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AWS Announces General Availability of AWS App Runner

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05/18/2021 07:10:00

AWS Announces General Availability of AWS App Runner

05/18/2021

2021

New container application service makes it easier and faster for developers to build, deploy, and run high-performance containerized web applications and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) with just a few clicks Chick-fil-A, ZS Associates, DeNA, Datadog, MongoDB, and HashiCorp among customers and partners using AWS App Runner SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ:AMZN), announced AWS App Runner, a fully managed container application service that makes it easier and faster for customers to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and APIs with just a few clicks. AWS App Runner handles all of the operational aspects of high-performance applications and APIs, including provisioning, scaling, and managing the container orchestrators, load balancers, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, as well as allowing customers to run containers without having to think about servers or clusters at all. Customers simply provide their source code, container image, or deployment pipeline and AWS App Runner builds and deploys the web application or API, load balances network traffic, scales capacity up or down based on demand, monitors application health, and encrypts traffic by default. With AWS App Runner, customers can take advantage, in a matter of minutes, of the portability, efficiency, and cost savings of containers (even if they lack prior experience running and managing containers) and development teams can focus on their business applications instead of configuring services and managing infrastructure. There are no upfront commitments or fees to use AWS App Runner, and customers pay only for the compute and memory resources used by their application. To get started, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner Web applications and APIs power the essential elements of customers' businesses, including end user-facing websites and backend services that process important business logic. Because of the business-critical nature of customers' applications and APIs, AWS provides customers with a wide choice of powerful tools for full control over the deployment and operation of their applications, including the ability to scale the underlying infrastructure and load balance and encrypt network traffic. However, some customers don't require such a fine degree of control and want to eliminate the added time and operational complexity that comes with configuring and integrating every underlying infrastructure service. While AWS Fargate has made it much easier for customers to deploy and run containerized applications without having to manage compute clusters or capacity, some customers have asked for a fully managed service to streamline their entire container environment. These customers want to simply point to their existing code or container repository and have their applications and APIs run and scale automatically in the cloud. They want a fully managed service that handles all of the tasks associated with running containerized applications like building and configuring container orchestrators, load balancers, and CI/CD pipelines, as well as ensuring consistent application and API response times by reducing latency and eliminating cold starts—even when their development teams lack prior experience deploying and managing containers or infrastructure. AWS App Runner streamlines a customer's entire container environment by providing the easiest and fastest way to build, deploy, and run modern containerized web applications and APIs on AWS. Customers can launch their web application or API by connecting AWS App Runner to their source code or container image and selecting "deploy" from the AWS App Runner console. The underlying compute is automatically deployed, scaled, and managed leveraging AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine that powers hundreds of millions of containers on AWS in a secure environment—thereby eliminating the need for customers to choose instances and scale cluster capacity. AWS App Runner is built with AWS operational and configuration best practices, including automated safe deployments (which monitor and test a new application environment before live traffic is routed to it to minimize interruptions caused by changing application versions) and health checks. Additionally, AWS App Runner load balances traffic based on incoming requests and automatically scales resources according to traffic patterns. There is no need to build and configure CI/CD pipelines with AWS App Runner because it automatically detects changes to code or a container image and deploys a new version of the application. Furthermore, by provisioning memory to keep idle applications warm, AWS App Runner eliminates cold starts and provides a consistent application response time. With AWS App Runner, network traffic is encrypted by default so customers do not have to set up or manage encryption keys. AWS App Runner makes it easier and faster for developers (even those with no prior containers or infrastructure experience) to build, deploy, and run modern containerized web applications with just a few clicks, using a single service. "AWS offers the broadest range of container technology in the cloud, and more and more customers want to benefit from the portability, efficiency, and cost savings containers provide," said Deepak Singh, VP, Compute Services, AWS. "However, customers have asked us to make it even easier to get their containerized web applications up and running quickly so they can see these benefits more quickly. We are proud to give these customers AWS App Runner, a fully managed service that makes it possible to go from source code or container image to a securely running web application with just a few clicks. With AWS App Runner, development teams—even those who have never used containers or managed infrastructure—can get a containerized application up and running in minutes, so these customers can instead focus on creating the applications that drive their businesses forward rather than managing the underlying hardware and software infrastructure." AWS App Runner is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional regions coming soon. Chick-fil-A, Inc. is a family owned and privately held restaurant company that serves freshly prepared food in more than 2,500 restaurants in 47 states, Washington, D.C., and Canada. "We are excited about the ability of AWS App Runner to deploy applications and APIs easily and securely," said Alex Crane, Principal Architect, Chick-fil-A, Inc. "With AWS App Runner handling the scaling, security patching, and provisioning, our engineers can focus on bringing business features and requests to life, instead of worrying about the infrastructure. We look forward to the potential of benefiting from AWS App Runner's simplified operations." ZS Associates is a global professional services firm that creates solutions for clients, particularly in the biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical technology spaces. "Our consulting teams at ZS Associates are dedicated to creating a positive client experience and delivering immediate and long-term impact. This includes getting our solutions to our clients faster," said Bharath Sundararaj, Cloud Engineering Architect, ZS Associates. "We're excited about AWS App Runner because it can help reduce the time it takes for us to deliver solutions to our customers. AWS App Runner abstracts away the need to manage and configure infrastructure, which means we can move rapidly from idea to production. Solutions like AWS App Runner help us accelerate our clients' digital transformation." DeNA is one of Japan's leading mobile gaming and internet services companies with major business areas in mobile games, sports, live streaming, healthcare, and automotive. "Our development teams want to focus on delivering a delightful customer experience. AWS App Runner can help us achieve this goal by removing the need to configure and manage infrastructure so that teams can prioritize building applications," said Hiroyoshi Houchi, Senior Architect, DeNA. "With AWS App Runner, we don't need to operate a separate deployment pipeline, container orchestrator, and load balancers. Our teams can benefit from AWS App Runner's operational best practices informed by years of AWS operational excellence." Pioneer Square Labs is a Seattle-based startup studio and early-stage venture capital fund. "We're excited about the increased development and deployment velocity AWS App Runner can help our portfolio companies achieve," said Dave Peck, Engineer, Pioneer Square Labs. "Even for those teams that are new to containers, App Runner makes it easier than ever to get started. As our portfolio companies grow, AWS App Runner's ability to seamlessly scale with traffic enables our teams to continue writing code and growing their business rather than focusing on re-architecting their applications." Datadog is the monitoring and analytics platform for developers, operations, and business users in the cloud age. "At Datadog, we're focused on helping customers monitor their applications wherever and however they run," said Ilan Rabinovitch, Senior Vice President, Product and Community, Datadog. "Using AWS App Runner, customers can now more easily deploy and scale their web applications from a container image or source code repository. With our new integration, customers can monitor their AWS App Runner metrics, logs, and events to troubleshoot issues faster, and determine the best resource and scaling settings for their app." MongoDB is a leading modern, general purpose database platform with more than 24,800 customers in over 100 countries. "With AWS App Runner, customers can enjoy a fast, simple, and secure way to go directly from code or container image to a running web application on AWS," said Benjamin Cefalo, Director of Product Management, MongoDB. "We're excited to integrate AWS App Runner with MongoDB Atlas so that developers can leverage the scalability and performance of our global, cloud-native database service for their AWS App Runner applications. Coupled with AWS App Runner's fully managed load balancing, container orchestration, and compute capabilities, customers can increase their focus on delivering business value through their applications." HashiCorp provides cloud infrastructure automation software that enables organizations to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. "AWS App Runner makes it easier for developers to build and run containerized applications," said Burzin Patel, VP of Global Partner Alliances, HashiCorp. "At HashiCorp, our foundational technologies solve the core challenges around infrastructure so that teams can focus on business-critical tasks. Integrating HashiCorp Terraform with AWS App Runner means developers have a faster, easier way to deploy production cloud applications, with less infrastructure to configure and manage." Sysdig is a SaaS-based platform built on open source that provides the security and visibility needed to confidently run containers, Kubernetes, and cloud services. "With AWS App Runner, infrastructure management is offloaded to AWS. This frees organizations to focus on developing and deploying their applications," said Loris Degioanni, Chief Technology Officer and Founder, Sysdig. "At Sysdig, we are exploring integrations with AWS App Runner that will simplify the ability of organizations to secure and optimize their applications for an enhanced developer experience." Pulumi provides a cloud engineering platform for developers to build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications using any language across any architecture. "Our customers use a variety of compute services in their cloud architectures, depending on their workloads or application needs," said Luke Hoban, CTO, Pulumi. "AWS App Runner is great because it is built with leading containers technology but does not require developers to have any containers expertise to run their web applications and services. We are excited to support AWS App Runner as a resource in Pulumi." About Amazon Web Services  For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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/20210518006215/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New container application service makes it easier and faster for developers to build, deploy, and run high-performance containerized web applications and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) with just a few clicks</em></p><p><em>Chick-fil-A, ZS Associates, DeNA, Datadog, MongoDB, and HashiCorp among customers and partners using AWS App Runner</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ:AMZN), announced AWS App Runner, a fully managed container application service that makes it easier and faster for customers to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and APIs with just a few clicks. AWS App Runner handles all of the operational aspects of high-performance applications and APIs, including provisioning, scaling, and managing the container orchestrators, load balancers, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, as well as allowing customers to run containers without having to think about servers or clusters at all. Customers simply provide their source code, container image, or deployment pipeline and AWS App Runner builds and deploys the web application or API, load balances network traffic, scales capacity up or down based on demand, monitors application health, and encrypts traffic by default. With AWS App Runner, customers can take advantage, in a matter of minutes, of the portability, efficiency, and cost savings of containers (even if they lack prior experience running and managing containers) and development teams can focus on their business applications instead of configuring services and managing infrastructure. There are no upfront commitments or fees to use AWS App Runner, and customers pay only for the compute and memory resources used by their application. To get started, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner</p><p>Web applications and APIs power the essential elements of customers' businesses, including end user-facing websites and backend services that process important business logic. Because of the business-critical nature of customers' applications and APIs, AWS provides customers with a wide choice of powerful tools for full control over the deployment and operation of their applications, including the ability to scale the underlying infrastructure and load balance and encrypt network traffic. However, some customers don't require such a fine degree of control and want to eliminate the added time and operational complexity that comes with configuring and integrating every underlying infrastructure service. While AWS Fargate has made it much easier for customers to deploy and run containerized applications without having to manage compute clusters or capacity, some customers have asked for a fully managed service to streamline their entire container environment. These customers want to simply point to their existing code or container repository and have their applications and APIs run and scale automatically in the cloud. They want a fully managed service that handles all of the tasks associated with running containerized applications like building and configuring container orchestrators, load balancers, and CI/CD pipelines, as well as ensuring consistent application and API response times by reducing latency and eliminating cold starts—even when their development teams lack prior experience deploying and managing containers or infrastructure.</p><p>AWS App Runner streamlines a customer's entire container environment by providing the easiest and fastest way to build, deploy, and run modern containerized web applications and APIs on AWS. Customers can launch their web application or API by connecting AWS App Runner to their source code or container image and selecting "deploy" from the AWS App Runner console. The underlying compute is automatically deployed, scaled, and managed leveraging AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine that powers hundreds of millions of containers on AWS in a secure environment—thereby eliminating the need for customers to choose instances and scale cluster capacity. AWS App Runner is built with AWS operational and configuration best practices, including automated safe deployments (which monitor and test a new application environment before live traffic is routed to it to minimize interruptions caused by changing application versions) and health checks. Additionally, AWS App Runner load balances traffic based on incoming requests and automatically scales resources according to traffic patterns. There is no need to build and configure CI/CD pipelines with AWS App Runner because it automatically detects changes to code or a container image and deploys a new version of the application. Furthermore, by provisioning memory to keep idle applications warm, AWS App Runner eliminates cold starts and provides a consistent application response time. With AWS App Runner, network traffic is encrypted by default so customers do not have to set up or manage encryption keys. AWS App Runner makes it easier and faster for developers (even those with no prior containers or infrastructure experience) to build, deploy, and run modern containerized web applications with just a few clicks, using a single service.</p><p>"AWS offers the broadest range of container technology in the cloud, and more and more customers want to benefit from the portability, efficiency, and cost savings containers provide," said Deepak Singh, VP, Compute Services, AWS. "However, customers have asked us to make it even easier to get their containerized web applications up and running quickly so they can see these benefits more quickly. We are proud to give these customers AWS App Runner, a fully managed service that makes it possible to go from source code or container image to a securely running web application with just a few clicks. With AWS App Runner, development teams—even those who have never used containers or managed infrastructure—can get a containerized application up and running in minutes, so these customers can instead focus on creating the applications that drive their businesses forward rather than managing the underlying hardware and software infrastructure."</p><p>AWS App Runner is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional regions coming soon.</p><p>Chick-fil-A, Inc. is a family owned and privately held restaurant company that serves freshly prepared food in more than 2,500 restaurants in 47 states, Washington, D.C., and Canada. "We are excited about the ability of AWS App Runner to deploy applications and APIs easily and securely," said Alex Crane, Principal Architect, Chick-fil-A, Inc. "With AWS App Runner handling the scaling, security patching, and provisioning, our engineers can focus on bringing business features and requests to life, instead of worrying about the infrastructure. We look forward to the potential of benefiting from AWS App Runner's simplified operations."</p><p>ZS Associates is a global professional services firm that creates solutions for clients, particularly in the biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical technology spaces. "Our consulting teams at ZS Associates are dedicated to creating a positive client experience and delivering immediate and long-term impact. This includes getting our solutions to our clients faster," said Bharath Sundararaj, Cloud Engineering Architect, ZS Associates. "We're excited about AWS App Runner because it can help reduce the time it takes for us to deliver solutions to our customers. AWS App Runner abstracts away the need to manage and configure infrastructure, which means we can move rapidly from idea to production. Solutions like AWS App Runner help us accelerate our clients' digital transformation."</p><p>DeNA is one of Japan's leading mobile gaming and internet services companies with major business areas in mobile games, sports, live streaming, healthcare, and automotive. "Our development teams want to focus on delivering a delightful customer experience. AWS App Runner can help us achieve this goal by removing the need to configure and manage infrastructure so that teams can prioritize building applications," said Hiroyoshi Houchi, Senior Architect, DeNA. "With AWS App Runner, we don't need to operate a separate deployment pipeline, container orchestrator, and load balancers. Our teams can benefit from AWS App Runner's operational best practices informed by years of AWS operational excellence."</p><p>Pioneer Square Labs is a Seattle-based startup studio and early-stage venture capital fund. "We're excited about the increased development and deployment velocity AWS App Runner can help our portfolio companies achieve," said Dave Peck, Engineer, Pioneer Square Labs. "Even for those teams that are new to containers, App Runner makes it easier than ever to get started. As our portfolio companies grow, AWS App Runner's ability to seamlessly scale with traffic enables our teams to continue writing code and growing their business rather than focusing on re-architecting their applications."</p><p>Datadog is the monitoring and analytics platform for developers, operations, and business users in the cloud age. "At Datadog, we're focused on helping customers monitor their applications wherever and however they run," said Ilan Rabinovitch, Senior Vice President, Product and Community, Datadog. "Using AWS App Runner, customers can now more easily deploy and scale their web applications from a container image or source code repository. With our new integration, customers can monitor their AWS App Runner metrics, logs, and events to troubleshoot issues faster, and determine the best resource and scaling settings for their app."</p><p>MongoDB is a leading modern, general purpose database platform with more than 24,800 customers in over 100 countries. "With AWS App Runner, customers can enjoy a fast, simple, and secure way to go directly from code or container image to a running web application on AWS," said Benjamin Cefalo, Director of Product Management, MongoDB. "We're excited to integrate AWS App Runner with MongoDB Atlas so that developers can leverage the scalability and performance of our global, cloud-native database service for their AWS App Runner applications. Coupled with AWS App Runner's fully managed load balancing, container orchestration, and compute capabilities, customers can increase their focus on delivering business value through their applications."</p><p>HashiCorp provides cloud infrastructure automation software that enables organizations to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. "AWS App Runner makes it easier for developers to build and run containerized applications," said Burzin Patel, VP of Global Partner Alliances, HashiCorp. "At HashiCorp, our foundational technologies solve the core challenges around infrastructure so that teams can focus on business-critical tasks. Integrating HashiCorp Terraform with AWS App Runner means developers have a faster, easier way to deploy production cloud applications, with less infrastructure to configure and manage."</p><p>Sysdig is a SaaS-based platform built on open source that provides the security and visibility needed to confidently run containers, Kubernetes, and cloud services. "With AWS App Runner, infrastructure management is offloaded to AWS. This frees organizations to focus on developing and deploying their applications," said Loris Degioanni, Chief Technology Officer and Founder, Sysdig. "At Sysdig, we are exploring integrations with AWS App Runner that will simplify the ability of organizations to secure and optimize their applications for an enhanced developer experience."</p><p>Pulumi provides a cloud engineering platform for developers to build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications using any language across any architecture. "Our customers use a variety of compute services in their cloud architectures, depending on their workloads or application needs," said Luke Hoban, CTO, Pulumi. "AWS App Runner is great because it is built with leading containers technology but does not require developers to have any containers expertise to run their web applications and services. We are excited to support AWS App Runner as a resource in Pulumi."</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 platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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/20210518006215/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Music HD For All, Now at No Extra Cost

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Amazon-Music-HD-For-All-Now-at-No-Extra-Cost

05/17/2021 09:15:00

Amazon Music HD For All, Now at No Extra Cost

05/17/2021

2021

Subscribers to Amazon Music Unlimited can now upgrade to the highest quality streaming audio available, for free Amazon Music HD gives listeners unlimited access to more than 70 million songs in High Definition (HD) audio, more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, the highest-quality streaming audio available, and a rapidly-growing catalog of 3D Audio, including songs mixed in Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) ) Amazon Music today announced that going forward, its high-quality streaming tier, Amazon Music HD, will be available to all eligible Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers at no extra cost, unlocking access to the highest-quality streaming audio for even more music fans. In 2019, Neil Young called the launch of HD audio for Amazon "the biggest thing to happen in music since the introduction of digital audio" and now, even more fans can stream music with all of the depth, vibrancy, and emotion from artists' original recordings. Learn more about Amazon Music HD here. "When we first launched Amazon Music HD, our goal was to lead the industry by enabling music fans around the world to stream the best quality recording, the way artists intended their music to be heard," said Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music. "We're thrilled now to make Amazon Music HD available to everyone at no extra cost. All music fans should have access to this quality of music, and now they do!" With Amazon Music HD, customers can stream more than 70 million lossless, High Definition (HD) songs, with a bit depth of 16 bits and a sample rate of 44.1kHz (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 flattened in files compressed for digital streaming. Amazon Music HD has added more than 5 million songs to its Ultra HD catalog since its 2019 launch, providing customers with the largest selection of music in Ultra HD. With Amazon Music HD, customers also have access to a rapidly-growing catalog of songs remixed in 3D Audio formats such as Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA. Listeners can stream these 3D mixes when listening on Amazon's groundbreaking high-fidelity smart speaker, Echo Studio. Music in 360RA can also be streamed via Amazon Music HD on Sony's RA5000 and RA3000 speakers by using Alexa Cast. New and existing subscribers to the Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Plan, at $7.99/month for Prime members and $9.99/month for Amazon customers, or the Family Plan, at $14.99/month, can now easily upgrade to Amazon Music HD at no extra cost. The Amazon Music HD tier was previously an additional $5/month for current subscribers to the Individual or Family Plan. For current subscribers to Amazon Music HD, there will be no extra charge for HD starting with their next billing cycle. Subscribers to Amazon Music Unlimited can now upgrade to Amazon Music HD at no extra cost in the US, UK, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, and Spain. Learn more here. 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 70 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 70 million songs available in High Definition (HD), more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Customers also have free access to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations on Amazon Music. All Amazon Music tiers now offer a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, and live streaming in partnership with Twitch. Engaging with music and culture has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. 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/20210517005546/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Subscribers to Amazon Music Unlimited can now upgrade to the highest quality streaming audio available, for free</em></p><p><em>Amazon Music HD gives listeners unlimited access to more than 70 million songs in High Definition (HD) audio, more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, the highest-quality streaming audio available, and a rapidly-growing catalog of 3D Audio, including songs mixed in Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) ) Amazon Music today announced that going forward, its high-quality streaming tier, Amazon Music HD, will be available to all eligible Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers at no extra cost, unlocking access to the highest-quality streaming audio for even more music fans. In 2019, Neil Young called the launch of HD audio for Amazon "<em>the biggest thing to happen in music since the introduction of digital audio</em>" and now, even more fans can stream music with all of the depth, vibrancy, and emotion from artists' original recordings. Learn more about Amazon Music HD here.</p><p><em>"When we first launched Amazon Music HD, our goal was to lead the industry by enabling music fans around the world to stream the best quality recording, the way artists intended their music to be heard," </em>said Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music.<em> "We're thrilled now to make Amazon Music HD available to everyone at no extra cost. All music fans should have access to this quality of music, and now they do!"</em></p><p>With Amazon Music HD, customers can stream more than 70 million lossless, High Definition (HD) songs, with a bit depth of 16 bits and a sample rate of 44.1kHz (CD quality).</p><p>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 flattened in files compressed for digital streaming. Amazon Music HD has added more than 5 million songs to its Ultra HD catalog since its 2019 launch, providing customers with the largest selection of music in Ultra HD. With Amazon Music HD, customers also have access to a rapidly-growing catalog of songs remixed in 3D Audio formats such as Dolby Atmos and Sony 360RA. Listeners can stream these 3D mixes when listening on Amazon's groundbreaking high-fidelity smart speaker, Echo Studio. Music in 360RA can also be streamed via Amazon Music HD on Sony's RA5000 and RA3000 speakers by using Alexa Cast.</p><p>New and existing subscribers to the Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Plan, at $7.99/month for Prime members and $9.99/month for Amazon customers, or the Family Plan, at $14.99/month, can now easily upgrade to Amazon Music HD at no extra cost. The Amazon Music HD tier was previously an additional $5/month for current subscribers to the Individual or Family Plan. For current subscribers to Amazon Music HD, there will be no extra charge for HD starting with their next billing cycle.</p><p>Subscribers to Amazon Music Unlimited can now upgrade to Amazon Music HD at no extra cost in the US, UK, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, and Spain. Learn more here.</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 70 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 70 million songs available in High Definition (HD), more than 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Customers also have free access to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations on Amazon Music. All Amazon Music tiers now offer a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, and live streaming in partnership with Twitch. Engaging with music and culture has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. 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/20210517005546/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

From Body Mechanics to Mindfulness, Amazon Launches Employee-Designed Health and Safety Program called WorkingWell Across U.S. Operations

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From Body Mechanics to Mindfulness, Amazon Launches Employee-Designed Health and Safety Program called WorkingWell Across U.S. Operations

05/17/2021

2021

Part of the company's mission to be Earth's Safest Place to Work, and its investment of over $300 million into safety projects in 2021, WorkingWell will help prevent injuries, provide wellness services, and offer quality healthcare for employees while at work and at home Program components will roll out to all Amazon operations sites in the U.S. by end of year with the aim of cutting recordable incident rates by 50 percent by 2025 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2021-- Today Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced the launch of WorkingWell, a new comprehensive program providing employees with physical and mental activities, wellness exercises, and healthy eating support that are scientifically proven to help them recharge and reenergize, and ultimately reduce the risk of injury. The program is part of the company's investment of more than $300 million into safety projects in 2021, and its mission to be Earth's Safest Place to Work. There are a number of components of WorkingWell, each of which was developed in collaboration with employees from within Amazon operations. Aspects of WorkingWell piloted in the U.S. in 2019, and the program has since expanded to 859,000 employees at 350 sites in North America and Europe. By the end of 2021, WorkingWell will expand further to cover all of Amazon's operations network in the U.S. with the aim of cutting recordable incident rates by 50 percent by 2025. The health and safety of employees is Amazon's number one priority and has been since day one. The company works closely with health and safety experts and scientists, conducts thousands of safety inspections each day in its buildings, and has made hundreds of changes based on employee feedback to improve their well-being at work, including development of the WorkingWell program. "Amazon takes our safety very seriously, and my managers have made it clear to me it's more important than anything, even productivity and quality," said Jeffrey Ku, operations employee at an Amazon fulfillment center in Aurora, CO. "WorkingWell is an extension of that—it makes sure we're taking care of our minds and bodies. It encourages us to make positive changes to how we work, and since I started watching the program's health and safety videos, I've incorporated a stretching routine into my day." Similar to other jobs of this kind, about 40 percent of work-related injuries at Amazon are musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) which include sprains or strains caused by repetitive motions, and they're more likely to occur among newer employees, many of whom might be working in a physical role for the first time. Pilots of the WorkingWell program have reduced these injuries, and have had a positive impact on regular day-to-day activities for employees outside of work. In fact, this program—along with other company initiatives focused on early MSD prevention—helped decrease MSD-related injuries by 32 percent from 2019 to 2020. "Amazon has identified some innovative technologies and approaches to address employee well-being and the implementation of training and wellness programs in their facilities," says Jennifer McNelly, American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) CEO. "The occupational safety and health community thrives on sharing innovations, best practices and lessons learned. We look forward to Amazon continuing to share ideas and information about these new methods and approaches to improve workplace safety in the United States and globally." WorkingWell is a comprehensive program with a number of components covering training and conditioning, wellness services, and technology, including the following: Scientifically proven health and safety education and exercises Health & Safety Huddles: Daily opportunities to engage employees on strong body mechanics, wellness topics, and ongoing safety education. Operations leaders and small groups of socially distanced employees gather near work stations and watch short interactive videos on rotating topics created by health and safety professionals and injury prevention specialists. Topics rotate on a monthly basis and range from gripping and handling, pushing and pulling, nutrition, and more. In the last year during its pilot phase, Health & Safety Huddles contributed to reducing MSD-related injuries and received nearly 90 percent positive feedback from surveyed employees. Wellness Zones: Provides employees with voluntary stretching and muscle recovery via easily accessible, dedicated spaces within Amazon's operations buildings. These areas incorporate interactive videos and written information to help employees proactively improve their health and wellness in areas like body mechanics, wellness topics like best practices in stretching, ongoing safety education, and more. AmaZen: Guides employees through mindfulness practices in individual interactive kiosks at buildings. During shifts employees can visit AmaZen stations and watch short videos featuring easy-to-follow wellbeing activities, including guided meditations, positive affirmations, calming scenes with sounds, and more. Employees like Katie Miller from an Amazon fulfillment center in Etna, OH, say the pilot program has been helpful. She shared, "Self-care is important, and AmaZen gives me an opportunity to take time for myself to just pause and regroup which helps me be better at work. When I take that time, I come back to work more focused, and it has a lasting effect on the rest of my day." Comprehensive and critical health and wellness services Wellness Centers: Amazon-staffed spaces dedicated to preventing injuries and illness through preventative self-care, health and safety education, as well as first-aid treatment in case of injury. First aid trained onsite medical representatives and certified athletic trainers called Injury Prevention Specialists bring diverse backgrounds to these Centers to deliver quality onsite safety and wellness care to operations employees. EatWell:Developed to support the overall nutritional health and wellbeing of employees by promoting healthy eating and increasing the availability of healthier options. In onsite breakrooms, signage is displayed to highlight healthy choices such as fruit, granola bars, and vegetable snack packs. Through this program, the company has also increased the selection of healthier options available to employees in site breakrooms. In its initial pilot, EatWell has increased awareness of healthy eating by 60 percent and has helped over 50 percent of surveyed employees make healthier choices. Neighborhood Health Centers:Offers Amazon employees and their families quality, convenient, and affordable healthcare within 10 miles of where they work and live. In partnership with Crossover Health, these Centers provide access to comprehensive primary care services to help members be well and stay well. With a focus on acute, chronic, and preventive primary care health needs, a wide range of services are offered at these Centers. Examples include prescription medication services, vaccinations, mental health, physical therapy, health coaching for conditions like diabetes and hypertension, and care navigation to specialty referral services, as well as same-day pediatric services. Since the initial rollout of 17 sites across five cities in the U.S., patients have reported over 90 percent satisfaction, and over 85 percent of Amazon employees consider Neighborhood Health Centers their single place for healthcare. Using technology to connect with employees in buildings, and at home Mind & Body Moments:Hourly prompts employees receive at their workstations guiding them through a series of scientifically proven physical and mental activities to help recharge and reenergize, and ultimately reduce the risk of injury. These activities, designed to reduce muscle and mental fatigue, range from various stretching recommendations, breathing exercises, and mental reflections. Since piloting this program in select sites, employees have shared that these moments have improved their physical and mental wellbeing while at work. By the end of the year, Mind & Body Moments will evolve to more personalized prompts. Connect & Comment Kiosks:Gathers employee feedback to help drive improvements to current WorkingWell components and ideate on future offerings. These kiosks also give employees an onsite location to access wellness services and content, connecting them with hundreds of pieces of content including health and safety training, wellness tips, information on Wellness Centers, and Mind & Body Moments. WorkingWell Mobile App:Will soon provide at-home access to all of the onsite safety, health and wellness offerings in Amazon buildings including AmaZen, EatWell, Mind & Body Moments. The Working Well Mobile App offers employees a digital library to help facilitate proactive wellness behaviors like stretching and muscle recovery, mindfulness exercises, and body mechanics coaching. WorkingWell was developed by employees who care deeply about their co-workers and are dedicated to promoting workplace health and safety. The WorkingWell team will continue to elicit feedback and ideas from employees, and use the science of safety to solve problems and establish new industry best practices in its relentless pursuit to support employees and keep them healthy and safe every day. To learn more from the employees who helped develop WorkingWell and its components, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/meet-employees-behind-amazons-new-health-and-wellness-program. To download b-roll video and high-resolution images of WorkingWell, visit: https://press.aboutamazon.com/images-videos. 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/20210517005300/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p>Part of the company's mission to be Earth's Safest Place to Work, and its investment of over $300 million into safety projects in 2021, WorkingWell will help prevent injuries, provide wellness services, and offer quality healthcare for employees while at work and at home</p><p>Program components will roll out to all Amazon operations sites in the U.S. by end of year with the aim of cutting recordable incident rates by 50 percent by 2025</p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2021-- Today Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced the launch of WorkingWell, a new comprehensive program providing employees with physical and mental activities, wellness exercises, and healthy eating support that are scientifically proven to help them recharge and reenergize, and ultimately reduce the risk of injury. The program is part of the company's investment of more than $300 million into safety projects in 2021, and its mission to be Earth's Safest Place to Work. There are a number of components of WorkingWell, each of which was developed in collaboration with employees from within Amazon operations. Aspects of WorkingWell piloted in the U.S. in 2019, and the program has since expanded to 859,000 employees at 350 sites in North America and Europe. By the end of 2021, WorkingWell will expand further to cover all of Amazon's operations network in the U.S. with the aim of cutting recordable incident rates by 50 percent by 2025.</p><p>The health and safety of employees is Amazon's number one priority and has been since day one. The company works closely with health and safety experts and scientists, conducts thousands of safety inspections each day in its buildings, and has made hundreds of changes based on employee feedback to improve their well-being at work, including development of the WorkingWell program.</p><p>"Amazon takes our safety very seriously, and my managers have made it clear to me it's more important than anything, even productivity and quality," said Jeffrey Ku, operations employee at an Amazon fulfillment center in Aurora, CO. "WorkingWell is an extension of that—it makes sure we're taking care of our minds and bodies. It encourages us to make positive changes to how we work, and since I started watching the program's health and safety videos, I've incorporated a stretching routine into my day."</p><p>Similar to other jobs of this kind, about 40 percent of work-related injuries at Amazon are musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) which include sprains or strains caused by repetitive motions, and they're more likely to occur among newer employees, many of whom might be working in a physical role for the first time. Pilots of the WorkingWell program have reduced these injuries, and have had a positive impact on regular day-to-day activities for employees outside of work. In fact, this program—along with other company initiatives focused on early MSD prevention—helped decrease MSD-related injuries by 32 percent from 2019 to 2020.</p><p>"Amazon has identified some innovative technologies and approaches to address employee well-being and the implementation of training and wellness programs in their facilities," says Jennifer McNelly, American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) CEO. "The occupational safety and health community thrives on sharing innovations, best practices and lessons learned. We look forward to Amazon continuing to share ideas and information about these new methods and approaches to improve workplace safety in the United States and globally."</p><p>WorkingWell is a comprehensive program with a number of components covering training and conditioning, wellness services, and technology, including the following:</p><p>Scientifically proven health and safety education and exercises</p><p>Health &amp; Safety Huddles: Daily opportunities to engage employees on strong body mechanics, wellness topics, and ongoing safety education. Operations leaders and small groups of socially distanced employees gather near work stations and watch short interactive videos on rotating topics created by health and safety professionals and injury prevention specialists. Topics rotate on a monthly basis and range from gripping and handling, pushing and pulling, nutrition, and more. In the last year during its pilot phase, Health &amp; Safety Huddles contributed to reducing MSD-related injuries and received nearly 90 percent positive feedback from surveyed employees.</p><p>Wellness Zones: Provides employees with voluntary stretching and muscle recovery via easily accessible, dedicated spaces within Amazon's operations buildings. These areas incorporate interactive videos and written information to help employees proactively improve their health and wellness in areas like body mechanics, wellness topics like best practices in stretching, ongoing safety education, and more.</p><p>AmaZen: Guides employees through mindfulness practices in individual interactive kiosks at buildings. During shifts employees can visit AmaZen stations and watch short videos featuring easy-to-follow wellbeing activities, including guided meditations, positive affirmations, calming scenes with sounds, and more. Employees like Katie Miller from an Amazon fulfillment center in Etna, OH, say the pilot program has been helpful. She shared, "Self-care is important, and AmaZen gives me an opportunity to take time for myself to just pause and regroup which helps me be better at work. When I take that time, I come back to work more focused, and it has a lasting effect on the rest of my day."</p><p>Comprehensive and critical health and wellness services</p><p>Wellness Centers: Amazon-staffed spaces dedicated to preventing injuries and illness through preventative self-care, health and safety education, as well as first-aid treatment in case of injury. First aid trained onsite medical representatives and certified athletic trainers called Injury Prevention Specialists bring diverse backgrounds to these Centers to deliver quality onsite safety and wellness care to operations employees.</p><p>EatWell:Developed to support the overall nutritional health and wellbeing of employees by promoting healthy eating and increasing the availability of healthier options. In onsite breakrooms, signage is displayed to highlight healthy choices such as fruit, granola bars, and vegetable snack packs. Through this program, the company has also increased the selection of healthier options available to employees in site breakrooms. In its initial pilot, EatWell has increased awareness of healthy eating by 60 percent and has helped over 50 percent of surveyed employees make healthier choices.</p><p>Neighborhood Health Centers:Offers Amazon employees and their families quality, convenient, and affordable healthcare within 10 miles of where they work and live. In partnership with Crossover Health, these Centers provide access to comprehensive primary care services to help members be well and stay well. With a focus on acute, chronic, and preventive primary care health needs, a wide range of services are offered at these Centers. Examples include prescription medication services, vaccinations, mental health, physical therapy, health coaching for conditions like diabetes and hypertension, and care navigation to specialty referral services, as well as same-day pediatric services. Since the initial rollout of 17 sites across five cities in the U.S., patients have reported over 90 percent satisfaction, and over 85 percent of Amazon employees consider Neighborhood Health Centers their single place for healthcare.</p><p>Using technology to connect with employees in buildings, and at home</p><p>Mind &amp; Body Moments:Hourly prompts employees receive at their workstations guiding them through a series of scientifically proven physical and mental activities to help recharge and reenergize, and ultimately reduce the risk of injury. These activities, designed to reduce muscle and mental fatigue, range from various stretching recommendations, breathing exercises, and mental reflections. Since piloting this program in select sites, employees have shared that these moments have improved their physical and mental wellbeing while at work. By the end of the year, Mind &amp; Body Moments will evolve to more personalized prompts.</p><p>Connect &amp; Comment Kiosks:Gathers employee feedback to help drive improvements to current WorkingWell components and ideate on future offerings. These kiosks also give employees an onsite location to access wellness services and content, connecting them with hundreds of pieces of content including health and safety training, wellness tips, information on Wellness Centers, and Mind &amp; Body Moments.</p><p>WorkingWell Mobile App:Will soon provide at-home access to all of the onsite safety, health and wellness offerings in Amazon buildings including AmaZen, EatWell, Mind &amp; Body Moments. The Working Well Mobile App offers employees a digital library to help facilitate proactive wellness behaviors like stretching and muscle recovery, mindfulness exercises, and body mechanics coaching.</p><p>WorkingWell was developed by employees who care deeply about their co-workers and are dedicated to promoting workplace health and safety. The WorkingWell team will continue to elicit feedback and ideas from employees, and use the science of safety to solve problems and establish new industry best practices in its relentless pursuit to support employees and keep them healthy and safe every day.</p><p>To learn more from the employees who helped develop WorkingWell and its components, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/meet-employees-behind-amazons-new-health-and-wellness-program.</p><p>To download b-roll video and high-resolution images of WorkingWell, visit: https://press.aboutamazon.com/images-videos.</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/20210517005300/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS and the NHL to Debut Advanced Stats During the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs

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AWS and the NHL to Debut Advanced Stats During the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs

05/14/2021

2021

New stats use advanced AWS capabilities to generate real-time insights from offensive and defensive plays, giving fans a deeper understanding of team and player performance SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the National Hockey League (NHL) announced they will debut two new advanced analytics during the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs. These new stats powered by AWS will appear as on-screen graphics and data visualizations during NHL games and give fans a better understanding and deeper appreciation of how their favorite players and teams perform during crucial moments. The first two stats, shot analytics and save analytics, will debut on Saturday, May 15, during the first day of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs and be used throughout the 2021-22 season. For more information about AWS and its involvement with the world's premier professional hockey league, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/sports/nhl/. The new stats, powered by AWS, use cloud technologies such as analytics, serverless compute, and media services to gather data from the ice in real time, analyze it, and visualize it for fans as graphics appearing on the broadcast. The NHL stats will illustrate player effectiveness on offense, a goaltender's success during different phases of the game, and the evolution of player performance over the course of a game in creating or blocking shot opportunities under different game scenarios. This new level of insight will help generate additional excitement during key moments of games by highlighting just how difficult certain plays can be. To build the new stats, the NHL and AWS drew from more than 10 years' worth of data from the NHL's Hockey Information and Tracking System (HITS), the League's official system for recording game-time statistics. Leveraging AWS, the NHL will be able to combine this historical data with real-time game activity to give fans a new and unparalleled perspective on team and player performance. Shot analytics: Hockey is a fast-moving and fluid game. Opportunities to shoot and score can emerge suddenly as game strategies change based on a variety of situational factors. With shot analytics, fans will be able to see and truly appreciate how shot opportunities are created and converted into goals from different locations on the ice. Shot analytics will showcase the teams and players that have the highest shot-to-goal conversion rates from each area of the rink. It will also visualize how teams and players take advantage of even-strength, power play, and short-handed situations based on the number of shots and goals they attempt and score in each scenario. Shot analytics will allow fans to dive deep into team and player performance for a single game or across a season, giving them previously unavailable insights into their favorite teams and players. Save analytics: Hockey goaltenders face the daunting task of protecting their net against a puck that is only three inches in diameter but can be shot at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. To do so, they use only their bodies, pads, and equipment. Save analytics will calculate and visualize goaltenders' save percentages and the volume of shots they stop from each zone on the rink to help fans better understand and appreciate the pressure goaltenders face in a game. The NHL will use the stat to display how goaltenders perform against different team strength conditions—such as when they're missing a defender during an opposing team's power play—and during different game phases or events, such as a breakaway by the opponent or in a shootout. In addition, save analytics will illustrate goaltenders' success in making saves with their sticks, their gloves, or other pads, equipment, and body parts—and how these results vary based on where shots originate. Together, the shot analytics and save analytics graphics will enhance the broadcast viewing experience for fans by delivering information that will deepen their understanding of team and player performance. In addition, the stats will allow the NHL and its broadcast partners to add color to their live game analysis and commentary by quickly delivering meaningful insights about shots, goals, and saves. "NHL fans are extremely tech savvy. They love the speed and skill of the sport and they crave more opportunities to understand and engage with the game and the players, and therefore, it's important for us to use our data to deliver as many insights as possible," said Dave Lehanski, Executive Vice President, NHL Business Development and Innovation. "AWS is the perfect partner for the NHL, helping us to aggregate our rich historical content and deliver real-time advanced analytics that will continue to transform the fan experience. The delivery of these stats will unlock opportunities for fans, along with players, coaches, and broadcasters, to see the game in new ways and to gain a deeper understanding of the strategic decisions made during a game." "We announced our partnership with the NHL earlier this year and already it's bearing fruit with these advanced statistics for the Stanley Cup Playoffs," said Rachel Thornton, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Working with the world's leading sports leagues, we know that their fans love to dive deep into stats about their favorite players and teams. Hockey moves quickly, and hockey fans are hungry for greater insights into the game. Together, AWS and the NHL are providing audiences around the world the real-time context they need to better appreciate the tension and skill behind every play." These advanced analytics are the result of the new partnership announced in February 2021 when AWS was named the Official Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Infrastructure Provider of the NHL. The NHL is also relying on AWS to automate and improve game video processing and content delivery. This work is part of the recently announced AWS for Media & Entertainment (M&E) initiative that aligns the most purpose-built capabilities of any cloud—including nine AWS Services, 11 AWS Solutions, dedicated AWS appliances, and more than 400 AWS Partners—within five solution areas to help customers transform M&E: Content Production; Media Supply Chain & Archive; Broadcast; Direct-to-Consumer & Streaming; and Data Science & Analytics. AWS for M&E features new and existing services and solutions from AWS and AWS Partners built specifically for content creators, rights holders, producers, broadcasters, and distributors. For more information on AWS for M&E, please visit www.aws.amazon.com/media. For more information on how AWS is powering the world's leading sports organizations, please visit www.aws.amazon.com/sports. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. About the NHL The National Hockey League (NHL®), founded in 1917, consists of 31 Member Clubs and proudly welcomes its 32nd franchise, the Seattle Kraken™, for the 2021-22 season. Each team roster reflects the League's international makeup with players from more than 20 countries represented, all vying for the most cherished and historic trophy in professional sports – the Stanley Cup®. Every year, the NHL entertains more than 670 million fans in-arena and through its partners on national television and radio; more than 151 million followers - league, team and player accounts combined - across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube; and more than 100 million fans online at NHL.com. The League broadcasts games in more than 160 countries and territories through its rightsholders including NBC/NBCSN and the NHL Network™ in the U.S., Sportsnet and TVA in Canada, Viaplay in the Nordic Region and CCTV and Tencent in China. The NHL reaches fans worldwide with games available online in every country including via its live and on-demand streaming service NHL.TV™. Fans are engaged across the League's digital assets on mobile devices via the free NHL® App; across nine social media platforms; on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio™; and on NHL.com, available in eight languages and featuring unprecedented access to player and team statistics as well as every regular-season and playoff game box score dating back to the League's inception, powered by SAP. The NHL is committed to building healthy and vibrant communities through the sport of hockey by increasing youth participation and engagement; fostering positive family experiences; promoting inclusion, positive culture and leadership; and supporting sustainable community impact. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210513005820/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New stats use advanced AWS capabilities to generate real-time insights from offensive and defensive plays, giving fans a deeper understanding of team and player performance</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the National Hockey League (NHL) announced they will debut two new advanced analytics during the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs. These new stats powered by AWS will appear as on-screen graphics and data visualizations during NHL games and give fans a better understanding and deeper appreciation of how their favorite players and teams perform during crucial moments. The first two stats, shot analytics and save analytics, will debut on Saturday, May 15, during the first day of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs and be used throughout the 2021-22 season. For more information about AWS and its involvement with the world's premier professional hockey league, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/sports/nhl/.</p><p>The new stats, powered by AWS, use cloud technologies such as analytics, serverless compute, and media services to gather data from the ice in real time, analyze it, and visualize it for fans as graphics appearing on the broadcast. The NHL stats will illustrate player effectiveness on offense, a goaltender's success during different phases of the game, and the evolution of player performance over the course of a game in creating or blocking shot opportunities under different game scenarios. This new level of insight will help generate additional excitement during key moments of games by highlighting just how difficult certain plays can be. To build the new stats, the NHL and AWS drew from more than 10 years' worth of data from the NHL's Hockey Information and Tracking System (HITS), the League's official system for recording game-time statistics. Leveraging AWS, the NHL will be able to combine this historical data with real-time game activity to give fans a new and unparalleled perspective on team and player performance.</p><ul><li>Shot analytics: Hockey is a fast-moving and fluid game. Opportunities to shoot and score can emerge suddenly as game strategies change based on a variety of situational factors. With shot analytics, fans will be able to see and truly appreciate how shot opportunities are created and converted into goals from different locations on the ice. Shot analytics will showcase the teams and players that have the highest shot-to-goal conversion rates from each area of the rink. It will also visualize how teams and players take advantage of even-strength, power play, and short-handed situations based on the number of shots and goals they attempt and score in each scenario. Shot analytics will allow fans to dive deep into team and player performance for a single game or across a season, giving them previously unavailable insights into their favorite teams and players.</li></ul><ul><li>Save analytics: Hockey goaltenders face the daunting task of protecting their net against a puck that is only three inches in diameter but can be shot at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. To do so, they use only their bodies, pads, and equipment. Save analytics will calculate and visualize goaltenders' save percentages and the volume of shots they stop from each zone on the rink to help fans better understand and appreciate the pressure goaltenders face in a game. The NHL will use the stat to display how goaltenders perform against different team strength conditions—such as when they're missing a defender during an opposing team's power play—and during different game phases or events, such as a breakaway by the opponent or in a shootout. In addition, save analytics will illustrate goaltenders' success in making saves with their sticks, their gloves, or other pads, equipment, and body parts—and how these results vary based on where shots originate.</li></ul><p>Together, the shot analytics and save analytics graphics will enhance the broadcast viewing experience for fans by delivering information that will deepen their understanding of team and player performance. In addition, the stats will allow the NHL and its broadcast partners to add color to their live game analysis and commentary by quickly delivering meaningful insights about shots, goals, and saves.</p><p>"NHL fans are extremely tech savvy. They love the speed and skill of the sport and they crave more opportunities to understand and engage with the game and the players, and therefore, it's important for us to use our data to deliver as many insights as possible," said Dave Lehanski, Executive Vice President, NHL Business Development and Innovation. "AWS is the perfect partner for the NHL, helping us to aggregate our rich historical content and deliver real-time advanced analytics that will continue to transform the fan experience. The delivery of these stats will unlock opportunities for fans, along with players, coaches, and broadcasters, to see the game in new ways and to gain a deeper understanding of the strategic decisions made during a game."</p><p>"We announced our partnership with the NHL earlier this year and already it's bearing fruit with these advanced statistics for the Stanley Cup Playoffs," said Rachel Thornton, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Working with the world's leading sports leagues, we know that their fans love to dive deep into stats about their favorite players and teams. Hockey moves quickly, and hockey fans are hungry for greater insights into the game. Together, AWS and the NHL are providing audiences around the world the real-time context they need to better appreciate the tension and skill behind every play."</p><p>These advanced analytics are the result of the new partnership announced in February 2021 when AWS was named the Official Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Infrastructure Provider of the NHL. The NHL is also relying on AWS to automate and improve game video processing and content delivery.</p><p>This work is part of the recently announced AWS for Media &amp; Entertainment (M&amp;E) initiative that aligns the most purpose-built capabilities of any cloud—including nine AWS Services, 11 AWS Solutions, dedicated AWS appliances, and more than 400 AWS Partners—within five solution areas to help customers transform M&amp;E: Content Production; Media Supply Chain &amp; Archive; Broadcast; Direct-to-Consumer &amp; Streaming; and Data Science &amp; Analytics. AWS for M&amp;E features new and existing services and solutions from AWS and AWS Partners built specifically for content creators, rights holders, producers, broadcasters, and distributors. For more information on AWS for M&amp;E, please visit www.aws.amazon.com/media. For more information on how AWS is powering the world's leading sports organizations, please visit www.aws.amazon.com/sports.</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 platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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>About the NHL</p><p>The National Hockey League (NHL®), founded in 1917, consists of 31 Member Clubs and proudly welcomes its 32nd franchise, the Seattle Kraken™, for the 2021-22 season. Each team roster reflects the League's international makeup with players from more than 20 countries represented, all vying for the most cherished and historic trophy in professional sports – the Stanley Cup®. Every year, the NHL entertains more than 670 million fans in-arena and through its partners on national television and radio; more than 151 million followers - league, team and player accounts combined - across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube; and more than 100 million fans online at NHL.com. The League broadcasts games in more than 160 countries and territories through its rightsholders including NBC/NBCSN and the NHL Network™ in the U.S., Sportsnet and TVA in Canada, Viaplay in the Nordic Region and CCTV and Tencent in China. The NHL reaches fans worldwide with games available online in every country including via its live and on-demand streaming service NHL.TV™. Fans are engaged across the League's digital assets on mobile devices via the free NHL® App; across nine social media platforms; on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio™; and on NHL.com, available in eight languages and featuring unprecedented access to player and team statistics as well as every regular-season and playoff game box score dating back to the League's inception, powered by SAP. The NHL is committed to building healthy and vibrant communities through the sport of hockey by increasing youth participation and engagement; fostering positive family experiences; promoting inclusion, positive culture and leadership; and supporting sustainable community impact.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210513005820/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Hiring 75,000 Employees Across Fulfillment and Transportation, With Average Starting Pay of Over $17 Per Hour and Sign-On Bonuses of Up To $1,000

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Amazon Hiring 75,000 Employees Across Fulfillment and Transportation, With Average Starting Pay of Over $17 Per Hour and Sign-On Bonuses of Up To $1,000

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New hires who show proof of their COVID-19 vaccination receive an additional $100 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that it is hiring 75,000 people in its fulfillment and logistics network across the U.S. and Canada as it continues to expand its footprint and serve customers. Amazon recently announced pay increases across its fulfillment and transportation networks, and these open roles offer an average starting pay of over $17 per hour, plus sign-on bonuses in many locations of up to $1,000. In addition, the company offers full-time employees industry-leading benefits, which include health, vision, and dental insurance, 401(k) with 50% company match, paid parental leave, and access to various company-funded upskilling opportunities, includingAmazon's innovative Career Choice program, which prepays 95% of tuition for courses in high-demand fields. "We look forward to hiring 75,000 associates across our fulfillment and transportation network," said Alicia Boler Davis, Vice President of Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon. "Working at Amazon also comes with an unwavering commitment to safety, especially as we continue to navigate a global pandemic. In addition to the great pay and robust benefits available to new hires starting on their first day, we're offering a $100 benefit to new hires who come to Amazon already vaccinated for COVID-19." Creating well-paying jobs, offering great benefits, and ensuring employee health and safety are Amazon's top priorities. In late March, the company began rolling out on-site vaccination events at fulfillment centers in Missouri, Nevada, and Kansas. The program has now expanded to more than 250 locations across the U.S. and Canada and offers more than half a million front-line employees, contractors, and partners access to the COVID-19 vaccine. In many locations, Amazon has also partnered with local authorities to expand its vaccination program to employees' families as part of its commitment to employee safety—both in the workplace and at home. The on-site vaccine initiative is in addition to Amazon's in-house COVID-19 testing program, which continues to provide front-line employees with access to voluntary, free testing across more than 800 sites globally. Hiring for the 75,000 roles is already underway. Interested candidates can visit amazon.com/apply to learn more, see where jobs are available, and apply.The locations with the most open roles include Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin. 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/20210513005366/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>New hires who show proof of their COVID-19 vaccination receive an additional $100</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that it is hiring 75,000 people in its fulfillment and logistics network across the U.S. and Canada as it continues to expand its footprint and serve customers. Amazon recently announced pay increases across its fulfillment and transportation networks, and these open roles offer an average starting pay of over $17 per hour, plus sign-on bonuses in many locations of up to $1,000. In addition, the company offers full-time employees industry-leading benefits, which include health, vision, and dental insurance, 401(k) with 50% company match, paid parental leave, and access to various company-funded upskilling opportunities<em>, </em>includingAmazon's innovative Career Choice program, which prepays 95% of tuition for courses in high-demand fields.</p><p>"We look forward to hiring 75,000 associates across our fulfillment and transportation network," said Alicia Boler Davis, Vice President of Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon. "Working at Amazon also comes with an unwavering commitment to safety, especially as we continue to navigate a global pandemic. In addition to the great pay and robust benefits available to new hires starting on their first day, we're offering a $100 benefit to new hires who come to Amazon already vaccinated for COVID-19."</p><p>Creating well-paying jobs, offering great benefits, and ensuring employee health and safety are Amazon's top priorities. In late March, the company began rolling out on-site vaccination events at fulfillment centers in Missouri, Nevada, and Kansas. The program has now expanded to more than 250 locations across the U.S. and Canada and offers more than half a million front-line employees, contractors, and partners access to the COVID-19 vaccine. In many locations, Amazon has also partnered with local authorities to expand its vaccination program to employees' families as part of its commitment to employee safety—both in the workplace and at home. The on-site vaccine initiative is in addition to Amazon's in-house COVID-19 testing program, which continues to provide front-line employees with access to voluntary, free testing across more than 800 sites globally.</p><p>Hiring for the 75,000 roles is already underway. Interested candidates can visit amazon.com/apply to learn more, see where jobs are available, and apply.The locations with the most open roles include Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin.</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/20210513005366/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Introduces Upgraded Echo Show 8, Echo Show 5, and the All-New Echo Show 5 Kids

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Amazon Introduces Upgraded Echo Show 8, Echo Show 5, and the All-New Echo Show 5 Kids

