification problems, and Q&amp;A to help the Quantum team and the members they serve. "Iterating with NLP models can be a challenge because of their size. Long training times bog down workflows and high costs can discourage our team from trying larger models that might offer better performance," said Jorge Lopez Grisman, Senior Data Scientist at Quantum Health. "Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler is exciting because it has the potential to alleviate these frictions. Achieving a speedup with Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler is a real win for our team that will make us more agile and innovative moving forward."</p><p>Guidewire is the platform property and casualty insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. The company combines digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver its platform as a cloud service, and it enables its customers to do advanced analytics and machine learning for their industry-specific workloads. More than 450 insurers, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world run on Guidewire. "One of Guidewire's services is to help customers develop cutting-edge NLP models for applications like risk assessment and claims operations. Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler is compelling because it offers time and cost savings to our customers while developing these NLP models," said Matt Pearson, Principal Product Manager, Analytics and Data Services at Guidewire Software. "We expect it to help us reduce training time by more than 20% through more efficient use of GPU resources. We are excited to implement Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler in our NLP workloads, helping us to accelerate the transformation of data to insight for our customers."</p><p>Musixmatch is a leading music data company providing data, tools, and services that enrich the way we experience music such as searching for songs and sharing song lyrics. Musixmatch is the largest service of this kind in the world with over 80 million users and over 8 million distinct lyrics. "Musixmatch uses Amazon SageMaker to build natural language processing and audio processing models, and is experimenting using Hugging Face with Amazon SageMaker. We choose Amazon SageMaker because it allows data scientists to iteratively build, train, and tune models quickly without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure, which means data scientists can work more quickly and independently," said Loreto Parisi, AI Engineering Director at Musixmatch. "As the company has grown, so too have our requirements to train and tune larger and more complex NLP models. We are always looking for ways to accelerate training time while also lowering training costs which is why we are excited about Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler. SageMaker Training Compiler provides more efficient ways to use GPUs during the training process and, with the seamless integration between SageMaker Training Compiler, PyTorch, and high-level libraries like Hugging Face, we have seen a significant improvement in training time of our transformer-based models going from weeks to days as well as lower training costs."</p><p>Loka, a machine learning consulting firm, helps its clients harness and build ML into their products across a wide range of use cases to deliver better customer experiences. "We spend a lot of time and effort optimizing models, tuning servers, and testing instance types to deliver performant, scalable, and cost effective ML environments for its client," said Bobby Mukherjee, CEO at Loka. "Now using Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender, our engineers are able to get an ML model deployed to production within minutes from any location."</p><p>Holmusk, a digital health company, launched its FoodDX app to help people improve their diet and health. "Our food image recognition algorithms need low latency to ensure our users get the right diet recommendations at the right time. To achieve low latency, we were over-provisioning GPUs, which was expensive," said Sai Subramanian, CTO at Holmusk. "Using Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender, we can now easily conduct load tests across different instances and determine an instance configuration within hours to reduce our compute costs significantly while maintaining latency requirements. This is a huge win for our team and lets our ML scientists focus on creating algorithms to help people live healthier lives rather than managing infrastructure."</p><p>Qualtrics is an experience management company that helps extract information from customer surveys using natural language processing (NLP) models. "Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender improves the efficiency of our MLOps teams with the tools required to test and deploy machine learning models at scale," saidSamir Joshi, ML Engineer at Qualtrics. "With Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender, our team can define latency and throughput requirements and quickly deploy these models faster, while also meeting our budget and production criteria."</p><p>iFood, a leading player in online food delivery in Latin America fulfilling over 60 million orders each month, uses machine learning to make restaurant recommendations to its customers ordering online. "We have been using Amazon SageMaker for our machine learning models to build high-quality applications throughout our business," said Ivan Lima, Director of Machine Learning and Data Engineering at iFood. "With Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference, we expect to be able to deploy even faster and scale models without having to worry about selecting instances or keeping the endpoint active when there is no traffic. With this, we also expect to see a cost reduction to run these services."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211201005991/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Aurora Accelerates Development of the Aurora Driver with AWS

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Powered by AWS's high-performing infrastructure and deep portfolio of capabilities, Aurora uses machine learning and millions of cloud-based simulations per day to safely and quickly train, test, and validate its self-driving vehicle technology SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Aurora (NASDAQ: AUR), a leader in self-driving vehicle technology, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for machine learning training and cloud-based simulation workloads. Aurora uses AWS's proven infrastructure and unparalleled portfolio of capabilities to safely accelerate the development of the Aurora Driver, its scalable self-driving vehicle technology. The Aurora Driver consists of sensors that perceive the world, software that plans a safe path through it, and a computer that powers and integrates Aurora's hardware and software with any vehicle platform. For its machine learning training and cloud-based simulation workloads, Aurora is all-in on AWS, and it uses the cloud to process trillions of data points each day. Now, the company is scaling its training workloads in the cloud to complete up to 12 million physics-based driving simulations per day by the end of the year, building on the petabytes of data it collects during real-world road tests. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005041/en/ (Image: Aurora) Autonomous driving is an immensely complex technological challenge that relies heavily on cloud computing to enable breakthroughs in perception, embedded computing, machine learning, motion planning, decision making, and advanced sensor technologies. With AWS's capabilities in high-performance computing, machine learning, storage, and security, Aurora optimizes and scales its virtual testing efforts to expand the capabilities of the Aurora Driver safely and quickly. "Aurora's advanced machine learning and simulation at scale are foundational to developing our technology safely and quickly, and AWS delivers the high performance we need to maintain our progress," said Chris Urmson, CEO of Aurora. "With its virtually unlimited scale, AWS supports millions of virtual tests to validate the capabilities of the Aurora Driver so that it can safely navigate the countless edge cases of real-world driving." Aurora's AWS-powered Virtual Testing Suite is a unique accelerator for the development of the Aurora Driver. Aurora can use data from just one testing situation it observes in the real world to inspire hundreds of permutations in the Virtual Testing Suite. That virtual testing helps train the Aurora Driver to more quickly and safely navigate complex situations, such as road construction, jaywalkers, and unprotected left-hand turns. For example, before the Aurora Driver ever attempted an unprotected left-hand turn on a physical road, it completed nearly 2.3 million turns in simulation—estimated to be roughly equal to 20,000 hours of real-world driving practice. Aurora has been running simulations at scale on AWS since 2019, and plans to triple the volume of simulations it runs on AWS to more than 12 million per day by the end of 2021. The offline components of the Aurora Driver software stack all run on AWS, including the Virtual Testing Suite, high-definition road maps (the Aurora "Atlas"), machine learning models, and software development tools. For example, Aurora uses Amazon SageMaker (an AWS service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly) to create, run, and continuously refine the machine learning models that enable its driving simulations. With that service, Aurora accesses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types like P4d, which deliver the highest performance for machine learning training in the cloud. Before developing simulations, Aurora uses AWS to securely store and process the petabytes of data it logs during real-world testing, and then train its machine learning models on that data. The pre-processing workloads run on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon EMR, AWS's service for processing vast amounts of data in the cloud using open-source tools. Aurora's machine learning training workloads then rely on AWS-optimized deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Finally, Aurora orchestrates and auto-scales its simulation workflows over hundreds of thousands of concurrent vCPUs and thousands of concurrent GPUs with Amazon EKS and Amazon EC2, which provides accelerated computing instance types like G4dn. "AWS's highly scalable compute, machine learning, and analytics services are helping Aurora move self-driving vehicle technology forward, toward broad real-world use," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Our reliable infrastructure and comprehensive set of cloud services, including industry-leading machine learning services like Amazon SageMaker, provide the ideal foundation for Aurora to gain insights from the trillions of data points it generates every day to continuously enhance its technology. We are proud to support the acceleration of autonomous vehicle innovation, and look forward to the improved safety and efficiency the transformation of trucking, delivery, and mobility will allow." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Aurora Founded in 2017 by experts in the self-driving industry, Aurora is on a mission to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. To move both people and goods, the company is building the Aurora Driver, a platform that brings together software, hardware and data services to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is backed by Sequoia Capital, Baillie Gifford, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, among others, and is partnered with industry leaders including Toyota, Uber, Volvo, and PACCAR. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. The company has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI. To learn more, visit www.aurora.tech. 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<p><em>Powered by AWS's high-performing infrastructure and deep portfolio of capabilities, Aurora uses machine learning and millions of cloud-based simulations per day to safely and quickly train, test, and validate its self-driving vehicle technology</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Aurora (NASDAQ: AUR), a leader in self-driving vehicle technology, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for machine learning training and cloud-based simulation workloads. Aurora uses AWS's proven infrastructure and unparalleled portfolio of capabilities to safely accelerate the development of the Aurora Driver, its scalable self-driving vehicle technology. The Aurora Driver consists of sensors that perceive the world, software that plans a safe path through it, and a computer that powers and integrates Aurora's hardware and software with any vehicle platform. For its machine learning training and cloud-based simulation workloads, Aurora is all-in on AWS, and it uses the cloud to process trillions of data points each day. Now, the company is scaling its training workloads in the cloud to complete up to 12 million physics-based driving simulations per day by the end of the year, building on the petabytes of data it collects during real-world road tests.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005041/en/</p><div><p>(Image: Aurora)</p></div><p>Autonomous driving is an immensely complex technological challenge that relies heavily on cloud computing to enable breakthroughs in perception, embedded computing, machine learning, motion planning, decision making, and advanced sensor technologies. With AWS's capabilities in high-performance computing, machine learning, storage, and security, Aurora optimizes and scales its virtual testing efforts to expand the capabilities of the Aurora Driver safely and quickly.</p><p>"Aurora's advanced machine learning and simulation at scale are foundational to developing our technology safely and quickly, and AWS delivers the high performance we need to maintain our progress," said Chris Urmson, CEO of Aurora. "With its virtually unlimited scale, AWS supports millions of virtual tests to validate the capabilities of the Aurora Driver so that it can safely navigate the countless edge cases of real-world driving."</p><p>Aurora's AWS-powered Virtual Testing Suite is a unique accelerator for the development of the Aurora Driver. Aurora can use data from just one testing situation it observes in the real world to inspire hundreds of permutations in the Virtual Testing Suite. That virtual testing helps train the Aurora Driver to more quickly and safely navigate complex situations, such as road construction, jaywalkers, and unprotected left-hand turns. For example, before the Aurora Driver ever attempted an unprotected left-hand turn on a physical road, it completed nearly 2.3 million turns in simulation—estimated to be roughly equal to 20,000 hours of real-world driving practice. Aurora has been running simulations at scale on AWS since 2019, and plans to triple the volume of simulations it runs on AWS to more than 12 million per day by the end of 2021.</p><p>The offline components of the Aurora Driver software stack all run on AWS, including the Virtual Testing Suite, high-definition road maps (the Aurora "Atlas"), machine learning models, and software development tools. For example, Aurora uses Amazon SageMaker (an AWS service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly) to create, run, and continuously refine the machine learning models that enable its driving simulations. With that service, Aurora accesses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types like P4d, which deliver the highest performance for machine learning training in the cloud.</p><p>Before developing simulations, Aurora uses AWS to securely store and process the petabytes of data it logs during real-world testing, and then train its machine learning models on that data. The pre-processing workloads run on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon EMR, AWS's service for processing vast amounts of data in the cloud using open-source tools. Aurora's machine learning training workloads then rely on AWS-optimized deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Finally, Aurora orchestrates and auto-scales its simulation workflows over hundreds of thousands of concurrent vCPUs and thousands of concurrent GPUs with Amazon EKS and Amazon EC2, which provides accelerated computing instance types like G4dn.</p><p>"AWS's highly scalable compute, machine learning, and analytics services are helping Aurora move self-driving vehicle technology forward, toward broad real-world use," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Our reliable infrastructure and comprehensive set of cloud services, including industry-leading machine learning services like Amazon SageMaker, provide the ideal foundation for Aurora to gain insights from the trillions of data points it generates every day to continuously enhance its technology. We are proud to support the acceleration of autonomous vehicle innovation, and look forward to the improved safety and efficiency the transformation of trucking, delivery, and mobility will allow."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Aurora</p><p>Founded in 2017 by experts in the self-driving industry, Aurora is on a mission to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. To move both people and goods, the company is building the Aurora Driver, a platform that brings together software, hardware and data services to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is backed by Sequoia Capital, Baillie Gifford, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, among others, and is partnered with industry leaders including Toyota, Uber, Volvo, and PACCAR. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. The company has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI. To learn more, visit www.aurora.tech.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005041/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

Discovery Taps AWS to Power Global Rollout and Increased Personalization of discovery+

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With AWS as its preferred cloud provider, Discovery is also accelerating its digital transformation and enhancing viewing experiences across its more than 450 television channels SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Discovery Inc. announced their extended strategic relationship to support Discovery's ongoing transformation in the cloud. As Discovery's preferred cloud provider, AWS powers the vast majority of the company's infrastructure needs to deliver its discovery+ on-demand streaming video service, its digital services, and more than 450 linear TV channels (traditional scheduled programming) to viewers around the world. With AWS, Discovery also provides greater personalization of discovery+, helping viewers easily find content that appeals to their interests. Discovery uses the breadth and depth of AWS services to provide discovery+ viewers with enhanced, reliable viewing experiences that are personalized to their tastes and consumption habits. For instance, Discovery is the largest media and entertainment user of Amazon Personalize, AWS's machine learning service that allows developers to create real-time, personalized user experiences faster and at scale. Discovery relies on Amazon Personalize to offer recommendations for curated content that matches viewer's specific interests, customizing the browsing experience. Discovery also uses Amazon Transcribe (AWS's service for automatically converting speech to text) across its linear broadcast channels and streaming services to accurately generate closed captions to ensure content is inclusive and accessible to hearing-impaired viewers, and Amazon Rekognition (AWS's service for automated image and video analysis) to extract and tag video content with metadata to provide viewers with a searchable video library and more personalized recommendations. "AWS provides the unparalleled portfolio of services, global infrastructure, and proven performance we need to reliably deliver our premium content at scale to Discovery viewers all over the world," said Avi Saxena, Chief Technology Officer, Direct-to-Consumer at Discovery, Inc. "Running on AWS, we have the agility and elasticity we need to deliver quality viewing experiences for peak events like the Olympics, as well as scalable machine learning capabilities to deliver meaningful personalization to viewers so they can get the most value out of their subscriptions." Discovery's portfolio of iconic television channels, including Animal Planet, Food Network, HGTV, OWN, TLC, and Travel Channel, feature content that inspires, informs, and entertains audiences around the world. Discovery leverages numerous AWS Media & Entertainment Services to deliver more than 8,000 hours of original live and on demand programming each year. AWS Elemental MediaConnect, AWS Elemental MediaLive, and AWS Elemental MediaPackage manage Discovery's video transport, preparation, processing, and delivery behind-the-scenes, helping ensure an exceptional audience experience regardless of viewing device type or connectivity. In the summer of 2021, as the Home of the Olympics in Europe, Discovery elastically scaled its use of AWS Media Services to transmit 1.3 billion minutes ofthe Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 content across its range of digital platforms, including discovery+ and Eurosport subscription services, successfully delivering sports action in 19 languages across 50 markets in Europe. Discovery used Amazon SageMaker (AWS's machine learning service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly in the cloud and at the edge) to develop and train machine learning models that automate the process of language monitoring. These machine learning models can identify the program in live broadcast video feeds and verify that content gets delivered in the right local language for each television market. Building immersive fan experiences with Discovery Sports Events As well as being Discovery's preferred cloud provider, AWS is also the Official Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Provider of Discovery Sports Events. As part of this strategic relationship, the two companies are building an immersive fan-engagement experience for the new Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Track Champions League to introduce track cycling to new audiences and expand the sport's global fan base. Discovery Sports Events and AWS will serve live data, analysis, and stats such as bike speed, race position, pedal cadence (i.e., revolutions per minute), and more to fans in the velodrome (where races take place) through live television and streaming, and in a new UCI Track Champions League app. The app will allow for fan communities to grow around the championship, while helping newcomers to the sport better understand the action on the track. Discovery Sports Events will use Amazon Kinesis (AWS's service for easily collecting, processing, and analyzing video and data streams in real time) to ingest and process live, streaming data from sensors on the track, bikes, and riders, and will apply AWS analytics and machine learning capabilities to serve up stats such as rider power output in watts, time keeping, racer biometrics (e.g., heart rate and calories burned), and more to bring fans closer to the action. Finally, Discovery Sports Events will use AWS Media Services to provide the stats to fans through the app and broadcast in a simple and compelling format. "Discovery is home to some of the world's most iconic media brands, and AWS makes it easier than ever for its viewers to access, identify, and engage with the content they love," said Kathrin Renz, Vice President of Business Development and Industries at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "As Discovery brings its deep and growing library of content to audiences around the world, they can count on AWS to elastically scale without ever sacrificing the reliability or high quality that its customers expect." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Discovery Discovery is the global leader in real life entertainment, serving passionate fans around the world with content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year across deeply loved content genres. Available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens and services, from linear, free-to-air and pay–TV channels to digital products and streaming services, to social and mobile-first content and formats. Discovery's portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, Turbo/Velocity, Animal Planet, and Science Channel, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005136/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>With AWS as its preferred cloud provider, Discovery is also accelerating its digital transformation and enhancing viewing experiences across its more than 450 television channels</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Discovery Inc. announced their extended strategic relationship to support Discovery's ongoing transformation in the cloud. As Discovery's preferred cloud provider, AWS powers the vast majority of the company's infrastructure needs to deliver its discovery+ on-demand streaming video service, its digital services, and more than 450 linear TV channels (traditional scheduled programming) to viewers around the world. With AWS, Discovery also provides greater personalization of discovery+, helping viewers easily find content that appeals to their interests.</p><p>Discovery uses the breadth and depth of AWS services to provide discovery+ viewers with enhanced, reliable viewing experiences that are personalized to their tastes and consumption habits. For instance, Discovery is the largest media and entertainment user of Amazon Personalize, AWS's machine learning service that allows developers to create real-time, personalized user experiences faster and at scale. Discovery relies on Amazon Personalize to offer recommendations for curated content that matches viewer's specific interests, customizing the browsing experience. Discovery also uses Amazon Transcribe (AWS's service for automatically converting speech to text) across its linear broadcast channels and streaming services to accurately generate closed captions to ensure content is inclusive and accessible to hearing-impaired viewers, and Amazon Rekognition (AWS's service for automated image and video analysis) to extract and tag video content with metadata to provide viewers with a searchable video library and more personalized recommendations.</p><p>"AWS provides the unparalleled portfolio of services, global infrastructure, and proven performance we need to reliably deliver our premium content at scale to Discovery viewers all over the world," said Avi Saxena, Chief Technology Officer, Direct-to-Consumer at Discovery, Inc. "Running on AWS, we have the agility and elasticity we need to deliver quality viewing experiences for peak events like the Olympics, as well as scalable machine learning capabilities to deliver meaningful personalization to viewers so they can get the most value out of their subscriptions."</p><p>Discovery's portfolio of iconic television channels, including Animal Planet, Food Network, HGTV, OWN, TLC, and Travel Channel, feature content that inspires, informs, and entertains audiences around the world. Discovery leverages numerous AWS Media &amp; Entertainment Services to deliver more than 8,000 hours of original live and on demand programming each year. AWS Elemental MediaConnect, AWS Elemental MediaLive, and AWS Elemental MediaPackage manage Discovery's video transport, preparation, processing, and delivery behind-the-scenes, helping ensure an exceptional audience experience regardless of viewing device type or connectivity.</p><p>In the summer of 2021, as the Home of the Olympics in Europe, Discovery elastically scaled its use of AWS Media Services to transmit 1.3 billion minutes ofthe Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 content across its range of digital platforms, including discovery+ and Eurosport subscription services, successfully delivering sports action in 19 languages across 50 markets in Europe. Discovery used Amazon SageMaker (AWS's machine learning service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly in the cloud and at the edge) to develop and train machine learning models that automate the process of language monitoring. These machine learning models can identify the program in live broadcast video feeds and verify that content gets delivered in the right local language for each television market.</p><p><em>Building immersive fan experiences with Discovery Sports Events</em></p><p>As well as being Discovery's preferred cloud provider, AWS is also the Official Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Provider of Discovery Sports Events. As part of this strategic relationship, the two companies are building an immersive fan-engagement experience for the new Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Track Champions League to introduce track cycling to new audiences and expand the sport's global fan base. Discovery Sports Events and AWS will serve live data, analysis, and stats such as bike speed, race position, pedal cadence (i.e., revolutions per minute), and more to fans in the velodrome (where races take place) through live television and streaming, and in a new UCI Track Champions League app. The app will allow for fan communities to grow around the championship, while helping newcomers to the sport better understand the action on the track. Discovery Sports Events will use Amazon Kinesis (AWS's service for easily collecting, processing, and analyzing video and data streams in real time) to ingest and process live, streaming data from sensors on the track, bikes, and riders, and will apply AWS analytics and machine learning capabilities to serve up stats such as rider power output in watts, time keeping, racer biometrics (e.g., heart rate and calories burned), and more to bring fans closer to the action. Finally, Discovery Sports Events will use AWS Media Services to provide the stats to fans through the app and broadcast in a simple and compelling format.</p><p>"Discovery is home to some of the world's most iconic media brands, and AWS makes it easier than ever for its viewers to access, identify, and engage with the content they love," said Kathrin Renz, Vice President of Business Development and Industries at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "As Discovery brings its deep and growing library of content to audiences around the world, they can count on AWS to elastically scale without ever sacrificing the reliability or high quality that its customers expect."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Discovery</p><p>Discovery is the global leader in real life entertainment, serving passionate fans around the world with content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year across deeply loved content genres.</p><p>Available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens and services, from linear, free-to-air and pay–TV channels to digital products and streaming services, to social and mobile-first content and formats. Discovery's portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, Turbo/Velocity, Animal Planet, and Science Channel, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005136/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Meta Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider

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Meta will use AWS services and global infrastructure to scale research and development, facilitate third party collaborations, and drive operational efficiency Meta and AWS will jointly help enterprises use PyTorch on AWS to bring deep learning models from research into production faster and easier SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Meta (NASDAQ: FB) has deepened its relationship with AWS as a strategic cloud provider. Meta uses AWS's proven infrastructure and comprehensive capabilities to complement its existing on-premises infrastructure, and will broaden its use of AWS compute, storage, databases, and security services to provide privacy, reliability, and scale in the cloud. Meta will run third-party collaborations in AWS and use the cloud to support acquisitions of companies that are already powered by AWS. It will also use AWS's compute services to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) research and development for its Meta AI group. In addition, Meta and AWS will work together to improve the performance for customers running PyTorch on AWS and accelerate how developers build, train, deploy, and operate artificial intelligence/machine learning models. AWS and Meta will help machine learning researchers and developers by further optimizing PyTorch performance and its integration with core managed services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly in the cloud and at the edge) for building, training, and deploying artificial intelligence models at scale. To make it easier for developers to build large-scale deep learning models for natural language processing and computer vision, the companies are enabling PyTorch on AWS to orchestrate large-scale training jobs across a distributed system of AI accelerators. The companies will work together to offer native tools to improve the performance, explainability, and cost of inference on PyTorch. To simplify the deployment of models in production, the companies will continue to enhance TorchServe, the serving engine native to PyTorch that makes it easy to deploy trained PyTorch models at scale. Building on these open-source contributions, AWS and Meta plan to help organizations bring large-scale deep learning models from research to production faster and easier with optimized performance on AWS. "Meta and AWS have been expanding our collaboration over the last five years," said Kathrin Renz, Vice President of Business Development and Industries at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "With this agreement, AWS will continue to help Meta support research and development, drive innovation, and collaborate with third parties and the open-source community at scale. Customers can rely on Meta and AWS to collaborate on PyTorch, making it easier for them to build, train, and deploy deep learning models on AWS." "We are excited to extend our strategic relationship with AWS to help us innovate faster and expand the scale and scope of our research and development work," said Jason Kalich, Vice President of Production Engineering at Meta. "The global reach and reliability of AWS will help us continue to deliver innovative experiences for the billions of people around the world that use Meta products and services and for customers running PyTorch on AWS." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211201005108/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Meta will use AWS services and global infrastructure to scale research and development, facilitate third party collaborations, and drive operational efficiency</em></p><p><em>Meta and AWS will jointly help enterprises use PyTorch on AWS to bring deep learning models from research into production faster and easier</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Meta (NASDAQ: FB) has deepened its relationship with AWS as a strategic cloud provider. Meta uses AWS's proven infrastructure and comprehensive capabilities to complement its existing on-premises infrastructure, and will broaden its use of AWS compute, storage, databases, and security services to provide privacy, reliability, and scale in the cloud. Meta will run third-party collaborations in AWS and use the cloud to support acquisitions of companies that are already powered by AWS. It will also use AWS's compute services to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) research and development for its Meta AI group. In addition, Meta and AWS will work together to improve the performance for customers running PyTorch on AWS and accelerate how developers build, train, deploy, and operate artificial intelligence/machine learning models.</p><p>AWS and Meta will help machine learning researchers and developers by further optimizing PyTorch performance and its integration with core managed services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly in the cloud and at the edge) for building, training, and deploying artificial intelligence models at scale. To make it easier for developers to build large-scale deep learning models for natural language processing and computer vision, the companies are enabling PyTorch on AWS to orchestrate large-scale training jobs across a distributed system of AI accelerators. The companies will work together to offer native tools to improve the performance, explainability, and cost of inference on PyTorch. To simplify the deployment of models in production, the companies will continue to enhance TorchServe, the serving engine native to PyTorch that makes it easy to deploy trained PyTorch models at scale. Building on these open-source contributions, AWS and Meta plan to help organizations bring large-scale deep learning models from research to production faster and easier with optimized performance on AWS.</p><p>"Meta and AWS have been expanding our collaboration over the last five years," said Kathrin Renz, Vice President of Business Development and Industries at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "With this agreement, AWS will continue to help Meta support research and development, drive innovation, and collaborate with third parties and the open-source community at scale. Customers can rely on Meta and AWS to collaborate on PyTorch, making it easier for them to build, train, and deploy deep learning models on AWS."</p><p>"We are excited to extend our strategic relationship with AWS to help us innovate faster and expand the scale and scope of our research and development work," said Jason Kalich, Vice President of Production Engineering at Meta. "The global reach and reliability of AWS will help us continue to deliver innovative experiences for the billions of people around the world that use Meta products and services and for customers running PyTorch on AWS."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211201005108/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Fannie Mae Uses AWS to Keep Families in their Homes and Expand Homeownership for First-Time Homebuyers

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Leading source of financing for U.S. mortgages uses AWS technology to enhance IT security and develop new ways to serve America's homeowners and renters for decades to come SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Fannie Mae, a leading source of financing for mortgages in the U.S., is using AWS to help solve the biggest challenges in housing. Fannie Mae uses the breadth and depth of AWS capabilities, including machine learning, analytics, and high performance and serverless computing to automate processes, enhance IT security, and innovate new services that facilitate equitable and sustainable access to homeownership and quality affordable rental housing across America. Fannie Mae is migrating IT workloads from on-premises data centers to AWS to increase IT agility and resiliency, and accelerate the introduction of new services for lenders and homeowners. By moving internal systems and customer-facing workloads to the cloud, Fannie Mae has the flexibility to quickly respond to external challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic and roll out new programs to help keep millions of borrowers and renters in their homes. For instance, Fannie Mae was able to deploy its forbearance program into production faster using AWS, initiating 1.4 million single-family forbearance plans since March 2020. With Amazon Kinesis (AWS's real-time, fully managed, and scalable platform for streaming data) and Amazon Aurora (AWS's relational database built for the cloud) Fannie Mae can ingest, process, and analyze a greater volume of data faster to accelerate the introduction of new services and scale to meet the unprecedented increase in borrower demand. Fannie Mae uses AWS analytics services to process structured and unstructured data, including Amazon EMR (AWS's industry-leading cloud big data service for processing vast amounts of data using open-source tools), to deliver insights from data and take steps to responsibly expand access to mortgage credit. Based on these insights, Fannie Mae launched a new feature in Desktop Underwriter®, an industry-leading, automated underwriting engine that helps lenders efficiently complete credit risk assessments to establish home loan eligibility, to incorporate consumers' timely rent payments in the mortgage underwriting process, which is helping more first-time homebuyers qualify for a mortgage. Fannie Mae also built its enterprise data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to support more than 3,000 datasets and 100 applications, achieving faster time to market with innovative automated products. Now, using Amazon Redshift (AWS's cloud data warehouse), Fannie Mae can quickly analyze external data from a variety of sources to understand key housing market indicators and trends, and scale insights across its operations. "Fannie Mae is working to solve the biggest challenges in housing. We are accelerating the digital transformation of our business to make it safer, simpler, and less expensive for lenders to originate a mortgage. Our ability to innovate directly improves our ability to meet our housing mission by making it more equitable and affordable to buy or rent a home," said Kimberly H. Johnson, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Fannie Mae. "AWS enables Fannie Mae's ongoing digital transformation, and we rely on their innovative technology and cloud services to drive positive change in our industry." "Fannie Mae's digital transformation with AWS is reinventing housing finance and lowering the barriers to affordable home rental and ownership for people and families across the U.S.," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "With AWS as a strategic cloud provider, Fannie Mae can drive resiliency in their operations, respond quickly to housing market dynamics, and innovate new services to make the mortgage process easier." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Fannie Mae Fannie Mae helps make the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and affordable rental housing possible for millions of people in America. We partner with lenders to create housing opportunities for people across the country. We are driving positive changes in housing finance to make the home buying process easier, while reducing costs and risk. To learn more, visit: fanniemae.com | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube | Blog View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005137/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Leading source of financing for U.S. mortgages uses AWS technology to enhance IT security and develop new ways to serve America's homeowners and renters for decades to come</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Fannie Mae, a leading source of financing for mortgages in the U.S., is using AWS to help solve the biggest challenges in housing. Fannie Mae uses the breadth and depth of AWS capabilities, including machine learning, analytics, and high performance and serverless computing to automate processes, enhance IT security, and innovate new services that facilitate equitable and sustainable access to homeownership and quality affordable rental housing across America.</p><p>Fannie Mae is migrating IT workloads from on-premises data centers to AWS to increase IT agility and resiliency, and accelerate the introduction of new services for lenders and homeowners. By moving internal systems and customer-facing workloads to the cloud, Fannie Mae has the flexibility to quickly respond to external challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic and roll out new programs to help keep millions of borrowers and renters in their homes. For instance, Fannie Mae was able to deploy its forbearance program into production faster using AWS, initiating 1.4 million single-family forbearance plans since March 2020. With Amazon Kinesis (AWS's real-time, fully managed, and scalable platform for streaming data) and Amazon Aurora (AWS's relational database built for the cloud) Fannie Mae can ingest, process, and analyze a greater volume of data faster to accelerate the introduction of new services and scale to meet the unprecedented increase in borrower demand.</p><p>Fannie Mae uses AWS analytics services to process structured and unstructured data, including Amazon EMR (AWS's industry-leading cloud big data service for processing vast amounts of data using open-source tools), to deliver insights from data and take steps to responsibly expand access to mortgage credit. Based on these insights, Fannie Mae launched a new feature in Desktop Underwriter®, an industry-leading, automated underwriting engine that helps lenders efficiently complete credit risk assessments to establish home loan eligibility, to incorporate consumers' timely rent payments in the mortgage underwriting process, which is helping more first-time homebuyers qualify for a mortgage. Fannie Mae also built its enterprise data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to support more than 3,000 datasets and 100 applications, achieving faster time to market with innovative automated products. Now, using Amazon Redshift (AWS's cloud data warehouse), Fannie Mae can quickly analyze external data from a variety of sources to understand key housing market indicators and trends, and scale insights across its operations.</p><p>"Fannie Mae is working to solve the biggest challenges in housing. We are accelerating the digital transformation of our business to make it safer, simpler, and less expensive for lenders to originate a mortgage. Our ability to innovate directly improves our ability to meet our housing mission by making it more equitable and affordable to buy or rent a home," said Kimberly H. Johnson, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Fannie Mae. "AWS enables Fannie Mae's ongoing digital transformation, and we rely on their innovative technology and cloud services to drive positive change in our industry."</p><p>"Fannie Mae's digital transformation with AWS is reinventing housing finance and lowering the barriers to affordable home rental and ownership for people and families across the U.S.," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "With AWS as a strategic cloud provider, Fannie Mae can drive resiliency in their operations, respond quickly to housing market dynamics, and innovate new services to make the mortgage process easier."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Fannie Mae</p><p>Fannie Mae helps make the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and affordable rental housing possible for millions of people in America. We partner with lenders to create housing opportunities for people across the country. We are driving positive changes in housing finance to make the home buying process easier, while reducing costs and risk. To learn more, visit:</p><p>fanniemae.com | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube | Blog</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005137/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Investing in 274 Renewable Energy Projects Globally, Adds 18 New Projects in Europe and U.S.

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Amazon Investing in 274 Renewable Energy Projects Globally, Adds 18 New Projects in Europe and U.S.

12/01/2021

2021

Amazon is the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy globally and is on a path to power 100% of its business with renewable energy by 2025   Amazon's renewable energy investments are equivalent to the energy use of 3 million U.S. homes and will avoid 13.7 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually as Amazon works to reach net-zero carbon by 2040 SEATTLE – (BUSINESS WIRE) – December 1, 2021 – Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced 18 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects across the U.S., Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, totaling 5.6 gigawatts (GW) of procured capacity to date in 2021. Amazon now has 274 renewable energy projects globally and is on a path to power 100% of its business operations with renewable energy by 2025—five years earlier than its original 2030 commitment. These new utility-scale wind and solar projects bring Amazon's total committed renewable electricity production capacity to more than 12 GW and 33,700 gigawatt hours (GWh) when the projects become fully operational, or electricity output equivalent to powering more than 3 million U.S. homes annually. The projects will supply renewable energy for Amazon's corporate offices, fulfillment centers, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers that support millions of customers globally. The projects will also help Amazon meet its commitment to produce the clean energy equivalent of the electricity used by all consumer Echo devices. The amount of clean energy produced by these projects will avoid the equivalent of the annual emissions of nearly 3 million cars in the U.S. each annually, or about 13.7 million metric tons. "We are moving quickly and deliberately to reduce our carbon emissions and address the climate crisis," said Kara Hurst, vice president of worldwide sustainability at Amazon. "Significant investments in renewable energy globally are an important step in delivering on The Climate Pledge, our commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Renewable energy projects also bring new investment, green jobs, and advance the decarbonization of the electricity systems in communities around the world." Following today's announcement, Amazon is the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world, with 274 global projects including 105 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 169 solar rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide. The 18 new wind and solar projects announced today include: Eight new projects across the U.S.: Amazon added more than 1 GW of utility-scale solar projects in the U.S., including Amazon's first solar projects in Arizona and Georgia, and additional projects in Ohio, Texas, and Virginia. In total, Amazon has enabled more than 6 GW of renewable energy in the U.S. through 62 projects. A second solar project paired with energy storage: Based in Arizona, Amazon's second solar project paired with energy storage enables the company to align solar generation with periods of the greatest demand, even when the sun is not shining. The 300-megawatt (MW) solar project is paired with a 150-MW battery energy storage system and brings Amazon's battery storage projects to 220 MW. Four new renewable projects in the Nordics: Amazon added 158 MW through four wind projects in Finland, bringing its total renewable energy portfolio across the Nordics to more than 950 MW. Additional projects in Italy, Spain, and Northern Ireland: Amazon's new solar project in Italy is the company's third in the country, adding 40 MW on top of the 66 MW already enabled.In Spain, Amazon's four new solar projects together add more than 630 MW to the grid. A new wind project in Northern Ireland brings Amazon's portfolio to 245 MW on Ireland's all-island grid and its total UK portfolio to more than 545 MW of wind energy. In total, Amazon has enabled more than 3.5 GW of renewable energy in Europe through 34 projects, making it the largest procurer of renewable energy in Europe. To see Amazon's renewable energy projects around the world, visit our interactive map. "Amazon is wasting no time demonstrating that they are fully committed to a clean energy future for all," said Gregory Wetstone, CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy. "At COP26, the world agreed we needed bigger and bolder ambitions around global carbon reduction from all sectors. With hundreds of renewable energy projects already underway, Amazon is a model for the level of urgency and action we need from the private sector to combat the climate crisis." "For the second year in a row, Amazon has set new records as it works toward fully powering its operations with renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of schedule," said Miranda Ballentine, CEO of Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA). "Large-scale clean energy investments like these benefit us all and should be the new normal for industries of all shapes and sizes. They bring good-paying, green jobs to local communities and support progress toward our community's goal of a 90% carbon-free U.S. electricity system." "Amazon's procurement of 12 GW of renewable energy capacity globally is a strong testament to the company's commitment to reaching net-zero carbon by 2040," said Hannah Hunt, impact director at RE-Source, a corporate renewable energy sourcing platform in Europe. "The company's 10 new renewable energy operations across Europe will benefit communities, bring new green jobs, and help meet our commitments to curb the climate crisis." Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019. The Pledge now has more than 200 signatories, including Best Buy, IBM, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Siemens, Unilever, Verizon, and Visa. To reach its goal, Amazon will continue to reduce emissions across its operations by taking real business actions and establishing a path to power its operations with 100% renewable energy, five years ahead of the company's original target of 2030; delivering its Shipment Zero vision to make all Amazon shipments net-zero carbon, with 50% net-zero carbon by 2030; purchasing 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, the largest order ever of electric delivery vehicles; and by investing $2 billion in the development of decarbonizing services and solutions through the Climate Pledge Fund. For more information, visit https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/. 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  and follow .

<p><em>Amazon is the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy globally and is on a path to power 100% of its business with renewable energy by 2025  </em></p><p><em>Amazon's renewable energy investments are equivalent to the energy use of 3 million U.S. homes and will avoid 13.7 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually as Amazon works to reach net-zero carbon by 2040</em></p><p>SEATTLE – (BUSINESS WIRE) – December 1, 2021 – Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced 18 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects across the U.S., Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, totaling 5.6 gigawatts (GW) of procured capacity to date in 2021. Amazon now has 274 renewable energy projects globally and is on a path to power 100% of its business operations with renewable energy by 2025—five years earlier than its original 2030 commitment.</p><p>These new utility-scale wind and solar projects bring Amazon's total committed renewable electricity production capacity to more than 12 GW and 33,700 gigawatt hours (GWh) when the projects become fully operational, or electricity output equivalent to powering more than 3 million U.S. homes annually. The projects will supply renewable energy for Amazon's corporate offices, fulfillment centers, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers that support millions of customers globally. The projects will also help Amazon meet its commitment to produce the clean energy equivalent of the electricity used by all consumer Echo devices. The amount of clean energy produced by these projects will avoid the equivalent of the annual emissions of nearly 3 million cars in the U.S. each annually, or about 13.7 million metric tons.</p><p>"We are moving quickly and deliberately to reduce our carbon emissions and address the climate crisis," said Kara Hurst, vice president of worldwide sustainability at Amazon. "Significant investments in renewable energy globally are an important step in delivering on The Climate Pledge, our commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Renewable energy projects also bring new investment, green jobs, and advance the decarbonization of the electricity systems in communities around the world."</p><p>Following today's announcement, Amazon is the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world, with 274 global projects including 105 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 169 solar rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide. The 18 new wind and solar projects announced today include:</p><ul><li>Eight new projects across the U.S.: Amazon added more than 1 GW of utility-scale solar projects in the U.S., including Amazon's first solar projects in Arizona and Georgia, and additional projects in Ohio, Texas, and Virginia. In total, Amazon has enabled more than 6 GW of renewable energy in the U.S. through 62 projects.</li><li>A second solar project paired with energy storage: Based in Arizona, Amazon's second solar project paired with energy storage enables the company to align solar generation with periods of the greatest demand, even when the sun is not shining. The 300-megawatt (MW) solar project is paired with a 150-MW battery energy storage system and brings Amazon's battery storage projects to 220 MW.</li><li>Four new renewable projects in the Nordics: Amazon added 158 MW through four wind projects in Finland, bringing its total renewable energy portfolio across the Nordics to more than 950 MW.</li><li>Additional projects in Italy, Spain, and Northern Ireland: Amazon's new solar project in Italy is the company's third in the country, adding 40 MW on top of the 66 MW already enabled.In Spain, Amazon's four new solar projects together add more than 630 MW to the grid. A new wind project in Northern Ireland brings Amazon's portfolio to 245 MW on Ireland's all-island grid and its total UK portfolio to more than 545 MW of wind energy. In total, Amazon has enabled more than 3.5 GW of renewable energy in Europe through 34 projects, making it the largest procurer of renewable energy in Europe.</li></ul><p>To see Amazon's renewable energy projects around the world, visit our interactive map.</p><p>"Amazon is wasting no time demonstrating that they are fully committed to a clean energy future for all," said Gregory Wetstone, CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy. "At COP26, the world agreed we needed bigger and bolder ambitions around global carbon reduction from all sectors. With hundreds of renewable energy projects already underway, Amazon is a model for the level of urgency and action we need from the private sector to combat the climate crisis."</p><p>"For the second year in a row, Amazon has set new records as it works toward fully powering its operations with renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of schedule," said Miranda Ballentine, CEO of Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA). "Large-scale clean energy investments like these benefit us all and should be the new normal for industries of all shapes and sizes. They bring good-paying, green jobs to local communities and support progress toward our community's goal of a 90% carbon-free U.S. electricity system."</p><p>"Amazon's procurement of 12 GW of renewable energy capacity globally is a strong testament to the company's commitment to reaching net-zero carbon by 2040," said Hannah Hunt, impact director at RE-Source, a corporate renewable energy sourcing platform in Europe. "The company's 10 new renewable energy operations across Europe will benefit communities, bring new green jobs, and help meet our commitments to curb the climate crisis."</p><p>Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019. The Pledge now has more than 200 signatories, including Best Buy, IBM, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Siemens, Unilever, Verizon, and Visa. To reach its goal, Amazon will continue to reduce emissions across its operations by taking real business actions and establishing a path to power its operations with 100% renewable energy, five years ahead of the company's original target of 2030; delivering its Shipment Zero vision to make all Amazon shipments net-zero carbon, with 50% net-zero carbon by 2030; purchasing 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, the largest order ever of electric delivery vehicles; and by investing $2 billion in the development of decarbonizing services and solutions through the Climate Pledge Fund. For more information, visit https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/.</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  and follow .</p>

AWS Announces Four New Storage Services and Capabilities

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AWS Announces Four New Storage Services and Capabilities

11/30/2021

2021

New Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is designed to offer the lowest cost storage for milliseconds retrieval of archived data—also available as a new access tier in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering New Amazon FSx for OpenZFS service makes it easy to move data stored in on-premises commodity file servers to AWS New Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive storage tier reduces the cost of storing archival snapshots by up to 75% AWS Backup brings centralized data protection and automated compliance auditing to Amazon S3 and VMware workloads LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced four new storage services and capabilities that deliver more choice, reduce costs, and help customers better protect their data. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Glacier Instant Retrieval is a storage class that provides retrieval access in milliseconds for archive data—now available as a new access tier in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is a managed file storage service that makes it easy to move on-premises data residing in commodity file servers to AWS without changing application code or how the data is managed. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots Archive is a new storage tier for Amazon EBS Snapshots that reduces the cost of archiving snapshots by up to 75%. AWS Backup now supports centralized data protection and automated compliance reporting for Amazon S3, as well as for VMware workloads running on AWS and on premises. The new storage innovations announced today provide customers greater flexibility in how they manage storage while lowering costs and improving data management and protection capabilities. "Every business today is a data business. One of the most important decisions that a business will make is where to store their data," said Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President, Block and Object Storage at AWS. "As these latest storage services and capabilities show, AWS is the most powerful and lowest cost way to access and protect data. Our rapid innovation makes it the best storage choice for customers now and in the future." Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval offers retrieval in milliseconds for archived data at the lowest cost in the cloud—also available as a new tier in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering Amazon S3 offers a wide range of storage classes that deliver the lowest cost storage for different data access patterns. Customers often need to store petabytes of data that is only accessed occasionally, but that must be highly available and immediately accessible when requested (e.g. medical records, public health research data, media content, etc.). Today, customers have several options to store infrequently accessed data. Customers with data that is rarely accessed and requires retrieval times from a few minutes to a few hours can use S3 Glacier. Customers with data that is accessed once per month on average but still requires rapid retrieval can use S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) for only a slightly higher price. However, some customers want a combination of the lower storage costs offered by S3 Glacier and the fast retrieval of S3 Standard-IA so they can meet their data access needs even more cost effectively. S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is a new storage class that is designed to offer milliseconds access for archive data, so customers can achieve the lowest cost storage in the cloud for data that is stored long-term and rarely accessed but requires immediate retrieval when requested. With S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, customers no longer need to choose between optimizing for retrieval time or cost. Customers who move from S3 Standard-IA to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval can save up to almost 70% for data that is accessed only a few times per year. Customers can now choose from three archive storage classes optimized for different access patterns and storage duration—S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly S3 Glacier), S3 Glacier Deep Archive, and now S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval. S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is the ideal storage class for customers who are sensitive to per-GB storage costs due to growing data volumes, by providing them the same low latency and high throughput of S3 Standard-IA, at the lowest cost for archive storage in the cloud. S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is now also available as a new access tier in S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class. S3 Intelligent-Tiering optimizes storage costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective access tier based on access frequency without performance impact, retrieval fees, or operational overhead. Customers who need instant access to data and have unknown or changing access patterns can receive the same economic benefits as S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval with the new Archive-Instant Access tier in S3 Intelligent-Tiering without having to worry about where they are storing their data. To get started with S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, visit aws.amazon.com/s3/glacier/instant-retrieval. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS makes it easy to move data residing in on-premises commodity file servers to AWS without changing application code or how the data is managed Organizations of all sizes are migrating their on-premises data stores to the cloud to increase agility, improve security, and reduce costs. Today, many of these organizations store their data using on-premises file storage built on commodity, off-the-shelf servers and open-source software like the popular ZFS file system. These file servers provide access to data via industry-standard protocols, offer a wide variety of data management capabilities like point-in-time snapshots, cloning, and compression, and deliver hundreds of thousands of IOPS with sub-millisecond latencies. Many storage and application administrators have developed familiarity and expertise using tools that rely on the specific capabilities and performance of these file servers when running their applications. Consequently, when migrating these applications to the cloud, storage and application administrators have to forgo the capabilities they are familiar with, and in many cases, re-architect their applications, tools, and workflows, which takes a lot of time and effort. These administrators would prefer to run their file servers on AWS to take advantage of improved agility, security, and cost but until now have not had the option of doing so. With Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, customers can now launch, run, and scale fully managed file systems on AWS and replace their commodity, off-the-shelf servers they run on premises to achieve better agility, security, and lower costs. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is the newest member of the Amazon FSx family of services that provides fully-featured and highly-performant file storage powered by widely-used file systems (including Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP). Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is built on the open-source OpenZFS file system, which is widely used on premises to store and manage exabytes of application data for workloads that include machine learning, electronic chip design automation, application build environments, media processing, and financial analytics, where scale, performance, and cost efficiency are of utmost importance. Powered by AWS Graviton processors and the latest AWS disk and networking technologies, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS delivers up to 1 million IOPS with latencies of hundreds of microseconds. With complete support for OpenZFS features like instant point-in-time snapshots and data cloning, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS makes it easy for customers to move their file servers to AWS, providing all of the familiar capabilities storage and application administrators rely on, and eliminating the need to perform lengthy qualifications and change or re-architect existing applications or tools. To get started with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, visit aws.amazon.com/fsx/openzfs. Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive storage tier reduces cost of archival snapshots by up to 75% Today, customers use Amazon EBS Snapshots to protect data in their EBS volumes. Amazon EBS Snapshots provide incremental storage backups, retaining only the changes made to data in an EBS volume since the last snapshot. This makes Amazon EBS Snapshots cost effective for data that needs to be kept for days or weeks and requires retrieval within minutes. However, some customers also have business needs (e.g. snapshots created at the end of projects) and compliance needs (e.g. snapshots taken to audit recoverability) that require them to retain snapshots for months or years. While snapshotting data is a necessary business practice, customers also want ways to reduce the cost of these longer-term archival snapshots. To accomplish this today, some customers use third-party tools to move EBS snapshots to different tiers in Amazon S3, which increases costs and makes it complicated to track the lineage of these archival snapshots, but most customers simply absorb the increased cost of archiving snapshots for a long period of time. To address the cost and complexity of archiving snapshots, Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive delivers a new storage tier that saves customers up to 75% of the cost for Amazon EBS Snapshots that need to be retained for months or years. Customers can now move their snapshots to EBS Snapshots Archive with a single application programming interface (API) call and reduce the cost of archival snapshots while retaining visibility alongside other Amazon EBS Snapshots. A Snapshot Archive is a full snapshot that contains all the blocks written into the volume at the moment that the snapshot is taken. To create a volume from the snapshot archive, customers can restore the snapshot archive to the Amazon EBS Snapshot standard tier, then create a volume from the snapshot in the same way they do today. To get started with Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, visit aws.amazon.com/ebs/snapshots. AWS Backup brings centralized data protection and automated compliance auditing to Amazon S3 and VMware workloads Today, customers use AWS Backup to meet their business continuity and regulatory compliance needs. AWS Backup enables customers to centrally protect their application data across AWS compute, database, and file and block storage services. Using a single data protection policy, customers can configure, manage, and govern backup and restore activity on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon EBS, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon FSx, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and AWS Storage Gateway. To meet evolving regulatory requirements, customers can opt for automated, continuous backup monitoring and generate auditor-ready reports using AWS Backup Audit Manager for compliance purposes. To protect against accidental or malicious deletions (e.g. in the case of a ransomware attack), customers can use fine-grained access controls built into AWS Backup as well as use AWS Backup Vault Lock to make their backups immutable. In addition, AWS Backup's integration with AWS Organizations enables customers to extend their data protection policy across multi-account deployments and use its cross-Region and cross-account backup capabilities to achieve global resiliency and durability for their mission-critical data. Now with AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 and VMware workloads, AWS is extending AWS Backup's capabilities to more cloud and on-premises workloads. Previously, administrators would write custom scripts to combine S3 data across multiple AWS Regions and accounts with AWS Backup to get a consolidated view of their backups, as well as combine S3 reports with AWS Backup built-in reports to demonstrate compliance with application-level backup policies. Administrators would also parse through S3 data to find the point-in-time they want to restore an application. Now, with AWS Backup support for S3, customers can replace the complicated custom scripts they used to centrally manage backups of their entire applications. Customers can also now replace parsing through S3 data with AWS Backup's point-in-time restore functionality, allowing them to specify the time to restore—down to the second. To learn more about AWS Backup for Amazon S3, visit aws.amazon.com/backup. With AWS Backup support for VMware workloads, customers can now protect their VMware workloads whether they run on premises or in the VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). Up until now, customers running VMware workloads on premises and in the AWS Cloud maintained separate solutions to protect their data alongside AWS services already supported by AWS Backup. This required them to manage separate tools and policies to protect their data in VMware environments, as well as generate distinct reports to demonstrate compliance with backup policies. With AWS Backup for VMware, customers can extend AWS Backup's centralized data protection, governance, and compliance features they already use to protect their AWS applications to their VMware workloads, whether running in AWS or in their own datacenters. To get started with AWS Backup for VMware, visit aws.amazon.com/backup. Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients through a variety of channels. "We wanted to find a way to quickly optimize storage costs across the largest and fastest growing S3 buckets across the enterprise. Because the storage usage patterns vary widely across our top S3 buckets, there was no clear-cut rule we could safely apply without taking on some operational overhead," Jerzy Grzywinski, Director of Software Engineering at Capital One. "The S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class delivered automatic storage savings based on the changing access patterns of our data without impact on performance. We look forward to S3 Intelligent-Tiering's new access tier, which will allow us to realize even greater savings without additional effort." The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States. "The new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class provides low storage cost for the NASCAR Library, which houses our growing media archives and enables our content creators to interact with data of any age in near real time," said Chris Wolford, Senior Director of Media & Event Technology at NASCAR. "We manage one of the largest racing media archives in the world. Our customers, who range from the NASCAR Cup series teams to producers, editors, and engineers, generate video, audio, and images, many of which are stored in perpetuity. The new storage class will help us save on our storage cost while greatly improving on our restore performance. Now, we can benefit from lower storage cost, with the resiliency of multi-AZ storage, and with immediate retrievals for any media asset!" Epic Games is the interactive entertainment company behind Fortnite, one of the world's most popular video games with over 400 million players. Founded in 1991, Epic transformed gaming with the release of Unreal Engine—the 3D creation engine powering hundreds of games now used across industries, such as automotive, film and television, and simulation, for real-time production. "Using S3 Intelligent-Tiering, we can implement storage changes without interruptions to service and activity. Our data is automatically moved to lower-cost tiers based on data access, saving us a lot of development time in addition to reducing costs," said Joshua Bergen, Cost Management Lead at Epic Games. "With that time, my team can focus on identifying other opportunities to reduce infrastructure costs in support of our organizational goals. The new access tier in S3 Intelligent-Tiering will help us save even more on storage costs." STEMCELL Technologies is a global biotechnology company that supports life sciences research with more than 2,500 specialized reagents, tools, and services. "Many of our departments, including quality and finance, have a need for long-term data retention to meet regulatory requirements for our products and services," said Hikaru Mathieson, Senior Systems Engineer at STEMCELL Technologies. "We have a large inventory of EBS Snapshots supporting our use of services like AWS Storage Gateway and Amazon EC2. Maintaining this inventory is an important piece of our regulatory compliance and an easy transition of snapshots over to archival-tier storage has been a long-desired dream. We are excited about EBS Snapshots Archive for its ease-of-use and low cost for long-term retention of our snapshots. In the future, we plan to consolidate more of our long-term backups, such as general department file backups, into EBS Snapshots Archive." Zilliant, Inc. is the industry leader in intelligent B2B price optimization, price management, and sales guidance SaaS software. "We backup our active volumes into EBS Snapshots and retain them for 14 days. However, we need to retain many of our snapshots for months or years, so we use scripts to manage snapshot data lifecycle into lower-cost, colder storage tiers," said Shams Chauthani, CTO at Zilliant. "Maintaining and managing these scripts is getting complex at scale. We are delighted to use EBS Snapshots Archive, as it eliminates the need to maintain scripts and enables creation of secure end-to-end flows for cost effective archival of our snapshots." Loews Corporation is a diversified company with businesses in the insurance, energy, hospitality, and packaging industries. "We currently have server instances running in AWS and in our data center on premises," said Emilio Renzullo, Senior Engineer, Infrastructure Services at Loews. "We are currently using AWS Backup to protect our Amazon EC2 instances, and another product to backup our on-premises VMware virtual infrastructure to Amazon S3 for archiving. AWS Backup's new VMware capability will enable us to streamline and centralize all our backup operations, while also cutting down on costs." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211130006157/en/ Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is designed to offer the lowest cost storage for milliseconds retrieval of archived data—also available as a new access tier in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering</em></p><p><em>New Amazon FSx for OpenZFS service makes it easy to move data stored in on-premises commodity file servers to AWS</em></p><p><em>New Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive storage tier reduces the cost of storing archival snapshots by up to 75%</em></p><p><em>AWS Backup brings centralized data protection and automated compliance auditing to Amazon S3 and VMware workloads</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced four new storage services and capabilities that deliver more choice, reduce costs, and help customers better protect their data. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Glacier Instant Retrieval is a storage class that provides retrieval access in milliseconds for archive data—now available as a new access tier in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is a managed file storage service that makes it easy to move on-premises data residing in commodity file servers to AWS without changing application code or how the data is managed. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots Archive is a new storage tier for Amazon EBS Snapshots that reduces the cost of archiving snapshots by up to 75%. AWS Backup now supports centralized data protection and automated compliance reporting for Amazon S3, as well as for VMware workloads running on AWS and on premises. The new storage innovations announced today provide customers greater flexibility in how they manage storage while lowering costs and improving data management and protection capabilities.</p><p>"Every business today is a data business. One of the most important decisions that a business will make is where to store their data," said Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President, Block and Object Storage at AWS. "As these latest storage services and capabilities show, AWS is the most powerful and lowest cost way to access and protect data. Our rapid innovation makes it the best storage choice for customers now and in the future."</p><p>Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval offers retrieval in milliseconds for archived data at the lowest cost in the cloud—also available as a new tier in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering</p><p>Amazon S3 offers a wide range of storage classes that deliver the lowest cost storage for different data access patterns. Customers often need to store petabytes of data that is only accessed occasionally, but that must be highly available and immediately accessible when requested (e.g. medical records, public health research data, media content, etc.). Today, customers have several options to store infrequently accessed data. Customers with data that is rarely accessed and requires retrieval times from a few minutes to a few hours can use S3 Glacier. Customers with data that is accessed once per month on average but still requires rapid retrieval can use S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) for only a slightly higher price. However, some customers want a combination of the lower storage costs offered by S3 Glacier and the fast retrieval of S3 Standard-IA so they can meet their data access needs even more cost effectively.</p><p>S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is a new storage class that is designed to offer milliseconds access for archive data, so customers can achieve the lowest cost storage in the cloud for data that is stored long-term and rarely accessed but requires immediate retrieval when requested. With S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, customers no longer need to choose between optimizing for retrieval time or cost. Customers who move from S3 Standard-IA to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval can save up to almost 70% for data that is accessed only a few times per year. Customers can now choose from three archive storage classes optimized for different access patterns and storage duration—S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly S3 Glacier), S3 Glacier Deep Archive, and now S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval. S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is the ideal storage class for customers who are sensitive to per-GB storage costs due to growing data volumes, by providing them the same low latency and high throughput of S3 Standard-IA, at the lowest cost for archive storage in the cloud.</p><p>S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is now also available as a new access tier in S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class. S3 Intelligent-Tiering optimizes storage costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective access tier based on access frequency without performance impact, retrieval fees, or operational overhead. Customers who need instant access to data and have unknown or changing access patterns can receive the same economic benefits as S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval with the new Archive-Instant Access tier in S3 Intelligent-Tiering without having to worry about where they are storing their data. To get started with S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, visit aws.amazon.com/s3/glacier/instant-retrieval.</p><p>Amazon FSx for OpenZFS makes it easy to move data residing in on-premises commodity file servers to AWS without changing application code or how the data is managed</p><p>Organizations of all sizes are migrating their on-premises data stores to the cloud to increase agility, improve security, and reduce costs. Today, many of these organizations store their data using on-premises file storage built on commodity, off-the-shelf servers and open-source software like the popular ZFS file system. These file servers provide access to data via industry-standard protocols, offer a wide variety of data management capabilities like point-in-time snapshots, cloning, and compression, and deliver hundreds of thousands of IOPS with sub-millisecond latencies. Many storage and application administrators have developed familiarity and expertise using tools that rely on the specific capabilities and performance of these file servers when running their applications. Consequently, when migrating these applications to the cloud, storage and application administrators have to forgo the capabilities they are familiar with, and in many cases, re-architect their applications, tools, and workflows, which takes a lot of time and effort. These administrators would prefer to run their file servers on AWS to take advantage of improved agility, security, and cost but until now have not had the option of doing so.</p><p>With Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, customers can now launch, run, and scale fully managed file systems on AWS and replace their commodity, off-the-shelf servers they run on premises to achieve better agility, security, and lower costs. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is the newest member of the Amazon FSx family of services that provides fully-featured and highly-performant file storage powered by widely-used file systems (including Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP). Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is built on the open-source OpenZFS file system, which is widely used on premises to store and manage exabytes of application data for workloads that include machine learning, electronic chip design automation, application build environments, media processing, and financial analytics, where scale, performance, and cost efficiency are of utmost importance. Powered by AWS Graviton processors and the latest AWS disk and networking technologies, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS delivers up to 1 million IOPS with latencies of hundreds of microseconds. With complete support for OpenZFS features like instant point-in-time snapshots and data cloning, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS makes it easy for customers to move their file servers to AWS, providing all of the familiar capabilities storage and application administrators rely on, and eliminating the need to perform lengthy qualifications and change or re-architect existing applications or tools. To get started with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, visit aws.amazon.com/fsx/openzfs.</p><p>Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive storage tier reduces cost of archival snapshots by up to 75%</p><p>Today, customers use Amazon EBS Snapshots to protect data in their EBS volumes. Amazon EBS Snapshots provide incremental storage backups, retaining only the changes made to data in an EBS volume since the last snapshot. This makes Amazon EBS Snapshots cost effective for data that needs to be kept for days or weeks and requires retrieval within minutes. However, some customers also have business needs (e.g. snapshots created at the end of projects) and compliance needs (e.g. snapshots taken to audit recoverability) that require them to retain snapshots for months or years. While snapshotting data is a necessary business practice, customers also want ways to reduce the cost of these longer-term archival snapshots. To accomplish this today, some customers use third-party tools to move EBS snapshots to different tiers in Amazon S3, which increases costs and makes it complicated to track the lineage of these archival snapshots, but most customers simply absorb the increased cost of archiving snapshots for a long period of time.</p><p>To address the cost and complexity of archiving snapshots, Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive delivers a new storage tier that saves customers up to 75% of the cost for Amazon EBS Snapshots that need to be retained for months or years. Customers can now move their snapshots to EBS Snapshots Archive with a single application programming interface (API) call and reduce the cost of archival snapshots while retaining visibility alongside other Amazon EBS Snapshots. A Snapshot Archive is a full snapshot that contains all the blocks written into the volume at the moment that the snapshot is taken. To create a volume from the snapshot archive, customers can restore the snapshot archive to the Amazon EBS Snapshot standard tier, then create a volume from the snapshot in the same way they do today. To get started with Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, visit aws.amazon.com/ebs/snapshots.</p><p>AWS Backup brings centralized data protection and automated compliance auditing to Amazon S3 and VMware workloads</p><p>Today, customers use AWS Backup to meet their business continuity and regulatory compliance needs. AWS Backup enables customers to centrally protect their application data across AWS compute, database, and file and block storage services. Using a single data protection policy, customers can configure, manage, and govern backup and restore activity on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon EBS, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon FSx, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and AWS Storage Gateway. To meet evolving regulatory requirements, customers can opt for automated, continuous backup monitoring and generate auditor-ready reports using AWS Backup Audit Manager for compliance purposes. To protect against accidental or malicious deletions (e.g. in the case of a ransomware attack), customers can use fine-grained access controls built into AWS Backup as well as use AWS Backup Vault Lock to make their backups immutable. In addition, AWS Backup's integration with AWS Organizations enables customers to extend their data protection policy across multi-account deployments and use its cross-Region and cross-account backup capabilities to achieve global resiliency and durability for their mission-critical data.</p><p>Now with AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 and VMware workloads, AWS is extending AWS Backup's capabilities to more cloud and on-premises workloads. Previously, administrators would write custom scripts to combine S3 data across multiple AWS Regions and accounts with AWS Backup to get a consolidated view of their backups, as well as combine S3 reports with AWS Backup built-in reports to demonstrate compliance with application-level backup policies. Administrators would also parse through S3 data to find the point-in-time they want to restore an application. Now, with AWS Backup support for S3, customers can replace the complicated custom scripts they used to centrally manage backups of their entire applications. Customers can also now replace parsing through S3 data with AWS Backup's point-in-time restore functionality, allowing them to specify the time to restore—down to the second. To learn more about AWS Backup for Amazon S3, visit aws.amazon.com/backup.</p><p>With AWS Backup support for VMware workloads, customers can now protect their VMware workloads whether they run on premises or in the VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). Up until now, customers running VMware workloads on premises and in the AWS Cloud maintained separate solutions to protect their data alongside AWS services already supported by AWS Backup. This required them to manage separate tools and policies to protect their data in VMware environments, as well as generate distinct reports to demonstrate compliance with backup policies. With AWS Backup for VMware, customers can extend AWS Backup's centralized data protection, governance, and compliance features they already use to protect their AWS applications to their VMware workloads, whether running in AWS or in their own datacenters. To get started with AWS Backup for VMware, visit aws.amazon.com/backup.</p><p>Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients through a variety of channels. "We wanted to find a way to quickly optimize storage costs across the largest and fastest growing S3 buckets across the enterprise. Because the storage usage patterns vary widely across our top S3 buckets, there was no clear-cut rule we could safely apply without taking on some operational overhead," Jerzy Grzywinski, Director of Software Engineering at Capital One. "The S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class delivered automatic storage savings based on the changing access patterns of our data without impact on performance. We look forward to S3 Intelligent-Tiering's new access tier, which will allow us to realize even greater savings without additional effort."</p><p>The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States. "The new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class provides low storage cost for the NASCAR Library, which houses our growing media archives and enables our content creators to interact with data of any age in near real time," said Chris Wolford, Senior Director of Media &amp; Event Technology at NASCAR. "We manage one of the largest racing media archives in the world. Our customers, who range from the NASCAR Cup series teams to producers, editors, and engineers, generate video, audio, and images, many of which are stored in perpetuity. The new storage class will help us save on our storage cost while greatly improving on our restore performance. Now, we can benefit from lower storage cost, with the resiliency of multi-AZ storage, and with immediate retrievals for any media asset!"</p><p>Epic Games is the interactive entertainment company behind Fortnite, one of the world's most popular video games with over 400 million players. Founded in 1991, Epic transformed gaming with the release of Unreal Engine—the 3D creation engine powering hundreds of games now used across industries, such as automotive, film and television, and simulation, for real-time production. "Using S3 Intelligent-Tiering, we can implement storage changes without interruptions to service and activity. Our data is automatically moved to lower-cost tiers based on data access, saving us a lot of development time in addition to reducing costs," said Joshua Bergen, Cost Management Lead at Epic Games. "With that time, my team can focus on identifying other opportunities to reduce infrastructure costs in support of our organizational goals. The new access tier in S3 Intelligent-Tiering will help us save even more on storage costs."</p><p>STEMCELL Technologies is a global biotechnology company that supports life sciences research with more than 2,500 specialized reagents, tools, and services. "Many of our departments, including quality and finance, have a need for long-term data retention to meet regulatory requirements for our products and services," said Hikaru Mathieson, Senior Systems Engineer at STEMCELL Technologies. "We have a large inventory of EBS Snapshots supporting our use of services like AWS Storage Gateway and Amazon EC2. Maintaining this inventory is an important piece of our regulatory compliance and an easy transition of snapshots over to archival-tier storage has been a long-desired dream. We are excited about EBS Snapshots Archive for its ease-of-use and low cost for long-term retention of our snapshots. In the future, we plan to consolidate more of our long-term backups, such as general department file backups, into EBS Snapshots Archive."</p><p>Zilliant, Inc. is the industry leader in intelligent B2B price optimization, price management, and sales guidance SaaS software. "We backup our active volumes into EBS Snapshots and retain them for 14 days. However, we need to retain many of our snapshots for months or years, so we use scripts to manage snapshot data lifecycle into lower-cost, colder storage tiers," said Shams Chauthani, CTO at Zilliant. "Maintaining and managing these scripts is getting complex at scale. We are delighted to use EBS Snapshots Archive, as it eliminates the need to maintain scripts and enables creation of secure end-to-end flows for cost effective archival of our snapshots."</p><p>Loews Corporation is a diversified company with businesses in the insurance, energy, hospitality, and packaging industries. "We currently have server instances running in AWS and in our data center on premises," said Emilio Renzullo, Senior Engineer, Infrastructure Services at Loews. "We are currently using AWS Backup to protect our Amazon EC2 instances, and another product to backup our on-premises VMware virtual infrastructure to Amazon S3 for archiving. AWS Backup's new VMware capability will enable us to streamline and centralize all our backup operations, while also cutting down on costs."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211130006157/en/</p><p>Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces Three New Amazon EC2 Instances Powered by AWS-Designed Chips

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AWS Announces Three New Amazon EC2 Instances Powered by AWS-Designed Chips

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Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by new AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better performance for compute-intensive workloads over current generation C6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium chips provide the best price performance and the fastest time to train most machine learning models in Amazon EC2 Amazon EC2 Im4gn/Is4gen/I4i instances feature new AWS Nitro SSDs for the best storage performance for I/O-intensive workloads LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced three new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by AWS-designed chips that help customers significantly improve the performance, cost, and energy efficiency of their workloads running on Amazon EC2. New C7g instances powered by next-generation AWS Graviton3 processors deliver up to up to 25% better performance than current generation C6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. New Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium chips provide the best price performance and the fastest time to train most machine learning models in Amazon EC2. New storage-optimized Im4gn/Is4gen/I4i instances based on AWS-designed AWS Nitro SSDs (solid-state drives) offer the best storage performance for I/O-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. Together, these instances herald the arrival of new Amazon EC2 instances based on AWS-designed chips that help customers power their most business-critical applications. "With our investments in AWS-designed chips, customers have realized huge price performance benefits for some of today's most business-critical workloads. These customers have asked us to continue pushing the envelope with each new EC2 instance generation," said David Brown, Vice President, Amazon EC2 at AWS. "AWS's continued innovation means customers are now getting brand new, game changing instances to run their most important workloads with significantly better price performance than anywhere else." C7g instances powered by new AWS Graviton3 processors deliver up to 25% better performance compared to current generation C6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors Customers like DirecTV, Discovery, Epic Games, Formula 1, Honeycomb.io, Intuit, Lyft, MercardoLibre, NextRoll, Nielsen, SmugMug, Snap, Splunk, and Sprinklr have seen significant performance gains and reduced costs from running AWS Graviton2-based instances in production since they launched in 2020. The Graviton2 instance portfolio offers 12 different instances that include general purpose, compute optimized, memory optimized, storage optimized, burstable, and accelerated computing instances, so customers have the deepest and broadest choice of cost-effective and power-efficient compute in the cloud. As customers bring more compute intensive workloads like high performance computing (HPC), gaming, and machine learning inference to the cloud, and as their compute, storage, memory, and networking demands grow, they are looking for even better price performance and energy efficiency to run these demanding workloads. C7g instances, powered by next generation AWS Graviton3 processors, provide up to 25% better performance for compute-intensive workloads compared to current generation C6g instances powered by Graviton2 processors. AWS Graviton3 processors also deliver up to 2x higher floating point performance for scientific, machine learning, and media encoding workloads, up to 2x faster performance for cryptographic workloads, and up to 3x better performance for machine learning workloads compared to previous generation AWS Graviton2 processors. AWS Graviton3 processors are also more energy efficient, using up to 60% less energy for same performance than comparable EC2 instances. C7g instances are the first in the cloud to feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% higher memory bandwidth versus AWS Graviton2-based instances to improve the performance of memory-intensive applications like scientific computing. C7g instances also deliver 20% higher networking bandwidth compared to AWS Graviton2-based instances. C7g instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), which allows applications to communicate directly with network interface cards, providing lower and more consistent latency, to enhance the performance of applications that require parallel processing at scale like HPC and video encoding. C7g instances are available today in preview. To learn more about C7g instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c7g. Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium chips provide the best price performance and the fastest time to train most machine learning models in Amazon EC2 More and more customers are building, training, and deploying machine learning models to power applications that have the potential to reinvent their businesses and customer experiences. However, to ensure improved accuracy, these machine learning models must consume ever-growing amounts of training data, which causes them to become increasingly expensive to train. This dilemma can have the effect of limiting the number of machine learning models that customers are able to deploy. AWS provides the broadest and deepest choice of compute offerings for machine learning, including the EC2 P4d instances featuring NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and EC2 DL1 instances featuring Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs. But even with the fastest accelerated instances available today, it can still be prohibitively expensive and time consuming to train ever-larger machine learning models. Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium chips offer the best price performance and the fastest machine learning model training in Amazon EC2, providing up to 40% lower cost to train deep learning models compared to the latest P4d instances. Trn1 instances offer 800 Gbps EFA networking bandwidth (2x higher than the latest EC2 GPU-based instances) and integrate with Amazon FSx for Lustre high performance storage—enabling customers to launch Trn1 instances with EC2 UltraClusters capability. With EC2 UltraClusters, developers can scale machine learning training to 10,000+ Trainium accelerators interconnected with petabit-scale networking, giving customers on-demand access to supercomputing-class performance to cut training time from months to days for even the largest and most complex models. Trn1 instances are available today in preview. To learn more about Trn1 instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/trn1. Im4gn/Is4gen/I4i instances featuring new AWS Nitro SSDs deliver the best storage performance for I/O intensive-workloads Today, customers use I3/I3en storage-optimized instances for applications that require direct access to data sets on local storage like scale-out transactional and relational databases (e.g. MySQL and PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, etc.), big data (e.g. Hadoop), and data analytics workloads (e.g. Spark, Hive, Presto, etc.). I3/I3en instances offer Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSD-backed instance storage optimized for low latency, high I/O performance, and throughput at a low cost. Customers appreciate the fast transaction times I3/I3en instances provide, but as they evolve their workloads to process even more complex transactions on larger data sets, they need even higher compute performance and faster access to data, without higher costs. Im4gn/Is4gen/I4i instances are architected to maximize the storage performance of I/O-intensive workloads. Im4gn/Is4gen/I4i instances offer up to 30 TB of NVMe storage from AWS-designed AWS Nitro SSDs, delivering up to 60% lower I/O latency and 75% lower latency variability compared to previous generation I3 instances to maximize application performance. AWS Nitro SSDs are tightly integrated with the AWS Nitro System via optimizations in the storage stack, hypervisor, and hardware. Because AWS is managing both the hardware and firmware of the AWS Nitro SSDs, customers benefit from improved functionality because SSD updates are delivered more quickly compared to using commercial SSDs. Im4gn instances (available today) feature AWS Graviton2 processors and provide up to 40% better price performance and up to 44% lower cost per TB of storage compared to I3 instances. Is4gen instances (available today) also use AWS Graviton2 processors and provide up to 15% lower cost per TB of storage and up to 48% better compute performance compared to I3en instances. To get started with Im4gn/Is4gen instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i4g. I4i instances (available soon) feature 3rd generation Intel Scalable processors (Ice Lake), delivering up to 55% better compute performance than current generation I3 instances. To learn more about I4i instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i4i. SAP HANA is a world's leading in-memory database that serves as the foundation of the SAP Business Technology Platform. "Over the past decade, SAP HANA has helped customers manage their most mission critical transactional and analytics workloads," said Irfan Khan, President of HANA Database & Analytics at SAP. "AWS investments and innovations on ARM-based AWS Graviton processors and SAP HANA Cloud are a great match with potential to deliver step-wise operation and performance improvement benefits to our enterprise customers, and to SAP's cloud analytics and data management solutions powered by SAP HANA Cloud." Twitter is what's happening and what people are talking about right now. "Twitter is working on a multi-year project to leverage the AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances to deliver Twitter timelines. As part of our ongoing engineering to drive further efficiencies, we tested the new Graviton3-based C7g instances," said Nick Tornow, Head of Platform at Twitter. "Across a number of benchmarks that we've found to be representative of the performance of Twitter workloads, we found Graviton3-based C7g instances deliver 20%-80% higher performance versus Graviton2-based C6g instances, while also reducing tail latencies by as much as 35%. We are excited to utilize Graviton3-based instances in the future to realize significant price performance benefits." Formula 1 (F1) 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. "We had already seen that Graviton2-based C6gn instances provided us the best price performance for some of our CFD workloads. We have now found Graviton3 C7g instances to be 40% faster than the Graviton2 C6gn instances for those same simulations," said Pat Symonds, CTO at Formula 1 Management. "We're excited that EFA will be standard on this instance type, and given this much improved price performance, we expect Graviton3-based instances to become the optimal choice to run all of our CFD workloads." Founded in 1991, Epic Games is the creator of Fortnite, Unreal, Gears of War, Shadow Complex, and the Infinity Blade series of games. Epic's Unreal Engine technology brings high-fidelity, interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, AR, VR, and the Web. "As we look to the future and building increasingly immersive and compelling experiences for players, we are excited to use AWS Graviton3-based EC2 instances," said Mark Imbriaco, Senior Director of Engineering at Epic Games. "Our testing has shown they are suitable for even the most demanding, latency-sensitive workloads while providing significant price performance benefits and expanding what is possible within Fortnite and any Unreal Engine created experience." Honeycomb develops an observability platform that enables engineering teams to visualize, analyze, and improve cloud application quality and performance. "We're excited to have tested our high-throughput telemetry ingestion workload against early preview instances of AWS Graviton3 and have seen a 35% performance increase for our workload over Graviton2," said Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate at honeycomb.io. "We were able to run 30% fewer instances of C7g than C6g serving the same workload, and with 30% reduced latency. We are looking forward to adopting AWS Graviton3-powered C7g instances in production once they are generally available." Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that will have many opportunities to create value commercially and for public benefit. "Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability. A major key to our success is access to modern infrastructure that allows us to spin up very large fleets of high-performance deep learning accelerators," said Tom Brown, Co-founder at Anthropic. "We are looking forward to using Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium, as their unprecedented ability to scale to tens of thousands of nodes and higher network bandwidth will enable us to iterate faster while keeping our costs under control." Splunk is a leading data platform provider and is designed to investigate, monitor, analyze, and act on data at any scale. "We run C/C++ based workloads for indexing and searching event data. Our workload is CPU bound and benefits from high capacity and low latency SSD storage," said Brad Murphy, Vice President, Cloud Platform & Infrastructure at Splunk. "When evaluating the new Im4gn/Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2, we observed an up to 50% decrease in search runtime compared to I3/I3en instances, which we currently use. This makes Im4gn and Is4gen instances a great choice for running our storage-intensive workloads with significant price performance improvement and lower TCO." Sprinklr helps the world's biggest companies make their customers happier across 30+ digital channels—using the most advanced, sophisticated AI engine built for the enterprise to create insight-driven strategies and better customer experiences. "We benchmarked our Java-based search workloads on Amazon EC2 Im4gn/Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. Smaller Is4gen instances offer similar performance compared to larger I3en instances, presenting an opportunity to meaningfully reduce the TCO," said Abhay Bansal, Vice President of Engineering at Sprinklr. "We also saw a significant 50% reduction in latency for queries when moving our workloads from I3 to Im4gn instances, indicating a significant 40% price performance benefit. Moving to AWS Graviton2-based instances was easy, taking two weeks to complete benchmarking. We are very happy with our experience and look forward to running these workloads in production on Im4gn and Is4gen instances." Redis Enterprise powers mission critical apps and services for over 8,000 organizations globally by enabling software teams to create a high-performance data layer for the real-time world. "We're thrilled to see the Amazon EC2 I4i instances using the new low latency AWS Nitro SSDs that deliver better transaction speed than the previous generation instances," said Yiftach Shoolman, Co-Founder and CTO at Redis. "We expect the faster storage performance and higher networking and processor speeds of the I4i instances will deliver significant improvements at an even more attractive total cost of ownership for our customers who use Redis-on-Flash on I4i instances." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211130005974/en/ Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by new AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better performance for compute-intensive workloads over current generation C6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors</em></p><p><em>Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium chips provide the best price performance and the fastest time to train most machine learning models in Amazon EC2</em></p><p><em>Amazon EC2 Im4gn/Is4gen/I4i instances feature new AWS Nitro SSDs for the best storage performance for I/O-intensive workloads</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced three new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by AWS-designed chips that help customers significantly improve the performance, cost, and energy efficiency of their workloads running on Amazon EC2. New C7g instances powered by next-generation AWS Graviton3 processors deliver up to up to 25% better performance than current generation C6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. New Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium chips provide the best price performance and the fastest time to train most machine learning models in Amazon EC2. New storage-optimized Im4gn/Is4gen/I4i instances based on AWS-designed AWS Nitro SSDs (solid-state drives) offer the best storage performance for I/O-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. Together, these instances herald the arrival of new Amazon EC2 instances based on AWS-designed chips that help customers power their most business-critical applications.</p><p>"With our investments in AWS-designed chips, customers have realized huge price performance benefits for some of today's most business-critical workloads. These customers have asked us to continue pushing the envelope with each new EC2 instance generation," said David Brown, Vice President, Amazon EC2 at AWS. "AWS's continued innovation means customers are now getting brand new, game changing instances to run their most important workloads with significantly better price performance than anywhere else."</p><p>C7g instances powered by new AWS Graviton3 processors deliver up to 25% better performance compared to current generation C6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors</p><p>Customers like DirecTV, Discovery, Epic Games, Formula 1, Honeycomb.io, Intuit, Lyft, MercardoLibre, NextRoll, Nielsen, SmugMug, Snap, Splunk, and Sprinklr have seen significant performance gains and reduced costs from running AWS Graviton2-based instances in production since they launched in 2020. The Graviton2 instance portfolio offers 12 different instances that include general purpose, compute optimized, memory optimized, storage optimized, burstable, and accelerated computing instances, so customers have the deepest and broadest choice of cost-effective and power-efficient compute in the cloud. As customers bring more compute intensive workloads like high performance computing (HPC), gaming, and machine learning inference to the cloud, and as their compute, storage, memory, and networking demands grow, they are looking for even better price performance and energy efficiency to run these demanding workloads.</p><p>C7g instances, powered by next generation AWS Graviton3 processors, provide up to 25% better performance for compute-intensive workloads compared to current generation C6g instances powered by Graviton2 processors. AWS Graviton3 processors also deliver up to 2x higher floating point performance for scientific, machine learning, and media encoding workloads, up to 2x faster performance for cryptographic workloads, and up to 3x better performance for machine learning workloads compared to previous generation AWS Graviton2 processors. AWS Graviton3 processors are also more energy efficient, using up to 60% less energy for same performance than comparable EC2 instances. C7g instances are the first in the cloud to feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% higher memory bandwidth versus AWS Graviton2-based instances to improve the performance of memory-intensive applications like scientific computing. C7g instances also deliver 20% higher networking bandwidth compared to AWS Graviton2-based instances. C7g instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), which allows applications to communicate directly with network interface cards, providing lower and more consistent latency, to enhance the performance of applications that require parallel processing at scale like HPC and video encoding. C7g instances are available today in preview. To learn more about C7g instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c7g.</p><p>Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium chips provide the best price performance and the fastest time to train most machine learning models in Amazon EC2</p><p>More and more customers are building, training, and deploying machine learning models to power applications that have the potential to reinvent their businesses and customer experiences. However, to ensure improved accuracy, these machine learning models must consume ever-growing amounts of training data, which causes them to become increasingly expensive to train. This dilemma can have the effect of limiting the number of machine learning models that customers are able to deploy. AWS provides the broadest and deepest choice of compute offerings for machine learning, including the EC2 P4d instances featuring NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and EC2 DL1 instances featuring Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs. But even with the fastest accelerated instances available today, it can still be prohibitively expensive and time consuming to train ever-larger machine learning models.</p><p>Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium chips offer the best price performance and the fastest machine learning model training in Amazon EC2, providing up to 40% lower cost to train deep learning models compared to the latest P4d instances. Trn1 instances offer 800 Gbps EFA networking bandwidth (2x higher than the latest EC2 GPU-based instances) and integrate with Amazon FSx for Lustre high performance storage—enabling customers to launch Trn1 instances with EC2 UltraClusters capability. With EC2 UltraClusters, developers can scale machine learning training to 10,000+ Trainium accelerators interconnected with petabit-scale networking, giving customers on-demand access to supercomputing-class performance to cut training time from months to days for even the largest and most complex models. Trn1 instances are available today in preview. To learn more about Trn1 instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/trn1.</p><p>Im4gn/Is4gen/I4i instances featuring new AWS Nitro SSDs deliver the best storage performance for I/O intensive-workloads</p><p>Today, customers use I3/I3en storage-optimized instances for applications that require direct access to data sets on local storage like scale-out transactional and relational databases (e.g. MySQL and PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, etc.), big data (e.g. Hadoop), and data analytics workloads (e.g. Spark, Hive, Presto, etc.). I3/I3en instances offer Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSD-backed instance storage optimized for low latency, high I/O performance, and throughput at a low cost. Customers appreciate the fast transaction times I3/I3en instances provide, but as they evolve their workloads to process even more complex transactions on larger data sets, they need even higher compute performance and faster access to data, without higher costs.</p><p>Im4gn/Is4gen/I4i instances are architected to maximize the storage performance of I/O-intensive workloads. Im4gn/Is4gen/I4i instances offer up to 30 TB of NVMe storage from AWS-designed AWS Nitro SSDs, delivering up to 60% lower I/O latency and 75% lower latency variability compared to previous generation I3 instances to maximize application performance. AWS Nitro SSDs are tightly integrated with the AWS Nitro System via optimizations in the storage stack, hypervisor, and hardware. Because AWS is managing both the hardware and firmware of the AWS Nitro SSDs, customers benefit from improved functionality because SSD updates are delivered more quickly compared to using commercial SSDs. Im4gn instances (available today) feature AWS Graviton2 processors and provide up to 40% better price performance and up to 44% lower cost per TB of storage compared to I3 instances. Is4gen instances (available today) also use AWS Graviton2 processors and provide up to 15% lower cost per TB of storage and up to 48% better compute performance compared to I3en instances. To get started with Im4gn/Is4gen instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i4g. I4i instances (available soon) feature 3rd generation Intel Scalable processors (Ice Lake), delivering up to 55% better compute performance than current generation I3 instances. To learn more about I4i instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i4i.</p><p>SAP HANA is a world's leading in-memory database that serves as the foundation of the SAP Business Technology Platform. "Over the past decade, SAP HANA has helped customers manage their most mission critical transactional and analytics workloads," said Irfan Khan, President of HANA Database &amp; Analytics at SAP. "AWS investments and innovations on ARM-based AWS Graviton processors and SAP HANA Cloud are a great match with potential to deliver step-wise operation and performance improvement benefits to our enterprise customers, and to SAP's cloud analytics and data management solutions powered by SAP HANA Cloud."</p><p>Twitter is what's happening and what people are talking about right now. "Twitter is working on a multi-year project to leverage the AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances to deliver Twitter timelines. As part of our ongoing engineering to drive further efficiencies, we tested the new Graviton3-based C7g instances," said Nick Tornow, Head of Platform at Twitter. "Across a number of benchmarks that we've found to be representative of the performance of Twitter workloads, we found Graviton3-based C7g instances deliver 20%-80% higher performance versus Graviton2-based C6g instances, while also reducing tail latencies by as much as 35%. We are excited to utilize Graviton3-based instances in the future to realize significant price performance benefits."</p><p>Formula 1 (F1) 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. "We had already seen that Graviton2-based C6gn instances provided us the best price performance for some of our CFD workloads. We have now found Graviton3 C7g instances to be 40% faster than the Graviton2 C6gn instances for those same simulations," said Pat Symonds, CTO at Formula 1 Management. "We're excited that EFA will be standard on this instance type, and given this much improved price performance, we expect Graviton3-based instances to become the optimal choice to run all of our CFD workloads."</p><p>Founded in 1991, Epic Games is the creator of Fortnite, Unreal, Gears of War, Shadow Complex, and the Infinity Blade series of games. Epic's Unreal Engine technology brings high-fidelity, interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, AR, VR, and the Web. "As we look to the future and building increasingly immersive and compelling experiences for players, we are excited to use AWS Graviton3-based EC2 instances," said Mark Imbriaco, Senior Director of Engineering at Epic Games. "Our testing has shown they are suitable for even the most demanding, latency-sensitive workloads while providing significant price performance benefits and expanding what is possible within Fortnite and any Unreal Engine created experience."</p><p>Honeycomb develops an observability platform that enables engineering teams to visualize, analyze, and improve cloud application quality and performance. "We're excited to have tested our high-throughput telemetry ingestion workload against early preview instances of AWS Graviton3 and have seen a 35% performance increase for our workload over Graviton2," said Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate at honeycomb.io. "We were able to run 30% fewer instances of C7g than C6g serving the same workload, and with 30% reduced latency. We are looking forward to adopting AWS Graviton3-powered C7g instances in production once they are generally available."</p><p>Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that will have many opportunities to create value commercially and for public benefit. "Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability. A major key to our success is access to modern infrastructure that allows us to spin up very large fleets of high-performance deep learning accelerators," said Tom Brown, Co-founder at Anthropic. "We are looking forward to using Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium, as their unprecedented ability to scale to tens of thousands of nodes and higher network bandwidth will enable us to iterate faster while keeping our costs under control."</p><p>Splunk is a leading data platform provider and is designed to investigate, monitor, analyze, and act on data at any scale. "We run C/C++ based workloads for indexing and searching event data. Our workload is CPU bound and benefits from high capacity and low latency SSD storage," said Brad Murphy, Vice President, Cloud Platform &amp; Infrastructure at Splunk. "When evaluating the new Im4gn/Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2, we observed an up to 50% decrease in search runtime compared to I3/I3en instances, which we currently use. This makes Im4gn and Is4gen instances a great choice for running our storage-intensive workloads with significant price performance improvement and lower TCO."</p><p>Sprinklr helps the world's biggest companies make their customers happier across 30+ digital channels—using the most advanced, sophisticated AI engine built for the enterprise to create insight-driven strategies and better customer experiences. "We benchmarked our Java-based search workloads on Amazon EC2 Im4gn/Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. Smaller Is4gen instances offer similar performance compared to larger I3en instances, presenting an opportunity to meaningfully reduce the TCO," said Abhay Bansal, Vice President of Engineering at Sprinklr. "We also saw a significant 50% reduction in latency for queries when moving our workloads from I3 to Im4gn instances, indicating a significant 40% price performance benefit. Moving to AWS Graviton2-based instances was easy, taking two weeks to complete benchmarking. We are very happy with our experience and look forward to running these workloads in production on Im4gn and Is4gen instances."</p><p>Redis Enterprise powers mission critical apps and services for over 8,000 organizations globally by enabling software teams to create a high-performance data layer for the real-time world. "We're thrilled to see the Amazon EC2 I4i instances using the new low latency AWS Nitro SSDs that deliver better transaction speed than the previous generation instances," said Yiftach Shoolman, Co-Founder and CTO at Redis. "We expect the faster storage performance and higher networking and processor speeds of the I4i instances will deliver significant improvements at an even more attractive total cost of ownership for our customers who use Redis-on-Flash on I4i instances."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211130005974/en/</p><p>Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces New Serverless Options for Three Analytics Services

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New serverless options for Amazon Redshift, Amazon MSK, and Amazon EMR help customers analyze data at scale without having to configure, scale, or manage the underlying infrastructure Roche, Riot Games, and Intuit among customers using new serverless analytics options LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced three new serverless options for its suite of analytics services that make it easier to analyze data at any scale without having to configure, scale, or manage the underlying infrastructure. A new serverless option for Amazon Redshift automatically sets up and scales resources in seconds, giving customers the ability to run high-performance analytics workloads on petabytes of data without having to manage data warehouse clusters. A new serverless option for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) quickly scales resources to vastly simplify real-time data ingestion and streaming. Amazon EMR now provides a serverless option for customers to run analytics applications using open-source big data frameworks like Apache Spark, Hive, and Presto without having to provision, manage, and scale the underlying infrastructure. "Some customers want fine-grained control over every aspect of their workloads, but other customers have asked AWS to take the guesswork out of managing their analytics infrastructure so they can move faster and expand the use of analytics in their organizations. Today, we are helping customers reduce the complexity of managing their analytics infrastructure by offering serverless versions of three popular analytics services," said Rahul Pathak, Vice President of Analytics at AWS. "This makes it significantly easier and more cost effective for customers to modernize their infrastructure and unify vast amounts of data from a variety of endpoints. Now, customers can run analytics workloads at any scale and quickly deliver insights to the people and applications that need it—without having to even think about managing infrastructure." AWS customers use a wide variety of purpose-built analytics services to make data-driven decisions, including Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, Amazon MSK for processing real-time data streams, and Amazon EMR for running Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, and other open-source big data frameworks. These services offer powerful analytics capabilities for a variety of use cases, but there is a subset of customers who want to benefit from AWS analytics services and don't want to put in the time needed to learn how to manage the underlying clusters or servers. To remove the complexity of scaling and managing infrastructure, AWS introduced the concept of serverless, event-driven computing in 2014, and many customers have adopted serverless technologies on AWS because it removes the need to configure, scale, or manage servers or provision compute instances and storage to meet peak capacity for their applications. The new serverless options announced today extend these capabilities to AWS analytics engines to automatically add or subtract resources to provide just the right amount of capacity to meet the demands of data analytics at any scale, so customers do not need to worry about constantly right-sizing clusters or over provisioning for peak capacity—saving them time and helping them optimize costs. With today's announcements, customers can now enjoy the automatic provisioning, on-demand scaling, and pay-as-you-go pricing of serverless to lower costs, expand analytics to more users, and quickly and easily get started with AWS analytics services, including: Serverless data warehouse with Amazon Redshift Serverless: Today, tens of thousands of customers are collectively processing more than two exabytes of data with Amazon Redshift every day. Amazon Redshift offers up to 3x better price performance and up to 10x better query performance than other enterprise cloud data warehouses, providing customers with faster data analytics at lower cost. The new serverless option for Amazon Redshift now makes it even easier to get insights from data quickly without the need to set up, manage, or scale clusters. Customers currently managing their own Amazon Redshift clusters can easily move them to the new serverless option using the Amazon Redshift console or the application programming interface (API) without making changes to their applications. To learn more about the new serverless option for Amazon Redshift, visit aws.amazon.com/redshift/redshift-serverless. Serverless data streaming with Amazon MSK Serverless: Today's organizations are increasingly adopting Apache Kafka to capture and analyze real-time data streams from IoT devices, website clickstreams, database logs, and many other sources where dynamic data is continuously generated. Amazon MSK Serverless now builds, manages, and scales clusters automatically, so customers no longer have to worry about capacity planning or unpredictable workloads. To get started with Amazon MSK Serverless, customers simply create a cluster in the Amazon MSK console, set up a private and secure Apache Kafka endpoint, and use new or existing Apache Kafka clients to stream data. To learn more about Amazon MSK Serverless, visit aws.amazon.com/msk/features/msk-serverless. Serverless big data analytics with Amazon EMR Serverless: Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon EMR to run open-source frameworks like Apache Spark, Hive, and Presto for large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications. With Amazon EMR Serverless, customers simply specify the framework they want to run, and Amazon EMR Serverless provisions, manages, and scales the compute and memory resources up and down as workload demands change. Customers can get started with Amazon EMR Serverless by simply selecting an open-source framework and submitting their job using Amazon EMR APIs, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the AWS Management Console. To learn more about Amazon EMR Serverless, visit aws.amazon.com/emr/serverless. Roche is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and the leading provider of cancer treatments globally. "Amazon Redshift Serverless helps us complete our data management without having to manage clusters and optimizes our cost by provisioning just the right amount of capacity to meet demand," said Dr. Yannick Misteli, Lead Cloud Platform and ML Engineer at Roche. "Amazon Redshift Serverless is reducing the operational burden, lowering costs, and enabling scale for the Roche Go-to-Market domain. This simplification is a game changer, helping us rapidly onboard and support a variety of analytics-heavy use cases without friction." Riot Games is a video game developer and publisher, renowned for creating one of the world's most-played PC games: League of Legends. "We ingest about 20 terabytes of data per day using Amazon MSK on AWS, and reducing the time to query this data after it is produced is critical for us. With Amazon MSK, we now have a mechanism for streaming data into our ecosystem while eliminating the heavy lifting of running Apache Kafka on our own," said Wesley Kerr, Sr. Principal Data Scientist at Riot Games. "Amazon MSK Serverless will further streamline our operations, as it allows us to keep up with changes in demand without having to take scaling actions. As a result, our developers can worry less about scaling Apache Kafka and focus more on offering the best gaming experiences around the world." Intuit is the global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges, serving more than 100 million customers worldwide with TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp. "At Intuit we use Apache Kafka as a central event bus that sits between thousands of decoupled microservices that power our products," said Ritesh Bansal, Director of Engineering at Intuit. "We recently migrated our self-managed Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon MSK because it allows us to redirect engineering talent towards innovations closer to our end customers. We're excited about Amazon MSK Serverless, which will make managing our scale and capacity much easier." The Orchard, a Sony Music Entertainment subsidiary, collects, processes, and distributes music from labels and artists to Spotify, Amazon Music, and other streaming providers and physical retailers. "Amazon MSK has helped us accelerate the pace at which we are launching production ready applications that process streaming data for The Orchard Suite," said Farouk Umar, Engineering Manager at The Orchard. "Amazon MSK Serverless enables teams that are not familiar with Apache Kafka scaling to benefit from Amazon MSK, allowing us to fully decentralize Apache Kafka in our organization and provide a better developer experience. As a result, we are able to scale adoption of Apache Kafka faster, which helps us accelerate adoption of our event-driven strategy." Classmethod, Inc. is a leading cloud integrator with expertise in big data, mobile, and artificial intelligence. "Our data integration platform service, called Customer Story Analytics (CSA), integrates Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Amazon Aurora, and other services to avoid data silos and provide powerful, unified governance between data services," said Satoru Ishikawa, Solution Architect, Data Integration Division at Classmethod. "Amazon Redshift Serverless automates the sizing of compute and storage and quickly scales to meet demand. This elastic serverless experience mitigates manual operational costs, expands data access among departments, and accelerates autonomy on data analytics and machine learning, allowing us to scale the CSA business in new and exciting ways." Sedric is an AI risk and compliance excellence platform designed for the new generation of fintech. "Ease of use and self-service data access is key for our analytics initiatives. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, we don't have to think about managing the data warehouse," said Tomer Levi, Vice President of R&D at Sedric. "Data from Amazon S3 gets loaded 7x faster for us than our previous solution, helping us get actionable insights from millions of customer events. We are thrilled with the performance improvements and cost optimizations we are seeing with Amazon Redshift Serverless." ZS Associates is a global professional services firm that helps companies develop and deliver products for their customers. "We leverage AWS heavily for our data analytics strategy and have had tremendous success over the years. Our SaaS products depend on Amazon EMR versions to upgrade Spark reliably and remove the undifferentiated heavy lifting," said Anirudh Vohra, Associate Director of Cloud Architecture at ZS. "However, some of our workloads don't need the level of customization offered by Amazon EMR on EC2, and we want to simply run certain Apache Spark applications without worrying about managing and scaling servers or clusters. We are excited about the launch of Amazon EMR Serverless and look forward to porting our workloads with ad-hoc analytics needs onto Amazon EMR Serverless." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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 options for Amazon Redshift, Amazon MSK, and Amazon EMR help customers analyze data at scale without having to configure, scale, or manage the underlying infrastructure</em></p><p><em>Roche, Riot Games, and Intuit among customers using new serverless analytics options</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced three new serverless options for its suite of analytics services that make it easier to analyze data at any scale without having to configure, scale, or manage the underlying infrastructure. A new serverless option for Amazon Redshift automatically sets up and scales resources in seconds, giving customers the ability to run high-performance analytics workloads on petabytes of data without having to manage data warehouse clusters. A new serverless option for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) quickly scales resources to vastly simplify real-time data ingestion and streaming. Amazon EMR now provides a serverless option for customers to run analytics applications using open-source big data frameworks like Apache Spark, Hive, and Presto without having to provision, manage, and scale the underlying infrastructure.</p><p>"Some customers want fine-grained control over every aspect of their workloads, but other customers have asked AWS to take the guesswork out of managing their analytics infrastructure so they can move faster and expand the use of analytics in their organizations. Today, we are helping customers reduce the complexity of managing their analytics infrastructure by offering serverless versions of three popular analytics services," said Rahul Pathak, Vice President of Analytics at AWS. "This makes it significantly easier and more cost effective for customers to modernize their infrastructure and unify vast amounts of data from a variety of endpoints. Now, customers can run analytics workloads at any scale and quickly deliver insights to the people and applications that need it—without having to even think about managing infrastructure."</p><p>AWS customers use a wide variety of purpose-built analytics services to make data-driven decisions, including Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, Amazon MSK for processing real-time data streams, and Amazon EMR for running Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, and other open-source big data frameworks. These services offer powerful analytics capabilities for a variety of use cases, but there is a subset of customers who want to benefit from AWS analytics services and don't want to put in the time needed to learn how to manage the underlying clusters or servers. To remove the complexity of scaling and managing infrastructure, AWS introduced the concept of serverless, event-driven computing in 2014, and many customers have adopted serverless technologies on AWS because it removes the need to configure, scale, or manage servers or provision compute instances and storage to meet peak capacity for their applications. The new serverless options announced today extend these capabilities to AWS analytics engines to automatically add or subtract resources to provide just the right amount of capacity to meet the demands of data analytics at any scale, so customers do not need to worry about constantly right-sizing clusters or over provisioning for peak capacity—saving them time and helping them optimize costs. With today's announcements, customers can now enjoy the automatic provisioning, on-demand scaling, and pay-as-you-go pricing of serverless to lower costs, expand analytics to more users, and quickly and easily get started with AWS analytics services, including:</p><ul><li>Serverless data warehouse with Amazon Redshift Serverless: Today, tens of thousands of customers are collectively processing more than two exabytes of data with Amazon Redshift every day. Amazon Redshift offers up to 3x better price performance and up to 10x better query performance than other enterprise cloud data warehouses, providing customers with faster data analytics at lower cost. The new serverless option for Amazon Redshift now makes it even easier to get insights from data quickly without the need to set up, manage, or scale clusters. Customers currently managing their own Amazon Redshift clusters can easily move them to the new serverless option using the Amazon Redshift console or the application programming interface (API) without making changes to their applications. To learn more about the new serverless option for Amazon Redshift, visit aws.amazon.com/redshift/redshift-serverless.</li><li>Serverless data streaming with Amazon MSK Serverless: Today's organizations are increasingly adopting Apache Kafka to capture and analyze real-time data streams from IoT devices, website clickstreams, database logs, and many other sources where dynamic data is continuously generated. Amazon MSK Serverless now builds, manages, and scales clusters automatically, so customers no longer have to worry about capacity planning or unpredictable workloads. To get started with Amazon MSK Serverless, customers simply create a cluster in the Amazon MSK console, set up a private and secure Apache Kafka endpoint, and use new or existing Apache Kafka clients to stream data. To learn more about Amazon MSK Serverless, visit aws.amazon.com/msk/features/msk-serverless.</li><li>Serverless big data analytics with Amazon EMR Serverless: Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon EMR to run open-source frameworks like Apache Spark, Hive, and Presto for large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications. With Amazon EMR Serverless, customers simply specify the framework they want to run, and Amazon EMR Serverless provisions, manages, and scales the compute and memory resources up and down as workload demands change. Customers can get started with Amazon EMR Serverless by simply selecting an open-source framework and submitting their job using Amazon EMR APIs, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the AWS Management Console. To learn more about Amazon EMR Serverless, visit aws.amazon.com/emr/serverless.</li></ul><p>Roche is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and the leading provider of cancer treatments globally. "Amazon Redshift Serverless helps us complete our data management without having to manage clusters and optimizes our cost by provisioning just the right amount of capacity to meet demand," said Dr. Yannick Misteli, Lead Cloud Platform and ML Engineer at Roche. "Amazon Redshift Serverless is reducing the operational burden, lowering costs, and enabling scale for the Roche Go-to-Market domain. This simplification is a game changer, helping us rapidly onboard and support a variety of analytics-heavy use cases without friction."</p><p>Riot Games is a video game developer and publisher, renowned for creating one of the world's most-played PC games: League of Legends. "We ingest about 20 terabytes of data per day using Amazon MSK on AWS, and reducing the time to query this data after it is produced is critical for us. With Amazon MSK, we now have a mechanism for streaming data into our ecosystem while eliminating the heavy lifting of running Apache Kafka on our own," said Wesley Kerr, Sr. Principal Data Scientist at Riot Games. "Amazon MSK Serverless will further streamline our operations, as it allows us to keep up with changes in demand without having to take scaling actions. As a result, our developers can worry less about scaling Apache Kafka and focus more on offering the best gaming experiences around the world."</p><p>Intuit is the global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges, serving more than 100 million customers worldwide with TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp. "At Intuit we use Apache Kafka as a central event bus that sits between thousands of decoupled microservices that power our products," said Ritesh Bansal, Director of Engineering at Intuit. "We recently migrated our self-managed Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon MSK because it allows us to redirect engineering talent towards innovations closer to our end customers. We're excited about Amazon MSK Serverless, which will make managing our scale and capacity much easier."</p><p>The Orchard, a Sony Music Entertainment subsidiary, collects, processes, and distributes music from labels and artists to Spotify, Amazon Music, and other streaming providers and physical retailers. "Amazon MSK has helped us accelerate the pace at which we are launching production ready applications that process streaming data for The Orchard Suite," said Farouk Umar, Engineering Manager at The Orchard. "Amazon MSK Serverless enables teams that are not familiar with Apache Kafka scaling to benefit from Amazon MSK, allowing us to fully decentralize Apache Kafka in our organization and provide a better developer experience. As a result, we are able to scale adoption of Apache Kafka faster, which helps us accelerate adoption of our event-driven strategy."</p><p>Classmethod, Inc. is a leading cloud integrator with expertise in big data, mobile, and artificial intelligence. "Our data integration platform service, called Customer Story Analytics (CSA), integrates Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Amazon Aurora, and other services to avoid data silos and provide powerful, unified governance between data services," said Satoru Ishikawa, Solution Architect, Data Integration Division at Classmethod. "Amazon Redshift Serverless automates the sizing of compute and storage and quickly scales to meet demand. This elastic serverless experience mitigates manual operational costs, expands data access among departments, and accelerates autonomy on data analytics and machine learning, allowing us to scale the CSA business in new and exciting ways."</p><p>Sedric is an AI risk and compliance excellence platform designed for the new generation of fintech. "Ease of use and self-service data access is key for our analytics initiatives. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, we don't have to think about managing the data warehouse," said Tomer Levi, Vice President of R&amp;D at Sedric. "Data from Amazon S3 gets loaded 7x faster for us than our previous solution, helping us get actionable insights from millions of customer events. We are thrilled with the performance improvements and cost optimizations we are seeing with Amazon Redshift Serverless."</p><p>ZS Associates is a global professional services firm that helps companies develop and deliver products for their customers. "We leverage AWS heavily for our data analytics strategy and have had tremendous success over the years. Our SaaS products depend on Amazon EMR versions to upgrade Spark reliably and remove the undifferentiated heavy lifting," said Anirudh Vohra, Associate Director of Cloud Architecture at ZS. "However, some of our workloads don't need the level of customization offered by Amazon EMR on EC2, and we want to simply run certain Apache Spark applications without worrying about managing and scaling servers or clusters. We are excited about the launch of Amazon EMR Serverless and look forward to porting our workloads with ad-hoc analytics needs onto Amazon EMR Serverless."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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 Announces AWS IoT TwinMaker

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AWS Announces AWS IoT TwinMaker

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New service makes it faster and easier to create digital twins of real-world systems like buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines—helping many more customers build applications that improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime Carrier, Siemens, and Accenture among customers and partners using AWS IoT TwinMaker LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS IoT TwinMaker, a new service that makes it faster and easier for developers to create digital twins of real-world systems like buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. Digital twins are virtual representations of physical systems that are regularly updated with real-world data to mimic the structure, state, and behavior of the objects they represent. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easy for developers to integrate data from multiple sources like equipment sensors, video cameras, and business applications, and combines that data to create a knowledge graph that models the real-world environment. With AWS IoT TwinMaker, many more customers can use digital twins to build applications that mirror real-world systems to improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime. There are no up-front commitments or fees to use AWS IoT TwinMaker, and customers only pay for the AWS services used. To get started with AWS IoT TwinMaker, visit aws.com/iot-twinmaker. Industrial companies collect and process vast troves of data about their equipment and facilities from sources like equipment sensors, video cameras, and business applications (e.g. enterprise resource planning systems or project management systems). Many customers want to combine these data sources to create a virtual representation of their physical systems (called a digital twin) to help them simulate and optimize operational performance. But building and managing digital twins is hard even for the most technically advanced organizations. To build digital twins, customers must manually connect different types of data from diverse sources (e.g. time-series sensor data from equipment, video feeds from cameras, maintenance records from business applications, etc.). Then customers have to create a knowledge graph that provides common access to all the connected data and maps the relationships between the data sources to the physical environment. To complete the digital twin, customers have to build a 3D virtual representation of their physical systems (e.g. buildings, factories, equipment, production lines, etc.) and overlay the real-world data on to the 3D visualization. Once they have a virtual representation of their real-world systems with real-time data, customers can build applications for plant operators and maintenance engineers that can leverage machine learning and analytics to extract business insights about the real-time operational performance of their physical systems. Because of the work required, the vast majority of organizations are unable to use digital twins to improve their operations. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it significantly faster and easier to create digital twins of real-world systems. Using AWS IoT TwinMaker, developers can quickly get started building digital twins of devices, equipment, and processes by connecting AWS IoT TwinMaker to data sources like equipment sensors, video feeds, and business applications. AWS IoT TwinMaker contains built-in connectors for AWS IoT SiteWise, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, and Amazon S3 (or customers can add their own connectors for data sources like Amazon Timestream or Snowflake) to make it easy to gather data from a variety of sources. AWS IoT TwinMaker automatically creates a knowledge graph that combines and understands the relationships of the connected data sources, so it can update the digital twin with real-time information from the system being modeled. Customers can import existing 3D models (e.g. CAD and BIM files, point cloud scans, etc.), directly into AWS IoT TwinMaker to easily create 3D visualizations of the physical systems (e.g. buildings, factories, equipment, production lines, etc.) and overlay the data from the knowledge graph on to the 3D visualizations to create the digital twin. Once the digital twin has been created, developers can use an AWS IoT TwinMaker plugin for Amazon Managed Grafana to create a web-based application that displays the digital twin on the devices plant operators and maintenance engineers use to monitor and inspect facilities and industrial systems. For example, developers can create a virtual representation of a metals processing plant by associating data from the plant's equipment sensors with real-time video of the various machines in operation and the maintenance history of those machines. Developers can then set up rules to alert plant operators when anomalies in the plant's furnace are detected (e.g. temperature threshold has been breached) and display those anomalies on a 3D representation of the plant with real-time video from the furnaces, which can help operators make quick decisions on predictive maintenance before a furnace fails. With AWS IoT TwinMaker, many more customers can use digital twins to build applications that simulate their real-world systems to improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime. "Customers are excited about the opportunity to use digital twins to improve their operations and processes, but the work involved in creating a digital twin and custom applications for different use cases is complicated, expensive, and prohibitive for most," said Michael MacKenzie, General Manager, AWS IoT. "AWS IoT TwinMaker includes the built-in capabilities most customers need for their digital twins, such as connecting to data across disparate sources, modeling physical environments, and visualization of data with spatial context. With today's launch of AWS IoT TwinMaker, more customers can now have a holistic view of their industrial equipment, facilities, and processes to monitor and optimize all of their operations in real time." AWS IoT TwinMaker is available today in preview in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Europe (Ireland) with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. Carrier Global is a leading provider of healthy, safe, sustainable, and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. "Today, our objectives extend beyond HVAC and refrigeration and into the development of healthy, safe, and sustainable intelligent buildings. With our Abound platform, we aggregate building performance data from a variety of systems and sensors, offering customers real-time insight into their connected spaces. Enhancing this platform with digital twins of buildings for their owners and operators has been a top priority for us," said Dan Levine, Sr. Director of Digital and Cloud at Carrier. "However, in-house development of that capability threatened to be difficult, costly, and slow. With AWS IoT TwinMaker, we see a key enabler for us to significantly accelerate the technology strategy of our Abound platform. AWS IoT TwinMaker will help our development team focus on rapidly creating differentiated customer outcomes rather than the heavy lifting of digital twin data abstraction and adding 3D visualization to our solutions." Siemens is a leader in providing software to create comprehensive digital twins for design, manufacturing, and service. "We are excited to work with AWS and expand connections between our Xcelerator portfolio and AWS services including the new AWS IoT TwinMaker service. Through this collaboration, developers will be able to create digital twin solutions that can scale from the simplest to the most complex use cases by combining our rich application services for low-code, visualization, simulation, and industrial IoT with AWS IoT TwinMaker and other AWS services," said Brenda Discher, Senior Vice President for Industry Marketing & Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software. "As part of our open ecosystem, this expanded collaboration between AWS and Siemens will increase the breadth of services we offer so together we can deliver new digital twin solutions that help our customers accelerate their digital transformation." Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. "Digital transformation of manufacturing is a huge opportunity for our clients who often face challenges with fragmented, siloed, and unstructured industrial data, leaving many proofs of concept unscalable," said Maikel van Verseveld, Global Technology Lead for Digital Manufacturing & Operations, Industry X, at Accenture. "As our clients look to start and scale their digital manufacturing journey, having tools that can quickly address these challenges is vital. With AWS IoT TwinMaker, they can now easily create digital twins for a more contextualized, data-driven, and real-time view of their manufacturing operations from disparate IT and OT systems, allowing end users to make better decisions and optimize operations. Through the Accenture AWS Business Group, we have been able to start leveraging AWS IoT TwinMaker and we are excited for the value it can bring our customers." INVISTA, a subsidiary of Koch industries, is a leading global manufacturer of fiber, resins, and chemical intermediates. "Working closely with AWS over many years, we have been building a strong analytics and data science capability to support our manufacturing operations and find new and better ways to improve our products and processes," said Jerry Grunewald, Vice President of Operations Innovations at INVISTA. "Our field personnel need to efficiently address operational notifications and alerts from the plant floor, however, equipment information is distributed across different systems. Using AWS IoT TwinMaker, we can now build a digital twin of our manufacturing operations into a Connected Worker application that brings this disparate information into a consolidated view that represents our real environment. This has improved productivity and efficiency in field operations, supports environmental health and safety performance, and provides further opportunities to leverage employee expertise in finding new and better ways to create value for our customers." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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 service makes it faster and easier to create digital twins of real-world systems like buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines—helping many more customers build applications that improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime</em></p><p><em>Carrier, Siemens, and Accenture among customers and partners using AWS IoT TwinMaker</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS IoT TwinMaker, a new service that makes it faster and easier for developers to create digital twins of real-world systems like buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. Digital twins are virtual representations of physical systems that are regularly updated with real-world data to mimic the structure, state, and behavior of the objects they represent. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easy for developers to integrate data from multiple sources like equipment sensors, video cameras, and business applications, and combines that data to create a knowledge graph that models the real-world environment. With AWS IoT TwinMaker, many more customers can use digital twins to build applications that mirror real-world systems to improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime. There are no up-front commitments or fees to use AWS IoT TwinMaker, and customers only pay for the AWS services used. To get started with AWS IoT TwinMaker, visit aws.com/iot-twinmaker.</p><p>Industrial companies collect and process vast troves of data about their equipment and facilities from sources like equipment sensors, video cameras, and business applications (e.g. enterprise resource planning systems or project management systems). Many customers want to combine these data sources to create a virtual representation of their physical systems (called a digital twin) to help them simulate and optimize operational performance. But building and managing digital twins is hard even for the most technically advanced organizations. To build digital twins, customers must manually connect different types of data from diverse sources (e.g. time-series sensor data from equipment, video feeds from cameras, maintenance records from business applications, etc.). Then customers have to create a knowledge graph that provides common access to all the connected data and maps the relationships between the data sources to the physical environment. To complete the digital twin, customers have to build a 3D virtual representation of their physical systems (e.g. buildings, factories, equipment, production lines, etc.) and overlay the real-world data on to the 3D visualization. Once they have a virtual representation of their real-world systems with real-time data, customers can build applications for plant operators and maintenance engineers that can leverage machine learning and analytics to extract business insights about the real-time operational performance of their physical systems. Because of the work required, the vast majority of organizations are unable to use digital twins to improve their operations.</p><p>AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it significantly faster and easier to create digital twins of real-world systems. Using AWS IoT TwinMaker, developers can quickly get started building digital twins of devices, equipment, and processes by connecting AWS IoT TwinMaker to data sources like equipment sensors, video feeds, and business applications. AWS IoT TwinMaker contains built-in connectors for AWS IoT SiteWise, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, and Amazon S3 (or customers can add their own connectors for data sources like Amazon Timestream or Snowflake) to make it easy to gather data from a variety of sources. AWS IoT TwinMaker automatically creates a knowledge graph that combines and understands the relationships of the connected data sources, so it can update the digital twin with real-time information from the system being modeled. Customers can import existing 3D models (e.g. CAD and BIM files, point cloud scans, etc.), directly into AWS IoT TwinMaker to easily create 3D visualizations of the physical systems (e.g. buildings, factories, equipment, production lines, etc.) and overlay the data from the knowledge graph on to the 3D visualizations to create the digital twin. Once the digital twin has been created, developers can use an AWS IoT TwinMaker plugin for Amazon Managed Grafana to create a web-based application that displays the digital twin on the devices plant operators and maintenance engineers use to monitor and inspect facilities and industrial systems. For example, developers can create a virtual representation of a metals processing plant by associating data from the plant's equipment sensors with real-time video of the various machines in operation and the maintenance history of those machines. Developers can then set up rules to alert plant operators when anomalies in the plant's furnace are detected (e.g. temperature threshold has been breached) and display those anomalies on a 3D representation of the plant with real-time video from the furnaces, which can help operators make quick decisions on predictive maintenance before a furnace fails. With AWS IoT TwinMaker, many more customers can use digital twins to build applications that simulate their real-world systems to improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime.</p><p>"Customers are excited about the opportunity to use digital twins to improve their operations and processes, but the work involved in creating a digital twin and custom applications for different use cases is complicated, expensive, and prohibitive for most," said Michael MacKenzie, General Manager, AWS IoT. "AWS IoT TwinMaker includes the built-in capabilities most customers need for their digital twins, such as connecting to data across disparate sources, modeling physical environments, and visualization of data with spatial context. With today's launch of AWS IoT TwinMaker, more customers can now have a holistic view of their industrial equipment, facilities, and processes to monitor and optimize all of their operations in real time."</p><p>AWS IoT TwinMaker is available today in preview in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Europe (Ireland) with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon.</p><p>Carrier Global is a leading provider of healthy, safe, sustainable, and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. "Today, our objectives extend beyond HVAC and refrigeration and into the development of healthy, safe, and sustainable intelligent buildings. With our Abound platform, we aggregate building performance data from a variety of systems and sensors, offering customers real-time insight into their connected spaces. Enhancing this platform with digital twins of buildings for their owners and operators has been a top priority for us," said Dan Levine, Sr. Director of Digital and Cloud at Carrier. "However, in-house development of that capability threatened to be difficult, costly, and slow. With AWS IoT TwinMaker, we see a key enabler for us to significantly accelerate the technology strategy of our Abound platform. AWS IoT TwinMaker will help our development team focus on rapidly creating differentiated customer outcomes rather than the heavy lifting of digital twin data abstraction and adding 3D visualization to our solutions."</p><p>Siemens is a leader in providing software to create comprehensive digital twins for design, manufacturing, and service. "We are excited to work with AWS and expand connections between our Xcelerator portfolio and AWS services including the new AWS IoT TwinMaker service. Through this collaboration, developers will be able to create digital twin solutions that can scale from the simplest to the most complex use cases by combining our rich application services for low-code, visualization, simulation, and industrial IoT with AWS IoT TwinMaker and other AWS services," said Brenda Discher, Senior Vice President for Industry Marketing &amp; Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software. "As part of our open ecosystem, this expanded collaboration between AWS and Siemens will increase the breadth of services we offer so together we can deliver new digital twin solutions that help our customers accelerate their digital transformation."</p><p>Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. "Digital transformation of manufacturing is a huge opportunity for our clients who often face challenges with fragmented, siloed, and unstructured industrial data, leaving many proofs of concept unscalable," said Maikel van Verseveld, Global Technology Lead for Digital Manufacturing &amp; Operations, Industry X, at Accenture. "As our clients look to start and scale their digital manufacturing journey, having tools that can quickly address these challenges is vital. With AWS IoT TwinMaker, they can now easily create digital twins for a more contextualized, data-driven, and real-time view of their manufacturing operations from disparate IT and OT systems, allowing end users to make better decisions and optimize operations. Through the Accenture AWS Business Group, we have been able to start leveraging AWS IoT TwinMaker and we are excited for the value it can bring our customers."</p><p>INVISTA, a subsidiary of Koch industries, is a leading global manufacturer of fiber, resins, and chemical intermediates. "Working closely with AWS over many years, we have been building a strong analytics and data science capability to support our manufacturing operations and find new and better ways to improve our products and processes," said Jerry Grunewald, Vice President of Operations Innovations at INVISTA. "Our field personnel need to efficiently address operational notifications and alerts from the plant floor, however, equipment information is distributed across different systems. Using AWS IoT TwinMaker, we can now build a digital twin of our manufacturing operations into a Connected Worker application that brings this disparate information into a consolidated view that represents our real environment. This has improved productivity and efficiency in field operations, supports environmental health and safety performance, and provides further opportunities to leverage employee expertise in finding new and better ways to create value for our customers."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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 Announces AWS IoT FleetWise

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AWS Announces AWS IoT FleetWise

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New service makes it easier and more cost-effective for automakers to collect vehicle data and transfer it to the cloud in near-real time so customers can build applications that use analytics and machine learning to improve vehicle quality, safety, and autonomy The new service is part of AWS for Automotive, an initiative that provides automotive customers with purpose-built tools for connected mobility, autonomous development, digital customer engagement, product design and engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain NXP, WirelessCar, and Otonomo among customers and partners using AWS IoT FleetWise LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS IoT FleetWise, a new service that makes it easier and more cost-effective for automakers to collect, transform, and transfer vehicle data to the cloud in near-real time. With AWS IoT FleetWise, automakers can easily collect and organize data in any format present in their vehicles (regardless of make, model, or options) and standardize the data format for easy data analysis in the cloud. AWS IoT FleetWise helps automakers efficiently transfer data to the cloud in near-real time using the service's intelligent filtering capabilities that allow developers to reduce network traffic by selecting the data to transfer and defining rules for when to transfer it based on parameters like weather conditions, location, or vehicle type. Once the data is in the cloud, automakers can use it for applications that remotely diagnose issues in individual vehicles, analyze vehicle fleet health to help prevent potential recalls or safety issues, or improve advanced technologies like autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems with analytics and machine learning. There are no upfront commitments or fees to use AWS IoT FleetWise, and customers only pay for the underlying services used. To learn more about AWS IoT FleetWise, visit aws.amazon.com/iot-fleetwise. Automakers have been collecting data from standard vehicle sensors for over a decade to evaluate operational and safety indicators like engine temperature and vehicle stability. However, automakers today are building cars with new classes of advanced sensors like radar and cameras that improve vehicle safety but also generate exponentially increasing amounts of data. For example, advanced vehicle sensors can generate up to 2 terabytes of data hourly per vehicle, making the cost of transferring this type of data to the cloud prohibitive. Automakers want to collect, standardize, and transfer this data to the cloud more cost-effectively, so they can use it to generate insights that help improve vehicle quality, safety, and autonomy. However, the ever-increasing variety of vehicle makes, models, and options that generate data in different proprietary formats creates a complex array of data across the vehicles on the road. Collecting and transforming all of this vehicle data so that it can be analyzed in the cloud requires automakers to build custom data collection systems that standardize the data across the wide variety of data formats, which is difficult and time-consuming. Instead, automakers want to select the data to collect and transfer to the cloud in near-real time based on their specific use case, but this type of intelligent data filtering doesn't exist today. As a result, automakers are unable to put data to work to help solve common problems like diagnosing issues with individual vehicle performance, spotting fleet-wide issues before they become a growing problem, and using the data to improve vehicle performance and autonomy. AWS IoT FleetWise provides automakers a managed service that makes it easier and more cost-effective to collect and transfer data from millions of vehicles to the cloud in near-real time. AWS IoT FleetWise can access the unique data format of a vehicle and then structure and standardize the data so automakers don't have to develop custom data collection systems. Automakers start in the AWS Management Console by defining and modeling vehicle attributes (e.g. a two-door coupe) and the sensors associated with the car's make, model, and options (e.g. engine temperature, front-impact warning, parking assist system, etc.) for individual vehicle types or multiple vehicle types across their entire fleet. After vehicle modeling, automakers install the AWS IoT FleetWise application on the vehicle gateway (an in-vehicle communications hub that monitors and collects data), so it can read, decode, and transmit information to and from AWS. With AWS IoT FleetWise's intelligent filtering controls, automakers can select the exact data they need for their use cases and help reduce costs by limiting the amount of data transferred to the cloud by creating conditional rules to filter the data they want to collect and analyze (e.g. sensor data from hard-braking events associated with a vehicle make and model). Once data is transferred to the cloud with AWS IoT FleetWise, automakers can use AWS's breadth and depth of services to extract value from vehicle data. For example, automakers can use intelligent filtering to collect camera data from vehicles traveling on newly built highways when an autonomous driving system identifies text in road signage with less than 90% confidence. When that data is sent to the cloud, automakers can label the data for accuracy to improve the machine learning models powering autonomous driving systems. Or, automakers can use intelligent filtering to collect data from electric vehicle batteries when the temperature drops below freezing and then analyze it and run simulations in the cloud to improve battery performance in cold weather. "While automakers have collected, stored, and analyzed vehicle data for years, they are not equipped to manage the explosion of data generated by advanced vehicle safety and autonomous driving systems, nor have they had access to the near-real-time data needed to help proactively address vehicle problems," said Mike Tzamaloukas, General Manager of IoT Automotive at AWS. "With AWS IoT FleetWise, automakers can now efficiently collect this data, transform it, and gain deep, actionable insights on the condition and usage of vehicles on the road. Automakers can now use the power of AWS to help maintain millions of vehicles, increase vehicle safety, and improve customer service." AWS IoT FleetWise is a new service that is part of AWS for Automotive, a comprehensive offering of AWS services and AWS Partner Network (APN) solutions used by automotive and mobility customers globally to help automotive customers digitally transform their business for connected mobility, digital customer engagement, product design and engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain. For more information on AWS for Automotive, visit aws.com/automotive. AWS IoT FleetWise with standard vehicle data collection is available in preview today in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. NXP Semiconductors is the leader in secure vehicle network processors, enabling secure connections for a smarter world. "We are driving automotive industry innovations, including our new S32G vehicle network processors for service-oriented gateways," said Ray Cornyn, Vice President and General Manager of Vehicle Control and Networking Solutions at NXP. "The collaboration with AWS on AWS IoT FleetWise is one that will enable smart data collection from every corner of the vehicle. With AWS IoT FleetWise and NXP's automotive gateway solutions, OEMs will be able to leverage deeper vehicle insights to improve vehicles over time and enable compelling, new vehicle capabilities and business opportunities." WirelessCar has a 20+ year history of developing, delivering, and operating secure digital solutions and products for connected cars. "As our automotive services and solutions have continued to grow and establish us as a leader in the connected vehicle industry, we continue to enjoy the scale, availability, and resilience of AWS services as a foundation of our solutions," said Jessica Nymark, CTO at WirelessCar. "With the arrival of AWS IoT FleetWise as an AWS for Automotive service, we look forward to a further expansion of our portfolio around efficient vehicle data collection and of our data ecosystem." Otonomo is a mobility intelligence platform that fuels a network of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), fleets, and over 100 service providers, ranging from mobility as a service (MaaS), electric vehicles (EV), and transportation to insurance. The platform is powered daily by over 4 billion data points. "At Otonomo, we're committed to driving smarter decisions and services for our customers through the use of connected vehicle data and mobility intelligence," said Ben Volkow, CEO at Otonomo. "Today's AWS IoT FleetWise announcement helps automakers collect and transfer data to the cloud more easily and efficiently than ever before. We're thrilled to continue to collaborate with AWS and are excited about the additional capabilities made possible through AWS IoT FleetWise." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211130005970/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New service makes it easier and more cost-effective for automakers to collect vehicle data and transfer it to the cloud in near-real time so customers can build applications that use analytics and machine learning to improve vehicle quality, safety, and autonomy</em></p><p><em>The new service is part of AWS for Automotive, an initiative that provides automotive customers with purpose-built tools for connected mobility, autonomous development, digital customer engagement, product design and engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain</em></p><p><em>NXP, WirelessCar, and Otonomo among customers and partners using AWS IoT FleetWise</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS IoT FleetWise, a new service that makes it easier and more cost-effective for automakers to collect, transform, and transfer vehicle data to the cloud in near-real time. With AWS IoT FleetWise, automakers can easily collect and organize data in any format present in their vehicles (regardless of make, model, or options) and standardize the data format for easy data analysis in the cloud. AWS IoT FleetWise helps automakers efficiently transfer data to the cloud in near-real time using the service's intelligent filtering capabilities that allow developers to reduce network traffic by selecting the data to transfer and defining rules for when to transfer it based on parameters like weather conditions, location, or vehicle type. Once the data is in the cloud, automakers can use it for applications that remotely diagnose issues in individual vehicles, analyze vehicle fleet health to help prevent potential recalls or safety issues, or improve advanced technologies like autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems with analytics and machine learning. There are no upfront commitments or fees to use AWS IoT FleetWise, and customers only pay for the underlying services used. To learn more about AWS IoT FleetWise, visit aws.amazon.com/iot-fleetwise.</p><p>Automakers have been collecting data from standard vehicle sensors for over a decade to evaluate operational and safety indicators like engine temperature and vehicle stability. However, automakers today are building cars with new classes of advanced sensors like radar and cameras that improve vehicle safety but also generate exponentially increasing amounts of data. For example, advanced vehicle sensors can generate up to 2 terabytes of data hourly per vehicle, making the cost of transferring this type of data to the cloud prohibitive. Automakers want to collect, standardize, and transfer this data to the cloud more cost-effectively, so they can use it to generate insights that help improve vehicle quality, safety, and autonomy. However, the ever-increasing variety of vehicle makes, models, and options that generate data in different proprietary formats creates a complex array of data across the vehicles on the road. Collecting and transforming all of this vehicle data so that it can be analyzed in the cloud requires automakers to build custom data collection systems that standardize the data across the wide variety of data formats, which is difficult and time-consuming. Instead, automakers want to select the data to collect and transfer to the cloud in near-real time based on their specific use case, but this type of intelligent data filtering doesn't exist today. As a result, automakers are unable to put data to work to help solve common problems like diagnosing issues with individual vehicle performance, spotting fleet-wide issues before they become a growing problem, and using the data to improve vehicle performance and autonomy.</p><p>AWS IoT FleetWise provides automakers a managed service that makes it easier and more cost-effective to collect and transfer data from millions of vehicles to the cloud in near-real time. AWS IoT FleetWise can access the unique data format of a vehicle and then structure and standardize the data so automakers don't have to develop custom data collection systems. Automakers start in the AWS Management Console by defining and modeling vehicle attributes (e.g. a two-door coupe) and the sensors associated with the car's make, model, and options (e.g. engine temperature, front-impact warning, parking assist system, etc.) for individual vehicle types or multiple vehicle types across their entire fleet. After vehicle modeling, automakers install the AWS IoT FleetWise application on the vehicle gateway (an in-vehicle communications hub that monitors and collects data), so it can read, decode, and transmit information to and from AWS. With AWS IoT FleetWise's intelligent filtering controls, automakers can select the exact data they need for their use cases and help reduce costs by limiting the amount of data transferred to the cloud by creating conditional rules to filter the data they want to collect and analyze (e.g. sensor data from hard-braking events associated with a vehicle make and model). Once data is transferred to the cloud with AWS IoT FleetWise, automakers can use AWS's breadth and depth of services to extract value from vehicle data. For example, automakers can use intelligent filtering to collect camera data from vehicles traveling on newly built highways when an autonomous driving system identifies text in road signage with less than 90% confidence. When that data is sent to the cloud, automakers can label the data for accuracy to improve the machine learning models powering autonomous driving systems. Or, automakers can use intelligent filtering to collect data from electric vehicle batteries when the temperature drops below freezing and then analyze it and run simulations in the cloud to improve battery performance in cold weather.</p><p>"While automakers have collected, stored, and analyzed vehicle data for years, they are not equipped to manage the explosion of data generated by advanced vehicle safety and autonomous driving systems, nor have they had access to the near-real-time data needed to help proactively address vehicle problems," said Mike Tzamaloukas, General Manager of IoT Automotive at AWS. "With AWS IoT FleetWise, automakers can now efficiently collect this data, transform it, and gain deep, actionable insights on the condition and usage of vehicles on the road. Automakers can now use the power of AWS to help maintain millions of vehicles, increase vehicle safety, and improve customer service."</p><p>AWS IoT FleetWise is a new service that is part of AWS for Automotive, a comprehensive offering of AWS services and AWS Partner Network (APN) solutions used by automotive and mobility customers globally to help automotive customers digitally transform their business for connected mobility, digital customer engagement, product design and engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain. For more information on AWS for Automotive, visit aws.com/automotive.</p><p>AWS IoT FleetWise with standard vehicle data collection is available in preview today in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon.</p><p>NXP Semiconductors is the leader in secure vehicle network processors, enabling secure connections for a smarter world. "We are driving automotive industry innovations, including our new S32G vehicle network processors for service-oriented gateways," said Ray Cornyn, Vice President and General Manager of Vehicle Control and Networking Solutions at NXP. "The collaboration with AWS on AWS IoT FleetWise is one that will enable smart data collection from every corner of the vehicle. With AWS IoT FleetWise and NXP's automotive gateway solutions, OEMs will be able to leverage deeper vehicle insights to improve vehicles over time and enable compelling, new vehicle capabilities and business opportunities."</p><p>WirelessCar has a 20+ year history of developing, delivering, and operating secure digital solutions and products for connected cars. "As our automotive services and solutions have continued to grow and establish us as a leader in the connected vehicle industry, we continue to enjoy the scale, availability, and resilience of AWS services as a foundation of our solutions," said Jessica Nymark, CTO at WirelessCar. "With the arrival of AWS IoT FleetWise as an AWS for Automotive service, we look forward to a further expansion of our portfolio around efficient vehicle data collection and of our data ecosystem."</p><p>Otonomo is a mobility intelligence platform that fuels a network of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), fleets, and over 100 service providers, ranging from mobility as a service (MaaS), electric vehicles (EV), and transportation to insurance. The platform is powered daily by over 4 billion data points. "At Otonomo, we're committed to driving smarter decisions and services for our customers through the use of connected vehicle data and mobility intelligence," said Ben Volkow, CEO at Otonomo. "Today's AWS IoT FleetWise announcement helps automakers collect and transfer data to the cloud more easily and efficiently than ever before. We're thrilled to continue to collaborate with AWS and are excited about the additional capabilities made possible through AWS IoT FleetWise."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211130005970/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces AWS Private 5G