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Echo Show 8 features a powerful 13-megapixel wide-angle camera that digitally pans and zooms during video calls, a vibrant 8-inch HD screen with adaptive color, a new octa-core processor, and dual stereo speakers—still only $129.99 Echo Show 5 comes with an upgraded HD camera, more color options, and a new, even lower price—now just $84.99  All-new Echo Show 5 Kids offers all the things parents love about Alexa—parental controls, curated content, a worry-free guarantee, plus a colorful new design—for just $94.99 Alexa can now show you even more—securely access the built-in camera to remotely monitor your home, see on-screen music recommendations from Amazon Music and Spotify, add reactions to video calls, check your workout history, watch Prime Video, Netflix, and more SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today introduced its newest Echo Show devices—the new Echo Show 8, Echo Show 5, and the first Echo Show 5 Kids. Echo Show is the fastest-growing family of Echo devices, and the new models feature more powerful cameras for better video calling, alongside new ways to enhance your Alexa experience. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210512005595/en/ All-new Amazon Echo Show 8 (Photo: Business Wire) "Customers love using Echo Show to stay in touch and in the past year have made nearly three times the number of video calls than the year prior," said Tom Taylor, Senior Vice President, Amazon Alexa. "With these new Echo Show devices, we focused on communications—bringing a powerful camera and digital pan and zoom capabilities to the new Echo Show 8, upgrading the Echo Show 5 camera, and adding new AR effects to make video calls more fun and engaging." Echo Show 8—Featuring a 13-megapixel, wide-angle camera that keeps you centered in frame—still just $129.99  The new Echo Show 8 has a vibrant 8-inch HD, adaptive color display; a powerful 13-megapixel camera with a built-in camera shutter; a new octa-core processor; and dual stereo speakers for clear, balanced sound. The upgraded camera automatically pans and zooms while you're on video calls, so everyone stays centered in the frame. Just ask to make video calls via Alexa or say, "Alexa, call my family" to join a group call with multiple people. To add some fun to an Alexa call, soon you'll be able to simply tap on the screen to choose from animated visual and audio in-call reactions, like hearts, laughs, or confetti. You will also be able to turn on in-call Augmented Reality (AR) effects, so you can appear in street art, a classic painting, and more. Support for Zoom also means you can quickly join meetings with coworkers, friends, and family by just saying, "Alexa, join my Zoom meeting." With dual stereo speakers and an HD display, Echo Show 8 delivers an immersive entertainment experience. Simply ask to browse TV series or movies from Prime Video, Netflix, and Hulu, or ask Alexa to play your favorite music from Amazon Music, Apple Music, or Spotify. Alexa will also now show you music playlists or station recommendations based on the Amazon Music or Spotify song playing, making it easier to discover your next favorite artist or song. Echo Show 8 also offers even more ways to personalize your experience. With the new shared home screen, approved family and friends can share recent photos with you, and they'll appear right on screen so you never miss an important moment. Plus, if you're a Prime member, you have unlimited, full-resolution cloud photo storage with Amazon Photos—and the adaptive color display on Echo Show 8 makes your photos look great in any light. Echo Show 5—Compact design, improved camera, even more colors—now only $84.99  With its compact, 5.5-inch display, Echo Show 5 fits easily in any room of your house, and with three colors to choose from—Charcoal, Glacier White, and the new Deep Sea Blue—it seamlessly blends into your décor. You can ease into the day with a Sunrise Routine that turns your lights on gradually, plays the news, and shows you the weather for the day. You can also catch up on video highlights from your favorite sports team; watch news from NPR, CNN, ABC, and more; or, after working out with your Echo Buds, say, "Alexa, show my workout history" to see how many calories you burned, the distance you ran, or the duration of your workout. Echo Show 5 has an upgraded HD camera with double the pixels, making it perfect for a quick video call or to Drop In on the kitchen to see if dinner is ready. You can also securely access the built-in camera on Echo Show through the Alexa app to check in on home if you're out of town, or just to see if the dog is on the couch. Alexa is getting even more proactive. Now, set up a Routine to turn on the lights as soon as you walk into a room in the morning to start your day. Or, to conserve energy, you can create a Routine to have Alexa power off your Fire TV if you left it on after going to bed. Soon, you can also set Alexa to recognize certain sounds—like a baby crying, dog barking, person coughing or snoring—and automate a series of actions. For example, you can create a Routine that gradually turns on your bedroom light when Alexa detects the sound of a baby crying or turns up white noise when your partner snores at night. Echo Show 5 Kids—Built for kids to be entertained, learn, and stay connected—just $94.99 The all-new Echo Show 5 Kids comes in a new and fun design that fits into the coolest of kids' rooms. Kids can easily personalize the home screen of their device with colorful, kid-friendly clock themes; ask Alexa for homework help; make video calls to pre-approved contacts; and set alarms to wake up to the voice of their favorite characters. Amazon Kids+ also offers thousands of hours of premium entertainment and educational content—listen to Audible books, have dance parties to your favorite music, learn while having fun with skills like Lemonade Stand and Name that Animal, and more. Echo Show 5 Kids includes a 1-year subscription to Amazon Kids+ and a 2-year worry-free guarantee—if it breaks, return it, and Amazon will replace it for free. Built with Privacy in Mind Echo Show devices are designed with multiple layers of privacy protection, including microphone and camera controls and the ability to view and delete your voice recordings. All new generation devices come with built-in shutters to cover the camera. To learn more about the features that provide transparency and control over your Alexa experience, visit the Alexa Privacy Hub: http://www.amazon.com/alexaprivacy. Pricing & Availability Echo Show 8 ($129.99) is available in Charcoal and Glacier White; Echo Show 5 ($84.99) is available in Charcoal, Glacier White, and Deep Sea Blue; and Echo Show 5 Kids ($94.99) is available in Chameleon. Amazon Kids+ subscriptions on Echo Show 5 Kids start at $2.99 per month for Prime members after the first year. We focused on minimizing the impact of our new Echo Show devices on the environment by using 100% post-consumer recycled fabric. All of the devices announced today will receive the Climate Pledge Friendly badge on Amazon.com, as part of a program that makes it easier for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products. Pre-orders start today and devices will begin shipping next month. To learn more, visit: www.amazon.com/echodevices. 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>Echo Show 8 features a powerful 13-megapixel wide-angle camera that digitally pans and zooms during video calls, a vibrant 8-inch HD screen with adaptive color, a new octa-core processor, and dual stereo speakers—still only $129.99</em></p><p><em>Echo Show 5 comes with an upgraded HD camera, more color options, and a new, even lower price—now just $84.99 </em></p><p><em>All-new Echo Show 5 Kids offers all the things parents love about Alexa—parental controls, curated content, a worry-free guarantee, plus a colorful new design—for just $94.99</em></p><p><em>Alexa can now show you even more—securely access the built-in camera to remotely monitor your home, see on-screen music recommendations from Amazon Music and Spotify, add reactions to video calls, check your workout history, watch Prime Video, Netflix, and more</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today introduced its newest Echo Show devices—the new Echo Show 8, Echo Show 5, and the first Echo Show 5 Kids. Echo Show is the fastest-growing family of Echo devices, and the new models feature more powerful cameras for better video calling, alongside new ways to enhance your Alexa experience.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210512005595/en/</p><div><p>All-new Amazon Echo Show 8 (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"Customers love using Echo Show to stay in touch and in the past year have made nearly three times the number of video calls than the year prior," said Tom Taylor, Senior Vice President, Amazon Alexa. "With these new Echo Show devices, we focused on communications—bringing a powerful camera and digital pan and zoom capabilities to the new Echo Show 8, upgrading the Echo Show 5 camera, and adding new AR effects to make video calls more fun and engaging."</p><p>Echo Show 8—Featuring a 13-megapixel, wide-angle camera that keeps you centered in frame—still just $129.99 </p><p>The new Echo Show 8 has a vibrant 8-inch HD, adaptive color display; a powerful 13-megapixel camera with a built-in camera shutter; a new octa-core processor; and dual stereo speakers for clear, balanced sound. The upgraded camera automatically pans and zooms while you're on video calls, so everyone stays centered in the frame. Just ask to make video calls via Alexa or say, "<em>Alexa, call my family</em>" to join a group call with multiple people. To add some fun to an Alexa call, soon you'll be able to simply tap on the screen to choose from animated visual and audio in-call reactions, like hearts, laughs, or confetti. You will also be able to turn on in-call Augmented Reality (AR) effects, so you can appear in street art, a classic painting, and more. Support for Zoom also means you can quickly join meetings with coworkers, friends, and family by just saying, "<em>Alexa, join my Zoom meeting</em>."</p><p>With dual stereo speakers and an HD display, Echo Show 8 delivers an immersive entertainment experience. Simply ask to browse TV series or movies from Prime Video, Netflix, and Hulu, or ask Alexa to play your favorite music from Amazon Music, Apple Music, or Spotify. Alexa will also now show you music playlists or station recommendations based on the Amazon Music or Spotify song playing, making it easier to discover your next favorite artist or song.</p><p>Echo Show 8 also offers even more ways to personalize your experience. With the new shared home screen, approved family and friends can share recent photos with you, and they'll appear right on screen so you never miss an important moment. Plus, if you're a Prime member, you have unlimited, full-resolution cloud photo storage with Amazon Photos—and the adaptive color display on Echo Show 8 makes your photos look great in any light.</p><p>Echo Show 5—Compact design, improved camera, even more colors—now only $84.99 </p><p>With its compact, 5.5-inch display, Echo Show 5 fits easily in any room of your house, and with three colors to choose from—Charcoal, Glacier White, and the new Deep Sea Blue—it seamlessly blends into your décor. You can ease into the day with a Sunrise Routine that turns your lights on gradually, plays the news, and shows you the weather for the day. You can also catch up on video highlights from your favorite sports team; watch news from NPR, CNN, ABC, and more; or, after working out with your Echo Buds, say, <em>"Alexa, show my workout history"</em> to see how many calories you burned, the distance you ran, or the duration of your workout.</p><p>Echo Show 5 has an upgraded HD camera with double the pixels, making it perfect for a quick video call or to Drop In on the kitchen to see if dinner is ready. You can also securely access the built-in camera on Echo Show through the Alexa app to check in on home if you're out of town, or just to see if the dog is on the couch.</p><p>Alexa is getting even more proactive. Now, set up a Routine to turn on the lights as soon as you walk into a room in the morning to start your day. Or, to conserve energy, you can create a Routine to have Alexa power off your Fire TV if you left it on after going to bed. Soon, you can also set Alexa to recognize certain sounds—like a baby crying, dog barking, person coughing or snoring—and automate a series of actions. For example, you can create a Routine that gradually turns on your bedroom light when Alexa detects the sound of a baby crying or turns up white noise when your partner snores at night.</p><p>Echo Show 5 Kids—Built for kids to be entertained, learn, and stay connected—just $94.99</p><p>The all-new Echo Show 5 Kids comes in a new and fun design that fits into the coolest of kids' rooms. Kids can easily personalize the home screen of their device with colorful, kid-friendly clock themes; ask Alexa for homework help; make video calls to pre-approved contacts; and set alarms to wake up to the voice of their favorite characters. Amazon Kids+ also offers thousands of hours of premium entertainment and educational content—listen to Audible books, have dance parties to your favorite music, learn while having fun with skills like <em>Lemonade Stand</em> and <em>Name that Animal</em>, and more. Echo Show 5 Kids includes a 1-year subscription to Amazon Kids+ and a 2-year worry-free guarantee—if it breaks, return it, and Amazon will replace it for free.</p><p>Built with Privacy in Mind</p><p>Echo Show devices are designed with multiple layers of privacy protection, including microphone and camera controls and the ability to view and delete your voice recordings. All new generation devices come with built-in shutters to cover the camera. To learn more about the features that provide transparency and control over your Alexa experience, visit the Alexa Privacy Hub: http://www.amazon.com/alexaprivacy.</p><p>Pricing &amp; Availability</p><p>Echo Show 8 ($129.99) is available in Charcoal and Glacier White; Echo Show 5 ($84.99) is available in Charcoal, Glacier White, and Deep Sea Blue; and Echo Show 5 Kids ($94.99) is available in Chameleon. Amazon Kids+ subscriptions on Echo Show 5 Kids start at $2.99 per month for Prime members after the first year. We focused on minimizing the impact of our new Echo Show devices on the environment by using 100% post-consumer recycled fabric. All of the devices announced today will receive the Climate Pledge Friendly badge on Amazon.com, as part of a program that makes it easier for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products.</p><p>Pre-orders start today and devices will begin shipping next month. To learn more, visit: www.amazon.com/echodevices.</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/20210512005595/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Announces Lawsuit to Combat Fraudulent Affiliate Marketing Schemes

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05/11/2021 16:51:00

Amazon Announces Lawsuit to Combat Fraudulent Affiliate Marketing Schemes

05/11/2021

2021

Filing accelerates effort to address fake text-message scams SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN): What: Amazon today filed a federal lawsuit in the Western District of Washington against several yet-to-be-named individuals for operating an illegal advertising scheme. The bad actors in question are using Amazon's name in text messages and on fake surveys as part of an affiliate marketing scheme. The suit allows Amazon to expand its investigation and hold the bad actors accountable. This suit is part of the company's growing efforts to protect consumers from schemes that fraudulently use Amazon's name. Bad actors in these schemes profit by creating fraudulent text message campaigns that drive traffic to advertisers and websites. These fake text messages are intentionally designed to trick unsuspecting consumers to click on a link by using Amazon's name and offering recipients "rewards" or other "gifts." Instead, victims are redirected to a website to take a survey, which also fraudulently uses Amazon's brand and promises a reward for participation. Once participants click for their reward, they are sent on to online marketers, advertisers and websites to buy products or services that have no relation to Amazon. The defendants profit from fees paid to them by affiliate marketing networks and advertisers for the fraudulently created traffic. Amazon invests significant resources to protect customers and its brand, and has a history of identifying and shutting down similar operations. Amazon has already filed five lawsuits against fraudulent affiliate marketing schemes, won multiple injunctions in court to stop the illegal activities, and entered settlements with seven parties in which they agreed to stop their campaigns and pay in excess of $1.5 million in damages. Statement (attributable to Kathy Sheehan, VP, Business Conduct & Ethics, Amazon) "Amazon works hard to build a great, trusted experience for our customers and sellers. These bad actors are misusing our brand to deceive the public and we will hold them accountable. We also want to remind consumers to be vigilant and learn how to recognize the signs of a scam so they are protected, no matter where they shop." Additional Background: Case: 2:21-cv-00627, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington The Better Business Bureau offers simple tips on how to recognized and avoid scams, https://www.bbb.org/article/scams/8767-bbb-tips-10-steps-to-avoid-scams In March 2021, the U.S. District Court of Utah the Federal Trade Commission's filed order against four companies for operating a telemarketing scheme that fraudulently used Amazon Associates' name to offer fake work-from-home opportunities.https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/ftc-obtains-permanent-ban-and-2m-judgment-work-home-scammer In June 2020, Amazon shut down three email based affiliate marketing schemes in Michigan, Colorado, and California.https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes In April 2019, Amazon stopped an Illinois-based affiliate marketer, First Impression Interactive, Inc. and its owners from advertising fake work-from-home jobs with Amazon. As a result of Amazon's efforts, First Impression and its owners are now prohibited from using Amazon's brand in any future marketing.https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/04/10/amazon-work-from-home-job-scam-first-impression-interactive/ View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210511006213/en/ Amazon Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.com Source: Amazon

<p><em>Filing accelerates effort to address fake text-message scams</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN):</p><p>What:</p><p>Amazon today filed a federal lawsuit in the Western District of Washington against several yet-to-be-named individuals for operating an illegal advertising scheme. The bad actors in question are using Amazon's name in text messages and on fake surveys as part of an affiliate marketing scheme. The suit allows Amazon to expand its investigation and hold the bad actors accountable. This suit is part of the company's growing efforts to protect consumers from schemes that fraudulently use Amazon's name.</p><p>Bad actors in these schemes profit by creating fraudulent text message campaigns that drive traffic to advertisers and websites. These fake text messages are intentionally designed to trick unsuspecting consumers to click on a link by using Amazon's name and offering recipients "rewards" or other "gifts."</p><p>Instead, victims are redirected to a website to take a survey, which also fraudulently uses Amazon's brand and promises a reward for participation. Once participants click for their reward, they are sent on to online marketers, advertisers and websites to buy products or services that have no relation to Amazon. The defendants profit from fees paid to them by affiliate marketing networks and advertisers for the fraudulently created traffic.</p><p>Amazon invests significant resources to protect customers and its brand, and has a history of identifying and shutting down similar operations. Amazon has already filed five lawsuits against fraudulent affiliate marketing schemes, won multiple injunctions in court to stop the illegal activities, and entered settlements with seven parties in which they agreed to stop their campaigns and pay in excess of $1.5 million in damages.</p><p>Statement (attributable to Kathy Sheehan, VP, Business Conduct &amp; Ethics, Amazon)</p><p>"Amazon works hard to build a great, trusted experience for our customers and sellers. These bad actors are misusing our brand to deceive the public and we will hold them accountable. We also want to remind consumers to be vigilant and learn how to recognize the signs of a scam so they are protected, no matter where they shop."</p><p>Additional Background:</p><ul><li>Case: 2:21-cv-00627, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington</li><li>The Better Business Bureau offers simple tips on how to recognized and avoid scams, https://www.bbb.org/article/scams/8767-bbb-tips-10-steps-to-avoid-scams</li><li>In March 2021, the U.S. District Court of Utah the Federal Trade Commission's filed order against four companies for operating a telemarketing scheme that fraudulently used Amazon Associates' name to offer fake work-from-home opportunities.https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/ftc-obtains-permanent-ban-and-2m-judgment-work-home-scammer</li><li>In June 2020, Amazon shut down three email based affiliate marketing schemes in Michigan, Colorado, and California.https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes</li><li>In April 2019, Amazon stopped an Illinois-based affiliate marketer, First Impression Interactive, Inc. and its owners from advertising fake work-from-home jobs with Amazon. As a result of Amazon's efforts, First Impression and its owners are now prohibited from using Amazon's brand in any future marketing.https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/04/10/amazon-work-from-home-job-scam-first-impression-interactive/</li></ul><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210511006213/en/</p><p>Amazon Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.com</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Publishes Comprehensive Brand Protection Report Demonstrating Progress Toward Driving Counterfeits to Zero

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05/11/2021 00:01:00

Amazon Publishes Comprehensive Brand Protection Report Demonstrating Progress Toward Driving Counterfeits to Zero

05/11/2021

2021

Only 6% of attempted seller account registrations passed Amazon's robust verification processes and listed products for sale Amazon seized more than 2 million counterfeit products before being sent to a customer and destroyed them so they were not resold elsewhere in the retail supply chain SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today released its 2020 Brand Protection Report which provides a comprehensive view of how it ensures customers shop from authentic products in its stores. Amazon makes significant investments in dedicated teams and industry-leading machine learning technology to proactively protect customers, brands and its selling partners from counterfeiters, and to hold them accountable if they attempt to sell fakes through Amazon. In 2020, Amazon invested more than $700 million and employed more than 10,000 people to protect its stores from fraud and abuse. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210509005050/en/ "Amazon was an important partner for the 1.9 million small and medium businesses that sell in our store during the pandemic. We've helped our selling partners keep their virtual doors open, and despite increased attempts by bad actors, continued to ensure that the vast majority of customers shop with confidence from our broad selection of authentic products," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Customer Trust and Partner Support, Amazon. "Our team's relentless innovation has helped us stop 6 million attempts to create a selling account and more than 10 billion suspect listings as we continue to drive counterfeits to zero." Highlights from the 2020 Brand Protection Report show Amazon's significant innovation and worldwide progress in combatting counterfeits and protecting customers and brands, including: Amazon invested more than $700 million to protect its stores from fraud and abuse. Amazon employed more than 10,000 people to protect its store from fraud and abuse. Amazon's verification processes prevented over 6 million attempts to create selling accounts, stopping bad actors before they published a single product for sale. Only 6% of attempted account registrations passed Amazon's robust verifications processes and listed products for sale. Amazon seized more than 2 million products that were sent to its fulfillment centers and that it detected as counterfeit before being sent to a customer. Amazon destroyed those products to prevent them from being resold elsewhere in the supply chain. Amazon blocked more than 10 billion suspected bad listings before they were published in its stores. Amazon Transparency, a serialization service that protects individual product units, enabled the protection of more than 500 million product units. Fewer than 0.01% of all products sold on Amazon received a counterfeit complaint from customers. Those complaints were then investigated for accuracy. More than 7,000 small and medium-sized businesses were connected to trusted law firms in the U.S. and Europe through IP Accelerator. These businesses successfully submitted trademark applications and received early access to Brand Registry's brand protection tools. Amazon established its Counterfeit Crimes Unit to build and refer cases to law enforcement, undertake independent investigations or joint investigations with brands, and pursue civil litigation against counterfeiters. Adrienne McNicholas, Co-Founder of the small business Food Huggers, said: "Brand owners can't be in all places at all times. Having the Amazon brand protection tools available to small businesses like Food Huggers gives us the ability to protect our brands and our IP around the globe." The Brand Protection Report outlines Amazon's anti-counterfeiting approach, including: Robust proactive controls. Amazon leverages a combination of advanced machine learning capabilities and expert human investigators to protect its store proactively from bad actors and bad products. Amazon is constantly innovating in this space to stay ahead of bad actors and their continued attempts to circumvent its controls. Powerful tools for brands. Brands know their products best. They know their logos, patterns, and intellectual property inside and out. Amazon empowers brands to partner with us through tools like Brand Registry, Transparency, and Project Zero. These tools are powered by Amazon's advanced technology and each brand's expert knowledge of their products. Together, we can more effectively detect and stop counterfeiters, which allows us to better protect customers and rights owners. Holding counterfeiters accountable. Amazon continues to innovate on its robust proactive controls and powerful tools for brands, and won't rest until there are zero counterfeits in its store. This is an escalating battle with criminals that continue to attempt to find ways to sell counterfeits, and the only way to permanently stop these counterfeiters is to hold them accountable through the court system and criminal prosecution. To view the Amazon Brand Protection Report, 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. 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/20210509005050/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Only 6% of attempted seller account registrations passed Amazon's robust verification processes and listed products for sale</em></p><p><em>Amazon seized more than 2 million counterfeit products before being sent to a customer and destroyed them so they were not resold elsewhere in the retail supply chain</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today released its 2020 Brand Protection Report which provides a comprehensive view of how it ensures customers shop from authentic products in its stores. Amazon makes significant investments in dedicated teams and industry-leading machine learning technology to proactively protect customers, brands and its selling partners from counterfeiters, and to hold them accountable if they attempt to sell fakes through Amazon. In 2020, Amazon invested more than $700 million and employed more than 10,000 people to protect its stores from fraud and abuse.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210509005050/en/</p><p>"Amazon was an important partner for the 1.9 million small and medium businesses that sell in our store during the pandemic. We've helped our selling partners keep their virtual doors open, and despite increased attempts by bad actors, continued to ensure that the vast majority of customers shop with confidence from our broad selection of authentic products," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Customer Trust and Partner Support, Amazon. "Our team's relentless innovation has helped us stop 6 million attempts to create a selling account and more than 10 billion suspect listings as we continue to drive counterfeits to zero."</p><p>Highlights from the 2020 Brand Protection Report show Amazon's significant innovation and worldwide progress in combatting counterfeits and protecting customers and brands, including:</p><ul><li>Amazon invested more than $700 million to protect its stores from fraud and abuse.</li><li>Amazon employed more than 10,000 people to protect its store from fraud and abuse.</li><li>Amazon's verification processes prevented over 6 million attempts to create selling accounts, stopping bad actors before they published a single product for sale.</li><li>Only 6% of attempted account registrations passed Amazon's robust verifications processes and listed products for sale.</li><li>Amazon seized more than 2 million products that were sent to its fulfillment centers and that it detected as counterfeit before being sent to a customer. Amazon destroyed those products to prevent them from being resold elsewhere in the supply chain.</li><li>Amazon blocked more than 10 billion suspected bad listings before they were published in its stores.</li><li>Amazon Transparency, a serialization service that protects individual product units, enabled the protection of more than 500 million product units.</li><li>Fewer than 0.01% of all products sold on Amazon received a counterfeit complaint from customers. Those complaints were then investigated for accuracy.</li><li>More than 7,000 small and medium-sized businesses were connected to trusted law firms in the U.S. and Europe through IP Accelerator. These businesses successfully submitted trademark applications and received early access to Brand Registry's brand protection tools.</li><li>Amazon established its Counterfeit Crimes Unit to build and refer cases to law enforcement, undertake independent investigations or joint investigations with brands, and pursue civil litigation against counterfeiters.</li></ul><p>Adrienne McNicholas, Co-Founder of the small business Food Huggers, said: "Brand owners can't be in all places at all times. Having the Amazon brand protection tools available to small businesses like Food Huggers gives us the ability to protect our brands and our IP around the globe."</p><p>The Brand Protection Report outlines Amazon's anti-counterfeiting approach, including:</p><ul><li>Robust proactive controls. Amazon leverages a combination of advanced machine learning capabilities and expert human investigators to protect its store proactively from bad actors and bad products. Amazon is constantly innovating in this space to stay ahead of bad actors and their continued attempts to circumvent its controls.</li><li>Powerful tools for brands. Brands know their products best. They know their logos, patterns, and intellectual property inside and out. Amazon empowers brands to partner with us through tools like Brand Registry, Transparency, and Project Zero. These tools are powered by Amazon's advanced technology and each brand's expert knowledge of their products. Together, we can more effectively detect and stop counterfeiters, which allows us to better protect customers and rights owners.</li><li>Holding counterfeiters accountable. Amazon continues to innovate on its robust proactive controls and powerful tools for brands, and won't rest until there are zero counterfeits in its store. This is an escalating battle with criminals that continue to attempt to find ways to sell counterfeits, and the only way to permanently stop these counterfeiters is to hold them accountable through the court system and criminal prosecution.</li></ul><p>To view the Amazon Brand Protection Report, 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. 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/20210509005050/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Announces First Robotics Fulfillment Center in Louisiana

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Amazon Announces First Robotics Fulfillment Center in Louisiana

05/07/2021

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New 650,000 square-foot site to create over 1,000 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to open its first robotics fulfillment center in the state of Louisiana. The new operations facility in Shreveport will create over 1,000 new, full-time jobs and provide employees with at least $15 per hour and comprehensive benefits. Amazon jobs support Louisiana communities of all sizes, from larger metro areas like Shreveport to smaller communities like Carencro. In the new 650,000 square-foot fulfillment center, Amazon employees will pick, pack, and ship smaller customer items such as books, toys, electronics and other household items. On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum starting wage of $15 per hour, full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits, including full medical, vision and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent company match. Amazon prioritizes the safety of all its employees and supports them with paid leave so they can take time off without having to worry about missing a paycheck. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families. Amazon is committed to the long-term development of its employees. The company's employees have access to innovative programs like Career Choice, where Amazon will pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program's launch, more than 25,000 employees across the globe have pursued degrees in a range of fields, including game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology. Amazon in Louisiana: From 2010-2019, Amazon has invested more than $250 million in Louisiana, including infrastructure and compensation to employees in the state. Amazon's investments in the state contributed an additional $220 million into the state's economy over that same period. Using methodology developed by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Amazon estimates its investments have created an additional 750+ indirect jobs on top of the company's current 2,000+ full- and part-time direct hires. Amazon's worldwide fulfillment network supports businesses of all sizes through its Fulfillment by Amazon offering, and many of those local businesses are based in Louisiana. There are more than 14,500 independent authors and small and medium-sized businesses in the state are growing their businesses and reaching new customers with Amazon. Additional Resources: See an Amazon Fulfillment Center In Action Amazon Job Creation and Investment U.S. Louisiana Investment Map Amazon Regional Director of Operations, William Hicks "Amazon may be a global business, but it's made up of small businesses and communities. From the local jobs we bring, to the local people we employ, train, and upskill—our business is made up of people from communities like Shreveport," said William Hicks, Regional Director of Operations at Amazon. "We're thrilled to be able to expand our operations in Northwest Louisiana and we look forward to becoming part of the fabric of the local community." Governor John Bel Edwards "This new Amazon project is a major advancement for the Shreveport-Bossier City metro area and for Louisiana's economy," said Governor Edwards. "In addition to providing strong benefits, Amazon will pay workers double the minimum wage or more in a state-of-the-art technology environment. Only a year ago, we dedicated Hunter Industrial Park as one site in a growing inventory of LED Certified Sites that now numbers 126 statewide. Through partnerships with our elected officials, economic development allies and utility partners, we are proving that great things are possible in Louisiana when we make smart plans for the future." Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins  "The City of Shreveport is committed to developing a diverse business community," Mayor Adrian Perkins said. "We are excited to be the new home for a state-of-the-art distribution center. This will be a valuable asset to our community and will provide employment opportunities to hundreds of our residents. This project could change the life trajectory for many of our citizens who are still dealing with the financial fallout from the ongoing pandemic." Caddo Parish Commission President Lyndon B. Johnson "Great things are happening in Caddo Parish, and we are delighted to welcome Amazon into our parish and region," said Caddo Parish Commission President Lyndon B. Johnson. "The arrival of such a large and multidimensional distribution center to Caddo Parish will undoubtedly have a significant impact on our area's economy. The ability to utilize over 1,000 members of our community's diverse and talented workforce will enhance the quality of life for our residents, and is a result of the strong collaboration between our governing bodies and community partners to create a winning opportunity for Amazon and the parish." Chairman Chap Breard of the North Louisiana Economic Partnership "We are thrilled to have Amazon become a new major employer in North Louisiana," said Chairman Chap Breard of the North Louisiana Economic Partnership. "Their decision to locate in Shreveport confirms that North Louisiana's competitive strategic location, strong stakeholder partnerships and project-ready industrial sites are critical for success in economic development." 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/20210507005560/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New 650,000 square-foot site to create over 1,000 new, full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to open its first robotics fulfillment center in the state of Louisiana. The new operations facility in Shreveport will create over 1,000 new, full-time jobs and provide employees with at least $15 per hour and comprehensive benefits. Amazon jobs support Louisiana communities of all sizes, from larger metro areas like Shreveport to smaller communities like Carencro.</p><p>In the new 650,000 square-foot fulfillment center, Amazon employees will pick, pack, and ship smaller customer items such as books, toys, electronics and other household items.</p><p>On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum starting wage of $15 per hour, full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits, including full medical, vision and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent company match. Amazon prioritizes the safety of all its employees and supports them with paid leave so they can take time off without having to worry about missing a paycheck. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families.</p><p>Amazon is committed to the long-term development of its employees. The company's employees have access to innovative programs like Career Choice, where Amazon will pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program's launch, more than 25,000 employees across the globe have pursued degrees in a range of fields, including game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology.</p><p>Amazon in Louisiana:</p><ul><li>From 2010-2019, Amazon has invested more than $250 million in Louisiana, including infrastructure and compensation to employees in the state.</li><li>Amazon's investments in the state contributed an additional $220 million into the state's economy over that same period.</li><li>Using methodology developed by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Amazon estimates its investments have created an additional 750+ indirect jobs on top of the company's current 2,000+ full- and part-time direct hires.</li><li>Amazon's worldwide fulfillment network supports businesses of all sizes through its Fulfillment by Amazon offering, and many of those local businesses are based in Louisiana. There are more than 14,500 independent authors and small and medium-sized businesses in the state are growing their businesses and reaching new customers with Amazon.</li></ul><p>Additional Resources:</p><ul><li>See an Amazon Fulfillment Center In Action</li><li>Amazon Job Creation and Investment U.S.</li><li>Louisiana Investment Map</li></ul><p>Amazon Regional Director of Operations, William Hicks</p><p>"Amazon may be a global business, but it's made up of small businesses and communities. From the local jobs we bring, to the local people we employ, train, and upskill—our business is made up of people from communities like Shreveport," said William Hicks, Regional Director of Operations at Amazon. "We're thrilled to be able to expand our operations in Northwest Louisiana and we look forward to becoming part of the fabric of the local community."</p><p>Governor John Bel Edwards</p><p>"This new Amazon project is a major advancement for the Shreveport-Bossier City metro area and for Louisiana's economy," said Governor Edwards. "In addition to providing strong benefits, Amazon will pay workers double the minimum wage or more in a state-of-the-art technology environment. Only a year ago, we dedicated Hunter Industrial Park as one site in a growing inventory of LED Certified Sites that now numbers 126 statewide. Through partnerships with our elected officials, economic development allies and utility partners, we are proving that great things are possible in Louisiana when we make smart plans for the future."</p><p>Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins </p><p>"The City of Shreveport is committed to developing a diverse business community," Mayor Adrian Perkins said. "We are excited to be the new home for a state-of-the-art distribution center. This will be a valuable asset to our community and will provide employment opportunities to hundreds of our residents. This project could change the life trajectory for many of our citizens who are still dealing with the financial fallout from the ongoing pandemic."</p><p>Caddo Parish Commission President Lyndon B. Johnson</p><p>"Great things are happening in Caddo Parish, and we are delighted to welcome Amazon into our parish and region," said Caddo Parish Commission President Lyndon B. Johnson. "The arrival of such a large and multidimensional distribution center to Caddo Parish will undoubtedly have a significant impact on our area's economy. The ability to utilize over 1,000 members of our community's diverse and talented workforce will enhance the quality of life for our residents, and is a result of the strong collaboration between our governing bodies and community partners to create a winning opportunity for Amazon and the parish."</p><p>Chairman Chap Breard of the North Louisiana Economic Partnership</p><p>"We are thrilled to have Amazon become a new major employer in North Louisiana," said Chairman Chap Breard of the North Louisiana Economic Partnership. "Their decision to locate in Shreveport confirms that North Louisiana's competitive strategic location, strong stakeholder partnerships and project-ready industrial sites are critical for success in economic development."</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/20210507005560/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon DevOps Guru

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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon DevOps Guru

05/04/2021

2021

New machine learning powered operations service provides tailored recommendations to improve application availability Atlassian, PagerDuty, Fidelity Investments, and Thomson Reuters among organizations using Amazon DevOps Guru SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon DevOps Guru, a fully managed operations service that uses machine learning to make it easier for developers to improve application availability by automatically detecting operational issues and recommending specific actions for remediation. Informed by years of Amazon.com and AWS operational excellence, Amazon DevOps Guru applies machine learning to automatically analyze data like application metrics, logs, events, and traces for behaviors that deviate from normal operating patterns. When Amazon DevOps Guru identifies anomalous application behavior that could cause potential outages or service disruptions, it alerts developers with issue details to help them quickly understand the potential impact and likely causes of the issue, with specific recommendations for remediation. Developers can use remediation suggestions from Amazon DevOps Guru to reduce time to resolution when issues arise and improve application availability—all with no manual setup or machine learning expertise required. There are no upfront costs or commitments with Amazon DevOps Guru, and customers pay only for the data Amazon DevOps Guru analyzes. To get started with Amazon DevOps Guru, visit: aws.amazon.com/devops-guru As more organizations move to cloud-based application deployment and microservice architectures to scale their businesses, applications have become increasingly distributed, and developers need more automated practices to maintain application availability and reduce the time and effort spent detecting, debugging, and resolving operational issues. Application downtime events caused by faulty code or config changes, unbalanced container clusters, or resource exhaustion (e.g. CPU, memory, disk, etc.) inevitably lead to bad customer experiences and lost revenue. Companies invest a considerable amount of developer resources, time, and money to deploy multiple monitoring tools, often managed separately, and then have to develop and maintain custom alerts for common issues like spikes in load balancer errors or drops in application request rates. Setting thresholds to identify and alert when application resources are behaving abnormally is difficult to get right, involves manual setup, and requires thresholds that must be continually updated as application usage changes (e.g. an unusually large number of requests during a sales promotion). If a threshold is set too high, developers don't see alarms until operational performance is severely impacted. When a threshold is set too low, developers get too many false positives, which they are prone to ignore. Even when developers get alerted to a potential operational issue, the process of identifying the root cause can still prove difficult. Using existing tools, developers often have difficulty triangulating the root cause of an operational issue from graphs and alarms, and even when they are able to find the root cause, they are often left without the right information to fix it. Each troubleshooting attempt is a cold start where teams must spend hours or days identifying problems, and this leads to time consuming, tedious work that slows down the time to resolve an operational failure and can prolong application disruptions. Amazon DevOps Guru's machine learning models leverage over 20 years of operational expertise in building, scaling, and maintaining highly available applications for Amazon.com. This gives Amazon DevOps Guru the ability to automatically detect operational issues (e.g. missing or misconfigured alarms, early warning of resource exhaustion, config changes that could lead to outages, etc.), provide context on resources involved and related events, and recommend remediation actions. With just a few clicks in the Amazon DevOps Guru console, historical application and infrastructure metrics like latency, error rates, and request rates for resources are automatically ingested from a user's AWS applications and analyzed to establish normal operating bounds. Amazon DevOps Guru then uses a pre-trained machine learning model to identify deviations from this established baseline (e.g. under-provisioned compute capacity, database I/O utilization, memory leaks, etc.). When Amazon DevOps Guru analyzes system and application data to automatically detect anomalies, it also groups this data into operational insights that include anomalous metrics, visualizations of application behavior over time, and recommendations on actions for remediation—all easily viewable in the Amazon DevOps Guru console. Amazon DevOps Guru also correlates and groups related application and infrastructure metrics (e.g. web application latency spikes, running out of disk space, bad code deployments, etc.) to reduce redundant alarms and help focus users on high-severity issues. Customers can see configuration change histories and deployment events, along with system and user activity, to generate a prioritized list of likely causes for an operational issue via a dashboard in the Amazon DevOps Guru console. To help customers resolve issues quickly, Amazon DevOps Guru provides intelligent recommendations with remediation steps and integrates with AWS Systems Manager for runbook and collaboration tooling, giving customers the ability to more effectively maintain applications and manage infrastructure for their deployments. For example, when an analytics application using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) begins to exhibit degraded latencies, Amazon DevOps Guru will detect the change by automatically analyzing the relevant metrics across the application stack, identify the underlying root cause (e.g. increased number of concurrent compute instances writing to RDS), and provide a recommendation to resolve the issue (e.g. increase the provisioned RDS capacity and IOPS storage to handle the higher load). "Customers continue to ask AWS for more services that enable them to take advantage of our decades of operational excellence in improving application availability running Amazon.com," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, AWS. "With Amazon DevOps Guru, we have taken that expertise and built specialized machine learning models to detect, troubleshoot, and prevent operational issues long before they impact customers and without dealing with cold starts each time an issue arises. Amazon DevOps Guru immediately provides customers the benefits of operational best practices we have learned running Amazon.com, and we designed Amazon DevOps Guru to be so simple that turning it on would be an easy choice for every AWS customer." With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can enable Amazon DevOps Guru to begin analyzing account and application activity within minutes to provide operational insights. Amazon DevOps Guru gives customers a single-console experience to visualize their operational data by summarizing relevant data across multiple sources (e.g. AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, AWS CloudFormation, AWS X-Ray) and reduces the need to switch between multiple tools. Customers can also view correlated operational events and contextual data for operational insights within the Amazon DevOps Guru console and receive alerts via Amazon SNS. Additionally, Amazon DevOps Guru supports API endpoints through the AWS SDK, making it easy for Amazon Partner Network Partners and customers to integrate Amazon DevOps Guru into their existing solutions for ticketing, paging, and automatic notification of engineers for high-severity issues. PagerDuty and Atlassian are among the AWS Partners that have integrated Amazon DevOps Guru into their operations monitoring and incident management platforms, and customers who use their solutions can now benefit from operational insights provided by Amazon DevOps Guru. Amazon DevOps Guru is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm), with availability in additional regions in the coming months. Together with Amazon CodeGuru—a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code—Amazon DevOps Guru provides customers the automated benefits of machine learning for their operational data so that developers can more easily improve application availability and reliability. Teams at more than 194,000 companies rely on Atlassian products to make teamwork easier, and help them organize, discuss, and complete their work. "Atlassian is excited that our customers are implementing an AIOps strategy using Amazon DevOps Guru to manage the operational performance of their cloud applications," said Emel Dogrusoz, Head of Product at Opsgenie. "With our new Opsgenie and Jira Service Management integration, the right teams are notified the instant Amazon DevOps Guru discovers a potential issue and prioritizes it by the severity of the incident using machine learning (ML). This integration ensures that every team can quickly respond to, resolve using ML-powered recommendations, and learn from every incident." Fidelity Investments helps over 35 million people feel more confident in their most important financial goals, manages employee benefit programs for over 22,000 businesses, and supports more than 13,500 financial institutions with innovative investment and technology solutions to grow their businesses. "At Fidelity, we're leveraging cloud technologies to enhance our global customer experience and improve the resiliency of our applications," said Keith Blizard, SVP of Public Cloud Services at Fidelity Investments. "AIOps tools such as Amazon DevOps Guru are helping us deliver more efficient experiences and more resilient platforms to our customers." PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a leader in digital operations management. "PagerDuty is excited to further deepen our collaboration with AWS in a new integration with Amazon DevOps Guru. PagerDuty's digital operations management platform was built to drive a shift to DevOps culture, and we are delighted to continue this commitment with this integration," said Jonathan Rende, SVP of Product at PagerDuty. "Harnessing Amazon DevOps Guru's machine learning capabilities, PagerDuty provides even more real-time signal-to-action capabilities to our joint customers. Through PagerDuty's ingestion of Amazon SNS via Amazon DevOps Guru, AWS customers can take real-time action on operational issues before they become customer-impacting outages." Thomson Reuters is one of the world's most trusted providers of answers, helping professionals make confident decisions and run better businesses. "Customer experience and satisfaction are our top priorities. When multiple sources of alerts and monitoring events are received, it can be challenging and time-consuming to filter through the noise to identify customer-impacting incidents," said Steve Thoennes, Director of Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud at Thomson Reuters. "With Amazon DevOps Guru, we are able to leverage its ML-powered insights to provide clear paths for action to reduce—and in many cases eliminate—the impact issues have on our customers. The Amazon DevOps Guru integration with PagerDuty also provides a direct path to quickly and efficiently deliver recommendations to the right people at the right time, and we anticipate significantly reduced operational downtime as a result." HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Its technology products and services are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships. "We are always looking for ways to reduce the amount of time our teams spend on resolving operational issues, and we are now using Amazon DevOps Guru and leveraging its ML-powered insights to help us identify, correlate, and remediate operational issues quickly," said Anchal Gupta, Senior Technical Lead, DevOps at HCL Technologies. "With the insights Amazon DevOps Guru provides, our teams can now quickly find issues without having to start from scratch trying to root cause problems. Our IT team has significantly reduced our mean time to recovery (MTTR), and they are saving hours upon hours of time resolving issues—all the while ensuring our customers have the best end-user experience possible." 605 is an independent TV measurement firm that offers advertising and content measurement, full-funnel attribution, media planning, optimization, and analytical solutions on top of its multi-source viewership data set covering more than 21 million U.S. households. "We have over a dozen AWS accounts and tens of thousands of resources to monitor. Even with Infrastructure as Code and creating dynamic alerts for these services, it is difficult to manage and correlate metrics to quickly resolve issues." said Jared Williams, Director of DevOps at 605.tv. "With Amazon DevOps Guru, we are confident that the alerts and notifications we receive are accurate from the machine learning powered metrics correlated across multiple services. Integrating Amazon DevOps Guru only took minutes to implement, and it was a breeze to integrate with our thousands of AWS CloudFormation stacks. Amazon DevOps Guru has provided insights that help us focus our infrastructure roadmap." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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 www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210504006186/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New machine learning powered operations service provides tailored recommendations to improve application availability</em></p><p><em>Atlassian, PagerDuty, Fidelity Investments, and Thomson Reuters among organizations using Amazon DevOps Guru</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon DevOps Guru, a fully managed operations service that uses machine learning to make it easier for developers to improve application availability by automatically detecting operational issues and recommending specific actions for remediation. Informed by years of Amazon.com and AWS operational excellence, Amazon DevOps Guru applies machine learning to automatically analyze data like application metrics, logs, events, and traces for behaviors that deviate from normal operating patterns. When Amazon DevOps Guru identifies anomalous application behavior that could cause potential outages or service disruptions, it alerts developers with issue details to help them quickly understand the potential impact and likely causes of the issue, with specific recommendations for remediation. Developers can use remediation suggestions from Amazon DevOps Guru to reduce time to resolution when issues arise and improve application availability—all with no manual setup or machine learning expertise required. There are no upfront costs or commitments with Amazon DevOps Guru, and customers pay only for the data Amazon DevOps Guru analyzes. To get started with Amazon DevOps Guru, visit: aws.amazon.com/devops-guru</p><p>As more organizations move to cloud-based application deployment and microservice architectures to scale their businesses, applications have become increasingly distributed, and developers need more automated practices to maintain application availability and reduce the time and effort spent detecting, debugging, and resolving operational issues. Application downtime events caused by faulty code or config changes, unbalanced container clusters, or resource exhaustion (e.g. CPU, memory, disk, etc.) inevitably lead to bad customer experiences and lost revenue. Companies invest a considerable amount of developer resources, time, and money to deploy multiple monitoring tools, often managed separately, and then have to develop and maintain custom alerts for common issues like spikes in load balancer errors or drops in application request rates. Setting thresholds to identify and alert when application resources are behaving abnormally is difficult to get right, involves manual setup, and requires thresholds that must be continually updated as application usage changes (e.g. an unusually large number of requests during a sales promotion). If a threshold is set too high, developers don't see alarms until operational performance is severely impacted. When a threshold is set too low, developers get too many false positives, which they are prone to ignore. Even when developers get alerted to a potential operational issue, the process of identifying the root cause can still prove difficult. Using existing tools, developers often have difficulty triangulating the root cause of an operational issue from graphs and alarms, and even when they are able to find the root cause, they are often left without the right information to fix it. Each troubleshooting attempt is a cold start where teams must spend hours or days identifying problems, and this leads to time consuming, tedious work that slows down the time to resolve an operational failure and can prolong application disruptions.</p><p>Amazon DevOps Guru's machine learning models leverage over 20 years of operational expertise in building, scaling, and maintaining highly available applications for Amazon.com. This gives Amazon DevOps Guru the ability to automatically detect operational issues (e.g. missing or misconfigured alarms, early warning of resource exhaustion, config changes that could lead to outages, etc.), provide context on resources involved and related events, and recommend remediation actions. With just a few clicks in the Amazon DevOps Guru console, historical application and infrastructure metrics like latency, error rates, and request rates for resources are automatically ingested from a user's AWS applications and analyzed to establish normal operating bounds. Amazon DevOps Guru then uses a pre-trained machine learning model to identify deviations from this established baseline (e.g. under-provisioned compute capacity, database I/O utilization, memory leaks, etc.). When Amazon DevOps Guru analyzes system and application data to automatically detect anomalies, it also groups this data into operational insights that include anomalous metrics, visualizations of application behavior over time, and recommendations on actions for remediation—all easily viewable in the Amazon DevOps Guru console. Amazon DevOps Guru also correlates and groups related application and infrastructure metrics (e.g. web application latency spikes, running out of disk space, bad code deployments, etc.) to reduce redundant alarms and help focus users on high-severity issues. Customers can see configuration change histories and deployment events, along with system and user activity, to generate a prioritized list of likely causes for an operational issue via a dashboard in the Amazon DevOps Guru console. To help customers resolve issues quickly, Amazon DevOps Guru provides intelligent recommendations with remediation steps and integrates with AWS Systems Manager for runbook and collaboration tooling, giving customers the ability to more effectively maintain applications and manage infrastructure for their deployments. For example, when an analytics application using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) begins to exhibit degraded latencies, Amazon DevOps Guru will detect the change by automatically analyzing the relevant metrics across the application stack, identify the underlying root cause (e.g. increased number of concurrent compute instances writing to RDS), and provide a recommendation to resolve the issue (e.g. increase the provisioned RDS capacity and IOPS storage to handle the higher load).</p><p>"Customers continue to ask AWS for more services that enable them to take advantage of our decades of operational excellence in improving application availability running Amazon.com," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning, AWS. "With Amazon DevOps Guru, we have taken that expertise and built specialized machine learning models to detect, troubleshoot, and prevent operational issues long before they impact customers and without dealing with cold starts each time an issue arises. Amazon DevOps Guru immediately provides customers the benefits of operational best practices we have learned running Amazon.com, and we designed Amazon DevOps Guru to be so simple that turning it on would be an easy choice for every AWS customer."</p><p>With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can enable Amazon DevOps Guru to begin analyzing account and application activity within minutes to provide operational insights. Amazon DevOps Guru gives customers a single-console experience to visualize their operational data by summarizing relevant data across multiple sources (e.g. AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, AWS CloudFormation, AWS X-Ray) and reduces the need to switch between multiple tools. Customers can also view correlated operational events and contextual data for operational insights within the Amazon DevOps Guru console and receive alerts via Amazon SNS. Additionally, Amazon DevOps Guru supports API endpoints through the AWS SDK, making it easy for Amazon Partner Network Partners and customers to integrate Amazon DevOps Guru into their existing solutions for ticketing, paging, and automatic notification of engineers for high-severity issues. PagerDuty and Atlassian are among the AWS Partners that have integrated Amazon DevOps Guru into their operations monitoring and incident management platforms, and customers who use their solutions can now benefit from operational insights provided by Amazon DevOps Guru. Amazon DevOps Guru is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm), with availability in additional regions in the coming months.</p><p>Together with Amazon CodeGuru—a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code—Amazon DevOps Guru provides customers the automated benefits of machine learning for their operational data so that developers can more easily improve application availability and reliability.</p><p>Teams at more than 194,000 companies rely on Atlassian products to make teamwork easier, and help them organize, discuss, and complete their work. "Atlassian is excited that our customers are implementing an AIOps strategy using Amazon DevOps Guru to manage the operational performance of their cloud applications," said Emel Dogrusoz, Head of Product at Opsgenie. "With our new Opsgenie and Jira Service Management integration, the right teams are notified the instant Amazon DevOps Guru discovers a potential issue and prioritizes it by the severity of the incident using machine learning (ML). This integration ensures that every team can quickly respond to, resolve using ML-powered recommendations, and learn from every incident."</p><p>Fidelity Investments helps over 35 million people feel more confident in their most important financial goals, manages employee benefit programs for over 22,000 businesses, and supports more than 13,500 financial institutions with innovative investment and technology solutions to grow their businesses. "At Fidelity, we're leveraging cloud technologies to enhance our global customer experience and improve the resiliency of our applications," said Keith Blizard, SVP of Public Cloud Services at Fidelity Investments. "AIOps tools such as Amazon DevOps Guru are helping us deliver more efficient experiences and more resilient platforms to our customers."</p><p>PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a leader in digital operations management. "PagerDuty is excited to further deepen our collaboration with AWS in a new integration with Amazon DevOps Guru. PagerDuty's digital operations management platform was built to drive a shift to DevOps culture, and we are delighted to continue this commitment with this integration," said Jonathan Rende, SVP of Product at PagerDuty. "Harnessing Amazon DevOps Guru's machine learning capabilities, PagerDuty provides even more real-time signal-to-action capabilities to our joint customers. Through PagerDuty's ingestion of Amazon SNS via Amazon DevOps Guru, AWS customers can take real-time action on operational issues before they become customer-impacting outages."</p><p>Thomson Reuters is one of the world's most trusted providers of answers, helping professionals make confident decisions and run better businesses. "Customer experience and satisfaction are our top priorities. When multiple sources of alerts and monitoring events are received, it can be challenging and time-consuming to filter through the noise to identify customer-impacting incidents," said Steve Thoennes, Director of Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud at Thomson Reuters. "With Amazon DevOps Guru, we are able to leverage its ML-powered insights to provide clear paths for action to reduce—and in many cases eliminate—the impact issues have on our customers. The Amazon DevOps Guru integration with PagerDuty also provides a direct path to quickly and efficiently deliver recommendations to the right people at the right time, and we anticipate significantly reduced operational downtime as a result."</p><p>HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Its technology products and services are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships. "We are always looking for ways to reduce the amount of time our teams spend on resolving operational issues, and we are now using Amazon DevOps Guru and leveraging its ML-powered insights to help us identify, correlate, and remediate operational issues quickly," said Anchal Gupta, Senior Technical Lead, DevOps at HCL Technologies. "With the insights Amazon DevOps Guru provides, our teams can now quickly find issues without having to start from scratch trying to root cause problems. Our IT team has significantly reduced our mean time to recovery (MTTR), and they are saving hours upon hours of time resolving issues—all the while ensuring our customers have the best end-user experience possible."</p><p>605 is an independent TV measurement firm that offers advertising and content measurement, full-funnel attribution, media planning, optimization, and analytical solutions on top of its multi-source viewership data set covering more than 21 million U.S. households. "We have over a dozen AWS accounts and tens of thousands of resources to monitor. Even with Infrastructure as Code and creating dynamic alerts for these services, it is difficult to manage and correlate metrics to quickly resolve issues." said Jared Williams, Director of DevOps at 605.tv. "With Amazon DevOps Guru, we are confident that the alerts and notifications we receive are accurate from the machine learning powered metrics correlated across multiple services. Integrating Amazon DevOps Guru only took minutes to implement, and it was a breeze to integrate with our thousands of AWS CloudFormation stacks. Amazon DevOps Guru has provided insights that help us focus our infrastructure roadmap."</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 platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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 www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210504006186/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 FinSpace

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05/03/2021

2021

New purpose-built analytics service reduces the time it takes Financial Services Industry (FSI) organizations to find, prepare, and analyze data from months to minutes Legal & General and Deloitte among customers and partners using Amazon FinSpace SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ:AMZN), announced Amazon FinSpace, a purpose-built analytics service that reduces the time it takes FSI organizations to find, prepare, and analyze financial data from months to minutes. Amazon FinSpace aggregates, catalogs, and tags data across an organization's data silos, making the data easily searchable by the entire organization. The service includes a purpose-built managed Apache Spark analytics engine that contains over 100 data transformations commonly used in the capital markets industry to prepare data for analytics at petabyte scale. To make it easier for FSI organizations to meet their compliance requirements, Amazon FinSpace ensures that data access controls are enforced and usage is tracked at all times. Amazon FinSpace provides an easy-to-use web application that gives analysts at hedge funds, asset management firms, insurance companies, investment banks, and other FSI organizations access to the information they need and the ability to run powerful analytics on demand across all of their data. There are no upfront costs or commitments to use Amazon FinSpace, and customers only pay for the data stored, the users enabled, and the compute used to prepare and analyze data. To learn more about Amazon FinSpace, go to https://aws.amazon.com/finspace. Today's FSI organizations are generating and collecting hundreds of petabytes of data every day from internal data sources like portfolio management systems, order management systems, and execution management systems—as well as third-party data feeds like high-volume historical equities pricing data, employment figures, and earnings reports. These organizations want to use the petabytes of data they possess to gain insights that help identify new sources of revenue, attract and retain customers, and reduce cost or risk. However, before data can be analyzed, FSI companies typically spend months finding the right data and getting it prepared for analysis. Discovering and preparing data is time-consuming because FSI organizations have data in silos distributed across departments that specialize in particular assets or geographies and generate specialized data (e.g. equities, options, bonds, European mutual funds, Asian currencies, etc.). Furthermore, data access is tightly controlled by regulation and policy, meaning analysts must justify to compliance officers how their access will conform to data use policies before they can access the data. Once they are granted access to the data, analysts must prepare it for analysis by iteratively performing data transformations to discover new insights within the data. For example, capital markets traders often use technical indicators like Bollinger Bands, Exponential Moving Averages, and Average True Range to identify undiscovered trends and patterns. Many of the data analytics tools available to analysts today were built to run on a single computer and were not designed to take advantage of the cloud's scale and the ability to compute heavy analysis on-demand. As a result, analysts either have to use small representative datasets that limit predictive ability, or the data has to be manually broken up into many subsets, transformed piecemeal, and manually recombined. Neither approach is ideal or effective. Amazon FinSpace solves the challenges FSI organizations face by vastly simplifying the steps needed to find, prepare, and analyze data, reducing the time involved from months to minutes. Customers begin by ingesting data into Amazon FinSpace from internal data silos or third-party data feeds via the service's Application Programming Interface (API) or a drag-and-drop interface in the web application. To find data, customers simply browse a visual catalog and search for familiar business terms like options trades for the last three years or U.S. automotive bonds from within the web application. Amazon FinSpace includes built-in classification schemas for common FSI data sources (e.g. trades, corporate actions, and economic data) that customers can customize to their needs, so the data can be organized in a way that is easy to find and share. Amazon FinSpace records the daily updates and corrections received for datasets and processes them to create point-in-time views to validate modeling assumptions and to show what data was used to inform past decisions for historical analysis. Customers can use built-in Jupyter Notebooks to access data stored in Amazon FinSpace and can then choose from over 100 built-in functions to prepare their data for analysis (e.g. Bollinger Bands, Exponential Moving Averages, and Average True Range)—or they can build and use their own functions to prepare data for analysis. Amazon FinSpace provides managed Spark clusters that can be scaled up or down on demand so organizations can benefit from the elasticity, scale, and cost savings provided by cloud computing. Customers define their data access policies within Amazon FinSpace, and the policies are automatically enforced across data search, visualization, and analysis. Amazon FinSpace records data access, tracks data usage, and generates compliance and activity reports indicating who accessed data at what point in time. "FSI organizations generate and purchase massive amounts of data, but using this data is very difficult because of the time and effort it takes to collect and prepare data for analysis," said Saman Michael Far, VP of Financial Services Technology, AWS. "Amazon FinSpace is a game changer for FSI organizations. Amazon FinSpace radically reduces the time it takes for FSI customers to do analytics across petabytes of data, making it significantly easier for them to identify new sources of revenue, attract customers, and reduce cost and risk." Amazon FinSpace is generally available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional regions coming soon. Legal & General Reinsurance (L&G Re) is the global reinsurance hub of the Legal & General Group with a specialty in the reinsurance of annuities, particularly pension risk transfer business. "At Legal & General, our mission is to guarantee the long-term financial security of our clients' customers around the world," said Thomas Olunloyo, CEO of L&G Re. "Our reinsurance specialists work with a broad range of data to measure asset performance, mortality, and longevity risk. Today, this data is distributed and stored across many teams, systems, and structures. We are excited about the release of Amazon FinSpace and its ability to help us unlock the full power of our data to enable our team and efficiently give new insights to our clients. Amazon FinSpace will transform how we use data by giving our analysts the ability to instantly and easily access all the company's data to carry out analysis faster and immediately share the results across the business, while ensuring our data governance and access control policies are met in full." 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. "In working with financial services industry clients, we have found that cloud-based analytics and AI/ML allow us to answer questions that we couldn't answer several years ago and drive value in new ways. Data, analytics, and AI/ML will continue to be key and become even more important to financial institutions' decision making and business outcomes over the next decade," said Jojy Mathew, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Deloitte's Financial Services Data and Analytics Leader globally. "When companies are building algorithmic, stochastic and predictive models, large data sets are key. Amazon FinSpace will allow users to process petabytes of data at the scale demanded. In addition, FinSpace enables ‘analytics sandboxes' to be created quickly and brings advanced analytics capabilities to citizen data scientists." About Amazon Web Services  For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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/20210503005789/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New purpose-built analytics service reduces the time it takes Financial Services Industry (FSI) organizations to find, prepare, and analyze data from months to minutes</em></p><p><em>Legal &amp; General and Deloitte among customers and partners using Amazon FinSpace</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ:AMZN), announced Amazon FinSpace, a purpose-built analytics service that reduces the time it takes FSI organizations to find, prepare, and analyze financial data from months to minutes. Amazon FinSpace aggregates, catalogs, and tags data across an organization's data silos, making the data easily searchable by the entire organization. The service includes a purpose-built managed Apache Spark analytics engine that contains over 100 data transformations commonly used in the capital markets industry to prepare data for analytics at petabyte scale. To make it easier for FSI organizations to meet their compliance requirements, Amazon FinSpace ensures that data access controls are enforced and usage is tracked at all times. Amazon FinSpace provides an easy-to-use web application that gives analysts at hedge funds, asset management firms, insurance companies, investment banks, and other FSI organizations access to the information they need and the ability to run powerful analytics on demand across all of their data. There are no upfront costs or commitments to use Amazon FinSpace, and customers only pay for the data stored, the users enabled, and the compute used to prepare and analyze data. To learn more about Amazon FinSpace, go to https://aws.amazon.com/finspace.</p><p>Today's FSI organizations are generating and collecting hundreds of petabytes of data every day from internal data sources like portfolio management systems, order management systems, and execution management systems<em>—</em>as well as third-party data feeds like high-volume historical equities pricing data, employment figures, and earnings reports. These organizations want to use the petabytes of data they possess to gain insights that help identify new sources of revenue, attract and retain customers, and reduce cost or risk. However, before data can be analyzed, FSI companies typically spend months finding the right data and getting it prepared for analysis. Discovering and preparing data is time-consuming because FSI organizations have data in silos distributed across departments that specialize in particular assets or geographies and generate specialized data (e.g. equities, options, bonds, European mutual funds, Asian currencies, etc.). Furthermore, data access is tightly controlled by regulation and policy, meaning analysts must justify to compliance officers how their access will conform to data use policies before they can access the data. Once they are granted access to the data, analysts must prepare it for analysis by iteratively performing data transformations to discover new insights within the data. For example, capital markets traders often use technical indicators like Bollinger Bands, Exponential Moving Averages, and Average True Range to identify undiscovered trends and patterns. Many of the data analytics tools available to analysts today were built to run on a single computer and were not designed to take advantage of the cloud's scale and the ability to compute heavy analysis on-demand. As a result, analysts either have to use small representative datasets that limit predictive ability, or the data has to be manually broken up into many subsets, transformed piecemeal, and manually recombined. Neither approach is ideal or effective.</p><p>Amazon FinSpace solves the challenges FSI organizations face by vastly simplifying the steps needed to find, prepare, and analyze data, reducing the time involved from months to minutes. Customers begin by ingesting data into Amazon FinSpace from internal data silos or third-party data feeds via the service's Application Programming Interface (API) or a drag-and-drop interface in the web application. To find data, customers simply browse a visual catalog and search for familiar business terms like <em>options trades for the last three years</em> or <em>U.S. automotive bonds</em> from within the web application. Amazon FinSpace includes built-in classification schemas for common FSI data sources (e.g. trades, corporate actions, and economic data) that customers can customize to their needs, so the data can be organized in a way that is easy to find and share. Amazon FinSpace records the daily updates and corrections received for datasets and processes them to create point-in-time views to validate modeling assumptions and to show what data was used to inform past decisions for historical analysis. Customers can use built-in Jupyter Notebooks to access data stored in Amazon FinSpace and can then choose from over 100 built-in functions to prepare their data for analysis (e.g. Bollinger Bands, Exponential Moving Averages, and Average True Range)—or they can build and use their own functions to prepare data for analysis. Amazon FinSpace provides managed Spark clusters that can be scaled up or down on demand so organizations can benefit from the elasticity, scale, and cost savings provided by cloud computing. Customers define their data access policies within Amazon FinSpace, and the policies are automatically enforced across data search, visualization, and analysis. Amazon FinSpace records data access, tracks data usage, and generates compliance and activity reports indicating who accessed data at what point in time.</p><p>"FSI organizations generate and purchase massive amounts of data, but using this data is very difficult because of the time and effort it takes to collect and prepare data for analysis," said Saman Michael Far, VP of Financial Services Technology, AWS. "Amazon FinSpace is a game changer for FSI organizations. Amazon FinSpace radically reduces the time it takes for FSI customers to do analytics across petabytes of data, making it significantly easier for them to identify new sources of revenue, attract customers, and reduce cost and risk."</p><p>Amazon FinSpace is generally available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional regions coming soon.</p><p>Legal &amp; General Reinsurance (L&amp;G Re) is the global reinsurance hub of the Legal &amp; General Group with a specialty in the reinsurance of annuities, particularly pension risk transfer business. "At Legal &amp; General, our mission is to guarantee the long-term financial security of our clients' customers around the world," said Thomas Olunloyo, CEO of L&amp;G Re. "Our reinsurance specialists work with a broad range of data to measure asset performance, mortality, and longevity risk. Today, this data is distributed and stored across many teams, systems, and structures. We are excited about the release of Amazon FinSpace and its ability to help us unlock the full power of our data to enable our team and efficiently give new insights to our clients. Amazon FinSpace will transform how we use data by giving our analysts the ability to instantly and easily access all the company's data to carry out analysis faster and immediately share the results across the business, while ensuring our data governance and access control policies are met in full."</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. "In working with financial services industry clients, we have found that cloud-based analytics and AI/ML allow us to answer questions that we couldn't answer several years ago and drive value in new ways. Data, analytics, and AI/ML will continue to be key and become even more important to financial institutions' decision making and business outcomes over the next decade," said Jojy Mathew, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Deloitte's Financial Services Data and Analytics Leader globally. "When companies are building algorithmic, stochastic and predictive models, large data sets are key. Amazon FinSpace will allow users to process petabytes of data at the scale demanded. In addition, FinSpace enables ‘analytics sandboxes' to be created quickly and brings advanced analytics capabilities to citizen data scientists."</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 platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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/20210503005789/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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04/29/2021

2021

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 29, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2021. Operating cash flow increased 69% to $67.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $39.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020. Free cash flow increased to $26.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $24.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020. Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations increased to $14.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $14.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020. Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations increased to $16.8 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020. Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 519 million on March 31, 2021, compared with 513 million one year ago. Net sales increased 44% to $108.5 billion in the first quarter, compared with $75.5 billion in first quarter 2020. Excluding the $2.1 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 41% compared with first quarter 2020. Operating income increased to $8.9 billion in the first quarter, compared with operating income of $4.0 billion in first quarter 2020. Net income increased to $8.1 billion in the first quarter, or $15.79 per diluted share, compared with net income of $2.5 billion, or $5.01 per diluted share, in first quarter 2020. "Two of our kids are now 10 and 15 years old—and after years of being nurtured, they're growing up fast and coming into their own," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "As Prime Video turns 10, over 175 million Prime members have streamed shows and movies in the past year, and streaming hours are up more than 70% year over year. Amazon Studios received a record 12 Academy Award nominations and two wins. Upcoming originals include Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, The Tomorrow War, The Underground Railroad, and much more. In just 15 years, AWS has become a $54 billion annual sales run rate business competing against the world's largest technology companies, and its growth is accelerating—up 32% year over year. Companies from Airbnb to McDonald's to Volkswagen come to AWS because we offer what is by far the broadest set of tools and services available, and we continue to invent relentlessly on their behalf. We love Prime Video and AWS, and we're proud to have them in the family." Highlights Our Vision to be Earth's Best Employer and Earth's Safest Place to Work Amazon ranked #1 in the U.S. on LinkedIn's 2021 Top Companies, an annual list identifying the most sought-after places to work based on their ability to attract and retain the best talent, including promotions, opportunities for employees to learn new skills, hiring people from all backgrounds and levels of education, and gender diversity. In addition, Amazon ranked #2 on the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies list and #3 on Boston Consulting Group's Most Innovative Companies list. In partnership with government and public health officials across the globe, Amazon is rapidly expanding on-site COVID-19 vaccination programs for its front-line employees and contractors. In addition to offering COVID-19 testing on-site, Amazon has hosted vaccination events at fulfillment centers, sort centers, delivery stations, and AWS data centers in 29 states, reaching more than 300,000 front-line employees and contractors. In some locations, Amazon opened the vaccination program to employee household members. Given the vaccination program's progress in the U.S., it will soon expand to front-line employees in other countries. Amazon is committed to leading the way for workplaces around the world to proactively manage—and prevent—work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) by drawing on expertise in innovation and technology, and collaborating with proven thought leaders and scientists. MSDs are common in the type of work done in warehouse operations and are more likely to occur during an employee's first six months. Amazon's increased attention to early MSD prevention is already achieving results. From 2019 to 2020, overall MSDs decreased by 32% and MSDs resulting in time away from work decreased by more than half. Amazon is expanding its workplace health and safety program WorkingWell with the aim of cutting recordable incident rates by 50% by 2025. WorkingWell is currently available to 859,000 employees at 350 sites across North America and Europe. Through the program, small groups of employees are coached on body mechanics, proactive wellness, and safety. In addition to reducing workplace injuries, these concepts have a positive impact on regular day-to-day activities and have contributed to reducing MSD recordable incident rates. Since 2020, in partnership with Crossover Health, Amazon opened 17 neighborhood health centers for employees and their families in the areas around Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Louisville, Kentucky; Phoenix, Arizona; and San Bernardino, California. Centers are located next to where employees live and work to provide affordable, convenient, and high quality health care, and patients report a 90% satisfaction score. Amazon is evaluating expansion of the program so that even more employees can access quality care whenever, and wherever, they need it. Amazon is fitting delivery vehicles with camera safety technology and artificial intelligence to capture real-time data (such as following safe distance and road conditions) to identify at-risk driving events. These technologies are used to help keep drivers and the communities where Amazon delivers safe. When this technology was piloted in 2020 on over two million miles of delivery routes, crashes decreased 48%, stop sign violations decreased 20%, driving without a seatbelt decreased 60%, and distracted driving decreased 45%. Amazon shared comprehensive companywide goals related to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts for 2021. Goals include increasing representation of women in tech and science roles, doubling the number of Black directors and VPs for the second year in a row, and having 100% of Amazon employees take inclusion training. In addition, to evaluate progress over time, Amazon increased the amount and specificity of the data shared publicly about its employees. The expanded dataset includes representation by job type, such as front-line associates and corporate employees, and expands historical data to the past three years. Amazon pulled forward its annual fall pay review for its U.S. Customer Fulfillment, Delivery, Package Sortation, and Specialty Fulfillment teams, and will be rolling out increases from mid-May through early June. More than 500,000 people will see an increase between at least 50 cents and $3 an hour, which is an investment of over $1 billion in incremental pay for these employees. In India, Amazon announced it has added nearly 300,000 new direct and indirect jobs since its last announcement in January 2020, putting the company on track to meet its pledge to create an additional one million new jobs in India by 2025. Supporting Communities Amazon donated and delivered relief and emergency aid supplies—including over one million bottles of water and thousands of items such as flashlights, tents, and search and rescue equipment—to communities impacted by the winter storm crisis in Texas and Mississippi in February and severe storms in Tennessee and Alabama in March. Amazon Future Engineer, the company's computer science education program for students from underserved communities, launched in France and Canada. With this expansion, the program now reaches over one million students globally each year. Amazon Future Engineer also donated $15 million to Code.org to develop a new equity-minded Advanced Placement computer science curriculum, which aims to increase access, participation, and long-term success for high school students from communities underrepresented in tech. Amazon announced a year-long partnership with The King Memorial Foundation, the organization responsible for building and maintaining the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. Over the next year, AWS will support the Memorial Foundation's Social Justice Fellows Program, which aims to help program participants develop their professional skills by providing them with mentorship opportunities with Amazon employees, as well as free cloud and STEM training and certification. For the partnership kick-off, Amazon joined the Foundation in a Day of Service project, delivering essential, personal care items to shelters in seven D.C. wards. Since January, Amazon has opened its Seattle campus to Virginia Mason Franciscan Health for public COVID-19 vaccinations. As of April 15, nearly 50,000 immunizations have been administered to the public through weekend pop-up clinics staffed by Amazon and community volunteers. Amazon is also providing volunteers and technology to support the Washington State vaccine call center. Since the initiative launched in late March, the system has processed over 100,000 calls and has eliminated wait times. Amazon continued its efforts to support children in need across Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the UK, Amazon donated 10,000 Fire tablets to schools lacking technology and delivered more than four million breakfasts to children in need through charity partner Magic Breakfast. In Italy and Spain, Amazon donated millions of euros to over 35,000 schools through a program that allows customers to choose the schools to which Amazon will donate. Since 2019, Amazon has worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state agencies to ensure customers in nearly all 50 states can shop for groceries on Amazon using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Amazon remains committed to increasing food access in the U.S.—especially in healthy food priority areas—and is helping raise awareness among residents about the convenient, safe, and affordably priced grocery delivery options Amazon offers their communities. As part of its ongoing work to increase food access, Amazon is establishing partnerships with local anti-hunger organizations to assist communities in need. Amazon added new Alexa features to help provide localized answers to questions on COVID-19 testing and vaccine eligibility, including the ability for customers to find and call nearby vaccine locations for booking appointments. Ring announced a new community program with Kids Off the Block, a Chicago-based nonprofit focused on providing local at-risk youth a care center for personal growth and empowerment. Ring also donated 1,000 Ring Video Doorbells and Ring subscriptions to support families and individuals in Chicago neighborhoods. Amazon introduced the Alexa Hörfilm skill in Germany, providing blind and visually-impaired customers with access to more than 3,500 TV series and movies with audio description. The skill was developed and built together with DBSV, the German association of blind or visually-impaired persons, and participating TV stations ARD, ZDF, and ARTE. The Climate Pledge Amazon continues to make progress toward powering all its businesses with 100% renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. Amazon has announced a total of 206 renewable energy projects globally, including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 rooftop solar installations at facilities and stores worldwide. Amazon is now the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy globally as well as in Europe, where the company is investing in more than 2.5 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity—enough to power more than two million homes a year. Amazon welcomed 52 new signatories to The Climate Pledge, a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and achieve net-zero carbon by 2040. More than 100 companies representing over $1.4 trillion in global annual revenues and over five million employees have now joined the pledge, sending an important signal to the market that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. New signatories include Alaska Airlines, Colgate-Palmolive, HEINEKEN, PepsiCo, Telefónica, and Visa. The Climate Pledge Fund invested in Infinium, a renewable electrofuels solution provider, and Turntide Technologies, an electric motor company. These investments help Amazon and other companies meet the goals of The Climate Pledge as we all work together to protect the planet. Amazon announced a partnership with Mahindra Electric, a manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs), to deploy nearly 100 Treo Zor electric vehicles in seven Indian cities as part of Amazon India's plan to include 10,000 EVs in its delivery fleet by 2025. These EVs are in addition to The Climate Pledge's commitment to have 100,000 EVs in Amazon's delivery fleet by 2030. Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses In recognition of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, Amazon partnered with Diane von Furstenberg to help empower more than 100 women-owned businesses by launching dedicated women-owned small business stores in the U.S. and a dozen other countries around the world, making it easy for customers to discover and learn about women-owned sellers and shop from their selection of thousands of products. To help raise awareness of women-owned businesses and support their success, von Furstenberg hosted a virtual event on Amazon Live and shared her own experience and insights on being an entrepreneur. Amazon celebrated Black History Month by launching a Black-owned small business store with products from third-party sellers, enabling customers to discover and shop from Black business owners. Amazon also hosted an Amazon Live event with celebrities and entrepreneurs Tia Mowry and Karamo Brown during which Black Amazon sellers shared their insights about launching and building a small business. Amazon announced the Amazon Launchpad Innovation Awards, a free competition designed to support emerging, innovative European startups. A judging panel will select five startups to each win a €10,000 grant and free access to Amazon Launchpad for one year. The "Startup of the Year" winner will receive an additional €90,000 grant. Amazon India announced it has digitized 2.5 million small and medium-sized businesses, enabled cumulative exports worth $3 billion, and announced the $250 million Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund. The fund will encourage the best ideas to digitize small and medium-sized businesses, drive technology-led innovation in agriculture to improve farmer productivity, and enable healthcare access. Amazon India announced that more than 50,000 offline retailers and neighborhood stores joined the Local Shops on Amazon program in its first year. It also committed to bringing one million Local Shops online by 2025. Launched in April 2020, the Local Shops on Amazon program helps sellers sustain their livelihoods and jumpstart their businesses. Shopping There are now more than 200 million paid Prime members worldwide. Members have exclusive access to deals every day and especially during Prime Day, which will take place later in the second quarter. Amazon continues to innovate and invest in fast, free, and convenient delivery for customers. In the U.S., Same-Day Delivery in as fast as five hours is free on orders over $35 on over three million items in select cities. This is in addition to Free Same-Day Delivery on millions of items in thousands of cities and towns across 47 major U.S. metro areas, plus over 10 million items available for Free One-Day Delivery coast to coast. These fast and efficient deliveries are powered by Amazon's last mile network of delivery driver partners—small businesses creating tens of thousands of new jobs across the country. Amazon continues to expand Amazon Scout, a fully electric autonomous delivery system. Similar in size to a small cooler on wheels, Amazon Scout rolls down the sidewalk at walking pace and delivers items right to customers. Since its launch, Scout has delivered tens of thousands of packages to customers in California, Georgia, Tennessee, and Washington, and the program is continuing to expand to new communities in the U.S. The new Prime prescription savings benefit offers pharmacy savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S., including Amazon Pharmacy. Amazon has helped Prime members save millions of dollars on prescription medications so far this year when paying without insurance, both at Amazon Pharmacy and other local pharmacies. Amazon expanded Discover Rooms, an immersive shopping experience that helps customers browse and shop from thousands of home room designs and instantly discover home furnishing product inspiration based on visual attributes. The experience is now available in nine countries, including Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK, and the U.S. Prime Wardrobe, Amazon's "try before you buy" offering, expanded selection and launched new innovations for customers, including the ability to chat live with Amazon Stylists for personalized recommendations and trial items recommended by their favorite fashion influencers and websites. In the U.S., Amazon launched an expanded assortment of NFL merchandise, including replica jerseys and hats, at amazon.com/NFL. Customers can now shop thousands of additional products on Amazon from NFL Pro Line, Fanatics, New Era, Outerstuff, '47, and other top brands. Amazon also made enhancements to the sports fan shopping experience, including improved navigation in Your Fanshop and personalized game celebrations for customers' favorite teams. Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit continues to work aggressively with law enforcement, industry associations, brand owners, and academics to bring counterfeit to zero. Examples this quarter include working with the U.S. National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center to prevent counterfeit Super Bowl LV merchandise from reaching consumers and partnering with Pennsylvania-based, family-owned card game maker Dutch Blitz and Italian luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo to file lawsuits against multiple counterfeiters and hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law. In March, Amazon launched Amazon.pl, offering Polish customers a selection of more than 100 million products across more than 30 categories, including products from thousands of European and local Polish businesses. Amazon has been operating in Poland since 2014, has created over 18,000 permanent jobs, and will open its tenth fulfillment center in Swiebodzin in 2021, adding more than 1,000 new jobs to Amazon's existing network in Poland. Amazon opened its first international physical retail stores powered by Just Walk Out technology with the launch of three Amazon Fresh locations in London. These new convenience grocery stores sell a range of products, including the new "by Amazon" private brand, and enable shoppers to enter a store, grab what they want, and leave without stopping to check out. There are now 15 Amazon Fresh physical stores around the world. Amazon Fresh grocery stores expanded into four new communities in the U.S.: Oak Lawn, Illinois; Bloomingdale, Illinois; Fullerton, California; and Long Beach, California, creating hundreds of regular full- and part-time jobs in each community with starting wages of at least $15 per hour and comprehensive benefits. Amazon announced that millions of Prime members now have access to Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery in more than 5,000 cities and towns in the U.S., enabling them to enjoy free, contactless, and secure in-garage delivery of grocery orders from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. Amazon One—a fast, convenient, contactless way for people to use their palm to enter, identify, and pay—launched as a payment option at Whole Foods Market, starting with the Madison Broadway store in Seattle. Amazon One will be added as a payment option at additional Whole Foods Market stores in the Seattle area in the coming months. Delaware North, a global leader in hospitality and food service, announced the opening of two checkout-free convenience stores using Amazon's Just Walk Out technology at TD Garden, an entertainment venue in Boston and home of the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins. Amazon Business, the company's global procurement solution, now serves more than five million businesses and generated $25 billion in worldwide annualized sales. More than half of unit sales are from third-party sellers, such as women-, minority-, or veteran-owned businesses that have been certified by U.S. diversity-certifying organizations such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and Women's Business Enterprise National Council. In the U.S., Amazon Business serves 45 states and 80 of the Fortune 100 companies, including Citigroup, Intel, Cisco, and ExxonMobil. Amazon continues to expand its air cargo network to meet growing customer demand. In January, the company announced the purchase of 11 aircraft from Delta and WestJet to expand its Amazon Air fleet to more than 85 aircraft by the end of 2022. Amazon also announced new Amazon Air sites in Toledo, Ohio and Fairbanks, Alaska, and plans to expand existing operations in Canada this summer. Entertainment This quarter marked Amazon Studios' most successful awards season to date and the first time a streaming service has won a best picture Golden Globe award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Original titles earned 10 Golden Globe nominations and three awards for Small Axe (Supporting Actor John Boyega) and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Best Picture Musical/Comedy and Best Actor Musical/Comedy). Amazon Studios also earned 12 Academy Award nominations, a record for the studio, across four films: One Night in Miami…, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Time, and Sound of Metal, which won two awards (Best Sound and Best Film Editing). Coming 2 America launched worldwide on Prime Video, becoming the #1 streamed movie its opening weekend and the #1 opening weekend for a streamed movie this year according to Screen Engine/ASI. Regina King's feature directorial debut One Night in Miami… also launched to critical acclaim, receiving numerous accolades, including a Critics' Choice Award as well as Golden Globe, SAG, and Oscar nominations. In addition, new Amazon Original Invincible premiered to praise from TV critics, and Prime Video debuted Local Originals The Stand (Canada), Guerra de Likes (Mexico), The Great Escapists (UK), La Templanza (Spain), and We Children from Bahnhof Zoo (Germany). Amazon Studios continues to invest in diverse creators and content. This quarter, Amazon Studios announced new series for Prime Video, including a Mr. and Mrs. Smith remake created by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover, as well as a young adult series The Summer I Turned Pretty from writer Jenny Han. The studio also announced that the sci-fi action film The Tomorrow War from Skydance Media starring Chris Pratt will premiere on July 2. Amazon announced that Prime Video will become the exclusive home for Thursday Night Football beginning in 2023—making Prime Video the first streaming service to secure an exclusive national broadcast package from the NFL. The 10-year deal gives tens of millions of U.S. Prime members exclusive access to must-watch live football on Prime Video and also expands the Thursday Night Football package from 11 to 15 regular-season games. Amazon, the New York Yankees, and YES Network announced 21 regular-season games will stream on Prime Video in 2021. All games will be available to stream throughout New York State, Connecticut, northeast Pennsylvania, and north and central New Jersey at no additional cost to Prime members. All Yankees games on Prime Video this season will feature Amazon's exclusive X-Ray technology, which gives real-time access to live in-game stats, team and player details, and real-time play-by-play information. In addition, Prime Video will air a new 15-minute pregame show ahead of the first pitch for every Prime Video broadcast. The Live Sports offering for Prime Video continues to grow internationally. In the first quarter, Prime Video broadcast five additional Premier League football matches in the UK. Prime Video also kicked off 2021 coverage of the ATP and WTA Tour tennis tournaments, including exclusive coverage of the Miami Open. In Australia, Prime Video announced an exclusive, two-year, live broadcast streaming deal to distribute the Australian Swimming championship events globally on Prime Video at no additional cost to Prime members. Amazon Music continues to expand its international reach of podcasts, launching localized offerings in France, Italy, Spain, and India for customers across all streaming tiers, at no additional cost. Amazon Music also announced the integration of artist merchandise into the Amazon Music app, providing a new shopping experience for music fans. Customers can now shop a curated, Prime-eligible selection of artist merchandise while listening to their favorite music, uninterrupted. Amazon Devices and Services Amazon introduced the next generation of Echo Buds, featuring an all-new design, premium audio, custom-designed Active Noise Cancellation technology, wireless charging capabilities, improved microphones, and hands-free access to Alexa. Amazon announced Build It, a new Day 1 Editions program that gives customers a say in the devices Amazon builds next. The first wave of concepts included a Smart Sticky Note Printer, a Smart Nutrition Scale, and a Smart Cuckoo Clock. In just three days, the Smart Sticky Note Printer hit its pre-order goal and is being built. Amazon announced new Alexa features, such as Music Sharing with Alexa, which allows users to share songs with friends and family who are Alexa contacts, and Alexa for Xbox, which gives U.S. and Canadian customers more ways to interact with their consoles using their voice—such as asking Alexa to download games remotely through Xbox's Game Pass service. Amazon launched a new Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, in which university teams will compete to develop conversational AI agents to help customers complete tasks requiring multiple steps and decisions. It is the first conversational AI challenge to incorporate multimodal—voice and vision—customer experiences. As part of the Fairness in AI program, the National Science Foundation and Amazon announced the next cohort of 37 researchers focused on 11 projects covering a range of topics, including: theoretical and algorithmic foundations; principles for human interaction with AI systems; technologies such as natural language understanding and computer vision; and applications including hiring decisions, education, criminal justice, and human services. Ring introduced Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 and Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro, both featuring 3D Motion Detection and Bird's Eye View powered by radar technology. Ring also announced several other products and features, including Ring Video Doorbell 4, Smart Responses and Geofence for compatible devices, and Ring Alarm (2nd Gen) for the UK and Europe. Amazon launched the Alexa Built-in experience in Lamborghini's Huracán EVO, the first vehicle to offer online car control capabilities with Alexa embedded. Amazon also launched the first application of the Alexa Connected Vehicle Skills API with Nissan, and Garmin announced it is the first Tier 1 automotive supplier to integrate Alexa Custom Assistant in its In-Vehicle Infotainment systems. Jeep announced Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer models will be the first to launch Fire TV for Auto, an on-the-go entertainment experience. Amazon Web Services AWS announced significant customer momentum, with new commitments and migrations from customers spanning many major industries. In telecommunications, DISH is leveraging AWS's advanced, reliable, and secure infrastructure to build a cloud-based, 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) to deliver consistent, cost-effective performance from the cloud to the edge of the network. The media and entertainment industry continues to move to AWS at a rapid pace with The Walt Disney Company working with AWS on the expansion of Disney+ to more than 100 million subscribers around the world. Some of the world's most renowned sports leagues are choosing AWS as their technology provider to transform the fan experience. For example, the National Hockey League (NHL) uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other AWS technologies to create new viewing experiences and in-depth stats and analytics, and the PGA TOUR (TOUR) uses AWS cloud and machine learning technologies to transform the way golf content is created, distributed, and experienced. The German Bundesliga, Germany's top national football league, uses AWS to power three new Bundesliga Match Facts to give fans deeper insights into action on the pitch, while Formula 1 (F1) uses a range of AWS technologies, including machine learning, for six new F1 Insights for the 2021 season that help motor racing fans understand the strategy of their favorite driver. Automotive companies continue to choose AWS to support the development of their next-generation vehicles. Continental, one of the world's largest automotive parts manufacturers, announced they are collaborating with AWS to develop the Continental Automotive Edge Platform (CAEdge), which will allow automakers to develop, deploy, and manage code to run connected and autonomous vehicles. In addition, AWS and Torc Robotics, a subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, are collaborating to scale an autonomous truck development platform in the cloud so that Torc Robotics can accelerate testing and commercialization of autonomous driving technology. And ABB announced a collaboration with AWS to create a cloud-based fleet management system for electric vehicles, helping companies accelerate electrification of their fleets while maintaining business continuity. AWS announced the launch of a second full region in Japan—the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region—which is an expansion of the existing AWS Osaka Local Region. The new region consists of three Availability Zones (AZs) and joins the existing 25 Availability Zones in eight AWS Regions across Asia Pacific in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Globally, AWS has 80 Availability Zones across 25 geographic regions, with plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Spain, and Switzerland. AWS and Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a new managed service that makes it easier for Red Hat OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. With ROSA, customers can enjoy more simplified Kubernetes cluster creation without the burden of manually scaling and managing the underlying infrastructure. ROSA streamlines moving on-premises Red Hat OpenShift workloads to AWS and offers a tighter integration with other AWS technologies. AWS announced the general availability of AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift, an innovative new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that delivers up to ten times better query performance than other cloud data warehouses. AQUA brings compute to the storage layer, helping customers avoid networking bandwidth limitations by eliminating unnecessary data movement between where data is stored and compute clusters. With AQUA, customers have more up-to-date dashboards, save development time, and their systems are easier to maintain. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) X2gd instances, the next generation of advanced, memory-optimized instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors. New X2gd instances deliver up to 55% better price/performance compared to current generation x86-based X1 instances, while also offering increased memory per vCPU compared to other Graviton2-based instances. Together, the higher performance and additional memory of X2gd instances make it possible for customers to more efficiently run memory intensive workloads like in-memory databases, relational databases, electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, real-time analytics, and real-time caching servers. AWS announced Amazon Lookout for Equipment, a new service that uses AWS-developed machine learning models to help customers perform predictive maintenance on the equipment in their facilities. Amazon Lookout for Equipment ingests sensor data from a customer's industrial equipment (e.g., pressure, flow rate, RPMs, temperature, and power), and then trains a unique machine learning model to accurately predict early warning signs of machine failure or suboptimal performance using real-time data streams from the customer's equipment. With Amazon Lookout for Equipment, customers can detect abnormalities with speed and precision, quickly diagnose issues, reduce false alerts, and avoid expensive downtime by taking action before machine failures occur. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Vision, a service that analyzes images using computer vision and sophisticated machine learning capabilities to spot product or process defects and anomalies. By employing advanced machine learning techniques, Amazon Lookout for Vision is able to train a model using as few as 30 images, which can help detect manufacturing and production defects (e.g., cracks, dents, incorrect color, irregular shape, etc.) in their products and prevent costly errors from progressing down an operational line and reaching customers. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Metrics, a new fully managed machine learning service that helps customers monitor the most important metrics for their business (e.g., revenue, web page views, active users, transaction volume, and mobile app installations) with greater speed and accuracy. The service also makes it easier to diagnose the root cause of anomalies like unexpected dips in revenue, high rates of abandoned shopping carts, spikes in payment transaction failures, increases in new user sign-ups, and more. AWS announced new Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) One Zone storage classes that reduce storage costs by 47%, compared to existing Amazon EFS storage classes, while delivering the same features and benefits. One Zone storage classes redundantly store data within a single Availability Zone (AZ). These are ideal for customers who want cost-optimized file storage for workloads and applications (e.g., content management, developer applications, etc.) that do not require the level of availability and durability offered by regional Amazon EFS storage classes, which redundantly store data across multiple geographically separated AZs. Financial Guidance The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of April 29, 2021, 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 29, 2021 regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, including those discussed above, and is highly dependent on numerous factors that we may not be able to predict or control, including: the duration and scope of the pandemic, including any recurrence; actions taken by governments, businesses, and individuals in response to the pandemic; the impact of the pandemic on global and regional economies and economic activity, workforce staffing and productivity, and our significant and continuing spending on employee safety measures; our ability to continue operations in affected areas; and consumer demand and spending patterns, as well as the effects on suppliers, creditors, and third-party sellers, all of which are uncertain. This guidance also assumes the impacts on consumer demand and spending patterns, including impacts due to concerns over the current economic outlook, will be in line with those experienced during the second quarter of 2021 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 of 2021, or whether other currently unanticipated direct or indirect consequences of the pandemic are reasonably likely to materially affect our operations. Second Quarter 2021 Guidance Net sales are expected to be between $110.0 billion and $116.0 billion, or to grow between 24% and 30% compared with second quarter 2020. This guidance anticipates a favorable impact of approximately 200 basis points from foreign exchange rates. Operating income is expected to be between $4.5 billion and $8.0 billion, compared with $5.8 billion in second quarter 2020. This guidance assumes approximately $1.5 billion of costs related to COVID-19. This guidance assumes that Prime Day occurs in second quarter 2021. 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, 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. 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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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (in millions) (unaudited) Three Months EndedMarch 31, Twelve Months EndedMarch 31, 2020 2021 2020 2021 CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, BEGINNING OF PERIOD $ 36,410 $ 42,377 $ 23,507 $ 27,505 OPERATING ACTIVITIES: Net income 2,535 8,107 10,563 26,903 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 5,362 7,508 22,297 27,397 Stock-based compensation 1,757 2,306 7,347 9,757 Other operating expense (income), net 67 30 244 (108 ) Other expense (income), net 565 (1,456 ) 451 (4,603 ) Deferred income taxes 322 1,703 704 827 Changes in operating assets and liabilities: Inventories 1,392 (304 ) (2,605 ) (4,545 ) Accounts receivable, net and other 1,262 (2,255 ) (6,018 ) (11,686 ) Accounts payable (8,044 ) (8,266 ) 6,532 17,258 Accrued expenses and other (2,761 ) (4,060 ) (1,213 ) 4,455 Unearned revenue 607 900 1,430 1,558 Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 3,064 4,213 39,732 67,213 INVESTING ACTIVITIES: Purchases of property and equipment (6,795 ) (12,082 ) (20,365 ) (45,427 ) Proceeds from property and equipment sales and incentives 1,367 895 4,970 4,624 Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and other (91 ) (630 ) (1,384 ) (2,864 ) Sales and maturities of marketable securities 11,626 17,826 31,664 56,437 Purchases of marketable securities (15,001 ) (14,675 ) (39,938 ) (72,153 ) Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities (8,894 ) (8,666 ) (25,053 ) (59,383 ) FINANCING ACTIVITIES: Proceeds from short-term debt, and other 617 1,926 1,934 8,105 Repayments of short-term debt, and other (631 ) (2,001 ) (1,860 ) (7,547 ) Proceeds from long-term debt 76 111 842 10,560 Repayments of long-term debt (36 ) (39 ) (1,140 ) (1,556 ) Principal repayments of finance leases (2,600 ) (3,406 ) (10,013 ) (11,448 ) Principal repayments of financing obligations (17 ) (67 ) (43 ) (103 ) Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities (2,591 ) (3,476 ) (10,280 ) (1,989 ) Foreign currency effect on cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash (484 ) (293 ) (401 ) 809 Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash (8,905 ) (8,222 ) 3,998 6,650 CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, END OF PERIOD $ 27,505 $ 34,155 $ 27,505 $ 34,155 SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION: Cash paid for interest on debt $ 290 $ 276 $ 879 $ 902 Cash paid for operating leases 1,029 1,640 3,680 5,086 Cash paid for interest on finance leases 168 157 650 601 Cash paid for interest on financing obligations 22 33 59 113 Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds 305 801 1,017 2,209 Assets acquired under operating leases 2,408 3,536 9,403 17,345 Property and equipment acquired under finance leases 2,166 2,067 13,262 11,489 Property and equipment acquired under build-to-suit arrangements 379 887 1,304 2,775 AMAZON.COM, INC. Consolidated Statements of Operations (in millions, except per share data) (unaudited) Three Months EndedMarch 31, 2020 2021 Net product sales $ 41,841 $ 57,491 Net service sales 33,611 51,027 Total net sales 75,452 108,518 Operating expenses: Cost of sales 44,257 62,403 Fulfillment 11,531 16,530 Technology and content 9,325 12,488 Marketing 4,828 6,207 General and administrative 1,452 1,987 Other operating expense (income), net 70 38 Total operating expenses 71,463 99,653 Operating income 3,989 8,865 Interest income 202 105 Interest expense (402 ) (399 ) Other income (expense), net (406 ) 1,697 Total non-operating income (expense) (606 ) 1,403 Income before income taxes 3,383 10,268 Provision for income taxes (744 ) (2,156 ) Equity-method investment activity, net of tax (104 ) (5 ) Net income $ 2,535 $ 8,107 Basic earnings per share $ 5.09 $ 16.09 Diluted earnings per share $ 5.01 $ 15.79 Weighted-average shares used in computation of earnings per share: Basic 498 504 Diluted 506 513 AMAZON.COM, INC. Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (in millions) (unaudited) Three Months EndedMarch 31, 2020 2021 Net income $ 2,535 $ 8,107 Other comprehensive income (loss): Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax of $21 and $13 (874 ) (374 ) Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities: Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax of $12 and $30 (203 ) (98 ) Reclassification adjustment for losses (gains) included in "Other income (expense), net," net of tax of $0 and $4 — (14 ) Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities (203 ) (112 ) Total other comprehensive income (loss) (1,077 ) (486 ) Comprehensive income $ 1,458 $ 7,621 AMAZON.COM, INC. Segment Information (in millions) (unaudited) Three Months EndedMarch 31, 2020 2021 North America Net sales $ 46,127 $ 64,366 Operating expenses 44,815 60,916 Operating income $ 1,312 $ 3,450 International Net sales $ 19,106 $ 30,649 Operating expenses 19,504 29,397 Operating income (loss) $ (398 ) $ 1,252 AWS Net sales $ 10,219 $ 13,503 Operating expenses 7,144 9,340 Operating income $ 3,075 $ 4,163 Consolidated Net sales $ 75,452 $ 108,518 Operating expenses 71,463 99,653 Operating income 3,989 8,865 Total non-operating income (expense) (606 ) 1,403 Provision for income taxes (744 ) (2,156 ) Equity-method investment activity, net of tax (104 ) (5 ) Net income $ 2,535 $ 8,107 Segment Highlights: Y/Y net sales growth: North America 29 % 40 % International 18 60 AWS 33 32 Consolidated 26 44 Net sales mix: North America 61 % 59 % International 25 28 AWS 14 13 Consolidated 100 % 100 % AMAZON.COM, INC. Consolidated Balance Sheets (in millions, except per share data) December 31,2020 March 31,2021 (unaudited) ASSETS Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $ 42,122 $ 33,834 Marketable securities 42,274 39,436 Inventories 23,795 23,849 Accounts receivable, net and other 24,542 24,289 Total current assets 132,733 121,408 Property and equipment, net 113,114 121,461 Operating leases 37,553 39,328 Goodwill 15,017 15,220 Other assets 22,778 25,660 Total assets $ 321,195 $ 323,077 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY Current liabilities: Accounts payable $ 72,539 $ 63,926 Accrued expenses and other 44,138 40,939 Unearned revenue 9,708 10,539 Total current liabilities 126,385 115,404 Long-term lease liabilities 52,573 53,067 Long-term debt 31,816 31,868 Other long-term liabilities 17,017 19,418 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 — 527 and 528 Outstanding shares — 503 and 504 5 5 Treasury stock, at cost (1,837 ) (1,837 ) Additional paid-in capital 42,865 45,160 Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (180 ) (666 ) Retained earnings 52,551 60,658 Total stockholders' equity 93,404 103,320 Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 321,195 $ 323,077 AMAZON.COM, INC. Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics (in millions, except per share data) (unaudited) Q4 2019 Q1 2020 Q2 2020 Q3 2020 Q4 2020 Q1 2021 Y/Y %Change Cash Flows and Shares Operating cash flow -- trailing twelve months (TTM) $ 38,514 $ 39,732 $ 51,220 $ 55,292 $ 66,064 $ 67,213 69 % Operating cash flow -- TTM Y/Y growth 25 % 16 % 42 % 56 % 72 % 69 % N/A Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives -- TTM $ 12,689 $ 15,395 $ 19,368 $ 25,791 $ 35,044 $ 40,803 165 % Principal repayments of finance leases -- TTM $ 9,628 $ 10,013 $ 10,504 $ 11,054 $ 10,642 $ 11,448 14 % Principal repayments of financing obligations -- TTM $ 27 $ 43 $ 56 $ 68 $ 53 $ 103 140 % Equipment acquired under finance leases -- TTM (1) $ 12,916 $ 12,209 $ 11,952 $ 11,116 $ 9,104 $ 8,936 (27 )% Principal repayments of all other finance leases -- TTM (2) $ 392 $ 407 $ 415 $ 413 $ 427 $ 525 29 % Free cash flow -- TTM (3) $ 25,825 $ 24,337 $ 31,852 $ 29,501 $ 31,020 $ 26,410 9 % Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations -- TTM (4) $ 16,170 $ 14,281 $ 21,292 $ 18,379 $ 20,325 $ 14,859 4 % Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations -- TTM (5) $ 12,490 $ 11,678 $ 19,429 $ 17,904 $ 21,436 $ 16,846 44 % Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding 512 513 517 518 518 519 1 % Common shares outstanding 498 499 501 502 503 504 1 % Stock-based awards outstanding 14 14 16 16 15 15 5 % Stock-based awards outstanding -- % of common shares outstanding 2.9 % 2.8 % 3.2 % 3.3 % 3.0 % 2.9 % N/A Results of Operations Worldwide (WW) net sales $ 87,437 $ 75,452 $ 88,912 $ 96,145 $ 125,555 $ 108,518 44 % WW net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 21 % 27 % 41 % 36 % 42 % 41 % N/A WW net sales -- TTM $ 280,522 $ 296,274 $ 321,782 $ 347,946 $ 386,064 $ 419,130 41 % WW net sales -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 22 % 23 % 28 % 31 % 37 % 40 % N/A Operating income $ 3,879 $ 3,989 $ 5,843 $ 6,194 $ 6,873 $ 8,865 122 % F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ 16 $ 63 $ 111 $ 133 $ 142 $ 107 N/A Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X 2 % (11 )% 86 % 92 % 74 % 120 % N/A Operating margin -- % of WW net sales 4.4 % 5.3 % 6.6 % 6.4 % 5.5 % 8.2 % N/A Operating income -- TTM $ 14,541 $ 14,109 $ 16,868 $ 19,905 $ 22,899 $ 27,775 97 % Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X 16 % (6 )% 11 % 36 % 54 % 93 % N/A Operating margin -- TTM % of WW net sales 5.2 % 4.8 % 5.2 % 5.7 % 5.9 % 6.6 % N/A Net income $ 3,268 $ 2,535 $ 5,243 $ 6,331 $ 7,222 $ 8,107 220 % Net income per diluted share $ 6.47 $ 5.01 $ 10.30 $ 12.37 $ 14.09 $ 15.79 215 % Net income -- TTM $ 11,588 $ 10,563 $ 13,180 $ 17,377 $ 21,331 $ 26,903 155 % Net income per diluted share -- TTM $ 23.01 $ 20.93 $ 26.04 $ 34.21 $ 41.83 $ 52.59 151 % ______________________________ (1) For the twelve months ended March 31, 2020 and 2021, this amount relates to equipment included in "Property and equipment acquired under finance leases" of $13,262 million and $11,489 million. (2) For the twelve months ended March 31, 2020 and 2021, this amount relates to property included in "Principal repayments of finance leases" of $10,013 million and $11,448 million. (3) Free cash flow is cash flow from operations reduced by "Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives." (4) 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." (5) 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) Q4 2019 Q1 2020 Q2 2020 Q3 2020 Q4 2020 Q1 2021 Y/Y %Change Segments North America Segment: Net sales $ 53,670 $ 46,127 $ 55,436 $ 59,373 $ 75,346 $ 64,366 40 % Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 22 % 29 % 44 % 39 % 40 % 39 % N/A Net sales -- TTM $ 170,773 $ 181,088 $ 197,871 $ 214,606 $ 236,282 $ 254,521 41 % Operating income $ 1,900 $ 1,312 $ 2,141 $ 2,252 $ 2,946 $ 3,450 163 % F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ (3 ) $ 5 $ (4 ) $ — $ 7 $ 8 N/A Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X (16 )% (43 )% 37 % 76 % 55 % 162 % N/A Operating margin -- % of North America net sales 3.5 % 2.8 % 3.9 % 3.8 % 3.9 % 5.4 % N/A Operating income -- TTM $ 7,033 $ 6,057 $ 6,634 $ 7,604 $ 8,651 $ 10,789 78 % Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales 4.1 % 3.4 % 3.4 % 3.5 % 3.7 % 4.2 % N/A International Segment: Net sales $ 23,813 $ 19,106 $ 22,668 $ 25,171 $ 37,467 $ 30,649 60 % Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 15 % 20 % 41 % 33 % 50 % 50 % N/A Net sales -- TTM $ 74,723 $ 77,637 $ 83,935 $ 90,758 $ 104,412 $ 115,955 49 % Operating income (loss) $ (617 ) $ (398 ) $ 345 $ 407 $ 363 $ 1,252 N/A F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ (7 ) $ (5 ) $ 32 $ 152 $ 232 $ 270 N/A Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X (5 )% 338 % N/A N/A N/A 347 % N/A Operating margin -- % of International net sales (2.6 )% (2.1 )% 1.5 % 1.6 % 1.0 % 4.1 % N/A Operating income (loss) -- TTM $ (1,693 ) $ (2,001 ) $ (1,055 ) $ (262 ) $ 717 $ 2,367 N/A Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales (2.3 )% (2.6 )% (1.3 )% (0.3 )% 0.7 % 2.0 % N/A AWS Segment: Net sales $ 9,954 $ 10,219 $ 10,808 $ 11,601 $ 12,742 $ 13,503 32 % Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 34 % 33 % 29 % 29 % 28 % 32 % N/A Net sales -- TTM $ 35,026 $ 37,549 $ 39,976 $ 42,582 $ 45,370 $ 48,654 30 % Operating income $ 2,596 $ 3,075 $ 3,357 $ 3,535 $ 3,564 $ 4,163 35 % F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ 26 $ 63 $ 83 $ (20 ) $ (96 ) $ (171 ) N/A Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 18 % 36 % 54 % 57 % 41 % 41 % N/A Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales 26.1 % 30.1 % 31.1 % 30.5 % 28.0 % 30.8 % N/A Operating income -- TTM $ 9,201 $ 10,053 $ 11,289 $ 12,563 $ 13,531 $ 14,619 45 % Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales 26.3 % 26.8 % 28.2 % 29.5 % 29.8 % 30.0 % N/A AMAZON.COM, INC. Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics (in millions, except employee data) (unaudited) Q4 2019 Q1 2020 Q2 2020 Q3 2020 Q4 2020 Q1 2021 Y/Y %Change Net Sales Online stores (1) $ 45,657 $ 36,652 $ 45,896 $ 48,350 $ 66,451 $ 52,901 44 % Online stores -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 15 % 25 % 49 % 37 % 43 % 41 % N/A Physical stores (2) $ 4,363 $ 4,640 $ 3,774 $ 3,788 $ 4,022 $ 3,920 (16 )% Physical stores -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X (1 )% 8 % (13 )% (10 )% (7 )% (16 )% N/A Third-party seller services (3) $ 17,446 $ 14,479 $ 18,195 $ 20,436 $ 27,327 $ 23,709 64 % Third-party seller services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 31 % 31 % 53 % 53 % 54 % 60 % N/A Subscription services (4) $ 5,235 $ 5,556 $ 6,018 $ 6,572 $ 7,061 $ 7,580 36 % Subscription services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 32 % 29 % 30 % 32 % 34 % 34 % N/A AWS $ 9,954 $ 10,219 $ 10,808 $ 11,601 $ 12,742 $ 13,503 32 % AWS -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 34 % 33 % 29 % 29 % 28 % 32 % N/A Other (5) $ 4,782 $ 3,906 $ 4,221 $ 5,398 $ 7,952 $ 6,905 77 % Other -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 41 % 44 % 41 % 49 % 64 % 73 % N/A Stock-based Compensation Expense Cost of sales $ 43 $ 41 $ 76 $ 75 $ 91 $ 90 116 % Fulfillment $ 286 $ 260 $ 417 $ 316 $ 364 $ 342 31 % Technology and content $ 1,007 $ 961 $ 1,421 $ 1,267 $ 1,412 $ 1,228 28 % Marketing $ 322 $ 332 $ 456 $ 446 $ 476 $ 456 38 % General and administrative $ 182 $ 163 $ 231 $ 184 $ 219 $ 190 16 % Total stock-based compensation expense $ 1,840 $ 1,757 $ 2,601 $ 2,288 $ 2,562 $ 2,306 31 % Other WW shipping costs $ 12,884 $ 10,936 $ 13,652 $ 15,063 $ 21,465 $ 17,162 57 % WW shipping costs -- Y/Y growth 43 % 49 % 68 % 57 % 67 % 57 % N/A WW paid units -- Y/Y growth (6) 22 % 32 % 57 % 46 % 47 % 44 % N/A WW seller unit mix -- % of WW paid units (6) 53 % 52 % 53 % 54 % 55 % 55 % N/A Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) 798,000 840,400 876,800 1,125,300 1,298,000 1,271,000 51 % Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) -- Y/Y growth 23 % 33 % 34 % 50 % 63 % 51 % 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, videos, games, music, 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 to 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 digital video, audiobook, 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) 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/20210429006037/en/ Amazon Investor RelationsDave Fildes, amazon-ir@amazon.comamazon.com/ir Amazon Public RelationsDan Perlet, amazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 29, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2021.</p><ul><li>Operating cash flow increased 69% to $67.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $39.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020.</li><li>Free cash flow increased to $26.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $24.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020.</li><li>Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations increased to $14.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $14.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020.</li><li>Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations increased to $16.8 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020.</li><li>Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 519 million on March 31, 2021, compared with 513 million one year ago.</li><li>Net sales increased 44% to $108.5 billion in the first quarter, compared with $75.5 billion in first quarter 2020. Excluding the $2.1 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 41% compared with first quarter 2020.</li><li>Operating income increased to $8.9 billion in the first quarter, compared with operating income of $4.0 billion in first quarter 2020.</li><li>Net income increased to $8.1 billion in the first quarter, or $15.79 per diluted share, compared with net income of $2.5 billion, or $5.01 per diluted share, in first quarter 2020.</li></ul><p>"Two of our kids are now 10 and 15 years old—and after years of being nurtured, they're growing up fast and coming into their own," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "As Prime Video turns 10, over 175 million Prime members have streamed shows and movies in the past year, and streaming hours are up more than 70% year over year. Amazon Studios received a record 12 Academy Award nominations and two wins. Upcoming originals include <em>Tom Clancy's Without Remorse</em>, <em>The Tomorrow War</em>, <em>The Underground Railroad</em>, and much more. In just 15 years, AWS has become a $54 billion annual sales run rate business competing against the world's largest technology companies, and its growth is accelerating—up 32% year over year. Companies from Airbnb to McDonald's to Volkswagen come to AWS because we offer what is by far the broadest set of tools and services available, and we continue to invent relentlessly on their behalf. We love Prime Video and AWS, and we're proud to have them in the family."</p><p>Highlights</p><p><em>Our Vision to be Earth's Best Employer and Earth's Safest Place to Work</em></p><ul><li>Amazon ranked #1 in the U.S. on LinkedIn's 2021 Top Companies, an annual list identifying the most sought-after places to work based on their ability to attract and retain the best talent, including promotions, opportunities for employees to learn new skills, hiring people from all backgrounds and levels of education, and gender diversity. In addition, Amazon ranked #2 on the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies list and #3 on Boston Consulting Group's Most Innovative Companies list.</li><li>In partnership with government and public health officials across the globe, Amazon is rapidly expanding on-site COVID-19 vaccination programs for its front-line employees and contractors. In addition to offering COVID-19 testing on-site, Amazon has hosted vaccination events at fulfillment centers, sort centers, delivery stations, and AWS data centers in 29 states, reaching more than 300,000 front-line employees and contractors. In some locations, Amazon opened the vaccination program to employee household members. Given the vaccination program's progress in the U.S., it will soon expand to front-line employees in other countries.</li><li>Amazon is committed to leading the way for workplaces around the world to proactively manage—and prevent—work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) by drawing on expertise in innovation and technology, and collaborating with proven thought leaders and scientists. MSDs are common in the type of work done in warehouse operations and are more likely to occur during an employee's first six months. Amazon's increased attention to early MSD prevention is already achieving results. From 2019 to 2020, overall MSDs decreased by 32% and MSDs resulting in time away from work decreased by more than half.</li><li>Amazon is expanding its workplace health and safety program WorkingWell with the aim of cutting recordable incident rates by 50% by 2025. WorkingWell is currently available to 859,000 employees at 350 sites across North America and Europe. Through the program, small groups of employees are coached on body mechanics, proactive wellness, and safety. In addition to reducing workplace injuries, these concepts have a positive impact on regular day-to-day activities and have contributed to reducing MSD recordable incident rates.</li><li>Since 2020, in partnership with Crossover Health, Amazon opened 17 neighborhood health centers for employees and their families in the areas around Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Louisville, Kentucky; Phoenix, Arizona; and San Bernardino, California. Centers are located next to where employees live and work to provide affordable, convenient, and high quality health care, and patients report a 90% satisfaction score. Amazon is evaluating expansion of the program so that even more employees can access quality care whenever, and wherever, they need it.</li><li>Amazon is fitting delivery vehicles with camera safety technology and artificial intelligence to capture real-time data (such as following safe distance and road conditions) to identify at-risk driving events. These technologies are used to help keep drivers and the communities where Amazon delivers safe. When this technology was piloted in 2020 on over two million miles of delivery routes, crashes decreased 48%, stop sign violations decreased 20%, driving without a seatbelt decreased 60%, and distracted driving decreased 45%.</li><li>Amazon shared comprehensive companywide goals related to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts for 2021. Goals include increasing representation of women in tech and science roles, doubling the number of Black directors and VPs for the second year in a row, and having 100% of Amazon employees take inclusion training. In addition, to evaluate progress over time, Amazon increased the amount and specificity of the data shared publicly about its employees. The expanded dataset includes representation by job type, such as front-line associates and corporate employees, and expands historical data to the past three years.</li><li>Amazon pulled forward its annual fall pay review for its U.S. Customer Fulfillment, Delivery, Package Sortation, and Specialty Fulfillment teams, and will be rolling out increases from mid-May through early June. More than 500,000 people will see an increase between at least 50 cents and $3 an hour, which is an investment of over $1 billion in incremental pay for these employees.</li><li>In India, Amazon announced it has added nearly 300,000 new direct and indirect jobs since its last announcement in January 2020, putting the company on track to meet its pledge to create an additional one million new jobs in India by 2025.</li></ul><p><em>Supporting Communities</em></p><ul><li>Amazon donated and delivered relief and emergency aid supplies—including over one million bottles of water and thousands of items such as flashlights, tents, and search and rescue equipment—to communities impacted by the winter storm crisis in Texas and Mississippi in February and severe storms in Tennessee and Alabama in March.</li><li>Amazon Future Engineer, the company's computer science education program for students from underserved communities, launched in France and Canada. With this expansion, the program now reaches over one million students globally each year. Amazon Future Engineer also donated $15 million to Code.org to develop a new equity-minded Advanced Placement computer science curriculum, which aims to increase access, participation, and long-term success for high school students from communities underrepresented in tech.</li><li>Amazon announced a year-long partnership with The King Memorial Foundation, the organization responsible for building and maintaining the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. Over the next year, AWS will support the Memorial Foundation's Social Justice Fellows Program, which aims to help program participants develop their professional skills by providing them with mentorship opportunities with Amazon employees, as well as free cloud and STEM training and certification. For the partnership kick-off, Amazon joined the Foundation in a Day of Service project, delivering essential, personal care items to shelters in seven D.C. wards.</li><li>Since January, Amazon has opened its Seattle campus to Virginia Mason Franciscan Health for public COVID-19 vaccinations. As of April 15, nearly 50,000 immunizations have been administered to the public through weekend pop-up clinics staffed by Amazon and community volunteers. Amazon is also providing volunteers and technology to support the Washington State vaccine call center. Since the initiative launched in late March, the system has processed over 100,000 calls and has eliminated wait times.</li><li>Amazon continued its efforts to support children in need across Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the UK, Amazon donated 10,000 Fire tablets to schools lacking technology and delivered more than four million breakfasts to children in need through charity partner Magic Breakfast. In Italy and Spain, Amazon donated millions of euros to over 35,000 schools through a program that allows customers to choose the schools to which Amazon will donate.</li><li>Since 2019, Amazon has worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state agencies to ensure customers in nearly all 50 states can shop for groceries on Amazon using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Amazon remains committed to increasing food access in the U.S.—especially in healthy food priority areas—and is helping raise awareness among residents about the convenient, safe, and affordably priced grocery delivery options Amazon offers their communities. As part of its ongoing work to increase food access, Amazon is establishing partnerships with local anti-hunger organizations to assist communities in need.</li><li>Amazon added new Alexa features to help provide localized answers to questions on COVID-19 testing and vaccine eligibility, including the ability for customers to find and call nearby vaccine locations for booking appointments.</li><li>Ring announced a new community program with Kids Off the Block, a Chicago-based nonprofit focused on providing local at-risk youth a care center for personal growth and empowerment. Ring also donated 1,000 Ring Video Doorbells and Ring subscriptions to support families and individuals in Chicago neighborhoods.</li><li>Amazon introduced the Alexa Hörfilm skill in Germany, providing blind and visually-impaired customers with access to more than 3,500 TV series and movies with audio description. The skill was developed and built together with DBSV, the German association of blind or visually-impaired persons, and participating TV stations ARD, ZDF, and ARTE.</li></ul><p><em>The Climate Pledge</em></p><ul><li>Amazon continues to make progress toward powering all its businesses with 100% renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. Amazon has announced a total of 206 renewable energy projects globally, including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 rooftop solar installations at facilities and stores worldwide. Amazon is now the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy globally as well as in Europe, where the company is investing in more than 2.5 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity—enough to power more than two million homes a year.</li><li>Amazon welcomed 52 new signatories to The Climate Pledge, a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and achieve net-zero carbon by 2040. More than 100 companies representing over $1.4 trillion in global annual revenues and over five million employees have now joined the pledge, sending an important signal to the market that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. New signatories include Alaska Airlines, Colgate-Palmolive, HEINEKEN, PepsiCo, Telefónica, and Visa.</li><li>The Climate Pledge Fund invested in Infinium, a renewable electrofuels solution provider, and Turntide Technologies, an electric motor company. These investments help Amazon and other companies meet the goals of The Climate Pledge as we all work together to protect the planet.</li><li>Amazon announced a partnership with Mahindra Electric, a manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs), to deploy nearly 100 Treo Zor electric vehicles in seven Indian cities as part of Amazon India's plan to include 10,000 EVs in its delivery fleet by 2025. These EVs are in addition to The Climate Pledge's commitment to have 100,000 EVs in Amazon's delivery fleet by 2030.</li></ul><p><em>Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses</em></p><ul><li>In recognition of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, Amazon partnered with Diane von Furstenberg to help empower more than 100 women-owned businesses by launching dedicated women-owned small business stores in the U.S. and a dozen other countries around the world, making it easy for customers to discover and learn about women-owned sellers and shop from their selection of thousands of products. To help raise awareness of women-owned businesses and support their success, von Furstenberg hosted a virtual event on Amazon Live and shared her own experience and insights on being an entrepreneur.</li><li>Amazon celebrated Black History Month by launching a Black-owned small business store with products from third-party sellers, enabling customers to discover and shop from Black business owners. Amazon also hosted an Amazon Live event with celebrities and entrepreneurs Tia Mowry and Karamo Brown during which Black Amazon sellers shared their insights about launching and building a small business.</li><li>Amazon announced the Amazon Launchpad Innovation Awards, a free competition designed to support emerging, innovative European startups. A judging panel will select five startups to each win a €10,000 grant and free access to Amazon Launchpad for one year. The "Startup of the Year" winner will receive an additional €90,000 grant.</li><li>Amazon India announced it has digitized 2.5 million small and medium-sized businesses, enabled cumulative exports worth $3 billion, and announced the $250 million Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund. The fund will encourage the best ideas to digitize small and medium-sized businesses, drive technology-led innovation in agriculture to improve farmer productivity, and enable healthcare access.</li><li>Amazon India announced that more than 50,000 offline retailers and neighborhood stores joined the Local Shops on Amazon program in its first year. It also committed to bringing one million Local Shops online by 2025. Launched in April 2020, the Local Shops on Amazon program helps sellers sustain their livelihoods and jumpstart their businesses.</li></ul><p><em>Shopping</em></p><ul><li>There are now more than 200 million paid Prime members worldwide. Members have exclusive access to deals every day and especially during Prime Day, which will take place later in the second quarter.</li><li>Amazon continues to innovate and invest in fast, free, and convenient delivery for customers. In the U.S., Same-Day Delivery in as fast as five hours is free on orders over $35 on over three million items in select cities. This is in addition to Free Same-Day Delivery on millions of items in thousands of cities and towns across 47 major U.S. metro areas, plus over 10 million items available for Free One-Day Delivery coast to coast. These fast and efficient deliveries are powered by Amazon's last mile network of delivery driver partners—small businesses creating tens of thousands of new jobs across the country.</li><li>Amazon continues to expand Amazon Scout, a fully electric autonomous delivery system. Similar in size to a small cooler on wheels, Amazon Scout rolls down the sidewalk at walking pace and delivers items right to customers. Since its launch, Scout has delivered tens of thousands of packages to customers in California, Georgia, Tennessee, and Washington, and the program is continuing to expand to new communities in the U.S.</li><li>The new Prime prescription savings benefit offers pharmacy savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S., including Amazon Pharmacy. Amazon has helped Prime members save millions of dollars on prescription medications so far this year when paying without insurance, both at Amazon Pharmacy and other local pharmacies.</li><li>Amazon expanded Discover Rooms, an immersive shopping experience that helps customers browse and shop from thousands of home room designs and instantly discover home furnishing product inspiration based on visual attributes. The experience is now available in nine countries, including Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK, and the U.S.</li><li>Prime Wardrobe, Amazon's "try before you buy" offering, expanded selection and launched new innovations for customers, including the ability to chat live with Amazon Stylists for personalized recommendations and trial items recommended by their favorite fashion influencers and websites.</li><li>In the U.S., Amazon launched an expanded assortment of NFL merchandise, including replica jerseys and hats, at amazon.com/NFL. Customers can now shop thousands of additional products on Amazon from NFL Pro Line, Fanatics, New Era, Outerstuff, '47, and other top brands. Amazon also made enhancements to the sports fan shopping experience, including improved navigation in Your Fanshop and personalized game celebrations for customers' favorite teams.</li><li>Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit continues to work aggressively with law enforcement, industry associations, brand owners, and academics to bring counterfeit to zero. Examples this quarter include working with the U.S. National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center to prevent counterfeit Super Bowl LV merchandise from reaching consumers and partnering with Pennsylvania-based, family-owned card game maker Dutch Blitz and Italian luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo to file lawsuits against multiple counterfeiters and hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law.</li><li>In March, Amazon launched Amazon.pl, offering Polish customers a selection of more than 100 million products across more than 30 categories, including products from thousands of European and local Polish businesses. Amazon has been operating in Poland since 2014, has created over 18,000 permanent jobs, and will open its tenth fulfillment center in Swiebodzin in 2021, adding more than 1,000 new jobs to Amazon's existing network in Poland.</li><li>Amazon opened its first international physical retail stores powered by Just Walk Out technology with the launch of three Amazon Fresh locations in London. These new convenience grocery stores sell a range of products, including the new "by Amazon" private brand, and enable shoppers to enter a store, grab what they want, and leave without stopping to check out. There are now 15 Amazon Fresh physical stores around the world.</li><li>Amazon Fresh grocery stores expanded into four new communities in the U.S.: Oak Lawn, Illinois; Bloomingdale, Illinois; Fullerton, California; and Long Beach, California, creating hundreds of regular full- and part-time jobs in each community with starting wages of at least $15 per hour and comprehensive benefits.</li><li>Amazon announced that millions of Prime members now have access to Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery in more than 5,000 cities and towns in the U.S., enabling them to enjoy free, contactless, and secure in-garage delivery of grocery orders from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh.</li><li>Amazon One—a fast, convenient, contactless way for people to use their palm to enter, identify, and pay—launched as a payment option at Whole Foods Market, starting with the Madison Broadway store in Seattle. Amazon One will be added as a payment option at additional Whole Foods Market stores in the Seattle area in the coming months.</li><li>Delaware North, a global leader in hospitality and food service, announced the opening of two checkout-free convenience stores using Amazon's Just Walk Out technology at TD Garden, an entertainment venue in Boston and home of the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins.</li><li>Amazon Business, the company's global procurement solution, now serves more than five million businesses and generated $25 billion in worldwide annualized sales. More than half of unit sales are from third-party sellers, such as women-, minority-, or veteran-owned businesses that have been certified by U.S. diversity-certifying organizations such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and Women's Business Enterprise National Council. In the U.S., Amazon Business serves 45 states and 80 of the Fortune 100 companies, including Citigroup, Intel, Cisco, and ExxonMobil.</li><li>Amazon continues to expand its air cargo network to meet growing customer demand. In January, the company announced the purchase of 11 aircraft from Delta and WestJet to expand its Amazon Air fleet to more than 85 aircraft by the end of 2022. Amazon also announced new Amazon Air sites in Toledo, Ohio and Fairbanks, Alaska, and plans to expand existing operations in Canada this summer.</li></ul><p><em>Entertainment</em></p><ul><li>This quarter marked Amazon Studios' most successful awards season to date and the first time a streaming service has won a best picture Golden Globe award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Original titles earned 10 Golden Globe nominations and three awards for <em>Small Axe</em> (Supporting Actor John Boyega) and <em>Borat Subsequent Moviefilm</em> (Best Picture Musical/Comedy and Best Actor Musical/Comedy). Amazon Studios also earned 12 Academy Award nominations, a record for the studio, across four films: <em>One Night in Miami…</em>, <em>Borat Subsequent Moviefilm</em>, <em>Time</em>, and <em>Sound of Metal</em>, which won two awards (Best Sound and Best Film Editing).</li><li><em>Coming 2 America</em> launched worldwide on Prime Video, becoming the #1 streamed movie its opening weekend and the #1 opening weekend for a streamed movie this year according to Screen Engine/ASI. Regina King's feature directorial debut <em>One Night in Miami…</em> also launched to critical acclaim, receiving numerous accolades, including a Critics' Choice Award as well as Golden Globe, SAG, and Oscar nominations. In addition, new Amazon Original <em>Invincible</em> premiered to praise from TV critics, and Prime Video debuted Local Originals <em>The Stand</em> (Canada), <em>Guerra de Likes</em> (Mexico), <em>The Great Escapists</em> (UK), <em>La Templanza</em> (Spain), and <em>We Children from Bahnhof Zoo</em> (Germany).</li><li>Amazon Studios continues to invest in diverse creators and content. This quarter, Amazon Studios announced new series for Prime Video, including a <em>Mr. and Mrs. Smith</em> remake created by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover, as well as a young adult series <em>The Summer I Turned Pretty</em> from writer Jenny Han. The studio also announced that the sci-fi action film <em>The Tomorrow War</em> from Skydance Media starring Chris Pratt will premiere on July 2.</li><li>Amazon announced that Prime Video will become the exclusive home for Thursday Night Football beginning in 2023—making Prime Video the first streaming service to secure an exclusive national broadcast package from the NFL. The 10-year deal gives tens of millions of U.S. Prime members exclusive access to must-watch live football on Prime Video and also expands the Thursday Night Football package from 11 to 15 regular-season games.</li><li>Amazon, the New York Yankees, and YES Network announced 21 regular-season games will stream on Prime Video in 2021. All games will be available to stream throughout New York State, Connecticut, northeast Pennsylvania, and north and central New Jersey at no additional cost to Prime members. All Yankees games on Prime Video this season will feature Amazon's exclusive X-Ray technology, which gives real-time access to live in-game stats, team and player details, and real-time play-by-play information. In addition, Prime Video will air a new 15-minute pregame show ahead of the first pitch for every Prime Video broadcast.</li><li>The Live Sports offering for Prime Video continues to grow internationally. In the first quarter, Prime Video broadcast five additional Premier League football matches in the UK. Prime Video also kicked off 2021 coverage of the ATP and WTA Tour tennis tournaments, including exclusive coverage of the Miami Open. In Australia, Prime Video announced an exclusive, two-year, live broadcast streaming deal to distribute the Australian Swimming championship events globally on Prime Video at no additional cost to Prime members.</li><li>Amazon Music continues to expand its international reach of podcasts, launching localized offerings in France, Italy, Spain, and India for customers across all streaming tiers, at no additional cost. Amazon Music also announced the integration of artist merchandise into the Amazon Music app, providing a new shopping experience for music fans. Customers can now shop a curated, Prime-eligible selection of artist merchandise while listening to their favorite music, uninterrupted.</li></ul><p><em>Amazon Devices and Services</em></p><ul><li>Amazon introduced the next generation of Echo Buds, featuring an all-new design, premium audio, custom-designed Active Noise Cancellation technology, wireless charging capabilities, improved microphones, and hands-free access to Alexa.</li><li>Amazon announced Build It, a new Day 1 Editions program that gives customers a say in the devices Amazon builds next. The first wave of concepts included a Smart Sticky Note Printer, a Smart Nutrition Scale, and a Smart Cuckoo Clock. In just three days, the Smart Sticky Note Printer hit its pre-order goal and is being built.</li><li>Amazon announced new Alexa features, such as Music Sharing with Alexa, which allows users to share songs with friends and family who are Alexa contacts, and Alexa for Xbox, which gives U.S. and Canadian customers more ways to interact with their consoles using their voice—such as asking Alexa to download games remotely through Xbox's Game Pass service.</li><li>Amazon launched a new Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, in which university teams will compete to develop conversational AI agents to help customers complete tasks requiring multiple steps and decisions. It is the first conversational AI challenge to incorporate multimodal—voice and vision—customer experiences.</li><li>As part of the Fairness in AI program, the National Science Foundation and Amazon announced the next cohort of 37 researchers focused on 11 projects covering a range of topics, including: theoretical and algorithmic foundations; principles for human interaction with AI systems; technologies such as natural language understanding and computer vision; and applications including hiring decisions, education, criminal justice, and human services.</li><li>Ring introduced Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 and Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro, both featuring 3D Motion Detection and Bird's Eye View powered by radar technology. Ring also announced several other products and features, including Ring Video Doorbell 4, Smart Responses and Geofence for compatible devices, and Ring Alarm (2nd Gen) for the UK and Europe.</li><li>Amazon launched the Alexa Built-in experience in Lamborghini's Huracán EVO, the first vehicle to offer online car control capabilities with Alexa embedded. Amazon also launched the first application of the Alexa Connected Vehicle Skills API with Nissan, and Garmin announced it is the first Tier 1 automotive supplier to integrate Alexa Custom Assistant in its In-Vehicle Infotainment systems. Jeep announced Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer models will be the first to launch Fire TV for Auto, an on-the-go entertainment experience.</li></ul><p><em>Amazon Web Services</em></p><ul><li>AWS announced significant customer momentum, with new commitments and migrations from customers spanning many major industries.<ul><li>In telecommunications, DISH is leveraging AWS's advanced, reliable, and secure infrastructure to build a cloud-based, 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) to deliver consistent, cost-effective performance from the cloud to the edge of the network.</li><li>The media and entertainment industry continues to move to AWS at a rapid pace with The Walt Disney Company working with AWS on the expansion of Disney+ to more than 100 million subscribers around the world.</li><li>Some of the world's most renowned sports leagues are choosing AWS as their technology provider to transform the fan experience. For example, the National Hockey League (NHL) uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other AWS technologies to create new viewing experiences and in-depth stats and analytics, and the PGA TOUR (TOUR) uses AWS cloud and machine learning technologies to transform the way golf content is created, distributed, and experienced. The German Bundesliga, Germany's top national football league, uses AWS to power three new Bundesliga Match Facts to give fans deeper insights into action on the pitch, while Formula 1 (F1) uses a range of AWS technologies, including machine learning, for six new F1 Insights for the 2021 season that help motor racing fans understand the strategy of their favorite driver.</li><li>Automotive companies continue to choose AWS to support the development of their next-generation vehicles. Continental, one of the world's largest automotive parts manufacturers, announced they are collaborating with AWS to develop the Continental Automotive Edge Platform (CAEdge), which will allow automakers to develop, deploy, and manage code to run connected and autonomous vehicles. In addition, AWS and Torc Robotics, a subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, are collaborating to scale an autonomous truck development platform in the cloud so that Torc Robotics can accelerate testing and commercialization of autonomous driving technology. And ABB announced a collaboration with AWS to create a cloud-based fleet management system for electric vehicles, helping companies accelerate electrification of their fleets while maintaining business continuity.</li></ul></li><li>AWS announced the launch of a second full region in Japan—the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region—which is an expansion of the existing AWS Osaka Local Region. The new region consists of three Availability Zones (AZs) and joins the existing 25 Availability Zones in eight AWS Regions across Asia Pacific in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Globally, AWS has 80 Availability Zones across 25 geographic regions, with plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Spain, and Switzerland.</li><li>AWS and Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a new managed service that makes it easier for Red Hat OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. With ROSA, customers can enjoy more simplified Kubernetes cluster creation without the burden of manually scaling and managing the underlying infrastructure. ROSA streamlines moving on-premises Red Hat OpenShift workloads to AWS and offers a tighter integration with other AWS technologies.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift, an innovative new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that delivers up to ten times better query performance than other cloud data warehouses. AQUA brings compute to the storage layer, helping customers avoid networking bandwidth limitations by eliminating unnecessary data movement between where data is stored and compute clusters. With AQUA, customers have more up-to-date dashboards, save development time, and their systems are easier to maintain.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) X2gd instances, the next generation of advanced, memory-optimized instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors. New X2gd instances deliver up to 55% better price/performance compared to current generation x86-based X1 instances, while also offering increased memory per vCPU compared to other Graviton2-based instances. Together, the higher performance and additional memory of X2gd instances make it possible for customers to more efficiently run memory intensive workloads like in-memory databases, relational databases, electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, real-time analytics, and real-time caching servers.</li><li>AWS announced Amazon Lookout for Equipment, a new service that uses AWS-developed machine learning models to help customers perform predictive maintenance on the equipment in their facilities. Amazon Lookout for Equipment ingests sensor data from a customer's industrial equipment (e.g., pressure, flow rate, RPMs, temperature, and power), and then trains a unique machine learning model to accurately predict early warning signs of machine failure or suboptimal performance using real-time data streams from the customer's equipment. With Amazon Lookout for Equipment, customers can detect abnormalities with speed and precision, quickly diagnose issues, reduce false alerts, and avoid expensive downtime by taking action before machine failures occur.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Vision, a service that analyzes images using computer vision and sophisticated machine learning capabilities to spot product or process defects and anomalies. By employing advanced machine learning techniques, Amazon Lookout for Vision is able to train a model using as few as 30 images, which can help detect manufacturing and production defects (e.g., cracks, dents, incorrect color, irregular shape, etc.) in their products and prevent costly errors from progressing down an operational line and reaching customers.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Metrics, a new fully managed machine learning service that helps customers monitor the most important metrics for their business (e.g., revenue, web page views, active users, transaction volume, and mobile app installations) with greater speed and accuracy. The service also makes it easier to diagnose the root cause of anomalies like unexpected dips in revenue, high rates of abandoned shopping carts, spikes in payment transaction failures, increases in new user sign-ups, and more.</li><li>AWS announced new Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) One Zone storage classes that reduce storage costs by 47%, compared to existing Amazon EFS storage classes, while delivering the same features and benefits. One Zone storage classes redundantly store data within a single Availability Zone (AZ). These are ideal for customers who want cost-optimized file storage for workloads and applications (e.g., content management, developer applications, etc.) that do not require the level of availability and durability offered by regional Amazon EFS storage classes, which redundantly store data across multiple geographically separated AZs.</li></ul><p>Financial Guidance</p><p>The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of April 29, 2021, 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 29, 2021 regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, including those discussed above, and is highly dependent on numerous factors that we may not be able to predict or control, including: the duration and scope of the pandemic, including any recurrence; actions taken by governments, businesses, and individuals in response to the pandemic; the impact of the pandemic on global and regional economies and economic activity, workforce staffing and productivity, and our significant and continuing spending on employee safety measures; our ability to continue operations in affected areas; and consumer demand and spending patterns, as well as the effects on suppliers, creditors, and third-party sellers, all of which are uncertain. This guidance also assumes the impacts on consumer demand and spending patterns, including impacts due to concerns over the current economic outlook, will be in line with those experienced during the second quarter of 2021 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 of 2021, or whether other currently unanticipated direct or indirect consequences of the pandemic are reasonably likely to materially affect our operations.</p><p>Second Quarter 2021 Guidance</p><ul><li>Net sales are expected to be between $110.0 billion and $116.0 billion, or to grow between 24% and 30% compared with second quarter 2020. This guidance anticipates a favorable impact of approximately 200 basis points from foreign exchange rates.</li><li>Operating income is expected to be between $4.5 billion and $8.0 billion, compared with $5.8 billion in second quarter 2020. This guidance assumes approximately $1.5 billion of costs related to COVID-19.</li><li>This guidance assumes that Prime Day occurs in second quarter 2021.</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, 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. 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><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><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p><p>Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows</p><p>(in millions)</p><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Three Months EndedMarch 31,</p></td><td><p>Twelve Months EndedMarch 31,</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, BEGINNING OF PERIOD</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>36,410</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>42,377</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23,507</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>27,505</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OPERATING ACTIVITIES:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income</p></td><td><p>2,535</p></td><td><p>8,107</p></td><td><p>10,563</p></td><td><p>26,903</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>5,362</p></td><td><p>7,508</p></td><td><p>22,297</p></td><td><p>27,397</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stock-based compensation</p></td><td><p>1,757</p></td><td><p>2,306</p></td><td><p>7,347</p></td><td><p>9,757</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other operating expense (income), net</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>244</p></td><td><p>(108</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other expense (income), net</p></td><td><p>565</p></td><td><p>(1,456</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>451</p></td><td><p>(4,603</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deferred income taxes</p></td><td><p>322</p></td><td><p>1,703</p></td><td><p>704</p></td><td><p>827</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Changes in operating assets and liabilities:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inventories</p></td><td><p>1,392</p></td><td><p>(304</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,605</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(4,545</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accounts receivable, net and other</p></td><td><p>1,262</p></td><td><p>(2,255</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(6,018</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(11,686</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accounts payable</p></td><td><p>(8,044</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(8,266</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>6,532</p></td><td><p>17,258</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accrued expenses and other</p></td><td><p>(2,761</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(4,060</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,213</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>4,455</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unearned revenue</p></td><td><p>607</p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>1,430</p></td><td><p>1,558</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities</p></td><td><p>3,064</p></td><td><p>4,213</p></td><td><p>39,732</p></td><td><p>67,213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>INVESTING ACTIVITIES:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Purchases of property and equipment</p></td><td><p>(6,795</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(12,082</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(20,365</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(45,427</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proceeds from property and equipment sales and incentives</p></td><td><p>1,367</p></td><td><p>895</p></td><td><p>4,970</p></td><td><p>4,624</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and other</p></td><td><p>(91</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(630</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,384</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,864</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sales and maturities of marketable securities</p></td><td><p>11,626</p></td><td><p>17,826</p></td><td><p>31,664</p></td><td><p>56,437</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Purchases of marketable securities</p></td><td><p>(15,001</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(14,675</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(39,938</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(72,153</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities</p></td><td><p>(8,894</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(8,666</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(25,053</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(59,383</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FINANCING ACTIVITIES:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proceeds from short-term debt, and other</p></td><td><p>617</p></td><td><p>1,926</p></td><td><p>1,934</p></td><td><p>8,105</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Repayments of short-term debt, and other</p></td><td><p>(631</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,001</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,860</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(7,547</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proceeds from long-term debt</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>842</p></td><td><p>10,560</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Repayments of long-term debt</p></td><td><p>(36</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(39</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,140</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,556</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal repayments of finance leases</p></td><td><p>(2,600</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(3,406</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(10,013</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(11,448</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal repayments of financing obligations</p></td><td><p>(17</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(67</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(43</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(103</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities</p></td><td><p>(2,591</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(3,476</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(10,280</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,989</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign currency effect on cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash</p></td><td><p>(484</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(293</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(401</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>809</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash</p></td><td><p>(8,905</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(8,222</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>3,998</p></td><td><p>6,650</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, END OF PERIOD</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>27,505</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>34,155</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>27,505</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>34,155</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash paid for interest on debt</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>276</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>879</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>902</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash paid for operating leases</p></td><td><p>1,029</p></td><td><p>1,640</p></td><td><p>3,680</p></td><td><p>5,086</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash paid for interest on finance leases</p></td><td><p>168</p></td><td><p>157</p></td><td><p>650</p></td><td><p>601</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash paid for interest on financing obligations</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>113</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds</p></td><td><p>305</p></td><td><p>801</p></td><td><p>1,017</p></td><td><p>2,209</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assets acquired under operating leases</p></td><td><p>2,408</p></td><td><p>3,536</p></td><td><p>9,403</p></td><td><p>17,345</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Property and equipment acquired under finance leases</p></td><td><p>2,166</p></td><td><p>2,067</p></td><td><p>13,262</p></td><td><p>11,489</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Property and equipment acquired under build-to-suit arrangements</p></td><td><p>379</p></td><td><p>887</p></td><td><p>1,304</p></td><td><p>2,775</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p><p>Consolidated Statements of Operations</p><p>(in millions, except per share data)</p><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Three Months EndedMarch 31,</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net product sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>41,841</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>57,491</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net service sales</p></td><td><p>33,611</p></td><td><p>51,027</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total net sales</p></td><td><p>75,452</p></td><td><p>108,518</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating expenses:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost of sales</p></td><td><p>44,257</p></td><td><p>62,403</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fulfillment</p></td><td><p>11,531</p></td><td><p>16,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Technology and content</p></td><td><p>9,325</p></td><td><p>12,488</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Marketing</p></td><td><p>4,828</p></td><td><p>6,207</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General and administrative</p></td><td><p>1,452</p></td><td><p>1,987</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other operating expense (income), net</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total operating expenses</p></td><td><p>71,463</p></td><td><p>99,653</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>3,989</p></td><td><p>8,865</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Interest income</p></td><td><p>202</p></td><td><p>105</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Interest expense</p></td><td><p>(402</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(399</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other income (expense), net</p></td><td><p>(406</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>1,697</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total non-operating income (expense)</p></td><td><p>(606</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>1,403</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Income before income taxes</p></td><td><p>3,383</p></td><td><p>10,268</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Provision for income taxes</p></td><td><p>(744</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,156</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Equity-method investment activity, net of tax</p></td><td><p>(104</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(5</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,535</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Basic earnings per share</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5.09</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>16.09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diluted earnings per share</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5.01</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>15.79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Weighted-average shares used in computation of earnings per share:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Basic</p></td><td><p>498</p></td><td><p>504</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diluted</p></td><td><p>506</p></td><td><p>513</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p><p>Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income</p><p>(in millions)</p><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Three Months EndedMarch 31,</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,535</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other comprehensive income (loss):</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax of $21 and $13</p></td><td><p>(874</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(374</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 $12 and $30</p></td><td><p>(203</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(98</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reclassification adjustment for losses (gains) included in "Other income (expense), net," net of tax of $0 and $4</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>(14</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities</p></td><td><p>(203</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(112</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total other comprehensive income (loss)</p></td><td><p>(1,077</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(486</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Comprehensive income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,458</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,621</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p><p>Segment Information</p><p>(in millions)</p><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Three Months EndedMarch 31,</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North America</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>46,127</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>64,366</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating expenses</p></td><td><p>44,815</p></td><td><p>60,916</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,312</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>19,106</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>30,649</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating expenses</p></td><td><p>19,504</p></td><td><p>29,397</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income (loss)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(398</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,252</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,219</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>13,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating expenses</p></td><td><p>7,144</p></td><td><p>9,340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,075</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,163</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consolidated</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>75,452</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>108,518</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating expenses</p></td><td><p>71,463</p></td><td><p>99,653</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>3,989</p></td><td><p>8,865</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total non-operating income (expense)</p></td><td><p>(606</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>1,403</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Provision for income taxes</p></td><td><p>(744</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(2,156</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Equity-method investment activity, net of tax</p></td><td><p>(104</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(5</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,535</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segment Highlights:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Y/Y net sales growth:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North America</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consolidated</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales mix:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North America</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consolidated</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p><p>Consolidated Balance Sheets</p><p>(in millions, except per share data)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 31,2020</p></td><td><p>March 31,2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ASSETS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Current assets:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash and cash equivalents</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>42,122</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>33,834</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Marketable securities</p></td><td><p>42,274</p></td><td><p>39,436</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inventories</p></td><td><p>23,795</p></td><td><p>23,849</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accounts receivable, net and other</p></td><td><p>24,542</p></td><td><p>24,289</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total current assets</p></td><td><p>132,733</p></td><td><p>121,408</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Property and equipment, net</p></td><td><p>113,114</p></td><td><p>121,461</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating leases</p></td><td><p>37,553</p></td><td><p>39,328</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Goodwill</p></td><td><p>15,017</p></td><td><p>15,220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other assets</p></td><td><p>22,778</p></td><td><p>25,660</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total assets</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>321,195</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>323,077</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Current liabilities:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accounts payable</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>72,539</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>63,926</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accrued expenses and other</p></td><td><p>44,138</p></td><td><p>40,939</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unearned revenue</p></td><td><p>9,708</p></td><td><p>10,539</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total current liabilities</p></td><td><p>126,385</p></td><td><p>115,404</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long-term lease liabilities</p></td><td><p>52,573</p></td><td><p>53,067</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long-term debt</p></td><td><p>31,816</p></td><td><p>31,868</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other long-term liabilities</p></td><td><p>17,017</p></td><td><p>19,418</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, $0.01 par value:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Authorized shares — 5,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Issued shares — 527 and 528</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Outstanding shares — 503 and 504</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Treasury stock, at cost</p></td><td><p>(1,837</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(1,837</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Additional paid-in capital</p></td><td><p>42,865</p></td><td><p>45,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)</p></td><td><p>(180</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>(666</p></td><td><p>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Retained earnings</p></td><td><p>52,551</p></td><td><p>60,658</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total stockholders' equity</p></td><td><p>93,404</p></td><td><p>103,320</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total liabilities and stockholders' equity</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>321,195</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>323,077</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p><p>Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics</p><p>(in millions, except per share data)</p><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q4 2019</p></td><td><p>Q1 2020</p></td><td><p>Q2 2020</p></td><td><p>Q3 2020</p></td><td><p>Q4 2020</p></td><td><p>Q1 2021</p></td><td><p>Y/Y %Change</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cash Flows and Shares</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating cash flow -- trailing twelve months (TTM)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>38,514</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>39,732</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>51,220</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>55,292</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>66,064</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>67,213</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating cash flow -- TTM Y/Y growth</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,689</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>15,395</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>19,368</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>25,791</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>35,044</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>40,803</p></td><td><p>165</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal repayments of finance leases -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,628</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,013</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,504</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,054</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,642</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,448</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal repayments of financing obligations -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Equipment acquired under finance leases -- TTM (1)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,916</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,209</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,952</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,116</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,104</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,936</p></td><td><p>(27</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Principal repayments of all other finance leases -- TTM (2)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>392</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>407</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>415</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>413</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>427</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Free cash flow -- TTM (3)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>25,825</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>24,337</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>31,852</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>29,501</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>31,020</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>26,410</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations</p><p>-- TTM (4)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>16,170</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14,281</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>21,292</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>18,379</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>20,325</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14,859</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations -- TTM (5)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,490</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,678</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>19,429</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>17,904</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>21,436</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>16,846</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding</p></td><td><p>512</p></td><td><p>513</p></td><td><p>517</p></td><td><p>518</p></td><td><p>518</p></td><td><p>519</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Common shares outstanding</p></td><td><p>498</p></td><td><p>499</p></td><td><p>501</p></td><td><p>502</p></td><td><p>503</p></td><td><p>504</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stock-based awards outstanding</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stock-based awards outstanding -- % of common shares outstanding</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Results of Operations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Worldwide (WW) net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>87,437</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>75,452</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>88,912</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>96,145</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>125,555</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>108,518</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW net sales -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>280,522</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>296,274</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>321,782</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>347,946</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>386,064</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>419,130</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW net sales -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,879</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,989</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5,843</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,194</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,873</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,865</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>107</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>(11</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- % of WW net sales</p></td><td><p>4.4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>6.4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14,541</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14,109</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>16,868</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>19,905</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>22,899</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>27,775</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>(6</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- TTM % of WW net sales</p></td><td><p>5.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.7</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,268</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,535</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5,243</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,331</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,222</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,107</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income per diluted share</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6.47</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5.01</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10.30</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12.37</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14.09</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>15.79</p></td><td><p>215</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,588</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,563</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>13,180</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>17,377</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>21,331</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>26,903</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net income per diluted share -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23.01</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>20.93</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>26.04</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>34.21</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>41.83</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>52.59</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>______________________________</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(1)</p></td><td><p>For the twelve months ended March 31, 2020 and 2021, this amount relates to equipment included in "Property and equipment acquired under finance leases" of $13,262 million and $11,489 million.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2)</p></td><td><p>For the twelve months ended March 31, 2020 and 2021, this amount relates to property included in "Principal repayments of finance leases" of $10,013 million and $11,448 million.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(3)</p></td><td><p>Free cash flow is cash flow from operations reduced by "Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives."</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(4)</p></td><td><p>Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations is free cash flow reduced by "Principal repayments of finance leases" and "Principal repayments of financing obligations."</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5)</p></td><td><p>Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations is free cash flow reduced by equipment acquired under finance leases, which is included in "Property and equipment acquired under finance leases," principal repayments of all other finance lease liabilities, which is included in "Principal repayments of finance leases," and "Principal repayments of financing obligations."</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p><p>Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics</p><p>(in millions)</p><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q4 2019</p></td><td><p>Q1 2020</p></td><td><p>Q2 2020</p></td><td><p>Q3 2020</p></td><td><p>Q4 2020</p></td><td><p>Q1 2021</p></td><td><p>Y/Y %Change</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North America Segment:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>53,670</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>46,127</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>55,436</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>59,373</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>75,346</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>64,366</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>170,773</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>181,088</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>197,871</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>214,606</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>236,282</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>254,521</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,900</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,312</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,141</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,252</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,946</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,450</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(3</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(4</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>—</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>(16</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(43</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>162</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- % of North America net sales</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.8</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,033</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,057</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,634</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,604</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>8,651</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,789</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>4.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International Segment:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23,813</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>19,106</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>22,668</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>25,171</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>37,467</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>30,649</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>74,723</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>77,637</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>83,935</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>90,758</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>104,412</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>115,955</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income (loss)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(617</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(398</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>345</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>407</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>363</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,252</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(7</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(5</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>152</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>232</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>270</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>(5</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>338</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>347</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- % of International net sales</p></td><td><p>(2.6</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(2.1</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income (loss) -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(1,693</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(2,001</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(1,055</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(262</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>717</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,367</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales</p></td><td><p>(2.3</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(2.6</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(1.3</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(0.3</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS Segment:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,954</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,219</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,808</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,601</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,742</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>13,503</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net sales -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>35,026</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>37,549</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>39,976</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>42,582</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>45,370</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>48,654</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,596</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,075</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,357</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,535</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,564</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,163</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(20</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(96</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>(171</p></td><td><p>)</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales</p></td><td><p>26.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>30.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>31.1</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>30.5</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>28.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>30.8</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating income -- TTM</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,201</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,053</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,289</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,563</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>13,531</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14,619</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales</p></td><td><p>26.3</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>26.8</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>28.2</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>29.5</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>29.8</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>30.0</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AMAZON.COM, INC.</p><p>Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics</p><p>(in millions, except employee data)</p><p>(unaudited)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q4 2019</p></td><td><p>Q1 2020</p></td><td><p>Q2 2020</p></td><td><p>Q3 2020</p></td><td><p>Q4 2020</p></td><td><p>Q1 2021</p></td><td><p>Y/Y %Change</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net Sales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Online stores (1)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>45,657</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>36,652</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>45,896</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>48,350</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>66,451</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>52,901</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Online stores -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Physical stores (2)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,363</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,640</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,774</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,788</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,022</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,920</p></td><td><p>(16</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Physical stores -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>(1</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>(13</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(10</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(7</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>(16</p></td><td><p>)%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Third-party seller services (3)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>17,446</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>14,479</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>18,195</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>20,436</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>27,327</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>23,709</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Third-party seller services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Subscription services (4)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5,235</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5,556</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,018</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,572</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,061</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,580</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Subscription services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>9,954</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,219</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,808</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>11,601</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,742</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>13,503</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AWS -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other (5)</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,782</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>3,906</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>4,221</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>5,398</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>7,952</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>6,905</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stock-based Compensation Expense</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost of sales</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fulfillment</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>286</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>417</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>316</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>364</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>342</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Technology and content</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,007</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>961</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,421</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,267</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,412</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,228</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Marketing</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>322</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>332</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>456</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>446</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>476</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>456</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General and administrative</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>182</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>231</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>184</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>219</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total stock-based compensation expense</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,840</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>1,757</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,601</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,288</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,562</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>2,306</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW shipping costs</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>12,884</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>10,936</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>13,652</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>15,063</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>21,465</p></td><td><p>$</p></td><td><p>17,162</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW shipping costs -- Y/Y growth</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW paid units -- Y/Y growth (6)</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WW seller unit mix -- % of WW paid units (6)</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>55</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>55</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>798,000</p></td><td><p>840,400</p></td><td><p>876,800</p></td><td><p>1,125,300</p></td><td><p>1,298,000</p></td><td><p>1,271,000</p></td><td><p>51</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>23</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>________________________</p><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, videos, games, music, 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 to 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 digital video, audiobook, 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>Excludes the impact of Whole Foods Market.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Amazon.com, Inc.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/20210429006037/en/</p><p>Amazon Investor RelationsDave Fildes, amazon-ir@amazon.comamazon.com/ir</p><p>Amazon Public RelationsDan Perlet, amazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