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New service makes it easy for enterprises to deploy and scale private 5G networks in their facilities in days instead of months DISH, Amazon Fulfillment, and Koch Global Services among customers and partners using AWS Private 5G LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Private 5G, a new managed service that helps enterprises set up and scale private 5G mobile networks in their facilities in days instead of months. With just a few clicks in the AWS console, customers specify where they want to build a mobile network and the network capacity needed for their devices—and AWS delivers and maintains the small cell radio units, servers, 5G core and radio access network (RAN) software, and subscriber identity modules (SIM cards) required to set up a private 5G network and connect devices. AWS Private 5G automates the setup and deployment of the network and scales capacity on demand to support additional devices and increased network traffic. There are no upfront fees or per-device costs with AWS Private 5G, and customers only pay for the network capacity and throughput they request. To learn more about AWS Private 5G, visit aws.amazon.com/private5g/. More and more enterprises need to collect, analyze, and transfer massive amounts of data within their operations from the large number of connected sensors and edge devices prevalent in today's enterprises. Customers want to leverage cellular technologies like 5G for their on-premises connectivity needs because it offers long range, extended outdoor coverage, device mobility, and reliable network behavior. Cellular technologies like 5G also allow customers to connect more devices and more cost-effectively collect and transfer data with greater flexibility and reliability than current wired and wireless networking technologies. Customers would like to build their own private 5G networks to take advantage of the reliability, better coverage, lower latency, and higher bandwidth they provide and to be able to scale their networks as they add more devices. But today, most private mobile network deployments require customers to invest considerable time, money, and effort to design their network for anticipated peak capacity and to procure and integrate software and hardware components from multiple vendors. Once the network is installed, customers have to undertake another lengthy procurement process to increase network capacity if the number of connected devices or network traffic grows beyond the capacity the network can handle. Customers also have to manage different security policies and systems for each type of device connected to a private mobile network, which makes integration with IT management systems difficult. Even if customers are able to get the network running, current private mobile network pricing models charge for each connected device and make it cost prohibitive for use cases that involve thousands of connected devices. As a result of these barriers, most enterprises are unable to deploy and operate private mobile networks. With AWS Private 5G, enterprises can now procure, deploy, and scale their own 5G mobile network in days instead of months. With AWS Private 5G, customers log into the AWS console and with just a few clicks specify a coverage area within a geographic location where they want to deploy a private 5G network, along with the amount of traffic they expect the network to handle. AWS delivers and maintains the pre-integrated small cell radio units, servers, 5G core and RAN software, and SIM cards needed for operating the network—eliminating the need to procure, integrate, and maintain hardware and software from multiple third-party vendors. Once the equipment is installed and powered on, AWS Private 5G automatically configures and deploys the mobile network. To connect devices to the private network, customers simply plug the AWS-supplied SIM cards into their devices. AWS Private 5G integrates with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enabling network administrators to directly control which resources mobile devices can access on their private mobile networks. Customers can start with small networks with fewer devices using AWS Private 5G, analyze network needs once in operation, and leverage the elasticity and pay-as-you-go pricing of AWS to scale their private mobile network as they add more devices. With AWS Private 5G, customers can quickly deploy and manage private 5G mobile networks without the challenge of procuring, scaling, and maintaining equipment or worrying about needing to add additional capacity when they want to add more devices. "Many of our customers want to leverage the power of 5G to establish their own private networks on premises, but they tell us that the current approaches make it time-consuming, difficult, and expensive to set up and deploy private networks," said David Brown, Vice President, EC2 at AWS. "With AWS Private 5G, we're extending hybrid infrastructure to customers' 5G networks to make it simple, quick, and inexpensive to set up a private 5G network. Customers can start small and scale on-demand, pay as they go, and monitor and manage their network from the AWS console." DISH Network Corporation is a U.S.-based connectivity company that is building the nation's first open, secure, 5G smart network. "Selecting AWS has enabled us to onboard and scale our 5G core network functions within the cloud. They are a key strategic partner in helping us deliver private enterprise networks to our customers," said Stephen Bye, Chief Commercial Officer, DISH. "AWS's innovative platform allows us to better serve our consumer wireless customers, while unlocking new business models for enterprise customers across a wide range of industry verticals. Our ability to support dedicated, private 5G enterprise networks allows us to give customers the scale, resilience and security needed to support a wide variety of devices and services, unlocking the potential of Industry 4.0." With 122,000 global employees and locations in nearly every U.S. state and 60 countries, Koch companies offer abundant opportunities to improve life's most necessary things – like food, clothing, water, transportation, and technology. "Koch sees great potential in private 5G networking. However, there are significant challenges in the do-it-yourself approach. It can be complex, time consuming, and expensive, both in initial setup cost as well as ongoing service charges," said Matt Hoag, CTO at Koch Business Solutions. "In collaboration with industry software vendors like Mavenir and global communication service providers, AWS Private 5G can helps solve real challenges that enterprises face in deploying private cellular networks around the world. We believe that this combination will also encourage expansion of the cellular Industrial IoT ecosystem and accelerate the delivery of disruptive private connectivity solutions for our customers." Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FCs) store products for customers. Once a customer clicks "buy," associates pick, pack, and place orders on trucks for shipment. Amazon robots, scanning machines, and computer systems in fulfillment centers can manage millions of items in a day. "We deploy technology outside of FCs to make moving tractor trailers around safer and more accurate and efficient. We have to provide network services for these systems across millions of square feet of outdoor space. Previously, to get proper Wi-Fi coverage in the parking lots around our FCs, we had to add light poles for the Wi-Fi equipment, modify our outdoor electrical systems and either trench fiber or support Mesh systems. This was expensive, disrupted productivity during installation, and had a high support burden," said Jeff Armstrong, Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Amazon. "With AWS Private 5G, we can use two outdoor small cells mounted on the corners of our warehouses and achieve additional coverage in our parking lots, which was much quicker and cheaper to deploy. Just as important, we will be able to scale up our AWS Private 5G deployment as we expand our facilities." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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 service makes it easy for enterprises to deploy and scale private 5G networks in their facilities in days instead of months</em></p><p><em>DISH, Amazon Fulfillment, and Koch Global Services among customers and partners using AWS Private 5G</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Private 5G, a new managed service that helps enterprises set up and scale private 5G mobile networks in their facilities in days instead of months. With just a few clicks in the AWS console, customers specify where they want to build a mobile network and the network capacity needed for their devices—and AWS delivers and maintains the small cell radio units, servers, 5G core and radio access network (RAN) software, and subscriber identity modules (SIM cards) required to set up a private 5G network and connect devices. AWS Private 5G automates the setup and deployment of the network and scales capacity on demand to support additional devices and increased network traffic. There are no upfront fees or per-device costs with AWS Private 5G, and customers only pay for the network capacity and throughput they request. To learn more about AWS Private 5G, visit aws.amazon.com/private5g/.</p><p>More and more enterprises need to collect, analyze, and transfer massive amounts of data within their operations from the large number of connected sensors and edge devices prevalent in today's enterprises. Customers want to leverage cellular technologies like 5G for their on-premises connectivity needs because it offers long range, extended outdoor coverage, device mobility, and reliable network behavior. Cellular technologies like 5G also allow customers to connect more devices and more cost-effectively collect and transfer data with greater flexibility and reliability than current wired and wireless networking technologies. Customers would like to build their own private 5G networks to take advantage of the reliability, better coverage, lower latency, and higher bandwidth they provide and to be able to scale their networks as they add more devices. But today, most private mobile network deployments require customers to invest considerable time, money, and effort to design their network for anticipated peak capacity and to procure and integrate software and hardware components from multiple vendors. Once the network is installed, customers have to undertake another lengthy procurement process to increase network capacity if the number of connected devices or network traffic grows beyond the capacity the network can handle. Customers also have to manage different security policies and systems for each type of device connected to a private mobile network, which makes integration with IT management systems difficult. Even if customers are able to get the network running, current private mobile network pricing models charge for each connected device and make it cost prohibitive for use cases that involve thousands of connected devices. As a result of these barriers, most enterprises are unable to deploy and operate private mobile networks.</p><p>With AWS Private 5G, enterprises can now procure, deploy, and scale their own 5G mobile network in days instead of months. With AWS Private 5G, customers log into the AWS console and with just a few clicks specify a coverage area within a geographic location where they want to deploy a private 5G network, along with the amount of traffic they expect the network to handle. AWS delivers and maintains the pre-integrated small cell radio units, servers, 5G core and RAN software, and SIM cards needed for operating the network—eliminating the need to procure, integrate, and maintain hardware and software from multiple third-party vendors. Once the equipment is installed and powered on, AWS Private 5G automatically configures and deploys the mobile network. To connect devices to the private network, customers simply plug the AWS-supplied SIM cards into their devices. AWS Private 5G integrates with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enabling network administrators to directly control which resources mobile devices can access on their private mobile networks. Customers can start with small networks with fewer devices using AWS Private 5G, analyze network needs once in operation, and leverage the elasticity and pay-as-you-go pricing of AWS to scale their private mobile network as they add more devices. With AWS Private 5G, customers can quickly deploy and manage private 5G mobile networks without the challenge of procuring, scaling, and maintaining equipment or worrying about needing to add additional capacity when they want to add more devices.</p><p>"Many of our customers want to leverage the power of 5G to establish their own private networks on premises, but they tell us that the current approaches make it time-consuming, difficult, and expensive to set up and deploy private networks," said David Brown, Vice President, EC2 at AWS. "With AWS Private 5G, we're extending hybrid infrastructure to customers' 5G networks to make it simple, quick, and inexpensive to set up a private 5G network. Customers can start small and scale on-demand, pay as they go, and monitor and manage their network from the AWS console."</p><p>DISH Network Corporation is a U.S.-based connectivity company that is building the nation's first open, secure, 5G smart network. "Selecting AWS has enabled us to onboard and scale our 5G core network functions within the cloud. They are a key strategic partner in helping us deliver private enterprise networks to our customers," said Stephen Bye, Chief Commercial Officer, DISH. "AWS's innovative platform allows us to better serve our consumer wireless customers, while unlocking new business models for enterprise customers across a wide range of industry verticals. Our ability to support dedicated, private 5G enterprise networks allows us to give customers the scale, resilience and security needed to support a wide variety of devices and services, unlocking the potential of Industry 4.0."</p><p>With 122,000 global employees and locations in nearly every U.S. state and 60 countries, Koch companies offer abundant opportunities to improve life's most necessary things – like food, clothing, water, transportation, and technology. "Koch sees great potential in private 5G networking. However, there are significant challenges in the do-it-yourself approach. It can be complex, time consuming, and expensive, both in initial setup cost as well as ongoing service charges," said Matt Hoag, CTO at Koch Business Solutions. "In collaboration with industry software vendors like Mavenir and global communication service providers, AWS Private 5G can helps solve real challenges that enterprises face in deploying private cellular networks around the world. We believe that this combination will also encourage expansion of the cellular Industrial IoT ecosystem and accelerate the delivery of disruptive private connectivity solutions for our customers."</p><p>Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FCs) store products for customers. Once a customer clicks "buy," associates pick, pack, and place orders on trucks for shipment. Amazon robots, scanning machines, and computer systems in fulfillment centers can manage millions of items in a day. "We deploy technology outside of FCs to make moving tractor trailers around safer and more accurate and efficient. We have to provide network services for these systems across millions of square feet of outdoor space. Previously, to get proper Wi-Fi coverage in the parking lots around our FCs, we had to add light poles for the Wi-Fi equipment, modify our outdoor electrical systems and either trench fiber or support Mesh systems. This was expensive, disrupted productivity during installation, and had a high support burden," said Jeff Armstrong, Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Amazon. "With AWS Private 5G, we can use two outdoor small cells mounted on the corners of our warehouses and achieve additional coverage in our parking lots, which was much quicker and cheaper to deploy. Just as important, we will be able to scale up our AWS Private 5G deployment as we expand our facilities."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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 Announces AWS Mainframe Modernization

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AWS Announces AWS Mainframe Modernization

11/30/2021

2021

AWS Mainframe Modernization makes it faster and easier for customers to migrate mainframe and legacy workloads to the cloud and benefit from the superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings of AWS Banco Inter, Accenture, and DXC Technology among customers and partners using AWS Mainframe Modernization LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Mainframe Modernization, a new service that makes it faster and easier for customers to migrate mainframe and legacy workloads to the cloud, and enjoy the superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings of AWS. With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers can refactor their mainframe workloads to run on AWS by transforming legacy applications into modern Java-based cloud services. Alternatively, customers can keep their applications as written and re-platform their workloads to AWS reusing existing code with minimal changes. A runtime environment built into AWS Mainframe Modernization provides the necessary compute, memory, and storage to run both refactored and replatformed applications and automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, security, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. AWS Mainframe Modernization provides all the development, testing, and deployment tools necessary to automate the migration from mainframe and legacy environments to AWS. Customers and systems integrators (SIs) can use AWS Mainframe Modernization to help enterprise migration teams assess and analyze migration readiness and plan migration projects. There are no upfront costs for using AWS Mainframe Modernization, and customers only pay for the amount of compute provisioned. To learn more about AWS Mainframe Modernization, visit aws.amazon.com/mainframe-modernization. Under the best of circumstances, mainframe systems are complex, expensive, and difficult to scale. In today's world, applications written for mainframe legacy systems also present significant operational challenges to customers compounded by the dwindling pool of engineers who specialize in these outdated technologies. Many organizations want to migrate their legacy applications to the cloud, but to do so they need to go through a lengthy migration process that is made more challenging by the complexity of mainframe applications. To migrate their mainframe workloads to AWS, organizations typically turn to SIs to lead modernization and migration projects. Migrating mainframe workloads to the cloud requires multiple steps to discover, access, migrate, test, and operate the new workload environments. Each step is complex and requires custom or third-party tooling that must be calibrated to each individual customer environment—before SIs can begin the intricate task of translating mainframe subsystems into cloud services. Aside from the migration itself, there is also the challenge of needing to configure, run, and operate these complex systems with modern application development and deployment best practices in the new cloud environments. As more customers want to modernize their infrastructure and migrate off of complex legacy technologies, they could benefit from better tools that make it easier for them to move to the cloud. AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a complete development and runtime environment that makes it faster and easier for customers to migrate, modernize, and run their workloads on AWS. AWS Mainframe Modernization integrates the tools needed for migrations into a single environment to create an end-to-end migration pipeline. With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers can refactor their workloads written for mainframes in legacy programming languages to modern Java-based cloud services. Or, customers can keep their workloads as written and re-platform them to AWS with minimal code changes. Whether customers choose to refactor or replatform their workloads, AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a runtime environment for the migrated applications that includes all the benefits of a fully managed service and automatically handles capacity provisioning, security, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. AWS Mainframe Modernization also provides continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities to enable modern application development and deployment best practices, so customers can operate their modernized workloads in production on an ongoing basis with the superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings of AWS. AWS Mainframe Modernization de-risks and accelerates the migration of mainframe and legacy workloads to AWS. "More and more customers are modernizing their applications by moving them to the cloud to take advantage of the elasticity and agility of AWS and to reinvent customer experiences at a lower cost. But, for most enterprises, migrating their mainframe applications to the cloud is uncharted territory," said William Platt, General Manager of Migration Services at AWS. "With today's launch of AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers and systems integrators can now more quickly modernize their legacy mainframe workloads in a predictable way and get rid of much of the complexity and manual work involved in migrations. AWS Mainframe Modernization provides automation in discovery, analysis, migration, and testing phases, and it gives customers and systems integrators a managed runtime environment to deploy their replatformed and refactored mainframe workloads for their customers, which makes modernizing applications faster and easier." AWS Mainframe Modernization is available in preview today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (Frankfurt), and South America (São Paulo) with availability in additional AWS Regions in the coming months. Established in 1994, Banco Inter is the first fully digital bank in Brazil, which as of 2021 has served 15 million customers and expects to double its customer base within a few years. Its mission is to simplify banking and make it transparent and fair, with a one-stop shop that includes day-to-day banking, investments, credit card, insurance, loans, and even ecommerce. "The AWS Mainframe Modernization replatforming toolchain is effective for migrating mainframe applications to AWS with substantial cost savings," said Guilherme Ximenes, Chief Technology Officer at Banco Inter S.A. "By using the AWS Mainframe Modernization managed runtime, we expect to simplify our card processor operations for enhanced resiliency and scalability. We are also excited by the DevOps CI/CD pipeline for increasing the agility we need to more quickly deliver new credit and debit card transaction capabilities to our customers." Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. "AWS Mainframe Modernization helps to simplify moving and managing mainframe applications," said Chris Wegmann, Global Technology and Practice Lead at Accenture's AWS Business Group. "The combination of AWS Mainframe Modernization with Accenture's extensive experience in mainframe application modernization and managing mainframe applications now provides a way for clients to realize the agility, elasticity, and cost efficiency of AWS sooner." DXC Technology, a leading Fortune 500 global technology services company, provides mission-critical IT services that transform global businesses. "DXC is excited to be leading mainframe legacy application transformation and modernization, partnering with AWS on its AWS Mainframe Modernization platform," said Rick Sullivan, Vice President and General Manager of Applications at DXC Technology. "DXC brings years of experience working with customers' mainframe applications and modernization. We look forward to leveraging the new capabilities that AWS Mainframe Modernization will provide to complement our approach for enabling successful mainframe transformations on AWS." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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>AWS Mainframe Modernization makes it faster and easier for customers to migrate mainframe and legacy workloads to the cloud and benefit from the superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings of AWS</em></p><p><em>Banco Inter, Accenture, and DXC Technology among customers and partners using AWS Mainframe Modernization</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Mainframe Modernization, a new service that makes it faster and easier for customers to migrate mainframe and legacy workloads to the cloud, and enjoy the superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings of AWS. With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers can refactor their mainframe workloads to run on AWS by transforming legacy applications into modern Java-based cloud services. Alternatively, customers can keep their applications as written and re-platform their workloads to AWS reusing existing code with minimal changes. A runtime environment built into AWS Mainframe Modernization provides the necessary compute, memory, and storage to run both refactored and replatformed applications and automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, security, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. AWS Mainframe Modernization provides all the development, testing, and deployment tools necessary to automate the migration from mainframe and legacy environments to AWS. Customers and systems integrators (SIs) can use AWS Mainframe Modernization to help enterprise migration teams assess and analyze migration readiness and plan migration projects. There are no upfront costs for using AWS Mainframe Modernization, and customers only pay for the amount of compute provisioned. To learn more about AWS Mainframe Modernization, visit aws.amazon.com/mainframe-modernization.</p><p>Under the best of circumstances, mainframe systems are complex, expensive, and difficult to scale. In today's world, applications written for mainframe legacy systems also present significant operational challenges to customers compounded by the dwindling pool of engineers who specialize in these outdated technologies. Many organizations want to migrate their legacy applications to the cloud, but to do so they need to go through a lengthy migration process that is made more challenging by the complexity of mainframe applications. To migrate their mainframe workloads to AWS, organizations typically turn to SIs to lead modernization and migration projects. Migrating mainframe workloads to the cloud requires multiple steps to discover, access, migrate, test, and operate the new workload environments. Each step is complex and requires custom or third-party tooling that must be calibrated to each individual customer environment—before SIs can begin the intricate task of translating mainframe subsystems into cloud services. Aside from the migration itself, there is also the challenge of needing to configure, run, and operate these complex systems with modern application development and deployment best practices in the new cloud environments. As more customers want to modernize their infrastructure and migrate off of complex legacy technologies, they could benefit from better tools that make it easier for them to move to the cloud.</p><p>AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a complete development and runtime environment that makes it faster and easier for customers to migrate, modernize, and run their workloads on AWS. AWS Mainframe Modernization integrates the tools needed for migrations into a single environment to create an end-to-end migration pipeline. With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers can refactor their workloads written for mainframes in legacy programming languages to modern Java-based cloud services. Or, customers can keep their workloads as written and re-platform them to AWS with minimal code changes. Whether customers choose to refactor or replatform their workloads, AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a runtime environment for the migrated applications that includes all the benefits of a fully managed service and automatically handles capacity provisioning, security, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. AWS Mainframe Modernization also provides continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities to enable modern application development and deployment best practices, so customers can operate their modernized workloads in production on an ongoing basis with the superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings of AWS. AWS Mainframe Modernization de-risks and accelerates the migration of mainframe and legacy workloads to AWS.</p><p>"More and more customers are modernizing their applications by moving them to the cloud to take advantage of the elasticity and agility of AWS and to reinvent customer experiences at a lower cost. But, for most enterprises, migrating their mainframe applications to the cloud is uncharted territory," said William Platt, General Manager of Migration Services at AWS. "With today's launch of AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers and systems integrators can now more quickly modernize their legacy mainframe workloads in a predictable way and get rid of much of the complexity and manual work involved in migrations. AWS Mainframe Modernization provides automation in discovery, analysis, migration, and testing phases, and it gives customers and systems integrators a managed runtime environment to deploy their replatformed and refactored mainframe workloads for their customers, which makes modernizing applications faster and easier."</p><p>AWS Mainframe Modernization is available in preview today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (Frankfurt), and South America (São Paulo) with availability in additional AWS Regions in the coming months.</p><p>Established in 1994, Banco Inter is the first fully digital bank in Brazil, which as of 2021 has served 15 million customers and expects to double its customer base within a few years. Its mission is to simplify banking and make it transparent and fair, with a one-stop shop that includes day-to-day banking, investments, credit card, insurance, loans, and even ecommerce. "The AWS Mainframe Modernization replatforming toolchain is effective for migrating mainframe applications to AWS with substantial cost savings," said Guilherme Ximenes, Chief Technology Officer at Banco Inter S.A. "By using the AWS Mainframe Modernization managed runtime, we expect to simplify our card processor operations for enhanced resiliency and scalability. We are also excited by the DevOps CI/CD pipeline for increasing the agility we need to more quickly deliver new credit and debit card transaction capabilities to our customers."</p><p>Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. "AWS Mainframe Modernization helps to simplify moving and managing mainframe applications," said Chris Wegmann, Global Technology and Practice Lead at Accenture's AWS Business Group. "The combination of AWS Mainframe Modernization with Accenture's extensive experience in mainframe application modernization and managing mainframe applications now provides a way for clients to realize the agility, elasticity, and cost efficiency of AWS sooner."</p><p>DXC Technology, a leading Fortune 500 global technology services company, provides mission-critical IT services that transform global businesses. "DXC is excited to be leading mainframe legacy application transformation and modernization, partnering with AWS on its AWS Mainframe Modernization platform," said Rick Sullivan, Vice President and General Manager of Applications at DXC Technology. "DXC brings years of experience working with customers' mainframe applications and modernization. We look forward to leveraging the new capabilities that AWS Mainframe Modernization will provide to complement our approach for enabling successful mainframe transformations on AWS."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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>

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Nasdaq Will Begin Migrating Markets to AWS Starting in 2022 Co-Designed Edge Computing Solution Offers On-Ramp for Global Capital Markets to Migrate to AWS Nasdaq's Primary Data Center Becomes First-Ever Private AWS Local Zone for Capital Markets LAS VEGAS, Nov. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com Inc. company (Nasdaq: AMZN), announced a multi-year partnership to build the next generation of cloud-enabled infrastructure for the world's capital markets. Beginning in 2022, Nasdaq plans to migrate its North American markets to AWS in a phased approach, starting with Nasdaq MRX, a U.S. options market. Nasdaq will use a new edge computing solution that is co-designed by Nasdaq and AWS and specifically developed for market infrastructure. This solution may also be used by other market infrastructure operators and market participants to move their trading systems to the cloud. In addition, the partnership will include opportunities to explore new ways to leverage AWS's cloud capabilities across Nasdaq's anti-financial crime, data and analytics, and market infrastructure software solutions. "This landmark partnership with AWS seeks to power a truly cloud-based market infrastructure that is more resilient, scalable, and accessible for all market participants," said Adena Friedman, President and CEO, Nasdaq. "For over a decade, Nasdaq has used the elasticity and high security of AWS to deliver client-driven solutions. Our innovative, new collaboration with AWS creates a bridge to the future for our markets and represents the next major step forward in Nasdaq's cloud journey." "Together, Nasdaq and AWS will change what's possible for capital markets organizations, helping them to speed up innovation and improve business processes," said Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Combining Nasdaq's 50 years of expertise in pioneering technology for capital markets with the proven security, reliability, and resilience of the world's leading cloud will help our joint customers and Nasdaq to continue to grow their businesses and seamlessly transact billions of dollars in trades per day. Our partnership will give Nasdaq a way to more easily move their core infrastructure to the cloud and innovate new services as they continue their second decade of cloud adoption." Building the Capital Markets Infrastructure of the Future Core to Nasdaq's move to AWS will be AWS Outposts, which extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility. Nasdaq plans to incorporate AWS Outposts directly into its core network to deliver ultra-low-latency edge compute capabilities from its primary data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This co-designed edge computing solution would effectively establish Nasdaq's data center as the first-ever private AWS Local Zone for the capital markets industry. Over time, Nasdaq plans to move additional North American markets to the cloud with AWS. This hybrid infrastructure would provide Nasdaq with low-latency access to its on-premises systems to deliver high-frequency trading capabilities, as well as give its clients access to cloud-based capabilities, including virtual connectivity services, market analytics and machine learning, at a lower cost. Nasdaq expects this migration to the cloud to enable the adoption of new services and products in a manner that unlocks value and provides its clients with added flexibility. Advancing Cloud-enabled Market Technology Solutions for the Global Economy For the 130+ market infrastructure clients – spanning exchanges, banks, clearing houses, central securities depositories and regulators – that rely upon Nasdaq for their core trading, clearing, settlement, and surveillance technology today, Nasdaq plans to partner with AWS to develop viable cloud choices that include public-cloud and hybrid models.  Nasdaq also intends to leverage its cloud journey for its own markets, coupled with the growing number of AWS Local Zones around the world, and the collective technology portfolios of the partnership, to create a migration blueprint for its market technology clients using a combination of public cloud and edge compute options. Nasdaq expects that migrating to the cloud will give its market infrastructure clients added agility and help them rapidly adjust to ever-changing industry dynamics in their countries and regions. Nasdaq's Cloud Strategy: A Decades-long Journey for an Interconnected Future For 50 years, Nasdaq has reimagined markets to realize the potential of tomorrow. After pioneering electronic markets half a century ago, Nasdaq developed the highest performance messaging protocols in the early 2000s, which now serve as the de-facto industry standard for ultra-low latency trading. In addition, Nasdaq was one of the first exchange operators to commercialize its technology, and started using AWS technology in 2008. Today, Nasdaq's technology solutions drive high performance, transparency, efficiency, and integrity across the transaction lifecycle at market infrastructure operators—exchanges, central counterparty clearing houses, central securities depositories, and regulators—in over 50 countries. As Nasdaq looks to redefine the market technology of the future and tackle the transformation of its core infrastructure for the decades ahead, it is committed to creating an interconnected future – one that is safer and stronger for everyone, in the cloud. To learn more, visit www.nasdaq.com/cloud. NOTE TO EDITORS Carteret Data Center: Nasdaq's primary data center for its U.S. Equities and Options Markets is located in the Equinix NY11 facility in Carteret, NJ. Edge Computing: Edge computing moves data storage, processing, and analysis closer to endpoints where data is generated to deliver near-real-time responsiveness for high-performance applications. AWS's managed edge hardware and services extend secure edge computing capabilities to customer endpoints, allowing them to deploy APIs and tools outside of AWS data centers in metro areas, 5G networks, on-premises locations, and on ruggedized devices. Financial Terms: Nasdaq expects expenses and investments associated with this partnership to be consistent with our existing capital allocation framework and non-GAAP operating expense guidance, while supporting growth opportunities over the long-term. Nasdaq MRX: Nasdaq MRX is one of six U.S. options markets operated by Nasdaq. Nasdaq MRX offers both a simple customer priority, pro-rata allocation market and a price-time complex market, complete with a full suite of auction and crossing orders. Options Markets: Nasdaq operates six options markets in the U.S., including Nasdaq MRX, to buy and sell options on equity and ETF securities with unique market models that cater to different segments of the options market. AWS Local Zones: AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to large population and industry centers. They allow AWS customers to use select AWS services, like compute and storage services, closer to more end-users, providing them very low latency access to applications running locally. Nasdaq and AWS plan to establish a private AWS Local Zone within the Equinix NY11 data center in Carteret that is available for Nasdaq's use only. About Nasdaq Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a global technology company serving the capital markets and other industries. Our diverse offering of data, analytics, software, and services enables clients to optimize and execute their business vision with confidence. To learn more about the company, technology solutions and career opportunities, visit us on LinkedIn, on Twitter @Nasdaq, or at www.nasdaq.com. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. Forward-Looking Statements This communication contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements with respect to the formation of a partnership between Nasdaq and AWS and the benefits of the partnership, and statements about Nasdaq and AWS and their respective plans, objectives, expectations, intentions, products and offerings. When used in this communication, words such as "intends", "plans", "will", "believes", "expected", "projected" and similar expressions and any other statements that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We caution that these statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other factors beyond the control of Nasdaq and AWS. These factors include, but are not limited to, factors detailed in each of Nasdaq's and Amazon's respective annual report on Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements included in this communication are made only as of the date hereof. Nasdaq and AWS disclaim any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law. Nasdaq Non-GAAP Information In addition to disclosing financial information determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, Nasdaq also discloses certain non-GAAP results of operations, including, but not limited to, non-GAAP operating expenses, that include certain adjustments or exclude certain charges and gains that are described in the reconciliation table of U.S. GAAP to non-GAAP information provided at ir.nasdaq.com/Income-Statement-Trend-Summary-and-GAAP-to-Non-GAAP-Reconciliation. U.S. GAAP operating expense guidance is not provided by Nasdaq due to the inherent difficulty in quantifying certain amounts due to a variety of factors including the unpredictability in the movement in foreign currency rates, as well as future charges or reversals outside of the normal course of business. Nasdaq's management uses non-GAAP information internally, along with U.S. GAAP information, in evaluating Nasdaq's performance and in making financial and operational decisions. Nasdaq believes its presentation of these measures provides investors with greater transparency and supplemental data relating to Nasdaq's financial condition and results of operations. These measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative to, U.S. GAAP, and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. Nasdaq Media Contacts: Marleen Geerlof+1 (347) 380-3520marleen.geerlof@nasdaq.com Will Briganti+1 (646) 964-8169william.briganti@nasdaq.com Bianca Fata+1 (646) 895-5851bianca.fata@nasdaq.com Yan-yan Tong+1 (240) 721-8066yan-yan.tong@nasdaq.com Nasdaq Investor Contact: Ed Ditmire, CFA+1 (212) 401-8737ed.ditmire@nasdaq.com Amazon/AWS Media Contacts: Amazon.com, Inc. Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.com www.amazon.com/pr -NDAQF- A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/e9dd3dda-36f4-4ef4-a21d-b8121287d277

<p><em>Nasdaq Will Begin Migrating Markets to AWS Starting in 2022</em></p><p><em>Co-Designed Edge Computing</em> <em>Solution</em> <em>Offers On-Ramp for Global Capital Markets to Migrate to AWS</em></p><p><em>Nasdaq's Primary Data Center Becomes First-Ever Private AWS Local Zone for Capital Markets</em></p><p>LAS VEGAS, Nov. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com Inc. company (Nasdaq: AMZN), announced a multi-year partnership to build the next generation of cloud-enabled infrastructure for the world's capital markets.</p><p>Beginning in 2022, Nasdaq plans to migrate its North American markets to AWS in a phased approach, starting with Nasdaq MRX, a U.S. options market. Nasdaq will use a new edge computing solution that is co-designed by Nasdaq and AWS and specifically developed for market infrastructure. This solution may also be used by other market infrastructure operators and market participants to move their trading systems to the cloud. In addition, the partnership will include opportunities to explore new ways to leverage AWS's cloud capabilities across Nasdaq's anti-financial crime, data and analytics, and market infrastructure software solutions.</p><p>"This landmark partnership with AWS seeks to power a truly cloud-based market infrastructure that is more resilient, scalable, and accessible for all market participants," said Adena Friedman, President and CEO, Nasdaq. "For over a decade, Nasdaq has used the elasticity and high security of AWS to deliver client-driven solutions. Our innovative, new collaboration with AWS creates a bridge to the future for our markets and represents the next major step forward in Nasdaq's cloud journey."</p><p>"Together, Nasdaq and AWS will change what's possible for capital markets organizations, helping them to speed up innovation and improve business processes," said Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Combining Nasdaq's 50 years of expertise in pioneering technology for capital markets with the proven security, reliability, and resilience of the world's leading cloud will help our joint customers and Nasdaq to continue to grow their businesses and seamlessly transact billions of dollars in trades per day. Our partnership will give Nasdaq a way to more easily move their core infrastructure to the cloud and innovate new services as they continue their second decade of cloud adoption."</p><p>Building the Capital Markets Infrastructure of the Future</p><p>Core to Nasdaq's move to AWS will be AWS Outposts, which extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility. Nasdaq plans to incorporate AWS Outposts directly into its core network to deliver ultra-low-latency edge compute capabilities from its primary data center in Carteret, New Jersey. This co-designed edge computing solution would effectively establish Nasdaq's data center as the first-ever private AWS Local Zone for the capital markets industry.</p><p>Over time, Nasdaq plans to move additional North American markets to the cloud with AWS. This hybrid infrastructure would provide Nasdaq with low-latency access to its on-premises systems to deliver high-frequency trading capabilities, as well as give its clients access to cloud-based capabilities, including virtual connectivity services, market analytics and machine learning, at a lower cost. Nasdaq expects this migration to the cloud to enable the adoption of new services and products in a manner that unlocks value and provides its clients with added flexibility.</p><p>Advancing Cloud-enabled Market Technology Solutions for the Global Economy</p><p>For the 130+ market infrastructure clients – spanning exchanges, banks, clearing houses, central securities depositories and regulators – that rely upon Nasdaq for their core trading, clearing, settlement, and surveillance technology today, Nasdaq plans to partner with AWS to develop viable cloud choices that include public-cloud and hybrid models. </p><p>Nasdaq also intends to leverage its cloud journey for its own markets, coupled with the growing number of AWS Local Zones around the world, and the collective technology portfolios of the partnership, to create a migration blueprint for its market technology clients using a combination of public cloud and edge compute options.</p><p>Nasdaq expects that migrating to the cloud will give its market infrastructure clients added agility and help them rapidly adjust to ever-changing industry dynamics in their countries and regions.</p><p>Nasdaq's Cloud Strategy: A Decades-long Journey for an Interconnected Future</p><p>For 50 years, Nasdaq has reimagined markets to realize the potential of tomorrow. After pioneering electronic markets half a century ago, Nasdaq developed the highest performance messaging protocols in the early 2000s, which now serve as the de-facto industry standard for ultra-low latency trading. In addition, Nasdaq was one of the first exchange operators to commercialize its technology, and started using AWS technology in 2008. Today, Nasdaq's technology solutions drive high performance, transparency, efficiency, and integrity across the transaction lifecycle at market infrastructure operators—exchanges, central counterparty clearing houses, central securities depositories, and regulators—in over 50 countries.</p><p>As Nasdaq looks to redefine the market technology of the future and tackle the transformation of its core infrastructure for the decades ahead, it is committed to creating an interconnected future – one that is safer and stronger for everyone, in the cloud.</p><p>To learn more, visit www.nasdaq.com/cloud.</p><p>NOTE TO EDITORS</p><p>Carteret Data Center: Nasdaq's primary data center for its U.S. Equities and Options Markets is located in the Equinix NY11 facility in Carteret, NJ.</p><p>Edge Computing: Edge computing moves data storage, processing, and analysis closer to endpoints where data is generated to deliver near-real-time responsiveness for high-performance applications. AWS's managed edge hardware and services extend secure edge computing capabilities to customer endpoints, allowing them to deploy APIs and tools outside of AWS data centers in metro areas, 5G networks, on-premises locations, and on ruggedized devices.</p><p>Financial Terms: Nasdaq expects expenses and investments associated with this partnership to be consistent with our existing capital allocation framework and non-GAAP operating expense guidance, while supporting growth opportunities over the long-term.</p><p>Nasdaq MRX: Nasdaq MRX is one of six U.S. options markets operated by Nasdaq. Nasdaq MRX offers both a simple customer priority, pro-rata allocation market and a price-time complex market, complete with a full suite of auction and crossing orders.</p><p>Options Markets: Nasdaq operates six options markets in the U.S., including Nasdaq MRX, to buy and sell options on equity and ETF securities with unique market models that cater to different segments of the options market.</p><p>AWS Local Zones: AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to large population and industry centers. They allow AWS customers to use select AWS services, like compute and storage services, closer to more end-users, providing them very low latency access to applications running locally. Nasdaq and AWS plan to establish a private AWS Local Zone within the Equinix NY11 data center in Carteret that is available for Nasdaq's use only.</p><p>About Nasdaq</p><p>Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a global technology company serving the capital markets and other industries. Our diverse offering of data, analytics, software, and services enables clients to optimize and execute their business vision with confidence. To learn more about the company, technology solutions and career opportunities, visit us on LinkedIn, on Twitter @Nasdaq, or at www.nasdaq.com.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>Forward-Looking Statements</p><p>This communication contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements with respect to the formation of a partnership between Nasdaq and AWS and the benefits of the partnership, and statements about Nasdaq and AWS and their respective plans, objectives, expectations, intentions, products and offerings. When used in this communication, words such as "intends", "plans", "will", "believes", "expected", "projected" and similar expressions and any other statements that are not historical facts are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We caution that these statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other factors beyond the control of Nasdaq and AWS. These factors include, but are not limited to, factors detailed in each of Nasdaq's and Amazon's respective annual report on Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements included in this communication are made only as of the date hereof. Nasdaq and AWS disclaim any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law.</p><p>Nasdaq Non-GAAP Information</p><p>In addition to disclosing financial information determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, Nasdaq also discloses certain non-GAAP results of operations, including, but not limited to, non-GAAP operating expenses, that include certain adjustments or exclude certain charges and gains that are described in the reconciliation table of U.S. GAAP to non-GAAP information provided at ir.nasdaq.com/Income-Statement-Trend-Summary-and-GAAP-to-Non-GAAP-Reconciliation. U.S. GAAP operating expense guidance is not provided by Nasdaq due to the inherent difficulty in quantifying certain amounts due to a variety of factors including the unpredictability in the movement in foreign currency rates, as well as future charges or reversals outside of the normal course of business. Nasdaq's management uses non-GAAP information internally, along with U.S. GAAP information, in evaluating Nasdaq's performance and in making financial and operational decisions. Nasdaq believes its presentation of these measures provides investors with greater transparency and supplemental data relating to Nasdaq's financial condition and results of operations. These measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative to, U.S. GAAP, and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.</p><p>Nasdaq Media Contacts:</p><p>Marleen Geerlof+1 (347) 380-3520marleen.geerlof@nasdaq.com</p><p>Will Briganti+1 (646) 964-8169william.briganti@nasdaq.com</p><p>Bianca Fata+1 (646) 895-5851bianca.fata@nasdaq.com</p><p>Yan-yan Tong+1 (240) 721-8066yan-yan.tong@nasdaq.com</p><p>Nasdaq Investor Contact:</p><p>Ed Ditmire, CFA+1 (212) 401-8737ed.ditmire@nasdaq.com</p><p>Amazon/AWS Media Contacts:</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc. Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.com www.amazon.com/pr</p><p>-NDAQF-</p><p>A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/e9dd3dda-36f4-4ef4-a21d-b8121287d277</p>

AIG Selects AWS as Its Preferred Public Cloud Provider

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AIG Selects AWS as Its Preferred Public Cloud Provider

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Global insurance giant taps the world's leading cloud to drive business transformation, increase operational efficiency, and accelerate innovation in the cloud SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), a leading global insurance company, has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider. The global insurance provider chose AWS for its proven reliability, security, and comprehensive set of cloud capabilities. AIG is undergoing a large-scale digital transformation with AWS as part of its "AIG 200" strategy that aims to improve core business processes, modernize technology infrastructure and services, and create a culture of innovation. The enterprise-wide initiative will use AWS technologies to deliver underwriting excellence, product portfolio optimization, and enhanced customer experiences for AIG's 90 million policyholders worldwide. "AWS provides us with the deep portfolio of services we need to streamline our global operations and continuously innovate for our customers," said Peter Zaffino, President and Chief Executive Officer, AIG. "AIG's work with AWS is integral to our business transformation that will help us become a more nimble, efficient, and unified company. Moving the majority of our workloads off legacy platforms to the cloud enables us to seize new market opportunities quickly, enhance security, and become even more responsive to our customers' needs." AIG began its digital transformation journey with AWS in 2017. AIG's adoption of AWS's broad portfolio of cloud services will accelerate in 2021 and 2022 with the expanded relationship and AIG's engagement of AWS Professional Services. "AIG is a forward-thinking and client-centric business, and AWS is excited to help them innovate with the next 100 years in mind," said Frank Fallon, Vice President of Financial Services at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "AIG has embarked on a transformation and growth strategy using AWS to help the company deliver better service for its customers, create long-term value for its shareholders, and quickly innovate secure, compliant new services. Leveraging AWS's global infrastructure, unparalleled portfolio of cloud services, and financial services expertise, leading insurance companies like AIG can become more agile and efficient to deliver industry-leading products and customer experiences." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About AIG American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading global insurance organization. AIG member companies provide a wide range of property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement solutions, and other financial services to customers in approximately 80 countries and jurisdictions. These diverse offerings include products and services that help businesses and individuals protect their assets, manage risks and provide for retirement security. AIG common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211130005257/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Global insurance giant taps the world's leading cloud to drive business transformation, increase operational efficiency, and accelerate innovation in the cloud</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), a leading global insurance company, has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider. The global insurance provider chose AWS for its proven reliability, security, and comprehensive set of cloud capabilities. AIG is undergoing a large-scale digital transformation with AWS as part of its "AIG 200" strategy that aims to improve core business processes, modernize technology infrastructure and services, and create a culture of innovation. The enterprise-wide initiative will use AWS technologies to deliver underwriting excellence, product portfolio optimization, and enhanced customer experiences for AIG's 90 million policyholders worldwide.</p><p>"AWS provides us with the deep portfolio of services we need to streamline our global operations and continuously innovate for our customers," said Peter Zaffino, President and Chief Executive Officer, AIG. "AIG's work with AWS is integral to our business transformation that will help us become a more nimble, efficient, and unified company. Moving the majority of our workloads off legacy platforms to the cloud enables us to seize new market opportunities quickly, enhance security, and become even more responsive to our customers' needs."</p><p>AIG began its digital transformation journey with AWS in 2017. AIG's adoption of AWS's broad portfolio of cloud services will accelerate in 2021 and 2022 with the expanded relationship and AIG's engagement of AWS Professional Services.</p><p>"AIG is a forward-thinking and client-centric business, and AWS is excited to help them innovate with the next 100 years in mind," said Frank Fallon, Vice President of Financial Services at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "AIG has embarked on a transformation and growth strategy using AWS to help the company deliver better service for its customers, create long-term value for its shareholders, and quickly innovate secure, compliant new services. Leveraging AWS's global infrastructure, unparalleled portfolio of cloud services, and financial services expertise, leading insurance companies like AIG can become more agile and efficient to deliver industry-leading products and customer experiences."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About AIG</p><p>American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading global insurance organization. AIG member companies provide a wide range of property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement solutions, and other financial services to customers in approximately 80 countries and jurisdictions. These diverse offerings include products and services that help businesses and individuals protect their assets, manage risks and provide for retirement security. AIG common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211130005257/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

AWS Named United Airlines' Preferred Cloud Provider

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AWS Named United Airlines' Preferred Cloud Provider

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Airline teams up with AWS to introduce new innovative digital services that personalize travel experiences for customers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL) has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. AWS will support United's digital innovation, providing machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, databases, computing, storage, and security capabilities to advance United's industry-leading efforts to transform the travel journey for customers through digital technology. "AWS's superior portfolio of products and services, and its focus on continuous innovation for its customers, is a complement to United's approach to technology," said Linda Jojo, Executive Vice President, Technology and Chief Digital Officer at United Airlines. "United has an established track record of developing new ways to use technology to improve the customer experience. Naming AWS as our preferred cloud provider helps us to even further accelerate how we innovate and deliver even more personalized and scalable services for our customers and employees." The airline is using a wide range of AWS capabilities as it leverages technology to transform the way their customers interact with the airline. Working with AWS, United has already introduced a number of industry-first enhancements for travelers, at an incredible pace, including new features in United's app and digital channels to help customers understand and easily navigate COVID-19 travel restrictions. Through United's Travel-Ready Center, travelers can now easily access testing or vaccine requirements needed for their specific destination, upload testing and vaccination records, schedule a COVID-19 test and complete country-specific required forms in United's app and on United.com. Using machine learning technology from AWS and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications, United customers can have critical travel documents reviewed in near real-time before they arrive at the airport, making the journey easier. United was the first airline to offer its customers these services as part of an integrated experience in its app and website. United is also applying AWS technology, including analytics, IoT, and machine learning, to optimize airport operations and help airport employees drive nimble and scalable operations. Central to this effort is United's companywide analytics and machine learning program, which uses AWS to innovate new services, drive efficiencies, and respond faster to potential delays, allowing United to scale to meet demand. For instance, United uses Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service that helps data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly) to predict irregular operations and uncover insights to optimize customer service, baggage routing, and flight scheduling. "United Airlines operates one of the world's largest airline networks with more than 4,900 daily flights moving people and goods across six continents, and it uses technology to reinvent the customer experience. AWS provides proven reliability, breadth and depth of services, and travel-industry expertise to United Airlines as it delivers outstanding experiences across its business," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Together, we are working to support United's vision of making air travel more seamless through digital solutions to help improve the way people travel the world." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About United Airlines United's shared purpose is "Connecting People. Uniting the World." In 2019, United and United Express® carriers operated more than 1.7 million flights carrying more than 162 million customers. United has the most comprehensive route network among North American carriers, including U.S. mainland hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. For more about how to join the United team, please visit united.com/careers and more information about the company is at united.com. United Airlines Holdings, Inc. is traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol "UAL". View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211130005253/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Airline teams up with AWS to introduce new innovative digital services that personalize travel experiences for customers</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL) has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. AWS will support United's digital innovation, providing machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, databases, computing, storage, and security capabilities to advance United's industry-leading efforts to transform the travel journey for customers through digital technology.</p><p>"AWS's superior portfolio of products and services, and its focus on continuous innovation for its customers, is a complement to United's approach to technology," said Linda Jojo, Executive Vice President, Technology and Chief Digital Officer at United Airlines. "United has an established track record of developing new ways to use technology to improve the customer experience. Naming AWS as our preferred cloud provider helps us to even further accelerate how we innovate and deliver even more personalized and scalable services for our customers and employees."</p><p>The airline is using a wide range of AWS capabilities as it leverages technology to transform the way their customers interact with the airline. Working with AWS, United has already introduced a number of industry-first enhancements for travelers, at an incredible pace, including new features in United's app and digital channels to help customers understand and easily navigate COVID-19 travel restrictions.</p><p>Through United's Travel-Ready Center, travelers can now easily access testing or vaccine requirements needed for their specific destination, upload testing and vaccination records, schedule a COVID-19 test and complete country-specific required forms in United's app and on United.com. Using machine learning technology from AWS and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications, United customers can have critical travel documents reviewed in near real-time before they arrive at the airport, making the journey easier. United was the first airline to offer its customers these services as part of an integrated experience in its app and website.</p><p>United is also applying AWS technology, including analytics, IoT, and machine learning, to optimize airport operations and help airport employees drive nimble and scalable operations. Central to this effort is United's companywide analytics and machine learning program, which uses AWS to innovate new services, drive efficiencies, and respond faster to potential delays, allowing United to scale to meet demand. For instance, United uses Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service that helps data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly) to predict irregular operations and uncover insights to optimize customer service, baggage routing, and flight scheduling.</p><p>"United Airlines operates one of the world's largest airline networks with more than 4,900 daily flights moving people and goods across six continents, and it uses technology to reinvent the customer experience. AWS provides proven reliability, breadth and depth of services, and travel-industry expertise to United Airlines as it delivers outstanding experiences across its business," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Together, we are working to support United's vision of making air travel more seamless through digital solutions to help improve the way people travel the world."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About United Airlines</p><p>United's shared purpose is "Connecting People. Uniting the World." In 2019, United and United Express® carriers operated more than 1.7 million flights carrying more than 162 million customers. United has the most comprehensive route network among North American carriers, including U.S. mainland hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. For more about how to join the United team, please visit united.com/careers and more information about the company is at united.com. United Airlines Holdings, Inc. is traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol "UAL".</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211130005253/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

AWS Supports Roche in Harnessing the Power of Health Data at Scale

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AWS Supports Roche in Harnessing the Power of Health Data at Scale

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One of the world's largest healthcare companies uses AWS technology to facilitate secure research collaboration, deliver new diagnostic technologies, and unlock insights from health data to improve patient care and health outcomes SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) is using AWS for the majority of its cloud workloads to help Roche extract greater value from its health data. The company uses AWS capabilities in high performance computing, analytics, machine learning, database, storage, and security to accelerate drug discovery and development, and process health data at scale to deliver high-quality, individually tailored care. Roche also works with AWS Professional Services to integrate its information technology (IT) systems so that it can securely share data as needed both within the company and with key external stakeholders such as academic institutions, regulatory agencies, and healthcare providers, while Roche complies with laws and guidelines to protect patient privacy. AWS's secure infrastructure and portfolio of services power Roche's personalized healthcare program. While biopharmaceutical companies have been pursuing personalized medicine for over two decades, only recently have advances in data, analytics, and digital technology positioned the healthcare industry for transformational change. Roche uses AWS analytics and database services like Amazon OpenSearch Service (AWS's service for searching, visualizing, and analyzing up to petabytes of text and unstructured data) and Amazon Aurora (AWS's MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud) to help it gain actionable insights from its enterprise, research, clinical, digital health, and real-world patient data. With AWS, Roche can examine health data at scale related to patients' genetic makeup, overall health, and drug efficacy and interactions, analyzing structured datasets of de-identified patient data that Roche anonymizes and aggregates to protect patient privacy. This capability gives Roche researchers a more detailed understanding of patient biology across larger patient populations, and can help them identify patterns and outliers that inform development of diagnostics and treatments. "With profound advances in data, analytics, and digital technology, we are transforming the way medicines are discovered and developed, and how care is delivered to patients. AWS provides us with high-performance and secure cloud solutions that help to harness the power of data to improve patients' lives," said Dr. Alan Hippe, CFO and CIO of Roche Group. "With AWS, we are bringing together health data in new ways to better detect, diagnose, treat, monitor, and manage diseases more effectively and efficiently for the benefit of patients. Roche complies with all applicable data privacy laws—including but not limited to the Swiss Data Protection Act, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and China's Cybersecurity Law and associated data privacy standard." AWS powers Roche's use of digital technologies like smartphone apps that can support healthcare professionals in providing individually tailored care and allow patients to play a role in managing their own health. AWS services such as AWS Lambda (a serverless, event-driven compute service), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly) allow Roche to ingest, store, process, and rapidly analyze health data collected by smart devices. For instance, Roche built and runs its mySugr app on AWS to securely aggregate and analyze data such as blood glucose measurements for patients with diabetes. Roche uses the app to automatically pull and analyze data from smart meters to better inform a patient's schedule and dosing for medication. Across its range of digital healthcare applications, Roche continuously and securely collects and analyzes patient health data in the cloud, giving the patient and their healthcare providers a more timely, precise understanding of how diseases progress and respond to treatment. Roche also uses AWS's scalable high performance computing capabilities, along with AWS container and analytics services like Amazon Redshift (AWS's cloud data warehousing service), to securely process and extract insights from dozens of petabytes of genomic data from more than 300,000 consenting cancer patients globally while maintaining patient privacy. Roche uses Amazon FSx for Lustre (AWS's service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, scalable storage for compute workloads) to store that genomic data and make it quickly available for analysis. With the support of AWS, Roche continues to expand its knowledge base of cancers to identify future cases more rapidly. Roche enhances the value of its tumor-profiling work with patient health insights derived from aggregated electronic health records it processes on AWS. Roche runs its analytics, machine learning, storage, and managed database applications on AWS, helping it extract and standardize high-quality data from more than 3 million electronic health records to produce de-identified, real-world patient datasets. These include petabytes of oncology data and other protected health information that Roche researchers use to guide their work and inform the design of clinical trials. "With AWS powering its research, development, and healthcare operations, Roche can deliver timely, relevant data that helps scientists collaborate more securely and effectively, researchers design more efficient clinical trials, caregivers make decisions with more accuracy, and patients take greater control over their health," said Kathrin Renz, Vice President of Business Development and Industries at Amazon Web Services. "AWS is helping the healthcare and life sciences industry cross the threshold of personalized medicine, reduce the time and cost for clinical trials, and improve patients' health outcomes through digital healthcare. With AWS, Roche is turning complex health data into a resource rather than an obstacle and reducing the time it takes to get new medicines into the hands of patients." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211129005490/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>One of the world's largest healthcare companies uses AWS technology to facilitate secure research collaboration, deliver new diagnostic technologies, and unlock insights from health data to improve patient care and health outcomes</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2021--</p><p>Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) is using AWS for the majority of its cloud workloads to help Roche extract greater value from its health data. The company uses AWS capabilities in high performance computing, analytics, machine learning, database, storage, and security to accelerate drug discovery and development, and process health data at scale to deliver high-quality, individually tailored care. Roche also works with AWS Professional Services to integrate its information technology (IT) systems so that it can securely share data as needed both within the company and with key external stakeholders such as academic institutions, regulatory agencies, and healthcare providers, while Roche complies with laws and guidelines to protect patient privacy.</p><p>AWS's secure infrastructure and portfolio of services power Roche's personalized healthcare program. While biopharmaceutical companies have been pursuing personalized medicine for over two decades, only recently have advances in data, analytics, and digital technology positioned the healthcare industry for transformational change. Roche uses AWS analytics and database services like Amazon OpenSearch Service (AWS's service for searching, visualizing, and analyzing up to petabytes of text and unstructured data) and Amazon Aurora (AWS's MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud) to help it gain actionable insights from its enterprise, research, clinical, digital health, and real-world patient data. With AWS, Roche can examine health data at scale related to patients' genetic makeup, overall health, and drug efficacy and interactions, analyzing structured datasets of de-identified patient data that Roche anonymizes and aggregates to protect patient privacy. This capability gives Roche researchers a more detailed understanding of patient biology across larger patient populations, and can help them identify patterns and outliers that inform development of diagnostics and treatments.</p><p>"With profound advances in data, analytics, and digital technology, we are transforming the way medicines are discovered and developed, and how care is delivered to patients. AWS provides us with high-performance and secure cloud solutions that help to harness the power of data to improve patients' lives," said Dr. Alan Hippe, CFO and CIO of Roche Group. "With AWS, we are bringing together health data in new ways to better detect, diagnose, treat, monitor, and manage diseases more effectively and efficiently for the benefit of patients. Roche complies with all applicable data privacy laws—including but not limited to the Swiss Data Protection Act, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and China's Cybersecurity Law and associated data privacy standard."</p><p>AWS powers Roche's use of digital technologies like smartphone apps that can support healthcare professionals in providing individually tailored care and allow patients to play a role in managing their own health. AWS services such as AWS Lambda (a serverless, event-driven compute service), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly) allow Roche to ingest, store, process, and rapidly analyze health data collected by smart devices. For instance, Roche built and runs its mySugr app on AWS to securely aggregate and analyze data such as blood glucose measurements for patients with diabetes. Roche uses the app to automatically pull and analyze data from smart meters to better inform a patient's schedule and dosing for medication. Across its range of digital healthcare applications, Roche continuously and securely collects and analyzes patient health data in the cloud, giving the patient and their healthcare providers a more timely, precise understanding of how diseases progress and respond to treatment.</p><p>Roche also uses AWS's scalable high performance computing capabilities, along with AWS container and analytics services like Amazon Redshift (AWS's cloud data warehousing service), to securely process and extract insights from dozens of petabytes of genomic data from more than 300,000 consenting cancer patients globally while maintaining patient privacy. Roche uses Amazon FSx for Lustre (AWS's service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, scalable storage for compute workloads) to store that genomic data and make it quickly available for analysis. With the support of AWS, Roche continues to expand its knowledge base of cancers to identify future cases more rapidly.</p><p>Roche enhances the value of its tumor-profiling work with patient health insights derived from aggregated electronic health records it processes on AWS. Roche runs its analytics, machine learning, storage, and managed database applications on AWS, helping it extract and standardize high-quality data from more than 3 million electronic health records to produce de-identified, real-world patient datasets. These include petabytes of oncology data and other protected health information that Roche researchers use to guide their work and inform the design of clinical trials.</p><p>"With AWS powering its research, development, and healthcare operations, Roche can deliver timely, relevant data that helps scientists collaborate more securely and effectively, researchers design more efficient clinical trials, caregivers make decisions with more accuracy, and patients take greater control over their health," said Kathrin Renz, Vice President of Business Development and Industries at Amazon Web Services. "AWS is helping the healthcare and life sciences industry cross the threshold of personalized medicine, reduce the time and cost for clinical trials, and improve patients' health outcomes through digital healthcare. With AWS, Roche is turning complex health data into a resource rather than an obstacle and reducing the time it takes to get new medicines into the hands of patients."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211129005490/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Gilead and AWS Collaborate on Development and Delivery of New Medicines for Patients

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11/29/2021 09:00:00

Gilead and AWS Collaborate on Development and Delivery of New Medicines for Patients

11/29/2021

2021

With AWS as its preferred cloud provider, Gilead uses AWS machine learning and analytics to better inform clinical trial design and advance data-driven decision making, while prioritizing patient privacy and security Gilead also transforms its enterprise resource planning workloads on AWS to implement SAP S/4HANA across its global business SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD), a biopharmaceutical company advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. Innovating on AWS and with the help of AWS experts and partners in healthcare and life sciences, Gilead provides its data scientists with the latest advances in machine learning and analytics. These capabilities fuel data-driven decision making across the organization—from biomarker discovery through manufacturing and clinical trial recruitment—and deliver insights that can help Gilead refine its drug pipeline. The company also relies on AWS to host all workloads for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) transformation project to implement SAP S/4HANA. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211129005047/en/ "With AWS as our preferred cloud provider, our researchers can use AWS's portfolio of services to gain the insights, agility, and security needed to deliver new medicines at speed, and treat the individual according to their unique needs, not just the disease," said Marc Berson, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Gilead. "AWS's performance, infrastructure, and scale are the foundations on which we will complete our ERP transformation and become a more efficient, agile, secure, and data-driven business in the cloud." Gilead is reimagining its bioinformatics compute infrastructure in the world's leading cloud. The use of AWS's compute, machine learning, and database capabilities will support the analysis and integration of diverse genomics, imaging, and experimental datasets to support breakthroughs in how Gilead diagnoses and treats diseases. For instance, by securely analyzing deidentified patient genomic data at scale on AWS to reveal patterns, Gilead can uncover insights on how people living with cancer respond to existing therapeutic options, potentially accelerating the discovery of new treatments. Additionally, in its IT organization Gilead uses AWS to host all workloads for its ERP transformation project to implement SAP S/4HANA. These systems support business-critical processes in areas such as supply chain, finance, operations, and commercial sales across all therapeutic areas and business units. Running these processes on AWS provides the foundation for Gilead's implementation of SAP S/4HANA. It also helps the company shorten hardware refresh cycles, increase testing and deployment agility, and gain visibility to improve business planning. This is Gilead's first implementation of production-scale ERP systems in the cloud, and AWS provides the company's IT transformation team with scalable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure. Working alongside AWS, Gilead will integrate its SAP environments with a wide range of advanced AWS technologies in areas such as analytics and machine learning, uncovering business value and driving innovation. Moving forward, with AWS as the foundation of its new cloud-based SAP environment, the company will use a variety of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types, including X1 and X1e instances built for high-performance databases, in-memory databases, and other memory-intensive enterprise applications, to run ERP workloads more efficiently. In addition, Gilead has moved more than 50% of its data center footprint to AWS over the past 12 months through an accelerated cloud migration program with AWS Professional Services. The company also plans to migrate hundreds of applications to AWS, which include critical applications that support industry good practices (GxP) guidelines and regulations in areas like drug manufacturing, storage, and distribution. As a result, Gilead is accelerating its plans to upgrade its IT operations with AWS, while avoiding upfront costs to refresh hardware and the sustained costs of running an "always on," on-premises IT landscape provisioned for peak use. As an additional element of the migration, the company is building an automated disaster recovery landscape in AWS. Doing so allows Gilead IT to optimize and scale its disaster recovery processes in the cloud to enhance resiliency. With the help of AWS Professional Services and AWS experts in healthcare and life sciences, Gilead research and development teams are looking at ways to innovate in the cloud. They are taking an agile product development approach that uses microservices to optimize and automate operational processes throughout the company, and constructing new data architectures to uncover new insights more easily. Through the collaboration, Gilead aims to transform priority areas like clinical program and study design, patient experience, and centralized statistical adaptive monitoring, which helps Gilead quickly identify and address potential issues related to the management of clinical trials. Gilead was also one of the first users of AWS for Health, an offering of curated AWS services and AWS Partner Network (APN) solutions now used by thousands of healthcare and life sciences customers globally. AWS for Health provides proven and easily accessible capabilities that help organizations increase the pace of innovation, unlock the potential of health data, and develop more personalized approaches to therapeutic development and care across 16 critical solution areas in healthcare, genomics, and biopharma. "Gilead uses the proven performance of the world's leading cloud to innovate, scale, and deliver powerful therapies for diseases like HIV and cancer, as well as advance standards for precision medicine. By streamlining their IT operations with AWS and taking advantage of our AWS for Health offerings, Gilead has the ability to continuously refine its approach to clinical trials, drug development, manufacturing, and distribution," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "AWS provides the security and privacy that healthcare and life sciences companies need, as well as the expertise and breadth and depth of services they can rely on to build transformative healthcare solutions that enhance health and wellbeing." About Amazon Web ServicesFor over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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 AmazonAmazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Gilead Sciences, Inc.Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis and cancer. For more than 30 years, Gilead has been a leading innovator in the field of HIV, driving advances in treatment, prevention and cure research. Gilead researchers have developed eleven HIV medications, including the first single tablet regimen to treat HIV and the first once-daily oral antiretroviral tablet for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV infection. These advances in medical research have helped to transform HIV into a preventable, chronic condition for millions of people. Gilead is committed to continued scientific innovation to provide solutions for the evolving needs of people affected by HIV around the world. Through partnerships and collaborations, the company also aims to improve education, expand access and address barriers to care, with the goal of ending the HIV epidemic for everyone, everywhere. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211129005047/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>With AWS as its preferred cloud provider, Gilead uses AWS machine learning and analytics to better inform clinical trial design and advance data-driven decision making, while prioritizing patient privacy and security</em></p><p><em>Gilead also transforms its enterprise resource planning workloads on AWS to implement SAP S/4HANA across its global business</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD), a biopharmaceutical company advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. Innovating on AWS and with the help of AWS experts and partners in healthcare and life sciences, Gilead provides its data scientists with the latest advances in machine learning and analytics. These capabilities fuel data-driven decision making across the organization—from biomarker discovery through manufacturing and clinical trial recruitment—and deliver insights that can help Gilead refine its drug pipeline. The company also relies on AWS to host all workloads for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) transformation project to implement SAP S/4HANA.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211129005047/en/</p><p>"With AWS as our preferred cloud provider, our researchers can use AWS's portfolio of services to gain the insights, agility, and security needed to deliver new medicines at speed, and treat the individual according to their unique needs, not just the disease," said Marc Berson, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Gilead. "AWS's performance, infrastructure, and scale are the foundations on which we will complete our ERP transformation and become a more efficient, agile, secure, and data-driven business in the cloud."</p><p>Gilead is reimagining its bioinformatics compute infrastructure in the world's leading cloud. The use of AWS's compute, machine learning, and database capabilities will support the analysis and integration of diverse genomics, imaging, and experimental datasets to support breakthroughs in how Gilead diagnoses and treats diseases. For instance, by securely analyzing deidentified patient genomic data at scale on AWS to reveal patterns, Gilead can uncover insights on how people living with cancer respond to existing therapeutic options, potentially accelerating the discovery of new treatments.</p><p>Additionally, in its IT organization Gilead uses AWS to host all workloads for its ERP transformation project to implement SAP S/4HANA. These systems support business-critical processes in areas such as supply chain, finance, operations, and commercial sales across all therapeutic areas and business units. Running these processes on AWS provides the foundation for Gilead's implementation of SAP S/4HANA. It also helps the company shorten hardware refresh cycles, increase testing and deployment agility, and gain visibility to improve business planning.</p><p>This is Gilead's first implementation of production-scale ERP systems in the cloud, and AWS provides the company's IT transformation team with scalable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure. Working alongside AWS, Gilead will integrate its SAP environments with a wide range of advanced AWS technologies in areas such as analytics and machine learning, uncovering business value and driving innovation. Moving forward, with AWS as the foundation of its new cloud-based SAP environment, the company will use a variety of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types, including X1 and X1e instances built for high-performance databases, in-memory databases, and other memory-intensive enterprise applications, to run ERP workloads more efficiently.</p><p>In addition, Gilead has moved more than 50% of its data center footprint to AWS over the past 12 months through an accelerated cloud migration program with AWS Professional Services. The company also plans to migrate hundreds of applications to AWS, which include critical applications that support industry good practices (GxP) guidelines and regulations in areas like drug manufacturing, storage, and distribution. As a result, Gilead is accelerating its plans to upgrade its IT operations with AWS, while avoiding upfront costs to refresh hardware and the sustained costs of running an "always on," on-premises IT landscape provisioned for peak use. As an additional element of the migration, the company is building an automated disaster recovery landscape in AWS. Doing so allows Gilead IT to optimize and scale its disaster recovery processes in the cloud to enhance resiliency.</p><p>With the help of AWS Professional Services and AWS experts in healthcare and life sciences, Gilead research and development teams are looking at ways to innovate in the cloud. They are taking an agile product development approach that uses microservices to optimize and automate operational processes throughout the company, and constructing new data architectures to uncover new insights more easily. Through the collaboration, Gilead aims to transform priority areas like clinical program and study design, patient experience, and centralized statistical adaptive monitoring, which helps Gilead quickly identify and address potential issues related to the management of clinical trials.</p><p>Gilead was also one of the first users of AWS for Health, an offering of curated AWS services and AWS Partner Network (APN) solutions now used by thousands of healthcare and life sciences customers globally. AWS for Health provides proven and easily accessible capabilities that help organizations increase the pace of innovation, unlock the potential of health data, and develop more personalized approaches to therapeutic development and care across 16 critical solution areas in healthcare, genomics, and biopharma.</p><p>"Gilead uses the proven performance of the world's leading cloud to innovate, scale, and deliver powerful therapies for diseases like HIV and cancer, as well as advance standards for precision medicine. By streamlining their IT operations with AWS and taking advantage of our AWS for Health offerings, Gilead has the ability to continuously refine its approach to clinical trials, drug development, manufacturing, and distribution," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "AWS provides the security and privacy that healthcare and life sciences companies need, as well as the expertise and breadth and depth of services they can rely on to build transformative healthcare solutions that enhance health and wellbeing."</p><p>About Amazon Web ServicesFor over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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 AmazonAmazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Gilead Sciences, Inc.Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis and cancer.</p><p>For more than 30 years, Gilead has been a leading innovator in the field of HIV, driving advances in treatment, prevention and cure research. Gilead researchers have developed eleven HIV medications, including the first single tablet regimen to treat HIV and the first once-daily oral antiretroviral tablet for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV infection. These advances in medical research have helped to transform HIV into a preventable, chronic condition for millions of people. Gilead is committed to continued scientific innovation to provide solutions for the evolving needs of people affected by HIV around the world. Through partnerships and collaborations, the company also aims to improve education, expand access and address barriers to care, with the goal of ending the HIV epidemic for everyone, everywhere.</p><p>Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211129005047/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Richemont Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider to Drive Product Innovation