The Walt Disney Company Uses AWS to Support the Global Expansion of Disney+

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The Walt Disney Company Uses AWS to Support the Global Expansion of Disney+

04/30/2021

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With AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider, The Walt Disney Company leverages AWS's proven global infrastructure to improve performance and reliability for Disney+ as the streaming service continues to scale globally SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 29, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), unveiled that The Walt Disney Company is leveraging AWS for the global rollout of Disney+, one of the largest online streaming video services in the world. The Walt Disney Company relies on AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider to support the explosive growth of Disney+, which quickly surpassed 100 million subscribers only 16 months after launch in November 2019. Leveraging AWS's fault-tolerant, highly performant infrastructure, The Walt Disney Company has been able to rapidly expand Disney+ to 59 countries across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Disney+ is expanding its use of AWS's industry-leading services to include more than 50 technologies, such as machine learning, database, storage, content delivery, serverless, and analytics. For example, Disney+ uses Amazon Kinesis (a service that makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data) and Amazon DynamoDB (AWS's key-value database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale with built-in encryption and data recovery) to ingest content, metadata, and billions of customer actions each day, which enables viewers to add content to their Watch Lists, and start watching a video and pick it up on a different device, or make recommendations for what to watch next. Disney+ also uses Amazon Timestream (AWS's serverless, time-series database built for large scale ingestion, storage, and real-time querying of times-series data) to monitor the efficacy of their streaming platform to ensure that users continue to have access to the highest quality video content. After announcing the intent to launch a dedicated streaming service in August of 2017, The Walt Disney Company spent a year laying the foundation for the streaming service. Leveraging a flexible, secured cloud video infrastructure powered by AWS, Disney+ was able to handle more than 10 million new Disney+ sign-ups within 24 hours of its November 12, 2019 launch. In order to meet consumers' high expectations and handle the enormous global scale required, technologists behind Disney+ collaborated closely with AWS to balance loads and handle usage spikes to manage the huge peaks in demand from viewers for premium content like Hamilton, Mulan, and The Mandalorian. "Disney+ has completely reinvented what's possible in content delivery by challenging convention and using cloud technology to build a streaming product from scratch that had never been launched and marketed before on such a global scale," said Joe Inzerillo, executive vice president & CTO, direct-to-consumer, The Walt Disney Company. "AWS has been our preferred cloud provider for years, and its proven global infrastructure and expansive suite of services has contributed meaningfully to the incredible success of Disney+." "Disney+ brings beloved characters and timeless stories to a global audience through world-class direct-to-consumer video services," said Carla Stratfold, vice president of AWS global and strategic accounts at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Only AWS's proven global infrastructure and unparalleled set of capabilities deliver the reliability, scalability, and breadth of functionality to power one of the world's most exciting streaming services and its expansion around the world. We look forward to continuing to provide comprehensive cloud capabilities and expertise to The Walt Disney Company to help them reinvent streaming entertainment for Disney fans globally." About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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 Disney+ Disney+ is the dedicated streaming home for movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic, as well as the new general entertainment content brand in select International markets, Star. As part of Disney's Media and Entertainment Distribution segment, Disney+ is available on most internet-connected devices and offers commercial-free programming with a variety of original feature-length films, documentaries, live-action and animated series, and short-form content. Alongside unprecedented access to Disney's incredible library of film and television entertainment, the service is also the exclusive streaming home for the latest releases from The Walt Disney Studios. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210428005808/en/ The Walt Disney CompanyJessica Casano-AntonellisJessica.casano@disney.com Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>With AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider, The Walt Disney Company leverages AWS's proven global infrastructure to improve performance and reliability for Disney+ as the streaming service continues to scale globally</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 29, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), unveiled that The Walt Disney Company is leveraging AWS for the global rollout of Disney+, one of the largest online streaming video services in the world. The Walt Disney Company relies on AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider to support the explosive growth of Disney+, which quickly surpassed 100 million subscribers only 16 months after launch in November 2019. Leveraging AWS's fault-tolerant, highly performant infrastructure, The Walt Disney Company has been able to rapidly expand Disney+ to 59 countries across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.</p><p>Disney+ is expanding its use of AWS's industry-leading services to include more than 50 technologies, such as machine learning, database, storage, content delivery, serverless, and analytics. For example, Disney+ uses Amazon Kinesis (a service that makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data) and Amazon DynamoDB (AWS's key-value database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale with built-in encryption and data recovery) to ingest content, metadata, and billions of customer actions each day, which enables viewers to add content to their Watch Lists, and start watching a video and pick it up on a different device, or make recommendations for what to watch next. Disney+ also uses Amazon Timestream (AWS's serverless, time-series database built for large scale ingestion, storage, and real-time querying of times-series data) to monitor the efficacy of their streaming platform to ensure that users continue to have access to the highest quality video content.</p><p>After announcing the intent to launch a dedicated streaming service in August of 2017, The Walt Disney Company spent a year laying the foundation for the streaming service. Leveraging a flexible, secured cloud video infrastructure powered by AWS, Disney+ was able to handle more than 10 million new Disney+ sign-ups within 24 hours of its November 12, 2019 launch. In order to meet consumers' high expectations and handle the enormous global scale required, technologists behind Disney+ collaborated closely with AWS to balance loads and handle usage spikes to manage the huge peaks in demand from viewers for premium content like <em>Hamilton</em>, <em>Mulan</em>, and <em>The Mandalorian</em>.</p><p>"Disney+ has completely reinvented what's possible in content delivery by challenging convention and using cloud technology to build a streaming product from scratch that had never been launched and marketed before on such a global scale," said Joe Inzerillo, executive vice president &amp; CTO, direct-to-consumer, The Walt Disney Company. "AWS has been our preferred cloud provider for years, and its proven global infrastructure and expansive suite of services has contributed meaningfully to the incredible success of Disney+."</p><p>"Disney+ brings beloved characters and timeless stories to a global audience through world-class direct-to-consumer video services," said Carla Stratfold, vice president of AWS global and strategic accounts at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Only AWS's proven global infrastructure and unparalleled set of capabilities deliver the reliability, scalability, and breadth of functionality to power one of the world's most exciting streaming services and its expansion around the world. We look forward to continuing to provide comprehensive cloud capabilities and expertise to The Walt Disney Company to help them reinvent streaming entertainment for Disney fans globally."</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 platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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 Disney+</p><p>Disney+ is the dedicated streaming home for movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic, as well as the new general entertainment content brand in select International markets, Star. As part of Disney's Media and Entertainment Distribution segment, Disney+ is available on most internet-connected devices and offers commercial-free programming with a variety of original feature-length films, documentaries, live-action and animated series, and short-form content. Alongside unprecedented access to Disney's incredible library of film and television entertainment, the service is also the exclusive streaming home for the latest releases from The Walt Disney Studios.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210428005808/en/</p><p>The Walt Disney CompanyJessica Casano-AntonellisJessica.casano@disney.com</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 Nimble Studio

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Amazon Nimble Studio makes it easy to set up a content production studio in hours, scale capacity based on demand, and render content faster and more cost-effectively Anjekumi, CalState University, Evil Eye Pictures, Shomen Productions, Sinking Ship Entertainment, and Spire Animation Studios among the first customers to build creative studios using Amazon Nimble Studio SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 28, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Nimble Studio, a new service that enables customers to set up a content production studio in hours instead of weeks, with elasticity that gives them near limitless scale and access to rendering on demand. With Amazon Nimble Studio, customers can rapidly onboard and collaborate with artists from anywhere in the world, and produce content faster and more cost effectively. Artists will have access to accelerated virtual workstations, high-speed storage, and scalable rendering across AWS's global infrastructure so they can create content faster. There are no upfront fees or commitments to use Amazon Nimble Studio, and customers pay only for the underlying AWS services used. To get started, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/nimble-studio/ To bring high-quality visual effects, animation, and creative content to life, studios historically have relied on local high-performance workstations connected to shared file storage systems over low-latency, on-premises networks. Increased consumer appetite for premium content and experiences has driven greater demand for compute-intensive rendering of visual effects and animations. This ever-growing demand causes content production studios to over-provision their compute, networking, and storage infrastructure for peak capacity, which proves expensive, difficult to manage, and hard to scale. For example, a typical animated feature film now generates 730 terabytes of data and up to half a billion files, requiring more than 150 million core compute hours and coordination from hundreds of artists and engineers. Consumer demand for more content has also required studios to onboard talent from around the world, who then require high-powered workstations, specialized software, and high-speed storage and networking. All of these constraints can result in production delays, increased expenses, and lost opportunity for content production studios. Using Amazon Nimble Studio, customers can create a new content production studio in just a few hours. The creative talent then has immediate access to high performance workstations powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G4dn instances with NVIDIA Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), shared file storage from Amazon FSx, and ultra low-latency streaming via the AWS global network. Amazon Nimble Studio gives content production studios the ability to start with as few resources as needed, scale up those resources when rendering demands peak, and spin them back down once projects are completed. Content production studios can onboard remote teams from around the world and provide them access to just the right amount of high performance infrastructure for only as long as needed—all without having to procure, set up, and manage local workstations, file systems, and low-latency networking. Amazon Nimble Studio supports both the Windows and Linux operating systems so that artists can work with their preferred third-party creative applications. Additionally, studios can use custom software applications and bring them into Amazon Nimble Studio via Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), ensuring a seamless migration from on-premises to cloud infrastructure. Amazon Nimble Studio is the latest AWS solution for media and entertainment customers, joining the AWS Thinkbox Deadline render management application as a core capability supporting content production. Media and entertainment leaders like Discovery, Disney, EuroSport, Formula 1, FOX, HBO Max, Peacock and Weta Digital use purpose-built AWS solutions that help content creators, rights holders, producers, and distributors accelerate reinvention across five key industry business areas: content production, direct-to-consumer and over-the-top (OTT) streaming, broadcast, media supply chain and archive, and data science and analytics. "Amazon Nimble Studio is going to change the way customers produce content using a cloud-based production pipeline," said Kyle Roche, Head of Content Production Tech, AWS. "To date, studios struggle to keep up with the ever-increasing demand for creative content, which has driven an exponential increase in the computing power required to produce content—hastening obsolescence of workstations and straining on-premises storage and rendering capacity. We are excited to announce Amazon Nimble Studio, a transformational new service for the creative community built for the cloud to make it much faster, easier, and less expensive to produce the content that consumers want to watch." Amazon Nimble Studio is available today in six AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon) Region, Canada (Central) Region, Europe (London) Region, Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, and US Local Zone (Los Angeles), with additional region support coming soon. Anjekumi connects gamers and enables them to play games from anywhere in the world using next generation devices. "Amazon Nimble Studio allows us to concentrate on the creative result rather than the technical journey as it solves some key issues in our production pipeline," said Kurt Rauer, CEO, Anjekumi. "Our business is a global one and with Amazon Nimble Studio we are able to engage creative people globally without the associated friction." The California State University is a public university system in California with 23 campuses. "As the largest public higher education system in the nation, the California State University system pride ourselves on having an innovative mindset in Media & Entertainment education, empowering a majority-minority, diverse student population," said Dina Ibrahim, Executive Director, San Francisco State University. "AWS is a perfect partner to represent a path forward for our creative programs, as we look to moving more of our education experience to the cloud in the near future, and solutions like Amazon Nimble Studio provide our students with easier, hands-on access to the latest tools in content creation technology, which better positions them for success in their careers." Evil Eye Pictures is an Oscar and Emmy award-winning animation, visual effects, and design studio based in San Francisco, CA. "We like to go beyond the traditional and embrace emerging technologies that support innovative storytelling," said Dan Rosen, Co-founder and Executive Creative Director, Evil Eye Pictures. "Adding Amazon Nimble Studio to our arsenal will allow us to more easily scale up and down with projects, and collaborate with the best talent, regardless of where they are located." Shomen Productions is a virtual animation and VFX studio that taps a global talent pool to create branded content. "We believe the future of production is dispersed teams and agile studios. Geographical access to a ready pool of talent is no longer an obstacle to creativity," said James Bennett, Founder and Director of VFX & Animation, Shomen Productions. "A production solution like Amazon Nimble Studio allows your team to scale production resources at will and collaborate efficiently across vast distances. There is tremendous power in the ability to collaborate remotely with creatives who are spread across the world as easily as if they where sitting next to you. We believe Amazon Nimble Studio will be as impactful to creative production as iTunes was to the music industry." Sinking Ship Entertainment is an Emmy award-winning production and new media company based in Toronto. "We've been eagerly following the development of Amazon Nimble Studio and look forward to adding it to our workflow," said Shervin Shahidi, Director of Digital Transformation, Sinking Ship Entertainment. "It will bring dynamic elasticity to our capabilities and allow us to expand our talent pool to include artists worldwide." Spire Animation Studios is a new feature animation studio. "Spire Animation was formed to empower world-class creative and technical talent to develop diverse, high-end animated entertainment for global audiences," said Brad Lewis, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Spire Animation Studios. "By harnessing next-gen technology, like Amazon Nimble Studio and real-time game engines, we're reimagining the content production process, even if our artists aren't based in the same location." Today, AWS also announced AWS for Media & Entertainment, an initiative that makes it easier for industry customers to discover, implement, and deploy purpose-built AWS capabilities and partner solutions for their highest priority workloads—enabling them to create compelling content faster, invent new customer experiences, expand direct-to-consumer offerings, and improve media supply chain efficiency. AWS for Media & Entertainment aligns the broadest and deepest set of industry-specific cloud capabilities, including purpose-built media and creative services, hardware, solutions, tools, and partners. AWS for Media & Entertainment also establishes dedicated resources across each industry solution area to help customers accelerate time to value, aligning AWS internal resources, AWS Professional Services, and 400+ industry-specific Independent Software Vendor (ISVs) Partners and 100+ System Integrators (SIs). For more information, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/announcing-aws-for-media-and-entertainment/ About Amazon Web Services  For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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/20210428006165/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon Nimble Studio makes it easy to set up a content production studio in hours, scale capacity based on demand, and render content faster and more cost-effectively</em></p><p><em>Anjekumi, CalState University, Evil Eye Pictures, Shomen Productions, Sinking Ship Entertainment, and Spire Animation Studios among the first customers to build creative studios using Amazon Nimble Studio</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 28, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Nimble Studio, a new service that enables customers to set up a content production studio in hours instead of weeks, with elasticity that gives them near limitless scale and access to rendering on demand. With Amazon Nimble Studio, customers can rapidly onboard and collaborate with artists from anywhere in the world, and produce content faster and more cost effectively. Artists will have access to accelerated virtual workstations, high-speed storage, and scalable rendering across AWS's global infrastructure so they can create content faster. There are no upfront fees or commitments to use Amazon Nimble Studio, and customers pay only for the underlying AWS services used. To get started, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/nimble-studio/</p><p>To bring high-quality visual effects, animation, and creative content to life, studios historically have relied on local high-performance workstations connected to shared file storage systems over low-latency, on-premises networks. Increased consumer appetite for premium content and experiences has driven greater demand for compute-intensive rendering of visual effects and animations. This ever-growing demand causes content production studios to over-provision their compute, networking, and storage infrastructure for peak capacity, which proves expensive, difficult to manage, and hard to scale. For example, a typical animated feature film now generates 730 terabytes of data and up to half a billion files, requiring more than 150 million core compute hours and coordination from hundreds of artists and engineers. Consumer demand for more content has also required studios to onboard talent from around the world, who then require high-powered workstations, specialized software, and high-speed storage and networking. All of these constraints can result in production delays, increased expenses, and lost opportunity for content production studios.</p><p>Using Amazon Nimble Studio, customers can create a new content production studio in just a few hours. The creative talent then has immediate access to high performance workstations powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G4dn instances with NVIDIA Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), shared file storage from Amazon FSx, and ultra low-latency streaming via the AWS global network. Amazon Nimble Studio gives content production studios the ability to start with as few resources as needed, scale up those resources when rendering demands peak, and spin them back down once projects are completed. Content production studios can onboard remote teams from around the world and provide them access to just the right amount of high performance infrastructure for only as long as needed—all without having to procure, set up, and manage local workstations, file systems, and low-latency networking. Amazon Nimble Studio supports both the Windows and Linux operating systems so that artists can work with their preferred third-party creative applications. Additionally, studios can use custom software applications and bring them into Amazon Nimble Studio via Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), ensuring a seamless migration from on-premises to cloud infrastructure. Amazon Nimble Studio is the latest AWS solution for media and entertainment customers, joining the AWS Thinkbox Deadline render management application as a core capability supporting content production. Media and entertainment leaders like Discovery, Disney, EuroSport, Formula 1, FOX, HBO Max, Peacock and Weta Digital use purpose-built AWS solutions that help content creators, rights holders, producers, and distributors accelerate reinvention across five key industry business areas: content production, direct-to-consumer and over-the-top (OTT) streaming, broadcast, media supply chain and archive, and data science and analytics.</p><p>"Amazon Nimble Studio is going to change the way customers produce content using a cloud-based production pipeline," said Kyle Roche, Head of Content Production Tech, AWS. "To date, studios struggle to keep up with the ever-increasing demand for creative content, which has driven an exponential increase in the computing power required to produce content—hastening obsolescence of workstations and straining on-premises storage and rendering capacity. We are excited to announce Amazon Nimble Studio, a transformational new service for the creative community built for the cloud to make it much faster, easier, and less expensive to produce the content that consumers want to watch."</p><p>Amazon Nimble Studio is available today in six AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon) Region, Canada (Central) Region, Europe (London) Region, Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, and US Local Zone (Los Angeles), with additional region support coming soon.</p><p>Anjekumi connects gamers and enables them to play games from anywhere in the world using next generation devices. "Amazon Nimble Studio allows us to concentrate on the creative result rather than the technical journey as it solves some key issues in our production pipeline," said Kurt Rauer, CEO, Anjekumi. "Our business is a global one and with Amazon Nimble Studio we are able to engage creative people globally without the associated friction."</p><p>The California State University is a public university system in California with 23 campuses. "As the largest public higher education system in the nation, the California State University system pride ourselves on having an innovative mindset in Media &amp; Entertainment education, empowering a majority-minority, diverse student population," said Dina Ibrahim, Executive Director, San Francisco State University. "AWS is a perfect partner to represent a path forward for our creative programs, as we look to moving more of our education experience to the cloud in the near future, and solutions like Amazon Nimble Studio provide our students with easier, hands-on access to the latest tools in content creation technology, which better positions them for success in their careers."</p><p>Evil Eye Pictures is an Oscar and Emmy award-winning animation, visual effects, and design studio based in San Francisco, CA. "We like to go beyond the traditional and embrace emerging technologies that support innovative storytelling," said Dan Rosen, Co-founder and Executive Creative Director, Evil Eye Pictures. "Adding Amazon Nimble Studio to our arsenal will allow us to more easily scale up and down with projects, and collaborate with the best talent, regardless of where they are located."</p><p>Shomen Productions is a virtual animation and VFX studio that taps a global talent pool to create branded content. "We believe the future of production is dispersed teams and agile studios. Geographical access to a ready pool of talent is no longer an obstacle to creativity," said James Bennett, Founder and Director of VFX &amp; Animation, Shomen Productions. "A production solution like Amazon Nimble Studio allows your team to scale production resources at will and collaborate efficiently across vast distances. There is tremendous power in the ability to collaborate remotely with creatives who are spread across the world as easily as if they where sitting next to you. We believe Amazon Nimble Studio will be as impactful to creative production as iTunes was to the music industry."</p><p>Sinking Ship Entertainment is an Emmy award-winning production and new media company based in Toronto. "We've been eagerly following the development of Amazon Nimble Studio and look forward to adding it to our workflow," said Shervin Shahidi, Director of Digital Transformation, Sinking Ship Entertainment. "It will bring dynamic elasticity to our capabilities and allow us to expand our talent pool to include artists worldwide."</p><p>Spire Animation Studios is a new feature animation studio. "Spire Animation was formed to empower world-class creative and technical talent to develop diverse, high-end animated entertainment for global audiences," said Brad Lewis, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Spire Animation Studios. "By harnessing next-gen technology, like Amazon Nimble Studio and real-time game engines, we're reimagining the content production process, even if our artists aren't based in the same location."</p><p>Today, AWS also announced AWS for Media &amp; Entertainment, an initiative that makes it easier for industry customers to discover, implement, and deploy purpose-built AWS capabilities and partner solutions for their highest priority workloads—enabling them to create compelling content faster, invent new customer experiences, expand direct-to-consumer offerings, and improve media supply chain efficiency. AWS for Media &amp; Entertainment aligns the broadest and deepest set of industry-specific cloud capabilities, including purpose-built media and creative services, hardware, solutions, tools, and partners. AWS for Media &amp; Entertainment also establishes dedicated resources across each industry solution area to help customers accelerate time to value, aligning AWS internal resources, AWS Professional Services, and 400+ industry-specific Independent Software Vendor (ISVs) Partners and 100+ System Integrators (SIs). For more information, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/announcing-aws-for-media-and-entertainment/</p><p>About Amazon Web Services </p><p>For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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/20210428006165/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

LinkedIn Names Amazon No. 1 Company Where Americans Want to Work in 2021

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LinkedIn Names Amazon No. 1 Company Where Americans Want to Work in 2021

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LinkedIn recognizes Amazon as the most desirable workplace in the U.S. based on the company's ability to attract and retain talent, including how it provides skills growth and career advancement opportunities for all employees. More than 400,000 people joined Amazon last year in the U.S., where the company has created more than 950,000 jobs in tech, logistics, advanced manufacturing, and retail. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 28, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—LinkedIn today named Amazon the No. 1 company where Americans want to work in 2021, up from No. 3 in 2019. Amazon ranked first on LinkedIn's Top Companies list, an annual list that identifies the most sought-after places to work. Using data from LinkedIn's 740 million members, LinkedIn's Top Companies list is designed to help professionals identify the best companies to grow their careers. LinkedIn's methodology evaluates how companies attract and retain the best talent, including through promotions, funding opportunities for employees to learn new skills, gender diversity, and hiring people from all backgrounds and levels of education. LinkedIn also looked at how much recruiters from other companies search for employees currently working at Amazon. "Being Earth's Most Customer-Centric company and Earth's Best Employer are two sides of the same coin—we're able to obsess over customers because we've created a great work environment for our employees. I believe one of the biggest reasons that people want to work at Amazon is our culture of innovation. We are inventors at heart and provide our employees with an opportunity to think big and try things that have never been done before," said Beth Galetti, Amazon's Senior Vice President of People eXperience and Technology at Amazon. "A huge thanks to our teams around the world for playing their part in making Amazon a great place to work." In 2020, Amazon created more than 400,000 jobs in the U.S. and 500,000 globally. Here are some figures on our job-creation efforts and the innovative and safe work environment that we strive to create for our employees: We received more than 30 million job applications for roles at Amazon in 2020, almost double the number from 2019. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we've done more than 240,000 virtual interviews with candidates for corporate and tech roles. Of the 400,000 people we hired in 2020 across our U.S. operations network, 45% were previously unemployed. Nearly 30,000 joined Amazon from the manufacturing sector, another 19,000 from traditional retail, and 16,500 from education and healthcare. More than 60% of the people who joined Amazon's customer fulfillment network in 2020 are now paid more than they were paid in their previous job. Every Amazon job comes with a starting pay of at least $15 an hour, more than twice the federal minimum wage. In 2020, we promoted more than 68,000 employees globally, and 93% of Amazon new hires last year cited our company-funded skills training programs as a reason to stay at Amazon. Amazon is investing $700 million in upskilling 100,000 employees in the U.S. by 2025 so they can access in-demand and higher-paying jobs. Amazon currently employs more than 950,000 people in the U.S. at its headquarters in the Puget Sound region in Washington state and in Arlington, Virginia; the Amazon campus in Nashville, Tennessee; its 18 Tech Hubs; and the company's growing network of logistics, retail, and data center facilities across more than 40 states. Amazon currently has more than 30,000 positions open in the U.S. For four consecutive years, LinkedIn has ranked Amazon among the top three companies in the U.S. where Americans want to work. Additionally, Amazon currently ranks No. 2 on the World's Best Employers list from Forbes and on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list. Amazon was also selected by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators. Amazon was awarded a top score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index, which recognizes the best workplaces for the LGBTQ+ community, and awarded the Lee Anderson Veteran and Military Spouse Employment Award for excellence in hiring, training, and retaining veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses. Amazon was also named as a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion by the Disability Equality Index. For more information about LinkedIn's ranking and their methodology, see here. To apply for a job at Amazon, visit www.amazon.jobs. 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, 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/20210428005638/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>LinkedIn recognizes Amazon as the most desirable workplace in the U.S. based on the company's ability to attract and retain talent, including how it provides skills growth and career advancement opportunities for all employees.</em></p><p><em>More than 400,000 people joined Amazon last year in the U.S., where the company has created more than 950,000 jobs in tech, logistics, advanced manufacturing, and retail.</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 28, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—LinkedIn today named Amazon the No. 1 company where Americans want to work in 2021, up from No. 3 in 2019. Amazon ranked first on LinkedIn's Top Companies list, an annual list that identifies the most sought-after places to work. Using data from LinkedIn's 740 million members, LinkedIn's Top Companies list is designed to help professionals identify the best companies to grow their careers. LinkedIn's methodology evaluates how companies attract and retain the best talent, including through promotions, funding opportunities for employees to learn new skills, gender diversity, and hiring people from all backgrounds and levels of education. LinkedIn also looked at how much recruiters from other companies search for employees currently working at Amazon.</p><p>"Being Earth's Most Customer-Centric company and Earth's Best Employer are two sides of the same coin—we're able to obsess over customers because we've created a great work environment for our employees. I believe one of the biggest reasons that people want to work at Amazon is our culture of innovation. We are inventors at heart and provide our employees with an opportunity to think big and try things that have never been done before," said Beth Galetti, Amazon's Senior Vice President of People eXperience and Technology at Amazon. "A huge thanks to our teams around the world for playing their part in making Amazon a great place to work."</p><p>In 2020, Amazon created more than 400,000 jobs in the U.S. and 500,000 globally. Here are some figures on our job-creation efforts and the innovative and safe work environment that we strive to create for our employees:</p><ul><li>We received more than 30 million job applications for roles at Amazon in 2020, almost double the number from 2019.</li><li>Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we've done more than 240,000 virtual interviews with candidates for corporate and tech roles.</li><li>Of the 400,000 people we hired in 2020 across our U.S. operations network, 45% were previously unemployed. Nearly 30,000 joined Amazon from the manufacturing sector, another 19,000 from traditional retail, and 16,500 from education and healthcare.</li><li>More than 60% of the people who joined Amazon's customer fulfillment network in 2020 are now paid more than they were paid in their previous job. Every Amazon job comes with a starting pay of at least $15 an hour, more than twice the federal minimum wage.</li><li>In 2020, we promoted more than 68,000 employees globally, and 93% of Amazon new hires last year cited our company-funded skills training programs as a reason to stay at Amazon. Amazon is investing $700 million in upskilling 100,000 employees in the U.S. by 2025 so they can access in-demand and higher-paying jobs.</li></ul><p>Amazon currently employs more than 950,000 people in the U.S. at its headquarters in the Puget Sound region in Washington state and in Arlington, Virginia; the Amazon campus in Nashville, Tennessee; its 18 Tech Hubs; and the company's growing network of logistics, retail, and data center facilities across more than 40 states. Amazon currently has more than 30,000 positions open in the U.S.</p><p>For four consecutive years, LinkedIn has ranked Amazon among the top three companies in the U.S. where Americans want to work. Additionally, Amazon currently ranks No. 2 on the World's Best Employers list from Forbes and on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list. Amazon was also selected by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators. Amazon was awarded a top score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index, which recognizes the best workplaces for the LGBTQ+ community, and awarded the Lee Anderson Veteran and Military Spouse Employment Award for excellence in hiring, training, and retaining veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses. Amazon was also named as a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion by the Disability Equality Index.</p><p>For more information about LinkedIn's ranking and their methodology, see here. To apply for a job at Amazon, visit www.amazon.jobs.</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, 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/20210428005638/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Stay Entertained, Connected, and Productive with the All-New Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus

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Stay Entertained, Connected, and Productive with the All-New Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus

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Fire HD 10 features a powerful octa-core processor, now with 50% more RAM, a brighter Full HD display, an updated design, 12 hours of battery life, and up to 64GB of internal storage expandable to 1TB via a microSD card—all for just $149.99 Fire HD 10 Plus is our most powerful 10-inch tablet ever, packed with all the features of Fire HD 10 plus 4GB RAM, wireless charging, and a soft touch finish for $179.99 Fire HD 10 Productivity Bundle includes a custom-designed, detachable keyboard case and 12-month subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal—with premium Office apps, 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage, and more—for only $219.99 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 27, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the next generation of Fire HD 10 tablets—the all-new Fire HD 10 and first Fire HD 10 Plus offer powerful performance, a brighter full HD display, updated design, and features to help customers stay entertained, connected, and productive. Plus, with the Fire HD 10 Productivity Bundle, customers can get more done with a detachable keyboard case and a Microsoft 365 Personal subscription. Amazon also introduced an all-new Fire HD 10 Kids tablet for kids ages 3-7, and new Fire Kids Pro tablets built with 6-12 year-olds in mind—learn more here (www.amazon.com/pr). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210427005712/en/ Fire HD 10 is offered in Black, Denim, Lavender, and Olive colors. (Photo: Business Wire) "Our best tablets just keep getting better. The new Fire HD 10 is brighter, thinner, and lighter, with an octa-core processor for fast and responsive performance, 50% more RAM, and all-day battery life—and is still only $149.99," said Kevin Keith, vice president, Amazon Devices. "Plus, we added new apps, features, and accessories, including a Productivity Bundle with the Fire HD 10, a Microsoft 365 Personal subscription, and a detachable keyboard case, to help you get more done." For just $149.99, the all-new Fire HD 10 features: Fast and responsive—Powerful octa-core 2.0 GHz processor and 3GB RAM, with 50% more RAM than the previous generation for fast performance and app starts. Stunning display—Vivid 10.1", 1080p Full HD display is 10% brighter than the previous generation with more than two million pixels. Updated design—Thinner and lighter design than the previous generation with uniform bezels, and a screen strengthened with aluminosilicate glass. All-day battery life—Up to 12 hours of battery life for browsing the web, watching videos, listening to music, and more. Plenty of storage—Available with 32GB or 64GB of internal storage, plus support for up to 1TB of expandable storage via a microSD card, there's plenty of space for your photos, videos, and apps. Stay entertained—Access millions of movies, TV shows, songs, books, apps, and games on your tablet. Stay connected—2MP front-facing camera is landscape oriented to support widescreen video calls with friends and family—simply ask Alexa to make a call, or use apps like Zoom, Skype, and Microsoft Teams. Stay productive—Check email, chat with a co-worker, easily view or download a file, update shopping lists, and set calendar reminders using apps like Office, Outlook, OneNote, Microsoft Teams, Notepad, and Dropbox. Split screen—An all-new feature for Fire OS shows two compatible apps like Messenger from Facebook and Prime Video, side-by-side for easy multi-tasking. You can check your social media accounts while watching a movie, take a video call on Zoom while sending a message, or take notes in OneNote while reading a Kindle book. Immersive Dolby Atmos audio—Videos, games, and web content sound amazing. Listen via built-in speakers, or connect speakers or headphones via Bluetooth or the headphone jack. Alexa hands-free—With always-ready, hands-free access to Alexa, you can easily control video and music playback, launch apps, get news and sports scores, manage your smart home devices, make a video call, and even enable Show Mode to transform your tablet into an Echo Show experience. Fire HD 10 and Alexa are designed with privacy in mind. When you say, "Alexa," a blue bar will appear on the screen to indicate that your device is processing your request and is streaming to the cloud. You can also turn the Alexa microphones off on your Fire HD 10 at any time by tapping the Alexa hands-free button in the Quick Settings menu. World class parental controls—With Amazon Kids, parents can easily manage their kids' screen time and set daily goals, age filters, and time limits for both weekdays and weekends. Parents can manage these settings on the device or through the Amazon Parent Dashboard. Climate Pledge Friendly—The new Fire HD 10 tablets are certified by Carbon Trust's ‘Reducing CO2' Product Carbon Footprint Label, a certification that demonstrates a reduction in the carbon footprint of products, year-over-year. For only $30 more, Fire HD 10 Plus adds: Fast performance—With 4GB RAM, it offers even more memory for playing your favorite game or multi-tasking during the day. Premium finish—Soft touch, slate colored finish for a high-quality feel. Hassle-free wireless charging—Charge wirelessly with any compatible Qi certified charger, or pair with the Made for Amazon wireless charging dock from Anker (sold separately), and Fire HD 10 Plus transitions from a portable tablet to a countertop smart display with hands-free access to Alexa in Show Mode. Starting at $219.99, Productivity Bundles include either a Fire HD 10 or Fire HD 10 Plus and: Detachable keyboard case—Designed by Fintie to perfectly fit your Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus, the all-new Bluetooth keyboard with detachable case lets you adjust screen-viewing angles for a comfortable typing experience. And if you want to unwind and read a book, the keyboard magnetically detaches and then simply snaps back on when you want to check email, take notes, or browse the internet. The case can also be purchased separately for $49.99. Microsoft 365 Personal subscription—Includes a 12-month subscription to premium Office apps, 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage, and more, which you can use on up to five compatible devices at the same time. Your subscription auto-renews after one year at the regular rate (MSRP $69.99). Stay entertained with Prime Watch thousands of movies and TV shows, including Amazon Originals like Coming 2 America, The Boys, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, and Sylvie's Love, as well as Emmy and Golden Globe winners Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Golden Globe winner Small Axe, Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Academy Award winner Sound of Metal, and Academy Award nominee Time and One Night in Miami…. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to two million songs and thousands of playlists and stations. Prime Reading has a rotating selection of more than 1,000 books, magazines, comics, and more. With Amazon First Reads, Prime members get early access to Kindle Books before they publish, based on a selection of titles curated by the Books Editorial team. Get unlimited full-resolution photo storage and 5GB video storage with Amazon Photos. With Prime Gaming, customers can enjoy free games, in-game content, a Twitch channel subscription each month, and more. To sign up or start a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, visit www.amazon.com/prime. Pricing and availability Starting at $149.99, Fire HD 10 is available for pre-order today with 32GB or 64GB of storage and is offered in Black, Denim, Lavender, and Olive colors. Fire HD 10 Plus is available with 32GB or 64GB of storage starting at $179.99. The Made for Amazon Wireless Charging Dock by Anker is available for $49.99 and can be purchased as a bundle with Fire HD 10 Plus. Both tablets can also be purchased as part of the new Fire HD 10 Productivity Bundle, which features a Made for Amazon keyboard case by Fintie and a 12-month Microsoft 365 Personal subscription, starting at $219.99. Accessory cases are available for Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus tablets in Black, Lavender Haze, Deep Sea Blue, and Olive Green. All tablets and accessories will begin shipping on May 26. To learn more, visit: www.amazon.com/firetablets. 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/20210427005712/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Fire HD 10 features a powerful octa-core processor, now with 50% more RAM, a brighter Full HD display, an updated design, 12 hours of battery life, and up to 64GB of internal storage expandable to 1TB via a microSD card—all for just $149.99</em></p><p><em>Fire HD 10 Plus is our most powerful 10-inch tablet ever, packed with all the features of Fire HD 10 plus 4GB RAM, wireless charging, and a soft touch finish for $179.99</em></p><p><em>Fire HD 10 Productivity Bundle includes a custom-designed, detachable keyboard case</em> <em>and 12-month subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal—with premium Office apps, 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage, and more—for only $219.99</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 27, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the next generation of Fire HD 10 tablets—the all-new Fire HD 10 and first Fire HD 10 Plus offer powerful performance, a brighter full HD display, updated design, and features to help customers stay entertained, connected, and productive. Plus, with the Fire HD 10 Productivity Bundle, customers can get more done with a detachable keyboard case and a Microsoft 365 Personal subscription. Amazon also introduced an all-new Fire HD 10 Kids tablet for kids ages 3-7, and new Fire Kids Pro tablets built with 6-12 year-olds in mind—learn more here (www.amazon.com/pr).</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210427005712/en/</p><div><p>Fire HD 10 is offered in Black, Denim, Lavender, and Olive colors. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"Our best tablets just keep getting better. The new Fire HD 10 is brighter, thinner, and lighter, with an octa-core processor for fast and responsive performance, 50% more RAM, and all-day battery life—and is still only $149.99," said Kevin Keith, vice president, Amazon Devices. "Plus, we added new apps, features, and accessories, including a Productivity Bundle with the Fire HD 10, a Microsoft 365 Personal subscription, and a detachable keyboard case, to help you get more done."</p><p>For just $149.99, the all-new Fire HD 10 features:</p><ul><li>Fast and responsive—Powerful octa-core 2.0 GHz processor and 3GB RAM, with 50% more RAM than the previous generation for fast performance and app starts.</li><li>Stunning display—Vivid 10.1", 1080p Full HD display is 10% brighter than the previous generation with more than two million pixels.</li><li>Updated design—Thinner and lighter design than the previous generation with uniform bezels, and a screen strengthened with aluminosilicate glass.</li><li>All-day battery life—Up to 12 hours of battery life for browsing the web, watching videos, listening to music, and more.</li><li>Plenty of storage—Available with 32GB or 64GB of internal storage, plus support for up to 1TB of expandable storage via a microSD card, there's plenty of space for your photos, videos, and apps.</li><li>Stay entertained—Access millions of movies, TV shows, songs, books, apps, and games on your tablet.</li><li>Stay connected—2MP front-facing camera is landscape oriented to support widescreen video calls with friends and family—simply ask Alexa to make a call, or use apps like Zoom, Skype, and Microsoft Teams.</li><li>Stay productive—Check email, chat with a co-worker, easily view or download a file, update shopping lists, and set calendar reminders using apps like Office, Outlook, OneNote, Microsoft Teams, Notepad, and Dropbox.</li><li>Split screen—An all-new feature for Fire OS shows two compatible apps like Messenger from Facebook and Prime Video, side-by-side for easy multi-tasking. You can check your social media accounts while watching a movie, take a video call on Zoom while sending a message, or take notes in OneNote while reading a Kindle book.</li><li>Immersive Dolby Atmos audio—Videos, games, and web content sound amazing. Listen via built-in speakers, or connect speakers or headphones via Bluetooth or the headphone jack.</li><li>Alexa hands-free—With always-ready, hands-free access to Alexa, you can easily control video and music playback, launch apps, get news and sports scores, manage your smart home devices, make a video call, and even enable Show Mode to transform your tablet into an Echo Show experience. Fire HD 10 and Alexa are designed with privacy in mind. When you say, "Alexa," a blue bar will appear on the screen to indicate that your device is processing your request and is streaming to the cloud. You can also turn the Alexa microphones off on your Fire HD 10 at any time by tapping the Alexa hands-free button in the Quick Settings menu.</li><li>World class parental controls<em>—</em>With Amazon Kids, parents can easily manage their kids' screen time and set daily goals, age filters, and time limits for both weekdays and weekends. Parents can manage these settings on the device or through the Amazon Parent Dashboard.</li><li>Climate Pledge Friendly—The new Fire HD 10 tablets are certified by Carbon Trust's ‘Reducing CO2' Product Carbon Footprint Label, a certification that demonstrates a reduction in the carbon footprint of products, year-over-year.</li></ul><p>For only $30 more, Fire HD 10 Plus adds:</p><ul><li>Fast performance—With 4GB RAM, it offers even more memory for playing your favorite game or multi-tasking during the day.</li><li>Premium finish—Soft touch, slate colored finish for a high-quality feel.</li><li>Hassle-free wireless charging—Charge wirelessly with any compatible Qi certified charger, or pair with the Made for Amazon wireless charging dock from Anker (sold separately), and Fire HD 10 Plus transitions from a portable tablet to a countertop smart display with hands-free access to Alexa in Show Mode.</li></ul><p>Starting at $219.99, Productivity Bundles include either a Fire HD 10 or Fire HD 10 Plus and:</p><ul><li>Detachable keyboard case—Designed by Fintie to perfectly fit your Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus, the all-new Bluetooth keyboard with detachable case lets you adjust screen-viewing angles for a comfortable typing experience. And if you want to unwind and read a book, the keyboard magnetically detaches and then simply snaps back on when you want to check email, take notes, or browse the internet. The case can also be purchased separately for $49.99.</li><li>Microsoft 365 Personal subscription—Includes a 12-month subscription to premium Office apps, 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage, and more, which you can use on up to five compatible devices at the same time. Your subscription auto-renews after one year at the regular rate (MSRP $69.99).</li></ul><p>Stay entertained with Prime</p><ul><li>Watch thousands of movies and TV shows, including Amazon Originals like Coming 2 America, The Boys, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, and Sylvie's Love, as well as Emmy and Golden Globe winners Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Golden Globe winner <em>Small Axe</em>, Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee <em>Borat Subsequent Moviefilm</em>, Academy Award winner <em>Sound of Metal</em>, and Academy Award nominee <em>Time</em> and <em>One Night in Miami…</em>.</li><li>With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to two million songs and thousands of playlists and stations.</li><li>Prime Reading has a rotating selection of more than 1,000 books, magazines, comics, and more. With Amazon First Reads, Prime members get early access to Kindle Books before they publish, based on a selection of titles curated by the Books Editorial team.</li><li>Get unlimited full-resolution photo storage and 5GB video storage with Amazon Photos.</li><li>With Prime Gaming, customers can enjoy free games, in-game content, a Twitch channel subscription each month, and more.</li></ul><p>To sign up or start a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, visit www.amazon.com/prime.</p><p>Pricing and availability</p><p>Starting at $149.99, Fire HD 10 is available for pre-order today with 32GB or 64GB of storage and is offered in Black, Denim, Lavender, and Olive colors. Fire HD 10 Plus is available with 32GB or 64GB of storage starting at $179.99. The Made for Amazon Wireless Charging Dock by Anker is available for $49.99 and can be purchased as a bundle with Fire HD 10 Plus. Both tablets can also be purchased as part of the new Fire HD 10 Productivity Bundle, which features a Made for Amazon keyboard case by Fintie and a 12-month Microsoft 365 Personal subscription, starting at $219.99.</p><p>Accessory cases are available for Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus tablets in Black, Lavender Haze, Deep Sea Blue, and Olive Green.</p><p>All tablets and accessories will begin shipping on May 26. To learn more, visit: www.amazon.com/firetablets.</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/20210427005712/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Introduces Fire Tablets for Kids of All Ages: All-New Fire Kids Pro and Next-Generation Fire HD 10 Kids Tablets

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04/27/2021 09:15:00

Amazon Introduces Fire Tablets for Kids of All Ages: All-New Fire Kids Pro and Next-Generation Fire HD 10 Kids Tablets

04/27/2021

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Fire Kids Pro comes bundled with a full-featured Fire tablet, one year of Amazon Kids+, a new slim protective case, and a two-year worry-free guarantee—starting at $99.99 The all-new Fire Kids Pro experience is built with older kids in mind—"grown-up" look and feel, digital store access, voice and video calling, more open web browser experience, expanded Amazon Kids+ content, flexible parental controls, and more Next-generation Fire HD 10 Kids offers a brilliant 10.1" HD display and fast performance, plus all the content kids love with one year of Amazon Kids+, a kid-proof case, parental controls, and a 2-year worry-free guarantee—all for $199.99 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 27, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the all-new Fire Kids Pro tablets for kids ages 6 to 12 and the next generation Fire HD 10 Kids tablet for kids ages 3 to 7. Now, grown-ups can choose a Fire Kids tablet experience that meets the changing needs of kids as they grow, while enjoying flexible parental controls that give adults peace of mind. Amazon also announced a new suite of Fire HD 10 tablets for entertainment and productivity, learn more here. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210427005710/en/ Fire Kids Pro (Photo: Business Wire) Fire Kids Pro The all-new Fire Kids Pro reimagines the tablet experience for kids ages 6 to 12 with features that empower kids to independently explore and expanded, age-appropriate content. Fire Kids Pro is an affordable, kids tablet that includes everything a child needs to get started—a full-featured Fire tablet, a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+ with an expanded selection of content for older kids, a slim protective case, and a two-year worry-free guarantee. Fire Kids Pro is available in three sizes and four colors and prints. And, any customer with a Fire or Fire Kids tablet can enable the new Fire Kids Pro features on their existing device using the Amazon Parent Dashboard. The all-new Fire Kids Pro includes: Expanded Amazon Kids+ content: Fire Kids Pro comes with a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+, which includes a large selection of premium entertainment and educational content, now with even more of the content older kids love. Kids can choose from thousands of apps, songs, Audible books, games including Teen Titans Go and Asphalt 8, books like Keeper of the Lost Cities and Chronicles of Narnia, PG and PG-13 videos hand-selected by the Amazon Kids team, plus educational content from National Geographic, Rabbids Coding, LEGO, and more. Digital store: In addition to Kids+ content, Kids Pro tablets include access to a digital store so kids can request apps like Disney+, Spotify, Minecraft, Zoom, and more. Kids can request apps, and parents approve purchases and downloads. The digital store includes a selection of apps designed for children, and parents can choose to allow expanded access to additional apps. Mature and adult content is always excluded. Web browser: The Amazon Kids web browser now includes a setting that gives kids open but filtered access to the web for school projects and online curriculum. Built-in controls are designed to help filter out inappropriate sites. Parents can also allow and block specific sites. Voice and video calling: Kids can make and receive voice and video calls over Wi-Fi with parent-approved contacts who have a Fire Kids tablet, Echo device or the Alexa app, letting them easily chat with friends to collaborate on homework or stay in touch with family. Kids can also make announcements like "I'm done with my homework" from the tablet to Alexa-enabled devices at home. Music: A music row that includes stations from iHeartRadio Family makes kid-friendly music more easily accessible. Kids can choose from an array of curated playlists like Acoustic for Kids and Homework Inspiration, as well as live radio stations. Flexible parental controls: Amazon Kids free parental controls make it easy for grown-ups to manage their kids' screen time and digital content. Grown-ups can set daily goals, age filters, time limits for both weekdays and weekends, adjust the web browser experience, turn voice and video calling on or off, approve communications contacts, approve or deny purchases from the digital store, and more. Grown-up look and feel: The home screen theme looks and feels more like a "grown-up" tablet. A new "For You" tab offers a personalized screen of content for easy discovery of new and recommended content, while the "Home" tab provides easy access to the child's screen time rules and key features such as voice and video calling, the web browser, and the digital store. Fun case and color options: Fire Kids Pro comes with a slim case in cool colors and fun prints that protects against drops and bumps. Parents can choose from Sky Blue, Black, Doodle, and Intergalactic. The case includes an adjustable stand that makes virtual learning, game play, and video watching easy and comfortable. All Fire Kids Pro tablets include a two-year worry-free guarantee—if it breaks, return it, and Amazon will replace it for free. "Parents and kids love our Fire Kids tablets—they continue to be the best-selling kids tablets in the U.S. As kids' interests expand, they naturally want to do more and need a tablet that grows with them," said Kurt Beidler, general manager, Amazon Kids & Kids+. "The Fire Kids Pro offers everything parents already love from our Kids tablets with a new experience that gives kids ages 6 to 12 even more of what they want—more content, more freedom to safely explore with new features, and more social connection. And, Amazon Kids offers flexible parental controls that allow parents to tailor their children's experience based on their family style—giving parents peace of mind as their kids get older." "Kids mature at different rates, and it's up to parents to decide which types of content they're comfortable with their kids engaging," said Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute. "The way these products are designed gives families the ability to maintain oversight while building a healthy relationship with technology. Establishing this kind of trust will help with creating positive habits for kids as they become more independent online." Fire HD 10 Kids The next-generation Fire HD 10 Kids includes a Fire HD 10 tablet that offers up to 12 hours of battery life and USB-C for easy charging, especially for kids. The brilliant 10.1" HD display coupled with fast performance makes for a great video experience. Fire HD 10 Kids comes with a kid-proof case in Sky Blue, Aquamarine, or Lavender with a kickstand that doubles as a handle; a year of Amazon Kids+; and a two-year worry-free guarantee. It's the perfect tablet for kids ages 3 to 7. Amazon Kids+ provides kids unlimited access to over 20,000 books, movies, TV shows, Spanish-language content, Audible books, educational apps, and games—all curated by kids content experts. Amazon Kids free parental controls make it easy for grown-ups to manage their kids' screen time and digital content. With the "Learn First" feature, grown-ups can block access to games and cartoons until after educational goals are met. These settings can be managed on the child's device or through the Amazon Parent Dashboard. Pricing and availability The all-new Fire Kids Pro tablets start at $99.99 for the Fire 7 Kids Pro, $139.99 for the Fire HD 8 Kids Pro, and $199.99 for the Fire HD 10 Kids Pro. Families with an existing Fire Kids tablet can also upgrade to Fire Kids Pro through the Amazon Trade-In program with a 20 percent discount. The next-generation Fire HD 10 Kids is $199.99. For a limited time, customers can get a 30 percent discount when they buy two Fire HD 10 Kids tablets. Fire Kids Pro and Fire HD 10 Kids tablets are available for pre-order starting today and will begin shipping on May 26. Amazon Kids is completely free to parents, and Amazon Kids+ subscriptions start at $2.99 per month for Prime members and $4.99 per month for customers who are not yet Prime members. Customers can use the same Amazon Kids+ subscription across any compatible device to access even more kid-friendly content, including Fire tablets, Fire TV, Kindle, Echo, iOS, Chromebook, or 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/20210427005710/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Fire Kids Pro comes bundled with a full-featured Fire tablet, one year of Amazon Kids+, a new slim protective case, and a two-year worry-free guarantee—starting at $99.99</em></p><p><em>The all-new Fire Kids Pro experience is built with older kids in mind—"grown-up" look and feel, digital store access, voice and video calling, more open web browser experience, expanded Amazon Kids+ content, flexible parental controls, and more</em></p><p><em>Next-generation Fire HD 10 Kids offers a brilliant 10.1" HD display and fast performance, plus all the content kids love with one year of Amazon Kids+, a kid-proof case, parental controls, and a 2-year worry-free guarantee—all for $199.99</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 27, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the all-new Fire Kids Pro tablets for kids ages 6 to 12 and the next generation Fire HD 10 Kids tablet for kids ages 3 to 7. Now, grown-ups can choose a Fire Kids tablet experience that meets the changing needs of kids as they grow, while enjoying flexible parental controls that give adults peace of mind. Amazon also announced a new suite of Fire HD 10 tablets for entertainment and productivity, learn more here.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210427005710/en/</p><div><p>Fire Kids Pro (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Fire Kids Pro</p><p>The all-new Fire Kids Pro reimagines the tablet experience for kids ages 6 to 12 with features that empower kids to independently explore and expanded, age-appropriate content. Fire Kids Pro is an affordable, kids tablet that includes everything a child needs to get started—a full-featured Fire tablet, a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+ with an expanded selection of content for older kids, a slim protective case, and a two-year worry-free guarantee. Fire Kids Pro is available in three sizes and four colors and prints. And, any customer with a Fire or Fire Kids tablet can enable the new Fire Kids Pro features on their existing device using the Amazon Parent Dashboard.</p><p>The all-new Fire Kids Pro includes:</p><ul><li>Expanded Amazon Kids+ content: Fire Kids Pro comes with a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+, which includes a large selection of premium entertainment and educational content, now with even more of the content older kids love. Kids can choose from thousands of apps, songs, Audible books, games including <em>Teen Titans Go</em> and <em>Asphalt 8</em>, books like <em>Keeper of the Lost Cities</em> and <em>Chronicles of Narnia</em>, PG and PG-13 videos hand-selected by the Amazon Kids team, plus educational content from National Geographic, Rabbids Coding, LEGO, and more.</li><li>Digital store: In addition to Kids+ content, Kids Pro tablets include access to a digital store so kids can request apps like Disney+, Spotify, Minecraft, Zoom, and more. Kids can request apps, and parents approve purchases and downloads. The digital store includes a selection of apps designed for children, and parents can choose to allow expanded access to additional apps. Mature and adult content is always excluded.</li><li>Web browser: The Amazon Kids web browser now includes a setting that gives kids open but filtered access to the web for school projects and online curriculum. Built-in controls are designed to help filter out inappropriate sites. Parents can also allow and block specific sites.</li><li>Voice and video calling: Kids can make and receive voice and video calls over Wi-Fi with parent-approved contacts who have a Fire Kids tablet, Echo device or the Alexa app, letting them easily chat with friends to collaborate on homework or stay in touch with family. Kids can also make announcements like "I'm done with my homework" from the tablet to Alexa-enabled devices at home.</li><li>Music: A music row that includes stations from iHeartRadio Family makes kid-friendly music more easily accessible. Kids can choose from an array of curated playlists like Acoustic for Kids and Homework Inspiration, as well as live radio stations.</li><li>Flexible parental controls: Amazon Kids free parental controls make it easy for grown-ups to manage their kids' screen time and digital content. Grown-ups can set daily goals, age filters, time limits for both weekdays and weekends, adjust the web browser experience, turn voice and video calling on or off, approve communications contacts, approve or deny purchases from the digital store, and more.</li><li>Grown-up look and feel: The home screen theme looks and feels more like a "grown-up" tablet. A new "For You" tab offers a personalized screen of content for easy discovery of new and recommended content, while the "Home" tab provides easy access to the child's screen time rules and key features such as voice and video calling, the web browser, and the digital store.</li><li>Fun case and color options: Fire Kids Pro comes with a slim case in cool colors and fun prints that protects against drops and bumps. Parents can choose from Sky Blue, Black, Doodle, and Intergalactic. The case includes an adjustable stand that makes virtual learning, game play, and video watching easy and comfortable. All Fire Kids Pro tablets include a two-year worry-free guarantee—if it breaks, return it, and Amazon will replace it for free.</li></ul><p>"Parents and kids love our Fire Kids tablets—they continue to be the best-selling kids tablets in the U.S. As kids' interests expand, they naturally want to do more and need a tablet that grows with them," said Kurt Beidler, general manager, Amazon Kids &amp; Kids+. "The Fire Kids Pro offers everything parents already love from our Kids tablets with a new experience that gives kids ages 6 to 12 even more of what they want—more content, more freedom to safely explore with new features, and more social connection. And, Amazon Kids offers flexible parental controls that allow parents to tailor their children's experience based on their family style—giving parents peace of mind as their kids get older."</p><p>"Kids mature at different rates, and it's up to parents to decide which types of content they're comfortable with their kids engaging," said Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute. "The way these products are designed gives families the ability to maintain oversight while building a healthy relationship with technology. Establishing this kind of trust will help with creating positive habits for kids as they become more independent online."</p><p>Fire HD 10 Kids</p><p>The next-generation Fire HD 10 Kids includes a Fire HD 10 tablet that offers up to 12 hours of battery life and USB-C for easy charging, especially for kids. The brilliant 10.1" HD display coupled with fast performance makes for a great video experience. Fire HD 10 Kids comes with a kid-proof case in Sky Blue, Aquamarine, or Lavender with a kickstand that doubles as a handle; a year of Amazon Kids+; and a two-year worry-free guarantee. It's the perfect tablet for kids ages 3 to 7.</p><p>Amazon Kids+ provides kids unlimited access to over 20,000 books, movies, TV shows, Spanish-language content, Audible books, educational apps, and games—all curated by kids content experts. Amazon Kids free parental controls make it easy for grown-ups to manage their kids' screen time and digital content. With the "Learn First" feature, grown-ups can block access to games and cartoons until after educational goals are met. These settings can be managed on the child's device or through the Amazon Parent Dashboard.</p><p>Pricing and availability</p><p>The all-new Fire Kids Pro tablets start at $99.99 for the Fire 7 Kids Pro, $139.99 for the Fire HD 8 Kids Pro, and $199.99 for the Fire HD 10 Kids Pro. Families with an existing Fire Kids tablet can also upgrade to Fire Kids Pro through the Amazon Trade-In program with a 20 percent discount.</p><p>The next-generation Fire HD 10 Kids is $199.99. For a limited time, customers can get a 30 percent discount when they buy two Fire HD 10 Kids tablets.</p><p>Fire Kids Pro and Fire HD 10 Kids tablets are available for pre-order starting today and will begin shipping on May 26.</p><p>Amazon Kids is completely free to parents, and Amazon Kids+ subscriptions start at $2.99 per month for Prime members and $4.99 per month for customers who are not yet Prime members. Customers can use the same Amazon Kids+ subscription across any compatible device to access even more kid-friendly content, including Fire tablets, Fire TV, Kindle, Echo, iOS, Chromebook, or 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/20210427005710/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Expands In-Garage Grocery Delivery to Prime Members in More Than 5,000 Cities and Towns

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Amazon Expands In-Garage Grocery Delivery to Prime Members in More Than 5,000 Cities and Towns

04/27/2021

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Originally launched in 5 cities, Key by Amazon's secure and convenient In-Garage Grocery Delivery is now available everywhere Amazon offers grocery delivery Delivery expansion comes as Americans seek convenience and time savings with grocery delivery, according to new survey data SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 27, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that Key by Amazon In-Garage Grocery Delivery is expanding to everywhere grocery delivery from Amazon is available, providing service to more than 5,000 U.S. cities and towns. Originally launched in five cities last November, Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery can now be used by millions of eligible Prime members to have their Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market groceries delivered securely and conveniently inside their garage. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210427005475/en/ Key by Amazon In-Garage Grocery Delivery is now available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities and towns. (Photo: Business Wire) Customers Seek Convenience Customers relied on online grocery delivery services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's clear they'll continue to use grocery delivery because of the convenience it provides. In a recent survey by Morning Consult commissioned by Amazon, nearly 70% of Americans report that grocery delivery is beneficial when they don't have time for a trip to the grocery store. Of the 54% of Americans who highlighted convenience as the most important benefit of grocery delivery, 77% reported saving time as a beneficial advantage. "Customers who tried Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery have loved the service, which is why we're expanding it to everywhere Amazon offers grocery delivery," said Pete Gerstberger, Head of Key by Amazon. "As customers look for more convenience in their daily lives, we're excited to deliver another service that not only helps them save time, but provides peace of mind knowing that tonight's dinner is safe in their garage and out of the weather." Convenient Shopping with Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market  Eligible Prime members can shop online at www.amazon.com/fresh or www.amazon.com/wholefoods and build a cart just like they would for any grocery delivery order. Customers with a compatible garage door opener or myQ Smart Garage Hub can connect the myQ app with Key, then simply select "Key Delivery" at checkout for no additional cost. Once the order is placed, a trained shopper will fill the order, selecting products that meet the high quality standards of Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market. Grocery orders are securely delivered by a delivery service professional, and customers can easily use the Key by Amazon app or the Amazon mobile shopping app to be notified when their groceries arrive. "We've worked hard to bring the convenience of grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market to even more Prime members, now reaching customers in more than 5,000 cities and towns," said Stephenie Landry, Vice President of Grocery at Amazon. "I'm thrilled to offer customers Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery, and believe this expansion illustrates our commitment to continually innovate to make the experience of ordering groceries online even better for customers." Pricing and Availability Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery is available everywhere Amazon offers grocery delivery, at no additional cost to eligible Prime members. A myQ connected smart garage door opener is required to enable garage access for secure delivery. To view videos of their delivery, customers can use a compatible Ring smart home camera with their Ring Protect Plan, or LiftMaster Smart Garage Camera powered by myQ with a myQ Video Storage Subscription. To check eligibility, sign up for Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery, and enjoy a limited-time offer of a $20 Amazon credit after the first in-garage grocery order*, customers can visit www.amazon.com/key-grocery. 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. Every Day Made Better with Prime Prime was designed to make your life better every single day. Over 200 million paid members around the world enjoy the many benefits of Prime, including the best of shopping and entertainment. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs plus thousands of stations and playlists with Amazon Music, more than 1,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, free in-game content and games with Prime Gaming, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, as well as incredible deals with Prime Day, and more. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. In addition to more than 10 million items eligible for free One-Day Delivery coast to coast, Prime members in 47 major metropolitan areas have access to millions of items with free Same-Day Delivery and the option to pick up and return their Amazon packages for free through Amazon Hub, a contactless, click and collect service at no additional cost. Prime members also have access to free and fast grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns. Prime is $119 a year or $12.99 a month and new members can start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime. *Terms and conditions apply. Find them at www.amazon.com/key-grocery to learn more. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210427005475/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Originally launched in 5 cities, Key by Amazon's secure and convenient In-Garage Grocery Delivery is now available everywhere Amazon offers grocery delivery</em></p><p><em>Delivery expansion comes as Americans seek convenience and time savings with grocery delivery, according to new survey data</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 27, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that Key by Amazon In-Garage Grocery Delivery is expanding to everywhere grocery delivery from Amazon is available, providing service to more than 5,000 U.S. cities and towns. Originally launched in five cities last November, Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery can now be used by millions of eligible Prime members to have their Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market groceries delivered securely and conveniently inside their garage.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210427005475/en/</p><div><p>Key by Amazon In-Garage Grocery Delivery is now available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities and towns. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Customers Seek Convenience</p><p>Customers relied on online grocery delivery services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's clear they'll continue to use grocery delivery because of the convenience it provides. In a recent survey by Morning Consult commissioned by Amazon, nearly 70% of Americans report that grocery delivery is beneficial when they don't have time for a trip to the grocery store. Of the 54% of Americans who highlighted convenience as the most important benefit of grocery delivery, 77% reported saving time as a beneficial advantage.</p><p>"Customers who tried Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery have loved the service, which is why we're expanding it to everywhere Amazon offers grocery delivery," said Pete Gerstberger, Head of Key by Amazon. "As customers look for more convenience in their daily lives, we're excited to deliver another service that not only helps them save time, but provides peace of mind knowing that tonight's dinner is safe in their garage and out of the weather."</p><p>Convenient Shopping with Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market </p><p>Eligible Prime members can shop online at www.amazon.com/fresh or www.amazon.com/wholefoods and build a cart just like they would for any grocery delivery order. Customers with a compatible garage door opener or myQ Smart Garage Hub can connect the myQ app with Key, then simply select "Key Delivery" at checkout for no additional cost. Once the order is placed, a trained shopper will fill the order, selecting products that meet the high quality standards of Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market. Grocery orders are securely delivered by a delivery service professional, and customers can easily use the Key by Amazon app or the Amazon mobile shopping app to be notified when their groceries arrive.</p><p>"We've worked hard to bring the convenience of grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market to even more Prime members, now reaching customers in more than 5,000 cities and towns," said Stephenie Landry, Vice President of Grocery at Amazon. "I'm thrilled to offer customers Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery, and believe this expansion illustrates our commitment to continually innovate to make the experience of ordering groceries online even better for customers."</p><p>Pricing and Availability</p><p>Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery is available everywhere Amazon offers grocery delivery, at no additional cost to eligible Prime members. A myQ connected smart garage door opener is required to enable garage access for secure delivery. To view videos of their delivery, customers can use a compatible Ring smart home camera with their Ring Protect Plan, or LiftMaster Smart Garage Camera powered by myQ with a myQ Video Storage Subscription.</p><p>To check eligibility, sign up for Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery, and enjoy a limited-time offer of a $20 Amazon credit after the first in-garage grocery order*, customers can visit www.amazon.com/key-grocery.</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>Every Day Made Better with Prime</p><p>Prime was designed to make your life better every single day. Over 200 million paid members around the world enjoy the many benefits of Prime, including the best of shopping and entertainment. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs plus thousands of stations and playlists with Amazon Music, more than 1,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, free in-game content and games with Prime Gaming, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, as well as incredible deals with Prime Day, and more. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. In addition to more than 10 million items eligible for free One-Day Delivery coast to coast, Prime members in 47 major metropolitan areas have access to millions of items with free Same-Day Delivery and the option to pick up and return their Amazon packages for free through Amazon Hub, a contactless, click and collect service at no additional cost. Prime members also have access to free and fast grocery delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns. Prime is $119 a year or $12.99 a month and new members can start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime.</p><p>*Terms and conditions apply. Find them at www.amazon.com/key-grocery to learn more.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210427005475/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Launches IP Accelerator in Canada to Help Small Businesses Secure a Trademark and Protect Their Brands

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04/26/2021 10:19:00

Amazon Launches IP Accelerator in Canada to Help Small Businesses Secure a Trademark and Protect Their Brands

04/26/2021

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IP Accelerator connects small and medium-sized businesses with a network of trusted Canadian Intellectual Property (IP) law firms - including woman- and minority-owned, multilingual firms - charging reduced fees on key services Participating businesses can access Amazon's brand protection tools months before their trademark registration is issued SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 26, 2021-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) launched the Intellectual Property Accelerator (IP Accelerator) in Canada, making it easier and more cost effective for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to obtain trademarks, protect their brands and tackle infringing goods both in Amazon's stores and the broader marketplace. Available to any brand selling in Amazon's stores, IP Accelerator directly connects Canadian SMB owners with a curated network of local law firms charging reduced, pre-negotiated rates on key services, giving SMBs access to expert legal and general IP advice that may otherwise be cost-prohibitive or hard to find. To date, the list of participating firms includes Bereskin & Parr LLP, Brouillette Legal Inc., Chari Prenol Slaney & Turco, Clancy PC, JZC Intellectual Property Law, Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus LLP, Palmer IP, and Ridout & Maybee LLP. "More than 30,000 Canada-based third-party sellers have grown their business with Amazon,reaching millions of customers while grossing more than $2 billion on Amazon's stores around the world. IP Accelerator allows our SMB selling partners to build on that success by protecting their valuable IP and setting them up for long-term growth. Establishing and protecting IP rights are essential for businesses of every size, and Amazon is pleased to introduce a new tool that provides access to specialized expertise to help protect brands," said Mary Beth Westmoreland, VP, Brand Protection at Amazon. IP rights are vital for businesses to stop bad actors from copying and infringing on their ideas. However, filing for IP protection can be daunting and time-consuming for SMBs: individual trademark applications to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office can take up to 28 months. IP Accelerator will facilitate the process by connecting SMBs with lawyers who are skilled in drafting trademark applications and can help remove common obstacles that could otherwise further delay the issuance of a registration. IP Accelerator provides SMBs with early access to Amazon's brand protection tools that help them protect their brand and IP even before their trademark is officially registered. Amazon's Brand Registry is a free service that provides SMBs with powerful tools that help them manage and protect their brand and IP rights in Amazon stores, with more than 350,000 brands enrolled to date. Participants benefit from Amazon's automated, data-driven protections that proactively remove suspected infringing or inaccurate content as well as tools that enable brands to report suspected infringement. Enrollment in Brand Registry also provides brands with greater influence over product information displayed on Amazon's product detail pages to help customers make confident, informed purchasing decisions. IP Accelerator was launched in the United States in 2019, and has since expanded to Europe, Japan, India, and now Canada. Since the launch, more than 6,000 trademark applications from participating brands have been submitted to trademark offices including the US Patent and Trademark Office, the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the UK Intellectual Property Office, the India Trade Marks Registry, the Japan Patent Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Amazon does not charge selling partners to use IP Accelerator – SMBs pay their law firm directly for the work performed at reduced, pre-negotiated rates. Businesses interested in IP Accelerator can visit http://brandservices.amazon.ca/ipaccelerator. Law firms that are interested in participating in the program should contact IPAcceleratorWaitList@amazon.com. Quotes: Jennifer Pratt, Founder and Owner of Seeding Square, the colour-coded seed spacer for vegetable gardens, said: "For any small business, but particularly for one like mine, whose invention is becoming increasingly popular, there is a significant risk of competitors copying or stealing your hard work and capitalizing on your growth. As a small business owner, I have many urgent day-to-day priorities that can prevent me from pursuing complicated matters like trademark protection. I am encouraged to see initiatives like IP Accelerator, which connects businesses like mine with specialized legal expertise at a reduced cost." Antonio Turco, Founding Partner of CPST Law LLP, said: "We are excited to be involved with the IP Accelerator and pleased that Amazon places such an emphasis on IP protection. A company's brand is its most important investment, and trademark registration is a key aspect of protecting that brand. The IP Accelerator elevates the importance of intellectual property and is a significant step in helping small and medium-sized businesses obtain IP rights." Paula Clancy, Founder and Managing Attorney at Clancy PC, said: "In today's competitive marketplace, your brand is one of your most valuable assets as it represents your reputation in the eyes of consumers, directing them to your products and services. Brand protection on a store like Amazon, which reaches millions of customers worldwide, is essential, not only to prevent unauthorized use of your marks, but also to protect you from potential claims by third parties. Amazon's IP Accelerator helps small businesses connect with trusted trademark professionals to protect their brands. Clancy PC is excited to be part of the program and to assist small businesses through the trademark registration and Amazon Brand Registry process." 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. Appendix: Additional Law Firm Quotes Janice Bereskin, Partner atBereskin & Parr LLP, said: "Trademark protection is important for businesses from start-ups to SMEs to multinationals. Bereskin & Parr welcomes the opportunity to work with Amazon's IP Accelerator to assist companies with their trademark protection in Canada and facilitate participation with Amazon's Brand Registry program." Jerry Chen, Founder, JZC Intellectual Property Law, said: "We are pleased to be selected as a partner firm for the Amazon IP Accelerator Program. The IP Accelerator program directly aligns with our firm's goal of providing clients with quality, practical and cost-effective legal services in the area of brand protection. We firmly believe that the Amazon Brand Registry, in combination with the Canadian trademark system, will provide online merchants, in particular Amazon sellers, with powerful tools to combat counterfeiting and infringement of their rights. In the rapidly developing world of e-commerce, trademark rights are more important than ever, and we are happy to work with Amazon to ensure that these rights are properly protected. We can assist clients in filing Canadian trademark applications and help them get enrolled in the Amazon Brand Registry through the IP Accelerator Program." David Lipkus Partner at Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus LLP, said: "I have dedicated my career to helping brands enforce their rights, and I look forward to helping educate SMBs about the importance of IP and taking the appropriate steps to protect their brands early on in their growth. With World Intellectual Property Day taking place on April 26th, there is no better time to take the time to understand the importance of trademark protection. I look forward to helping SMBs prioritize IP, and strengthen this valuable asset." Dean Palmer, Managing Partner of Palmer IP, Canada, said: "Our Canadian team in Vancouver, Ottawa, and Toronto welcomes the Amazon IP Accelerator program to Canada. ​There is now no need to wait years for a trademark registration to access the Amazon Brand Registry enforcement and brand profile tools. Businesses selling in Canada can join the Brand Registry within 14 days through the IPA program, and receive a discounted rate, from vetted firms, to ultimately achieve trademark registrations." Robert Brouillette, Founding Partner of Brouillette Legal Inc., said: "Amazon's IP Accelerator will be very beneficial to small businesses to quickly gain access to the Amazon Brand Registry at the filing stage of a trademark application in Canada. Furthermore, the resulting registered trademark will benefit the small businesses by becoming uncontestable after 5 years of the registration, by creating trademark right presumptions across Canada and by facilitating enforcement and preventing infringement. Brouillette Legal is proud to be part of the Amazon's IP Accelerator to help businesses grow through the creation of IP assets." View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210426005587/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>IP Accelerator connects small and medium-sized businesses with a network of trusted Canadian Intellectual Property (IP) law firms - including woman- and minority-owned, multilingual firms -</em> <em>charging reduced fees on key services</em></p><p><em>Participating businesses can access Amazon's brand protection tools months before their trademark registration is issued</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 26, 2021-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) launched the Intellectual Property Accelerator (IP Accelerator) in Canada, making it easier and more cost effective for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to obtain trademarks, protect their brands and tackle infringing goods both in Amazon's stores and the broader marketplace.</p><p>Available to any brand selling in Amazon's stores, IP Accelerator directly connects Canadian SMB owners with a curated network of local law firms charging reduced, pre-negotiated rates on key services, giving SMBs access to expert legal and general IP advice that may otherwise be cost-prohibitive or hard to find. To date, the list of participating firms includes Bereskin &amp; Parr LLP, Brouillette Legal Inc., Chari Prenol Slaney &amp; Turco, Clancy PC, JZC Intellectual Property Law, Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus LLP, Palmer IP, and Ridout &amp; Maybee LLP.</p><p>"More than 30,000 Canada-based third-party sellers have grown their business with Amazon,reaching millions of customers while grossing more than $2 billion on Amazon's stores around the world. IP Accelerator allows our SMB selling partners to build on that success by protecting their valuable IP and setting them up for long-term growth. Establishing and protecting IP rights are essential for businesses of every size, and Amazon is pleased to introduce a new tool that provides access to specialized expertise to help protect brands," said Mary Beth Westmoreland, VP, Brand Protection at Amazon.</p><p>IP rights are vital for businesses to stop bad actors from copying and infringing on their ideas. However, filing for IP protection can be daunting and time-consuming for SMBs: individual trademark applications to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office can take up to 28 months. IP Accelerator will facilitate the process by connecting SMBs with lawyers who are skilled in drafting trademark applications and can help remove common obstacles that could otherwise further delay the issuance of a registration.</p><p>IP Accelerator provides SMBs with early access to Amazon's brand protection tools that help them protect their brand and IP even before their trademark is officially registered. Amazon's Brand Registry is a free service that provides SMBs with powerful tools that help them manage and protect their brand and IP rights in Amazon stores, with more than 350,000 brands enrolled to date. Participants benefit from Amazon's automated, data-driven protections that proactively remove suspected infringing or inaccurate content as well as tools that enable brands to report suspected infringement. Enrollment in Brand Registry also provides brands with greater influence over product information displayed on Amazon's product detail pages to help customers make confident, informed purchasing decisions.</p><p>IP Accelerator was launched in the United States in 2019, and has since expanded to Europe, Japan, India, and now Canada. Since the launch, more than 6,000 trademark applications from participating brands have been submitted to trademark offices including the US Patent and Trademark Office, the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the UK Intellectual Property Office, the India Trade Marks Registry, the Japan Patent Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.</p><p>Amazon does not charge selling partners to use IP Accelerator – SMBs pay their law firm directly for the work performed at reduced, pre-negotiated rates. Businesses interested in IP Accelerator can visit http://brandservices.amazon.ca/ipaccelerator. Law firms that are interested in participating in the program should contact IPAcceleratorWaitList@amazon.com.</p><p>Quotes:</p><p><em>Jennifer Pratt, Founder and Owner of Seeding Square, the colour-coded seed spacer for vegetable gardens, said:</em> <em>"For any small business, but particularly for one like mine, whose invention is becoming increasingly popular, there is a significant risk of competitors copying or stealing your hard work and capitalizing on your growth. As a small business owner, I have many urgent day-to-day priorities that can prevent me from pursuing complicated matters like trademark protection. I am encouraged to see initiatives like IP Accelerator, which connects businesses like mine with specialized legal expertise at a reduced cost."</em></p><p><em>Antonio Turco, Founding Partner of CPST Law LLP, said: "We are excited to be involved with the IP Accelerator and pleased that Amazon places such an emphasis on IP protection. A company's brand is its most important investment, and trademark registration is a key aspect of protecting that brand. The IP Accelerator elevates the importance of intellectual property and is a significant step in helping small and medium-sized businesses obtain IP rights."</em></p><p><em>Paula Clancy, Founder and Managing Attorney at Clancy PC, said:</em><em> "In today's competitive marketplace, your brand is one of your most valuable assets as it represents your reputation in the eyes of consumers, directing them to your products and services. Brand protection on a store like Amazon, which reaches millions of customers worldwide, is essential, not only to prevent unauthorized use of your marks, but also to protect you from potential claims by third parties. Amazon's IP Accelerator helps small businesses connect with trusted trademark professionals to protect their brands. Clancy PC is excited to be part of the program and to assist small businesses through the trademark registration and Amazon Brand Registry process."</em></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>Appendix: Additional Law Firm Quotes</p><p>Janice Bereskin, Partner atBereskin &amp; Parr LLP, said: "Trademark protection is important for businesses from start-ups to SMEs to multinationals. Bereskin &amp; Parr welcomes the opportunity to work with Amazon's IP Accelerator to assist companies with their trademark protection in Canada and facilitate participation with Amazon's Brand Registry program."</p><p>Jerry Chen, Founder, JZC Intellectual Property Law, said: "We are pleased to be selected as a partner firm for the Amazon IP Accelerator Program. The IP Accelerator program directly aligns with our firm's goal of providing clients with quality, practical and cost-effective legal services in the area of brand protection. We firmly believe that the Amazon Brand Registry, in combination with the Canadian trademark system, will provide online merchants, in particular Amazon sellers, with powerful tools to combat counterfeiting and infringement of their rights. In the rapidly developing world of e-commerce, trademark rights are more important than ever, and we are happy to work with Amazon to ensure that these rights are properly protected. We can assist clients in filing Canadian trademark applications and help them get enrolled in the Amazon Brand Registry through the IP Accelerator Program."</p><p>David Lipkus Partner at Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus LLP, said: "I have dedicated my career to helping brands enforce their rights, and I look forward to helping educate SMBs about the importance of IP and taking the appropriate steps to protect their brands early on in their growth. With World Intellectual Property Day taking place on April 26th, there is no better time to take the time to understand the importance of trademark protection. I look forward to helping SMBs prioritize IP, and strengthen this valuable asset."</p><p>Dean Palmer, Managing Partner of Palmer IP, Canada, said: "Our Canadian team in Vancouver, Ottawa, and Toronto welcomes the Amazon IP Accelerator program to Canada. ​There is now no need to wait years for a trademark registration to access the Amazon Brand Registry enforcement and brand profile tools. Businesses selling in Canada can join the Brand Registry within 14 days through the IPA program, and receive a discounted rate, from vetted firms, to ultimately achieve trademark registrations."</p><p>Robert Brouillette, Founding Partner of Brouillette Legal Inc., said: "Amazon's IP Accelerator will be very beneficial to small businesses to quickly gain access to the Amazon Brand Registry at the filing stage of a trademark application in Canada. Furthermore, the resulting registered trademark will benefit the small businesses by becoming uncontestable after 5 years of the registration, by creating trademark right presumptions across Canada and by facilitating enforcement and preventing infringement. Brouillette Legal is proud to be part of the Amazon's IP Accelerator to help businesses grow through the creation of IP assets."</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210426005587/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

DISH and AWS Form Strategic Collaboration to Reinvent 5G Connectivity and Innovation