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11/24/2021 00:01:00

Richemont Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider to Drive Product Innovation

11/24/2021

2021

Global luxury goods leader modernizes its infrastructure with AWS to offer exclusive customer experiences and drive efficiencies across its global operations SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 23, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Compagnie Financière Richemont SA (SIX: CFR), a Swiss luxury group and owner of prestigious brands and businesses recognized for their excellence in jewelry, watches, fashion and accessories, including Cartier, Montblanc, IWC Schaffhausen, and Van Cleef & Arpels, is moving its entire enterprise IT infrastructure to AWS. Richemont will close its European data centers and migrate additional data centers in Hong Kong and the U.S. to AWS by the end of 2022. As part of its digital transformation strategy, the company will move more than 5,000 virtual machines and 120 SAP instances to AWS to modernize its infrastructure, raise its security posture, and drive automation across its global operations. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211122005617/en/ Richemont's cloud-first strategy includes migrating its business-critical enterprise IT applications and enterprise resource planning, accounting, supply chain management, manufacturing, product lifecycle management, and ecommerce systems to AWS. With AWS, the luxury goods company will use a wide range of advanced cloud capabilities, including machine learning, analytics, security, and database, to foster product innovation across its physical retail operations and ecommerce offerings. As part of its five-year roadmap, Richemont will develop cloud-based systems that provide engaging customer experiences via digitally optimized channels that use machine learning. Using AWS technologies, Richemont is innovating dynamic digital experiences for its ecommerce platform faster, including personalized storefronts and styling services, video chat consultations featuring fashion shows customized to the shopper's tastes, and tailored offers for early access to new items before they hit stores. Richemont will also increase its use of AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog that makes it easy for organizations to discover, procure, entitle, provision, and govern third-party software. Richemont can access the top-tier solutions available in AWS Marketplace to scale, curate, and further personalize the shopping experience on its mobile and online channels. Richemont will also use the AWS Skills Guild (a comprehensive skills enablement program) to provide training and certification for its IT employees to help build cloud fluency across its organization. These training opportunities will help the company further its ability to operate as a product-focused organization, drive efficiencies, and gain speed and agility in meeting business and customer needs. "AWS is integral to our enterprise IT transformation as we look for better ways to serve our customers, streamline the way we work, and compete globally," said Kim Hartlev, Group Chief Information Officer at Richemont. "AWS, with its proven experience and highly performant global infrastructure, will deliver the agility, security, and scalability that we need to launch new business processes and new service models. AWS's unparalleled pace of innovation and broad portfolio of services, including analytics and machine learning, will help us gain greater insights and become an even more agile company in the cloud." "Richemont is using AWS to drive change within its organization, which will result in the delivery of new applications and services to create exceptional customer experiences," said Greg Pearson, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "For more than 100 years, Richemont and its Maisons have had a relentless focus on quality, innovation, and premium service. AWS's comprehensive set of capabilities will help Richemont reimagine the luxury shopping experience in the digital world, offering exclusive virtual experiences and personalized service for its global clientele." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Richemont At Richemont, we craft the future. Our unique portfolio includes prestigious Maisons distinguished by their craftsmanship and creativity, alongside Online Distributors that cultivate expert curation and technological innovation to deliver the highest standards of service. Richemont's ambition is to nurture its Maisons and businesses and enable them to grow and prosper in a responsible, sustainable manner over the long term. Richemont operates in four business areas: Jewellery Maisons with Buccellati, Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels; Specialist Watchmakers with A. Lange & Söhne, Baume & Mercier, IWC Schaffhausen, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Piaget, Roger Dubuis and Vacheron Constantin; Online Distributors with Watchfinder & Co., NET-A-PORTER, MR PORTER, YOOX, THE OUTNET and the OFS division; and Other, primarily Fashion & Accessories Maisons with Alaïa, AZ Factory, Chloé, Delvaux, dunhill, Montblanc, Peter Millar, Purdey and Serapian. Find out more at www.richemont.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211122005617/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, In

<p><em>Global luxury goods leader modernizes its infrastructure with AWS to offer exclusive customer experiences and drive efficiencies across its global operations</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 23, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Compagnie Financière Richemont SA (SIX: CFR), a Swiss luxury group and owner of prestigious brands and businesses recognized for their excellence in jewelry, watches, fashion and accessories, including Cartier, Montblanc, IWC Schaffhausen, and Van Cleef &amp; Arpels, is moving its entire enterprise IT infrastructure to AWS. Richemont will close its European data centers and migrate additional data centers in Hong Kong and the U.S. to AWS by the end of 2022. As part of its digital transformation strategy, the company will move more than 5,000 virtual machines and 120 SAP instances to AWS to modernize its infrastructure, raise its security posture, and drive automation across its global operations.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211122005617/en/</p><p>Richemont's cloud-first strategy includes migrating its business-critical enterprise IT applications and enterprise resource planning, accounting, supply chain management, manufacturing, product lifecycle management, and ecommerce systems to AWS. With AWS, the luxury goods company will use a wide range of advanced cloud capabilities, including machine learning, analytics, security, and database, to foster product innovation across its physical retail operations and ecommerce offerings. As part of its five-year roadmap, Richemont will develop cloud-based systems that provide engaging customer experiences via digitally optimized channels that use machine learning. Using AWS technologies, Richemont is innovating dynamic digital experiences for its ecommerce platform faster, including personalized storefronts and styling services, video chat consultations featuring fashion shows customized to the shopper's tastes, and tailored offers for early access to new items before they hit stores.</p><p>Richemont will also increase its use of AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog that makes it easy for organizations to discover, procure, entitle, provision, and govern third-party software. Richemont can access the top-tier solutions available in AWS Marketplace to scale, curate, and further personalize the shopping experience on its mobile and online channels. Richemont will also use the AWS Skills Guild (a comprehensive skills enablement program) to provide training and certification for its IT employees to help build cloud fluency across its organization. These training opportunities will help the company further its ability to operate as a product-focused organization, drive efficiencies, and gain speed and agility in meeting business and customer needs.</p><p>"AWS is integral to our enterprise IT transformation as we look for better ways to serve our customers, streamline the way we work, and compete globally," said Kim Hartlev, Group Chief Information Officer at Richemont. "AWS, with its proven experience and highly performant global infrastructure, will deliver the agility, security, and scalability that we need to launch new business processes and new service models. AWS's unparalleled pace of innovation and broad portfolio of services, including analytics and machine learning, will help us gain greater insights and become an even more agile company in the cloud."</p><p>"Richemont is using AWS to drive change within its organization, which will result in the delivery of new applications and services to create exceptional customer experiences," said Greg Pearson, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "For more than 100 years, Richemont and its Maisons have had a relentless focus on quality, innovation, and premium service. AWS's comprehensive set of capabilities will help Richemont reimagine the luxury shopping experience in the digital world, offering exclusive virtual experiences and personalized service for its global clientele."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Richemont</p><p>At Richemont, we craft the future. Our unique portfolio includes prestigious Maisons distinguished by their craftsmanship and creativity, alongside Online Distributors that cultivate expert curation and technological innovation to deliver the highest standards of service. Richemont's ambition is to nurture its Maisons and businesses and enable them to grow and prosper in a responsible, sustainable manner over the long term.</p><p>Richemont operates in four business areas: Jewellery Maisons with Buccellati, Cartier and Van Cleef &amp; Arpels; Specialist Watchmakers with A. Lange &amp; Söhne, Baume &amp; Mercier, IWC Schaffhausen, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Piaget, Roger Dubuis and Vacheron Constantin; Online Distributors with Watchfinder &amp; Co., NET-A-PORTER, MR PORTER, YOOX, THE OUTNET and the OFS division; and Other, primarily Fashion &amp; Accessories Maisons with Alaïa, AZ Factory, Chloé, Delvaux, dunhill, Montblanc, Peter Millar, Purdey and Serapian. Find out more at www.richemont.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211122005617/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, In</p>

Taylor Swift Releases New Version of "Christmas Tree Farm," Streaming Only on Amazon Music

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Taylor Swift Releases New Version of "Christmas Tree Farm," Streaming Only on Amazon Music

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The global superstar has recorded her instant classic Christmas song at the famed Abbey Road Studios in London as an Amazon Original, available for all Amazon Music listeners to stream around the world For a limited time, customers who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get three months free—with unlimited access to millions of podcast episodes and more than 75 million songs, ad-free, in the highest-quality streaming audio Download track artwork HERE and HERE (Credit: Amazon Music)Stream "Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version) (Amazon Original)" HEREWatch the behind-the-scenes video of the recording HERE and HERE SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon Music announced today an exclusive new version of "Christmas Tree Farm" from 11-time Grammy winner, and only woman to ever win Album of the Yearthree times, Taylor Swift. "Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version)" arrives just in time for the holidays and fresh off of her #1 record-breaking release of Red (Taylor's Version). Swift's reimagined version of her beloved holiday hit was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London and features a beautiful new arrangement backed by a 70-piece orchestra. Swift's "Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version) (Amazon Original)" is now available exclusively for all Amazon Music listeners globally, including in spatial audio with Dolby Atmos here. "Taylor Swift is an icon who has shattered streaming records on Amazon Music over the years, and this season, we're thrilled to bring this new, timeless version of ‘Christmas Tree Farm' to her fans as they gather with friends and family for the holidays," said Ryan Redington, VP of music industry at Amazon Music. Inspired by her youth growing up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania, Swift wrote "Christmas Tree Farm" while celebrating with family over the holidays in 2019. While fans know and love the booming, upbeat version of "Christmas Tree Farm," Swift wanted to capture the cozy and calming holiday atmosphere for her Amazon Original song. Joined by a 70-piece orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, Swift's new recording features strings, horns, and sleigh bells, reminiscent of classic, big band Christmas songs by the greats before her. Earlier this month, Amazon Music announced its biggest season of holiday programming yet, with a variety of new Amazon Original songs, including Camila Cabello's cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas," a fresh original song from Dan + Shay called "Pick Out a Christmas Tree," Leon Bridges' reimagined version of Marvin Gaye's "Purple Snowflakes," Sech's new original song, "Carta Navideña," George Ezra's "Come on Home for Christmas," and much more. Today, Swift's "Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version) (Amazon Original)" arrives on the global playlist "Merry Mix," which features all new Amazon Original songs for the season, in addition to iconic holiday classics. For a limited time, customers who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get three months free—with unlimited access to more than 75 million songs, ad-free, in the highest-quality streaming audio and millions of podcast episodes. In addition, with the purchase of select Amazon Echo devices, customers new to Amazon Music Unlimited can get six months free. 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 75 million songs and the latest new releases. Amazon Music Unlimited customers also now have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 75 million songs available in High Definition (HD), more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of spatial 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. Download track artwork HERE and HERE (Credit: Amazon Music)Stream "Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version) (Amazon Original)" HEREWatch the behind-the-scenes video of the recording HERE and HERE View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211122005722/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>The global superstar has recorded her instant classic Christmas song at the famed Abbey Road Studios in London as an Amazon Original, available for all Amazon Music listeners to stream around the world</em></p><p><em>For a limited time, customers who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get three months free—with unlimited access to millions of podcast episodes and more than 75 million songs, ad-free, in the highest-quality streaming audio</em></p><p><em>Download track artwork </em>HERE and HERE<em> (Credit: Amazon Music)</em><em>Stream "Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version) (Amazon Original)" </em>HERE<em>Watch the behind-the-scenes video of the recording</em> HERE and HERE</p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon Music announced today an exclusive new version of "Christmas Tree Farm" from 11-time Grammy winner, and only woman to ever win Album of the Yearthree times, Taylor Swift. "Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version)" arrives just in time for the holidays and fresh off of her #1 record-breaking release of <em>Red (Taylor's Version). </em>Swift's reimagined version of her beloved holiday hit was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London and features a beautiful new arrangement backed by a 70-piece orchestra. Swift's "Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version) (Amazon Original)" is now available exclusively for all Amazon Music listeners globally, including in spatial audio with Dolby Atmos here.</p><p>"Taylor Swift is an icon who has shattered streaming records on Amazon Music over the years, and this season, we're thrilled to bring this new, timeless version of ‘Christmas Tree Farm' to her fans as they gather with friends and family for the holidays," said Ryan Redington, VP of music industry at Amazon Music.</p><p>Inspired by her youth growing up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania, Swift wrote "Christmas Tree Farm" while celebrating with family over the holidays in 2019. While fans know and love the booming, upbeat version of "Christmas Tree Farm," Swift wanted to capture the cozy and calming holiday atmosphere for her Amazon Original song. Joined by a 70-piece orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, Swift's new recording features strings, horns, and sleigh bells, reminiscent of classic, big band Christmas songs by the greats before her.</p><p>Earlier this month, Amazon Music announced its biggest season of holiday programming yet, with a variety of new Amazon Original songs, including Camila Cabello's cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas," a fresh original song from Dan + Shay called "Pick Out a Christmas Tree," Leon Bridges' reimagined version of Marvin Gaye's "Purple Snowflakes," Sech's new original song, "Carta Navideña," George Ezra's "Come on Home for Christmas," and much more. Today, Swift's "Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version) (Amazon Original)" arrives on the global playlist "Merry Mix," which features all new Amazon Original songs for the season, in addition to iconic holiday classics.</p><p>For a limited time, customers who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get three months free—with unlimited access to more than 75 million songs, ad-free, in the highest-quality streaming audio and millions of podcast episodes. In addition, with the purchase of select Amazon Echo devices, customers new to Amazon Music Unlimited can get six months free.</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 75 million songs and the latest new releases. Amazon Music Unlimited customers also now have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 75 million songs available in High Definition (HD), more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of spatial 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p><em>Download track artwork </em>HERE and HERE<em> (Credit: Amazon Music)Stream "Christmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version) (Amazon Original)" </em>HERE<em>Watch the behind-the-scenes video of the recording</em> HERE and HERE</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211122005722/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Customers Can Shop and Save on Thousands of Deals During Cyber Monday Weekend

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11/22/2021 03:01:00

Amazon Customers Can Shop and Save on Thousands of Deals During Cyber Monday Weekend

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Amazon will kick off its Cyber Monday deals weekend on Saturday, November 27, by offering customers more deals and deep discounts on must-have items for the gifting season Throughout the weekend and on Cyber Monday, customers will find savings on top gifts and products from brands like Ninja, Bose, Sony, Calvin Klein, LEGO, and select Alexa-enabled devices, as well as deals from small businesses, including women-owned, Black-owned, and military family-owned businesses, and from Amazon Handmade artisans and innovative Amazon Launchpad startups Plus, Prime members get 30 minutes of early access to the hottest Lightning Deals on Amazon throughout the holiday season before they are gone—as well as fast, free, and convenient delivery options SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Mark your calendars for a weekend of savings. Amazon today revealed a sneak peek of the thousands of deals customers can shop during its Cyber Monday deals weekend, which kicks off on Saturday, November 27, and runs through Monday, November 29. Throughout the deals event, customers can score incredible savings across every category, as well as deep discounts on popular products and must-have items including electronics from Samsung and LG, home and kitchen essentials from Shark, Vitamix, and Cuisinart, must-have toys from Hasbro, LEGO, and Crayola, beauty favorites from Revlon, top fashion picks from Ray-Ban, and select Alexa-enabled devices like the Amazon Fire TV 50" 4-Series. All weekend long, customers can also shop thousands of amazing deals from independent selling partners, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses, including deals from women-owned, Black-owned, and military family-owned businesses. Gifting Inspiration For customers who need a little extra inspiration on what to gift their loved ones this year, Amazon has you covered. All throughout the season customers can continue to shop and discover items from Amazon's biggest selection of gift guides yet—including the popular Holiday Toy List and Oprah's Favorite Things list, as well as the curated Customers' Most-Loved Gifts guide and Experts' Gift Picks gift guide, which features top picks from A-list celebrities like Jessica Alba, Jojo Siwa, gold medalist Suni Lee and influencer duo Aint Afraid, and media outlets including BuzzFeed and Refinery29, among others. On Cyber Monday, Amazon Live will hold various livestream events showcasing a curated selection of the best deals, product demonstrations, try-on hauls, and live chats hosted by celebrities and influencers, including supermodel and entrepreneur Miranda Kerr, country singer and songwriter Jessie James Decker, and fashion influencer Aimee Song. Viewers can easily shop featured products and brands through a carousel that updates in real-time. To watch, visit amazon.com/live or the Amazon Live Shopping app on Fire TV. Cyber Monday Deals Preview Below is a sampling of top deals and products that will be available at various dates and times between Saturday, November 27, and Monday, November 29, while supplies last. Customers can shop Cyber Monday deals at amazon.com/cybermonday, on the Amazon shopping app, or by asking, "Alexa, what are my deals?" Select Cyber Monday deals will also be available at all Amazon 4-star store and Amazon Books store locations. Prime members also can enjoy 30 minutes of early access to the hottest Lightning Deals on Amazon throughout the holiday season, and every day. Toys and Games: Save up to 30% on select building sets, including from LEGO and Playmobil. Save up to 30% on Hasbro games. Save up to 30% on arts and crafts toys from Crayola and other brands. Save up to 30% on select board games including Catan and Ticket to Ride. Save up to 30% on Osmo educational kits and games. Save up to 30% on Learning Resources and Educational Insights learning toys. Seasonal Fashion: Save up to 40% on select Orolay down jackets and parkas.Save up to 30% on select Crocs. Save up to 30% on select True & Co. bras and underwear. Save up to 30% on select Ray-Ban sunglasses. Save up to 20% on select outerwear from Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, DKNY, and more. Save up to 25% on a Made For You custom t-shirt. Save up to 25% on select active and lounge styles from Shopbop, including Honeydew Intimates, Z Supply, and Alala. Home and Kitchen: Save up to 35% on select Instant Pot appliances, and select cookware and kitchen essentials from All-Clad, Ninja, Vitamix, Calphalon, Cuisinart, and SodaStream.Save up to 31% on select iRobot Roomba vacuums, select air purifiers from Blue Air and Coway, and sewing machines from Brother and Singer. Save up to 30% on select furniture. Electronics: Save up to 33% on select TVs from Samsung, Sony, and LG. Save on select headphones from Bose, Sony, and JBL. Save up to 30% on select HP monitors, laptops, and all-in-one desktops. Save up to 34% on select Nixplay digital picture frames. Save $20 on select Nintendo Switch Pro controllers. Save 25% on the MYNT3D Professional Printing 3D Pen. Beauty and Personal Care: Save up to 50% on select electric toothbrushes from Oral-B and Philips Sonicare. Save up to 39% on electric shavers, razors, and blades from Braun, Gillette, and more. Save up to 30% on hair care from Revlon, Bed Head, and other brands. Save up to 52% on 23andMe Personal Genetic Service DNA Test Kits. Amazon Brands: Save up to 30% on Amazon Basics kitchen products. Save up to 30% on clothing for kids and babies from Our Brands. Save up to 30% on coffee from Our Brands. Amazon Devices: Save up to 47% on the Echo Show 5. Save up to 45% on Amazon Halo Band fitness tracker. Save up to 40% on Kindle and up to 28% on Kindle Paperwhite Kids. Save up to 40% on Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet. Save up to 36% on the Fire TV Stick 4k Max. Save up to 30% on Amazon Fire TV 50" 4-Series. Home Improvement, Tools, and Garden: Save up to 30% on select BLACK+DECKER tools. Save on select tools from DEWALT, GEARWRENCH, and SKIL. Save 25% on select Level Home smart locks. Save up to 40% on select spas and pools from Bestway and more. Baby: Save on select baby essentials from Philips Avent. Save on select feeding products from Dr. Brown's such as bottles and pacifiers. Save on select Cybex gb Pockit strollers. Save up to 30% on select Britax car seats. Save 25% on select Safety 1st Grow and Go car seats. Plus, save on select items from Joovy this holiday season. Pets: Save 30% on select pet gifts and supplies, including toys, treats, beds, and crates.Save up to 25% on select Bissell pet care items. Save 20% on Petmate Husky Dog House for dogs up to 90 pounds. Receive a free sample of Greenies new supplement product, while supplies last. Sports and Outdoors: Save up to 30% on select Nalgene Sustain water bottles. Save up to 30% on select Weider Platinum Strength products. Save up to 30% on select CamelBak bottles and accessories. Save up to 30% on select electric scooters, bike racks, and stands from Segway, Hover-1, and more. Entertainment: Save up to 50% on select Prime Video movies to rent or buy, from new releases to classics, plus hit TV shows, seasonal content, and more. Plus, new customers get 50% off this season's NBA League Pass and NBA Team Pass subscription following a seven-day free trial. Save with Amazon Music Unlimited, free for three months for new customers, or free for six months with the purchase of select Amazon Echo devices. Plus, customers can listen to their favorite Wondery podcasts with 40% off a one-year subscription to Wondery+. Save up to 59% on a new annual membership to IMDbPro. Readers can save up to 80% on popular eBooks, up to 50% on select Kindle exclusive titles, and up to 30% on Wheel of Time boxed sets. Virtual Travel and Experiences: For those on your list who have everything or are experience seekers, save up to 50% on all Amazon Explore experiences, hosted by local experts. U.S. customers have access to a wide range of livestreamed, interactive experiences across the globe—all from the comfort of their homes. Customers can shop unique items, learn how holidays are celebrated around the world, and gift experiences to their friends and family. Shop and Support Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Amazon hosts more than 500,000 U.S. independent selling partners, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses, in its store and helps them reach hundreds of millions of customers globally, increase their sales, and create jobs—including an estimated 1.8 million U.S.-based jobs in 2020. Customers can support these small and medium-sized businesses and save on gifts by shopping the Small Business, Amazon Handmade and Amazon Launchpad gift guides, and by visiting amazon.com/supportsmall. How Amazon is Delivering this Season Amazon employees around the world team up to meet the needs of customers during the holiday season—and every day after. Recently, Amazon announced plans to add 125,000 full- and part-time roles, plus an additional 150,000 seasonal jobs. Employees are the heart and soul of the company, which is why Amazon offers an average starting wage of $18 per hour, sign-on bonuses up to $3,000, and an additional $3 per hour depending on shifts in many locations. In addition to hiring, Amazon has made investments across technology, supply chain planning, transportation, and delivery teams in preparation for the holiday season in an effort to get customers what they want, when they want it, wherever they are. Visit About Amazon to learn more about Amazon's plan to serve customers this holiday season. Fast, Free, and Convenient Delivery Options Free One-Day and 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 are available for Free Same-Day Delivery in 47 major metropolitan areas. Prime members can also shop over 3 million items available for delivery in as fast as five hours with faster Same-Day Delivery—now available in 15 cities. These fast delivery options are not only convenient for customers, they're better for the planet. Same-Day deliveries ship from local fulfillment centers, so the items travel shorter distances and generate less carbon emissions. This is just another way Amazon is reducing the impact of climate change on future generations by building a sustainable business. Learn more at amazon.com/primedelivery or start a free 30-day trial of Prime at amazon.com/prime. Ultrafast Grocery Delivery and Pickup: Prime members in more than 5,000 cities and towns have access to two-hour grocery delivery on more than 170,000 products from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. With Amazon Fresh, Prime members get free two-hour delivery, plus free grocery pickup at select Amazon Fresh stores on orders over $35. Prime members can also find toys, gifts, household products, everyday essentials, electronics, Amazon devices, and more at Amazon Fresh. Prime members get free pickup on orders over $35 from Whole Foods Market stores nationwide. Delivery Where it's Needed Most: Whether customers are road-tripping to see family, staying home and need a secure delivery location, or sending a gift to a loved one or friend, Amazon provides thousands of package pickup locations for customers. 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 U.S. Tens of millions of products can be easily and conveniently delivered to an Amazon pickup point at Whole Foods Market, 7-11, Chase Bank, Rite-Aid, HealthMart, GNC, Stage Stores, and other locations. To find a location, visit amazon.com/Hub. Extended Returns Window: Most of the items purchased between October 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021, can be returned until January 31, 2022. Get the latest news by visiting About Amazon, where you can find shopping tips and ways to save this season and learn more about holiday delivery. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211122005884/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon will kick off its Cyber Monday deals weekend on Saturday, November 27, by offering customers more deals and deep discounts on must-have items for the gifting season</em></p><p><em>Throughout the weekend and on Cyber Monday, customers will find savings on top gifts and products from brands like Ninja, Bose, Sony, Calvin Klein, LEGO, and select Alexa-enabled devices, as well as deals from small businesses, including women-owned, Black-owned, and military family-owned businesses, and from Amazon Handmade artisans and innovative Amazon Launchpad startups</em></p><p><em>Plus, Prime members get 30 minutes of early access to the hottest Lightning Deals on Amazon throughout the holiday season before they are gone—as well as fast, free, and convenient delivery options</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Mark your calendars for a weekend of savings. Amazon today revealed a sneak peek of the thousands of deals customers can shop during its Cyber Monday deals weekend, which kicks off on Saturday, November 27, and runs through Monday, November 29. Throughout the deals event, customers can score incredible savings across every category, as well as deep discounts on popular products and must-have items including electronics from Samsung and LG, home and kitchen essentials from Shark, Vitamix, and Cuisinart, must-have toys from Hasbro, LEGO, and Crayola, beauty favorites from Revlon, top fashion picks from Ray-Ban, and select Alexa-enabled devices like the Amazon Fire TV 50" 4-Series. All weekend long, customers can also shop thousands of amazing deals from independent selling partners, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses, including deals from women-owned, Black-owned, and military family-owned businesses.</p><p>Gifting Inspiration</p><p>For customers who need a little extra inspiration on what to gift their loved ones this year, Amazon has you covered. All throughout the season customers can continue to shop and discover items from Amazon's biggest selection of gift guides yet—including the popular Holiday Toy List and Oprah's Favorite Things list, as well as the curated Customers' Most-Loved Gifts guide and Experts' Gift Picks gift guide, which features top picks from A-list celebrities like Jessica Alba, Jojo Siwa, gold medalist Suni Lee and influencer duo Aint Afraid, and media outlets including BuzzFeed and Refinery29, among others.</p><p>On Cyber Monday, Amazon Live will hold various livestream events showcasing a curated selection of the best deals, product demonstrations, try-on hauls, and live chats hosted by celebrities and influencers, including supermodel and entrepreneur Miranda Kerr, country singer and songwriter Jessie James Decker, and fashion influencer Aimee Song. Viewers can easily shop featured products and brands through a carousel that updates in real-time. To watch, visit amazon.com/live or the Amazon Live Shopping app on Fire TV.</p><p>Cyber Monday Deals Preview</p><p>Below is a sampling of top deals and products that will be available at various dates and times between Saturday, November 27, and Monday, November 29, while supplies last. Customers can shop Cyber Monday deals at amazon.com/cybermonday, on the Amazon shopping app, or by asking, "Alexa, what are my deals?" Select Cyber Monday deals will also be available at all Amazon 4-star store and Amazon Books store locations. Prime members also can enjoy 30 minutes of early access to the hottest Lightning Deals on Amazon throughout the holiday season, and every day.</p><ul><li>Toys and Games: Save up to 30% on select building sets, including from LEGO and Playmobil. Save up to 30% on Hasbro games. Save up to 30% on arts and crafts toys from Crayola and other brands. Save up to 30% on select board games including Catan and Ticket to Ride. Save up to 30% on Osmo educational kits and games. Save up to 30% on Learning Resources and Educational Insights learning toys.</li><li>Seasonal Fashion: Save up to 40% on select Orolay down jackets and parkas.Save up to 30% on select Crocs. Save up to 30% on select True &amp; Co. bras and underwear. Save up to 30% on select Ray-Ban sunglasses. Save up to 20% on select outerwear from Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, DKNY, and more. Save up to 25% on a Made For You custom t-shirt. Save up to 25% on select active and lounge styles from Shopbop, including Honeydew Intimates, Z Supply, and Alala.</li><li>Home and Kitchen: Save up to 35% on select Instant Pot appliances, and select cookware and kitchen essentials from All-Clad, Ninja, Vitamix, Calphalon, Cuisinart, and SodaStream.Save up to 31% on select iRobot Roomba vacuums, select air purifiers from Blue Air and Coway, and sewing machines from Brother and Singer. Save up to 30% on select furniture.</li><li>Electronics: Save up to 33% on select TVs from Samsung, Sony, and LG. Save on select headphones from Bose, Sony, and JBL. Save up to 30% on select HP monitors, laptops, and all-in-one desktops. Save up to 34% on select Nixplay digital picture frames. Save $20 on select Nintendo Switch Pro controllers. Save 25% on the MYNT3D Professional Printing 3D Pen.</li><li>Beauty and Personal Care: Save up to 50% on select electric toothbrushes from Oral-B and Philips Sonicare. Save up to 39% on electric shavers, razors, and blades from Braun, Gillette, and more. Save up to 30% on hair care from Revlon, Bed Head, and other brands. Save up to 52% on 23andMe Personal Genetic Service DNA Test Kits.</li><li>Amazon Brands: Save up to 30% on Amazon Basics kitchen products. Save up to 30% on clothing for kids and babies from Our Brands. Save up to 30% on coffee from Our Brands.</li><li>Amazon Devices: Save up to 47% on the Echo Show 5. Save up to 45% on Amazon Halo Band fitness tracker. Save up to 40% on Kindle and up to 28% on Kindle Paperwhite Kids. Save up to 40% on Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet. Save up to 36% on the Fire TV Stick 4k Max. Save up to 30% on Amazon Fire TV 50" 4-Series.</li><li>Home Improvement, Tools, and Garden: Save up to 30% on select BLACK+DECKER tools. Save on select tools from DEWALT, GEARWRENCH, and SKIL. Save 25% on select Level Home smart locks. Save up to 40% on select spas and pools from Bestway and more.</li><li>Baby: Save on select baby essentials from Philips Avent. Save on select feeding products from Dr. Brown's such as bottles and pacifiers. Save on select Cybex gb Pockit strollers. Save up to 30% on select Britax car seats. Save 25% on select Safety 1^st Grow and Go car seats. Plus, save on select items from Joovy this holiday season.</li><li>Pets: Save 30% on select pet gifts and supplies, including toys, treats, beds, and crates.Save up to 25% on select Bissell pet care items. Save 20% on Petmate Husky Dog House for dogs up to 90 pounds. Receive a free sample of Greenies new supplement product, while supplies last.</li><li>Sports and Outdoors: Save up to 30% on select Nalgene Sustain water bottles. Save up to 30% on select Weider Platinum Strength products. Save up to 30% on select CamelBak bottles and accessories. Save up to 30% on select electric scooters, bike racks, and stands from Segway, Hover-1, and more.</li><li>Entertainment: Save up to 50% on select Prime Video movies to rent or buy, from new releases to classics, plus hit TV shows, seasonal content, and more. Plus, new customers get 50% off this season's NBA League Pass and NBA Team Pass subscription following a seven-day free trial. Save with Amazon Music Unlimited, free for three months for new customers, or free for six months with the purchase of select Amazon Echo devices. Plus, customers can listen to their favorite Wondery podcasts with 40% off a one-year subscription to Wondery+. Save up to 59% on a new annual membership to IMDbPro. Readers can save up to 80% on popular eBooks, up to 50% on select Kindle exclusive titles, and up to 30% on <em>Wheel of Time</em> boxed sets.</li><li>Virtual Travel and Experiences: For those on your list who have everything or are experience seekers, save up to 50% on all Amazon Explore experiences, hosted by local experts. U.S. customers have access to a wide range of livestreamed, interactive experiences across the globe—all from the comfort of their homes. Customers can shop unique items, learn how holidays are celebrated around the world, and gift experiences to their friends and family.</li></ul><p>Shop and Support Small and Medium-Sized Businesses</p><p>Amazon hosts more than 500,000 U.S. independent selling partners, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses, in its store and helps them reach hundreds of millions of customers globally, increase their sales, and create jobs—including an estimated 1.8 million U.S.-based jobs in 2020. Customers can support these small and medium-sized businesses and save on gifts by shopping the Small Business, Amazon Handmade and Amazon Launchpad gift guides, and by visiting amazon.com/supportsmall.</p><p>How Amazon is Delivering this Season</p><p>Amazon employees around the world team up to meet the needs of customers during the holiday season—and every day after. Recently, Amazon announced plans to add 125,000 full- and part-time roles, plus an additional 150,000 seasonal jobs. Employees are the heart and soul of the company, which is why Amazon offers an average starting wage of $18 per hour, sign-on bonuses up to $3,000, and an additional $3 per hour depending on shifts in many locations. In addition to hiring, Amazon has made investments across technology, supply chain planning, transportation, and delivery teams in preparation for the holiday season in an effort to get customers what they want, when they want it, wherever they are. Visit About Amazon to learn more about Amazon's plan to serve customers this holiday season.</p><p>Fast, Free, and Convenient Delivery Options</p><ul><li>Free One-Day and 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 are available for Free Same-Day Delivery in 47 major metropolitan areas. Prime members can also shop over 3 million items available for delivery in as fast as five hours with faster Same-Day Delivery—now available in 15 cities. These fast delivery options are not only convenient for customers, they're better for the planet. Same-Day deliveries ship from local fulfillment centers, so the items travel shorter distances and generate less carbon emissions. This is just another way Amazon is reducing the impact of climate change on future generations by building a sustainable business. Learn more at amazon.com/primedelivery or start a free 30-day trial of Prime at amazon.com/prime.</li><li>Ultrafast Grocery Delivery and Pickup: Prime members in more than 5,000 cities and towns have access to two-hour grocery delivery on more than 170,000 products from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. With Amazon Fresh, Prime members get free two-hour delivery, plus free grocery pickup at select Amazon Fresh stores on orders over $35. Prime members can also find toys, gifts, household products, everyday essentials, electronics, Amazon devices, and more at Amazon Fresh. Prime members get free pickup on orders over $35 from Whole Foods Market stores nationwide.</li><li>Delivery Where it's Needed Most: Whether customers are road-tripping to see family, staying home and need a secure delivery location, or sending a gift to a loved one or friend, Amazon provides thousands of package pickup locations for customers. 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 U.S. Tens of millions of products can be easily and conveniently delivered to an Amazon pickup point at Whole Foods Market, 7-11, Chase Bank, Rite-Aid, HealthMart, GNC, Stage Stores, and other locations. To find a location, visit amazon.com/Hub.</li><li>Extended Returns Window: Most of the items purchased between October 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021, can be returned until January 31, 2022.</li></ul><p>Get the latest news by visiting About Amazon, where you can find shopping tips and ways to save this season and learn more about holiday delivery.</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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211122005884/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

adidas Migrates SAP Environments to AWS

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11/23/2021 00:01:00

adidas Migrates SAP Environments to AWS

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As the preferred cloud provider for adidas SAP workloads, AWS will help one of the world's largest sports brands to transform its business by implementing SAP S/4HANA SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that adidas AG, one of the largest sports brands in the world, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for SAP workloads. With this announcement, adidas will migrate its SAP environment to AWS and implement a modern SAP S/4HANA platform. Running these business-critical SAP workloads in the cloud will enable adidas to digitize core business processes across its value chain to provide better consumer experiences, become a more data-driven business, and support new business models such as direct-to-consumer. Modernizing its ERP system with SAP provides adidas with the technology foundation needed to connect its data across its entire global operations. This new cloud-based system will support the company's physical sales channel by enabling SAP environments to be integrated with AWS capabilities, such as machine learning and analytics, to streamline supply chain, inventory, and merchandising operations for retail stores around the world. By creating a cloud-based consumer experience, adidas can offer personalized discounts, early access to new releases and collaborations, priority consumer service, and the ability to personalize experiences and offers. AWS's extensive SAP experience allows adidas to closely integrate its SAP S/4HANA environment with AWS technologies to enable advanced analytics capabilities, data science, and enterprise reporting. By building a cloud-based data lake on AWS, adidas will gain visibility across its internal and consumer-facing operations to deliver new business and consumer insights. By applying machine learning capabilities, such as Amazon SageMaker, AWS's service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly in the cloud and at the edge, adidas data scientists can predict seasonal demand for products to ensure the right product is available at a specific warehouse or retail store at the right time to increase customer satisfaction. In addition, Amazon SageMaker can also be applied to sales data to enable the sports company to provide personalized product and fit recommendations. This capability will help the adidas e-commerce site to match individual consumer's style preferences and provide a more personal experience that deepens brand loyalty. Using high performance computing on AWS, adidas is able to run complex workloads simultaneously for design teams around the world to modernize 3D design capabilities at scale. This capability will speed up the design and creation process, reduce costs, and allow for greater collaboration with consumers and designers. AWS enables the sports brand to create digital twins, virtual representation of its product lines, that will speed up the design and creation process, reduce costs, and allow for greater collaboration with consumers and designers. Overall, incorporating these technologies into the design process will result in faster product creation and design for athletic apparel and shoes, enabling designers to quickly incorporate consumer feedback at the early stages of the creation process. In addition, AWS Sustainability programs will help adidas to reduce the environmental impact of their cloud usage. AWS sustainability solutions architects, experienced advisors on sustainable infrastructure and software design, will evaluate current and future cloud architectures, and determine which technology decisions will support adidas' overall sustainability goals. "We want to drive innovation across our business, which includes everything from how we design our products to how we engage with the consumers who buy them. By committing to cloud infrastructure, we have the scalability and elasticity we need to handle the seasonality of our business during peak demand, and support the projected growth in our e-commerce business in the years to come," said Markus Rautert, Senior Vice President, Technology Enablement at adidas AG. "Deploying SAP environments on AWS isn't just about transforming our technology—it's about transforming business opportunities and using AWS's wide range of cloud capabilities to create efficiencies and bring us closer to consumers." "We are seeing a fundamental change in how consumer goods companies run their technology infrastructures. adidas joins the thousands of customers that run SAP on AWS, leveraging AWS's reliable and scalable global infrastructure and unmatched SAP experience to provide key insights, drive innovation, and support the creation of new products and services," said Greg Pearson, Vice President of Worldwide Commercial Sales at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "We look forward to working with adidas on its SAP and digital transformation strategies that will help speed the introduction of new cloud-based customer experiences like its mobile app, tailored shopping, and personalized offers that deepen the consumer relationship." Backed by its unmatched experience in running SAP workloads, AWS helps customers get the best performance and most value out of their mission-critical SAP platforms. Running SAP on AWS gives customers the control and confidence to securely run their business, leveraging the most reliable and scalable infrastructure, the broadest set of cloud capabilities, and the largest community of technology partners to help with SAP migration and modernization. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About adidas adidas is a global leader in the sporting goods industry. Headquartered in Herzogenaurach/Germany, the company employs more than 62,000 people across the globe and generated sales of € 19.8 billion in 2020. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211121005008/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

<p><em>As the preferred cloud provider for adidas SAP workloads, AWS will help one of the world's largest sports brands to transform its business by implementing SAP S/4HANA</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that adidas AG, one of the largest sports brands in the world, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for SAP workloads. With this announcement, adidas will migrate its SAP environment to AWS and implement a modern SAP S/4HANA platform. Running these business-critical SAP workloads in the cloud will enable adidas to digitize core business processes across its value chain to provide better consumer experiences, become a more data-driven business, and support new business models such as direct-to-consumer.</p><p>Modernizing its ERP system with SAP provides adidas with the technology foundation needed to connect its data across its entire global operations. This new cloud-based system will support the company's physical sales channel by enabling SAP environments to be integrated with AWS capabilities, such as machine learning and analytics, to streamline supply chain, inventory, and merchandising operations for retail stores around the world. By creating a cloud-based consumer experience, adidas can offer personalized discounts, early access to new releases and collaborations, priority consumer service, and the ability to personalize experiences and offers.</p><p>AWS's extensive SAP experience allows adidas to closely integrate its SAP S/4HANA environment with AWS technologies to enable advanced analytics capabilities, data science, and enterprise reporting. By building a cloud-based data lake on AWS, adidas will gain visibility across its internal and consumer-facing operations to deliver new business and consumer insights. By applying machine learning capabilities, such as Amazon SageMaker, AWS's service that helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly in the cloud and at the edge, adidas data scientists can predict seasonal demand for products to ensure the right product is available at a specific warehouse or retail store at the right time to increase customer satisfaction. In addition, Amazon SageMaker can also be applied to sales data to enable the sports company to provide personalized product and fit recommendations. This capability will help the adidas e-commerce site to match individual consumer's style preferences and provide a more personal experience that deepens brand loyalty.</p><p>Using high performance computing on AWS, adidas is able to run complex workloads simultaneously for design teams around the world to modernize 3D design capabilities at scale. This capability will speed up the design and creation process, reduce costs, and allow for greater collaboration with consumers and designers. AWS enables the sports brand to create digital twins, virtual representation of its product lines, that will speed up the design and creation process, reduce costs, and allow for greater collaboration with consumers and designers. Overall, incorporating these technologies into the design process will result in faster product creation and design for athletic apparel and shoes, enabling designers to quickly incorporate consumer feedback at the early stages of the creation process.</p><p>In addition, AWS Sustainability programs will help adidas to reduce the environmental impact of their cloud usage. AWS sustainability solutions architects, experienced advisors on sustainable infrastructure and software design, will evaluate current and future cloud architectures, and determine which technology decisions will support adidas' overall sustainability goals.</p><p>"We want to drive innovation across our business, which includes everything from how we design our products to how we engage with the consumers who buy them. By committing to cloud infrastructure, we have the scalability and elasticity we need to handle the seasonality of our business during peak demand, and support the projected growth in our e-commerce business in the years to come," said Markus Rautert, Senior Vice President, Technology Enablement at adidas AG. "Deploying SAP environments on AWS isn't just about transforming our technology—it's about transforming business opportunities and using AWS's wide range of cloud capabilities to create efficiencies and bring us closer to consumers."</p><p>"We are seeing a fundamental change in how consumer goods companies run their technology infrastructures. adidas joins the thousands of customers that run SAP on AWS, leveraging AWS's reliable and scalable global infrastructure and unmatched SAP experience to provide key insights, drive innovation, and support the creation of new products and services," said Greg Pearson, Vice President of Worldwide Commercial Sales at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "We look forward to working with adidas on its SAP and digital transformation strategies that will help speed the introduction of new cloud-based customer experiences like its mobile app, tailored shopping, and personalized offers that deepen the consumer relationship."</p><p>Backed by its unmatched experience in running SAP workloads, AWS helps customers get the best performance and most value out of their mission-critical SAP platforms. Running SAP on AWS gives customers the control and confidence to securely run their business, leveraging the most reliable and scalable infrastructure, the broadest set of cloud capabilities, and the largest community of technology partners to help with SAP migration and modernization.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About adidas</p><p>adidas is a global leader in the sporting goods industry. Headquartered in Herzogenaurach/Germany, the company employs more than 62,000 people across the globe and generated sales of € 19.8 billion in 2020.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211121005008/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services (AWS)</p>

AWS Expands Access to Free Cloud Skills Training on its Mission to Educate 29 Million People by 2025

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11/18/2021 08:00:00

AWS Expands Access to Free Cloud Skills Training on its Mission to Educate 29 Million People by 2025

11/18/2021

2021

New AWS digital learning experience, technical courses on Amazon.com, expanded access to AWS re/Start, and Amazon's first dedicated in-person cloud learning center will put cloud skills training into the hands of millions of people New AWS Global Digital Skills Study finds the need for digital skills training is greater than ever, with 85% of workers feeling they need more technical knowledge than they did pre-pandemic SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced four initiatives to empower learners and make it even easier for anyone with a desire to learn to access free cloud computing skills training and unlock new career possibilities in the cloud. The initiatives announced today include the launch of AWS Skill Builder—a new digital learning experience, the addition of AWS courses to the Amazon.com website, the expansion of the AWS re/Start global reskilling program, and the opening of the AWS Skills Center—Amazon's first dedicated, in-person cloud learning space. In December 2020, Amazon committed to investing hundreds of millions of dollars to provide free cloud computing skills training to 29 million people by 2025—reaching people from all walks of life and all levels of knowledge, in more than 200 countries and territories. On this mission, Amazon has already helped over 6 million people gain cloud skills, and the latest efforts build on the existing commitment by putting skills training into the hands of millions of people. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211118005786/en/ AWS Expands Access to Free Cloud Skills Training (Graphic: Business Wire) These initiatives come as newly released research shows that the need for digital skills training is greater than ever. The AWS Global Digital Skills Study surveyed employers and workers on their perceptions of digital skills training across 12 countries. The study found that 85% of workers feel that they now need more technical knowledge to do their jobs as a result of pandemic-related changes in their work. Additionally, workers who take the time to learn new skills are seeing significant benefits, with 86% reporting greater efficiency in doing their jobs, 85% experiencing greater personal satisfaction, and 80% reporting improved employability. Employers who support workforce education programs also see benefits, with 87% reporting that investments in digital skills training have allowed their organizations to achieve their digital transformation goals more quickly and 84% noting improved worker retention. The full findings of the AWS Global Digital Skills Study can be found at aboutamazon.com/29million. "Our goal is to empower anyone with a desire to learn by giving them access to the tools necessary to excel in cloud computing careers. Over the next decade, we expect the adoption of cloud computing across every industry will fuel a vast number of new jobs, which is why we are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop online courses, local in-person reskilling programs, and new ways to make it easy for anyone to learn cloud skills," said Maureen Lonergan, Vice President of Training and Certification at AWS. "Lowering barriers to accessing technical skills training is critical to power a thriving, diverse workforce of the future. The programs that are part of this commitment are free and designed to meet a range of learner needs, whether they are totally new to the cloud computing industry—or even to technology—or experienced professionals looking to advance their skills." Providing engaging, accessible training with AWS Skill Builder and Amazon.com To boost the availability of the latest technology skills curriculum to millions of people around the world, Amazon is launching AWS Skill Builder. AWS Skill Builder is a new digital learning experience available in more than 200 countries and territories, allowing learners to quickly and easily access over 500 free, on-demand courses—including nearly 60 new cloud computing classes added this year. AWS Skill Builder offers engaging content to meet different learning goals and styles in 16 languages. Individuals can also get course recommendations for learning plans aligned to job roles and technology areas, helping people access the most relevant content for their skill level. To make finding skills training content even more convenient, free AWS courses are now available on Amazon.com. U.S. shoppers on the Amazon.com site can access AWS training courses with a single click. Using the same intuitive, easy-to-use Amazon.com shopping experience, people looking to advance their cloud computing knowledge and technology skills can browse for free courses, from cloud computing basics to advanced cloud architecture, as easily as finding a new pair of shoes. The content is available via the new "AWS Courses" section of the Amazon.com site, where consumers can find and select skills training courses and pick up their learning wherever they left off. The AWS courses on Amazon.com can also be found through AWS Training Partners, including additional free offerings. To get started, visit amazon.com/courses. Tripling AWS re/Start, the free reskilling program for unemployed and underemployed people seeking careers in tech AWS is further expanding training and job opportunities to the unemployed and underemployed by more than tripling the number of cities where AWS re/Start is available—from 25 cities in 12 countries in 2020 to 95 cities in 38 countries by the end of 2021. AWS re/Start is a free, full-time, 12-week program that prepares individuals with little or no technology experience to pursue entry-level cloud computing careers. Through real-world, scenario-based exercises, labs, and coursework, students build a range of skills in a number of technology areas including Linux, Python, networking, security, and relational databases. The program connects up to 90% of graduates with job interview opportunities, and is focused on individuals from underrepresented communities, military veterans and their spouses, and those who have lost their jobs due to outdated skills. Recent graduates of AWS re/Start, such as former cruise ship employees, fitness trainers, stay-at-home parents, and transitioning military members, have successfully used the program to step into new careers in technology. One person whose life has been positively impacted by AWS re/Start is Charlotte Wilkins, who was working at a fast-food restaurant in the UK before losing her job due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "When I got furloughed, I saw this as the right time to look at courses and find a new career," said Wilkins. "I've always been interested in technology and wanted to learn coding, but I wasn't sure what course to do as I didn't know the skills I would need. What I liked about AWS re/Start is that it covered a wide range of topics, skills, and cloud computing concepts. The program has really changed my life and gave me the tools I needed to start a whole new career path as an associate solutions engineer at a cloud-based company." AWS re/Start is a springboard to help individuals start new careers, as well as provide cloud computing talent for cloud customers and partners globally. Andy Tay, global lead of the Accenture AWS Business Group at Accenture said: "We recognize the value of diverse perspectives as they help us with the complex work we do across industries, management levels, and geographic borders. The AWS re/Start program is an important source for finding and developing diverse cloud talent and the skills needed, particularly in underrepresented groups, for critical roles today and in the future." Launching Amazon's first dedicated in-person cloud learning center To further assist individuals who are looking for a career in the cloud, Amazon is launching the AWS Skills Center in Seattle—Amazon's first dedicated, in-person cloud learning space designed for anyone who is curious about cloud computing, career possibilities in the industry, and how to gain the skills to achieve their career goals. AWS will launch additional Skills Centers in the U.S. and globally in the future. The center features interactive exhibits on robotics, space, games, sports, and other real-world applications of cloud computing. Free in-person classes for adults with little or no background in technology are also available. Classes will include fundamentals such as Introduction to Computer Technology, providing beginners with a basic understanding of computing; Cloud Practitioner Essentials, covering basic cloud computing concepts; Exam Readiness: Certified Cloud Practitioner, preparing learners for the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification exam; and other foundational courses about game tech, machine learning, and more. The Skills Center will also host networking events with local employers and organizations to connect people with career information and job opportunities. Opening to the public on November 22, 2021, the Skills Center is free to use with details on events and classes at aws.amazon.com/training/skills-centers/seattle-skills-center. "By 2025, 97 million new roles will emerge due to increasing digitization," said Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director of the World Economic Forum. "Skills are the currency of the future, and businesses and government must urgently work together to prepare workers for the jobs of tomorrow. When organizations like Amazon provide workforce programs for the public, they contribute to creating increased opportunities for individuals and communities around the world." Amazon's commitment to train 29 million people for free by 2025 on cloud computing skills is just one aspect of the company's overall workforce development efforts—which also include science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs for children, collaborations with colleges and universities, and a $1.2 billion pledge to provide education assistance and skills training opportunities for Amazon employees. To learn more about Amazon's free skills training programs and how to get started, visit aboutamazon.com/29million. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211118005786/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New AWS digital learning experience, technical courses on Amazon.com, expanded access to AWS re/Start, and Amazon's first dedicated in-person cloud learning center will put cloud skills training into the hands of millions of people</em></p><p><em>New AWS Global Digital Skills Study finds the need for digital skills training is greater than ever, with 85% of workers feeling they need more technical knowledge than they did pre-pandemic</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced four initiatives to empower learners and make it even easier for anyone with a desire to learn to access free cloud computing skills training and unlock new career possibilities in the cloud. The initiatives announced today include the launch of AWS Skill Builder—a new digital learning experience, the addition of AWS courses to the Amazon.com website, the expansion of the AWS re/Start global reskilling program, and the opening of the AWS Skills Center—Amazon's first dedicated, in-person cloud learning space. In December 2020, Amazon committed to investing hundreds of millions of dollars to provide free cloud computing skills training to 29 million people by 2025—reaching people from all walks of life and all levels of knowledge, in more than 200 countries and territories. On this mission, Amazon has already helped over 6 million people gain cloud skills, and the latest efforts build on the existing commitment by putting skills training into the hands of millions of people.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211118005786/en/</p><div><p>AWS Expands Access to Free Cloud Skills Training (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>These initiatives come as newly released research shows that the need for digital skills training is greater than ever. The AWS Global Digital Skills Study surveyed employers and workers on their perceptions of digital skills training across 12 countries. The study found that 85% of workers feel that they now need more technical knowledge to do their jobs as a result of pandemic-related changes in their work. Additionally, workers who take the time to learn new skills are seeing significant benefits, with 86% reporting greater efficiency in doing their jobs, 85% experiencing greater personal satisfaction, and 80% reporting improved employability. Employers who support workforce education programs also see benefits, with 87% reporting that investments in digital skills training have allowed their organizations to achieve their digital transformation goals more quickly and 84% noting improved worker retention. The full findings of the AWS Global Digital Skills Study can be found at aboutamazon.com/29million.</p><p>"Our goal is to empower anyone with a desire to learn by giving them access to the tools necessary to excel in cloud computing careers. Over the next decade, we expect the adoption of cloud computing across every industry will fuel a vast number of new jobs, which is why we are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop online courses, local in-person reskilling programs, and new ways to make it easy for anyone to learn cloud skills," said Maureen Lonergan, Vice President of Training and Certification at AWS. "Lowering barriers to accessing technical skills training is critical to power a thriving, diverse workforce of the future. The programs that are part of this commitment are free and designed to meet a range of learner needs, whether they are totally new to the cloud computing industry—or even to technology—or experienced professionals looking to advance their skills."</p><p>Providing engaging, accessible training with AWS Skill Builder and Amazon.com</p><p>To boost the availability of the latest technology skills curriculum to millions of people around the world, Amazon is launching AWS Skill Builder. AWS Skill Builder is a new digital learning experience available in more than 200 countries and territories, allowing learners to quickly and easily access over 500 free, on-demand courses—including nearly 60 new cloud computing classes added this year. AWS Skill Builder offers engaging content to meet different learning goals and styles in 16 languages. Individuals can also get course recommendations for learning plans aligned to job roles and technology areas, helping people access the most relevant content for their skill level.</p><p>To make finding skills training content even more convenient, free AWS courses are now available on Amazon.com. U.S. shoppers on the Amazon.com site can access AWS training courses with a single click. Using the same intuitive, easy-to-use Amazon.com shopping experience, people looking to advance their cloud computing knowledge and technology skills can browse for free courses, from cloud computing basics to advanced cloud architecture, as easily as finding a new pair of shoes. The content is available via the new "AWS Courses" section of the Amazon.com site, where consumers can find and select skills training courses and pick up their learning wherever they left off. The AWS courses on Amazon.com can also be found through AWS Training Partners, including additional free offerings. To get started, visit amazon.com/courses.</p><p>Tripling AWS re/Start, the free reskilling program for unemployed and underemployed people seeking careers in tech</p><p>AWS is further expanding training and job opportunities to the unemployed and underemployed by more than tripling the number of cities where AWS re/Start is available—from 25 cities in 12 countries in 2020 to 95 cities in 38 countries by the end of 2021. AWS re/Start is a free, full-time, 12-week program that prepares individuals with little or no technology experience to pursue entry-level cloud computing careers. Through real-world, scenario-based exercises, labs, and coursework, students build a range of skills in a number of technology areas including Linux, Python, networking, security, and relational databases. The program connects up to 90% of graduates with job interview opportunities, and is focused on individuals from underrepresented communities, military veterans and their spouses, and those who have lost their jobs due to outdated skills.</p><p>Recent graduates of AWS re/Start, such as former cruise ship employees, fitness trainers, stay-at-home parents, and transitioning military members, have successfully used the program to step into new careers in technology. One person whose life has been positively impacted by AWS re/Start is Charlotte Wilkins, who was working at a fast-food restaurant in the UK before losing her job due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "When I got furloughed, I saw this as the right time to look at courses and find a new career," said Wilkins. "I've always been interested in technology and wanted to learn coding, but I wasn't sure what course to do as I didn't know the skills I would need. What I liked about AWS re/Start is that it covered a wide range of topics, skills, and cloud computing concepts. The program has really changed my life and gave me the tools I needed to start a whole new career path as an associate solutions engineer at a cloud-based company."</p><p>AWS re/Start is a springboard to help individuals start new careers, as well as provide cloud computing talent for cloud customers and partners globally. Andy Tay, global lead of the Accenture AWS Business Group at Accenture said: "We recognize the value of diverse perspectives as they help us with the complex work we do across industries, management levels, and geographic borders. The AWS re/Start program is an important source for finding and developing diverse cloud talent and the skills needed, particularly in underrepresented groups, for critical roles today and in the future."</p><p>Launching Amazon's first dedicated in-person cloud learning center</p><p>To further assist individuals who are looking for a career in the cloud, Amazon is launching the AWS Skills Center in Seattle—Amazon's first dedicated, in-person cloud learning space designed for anyone who is curious about cloud computing, career possibilities in the industry, and how to gain the skills to achieve their career goals. AWS will launch additional Skills Centers in the U.S. and globally in the future. The center features interactive exhibits on robotics, space, games, sports, and other real-world applications of cloud computing. Free in-person classes for adults with little or no background in technology are also available. Classes will include fundamentals such as Introduction to Computer Technology, providing beginners with a basic understanding of computing; Cloud Practitioner Essentials, covering basic cloud computing concepts; Exam Readiness: Certified Cloud Practitioner, preparing learners for the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification exam; and other foundational courses about game tech, machine learning, and more. The Skills Center will also host networking events with local employers and organizations to connect people with career information and job opportunities. Opening to the public on November 22, 2021, the Skills Center is free to use with details on events and classes at aws.amazon.com/training/skills-centers/seattle-skills-center.</p><p>"By 2025, 97 million new roles will emerge due to increasing digitization," said Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director of the World Economic Forum. "Skills are the currency of the future, and businesses and government must urgently work together to prepare workers for the jobs of tomorrow. When organizations like Amazon provide workforce programs for the public, they contribute to creating increased opportunities for individuals and communities around the world."</p><p>Amazon's commitment to train 29 million people for free by 2025 on cloud computing skills is just one aspect of the company's overall workforce development efforts—which also include science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs for children, collaborations with colleges and universities, and a $1.2 billion pledge to provide education assistance and skills training opportunities for Amazon employees. To learn more about Amazon's free skills training programs and how to get started, visit aboutamazon.com/29million.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211118005786/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Books Editors Announce 2021's Best Books of the Year

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Amor Towles' The Lincoln Highway named best book of 2021 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2021-- Today, the Amazon Books Editors announced their selections for the Best Books of 2021, naming Amor Towles' The Lincoln Highway as the Best Book of the Year; Towles' New York Times bestseller A Gentleman in Moscow was also included in the Best Books selection in 2016. The annual list is hand-picked by a team of editors who read thousands of books each year. They share their recommendations with customers to help make holiday shopping easier. Featuring the top 100 books published this year, the editors' selections also break out the top 20 books in numerous categories, including mysteries, memoirs, children's books, and cookbooks. To explore the full list of the Best Books of 2021, visit amazon.com/bestbooks2021. "This year, fiction reigned, with emerging and established authors telling stories of struggle, daring, and redemption," said Sarah Gelman, Editorial Director of Amazon Books. "We all had our personal favorites this year, but the one book the team unanimously agreed on was Amor Towles' The Lincoln Highway—we just couldn't stop talking about it. The four main characters' sense of innocence felt like the hope we needed as we end this year." The Lincoln Highway resonates with readers, too. The quote most often highlighted by Kindle readersis, "For what is kindness but the performance of an act that is both beneficial to another and unrequired?" "It's a real honor to have The Lincoln Highway singled out by the team at Amazon," said Towles. "I can only hope that their confidence in the book is matched by the enjoyment of readers who join Emmett, Billy, Duchess, and Woolly on their fateful journey." The Amazon Books Editors Top 10 picks of 2021, as described by the editors, are: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles: Towles (A Gentleman in Moscow) might just have written one of the best novels of this decade, delivering one of the greatest gifts of fiction: hope. Filled with 1950s nostalgia and the gentle naïveté and hijinks of those who are young, optimistic, and on a mission, The Lincoln Highway follows four kids whose paths collide as they search for their mother and a stashed wad of cash. –Al Woodworth Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner: You will laugh, you will cry, your stomach will rumble with hunger, and you'll tap your toe to the beat of this powerful mother-daughter and Korean American story that shows just how important it is to accept someone fully for who they are—and love them just the same. –Al Woodworth The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz: A story within a story that is a Rubik's Cube of twists, The Plot follows an uninspired author fading into obscurity until his new book rockets him to fame. Only the plot isn't his, and someone knows it. Korelitz keeps us guessing—even when all seems clear—right up to the knockout ending. –Seira Wilson How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith: Smith's tour of places and landmarks linked to slavery is the type of book that can change your perspective, even if you have known of the places (or thought you did) your entire life. –Chris Schluep The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah: Set during the Great Depression and featuring an unlikely heroine who will lodge herself in your heart, The Four Winds is a reminder, when we so urgently need it, of the resiliency not only of the human spirit, but of this country as well. Hannah's latest story reads like a classic. –Erin Kodicek Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe: From the author of Say Nothing comes an addictive account of the Sackler family—the founders and masterminds behind OxyContin. From their rise by marketing pharmaceuticals, to the backdoor dealings of FDA approvals, to the front door dealings of museum philanthropy, this is an impossible-to-put-down true story of ambition, power, deception, and greed. –Vannessa Cronin Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead: The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad tells a blisteringly entertaining tale of schemers and dreamers, mobsters and crooks, elaborate heists and furniture fronts, and the thrilling mischief of those who are up to no good and others who are just trying to make a living. –Al Woodworth Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead: Shipstead has accomplished the impossible—an epic novel that is ambitious, literary, and utterly accessible. Great Circle follows two women who yearn for adventure and freedom—aviator Marian Graves and starlet Hadley Baxter—and like flying, it's the thrill of the century. –Sarah Gelman Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir: As in The Martian, Weir makes science and problem solving not only cool but absolutely essential to survival. In Project Hail Mary, Weir delivers an electrifying space adventure sure to wrench your gut and pull at your heart strings. –Adrian Liang Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Ishiguro's quiet, emotional, and moving novel about a robot girl with artificial intelligence, who is designed as a playmate for real children, is a story that will captivate and haunt readers. –Chris Schluep The Amazon Books Editors Top Children's pick of 2021 is: The Beatryce Prophecyby Kate DiCamillo: An extraordinary tale of courage and found family, this book has all the hallmarks of an instant classic—a beautifully layered story with unforgettable characters who take root in your heart. –Seira Wilson Authors of the top three books—Amor Towles, Michelle Zauner, and Jean Hanff Korelitz—will participate in an Amazon Live Author Series conversation in celebration of the Best Books of the Year selection on November 16, 2021, at 9 a.m. PST. To tune in, visit Amazon Live. For more information about the books featured on the Best Books of the Year list, as well as insightful reviews of new books, author interviews, and hand-curated roundups in popular categories, visit the Amazon Book Review at www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview. You can also follow the Amazon Books Editors recommendations and conversations @amazonbooks on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211116005920/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amor Towles' </em>The Lincoln Highway<em> named best book of 2021</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2021-- Today, the Amazon Books Editors announced their selections for the Best Books of 2021, naming Amor Towles' <em>The Lincoln Highway</em> as the Best Book of the Year; Towles' <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>A Gentleman in Moscow</em> was also included in the Best Books selection in 2016. The annual list is hand-picked by a team of editors who read thousands of books each year. They share their recommendations with customers to help make holiday shopping easier. Featuring the top 100 books published this year, the editors' selections also break out the top 20 books in numerous categories, including mysteries, memoirs, children's books, and cookbooks. To explore the full list of the Best Books of 2021, visit amazon.com/bestbooks2021.</p><p>"This year, fiction reigned, with emerging and established authors telling stories of struggle, daring, and redemption," said Sarah Gelman, Editorial Director of Amazon Books. "We all had our personal favorites this year, but the one book the team unanimously agreed on was Amor Towles' <em>The Lincoln Highway</em>—we just couldn't stop talking about it. The four main characters' sense of innocence felt like the hope we needed as we end this year."</p><p><em>The Lincoln Highway </em>resonates with readers, too. The quote most often highlighted by Kindle readersis, "For what is kindness but the performance of an act that is both beneficial to another and unrequired?"</p><p>"It's a real honor to have <em>The Lincoln Highway</em> singled out by the team at Amazon," said Towles. "I can only hope that their confidence in the book is matched by the enjoyment of readers who join Emmett, Billy, Duchess, and Woolly on their fateful journey."</p><p>The Amazon Books Editors Top 10 picks of 2021, as described by the editors, are:</p><ol><li><em>The Lincoln Highway</em> by Amor Towles: Towles (<em>A Gentleman in Moscow</em>) might just have written one of the best novels of this decade, delivering one of the greatest gifts of fiction: hope. Filled with 1950s nostalgia and the gentle naïveté and hijinks of those who are young, optimistic, and on a mission, <em>The Lincoln Highway</em> follows four kids whose paths collide as they search for their mother and a stashed wad of cash. <em>–Al Woodworth</em></li><li><em>Crying in H Mart: A Memoir</em> by Michelle Zauner: You will laugh, you will cry, your stomach will rumble with hunger, and you'll tap your toe to the beat of this powerful mother-daughter and Korean American story that shows just how important it is to accept someone fully for who they are—and love them just the same. <em>–Al Woodworth</em></li><li><em>The Plot</em> by Jean Hanff Korelitz: A story within a story that is a Rubik's Cube of twists, <em>The Plot</em> follows an uninspired author fading into obscurity until his new book rockets him to fame. Only the plot isn't his, and someone knows it. Korelitz keeps us guessing—even when all seems clear—right up to the knockout ending. –<em>Seira Wilson</em></li><li><em>How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America</em> by Clint Smith: Smith's tour of places and landmarks linked to slavery is the type of book that can change your perspective, even if you have known of the places (or thought you did) your entire life. –<em>Chris Schluep</em></li><li><em>The Four Winds</em> by Kristin Hannah: Set during the Great Depression and featuring an unlikely heroine who will lodge herself in your heart, <em>The Four Winds</em> is a reminder, when we so urgently need it, of the resiliency not only of the human spirit, but of this country as well. Hannah's latest story reads like a classic. –<em>Erin Kodicek</em></li><li><em>Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty</em> by Patrick Radden Keefe: From the author of <em>Say Nothing</em> comes an addictive account of the Sackler family—the founders and masterminds behind OxyContin. From their rise by marketing pharmaceuticals, to the backdoor dealings of FDA approvals, to the front door dealings of museum philanthropy, this is an impossible-to-put-down true story of ambition, power, deception, and greed. <em>–Vannessa Cronin</em></li><li><em>Harlem Shuffle</em> by Colson Whitehead: The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner of <em>The Nickel Boys</em> and <em>The Underground Railroad</em> tells a blisteringly entertaining tale of schemers and dreamers, mobsters and crooks, elaborate heists and furniture fronts, and the thrilling mischief of those who are up to no good and others who are just trying to make a living. <em>–Al Woodworth</em></li><li><em>Great Circle</em> by Maggie Shipstead: Shipstead has accomplished the impossible—an epic novel that is ambitious, literary, and utterly accessible. <em>Great Circle</em> follows two women who yearn for adventure and freedom—aviator Marian Graves and starlet Hadley Baxter—and like flying, it's the thrill of the century. –<em>Sarah Gelman</em></li><li><em>Project Hail Mary</em> by Andy Weir: As in <em>The Martian</em>, Weir makes science and problem solving not only cool but absolutely essential to survival. In <em>Project Hail Mary</em>, Weir delivers an electrifying space adventure sure to wrench your gut and pull at your heart strings. –<em>Adrian Liang</em></li><li><em>Klara and the Sun</em> by Kazuo Ishiguro: Ishiguro's quiet, emotional, and moving novel about a robot girl with artificial intelligence, who is designed as a playmate for real children, is a story that will captivate and haunt readers. –<em>Chris Schluep</em></li></ol><p>The Amazon Books Editors Top Children's pick of 2021 is:</p><ol><li><em>The Beatryce Prophecy</em>by Kate DiCamillo: An extraordinary tale of courage and found family, this book has all the hallmarks of an instant classic—a beautifully layered story with unforgettable characters who take root in your heart. –<em>Seira Wilson</em></li></ol><p>Authors of the top three books—Amor Towles, Michelle Zauner, and Jean Hanff Korelitz—will participate in an Amazon Live Author Series conversation in celebration of the Best Books of the Year selection on November 16, 2021, at 9 a.m. PST. To tune in, visit Amazon Live.</p><p>For more information about the books featured on the Best Books of the Year list, as well as insightful reviews of new books, author interviews, and hand-curated roundups in popular categories, visit the Amazon Book Review at www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview. You can also follow the Amazon Books Editors recommendations and conversations @amazonbooks on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.</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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211116005920/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Qualtrics and AWS Expand Relationship to Transform Customer Feedback into Enhanced Experiences

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Qualtrics and AWS Expand Relationship to Transform Customer Feedback into Enhanced Experiences

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Leading experience management software provider selects AWS as its preferred cloud provider to support accelerated innovation, scale globally, and deliver actionable stakeholder insights faster Amazon will rely on Qualtrics' experience management technology to listen, understand, and act on customer and employee feedback SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Qualtrics (NASDAQ: XM) announced they are expanding their relationship, with Qualtrics migrating its internal IT systems and customer-facing workloads to the world's leading cloud. The migration includes Qualtrics' complete portfolio of experience management (XM) applications and its xFlow automated workflow system. Qualtrics selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to enhance operational performance, expand globally, and develop new features that help uncover deeper insights for its customers. Qualtrics will be able to provide customers with actionable insights faster and more efficiently using AWS's proven infrastructure and broad capabilities, including machine learning, analytics, databases, security, and compute. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211115005024/en/ Qualtrics' cloud-native technology aggregates customer and employee feedback and enables companies to analyze it and take action. Qualtrics is now moving its customer-facing workloads to AWS. For example, Qualtrics uses Amazon DynamoDB, AWS's key-value and document database service, as the underlying infrastructure for its XM Directory, the largest human sentiment database in the world with more than 4 billion customer and employee profiles. Qualtrics also uses Amazon SageMaker, a service that helps data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly, as the backbone for Qualtrics iQ, its machine learning-powered analytics suite that enables Qualtrics to develop its natural language processing models more efficiently and deliver actionable customer and employee insights faster. Amazon's customer and employee feedback programs will also be able to rely on Qualtrics to gather and analyze stakeholder feedback. Through Qualtrics' experience management technology, Amazon will be able to quickly understand customer and employee feedback to make data-driven decisions across multiple departments. "Qualtrics and Amazon share the same guiding principle of customer obsession, and our mutual strengths are helping both companies operate better. Using AWS's global infrastructure and breadth of machine learning and cloud capabilities will help us surface actionable insights at the speed that our customers, including Amazon, know and expect," said Qualtrics Chief Technology Officer John Thimsen. "More than 13,500 organizations rely on Qualtrics to deliver incredible customer and employee experiences, and we are continuously innovating on our technology to help customers unlock new growth opportunities in the experience transformation era." "Data is foundational to helping enterprises understand their operating landscape and improve the overall experience for their customers," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "AWS's industry-leading cloud capabilities and our proven global infrastructure give Qualtrics the ability to deliver timely, in-depth insights to customers with the utmost security and reliability. The strength and scale of this relationship will also help global companies such as ours use Qualtrics to deliver insights that can lead to improved outcomes around the world." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Qualtrics Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the Experience Management (XM) category, is changing the way organizations manage and improve the four core experiences of business—customer, employee, product and brand. Over 13,500 organizations around the world use Qualtrics to listen, understand and take action on experience data (X-data™)—the beliefs, emotions and intentions that tell you why things are happening, and what to do about it. The Qualtrics XM Platform™ is a system of action that helps businesses attract customers who stay longer and buy more, engage employees who build a positive culture, develop breakthrough products people love and build a brand people are passionate about. To learn more, please visit qualtrics.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211115005024/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Leading experience management software provider selects AWS as its preferred cloud provider to support accelerated innovation, scale globally, and deliver actionable stakeholder insights faster</em></p><p><em>Amazon will rely on Qualtrics' experience management technology to listen, understand, and act on customer and employee feedback</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Qualtrics (NASDAQ: XM) announced they are expanding their relationship, with Qualtrics migrating its internal IT systems and customer-facing workloads to the world's leading cloud. The migration includes Qualtrics' complete portfolio of experience management (XM) applications and its xFlow automated workflow system. Qualtrics selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to enhance operational performance, expand globally, and develop new features that help uncover deeper insights for its customers. Qualtrics will be able to provide customers with actionable insights faster and more efficiently using AWS's proven infrastructure and broad capabilities, including machine learning, analytics, databases, security, and compute.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211115005024/en/</p><p>Qualtrics' cloud-native technology aggregates customer and employee feedback and enables companies to analyze it and take action. Qualtrics is now moving its customer-facing workloads to AWS. For example, Qualtrics uses Amazon DynamoDB, AWS's key-value and document database service, as the underlying infrastructure for its XM Directory, the largest human sentiment database in the world with more than 4 billion customer and employee profiles. Qualtrics also uses Amazon SageMaker, a service that helps data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly, as the backbone for Qualtrics iQ, its machine learning-powered analytics suite that enables Qualtrics to develop its natural language processing models more efficiently and deliver actionable customer and employee insights faster.</p><p>Amazon's customer and employee feedback programs will also be able to rely on Qualtrics to gather and analyze stakeholder feedback. Through Qualtrics' experience management technology, Amazon will be able to quickly understand customer and employee feedback to make data-driven decisions across multiple departments.</p><p>"Qualtrics and Amazon share the same guiding principle of customer obsession, and our mutual strengths are helping both companies operate better. Using AWS's global infrastructure and breadth of machine learning and cloud capabilities will help us surface actionable insights at the speed that our customers, including Amazon, know and expect," said Qualtrics Chief Technology Officer John Thimsen. "More than 13,500 organizations rely on Qualtrics to deliver incredible customer and employee experiences, and we are continuously innovating on our technology to help customers unlock new growth opportunities in the experience transformation era."</p><p>"Data is foundational to helping enterprises understand their operating landscape and improve the overall experience for their customers," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "AWS's industry-leading cloud capabilities and our proven global infrastructure give Qualtrics the ability to deliver timely, in-depth insights to customers with the utmost security and reliability. The strength and scale of this relationship will also help global companies such as ours use Qualtrics to deliver insights that can lead to improved outcomes around the world."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Qualtrics</p><p>Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the Experience Management (XM) category, is changing the way organizations manage and improve the four core experiences of business—customer, employee, product and brand. Over 13,500 organizations around the world use Qualtrics to listen, understand and take action on experience data (X-data™)—the beliefs, emotions and intentions that tell you why things are happening, and what to do about it. The Qualtrics XM Platform™ is a system of action that helps businesses attract customers who stay longer and buy more, engage employees who build a positive culture, develop breakthrough products people love and build a brand people are passionate about. To learn more, please visit qualtrics.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211115005024/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces More Deals Than Ever Before for Its 48-Hour Black Friday Event

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11/15/2021 03:00:00

Amazon Announces More Deals Than Ever Before for Its 48-Hour Black Friday Event

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2021

Thousands of deals will be available for customers starting on Thursday, November 25, including deep discounts on select TVs from Samsung, Sony, and LG, select Alexa-enabled devices, and must-have toys from Fisher-Price, Barbie, and Disney, plus many more Amazon's year-round investments in people, technology, and transportation across its operations network helps ensure reliable delivery for customers this holiday season Prime members can rely on fast, free, and convenient delivery on millions of items throughout the holiday season, including One-Day Delivery coast-to-coast, Same-Day Delivery in more than 47 cities, and delivery in as fast as five hours from click-to-doorstep in 15 U.S. cities This Black Friday, customers can continue to support small businesses and shop thousands of deals from sellers, including women-owned, military family-owned, and Black-owned businesses SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon announced today that more Black Friday deals than ever before will be available starting on Thursday, November 25. Customers will be able to shop incredible deals with deep discounts on top products and must-have items, including new gadgets and electronics from Samsung; kid-favorite toys and baby essentials from Mattel and Cybex gb Pockit; must-have home and kitchen items from Instant Pot; seasonal fashion finds, including rag & bone from Shopbop; and beauty favorites from Sunday Riley, OPI, Color Wow, and many more. In addition, customers can find thousands of deals from Amazon's independent selling partners, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses, throughout Amazon's 48-hour Black Friday event, including deals from women-owned, military family-owned, and Black-owned businesses. Customers can also shop from Amazon's biggest selection of gift guides, including newly launched guides and longtime customer-favorites like Stocking Stuffers, Customer's Most Loved, and Holiday Toy List, along with the Electronics, Fashion, Beauty guides. Newly released gift guides include: Oprah's Favorite Things: Back for the seventh year, Oprah's Favorite Things list includes a coveted assortment of Oprah's must-have products, many from people of color and women-owned businesses, including Kiya Tomlin, Clara Sunwoo, and Saysh by Allyson Felix. Customers can visit amazon.com/oprah to shop now and receive 20% off select items in Oprah's list through December 31. Experts' Gift Picks Gift Guide: For those looking for gifting inspiration, Amazon dropped this star-studded list featuring top picks from A-list celebrities like Jessica Alba, Jojo Siwa, gold medalist Suni Lee and influencer duo Aint Afraid, and media outlets including BuzzFeed and Refinery29, among others. To view these gift guides and more, visit amazon.com/expertsgiftspicks. Luxury Stores Gift Guide: Discover special gifts to give and get this season with curated gift guides, featuring new arrivals in Luxury Stores, from Clé de Peau Beauté and RéVive Skincare to La Perla and Missoni. Shop limited edition beauty gift sets and festive looks for dressing up this holiday season, or find the perfect gift for friends and family. To view this gift guide and shop from luxury brands, visit amazon.com/luxurystores. Supporting Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Amazon's U.S. independent selling partners, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses,selling in Amazon's store sold more than 3.8 billion products in the 12 months ending August 31, 2021. This Black Friday, customers can continue to support small and save on gifts from small businesses, Amazon Handmade, and Amazon Launchpad, and by visiting amazon.com/supportsmall. Handmade artisans, entrepreneurs, and emerging brand owners can all be found on Amazon—including women-owned, military family-owned, and Black-owned businesses. Where and When to Shop The Black Friday 48-hour deal event, from November 25 through November 26, while supplies last, is available to shop on amazon.com/blackfriday, on the Amazon shopping app, at Amazon 4-star stores, Amazon Books stores, or by asking "Alexa, what are my deals?" Plus, Prime members get 30-minute early access to select Lightning Deals on Amazon throughout the holiday season, and every day. Customers can also watch livestreams on Black Friday to discover incredible holiday deals the minute they go live, including exciting deals revealed first via Amazon Live. Shop with celebrities, influencers, and experts who will help customers discover the best deals with product demonstrations, try-on hauls, and a live chat. Viewers will also be able to easily shop the featured products and brands through a carousel that updates in real-time. To watch, visit amazon.com/live or the Amazon Live shopping app on Fire TV. Black Friday Deals Preview Below is a sneak peek of top deals available during Amazon's Black Friday event, from November 25 through November 26. Holiday Toy List: Save on dolls, toys, and accessories from L.O.L. Surprise!, PAW Patrol, Bluey, Little Tikes, Fisher-Price, Barbie, Hot Wheels, and more. Save up to 30% on party games from Cards Against Humanity and gifts from Disney, Marvel, DC, and PJ Masks. Seasonal Fashion: Save on a selection of footwear, apparel, accessories, and best sellers, including up to 40% on Levi's for the family and up to 30% on adidas. Save up to 25% on select Fall Fashion styles from Shopbop, including rag & bone, Frame, and Mother Denim. Save up to 25% on a Made For You custom T-shirt, and up to 30% on Staples by The Drop. Plus, shoppers save $10 when they spend $50 on their first order from Prime Try Before You Buy, and both new and existing customers save $10 when they spend $50 with Personal Shopper by Prime Try Before You Buy (terms and conditions apply). Home Entertaining and Décor: Save up to 40% on Instant Brands kitchen appliances. Save up to 43% on robot, cordless, and upright vacuums from Shark. Save up to 30% on air purifiers from Levoit and Coway. Save up to 15% on select furniture. Electronics: Save up to 30% on select TVs from Samsung, Sony, and LG. Save on select headphones from Bose, Sony, and Beats. Save up to 29% on select Garmin watches and navigation products. Save up to 30% on select desktops, laptops, monitors, and tablets. Receive a $50 Amazon promotional credit with the purchase of Oculus Quest 2. Save $40 with the purchase of FlashForge Adventurer 3 Lite 3D Printer. Beauty: Save $50 on Sunday Riley Mini Vault Skincare Collection, an Amazon exclusive.Save up to 30% on lash serums and hair sprays from Grande Cosmetics and Color Wow. Save up to 40% on grooming appliances from Braun and Panasonic. Save up to 50% on Waterpik. Amazon Brands: Save up to 30% on men's and women's fashion. Save up to 30% on tech accessories and home products. Save up to 35% on fitness and wellness essentials. Save up to 40% on pet food from Wag. Save up to 20% on baby products from Mama Bear. Amazon Devices: Save up to 42% on select Alexa-enabled devices including Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen) Kids, Echo Buds (2nd Gen) with wired case, and Echo Frames (2nd Gen). Save up to 30% on Amazon Fire TV 50" 4-Series. Save up to 30% on the Kindle Oasis. Save up to 50% on the Fire TV Stick 4K. Save up to 50% on select Fire HD tablets. Save up to 30% on Blink video Doorbell. Save $20 on the Luna Controller. Tools, Garden, and Automotive: Save up to 30% on select DEWALT tools. Save up to 31% on select generators from DuroMax. Save up to 30% on select AeroGarden indoor gardens. Save up to 30% on select auto parts and accessories. Sports & Outdoors: Save up to 30% on select Coleman and Marmot equipment. Save up to 30% on select Team Sports products. Entertainment: Saveup to 50% on select Prime Video movies to rent or buy, from new releases to classics, plus hit TV shows, seasonal content, and more. And save with Amazon Music Unlimited, free for three months for new customers, or free for six months with the purchase of select Amazon Echo devices. Readers can also save up to 80% on 100+ best sellers on Kindle, 50% or more on select Kindle Exclusive titles, up to 50% on Amazon exclusive print titles, and up to 30% on children's books. Virtual Travel and Experiences: Save up to 50% on all Amazon Explore experiences, hosted by local experts, U.S. customers have access to a wide range of livestreamed, interactive experiences across the globe—all from the comfort of their homes. Customers can shop unique items, learn how holidays are celebrated around the world, and gift experiences to their friends & family. Investing in Our Team Amazon's extraordinary employees come together to deliver joyful experiences for customers year-round, and the company recently announced it's hiring an additional 125,000 full- and part- time positions and 150,000 seasonal jobs with an average starting pay of $18 per hour, sign-on bonuses of up to $3,000, and an additional $3 per hour depending on shifts in many locations. These employees are the heart and soul of Amazon, which is why the company has spent more than $15 billion across its fulfillment network to help keep employees safe and deliver products to customers. Additionally, the company has continued to invest in technology, aircraft, ships, and buildings to ensure it has the products customers want and need available throughout the season. Plus, it's putting more selection in fulfillment centers closer to customers, which is possible because of the sophisticated and innovative network Amazon has built over 20 years. These improvements mean customers can continue to rely on fast and efficient delivery throughout the holiday season and beyond. Fast, Free, and Convenient Delivery Options Free One-Day and 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 are available for Free Same-Day Delivery in 47 major metropolitan areas. Prime members can also shop over 3 million items available for delivery in as fast as five hours with faster Same-Day Delivery—now available in 15 cities. These fast delivery options are not only convenient for customers, but they're better for the planet. Same-Day deliveries ship from local fulfillment centers, so the items travel shorter distances and generate less carbon emissions. This is just another way Amazon is reducing the impact of climate change on future generations by building a sustainable business. Learn more at amazon.com/primedelivery or start a free 30-day trial of Prime at amazon.com/prime. Ultrafast Grocery Delivery and Pickup: Prime members in more than 5,000 cities and towns have access to two-hour grocery delivery on more than 170,000 products from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. With Amazon Fresh, Prime members get free two-hour delivery, plus free grocery pickup at select Amazon Fresh stores on orders over $35. Prime members can also find toys, gifts, household products, everyday essentials, electronics, Amazon devices, and more at Amazon Fresh. Prime members get free pickup on orders over $35 from Whole Foods Market stores nationwide. Delivery Where it's Needed Most: Whether customers are road-tripping to see family, staying home and need a secure delivery location, or sending a gift to a loved one or friend, Amazon provides thousands of package pickup locations for customers. 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 U.S. Tens of millions of products can be easily and conveniently delivered to an Amazon pickup point at Whole Foods Market, 7-11, Chase Bank, Rite-Aid, HealthMart, GNC, Stage Stores, and other locations. To find a location, visit amazon.com/hub. Extended Returns Window: Most of the items purchased between October 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021, can be returned until January 31, 2022. Get the latest news by visiting About Amazon, where you can find shopping tips and ways to save this season and learn more about holiday delivery. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. 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<p><em>Thousands of deals will be available for customers starting on Thursday, November 25, including deep discounts on select TVs from Samsung, Sony, and LG, select Alexa-enabled devices, and must-have toys from Fisher-Price, Barbie, and Disney, plus many more</em></p><p><em>Amazon's year-round investments in people, technology, and transportation across its operations network helps ensure reliable delivery for customers this holiday season</em></p><p><em>Prime members can rely on fast, free, and convenient delivery on millions of items throughout the holiday season, including One-Day Delivery coast-to-coast, Same-Day Delivery in more than 47 cities, and delivery in as fast as five hours from click-to-doorstep in 15 U.S. cities</em></p><p><em>This Black Friday, customers can continue to support small businesses and shop thousands of deals from sellers, including women-owned, military family-owned, and Black-owned businesses</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon announced today that more Black Friday deals than ever before will be available starting on Thursday, November 25. Customers will be able to shop incredible deals with deep discounts on top products and must-have items, including new gadgets and electronics from Samsung; kid-favorite toys and baby essentials from Mattel and Cybex gb Pockit; must-have home and kitchen items from Instant Pot; seasonal fashion finds, including rag &amp; bone from Shopbop; and beauty favorites from Sunday Riley, OPI, Color Wow, and many more. In addition, customers can find thousands of deals from Amazon's independent selling partners, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses, throughout Amazon's 48-hour Black Friday event, including deals from women-owned, military family-owned, and Black-owned businesses.</p><p>Customers can also shop from Amazon's biggest selection of gift guides, including newly launched guides and longtime customer-favorites like Stocking Stuffers, Customer's Most Loved, and Holiday Toy List, along with the Electronics, Fashion, Beauty guides. Newly released gift guides include:</p><ul><li>Oprah's Favorite Things: Back for the seventh year, Oprah's Favorite Things list includes a coveted assortment of Oprah's must-have products, many from people of color and women-owned businesses, including Kiya Tomlin, Clara Sunwoo, and Saysh by Allyson Felix. Customers can visit amazon.com/oprah to shop now and receive 20% off select items in Oprah's list through December 31.</li><li>Experts' Gift Picks Gift Guide: For those looking for gifting inspiration, Amazon dropped this star-studded list featuring top picks from A-list celebrities like Jessica Alba, Jojo Siwa, gold medalist Suni Lee and influencer duo Aint Afraid, and media outlets including BuzzFeed and Refinery29, among others. To view these gift guides and more, visit amazon.com/expertsgiftspicks.</li><li>Luxury Stores Gift Guide: Discover special gifts to give and get this season with curated gift guides, featuring new arrivals in Luxury Stores, from Clé de Peau Beauté and RéVive Skincare to La Perla and Missoni. Shop limited edition beauty gift sets and festive looks for dressing up this holiday season, or find the perfect gift for friends and family. To view this gift guide and shop from luxury brands, visit amazon.com/luxurystores.</li></ul><p>Supporting Small and Medium-Sized Businesses</p><p>Amazon's U.S. independent selling partners, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses,selling in Amazon's store sold more than 3.8 billion products in the 12 months ending August 31, 2021. This Black Friday, customers can continue to support small and save on gifts from small businesses, Amazon Handmade, and Amazon Launchpad, and by visiting amazon.com/supportsmall. Handmade artisans, entrepreneurs, and emerging brand owners can all be found on Amazon—including women-owned, military family-owned, and Black-owned businesses.</p><p>Where and When to Shop</p><p>The Black Friday 48-hour deal event, from November 25 through November 26, while supplies last, is available to shop on amazon.com/blackfriday, on the Amazon shopping app, at Amazon 4-star stores, Amazon Books stores, or by asking "Alexa, what are my deals?" Plus, Prime members get 30-minute early access to select Lightning Deals on Amazon throughout the holiday season, and every day.</p><p>Customers can also watch livestreams on Black Friday to discover incredible holiday deals the minute they go live, including exciting deals revealed first via Amazon Live. Shop with celebrities, influencers, and experts who will help customers discover the best deals with product demonstrations, try-on hauls, and a live chat. Viewers will also be able to easily shop the featured products and brands through a carousel that updates in real-time. To watch, visit amazon.com/live or the Amazon Live shopping app on Fire TV.</p><p>Black Friday Deals Preview</p><p>Below is a sneak peek of top deals available during Amazon's Black Friday event, from November 25 through November 26.</p><ul><li>Holiday Toy List: Save on dolls, toys, and accessories from L.O.L. Surprise!, PAW Patrol, Bluey, Little Tikes, Fisher-Price, Barbie, Hot Wheels, and more. Save up to 30% on party games from Cards Against Humanity and gifts from Disney, Marvel, DC, and PJ Masks.</li><li>Seasonal Fashion: Save on a selection of footwear, apparel, accessories, and best sellers, including up to 40% on Levi's for the family and up to 30% on adidas. Save up to 25% on select Fall Fashion styles from Shopbop, including rag &amp; bone, Frame, and Mother Denim. Save up to 25% on a Made For You custom T-shirt, and up to 30% on Staples by The Drop. Plus, shoppers save $10 when they spend $50 on their first order from Prime Try Before You Buy, and both new and existing customers save $10 when they spend $50 with Personal Shopper by Prime Try Before You Buy (terms and conditions apply).</li><li>Home Entertaining and Décor: Save up to 40% on Instant Brands kitchen appliances. Save up to 43% on robot, cordless, and upright vacuums from Shark. Save up to 30% on air purifiers from Levoit and Coway. Save up to 15% on select furniture.</li><li>Electronics: Save up to 30% on select TVs from Samsung, Sony, and LG. Save on select headphones from Bose, Sony, and Beats. Save up to 29% on select Garmin watches and navigation products. Save up to 30% on select desktops, laptops, monitors, and tablets. Receive a $50 Amazon promotional credit with the purchase of Oculus Quest 2. Save $40 with the purchase of FlashForge Adventurer 3 Lite 3D Printer.</li><li>Beauty: Save $50 on Sunday Riley Mini Vault Skincare Collection, an Amazon exclusive.Save up to 30% on lash serums and hair sprays from Grande Cosmetics and Color Wow. Save up to 40% on grooming appliances from Braun and Panasonic. Save up to 50% on Waterpik.</li><li>Amazon Brands: Save up to 30% on men's and women's fashion. Save up to 30% on tech accessories and home products. Save up to 35% on fitness and wellness essentials. Save up to 40% on pet food from Wag. Save up to 20% on baby products from Mama Bear.</li><li>Amazon Devices: Save up to 42% on select Alexa-enabled devices including Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen) Kids, Echo Buds (2nd Gen) with wired case, and Echo Frames (2nd Gen). Save up to 30% on Amazon Fire TV 50" 4-Series. Save up to 30% on the Kindle Oasis. Save up to 50% on the Fire TV Stick 4K. Save up to 50% on select Fire HD tablets. Save up to 30% on Blink video Doorbell. Save $20 on the Luna Controller.</li><li>Tools, Garden, and Automotive: Save up to 30% on select DEWALT tools. Save up to 31% on select generators from DuroMax. Save up to 30% on select AeroGarden indoor gardens. Save up to 30% on select auto parts and accessories.</li><li>Sports &amp; Outdoors: Save up to 30% on select Coleman and Marmot equipment. Save up to 30% on select Team Sports products.</li><li>Entertainment: Saveup to 50% on select Prime Video movies to rent or buy, from new releases to classics, plus hit TV shows, seasonal content, and more. And save with Amazon Music Unlimited, free for three months for new customers, or free for six months with the purchase of select Amazon Echo devices. Readers can also save up to 80% on 100+ best sellers on Kindle, 50% or more on select Kindle Exclusive titles, up to 50% on Amazon exclusive print titles, and up to 30% on children's books.</li><li>Virtual Travel and Experiences: Save up to 50% on all Amazon Explore experiences, hosted by local experts, U.S. customers have access to a wide range of livestreamed, interactive experiences across the globe—all from the comfort of their homes. Customers can shop unique items, learn how holidays are celebrated around the world, and gift experiences to their friends &amp; family.</li></ul><p>Investing in Our Team</p><p>Amazon's extraordinary employees come together to deliver joyful experiences for customers year-round, and the company recently announced it's hiring an additional 125,000 full- and part- time positions and 150,000 seasonal jobs with an average starting pay of $18 per hour, sign-on bonuses of up to $3,000, and an additional $3 per hour depending on shifts in many locations. These employees are the heart and soul of Amazon, which is why the company has spent more than $15 billion across its fulfillment network to help keep employees safe and deliver products to customers. Additionally, the company has continued to invest in technology, aircraft, ships, and buildings to ensure it has the products customers want and need available throughout the season. Plus, it's putting more selection in fulfillment centers closer to customers, which is possible because of the sophisticated and innovative network Amazon has built over 20 years. These improvements mean customers can continue to rely on fast and efficient delivery throughout the holiday season and beyond.</p><p>Fast, Free, and Convenient Delivery Options</p><ul><li>Free One-Day and 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 are available for Free Same-Day Delivery in 47 major metropolitan areas. Prime members can also shop over 3 million items available for delivery in as fast as five hours with faster Same-Day Delivery—now available in 15 cities. These fast delivery options are not only convenient for customers, but they're better for the planet. Same-Day deliveries ship from local fulfillment centers, so the items travel shorter distances and generate less carbon emissions. This is just another way Amazon is reducing the impact of climate change on future generations by building a sustainable business. Learn more at amazon.com/primedelivery or start a free 30-day trial of Prime at amazon.com/prime.</li><li>Ultrafast Grocery Delivery and Pickup: Prime members in more than 5,000 cities and towns have access to two-hour grocery delivery on more than 170,000 products from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. With Amazon Fresh, Prime members get free two-hour delivery, plus free grocery pickup at select Amazon Fresh stores on orders over $35. Prime members can also find toys, gifts, household products, everyday essentials, electronics, Amazon devices, and more at Amazon Fresh. Prime members get free pickup on orders over $35 from Whole Foods Market stores nationwide.</li><li>Delivery Where it's Needed Most: Whether customers are road-tripping to see family, staying home and need a secure delivery location, or sending a gift to a loved one or friend, Amazon provides thousands of package pickup locations for customers. 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 U.S. Tens of millions of products can be easily and conveniently delivered to an Amazon pickup point at Whole Foods Market, 7-11, Chase Bank, Rite-Aid, HealthMart, GNC, Stage Stores, and other locations. To find a location, visit amazon.com/hub.</li><li>Extended Returns Window: Most of the items purchased between October 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021, can be returned until January 31, 2022.</li></ul><p>Get the latest news by visiting About Amazon, where you can find shopping tips and ways to save this season and learn more about holiday delivery.</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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211115005447/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Under Armour Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider for SAP Environments

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Under Armour Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider for SAP Environments

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One of the world's leading athletic performance brands moves business-critical SAP workloads to AWS to increase reliability and scalability, and accelerate digital transformation SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE: UA, UAA) has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for SAP to increase resilience, enhance security, and provide more significant insights across its business. The athletic performance brand completed the migration of its SAP environments to AWS earlier this year, providing the foundation for improving performance and visibility across its design, merchandising, planning, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales distribution channels. Under Armour will now integrate its SAP environments with AWS's broad and deep set of technologies, including analytics, machine learning, compute, and storage. Powered by the world's leading cloud, this modernization brings a range of AWS capabilities to fuel innovation in areas like 3D apparel and footwear design, digitally connected footwear and apparel, resource-efficient production, direct-to-consumer sales, and global wholesale distribution. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211110005192/en/ "AWS is a critical element of our digital transformation, and we look forward to harnessing its industry-leading cloud capabilities as we enter our next stage of growth," said Under Armour Chief Technology Officer Danny Miles. "With SAP in the cloud, we can now apply deep analytics and machine learning capabilities to drive greater efficiency across our business. With AWS, we are optimizing our product innovation processes to deliver premium consumer experiences wherever and whenever our customers choose to engage our brand." Under Armour accelerated its SAP migration with the help of the AWS Professional Services team, shifting its SAP landscape to the cloud in less than six months. As part of the migration, Under Armour moved its enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply network collaboration, global trade services, enterprise reporting (BI, BOBJ), integration (PI/PO, data services), SAP Fiori, and solution manager workloads to AWS. Following the migration, the company implemented CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, AWS's service for scalable, cost-effective business continuity for physical, virtual, and cloud servers. With this move, Under Armour can maintain optimum system performance and minimize downtime and data loss with a cross-Region disaster recovery solution that includes 65 servers replicating from one AWS Region to another. "Under Armour set out to find the best cloud environment for its most crucial applications and achieved that with AWS. We're helping Under Armour improve its responsiveness and scalability companywide, while operating more securely," said Greg Pearson, Vice President of Worldwide Commercial Sales at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "As the operational backbone of Under Armour's business, maintaining a resilient SAP landscape is essential to empowering operational efficiency and speed to market. Like thousands of organizations that choose to run their SAP workloads on AWS, Under Armour did so because of our reliable and scalable infrastructure and breadth of services that help them get the most value out of their data." Backed by its unmatched experience in running SAP workloads, AWS helps customers get the best performance and most value from their mission-critical SAP platforms. Running SAP on AWS gives customers the control and confidence to securely run their business, leveraging the most reliable and scalable infrastructure, the broadest set of cloud capabilities, and the largest community of technology partners to help with SAP migration and modernization. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Under Armour Under Armour, Inc., headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is a leading inventor, marketer and distributor of branded athletic performance apparel, footwear and accessories. Designed to empower human performance, Under Armour's innovative products and experiences are engineered to make athletes better. For further information, please visit http://about.underarmour.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211110005192/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>One of the world's leading athletic performance brands moves business-critical SAP workloads to AWS to increase reliability and scalability, and accelerate digital transformation</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE: UA, UAA) has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for SAP to increase resilience, enhance security, and provide more significant insights across its business. The athletic performance brand completed the migration of its SAP environments to AWS earlier this year, providing the foundation for improving performance and visibility across its design, merchandising, planning, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales distribution channels. Under Armour will now integrate its SAP environments with AWS's broad and deep set of technologies, including analytics, machine learning, compute, and storage. Powered by the world's leading cloud, this modernization brings a range of AWS capabilities to fuel innovation in areas like 3D apparel and footwear design, digitally connected footwear and apparel, resource-efficient production, direct-to-consumer sales, and global wholesale distribution.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211110005192/en/</p><p>"AWS is a critical element of our digital transformation, and we look forward to harnessing its industry-leading cloud capabilities as we enter our next stage of growth," said Under Armour Chief Technology Officer Danny Miles. "With SAP in the cloud, we can now apply deep analytics and machine learning capabilities to drive greater efficiency across our business. With AWS, we are optimizing our product innovation processes to deliver premium consumer experiences wherever and whenever our customers choose to engage our brand."</p><p>Under Armour accelerated its SAP migration with the help of the AWS Professional Services team, shifting its SAP landscape to the cloud in less than six months. As part of the migration, Under Armour moved its enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply network collaboration, global trade services, enterprise reporting (BI, BOBJ), integration (PI/PO, data services), SAP Fiori, and solution manager workloads to AWS. Following the migration, the company implemented CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, AWS's service for scalable, cost-effective business continuity for physical, virtual, and cloud servers. With this move, Under Armour can maintain optimum system performance and minimize downtime and data loss with a cross-Region disaster recovery solution that includes 65 servers replicating from one AWS Region to another.</p><p>"Under Armour set out to find the best cloud environment for its most crucial applications and achieved that with AWS. We're helping Under Armour improve its responsiveness and scalability companywide, while operating more securely," said Greg Pearson, Vice President of Worldwide Commercial Sales at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "As the operational backbone of Under Armour's business, maintaining a resilient SAP landscape is essential to empowering operational efficiency and speed to market. Like thousands of organizations that choose to run their SAP workloads on AWS, Under Armour did so because of our reliable and scalable infrastructure and breadth of services that help them get the most value out of their data."</p><p>Backed by its unmatched experience in running SAP workloads, AWS helps customers get the best performance and most value from their mission-critical SAP platforms. Running SAP on AWS gives customers the control and confidence to securely run their business, leveraging the most reliable and scalable infrastructure, the broadest set of cloud capabilities, and the largest community of technology partners to help with SAP migration and modernization.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Under Armour</p><p>Under Armour, Inc., headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is a leading inventor, marketer and distributor of branded athletic performance apparel, footwear and accessories. Designed to empower human performance, Under Armour's innovative products and experiences are engineered to make athletes better. For further information, please visit http://about.underarmour.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211110005192/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Announces the Launch of Amazon Music for Colombia and Chile, Giving Customers Access to Millions of Songs in the Highest-Quality Audio, On-Demand and Ad-Free

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Amazon Announces the Launch of Amazon Music for Colombia and Chile, Giving Customers Access to Millions of Songs in the Highest-Quality Audio, On-Demand and Ad-Free

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Amazon Music offers two streaming tiers for Colombia and Chile, including Amazon Music Unlimited, with unlimited access to more than 75 million songs in the highest-quality audio, including today's hottest new releases and thousands of playlists and stations, on-demand and ad-free Customers can also access an ad-supported selection of top playlists, thousands of stations, and millions of episodes of podcasts for free on their favorite devices New customers can subscribe today for three-month trial of Amazon Music Unlimited at no additional cost SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon Music for Colombia and Chile, bringing music fans millions of songs streaming in the highest-quality audio, thousands of locally programmed playlists and stations, top podcasts they already know and love, live streaming in partnership with Twitch, and new Original shows produced exclusively for Amazon Music. To download high-res images, click here. Beginning today, customers in Colombia and Chile can access Amazon Music Unlimited, the music-subscription tier with unlimited access to more than 75 million songs in High Definition, and millions of songs in Ultra High Definition, the highest-quality streaming audio available, ad-free and on-demand. Music fans can also access an ad-supported selection of top playlists and thousands of stations for free, no subscription or credit card required. With Amazon Music, listeners will enjoy chart-topping releases from local and international artists, including J Balvin, Karol G, and Silvestre Dangond in Colombia and Mon Laferte, Gepe, and Denise Rosenthal in Chile, along with locally curated playlists and stations, developed specifically for today's music fan in each country. "We're extremely excited to expand Amazon Music in Latin America and bring music fans even more choice and ways of discovering music," said Federico Pedersen, head of Latin America for Amazon Music. "This is an innovative time in the industry and we're looking forward to offering artists in Colombia and Chile the opportunity to engage with their fans in new ways. Our team has focused heavily on curating a wide breadth of content, including podcasts, playlists, and stations, to spotlight the diversity of each country's music and creators to delight our customers." Amazon Music customers can choose from a diverse selection of locally curated playlists and stations covering popular genres specific to the regions, including rock, cumbia, folk, and reggaeton, as well as new music from international artists rising on the global charts. Starting today, Amazon Music listeners can begin streaming the following playlists: In Colombia: "Hecho en Colombia" — Featuring an expertly curated list of local artists across different genres, including Andy Rivera, Bomba Estéreo, Carlos Vives, Juanes, Las Villa, and Monsieur Periné. "Farra Popular" — Updated weekly with top tracks from the biggest names of the genre, like Jessi Uribe, Jhonny Rivera, Paola Jara, Pipe Bueno, and Yeison Jiménez. "Viva Vallenato" — A new global playlist dedicated to the genre, with tunes from Diomedes Diaz, Diego Daza, Felipe Peláez, Los Inquietos del Vallenato, Silvestre Dangond, and more. In Chile: "Platino" — A global playlist updated every Friday with the hottest Latin hits by artists like Camilo, J Balvin, Jhay Cortez, Karol G, and Maluma. "Las Chilenas" —A new playlist featuring female voices from Chile, like Yorka, Francisca Valenzuela, and SOULFIA. "TOPÍSIMO" —From Chile to the world, a playlist featuring national tracks from Princesa Alba, Cami, Harry Nach and more. With Amazon Music Unlimited, customers can stream music in High Definition and Ultra HD, the highest quality streaming audio available, at no extra cost to their subscription. Customers can also stream music mixed in spatial audio on multiple devices, including iOS and Android devices, with their existing headphones and on select devices that support Alexa Cast. With Amazon Music Unlimited, customers can stream more than 75 million lossless, High Definition (HD) songs, with a bit depth of 16 bits and a sample rate of at least 44.1 kHz (CD quality). Customers can also stream more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD (better than CD quality), with a bit depth of 24 bits and a sample rate up to 192 kHz, which reveals even more nuances that were once lost in files compressed for digital streaming. All customers, no matter the streaming tier, will have access to millions of podcast episodes at no additional cost.Since Amazon Music launched podcasts in 2020, it has become a premier destination for podcast listeners and creators. Popular Spanish-language shows such as Despertando Podcast, La Cosa Nostra, Mesa Central, Hablemos de Comedia, Relatos de la Noche, Hablemos en Off, En Terapia con Roberto Rocha, and Relatos en Inglés con Duolingo are now available in Chile, along with millions of additional episodes, and more being added all the time. DianaUribe.fm, Curiosidades de la Historia de National Geographic, Radio Ambulante, El Topo, and Se Regalan Dudas are available now in Colombia. Podcasts from leading media partners COPESA, RDF Media, Radio Cooperativa, National Geographic, Sonoro, and TED in Chile, and Caracol Radio, Blu Radio, National Geographic, Sonoro, and TED in Colombia will be available globally on Amazon Music,including in the United States and anywhere the service is currently available. Original shows produced exclusively for Amazon Music in Spanish in Chile will be launching in the coming months. Customers in Colombia and Chile can now sign up for a free, three-month trial of Amazon Music Unlimited for a limited time before choosing from three plan options. In Colombia, Amazon Music Unlimited is available at the Echo Plan, which allows unlimited streaming in a single Echo device for $7,105 COP/month, the Individual Plan for $14,900 COP/month, or the Family Plan, which allows up to six members of the same family to use one subscription, for only $23,900 COP/month. In Chile, Amazon Music Unlimited is available at the Echo / Fire TV Plan, which allows unlimited streaming in a single Echo device or Fire TV for CLP$2,200.00/month, the Individual Plan for CLP$4,150.00/month, or the Family Plan, which allows up to six members of the same family to use one subscription, for only CLP$6,290.00/month. For more information about Amazon Music for Colombia, customers can visit www.amazon.com/amazonmusicco, follow @amazonmusicco on Instagram or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmazonMusicCO For more information about Amazon Music for Chile, customers can visit www.amazon.com/amazonmusiccl and follow @amazonmusiccl on Instagram or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmazonMusicCL 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 75 million songs and the latest new releases. Amazon Music Unlimited customers also have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 75 million songs available in High Definition (HD), more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of spatial 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 www.amazon.com/amazonmusic 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer‑Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211110005702/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon Music offers two streaming tiers for Colombia and Chile, including Amazon Music Unlimited, with unlimited access to more than 75 million songs in the highest-quality audio, including today's hottest new releases and thousands of playlists and stations, on-demand and ad-free</em></p><p><em>Customers can also access an ad-supported selection of top playlists, thousands of stations, and millions of episodes of podcasts for free on their favorite devices</em></p><p><em>New customers can subscribe today for three-month trial of Amazon Music Unlimited at no additional cost</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon Music for Colombia and Chile, bringing music fans millions of songs streaming in the highest-quality audio, thousands of locally programmed playlists and stations, top podcasts they already know and love, live streaming in partnership with Twitch, and new Original shows produced exclusively for Amazon Music.</p><p>To download high-res images, click here.</p><p>Beginning today, customers in Colombia and Chile can access Amazon Music Unlimited, the music-subscription tier with unlimited access to more than 75 million songs in High Definition, and millions of songs in Ultra High Definition, the highest-quality streaming audio available, ad-free and on-demand. Music fans can also access an ad-supported selection of top playlists and thousands of stations for free, no subscription or credit card required.</p><p>With Amazon Music, listeners will enjoy chart-topping releases from local and international artists, including J Balvin, Karol G, and Silvestre Dangond in Colombia and Mon Laferte, Gepe, and Denise Rosenthal in Chile, along with locally curated playlists and stations, developed specifically for today's music fan in each country.</p><p>"We're extremely excited to expand Amazon Music in Latin America and bring music fans even more choice and ways of discovering music," said Federico Pedersen, head of Latin America for Amazon Music. "This is an innovative time in the industry and we're looking forward to offering artists in Colombia and Chile the opportunity to engage with their fans in new ways. Our team has focused heavily on curating a wide breadth of content, including podcasts, playlists, and stations, to spotlight the diversity of each country's music and creators to delight our customers."</p><p>Amazon Music customers can choose from a diverse selection of locally curated playlists and stations covering popular genres specific to the regions, including rock, cumbia, folk, and reggaeton, as well as new music from international artists rising on the global charts. Starting today, Amazon Music listeners can begin streaming the following playlists:</p><p>In Colombia:</p><ul><li>"Hecho en Colombia" — Featuring an expertly curated list of local artists across different genres, including Andy Rivera, Bomba Estéreo, Carlos Vives, Juanes, Las Villa, and Monsieur Periné.</li><li>"Farra Popular" — Updated weekly with top tracks from the biggest names of the genre, like Jessi Uribe, Jhonny Rivera, Paola Jara, Pipe Bueno, and Yeison Jiménez.</li><li>"Viva Vallenato" — A new global playlist dedicated to the genre, with tunes from Diomedes Diaz, Diego Daza, Felipe Peláez, Los Inquietos del Vallenato, Silvestre Dangond, and more.</li></ul><p>In Chile:</p><ul><li>"Platino" — A global playlist updated every Friday with the hottest Latin hits by artists like Camilo, J Balvin, Jhay Cortez, Karol G, and Maluma.</li><li>"Las Chilenas" —A new playlist featuring female voices from Chile, like Yorka, Francisca Valenzuela, and SOULFIA.</li><li>"TOPÍSIMO" —From Chile to the world, a playlist featuring national tracks from Princesa Alba, Cami, Harry Nach and more.</li></ul><p>With Amazon Music Unlimited, customers can stream music in High Definition and Ultra HD, the highest quality streaming audio available, at no extra cost to their subscription. Customers can also stream music mixed in spatial audio on multiple devices, including iOS and Android devices, with their existing headphones and on select devices that support Alexa Cast. With Amazon Music Unlimited, customers can stream more than 75 million lossless, High Definition (HD) songs, with a bit depth of 16 bits and a sample rate of at least 44.1 kHz (CD quality). Customers can also stream more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD (better than CD quality), with a bit depth of 24 bits and a sample rate up to 192 kHz, which reveals even more nuances that were once lost in files compressed for digital streaming.</p><p>All customers, no matter the streaming tier, will have access to millions of podcast episodes at no additional cost.Since Amazon Music launched podcasts in 2020, it has become a premier destination for podcast listeners and creators. Popular Spanish-language shows such as <em>Despertando Podcast</em>, <em>La Cosa Nostra, Mesa Central, Hablemos de Comedia, Relatos de la Noche, Hablemos en Off, En Terapia con Roberto Rocha</em>, and <em>Relatos en Inglés</em> <em>con</em> <em>Duolingo</em> are now available in Chile, along with millions of additional episodes, and more being added all the time. <em>DianaUribe.fm</em>, <em>Curiosidades de la Historia de National Geographic</em>, <em>Radio Ambulante</em>, <em>El Topo</em>, and <em>Se Regalan Dudas</em> are available now in Colombia. Podcasts from leading media partners COPESA, RDF Media, Radio Cooperativa, National Geographic, Sonoro, and TED in Chile, and Caracol Radio, Blu Radio, National Geographic, Sonoro, and TED in Colombia will be available globally on Amazon Music,including in the United States and anywhere the service is currently available. Original shows produced exclusively for Amazon Music in Spanish in Chile will be launching in the coming months.</p><p>Customers in Colombia and Chile can now sign up for a free, three-month trial of Amazon Music Unlimited for a limited time before choosing from three plan options. In Colombia, Amazon Music Unlimited is available at the Echo Plan, which allows unlimited streaming in a single Echo device for $7,105 COP/month, the Individual Plan for $14,900 COP/month, or the Family Plan, which allows up to six members of the same family to use one subscription, for only $23,900 COP/month. In Chile, Amazon Music Unlimited is available at the Echo / Fire TV Plan, which allows unlimited streaming in a single Echo device or Fire TV for CLP$2,200.00/month, the Individual Plan for CLP$4,150.00/month, or the Family Plan, which allows up to six members of the same family to use one subscription, for only CLP$6,290.00/month.</p><p>For more information about Amazon Music for Colombia, customers can visit www.amazon.com/amazonmusicco, follow @amazonmusicco on Instagram or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmazonMusicCO</p><p>For more information about Amazon Music for Chile, customers can visit www.amazon.com/amazonmusiccl and follow @amazonmusiccl on Instagram or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmazonMusicCL</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 75 million songs and the latest new releases. Amazon Music Unlimited customers also have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 75 million songs available in High Definition (HD), more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of spatial 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 www.amazon.com/amazonmusic 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer‑Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211110005702/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Expands Investment with Four New Operations Sites in Alabama

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Announces two new fulfillment centers in Huntsville, a Receive Center in Montgomery, and a delivery station in Birmingham Amazon has created more than 9,000 jobs in Alabama, with an additional 500 full-time roles expected by the end of 2021 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN) today announced plans for three new operations facilities in Alabama and celebrates the launch of a new fulfillment center that will support customers across the state. "We are proud to continue our investment in Alabama with thousands of good jobs and new, state-of-the-art operations facilities," said Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy at Amazon. "Our success would not be possible without our great employees and we are grateful for the enthusiasm and strong state and local support we have received since first launching operations in 2020. We look forward to continued investment as we innovate and grow to better serve our customers across the state." "Amazon's decision to simultaneously launch and announce these projects in Alabama shows the high level of confidence the company has in the abilities of our hard-working citizens, who have shown time and time again that they can get the job done," Governor Kay Ivey said. "Companies from around the world have discovered that Alabama offers them all the ingredients of success, and this is another prime example." Amazon has created more than 9,000 direct jobs statewide and invested more than $1 billion in Alabama in infrastructure and compensation to employees. The company plans to add more than 500 full-time jobs to its operation by the end of 2021 and have created more than 1,800 seasonal positions across the state in preparation for the holiday season. The fulfillment and transportation jobs support communities of all sizes, pay a minimum starting wage of $15 per hour-which is more than double the federal and state minimum wage—and provide comprehensive health benefits on the first day of employment, paid time off, up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave, and more for employees and their families. New Amazon Sites Coming to Alabama Birmingham Delivery Station: In November, Amazon plans to expand the delivery services in greater Birmingham. This new station will employ approximately 150 people and create indirect job opportunities for hundreds of people through the empowerment of the Delivery Service Partner program. Huntsville XL Fulfillment Center: In 2022, Amazon will open its third fulfillment center. This "XL" Non-Sortable facility is designed to receive, store, and package heavy or bulky items like home appliances. The 1 million-square-foot facility in Limestone County will provide more than 250 full-time jobs and will utilize innovative technologies and energy-efficient, zero-emission power industrialized truck (PIT) equipment. Montgomery Receive Center: In 2022, Amazon will open an Inbound Cross Dock facility that will receive and consolidate items from vendors and facilitate shipment to fulfillment centers. This 650,000 square foot facility will provide more than 500 full-time jobs. Alabama Site Now Officially Launched: Huntsville Non-Sortable Fulfillment Center: Amazon's new Huntsville Non-Sortable Fulfillment Center is now open for business. This is the first of two fulfillment centers in the area. This nearly 1 million square foot facility has created hundreds of full-time jobs and allows Amazon employees to pick, pack, and ship larger items to customers, such as bulk paper goods, outdoor equipment, or rugs. Additionally, this facility utilizes innovative technologies and energy-efficient, zero-emission power industrialized truck (PIT) equipment. Positions are available at all new operations facilities. Interested candidates can visit www.hiring.amazon.com, to learn more. For fulfillment center and delivery station images and b-roll, please visit https://press.aboutamazon.com/images-videos. Additional Quotes – Huntsville: Mayor Tommy Battle, Huntsville "The growth of Huntsville and North Alabama is a natural fit for Amazon's fulfillment centers as the company expands its physical distribution network. We welcome the new job opportunities and service options Amazon will bring to the region." Chip Cherry, Chamber President & CEO: "We are pleased to welcome Amazon to an area of the city that is really growing. This is one in a series of recent developments, bringing exciting new opportunities for people in our region for years to come." Chairman Collin Daly, Limestone County Commission "This is the second exciting announcement in Limestone County from Amazon. This investment in our county and the 250 jobs that will be created by this project, will greatly impact our future for many years. We would like to thank Amazon for believing in us, selecting our county for their second fulfilment center, and we look forward to being a part of their success in the future." John Meredith, Huntsville City Council Representative, District 5 "The Amazon facility is proving to be a fantastic addition to the District 5 Huntsville/Limestone County family of businesses. This non-sort fulfillment center will bring over 500 much needed, well paying, full time jobs to area citizens," said John Meredith. "Combined with a second fulfillment center responsible for large bulky items, Amazon expects to provide in excess of 750 new jobs operating out of a 2 million square feet of state-of-the-art warehouse space by this time next year." Additional Quotes – Montgomery County Commission Chairman Elton Dean "We are proud to welcome Amazon to Montgomery County and into this growing community of diverse industries," said County Commission Chairman Elton Dean. "This facility will provide excellent opportunities for our citizens and pave the way for even more growth and investment in our area." Mayor Steven L. Reed "Amazon's major investment shows that Montgomery is on the map and an essential part of logistics solutions for major brands and industries," said Montgomery Mayor Steven L. Reed. "We're eager to grow this partnership on behalf of the Montgomerians who will benefit from the careers that this new facility will bring." Additional Quotes – Birmingham Chief Executive Officer, Birmingham Business Alliance, Ron Kitchens "We are incredibly proud and grateful for the continuing investment that Amazon had made in the Birmingham region, the 150 new jobs coming online will ensure families have well-paying jobs with access to educational benefits that are truly life changing." 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. 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<p><em>Announces two new fulfillment centers in Huntsville, a Receive Center in Montgomery, and a delivery station in Birmingham</em></p><p><em>Amazon has created more than 9,000 jobs in Alabama, with an additional 500 full-time roles expected by the end of 2021</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN) today announced plans for three new operations facilities in Alabama and celebrates the launch of a new fulfillment center that will support customers across the state.</p><p>"We are proud to continue our investment in Alabama with thousands of good jobs and new, state-of-the-art operations facilities," said Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy at Amazon. "Our success would not be possible without our great employees and we are grateful for the enthusiasm and strong state and local support we have received since first launching operations in 2020. We look forward to continued investment as we innovate and grow to better serve our customers across the state."</p><p>"Amazon's decision to simultaneously launch and announce these projects in Alabama shows the high level of confidence the company has in the abilities of our hard-working citizens, who have shown time and time again that they can get the job done," Governor Kay Ivey said. "Companies from around the world have discovered that Alabama offers them all the ingredients of success, and this is another prime example."</p><p>Amazon has created more than 9,000 direct jobs statewide and invested more than $1 billion in Alabama in infrastructure and compensation to employees. The company plans to add more than 500 full-time jobs to its operation by the end of 2021 and have created more than 1,800 seasonal positions across the state in preparation for the holiday season. The fulfillment and transportation jobs support communities of all sizes, pay a minimum starting wage of $15 per hour-which is more than double the federal and state minimum wage—and provide comprehensive health benefits on the first day of employment, paid time off, up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave, and more for employees and their families.</p><p>New Amazon Sites Coming to Alabama</p><ul><li>Birmingham Delivery Station: In November, Amazon plans to expand the delivery services in greater Birmingham. This new station will employ approximately 150 people and create indirect job opportunities for hundreds of people through the empowerment of the Delivery Service Partner program.</li><li>Huntsville XL Fulfillment Center: In 2022, Amazon will open its third fulfillment center. This "XL" Non-Sortable facility is designed to receive, store, and package heavy or bulky items like home appliances. The 1 million-square-foot facility in Limestone County will provide more than 250 full-time jobs and will utilize innovative technologies and energy-efficient, zero-emission power industrialized truck (PIT) equipment.</li><li>Montgomery Receive Center: In 2022, Amazon will open an Inbound Cross Dock facility that will receive and consolidate items from vendors and facilitate shipment to fulfillment centers. This 650,000 square foot facility will provide more than 500 full-time jobs.</li></ul><p>Alabama Site Now Officially Launched:</p><ul><li>Huntsville Non-Sortable Fulfillment Center: Amazon's new Huntsville Non-Sortable Fulfillment Center is now open for business. This is the first of two fulfillment centers in the area. This nearly 1 million square foot facility has created hundreds of full-time jobs and allows Amazon employees to pick, pack, and ship larger items to customers, such as bulk paper goods, outdoor equipment, or rugs. Additionally, this facility utilizes innovative technologies and energy-efficient, zero-emission power industrialized truck (PIT) equipment.</li></ul><p>Positions are available at all new operations facilities. Interested candidates can visit www.hiring.amazon.com, to learn more.</p><p>For fulfillment center and delivery station images and b-roll, please visit https://press.aboutamazon.com/images-videos.</p><p>Additional Quotes – Huntsville:</p><p>Mayor Tommy Battle, Huntsville</p><p><em>"The growth of Huntsville and North Alabama is a natural fit for Amazon's fulfillment centers as the company expands its physical distribution network. We welcome the new job opportunities and service options Amazon will bring to the region."</em></p><p>Chip Cherry, Chamber President &amp; CEO:</p><p><em>"We are pleased to welcome Amazon to an area of the city that is really growing. This is one in a series of recent developments, bringing exciting new opportunities for people in our region for years to come."</em></p><p>Chairman Collin Daly, Limestone County Commission</p><p><em>"This is the second exciting announcement in Limestone County from Amazon. This investment in our county and the 250 jobs that will be created by this project, will greatly impact our future for many years. We would like to thank Amazon for believing in us, selecting our county for their second fulfilment center, and we look forward to being a part of their success in the future."</em></p><p>John Meredith, Huntsville City Council Representative, District 5</p><p><em>"The Amazon facility is proving to be a fantastic addition to the District 5 Huntsville/Limestone County family of businesses. This non-sort fulfillment center will bring over 500 much needed, well paying, full time jobs to area citizens," said John Meredith. "Combined with a second fulfillment center responsible for large bulky items, Amazon expects to provide in excess of 750 new jobs operating out of a 2 million square feet of state-of-the-art warehouse space by this time next year."</em></p><p>Additional Quotes – Montgomery</p><p>County Commission Chairman Elton Dean</p><p><em>"We are proud to welcome Amazon to Montgomery County and into this growing community of diverse industries," said County Commission Chairman Elton Dean. "This facility will provide excellent opportunities for our citizens and pave the way for even more growth and investment in our area."</em></p><p>Mayor Steven L. Reed</p><p><em>"Amazon's major investment shows that Montgomery is on the map and an essential part of logistics solutions for major brands and industries," said Montgomery Mayor Steven L. Reed. "We're eager to grow this partnership on behalf of the Montgomerians who will benefit from the careers that this new facility will bring."</em></p><p>Additional Quotes – Birmingham</p><p>Chief Executive Officer, Birmingham Business Alliance, Ron Kitchens</p><p><em>"We are incredibly proud and grateful for the continuing investment that Amazon had made in the Birmingham region, the 150 new jobs coming online will ensure families have well-paying jobs with access to educational benefits that are truly life changing."</em></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/20211109006349/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

New Amazon Sortation Center in Maple Grove Now Up and Running

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Once fully operational, the facility will employ more than 1,000 workers and enhance delivery to customers in the Northern Twin Cities Metro Area MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2021-- Workers in Minnesota's newest Amazon facility are now sorting and preparing packages for delivery, promising even faster service for thousands of customers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The Sortation Center, located at 10440 89th Avenue in Maple Grove, received its first shipment on Wednesday, October 27th. "The City of Maple Grove is thankful for the continued investment in the community by Amazon. The new sortation center provides additional employment opportunities for residents as well as an increase to the tax base. The new facility will also provide residents and businesses with an increased ability to receive and send shipments on a timely basis. Amazon has been a great partner over the past few years, and the city looks forward to building upon the relationship into the future. The ongoing commitment from our businesses supports Maple Grove's place as a premier destination to live and work," Maple Grove Mayor Mark Steffenson said. Associates have spent the past couple of weeks ramping up operations while receiving, storing and sending out packages for delivery. "We are thrilled to open this facility in the North Metro, further increasing the speed of our delivery network. Our location was chosen based on data and customer needs and we're proud to be a part of Maple Grove, as both a partner and employer. We bring Amazon's state-of-the-art technology and commitment to worker safety to the region, and we look forward to growing alongside our community," Site Leader Tommy Johns explained. While the facility increases its production, Human Resources leaders will also continue hiring hundreds of residents to help meet customer orders (www.amazon.com/apply). Full-time, part-time and "flex" employment shifts are available to meet the unique needs of every prospective employee. New hires are eligible for $3,000 signing bonuses and can earn more than $18/hour, and full-time employees are immediately provided with full benefits which include medical, dental, and a 50% match on 401k plans. Within 90 days of their start date, new hires also become eligible for Amazon's Career Choice program, in which the company pays for full college tuition. For more information on the type of work performed at Sortation Centers: https://hiring.amazon.com/job-opportunities/sortation-center-jobs?cmpid=OAAAMK0378H3#/ Amazon leverages its scale for good and makes investments to support communities. Between 2010 and 2020, Amazon created more than 6,500 jobs in Minnesota and invested more than $3 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to our employees. These investments have contributed an additional $3 billion in GDP to the Minnesota economy and have helped create over 9,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. In addition, more than 21,000 independent authors and small and medium businesses in the state 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/20211109005388/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Once fully operational, the facility will employ more than 1,000 workers and enhance delivery to customers in the Northern Twin Cities Metro Area</em></p><p>MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2021-- Workers in Minnesota's newest Amazon facility are now sorting and preparing packages for delivery, promising even faster service for thousands of customers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The Sortation Center, located at 10440 89^th Avenue in Maple Grove, received its first shipment on Wednesday, October 27^th.</p><p>"The City of Maple Grove is thankful for the continued investment in the community by Amazon. The new sortation center provides additional employment opportunities for residents as well as an increase to the tax base. The new facility will also provide residents and businesses with an increased ability to receive and send shipments on a timely basis. Amazon has been a great partner over the past few years, and the city looks forward to building upon the relationship into the future. The ongoing commitment from our businesses supports Maple Grove's place as a premier destination to live and work," Maple Grove Mayor Mark Steffenson said.</p><p>Associates have spent the past couple of weeks ramping up operations while receiving, storing and sending out packages for delivery.</p><p>"We are thrilled to open this facility in the North Metro, further increasing the speed of our delivery network. Our location was chosen based on data and customer needs and we're proud to be a part of Maple Grove, as both a partner and employer. We bring Amazon's state-of-the-art technology and commitment to worker safety to the region, and we look forward to growing alongside our community," Site Leader Tommy Johns explained.</p><p>While the facility increases its production, Human Resources leaders will also continue hiring hundreds of residents to help meet customer orders (www.amazon.com/apply). Full-time, part-time and "flex" employment shifts are available to meet the unique needs of every prospective employee. New hires are eligible for $3,000 signing bonuses and can earn more than $18/hour, and full-time employees are immediately provided with full benefits which include medical, dental, and a 50% match on 401k plans. Within 90 days of their start date, new hires also become eligible for Amazon's Career Choice program, in which the company pays for full college tuition.</p><p>For more information on the type of work performed at Sortation Centers: https://hiring.amazon.com/job-opportunities/sortation-center-jobs?cmpid=OAAAMK0378H3#/</p><p>Amazon leverages its scale for good and makes investments to support communities. Between 2010 and 2020, Amazon created more than 6,500 jobs in Minnesota and invested more than $3 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to our employees. These investments have contributed an additional $3 billion in GDP to the Minnesota economy and have helped create over 9,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. In addition, more than 21,000 independent authors and small and medium businesses in the state 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/20211109005388/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon and Weber File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters