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In a telecom industry first, DISH will leverage AWS infrastructure and services to build a cloud-based, 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) that delivers consistent, cost-effective performance from core to the edge DISH announces Las Vegas will be first live city in nationwide network deployment DISH will use AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones to build its network in the cloud, enabling customers to apply the breadth and depth of AWS capabilities to innovate low-latency 5G applications and services for a wide range of industries SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that DISH Network Corporation (DISH) (NASDAQ: DISH) selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and will construct its 5G network on AWS, part of a strategic collaboration agreement under which both companies will work to transform how organizations and customers, including AWS and Amazon, order and consume 5G services or create their own private 5G networks. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210421005315/en/ DISH is deploying the first standalone, cloud-based 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) in the United States, beginning with Las Vegas later this year. DISH will connect all of its hardware and network management resources through the world's leading cloud to enable secure, rapid scaling and innovation as well as on-demand responsiveness to customers' wireless needs. Given this marks the first time that a 5G network will be run in the cloud, DISH will achieve agile and cost-effective operations while seeking to redefine the practical applications of 5G. As DISH deploys its network, the company is partnering exclusively with vendors offering cloud-native technology, bringing them together on AWS to provide DISH customers greater flexibility and control of their 5G-enabled solutions. DISH will leverage AWS's proven infrastructure and breadth of services to deploy a cloud-native 5G network that incorporates O-RAN –the antennas and base stations that link phones and other wireless devices to the network –and the 5G Core –the logical architecture that directs traffic flow within the network. AWS will also power DISH's fully automated Operation and Business Support Systems (OSS and BSS) that will enable the company to provision and operate its customers' 5G workloads and monetize its network. By building its network on AWS, DISH is also simplifying the process for developers to create new 5G applications. DISH developers and customers, as well as the AWS developer community, will be able to create innovative 5G solutions across a variety of industries by leveraging standardized application programming interfaces (APIs) to engage with data on DISH network attributes such as user equipment latency, bit rate, quality of service, and equipment location. Developers can then leverage AWS services and partner capabilities in machine learning, analytics, security, and more to create responsive solutions that use that data. For instance, they could offer low-latency augmented reality gaming experiences optimized for the user's device, serve contextual advertising, or orchestrate the movements of a robot at a disaster site. "Through this collaboration with AWS, we will operate not just as a communications services provider, but as a digital services provider harnessing the combined power of 5G connectivity and the cloud. Together, we will enable our customers to take full advantage of the potential of 5G. Our approach will revolutionize wireless connectivity by giving customers the ability to customize and scale their network experience on-demand," said Charlie Ergen, DISH co-founder and chairman. "As a new carrier, leveraging AWS and its extensive network of partners enables us to differentiate ourselves by operating our 5G network with a high degree of automation, utilizing the talent of AWS-trained developers and helping our customers bring new 5G applications to market faster than ever before." "DISH's cloud-native and truly virtualized 5G network is a clear example of how AWS customers can use our proven infrastructure and unparalleled portfolio of services to reinvent industries," said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Inc. "This collaboration means DISH and its customers can bring new consumer- and enterprise-centric services to the market as quickly as they're created to deliver on the promise of 5G. Together, we're opening the door to new technologies that will transform factories, workplaces, entertainment, and transportation in ways people have only dreamed." 5G wireless is rapidly emerging as an enabling technology for industry use cases such as smart factories, personalized healthcare, self-driving vehicles, and immersive gaming that require extreme low latency, connectivity and data processing. DISH will use its 5G network to connect mobile and IoT devices like smartphones, robots, factory equipment, wearables, and other physical sensors to AWS to offload compute, analytics, machine learning, and related workloads, enabling systems to act on device data in real time. DISH can also leverage AWS to tailor performance for individual customer use cases on demand, by optimizing network attributes such as transmission speed or network availability through a process known as "network slicing." For instance, if an enterprise wanted to set consistent performance standards for when its customers stream videos, they could request a dedicated network slice that is tailored for high-data-rate video distribution. DISH will tap into AWS's extensive roster of telecommunications partners, as well as AWS Professional Services, to automate deployment of 5G network slices and deliver results at unparalleled speeds instead of the months it currently takes with existing manual processes. Running on AWS, DISH's 5G network will also significantly outpace legacy networks in the speed with which it can facilitate hardware and software upgrades. To support real-time workloads at the network edge and quickly process inbound and outbound data from its O-RAN infrastructure, DISH will leverage AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts. AWS Local Zones are an infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services close to large population, industry, and IT centers for applications requiring single-digit millisecond latency, while AWS Outposts extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises facility, such as the factory floor or a 5G base station. With this combination of AWS infrastructure, DISH can push its 5G Core to the edge and achieve consistently high performance across its service area, while also enabling developers to take full advantage of 5G speeds when building new applications and services. In addition, DISH will use AWS capabilities such as compute, containers, IoT, machine learning, and security to process 5G data and run its 5G Core, BSS, and OSS at scale while optimizing costs. DISH will use AWS Graviton2-based instances to power its compute workloads (AWS's custom-designed Graviton2 processors with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores provide up to 40% better price-performance over comparable current-generation x86-based instances) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to run containerized workloads, helping it deliver high availability during periods of peak network use. Running its 5G network over AWS will allow DISH to further reduce costs by bypassing the capital expenditure investments typically associated with building and operating network infrastructure hardware. DISH will also apply AWS machine learning capabilities at the network edge to help improve service by predicting network congestion at specific locations, as well as recognizing anomalies in network function, and then automatically taking corrective actions to optimize performance. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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 DISH DISH Network Corporation is a connectivity company. Since 1980, it has served as a disruptive force, driving innovation and value on behalf of consumers. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides television entertainment and award-winning technology to millions of customers with its satellite DISH TV and streaming SLING TV services. In 2020, the company became a nationwide U.S. wireless carrier through the acquisition of Boost Mobile. DISH continues to innovate in wireless, building the nation's first virtualized, O-RAN 5G broadband network. DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) is a Fortune 250 company. For company information, visit about.dish.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210421005315/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>In a telecom industry first, DISH will leverage AWS infrastructure and services to build a cloud-based, 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) that delivers consistent, cost-effective performance from core to the edge</em></p><p><em>DISH announces Las Vegas will be first live city in nationwide network deployment</em></p><p><em>DISH will use AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones to build its network in the cloud, enabling customers to apply the breadth and depth of AWS capabilities to innovate low-latency 5G applications and services for a wide range of industries</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that DISH Network Corporation (DISH) (NASDAQ: DISH) selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and will construct its 5G network on AWS, part of a strategic collaboration agreement under which both companies will work to transform how organizations and customers, including AWS and Amazon, order and consume 5G services or create their own private 5G networks.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210421005315/en/</p><p>DISH is deploying the first standalone, cloud-based 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) in the United States, beginning with Las Vegas later this year. DISH will connect all of its hardware and network management resources through the world's leading cloud to enable secure, rapid scaling and innovation as well as on-demand responsiveness to customers' wireless needs. Given this marks the first time that a 5G network will be run in the cloud, DISH will achieve agile and cost-effective operations while seeking to redefine the practical applications of 5G. As DISH deploys its network, the company is partnering exclusively with vendors offering cloud-native technology, bringing them together on AWS to provide DISH customers greater flexibility and control of their 5G-enabled solutions.</p><p>DISH will leverage AWS's proven infrastructure and breadth of services to deploy a cloud-native 5G network that incorporates O-RAN –the antennas and base stations that link phones and other wireless devices to the network –and the 5G Core –the logical architecture that directs traffic flow within the network. AWS will also power DISH's fully automated Operation and Business Support Systems (OSS and BSS) that will enable the company to provision and operate its customers' 5G workloads and monetize its network.</p><p>By building its network on AWS, DISH is also simplifying the process for developers to create new 5G applications. DISH developers and customers, as well as the AWS developer community, will be able to create innovative 5G solutions across a variety of industries by leveraging standardized application programming interfaces (APIs) to engage with data on DISH network attributes such as user equipment latency, bit rate, quality of service, and equipment location. Developers can then leverage AWS services and partner capabilities in machine learning, analytics, security, and more to create responsive solutions that use that data. For instance, they could offer low-latency augmented reality gaming experiences optimized for the user's device, serve contextual advertising, or orchestrate the movements of a robot at a disaster site.</p><p>"Through this collaboration with AWS, we will operate not just as a communications services provider, but as a digital services provider harnessing the combined power of 5G connectivity and the cloud. Together, we will enable our customers to take full advantage of the potential of 5G. Our approach will revolutionize wireless connectivity by giving customers the ability to customize and scale their network experience on-demand," said Charlie Ergen, DISH co-founder and chairman. "As a new carrier, leveraging AWS and its extensive network of partners enables us to differentiate ourselves by operating our 5G network with a high degree of automation, utilizing the talent of AWS-trained developers and helping our customers bring new 5G applications to market faster than ever before."</p><p>"DISH's cloud-native and truly virtualized 5G network is a clear example of how AWS customers can use our proven infrastructure and unparalleled portfolio of services to reinvent industries," said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Inc. "This collaboration means DISH and its customers can bring new consumer- and enterprise-centric services to the market as quickly as they're created to deliver on the promise of 5G. Together, we're opening the door to new technologies that will transform factories, workplaces, entertainment, and transportation in ways people have only dreamed."</p><p>5G wireless is rapidly emerging as an enabling technology for industry use cases such as smart factories, personalized healthcare, self-driving vehicles, and immersive gaming that require extreme low latency, connectivity and data processing. DISH will use its 5G network to connect mobile and IoT devices like smartphones, robots, factory equipment, wearables, and other physical sensors to AWS to offload compute, analytics, machine learning, and related workloads, enabling systems to act on device data in real time.</p><p>DISH can also leverage AWS to tailor performance for individual customer use cases on demand, by optimizing network attributes such as transmission speed or network availability through a process known as "network slicing." For instance, if an enterprise wanted to set consistent performance standards for when its customers stream videos, they could request a dedicated network slice that is tailored for high-data-rate video distribution. DISH will tap into AWS's extensive roster of telecommunications partners, as well as AWS Professional Services, to automate deployment of 5G network slices and deliver results at unparalleled speeds instead of the months it currently takes with existing manual processes. Running on AWS, DISH's 5G network will also significantly outpace legacy networks in the speed with which it can facilitate hardware and software upgrades.</p><p>To support real-time workloads at the network edge and quickly process inbound and outbound data from its O-RAN infrastructure, DISH will leverage AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts. AWS Local Zones are an infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services close to large population, industry, and IT centers for applications requiring single-digit millisecond latency, while AWS Outposts extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises facility, such as the factory floor or a 5G base station. With this combination of AWS infrastructure, DISH can push its 5G Core to the edge and achieve consistently high performance across its service area, while also enabling developers to take full advantage of 5G speeds when building new applications and services.</p><p>In addition, DISH will use AWS capabilities such as compute, containers, IoT, machine learning, and security to process 5G data and run its 5G Core, BSS, and OSS at scale while optimizing costs. DISH will use AWS Graviton2-based instances to power its compute workloads (AWS's custom-designed Graviton2 processors with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores provide up to 40% better price-performance over comparable current-generation x86-based instances) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to run containerized workloads, helping it deliver high availability during periods of peak network use. Running its 5G network over AWS will allow DISH to further reduce costs by bypassing the capital expenditure investments typically associated with building and operating network infrastructure hardware. DISH will also apply AWS machine learning capabilities at the network edge to help improve service by predicting network congestion at specific locations, as well as recognizing anomalies in network function, and then automatically taking corrective actions to optimize performance.</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 platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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 DISH</p><p>DISH Network Corporation is a connectivity company. Since 1980, it has served as a disruptive force, driving innovation and value on behalf of consumers. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides television entertainment and award-winning technology to millions of customers with its satellite DISH TV and streaming SLING TV services. In 2020, the company became a nationwide U.S. wireless carrier through the acquisition of Boost Mobile. DISH continues to innovate in wireless, building the nation's first virtualized, O-RAN 5G broadband network. DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) is a Fortune 250 company.</p><p>For company information, visit about.dish.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210421005315/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

The Climate Pledge Announces More Than 100 Signatories Committed to Achieving Net-Zero Carbon by 2040 or Sooner

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The 105 pledge signatories together generate over $1.4 trillion in global annual revenues and have more than 5 million employees across 25 industries in 16 countries The Climate Pledge is a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and achieve net-zero carbon by 2040 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2021-- Today, Amazon and Global Optimism announced that more than 100 companies have now signed The Climate Pledge. Among the 52 new signatories joining The Climate Pledge today are well-known brands including Alaska Airlines, Colgate-Palmolive, HEINEKEN, PepsiCo, Telefónica, and Visa. Pledge signatories in total generate more than $1.4 trillion in global annual sales and have more than 5 million employees across 25 industries in 16 countries—demonstrating the collective impact The Climate Pledge can have in addressing climate change. Signatories to The Climate Pledge agree to: Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis. Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies. Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets to achieve net-zero annual carbon emissions by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement's goal of 2050. All signatories are taking science-based, high-impact actions to tackle climate change by innovating in supply chain efficiency, sustainable transportation, circular economy, clean energy solutions, and more. Many organizations are also meaningfully involving customers in their journey to net-zero with initiatives focused on innovative packaging and sustainable product design and development, while delivering solutions to empower customers to reduce their own emissions with educational campaigns and sustainable shopping experiences. "Less than two years ago, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge and called on other companies to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early—today, more than 100 companies with over $1.4 trillion in global annual revenues and more than 5 million employees have signed the pledge," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "We are proud to stand with other signatories to use our scale to decarbonize the economy through real business change and innovation." "We helped to initiate The Climate Pledge to prove a model that accelerates decarbonization with the most ambitious companies," said Christiana Figueres, the UN's former climate chief and now founding partner of Global Optimism. "Today over 100 companies, including household brands and companies from all industry sectors, have joined The Climate Pledge with its goal of net-zero by 2040. They are demonstrating that moving faster toward decarbonizing their businesses is a pathway to competitive advantage. There is no doubt we're at a tipping point to establish the low carbon economy envisioned in the Paris Agreement. I commend the leadership of the companies that have joined The Climate Pledge already and look forward to welcoming the next 100." Amazon and Global Optimism welcome the new signatories that have committed to The Climate Pledge. AECOM Mace Group Alaska Airlines Morgan Sindall Group Airmee Natural Capital Partners Atlantia Optimus Ride Bellrock Group PepsiCo Blacklane Pollination Colgate-Palmolive Portland General Electric Convoy Posti Delphis Eco Pregis Direct Healthcare Solutions Ltd. Protector Cellars Edmonton International Airport Quorn Foods Elisa Corporation Rail Delivery Group EV Private Equity Royal Philips FILA Solutions Russell Group Graebel Sainsbury's Greencore Group SecuriGroup HEINEKEN Sonnedix HH Global Springer Nature Group IGS Energy Storegga Geotechnologies IMI STV Group Inn at Laurel Point Telefónica Karma Automotive Teleperformance LeasePlan The Sustainable City LifeStraw Urenco Lil Packaging Ltd. UST Lime Visa Information about all 52 new signatories that have committed to The Climate Pledge is available at the About Amazon blog, with new signatories including: Alaska AirlinesAlaska Airlines serves more than 120 destinations across the United States, Mexico, Canada and Costa Rica, and reaches destinations around the globe through the Oneworld Alliance. The company has a longstanding commitment to care for people and the environment, and is setting out on a bold path to reduce climate impact near and long term to reach net-zero emissions by 2040. This includes continued improvements in efficiency of its fleet; standardizing and expanding the use of first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to plan optimized routes, reduce fuel burn, and carbon emissions; working with government and industry to expand the availability and use of sustainable aviation fuels, which have up to 80% less carbon emissions on a lifecycle basis; exploring and advancing novel propulsion approaches that support electrification technologies for regional flying; and investing in credible carbon offsets to close any gaps to target. The company is already reducing emissions through fleet optimization, saving fuel with its aircrafts' uniquely designed winglets, and navigation technology that sources the most efficient route. Through its broader social and environmental sustainability program, LIFT, Alaska Airlines invites customers to donate their miles to support nonprofits such as the Nature Conservancy and UNCF, to purchase carbon offsets with The Good Traveler, and to reduce waste through in-flight recycling (temporarily paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and traveling with reusable water bottles through the company's #FillBeforeYouFly initiative. "At Alaska Airlines, we know that travel can make a big difference in people's lives, and we're committed to operating in a socially and environmentally responsible way," said Ben Minicucci, Alaska Airlines CEO. "We're on a journey to ensure that sustainability is a core part of our culture, and we are grateful for partners within the aviation industry and beyond who are working with us to make the path to net-zero a reality. It will truly take a village to get there and joining the other sustainability-minded companies as part of The Climate Pledge is an important step." Colgate-PalmoliveAround the world, Colgate-Palmolive is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets, and our planet. The company is committed to preserving the environment by accelerating action on climate change. One critical priority is achieving renewable energy across all operations by 2030 through solar installations and power purchase agreements. With household brands including Colgate, Palmolive, Tom's of Maine, Hill's, and more, Colgate-Palmolive serves billions of people across the globe. The company is committed to growth and to operating responsibly and sustainably for the people, customers, and the communities it serves. It continually looks for better and more sustainable ways to make its products and packaging, and seeks opportunities to use less plastic, water, and energy while minimizing waste. In 2019, Colgate introduced a first-of-its-kind recyclable toothpaste tube, with the goal of transitioning its global portfolio by 2025. Colgate is now sharing its technology with third parties, including competitors, to support transformation of all tubes. The company is also leading the charge on promoting water conservation through its Save Water initiative, which encourages customers to "turn off the tap" while brushing, helping people save 155 billion gallons of water and 8.3 million metric tons of greenhouse gas since 2016. "Colgate is proud to join The Climate Pledge, understanding that accountability, partnership, and collaboration are essential to producing the sustainable environmental improvements we all want," said Prabha Parameswaran, Colgate-Palmolive, Global President. "With the Colgate brand found in more homes than any other, we've embraced our extraordinary opportunity—and responsibility—to reduce our environmental footprint and accelerate action on climate change. We are proud of the progress we've made and committed to doing more as our company works hard to reimagine a healthier future for all people, their pets, and our planet." HEINEKENServing consumers across the globe, HEINEKEN recognizes the importance of running not only a profitable business, but also a sustainable one. The company's decade long sustainable development ambition, Brew a Better World, demonstrates its commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, building a roadmap against these goals and their specified targets to ensure meaningful and transparent contributions to protecting the planet, ensuring prosperity, and ending poverty. As a part of this ambition, HEINEKEN has already achieved a 51% decrease in carbon emissions and a 33% decrease in water consumption across its operations since 2008. The company's sustainability efforts span the entire value chain "from Barley to Bar" by supporting sustainable agriculture, brewing, packaging, and distribution, and advocating for responsible consumption of alcohol. "For over 150 years, we've been passionate about making a positive impact on the world around us. We know that we can only thrive if our people, the planet, and the communities around us thrive," said Dolf van den Brink, HEINEKEN chairman and CEO. "This means looking at Brew a Better World in every one of our activities. We know actions speak louder than words and that achieving real and lasting change is only possible through collective effort. We must think and act holistically when considering how Brew a Better World positively impacts the entire HEINEKEN ecosystem— including our employees, partners and suppliers, NGOs, governments, local communities, and other stakeholders. By joining The Climate Pledge, we are reinforcing our commitment to sustainability, and are pleased to join a community that will share knowledge, ideas, and best practices." PepsiCoWith a portfolio of iconic brands—including Quaker, Walkers, Gatorade, Doritos, and SodaStream—and a wide range of food and beverage products that are enjoyed by customers across the world, PepsiCo is committed to using its scale, reach, and expertise to help build a more sustainable food system. PepsiCo envisions a food system that can provide nutrition and enjoyment, and continue to drive economic and social development, all without exceeding the natural boundaries of the planet. The company is focused on promoting sustainable agriculture, addressing water insecurity, eliminating plastic waste, developing more nutritious and sustainable products, and reducing GHG emissions across its value chain. As part of this effort, PepsiCo is working to build a world where packaging doesn't become waste. Currently, 88% of the company's packaging is recyclable, compostable, or biodegradable, with a goal to reach 100% by 2025. PepsiCo also continues to expand its Sustainable from the Start program, an initiative that considers environmental impact at each stage of product development. In January 2021, PepsiCo announced a new science-based goal to cut its carbon emissions by more than 40% by 2030 (against a 2015 baseline)—more than doubling its previous climate commitment, and aiming to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040. "PepsiCo is delighted to join The Climate Pledge as we continue our work to help build a more sustainable and regenerative food system," said Ramon Laguarta, PepsiCo chairman and CEO. "At a time when the world is struggling to recover from the shock of a global pandemic, shared solutions to shared challenges are essential. We all must do our parts individually, but also come together to tackle climate change and reach net-zero emissions by 2040." TelefónicaAs one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world, Telefónica is committed to reducing its own carbon footprint, as well as delivering solutions to empower customers to reduce their own emissions. Telefónica is already committed to reducing the emissions of its entire value chain in line with the 1.5 degrees Celsius scenario. This includes a commitment to having net-zero emissions by 2025 across its operations in key markets (Spain, UK, Germany, and Brazil), with operations in Latin America and its broader value chain net-zero by 2040. The company is also committed to helping its customers reduce emissions through connectivity and its Eco Smart services, a product seal that helps shoppers easily incorporate sustainability criteria into their purchasing decisions. Last year, Eco Smart helped customers avoid more than 9.5 million tons of CO2, the carbon equivalent to planting 158 million trees. "Our energy and climate change strategy centers on mitigating our impact, leveraging new opportunities, and evolving to address climate risks," said Elena Valderrábano, Telefónica global director for corporate ethics and sustainability. "By joining The Climate Pledge, we are reinforcing our commitment to sustainability, and we're pleased to join a community of other leading companies putting sustainability first." VisaAs a leading global payments technology company, Visa is committed to contributing to a more sustainable and inclusive world, including playing an industry leadership role in the global transition to a low-carbon economy. Visa's sustainability track record includes achieving its goal in 2020 to fully transition to 100% renewable electricity, improving the sustainability of our offices and data centers through energy and water efficiency, landfill waste diversions, and a global Green Teams program for employees. In 2020, Visa issued a $500 million green bond, believed to be the first of its kind by a digital payments network, in support of these efforts. Visa also continues to inspire and empower sustainable commerce with strategic partnerships and programs focused on embedding sustainability in payment cards and accounts, and enabling sustainable behaviors through its work in transit, electric vehicle charging, travel, and tourism. "At Visa, we're committed to sustainability and to creating a more sustainable future," said Alfred F. Kelly Jr., Visa chairman and CEO. "We're proud to join The Climate Pledge as part of our pledge to net-zero emissions by 2040, and we look forward to collaborating with signatories to advance this important work." About The Climate PledgeIn 2019, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. Now 105 organizations have signed The Climate Pledge, sending an important signal that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. For more information, visit www.theclimatepledge.com. 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 .

<p><em>The 105 pledge signatories together generate over $1.4 trillion in global annual revenues and have more than 5 million employees across 25 industries in 16 countries</em></p><p><em>The Climate Pledge is a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early and achieve net-zero carbon by 2040</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2021-- Today, Amazon and Global Optimism announced that more than 100 companies have now signed The Climate Pledge. Among the 52 new signatories joining The Climate Pledge today are well-known brands including Alaska Airlines, Colgate-Palmolive, HEINEKEN, PepsiCo, Telefónica, and Visa. Pledge signatories in total generate more than $1.4 trillion in global annual sales and have more than 5 million employees across 25 industries in 16 countries—demonstrating the collective impact The Climate Pledge can have in addressing climate change.</p><p>Signatories to The Climate Pledge agree to:</p><ul><li>Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis.</li><li>Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies.</li><li>Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets to achieve net-zero annual carbon emissions by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement's goal of 2050.</li></ul><p>All signatories are taking science-based, high-impact actions to tackle climate change by innovating in supply chain efficiency, sustainable transportation, circular economy, clean energy solutions, and more. Many organizations are also meaningfully involving customers in their journey to net-zero with initiatives focused on innovative packaging and sustainable product design and development, while delivering solutions to empower customers to reduce their own emissions with educational campaigns and sustainable shopping experiences.</p><p>"Less than two years ago, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge and called on other companies to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early—today, more than 100 companies with over $1.4 trillion in global annual revenues and more than 5 million employees have signed the pledge," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "We are proud to stand with other signatories to use our scale to decarbonize the economy through real business change and innovation."</p><p>"We helped to initiate The Climate Pledge to prove a model that accelerates decarbonization with the most ambitious companies," said Christiana Figueres, the UN's former climate chief and now founding partner of Global Optimism. "Today over 100 companies, including household brands and companies from all industry sectors, have joined The Climate Pledge with its goal of net-zero by 2040. They are demonstrating that moving faster toward decarbonizing their businesses is a pathway to competitive advantage. There is no doubt we're at a tipping point to establish the low carbon economy envisioned in the Paris Agreement. I commend the leadership of the companies that have joined The Climate Pledge already and look forward to welcoming the next 100."</p><p>Amazon and Global Optimism welcome the new signatories that have committed to The Climate Pledge.</p><table><tbody><tr><td>AECOM</td><td>Mace Group</td></tr><tr><td>Alaska Airlines</td><td>Morgan Sindall Group</td></tr><tr><td>Airmee</td><td>Natural Capital Partners</td></tr><tr><td>Atlantia</td><td>Optimus Ride</td></tr><tr><td>Bellrock Group</td><td>PepsiCo</td></tr><tr><td>Blacklane</td><td>Pollination</td></tr><tr><td>Colgate-Palmolive</td><td>Portland General Electric</td></tr><tr><td>Convoy</td><td>Posti</td></tr><tr><td>Delphis Eco</td><td>Pregis</td></tr><tr><td>Direct Healthcare Solutions Ltd.</td><td>Protector Cellars</td></tr><tr><td>Edmonton International Airport</td><td>Quorn Foods</td></tr><tr><td>Elisa Corporation</td><td>Rail Delivery Group</td></tr><tr><td>EV Private Equity</td><td>Royal Philips</td></tr><tr><td>FILA Solutions</td><td>Russell Group</td></tr><tr><td>Graebel</td><td>Sainsbury's</td></tr><tr><td>Greencore Group</td><td>SecuriGroup</td></tr><tr><td>HEINEKEN</td><td>Sonnedix</td></tr><tr><td>HH Global</td><td>Springer Nature Group</td></tr><tr><td>IGS Energy</td><td>Storegga Geotechnologies</td></tr><tr><td>IMI</td><td>STV Group</td></tr><tr><td>Inn at Laurel Point</td><td>Telefónica</td></tr><tr><td>Karma Automotive</td><td>Teleperformance</td></tr><tr><td>LeasePlan</td><td>The Sustainable City</td></tr><tr><td>LifeStraw</td><td>Urenco</td></tr><tr><td>Lil Packaging Ltd.</td><td>UST</td></tr><tr><td>Lime</td><td>Visa</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Information about all 52 new signatories that have committed to The Climate Pledge is available at the About Amazon blog, with new signatories including:</p><p>Alaska AirlinesAlaska Airlines serves more than 120 destinations across the United States, Mexico, Canada and Costa Rica, and reaches destinations around the globe through the Oneworld Alliance. The company has a longstanding commitment to care for people and the environment, and is setting out on a bold path to reduce climate impact near and long term to reach net-zero emissions by 2040. This includes continued improvements in efficiency of its fleet; standardizing and expanding the use of first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to plan optimized routes, reduce fuel burn, and carbon emissions; working with government and industry to expand the availability and use of sustainable aviation fuels, which have up to 80% less carbon emissions on a lifecycle basis; exploring and advancing novel propulsion approaches that support electrification technologies for regional flying; and investing in credible carbon offsets to close any gaps to target. The company is already reducing emissions through fleet optimization, saving fuel with its aircrafts' uniquely designed winglets, and navigation technology that sources the most efficient route. Through its broader social and environmental sustainability program, LIFT, Alaska Airlines invites customers to donate their miles to support nonprofits such as the Nature Conservancy and UNCF, to purchase carbon offsets with The Good Traveler, and to reduce waste through in-flight recycling (temporarily paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and traveling with reusable water bottles through the company's #FillBeforeYouFly initiative.</p><p>"At Alaska Airlines, we know that travel can make a big difference in people's lives, and we're committed to operating in a socially and environmentally responsible way," said Ben Minicucci, Alaska Airlines CEO. "We're on a journey to ensure that sustainability is a core part of our culture, and we are grateful for partners within the aviation industry and beyond who are working with us to make the path to net-zero a reality. It will truly take a village to get there and joining the other sustainability-minded companies as part of The Climate Pledge is an important step."</p><p>Colgate-PalmoliveAround the world, Colgate-Palmolive is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets, and our planet. The company is committed to preserving the environment by accelerating action on climate change. One critical priority is achieving renewable energy across all operations by 2030 through solar installations and power purchase agreements. With household brands including Colgate, Palmolive, Tom's of Maine, Hill's, and more, Colgate-Palmolive serves billions of people across the globe. The company is committed to growth and to operating responsibly and sustainably for the people, customers, and the communities it serves. It continually looks for better and more sustainable ways to make its products and packaging, and seeks opportunities to use less plastic, water, and energy while minimizing waste. In 2019, Colgate introduced a first-of-its-kind recyclable toothpaste tube, with the goal of transitioning its global portfolio by 2025. Colgate is now sharing its technology with third parties, including competitors, to support transformation of all tubes. The company is also leading the charge on promoting water conservation through its Save Water initiative, which encourages customers to "turn off the tap" while brushing, helping people save 155 billion gallons of water and 8.3 million metric tons of greenhouse gas since 2016.</p><p>"Colgate is proud to join The Climate Pledge, understanding that accountability, partnership, and collaboration are essential to producing the sustainable environmental improvements we all want," said Prabha Parameswaran, Colgate-Palmolive, Global President. "With the Colgate brand found in more homes than any other, we've embraced our extraordinary opportunity—and responsibility—to reduce our environmental footprint and accelerate action on climate change. We are proud of the progress we've made and committed to doing more as our company works hard to reimagine a healthier future for all people, their pets, and our planet."</p><p>HEINEKENServing consumers across the globe, HEINEKEN recognizes the importance of running not only a profitable business, but also a sustainable one. The company's decade long sustainable development ambition, Brew a Better World, demonstrates its commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, building a roadmap against these goals and their specified targets to ensure meaningful and transparent contributions to protecting the planet, ensuring prosperity, and ending poverty. As a part of this ambition, HEINEKEN has already achieved a 51% decrease in carbon emissions and a 33% decrease in water consumption across its operations since 2008. The company's sustainability efforts span the entire value chain "from Barley to Bar" by supporting sustainable agriculture, brewing, packaging, and distribution, and advocating for responsible consumption of alcohol.</p><p>"For over 150 years, we've been passionate about making a positive impact on the world around us. We know that we can only thrive if our people, the planet, and the communities around us thrive," said Dolf van den Brink, HEINEKEN chairman and CEO. "This means looking at Brew a Better World in every one of our activities. We know actions speak louder than words and that achieving real and lasting change is only possible through collective effort. We must think and act holistically when considering how Brew a Better World positively impacts the entire HEINEKEN ecosystem— including our employees, partners and suppliers, NGOs, governments, local communities, and other stakeholders. By joining The Climate Pledge, we are reinforcing our commitment to sustainability, and are pleased to join a community that will share knowledge, ideas, and best practices."</p><p>PepsiCoWith a portfolio of iconic brands—including Quaker, Walkers, Gatorade, Doritos, and SodaStream—and a wide range of food and beverage products that are enjoyed by customers across the world, PepsiCo is committed to using its scale, reach, and expertise to help build a more sustainable food system. PepsiCo envisions a food system that can provide nutrition and enjoyment, and continue to drive economic and social development, all without exceeding the natural boundaries of the planet. The company is focused on promoting sustainable agriculture, addressing water insecurity, eliminating plastic waste, developing more nutritious and sustainable products, and reducing GHG emissions across its value chain. As part of this effort, PepsiCo is working to build a world where packaging doesn't become waste. Currently, 88% of the company's packaging is recyclable, compostable, or biodegradable, with a goal to reach 100% by 2025. PepsiCo also continues to expand its Sustainable from the Start program, an initiative that considers environmental impact at each stage of product development. In January 2021, PepsiCo announced a new science-based goal to cut its carbon emissions by more than 40% by 2030 (against a 2015 baseline)—more than doubling its previous climate commitment, and aiming to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040.</p><p>"PepsiCo is delighted to join The Climate Pledge as we continue our work to help build a more sustainable and regenerative food system," said Ramon Laguarta, PepsiCo chairman and CEO. "At a time when the world is struggling to recover from the shock of a global pandemic, shared solutions to shared challenges are essential. We all must do our parts individually, but also come together to tackle climate change and reach net-zero emissions by 2040."</p><p>TelefónicaAs one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world, Telefónica is committed to reducing its own carbon footprint, as well as delivering solutions to empower customers to reduce their own emissions. Telefónica is already committed to reducing the emissions of its entire value chain in line with the 1.5 degrees Celsius scenario. This includes a commitment to having net-zero emissions by 2025 across its operations in key markets (Spain, UK, Germany, and Brazil), with operations in Latin America and its broader value chain net-zero by 2040. The company is also committed to helping its customers reduce emissions through connectivity and its Eco Smart services, a product seal that helps shoppers easily incorporate sustainability criteria into their purchasing decisions. Last year, Eco Smart helped customers avoid more than 9.5 million tons of CO2, the carbon equivalent to planting 158 million trees.</p><p>"Our energy and climate change strategy centers on mitigating our impact, leveraging new opportunities, and evolving to address climate risks," said Elena Valderrábano, Telefónica global director for corporate ethics and sustainability. "By joining The Climate Pledge, we are reinforcing our commitment to sustainability, and we're pleased to join a community of other leading companies putting sustainability first."</p><p>VisaAs a leading global payments technology company, Visa is committed to contributing to a more sustainable and inclusive world, including playing an industry leadership role in the global transition to a low-carbon economy. Visa's sustainability track record includes achieving its goal in 2020 to fully transition to 100% renewable electricity, improving the sustainability of our offices and data centers through energy and water efficiency, landfill waste diversions, and a global Green Teams program for employees. In 2020, Visa issued a $500 million green bond, believed to be the first of its kind by a digital payments network, in support of these efforts. Visa also continues to inspire and empower sustainable commerce with strategic partnerships and programs focused on embedding sustainability in payment cards and accounts, and enabling sustainable behaviors through its work in transit, electric vehicle charging, travel, and tourism.</p><p>"At Visa, we're committed to sustainability and to creating a more sustainable future," said Alfred F. Kelly Jr., Visa chairman and CEO. "We're proud to join The Climate Pledge as part of our pledge to net-zero emissions by 2040, and we look forward to collaborating with signatories to advance this important work."</p><p>About The Climate PledgeIn 2019, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. Now 105 organizations have signed The Climate Pledge, sending an important signal that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. For more information, visit www.theclimatepledge.com.</p><p>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 .</p>

Amazon Becomes Europe's Largest Corporate Buyer of Renewable Energy

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Amazon is now the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy globally and in Europe with 206 projects around the world, enough to power millions of homes a year With more than 2.5 GW of capacity in Europe, and 8.5 GW of renewable energy capacity globally, Amazon is on a path to 100% renewable energy by 2025 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 19, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced nine new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. The company now has 206 renewable energy projects globally, including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 solar rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide, which will generate 8.5 GW of electricity production capacity globally. With this latest announcement, Amazon is now the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in Europe, with more than 2.5 GW of renewable energy capacity, enough to power more than two million European homes a year. These projects supply renewable energy to Amazon's corporate offices, fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market stores, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers, which power Amazon and millions of AWS customers globally. The renewable energy from these projects also helps Amazon meet its commitment to produce the clean energy equivalent to the electricity used by all consumer Echo devices. All of these projects put Amazon on a path to power 100% of its activities with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. Investing in renewable energy is one of the many actions Amazon is taking as part of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. "Amazon continues to scale up its investments in renewable energy as part of its effort to meet The Climate Pledge, our commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "With these nine new wind and solar projects, we have announced 206 renewable wind and solar projects worldwide, and we are now the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe and globally. Many parts of our business are already operating on renewable energy, and we expect to power all of Amazon with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of our original target of 2030." The nine new wind and solar projects announced today in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the UK include: Our first solar project paired with energy storage: Based in California's Imperial Valley, Amazon's first solar project paired with energy storage allows the company to align solar generation with the greatest demand. The project generates 100 megawatts (MW) of solar energy, which is enough to power over 28,000 homes for a year and includes 70 MW of energy storage. The project also allows Amazon to deploy next-generation technologies for energy storage and management while maintaining the reliability and resilience of California's electricity grid. Our first renewable project in Canada: Amazon is announcing its first renewable energy investment in Canada—an 80 MW solar project in the County of Newell in Alberta. Once complete, it will produce over 195,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy to the grid, or enough energy to power more than 18,000 Canadian homes for a year. The largest corporate renewable energy project in the UK: Amazon's newest project in the UK is a 350 MW wind farm off the coast of Scotland and is Amazon's largest in the country. It is also the largest corporate renewable energy deal announced by any company in the UK to date. New projects in the U.S.: Amazon's first renewable energy project in Oklahoma is a 118 MW wind project located in Murray County. Amazon is also building new solar projects in Ohio's Allen, Auglaize, and Licking counties. Together, these Ohio projects will account for more than 400 MW of new energy procurement in the state. Additional investments in Spain and Sweden: In Spain, Amazon's newest solar projects are located in Extremadura and Andalucia, and together add more than 170 MW to the grid. Amazon's newest project in Sweden is a 258 MW onshore wind project located in Northern Sweden. A map of all of Amazon's renewable energy projects around the world can be found here. "Amazon is a leader in renewable energy buying and is continuously changing the market through continuous innovation and investments in renewable energy. We are thrilled to see Amazon's latest commitments around the world including in Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Long-term investments like these are crucial to companies moving closer to climate neutrality," said Hannah Hunt, Impact Director, RE-Source, a corporate renewable energy sourcing platform in Europe. "Amazon continues to play a key role leading the corporate transition to renewable power worldwide and demonstrating that ambitious renewable targets are both achievable and widely beneficial," said Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). "The company's nine new clean energy projects bring them to an impressive record total of 8.5 gigawatts of global renewable capacity and include Amazon's first solar plus storage project, using advanced technology to help deliver a clean, reliable grid." "Leading companies like Amazon know the value that solar can bring to their businesses and the planet," said Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). "We're thrilled to see that Amazon is following through on its climate commitments and is investing in renewable energy assets across the world. Wall Street, customers, and international businesses are all watching what American companies are doing about climate change, and this type of leadership can have a major impact on the climate crisis." Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. The pledge now has 53 signatories, including IBM, Unilever, Verizon, Siemens, Microsoft, and Best Buy. 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 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/. 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 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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<p><em>Amazon is now the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy globally and in Europe with 206 projects around the world, enough to power millions of homes a year</em></p><p><em>With more than 2.5 GW of capacity in Europe, and 8.5 GW of renewable energy capacity globally, Amazon is on a path to 100% renewable energy by 2025</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 19, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced nine new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. The company now has 206 renewable energy projects globally, including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 solar rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide, which will generate 8.5 GW of electricity production capacity globally. With this latest announcement, Amazon is now the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in Europe, with more than 2.5 GW of renewable energy capacity, enough to power more than two million European homes a year.</p><p>These projects supply renewable energy to Amazon's corporate offices, fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market stores, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers, which power Amazon and millions of AWS customers globally. The renewable energy from these projects also helps Amazon meet its commitment to produce the clean energy equivalent to the electricity used by all consumer Echo devices. All of these projects put Amazon on a path to power 100% of its activities with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. Investing in renewable energy is one of the many actions Amazon is taking as part of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement.</p><p>"Amazon continues to scale up its investments in renewable energy as part of its effort to meet The Climate Pledge, our commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "With these nine new wind and solar projects, we have announced 206 renewable wind and solar projects worldwide, and we are now the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe and globally. Many parts of our business are already operating on renewable energy, and we expect to power all of Amazon with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of our original target of 2030."</p><p>The nine new wind and solar projects announced today in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the UK include:</p><ul><li>Our first solar project paired with energy storage: Based in California's Imperial Valley, Amazon's first solar project paired with energy storage allows the company to align solar generation with the greatest demand. The project generates 100 megawatts (MW) of solar energy, which is enough to power over 28,000 homes for a year and includes 70 MW of energy storage. The project also allows Amazon to deploy next-generation technologies for energy storage and management while maintaining the reliability and resilience of California's electricity grid.</li><li>Our first renewable project in Canada: Amazon is announcing its first renewable energy investment in Canada—an 80 MW solar project in the County of Newell in Alberta. Once complete, it will produce over 195,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy to the grid, or enough energy to power more than 18,000 Canadian homes for a year.</li><li>The largest corporate renewable energy project in the UK: Amazon's newest project in the UK is a 350 MW wind farm off the coast of Scotland and is Amazon's largest in the country. It is also the largest corporate renewable energy deal announced by any company in the UK to date.</li><li>New projects in the U.S.: Amazon's first renewable energy project in Oklahoma is a 118 MW wind project located in Murray County. Amazon is also building new solar projects in Ohio's Allen, Auglaize, and Licking counties. Together, these Ohio projects will account for more than 400 MW of new energy procurement in the state.</li><li>Additional investments in Spain and Sweden: In Spain, Amazon's newest solar projects are located in Extremadura and Andalucia, and together add more than 170 MW to the grid. Amazon's newest project in Sweden is a 258 MW onshore wind project located in Northern Sweden.</li></ul><p>A map of all of Amazon's renewable energy projects around the world can be found here.</p><p>"Amazon is a leader in renewable energy buying and is continuously changing the market through continuous innovation and investments in renewable energy. We are thrilled to see Amazon's latest commitments around the world including in Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Long-term investments like these are crucial to companies moving closer to climate neutrality," said Hannah Hunt, Impact Director, RE-Source, a corporate renewable energy sourcing platform in Europe.</p><p>"Amazon continues to play a key role leading the corporate transition to renewable power worldwide and demonstrating that ambitious renewable targets are both achievable and widely beneficial," said Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). "The company's nine new clean energy projects bring them to an impressive record total of 8.5 gigawatts of global renewable capacity and include Amazon's first solar plus storage project, using advanced technology to help deliver a clean, reliable grid."</p><p>"Leading companies like Amazon know the value that solar can bring to their businesses and the planet," said Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). "We're thrilled to see that Amazon is following through on its climate commitments and is investing in renewable energy assets across the world. Wall Street, customers, and international businesses are all watching what American companies are doing about climate change, and this type of leadership can have a major impact on the climate crisis."</p><p>Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. The pledge now has 53 signatories, including IBM, Unilever, Verizon, Siemens, Microsoft, and Best Buy. 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 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>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 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210419005307/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Invests in Nine New Renewable Energy Projects in Canada, the U.S., Spain, Sweden, and the UK and Becomes Europe's Largest Corporate Buyer of Renewable Energy

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Amazon Invests in Nine New Renewable Energy Projects in Canada, the U.S., Spain, Sweden, and the UK and Becomes Europe's Largest Corporate Buyer of Renewable Energy

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Amazon is now the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy globally and in Europe with 206 projects around the world, enough to power millions of homes a year With more than 2.5 GW of capacity in Europe, and 8.5 GW of renewable energy capacity globally, Amazon is on a path to 100% renewable energy by 2025 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 19, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced nine new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. The company now has 206 renewable energy projects globally, including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 solar rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide, which will generate 8.5 GW of electricity production capacity globally. With this latest announcement, Amazon is now the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in Europe, with more than 2.5 GW of renewable energy capacity, enough to power more than two million European homes a year. These projects supply renewable energy to Amazon's corporate offices, fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market stores, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers, which power Amazon and millions of AWS customers globally. The renewable energy from these projects also helps Amazon meet its commitment to produce the clean energy equivalent to the electricity used by all consumer Echo devices. All of these projects put Amazon on a path to power 100% of its activities with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. Investing in renewable energy is one of the many actions Amazon is taking as part of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. "Amazon continues to scale up its investments in renewable energy as part of its effort to meet The Climate Pledge, our commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "With these nine new wind and solar projects, we have announced 206 renewable wind and solar projects worldwide, and we are now the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe and globally. Many parts of our business are already operating on renewable energy, and we expect to power all of Amazon with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of our original target of 2030." The nine new wind and solar projects announced today in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the UK include: Our first solar project paired with energy storage: Based in California's Imperial Valley, Amazon's first solar project paired with energy storage allows the company to align solar generation with the greatest demand. The project generates 100 megawatts (MW) of solar energy, which is enough to power over 28,000 homes for a year and includes 70 MW of energy storage. The project also allows Amazon to deploy next-generation technologies for energy storage and management while maintaining the reliability and resilience of California's electricity grid. Our first renewable project in Canada: Amazon is announcing its first renewable energy investment in Canada—an 80 MW solar project in the County of Newell in Alberta. Once complete, it will produce over 195,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy to the grid, or enough energy to power more than 18,000 Canadian homes for a year. The largest corporate renewable energy project in the UK: Amazon's newest project in the UK is a 350 MW wind farm off the coast of Scotland and is Amazon's largest in the country. It is also the largest corporate renewable energy deal announced by any company in the UK to date. New projects in the U.S.: Amazon's first renewable energy project in Oklahoma is a 118 MW wind project located in Murray County. Amazon is also building new solar projects in Ohio's Allen, Auglaize, and Licking counties. Together, these Ohio projects will account for more than 400 MW of new energy procurement in the state. Additional investments in Spain and Sweden: In Spain, Amazon's newest solar projects are located in Extremadura and Andalucia, and together add more than 170 MW to the grid. Amazon's newest project in Sweden is a 258 MW onshore wind project located in Northern Sweden. A map of all of Amazon's renewable energy projects around the world can be found here. "Amazon continues to play a key role leading the corporate transition to renewable power worldwide and demonstrating that ambitious renewable targets are both achievable and widely beneficial," said Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). "The company's nine new clean energy projects bring them to an impressive record total of 8.5 gigawatts of global renewable capacity and include Amazon's first solar plus storage project, using advanced technology to help deliver a clean, reliable grid." "Leading companies like Amazon know the value that solar can bring to their businesses and the planet," said Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). "We're thrilled to see that Amazon is following through on its climate commitments and is investing in renewable energy assets across the world. Wall Street, customers, and international businesses are all watching what American companies are doing about climate change, and this type of leadership can have a major impact on the climate crisis." Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. The pledge now has 53 signatories, including IBM, Unilever, Verizon, Siemens, Microsoft, and Best Buy. 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 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/. 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 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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<p><em>Amazon is now the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy globally and in Europe with 206 projects around the world, enough to power millions of homes a year</em></p><p><em>With more than 2.5 GW of capacity in Europe, and 8.5 GW of renewable energy capacity globally, Amazon is on a path to 100% renewable energy by 2025</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 19, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced nine new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. The company now has 206 renewable energy projects globally, including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 solar rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide, which will generate 8.5 GW of electricity production capacity globally. With this latest announcement, Amazon is now the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in Europe, with more than 2.5 GW of renewable energy capacity, enough to power more than two million European homes a year.</p><p>These projects supply renewable energy to Amazon's corporate offices, fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market stores, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers, which power Amazon and millions of AWS customers globally. The renewable energy from these projects also helps Amazon meet its commitment to produce the clean energy equivalent to the electricity used by all consumer Echo devices. All of these projects put Amazon on a path to power 100% of its activities with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. Investing in renewable energy is one of the many actions Amazon is taking as part of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement.</p><p>"Amazon continues to scale up its investments in renewable energy as part of its effort to meet The Climate Pledge, our commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "With these nine new wind and solar projects, we have announced 206 renewable wind and solar projects worldwide, and we are now the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe and globally. Many parts of our business are already operating on renewable energy, and we expect to power all of Amazon with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of our original target of 2030."</p><p>The nine new wind and solar projects announced today in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the UK include:</p><ul><li>Our first solar project paired with energy storage: Based in California's Imperial Valley, Amazon's first solar project paired with energy storage allows the company to align solar generation with the greatest demand. The project generates 100 megawatts (MW) of solar energy, which is enough to power over 28,000 homes for a year and includes 70 MW of energy storage. The project also allows Amazon to deploy next-generation technologies for energy storage and management while maintaining the reliability and resilience of California's electricity grid.</li><li>Our first renewable project in Canada: Amazon is announcing its first renewable energy investment in Canada—an 80 MW solar project in the County of Newell in Alberta. Once complete, it will produce over 195,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy to the grid, or enough energy to power more than 18,000 Canadian homes for a year.</li><li>The largest corporate renewable energy project in the UK: Amazon's newest project in the UK is a 350 MW wind farm off the coast of Scotland and is Amazon's largest in the country. It is also the largest corporate renewable energy deal announced by any company in the UK to date.</li><li>New projects in the U.S.: Amazon's first renewable energy project in Oklahoma is a 118 MW wind project located in Murray County. Amazon is also building new solar projects in Ohio's Allen, Auglaize, and Licking counties. Together, these Ohio projects will account for more than 400 MW of new energy procurement in the state.</li><li>Additional investments in Spain and Sweden: In Spain, Amazon's newest solar projects are located in Extremadura and Andalucia, and together add more than 170 MW to the grid. Amazon's newest project in Sweden is a 258 MW onshore wind project located in Northern Sweden.</li></ul><p>A map of all of Amazon's renewable energy projects around the world can be found here.</p><p>"Amazon continues to play a key role leading the corporate transition to renewable power worldwide and demonstrating that ambitious renewable targets are both achievable and widely beneficial," said Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). "The company's nine new clean energy projects bring them to an impressive record total of 8.5 gigawatts of global renewable capacity and include Amazon's first solar plus storage project, using advanced technology to help deliver a clean, reliable grid."</p><p>"Leading companies like Amazon know the value that solar can bring to their businesses and the planet," said Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). "We're thrilled to see that Amazon is following through on its climate commitments and is investing in renewable energy assets across the world. Wall Street, customers, and international businesses are all watching what American companies are doing about climate change, and this type of leadership can have a major impact on the climate crisis."</p><p>Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. The pledge now has 53 signatories, including IBM, Unilever, Verizon, Siemens, Microsoft, and Best Buy. 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 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>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 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210419005309/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon.com to Webcast First Quarter 2021 Financial Results Conference Call

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Amazon.com to Webcast First Quarter 2021 Financial Results Conference Call

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 15, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2021 financial results on Thursday, April 29, 2021, 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/20210415005980/en/ Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 15, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2021 financial results on Thursday, April 29, 2021, 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/20210415005980/en/</p><p>Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

New F1 Insights Powered by AWS Will Help FORMULA 1 Fans Make Sense of Split-Second Decisions on the Track

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New F1 Insights Powered by AWS Will Help FORMULA 1 Fans Make Sense of Split-Second Decisions on the Track

04/15/2021

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First of six new real-time racing statistics for 2021 season to debut April 16-18 at the FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAN PREMIO DEL MADE IN ITALY E DELL'EMILIA ROMAGNA 2021 in Imola, Italy SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 15, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and FORMULA 1 (F1) (NASDAQ: FWONA, FWONK) are introducing six new F1 Insights powered by AWS that will roll out through the 2021 racing season. The new additions mean a total of 18 AWS-powered stats will be available to fans by the end of the season. F1 Insights powered by AWS are real-time racing statistics, displayed as on-screen graphics, that transform the fan experience before, during, and after each race by providing the data and analysis fans need to interpret driver and team race strategy and performance. The first new stat, Braking Performance, will debut at the GRAND PRIX in Italy, April 16-18. The new set of statistics for 2021 will use a range of AWS technologies, including machine learning, to help fans better understand and highlight potential race outcomes and compare their favorite drivers and cars.For more information about AWS and its involvement with F1, including the 12 previously released F1 Insights, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210415005326/en/ F1 Insights Powered by AWS (Graphic: Business Wire) F1 racing is a data-driven sport where much of the thrill for fans comes from poring over statistics before and after a race to gain a deeper understanding of driver and team decisions and cars' performance on the track. F1 Insights powered by AWS add a new real-time dimension to statistics and place context around race data to help fans better appreciate key moments on the track. More than 300 sensors on each race car generate over 1.1 million data points per second that F1 transmits from the cars to the pit and onto AWS for processing. F1 relies on the breadth and depth of AWS services to stream and analyze that flood of data as it's generated, and then present it in a meaningful way for TV and online viewers around the world through the F1 Insights. The first F1 Insight to be introduced this season, Braking Performance, shows how a driver's braking style during a cornering maneuver can deliver an advantage coming out of the corner. When executed well, braking optimizes a car's speed through the phases of cornering and enables the driver to gain a better position on the track. This stat displays and compares drivers' braking styles and performance by measuring how closely they approach the apex of a corner before braking. In addition, it will show the key performance metrics that lead to how the car and driver perform together when cornering, such as top speed on approach, speed decrease through braking, the braking power (KWH) utilized, and the immense G-forces drivers undergo while cornering. Braking Performance builds on the existing Corner Analysis statistic, which shows how cars physically perform while cornering. Braking Performance and the other five new F1 Insights powered by AWS (detailed below) will debut as on-screen graphics from April through December this season. Each new stat offers fans more visibility into the split-second action on the track and the decision-making behind the pit wall. Car Exploitation shows fans when F1 drivers are pushing their cars to performance limits in areas like tire traction, braking, acceleration, and maneuvering during key points in a race. The stat reveals the data in real-time by displaying a car's current performance during a race compared to a theoretical performance limit, and then calculates the time gained or lost per lap as a result. The stat debuts June 11-13 at the FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2021. Energy Usage provides insights into how the high-tech engines powering F1 cars utilize energy during a race, including when teams unleash energy to overtake another car. The stat demonstrates energy flows through each component of the advanced F1 engine, known as the Power Unit, and shows how much battery energy is left at any given moment in a race. The F1 engine propels a vehicle by using a combination of internal combustion and hybrid systems that recover energy from braking and from the turbo charger. However, there are limits to the Power Unit's energy storage capacity and the amount of energy that can move through it during each race lap. Race teams track this data to help maximize their car's performance at key moments in a race, determining when to deploy energy in steady streams to achieve the best lap times or unleash it in focused moments to gain or maintain position when battling another driver. Energy Usage allows fans to see those decisions in real time. The stat debuts July 16-18 at the FORMULA 1 PIRELLI BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2021. Start Analysis displays which driver was the quickest on the pedal and picked the perfect line, as well as which drivers struggled off the starting grid and why. Achieving the perfect start is a core driver skill, and Start Analysis will help fans understand how a driver's decisions earn or sacrifice an early advantage in the race. The stat debuts September 10-12 at the FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN GRAN PREMIO D'ITALIA 2021. Pitlane Performance analyzes pit stop performance, adding excitement to the portion of the race that takes place behind the pit wall. Pit stops are an essential and precisely coordinated, but time-draining element of an F1 race. Pitlane Performance offers insights beyond a car's stationary stop time, like unpacking how the driver and team perform during each step of a pit stop in the pitlane and highlighting total pitlane time lost or gained due to how efficiently the team works. The stat debuts October 8-10 at the FORMULA 1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2021. Undercut Threat helps fans anticipate which cars are at risk of being overtaken as the result of an "undercut." The undercut is an F1 race strategy where a chasing driver enters the pit for fresh tires with the expectation that improved lap time resulting from the new tires will allow the driver to overtake the car in front once that car has pitted. F1 introduced a similar stat, Pit Strategy Battle, in June 2020 to highlight an undercut battle as it happens and help fans assess in real time how successful each driver's strategy will be. Undercut Threat adds a new layer of predictive insight by analyzing race performance before either car has pitted, adding to fan excitement and the sense of jeopardy around potential action to come. It visualizes data on gaps between cars, average pit loss time, and tire performance to help identify which cars are at risk. The stat debuts November 19-21 at the FORMULA 1 ROLEX AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2021. To create the new insights, F1 uses historical race data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and combines it with live data streamed from F1 race cars and trackside sensors to AWS through Amazon Kinesis, a service for real-time data collection, processing, and analysis. F1 engineers and scientists will use this data to leverage machine learning models with 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. F1 is able to analyze race performance metrics in real-time by deploying those machine learning models on AWS Lambda, which is a serverless compute service that can run code without the need to provision or manage servers. All of the insights will be integrated into the races' international broadcast feeds around the globe, including F1's digital platform, F1TV, helping fans to understand the split-second decisions and race strategies made by drivers or teams that can dramatically affect a race outcome. "F1 Insights Powered by AWS give fans an insider's view of how car, driver, and team function together so that they can better appreciate the action on the track," said Rob Smedley, chief engineer of FORMULA 1. "With this new set of racing statistics for 2021, we are going deeper than ever before. New Insights like Braking Performance and Undercut Threat peel back additional layers of race strategies and performance and use advanced visualizations to make the sport of racing even more understandable and exciting. Race car technology improves all the time, and thanks to AWS, our fans can appreciate how that technology impacts race outcomes." "Data has become a critical piece of the story for modern sports, and for F1—where literally each second on the track produces more than a million data points—they require a partner that can translate that raw data into meaning in real time. AWS enables F1 to analyze its troves of data at scale, make better and more informed decisions, and bring fans closer to every phase of action on the track, from the starting grid, to cornering, to pitting," said Darren Mowry, director of business development at AWS EMEA SARL. "The world's premier sports organizations are using AWS to build data-driven solutions and reinvent the way sports are watched, played, and managed. Our work with F1 demonstrates how advanced stats can elevate the fan experience by revealing the tactics and strategies behind even the most seemingly straightforward elements of a race." For news on how AWS is helping F1 develop the next-generation race car, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/news/. About Amazon Web Services For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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 Formula 1® Formula 1® racing began in 1950 and is the world's most prestigious motor racing competition, as well as the world's most popular annual sporting series. The 2021 FIA Formula One World Championship™ runs from March to December and spans 23 races in 22 countries across five continents. Formula One World Championship Limited is part of Formula 1® and holds the exclusive commercial rights to the FIA Formula One World Championship™. Formula 1® is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, BATRA, BATRK, FWONA, FWONK) attributed to the Formula One Group tracking stock. The F1 logo, F1 FORMULA 1 logo, FORMULA 1, F1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX, PADDOCK CLUB and related marks are trademarks of Formula One Licensing BV, a Formula 1 company. All rights reserved. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210415005326/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>First of six new real-time racing statistics for 2021 season to debut April 16-18 at the FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAN PREMIO DEL MADE IN ITALY E DELL'EMILIA ROMAGNA 2021 in Imola, Italy</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 15, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and FORMULA 1 (F1) (NASDAQ: FWONA, FWONK) are introducing six new F1 Insights powered by AWS that will roll out through the 2021 racing season. The new additions mean a total of 18 AWS-powered stats will be available to fans by the end of the season. F1 Insights powered by AWS are real-time racing statistics, displayed as on-screen graphics, that transform the fan experience before, during, and after each race by providing the data and analysis fans need to interpret driver and team race strategy and performance. The first new stat, Braking Performance, will debut at the GRAND PRIX in Italy, April 16-18. The new set of statistics for 2021 will use a range of AWS technologies, including machine learning, to help fans better understand and highlight potential race outcomes and compare their favorite drivers and cars.For more information about AWS and its involvement with F1, including the 12 previously released F1 Insights, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210415005326/en/</p><div><p>F1 Insights Powered by AWS (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>F1 racing is a data-driven sport where much of the thrill for fans comes from poring over statistics before and after a race to gain a deeper understanding of driver and team decisions and cars' performance on the track. F1 Insights powered by AWS add a new real-time dimension to statistics and place context around race data to help fans better appreciate key moments on the track. More than 300 sensors on each race car generate over 1.1 million data points per second that F1 transmits from the cars to the pit and onto AWS for processing. F1 relies on the breadth and depth of AWS services to stream and analyze that flood of data as it's generated, and then present it in a meaningful way for TV and online viewers around the world through the F1 Insights.</p><p>The first F1 Insight to be introduced this season, Braking Performance, shows how a driver's braking style during a cornering maneuver can deliver an advantage coming out of the corner. When executed well, braking optimizes a car's speed through the phases of cornering and enables the driver to gain a better position on the track. This stat displays and compares drivers' braking styles and performance by measuring how closely they approach the apex of a corner before braking. In addition, it will show the key performance metrics that lead to how the car and driver perform together when cornering, such as top speed on approach, speed decrease through braking, the braking power (KWH) utilized, and the immense G-forces drivers undergo while cornering. Braking Performance builds on the existing Corner Analysis statistic, which shows how cars physically perform while cornering.</p><p>Braking Performance and the other five new F1 Insights powered by AWS (detailed below) will debut as on-screen graphics from April through December this season. Each new stat offers fans more visibility into the split-second action on the track and the decision-making behind the pit wall.</p><ul><li>Car Exploitation shows fans when F1 drivers are pushing their cars to performance limits in areas like tire traction, braking, acceleration, and maneuvering during key points in a race. The stat reveals the data in real-time by displaying a car's current performance during a race compared to a theoretical performance limit, and then calculates the time gained or lost per lap as a result. The stat debuts June 11-13 at the FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2021.</li><li>Energy Usage provides insights into how the high-tech engines powering F1 cars utilize energy during a race, including when teams unleash energy to overtake another car. The stat demonstrates energy flows through each component of the advanced F1 engine, known as the Power Unit, and shows how much battery energy is left at any given moment in a race. The F1 engine propels a vehicle by using a combination of internal combustion and hybrid systems that recover energy from braking and from the turbo charger. However, there are limits to the Power Unit's energy storage capacity and the amount of energy that can move through it during each race lap. Race teams track this data to help maximize their car's performance at key moments in a race, determining when to deploy energy in steady streams to achieve the best lap times or unleash it in focused moments to gain or maintain position when battling another driver. Energy Usage allows fans to see those decisions in real time. The stat debuts July 16-18 at the FORMULA 1 PIRELLI BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2021.</li><li>Start Analysis displays which driver was the quickest on the pedal and picked the perfect line, as well as which drivers struggled off the starting grid and why. Achieving the perfect start is a core driver skill, and Start Analysis will help fans understand how a driver's decisions earn or sacrifice an early advantage in the race. The stat debuts September 10-12 at the FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN GRAN PREMIO D'ITALIA 2021.</li><li>Pitlane Performance analyzes pit stop performance, adding excitement to the portion of the race that takes place behind the pit wall. Pit stops are an essential and precisely coordinated, but time-draining element of an F1 race. Pitlane Performance offers insights beyond a car's stationary stop time, like unpacking how the driver and team perform during each step of a pit stop in the pitlane and highlighting total pitlane time lost or gained due to how efficiently the team works. The stat debuts October 8-10 at the FORMULA 1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2021.</li><li>Undercut Threat helps fans anticipate which cars are at risk of being overtaken as the result of an "undercut." The undercut is an F1 race strategy where a chasing driver enters the pit for fresh tires with the expectation that improved lap time resulting from the new tires will allow the driver to overtake the car in front once that car has pitted. F1 introduced a similar stat, Pit Strategy Battle, in June 2020 to highlight an undercut battle as it happens and help fans assess in real time how successful each driver's strategy will be. Undercut Threat adds a new layer of predictive insight by analyzing race performance before either car has pitted, adding to fan excitement and the sense of jeopardy around potential action to come. It visualizes data on gaps between cars, average pit loss time, and tire performance to help identify which cars are at risk. The stat debuts November 19-21 at the FORMULA 1 ROLEX AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2021.</li></ul><p>To create the new insights, F1 uses historical race data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and combines it with live data streamed from F1 race cars and trackside sensors to AWS through Amazon Kinesis, a service for real-time data collection, processing, and analysis. F1 engineers and scientists will use this data to leverage machine learning models with 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. F1 is able to analyze race performance metrics in real-time by deploying those machine learning models on AWS Lambda, which is a serverless compute service that can run code without the need to provision or manage servers. All of the insights will be integrated into the races' international broadcast feeds around the globe, including F1's digital platform, F1TV, helping fans to understand the split-second decisions and race strategies made by drivers or teams that can dramatically affect a race outcome.</p><p>"F1 Insights Powered by AWS give fans an insider's view of how car, driver, and team function together so that they can better appreciate the action on the track," said Rob Smedley, chief engineer of FORMULA 1. "With this new set of racing statistics for 2021, we are going deeper than ever before. New Insights like Braking Performance and Undercut Threat peel back additional layers of race strategies and performance and use advanced visualizations to make the sport of racing even more understandable and exciting. Race car technology improves all the time, and thanks to AWS, our fans can appreciate how that technology impacts race outcomes."</p><p>"Data has become a critical piece of the story for modern sports, and for F1—where literally each second on the track produces more than a million data points—they require a partner that can translate that raw data into meaning in real time. AWS enables F1 to analyze its troves of data at scale, make better and more informed decisions, and bring fans closer to every phase of action on the track, from the starting grid, to cornering, to pitting," said Darren Mowry, director of business development at AWS EMEA SARL. "The world's premier sports organizations are using AWS to build data-driven solutions and reinvent the way sports are watched, played, and managed. Our work with F1 demonstrates how advanced stats can elevate the fan experience by revealing the tactics and strategies behind even the most seemingly straightforward elements of a race."</p><p>For news on how AWS is helping F1 develop the next-generation race car, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/news/.</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 platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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 Formula 1^®</p><p>Formula 1^® racing began in 1950 and is the world's most prestigious motor racing competition, as well as the world's most popular annual sporting series. The 2021 FIA Formula One World Championship™ runs from March to December and spans 23 races in 22 countries across five continents. Formula One World Championship Limited is part of Formula 1^® and holds the exclusive commercial rights to the FIA Formula One World Championship™. Formula 1^® is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, BATRA, BATRK, FWONA, FWONK) attributed to the Formula One Group tracking stock. The F1 logo, F1 FORMULA 1 logo, FORMULA 1, F1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX, PADDOCK CLUB and related marks are trademarks of Formula One Licensing BV, a Formula 1 company. All rights reserved.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210415005326/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 AQUA for Amazon Redshift