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Amazon and Weber File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2021-- Today, Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon") (NASDAQ: AMZN), together with a subsidiary of Weber Inc. (NYSE:WEBR) ("Weber"), jointly filed a lawsuit against 12 defendants for selling products that illegally bear the WEBER® registered trademark in Amazon's store. The defendants attempted to offer counterfeit versions of the global grill maker's grill covers, violating Amazon's policies, infringing on Weber's registered trademarks, and breaking the law. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and alleges that the defendants conspired to deceive customers about the authenticity and origin of their products and create a false affiliation with Weber. Amazon closed the defendants' selling accounts and proactively refunded the impacted customers. "If counterfeiters attempt to sell in our store, they don't just break the law and violate the rights of companies like Weber, they mislead consumers," said Kebharu Smith, Director of Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit. "In the rare instances when counterfeiters are able to bypass our enforcement tools and teams, we will find them and hold them fully accountable." Amazon strictly prohibits infringing and counterfeit products in its store, and in 2020, Amazon invested more than $700 million and employed more than 10,000 people to proactively protect its store from fraud, counterfeit, and abuse. Amazon uses industry-leading tools to verify potential sellers' identities and ensure product listings are authentic, and Amazon's proprietary systems analyze hundreds of unique data points to verify information provided by potential sellers. In 2020, only 6% of attempted new seller account registrations passed Amazon's robust verification processes and listed products for sale. In addition, fewer than 0.01% of all products sold on Amazon received a counterfeit complaint from customers. "Protecting consumers and our brand are top priorities for Weber," said Phil Zadeik, General Counsel of Weber. "As the world's leading company in outdoor cooking, we take tremendous pride in developing, manufacturing, and offering high-quality, durable, innovative products that meet or exceed our strict standards. And when that premise is jeopardized with counterfeit goods, we take action. We appreciate Amazon's partnership and their commitment to only offering authentic Weber products to those that love to barbecue." The court filings are available here: Case: 2:21-cv-01512, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Amazon has an extensive history protecting brands and taking action to hold bad actors accountable: Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit Reaches Settlement with Influencers Who Ran Social Media Counterfeiting Scheme Amazon and Asmodee File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters Amazon and HanesBrands File Joint Lawsuits Against Infringers of Champion Trademarks Amazon Published Comprehensive Brand Protection Report Demonstrating Progress Toward Driving Counterfeits to Zero Amazon Establishes Counterfeit Crimes Unit to Bring Counterfeits to Justice Amazon Launches IP Accelerator in Europe to Help Small Businesses Protect Their Brands and Tackle Counterfeit IPR Center, Amazon Launch ‘Operation Fulfilled Action' to Stop Counterfeiters Amazon and YETI File Joint Lawsuit against Counterfeiters Amazon and Salvatore Ferragamo File Two Joint Lawsuits Against Counterfeiters 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer‑Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. About Weber Inc. Weber Inc., headquartered in Palatine, IL, is the world's leading barbecue brand. Weber's founder George Stephen, Sr., established the outdoor cooking category when he invented the original charcoal grill nearly 70 years ago. Weber offers a comprehensive, innovative product portfolio, including charcoal, gas, pellet and electric grills, smokers, and accessories designed to help outdoor cooking enthusiasts discover what's possible. Earlier this year, the company acquired June Life Inc., a smart appliance and technology company, to accelerate the development of its Weber Connect ® technology and digital products. Weber offers its barbecue grills and accessories, services, and experiences to a passionate community of millions across 78 countries. Weber® and Weber Connect ® are registered trademarks of Weber-Stephen Products LLC View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211109006012/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2021-- Today, Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon") (NASDAQ: AMZN), together with a subsidiary of Weber Inc. (NYSE:WEBR) ("Weber"), jointly filed a lawsuit against 12 defendants for selling products that illegally bear the WEBER® registered trademark in Amazon's store. The defendants attempted to offer counterfeit versions of the global grill maker's grill covers, violating Amazon's policies, infringing on Weber's registered trademarks, and breaking the law.</p><p>The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and alleges that the defendants conspired to deceive customers about the authenticity and origin of their products and create a false affiliation with Weber. Amazon closed the defendants' selling accounts and proactively refunded the impacted customers.</p><p>"If counterfeiters attempt to sell in our store, they don't just break the law and violate the rights of companies like Weber, they mislead consumers," said Kebharu Smith, Director of Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit. "In the rare instances when counterfeiters are able to bypass our enforcement tools and teams, we will find them and hold them fully accountable."</p><p>Amazon strictly prohibits infringing and counterfeit products in its store, and in 2020, Amazon invested more than $700 million and employed more than 10,000 people to proactively protect its store from fraud, counterfeit, and abuse. Amazon uses industry-leading tools to verify potential sellers' identities and ensure product listings are authentic, and Amazon's proprietary systems analyze hundreds of unique data points to verify information provided by potential sellers. In 2020, only 6% of attempted new seller account registrations passed Amazon's robust verification processes and listed products for sale. In addition, fewer than 0.01% of all products sold on Amazon received a counterfeit complaint from customers.</p><p>"Protecting consumers and our brand are top priorities for Weber," said Phil Zadeik, General Counsel of Weber. "As the world's leading company in outdoor cooking, we take tremendous pride in developing, manufacturing, and offering high-quality, durable, innovative products that meet or exceed our strict standards. And when that premise is jeopardized with counterfeit goods, we take action. We appreciate Amazon's partnership and their commitment to only offering authentic Weber products to those that love to barbecue."</p><p>The court filings are available here:</p><ul><li>Case: 2:21-cv-01512, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington</li></ul><p>Amazon has an extensive history protecting brands and taking action to hold bad actors accountable:</p><ul><li>Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit Reaches Settlement with Influencers Who Ran Social Media Counterfeiting Scheme</li><li>Amazon and Asmodee File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters</li><li>Amazon and HanesBrands File Joint Lawsuits Against Infringers of Champion Trademarks</li><li>Amazon Published Comprehensive Brand Protection Report Demonstrating Progress Toward Driving Counterfeits to Zero</li><li>Amazon Establishes Counterfeit Crimes Unit to Bring Counterfeits to Justice</li><li>Amazon Launches IP Accelerator in Europe to Help Small Businesses Protect Their Brands and Tackle Counterfeit</li><li>IPR Center, Amazon Launch ‘Operation Fulfilled Action' to Stop Counterfeiters</li><li>Amazon and YETI File Joint Lawsuit against Counterfeiters</li><li>Amazon and Salvatore Ferragamo File Two Joint Lawsuits Against Counterfeiters</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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer‑Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>About Weber Inc.</p><p>Weber Inc., headquartered in Palatine, IL, is the world's leading barbecue brand. Weber's founder George Stephen, Sr., established the outdoor cooking category when he invented the original charcoal grill nearly 70 years ago. Weber offers a comprehensive, innovative product portfolio, including charcoal, gas, pellet and electric grills, smokers, and accessories designed to help outdoor cooking enthusiasts discover what's possible. Earlier this year, the company acquired June Life Inc., a smart appliance and technology company, to accelerate the development of its Weber Connect ® technology and digital products. Weber offers its barbecue grills and accessories, services, and experiences to a passionate community of millions across 78 countries.</p><p>Weber® and Weber Connect ® are registered trademarks of Weber-Stephen Products LLC</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211109006012/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces Plans to Open Second Region in Canada

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New AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region will be available in late 2023/early 2024, providing customers with even lower latency, greater fault tolerance, and resiliency for critical cloud workloads Newly released AWS economic impact study estimates that AWS will invest over $17 billion (CA$21 billion) in Canada by 2037 on the construction and operation of its two infrastructure Regions SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced plans to open an infrastructure Region in Alberta, Canada, in late 2023/early 2024. The new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region will consist of three Availability Zones (AZs) at launch and join the existing AWS Canada (Central) Region in Montreal, which also consists of three Availability Zones. Globally, AWS has 81 Availability Zones across 25 geographic regions, with plans to launch 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. The upcoming AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region will enable even more developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations, to run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in Canada. AWS also released an economic impact study (EIS) estimating that the company's spending on construction and the operation of the new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region and existing AWS Canada (Central) Region in Montreal will together create more than 5,000 new jobs with an estimated investment of over $17 billion (CA$21 billion) in the local economies by 2037. Both infrastructure Regions will add an estimated $31.6 billion (CA$39 billion) to Canada's GDP over the same time period. For more information on AWS's global infrastructure, visit aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/. "Our infrastructure in Canada has allowed customers to transform the way businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies serve their stakeholders. With another AWS Region in Canada, customers will see even lower latency for emerging solutions like 5G-enabled applications and machine learning at the edge, and it will strengthen their ability to architect their regional infrastructure for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability," said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at AWS. "We are excited to build world-class infrastructure to help organizations reinvent how they deliver customer solutions and fuel economic growth." "This major investment from AWS again demonstrates that Alberta is establishing itself as a dominant player in digital technology and innovation. This multibillion-dollar data center project in our province underscores the work being done by Invest Alberta to create jobs and diversify the economy," said Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. "I look forward to working with AWS on this project and seeing how it will strengthen Alberta's information technology and communication sector." AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. Availability Zones are located far enough from each other to support customers' business continuity but near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security, and is connected through redundant, ultra-low latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance. The AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region will enable customers with data residency preferences to securely store data in Canada while providing even lower latency across the country and more flexibility to run applications across multiple Regions. Overall, AWS is estimated to invest over $17 billion (CA$21 billion) in Canada by 2037 through the construction and operation of its two infrastructure Regions. This AWS infrastructure investment is expected to increase Canada's GDP by approximately more than $31 billion (CA$39 billion) over the same time period. In the newly announced AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, AWS plans to invest over $3 billion (CA$4 billion)by 2037, which includes capital expenditures on the construction of data centers, operational expenses such as ongoing utilities and facility costs, and purchases of goods and services from regional businesses. The EIS also estimates that the new AWS Region will bring direct and indirect economic benefits like new employment and sales for the data center supply chain and related sectors in Canada. In total, investment in the new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region is estimated to create more than 950 new full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in Canada. Customers and AWS Partners Welcome the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region Customers in Canada will join the millions of active customers using AWS every month in over 190 countries around the world. Canadian organizations, including Air Canada, Athabasca University, Benevity, BMO Financial Group, Canada Border Services Agency, D2L, Hootsuite, Humber College, Keyera, Neo Financial, NHL, Nutrien, lululemon athletica, Provincial Health Services Authority, Porter Airlines, Sun Life, Trimac Transportation, and Vancouver General Hospital choose AWS to run their workloads to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time to market. Sun Life is a leading international financial services organization providing life, health, and wealth solutions to individual and corporate clients. "Through our digital transformation, we're constantly innovating to enhance what we do to help our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives," said Laura Money, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Sun Life. "With today's announcement of a second AWS Region in Canada, we will add another layer of business resiliency to further support our clients who need to keep their data in Canada." The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is the backbone of British Columbia's healthcare system, ensuring that 5 million residents have access to a network of specialized healthcare services and programs. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, PHSA provided COVID-19 test results and vaccination booking. "Using Amazon Pinpoint, PHSA delivered millions of text messages and emails confirming registrations, booking notifications, and vaccine appointment reminders to British Columbians," said Shannon Malovec, Chief Digital Innovation Officer at PHSA. "AWS enabled us to scale up our communications quickly. We see the value in using the latest technology to serve our citizens, and this new AWS Region in western Canada will help us and many other organizations unlock innovation." Kidoodle.TV is a Calgary-based children's streaming service with more than 100 million downloads in 235 countries and territories worldwide. "I've been using AWS in the media and entertainment industry for so long that I can't imagine a world without it. It's integral to our ability to release new features and products quickly," said Daniel Riddell, Chief Technology Officer at Kidoodle.TV. "Because the AWS Cloud existed when we started this company, we could build everything off premises. We didn't have the need for huge overhead costs. We could build essentially the same service architecture that multibillion-dollar companies were able to deploy. When COVID hit, our numbers spiked. We used AWS Elemental MediaTailor and other AWS services to scale up our monthly active users by 3,200% in one year and quickly pivot our ad delivery process." Athabasca University (AU), Canada's Online University, is one of the world's fastest-growing online and open education institutions serving more than 43,000 students across 87 countries. AU became the first Canadian post-secondary institution to move its entire digital operational infrastructure to AWS last year. "I like to say that ‘there is no innovation at scale without a solid foundation.' AU's move to AWS in 2020 was the foundation of our digital transformation strategy, providing the infrastructure and cost savings that will allow us to make personalized learning for our students an infinitely scalable reality," said Jennifer Schaeffer, AU Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer. "Not only have we transformed our digital foundation, but we've also moved cloud into the forefront with our curriculum. We are helping train the next generation of cloud professionals through the AU PowerEDTM and AWS Academy Cloud Foundations programs." As one of Canada's largest independent midstream companies, Keyera operates an integrated energy infrastructure business with extensive interconnected assets. Keyera plays a crucial role in processing, transporting, and marketing clean-burning natural gas and natural gas liquids that responsibly fuel modern life across North America. "Part of how we provide sustainable and responsible energy is by collaborating with a strong technology innovation partner. We recognize the need for digital innovation as a way to provide our customers with increased accuracy and reliability. Working with AWS, we built a new machine learning application that proactively identifies issues in metering, which enables us to respond and react within days compared to weeks. To date, we have seen significant metering improvements for Keyera and our customers, and based on this success, we are expanding its deployment to two additional facilities," said Kelly Hill, Vice President of Information Technology at Keyera. "Working with AWS means we have built a digital innovation platform for our current and future needs. AWS Professional Services is helping us transform our digital business through new applications and services such as Amazon Rekognition for asset tracking using computer vision, and other services like Amazon SageMaker and Amazon QuickSight for business intelligence and dashboarding in our measurement initiative. We're excited to continue collaborating with AWS to advance our innovation journey." Born on AWS, Neo Financial is a financial tech startup that uses the elasticity of the AWS Cloud to scale its business. "When we launched in 2019, we needed a cloud provider to help us scale and meet the regulatory requirements we face as a financial services company. Our customers also have compliance mandates that require their data to be kept in Canada," said Kris Read, co-founder and CTO at Neo Financial. "Today, we use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud for our core infrastructure and Amazon Simple Storage Service for its highly durable storage. We also have improved security with Amazon GuardDuty and improved performance for our customers with Amazon CloudFront." Canada-based partners are part of the AWS Partner Network (APN), which includes over 100,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the APN provides business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. APN SIs, consulting partners, and ISVs help enterprise and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customers' environments. Examples of AWS Canada Partners include Accenture, Bell Canada, Deloitte, FuseForward, FX Innovation, Levio, OpsGuru, Rackspace, Slalom, Softchoice, Qalius, Quantiphi, and Xerris. AWS ISVs in Canada including Arctic Wolf, Benevity, CrowdStrike, D2L, Lightspeed POS, Salesforce, SmartSimple, Tidal Migrations, Vidyard, and Workday are already using AWS to deliver their software to customers around the world and plan to serve their Canadian customers from the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region at launch. For the full list of APN members, visit aws.amazon.com/partners. Xerris Inc., an advanced AWS Partner based in Calgary, Alberta, specializes in providing technology-focused solutions for media and entertainment, energy, public sector, and retail companies. "We've been working with AWS for a number of years, and in 2020, we really ramped up our operations—growing from an eight-person team to well over 100 people," said Jeremy Tooley, CEO at Xerris. "We've been helping customers in the Calgary area like StellarAlgo scale and optimize their data solutions to use machine learning models to provide valuable insights into fan behavior and retention at live sports and entertainment events. We are also working with Nutrien, Burnco, enerPlus, and Aldo on a variety of transformation and foundational projects. The AWS Cloud offers a wide range of services that help our customers operate with agility and scale. We welcome the continued growth and investment AWS is putting into Canada." Slalom, a global consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation with more than 11,000 employees in 41 markets around the world, has the autonomy to move fast and build for its customers. "Slalom and AWS have partnered and completed more than 1,500 projects together on migration, modernization, data analytics, and overall cloud strategies, leading to Slalom investing and growing operations through the AWS Canada (Central) Region beginning in 2016," said Wayne Ingram, Country General Manager of Slalom Canada. "Through this partnership, Slalom Canada has grown to more than 750 employees over the last five years, including 150 in western Canada across Vancouver and Calgary. With Canadian customers such as LoyaltyOne, TC Energy, and many others, we're especially excited to see the increased interest and need for cloud strategies and look forward to even more innovation in this country." Investing in Canada's Future In addition to the AWS Canada (Central) Region in Montreal, AWS has launched five Amazon CloudFront edge locations in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. Amazon CloudFront is a highly secure and programmable content delivery network (CDN) that accelerates the delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users worldwide with low latency and high transfer speeds. Amazon opened tech hubs in Toronto and Vancouver for developers, engineers, sales, marketing, and business development professionals to help local customers and partners, and opened the AWS Thinkbox office in Winnipeg focused on the development of solutions and services for the creative industry. In March 2021, Amazon Games launched a new development studio in Montreal, and Amazon currently has 17 fulfillment centers, six sortation centers, and 35 delivery stations across the country. Amazon employs more than 39,500 full-time and part-time employees, and the company has announced plans to create thousands of additional jobs in the country across its operations network and teams including AWS, Amazon Ads, Amazon Games, Alexa, and Prime Video. Upskilling Canada's Workforce AWS continues to invest in upskilling developers, students, and the next generation of IT leaders in Canada through programs like AWS re/Start, AWS Academy, and AWS Educate, and since 2013, has helped train more than 100,000 individuals with cloud computing skills. These AWS Education Programs help learners of all backgrounds and experiences prepare for careers in the cloud. From college courses to full-time training programs and self-paced learning content, AWS Education Programs offer access to the skills needed to begin a career in cloud computing. With the support of Calgary Economic Development's Edge Up 2.0 program, AWS and Mount Royal University have teamed up to bring the AWS re/Start program to Calgary in early 2022. The AWS re/Start job skills training program will prepare individuals for entry level roles in cloud computing and connect them to potential employers as part of Amazon's commitment to help 29 million people around the world grow their tech skills with free cloud computing training by 2025. Commitment to Sustainability Amazon is committed to running its business in an environmentally friendly way and has committed to reach net zero carbon across all business operations by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement, as part of The Climate Pledge. A key component of this commitment is powering Amazon's global infrastructure with 100% renewable energy, and the company is now on a path to achieve this milestone by 2025, five years ahead of the initial 2030 target. Amazon also became the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in 2020, reaching 65% renewable energy across its business. In April 2021, Amazon announced its first renewable energy project in Canada—an 80 megawatt (MW) solar project in the County of Newell in Alberta. Once complete, the project will contribute an estimated 195,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of renewable energy to the grid, which is enough energy to power more than 18,000 Canadian homes for a year. In June 2021, Amazon announced its second and largest renewable energy project in Canada—a 375 MW solar farm in Vulcan, Alberta. When it comes online next year, the project will bring Amazon's capacity in Canada to more than 1 million MWhs, which is enough to power more than 100,000 Canadian homes for a year. These projects will contribute to powering Amazon's global infrastructure. More information on AWS sustainability efforts can be found at aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211108005823/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region will be available in late 2023/early 2024, providing customers with even lower latency, greater fault tolerance, and resiliency for critical cloud workloads</em></p><p><em>Newly released AWS economic impact study estimates that AWS will invest over $17 billion (CA$21 billion) in Canada by 2037 on the construction and operation of its two infrastructure Regions</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced plans to open an infrastructure Region in Alberta, Canada, in late 2023/early 2024. The new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region will consist of three Availability Zones (AZs) at launch and join the existing AWS Canada (Central) Region in Montreal, which also consists of three Availability Zones. Globally, AWS has 81 Availability Zones across 25 geographic regions, with plans to launch 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. The upcoming AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region will enable even more developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations, to run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in Canada. AWS also released an economic impact study (EIS) estimating that the company's spending on construction and the operation of the new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region and existing AWS Canada (Central) Region in Montreal will together create more than 5,000 new jobs with an estimated investment of over $17 billion (CA$21 billion) in the local economies by 2037. Both infrastructure Regions will add an estimated $31.6 billion (CA$39 billion) to Canada's GDP over the same time period. For more information on AWS's global infrastructure, visit aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/.</p><p>"Our infrastructure in Canada has allowed customers to transform the way businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies serve their stakeholders. With another AWS Region in Canada, customers will see even lower latency for emerging solutions like 5G-enabled applications and machine learning at the edge, and it will strengthen their ability to architect their regional infrastructure for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability," said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at AWS. "We are excited to build world-class infrastructure to help organizations reinvent how they deliver customer solutions and fuel economic growth."</p><p>"This major investment from AWS again demonstrates that Alberta is establishing itself as a dominant player in digital technology and innovation. This multibillion-dollar data center project in our province underscores the work being done by Invest Alberta to create jobs and diversify the economy," said Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. "I look forward to working with AWS on this project and seeing how it will strengthen Alberta's information technology and communication sector."</p><p>AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. Availability Zones are located far enough from each other to support customers' business continuity but near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security, and is connected through redundant, ultra-low latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance. The AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region will enable customers with data residency preferences to securely store data in Canada while providing even lower latency across the country and more flexibility to run applications across multiple Regions.</p><p>Overall, AWS is estimated to invest over $17 billion (CA$21 billion) in Canada by 2037 through the construction and operation of its two infrastructure Regions. This AWS infrastructure investment is expected to increase Canada's GDP by approximately more than $31 billion (CA$39 billion) over the same time period. In the newly announced AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, AWS plans to invest over $3 billion (CA$4 billion)by 2037, which includes capital expenditures on the construction of data centers, operational expenses such as ongoing utilities and facility costs, and purchases of goods and services from regional businesses. The EIS also estimates that the new AWS Region will bring direct and indirect economic benefits like new employment and sales for the data center supply chain and related sectors in Canada. In total, investment in the new AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region is estimated to create more than 950 new full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in Canada.</p><p>Customers and AWS Partners Welcome the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region</p><p>Customers in Canada will join the millions of active customers using AWS every month in over 190 countries around the world. Canadian organizations, including Air Canada, Athabasca University, Benevity, BMO Financial Group, Canada Border Services Agency, D2L, Hootsuite, Humber College, Keyera, Neo Financial, NHL, Nutrien, lululemon athletica, Provincial Health Services Authority, Porter Airlines, Sun Life, Trimac Transportation, and Vancouver General Hospital choose AWS to run their workloads to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time to market.</p><p>Sun Life is a leading international financial services organization providing life, health, and wealth solutions to individual and corporate clients. "Through our digital transformation, we're constantly innovating to enhance what we do to help our clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives," said Laura Money, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Sun Life. "With today's announcement of a second AWS Region in Canada, we will add another layer of business resiliency to further support our clients who need to keep their data in Canada."</p><p>The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is the backbone of British Columbia's healthcare system, ensuring that 5 million residents have access to a network of specialized healthcare services and programs. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, PHSA provided COVID-19 test results and vaccination booking. "Using Amazon Pinpoint, PHSA delivered millions of text messages and emails confirming registrations, booking notifications, and vaccine appointment reminders to British Columbians," said Shannon Malovec, Chief Digital Innovation Officer at PHSA. "AWS enabled us to scale up our communications quickly. We see the value in using the latest technology to serve our citizens, and this new AWS Region in western Canada will help us and many other organizations unlock innovation."</p><p>Kidoodle.TV is a Calgary-based children's streaming service with more than 100 million downloads in 235 countries and territories worldwide. "I've been using AWS in the media and entertainment industry for so long that I can't imagine a world without it. It's integral to our ability to release new features and products quickly," said Daniel Riddell, Chief Technology Officer at Kidoodle.TV. "Because the AWS Cloud existed when we started this company, we could build everything off premises. We didn't have the need for huge overhead costs. We could build essentially the same service architecture that multibillion-dollar companies were able to deploy. When COVID hit, our numbers spiked. We used AWS Elemental MediaTailor and other AWS services to scale up our monthly active users by 3,200% in one year and quickly pivot our ad delivery process."</p><p>Athabasca University (AU), Canada's Online University, is one of the world's fastest-growing online and open education institutions serving more than 43,000 students across 87 countries. AU became the first Canadian post-secondary institution to move its entire digital operational infrastructure to AWS last year. "I like to say that ‘there is no innovation at scale without a solid foundation.' AU's move to AWS in 2020 was the foundation of our digital transformation strategy, providing the infrastructure and cost savings that will allow us to make personalized learning for our students an infinitely scalable reality," said Jennifer Schaeffer, AU Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer. "Not only have we transformed our digital foundation, but we've also moved cloud into the forefront with our curriculum. We are helping train the next generation of cloud professionals through the AU PowerEDTM and AWS Academy Cloud Foundations programs."</p><p>As one of Canada's largest independent midstream companies, Keyera operates an integrated energy infrastructure business with extensive interconnected assets. Keyera plays a crucial role in processing, transporting, and marketing clean-burning natural gas and natural gas liquids that responsibly fuel modern life across North America. "Part of how we provide sustainable and responsible energy is by collaborating with a strong technology innovation partner. We recognize the need for digital innovation as a way to provide our customers with increased accuracy and reliability. Working with AWS, we built a new machine learning application that proactively identifies issues in metering, which enables us to respond and react within days compared to weeks. To date, we have seen significant metering improvements for Keyera and our customers, and based on this success, we are expanding its deployment to two additional facilities," said Kelly Hill, Vice President of Information Technology at Keyera. "Working with AWS means we have built a digital innovation platform for our current and future needs. AWS Professional Services is helping us transform our digital business through new applications and services such as Amazon Rekognition for asset tracking using computer vision, and other services like Amazon SageMaker and Amazon QuickSight for business intelligence and dashboarding in our measurement initiative. We're excited to continue collaborating with AWS to advance our innovation journey."</p><p>Born on AWS, Neo Financial is a financial tech startup that uses the elasticity of the AWS Cloud to scale its business. "When we launched in 2019, we needed a cloud provider to help us scale and meet the regulatory requirements we face as a financial services company. Our customers also have compliance mandates that require their data to be kept in Canada," said Kris Read, co-founder and CTO at Neo Financial. "Today, we use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud for our core infrastructure and Amazon Simple Storage Service for its highly durable storage. We also have improved security with Amazon GuardDuty and improved performance for our customers with Amazon CloudFront."</p><p>Canada-based partners are part of the AWS Partner Network (APN), which includes over 100,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the APN provides business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. APN SIs, consulting partners, and ISVs help enterprise and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customers' environments. Examples of AWS Canada Partners include Accenture, Bell Canada, Deloitte, FuseForward, FX Innovation, Levio, OpsGuru, Rackspace, Slalom, Softchoice, Qalius, Quantiphi, and Xerris. AWS ISVs in Canada including Arctic Wolf, Benevity, CrowdStrike, D2L, Lightspeed POS, Salesforce, SmartSimple, Tidal Migrations, Vidyard, and Workday are already using AWS to deliver their software to customers around the world and plan to serve their Canadian customers from the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region at launch. For the full list of APN members, visit aws.amazon.com/partners.</p><p>Xerris Inc., an advanced AWS Partner based in Calgary, Alberta, specializes in providing technology-focused solutions for media and entertainment, energy, public sector, and retail companies. "We've been working with AWS for a number of years, and in 2020, we really ramped up our operations—growing from an eight-person team to well over 100 people," said Jeremy Tooley, CEO at Xerris. "We've been helping customers in the Calgary area like StellarAlgo scale and optimize their data solutions to use machine learning models to provide valuable insights into fan behavior and retention at live sports and entertainment events. We are also working with Nutrien, Burnco, enerPlus, and Aldo on a variety of transformation and foundational projects. The AWS Cloud offers a wide range of services that help our customers operate with agility and scale. We welcome the continued growth and investment AWS is putting into Canada."</p><p>Slalom, a global consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation with more than 11,000 employees in 41 markets around the world, has the autonomy to move fast and build for its customers. "Slalom and AWS have partnered and completed more than 1,500 projects together on migration, modernization, data analytics, and overall cloud strategies, leading to Slalom investing and growing operations through the AWS Canada (Central) Region beginning in 2016," said Wayne Ingram, Country General Manager of Slalom Canada. "Through this partnership, Slalom Canada has grown to more than 750 employees over the last five years, including 150 in western Canada across Vancouver and Calgary. With Canadian customers such as LoyaltyOne, TC Energy, and many others, we're especially excited to see the increased interest and need for cloud strategies and look forward to even more innovation in this country."</p><p>Investing in Canada's Future</p><p>In addition to the AWS Canada (Central) Region in Montreal, AWS has launched five Amazon CloudFront edge locations in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. Amazon CloudFront is a highly secure and programmable content delivery network (CDN) that accelerates the delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users worldwide with low latency and high transfer speeds. Amazon opened tech hubs in Toronto and Vancouver for developers, engineers, sales, marketing, and business development professionals to help local customers and partners, and opened the AWS Thinkbox office in Winnipeg focused on the development of solutions and services for the creative industry. In March 2021, Amazon Games launched a new development studio in Montreal, and Amazon currently has 17 fulfillment centers, six sortation centers, and 35 delivery stations across the country. Amazon employs more than 39,500 full-time and part-time employees, and the company has announced plans to create thousands of additional jobs in the country across its operations network and teams including AWS, Amazon Ads, Amazon Games, Alexa, and Prime Video.</p><p>Upskilling Canada's Workforce</p><p>AWS continues to invest in upskilling developers, students, and the next generation of IT leaders in Canada through programs like AWS re/Start, AWS Academy, and AWS Educate, and since 2013, has helped train more than 100,000 individuals with cloud computing skills. These AWS Education Programs help learners of all backgrounds and experiences prepare for careers in the cloud. From college courses to full-time training programs and self-paced learning content, AWS Education Programs offer access to the skills needed to begin a career in cloud computing. With the support of Calgary Economic Development's Edge Up 2.0 program, AWS and Mount Royal University have teamed up to bring the AWS re/Start program to Calgary in early 2022. The AWS re/Start job skills training program will prepare individuals for entry level roles in cloud computing and connect them to potential employers as part of Amazon's commitment to help 29 million people around the world grow their tech skills with free cloud computing training by 2025.</p><p>Commitment to Sustainability</p><p>Amazon is committed to running its business in an environmentally friendly way and has committed to reach net zero carbon across all business operations by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement, as part of The Climate Pledge. A key component of this commitment is powering Amazon's global infrastructure with 100% renewable energy, and the company is now on a path to achieve this milestone by 2025, five years ahead of the initial 2030 target. Amazon also became the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in 2020, reaching 65% renewable energy across its business. In April 2021, Amazon announced its first renewable energy project in Canada—an 80 megawatt (MW) solar project in the County of Newell in Alberta. Once complete, the project will contribute an estimated 195,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of renewable energy to the grid, which is enough energy to power more than 18,000 Canadian homes for a year. In June 2021, Amazon announced its second and largest renewable energy project in Canada—a 375 MW solar farm in Vulcan, Alberta. When it comes online next year, the project will bring Amazon's capacity in Canada to more than 1 million MWhs, which is enough to power more than 100,000 Canadian homes for a year. These projects will contribute to powering Amazon's global infrastructure. More information on AWS sustainability efforts can be found at aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 27 more Availability Zones and nine more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211108005823/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

The Holidays are Here on Amazon Music With Exclusive New Songs and Christmas Covers From Camila Cabello, Dan + Shay, Leon Bridges, Sech, Summer Walker, and George Ezra

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The Holidays are Here on Amazon Music With Exclusive New Songs and Christmas Covers From Camila Cabello, Dan + Shay, Leon Bridges, Sech, Summer Walker, and George Ezra

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New music, artist merch, and podcast episodes arrive on Amazon Music today and throughout the season, including Amazon Original songs for the holidays from Alessia Cara, Norah Jones, She & Him, NEEDTOBREATHE, Switchfoot, JUDAH., Olivia Dean, La Oreja de Van Gogh, and Lang Lang! For a limited time, customers who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get three months free—with unlimited access to millions of podcast episodes and more than 75 million songs, ad-free, in the highest-quality streaming audio Download track artwork here SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Music today announced its biggest season of holiday programming yet, with brand-new exclusive Christmas music arriving today from artists across the globe—including Camila Cabello's cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Even more Amazon Original songs are available to stream now, including a fresh original song from Dan + Shay called "Pick Out a Christmas Tree," a reimagined version of Marvin Gaye's "Purple Snowflakes" performed by Leon Bridges, a new original song, "Carta Navideña," by Sech, and Summer Walker's version of Marvin Gaye's "I Want to Come Home for Christmas," coming November 12. Also out today is Norah Jones' cover of "The Christmas Waltz," Alessia Cara's modern take on "Jingle Bell Rock," a beautiful performance of Dean Martin's "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" by She & Him, Chris Tomlin's new version of his song "Emmanuel God With Us" featuring Anne Wilson, and an all-new song from NEEDTOBREATHE, Switchfoot, and JUDAH. called "Hometown Christmas." To start streaming a selection of these new holiday classics, click here and hereWatch behind-the-scenes interviews with Dan + Shay, Leon Bridges, NEEDTOBREATHE, Switchfoot and JUDAH. here, here and here "I've been traveling a lot since I was 15 and started working so I chose to record this song as an Amazon Original because I've always looked forward to being home in Miami with my family for Christmas," said Camila Cabello. "I wanted to continue the world of my album ‘Familia' by having it be a Mariachi rendition because I'm half Mexican and I grew up listening to Mariachi music. I'm excited to be on people's Christmas playlists because it's such a magical time of the year and getting to be part of the soundtrack during such an intimate family and friend holiday season is a real honor. It's truly special and really sacred." "This is one of our favorite times of the year, where we're able to bring our customers around the world a collection of brand-new music and programming to celebrate the holiday season," said Ryan Redington, VP of music industry, Amazon Music. "It's always thrilling to see a spike in the charts for Christmas classics, and our Amazon Original songs for the holidays—from incredible artists like Camila Cabello, Summer Walker, and George Ezra—introduce a contemporary take on the familiar favorites that our customers love to stream. In fact, in the last three years, the top 25 most popular holiday Amazon Original songs, from artists such as Katy Perry, John Legend, and Justin Bieber, have surpassed 750 million streams globally." Amazon Music is celebrating the holidays across the globe, with new music arriving from international talent to light up the season. From the UK, singer/songwriter George Ezra will debut "Come on Home for Christmas," his beautifully reworked take on Charles Brown's "Please Come Home for Christmas." British Amazon Music Breakthrough artist Olivia Dean, Chinese pianist Lang Lang, and German pop-singer and songwriter Sarah Connor have each recorded their own reimagined versions of Nat King Cole's timeless classic, "The Christmas Song." In addition, Latin pop-rock trio Reik will debut their rendition of "Last Christmas," and Marcos Witt will premiere a Spanglish version of "Noche de Paz (Silent Night) / Santa la Noche (O Holy Night)" with his daughter, Elena Witt-Guerra. From Mexico, singers María León, Paty Cantú, and María Joséteam up for a rendition of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" out on November 19, and French-Canadian singer-songwriter Cœur de pirate premieres a melodic new original, "Parfait Noël." Spanish pop band La Oreja de Van Gogh will also delight customers with their version of "Blanca Navidad." "When I first heard I was going to do an Amazon Original, I immediately thought of the Marvin Gaye version of ‘Purple Snowflakes,'" said Leon Bridges. "It's one of my favorite Christmas songs and I love the classic stuff… but this one has a little bit more soul to it. There aren't too many renditions of this song and I wanted to kind of put my own spin on it as far as figuring out the arrangement and give it the Fort Worth, Texas approach." "Writing original Christmas songs is difficult, because there's already so many good songs that exist and ... you feel like everything's already been said," shared Dan + Shay. "One day we sat down to write our song and it sort of poured out of us—it was just the soundtrack for folks going out, families, friends going to a Christmas tree farm, or going to a store down the street and picking out a Christmas tree. We're so excited about it and hopefully it brings a little joy this holiday season." "Above all, it is important to give thanks! Music has given me everything, and I am grateful and humbled to use it to give back to my fans," said Sech. "‘Carta Navideña' is an original song inspired by the holiday spirit felt around the world. You can recognize the sounds often heard in the classics, but with my unique style and emotions. The lyrics express my fondest holiday memories and traditions. I hope it becomes a popular classic, too, resonating with fans and reminding them to create many happy memories and give thanks always." In addition to new holiday songs, Amazon Music listeners can explore hundreds of festive playlists and stations across artists and decades, including "REDISCOVER: Mariah Carey Christmas," "Holiday Favorites," "Christmas Past," and "Christmas Present," and a host of new programmed destinations. "Fluent Holidays" is a new playlist celebrating fans who move fluidly between cultures, featuring English, Spanish and bilingual holiday tunes from artists including Reik, Sebastián Yatra, Camila Cabello, Katy Perry, and Sech. The playlist will spotlight English and Spanish language holiday classics, including new Amazon Original songs. "Merry Mix" is a global playlist on Amazon Music featuring iconic holiday classics mixed with tomorrow's holiday hits. And starting November 19, customers in the U.S. can check out a hosted version of Merry Mix in DJ Mode, which will feature special guests such as Mariah Carey sharing their holiday memories, the stories behind their own holiday songs, and much more. Customers will also hear festive tracks including Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," Darlene Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," and John Legend's "What Christmas Means to Me" with Stevie Wonder. To listen to the station, simply ask "Alexa, play Merry Mix in DJ Mode" in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android or on Alexa-enabled devices. Holiday Merch Fans can shop holiday merchandise collections on the Amazon Music Artist Merch Shop, a comprehensive shopping experience on Amazon.com, developed and curated by the Amazon Music team. To celebrate the season, Amazon Music offers a wide-ranging gift guide, featuring festive merch from some of the biggest stars, including Dolly Parton, Lil Nas X, an exclusive holiday T-shirt from KISS, The Beatles, and more. Podcasts Amazon Music is home to millions of podcast episodes and shows for the entire family to enjoy together, including Little Stories Everywhere, and Wow in the World available on Wondery. This holiday, Amazon Original podcasts Uncommon Ground with Van Jones, Country Heat Weekly, and That Scene with Dan Patrick will feature special holiday episodes to celebrate the season. For a limited time, customers who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get three months free—with unlimited access to more than 75 million songs, ad-free, in the highest-quality streaming audio and millions of podcast episodes. In addition, with the purchase of select Amazon Echo devices, customers new to Amazon Music Unlimited can get six months free. 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 75 million songs and the latest new releases. Amazon Music Unlimited customers also now have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 75 million songs available in High Definition (HD), more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of spatial 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211103005270/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>New music, artist merch, and podcast episodes arrive on Amazon Music today and throughout the season, including Amazon Original songs for the holidays from Alessia Cara, Norah Jones, She &amp; Him, NEEDTOBREATHE, Switchfoot, JUDAH., Olivia Dean, La Oreja de Van Gogh, and Lang Lang!</em></p><p><em>For a limited time, customers who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get three months free—with unlimited access to millions of podcast episodes and more than 75 million songs, ad-free, in the highest-quality streaming audio</em></p><p><em>Download track artwork here</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Music today announced its biggest season of holiday programming yet, with brand-new exclusive Christmas music arriving today from artists across the globe—including Camila Cabello's cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Even more Amazon Original songs are available to stream now, including a fresh original song from Dan + Shay called "Pick Out a Christmas Tree," a reimagined version of Marvin Gaye's "Purple Snowflakes" performed by Leon Bridges, a new original song, "Carta Navideña," by Sech, and Summer Walker's version of Marvin Gaye's "I Want to Come Home for Christmas," coming November 12. Also out today is Norah Jones' cover of "The Christmas Waltz," Alessia Cara's modern take on "Jingle Bell Rock," a beautiful performance of Dean Martin's "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" by She &amp; Him, Chris Tomlin's new version of his song "Emmanuel God With Us" featuring Anne Wilson, and an all-new song from NEEDTOBREATHE, Switchfoot, and JUDAH. called "Hometown Christmas."</p><p><em>To start streaming a selection of these new holiday classics, click here and hereWatch behind-the-scenes interviews with Dan + Shay, Leon Bridges, NEEDTOBREATHE, Switchfoot and JUDAH. here, here and here</em></p><p>"I've been traveling a lot since I was 15 and started working so I chose to record this song as an Amazon Original because I've always looked forward to being home in Miami with my family for Christmas," said Camila Cabello. "I wanted to continue the world of my album ‘Familia' by having it be a Mariachi rendition because I'm half Mexican and I grew up listening to Mariachi music. I'm excited to be on people's Christmas playlists because it's such a magical time of the year and getting to be part of the soundtrack during such an intimate family and friend holiday season is a real honor. It's truly special and really sacred."</p><p>"This is one of our favorite times of the year, where we're able to bring our customers around the world a collection of brand-new music and programming to celebrate the holiday season," said Ryan Redington, VP of music industry, Amazon Music. "It's always thrilling to see a spike in the charts for Christmas classics, and our Amazon Original songs for the holidays—from incredible artists like Camila Cabello, Summer Walker, and George Ezra—introduce a contemporary take on the familiar favorites that our customers love to stream. In fact, in the last three years, the top 25 most popular holiday Amazon Original songs, from artists such as Katy Perry, John Legend, and Justin Bieber, have surpassed 750 million streams globally."</p><p>Amazon Music is celebrating the holidays across the globe, with new music arriving from international talent to light up the season. From the UK, singer/songwriter George Ezra will debut "Come on Home for Christmas," his beautifully reworked take on Charles Brown's "Please Come Home for Christmas." British Amazon Music Breakthrough artist Olivia Dean, Chinese pianist Lang Lang, and German pop-singer and songwriter Sarah Connor have each recorded their own reimagined versions of Nat King Cole's timeless classic, "The Christmas Song." In addition, Latin pop-rock trio Reik will debut their rendition of "Last Christmas," and Marcos Witt will premiere a Spanglish version of "Noche de Paz (Silent Night) / Santa la Noche (O Holy Night)" with his daughter, Elena Witt-Guerra. From Mexico, singers María León, Paty Cantú, and María Joséteam up for a rendition of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" out on November 19, and French-Canadian singer-songwriter Cœur de pirate premieres a melodic new original, "Parfait Noël." Spanish pop band La Oreja de Van Gogh will also delight customers with their version of "Blanca Navidad."</p><p>"When I first heard I was going to do an Amazon Original, I immediately thought of the Marvin Gaye version of ‘Purple Snowflakes,'" said Leon Bridges. "It's one of my favorite Christmas songs and I love the classic stuff… but this one has a little bit more soul to it. There aren't too many renditions of this song and I wanted to kind of put my own spin on it as far as figuring out the arrangement and give it the Fort Worth, Texas approach."</p><p>"Writing original Christmas songs is difficult, because there's already so many good songs that exist and ... you feel like everything's already been said," shared Dan + Shay. "One day we sat down to write our song and it sort of poured out of us—it was just the soundtrack for folks going out, families, friends going to a Christmas tree farm, or going to a store down the street and picking out a Christmas tree. We're so excited about it and hopefully it brings a little joy this holiday season."</p><p>"Above all, it is important to give thanks! Music has given me everything, and I am grateful and humbled to use it to give back to my fans," said Sech. "‘Carta Navideña' is an original song inspired by the holiday spirit felt around the world. You can recognize the sounds often heard in the classics, but with my unique style and emotions. The lyrics express my fondest holiday memories and traditions. I hope it becomes a popular classic, too, resonating with fans and reminding them to create many happy memories and give thanks always."</p><p>In addition to new holiday songs, Amazon Music listeners can explore hundreds of festive playlists and stations across artists and decades, including "REDISCOVER: Mariah Carey Christmas," "Holiday Favorites," "Christmas Past," and "Christmas Present," and a host of new programmed destinations. "Fluent Holidays" is a new playlist celebrating fans who move fluidly between cultures, featuring English, Spanish and bilingual holiday tunes from artists including Reik, Sebastián Yatra, Camila Cabello, Katy Perry, and Sech. The playlist will spotlight English and Spanish language holiday classics, including new Amazon Original songs. "Merry Mix" is a global playlist on Amazon Music featuring iconic holiday classics mixed with tomorrow's holiday hits. And starting November 19, customers in the U.S. can check out a hosted version of Merry Mix in DJ Mode, which will feature special guests such as Mariah Carey sharing their holiday memories, the stories behind their own holiday songs, and much more. Customers will also hear festive tracks including Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," Darlene Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," and John Legend's "What Christmas Means to Me" with Stevie Wonder. To listen to the station, simply ask "Alexa, play Merry Mix in DJ Mode" in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android or on Alexa-enabled devices.</p><p><em>Holiday Merch</em></p><p>Fans can shop holiday merchandise collections on the Amazon Music Artist Merch Shop, a comprehensive shopping experience on Amazon.com, developed and curated by the Amazon Music team. To celebrate the season, Amazon Music offers a wide-ranging gift guide, featuring festive merch from some of the biggest stars, including Dolly Parton, Lil Nas X, an exclusive holiday T-shirt from KISS, The Beatles, and more.</p><p><em>Podcasts</em></p><p>Amazon Music is home to millions of podcast episodes and shows for the entire family to enjoy together, including <em>Little Stories Everywhere, </em>and <em>Wow in the World </em>available on Wondery. This holiday, Amazon Original podcasts <em>Uncommon Ground with Van Jones</em>, <em>Country Heat Weekly</em>, and <em>That Scene with Dan Patrick</em> will feature special holiday episodes to celebrate the season.</p><p>For a limited time, customers who haven't yet tried Amazon Music Unlimited can get three months free—with unlimited access to more than 75 million songs, ad-free, in the highest-quality streaming audio and millions of podcast episodes. In addition, with the purchase of select Amazon Echo devices, customers new to Amazon Music Unlimited can get six months free.</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 75 million songs and the latest new releases. Amazon Music Unlimited customers also now have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 75 million songs available in High Definition (HD), more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of spatial 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211103005270/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Launches FamilyFlex to Give Front-line Employees Flexibility and Support and to Help Parents Transition Back to the Workplace

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11/03/2021 06:00:00

Amazon Launches FamilyFlex to Give Front-line Employees Flexibility and Support and to Help Parents Transition Back to the Workplace

11/03/2021

2021

Employee program gives parents across the company's U.S. fulfillment and delivery network greater flexibility and benefits Under Amazon FamilyFlex, new and existing hourly employees have access to care options, and financial resources for their families SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2021-- Today Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the launch of Amazon FamilyFlex, a program that provides new and current employees flexibility and expansive benefits for themselves and their families. Amazon FamilyFlex gives employees, which may differ by business and employment type, the resources to create the right balance between home life and work life, including pregnancy and parental leave, adoption assistance, and in select roles, the ability to swap shifts and create custom schedules. The program is a result of feedback from employees on the most effective ways to provide flexibility and support in managing their work and personal lives. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211103005363/en/ "Millions of women have left the workforce as a result of the caregiving crisis created by COVID-19, and women's workforce participation has hit its lowest rate since the 1980s," said Tami Forman, CEO of Path Forward, a nonprofit dedicated to helping professionals return to the workforce. "Women—and many parents in general—will not be able to return to the workforce and thrive there, without policies like flexible schedules and family support resources. Programs like Amazon FamilyFlex are another step toward meaningful change as employees seek better balance between work and caregiving responsibilities." "Work-life balance is something that's very important to me. Being able to choose my own schedule allows me to spend time with my daughter," said Brittany Hartso, an hourly employee at Amazon's Springfield, Virginia fulfillment center. "A lot of people can't take their kids to school and pick them up as well. I'm able to do that every day and I love it." Flexible scheduling for employees Through FamilyFlex, Amazon offers employees in select roles a variety of ways to choose and change their schedule, whether they prefer keeping the same, reliable schedule week-after-week, or swapping shifts at the last minute to accommodate family duties. Some of the options, which can differ based on an individual's role, include: Swap shifts ahead of time or at the last minute:Employees shared that they want the flexibility to manage life events by switching shifts rather than using time off. Eligible employees can now swap shifts easily using Amazon's internal mobile app or desktop site. With just a few clicks, employees can swap shifts with a co-worker or exchange a current shift for a future one that they have scheduled for themselves, letting them easily choose to work a different day that week. The program is currently available to nearly 500,000 employees in Amazon's fulfillment and delivery network across the U.S. with more expansion on the horizon. Create your own schedule with "Anytime Shifts":Anytime Shifts is a flexible option that gives employees in select roles the opportunity to pick the time and type of shift that works best for them. Employees who opt for this type of role can pick up shifts on Amazon's internal app to create their own preferred schedule. They can also use the app to cancel a shift in as little as 16 hours before the shift begins. The company currently has over 23,000 open roles that qualify for Anytime Shifts across its U.S. operations network, and more than 100,000 employees have utilized the benefit. Flexible pay options Employees have shared there are times when they would like the option to access their earnings without waiting for payday. With "Anytime Pay," a free, fast pay program, select U.S. employees can transfer the majority of their earnings since their last paycheck to a paycard. The card can be used anywhere that Visa is accepted, like neighborhood grocery stores, and employees can also withdraw cash at participating ATMs and transfer money from their paycard to a regular bank account—all at no cost. The company has tens of thousands of open roles that qualify for Anytime Pay across its U.S. operations network, and more than 150,000 current employees have access to the benefit. Supporting families with care options and resources Employees have said that they appreciate support throughout all stages of their lives. All U.S. regular full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits, including health, vision, and dental insurance; a 401(k) plan with company match; and free mental health resources and support. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and job status, such as seasonal or temporary employment. For employees who have or are planning to have a family, Amazon FamilyFlex offers access to: Pregnancy and parental leave: Amazon offers a range of fully paid pregnancy and leave options for eligible new parents, including up to 20 weeks of paid pregnancy and parental leave for birthing parents. The company also has an industry-unique "Leave Share" option and a flexible return-to-work program known as "Ramp Back." The Leave Share program gives new parents the option to give up to six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn't eligible for parental leave from their employer. The Ramp Back program offers parents eight consecutive weeks of flexibility and partial work hours after the birth or adoption of a child as they readjust to work schedules as new parents. Child care, elder care, and referral services: Employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters, and special-needs caretakers. Amazon provides free access to UrbanSitter, Sittercity, and Years Ahead, which connect employees to child, elder, and pet care providers. Amazon pays for the memberships to find care, while employees pay for care services. Amazon employees can also receive preferred enrollment for full-service care at Bright Horizons child care centers with waived registration fees up to $250, tuition discounts for full-service care at participating non-Bright Horizons network partner centers, and discounted tutoring and test prep services for students. Rethink: Employees have access to a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD, and other developmental disabilities. This benefit includes ongoing remote consultations with a dedicated behavior expert to answer specific questions and other resources to assist children with skills like socialization, self-help, and academics. Rethink also offers free consultations, training videos, and a library of online resources to help support children of employees. Mental health resources: Resources for Living, a free single place to start for personalized, convenient, and confidential mental health and daily life support, is available 24/7 to all employees, their families, and anyone in their household. Free one-on-one counseling sessions—three sessions per person, per topic—are included and can be used by anyone in the employee's household. Adoption Assistance:The company offers up to six weeks of paid leave for parents who adopt. Amazon also reimburses employees for qualified expenses such as adoption and attorney fees, court costs, and travel, up to $5,000 per child. "The pandemic has put a spotlight on, and even exacerbated, the challenges faced by families who care for young children," said Alicia Boler Davis, Senior Vice President of Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon. "Giving employees ways to balance work and home commitments is important to us, which is why we go beyond providing an average starting wage of $18 per hour and comprehensive benefits, and also offer a variety of opportunities with flexible scheduling options to ensure each employee can do what works best for them." To learn more about Amazon's FamilyFlex, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-familyflex-helps-bring-more-parents-back-to-the-workplace. Amazon continues to provide opportunities for full-time and part-time jobs in logistics as it expands its footprint to better serve customers in communities where they live. Roles in fulfillment and transportation offer an average starting wage of more than $18 per hour—and up to $22.50 per hour in some locations. The company also provides full-time employees with comprehensive benefits from day one, worth an additional $3.50 per hour. Interested candidates can visit http://www.amazon.com/apply to learn more and apply. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211103005363/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Employee program gives parents across the company's U.S. fulfillment and delivery network greater flexibility and benefits</em></p><p><em>Under Amazon FamilyFlex, new and existing hourly employees have access to care options, and financial resources for their families</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2021-- Today Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the launch of Amazon FamilyFlex, a program that provides new and current employees flexibility and expansive benefits for themselves and their families. Amazon FamilyFlex gives employees, which may differ by business and employment type, the resources to create the right balance between home life and work life, including pregnancy and parental leave, adoption assistance, and in select roles, the ability to swap shifts and create custom schedules. The program is a result of feedback from employees on the most effective ways to provide flexibility and support in managing their work and personal lives.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211103005363/en/</p><p>"Millions of women have left the workforce as a result of the caregiving crisis created by COVID-19, and women's workforce participation has hit its lowest rate since the 1980s," said Tami Forman, CEO of Path Forward, a nonprofit dedicated to helping professionals return to the workforce. "Women—and many parents in general—will not be able to return to the workforce and thrive there, without policies like flexible schedules and family support resources. Programs like Amazon FamilyFlex are another step toward meaningful change as employees seek better balance between work and caregiving responsibilities."</p><p>"Work-life balance is something that's very important to me. Being able to choose my own schedule allows me to spend time with my daughter," said Brittany Hartso, an hourly employee at Amazon's Springfield, Virginia fulfillment center. "A lot of people can't take their kids to school and pick them up as well. I'm able to do that every day and I love it."</p><p>Flexible scheduling for employees</p><p>Through FamilyFlex, Amazon offers employees in select roles a variety of ways to choose and change their schedule, whether they prefer keeping the same, reliable schedule week-after-week, or swapping shifts at the last minute to accommodate family duties. Some of the options, which can differ based on an individual's role, include:</p><ul><li>Swap shifts ahead of time or at the last minute:Employees shared that they want the flexibility to manage life events by switching shifts rather than using time off. Eligible employees can now swap shifts easily using Amazon's internal mobile app or desktop site. With just a few clicks, employees can swap shifts with a co-worker or exchange a current shift for a future one that they have scheduled for themselves, letting them easily choose to work a different day that week. The program is currently available to nearly 500,000 employees in Amazon's fulfillment and delivery network across the U.S. with more expansion on the horizon.</li><li>Create your own schedule with "Anytime Shifts":Anytime Shifts is a flexible option that gives employees in select roles the opportunity to pick the time and type of shift that works best for them. Employees who opt for this type of role can pick up shifts on Amazon's internal app to create their own preferred schedule. They can also use the app to cancel a shift in as little as 16 hours before the shift begins. The company currently has over 23,000 open roles that qualify for Anytime Shifts across its U.S. operations network, and more than 100,000 employees have utilized the benefit.</li></ul><p>Flexible pay options</p><p>Employees have shared there are times when they would like the option to access their earnings without waiting for payday. With "Anytime Pay," a free, fast pay program, select U.S. employees can transfer the majority of their earnings since their last paycheck to a paycard. The card can be used anywhere that Visa is accepted, like neighborhood grocery stores, and employees can also withdraw cash at participating ATMs and transfer money from their paycard to a regular bank account—all at no cost. The company has tens of thousands of open roles that qualify for Anytime Pay across its U.S. operations network, and more than 150,000 current employees have access to the benefit.</p><p>Supporting families with care options and resources</p><p>Employees have said that they appreciate support throughout all stages of their lives. All U.S. regular full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits, including health, vision, and dental insurance; a 401(k) plan with company match; and free mental health resources and support. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and job status, such as seasonal or temporary employment. For employees who have or are planning to have a family, Amazon FamilyFlex offers access to:</p><ul><li>Pregnancy and parental leave: Amazon offers a range of fully paid pregnancy and leave options for eligible new parents, including up to 20 weeks of paid pregnancy and parental leave for birthing parents. The company also has an industry-unique "Leave Share" option and a flexible return-to-work program known as "Ramp Back." The Leave Share program gives new parents the option to give up to six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn't eligible for parental leave from their employer. The Ramp Back program offers parents eight consecutive weeks of flexibility and partial work hours after the birth or adoption of a child as they readjust to work schedules as new parents.</li></ul><ul><li>Child care, elder care, and referral services: Employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters, and special-needs caretakers. Amazon provides free access to UrbanSitter, Sittercity, and Years Ahead, which connect employees to child, elder, and pet care providers. Amazon pays for the memberships to find care, while employees pay for care services. Amazon employees can also receive preferred enrollment for full-service care at Bright Horizons child care centers with waived registration fees up to $250, tuition discounts for full-service care at participating non-Bright Horizons network partner centers, and discounted tutoring and test prep services for students.</li><li>Rethink: Employees have access to a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD, and other developmental disabilities. This benefit includes ongoing remote consultations with a dedicated behavior expert to answer specific questions and other resources to assist children with skills like socialization, self-help, and academics. Rethink also offers free consultations, training videos, and a library of online resources to help support children of employees.</li></ul><ul><li>Mental health resources: Resources for Living, a free single place to start for personalized, convenient, and confidential mental health and daily life support, is available 24/7 to all employees, their families, and anyone in their household. Free one-on-one counseling sessions—three sessions per person, per topic—are included and can be used by anyone in the employee's household.</li><li>Adoption Assistance:The company offers up to six weeks of paid leave for parents who adopt. Amazon also reimburses employees for qualified expenses such as adoption and attorney fees, court costs, and travel, up to $5,000 per child.</li></ul><p>"The pandemic has put a spotlight on, and even exacerbated, the challenges faced by families who care for young children," said Alicia Boler Davis, Senior Vice President of Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon. "Giving employees ways to balance work and home commitments is important to us, which is why we go beyond providing an average starting wage of $18 per hour and comprehensive benefits, and also offer a variety of opportunities with flexible scheduling options to ensure each employee can do what works best for them."</p><p>To learn more about Amazon's FamilyFlex, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-familyflex-helps-bring-more-parents-back-to-the-workplace.</p><p>Amazon continues to provide opportunities for full-time and part-time jobs in logistics as it expands its footprint to better serve customers in communities where they live. Roles in fulfillment and transportation offer an average starting wage of more than $18 per hour—and up to $22.50 per hour in some locations. The company also provides full-time employees with comprehensive benefits from day one, worth an additional $3.50 per hour. Interested candidates can visit http://www.amazon.com/apply to learn more and apply.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211103005363/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

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10/28/2021 16:16:00

AWS Announces General Availability of Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

10/28/2021

2021

New Amazon Aurora capability gives customers the ability to run applications written for Microsoft SQL Server directly on Amazon Aurora with little to no code changes New open-source Babelfish for PostgreSQL makes it easier for more organizations to run Microsoft SQL Server on PostgreSQL under the permissive Apache 2.0 and PostgreSQL licenses Factset, Tyler Technologies, and Q2 among customers using Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, a new capability that allows customers to run applications written for Microsoft SQL Server directly on Amazon Aurora with little to no code changes. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL enables Amazon Aurora to understand commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server, making it easier for customers to migrate to Amazon Aurora. With Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, customers simply migrate their data and configure their application to point to Amazon Aurora, reducing costs and simplifying operations by removing the dependency on Microsoft SQL Server. Also announced today, open-source Babelfish for PostgreSQL makes the same Microsoft SQL Server language capability in Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL available to any organization interested in running PostgreSQL, and the source code for Babelfish for PostgreSQL is available on GitHub under the permissive Apache 2.0 and PostgreSQL licenses for anyone who wants to extend it or use it for any purpose under the terms of the license. To get started with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, visit aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/babelfish. Constrained by commercial-grade database options that don't offer the flexibility and database freedom of modern offerings, customers have long been unhappy with old-guard database providers. Commercial-grade databases offer high performance but are expensive, proprietary, and have high lock-in and punitive licensing terms that arbitrarily change. Many customers have moved to open-source database engines like PostgreSQL and MySQL because they want the performance of commercial-grade databases with the pricing and flexibility open-source engines provide. However, configuring open-source database engines to achieve high performance is time consuming and labor intensive. That's why today more than 100,000 customers choose to run their database workloads on Amazon Aurora, a fully managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database that delivers the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at one tenth the cost. Today, customers use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate databases to the cloud and take advantage of high-performance open-source engines. However, once the initial database migration is complete, customers still need to migrate their application logic to run on PostgreSQL. Migrating application logic requires manual coding, is time consuming, and is often tied to proprietary database commands. Customers interested in adopting PostgreSQL and enjoying the benefits of running an open-source database engine on AWS want an easier way to migrate their Microsoft SQL Server applications to Amazon Aurora. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL is a new capability that makes it possible to run Microsoft SQL Server applications directly on Amazon Aurora with little to no code changes. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL provides a new capability for Amazon Aurora that enables Amazon Aurora to understand commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server. With Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now understands T-SQL, Microsoft SQL Server's proprietary SQL dialect, and supports the same SQL syntax as Microsoft SQL Server, so customers no longer need to rewrite their applications' database requests. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL also understands TDS, Microsoft SQL Server's network protocol, so customers can continue to use the existing Microsoft SQL Server database drivers that their applications rely on. As a result, customers can more easily move applications running on Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora, leading to faster, lower-risk, and more cost-effective database migrations. After customers migrate their data using AWS DMS, they simply update their application configuration to point to Amazon Aurora and start testing their application running on Amazon Aurora instead of Microsoft SQL Server. Once customers test their application, they can put it in production, no longer need Microsoft SQL Server, and can stop paying for the expensive, constrained licenses. Because Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL supports both Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL, customers can migrate at their own speed and run their legacy Microsoft SQL Server code side by side with new functionality they build using PostgreSQL application programming interfaces (APIs). "More and more customers have told us they want a fast, inexpensive, and low-risk way to break free from old-guard database vendors and their punitive licensing terms, high costs, and lack of innovation," said Raju Gulabani, VP of Databases and Analytics at AWS. "Now, with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, anyone can quickly, easily, and cost effectively migrate their applications to Amazon Aurora, giving customers the best of both worlds—the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at a cost more commonly associated with open source." In addition to the Amazon Aurora offering, the source code for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL is now available on GitHub under the permissive Apache 2.0 and PostgreSQL licenses for anyone to view. Organizations can use it for any purpose including distributing it, modifying it, and distributing modified versions of it under the terms of the licenses. In addition to the source code being available on GitHub, all Babelfish for PostgreSQL development is done openly on GitHub, so organizations can see what new features are being developed. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL is generally available today to customers running Amazon Aurora in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo) with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world. "FactSet is excited about the launch of Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL," said Demetry Zilberg, CTO at FactSet. "We are optimistic that Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL will materially accelerate the pace of our migration from commercial relational database platforms to PostgresSQL on Amazon Aurora, which is a key part of our Digital Foundation program for product-driven initiatives. With Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, our teams can focus on revenue-generating product development rather than re-architecture." Presidio is a leading information technology (IT) services and solutions provider that helps customers connect IT of today to IT of tomorrow. "Presidio has helped numerous customers migrate their database operations to AWS using AWS DMS, Amazon Relational Database Service, and other AWS data offerings. However, giving clients the flexibility and freedom to choose their relational data store has always required deep, costly application refactoring," said Sanjeev Pant, VP of Cloud Transformation at Presidio. "With Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, we now have options to cut out expensive licensing and provide expansive choice of backend options to suit our clients' needs on their journey to data and app modernization with a data-driven enterprise in mind. The reduction of time, cost, and risk to our projects, and those of our clients, is game changing." Tyler is the largest and most established provider of integrated software and technology services focused on the public sector. "We've been using Amazon Aurora to support new application development because of its high performance and scalability, and we are eager to migrate our large portfolio of existing applications to Amazon Aurora as well," said Brian McGrath, Senior Vice President of Operations at Tyler Technologies. "Our development teams used Babelfish in preview to move one of our mission-critical applications to Amazon Aurora, and the migration required minimal changes in our SQL Server application code. We pointed the applications at Aurora, and it just worked. We are excited for the general availability launch of Babelfish, which will enable us to migrate the rest of our application portfolio to Aurora in a fraction of the time it might otherwise have taken." Q2 is a leading provider of secure, cloud-based digital solutions that transform how financial services providers engage with users. "We have tested an end-user application with minimal database changes for Babelfish, and we are pleased with the performance so far," said Jordan Hager, Vice President of Hosting Architecture at Q2. "We estimate Babelfish's capabilities will speed up our database migration to Amazon Aurora from SQL Server by 80% or more. The faster we move off SQL Server to Aurora, the sooner we dramatically lower our database licensing costs, increase developer productivity, and improve database performance. Needless to say, we are thrilled with the general availability launch of Babelfish." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211028006197/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New Amazon Aurora capability gives customers the ability to run applications written for Microsoft SQL Server directly on Amazon Aurora with little to no code changes</em></p><p><em>New open-source Babelfish for PostgreSQL makes it easier for more organizations to run Microsoft SQL Server on PostgreSQL under the permissive Apache 2.0 and PostgreSQL licenses</em></p><p><em>Factset, Tyler Technologies, and Q2 among customers using Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, a new capability that allows customers to run applications written for Microsoft SQL Server directly on Amazon Aurora with little to no code changes. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL enables Amazon Aurora to understand commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server, making it easier for customers to migrate to Amazon Aurora. With Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, customers simply migrate their data and configure their application to point to Amazon Aurora, reducing costs and simplifying operations by removing the dependency on Microsoft SQL Server. Also announced today, open-source Babelfish for PostgreSQL makes the same Microsoft SQL Server language capability in Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL available to any organization interested in running PostgreSQL, and the source code for Babelfish for PostgreSQL is available on GitHub under the permissive Apache 2.0 and PostgreSQL licenses for anyone who wants to extend it or use it for any purpose under the terms of the license. To get started with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, visit aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/babelfish.</p><p>Constrained by commercial-grade database options that don't offer the flexibility and database freedom of modern offerings, customers have long been unhappy with old-guard database providers. Commercial-grade databases offer high performance but are expensive, proprietary, and have high lock-in and punitive licensing terms that arbitrarily change. Many customers have moved to open-source database engines like PostgreSQL and MySQL because they want the performance of commercial-grade databases with the pricing and flexibility open-source engines provide. However, configuring open-source database engines to achieve high performance is time consuming and labor intensive. That's why today more than 100,000 customers choose to run their database workloads on Amazon Aurora, a fully managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database that delivers the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at one tenth the cost. Today, customers use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate databases to the cloud and take advantage of high-performance open-source engines. However, once the initial database migration is complete, customers still need to migrate their application logic to run on PostgreSQL. Migrating application logic requires manual coding, is time consuming, and is often tied to proprietary database commands. Customers interested in adopting PostgreSQL and enjoying the benefits of running an open-source database engine on AWS want an easier way to migrate their Microsoft SQL Server applications to Amazon Aurora.</p><p>Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL is a new capability that makes it possible to run Microsoft SQL Server applications directly on Amazon Aurora with little to no code changes. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL provides a new capability for Amazon Aurora that enables Amazon Aurora to understand commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server. With Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now understands T-SQL, Microsoft SQL Server's proprietary SQL dialect, and supports the same SQL syntax as Microsoft SQL Server, so customers no longer need to rewrite their applications' database requests. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL also understands TDS, Microsoft SQL Server's network protocol, so customers can continue to use the existing Microsoft SQL Server database drivers that their applications rely on. As a result, customers can more easily move applications running on Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora, leading to faster, lower-risk, and more cost-effective database migrations. After customers migrate their data using AWS DMS, they simply update their application configuration to point to Amazon Aurora and start testing their application running on Amazon Aurora instead of Microsoft SQL Server. Once customers test their application, they can put it in production, no longer need Microsoft SQL Server, and can stop paying for the expensive, constrained licenses. Because Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL supports both Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL, customers can migrate at their own speed and run their legacy Microsoft SQL Server code side by side with new functionality they build using PostgreSQL application programming interfaces (APIs).</p><p>"More and more customers have told us they want a fast, inexpensive, and low-risk way to break free from old-guard database vendors and their punitive licensing terms, high costs, and lack of innovation," said Raju Gulabani, VP of Databases and Analytics at AWS. "Now, with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, anyone can quickly, easily, and cost effectively migrate their applications to Amazon Aurora, giving customers the best of both worlds—the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at a cost more commonly associated with open source."</p><p>In addition to the Amazon Aurora offering, the source code for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL is now available on GitHub under the permissive Apache 2.0 and PostgreSQL licenses for anyone to view. Organizations can use it for any purpose including distributing it, modifying it, and distributing modified versions of it under the terms of the licenses. In addition to the source code being available on GitHub, all Babelfish for PostgreSQL development is done openly on GitHub, so organizations can see what new features are being developed.</p><p>Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL is generally available today to customers running Amazon Aurora in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo) with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon.</p><p>FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world. "FactSet is excited about the launch of Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL," said Demetry Zilberg, CTO at FactSet. "We are optimistic that Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL will materially accelerate the pace of our migration from commercial relational database platforms to PostgresSQL on Amazon Aurora, which is a key part of our Digital Foundation program for product-driven initiatives. With Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, our teams can focus on revenue-generating product development rather than re-architecture."</p><p>Presidio is a leading information technology (IT) services and solutions provider that helps customers connect IT of today to IT of tomorrow. "Presidio has helped numerous customers migrate their database operations to AWS using AWS DMS, Amazon Relational Database Service, and other AWS data offerings. However, giving clients the flexibility and freedom to choose their relational data store has always required deep, costly application refactoring," said Sanjeev Pant, VP of Cloud Transformation at Presidio. "With Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, we now have options to cut out expensive licensing and provide expansive choice of backend options to suit our clients' needs on their journey to data and app modernization with a data-driven enterprise in mind. The reduction of time, cost, and risk to our projects, and those of our clients, is game changing."</p><p>Tyler is the largest and most established provider of integrated software and technology services focused on the public sector. "We've been using Amazon Aurora to support new application development because of its high performance and scalability, and we are eager to migrate our large portfolio of existing applications to Amazon Aurora as well," said Brian McGrath, Senior Vice President of Operations at Tyler Technologies. "Our development teams used Babelfish in preview to move one of our mission-critical applications to Amazon Aurora, and the migration required minimal changes in our SQL Server application code. We pointed the applications at Aurora, and it just worked. We are excited for the general availability launch of Babelfish, which will enable us to migrate the rest of our application portfolio to Aurora in a fraction of the time it might otherwise have taken."</p><p>Q2 is a leading provider of secure, cloud-based digital solutions that transform how financial services providers engage with users. "We have tested an end-user application with minimal database changes for Babelfish, and we are pleased with the performance so far," said Jordan Hager, Vice President of Hosting Architecture at Q2. "We estimate Babelfish's capabilities will speed up our database migration to Amazon Aurora from SQL Server by 80% or more. The faster we move off SQL Server to Aurora, the sooner we dramatically lower our database licensing costs, increase developer productivity, and improve database performance. Needless to say, we are thrilled with the general availability launch of Babelfish."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211028006197/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Results

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2021. Operating cash flow decreased 1% to $54.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $55.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020. Free cash flow decreased to $2.6 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $29.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020. Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $8.8 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $18.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020. Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $3.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $17.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020. Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 523 million on September 30, 2021, compared with 518 million one year ago. Net sales increased 15% to $110.8 billion in the third quarter, compared with $96.1 billion in third quarter 2020. Excluding the $0.5 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 15% compared with third quarter 2020. Operating income decreased to $4.9 billion in the third quarter, compared with $6.2 billion in third quarter 2020. Net income decreased to $3.2 billion in the third quarter, or $6.12 per diluted share, compared with $6.3 billion, or $12.37 per diluted share, in third quarter 2020. "We've always said that when confronted with the choice between optimizing for short-term profits versus what's best for customers over the long term, we will choose the latter—and you can see that during every phase of this pandemic," said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO. "In the first several months of COVID-19, Amazonians played an essential role to help people secure the requisite PPE, food, and other in-demand items needed, and we worked closely with businesses and governments to leverage AWS to maintain business continuity as they responded to the pandemic. Customers have appreciated this commitment, which is part of what's driving this past quarter's AWS growth acceleration to 39% year over year; but, it's also driven extraordinary investments across our businesses to satisfy customer needs—just one example is that we've nearly doubled the size of our fulfillment network since the pandemic began. In the fourth quarter, we expect to incur several billion dollars of additional costs in our Consumer business as we manage through labor supply shortages, increased wage costs, global supply chain issues, and increased freight and shipping costs—all while doing whatever it takes to minimize the impact on customers and selling partners this holiday season. It'll be expensive for us in the short term, but it's the right prioritization for our customers and partners." Highlights Innovating for Our Retail Customers Amazon kicked off the holidays early this year, announcing Black Friday-worthy deals on October 4, including thousands of deals from independent sellers and handmade artisans and Amazon's biggest ever selection of gift guides. Amazon launched new features like the Holiday Gift List to let customers easily create and share one list of gift ideas for everyone in their household, conveniently organized by recipients. The company also unveiled its new Holiday Prep Shop, which expertly curates top products across various categories to help customers prepare for seasonal celebrations. Amazon expanded its faster Same-Day Delivery service to Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, and Tampa—bringing the total number of cities with the service, which launched in 2020, to 15. The expansion has led to hundreds of new Amazon jobs in these cities offering competitive hourly wages and a flexible work schedule. Prime members can shop up to 3 million items across a dozen categories, such as baby, beauty and health, and electronics, and receive their order in as fast as five hours. Amazon launched a new gift-giving feature that enables Prime members in the U.S. to use the Amazon mobile shopping app to send gifts with just the recipient's email or mobile phone number. Recipients receive a gift message—by email or text—that allows them to accept the gift. They are then prompted to enter their preferred delivery address from their Amazon account to receive the gift. Amazon's Great Indian Festival sales event, which started on October 3, features more than 75,000 small businesses selling on Amazon from 450 cities across India, and provides customers access to a unique selection of products. The event also includes more than 1,000 new product launches from top brands like Apple, Maybelline, and Samsung. Plus, Prime members enjoy early access to deals, such as Prime Fridays, where members can receive exclusive product offers and perks, including exclusive entertainment launches on Amazon Prime and free delivery from top restaurants through Amazon Food. In the U.S., Personal Shopper by Prime Try Before You Buy is now more convenient with a newly launched "automatic deliveries" feature, which lets customers receive personalized stylist picks directly at their door monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly and only pay for what they keep. Prime Try Before You Buy also expanded to France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. This Amazon Fashion service allows customers to have their favorite fashion items delivered free of charge, so they can try on their items in the comfort of their own homes, pay for what they keep, and then return the rest for free. Amazon launched Amazon.eg in Egypt. The new store, formerly known as Souq.com, features millions of items from local and international brands across a range of categories, including apparel, electronics, grocery, home, and kitchen, as well as Amazon products and devices like Kindle e-readers. Prime continued to expand and provide even more value to members around the world. The program is now available to customers in Sweden and Poland, offering free and fast delivery on millions of items. In the UK and Ireland, Prime members can now receive a free Deliveroo Plus membership for a year, giving them unlimited free delivery on orders over £25. In the U.S., Prime Student introduced new exclusive offers from Calm, Course Hero, Grubhub, and StudentUniverse offering exclusive discounts to college students. In Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Prime and Anghami, the Middle East and North Africa's leading music streaming service, announced that Prime members can enjoy an exclusive six-month free offer on Anghami Plus, Anghami's premium paid tier. Amazon One, which lets customers use their palm to enter, identify, and pay at stores and other venues, was introduced for the first time at third-party locations. AXS, a leading digital ticketing company, integrated Amazon One into their contactless ticketing pedestals at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver. The technology was also introduced in four venues at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. Amazon One is now available at more than 70 Amazon physical retail stores and Whole Foods Market stores, and third-party locations. For the first time, Amazon's Just Walk Out technology is being integrated into two new Whole Foods Market locations in Sherman Oaks, California and Washington, D.C. that are expected to open next year. In addition, three new third-party venues have been enabled with Just Walk Out technology: the Javits Center store in New York City, marking the first time Amazon's checkout-free technology is being used in a convention center; the Forum store in Los Angeles, marking the first time a West Coast-based arena has enabled a store with Just Walk Out technology; and the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, marking the first time Just Walk Out technology and Amazon One have been used together in a third-party location. Amazon is now the first and only marketplace to protect customers in third-party product liability cases. The company expanded its A-to-z Guarantee to protect customers in the rare case that a defective third-party product causes property damage or personal injury. Amazon works with sellers and their insurance companies to address claims up to $1 million. Entertainment Amazon Games launched New World, a multiplayer online PC game. New World became the highest-played new game this year on Steam, a widely used distribution platform where players find, buy, and play games on PC. On Twitch, New World became the most-watched game during its launch week by hours watched, and the 12th highest-watched game ever by peak concurrent viewers. Prime Video released the Amazon Original movie Cinderella,starring Camila Cabello, which was the No. 1 streamed movie across all films on streaming platforms during its opening weekend and the No. 1 streamed musical of the year. Prime Video announced that The Lord of the Rings series will premiere September 2, 2022 on the streaming service, and an untitled spinoff will be produced for the popular series The Boys. In the fourth quarter, Amazon Original Movies The Tender Bar,starring Ben Affleck and directed by George Clooney, and Being the Ricardos, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Aaron Sorkin, will release in theaters and follow on Prime Video. Prime Video debuted 28 local originals internationally, including in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK. Prime Video also launched Prime Video Channels for customers in India, giving Prime members the option for add-on subscriptions of popular over-the-top services, and the Prime Video Store in Brazil, giving customers the opportunity to rent or buy new movie releases. Prime Video streamed its first-ever Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League soccer matches in Germany and Italy, and the first Ligue 1 soccer matches in France. In the UK, the U.S. Openfinalfeaturing18-year-old rising star Emma Raducanu was the most-streamed tennis match in Prime Video history, following the historic partnership with Channel 4 to share live broadcast rights. Prime Video's presentation of Thursday Night Football kicked off and introduced player tracking, a new feature driven by artificial intelligence (AI). In its first global expansion since launching in the U.S. in 2019, IMDb TV launched in the UK to provide free premium steaming content to customers via Prime Video. The service will soon become available as a standalone app on Fire TV devices. Amazon Music launched new original podcasts, including: SmartLess, the celebrity-interview show from hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett, that recently landed on Podtrac's Top 10 most-listened-to shows in the U.S.; Set It Straight, hosted by country music band Midland and featuring guests such as Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, and Matthew McConaughey; Badlands: Sportslands, the cult-classic from host Jake Brennan; 9/12 from prolific writer and podcaster Dan Taberski; and Uncommon Ground, hosted by political commentator, author, and lawyer Van Jones. Wondery, Amazon Music's premium podcast studio, celebrated the return of the fan-favorite podcast Dr. Death Season 3: Miracle Man, which is now available in eight languages. Amazon Music announced expanded access to spatial and high-quality audio for all its Unlimited subscribers worldwide, unlocking the highest-quality streaming audio for even more music fans. Previously available as a separate streaming tier, this level is now available to all subscribers automatically and without an upgrade. Amazon Devices and Services Amazon introduced the Echo Show 15 with a 15.6-inch, 1080p HD display. It can be mounted to a wall or placed on the counter and is designed to help customers stay organized, connected, and entertained. The Echo Show 15 features a redesigned home screen, new personalization options with visual ID, and all-new Alexa experiences like a household calendar and sticky notes. Amazon introduced an all-new lineup of Fire TV devices with its first-ever Amazon-built smart TVs—the Amazon Fire TV Omni Series and 4-Series smart TVs—and the all-new Fire TV Stick 4K Max. The Omni Series offers hands-free Alexa voice control, and both lineups feature 4K UHD resolution. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is 40% more powerful than the Fire TV Stick 4K and has a new quad-core 1.8GHz processer, 2GB of RAM, and Wi-Fi 6 support for faster app starts and smoother streaming. Amazon announced Astro, a new home robot that brings together advancements in AI, computer vision, sensor technology, and voice and edge computing to help customers monitor their home, look out for loved ones, and bring Alexa with them around the house. Amazon introduced Amazon Glow, an interactive device that combines immersive projection, sensing, and video technologies to make users feel like they are in the same room. Designed with children and grandparents in mind, the device allows kids to see loved ones on an 8-inch display while, at the same time, reading stories, playing games, or creating art on a 19-inch touch-sensitive projected space below. Glow comes with one year of Amazon Kids+, bringing hundreds of hours of fun designed specifically for Glow. Amazon announced Alexa Together, a new subscription service designed to help aging family members feel more comfortable and confident when living independently. Alexa Together includes 24/7 hands-free access to an Urgent Response emergency helpline, compatibility with third-party fall detection devices, and an optional Remote Assist feature so caregivers can help without having to be there in person. Amazon announced three new expansions to the Halo family: Halo View, a health tracker with a color display for at-a-glance access to Halo health metrics; Halo Fitness, a service that gives members hundreds of studio-quality workout classes integrated with access to real-time individual health metrics as an on-display overlay; and Halo Nutrition, a membership experience to help build healthy eating habits. Amazon and Disney announced ‘Hey, Disney!', an entirely new kind of voice assistant that will work on supported Echo devices at home and across Disney Resort hotel rooms at Walt Disney World. By saying ‘Hey, Disney!', users get access to interactive Disney storytelling experiences and entertainment, as well as jokes, fun facts, and special surprises featuring characters from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars. It will even make everyday tasks more magical, such as setting timers and alarms, and checking the weather or time of day. ‘Hey, Disney!' is expected to be available for purchase in the U.S. in 2022 in the Alexa Skills Store for use on all supported Echo devices, and will be available complimentary for Disney Resort guests at Walt Disney World. Ring and Blink introduced new home security devices and services with the Ring Alarm Pro, Virtual Security Guard, and Blink Video Doorbell. Ring Alarm Pro is a first-of-its-kind home security system that combines protection against break-ins, floods, fires, and network threats with a built-in eero Wi-Fi 6 router for connectivity. Virtual Security Guard is a new subscription service where third-party professional monitoring companies will visually monitor outdoor Ring cameras. The Blink Video Doorbell can be installed wired or wire-free and has a long-lasting battery life, 1080p HD day-and-night video, two-way audio, chime alerts via the Blink app when the doorbell rings, and the ability to connect the doorbell to your existing chime. Amazon announced the next generation of Kindle Paperwhite with three new models. The new Kindle Paperwhite comes with a larger display, adjustable warm light, USB-C charging, and increased battery life. The new Signature Edition adds an auto-adjusting light sensor, 32GB of storage, and is the first-ever Kindle to offer wireless charging. The new Kindle Paperwhite Kids comes with one year of Amazon Kids+, a kid-friendly case, and a two-year worry-free guarantee. Amazon introduced its AZ2 Neural Edge processor, a machine learning inference engine capable of processing speech recognition on-device, while processing computer vision workloads in parallel. Featured in the Echo Show 15, AZ2 enables the device to recognize a person enrolled in visual ID and then process their voice right on the device. Amazon Web Services AWS announced significant customer momentum, with new commitments and migrations from customers across major industries. Manufacturing: NXP, a leading European designer and manufacturer of specialized semiconductors, selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. NXP is migrating the vast majority of its electronic design automation workloads from NXP data centers to AWS. Leaders across the automotive industry, including Capgemini Engineering, CARIAD, and Continental, joined AWS in a special interest group supporting Arm's Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge to bring cloud-native practices and software-defined architectures to the automotive industry. Hospitality and ecommerce: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc., the world's largest hotel franchising company, selected AWS to upgrade its technology infrastructure and develop and deliver new guest services across its 21 hotel brands—including Ramada, Travelodge, and Wyndham. VTEX, a global ecommerce solution provider, is working with AWS to create a new direct-to-consumer solution that gives large enterprises the ability to quickly and easily launch ecommerce sites and experiences to sell directly to consumers. Telecom: Boingo Wireless, a leading distributed antenna system, Wi-Fi, and private network provider, announced an expanded collaboration with AWS to enable airports, stadiums, and large businesses to unlock new 5G use cases with advanced multi-access edge computing. Financial services: Sun Life, an international financial services and insurance company, selected AWS as its long-term strategic cloud technology provider. Black Knight, a software, data, and analytics provider to the mortgage, real estate, and capital markets verticals, selected AWS to develop mortgage-specific AI applications. Healthcare and life sciences: Baxter International Inc., a global medical products company, is moving from its own data centers into AWS and has already seen benefits, including increased speed to market for new tools and solutions, the ability to quickly expand technology solutions to new geographies, and significant cost savings. Security operations: Arctic Wolf Networks selected AWS as its primary cloud provider to power its innovative, cloud-native security operations platform as it expands globally. Using AWS, Arctic Wolf is able to process more than 1.4 trillion unique security events a week to help its customers manage rapidly evolving digital threats. AWS announced plans to open an infrastructure Region in New Zealand in 2024 that will consist of three Availability Zones, giving customers more choice and flexibility to leverage advanced technologies. A newly released AWS economic impact study estimates that the new infrastructure Region will create 1,000 new jobs in New Zealand over the next 15 years through the investment of $5.3 billion (NZ$7.5 billion). Globally, AWS has 81 Availability Zones across 25 geographic Regions, with plans to launch 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions. AWS announced three new capabilities for Amazon Connect, an easy-to-use, highly scalable, and cost-effective omnichannel cloud contact center solution that improves contact center agent productivity and provides superior service by making customer interactions more effective, personal, and natural. The new features give agents the right information at the right time to provide fast and secure caller authentication, the ability to answer customer questions more quickly, and the ability to make the overall process easier and more efficient. Tens of thousands of AWS customers are supporting more than 10 million contact center interactions a day on Amazon Connect. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a fully managed, Redis-compatible, in-memory database that enables customers to achieve ultra-fast performance with high availability and durability for their most business-critical applications that require sub-millisecond response times. With Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, customers can use the same familiar and flexible Redis data structures and application programming interface (API) they use today without having to separately manage a cache and a durable database, or the required underlying infrastructure. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Managed Grafana, a fully managed data visualization service that enables customers to instantly query, correlate, and visualize operational metrics, logs, and traces, as well as Internet of Things (IoT) data. Developed in collaboration with Grafana Labs, Amazon Managed Grafana manages the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance of Grafana so customers can easily create dashboards to view operational data from multiple data sources without having to worry about the underlying Grafana infrastructure. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a scalable, secure, and highly available service that makes it easier for customers to monitor containerized applications. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is fully compatible with open-source Prometheus and provides the same familiar time series data model and Prometheus Query Language customers use today to monitor containerized applications. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon QuickSight Q, a new capability in Amazon QuickSight that gives anyone access to powerful analytics with the ability to ask business questions using natural language and receive accurate answers with relevant visualizations. Amazon QuickSight Q does not depend on prebuilt dashboards or reports to deliver visualizations, which removes the need for business intelligence analysts to update a dashboard every time a new business question arises. This allows anyone to ask questions and receive visual answers in seconds. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a new storage service that provides the first complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file system in the cloud, making it easy for customers to run their applications on AWS without changing their code or how they manage data. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL1 instances, a new instance type designed for training machine learning models. DL1 instances provide up to 40% better price per performance for training machine learning models than the latest GPU-powered Amazon EC2 instances. AWS announced the general availability of the AWS Panorama Appliance, a new device that customers can install to run machine learning applications on multiple video streams from existing on-premises cameras. The AWS Panorama Appliance enables customers to use machine learning to quickly and easily perform visual inspections of production lines, monitor drive-through queues at quick-service restaurants, or assess the layout of their physical locations for ideal product placement. Investing in Employees and Our Workplace Amazon announced it will fund full college tuition, high school diplomas, GED diplomas, and English as a Second Language proficiency certifications for its U.S. front-line employees through its Career Choice program. More than 750,000 operations employees will be eligible for this benefit starting in January 2022. This expansion of education benefits is part of Upskilling 2025, Amazon's $1.2 billion investment to provide free skills training to the company's U.S. employees over the next four years. For jobseekers looking for flexible employment opportunities this holiday season, Amazon announced it is offering 150,000 seasonal roles in the U.S., over 50,000 seasonal roles in Europe, and over 110,000 seasonal roles in India. Job seekers in the U.S. can receive an immediate contingent offer for seasonal roles with an average starting pay of $18 per hour, sign-on bonuses up to $3,000, an additional $3 per hour depending on shifts in many locations, and the opportunity to transition to long-term careers. Amazon began operations at its state-of-the-art U.S. air cargo hub in Northern Kentucky. The $1.5 billion investment at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport will create more than 2,000 new Amazon jobs over the next several years with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits. The Amazon Air Hub will serve as the primary hub for Amazon Air's U.S. cargo network—enabling Amazon to process millions of customer packages per week. Amazon hosted Career Day, a global event to help current and future employees grow their careers. More than 1 million people applied for a job at Amazon as part of the event, and over 2,000 Amazon recruiters offered 30,000 individual career coaching sessions to participants in Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the U.S. Recruiters provided job seekers with professional advice to start, transition, or grow their careers—whether they want to work at Amazon or elsewhere. As part of the event, Amazon announced plans to hire 55,000 corporate and tech employees globally as well as 125,000 full- and part-time operations employees in hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S., with comprehensive benefits like healthcare and up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, as well as access to Amazon's Career Choice program. Forbes ranked Amazon No. 4 on its World's Best Employers 2021 list. To compile this year's list, Statista surveyed 150,000 employees from 58 countries around the world and asked them to rate their willingness to recommend their employers to friends and family. The survey used feedback from Amazon employees working both across our logistics network and corporate offices. Supporting Local Communities, Small Businesses, and the Economy Amazon Future Engineer, the company's global computer science education program for students from underserved and historically underrepresented communities, launched "Meet an Amazonian" for students from 3,000 U.S. schools. Students can learn about careers in technology directly from Amazon employees and participate in virtual class chats and computer science-themed fulfillment center tours. The company also launched Amazon Future Engineer in India, where it aims to reach more than 100,000 students from 900 schools in the first year of launch. The program is now available in Canada, France, India, the UK, and the U.S. Amazon donated more than 1 million emergency supplies to communities affected by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana and the earthquake in Haiti. Amazon activated its Disaster Relief Hub and teamed up with humanitarian aid partners to quickly deliver and distribute supplies to those in need. The supplies included water, food items, shelter materials, medical equipment, power generators, industrial insulated food carriers, solar chargers, and water filters. AWS announced it is committing $40 million in credits and technical expertise over the next three years to support organizations around the world that are developing solutions to improve health outcomes and health equity for underserved or underrepresented communities. The program is focused on increasing access to health services, addressing social determinants of health, and leveraging data to promote equitable and inclusive systems of care. Amazon released its Small Business Empowerment Report, highlighting the company's investments, programs, and tools to help small and medium-sized businesses thrive while selling in Amazon's store. Amazon's global selling partners―the majority of which are small and medium-sized businesses―have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S.-based jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses. In the 12 months ending August 31, U.S. sellers sold 3.8 billion products in Amazon's store―approximately 7,400 products per minute. Amazon hosted Amazon Accelerate, its annual U.S. conference for selling partners, where the company announced new tools and capabilities to help sellers thrive. Among the announcements, Amazon unveiled Local Selling, which enables sellers to start or expand their multichannel offerings by providing both in-store pickup and fast delivery to nearby customers, and new Global Selling tools to make it easier for U.S. third-party sellers to offer their products in Amazon's 21 stores worldwide. Amazon introduced Black Business Accelerator Connect, a new yearlong mentorship and networking benefit for participants in the Black Business Accelerator, the company's initiative to provide Black entrepreneurs with resources, guidance, and support to succeed as Amazon sellers. Amazon and Lendistry launched Amazon Community Lending, providing U.S.-based Amazon sellers access to short-term loans of up to $100,000 at competitive rates to sustain and grow their businesses. Lendistry is a Community Development Financial Institution that serves urban and rural small businesses in socially and economically distressed communities. Protecting the Planet Amazon welcomed 86 new companies to The Climate Pledge, including HP, Procter & Gamble, and Salesforce, bringing the total number of companies that have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 to more than 200. Pledge signatories generate over $1.8 trillion in global annual revenue and have more than 7 million employees across 26 industries in 21 countries. The Climate Pledge Fund, a $2 billion venture capital fund to support the development of sustainable and decarbonizing technologies and services, made new investments in three companies: CMC Machinery, a technology company that designs and manufactures custom-sized boxes while eliminating the need for single-use plastic padding; Resilient Power, a builder of solid-state power stations for electric vehicles; and Infinium, a company working toward a low-carbon electrofuels solution for air transport, marine freight, and heavy truck fleets. In total, the Climate Pledge Fund has invested in 11 companies. Amazon's Right Now Climate Fund, a $100 million fund to restore and conserve forests, wetlands, and grasslands around the world, announced an investment in the Agroforestry and Restoration Accelerator, a nature-based carbon removal initiative in the Brazilian Amazon, and a commitment of approximately $23.5 million (€20 million) for projects across Europe to help fight climate change. The first funding recipient is the Parco Italia urban forestry program, which aims to plant 22 million trees—one tree per city resident—across 14 metropolitan areas in Italy. Amazon co-founded The Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels network alongside the Aspen Institute, IKEA, Inditex, Michelin, Patagonia, Tchibo, and fellow Pledge signatories Brooks Running and Unilever. The initiative aims to transition ocean freight vessels from fossil fuels to zero-carbon fuels by 2040. Last year, Amazon became the first consumer electronics manufacturer to commit to addressing, through renewable energy development, the electricity used by its devices—starting with Echo devices. Amazon recently announced additional investments in wind and solar farm capacity that, by 2025, are expected to produce the clean energy equivalent of all the electricity used by Fire TV and Ring devices worldwide. Financial Guidance The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of October 28, 2021, and are subject to substantial uncertainty. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as uncertainty regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer demand and spending, labor market and global supply chain constraints, 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 October 28, 2021 regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations as well as the effect of other factors discussed above. Fourth Quarter 2021 Guidance Net sales are expected to be between $130.0 billion and $140.0 billion, or to grow between 4% and 12% compared with fourth quarter 2020. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 60 basis points from foreign exchange rates. 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<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2021.</p><ul><li>Operating cash flow decreased 1% to $54.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $55.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020.</li><li>Free cash flow decreased to $2.6 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $29.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020.</li><li>Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $8.8 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $18.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020.</li><li>Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $3.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $17.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2020.</li><li>Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 523 million on September 30, 2021, compared with 518 million one year ago.</li><li>Net sales increased 15% to $110.8 billion in the third quarter, compared with $96.1 billion in third quarter 2020. Excluding the $0.5 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 15% compared with third quarter 2020.</li><li>Operating income decreased to $4.9 billion in the third quarter, compared with $6.2 billion in third quarter 2020.</li><li>Net income decreased to $3.2 billion in the third quarter, or $6.12 per diluted share, compared with $6.3 billion, or $12.37 per diluted share, in third quarter 2020.</li></ul><p>"We've always said that when confronted with the choice between optimizing for short-term profits versus what's best for customers over the long term, we will choose the latter—and you can see that during every phase of this pandemic," said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO. "In the first several months of COVID-19, Amazonians played an essential role to help people secure the requisite PPE, food, and other in-demand items needed, and we worked closely with businesses and governments to leverage AWS to maintain business continuity as they responded to the pandemic. Customers have appreciated this commitment, which is part of what's driving this past quarter's AWS growth acceleration to 39% year over year; but, it's also driven extraordinary investments across our businesses to satisfy customer needs—just one example is that we've nearly doubled the size of our fulfillment network since the pandemic began. In the fourth quarter, we expect to incur several billion dollars of additional costs in our Consumer business as we manage through labor supply shortages, increased wage costs, global supply chain issues, and increased freight and shipping costs—all while doing whatever it takes to minimize the impact on customers and selling partners this holiday season. It'll be expensive for us in the short term, but it's the right prioritization for our customers and partners."</p><p>Highlights</p><p><em>Innovating for Our Retail Customers</em></p><ul><li>Amazon kicked off the holidays early this year, announcing Black Friday-worthy deals on October 4, including thousands of deals from independent sellers and handmade artisans and Amazon's biggest ever selection of gift guides. Amazon launched new features like the Holiday Gift List to let customers easily create and share one list of gift ideas for everyone in their household, conveniently organized by recipients. The company also unveiled its new Holiday Prep Shop, which expertly curates top products across various categories to help customers prepare for seasonal celebrations.</li><li>Amazon expanded its faster Same-Day Delivery service to Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, and Tampa—bringing the total number of cities with the service, which launched in 2020, to 15. The expansion has led to hundreds of new Amazon jobs in these cities offering competitive hourly wages and a flexible work schedule. Prime members can shop up to 3 million items across a dozen categories, such as baby, beauty and health, and electronics, and receive their order in as fast as five hours.</li><li>Amazon launched a new gift-giving feature that enables Prime members in the U.S. to use the Amazon mobile shopping app to send gifts with just the recipient's email or mobile phone number. Recipients receive a gift message—by email or text—that allows them to accept the gift. They are then prompted to enter their preferred delivery address from their Amazon account to receive the gift.</li><li>Amazon's Great Indian Festival sales event, which started on October 3, features more than 75,000 small businesses selling on Amazon from 450 cities across India, and provides customers access to a unique selection of products. The event also includes more than 1,000 new product launches from top brands like Apple, Maybelline, and Samsung. Plus, Prime members enjoy early access to deals, such as Prime Fridays, where members can receive exclusive product offers and perks, including exclusive entertainment launches on Amazon Prime and free delivery from top restaurants through Amazon Food.</li><li>In the U.S., Personal Shopper by Prime Try Before You Buy is now more convenient with a newly launched "automatic deliveries" feature, which lets customers receive personalized stylist picks directly at their door monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly and only pay for what they keep. Prime Try Before You Buy also expanded to France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. This Amazon Fashion service allows customers to have their favorite fashion items delivered free of charge, so they can try on their items in the comfort of their own homes, pay for what they keep, and then return the rest for free.</li><li>Amazon launched Amazon.eg in Egypt. The new store, formerly known as Souq.com, features millions of items from local and international brands across a range of categories, including apparel, electronics, grocery, home, and kitchen, as well as Amazon products and devices like Kindle e-readers.</li><li>Prime continued to expand and provide even more value to members around the world. The program is now available to customers in Sweden and Poland, offering free and fast delivery on millions of items. In the UK and Ireland, Prime members can now receive a free Deliveroo Plus membership for a year, giving them unlimited free delivery on orders over £25. In the U.S., Prime Student introduced new exclusive offers from Calm, Course Hero, Grubhub, and StudentUniverse offering exclusive discounts to college students. In Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Prime and Anghami, the Middle East and North Africa's leading music streaming service, announced that Prime members can enjoy an exclusive six-month free offer on Anghami Plus, Anghami's premium paid tier.</li><li>Amazon One, which lets customers use their palm to enter, identify, and pay at stores and other venues, was introduced for the first time at third-party locations. AXS, a leading digital ticketing company, integrated Amazon One into their contactless ticketing pedestals at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver. The technology was also introduced in four venues at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. Amazon One is now available at more than 70 Amazon physical retail stores and Whole Foods Market stores, and third-party locations.</li><li>For the first time, Amazon's Just Walk Out technology is being integrated into two new Whole Foods Market locations in Sherman Oaks, California and Washington, D.C. that are expected to open next year. In addition, three new third-party venues have been enabled with Just Walk Out technology: the Javits Center store in New York City, marking the first time Amazon's checkout-free technology is being used in a convention center; the Forum store in Los Angeles, marking the first time a West Coast-based arena has enabled a store with Just Walk Out technology; and the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, marking the first time Just Walk Out technology and Amazon One have been used together in a third-party location.</li><li>Amazon is now the first and only marketplace to protect customers in third-party product liability cases. The company expanded its A-to-z Guarantee to protect customers in the rare case that a defective third-party product causes property damage or personal injury. Amazon works with sellers and their insurance companies to address claims up to $1 million.</li></ul><p><em>Entertainment</em></p><ul><li>Amazon Games launched <em>New World</em>, a multiplayer online PC game. <em>New World</em> became the highest-played new game this year on Steam, a widely used distribution platform where players find, buy, and play games on PC. On Twitch, <em>New World</em> became the most-watched game during its launch week by hours watched, and the 12th highest-watched game ever by peak concurrent viewers.</li><li>Prime Video released the Amazon Original movie <em>Cinderella</em>,starring Camila Cabello, which was the No. 1 streamed movie across all films on streaming platforms during its opening weekend and the No. 1 streamed musical of the year.</li><li>Prime Video announced that <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> series will premiere September 2, 2022 on the streaming service, and an untitled spinoff will be produced for the popular series <em>The Boys.</em> In the fourth quarter, Amazon Original Movies <em>The Tender Bar</em>,starring Ben Affleck and directed by George Clooney, and <em>Being the Ricardos, </em>starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Aaron Sorkin, will release in theaters and follow on Prime Video.</li><li>Prime Video debuted 28 local originals internationally, including in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK. Prime Video also launched Prime Video Channels for customers in India, giving Prime members the option for add-on subscriptions of popular over-the-top services, and the Prime Video Store in Brazil, giving customers the opportunity to rent or buy new movie releases.</li><li>Prime Video streamed its first-ever Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League soccer matches in Germany and Italy, and the first Ligue 1 soccer matches in France. In the UK, the U.S. Openfinalfeaturing18-year-old rising star Emma Raducanu was the most-streamed tennis match in Prime Video history, following the historic partnership with Channel 4 to share live broadcast rights. Prime Video's presentation of <em>Thursday Night Football </em>kicked off and introduced player tracking, a new feature driven by artificial intelligence (AI).</li><li>In its first global expansion since launching in the U.S. in 2019, IMDb TV launched in the UK to provide free premium steaming content to customers via Prime Video. The service will soon become available as a standalone app on Fire TV devices.</li><li>Amazon Music launched new original podcasts, including: <em>SmartLess,</em> the celebrity-interview show from hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett, that recently landed on Podtrac's Top 10 most-listened-to shows in the U.S.; <em>Set It Straight</em>, hosted by country music band Midland and featuring guests such as Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, and Matthew McConaughey; <em>Badlands: Sportslands, </em>the cult-classic from host Jake Brennan; <em>9/12</em> from prolific writer and podcaster Dan Taberski; and <em>Uncommon Ground</em>, hosted by political commentator, author, and lawyer Van Jones. Wondery, Amazon Music's premium podcast studio, celebrated the return of the fan-favorite podcast <em>Dr. Death Season 3: Miracle Man</em>, which is now available in eight languages.</li><li>Amazon Music announced expanded access to spatial and high-quality audio for all its Unlimited subscribers worldwide, unlocking the highest-quality streaming audio for even more music fans. Previously available as a separate streaming tier, this level is now available to all subscribers automatically and without an upgrade.</li></ul><p><em>Amazon Devices and Services</em></p><ul><li>Amazon introduced the Echo Show 15 with a 15.6-inch, 1080p HD display. It can be mounted to a wall or placed on the counter and is designed to help customers stay organized, connected, and entertained. The Echo Show 15 features a redesigned home screen, new personalization options with visual ID, and all-new Alexa experiences like a household calendar and sticky notes.</li><li>Amazon introduced an all-new lineup of Fire TV devices with its first-ever Amazon-built smart TVs—the Amazon Fire TV Omni Series and 4-Series smart TVs—and the all-new Fire TV Stick 4K Max. The Omni Series offers hands-free Alexa voice control, and both lineups feature 4K UHD resolution. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is 40% more powerful than the Fire TV Stick 4K and has a new quad-core 1.8GHz processer, 2GB of RAM, and Wi-Fi 6 support for faster app starts and smoother streaming.</li><li>Amazon announced Astro, a new home robot that brings together advancements in AI, computer vision, sensor technology, and voice and edge computing to help customers monitor their home, look out for loved ones, and bring Alexa with them around the house.</li><li>Amazon introduced Amazon Glow, an interactive device that combines immersive projection, sensing, and video technologies to make users feel like they are in the same room. Designed with children and grandparents in mind, the device allows kids to see loved ones on an 8-inch display while, at the same time, reading stories, playing games, or creating art on a 19-inch touch-sensitive projected space below. Glow comes with one year of Amazon Kids+, bringing hundreds of hours of fun designed specifically for Glow.</li><li>Amazon announced Alexa Together, a new subscription service designed to help aging family members feel more comfortable and confident when living independently. Alexa Together includes 24/7 hands-free access to an Urgent Response emergency helpline, compatibility with third-party fall detection devices, and an optional Remote Assist feature so caregivers can help without having to be there in person.</li><li>Amazon announced three new expansions to the Halo family: Halo View, a health tracker with a color display for at-a-glance access to Halo health metrics; Halo Fitness, a service that gives members hundreds of studio-quality workout classes integrated with access to real-time individual health metrics as an on-display overlay; and Halo Nutrition, a membership experience to help build healthy eating habits.</li><li>Amazon and Disney announced ‘Hey, Disney!', an entirely new kind of voice assistant that will work on supported Echo devices at home and across Disney Resort hotel rooms at Walt Disney World. By saying ‘Hey, Disney!', users get access to interactive Disney storytelling experiences and entertainment, as well as jokes, fun facts, and special surprises featuring characters from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars. It will even make everyday tasks more magical, such as setting timers and alarms, and checking the weather or time of day. ‘Hey, Disney!' is expected to be available for purchase in the U.S. in 2022 in the Alexa Skills Store for use on all supported Echo devices, and will be available complimentary for Disney Resort guests at Walt Disney World.</li><li>Ring and Blink introduced new home security devices and services with the Ring Alarm Pro, Virtual Security Guard, and Blink Video Doorbell. Ring Alarm Pro is a first-of-its-kind home security system that combines protection against break-ins, floods, fires, and network threats with a built-in eero Wi-Fi 6 router for connectivity. Virtual Security Guard is a new subscription service where third-party professional monitoring companies will visually monitor outdoor Ring cameras. The Blink Video Doorbell can be installed wired or wire-free and has a long-lasting battery life, 1080p HD day-and-night video, two-way audio, chime alerts via the Blink app when the doorbell rings, and the ability to connect the doorbell to your existing chime.</li><li>Amazon announced the next generation of Kindle Paperwhite with three new models. The new Kindle Paperwhite comes with a larger display, adjustable warm light, USB-C charging, and increased battery life. The new Signature Edition adds an auto-adjusting light sensor, 32GB of storage, and is the first-ever Kindle to offer wireless charging. The new Kindle Paperwhite Kids comes with one year of Amazon Kids+, a kid-friendly case, and a two-year worry-free guarantee.</li><li>Amazon introduced its AZ2 Neural Edge processor, a machine learning inference engine capable of processing speech recognition on-device, while processing computer vision workloads in parallel. Featured in the Echo Show 15, AZ2 enables the device to recognize a person enrolled in visual ID and then process their voice right on the device.</li></ul><p><em>Amazon Web Services</em></p><ul><li>AWS announced significant customer momentum, with new commitments and migrations from customers across major industries.<ul><li>Manufacturing: NXP, a leading European designer and manufacturer of specialized semiconductors, selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. NXP is migrating the vast majority of its electronic design automation workloads from NXP data centers to AWS. Leaders across the automotive industry, including Capgemini Engineering<em>,</em> CARIAD<em>,</em> and Continental, joined AWS in a special interest group supporting Arm's Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge to bring cloud-native practices and software-defined architectures to the automotive industry.</li><li>Hospitality and ecommerce: Wyndham Hotels &amp; Resorts, Inc., the world's largest hotel franchising company, selected AWS to upgrade its technology infrastructure and develop and deliver new guest services across its 21 hotel brands—including Ramada, Travelodge, and Wyndham. VTEX, a global ecommerce solution provider, is working with AWS to create a new direct-to-consumer solution that gives large enterprises the ability to quickly and easily launch ecommerce sites and experiences to sell directly to consumers.</li><li>Telecom: Boingo Wireless, a leading distributed antenna system, Wi-Fi, and private network provider, announced an expanded collaboration with AWS to enable airports, stadiums, and large businesses to unlock new 5G use cases with advanced multi-access edge computing.</li><li>Financial services: Sun Life, an international financial services and insurance company, selected AWS as its long-term strategic cloud technology provider. Black Knight, a software, data, and analytics provider to the mortgage, real estate, and capital markets verticals, selected AWS to develop mortgage-specific AI applications.</li><li>Healthcare and life sciences: Baxter International Inc., a global medical products company, is moving from its own data centers into AWS and has already seen benefits, including increased speed to market for new tools and solutions, the ability to quickly expand technology solutions to new geographies, and significant cost savings.</li><li>Security operations: Arctic Wolf Networks selected AWS as its primary cloud provider to power its innovative, cloud-native security operations platform as it expands globally. Using AWS, Arctic Wolf is able to process more than 1.4 trillion unique security events a week to help its customers manage rapidly evolving digital threats.</li></ul></li><li>AWS announced plans to open an infrastructure Region in New Zealand in 2024 that will consist of three Availability Zones, giving customers more choice and flexibility to leverage advanced technologies. A newly released AWS economic impact study estimates that the new infrastructure Region will create 1,000 new jobs in New Zealand over the next 15 years through the investment of $5.3 billion (NZ$7.5 billion). Globally, AWS has 81 Availability Zones across 25 geographic Regions, with plans to launch 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions.</li><li>AWS announced three new capabilities for Amazon Connect, an easy-to-use, highly scalable, and cost-effective omnichannel cloud contact center solution that improves contact center agent productivity and provides superior service by making customer interactions more effective, personal, and natural. The new features give agents the right information at the right time to provide fast and secure caller authentication, the ability to answer customer questions more quickly, and the ability to make the overall process easier and more efficient. Tens of thousands of AWS customers are supporting more than 10 million contact center interactions a day on Amazon Connect.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a fully managed, Redis-compatible, in-memory database that enables customers to achieve ultra-fast performance with high availability and durability for their most business-critical applications that require sub-millisecond response times. With Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, customers can use the same familiar and flexible Redis data structures and application programming interface (API) they use today without having to separately manage a cache and a durable database, or the required underlying infrastructure.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Managed Grafana, a fully managed data visualization service that enables customers to instantly query, correlate, and visualize operational metrics, logs, and traces, as well as Internet of Things (IoT) data. Developed in collaboration with Grafana Labs, Amazon Managed Grafana manages the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance of Grafana so customers can easily create dashboards to view operational data from multiple data sources without having to worry about the underlying Grafana infrastructure.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a scalable, secure, and highly available service that makes it easier for customers to monitor containerized applications. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is fully compatible with open-source Prometheus and provides the same familiar time series data model and Prometheus Query Language customers use today to monitor containerized applications.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon QuickSight Q, a new capability in Amazon QuickSight that gives anyone access to powerful analytics with the ability to ask business questions using natural language and receive accurate answers with relevant visualizations. Amazon QuickSight Q does not depend on prebuilt dashboards or reports to deliver visualizations, which removes the need for business intelligence analysts to update a dashboard every time a new business question arises. This allows anyone to ask questions and receive visual answers in seconds.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a new storage service that provides the first complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file system in the cloud, making it easy for customers to run their applications on AWS without changing their code or how they manage data.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL1 instances, a new instance type designed for training machine learning models. DL1 instances provide up to 40% better price per performance for training machine learning models than the latest GPU-powered Amazon EC2 instances.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of the AWS Panorama Appliance, a new device that customers can install to run machine learning applications on multiple video streams from existing on-premises cameras. The AWS Panorama Appliance enables customers to use machine learning to quickly and easily perform visual inspections of production lines, monitor drive-through queues at quick-service restaurants, or assess the layout of their physical locations for ideal product placement.</li></ul><p><em>Investing in Employees and Our Workplace</em></p><ul><li>Amazon announced it will fund full college tuition, high school diplomas, GED diplomas, and English as a Second Language proficiency certifications for its U.S. front-line employees through its Career Choice program. More than 750,000 operations employees will be eligible for this benefit starting in January 2022. This expansion of education benefits is part of Upskilling 2025, Amazon's $1.2 billion investment to provide free skills training to the company's U.S. employees over the next four years.</li><li>For jobseekers looking for flexible employment opportunities this holiday season, Amazon announced it is offering 150,000 seasonal roles in the U.S., over 50,000 seasonal roles in Europe, and over 110,000 seasonal roles in India. Job seekers in the U.S. can receive an immediate contingent offer for seasonal roles with an average starting pay of $18 per hour, sign-on bonuses up to $3,000, an additional $3 per hour depending on shifts in many locations, and the opportunity to transition to long-term careers.</li><li>Amazon began operations at its state-of-the-art U.S. air cargo hub in Northern Kentucky. The $1.5 billion investment at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport will create more than 2,000 new Amazon jobs over the next several years with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits. The Amazon Air Hub will serve as the primary hub for Amazon Air's U.S. cargo network—enabling Amazon to process millions of customer packages per week.</li><li>Amazon hosted Career Day, a global event to help current and future employees grow their careers. More than 1 million people applied for a job at Amazon as part of the event, and over 2,000 Amazon recruiters offered 30,000 individual career coaching sessions to participants in Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the U.S. Recruiters provided job seekers with professional advice to start, transition, or grow their careers—whether they want to work at Amazon or elsewhere. As part of the event, Amazon announced plans to hire 55,000 corporate and tech employees globally as well as 125,000 full- and part-time operations employees in hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S., with comprehensive benefits like healthcare and up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, as well as access to Amazon's Career Choice program.</li><li>Forbes ranked Amazon No. 4 on its World's Best Employers 2021 list. To compile this year's list, Statista surveyed 150,000 employees from 58 countries around the world and asked them to rate their willingness to recommend their employers to friends and family. The survey used feedback from Amazon employees working both across our logistics network and corporate offices.</li></ul><p><em>Supporting Local Communities, Small Businesses, and the Economy</em></p><ul><li>Amazon Future Engineer, the company's global computer science education program for students from underserved and historically underrepresented communities, launched "Meet an Amazonian" for students from 3,000 U.S. schools. Students can learn about careers in technology directly from Amazon employees and participate in virtual class chats and computer science-themed fulfillment center tours. The company also launched Amazon Future Engineer in India, where it aims to reach more than 100,000 students from 900 schools in the first year of launch. The program is now available in Canada, France, India, the UK, and the U.S.</li><li>Amazon donated more than 1 million emergency supplies to communities affected by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana and the earthquake in Haiti. Amazon activated its Disaster Relief Hub and teamed up with humanitarian aid partners to quickly deliver and distribute supplies to those in need. The supplies included water, food items, shelter materials, medical equipment, power generators, industrial insulated food carriers, solar chargers, and water filters.</li><li>AWS announced it is committing $40 million in credits and technical expertise over the next three years to support organizations around the world that are developing solutions to improve health outcomes and health equity for underserved or underrepresented communities. The program is focused on increasing access to health services, addressing social determinants of health, and leveraging data to promote equitable and inclusive systems of care.</li><li>Amazon released its Small Business Empowerment Report, highlighting the company's investments, programs, and tools to help small and medium-sized businesses thrive while selling in Amazon's store. Amazon's global selling partners―the majority of which are small and medium-sized businesses―have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S.-based jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses. In the 12 months ending August 31, U.S. sellers sold 3.8 billion products in Amazon's store―approximately 7,400 products per minute.</li><li>Amazon hosted Amazon Accelerate, its annual U.S. conference for selling partners, where the company announced new tools and capabilities to help sellers thrive. Among the announcements, Amazon unveiled Local Selling, which enables sellers to start or expand their multichannel offerings by providing both in-store pickup and fast delivery to nearby customers, and new Global Selling tools to make it easier for U.S. third-party sellers to offer their products in Amazon's 21 stores worldwide.</li><li>Amazon introduced Black Business Accelerator Connect, a new yearlong mentorship and networking benefit for participants in the Black Business Accelerator, the company's initiative to provide Black entrepreneurs with resources, guidance, and support to succeed as Amazon sellers.</li><li>Amazon and Lendistry launched Amazon Community Lending, providing U.S.-based Amazon sellers access to short-term loans of up to $100,000 at competitive rates to sustain and grow their businesses. Lendistry is a Community Development Financial Institution that serves urban and rural small businesses in socially and economically distressed communities.</li></ul><p><em>Protecting the Planet</em></p><ul><li>Amazon welcomed 86 new companies to The Climate Pledge, including HP, Procter &amp; Gamble, and Salesforce, bringing the total number of companies that have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 to more than 200. Pledge signatories generate over $1.8 trillion in global annual revenue and have more than 7 million employees across 26 industries in 21 countries.</li><li>The Climate Pledge Fund, a $2 billion venture capital fund to support the development of sustainable and decarbonizing technologies and services, made new investments in three companies: CMC Machinery, a technology company that designs and manufactures custom-sized boxes while eliminating the need for single-use plastic padding; Resilient Power, a builder of solid-state power stations for electric vehicles; and Infinium, a company working toward a low-carbon electrofuels solution for air transport, marine freight, and heavy truck fleets. In total, the Climate Pledge Fund has invested in 11 companies.</li><li>Amazon's Right Now Climate Fund, a $100 million fund to restore and conserve forests, wetlands, and grasslands around the world, announced an investment in the Agroforestry and Restoration Accelerator, a nature-based carbon removal initiative in the Brazilian Amazon, and a commitment of approximately $23.5 million (€20 million) for projects across Europe to help fight climate change. The first funding recipient is the Parco Italia urban forestry program, which aims to plant 22 million trees—one tree per city resident—across 14 metropolitan areas in Italy.</li><li>Amazon co-founded The Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels network alongside the Aspen Institute, IKEA, Inditex, Michelin, Patagonia, Tchibo, and fellow Pledge signatories Brooks Running and Unilever. The initiative aims to transition ocean freight vessels from fossil fuels to zero-carbon fuels by 2040.</li><li>Last year, Amazon became the first consumer electronics manufacturer to commit to addressing, through renewable energy development, the electricity used by its devices—starting with Echo devices. Amazon recently announced additional investments in wind and solar farm capacity that, by 2025, are expected to produce the clean energy equivalent of all the electricity used by Fire TV and Ring devices worldwide.</li></ul><p>Financial Guidance</p><p>The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of October 28, 2021, and are subject to substantial uncertainty. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as uncertainty regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer demand and spending, labor market and global supply chain constraints, 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 October 28, 2021 regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations as well as the effect of other factors discussed above.</p><p>Fourth Quarter 2021 Guidance</p><ul><li>Net sales are expected to be between $130.0 billion and $140.0 billion, or to grow between 4% and 12% compared with fourth quarter 2020. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 60 basis points from foreign exchange rates.</li><li>Operating income is expected to be between $0 and $3.0 billion, compared with $6.9 billion in fourth quarter 2020.</li><li>This guidance assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions, 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, variability in demand, 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. 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New Amazon EC2 instances featuring Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs deliver up to 40% better price performance for training machine learning models compared to the latest GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances Seagate Technology, Intel, and Leidos among customers using Amazon EC2 DL1 instances SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL1 instances, a new instance type designed for training machine learning models. DL1 instances are powered by Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs (an Intel company) to provide up to 40% better price performance for training machine learning models than the latest GPU-powered Amazon EC2 instances. With DL1 instances, customers can train their machine learning models faster and more cost effectively for use cases like natural language processing, object detection and classification, fraud detection, recommendation and personalization engines, intelligent document processing, business forecasting, and more. DL1 instances are available on demand via a low-cost pay-as-you-go usage model with no upfront commitments. To get started with DL1 instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/dl1. Machine learning has become mainstream as customers have realized tangible business impact from deploying machine learning models at scale in the cloud. To use machine learning in their business applications, customers start by building and training a model to recognize patterns by learning from sample data, and then apply the model on new data to make predictions. For example, a machine learning model trained on large numbers of contact center transcripts can make predictions to provide real-time personalized assistance to customers through a conversational chatbot. To improve a model's prediction accuracy, data scientists and machine learning engineers are building increasingly larger and more complex models. To maintain prediction accuracy and high quality of the models, these engineers need to tune and retrain their models frequently. This requires a considerable amount of high-performance compute resources, resulting in increased infrastructure costs. These costs can be prohibitive for customers to retrain their models at the frequency they need to maintain high-accuracy predictions, while also posing an obstacle to customers that want to begin experimenting with machine learning. New DL1 instances use Gaudi accelerators built specifically to accelerate machine learning model training by delivering higher compute efficiency at a lower cost compared to general purpose GPUs. DL1 instances feature up to eight Gaudi accelerators, 256 GB of high-bandwidth memory, 768 GB of system memory, 2nd generation Amazon custom Intel Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors, 400 Gbps of networking throughput, and up to 4 TB of local NVMe storage. Together, these innovations translate to up to 40% better price performance than the latest GPU-powered Amazon EC2 instances for training common machine learning models. Customers can quickly and easily get started with DL1 instances using the included Habana SynapseAI SDK, which is integrated with leading machine learning frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow and PyTorch), helping customers to seamlessly migrate their existing machine learning models currently running on GPU-based or CPU-based instances onto DL1 instances, with minimal code changes. Developers and data scientists can also start with reference models optimized for Gaudi accelerators available in Habana's GitHub repository, which includes popular models for diverse applications, including image classification, object detection, natural language processing, and recommendation systems. "The use of machine learning has skyrocketed. One of the challenges with training machine learning models, however, is that it is computationally intensive and can get expensive as customers refine and retrain their models," said David Brown, Vice President, of Amazon EC2, at AWS. "AWS already has the broadest choice of powerful compute for any machine learning project or application. The addition of DL1 instances featuring Gaudi accelerators provides the most cost-effective alternative to GPU-based instances in the cloud to date. Their optimal combination of price and performance makes it possible for customers to reduce the cost to train, train more models, and innovate faster." Customers can launch DL1 instances using AWS Deep Learning AMIs or using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) or Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) for containerized applications. For a more managed experience, customers can access DL1 instances through Amazon SageMaker, making it even easier and faster for developers and data scientists to build, train, and deploy machine learning models in the cloud and at the edge. DL1 instances benefit from the AWS Nitro System, a collection of building blocks that offload many of the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated hardware and software to deliver high performance, high availability, and high security while also reducing virtualization overhead. DL1 instances are available for purchase as On-Demand Instances, with Savings Plans, as Reserved Instances, or as Spot Instances. DL1 instances are currently available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. Seagate Technology has been a global leader offering data storage and management solutions for over 40 years. Seagate's data science and machine learning engineers have built an advanced deep learning (DL) defect detection system and deployed it globally across the company's manufacturing facilities. In a recent proof of concept project, Habana Gaudi exceeded the performance targets for training one of the DL semantic segmentation models currently used in Seagate's production. "We expect the significant price performance advantage of Amazon EC2 DL1 instances, powered by Habana Gaudi accelerators, could make a compelling future addition to AWS compute clusters," said Darrell Louder, Senior Engineering Director of Operations, Technology and Advanced Analytics, at Seagate. "As Habana Labs continues to evolve and enables broader coverage of operators, there is potential for expanding to additional enterprise use cases, and thereby harnessing additional cost savings." Intel has created 3D Athlete Tracking technology that analyzes athlete-in-action video in real time to inform performance training processes and enhance audience experiences during competitions. "Training our models on Amazon EC2 DL1 instances, powered by Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs, will enable us to accurately and reliably process thousands of videos and generate associated performance data, while lowering training cost," said Rick Echevarria, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group, Intel. "With DL1 instances, we can now train at the speed and cost required to productively serve athletes, teams, and broadcasters of all levels across a variety of sports." Riskfuel provides real-time valuations and risk sensitivities to companies managing financial portfolios, helping them increase trading accuracy and performance. "Two factors drew us to Amazon EC2 DL1 instances based on Habana Gaudi AI accelerators," said Ryan Ferguson, CEO of Riskfuel. "First, we want to make sure our banking and insurance clients can run Riskfuel models that take advantage of the newest hardware. We found migrating our models to DL1 instances to be simple and straightforward—really, it was just a matter of changing a few lines of code. Second, training costs are a big component of our spending, and the promise of up to 40% improvement in price performance offers potentially substantial benefit to our bottom line." Leidos is recognized as a top 10 health IT provider delivering a broad range of customizable, scalable solutions to hospitals and health systems, biomedical organizations, and every U.S. federal agency focused on health. "One of the numerous technologies we are enabling to advance healthcare today is the use of machine learning and deep learning for disease diagnosis based on medical imaging data. Our massive data sets require timely and efficient training to aid researchers seeking to solve some of the most urgent medical mysteries," said Chetan Paul, CTO Health and Human Services at Leidos. "Given Leidos' and its customers' need for quick, easy, and cost-effective training for deep learning models, we are excited to have begun this journey with Intel and AWS to use Amazon EC2 DL1 instances based on Habana Gaudi AI processors. Using DL1 instances, we expect an increase in model training speed and efficiency, with a subsequent reduction in risk and cost of research and development." Fractal is a global leader in artificial intelligence and analytics, powering decisions in Fortune 500 companies. "AI and deep learning are at the core of our healthcare imaging business, enabling customers to make better medical decisions. In order to improve accuracy, medical datasets are becoming larger and more complex, requiring more training and retraining of models, and driving the need for improved computing price performance," said Srikanth Velamakanni, Group CEO of Fractal. "The new Amazon EC2 DL1 instances promise significantly lower cost training than GPU-based EC2 instances, which can help us contain costs and make AI decision-making more accessible to a broader array of customers." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. 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<p><em>New Amazon EC2 instances featuring Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs deliver up to 40% better price performance for training machine learning models compared to the latest GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances</em></p><p><em>Seagate Technology, Intel, and Leidos among customers using Amazon EC2 DL1 instances</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL1 instances, a new instance type designed for training machine learning models. DL1 instances are powered by Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs (an Intel company) to provide up to 40% better price performance for training machine learning models than the latest GPU-powered Amazon EC2 instances. With DL1 instances, customers can train their machine learning models faster and more cost effectively for use cases like natural language processing, object detection and classification, fraud detection, recommendation and personalization engines, intelligent document processing, business forecasting, and more. DL1 instances are available on demand via a low-cost pay-as-you-go usage model with no upfront commitments. To get started with DL1 instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/dl1.</p><p>Machine learning has become mainstream as customers have realized tangible business impact from deploying machine learning models at scale in the cloud. To use machine learning in their business applications, customers start by building and training a model to recognize patterns by learning from sample data, and then apply the model on new data to make predictions. For example, a machine learning model trained on large numbers of contact center transcripts can make predictions to provide real-time personalized assistance to customers through a conversational chatbot. To improve a model's prediction accuracy, data scientists and machine learning engineers are building increasingly larger and more complex models. To maintain prediction accuracy and high quality of the models, these engineers need to tune and retrain their models frequently. This requires a considerable amount of high-performance compute resources, resulting in increased infrastructure costs. These costs can be prohibitive for customers to retrain their models at the frequency they need to maintain high-accuracy predictions, while also posing an obstacle to customers that want to begin experimenting with machine learning.</p><p>New DL1 instances use Gaudi accelerators built specifically to accelerate machine learning model training by delivering higher compute efficiency at a lower cost compared to general purpose GPUs. DL1 instances feature up to eight Gaudi accelerators, 256 GB of high-bandwidth memory, 768 GB of system memory, 2nd generation Amazon custom Intel Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors, 400 Gbps of networking throughput, and up to 4 TB of local NVMe storage. Together, these innovations translate to up to 40% better price performance than the latest GPU-powered Amazon EC2 instances for training common machine learning models. Customers can quickly and easily get started with DL1 instances using the included Habana SynapseAI SDK, which is integrated with leading machine learning frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow and PyTorch), helping customers to seamlessly migrate their existing machine learning models currently running on GPU-based or CPU-based instances onto DL1 instances, with minimal code changes. Developers and data scientists can also start with reference models optimized for Gaudi accelerators available in Habana's GitHub repository, which includes popular models for diverse applications, including image classification, object detection, natural language processing, and recommendation systems.</p><p>"The use of machine learning has skyrocketed. One of the challenges with training machine learning models, however, is that it is computationally intensive and can get expensive as customers refine and retrain their models," said David Brown, Vice President, of Amazon EC2, at AWS. "AWS already has the broadest choice of powerful compute for any machine learning project or application. The addition of DL1 instances featuring Gaudi accelerators provides the most cost-effective alternative to GPU-based instances in the cloud to date. Their optimal combination of price and performance makes it possible for customers to reduce the cost to train, train more models, and innovate faster."</p><p>Customers can launch DL1 instances using AWS Deep Learning AMIs or using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) or Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) for containerized applications. For a more managed experience, customers can access DL1 instances through Amazon SageMaker, making it even easier and faster for developers and data scientists to build, train, and deploy machine learning models in the cloud and at the edge. DL1 instances benefit from the AWS Nitro System, a collection of building blocks that offload many of the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated hardware and software to deliver high performance, high availability, and high security while also reducing virtualization overhead. DL1 instances are available for purchase as On-Demand Instances, with Savings Plans, as Reserved Instances, or as Spot Instances. DL1 instances are currently available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions.</p><p>Seagate Technology has been a global leader offering data storage and management solutions for over 40 years. Seagate's data science and machine learning engineers have built an advanced deep learning (DL) defect detection system and deployed it globally across the company's manufacturing facilities. In a recent proof of concept project, Habana Gaudi exceeded the performance targets for training one of the DL semantic segmentation models currently used in Seagate's production. "We expect the significant price performance advantage of Amazon EC2 DL1 instances, powered by Habana Gaudi accelerators, could make a compelling future addition to AWS compute clusters," said Darrell Louder, Senior Engineering Director of Operations, Technology and Advanced Analytics, at Seagate. "As Habana Labs continues to evolve and enables broader coverage of operators, there is potential for expanding to additional enterprise use cases, and thereby harnessing additional cost savings."</p><p>Intel has created 3D Athlete Tracking technology that analyzes athlete-in-action video in real time to inform performance training processes and enhance audience experiences during competitions. "Training our models on Amazon EC2 DL1 instances, powered by Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs, will enable us to accurately and reliably process thousands of videos and generate associated performance data, while lowering training cost," said Rick Echevarria, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group, Intel. "With DL1 instances, we can now train at the speed and cost required to productively serve athletes, teams, and broadcasters of all levels across a variety of sports."</p><p>Riskfuel provides real-time valuations and risk sensitivities to companies managing financial portfolios, helping them increase trading accuracy and performance. "Two factors drew us to Amazon EC2 DL1 instances based on Habana Gaudi AI accelerators," said Ryan Ferguson, CEO of Riskfuel. "First, we want to make sure our banking and insurance clients can run Riskfuel models that take advantage of the newest hardware. We found migrating our models to DL1 instances to be simple and straightforward—really, it was just a matter of changing a few lines of code. Second, training costs are a big component of our spending, and the promise of up to 40% improvement in price performance offers potentially substantial benefit to our bottom line."</p><p>Leidos is recognized as a top 10 health IT provider delivering a broad range of customizable, scalable solutions to hospitals and health systems, biomedical organizations, and every U.S. federal agency focused on health. "One of the numerous technologies we are enabling to advance healthcare today is the use of machine learning and deep learning for disease diagnosis based on medical imaging data. Our massive data sets require timely and efficient training to aid researchers seeking to solve some of the most urgent medical mysteries," said Chetan Paul, CTO Health and Human Services at Leidos. "Given Leidos' and its customers' need for quick, easy, and cost-effective training for deep learning models, we are excited to have begun this journey with Intel and AWS to use Amazon EC2 DL1 instances based on Habana Gaudi AI processors. Using DL1 instances, we expect an increase in model training speed and efficiency, with a subsequent reduction in risk and cost of research and development."</p><p>Fractal is a global leader in artificial intelligence and analytics, powering decisions in Fortune 500 companies. "AI and deep learning are at the core of our healthcare imaging business, enabling customers to make better medical decisions. In order to improve accuracy, medical datasets are becoming larger and more complex, requiring more training and retraining of models, and driving the need for improved computing price performance," said Srikanth Velamakanni, Group CEO of Fractal. "The new Amazon EC2 DL1 instances promise significantly lower cost training than GPU-based EC2 instances, which can help us contain costs and make AI decision-making more accessible to a broader array of customers."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211026006274/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

eero Reports More Than 75 Percent Year-over-Year Growth in ISP Customer Networks

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eero Reports More Than 75 Percent Year-over-Year Growth in ISP Customer Networks