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AWS Announces General Availability of AQUA for Amazon Redshift

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AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift brings compute to the storage layer, delivering up to 10x better query performance than other enterprise cloud data warehouses FOX Corporation, Amazon Advertising, and Accenture among customers and partners using AQUA for Amazon Redshift SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 14, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of AQUA for Amazon Redshift, an innovative new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that delivers up to ten times better query performance than other enterprise cloud data warehouses. AQUA brings compute to the storage layer, helping customers avoid networking bandwidth limitations by eliminating unnecessary data movement between where data is stored and compute clusters. With AQUA, customers have more up-to-date dashboards, save development time, and their systems are easier to maintain. AQUA is available on Redshift RA3 instances at no additional cost, and customers can take advantage of the AQUA performance improvements without any code changes. To get started with AQUA, visit https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/features/aqua. Since its launch in 2012 as the first data warehouse built for the cloud at a cost of 1/10th that of traditional data warehouses, Amazon Redshift has become the most popular cloud data warehouse. Last year, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Redshift RA3 instances, which allow customers to scale compute and storage separately and deliver up to 3x better price performance than any other cloud data warehouse. However, even as the performance of data warehouses continues to increase, the rapid growth of data that customers need to process in their data warehouses has led to a difficult balancing act between performance and cost-effective scaling. The prevailing approach to data warehousing has been to build out an architecture whereby large amounts of centralized storage data are moved to waiting compute nodes for processing. The challenge with this approach is that there is a lot of data movement between the shared storage and the compute nodes. As data volumes continue to grow at a rapid clip, this data movement saturates available networking bandwidth and slows down performance. In addition to the networking bottleneck, CPUs are not able to keep up with the faster growth in storage capabilities (SSD storage throughput has grown 6x faster than the ability of CPUs to process data from memory), which either creates a new CPU bottleneck of its own or forces more customers to over-provision compute to get their work done more quickly. AQUA for Amazon Redshift is a distributed and hardware-accelerated cache for Amazon Redshift; an innovation that improves performance for analytics at the new scale of data. AQUA brings compute to the storage layer, so data does not have to move back and forth between the two. This enables Amazon Redshift to run queries up to ten times faster than other enterprise cloud data warehouses. The AQUA cache scales out and processes data in parallel across many nodes. Each node possesses a hardware module composed of AWS-designed analytics processors that dramatically accelerate data compression, encryption, and data processing tasks like scans, aggregates, and filtering. AQUA also gives customers the added benefit of being able to do compute on their raw storage, which saves time that would otherwise be spent moving data around. With this new architecture, and the order-of-magnitude better performance it brings, Redshift customers have more up-to-date dashboards, save development time, and their systems are easier to maintain. "Existing data warehouse architectures with centralized storage require that data be moved to compute clusters for processing, which creates a bottleneck and slows down performance," said Rahul Pathak, VP, Analytics, AWS. "By bringing compute to the storage layer, AQUA helps customers eliminate unnecessary data movement to avoid these networking bandwidth limitations, delivering up to an order-of-magnitude query performance improvement over other enterprise cloud data warehouses — and this game-changing leap in performance is available to Amazon Redshift users at no additional cost." AQUA for Amazon Redshift is generally available today to customers running Amazon Redshift RA3 instances in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional regions coming soon. FOX Corporation produces and distributes content through some of the world's leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News, FOX Sports, the FOX Network, and the FOX Television Stations. FOX empowers a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise, and strategic thinking."FOX Corporation's mission is to give millions of viewers the simple pleasure of being transported by a story on a screen. We have global audiences consuming premiere content across News, Sports, and Entertainment, and data is at the center of everything we do," said Alex Tverdohleb, VP, Data Services, FOX Corporation. "Amazon Redshift empowers us to analyze petabytes of structured and semi-structured data across our data warehouse, operational database, and Amazon S3 data lake to discover, analyze, and activate data-driven decisions and powerful insights. As our petabyte-scale data continues to grow rapidly, we have been testing AQUA for Redshift to get better performance for our analytics queries while keeping our costs flat. We are seeing AQUA for Amazon Redshift improve the performance of some of our analytics queries by an order of magnitude and it is an example of how we are using latest technology to deliver a more personalized, curated, and timely experience to our viewers." Amazon Advertising helps businesses and brands of all sizes grow by offering the right advertising solution to drive brand awareness, consideration of product, brand, or service, drive purchases, or increase loyalty. "We use Amazon Redshift's Lake House architecture (the ability to query data in the warehouse, operational databases, and data lake) to manage hundreds of petabytes of data and serve thousands of customers daily," said Shamik Ganguly, Senior Manager, Amazon Advertising. "We started using AQUA for Amazon Redshift recently, and it is a game changer. We have seen some of our most complex analytics queries related to attribution, personalization, brand insights, and aggregation that scan large data sets run up to 10x faster with AQUA. AQUA has dramatically reduced the average wait times for some of our most demanding queries enabling us to run 50% more queries on our system while keeping the cost the same resulting in faster time to value and better experience for our customers." Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security with 500,000+ people who deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. "We use Amazon Redshift to build analytics applications for our customers that join data from multiple sources and empower users across the business, from data analysts to line-of-business leaders," said A. K. Radhakrishnan, North America Data & AI AWS Lead, Accenture. "As the data and demand for insights grows at an incredible pace, it is innovations from AWS, like AQUA for Amazon Redshift, that enable us to quickly meet the needs of our customers. AQUA has improved the performance of our most demanding analytics queries that scan large data sets by up to 10x, helping us deliver timely insights to our ever-expanding customer base. This makes it easier for us to help our customers process more data in a timely and cost-effective manner to become data-driven enterprises." Sisense's mission is to help businesses infuse analytics everywhere and empower their customers and employees to act on their data at the right time, every time. "Thousands of enterprise companies and global brands rely on our AI-driven analytics platform to innovate, disrupt markets, and drive meaningful change in the world," said Guy Levy-Yurista, PhD, Chief Strategy Officer, Sisense. "We use Amazon Redshift to enable our customers to rapidly and easily transform complex data into highly interactive, actionable apps that can be embedded and delivered at scale. We are using AQUA for Redshift and are delighted to see complex analytic queries that scan, filter, and aggregate large data sets run up to 8-10x faster than before. AQUA for Redshift gives us the performance and scalability needed to quickly analyze petabytes of data and deliver timely insights that benefit every user and every team." About Amazon Web Services  For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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/20210414005848/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift brings compute to the storage layer, delivering up to 10x better query performance than other enterprise cloud data warehouses</em></p><p><em>FOX Corporation, Amazon Advertising, and Accenture among customers and partners using AQUA for Amazon Redshift</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 14, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of AQUA for Amazon Redshift, an innovative new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that delivers up to ten times better query performance than other enterprise cloud data warehouses. AQUA brings compute to the storage layer, helping customers avoid networking bandwidth limitations by eliminating unnecessary data movement between where data is stored and compute clusters. With AQUA, customers have more up-to-date dashboards, save development time, and their systems are easier to maintain. AQUA is available on Redshift RA3 instances at no additional cost, and customers can take advantage of the AQUA performance improvements without any code changes. To get started with AQUA, visit https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/features/aqua.</p><p>Since its launch in 2012 as the first data warehouse built for the cloud at a cost of 1/10th that of traditional data warehouses, Amazon Redshift has become the most popular cloud data warehouse. Last year, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Redshift RA3 instances, which allow customers to scale compute and storage separately and deliver up to 3x better price performance than any other cloud data warehouse. However, even as the performance of data warehouses continues to increase, the rapid growth of data that customers need to process in their data warehouses has led to a difficult balancing act between performance and cost-effective scaling. The prevailing approach to data warehousing has been to build out an architecture whereby large amounts of centralized storage data are moved to waiting compute nodes for processing. The challenge with this approach is that there is a lot of data movement between the shared storage and the compute nodes. As data volumes continue to grow at a rapid clip, this data movement saturates available networking bandwidth and slows down performance. In addition to the networking bottleneck, CPUs are not able to keep up with the faster growth in storage capabilities (SSD storage throughput has grown 6x faster than the ability of CPUs to process data from memory), which either creates a new CPU bottleneck of its own or forces more customers to over-provision compute to get their work done more quickly.</p><p>AQUA for Amazon Redshift is a distributed and hardware-accelerated cache for Amazon Redshift; an innovation that improves performance for analytics at the new scale of data. AQUA brings compute to the storage layer, so data does not have to move back and forth between the two. This enables Amazon Redshift to run queries up to ten times faster than other enterprise cloud data warehouses. The AQUA cache scales out and processes data in parallel across many nodes. Each node possesses a hardware module composed of AWS-designed analytics processors that dramatically accelerate data compression, encryption, and data processing tasks like scans, aggregates, and filtering. AQUA also gives customers the added benefit of being able to do compute on their raw storage, which saves time that would otherwise be spent moving data around. With this new architecture, and the order-of-magnitude better performance it brings, Redshift customers have more up-to-date dashboards, save development time, and their systems are easier to maintain.</p><p>"Existing data warehouse architectures with centralized storage require that data be moved to compute clusters for processing, which creates a bottleneck and slows down performance," said Rahul Pathak, VP, Analytics, AWS. "By bringing compute to the storage layer, AQUA helps customers eliminate unnecessary data movement to avoid these networking bandwidth limitations, delivering up to an order-of-magnitude query performance improvement over other enterprise cloud data warehouses — and this game-changing leap in performance is available to Amazon Redshift users at no additional cost."</p><p>AQUA for Amazon Redshift is generally available today to customers running Amazon Redshift RA3 instances in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional regions coming soon.</p><p>FOX Corporation produces and distributes content through some of the world's leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News, FOX Sports, the FOX Network, and the FOX Television Stations. FOX empowers a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise, and strategic thinking."FOX Corporation's mission is to give millions of viewers the simple pleasure of being transported by a story on a screen. We have global audiences consuming premiere content across News, Sports, and Entertainment, and data is at the center of everything we do," said Alex Tverdohleb, VP, Data Services, FOX Corporation. "Amazon Redshift empowers us to analyze petabytes of structured and semi-structured data across our data warehouse, operational database, and Amazon S3 data lake to discover, analyze, and activate data-driven decisions and powerful insights. As our petabyte-scale data continues to grow rapidly, we have been testing AQUA for Redshift to get better performance for our analytics queries while keeping our costs flat. We are seeing AQUA for Amazon Redshift improve the performance of some of our analytics queries by an order of magnitude and it is an example of how we are using latest technology to deliver a more personalized, curated, and timely experience to our viewers."</p><p>Amazon Advertising helps businesses and brands of all sizes grow by offering the right advertising solution to drive brand awareness, consideration of product, brand, or service, drive purchases, or increase loyalty. "We use Amazon Redshift's Lake House architecture (the ability to query data in the warehouse, operational databases, and data lake) to manage hundreds of petabytes of data and serve thousands of customers daily," said Shamik Ganguly, Senior Manager, Amazon Advertising. "We started using AQUA for Amazon Redshift recently, and it is a game changer. We have seen some of our most complex analytics queries related to attribution, personalization, brand insights, and aggregation that scan large data sets run up to 10x faster with AQUA. AQUA has dramatically reduced the average wait times for some of our most demanding queries enabling us to run 50% more queries on our system while keeping the cost the same resulting in faster time to value and better experience for our customers."</p><p>Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security with 500,000+ people who deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. "We use Amazon Redshift to build analytics applications for our customers that join data from multiple sources and empower users across the business, from data analysts to line-of-business leaders," said A. K. Radhakrishnan, North America Data &amp; AI AWS Lead, Accenture. "As the data and demand for insights grows at an incredible pace, it is innovations from AWS, like AQUA for Amazon Redshift, that enable us to quickly meet the needs of our customers. AQUA has improved the performance of our most demanding analytics queries that scan large data sets by up to 10x, helping us deliver timely insights to our ever-expanding customer base. This makes it easier for us to help our customers process more data in a timely and cost-effective manner to become data-driven enterprises."</p><p>Sisense's mission is to help businesses infuse analytics everywhere and empower their customers and employees to act on their data at the right time, every time. "Thousands of enterprise companies and global brands rely on our AI-driven analytics platform to innovate, disrupt markets, and drive meaningful change in the world," said Guy Levy-Yurista, PhD, Chief Strategy Officer, Sisense. "We use Amazon Redshift to enable our customers to rapidly and easily transform complex data into highly interactive, actionable apps that can be embedded and delivered at scale. We are using AQUA for Redshift and are delighted to see complex analytic queries that scan, filter, and aggregate large data sets run up to 8-10x faster than before. AQUA for Redshift gives us the performance and scalability needed to quickly analyze petabytes of data and deliver timely insights that benefit every user and every team."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services </p><p>For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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/20210414005848/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Introduces All-New Echo Buds—Smaller, Lighter, Even Better Sound—Just $119.99

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Amazon Introduces All-New Echo Buds—Smaller, Lighter, Even Better Sound—Just $119.99

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All-new Echo Buds are 20% smaller and deliver dynamic audio with Amazon's custom-designed Active Noise Cancellation technology Hands-free Alexa on-the-go—just ask to get playlists and podcasts, make calls, get updates on your train or bus status, find your buds, and more New Echo Buds are available in Black or Glacier White, with a redesigned compact case that offers wireless charging capabilities For a limited time, the all-new Echo Buds will be available for only $99.99, and qualifying customers will receive six months free of Amazon Music Unlimited and Audible Plus SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 14, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced the next-generation of Echo Buds, featuring an all-new design, premium audio architecture for crisp, balanced sound, custom-designed Active Noise Cancellation technology, wireless charging capabilities, improved microphones for better call quality, and hands-free access to Alexa. The all-new Echo Buds are available in Black or Glacier White starting at $119.99, and will be available for a limited time starting at $99.99. Customers who qualify will also receive six months of Amazon Music Unlimited and Audible Plus for free. Customers can pre-order the new Echo Buds today at amazon.com/echobuds. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210414005487/en/ Echo Buds Glacier White (Photo: Business Wire) "The all-new Echo Buds are better in so many ways—a smaller design, a more comfortable fit, Active Noise Cancellation technology, a new color and wireless charging option, and high-performance drivers for dynamic audio," said Tom Taylor, Senior Vice President, Amazon Alexa. "It's never been easier for customers to bring Alexa with them throughout their day—whether at home, walking the neighborhood, or commuting to work, all they have to do is ask to play music or podcasts, call to check in on a loved one, add an item to their to-do list, and so much more." Customizable Fit for All-Day Comfort The all-new Echo Buds are 20% smaller, lightweight, IPX4-rated to withstand splashes, sweat, or light rain; and designed to be comfortable enough for all-day wear. A shortened nozzle improves comfort and new built-in vents reduce ear pressure during use, making Echo Buds feel natural in your ear—perfect for long periods of use during the day. With four ear tip sizes and two wing tip sizes, you can tailor the fit to what's most comfortable for you and during set-up, the easy Ear Tip Fit Test will confirm if you have a proper seal—so they feel great and sound even better. Dynamic Audio Experience featuring new Active Noise Cancellation Built with a high-performance driver in each earbud, Echo Buds deliver crisp, balanced sound with extended dynamic range—so you get the most out of your music, regardless of genre. The premium speakers are optimized for increased fidelity in bass and treble, which reduces distortion during media playback, delivering vibrant melodies and clear spoken word. Featuring Amazon's new Active Noise Cancellation technology, the all-new Echo Buds cancel twice as much noise compared to the first generation, making them ideal for traveling or if you need peace and quiet at home. The technology uses the inner and outer microphones to intelligently estimate sound pressure in your eardrum—which directly correlates to how you hear sound around you—to generate the inverse of that signal and cancel out unwanted noise, helping you stay immersed in your audio. To turn on Active Noise Cancellation, simply press and hold either earbud or just say, "Alexa, turn on noise cancellation." When you want to hear what's going on around you, enable Passthrough Mode with a press and hold on either earbud or by saying, "Alexa, turn on Passthrough." With Passthrough Mode on, you can easily adjust the amount of ambient sound you hear through the device settings in the Alexa app. Easy Access to All of Your Entertainment Options Echo Buds are one of the easiest ways to access all of the content you know and love from Alexa, from anywhere. Just ask to listen to your favorite Audible audiobook, find your next favorite artist on Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, and more. Plus, while you can already ask Alexa for podcast recommendations, you'll soon be able to listen to podcasts you follow on Amazon Music by just saying, "Alexa, play my followed podcasts." You can also ask Alexa to play music for a set amount of time. When you want to take a short walk to soak in the sun, simply say, "Alexa, play relaxing music for 15 minutes." When the tunes stop, it's your cue to head home. Easily Manage Your Day With Echo Buds, Alexa helps you get more done whether you are at home or on-the-go. Just ask to set a reminder to stretch for a few minutes every hour, check your calendar, find out when the nearest coffee shop opens, add laundry detergent to your shopping list, or catch up with a friend by simply saying, "Alexa, call Sara." The onboard microphones in each earbud are optimized to capture lower frequencies compared to the prior generation, so not only is Alexa able to hear you better, but call quality is also improved. And if you misplace your Echo Buds before a conference call, simply say, "Alexa, find my buds" to another Alexa-enabled device—or press a button in your device settings via the Alexa app—and, if your Echo Buds are nearby, you'll hear an audible chime. Later this year, you'll be able to use VIP Filter on the all-new Echo Buds. Introduced on Echo Frames, VIP Filter lets you select the phone notifications that you want to hear, and filters out the rest. When you receive a notification, just double tap either earbud to hear it in real-time; to dismiss a notification single tap either earbud. VIP Filter also supports calendars and group messaging, ensuring you never miss an important update. Take Alexa on Your Commute Alexa can help plan your commute with support for public transit in major cities across the U.S. such as New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Jersey City, and Philadelphia. Simply ask for directions to the nearest train station or point of interest, or say "Alexa, what's the status of the Q train?" to receive an update on a specific bus or train. Public transit support will expand to other major cities in the U.S. in the coming months. Power Up for Work or Play Echo Buds offer up to five hours of music playback on a single charge with Active Noise Cancellation and hands-free access to Alexa, and the compact case provides two additional charges for a total of up to 15 hours of music playback. If you're in a hurry, a 15-minute quick charge will give you up to two hours of music playback. To check your battery status while wearing Echo Buds, simply say, "Alexa, what's my battery life?" Or, open the case while your Echo Buds are inside and the new LED lights in front of each earbud will show the battery status. Echo Buds can be charged via USB-C or a Qi-certified wireless charging pad like the all-new Made for Amazon Anker PowerWave Pad for Echo Buds (sold separately). Echo Buds connect to Alexa through the Alexa app on your mobile device and use your existing device data plan to access features such as music, calling, and more. They are built with multiple layers of privacy protections and controls, including the ability to mute the mics with the Alexa app or through the customizable onboard tap controls. You can also set the onboard tap controls to access your native voice services—Siri or Google Assistant. Pricing and Availability The all-new Echo Buds come in Black and Glacier White and have the Climate Pledge Friendly badge. Echo Buds are available for pre-order today and will begin shipping to customers in the U.S. in May. Echo Buds are $119.99 for the USB-C wired charging option, or $139.99 for wireless charging. For a limited time only, the USB-C wired charging option will be available for only $99.99 and the wireless charging option will be available for $119.99. Customers who qualify will also receive six months of Amazon Music Unlimited and Audible Plus for free. To qualify, customers must be free trial eligible for Amazon Music Unlimited and/or Audible. 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/20210414005487/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>All-new Echo Buds are 20% smaller and deliver dynamic audio with Amazon's custom-designed Active Noise Cancellation technology</em></p><p><em>Hands-free Alexa on-the-go—just ask to get playlists and podcasts, make calls, get updates on your train or bus status, find your buds, and more</em></p><p><em>New Echo Buds are available in Black or Glacier White, with a redesigned compact case that offers wireless charging capabilities</em></p><p><em>For a limited time, the all-new Echo Buds will be available for only $99.99, and qualifying customers will receive six months free of Amazon Music Unlimited and Audible Plus</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 14, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced the next-generation of Echo Buds, featuring an all-new design, premium audio architecture for crisp, balanced sound, custom-designed Active Noise Cancellation technology, wireless charging capabilities, improved microphones for better call quality, and hands-free access to Alexa. The all-new Echo Buds are available in Black or Glacier White starting at $119.99, and will be available for a limited time starting at $99.99. Customers who qualify will also receive six months of Amazon Music Unlimited and Audible Plus for free. Customers can pre-order the new Echo Buds today at amazon.com/echobuds.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210414005487/en/</p><div><p>Echo Buds Glacier White (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"The all-new Echo Buds are better in so many ways—a smaller design, a more comfortable fit, Active Noise Cancellation technology, a new color and wireless charging option, and high-performance drivers for dynamic audio," said Tom Taylor, Senior Vice President, Amazon Alexa. "It's never been easier for customers to bring Alexa with them throughout their day—whether at home, walking the neighborhood, or commuting to work, all they have to do is ask to play music or podcasts, call to check in on a loved one, add an item to their to-do list, and so much more."</p><p><em>Customizable Fit for All-Day Comfort</em></p><p>The all-new Echo Buds are 20% smaller, lightweight, IPX4-rated to withstand splashes, sweat, or light rain; and designed to be comfortable enough for all-day wear. A shortened nozzle improves comfort and new built-in vents reduce ear pressure during use, making Echo Buds feel natural in your ear—perfect for long periods of use during the day. With four ear tip sizes and two wing tip sizes, you can tailor the fit to what's most comfortable for you and during set-up, the easy Ear Tip Fit Test will confirm if you have a proper seal—so they feel great and sound even better.</p><p><em>Dynamic Audio Experience featuring new Active Noise Cancellation</em></p><p>Built with a high-performance driver in each earbud, Echo Buds deliver crisp, balanced sound with extended dynamic range—so you get the most out of your music, regardless of genre. The premium speakers are optimized for increased fidelity in bass and treble, which reduces distortion during media playback, delivering vibrant melodies and clear spoken word.</p><p>Featuring Amazon's new Active Noise Cancellation technology, the all-new Echo Buds cancel twice as much noise compared to the first generation, making them ideal for traveling or if you need peace and quiet at home. The technology uses the inner and outer microphones to intelligently estimate sound pressure in your eardrum—which directly correlates to how you hear sound around you—to generate the inverse of that signal and cancel out unwanted noise, helping you stay immersed in your audio.</p><p>To turn on Active Noise Cancellation, simply press and hold either earbud or just say, "Alexa, turn on noise cancellation." When you want to hear what's going on around you, enable Passthrough Mode with a press and hold on either earbud or by saying, "Alexa, turn on Passthrough." With Passthrough Mode on, you can easily adjust the amount of ambient sound you hear through the device settings in the Alexa app.</p><p><em>Easy Access to All of Your Entertainment Options</em></p><p>Echo Buds are one of the easiest ways to access all of the content you know and love from Alexa, from anywhere. Just ask to listen to your favorite Audible audiobook, find your next favorite artist on Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, and more. Plus, while you can already ask Alexa for podcast recommendations, you'll soon be able to listen to podcasts you follow on Amazon Music by just saying, "Alexa, play my followed podcasts." You can also ask Alexa to play music for a set amount of time. When you want to take a short walk to soak in the sun, simply say, "Alexa, play relaxing music for 15 minutes." When the tunes stop, it's your cue to head home.</p><p><em>Easily Manage Your Day</em></p><p>With Echo Buds, Alexa helps you get more done whether you are at home or on-the-go. Just ask to set a reminder to stretch for a few minutes every hour, check your calendar, find out when the nearest coffee shop opens, add laundry detergent to your shopping list, or catch up with a friend by simply saying, "Alexa, call Sara." The onboard microphones in each earbud are optimized to capture lower frequencies compared to the prior generation, so not only is Alexa able to hear you better, but call quality is also improved. And if you misplace your Echo Buds before a conference call, simply say, "Alexa, find my buds" to another Alexa-enabled device—or press a button in your device settings via the Alexa app—and, if your Echo Buds are nearby, you'll hear an audible chime.</p><p>Later this year, you'll be able to use VIP Filter on the all-new Echo Buds. Introduced on Echo Frames, VIP Filter lets you select the phone notifications that you want to hear, and filters out the rest. When you receive a notification, just double tap either earbud to hear it in real-time; to dismiss a notification single tap either earbud. VIP Filter also supports calendars and group messaging, ensuring you never miss an important update.</p><p><em>Take Alexa on Your Commute</em></p><p>Alexa can help plan your commute with support for public transit in major cities across the U.S. such as New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Jersey City, and Philadelphia. Simply ask for directions to the nearest train station or point of interest, or say "Alexa, what's the status of the Q train?" to receive an update on a specific bus or train. Public transit support will expand to other major cities in the U.S. in the coming months.</p><p><em>Power Up for Work or Play</em></p><p>Echo Buds offer up to five hours of music playback on a single charge with Active Noise Cancellation and hands-free access to Alexa, and the compact case provides two additional charges for a total of up to 15 hours of music playback. If you're in a hurry, a 15-minute quick charge will give you up to two hours of music playback. To check your battery status while wearing Echo Buds, simply say, "Alexa, what's my battery life?" Or, open the case while your Echo Buds are inside and the new LED lights in front of each earbud will show the battery status. Echo Buds can be charged via USB-C or a Qi-certified wireless charging pad like the all-new Made for Amazon Anker PowerWave Pad for Echo Buds (sold separately).</p><p>Echo Buds connect to Alexa through the Alexa app on your mobile device and use your existing device data plan to access features such as music, calling, and more. They are built with multiple layers of privacy protections and controls, including the ability to mute the mics with the Alexa app or through the customizable onboard tap controls. You can also set the onboard tap controls to access your native voice services—Siri or Google Assistant.</p><p><em>Pricing and Availability</em></p><p>The all-new Echo Buds come in Black and Glacier White and have the Climate Pledge Friendly badge. Echo Buds are available for pre-order today and will begin shipping to customers in the U.S. in May. Echo Buds are $119.99 for the USB-C wired charging option, or $139.99 for wireless charging. For a limited time only, the USB-C wired charging option will be available for only $99.99 and the wireless charging option will be available for $119.99. Customers who qualify will also receive six months of Amazon Music Unlimited and Audible Plus for free. To qualify, customers must be free trial eligible for Amazon Music Unlimited and/or Audible.</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/20210414005487/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Donates $1.75 million to construct new STEAM high school in Onondaga County, New York

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Amazon Donates $1.75 million to construct new STEAM high school in Onondaga County, New York

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As it gears up to launch its first robotics fulfillment center in Upstate New York, Amazon continues to invest in education programs that will drive future innovation in the communities it serves. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 13, 2021-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it is donating $1.75 million toward a new STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) high school in Onondaga County, New York. With a new robotics fulfillment center coming to the county this fall, a project that will create more than 1,000 local jobs, Amazon is furthering its commitment to STEM education by investing in the community and giving students tools to build their best future. Amazon's donation will fund robotics and computer science initiatives at the new school. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210413006096/en/ Amazon check presentation to local leaders; from left to right: Syracuse City Schools Superintendent Jaime Alicea, Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh, Syracuse Common Councilor At-Large Rita Paniagua (Photo: Business Wire) "At Amazon, technology and innovation fuel our business. Our employees work alongside innovative, advanced technologies, and we recognize the jobs of tomorrow require a stronger aptitude for STEM skills," said Ryan Smith, director of North America fulfillment operations at Amazon. "We want to inspire the next generation of innovators to explore opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math, so we're proud to partner with Onondaga County–which we will soon call home–to increase access to STEM education for thousands of local students for years to come. We hope they'll join our team at Amazon one day and teach us a thing or two as they build their careers here." The STEAM school project, which is currently being called STEAM at Syracuse Central, is a joint effort from the City of Syracuse, the Syracuse City School District, Onondaga County, and the State of New York. It will be located at the former Central High School near downtown Syracuse. "This is an exciting day for our community and for the progress on the new STEAM school," said County Executive Ryan McMahon said. "Last May we welcomed Amazon to Onondaga County with their state-of-the-art robotics fulfillment center. Now they are furthering their commitment and investment in our community and children with this donation to our STEAM school. Preparing our kids for the jobs of tomorrow is a priority for all of us and a belief that Amazon also shares. This donation will go a long way towards making that a reality." Syracuse City School District will operate the school, but it will be open to students from any school district in Onondaga County. The school will graduate approximately 250 students a year who are on a career path to fill technology-related jobs in central New York. The campus' workforce training center will offer high school equivalency degrees, apprenticeships, and advanced technical certification through SUNY Empire State College. "I applaud Amazon for investing $1.75 million to support robotics and computer science initiatives at the new STEAM School, which is currently being developed in the City of Syracuse," said U.S. Representative John Katko. "The STEAM school will host educational programming rooted in science, math, and technology and allow students to access apprenticeships, advanced technical trainings, and other crucial workforce development programs. Graduates will be well prepared to enter into highly-skilled careers and help contribute to Central New York's growing economy. With the ongoing development of the Amazon fulfillment center in Clay, I am glad to see this company make an additional investment to support Central New York students and workforce development programming." Last May, Amazon joined County Executive Ryan McMahon to announce the state-of-the-art robotics fulfillment center in Clay, just north of Syracuse, which is anticipated to open in time for the 2021 holiday shopping season. This facility will be the first of its kind in upstate New York and will create more than 1,000 full-time jobs for Onondaga County residents, with competitive pay starting at $15 per hour and comprehensive benefits that begin on an employee's first day on the job. Employees will work alongside Amazon robotics and innovative technologies to pick, pack, and ship customer orders. "One of the most compelling points of the STEAM School project is the regional approach we are using. Students from both city and suburban school districts will be prepared for the careers of tomorrow together in a state of the art complex in downtown Syracuse," said Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh. "This donation from Amazon is yet another indicator of how much stronger we are when we work together. It also serves as the latest example of how the Syracuse Surge strategy is already working to ensure opportunity for all in our community. I thank Amazon for its support for education in Syracuse and Onondaga County." Employees will also have access to Amazon's innovative Career Choice program, which pre-pays up to 95% of tuition for courses in high-demand fields. Since the program's launch, more than 30,000 employees have pursued degrees in computer science, game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming, and radiology, to name a few. Amazon has pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees through 2025. These programs will help Amazon employees from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. "We are thrilled to have Amazon on board as a partner in the development of our new regional STEAM High School. Their focus on technology and STEM coupled with their presence in our community makes them the perfect partner for us," said Superintendent Jaime Alicea. "Robotics is going to be a big part of the curriculum at the STEAM High School and this donation will benefit that initiative greatly." Amazon also offers a signature computer science education program called Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and educate young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities. Amazon Future Engineer is a childhood to career program, delivering programming that starts with primary school and continues through secondary education and into careers. It reaches millions of students globally, including hundreds of thousands of students in the U.S. each year. Two schools in Onondaga County currently participate in the Amazon Future Engineer program. Students explore computer science through school curriculum and project-based learning using code to make music, program robots, and solve problems. Amazon Future Engineer also awards 100 students each year with four-year, $40,000 scholarships and paid internships at Amazon. The program also celebrates teachers with professional development and $25,000 Teacher of the Year Awards. Amazon Future Engineer is part of Amazon's $50 million commitment to STEM and computer science education. Amazon in New York state Amazon currently operates four fulfillment and sortation centers, and 15 delivery stations across the state. The company has created more than 34,000 full- and part-time jobs across New York, but Amazon's presence in the state reaches beyond the jobs provided within the walls of its facilities. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $7 billion across New York, including infrastructure and compensation to its employees, which has contributed more than $5.7 billion to the state's economy and helped create more than 17,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires—from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. In addition, more than 111,000 independent authors and small and medium-sized businesses are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state. There are also more than 80,000 organizations in New York that Amazon customers can support simply by shopping on Amazon Smile. To learn more about Amazon's commitment to STEM education and Amazon Future Engineer, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/impact/community/stem-education. High-resolution images available 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/20210413006096/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com

<p><em>As it gears up to launch its first robotics fulfillment center in Upstate New York, Amazon continues to invest in education programs that will drive future innovation in the communities it serves.</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 13, 2021-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it is donating $1.75 million toward a new STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) high school in Onondaga County, New York. With a new robotics fulfillment center coming to the county this fall, a project that will create more than 1,000 local jobs, Amazon is furthering its commitment to STEM education by investing in the community and giving students tools to build their best future. Amazon's donation will fund robotics and computer science initiatives at the new school.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210413006096/en/</p><div><p>Amazon check presentation to local leaders; from left to right: Syracuse City Schools Superintendent Jaime Alicea, Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh, Syracuse Common Councilor At-Large Rita Paniagua (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"At Amazon, technology and innovation fuel our business. Our employees work alongside innovative, advanced technologies, and we recognize the jobs of tomorrow require a stronger aptitude for STEM skills," said Ryan Smith, director of North America fulfillment operations at Amazon. "We want to inspire the next generation of innovators to explore opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math, so we're proud to partner with Onondaga County–which we will soon call home–to increase access to STEM education for thousands of local students for years to come. We hope they'll join our team at Amazon one day and teach us a thing or two as they build their careers here."</p><p>The STEAM school project, which is currently being called STEAM at Syracuse Central, is a joint effort from the City of Syracuse, the Syracuse City School District, Onondaga County, and the State of New York. It will be located at the former Central High School near downtown Syracuse.</p><p>"This is an exciting day for our community and for the progress on the new STEAM school," said County Executive Ryan McMahon said. "Last May we welcomed Amazon to Onondaga County with their state-of-the-art robotics fulfillment center. Now they are furthering their commitment and investment in our community and children with this donation to our STEAM school. Preparing our kids for the jobs of tomorrow is a priority for all of us and a belief that Amazon also shares. This donation will go a long way towards making that a reality."</p><p>Syracuse City School District will operate the school, but it will be open to students from any school district in Onondaga County. The school will graduate approximately 250 students a year who are on a career path to fill technology-related jobs in central New York. The campus' workforce training center will offer high school equivalency degrees, apprenticeships, and advanced technical certification through SUNY Empire State College.</p><p>"I applaud Amazon for investing $1.75 million to support robotics and computer science initiatives at the new STEAM School, which is currently being developed in the City of Syracuse," said U.S. Representative John Katko. "The STEAM school will host educational programming rooted in science, math, and technology and allow students to access apprenticeships, advanced technical trainings, and other crucial workforce development programs. Graduates will be well prepared to enter into highly-skilled careers and help contribute to Central New York's growing economy. With the ongoing development of the Amazon fulfillment center in Clay, I am glad to see this company make an additional investment to support Central New York students and workforce development programming."</p><p>Last May, Amazon joined County Executive Ryan McMahon to announce the state-of-the-art robotics fulfillment center in Clay, just north of Syracuse, which is anticipated to open in time for the 2021 holiday shopping season. This facility will be the first of its kind in upstate New York and will create more than 1,000 full-time jobs for Onondaga County residents, with competitive pay starting at $15 per hour and comprehensive benefits that begin on an employee's first day on the job. Employees will work alongside Amazon robotics and innovative technologies to pick, pack, and ship customer orders.</p><p>"One of the most compelling points of the STEAM School project is the regional approach we are using. Students from both city and suburban school districts will be prepared for the careers of tomorrow together in a state of the art complex in downtown Syracuse," said Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh. "This donation from Amazon is yet another indicator of how much stronger we are when we work together. It also serves as the latest example of how the Syracuse Surge strategy is already working to ensure opportunity for all in our community. I thank Amazon for its support for education in Syracuse and Onondaga County."</p><p>Employees will also have access to Amazon's innovative Career Choice program, which pre-pays up to 95% of tuition for courses in high-demand fields. Since the program's launch, more than 30,000 employees have pursued degrees in computer science, game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming, and radiology, to name a few. Amazon has pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees through 2025. These programs will help Amazon employees from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>"We are thrilled to have Amazon on board as a partner in the development of our new regional STEAM High School. Their focus on technology and STEM coupled with their presence in our community makes them the perfect partner for us," said Superintendent Jaime Alicea. "Robotics is going to be a big part of the curriculum at the STEAM High School and this donation will benefit that initiative greatly."</p><p>Amazon also offers a signature computer science education program called Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and educate young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities. Amazon Future Engineer is a childhood to career program, delivering programming that starts with primary school and continues through secondary education and into careers. It reaches millions of students globally, including hundreds of thousands of students in the U.S. each year.</p><p>Two schools in Onondaga County currently participate in the Amazon Future Engineer program. Students explore computer science through school curriculum and project-based learning using code to make music, program robots, and solve problems. Amazon Future Engineer also awards 100 students each year with four-year, $40,000 scholarships and paid internships at Amazon. The program also celebrates teachers with professional development and $25,000 Teacher of the Year Awards. Amazon Future Engineer is part of Amazon's $50 million commitment to STEM and computer science education.</p><p>Amazon in New York state</p><p>Amazon currently operates four fulfillment and sortation centers, and 15 delivery stations across the state. The company has created more than 34,000 full- and part-time jobs across New York, but Amazon's presence in the state reaches beyond the jobs provided within the walls of its facilities. Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $7 billion across New York, including infrastructure and compensation to its employees, which has contributed more than $5.7 billion to the state's economy and helped create more than 17,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires—from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. In addition, more than 111,000 independent authors and small and medium-sized businesses are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state. There are also more than 80,000 organizations in New York that Amazon customers can support simply by shopping on Amazon Smile.</p><p>To learn more about Amazon's commitment to STEM education and Amazon Future Engineer, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/impact/community/stem-education.</p><p>High-resolution images available 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/20210413006096/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Lookout for Equipment

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Amazon Lookout for Equipment enables industrial customers to use machine learning to fully leverage their investment in equipment sensors to perform large-scale predictive maintenance across all of their industrial sites Siemens Energy, Cepsa, Embassy of Things, RoviSys, Seeq, and TensorIoT among customers and partners using Lookout for Equipment SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 8, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Equipment, a new service that uses AWS-developed machine learning models to help customers perform predictive maintenance on the equipment in their facilities. Amazon Lookout for Equipment ingests sensor data from a customer's industrial equipment (e.g. pressure, flow rate, RPMs, temperature, and power), and then it trains a unique machine learning model to accurately predict early warning signs of machine failure or suboptimal performance using real-time data streams from the customer's equipment. With Amazon Lookout for Equipment, customers can detect equipment abnormalities with speed and precision, quickly diagnose issues, reduce false alerts, and avoid expensive downtime by taking action before machine failures occur. There are no up-front commitments or minimum fees with Amazon Lookout for Equipment, and customers pay for the amount of data ingested, the compute hours used to train a custom model, and the number of inference-hours used. To get started with Amazon Lookout for Equipment, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/lookout-for-equipment. Industrial companies are constantly working to improve operational efficiency by avoiding unplanned downtime due to equipment failure. Over time, many of these companies have invested heavily in physical sensors, data connectivity, data storage, and dashboards to monitor their equipment health and performance. To analyze the data from their equipment, most companies typically use simple rules or modeling approaches to identify issues based on past performance. However, the rudimentary nature of these approaches often leads customers to identify issues after it is too late to take action, or receive false alarms based on misdiagnosed issues that require unnecessary and timely inspection. Instead, customers want to detect general operating conditions or failure types (e.g. high temperature due to friction) along with complex equipment failures (e.g. a failing pump indicated by high vibration and RPMs but low flow rates) that can only be derived by modeling the unique relationships between sensors. Today, advances in machine learning techniques have made it possible to quickly identify anomalies and learn the unique relationships between each piece of equipment's historical data. However, most companies lack the expertise to build and scale custom machine learning models across their different industrial equipment. As a result, companies often fail to fully leverage their investment in sensors and data infrastructure, causing them to miss out on key actionable insights that could help them better manage their critical equipment's health and performance. With Amazon Lookout for Equipment, industrial and manufacturing customers can now quickly and easily build a predictive maintenance solution for an entire facility or across multiple locations. To get started, customers upload their sensor data (e.g. pressure, flow rate, RPMs, temperature, and power) to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and provide the relevant S3 bucket location to Amazon Lookout for Equipment. The service will automatically analyze the data, assess normal or healthy patterns, and build a machine learning model that is tailored to the customer's environment. Amazon Lookout for Equipment will then use the custom-built machine learning model to analyze incoming sensor data and identify early warning signs of machine failure or malfunction. For each alert, the service will specify which sensors are indicating an issue and measure the magnitude of its impact on the detected event. For example, if Amazon Lookout for Equipment detected an issue on a pump with 50 sensors, the service could show which five sensors indicate an issue on a specific motor, and relate that issue to the motor power current and temperature. This allows customers to identify the issue, diagnose the problem, prioritize needed actions, and perform precision maintenance before issues happen—saving them money and improving productivity by preventing down time. Amazon Lookout for Equipment allows customers to get more value from their existing sensors, and it helps them make timely decisions that can materially improve operational efficiency. Amazon Lookout for Equipment is available directly via the AWS console as well through supporting partners in the AWS Partner Network. The service is available today in US East (N. Virginia), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Seoul), with availability in additional regions in the coming months. In addition to Amazon Lookout for Equipment, AWS offers industrial and manufacturing customers the broadest range of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services, including Amazon Monitron (for predictive maintenance using an end-to-end solution comprised of sensors, gateways, and a machine learning service), Amazon Lookout for Vision (for visual anomaly detection using computer vision models in the cloud), and AWS Panorama (for visual inspection using an Appliance and Software Development Kit that brings computer vision models to on-premises cameras). "Many industrial and manufacturing companies have heavily invested in physical sensors and other technology with the aim of improving the maintenance of their equipment. But even with this gear in place, companies are not in a position to deploy machine learning models on top of the reams of data due to a lack of resources and the scarcity of data scientists. As a result, they miss out on critical insights and actionable findings that would help them better manage their operations," said Swami Sivasubramanian, VP Amazon Machine Learning, AWS. "Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Equipment, a new service that enables customers to benefit from custom machine learning models that are built for their specific environment to quickly and easily identify abnormal machine behavior—so that they can take action to avoid the impact and expense of equipment downtime." Siemens Energy offers products, solutions, and services across the entire energy value chain to support its customers on their way to a more sustainable future – no matter how far along the journey they are. "Siemens Energy works with our customers to improve performance, reliability, and safety through our existing business lines enhanced with digital service solutions. Digitalization is a key driver for a sustainable energy future," said Amogh Bhonde, senior vice president digital solutions at Siemens Energy. "With Amazon Lookout for Equipment, we see an opportunity to combine AWS machine learning with Siemens Energy subject matter expertise to give improved visibility into the systems and equipment across the entirety of a customer's operation. Amazon Lookout for Equipment's automated machine learning workflow makes it easy to build and deploy models across a variety of assets types with no data science knowledge required. Siemens Energy values AWS as a trusted partner accelerating our continued development of the Omnivise suite of digital solutions." Cepsa is a global energy and chemical company operating end-to-end in every stage of the oil and gas value chain. Cepsa also manufactures products from raw materials of plant origin and is driving a new strategy to become a reference in the energy transition. "At Cepsa, digital transformation is focused on people. In that regard, our professionals are the engine behind our transformation. With Amazon Lookout for Equipment, we are bringing machine learning insights to the experts that know the equipment best—reliability and maintenance engineers—allowing them to make more informed decisions to drive higher uptime and lower operational costs," said Alberto Gascón, head of advanced analytics at Cepsa. "Solutions like predictive maintenance for equipment traditionally involve manual and complex data science such as choosing the right algorithms and parameters, but Amazon Lookout for Equipment automates these processes so that engineers can focus on solving the most critical challenges that impact their business." Embassy of Things (EOT) is the creator of Twin Talk, a secure and scalable ETL++ Data Delivery System designed to tap into the unrealized value hidden within operational data from SCADA systems and historians and enable industrial operating companies to leverage the power of cloud-based data analytics, machine learning, and AI. "Using predictive analytics and anomaly detection for not just one, but across all production sites is the key that enables our customers to achieve the highest level of production optimizations as well as cost and emission reductions. Our Twin Talk System liberates operational data to enable cloud-based, event-driven real-time architectures for Amazon Cloud Services like IoT SiteWise and S3," said Matt Oberdorfer, CEO of Embassy of Things. "We are leveraging Amazon Lookout for Equipment to our suite of solutions which enables an automated machine learning process that improves the accuracy of detecting the most meaningful insights and enables insights to action faster. Lookout for Equipment is a true game-changer because it puts AI in the hands of maintenance engineers by abstracting away traditionally data-science-heavy steps being scalable effectively across assets." RoviSys is a Global Operational Technology systems integrator, and a leading independent provider of comprehensive process automation solutions and services. "Machine learning is one of the most promising technologies for industrial customers, and has the potential to provide major value by decreasing maintenance and operational costs," said Bryan DeBois, director of industrial AI at Rovisys. "RoviSys is working with AWS to integrate Amazon Lookout for Equipment with data from on-premises equipment and infrastructure using AWS IoT services, in order to enable advanced machine learning maintenance solutions at scale. This technology lets our customers leverage existing infrastructure, but unlock even more value from that data quickly and easily." Seeq is an advanced analytics solution that enables engineers and subject matter experts in process manufacturing organizations to rapidly investigate and share insights from data in historians, IIoT platforms, AWS services, and manufacturing and business systems. "We are pleased to be announcing our work with AWS to develop solutions that deliver diagnostic, monitoring, and predictive analytics powered by big data and machine learning innovations," said Megan Buntain, director of cloud partnerships at Seeq Corporation. "Using Seeq with Amazon Lookout for Equipment will help organizations turn data into insights that deliver continuous improvement and sustainability objectives." TensorIoT is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner delivering complete end-to-end products and solutions in IoT, data engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. "TensorIOT builds solutions with AWS services to accelerate integration of machine learning in products and processes across industrial operations," said Charles Burden, vice president of consulting at TensorIoT. "Leveraging Amazon Lookout for Equipment can help reduce the heavy lift of leveraging machine learning by automatically developing, managing, and supporting the continuous improvement of anomaly detection models. This greatly reduces the number of manual touchpoints needed, and allows engineers to turn insights into operational improvements. Simply put, Lookout for Equipment allows companies to innovate faster." About Amazon Web Services For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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/20210408005793/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon Lookout for Equipment enables industrial customers to use machine learning to fully leverage their investment in equipment sensors to perform large-scale predictive maintenance across all of their industrial sites</em></p><p><em>Siemens Energy, Cepsa, Embassy of Things, RoviSys, Seeq, and TensorIoT among customers and partners using Lookout for Equipment</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 8, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Equipment, a new service that uses AWS-developed machine learning models to help customers perform predictive maintenance on the equipment in their facilities. Amazon Lookout for Equipment ingests sensor data from a customer's industrial equipment (e.g. pressure, flow rate, RPMs, temperature, and power), and then it trains a unique machine learning model to accurately predict early warning signs of machine failure or suboptimal performance using real-time data streams from the customer's equipment. With Amazon Lookout for Equipment, customers can detect equipment abnormalities with speed and precision, quickly diagnose issues, reduce false alerts, and avoid expensive downtime by taking action before machine failures occur. There are no up-front commitments or minimum fees with Amazon Lookout for Equipment, and customers pay for the amount of data ingested, the compute hours used to train a custom model, and the number of inference-hours used. To get started with Amazon Lookout for Equipment, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/lookout-for-equipment.</p><p>Industrial companies are constantly working to improve operational efficiency by avoiding unplanned downtime due to equipment failure. Over time, many of these companies have invested heavily in physical sensors, data connectivity, data storage, and dashboards to monitor their equipment health and performance. To analyze the data from their equipment, most companies typically use simple rules or modeling approaches to identify issues based on past performance. However, the rudimentary nature of these approaches often leads customers to identify issues after it is too late to take action, or receive false alarms based on misdiagnosed issues that require unnecessary and timely inspection. Instead, customers want to detect general operating conditions or failure types (e.g. high temperature due to friction) along with complex equipment failures (e.g. a failing pump indicated by high vibration and RPMs but low flow rates) that can only be derived by modeling the unique relationships between sensors. Today, advances in machine learning techniques have made it possible to quickly identify anomalies and learn the unique relationships between each piece of equipment's historical data. However, most companies lack the expertise to build and scale custom machine learning models across their different industrial equipment. As a result, companies often fail to fully leverage their investment in sensors and data infrastructure, causing them to miss out on key actionable insights that could help them better manage their critical equipment's health and performance.</p><p>With Amazon Lookout for Equipment, industrial and manufacturing customers can now quickly and easily build a predictive maintenance solution for an entire facility or across multiple locations. To get started, customers upload their sensor data (e.g. pressure, flow rate, RPMs, temperature, and power) to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and provide the relevant S3 bucket location to Amazon Lookout for Equipment. The service will automatically analyze the data, assess normal or healthy patterns, and build a machine learning model that is tailored to the customer's environment. Amazon Lookout for Equipment will then use the custom-built machine learning model to analyze incoming sensor data and identify early warning signs of machine failure or malfunction. For each alert, the service will specify which sensors are indicating an issue and measure the magnitude of its impact on the detected event. For example, if Amazon Lookout for Equipment detected an issue on a pump with 50 sensors, the service could show which five sensors indicate an issue on a specific motor, and relate that issue to the motor power current and temperature. This allows customers to identify the issue, diagnose the problem, prioritize needed actions, and perform precision maintenance before issues happen—saving them money and improving productivity by preventing down time. Amazon Lookout for Equipment allows customers to get more value from their existing sensors, and it helps them make timely decisions that can materially improve operational efficiency. Amazon Lookout for Equipment is available directly via the AWS console as well through supporting partners in the AWS Partner Network. The service is available today in US East (N. Virginia), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Seoul), with availability in additional regions in the coming months.</p><p>In addition to Amazon Lookout for Equipment, AWS offers industrial and manufacturing customers the broadest range of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services, including Amazon Monitron (for predictive maintenance using an end-to-end solution comprised of sensors, gateways, and a machine learning service), Amazon Lookout for Vision (for visual anomaly detection using computer vision models in the cloud), and AWS Panorama (for visual inspection using an Appliance and Software Development Kit that brings computer vision models to on-premises cameras).</p><p>"Many industrial and manufacturing companies have heavily invested in physical sensors and other technology with the aim of improving the maintenance of their equipment. But even with this gear in place, companies are not in a position to deploy machine learning models on top of the reams of data due to a lack of resources and the scarcity of data scientists. As a result, they miss out on critical insights and actionable findings that would help them better manage their operations," said Swami Sivasubramanian, VP Amazon Machine Learning, AWS. "Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Equipment, a new service that enables customers to benefit from custom machine learning models that are built for their specific environment to quickly and easily identify abnormal machine behavior—so that they can take action to avoid the impact and expense of equipment downtime."</p><p>Siemens Energy offers products, solutions, and services across the entire energy value chain to support its customers on their way to a more sustainable future – no matter how far along the journey they are. "Siemens Energy works with our customers to improve performance, reliability, and safety through our existing business lines enhanced with digital service solutions. Digitalization is a key driver for a sustainable energy future," said Amogh Bhonde, senior vice president digital solutions at Siemens Energy. "With Amazon Lookout for Equipment, we see an opportunity to combine AWS machine learning with Siemens Energy subject matter expertise to give improved visibility into the systems and equipment across the entirety of a customer's operation. Amazon Lookout for Equipment's automated machine learning workflow makes it easy to build and deploy models across a variety of assets types with no data science knowledge required. Siemens Energy values AWS as a trusted partner accelerating our continued development of the Omnivise suite of digital solutions."</p><p>Cepsa is a global energy and chemical company operating end-to-end in every stage of the oil and gas value chain. Cepsa also manufactures products from raw materials of plant origin and is driving a new strategy to become a reference in the energy transition. "At Cepsa, digital transformation is focused on people. In that regard, our professionals are the engine behind our transformation. With Amazon Lookout for Equipment, we are bringing machine learning insights to the experts that know the equipment best—reliability and maintenance engineers—allowing them to make more informed decisions to drive higher uptime and lower operational costs," said Alberto Gascón, head of advanced analytics at Cepsa. "Solutions like predictive maintenance for equipment traditionally involve manual and complex data science such as choosing the right algorithms and parameters, but Amazon Lookout for Equipment automates these processes so that engineers can focus on solving the most critical challenges that impact their business."</p><p>Embassy of Things (EOT) is the creator of Twin Talk, a secure and scalable ETL++ Data Delivery System designed to tap into the unrealized value hidden within operational data from SCADA systems and historians and enable industrial operating companies to leverage the power of cloud-based data analytics, machine learning, and AI. "Using predictive analytics and anomaly detection for not just one, but across all production sites is the key that enables our customers to achieve the highest level of production optimizations as well as cost and emission reductions. Our Twin Talk System liberates operational data to enable cloud-based, event-driven real-time architectures for Amazon Cloud Services like IoT SiteWise and S3," said Matt Oberdorfer, CEO of Embassy of Things. "We are leveraging Amazon Lookout for Equipment to our suite of solutions which enables an automated machine learning process that improves the accuracy of detecting the most meaningful insights and enables insights to action faster. Lookout for Equipment is a true game-changer because it puts AI in the hands of maintenance engineers by abstracting away traditionally data-science-heavy steps being scalable effectively across assets."</p><p>RoviSys is a Global Operational Technology systems integrator, and a leading independent provider of comprehensive process automation solutions and services. "Machine learning is one of the most promising technologies for industrial customers, and has the potential to provide major value by decreasing maintenance and operational costs," said Bryan DeBois, director of industrial AI at Rovisys. "RoviSys is working with AWS to integrate Amazon Lookout for Equipment with data from on-premises equipment and infrastructure using AWS IoT services, in order to enable advanced machine learning maintenance solutions at scale. This technology lets our customers leverage existing infrastructure, but unlock even more value from that data quickly and easily."</p><p>Seeq is an advanced analytics solution that enables engineers and subject matter experts in process manufacturing organizations to rapidly investigate and share insights from data in historians, IIoT platforms, AWS services, and manufacturing and business systems. "We are pleased to be announcing our work with AWS to develop solutions that deliver diagnostic, monitoring, and predictive analytics powered by big data and machine learning innovations," said Megan Buntain, director of cloud partnerships at Seeq Corporation. "Using Seeq with Amazon Lookout for Equipment will help organizations turn data into insights that deliver continuous improvement and sustainability objectives."</p><p>TensorIoT is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner delivering complete end-to-end products and solutions in IoT, data engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. "TensorIOT builds solutions with AWS services to accelerate integration of machine learning in products and processes across industrial operations," said Charles Burden, vice president of consulting at TensorIoT. "Leveraging Amazon Lookout for Equipment can help reduce the heavy lift of leveraging machine learning by automatically developing, managing, and supporting the continuous improvement of anomaly detection models. This greatly reduces the number of manual touchpoints needed, and allows engineers to turn insights into operational improvements. Simply put, Lookout for Equipment allows companies to innovate faster."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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/20210408005793/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Safe Kids Worldwide and Amazon Announce New Partnership to Help Keep Kids Safe from Preventable Injuries