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eero for Service Providers growth follows new integrations with leading ISPs TalkTalk, MasMovil, and Mediacom, among others Advancements to eero Insight business analytics service include additional fleet network management and analysis capabilities, APIs, and access controls SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—eero, an Amazon company, today announced strong momentum for its internet service providers (ISPs) business, which includes eero for Service Providers—a hardware and software offering designed specifically to help ISPs meet customers' increasing demands for exceptional home wifi. From September 2020 through September 2021, eero saw more than 75 percent year-over-year growth in eero networks activated with ISPs, including new engagements for eero for Service Providers with REV within the Cable Bahamas Group of Companies, OXIO in Canada, Eye Networks in the Nordics, Adamo and MasMovil in Spain, TalkTalk and Utility Warehouse in the United Kingdom, and UScellular and Mediacom in the United States. "Our engagement with eero is helping to make next generation home wifi a reality for TalkTalk customers," said Jonathan Kini, Managing Director of TalkTalk Direct Business and Consumer. "The combined benefits of game-changing Wi-Fi 6 routers from eero with our 100 percent full fiber proposition gives our customers the enhanced speed, reliability and wifi coverage they need to make the most of their internet connection. Together with eero we're proud to be at the forefront of making the UK's leading fiber and wifi technology available to busy households across the country." eero for Service Providers also now offers eero's award-winning eero 6 and eero Pro 6 mesh wifi systems, along with the advanced online security tools offered by eero Secure. eero for Service Providers also introduced key advancements to eero Insight, a management solution that provides ISPs with fleet and network visibility for proactive, efficient troubleshooting, and actionable insights to significantly reduce time spent resolving wifi issues. eero Insight includes: Fleet analytics such as network outage detection to visualize online and offline networks across ISPs' fleets for timely and effective troubleshooting. Network analysis to proactively monitor and view historic performance at the network level for speed test history, usage, outages, and online security. Advanced APIs and insight exchange to integrate eero Insight into existing ISP software through APIs to enhance network management for reboots, topology, outage information and more. Security capabilities like IP range restrictions for access, read-only roles, and much more. "This year has seen strong progress in our mission to deliver fast, reliable, and secure wifi to our customers. Through our ISP relationships, we've improved the customer experience and supported high-performing wifi for more customers around the globe," said Mark Sieglock, GM of Software Services at eero. "Our ISP business now accounts for one third of eero's overall business, driven by the addition of multiple service providers globally in Europe, LATAM, and APAC. We look forward to our continued delivery of solutions for ISPs to meet the evolving needs of their customers." With additional feature releases planned for later this year, eero expects continued growth of eero for Service Providers through the end of 2021. 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 offers advanced online security tools, eero Secure and eero Secure+, to help 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 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211025005257/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>eero for Service Providers growth follows new integrations with leading ISPs TalkTalk, MasMovil, and Mediacom, among others</em></p><p><em>Advancements to eero Insight business analytics service include additional fleet network management and analysis capabilities, APIs, and access controls</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—eero, an Amazon company, today announced strong momentum for its internet service providers (ISPs) business, which includes eero for Service Providers—a hardware and software offering designed specifically to help ISPs meet customers' increasing demands for exceptional home wifi. From September 2020 through September 2021, eero saw more than 75 percent year-over-year growth in eero networks activated with ISPs, including new engagements for eero for Service Providers with REV within the Cable Bahamas Group of Companies, OXIO in Canada, Eye Networks in the Nordics, Adamo and MasMovil in Spain, TalkTalk and Utility Warehouse in the United Kingdom, and UScellular and Mediacom in the United States.</p><p>"Our engagement with eero is helping to make next generation home wifi a reality for TalkTalk customers," said Jonathan Kini, Managing Director of TalkTalk Direct Business and Consumer. "The combined benefits of game-changing Wi-Fi 6 routers from eero with our 100 percent full fiber proposition gives our customers the enhanced speed, reliability and wifi coverage they need to make the most of their internet connection. Together with eero we're proud to be at the forefront of making the UK's leading fiber and wifi technology available to busy households across the country."</p><p>eero for Service Providers also now offers eero's award-winning eero 6 and eero Pro 6 mesh wifi systems, along with the advanced online security tools offered by eero Secure. eero for Service Providers also introduced key advancements to eero Insight, a management solution that provides ISPs with fleet and network visibility for proactive, efficient troubleshooting, and actionable insights to significantly reduce time spent resolving wifi issues. eero Insight includes:</p><ul><li>Fleet analytics such as network outage detection to visualize online and offline networks across ISPs' fleets for timely and effective troubleshooting.</li><li>Network analysis to proactively monitor and view historic performance at the network level for speed test history, usage, outages, and online security.</li><li>Advanced APIs and insight exchange to integrate eero Insight into existing ISP software through APIs to enhance network management for reboots, topology, outage information and more.</li><li>Security capabilities like IP range restrictions for access, read-only roles, and much more.</li></ul><p>"This year has seen strong progress in our mission to deliver fast, reliable, and secure wifi to our customers. Through our ISP relationships, we've improved the customer experience and supported high-performing wifi for more customers around the globe," said Mark Sieglock, GM of Software Services at eero. "Our ISP business now accounts for one third of eero's overall business, driven by the addition of multiple service providers globally in Europe, LATAM, and APAC. We look forward to our continued delivery of solutions for ISPs to meet the evolving needs of their customers."</p><p>With additional feature releases planned for later this year, eero expects continued growth of eero for Service Providers through the end of 2021. 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 offers advanced online security tools, eero Secure and eero Secure+, to help 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 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211025005257/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Brings Alexa to Senior Living Communities and Healthcare Systems with Alexa Smart Properties

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Senior Living and Healthcare providers can now easily deploy Alexa experiences designed to keep residents and patients connected, informed, and entertained—and improve care team productivity Residents and patients can keep in touch with their loved ones, connect with care team members, easily access news and information, and more, just by using their voice Leading senior living communities like Atria and Eskaton, and hospitals including Boston Children's Hospital, Cedars-Sinai, BayCare, and Houston Methodist will add Alexa to select properties Alexa Smart Properties simplifies deploying and managing Alexa-enabled devices at scale, and allows properties to easily customize their customer experience SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)— Today, Amazon announced two new solutions as part of Alexa Smart Properties that will enable senior living and healthcare providers to integrate Alexa into their properties and empower residents and patients to stay connected, informed and entertained, just by asking Alexa. Designed specifically for the needs of senior living communities and healthcare facilities, Alexa Smart Properties simplifies deploying and managing Alexa-enabled devices at scale, helping properties offer customized Alexa experiences for residents and patients, and increase care team productivity and operational efficiency. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211025005336/en/ An Echo Show 8 deployed in a senior living community (Photo: Business Wire) "We believe the intuitive and accessible nature of voice and Alexa has the potential to help and delight customers in many scenarios, in and outside of the home," said Liron Torres, Head of Alexa Smart Properties, Amazon. "We're excited to extend the experiences customers already love to senior living communities and healthcare systems, and give providers new ways to save time and personalize care for their patients and residents." Empowering Connection in Senior Living Communities Alexa Smart Properties enables senior living residents to keep in touch with their loved ones, connect with their community, access community news, and more, using the Amazon Echo device in their room. Family members and friends outside the property get peace of mind knowing they can easily get in touch with residents through Alexa calling. Administrators can offer access to tens of thousands of Alexa skills, and tailor resident experiences by customizing community information like activity schedules and meal menus. Care team members can communicate more efficiently with residents using Alexa communication features, which enable them to make Announcements, voice and video calls, or send direct audio messages to other Alexa-enabled devices throughout the property. Alexa can also help communities streamline activities like check-ins, field requests for maintenance, and administrative tasks—enabling associates to save time and increase productivity. Senior living communities like Atria and Eskaton will integrate with Alexa Smart Properties at select locations to provide a better experience for residents, while creating empowered and more connected communities. "We've consistently moved to put our residents in the position to live their best lives, now," said John A. Moore, Chairman and CEO of Atria Senior Living. "Technology has played a critical role in this effort. When you combine our resident and family app with the deployment of Alexa Smart Properties in our communities, seniors have an even greater ability to write the next chapter of their lives through easy-to-use technology that keeps them engaged and connected to their families at all times." Helping Hospitals Deliver Personalized Care With Alexa Smart Properties, patients can communicate with their care staff, control devices in their room, or stay informed and entertained with news and music, just by asking Alexa. Healthcare providers can communicate with patients quickly and easily with features like calling and Drop In—without the need to enter patient rooms. This enables hospitals to increase productivity, conserve medical supplies and protective equipment, such as masks, gloves, and gowns, and free up staff time to provide more personalized care. Hospitals also can provide information customized to their facility, like notifications about schedule changes or cafeteria menus, and skill experiences like games, podcasts, and more. Health systems including Boston Children's Hospital, Cedars-Sinai, BayCare, and Houston Methodist are adopting Alexa Smart Properties to help care for their patients more efficiently. "Voice is intuitive for patients, regardless of age or tech savviness," said Peachy Hain, executive director of Medical and Surgical Services at Cedars-Sinai. "Since it's so easy to operate, patients can use Alexa to connect with their care team and stay entertained as soon as they settle in, while care providers can streamline tasks to make more time to care for those patients. It's a total gamechanger for enhancing our hospital experience." Deploying Solutions at Scale with Alexa Smart Properties In addition to support for senior living and healthcare, Alexa Smart Properties offers a set of vertical solutions that enable Alexa experiences in properties such as hotels, vacation rentals, apartments, offices, and more. Alexa Smart Properties tools and APIs make it fast and easy for solution providers to manage and service a fleet of Alexa-enabled devices quickly, remotely, and at scale. By working with solution providers like K4Connect, Lifeline Senior Living, Aiva, and Vocera, senior living and healthcare properties can use Alexa Smart Properties to easily deploy and customize large numbers of Alexa-enabled devices. "Working with Alexa Smart Properties has enabled Aiva to bring AI voice technology that can be easily customized, managed, and deployed at enterprise scale," said Sumeet Bhatia, founder and chief executive officer of Aiva. "Using Alexa Smart Properties, Aiva takes work off of nurses' plates and enables them to focus on direct, high-value care, while giving patients a better, more self-directed experience." With the help of solution providers, administrators can build, publish and enable skills to answer property-specific questions and integrate with other property management systems, so residents and patients can request property information like, "Alexa, what time does yoga start?" and perform property-specific actions like, "Alexa, could you ask for my mail to be delivered?" Hospitals and senior living communities can also build and enable HIPAA-eligible skills, like medication tracking, to connect care providers with residents and patients in an environment designed to protect their health information. "Voice integration has the power to transform how resident requests are made and how staff respond," said Kim Judd, General Manager of Lifeline Senior Living. "Adding Alexa Smart Properties functionality to our CarePoint resident safety system enables residents to make hands-free help requests and receive verbal confirmation to know they've been heard. And staff can see the context of requests and triage more efficiently. It opens up new opportunities for better care, from simple requests to daily announcements, resident check-ins, even helping to ease social isolation, CarePoint with Alexa will be a real advantage for our customers." Built with Privacy in Mind Alexa Smart Properties senior living and healthcare solutions were designed with privacy in mind. No personal information is shared with Alexa to use the device, and voice recordings are not saved. Every Amazon Echo device offers multiple layers of privacy protection, and residents and patients can disable Alexa's ability to respond to the wake word at any time by simply pressing the mute button on top of their Echo device. Amazon implements administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for protected health information received as part of HIPAA-eligible skill interactions. Alexa Smart Properties will support senior living and healthcare solutions in the U.S. starting next month. To learn more, contact us 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. 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<p><em>Senior Living and Healthcare providers can now easily deploy Alexa experiences designed to keep residents and patients connected, informed, and entertained—and improve care team productivity</em></p><p><em>Residents and patients can keep in touch with their loved ones, connect with care team members, easily access news and information, and more, just by using their voice</em></p><p><em>Leading senior living communities like Atria and Eskaton, and hospitals including Boston Children's Hospital, Cedars-Sinai, BayCare, and Houston Methodist will add Alexa to select properties</em></p><p><em>Alexa Smart Properties simplifies deploying and managing Alexa-enabled devices at scale, and allows properties to easily customize their customer experience</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)— Today, Amazon announced two new solutions as part of Alexa Smart Properties that will enable senior living and healthcare providers to integrate Alexa into their properties and empower residents and patients to stay connected, informed and entertained, just by asking Alexa. Designed specifically for the needs of senior living communities and healthcare facilities, Alexa Smart Properties simplifies deploying and managing Alexa-enabled devices at scale, helping properties offer customized Alexa experiences for residents and patients, and increase care team productivity and operational efficiency.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211025005336/en/</p><div><p>An Echo Show 8 deployed in a senior living community (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"We believe the intuitive and accessible nature of voice and Alexa has the potential to help and delight customers in many scenarios, in and outside of the home," said Liron Torres, Head of Alexa Smart Properties, Amazon. "We're excited to extend the experiences customers already love to senior living communities and healthcare systems, and give providers new ways to save time and personalize care for their patients and residents."</p><p>Empowering Connection in Senior Living Communities</p><p>Alexa Smart Properties enables senior living residents to keep in touch with their loved ones, connect with their community, access community news, and more, using the Amazon Echo device in their room. Family members and friends outside the property get peace of mind knowing they can easily get in touch with residents through Alexa calling.</p><p>Administrators can offer access to tens of thousands of Alexa skills, and tailor resident experiences by customizing community information like activity schedules and meal menus. Care team members can communicate more efficiently with residents using Alexa communication features, which enable them to make Announcements, voice and video calls, or send direct audio messages to other Alexa-enabled devices throughout the property. Alexa can also help communities streamline activities like check-ins, field requests for maintenance, and administrative tasks—enabling associates to save time and increase productivity. Senior living communities like Atria and Eskaton will integrate with Alexa Smart Properties at select locations to provide a better experience for residents, while creating empowered and more connected communities.</p><p>"We've consistently moved to put our residents in the position to live their best lives, now," said John A. Moore, Chairman and CEO of Atria Senior Living. "Technology has played a critical role in this effort. When you combine our resident and family app with the deployment of Alexa Smart Properties in our communities, seniors have an even greater ability to write the next chapter of their lives through easy-to-use technology that keeps them engaged and connected to their families at all times."</p><p>Helping Hospitals Deliver Personalized Care</p><p>With Alexa Smart Properties, patients can communicate with their care staff, control devices in their room, or stay informed and entertained with news and music, just by asking Alexa. Healthcare providers can communicate with patients quickly and easily with features like calling and Drop In—without the need to enter patient rooms. This enables hospitals to increase productivity, conserve medical supplies and protective equipment, such as masks, gloves, and gowns, and free up staff time to provide more personalized care. Hospitals also can provide information customized to their facility, like notifications about schedule changes or cafeteria menus, and skill experiences like games, podcasts, and more. Health systems including Boston Children's Hospital, Cedars-Sinai, BayCare, and Houston Methodist are adopting Alexa Smart Properties to help care for their patients more efficiently.</p><p>"Voice is intuitive for patients, regardless of age or tech savviness," said Peachy Hain, executive director of Medical and Surgical Services at Cedars-Sinai. "Since it's so easy to operate, patients can use Alexa to connect with their care team and stay entertained as soon as they settle in, while care providers can streamline tasks to make more time to care for those patients. It's a total gamechanger for enhancing our hospital experience."</p><p>Deploying Solutions at Scale with Alexa Smart Properties</p><p>In addition to support for senior living and healthcare, Alexa Smart Properties offers a set of vertical solutions that enable Alexa experiences in properties such as hotels, vacation rentals, apartments, offices, and more. Alexa Smart Properties tools and APIs make it fast and easy for solution providers to manage and service a fleet of Alexa-enabled devices quickly, remotely, and at scale. By working with solution providers like K4Connect, Lifeline Senior Living, Aiva, and Vocera, senior living and healthcare properties can use Alexa Smart Properties to easily deploy and customize large numbers of Alexa-enabled devices.</p><p>"Working with Alexa Smart Properties has enabled Aiva to bring AI voice technology that can be easily customized, managed, and deployed at enterprise scale," said Sumeet Bhatia, founder and chief executive officer of Aiva. "Using Alexa Smart Properties, Aiva takes work off of nurses' plates and enables them to focus on direct, high-value care, while giving patients a better, more self-directed experience."</p><p>With the help of solution providers, administrators can build, publish and enable skills to answer property-specific questions and integrate with other property management systems, so residents and patients can request property information like, "Alexa, what time does yoga start?" and perform property-specific actions like, "Alexa, could you ask for my mail to be delivered?" Hospitals and senior living communities can also build and enable HIPAA-eligible skills, like medication tracking, to connect care providers with residents and patients in an environment designed to protect their health information.</p><p>"Voice integration has the power to transform how resident requests are made and how staff respond," said Kim Judd, General Manager of Lifeline Senior Living. "Adding Alexa Smart Properties functionality to our CarePoint resident safety system enables residents to make hands-free help requests and receive verbal confirmation to know they've been heard. And staff can see the context of requests and triage more efficiently. It opens up new opportunities for better care, from simple requests to daily announcements, resident check-ins, even helping to ease social isolation, CarePoint with Alexa will be a real advantage for our customers."</p><p>Built with Privacy in Mind</p><p>Alexa Smart Properties senior living and healthcare solutions were designed with privacy in mind. No personal information is shared with Alexa to use the device, and voice recordings are not saved. Every Amazon Echo device offers multiple layers of privacy protection, and residents and patients can disable Alexa's ability to respond to the wake word at any time by simply pressing the mute button on top of their Echo device. Amazon implements administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for protected health information received as part of HIPAA-eligible skill interactions.</p><p>Alexa Smart Properties will support senior living and healthcare solutions in the U.S. starting next month. To learn more, contact us 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211025005336/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Opens New Robotics Facility in the U.S. with Over 200 New Manufacturing Jobs

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Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 20,000 jobs in Massachusetts and invested more than $10 billion across the Commonwealth BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2021-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the opening of a new first-of-its-kind robotics manufacturing facility in Westborough, Massachusetts. The new facility will expand Amazon Robotics manufacturing capability in the U.S. and Amazon's growth in the region—and has created over 200 new manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts. Amazon began introducing robotics into its facilities in 2012 and has since added over a million new jobs worldwide. Earlier this week, Amazon announced it is hiring for 150,000 seasonal jobs, including 1,500 in Massachusetts. All regular, full-time employees will have access to a starting wage that is more than double the federal minimum wage—along with comprehensive health benefits, paid time off, up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave, and more for employees and their families. "Massachusetts offers a highly talented workforce, and this Amazon facility opening further cements our state's reputation as a key center for robotics development," said Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. "The opening of this new state-of-the-art robotics facility creates new jobs for individuals across a wide range of skills and backgrounds in addition to the 1,500 new seasonal jobs Amazon has created in the Commonwealth as the company continues its investment in the state's economic growth and development and I am pleased to be here for this opening, especially during STEM Week in Massachusetts." "We care about the communities where we operate. This is why we are proud to expand high-tech robotics manufacturing in the U.S. and in Massachusetts specifically with the opening of this new facility," said Vice President of Amazon Robotics Joe Quinlivan. "As a company we have created more than 20,000 jobs in Massachusetts since 2010 in communities from Boston to Westborough and beyond. This latest addition to Amazon's presence in the Commonwealth brings great jobs, from hourly manufacturing roles to engineers and developers working on advancements in robotics, to help our facilities run safely and meet our customers' needs." With this new site, Amazon Robotics will continue to grow its engineering, manufacturing, support, and test teams in Massachusetts. The 350,000-square-foot facility will feature corporate offices, research and development labs, and manufacturing space—in addition to Amazon Robotics' current site in North Reading, Massachusetts. Together, these two facilities serve as an epicenter of the company's robotics innovation. "I want to welcome Amazon Robotics to Westborough and congratulate them for choosing to build out this first-of-its-kind facility in Massachusetts," said Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy. "This facility reaffirms the importance of the work we have done to build a talented workforce, foster innovation, and create an ecosystem in the Commonwealth that allows innovation to grow and thrive." Manufacturing of Amazon Robotics mobile drive units will be a primary focus in the facility. Since 2012, when Amazon first began introducing robotics into its facilities, the company has added over a million new jobs worldwide while deploying more than 350,000 drive units across its facilities. These drive units and other robotic technologies work closely with employees to help safely and reliably fulfill customer orders. "The opening of this robotics manufacturing facility and the new jobs it provides demonstrate the strength of our regional economy and our workforce. We look forward to a strong partnership with Amazon Robotics," said Kristi Williams, Westborough's town manager. Amazon takes its role as an employer in the Commonwealth seriously. In addition to opening the new robotics facility in Westborough, Amazon is hiring 1,500 new full and part-time operations jobs across its sites in Massachusetts. These jobs include stowing, picking, packing, and sorting customer orders, in addition to roles in management, IT, HR, safety, and security. Joining Amazon in an hourly role can be a springboard to an Amazon career. Employees are provided access to the education and training they need to grow their careers at Amazon and beyond. In the U.S., Amazon is investing $1.2 billion to upskill more than 250,000 employees by 2025 to help move them into higher-paying, in-demand jobs. Individuals interested in applying for jobs in Massachusetts can find more information at amazon.jobs/amazon-robotics. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Amazon robotics manufacturing images

<p><em>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 20,000 jobs in Massachusetts and invested more than $10 billion across the Commonwealth</em></p><p>BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2021-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the opening of a new first-of-its-kind robotics manufacturing facility in Westborough, Massachusetts. The new facility will expand Amazon Robotics manufacturing capability in the U.S. and Amazon's growth in the region—and has created over 200 new manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts.</p><p>Amazon began introducing robotics into its facilities in 2012 and has since added over a million new jobs worldwide. Earlier this week, Amazon announced it is hiring for 150,000 seasonal jobs, including 1,500 in Massachusetts. All regular, full-time employees will have access to a starting wage that is more than double the federal minimum wage—along with comprehensive health benefits, paid time off, up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave, and more for employees and their families.</p><p>"Massachusetts offers a highly talented workforce, and this Amazon facility opening further cements our state's reputation as a key center for robotics development," said Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. "The opening of this new state-of-the-art robotics facility creates new jobs for individuals across a wide range of skills and backgrounds in addition to the 1,500 new seasonal jobs Amazon has created in the Commonwealth as the company continues its investment in the state's economic growth and development and I am pleased to be here for this opening, especially during STEM Week in Massachusetts."</p><p>"We care about the communities where we operate. This is why we are proud to expand high-tech robotics manufacturing in the U.S. and in Massachusetts specifically with the opening of this new facility," said Vice President of Amazon Robotics Joe Quinlivan. "As a company we have created more than 20,000 jobs in Massachusetts since 2010 in communities from Boston to Westborough and beyond. This latest addition to Amazon's presence in the Commonwealth brings great jobs, from hourly manufacturing roles to engineers and developers working on advancements in robotics, to help our facilities run safely and meet our customers' needs."</p><p>With this new site, Amazon Robotics will continue to grow its engineering, manufacturing, support, and test teams in Massachusetts. The 350,000-square-foot facility will feature corporate offices, research and development labs, and manufacturing space—in addition to Amazon Robotics' current site in North Reading, Massachusetts. Together, these two facilities serve as an epicenter of the company's robotics innovation.</p><p>"I want to welcome Amazon Robotics to Westborough and congratulate them for choosing to build out this first-of-its-kind facility in Massachusetts," said Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy. "This facility reaffirms the importance of the work we have done to build a talented workforce, foster innovation, and create an ecosystem in the Commonwealth that allows innovation to grow and thrive."</p><p>Manufacturing of Amazon Robotics mobile drive units will be a primary focus in the facility. Since 2012, when Amazon first began introducing robotics into its facilities, the company has added over a million new jobs worldwide while deploying more than 350,000 drive units across its facilities. These drive units and other robotic technologies work closely with employees to help safely and reliably fulfill customer orders.</p><p>"The opening of this robotics manufacturing facility and the new jobs it provides demonstrate the strength of our regional economy and our workforce. We look forward to a strong partnership with Amazon Robotics," said Kristi Williams, Westborough's town manager.</p><p>Amazon takes its role as an employer in the Commonwealth seriously. In addition to opening the new robotics facility in Westborough, Amazon is hiring 1,500 new full and part-time operations jobs across its sites in Massachusetts. These jobs include stowing, picking, packing, and sorting customer orders, in addition to roles in management, IT, HR, safety, and security.</p><p>Joining Amazon in an hourly role can be a springboard to an Amazon career. Employees are provided access to the education and training they need to grow their careers at Amazon and beyond. In the U.S., Amazon is investing $1.2 billion to upskill more than 250,000 employees by 2025 to help move them into higher-paying, in-demand jobs. Individuals interested in applying for jobs in Massachusetts can find more information at amazon.jobs/amazon-robotics.</p><p>ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:</p><ul><li><em>Amazon robotics manufacturing images</em></li></ul>

Today at Amazon Accelerate: Amazon Launches New Tools to Empower American Small Businesses to Grow Their Export Sales

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New tools identify international sales opportunities for third-party sellers, simplify listing products in Amazon's stores around the world, enable global inventory management, and allow U.S. sellers who fulfill orders themselves to use Customer Service by Amazon free of charge More than 6 million products from U.S. sellers have high potential for success in Amazon's international stores Last year, 20,000 U.S. sellers launched globally to accelerate international sales through Amazon SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2021-- Today at the Accelerate 2021 conference, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced a set of new tools that make it easier for American third-party sellers to offer their products in Amazon's 21 stores worldwide. Amazon estimates that more than 6 million products currently offered by U.S. sellers have a high potential for success in its international stores. "Selling internationally has been terrific for us. International sales account for 20-30% of our business depending on the season, and we're seeing sales in some geographies grow as much as 50% year over year," said Ben Clark, CEO of Vermont-based Ann Clark Cookie Cutters. "Expanding to international locations without Amazon would have been more difficult because we'd have had to get a distributor in every country to manage our products. Amazon has made this process much easier and taken a lot of the guesswork out of which products will be successful." Amazon offers a range of tools and services to help U.S. sellers offer their products to hundreds of millions of customers from 185 countries that are shopping in its 21 stores worldwide. Last month, these 21 stores brought in more than 900 million customer visits, and more than half of the visits came through Amazon's international stores. Small businesses and emerging brands are able to easily gain traction across the globe by leveraging Amazon's internationally recognized brand and the company's state-of-the-art global logistics network. "Global Selling helps small businesses leverage Amazon's scale and reach to easily expand into countries around the world, while maintaining control of their brand and not having to worry about global logistics," said Eric Broussard, Vice President of International Selling Partner Services at Amazon. "These capabilities, such as the use of Amazon's renowned worldwide customer support for all of their products at low or no cost, will help our U.S. sellers capture billions of dollars in international opportunity." Amazon announced the following new tools at Accelerate 2021: Customer Service by Amazon gives sellers who fulfill their own orders the option to have Amazon manage their customer inquiries, refunds, and returns on self-fulfilled orders—and at Accelerate, the company announced they will offer this service for free or at a discounted rate depending on the seller's customer contact volume. Customer Service by Amazon reduces the burden of providing quality customer service across geographies and in multiple languages. Customers can contact the more than 130 customer support sites via phone, chat, or email, day or night, and receive help in 15 languages. It is available now and open to all U.S. sellers. Marketplace Product Guidance takes the guesswork out of which products should and can be sold internationally. It helps sellers determine which of their products they should offer internationally and identify other high-potential products they can add to their catalog in international stores. These recommendations are personalized and ranked based on their opportunity score, and calculated by machine learning models that take into account hundreds of parameters at the seller, product, and store level. It is available now and open to all U.S. sellers. Global Inventory Viewer provides a one-stop experience for sellers to monitor inventory supply and demand across all stores in a consolidated manner. Global Inventory Viewer seamlessly integrates with Send to Amazon, making it simple and easy for sellers to send more inventory to Amazon fulfillment centers before running out of stock. It is available now and open to all U.S. sellers. Global Listing enables sellers to list products on Amazon once and sell globally. Instead of managing products separately across Amazon's stores, sellers can now replicate their product listings in multiple international stores with just a few clicks. Sellers will be able to view their listing from a set of globalized pages and views. Amazon is currently testing the feature in beta and will open it to all U.S. sellers in early 2022. In 2020, Amazon invested more than $18 billion in logistics, tools, services, programs, and teams to help sellers get started, build their brands, and leverage Amazon's scale to reach more customers. Amazon sellers have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S. jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses. Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211021005786/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>New tools identify international sales opportunities for third-party sellers, simplify listing products in Amazon's stores around the world, enable global inventory management, and allow U.S. sellers who fulfill orders themselves to use Customer Service by Amazon free of charge</em></p><p><em>More than 6 million products from U.S. sellers have high potential for success in Amazon's international stores</em></p><p><em>Last year, 20,000 U.S. sellers launched globally to accelerate international sales through Amazon</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2021-- Today at the Accelerate 2021 conference, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced a set of new tools that make it easier for American third-party sellers to offer their products in Amazon's 21 stores worldwide. Amazon estimates that more than 6 million products currently offered by U.S. sellers have a high potential for success in its international stores.</p><p>"Selling internationally has been terrific for us. International sales account for 20-30% of our business depending on the season, and we're seeing sales in some geographies grow as much as 50% year over year," said Ben Clark, CEO of Vermont-based Ann Clark Cookie Cutters. "Expanding to international locations without Amazon would have been more difficult because we'd have had to get a distributor in every country to manage our products. Amazon has made this process much easier and taken a lot of the guesswork out of which products will be successful."</p><p>Amazon offers a range of tools and services to help U.S. sellers offer their products to hundreds of millions of customers from 185 countries that are shopping in its 21 stores worldwide. Last month, these 21 stores brought in more than 900 million customer visits, and more than half of the visits came through Amazon's international stores. Small businesses and emerging brands are able to easily gain traction across the globe by leveraging Amazon's internationally recognized brand and the company's state-of-the-art global logistics network.</p><p>"Global Selling helps small businesses leverage Amazon's scale and reach to easily expand into countries around the world, while maintaining control of their brand and not having to worry about global logistics," said Eric Broussard, Vice President of International Selling Partner Services at Amazon. "These capabilities, such as the use of Amazon's renowned worldwide customer support for all of their products at low or no cost, will help our U.S. sellers capture billions of dollars in international opportunity."</p><p>Amazon announced the following new tools at Accelerate 2021:</p><ul><li>Customer Service by Amazon gives sellers who fulfill their own orders the option to have Amazon manage their customer inquiries, refunds, and returns on self-fulfilled orders—and at Accelerate, the company announced they will offer this service for free or at a discounted rate depending on the seller's customer contact volume. Customer Service by Amazon reduces the burden of providing quality customer service across geographies and in multiple languages. Customers can contact the more than 130 customer support sites via phone, chat, or email, day or night, and receive help in 15 languages. It is available now and open to all U.S. sellers.</li><li>Marketplace Product Guidance takes the guesswork out of which products should and can be sold internationally. It helps sellers determine which of their products they should offer internationally and identify other high-potential products they can add to their catalog in international stores. These recommendations are personalized and ranked based on their opportunity score, and calculated by machine learning models that take into account hundreds of parameters at the seller, product, and store level. It is available now and open to all U.S. sellers.</li><li>Global Inventory Viewer provides a one-stop experience for sellers to monitor inventory supply and demand across all stores in a consolidated manner. Global Inventory Viewer seamlessly integrates with Send to Amazon, making it simple and easy for sellers to send more inventory to Amazon fulfillment centers before running out of stock. It is available now and open to all U.S. sellers.</li><li>Global Listing enables sellers to list products on Amazon once and sell globally. Instead of managing products separately across Amazon's stores, sellers can now replicate their product listings in multiple international stores with just a few clicks. Sellers will be able to view their listing from a set of globalized pages and views. Amazon is currently testing the feature in beta and will open it to all U.S. sellers in early 2022.</li></ul><p>In 2020, Amazon invested more than $18 billion in logistics, tools, services, programs, and teams to help sellers get started, build their brands, and leverage Amazon's scale to reach more customers. Amazon sellers have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S. jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses.</p><p>Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211021005786/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Today at Amazon Accelerate: Amazon Launches New Local Selling Capabilities to Help Small Businesses Grow by Reaching More Customers in Their Area

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Amazon sellers can offer in-store pickup for products and services in specific zip codes Customers can buy products from sellers for same-day pickup at the seller's local store or choose fast local delivery Sellers can now apply to participate in Local Selling as the program expands this year and during 2022 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2021-- Today at the Accelerate 2021 conference, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced Amazon Local Selling, a new set of services that enables local, regional, and national retailers to start or expand their Amazon businesses by offering both in-store pickup and fast delivery to local customers. More than half of all products purchased in Amazon's store are sold by third-party sellers, most of whom are small and medium-sized businesses. With Amazon Local Selling, sellers can quickly and easily expand their multichannel offerings by listing products in Amazon's store and offering them to local customers in designated areas for in-store pickup on the same day that they place an order. When making an order, customers can select in-store pickup and receive a notification when it is ready that day. Or, they can choose fast local delivery by the seller. Amazon Local Selling is now available from both national and local retailers, including Mavis Discount Tire, Sears Hometown Store, 4 Wheel Parts, Electronic Express, Best Buy, Appliance Connection, Mattress Warehouse, Beach Camera, Adorama, DataVision, Exclusive Furniture, World Wide Stereo, MODIA, Focus Camera, and others. Sellers who are interested in joining Local Selling can apply at sell.amazon.com/local as the program expands this year and during 2022. Customers can learn more about Local Selling at www.amazon.com/localpickup. With Amazon Local Selling, sellers can give nearby customers the opportunity to support local businesses with regional offers across all product categories, and they can offer products they couldn't before, such as large or fragile items. Additionally, sellers can offer customers add-on services, such as product assembly or installation, for the products they deliver. Walt's Television, a longtime Amazon seller with a store in Tempe, Arizona and distribution centers in Louisville, Kentucky and Dallas, Texas, participated in a trial of Amazon Local Selling. "Amazon has been the foundation of our national online selling for years. Now we are bridging our online business with our in-person experience, which means more customers are getting to know our brand and full range of services," said Bear Hendley, Manager of Walt's Television. "New local customers are finding us and giving us very positive feedback on the convenience of buying online and picking up at one of our locations. We've seen a significant increase in local sales, and we're excited about the ability to offer installation and repair services to Amazon customers." "Local Selling presents enormous opportunities to a large number of sellers who want to bring more product selection to their Amazon business, enabling many to expand their multichannel offerings by integrating their physical stores and delivery capabilities with their digital operations," said Jim Adkins, Vice President of Recreational and Vocational Categories at Amazon. "Our research shows that many customers will opt for local pickup when given the choice. This new capability is an exciting way to help sellers reach and delight more customers with great products and convenience." Last year, Amazon invested more than $18 billion in logistics, tools, services, programs, and teams to help sellers get started, build their brands, and leverage Amazon's scale to reach more customers. Amazon sellers have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S. jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses. Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211021005822/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon sellers can offer in-store pickup for products and services in specific zip codes</em></p><p><em>Customers can buy products from sellers for same-day pickup at the seller's local store or choose fast local delivery</em></p><p><em>Sellers can now apply to participate in Local Selling as the program expands this year and during 2022</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2021-- Today at the Accelerate 2021 conference, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced Amazon Local Selling, a new set of services that enables local, regional, and national retailers to start or expand their Amazon businesses by offering both in-store pickup and fast delivery to local customers.</p><p>More than half of all products purchased in Amazon's store are sold by third-party sellers, most of whom are small and medium-sized businesses. With Amazon Local Selling, sellers can quickly and easily expand their multichannel offerings by listing products in Amazon's store and offering them to local customers in designated areas for in-store pickup on the same day that they place an order. When making an order, customers can select in-store pickup and receive a notification when it is ready that day. Or, they can choose fast local delivery by the seller.</p><p>Amazon Local Selling is now available from both national and local retailers, including Mavis Discount Tire, Sears Hometown Store, 4 Wheel Parts, Electronic Express, Best Buy, Appliance Connection, Mattress Warehouse, Beach Camera, Adorama, DataVision, Exclusive Furniture, World Wide Stereo, MODIA, Focus Camera, and others. Sellers who are interested in joining Local Selling can apply at sell.amazon.com/local as the program expands this year and during 2022. Customers can learn more about Local Selling at www.amazon.com/localpickup.</p><p>With Amazon Local Selling, sellers can give nearby customers the opportunity to support local businesses with regional offers across all product categories, and they can offer products they couldn't before, such as large or fragile items. Additionally, sellers can offer customers add-on services, such as product assembly or installation, for the products they deliver.</p><p>Walt's Television, a longtime Amazon seller with a store in Tempe, Arizona and distribution centers in Louisville, Kentucky and Dallas, Texas, participated in a trial of Amazon Local Selling.</p><p>"Amazon has been the foundation of our national online selling for years. Now we are bridging our online business with our in-person experience, which means more customers are getting to know our brand and full range of services," said Bear Hendley, Manager of Walt's Television. "New local customers are finding us and giving us very positive feedback on the convenience of buying online and picking up at one of our locations. We've seen a significant increase in local sales, and we're excited about the ability to offer installation and repair services to Amazon customers."</p><p>"Local Selling presents enormous opportunities to a large number of sellers who want to bring more product selection to their Amazon business, enabling many to expand their multichannel offerings by integrating their physical stores and delivery capabilities with their digital operations," said Jim Adkins, Vice President of Recreational and Vocational Categories at Amazon. "Our research shows that many customers will opt for local pickup when given the choice. This new capability is an exciting way to help sellers reach and delight more customers with great products and convenience."</p><p>Last year, Amazon invested more than $18 billion in logistics, tools, services, programs, and teams to help sellers get started, build their brands, and leverage Amazon's scale to reach more customers. Amazon sellers have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S. jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses.</p><p>Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211021005822/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 AWS Panorama Appliance

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AWS Panorama Appliance allows customers to use existing on-premises cameras and analyze video feeds in edge environments to improve quality control, optimize supply chains, and enhance consumer experiences Accenture, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Deloitte, Sony, Tyson Foods, and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority among customers and partners using the AWS Panorama Appliance SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of the AWS Panorama Appliance, a new device that customers can install in their facilities to run applications that analyze multiple video streams from existing on-premises cameras. The AWS Panorama Appliance enables customers to use computer vision technology to quickly and easily perform visual inspections of production lines (e.g. spot defects in manufactured parts), enhance customer experiences at quick service restaurants (e.g. monitor drive-through queues), or optimize the layout of physical retail stores (e.g. improve product placement, inventory checks, etc.). The AWS Panorama Appliance is one of four AWS products (along with Amazon Monitron, Amazon Lookout for Equipment, and Amazon Lookout for Vision) that form the most comprehensive suite of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services available. To get started with AWS Panorama, visit aws.amazon.com/panorama. Customers in industrial, hospitality, logistics, retail, and other industries want to use computer vision to make decisions faster and optimize their operations. These organizations typically have cameras installed onsite to support their businesses, but they often resort to manual processes like watching video feeds in real time to extract value from their network of cameras, which is tedious, expensive, and difficult to scale. While some smart cameras can provide real-time visual inspection, replacing existing cameras with new smart cameras can be cost prohibitive. Even then, smart cameras are often ineffective because they are limited to specific use cases and require additional effort to fine-tune. For example, updating a smart camera because of a simple change in the environment (e.g. lighting, camera placement, or production line speed) means that a customer often has to contact their vendor for support, which can be costly and time consuming. Alternatively, some customers send video feeds from existing on-premises cameras to third-party servers, but often the required internet bandwidth is costly or facilities are in remote locations where internet connectivity can be slow, all of which degrades the usefulness and practicality of the analysis. Consequently, most customers are stuck using slow, expensive, error-prone, or manual processes for visual monitoring and inspection tasks that do not scale and can lead to missed defects or operational inefficiencies. The AWS Panorama Appliance is a new device that solves these challenges by enabling customers to improve their operations and reduce costs by using existing on-premises cameras and analyzing video streams locally with computer vision. Customers can get started in minutes by connecting the AWS Panorama Appliance to their network and identifying the video feeds for analysis. Because the computer vision processing happens locally on the AWS Panorama Appliance at the edge, customers can save on bandwidth costs and use it in locations with limited internet bandwidth. Additionally, the AWS Panorama Appliance is integrated with Amazon SageMaker (an AWS service that makes it easy for data scientists and developers to build, train, and deploy machine learning models), so customers can update their computer vision application in Amazon SageMaker and deploy the model to the AWS Panorama Appliance themselves. For customers that do not want to build their own computer vision applications, AWS Panorama Partners like Deloitte, TaskWatch, Vistry, Sony, and Accenture provide a wide range of solutions that can address unique use cases across manufacturing, construction, hospitality, retail, and other industries. For example, customers in the retail industry have used AWS Panorama Partners to develop computer vision applications that can analyze foot traffic to help optimize store layout and product placement, analyze peak times when additional staffing is needed to assist customers, and quantify inventory levels. "Organizations across all industries like construction, hospitality, industrial, logistics, retail, transportation, and more are always keen to improve their operations and reduce costs. Computer vision offers a valuable opportunity to achieve these goals, but companies are often inhibited by a range of factors including the complexity of the technology, limited internet connectivity, latency, and inadequacy of existing hardware," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Amazon Machine Learning at AWS. "We built the AWS Panorama Appliance to help remove these barriers so our customers can take advantage of existing on-premises cameras and accelerate inspection tasks, reduce operational complexity, and improve consumer experiences through computer vision." The AWS Panorama Appliance is available for sale through AWS Elemental in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and European Union. The AWS Panorama service is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional AWS Regions in the coming months. The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is a public international airport located in Hebron, Kentucky, that provides world-class service to travelers in the Cincinnati tri-state area. "CVG Airport is committed to providing a world-class traveler experience through continuous innovation and strategic cooperation," said Brian Cobb, Chief Innovation Officer at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. "By using TaskWatch's application on AWS Panorama, we are able to bring machine learning to our existing IP cameras and automatically monitor congestion over 70,000 square feet of airport traffic lanes. Once an issue is detected, such as a disabled vehicle, TaskWatch sends real-time alerts to airport staff so they can provide assistance, keep the traffic flowing, and reduce delays for our passengers." The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is the third-largest port in North America, processing 3.5 million shipping containers a year. "We needed a solution to help optimize ground operations and expedite container inspection for the thousands of containers entering our port every day," said Greg Rogge, Director of Operations at Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. "We identified machine learning as an enabler that could address this problem. With the help of Deloitte, we are using AWS Panorama and other advanced technologies to identify and track containers throughout our facilities. Our customers benefit from real-time visibility through data feeds into a blockchain system, and the port is able to identify efficiency-improvement opportunities in the existing process." Tyson Foods, Inc. is the largest U.S. food company, focused on tackling some of the biggest sustainability challenges facing the world today. "Our team worked with the Amazon ML Solutions Lab to build computer vision models for counting packaged products on our line for quality assurance," said Barret Miller, Senior Manager of Emerging Technology at Tyson Foods, Inc. "These efforts have enabled us to develop automated solutions for our packaging lines using AWS Panorama." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, and Switzerland. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211020006009/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>AWS Panorama Appliance allows customers to use existing on-premises cameras and analyze video feeds in edge environments to improve quality control, optimize supply chains, and enhance consumer experiences</em></p><p><em>Accenture, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Deloitte, Sony, Tyson Foods, and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority among customers and partners using the AWS Panorama Appliance</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of the AWS Panorama Appliance, a new device that customers can install in their facilities to run applications that analyze multiple video streams from existing on-premises cameras. The AWS Panorama Appliance enables customers to use computer vision technology to quickly and easily perform visual inspections of production lines (e.g. spot defects in manufactured parts), enhance customer experiences at quick service restaurants (e.g. monitor drive-through queues), or optimize the layout of physical retail stores (e.g. improve product placement, inventory checks, etc.). The AWS Panorama Appliance is one of four AWS products (along with Amazon Monitron, Amazon Lookout for Equipment, and Amazon Lookout for Vision) that form the most comprehensive suite of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services available. To get started with AWS Panorama, visit aws.amazon.com/panorama.</p><p>Customers in industrial, hospitality, logistics, retail, and other industries want to use computer vision to make decisions faster and optimize their operations. These organizations typically have cameras installed onsite to support their businesses, but they often resort to manual processes like watching video feeds in real time to extract value from their network of cameras, which is tedious, expensive, and difficult to scale. While some smart cameras can provide real-time visual inspection, replacing existing cameras with new smart cameras can be cost prohibitive. Even then, smart cameras are often ineffective because they are limited to specific use cases and require additional effort to fine-tune. For example, updating a smart camera because of a simple change in the environment (e.g. lighting, camera placement, or production line speed) means that a customer often has to contact their vendor for support, which can be costly and time consuming. Alternatively, some customers send video feeds from existing on-premises cameras to third-party servers, but often the required internet bandwidth is costly or facilities are in remote locations where internet connectivity can be slow, all of which degrades the usefulness and practicality of the analysis. Consequently, most customers are stuck using slow, expensive, error-prone, or manual processes for visual monitoring and inspection tasks that do not scale and can lead to missed defects or operational inefficiencies.</p><p>The AWS Panorama Appliance is a new device that solves these challenges by enabling customers to improve their operations and reduce costs by using existing on-premises cameras and analyzing video streams locally with computer vision. Customers can get started in minutes by connecting the AWS Panorama Appliance to their network and identifying the video feeds for analysis. Because the computer vision processing happens locally on the AWS Panorama Appliance at the edge, customers can save on bandwidth costs and use it in locations with limited internet bandwidth. Additionally, the AWS Panorama Appliance is integrated with Amazon SageMaker (an AWS service that makes it easy for data scientists and developers to build, train, and deploy machine learning models), so customers can update their computer vision application in Amazon SageMaker and deploy the model to the AWS Panorama Appliance themselves. For customers that do not want to build their own computer vision applications, AWS Panorama Partners like Deloitte, TaskWatch, Vistry, Sony, and Accenture provide a wide range of solutions that can address unique use cases across manufacturing, construction, hospitality, retail, and other industries. For example, customers in the retail industry have used AWS Panorama Partners to develop computer vision applications that can analyze foot traffic to help optimize store layout and product placement, analyze peak times when additional staffing is needed to assist customers, and quantify inventory levels.</p><p>"Organizations across all industries like construction, hospitality, industrial, logistics, retail, transportation, and more are always keen to improve their operations and reduce costs. Computer vision offers a valuable opportunity to achieve these goals, but companies are often inhibited by a range of factors including the complexity of the technology, limited internet connectivity, latency, and inadequacy of existing hardware," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Amazon Machine Learning at AWS. "We built the AWS Panorama Appliance to help remove these barriers so our customers can take advantage of existing on-premises cameras and accelerate inspection tasks, reduce operational complexity, and improve consumer experiences through computer vision."</p><p>The AWS Panorama Appliance is available for sale through AWS Elemental in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and European Union. The AWS Panorama service is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional AWS Regions in the coming months.</p><p>The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is a public international airport located in Hebron, Kentucky, that provides world-class service to travelers in the Cincinnati tri-state area. "CVG Airport is committed to providing a world-class traveler experience through continuous innovation and strategic cooperation," said Brian Cobb, Chief Innovation Officer at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. "By using TaskWatch's application on AWS Panorama, we are able to bring machine learning to our existing IP cameras and automatically monitor congestion over 70,000 square feet of airport traffic lanes. Once an issue is detected, such as a disabled vehicle, TaskWatch sends real-time alerts to airport staff so they can provide assistance, keep the traffic flowing, and reduce delays for our passengers."</p><p>The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is the third-largest port in North America, processing 3.5 million shipping containers a year. "We needed a solution to help optimize ground operations and expedite container inspection for the thousands of containers entering our port every day," said Greg Rogge, Director of Operations at Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. "We identified machine learning as an enabler that could address this problem. With the help of Deloitte, we are using AWS Panorama and other advanced technologies to identify and track containers throughout our facilities. Our customers benefit from real-time visibility through data feeds into a blockchain system, and the port is able to identify efficiency-improvement opportunities in the existing process."</p><p>Tyson Foods, Inc. is the largest U.S. food company, focused on tackling some of the biggest sustainability challenges facing the world today. "Our team worked with the Amazon ML Solutions Lab to build computer vision models for counting packaged products on our line for quality assurance," said Barret Miller, Senior Manager of Emerging Technology at Tyson Foods, Inc. "These efforts have enabled us to develop automated solutions for our packaging lines using AWS Panorama."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, 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 81 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, and Switzerland. 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. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things 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/20211020006009/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Today at Amazon Accelerate: Amazon Announces Product Opportunity Explorer to Help Third-Party Sellers Identify New Products to Sell in Amazon's Store

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Today at Amazon Accelerate: Amazon Announces Product Opportunity Explorer to Help Third-Party Sellers Identify New Products to Sell in Amazon's Store

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Product Opportunity Explorer provides third-party sellers with detailed insights into what customers are searching for, clicking on, and buying, as well as sales history, pricing trends, and more Amazon is testing Product Opportunity Explorer in a beta program through the end of the year and will expand the tool to all sellers throughout 2022 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2021-- Today at the Accelerate 2021 conference for third-party sellers, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced Product Opportunity Explorer, a new tool that helps sellers identify opportunities to launch new, high-potential products to serve unmet customer demand. Identifying and launching new products is key to retail success, but it can be costly and time consuming. Amazon's new Product Opportunity Explorer tool helps take the guesswork out of identifying which products to launch by providing sellers with rich insights into what customers are searching for, clicking on, and buying, as well as not buying. The tool helps sellers identify niches of emerging product opportunities by providing detailed data on search volume and growth, sales history, and pricing trends, so they can identify and act on customer demand. "Amazon has a long track record of inventing for sellers, and our Product Opportunity Explorer tool is our latest innovation that provides them with insights to help them bring new products to market faster and more efficiently," said Ben Hartman, Vice President of North America Selling Partner Services at Amazon. "This is another example of how we empower small businesses and entrepreneurs by providing them with powerful capabilities to reach more customers and grow." Product Opportunity Explorer was developed with product research and development in mind, offering rich, accurate data to help sellers understand, gauge, and evaluate product opportunities on Amazon. Sellers can assess the likelihood of a new product gaining traction with customers and forecast sales potential. "We have built our business on Amazon, and our growth strategy is based on increasing the number of products we offer," said John Broadbent of Silver Onyx, a seller with seven brands in Amazon's store. "Product Opportunity Explorer will give us data and recommendations specifically relevant to our business, fueling our ability to develop and offer dozens of new products to our brand portfolio this year, such as successful new additions to our Nature's Nutrition line." Amazon offers a range of tools and services to help sellers launch new products. When sellers identify new products they want to launch on Amazon, they can use the FBA New Selection program that offers benefits on storage and advertising costs to help them accelerate their early sales. Sellers enrolled in Brand Registry can use Amazon Vine to help them build a foundation of insightful customer reviews on their new selection for as little as $200 per enrolled product. On average, brands have found Amazon Vine helped grow their initial product sales by more than 15%. Amazon is initially testing Product Opportunity Explorer in a beta program, with plans to make the tool available to all sellers in 2022. The tool is available at no charge in Seller Central, Amazon's online business management resource for sellers. Last year, Amazon invested more than $18 billion in logistics, tools, services, programs, and teams to help sellers get started, build their brands, and leverage Amazon's scale to reach more customers. Amazon sellers have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S. jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses. Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211020005249/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Product Opportunity Explorer provides third-party sellers with detailed insights into what customers are searching for, clicking on, and buying, as well as sales history, pricing trends, and more</em></p><p><em>Amazon is testing Product Opportunity Explorer in a beta program through the end of the year and will expand the tool to all sellers throughout 2022</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2021-- Today at the Accelerate 2021 conference for third-party sellers, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced Product Opportunity Explorer, a new tool that helps sellers identify opportunities to launch new, high-potential products to serve unmet customer demand.</p><p>Identifying and launching new products is key to retail success, but it can be costly and time consuming. Amazon's new Product Opportunity Explorer tool helps take the guesswork out of identifying which products to launch by providing sellers with rich insights into what customers are searching for, clicking on, and buying, as well as not buying. The tool helps sellers identify niches of emerging product opportunities by providing detailed data on search volume and growth, sales history, and pricing trends, so they can identify and act on customer demand.</p><p>"Amazon has a long track record of inventing for sellers, and our Product Opportunity Explorer tool is our latest innovation that provides them with insights to help them bring new products to market faster and more efficiently," said Ben Hartman, Vice President of North America Selling Partner Services at Amazon. "This is another example of how we empower small businesses and entrepreneurs by providing them with powerful capabilities to reach more customers and grow."</p><p>Product Opportunity Explorer was developed with product research and development in mind, offering rich, accurate data to help sellers understand, gauge, and evaluate product opportunities on Amazon. Sellers can assess the likelihood of a new product gaining traction with customers and forecast sales potential.</p><p>"We have built our business on Amazon, and our growth strategy is based on increasing the number of products we offer," said John Broadbent of Silver Onyx, a seller with seven brands in Amazon's store. "Product Opportunity Explorer will give us data and recommendations specifically relevant to our business, fueling our ability to develop and offer dozens of new products to our brand portfolio this year, such as successful new additions to our Nature's Nutrition line."</p><p>Amazon offers a range of tools and services to help sellers launch new products. When sellers identify new products they want to launch on Amazon, they can use the FBA New Selection program that offers benefits on storage and advertising costs to help them accelerate their early sales. Sellers enrolled in Brand Registry can use Amazon Vine to help them build a foundation of insightful customer reviews on their new selection for as little as $200 per enrolled product. On average, brands have found Amazon Vine helped grow their initial product sales by more than 15%.</p><p>Amazon is initially testing Product Opportunity Explorer in a beta program, with plans to make the tool available to all sellers in 2022. The tool is available at no charge in Seller Central, Amazon's online business management resource for sellers.</p><p>Last year, Amazon invested more than $18 billion in logistics, tools, services, programs, and teams to help sellers get started, build their brands, and leverage Amazon's scale to reach more customers. Amazon sellers have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S. jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses.</p><p>Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211020005249/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Today at Amazon Accelerate: Amazon Launches New Innovations for Brands as It Announces Over 100,000 Brands Have Joined Its U.S. Store in 2021

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Today at Amazon Accelerate: Amazon Launches New Innovations for Brands as It Announces Over 100,000 Brands Have Joined Its U.S. Store in 2021

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Brands selling in Amazon's U.S. store have grown their sales by almost 60% year over year for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2021 New tools, services, and benefits for brands include Amazon Brand Referral Bonus, Amazon Customer Engagement tool, A+ Story Cards, and the Customer Review Resolution tool SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2021-- Today at the Accelerate 2021 conference, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that more than 100,000 brands have started selling in Amazon's U.S. store so far this year, with sales by brands up 60% year over year for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2021. Amazon connects brands with hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, offering brands a wide range of tools and services to help drive their success. At the event, the company announced a range of new tools, services, and benefits to help brands build and maintain customer relationships and increase their sales and profitability. "We want Amazon to be the best place for brands of all types and sizes to succeed, and we're dedicated to helping them share their story and products to customers around the globe," said Ian Simpson, Vice President of Selling Partner Tools and Services at Amazon. "We are constantly innovating for brands and excited to share some of our latest tools, services, and other benefits including the Amazon Brand Referral Bonus, Amazon Customer Engagement tool, A+ Story Cards, and Customer Review Resolution tool." New tools, services, and benefits for brands selling on Amazon include: The Amazon Brand Referral Bonus, which helps brands make their marketing dollars go further. When brands direct non-Amazon marketing traffic from their own website or other websites to Amazon, they earn a bonus of, on average, 10% of the purchase price of the promoted product and any of the brand's other products that the customer purchases over the following two weeks. Thousands of brands are already taking advantage of this benefit, with some earning thousands of dollars in bonuses in a single month. The Amazon Customer Engagement tool,whichenables brands to easily launch email marketing campaigns to raise awareness of new products. Since launching the beta version of the tool in May, Amazon has already sent more than 6 million emails to customers on behalf of brands. A+ Story Cards on the product page enable brands to showcase their brand story through rich visual imagery and more seamlessly connect shoppers with their other products. In the last month, brands have enabled A+ Story Cards on more than 1 million products. The Customer Review Resolution tool, which enables brands to provide enhanced customer service when they identify a frustrated customer who leaves a negative product review. The tool enables brands to proactively offer additional support and a courtesy refund if a customer is unhappy with the product and leaves a negative review; this helps them build a stronger connection to their customers. Since the tool's launch in June, brands have already offered enhanced support on more than 200,000 orders per month. "Amazon is a foundation for our business and is a great home for our brands, helping us continually find customers and build their affinity for our product lines," said Steve Neufer, CEO of Juvo Plus, a seller with 15 brands and thousands of products on Amazon. "Features and tools like Amazon Stores, A+ Content, and Brand Analytics give our brands horsepower for growth across a range of product categories." In addition to these new features, Amazon offers a range of free tools, services, and benefits for brands to help them launch their brand, build customer relationships, and grow and succeed, including: Amazon Stores empowers brands to create a customizable multipage storefront that tells their brand story and lets Amazon customers both learn about their company and discover their full range of products. Brands selling on Amazon.com have launched more than 140,000 stores. Brand Follow lets customers indicate their interest in a specific brand and receive updates about new products and promotions. Customers who "Follow" a brand in Amazon's store on average spend more than double on products from the brand than other shoppers not following the brand. Manage Your Experiments lets brands run A/B tests on their product listings to help them better understand which product information appeals to Amazon customers—ultimately driving more sales. To date in 2021, brands have used Manage Your Experiments to create tens of thousands of experiments to improve the quality of their listings, which have increased their sales by up to 25%. Virtual Bundles gives brands the opportunity to offer two to five complementary products as a bundle without needing to pack the items together before sending them to Amazon's fulfillment centers. By offering a virtual bundle, brands can increase their basket size, resulting in an over 15% sales lift for bundled products on average. Posts helps brands drive discovery on Amazon using images and lifestyle content that are displayed across Amazon and link to relevant Amazon product pages. Posts are free and available for brands selling in Amazon's U.S. store. In the last year, Amazon delivered more than 11 billion viewable impressions through Posts. A+ Content helps brands better showcase their story and product features with immersive rich content such as videos, images, and dynamic text on their Amazon product detail pages. A+ Content helps increase conversion rates, and in 2021 alone, brands have added A+ Content to over 1 million product pages globally. These features are available to all brands enrolled in Brand Registry and selling in Amazon's U.S. store, except for the Amazon Customer Engagement tool, which we will continue to test in a beta version throughout early 2022. Last year, Amazon invested more than $18 billion in logistics, tools, services, programs, and teams to help sellers get started, build their brands, and leverage Amazon's scale to reach more customers. Amazon sellers have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S. jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses. Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211020005845/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Brands selling in Amazon's U.S. store have grown their sales by almost 60% year over year for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2021</em></p><p><em>New tools, services, and benefits for brands include Amazon Brand Referral Bonus, Amazon Customer Engagement tool, A+ Story Cards, and the Customer Review Resolution tool</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2021-- Today at the Accelerate 2021 conference, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that more than 100,000 brands have started selling in Amazon's U.S. store so far this year, with sales by brands up 60% year over year for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2021. Amazon connects brands with hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, offering brands a wide range of tools and services to help drive their success. At the event, the company announced a range of new tools, services, and benefits to help brands build and maintain customer relationships and increase their sales and profitability.</p><p>"We want Amazon to be the best place for brands of all types and sizes to succeed, and we're dedicated to helping them share their story and products to customers around the globe," said Ian Simpson, Vice President of Selling Partner Tools and Services at Amazon. "We are constantly innovating for brands and excited to share some of our latest tools, services, and other benefits including the Amazon Brand Referral Bonus, Amazon Customer Engagement tool, A+ Story Cards, and Customer Review Resolution tool."</p><p>New tools, services, and benefits for brands selling on Amazon include:</p><ul><li>The Amazon Brand Referral Bonus, which helps brands make their marketing dollars go further. When brands direct non-Amazon marketing traffic from their own website or other websites to Amazon, they earn a bonus of, on average, 10% of the purchase price of the promoted product and any of the brand's other products that the customer purchases over the following two weeks. Thousands of brands are already taking advantage of this benefit, with some earning thousands of dollars in bonuses in a single month.</li><li>The Amazon Customer Engagement tool,whichenables brands to easily launch email marketing campaigns to raise awareness of new products. Since launching the beta version of the tool in May, Amazon has already sent more than 6 million emails to customers on behalf of brands.</li><li>A+ Story Cards on the product page enable brands to showcase their brand story through rich visual imagery and more seamlessly connect shoppers with their other products. In the last month, brands have enabled A+ Story Cards on more than 1 million products.</li><li>The Customer Review Resolution tool, which enables brands to provide enhanced customer service when they identify a frustrated customer who leaves a negative product review. The tool enables brands to proactively offer additional support and a courtesy refund if a customer is unhappy with the product and leaves a negative review; this helps them build a stronger connection to their customers. Since the tool's launch in June, brands have already offered enhanced support on more than 200,000 orders per month.</li></ul><p>"Amazon is a foundation for our business and is a great home for our brands, helping us continually find customers and build their affinity for our product lines," said Steve Neufer, CEO of Juvo Plus, a seller with 15 brands and thousands of products on Amazon. "Features and tools like Amazon Stores, A+ Content, and Brand Analytics give our brands horsepower for growth across a range of product categories."</p><p>In addition to these new features, Amazon offers a range of free tools, services, and benefits for brands to help them launch their brand, build customer relationships, and grow and succeed, including:</p><ul><li>Amazon Stores empowers brands to create a customizable multipage storefront that tells their brand story and lets Amazon customers both learn about their company and discover their full range of products. Brands selling on Amazon.com have launched more than 140,000 stores.</li><li>Brand Follow lets customers indicate their interest in a specific brand and receive updates about new products and promotions. Customers who "Follow" a brand in Amazon's store on average spend more than double on products from the brand than other shoppers not following the brand.</li><li>Manage Your Experiments lets brands run A/B tests on their product listings to help them better understand which product information appeals to Amazon customers—ultimately driving more sales. To date in 2021, brands have used Manage Your Experiments to create tens of thousands of experiments to improve the quality of their listings, which have increased their sales by up to 25%.</li><li>Virtual Bundles gives brands the opportunity to offer two to five complementary products as a bundle without needing to pack the items together before sending them to Amazon's fulfillment centers. By offering a virtual bundle, brands can increase their basket size, resulting in an over 15% sales lift for bundled products on average.</li><li>Posts helps brands drive discovery on Amazon using images and lifestyle content that are displayed across Amazon and link to relevant Amazon product pages. Posts are free and available for brands selling in Amazon's U.S. store. In the last year, Amazon delivered more than 11 billion viewable impressions through Posts.</li><li>A+ Content helps brands better showcase their story and product features with immersive rich content such as videos, images, and dynamic text on their Amazon product detail pages. A+ Content helps increase conversion rates, and in 2021 alone, brands have added A+ Content to over 1 million product pages globally.</li></ul><p>These features are available to all brands enrolled in Brand Registry and selling in Amazon's U.S. store, except for the Amazon Customer Engagement tool, which we will continue to test in a beta version throughout early 2022.</p><p>Last year, Amazon invested more than $18 billion in logistics, tools, services, programs, and teams to help sellers get started, build their brands, and leverage Amazon's scale to reach more customers. Amazon sellers have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S. jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses.</p><p>Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211020005845/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Today at Amazon Accelerate: Amazon to Launch the Search Analytics Dashboard That Will Provide Third-Party Sellers with Insights on Search Performance of Their Products

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Today at Amazon Accelerate: Amazon to Launch the Search Analytics Dashboard That Will Provide Third-Party Sellers with Insights on Search Performance of Their Products

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New Search Analytics Dashboard to provide sellers with a wealth of anonymized data to better understand customers' interests and shopping choices for their products Information will help sellers optimize their listings, inform inventory planning, plan their product development roadmap, and grow their business both on and off Amazon Search Analytics Dashboard will be available in early 2022 for sellers enrolled in Brand Registry SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2021-- Today at the Accelerate 2021 conference for U.S. third-party sellers, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the Search Analytics Dashboard, a new tool that will help sellers registered in Brand Registry derive insights from the search performance of their products. "The Search Analytics Dashboard will provide sellers with a wealth of anonymized data to better understand customers' interests and shopping choices for their products. This information will help sellers optimize their listings, inform inventory planning, plan their product development roadmap, and grow their business both on and off Amazon," said Srikanth Thirumalai, Vice President of Search at Amazon. "We are excited about what these insights will do for sellers, and we look forward to their feedback as we identify new ways to partner with them and improve the shopping and selling experience together." The Search Analytics Dashboard will enhance the existing Amazon Brand Analytics suite of aggregated data reports, which includes reports for repeat purchase behavior, market basket analysis, item comparison, alternate purchase behavior, and demographics. For several years, Amazon has offered brands a Search Terms report that includes search frequency rank, click data, and conversion share, and the new Search Analytics Dashboard goes even deeper into the shopping experience. The new Search Analytics Dashboard will include the Catalog and Query Performance dashboards: The Query Performance Dashboard will help sellers understand top search terms that are associated with their products. This information can help sellers better target the keywords they use in their marketing campaigns and identify opportunities to expand their product portfolio based on customer interest. The Catalog Performance Dashboard will help brands understand their sales funnel at the product level. Sellers will be able to use this tool to quickly identify conversion issues or drop-off points where they lose customer attention. The dashboard will also help sellers analyze the price competitiveness of their products and optimize their marketing investments and inventory planning. "Search term data is very helpful for our business and consumer brands, in general. The Search Analytics Dashboard will bring to light some incredibly valuable data for us. We will be able to identify high-performing keywords for our products, which we can use to fine-tune our marketing and product development strategies," said Jason Mclellan, director at VitaCup, a seller participating in the products' development. "The information has already helped us identify a new product to develop and a product category where we're building traction." The Search Analytics Dashboard will be available in the U.S. in early 2022. The tool will be provided at no charge to Amazon sellers who are enrolled in Amazon Brand Registry. Last year, Amazon invested more than $18 billion in logistics, tools, services, programs, and teams to help sellers get started, build their brands, and leverage Amazon's scale to reach more customers. Amazon sellers have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S. jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses. Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211020005248/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New Search Analytics Dashboard to provide sellers with a wealth of anonymized data to better understand customers' interests and shopping choices for their products</em></p><p><em>Information will help sellers optimize their listings, inform inventory planning, plan their product development roadmap, and grow their business both on and off Amazon</em></p><p><em>Search Analytics Dashboard will be available in early 2022 for sellers enrolled in Brand Registry</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2021-- Today at the Accelerate 2021 conference for U.S. third-party sellers, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the Search Analytics Dashboard, a new tool that will help sellers registered in Brand Registry derive insights from the search performance of their products.</p><p>"The Search Analytics Dashboard will provide sellers with a wealth of anonymized data to better understand customers' interests and shopping choices for their products. This information will help sellers optimize their listings, inform inventory planning, plan their product development roadmap, and grow their business both on and off Amazon," said Srikanth Thirumalai, Vice President of Search at Amazon. "We are excited about what these insights will do for sellers, and we look forward to their feedback as we identify new ways to partner with them and improve the shopping and selling experience together."</p><p>The Search Analytics Dashboard will enhance the existing Amazon Brand Analytics suite of aggregated data reports, which includes reports for repeat purchase behavior, market basket analysis, item comparison, alternate purchase behavior, and demographics. For several years, Amazon has offered brands a Search Terms report that includes search frequency rank, click data, and conversion share, and the new Search Analytics Dashboard goes even deeper into the shopping experience.</p><p>The new Search Analytics Dashboard will include the Catalog and Query Performance dashboards:</p><ul><li>The Query Performance Dashboard will help sellers understand top search terms that are associated with their products. This information can help sellers better target the keywords they use in their marketing campaigns and identify opportunities to expand their product portfolio based on customer interest.</li><li>The Catalog Performance Dashboard will help brands understand their sales funnel at the product level. Sellers will be able to use this tool to quickly identify conversion issues or drop-off points where they lose customer attention. The dashboard will also help sellers analyze the price competitiveness of their products and optimize their marketing investments and inventory planning.</li></ul><p>"Search term data is very helpful for our business and consumer brands, in general. The Search Analytics Dashboard will bring to light some incredibly valuable data for us. We will be able to identify high-performing keywords for our products, which we can use to fine-tune our marketing and product development strategies," said Jason Mclellan, director at VitaCup, a seller participating in the products' development. "The information has already helped us identify a new product to develop and a product category where we're building traction."</p><p>The Search Analytics Dashboard will be available in the U.S. in early 2022. The tool will be provided at no charge to Amazon sellers who are enrolled in Amazon Brand Registry.</p><p>Last year, Amazon invested more than $18 billion in logistics, tools, services, programs, and teams to help sellers get started, build their brands, and leverage Amazon's scale to reach more customers. Amazon sellers have created an estimated 1.8 million U.S. jobs managing, operating, and supporting their Amazon-related businesses.</p><p>Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211020005248/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>