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Safe Kids Worldwide and Amazon Announce New Partnership to Help Keep Kids Safe from Preventable Injuries

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Partnership will arm new parents with injury prevention tips and advice from leading safety experts WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 31, 2021-- Safe Kids Worldwide and Amazon announced today a new partnership dedicated to educating consumers and protecting kids from preventable injuries such as traffic injuries, falls, and burns. Over the coming year, Safe Kids and Amazon will host a series of events across the country for new parents to learn about infant and child safety topics, including helmet and bicycle safety, car seat safety and safe sleep practices. Safe Kids Worldwide has long-standing history of partnering with leading national companies to raise awareness about infant and child safety. This new partnership with Amazon will bring together new parents and caregivers with injury prevention experts to offer proven and practical information generated by Safe Kids Worldwide. "We know injury prevention works, but too many parents are not getting the information they need to keep their kids safe," said Torine Creppy, president of Safe Kids Worldwide. "We're excited to expand our reach by working with a partner like Amazon, which so clearly shares our commitment to safety." "Amazon is committed to the safety of all of our customers and their families, which is why we are proud to partner with Safe Kids on this important topic," said Carletta Ooton, Amazon's Vice President of Product Assurance, Risk & Security. "Whether it's a car seat, a toy, or a bicycle we want to make it easier for new parents to learn about ways to keep kids safe, including how to choose and properly use these products." Amazon has developed industry-leading tools to ensure all products offered in its stores are safe and compliant and works with regulatory agencies to share information that helps the agencies identify trends, develop regulations, and improve consumer product safety. To support parents and caregivers, Safe Kids and Amazon are offering helpful resources, including: Online Live events. Safe Kids and Amazon will host online events that bring together safety experts, including ER doctors, pediatricians, and injury prevention specialists who will provide parents with relevant, proven tips and advice to help keep their kids safe at home, on the road, and at play. The first Facebook Live event will be held April 7 and focus on Baby Safety and key lessons new moms need to know to help keep their babies safe. Join at Facebook.com/SafeKidsWorldwide. Virtual Car Seat Events. Safe Kids and Amazon will host virtual community car seat events where parents and caregivers will learn how to use and install their car seats from certified child passenger safety technicians. Community Baby Shower. Safe Kids and Amazon will host a "Community Baby Shower" for new parents, with local experts discussing child passenger safety best practices, tips for creating safe sleep environments, and insights into consumer product safety. The baby showers will include safety-themed games to raise awareness about infant safety. ABOUT SAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE Safe Kids Worldwide is a nonprofit organization working to protect kids from preventable injuries, the number one cause of death for children in the United States. Safe Kids works with an extensive network of more than 400 coalitions in the U.S. and with partners in more than 30 countries to reduce traffic injuries, drownings, falls, burns, poisonings and more. Safe Kids also engages in advocacy efforts to make kids safer at the federal, state and local levels. Since 1988, Safe Kids has helped reduce the U.S. childhood death rate from unintentional injury by nearly 60 percent. Join our effort at safekids.org. ABOUT AMAZON Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210331005149/en/ Gary KartonSafe Kids Worldwidegkarton@safekids.org202-604-5353 Mary Kate McCarthyAmazonmkmcc@amazon.com914-522-9635 Source: Amazon

<article><div><div><section><div><div><div><article><div><p><em>Partnership will arm new parents with injury prevention tips and advice from leading safety experts</em></p><p>WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 31, 2021-- Safe Kids Worldwide and Amazon announced today a new partnership dedicated to educating consumers and protecting kids from preventable injuries such as traffic injuries, falls, and burns. Over the coming year, Safe Kids and Amazon will host a series of events across the country for new parents to learn about infant and child safety topics, including helmet and bicycle safety, car seat safety and safe sleep practices.</p><p>Safe Kids Worldwide has long-standing history of partnering with leading national companies to raise awareness about infant and child safety. This new partnership with Amazon will bring together new parents and caregivers with injury prevention experts to offer proven and practical information generated by Safe Kids Worldwide.</p><p>"We know injury prevention works, but too many parents are not getting the information they need to keep their kids safe," said Torine Creppy, president of Safe Kids Worldwide. "We're excited to expand our reach by working with a partner like Amazon, which so clearly shares our commitment to safety."</p><p>"Amazon is committed to the safety of all of our customers and their families, which is why we are proud to partner with Safe Kids on this important topic," said Carletta Ooton, Amazon's Vice President of Product Assurance, Risk &amp; Security. "Whether it's a car seat, a toy, or a bicycle we want to make it easier for new parents to learn about ways to keep kids safe, including how to choose and properly use these products."</p><p>Amazon has developed industry-leading tools to ensure all products offered in its stores are safe and compliant and works with regulatory agencies to share information that helps the agencies identify trends, develop regulations, and improve consumer product safety.</p><p>To support parents and caregivers, Safe Kids and Amazon are offering helpful resources, including:</p><ul><li>Online Live events. Safe Kids and Amazon will host online events that bring together safety experts, including ER doctors, pediatricians, and injury prevention specialists who will provide parents with relevant, proven tips and advice to help keep their kids safe at home, on the road, and at play. The first Facebook Live event will be held April 7 and focus on Baby Safety and key lessons new moms need to know to help keep their babies safe. Join at Facebook.com/SafeKidsWorldwide.</li></ul><ul><li>Virtual Car Seat Events. Safe Kids and Amazon will host virtual community car seat events where parents and caregivers will learn how to use and install their car seats from certified child passenger safety technicians.</li></ul><ul><li>Community Baby Shower. Safe Kids and Amazon will host a "Community Baby Shower" for new parents, with local experts discussing child passenger safety best practices, tips for creating safe sleep environments, and insights into consumer product safety. The baby showers will include safety-themed games to raise awareness about infant safety.</li></ul><p>ABOUT SAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE</p><p>Safe Kids Worldwide is a nonprofit organization working to protect kids from preventable injuries, the number one cause of death for children in the United States. Safe Kids works with an extensive network of more than 400 coalitions in the U.S. and with partners in more than 30 countries to reduce traffic injuries, drownings, falls, burns, poisonings and more. Safe Kids also engages in advocacy efforts to make kids safer at the federal, state and local levels. Since 1988, Safe Kids has helped reduce the U.S. childhood death rate from unintentional injury by nearly 60 percent. Join our effort at safekids.org.</p><p>ABOUT AMAZON</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210331005149/en/</p><p>Gary KartonSafe Kids Worldwidegkarton@safekids.org202-604-5353</p><p>Mary Kate McCarthyAmazonmkmcc@amazon.com914-522-9635</p><p>Source: Amazon</p></div></article></div></div></div></section></div></div></article>

Amazon Teams Up with Keke Palmer to Publish New Short Story Series Based on Her Original Characters

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The actress, television personality, singer-songwriter, producer, entrepreneur, and author will expand upon her original Instagram sketch videos with a series of bingeable short stories available free for Prime members. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 31, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon Original Stories, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, announced today that it will publish multi-hyphenate entertainer Keke Palmer's forthcoming series of short stories, based on her popular original Instagram characters and sketch comedy videos, which have amassed over 100 million views. Readers and listeners can download the collection as a Kindle eBook or as an Audible audiobook, performed by Keke herself. Amazon Original Stories will publish the short story series in late Fall 2021. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210331005151/en/ Amazon Teams Up with Keke Palmer to Publish New Short Story Series Based on Her Original Characters (Photo Credit: Quintin and Ron) At the age of 27, Keke is a prolific and formidable content creator, entertainer, businesswoman, and passionate voice for her generation. Keke first had the idea for her now viral characters just over five years ago, when she wanted to experiment with new types of comedy in the digital universe. She created characters on her Instagram account that tackled issues of class, race, femininity, and culture, with her signature brand of humor. Incorporating feedback from her fans and community on social media in real time, she refined each character to be reflective of her audience and the world around her. Keke's most popular character, Lady Miss Jacqueline—who has gained over 60 million views on Instagram alone—is the star of the stories in the upcoming Amazon Original Stories collection. Featuring illustrations throughout, the short, bingeable stories will take readers and listeners into the hilarious and fully realized world of her beloved characters, expanding on their backstories and building a plot that answers the most asked questions from her fans. The Audible audiobook will feature Keke playing each of the characters that she has created. "What started out as an Instagram sketch, led me to one of my most beloved characters, Lady Miss Jacqueline. She's always been larger than life—and a huge symbol of the moment when I realized I wanted to create worlds for my audience to get lost in. In effect, she was the beginning of my producing journey. The opportunity to share what makes her not only funny, but important, is exciting!" said Keke Palmer. "The team at Amazon Original Stories and I have a shared vision and what they have already been able to accomplish pushes me to bring my best and then some. I can't wait to together share a new side of Lady Miss, her truth, and comedy with the world!" "We are thrilled to team up with Keke to help expand her unique vision and unforgettable cast of characters into a broader literary universe," said Julia Sommerfeld, publisher of Amazon Original Stories. "We like to think of Amazon Original Stories as serving as a playground for an innovator like Keke, to bring her groundbreaking characters to life in new ways and to push the boundaries of storytelling." Like all Amazon Original Stories, Keke's new collection will be available to read and listen free to Prime members, as well as Kindle Unlimited subscribers. Readers can download each story individually to their Kindle or Kindle app, or get the whole collection with just one click. Stories are also available for non-members for $1.99, with the option to add digital audio for free. Julia Sommerfeld, publisher of Amazon Original Stories, acquired exclusive worldwide English rights in digital audio and eBook formats from Lacy Lynch with Dupree/Miller & Associates. www.amazon.com/AmazonOriginalStories About Keke Palmer Keke Palmer is a multi-faceted actress, singer, songwriter, producer, and television host. As a businesswoman, Keke prioritizes ownership and originality, and she created a production company for her digital content and a record label for music. She also serves as a producer in TV and film, including in her upcoming movie Alice. In 2020, she received an Emmy nomination for her work as a host on ABC's GMA3: Strahan, Sara and Keke; released two hit EPs, Virgo Tendencies: Part 1 & 2, from her own Big Bosses Record Label; and hosted Quibi's Singled Out based on the iconic ‘90s MTV series, as well as the MTV VMA Awards, which garnered 4.1 million social media impressions, the most impressions of any event in 2020, other than the Super Bowl. She is currently lending her voice to "Maya" in Disney+'s revival of the The Proud Family and "Rochelle" in Netflix's new Big Mouth spinoff Human Resources after appearing in Season 5 of Big Mouth. She can also be heard voicing the role of "Brynn" opposite Pete Davidson in Broadway Video's new upcoming Audible scripted podcast Hit Job. Keke just wrapped filming Steel Springs Pictures' Alice opposite Common and Johnny Lee Miller from writer and director Krystin Ver Linden. She also recently starred opposite Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, and Constance Wu in Hustlers for Gloria Sanchez & STX, directed by Lorene Scafaria, which was released to massive critical and popular acclaim. Keke will star in Jordan Peele's next film for Universal Pictures opposite Daniel Kaluuya, she will host and executive produce Disney+'s Foodtastic, and will star in the upcoming Audible original Hit Job which releases on April 22nd. Keke rose to prominence through her breakout role in Akeelah and the Bee at age 12, starring opposite Angela Bassett and Lawrence Fishburne. She has gone on to star in over 25 films and 30 TV shows, including the dark and gritty film Pimp, executive produced by Lee Daniels; 20th Century Fox Television and Lee Daniels Entertainment's hit television show Star; EPIX's Berlin Station; and FOX's Scream Queens, produced by Ryan Murphy. Palmer has broken barriers from a young age, becoming the youngest actress ever to receive a SAG Award nomination in a lead actor category for her work in The Wool Cap at the age of 10. She was also the youngest and first Black Cinderella in Rodgers and Hammerstein's iconic musical Cinderella on Broadway; the first Black woman to star as "Marty" in the Emmy-nominated TV movie version of Grease Live!; and the youngest talk show host in history. About Amazon Publishing Amazon Publishing is a leading trade publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books with a mission to empower outstanding storytellers and connect them with readers worldwide. We publish emerging, bestselling, and critically acclaimed authors in digital, print, and audio formats. Amazon Original Stories, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, is known for its single-sitting reads from bestselling authors, acclaimed storytellers, and new voices. Launched in 2017, Amazon Original Stories brings unforgettable short fiction and nonfiction to Kindle—including stories and essays from Mindy Kaling, Dean Koontz, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kiley Reid, David Sedaris, N.K. Jemisin, Ruth Ware, Jess Walter, Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Rainbow Rowell, Alice Hoffman, Jacqueline Woodson, and Los Angeles Laker Jared Dudley. Projects are forthcoming from notable names like Guillermo del Toro, Jessica Simpson, Susan Orlean, Lisa Unger, and 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 www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210331005151/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>The actress, television personality, singer-songwriter, producer, entrepreneur, and author will expand upon her original Instagram sketch videos with a series of bingeable short stories available free for Prime members.</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 31, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon Original Stories, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, announced today that it will publish multi-hyphenate entertainer Keke Palmer's forthcoming series of short stories, based on her popular original Instagram characters and sketch comedy videos, which have amassed over 100 million views. Readers and listeners can download the collection as a Kindle eBook or as an Audible audiobook, performed by Keke herself. Amazon Original Stories will publish the short story series in late Fall 2021.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210331005151/en/</p><div><p>Amazon Teams Up with Keke Palmer to Publish New Short Story Series Based on Her Original Characters (Photo Credit: Quintin and Ron)</p></div><p>At the age of 27, Keke is a prolific and formidable content creator, entertainer, businesswoman, and passionate voice for her generation. Keke first had the idea for her now viral characters just over five years ago, when she wanted to experiment with new types of comedy in the digital universe. She created characters on her Instagram account that tackled issues of class, race, femininity, and culture, with her signature brand of humor. Incorporating feedback from her fans and community on social media in real time, she refined each character to be reflective of her audience and the world around her.</p><p>Keke's most popular character, Lady Miss Jacqueline—who has gained over 60 million views on Instagram alone—is the star of the stories in the upcoming Amazon Original Stories collection. Featuring illustrations throughout, the short, bingeable stories will take readers and listeners into the hilarious and fully realized world of her beloved characters, expanding on their backstories and building a plot that answers the most asked questions from her fans. The Audible audiobook will feature Keke playing each of the characters that she has created.</p><p>"What started out as an Instagram sketch, led me to one of my most beloved characters, Lady Miss Jacqueline. She's always been larger than life—and a huge symbol of the moment when I realized I wanted to create worlds for my audience to get lost in. In effect, she was the beginning of my producing journey. The opportunity to share what makes her not only funny, but important, is exciting!" said Keke Palmer. "The team at Amazon Original Stories and I have a shared vision and what they have already been able to accomplish pushes me to bring my best and then some. I can't wait to together share a new side of Lady Miss, her truth, and comedy with the world!"</p><p>"We are thrilled to team up with Keke to help expand her unique vision and unforgettable cast of characters into a broader literary universe," said Julia Sommerfeld, publisher of Amazon Original Stories. "We like to think of Amazon Original Stories as serving as a playground for an innovator like Keke, to bring her groundbreaking characters to life in new ways and to push the boundaries of storytelling."</p><p>Like all Amazon Original Stories, Keke's new collection will be available to read and listen free to Prime members, as well as Kindle Unlimited subscribers. Readers can download each story individually to their Kindle or Kindle app, or get the whole collection with just one click. Stories are also available for non-members for $1.99, with the option to add digital audio for free.</p><p>Julia Sommerfeld, publisher of Amazon Original Stories, acquired exclusive worldwide English rights in digital audio and eBook formats from Lacy Lynch with Dupree/Miller &amp; Associates.</p><p>www.amazon.com/AmazonOriginalStories</p><p>About Keke Palmer</p><p>Keke Palmer is a multi-faceted actress, singer, songwriter, producer, and television host. As a businesswoman, Keke prioritizes ownership and originality, and she created a production company for her digital content and a record label for music. She also serves as a producer in TV and film, including in her upcoming movie <em>Alice</em>. In 2020, she received an Emmy nomination for her work as a host on ABC's GMA3: <em>Strahan, Sara and</em> <em>Kek</em>e; released two hit EPs, <em>Virgo Tendencies: Part 1 &amp; 2</em>, from her own Big Bosses Record Label; and hosted Quibi's <em>Singled Out </em>based on the iconic ‘90s MTV series, as well as the MTV VMA Awards, which garnered 4.1 million social media impressions, the most impressions of any event in 2020, other than the Super Bowl.</p><p>She is currently lending her voice to "Maya" in Disney+'s revival of the <em>The Proud Family</em> and "Rochelle" in Netflix's new <em>Big Mouth</em> spinoff <em>Human Resources </em>after appearing in Season 5 of <em>Big Mouth</em>. She can also be heard voicing the role of "Brynn" opposite Pete Davidson in Broadway Video's new upcoming Audible scripted podcast <em>Hit Job</em>. Keke just wrapped filming Steel Springs Pictures' <em>Alice </em>opposite Common and Johnny Lee Miller from writer and director Krystin Ver Linden. She also recently starred opposite Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, and Constance Wu in <em>Hustlers </em>for Gloria Sanchez &amp; STX, directed by Lorene Scafaria, which was released to massive critical and popular acclaim. Keke will star in Jordan Peele's next film for Universal Pictures opposite Daniel Kaluuya, she will host and executive produce Disney+'s <em>Foodtastic,</em> and will star in the upcoming Audible original <em>Hit Job</em> which releases on April 22nd.</p><p>Keke rose to prominence through her breakout role in <em>Akeelah and the Bee</em> at age 12, starring opposite Angela Bassett and Lawrence Fishburne. She has gone on to star in over 25 films and 30 TV shows, including the dark and gritty film <em>Pimp</em>, executive produced by Lee Daniels; 20th Century Fox Television and Lee Daniels Entertainment's hit television show <em>Star</em>; EPIX's <em>Berlin Station</em>; and FOX's <em>Scream Queens</em>, produced by Ryan Murphy.</p><p>Palmer has broken barriers from a young age, becoming the youngest actress ever to receive a SAG Award nomination in a lead actor category for her work in <em>The Wool Cap</em> at the age of 10. She was also the youngest and first Black Cinderella in Rodgers and Hammerstein's iconic musical <em>Cinderella</em> on Broadway; the first Black woman to star as "Marty" in the Emmy-nominated TV movie version of <em>Grease Live!</em>; and the youngest talk show host in history.</p><p>About Amazon Publishing</p><p>Amazon Publishing is a leading trade publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books with a mission to empower outstanding storytellers and connect them with readers worldwide. We publish emerging, bestselling, and critically acclaimed authors in digital, print, and audio formats.</p><p>Amazon Original Stories, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, is known for its single-sitting reads from bestselling authors, acclaimed storytellers, and new voices. Launched in 2017, Amazon Original Stories brings unforgettable short fiction and nonfiction to Kindle—including stories and essays from Mindy Kaling, Dean Koontz, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kiley Reid, David Sedaris, N.K. Jemisin, Ruth Ware, Jess Walter, Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Rainbow Rowell, Alice Hoffman, Jacqueline Woodson, and Los Angeles Laker Jared Dudley. Projects are forthcoming from notable names like Guillermo del Toro, Jessica Simpson, Susan Orlean, Lisa Unger, and 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 www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210331005151/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Lookout for Metrics

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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Lookout for Metrics

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Amazon Lookout for Metrics uses machine learning to automatically detect and determine the root cause of anomalies in business metrics DevFactory, Digitata, and Flywire among customers using Amazon Lookout for Metrics SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 25, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Metrics, a new fully managed service that detects anomalies in metrics and helps determine their root cause. Amazon Lookout for Metrics helps customers monitor the most important metrics for their business like revenue, web page views, active users, transaction volume, and mobile app installations with greater speed and accuracy. The service also makes it easier to diagnose the root cause of anomalies like unexpected dips in revenue, high rates of abandoned shopping carts, spikes in payment transaction failures, increases in new user sign-ups, and many more—all with no machine learning experience required. With Amazon Lookout for Metrics, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee, and customers pay only for the number of metrics analyzed per month. To get started with Amazon Lookout for Metrics, visit https://aws.amazon.com/lookout-for-metrics/ Organizations of all sizes and across industries gather and analyze metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) to help their businesses run effectively and efficiently. Traditionally, business intelligence (BI) tools are used to manage this data across disparate sources (e.g. structured data stored in a data warehouse, customer relationship management data residing on a third party platform, or operational metrics kept in local data stores) and create dashboards that can be used to generate reports and alerts if anomalies are detected. But effectively identifying these anomalies is challenging. Traditional rule-based methods are manual and look for data that falls outside of numerical ranges that have been arbitrarily defined (e.g. provide an alert if transactions per hour fall below a certain number), which results in false alarms if the range is too narrow, or missed anomalies if the range is too broad. These ranges are also static, and don't change based on evolving conditions like the time of the day, day of the week, seasons, or business cycles. When anomalies get detected, developers, analysts, and business owners can spend weeks trying to identify the root cause of the change before they can take action. Machine learning offers a compelling solution to the challenges posed by rule-based methods because of its ability to recognize patterns in vast amounts of information, quickly identify anomalies, and dynamically adapt to business cycles and seasonal patterns. However, developing a machine learning model from scratch requires a team of data scientists that can build, train, deploy, monitor, and fine tune a machine learning model over time. Furthermore, a single algorithm rarely serves all of the needs of a business, which causes businesses to expend meaningfully more time and expense creating and maintaining multiple algorithms to solve different use cases. Ultimately, few organizations possess the experienced data scientists and necessary resources to successfully move past rule-based methods and realize the full potential of machine learning for detecting anomalies in their metrics. Amazon Lookout for Metrics is a new machine learning service that automatically detects anomalies in metrics and helps customers quickly identify the root cause. Lookout for Metrics puts the same technology used by Amazon internally to detect anomalies in its business metrics into the hands of every developer. Customers can connect Amazon Lookout for Metrics to 19 popular data sources, including Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3), Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Redshift, as well as SaaS applications like Salesforce, Marketo, and Zendesk, to continuously monitor metrics important to the business (e.g. total revenue, gross margin, average purchase frequency, return on advertising spend, etc.). Amazon Lookout for Metrics automatically inspects and prepares the data, selects the best suited machine learning algorithm, begins detecting anomalies, groups related anomalies together, and summarizes potential root causes. For example, if a customer's website traffic dropped suddenly, Amazon Lookout for Metrics can help them quickly determine if an unintentional deactivation of a marketing campaign is the cause. The service also ranks the anomalies by predicted severity so that customers can prioritize which issue to tackle first. Amazon Lookout for Metrics easily connects to notification and event services like Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Slack, Pager Duty, and AWS Lambda, allowing customers to create customized alerts or actions like filing a trouble ticket or removing an incorrectly priced product from a retail website. As the service begins returning results, customers also have the ability to provide feedback on the relevancy of detected anomalies via the AWS console or the Application Programming Interface (API), and the service uses this input to continuously improve its accuracy over time. "From marketing and sales to telecom and gaming, customers in all industries have KPIs that they need to be able to monitor for potential spikes, dips, and other anomalies outside of normal bounds across their business functions. But catching and diagnosing anomalies in metrics can be challenging, and by the time a root cause has been determined, much more damage has been done than if it had been identified earlier," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Amazon Machine Learning for AWS. "We're excited to deliver Amazon Lookout for Metrics to help customers monitor the metrics that are important to their business using an easy-to-use machine learning service that takes advantage of Amazon's own experience in detecting anomalies at scale and with great accuracy and speed." Lookout for Metrics is available directly via the AWS console as well as through supporting partners in the AWS Partner Network to help customers implement customized solutions using the service. The service is also compatible with AWS CloudFormation and can be used in compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Lookout for Metrics is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), with availability in additional regions in the coming months. DevFactory is a Dubai-based provider of software and services solutions for global enterprises. "Our flagship product, Quantum Retail, offers intelligent retail-focused supply chain management and inventory optimization solutions to thousands of retail customers. Our customers have volatile sales data that is affected by millions of daily events across categories like stores, products, and departments which fluctuates according to yearly, monthly, and daily seasonality. Understanding the sales patterns and separating anomalous sales from seasonal variations is critical to accurate forecasting and downstream inventory planning," said Rahul Subrananiam, CEO, DevFactory. "Our existing solution relied on statistical models and often failed to detect anomalous sales behaviors across stores, leading to over or under allocation of inventory to stores, which in turn significantly impacted the overall revenue and customer satisfaction. With Lookout for Metrics, we are able to automatically monitor data across all the important categories with a few clicks and identify anomalous events in nearly 40% of cases that we missed earlier. By quickly identifying such cases, we are able to adjust our inventory planning and distribution across all stores in an optimal way." Digitata intelligently transforms pricing and subscriber engagement for mobile operators, empowering operators to make better and more informed decisions to meet and exceed business objectives. "At Digitata, what really matters is getting everyone connected at an affordable price. This requires a deep understanding of economics, specifically supply and demand and customer behavior according to changes in either," said Nico Kruger, Chief Technology Officer, Digitata. "Using Lookout for Metrics we were able to discover an issue that was negatively impacting pricing for a Mobile Network Operator customer within minutes. We were able to instantly identify the culprit and roll out a fix within two hours. Without Lookout for Metrics, it would have taken us approximately a day to identify and triage the issue, and would have led to a 7.5% drop in customer revenue. Lookout for Metrics allows us to act quickly and ensure the optimal performance of our pricing models, leaving us to focus on what really matters—getting everyone connected." Marcaide founded Flywire, a startup that aims to ensure high-value international payments go through fast and friction free—both for individuals and for institutions across many industries, including healthcare, education, and travel. "At Flywire, our engineers rely on comprehensive monitoring systems, and as we grow, they have become bombarded by false positive alerts that rob them of time as they chase down these bad leads," said Omar Lopez, Tech Lead of Infrastructure, Flywire. "By leveraging Amazon Lookout for Metrics to parse events from CloudWatch, we were able to go to production in an afternoon and reduce our false positive rate by 7x. This lets our Site Reliability Engineers focus on alerts with confidence and gives us the tools to tackle even more complex operational and business issues in the future." More Retail is the pioneer in omni-channel Food and Grocery Retail in India and is pursuing its mission to be Indian consumers' most preferred choice for food and grocery needs. More has 22 hyper markets and 624 super markets across India, supported by a network of 13 distribution centers, 7 fruits and vegetables collection centers and 6 staples processing centers. "Very often, across the 4 million+ SKU-Location combinations, MRPL comes across a decline in stock which had prior indicators. These can be a specific SKU not being produced by vendors, a specific vendor facing issues across SKUs, or stress in the regional supply chain," said Supratim Banerjee, Chief Transformational Officer, More Retail. "Our initial evaluation of Amazon Lookout for Metrics to capture these incidents looks very promising. We are able to capture 20% of incidents before they actually impact our stores and our customers. It was exciting that we were able to see the results in a matter of hours and not weeks or months. I highly appreciate how Lookout for Metrics makes it easy for my team to quickly implement AI/ML-driven workloads and allows us to dynamically support our operations people even in the most challenging times." Since its founding in 2001, Slalom has grown into a $1 billion company with over 5,000 employees. Its clients include more than half the Fortune 100, along with startups, nonprofits, and innovative organizations of all kinds. "By leveraging Amazon Lookout for Metrics, our clients will be able to unlock critical data insights quickly and accurately," said David Frigeri, Senior Director of Data and Analytics, Slalom. "Giving our clients the ability to respond to near real-time anomaly detection, adapt rapidly, and anticipate future disruptions and opportunities is a key step towards embracing a modern culture of data." Wipro is a global IT consulting and system integration services firm that develops and implements solutions for enterprises across the globe in industries such as financial services, retail, consumer goods, and more. "For us,Amazon Lookout for Metricsis an autonomous service that provides customers with critical insights into security and business data, helping them excel in the cloud," said Dr. Manish Govil, General Manager and Global Head, Wipro AWS Business Group. "Lookout for Metrics has not only reduced our development efforts, but also significantly lowered the time it takes to employ anomaly detection on customer workloads. It has also empowered us to analyze historical and continuous data streams in near real time, enabling us to find and eliminate anomalies from our customer's operational and business data. We are excited to bring this AWS service to our customers to help them achieve AI driven business outcomes in the cloud at scale." About Amazon Web Services For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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/20210325005892/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon Lookout for Metrics</em> <em>uses machine learning to automatically detect and determine the root cause of anomalies in business metrics</em></p><p><em>DevFactory, Digitata, and Flywire among customers using Amazon Lookout for Metrics</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 25, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Metrics, a new fully managed service that detects anomalies in metrics and helps determine their root cause. Amazon Lookout for Metrics helps customers monitor the most important metrics for their business like revenue, web page views, active users, transaction volume, and mobile app installations with greater speed and accuracy. The service also makes it easier to diagnose the root cause of anomalies like unexpected dips in revenue, high rates of abandoned shopping carts, spikes in payment transaction failures, increases in new user sign-ups, and many more—all with no machine learning experience required. With Amazon Lookout for Metrics, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee, and customers pay only for the number of metrics analyzed per month. To get started with Amazon Lookout for Metrics, visit https://aws.amazon.com/lookout-for-metrics/</p><p>Organizations of all sizes and across industries gather and analyze metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) to help their businesses run effectively and efficiently. Traditionally, business intelligence (BI) tools are used to manage this data across disparate sources (e.g. structured data stored in a data warehouse, customer relationship management data residing on a third party platform, or operational metrics kept in local data stores) and create dashboards that can be used to generate reports and alerts if anomalies are detected. But effectively identifying these anomalies is challenging. Traditional rule-based methods are manual and look for data that falls outside of numerical ranges that have been arbitrarily defined (e.g. provide an alert if transactions per hour fall below a certain number), which results in false alarms if the range is too narrow, or missed anomalies if the range is too broad. These ranges are also static, and don't change based on evolving conditions like the time of the day, day of the week, seasons, or business cycles. When anomalies get detected, developers, analysts, and business owners can spend weeks trying to identify the root cause of the change before they can take action. Machine learning offers a compelling solution to the challenges posed by rule-based methods because of its ability to recognize patterns in vast amounts of information, quickly identify anomalies, and dynamically adapt to business cycles and seasonal patterns. However, developing a machine learning model from scratch requires a team of data scientists that can build, train, deploy, monitor, and fine tune a machine learning model over time. Furthermore, a single algorithm rarely serves all of the needs of a business, which causes businesses to expend meaningfully more time and expense creating and maintaining multiple algorithms to solve different use cases. Ultimately, few organizations possess the experienced data scientists and necessary resources to successfully move past rule-based methods and realize the full potential of machine learning for detecting anomalies in their metrics.</p><p>Amazon Lookout for Metrics is a new machine learning service that automatically detects anomalies in metrics and helps customers quickly identify the root cause. Lookout for Metrics puts the same technology used by Amazon internally to detect anomalies in its business metrics into the hands of every developer. Customers can connect Amazon Lookout for Metrics to 19 popular data sources, including Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3), Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Redshift, as well as SaaS applications like Salesforce, Marketo, and Zendesk, to continuously monitor metrics important to the business (e.g. total revenue, gross margin, average purchase frequency, return on advertising spend, etc.). Amazon Lookout for Metrics automatically inspects and prepares the data, selects the best suited machine learning algorithm, begins detecting anomalies, groups related anomalies together, and summarizes potential root causes. For example, if a customer's website traffic dropped suddenly, Amazon Lookout for Metrics can help them quickly determine if an unintentional deactivation of a marketing campaign is the cause. The service also ranks the anomalies by predicted severity so that customers can prioritize which issue to tackle first. Amazon Lookout for Metrics easily connects to notification and event services like Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Slack, Pager Duty, and AWS Lambda, allowing customers to create customized alerts or actions like filing a trouble ticket or removing an incorrectly priced product from a retail website. As the service begins returning results, customers also have the ability to provide feedback on the relevancy of detected anomalies via the AWS console or the Application Programming Interface (API), and the service uses this input to continuously improve its accuracy over time.</p><p>"From marketing and sales to telecom and gaming, customers in all industries have KPIs that they need to be able to monitor for potential spikes, dips, and other anomalies outside of normal bounds across their business functions. But catching and diagnosing anomalies in metrics can be challenging, and by the time a root cause has been determined, much more damage has been done than if it had been identified earlier," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Amazon Machine Learning for AWS. "We're excited to deliver Amazon Lookout for Metrics to help customers monitor the metrics that are important to their business using an easy-to-use machine learning service that takes advantage of Amazon's own experience in detecting anomalies at scale and with great accuracy and speed."</p><p>Lookout for Metrics is available directly via the AWS console as well as through supporting partners in the AWS Partner Network to help customers implement customized solutions using the service. The service is also compatible with AWS CloudFormation and can be used in compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Lookout for Metrics is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), with availability in additional regions in the coming months.</p><p>DevFactory is a Dubai-based provider of software and services solutions for global enterprises. "Our flagship product, Quantum Retail, offers intelligent retail-focused supply chain management and inventory optimization solutions to thousands of retail customers. Our customers have volatile sales data that is affected by millions of daily events across categories like stores, products, and departments which fluctuates according to yearly, monthly, and daily seasonality. Understanding the sales patterns and separating anomalous sales from seasonal variations is critical to accurate forecasting and downstream inventory planning," said Rahul Subrananiam, CEO, DevFactory. "Our existing solution relied on statistical models and often failed to detect anomalous sales behaviors across stores, leading to over or under allocation of inventory to stores, which in turn significantly impacted the overall revenue and customer satisfaction. With Lookout for Metrics, we are able to automatically monitor data across all the important categories with a few clicks and identify anomalous events in nearly 40% of cases that we missed earlier. By quickly identifying such cases, we are able to adjust our inventory planning and distribution across all stores in an optimal way."</p><p>Digitata intelligently transforms pricing and subscriber engagement for mobile operators, empowering operators to make better and more informed decisions to meet and exceed business objectives. "At Digitata, what really matters is getting everyone connected at an affordable price. This requires a deep understanding of economics, specifically supply and demand and customer behavior according to changes in either," said Nico Kruger, Chief Technology Officer, Digitata. "Using Lookout for Metrics we were able to discover an issue that was negatively impacting pricing for a Mobile Network Operator customer within minutes. We were able to instantly identify the culprit and roll out a fix within two hours. Without Lookout for Metrics, it would have taken us approximately a day to identify and triage the issue, and would have led to a 7.5% drop in customer revenue. Lookout for Metrics allows us to act quickly and ensure the optimal performance of our pricing models, leaving us to focus on what really matters—getting everyone connected."</p><p>Marcaide founded Flywire, a startup that aims to ensure high-value international payments go through fast and friction free—both for individuals and for institutions across many industries, including healthcare, education, and travel. "At Flywire, our engineers rely on comprehensive monitoring systems, and as we grow, they have become bombarded by false positive alerts that rob them of time as they chase down these bad leads," said Omar Lopez, Tech Lead of Infrastructure, Flywire. "By leveraging Amazon Lookout for Metrics to parse events from CloudWatch, we were able to go to production in an afternoon and reduce our false positive rate by 7x. This lets our Site Reliability Engineers focus on alerts with confidence and gives us the tools to tackle even more complex operational and business issues in the future."</p><p>More Retail is the pioneer in omni-channel Food and Grocery Retail in India and is pursuing its mission to be Indian consumers' most preferred choice for food and grocery needs. More has 22 hyper markets and 624 super markets across India, supported by a network of 13 distribution centers, 7 fruits and vegetables collection centers and 6 staples processing centers. "Very often, across the 4 million+ SKU-Location combinations, MRPL comes across a decline in stock which had prior indicators. These can be a specific SKU not being produced by vendors, a specific vendor facing issues across SKUs, or stress in the regional supply chain," said Supratim Banerjee, Chief Transformational Officer, More Retail. "Our initial evaluation of Amazon Lookout for Metrics to capture these incidents looks very promising. We are able to capture 20% of incidents before they actually impact our stores and our customers. It was exciting that we were able to see the results in a matter of hours and not weeks or months. I highly appreciate how Lookout for Metrics makes it easy for my team to quickly implement AI/ML-driven workloads and allows us to dynamically support our operations people even in the most challenging times."</p><p>Since its founding in 2001, Slalom has grown into a $1 billion company with over 5,000 employees. Its clients include more than half the Fortune 100, along with startups, nonprofits, and innovative organizations of all kinds. "By leveraging Amazon Lookout for Metrics, our clients will be able to unlock critical data insights quickly and accurately," said David Frigeri, Senior Director of Data and Analytics, Slalom. "Giving our clients the ability to respond to near real-time anomaly detection, adapt rapidly, and anticipate future disruptions and opportunities is a key step towards embracing a modern culture of data."</p><p>Wipro is a global IT consulting and system integration services firm that develops and implements solutions for enterprises across the globe in industries such as financial services, retail, consumer goods, and more. "For us,Amazon Lookout for Metricsis an autonomous service that provides customers with critical insights into security and business data, helping them excel in the cloud," said Dr. Manish Govil, General Manager and Global Head, Wipro AWS Business Group. "Lookout for Metrics has not only reduced our development efforts, but also significantly lowered the time it takes to employ anomaly detection on customer workloads. It has also empowered us to analyze historical and continuous data streams in near real time, enabling us to find and eliminate anomalies from our customer's operational and business data. We are excited to bring this AWS service to our customers to help them achieve AI driven business outcomes in the cloud at scale."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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/20210325005892/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon and Red Hat Announce General Availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

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Amazon and Red Hat Announce General Availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

03/24/2021

2021

New managed service makes it easier to build, scale, and manage Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters on AWS Accenture, Cognizant, and Persistent Systems among customers and partners using ROSA SEATTLE & RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 24, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Red Hat, the world's leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a new managed service available via the AWS Console that makes it easier for Red Hat OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. With ROSA, customers can enjoy more simplified Kubernetes cluster creation using the familiar Red Hat OpenShift console, features, and tooling without the burden of manually scaling and managing the underlying infrastructure. ROSA streamlines moving on-premises Red Hat OpenShift workloads to AWS, and offers a tighter integration with other AWS services. ROSA also enables customers to access Red Hat OpenShift with billing and support directly through AWS, delivering the simplicity of a single-vendor experience to customers running Red Hat OpenShift on AWS. There are no up-front investments required to use ROSA, and customers pay only for the container clusters and nodes used. To get started, visit aws.amazon.com/rosa. Containers have proven popular with AWS and Red Hat customers because they increase developer velocity and improve application portability. Currently, AWS offers the broadest range of containers technology in the cloud, including Amazon Elastic Containers Service (ECS) for customers that want the deepest integration with AWS services and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for customers that prioritize running Kubernetes. AWS customers that value a fully serverless containers experience can also use AWS Fargate to run containers without having to manage the underlying servers or clusters. Global Fortune 500 businesses, government agencies, and many more organizations use Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat's enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform that extends the capabilities of base Kubernetes built for the cloud production stack, to run containerized applications with the same common foundation and tooling in any environment. Many customers have chosen to self-manage Red Hat OpenShift clusters on top of AWS. While the elasticity, scalability, and security of AWS have proven very popular with Red Hat OpenShift customers, self-managing clusters requires added effort and expense, and customers also have to manage two provider relationships for support and billing. These customers have asked for an AWS managed service for Red Hat OpenShift that works seamlessly with other AWS services at scale, and integrates support and billing into the AWS user experience. With ROSA, customers can quickly and easily create Kubernetes clusters using familiar Red Hat OpenShift Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and tooling, and seamlessly access the full breadth and depth of AWS services – all from within the AWS console. ROSA brings elasticity and pay-as-you-go pricing to Red Hat OpenShift via a new Red Hat subscription that eliminates the need for complex, multi-year contracts and allows customers to align their Red Hat OpenShift consumption in AWS with their business needs. With ROSA, customers can now access Red Hat OpenShift subscription with billing and support directly through AWS, delivering the simplicity of a single-provider experience and freeing customers from the procurement and operational complexities of managing two separate provider relationships. Additionally, ROSA maintains key compliance validations, including SOC-2, ISO-27001, and PCI. "Increasingly, customers are turning to containers to improve application velocity and portability, and they're growing to rely on technologies like Red Hat OpenShift and AWS that make it easier to deploy containerized applications," said Bob Wise, GM Kubernetes, AWS. "ROSA gives these customers the ability to seamlessly run containers on AWS using familiar Red Hat OpenShift APIs and tooling, and integrates the full breadth and depth of AWS services to build, scale, and manage their workloads." "Red Hat OpenShift provides a common, open and enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform to span hybrid infrastructure, from a customer's physical datacenter to their operations in AWS," said Sathish Balakrishnan, vice president, Hosted Platforms, Red Hat. "ROSA provides a streamlined process for organizations that want to extend the power of Red Hat OpenShift in AWS without having to manage separate technology streams, enabling IT teams to focus on delivering value and not managing underlying infrastructure." Accenture Cloud First, including the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG) and its IBM Red Hat team, has an extensive background in the strategy, design and implementation of holistic container solutions. "Our deep skills and broad experience in building and running large-scale and mission-critical Red Hat OpenShift clusters, both on-premises and deployed to the cloud, uniquely position Accenture for effective collaboration with AWS and Red Hat," said Andy Tay, Global lead of the Accenture AWS Business Group, Accenture. "The launch of ROSA as a fully managed service is the next step in the evolution of OpenShift. It means that Accenture can focus on delivering the benefits of modern applications for our clients, leveraging the cloud managed services provided by AWS and Red Hat." Cognizant is a multinational technology company that provides business consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services."With ROSA, Cognizant customers can now enjoy an integrated experience with their workloads running on the OpenShift platform on AWS," said Raghuraman Chandrasekharan, AVP, Service Delivery and AWS Business Group lead, Cognizant. "Cognizant's OpenShift on AWS offering now includes ROSA as a landing zone for customers who would like to delegate the responsibility of the infrastructure and platform services while they focus on their core business needs." Persistent Systems is a trusted global solutions company, delivering digital business acceleration, enterprise modernization and next generation product engineering services. "As a Red Hat and AWS partner, many of our clients already leverage OpenShift on AWS for critical software modernization," said Jiani Zhang, President, Alliance and Industrial Solutions Unit, Persistent Systems. "ROSA speeds deployments and frees up teams to more easily manage deployments directly from the AWS Console." Energie Data Services Nederland (EDSN) develops and operates the Dutch energy data hub on behalf of Dutch transmission and distribution system operators. "Adapting to evolving customer needs is a daily requirement for us, a dynamic that requires modernized applications and a DevOps methodology that can be delivered at scale," said Arwin Scholten, Chief Technology Officer, EDSN. "With Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, we have a service that is ready for the future. We don't have to worry about continuously improving the platform or managing the underlying infrastructure or operations, freeing our team to fully focus on providing greater innovation and value to our customers." About Amazon Web Services For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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 Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future. Red Hat, the Red Hat logo and OpenShift are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Learn more: https://www.redhat.com/en/partners/amazon-web-services https://www.openshift.com/products/amazon-openshift View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210324005958/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New managed service makes it easier to build, scale, and manage Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters on AWS</em></p><p><em>Accenture, Cognizant, and Persistent Systems among customers and partners using ROSA</em></p><p>SEATTLE &amp; RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 24, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Red Hat, the world's leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a new managed service available via the AWS Console that makes it easier for Red Hat OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. With ROSA, customers can enjoy more simplified Kubernetes cluster creation using the familiar Red Hat OpenShift console, features, and tooling without the burden of manually scaling and managing the underlying infrastructure. ROSA streamlines moving on-premises Red Hat OpenShift workloads to AWS, and offers a tighter integration with other AWS services. ROSA also enables customers to access Red Hat OpenShift with billing and support directly through AWS, delivering the simplicity of a single-vendor experience to customers running Red Hat OpenShift on AWS. There are no up-front investments required to use ROSA, and customers pay only for the container clusters and nodes used. To get started, visit aws.amazon.com/rosa.</p><p>Containers have proven popular with AWS and Red Hat customers because they increase developer velocity and improve application portability. Currently, AWS offers the broadest range of containers technology in the cloud, including Amazon Elastic Containers Service (ECS) for customers that want the deepest integration with AWS services and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for customers that prioritize running Kubernetes. AWS customers that value a fully serverless containers experience can also use AWS Fargate to run containers without having to manage the underlying servers or clusters.</p><p>Global Fortune 500 businesses, government agencies, and many more organizations use Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat's enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform that extends the capabilities of base Kubernetes built for the cloud production stack, to run containerized applications with the same common foundation and tooling in any environment. Many customers have chosen to self-manage Red Hat OpenShift clusters on top of AWS. While the elasticity, scalability, and security of AWS have proven very popular with Red Hat OpenShift customers, self-managing clusters requires added effort and expense, and customers also have to manage two provider relationships for support and billing. These customers have asked for an AWS managed service for Red Hat OpenShift that works seamlessly with other AWS services at scale, and integrates support and billing into the AWS user experience.</p><p>With ROSA, customers can quickly and easily create Kubernetes clusters using familiar Red Hat OpenShift Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and tooling, and seamlessly access the full breadth and depth of AWS services – all from within the AWS console. ROSA brings elasticity and pay-as-you-go pricing to Red Hat OpenShift via a new Red Hat subscription that eliminates the need for complex, multi-year contracts and allows customers to align their Red Hat OpenShift consumption in AWS with their business needs. With ROSA, customers can now access Red Hat OpenShift subscription with billing and support directly through AWS, delivering the simplicity of a single-provider experience and freeing customers from the procurement and operational complexities of managing two separate provider relationships. Additionally, ROSA maintains key compliance validations, including SOC-2, ISO-27001, and PCI.</p><p>"Increasingly, customers are turning to containers to improve application velocity and portability, and they're growing to rely on technologies like Red Hat OpenShift and AWS that make it easier to deploy containerized applications," said Bob Wise, GM Kubernetes, AWS. "ROSA gives these customers the ability to seamlessly run containers on AWS using familiar Red Hat OpenShift APIs and tooling, and integrates the full breadth and depth of AWS services to build, scale, and manage their workloads."</p><p>"Red Hat OpenShift provides a common, open and enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform to span hybrid infrastructure, from a customer's physical datacenter to their operations in AWS," said Sathish Balakrishnan, vice president, Hosted Platforms, Red Hat. "ROSA provides a streamlined process for organizations that want to extend the power of Red Hat OpenShift in AWS without having to manage separate technology streams, enabling IT teams to focus on delivering value and not managing underlying infrastructure."</p><p>Accenture Cloud First, including the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG) and its IBM Red Hat team, has an extensive background in the strategy, design and implementation of holistic container solutions. "Our deep skills and broad experience in building and running large-scale and mission-critical Red Hat OpenShift clusters, both on-premises and deployed to the cloud, uniquely position Accenture for effective collaboration with AWS and Red Hat," said Andy Tay, Global lead of the Accenture AWS Business Group, Accenture. "The launch of ROSA as a fully managed service is the next step in the evolution of OpenShift. It means that Accenture can focus on delivering the benefits of modern applications for our clients, leveraging the cloud managed services provided by AWS and Red Hat."</p><p>Cognizant is a multinational technology company that provides business consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services."With ROSA, Cognizant customers can now enjoy an integrated experience with their workloads running on the OpenShift platform on AWS," said Raghuraman Chandrasekharan, AVP, Service Delivery and AWS Business Group lead, Cognizant. "Cognizant's OpenShift on AWS offering now includes ROSA as a landing zone for customers who would like to delegate the responsibility of the infrastructure and platform services while they focus on their core business needs."</p><p>Persistent Systems is a trusted global solutions company, delivering digital business acceleration, enterprise modernization and next generation product engineering services. "As a Red Hat and AWS partner, many of our clients already leverage OpenShift on AWS for critical software modernization," said Jiani Zhang, President, Alliance and Industrial Solutions Unit, Persistent Systems. "ROSA speeds deployments and frees up teams to more easily manage deployments directly from the AWS Console."</p><p>Energie Data Services Nederland (EDSN) develops and operates the Dutch energy data hub on behalf of Dutch transmission and distribution system operators. "Adapting to evolving customer needs is a daily requirement for us, a dynamic that requires modernized applications and a DevOps methodology that can be delivered at scale," said Arwin Scholten, Chief Technology Officer, EDSN. "With Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, we have a service that is ready for the future. We don't have to worry about continuously improving the platform or managing the underlying infrastructure or operations, freeing our team to fully focus on providing greater innovation and value to our customers."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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 Red Hat, Inc.</p><p>Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.</p><p>Red Hat, the Red Hat logo and OpenShift are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries.</p><p>Learn more:</p><ul><li>https://www.redhat.com/en/partners/amazon-web-services</li><li>https://www.openshift.com/products/amazon-openshift</li></ul><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210324005958/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

FTC Obtains Permanent Ban and $2M Judgment for Work-From-Home Scammer Falsely Using Amazon Name

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 18, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN): What: On Friday, March 12, the U.S. District Court of Utah entered the Federal Trade Commission's filed order against Randon Morris and four companies he controls for operating a telemarketing scheme that fraudulently used Amazon Associates name. The defendants leveraged pandemic fears to offer fake work-from-home opportunities, falsely representing Amazon's Associates Program. The defendants are prevented from ever selling similar services in the future and will be responsible for a more than $2 million settlement. You can read the FTC's press release on the case here. Statement from Amazon: Amazon works hard to delight our customers, and we appreciate the Federal Trade Commission's thorough pursuit of these criminals who deceptively used our name to dupe customers. We will continue to work with the Federal Trade Commission and other law enforcement organizations to stop these scams and protect customers. Amazon has an extensive history of protecting its customers from fraud and abuse: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rhode-island-man-sentenced-30-months-multiple-fraud-charges https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-investigation-and-prosecution-four-new-york https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210318006017/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 18, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN):</p><p>What:</p><p>On Friday, March 12, the U.S. District Court of Utah entered the Federal Trade Commission's filed order against Randon Morris and four companies he controls for operating a telemarketing scheme that fraudulently used Amazon Associates name. The defendants leveraged pandemic fears to offer fake work-from-home opportunities, falsely representing Amazon's Associates Program. The defendants are prevented from ever selling similar services in the future and will be responsible for a more than $2 million settlement.</p><p>You can read the FTC's press release on the case here.</p><p>Statement from Amazon:</p><p>Amazon works hard to delight our customers, and we appreciate the Federal Trade Commission's thorough pursuit of these criminals who deceptively used our name to dupe customers. We will continue to work with the Federal Trade Commission and other law enforcement organizations to stop these scams and protect customers.</p><p>Amazon has an extensive history of protecting its customers from fraud and abuse:</p><ul><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rhode-island-man-sentenced-30-months-multiple-fraud-charges</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-investigation-and-prosecution-four-new-york</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters</li></ul><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210318006017/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Prime Video Makes History as the First Streaming Service to Secure an Exclusive National Broadcast Package From the NFL, Becoming the Home for Thursday Night Football Beginning in 2023

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Amazon Prime Video Makes History as the First Streaming Service to Secure an Exclusive National Broadcast Package From the NFL, Becoming the Home for Thursday Night Football Beginning in 2023

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The 10-year deal between Amazon and the NFL expands the strategic relationship, bringing 15 exclusive regular-season Thursday Night Football games and one pre-season game per year to Prime Video. Fans will get closer to the on-field action with popular features including X-Ray with Next Gen Stats, available exclusively to Prime members in the United States. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 18, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and the National Football League (NFL) made history today by announcing a 10-year agreement to exclusively broadcast 15 Thursday Night Football games and one pre-season game per yearon Prime Video in the United States. The Prime Video deal begins in 2023 and is the NFL's first exclusive national broadcast package with a digital streaming service. The number of regular-season games included in the Thursday Night Football package is increasing from 11 to 15, with all games airing on Prime Video as part of a Prime membership. "NFL games are the most watched live programming in the United States, and this unprecedented Thursday Night Football package gives tens of millions of new and existing Prime members exclusive access to must-watch live football on Prime Video," said Mike Hopkins, SVP of Prime Video and Amazon Studios. "NFL fans from across the country will enjoy a premium viewing experience with Thursday Night Football, as well as access to a broad selection of content including award-winning Amazon Originals available on Prime Video." "Thursday Night Football will be our first-ever digital package and we are thrilled to exclusively partner with Amazon to bring our games to more fans on more platforms," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. "NFL football drives passionate viewers and Amazon will enable us to continue to grow our fanbase in innovative and compelling ways." Prime Video will deliver new pre-game, half-time, and post-game shows, and it will continue to offer fan-favorite interactive features like X-Ray and Next Gen Stats, which provide a more customizable viewing experience. As part of the new deal, Prime Video alsosecured rights to a weekly slate of original NFL programming and expanded rights to in-game highlights for all NFL matchups. Prime Video and the NFL will continue to collaborate on exclusive NFL content and enhanced fan viewing experiences around Thursday Night Football, with more information to come ahead of the first game in 2023. Today's announcement is a continuation of an expanding relationship between the NFL and Amazon, which first distributed a simulcast of Thursday Night Football during the 2017 season. In April 2020, Amazon and the NFL expanded the existing 11-game Thursday Night Football package on Prime Video to include one exclusive regular-season game per year, the first of which was played on December 26 between the San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals. The matchup drew an estimated 11.2 million total viewers and delivered the highest digital average-minute audience ever for an NFL regular-season game. Additionally, since 2017, the NFL has used Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its official cloud and machine learning provider for Next Gen Stats, which provides real-time location, speed, and acceleration data for every player during every play on every inch of the field. In keeping with the NFL's long-standing commitment to make its games available on free, over-the-air television, each game will also be televised in the participating teams' home marketplaces. About Prime Video Sports Prime Video supports a growing line-up of live sports globally, including Thursday Night Football, the New York Yankees, and Seattle Sounders FCin the United States;Premier Leaguein the United Kingdom; U.S. Open Tennis, ATP, and WTA in the United Kingdom and Ireland; UEFA Champions League football inGermany and Italy; Roland Garrosin France; Australian Swimming globally; and New Zealand Cricket in India. While availability varies by marketplace, fans can also subscribe to streaming services such as Eurosport, LaLigaTV, MLB.TV, NBA League Pass, NBA TV, and PGA TOUR LIVE through Prime Video Channels. This is in addition to a selection of Amazon Original All or Nothing sports docuseries including All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur and All or Nothing seasons with the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Carolina Panthers, and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the NCAA's Michigan Wolverines. All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs and All or Nothing: Juventus are also coming to Prime Video later this year. For more information, visit amazon.com/primevideo and follow @SportsOnPrime on Twitter and Instagram. Prime Video is just one of many shopping and entertainment benefits included with a Prime membership, along with fast, free shipping on millions of Prime-eligible items at Amazon.com, unlimited photo storage, exclusive deals and discounts, and access to ad-free music and Kindle eBooks. To sign up or start a 30-day free trial of Prime, visit: amazon.com/prime. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210318005981/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>The 10-year deal between Amazon and the NFL expands the strategic relationship, bringing 15 exclusive regular-season Thursday Night Football games and one pre-season game per year to Prime Video.</em></p><p><em>Fans will get closer to the on-field action with popular features including X-Ray with Next Gen Stats, available exclusively to Prime members in the United States.</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 18, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and the National Football League (NFL) made history today by announcing a 10-year agreement to exclusively broadcast 15 <em>Thursday Night Football </em>games and one pre-season game per yearon Prime Video in the United States. The Prime Video deal begins in 2023 and is the NFL's first exclusive national broadcast package with a digital streaming service. The number of regular-season games included in the <em>Thursday Night Football</em> package is increasing from 11 to 15, with all games airing on Prime Video as part of a Prime membership.</p><p>"NFL games are the most watched live programming in the United States, and this unprecedented <em>Thursday Night Football </em>package gives tens of millions of new and existing Prime members exclusive access to must-watch live football on Prime Video," said Mike Hopkins, SVP of Prime Video and Amazon Studios. "NFL fans from across the country will enjoy a premium viewing experience with <em>Thursday Night Football, </em>as well as access to a broad selection of content including award-winning Amazon Originals available on Prime Video."</p><p>"Thursday Night Football will be our first-ever digital package and we are thrilled to exclusively partner with Amazon to bring our games to more fans on more platforms," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. "NFL football drives passionate viewers and Amazon will enable us to continue to grow our fanbase in innovative and compelling ways."</p><p>Prime Video will deliver new pre-game, half-time, and post-game shows, and it will continue to offer fan-favorite interactive features like X-Ray and Next Gen Stats, which provide a more customizable viewing experience. As part of the new deal, Prime Video alsosecured rights to a weekly slate of original NFL programming and expanded rights to in-game highlights for all NFL matchups. Prime Video and the NFL will continue to collaborate on exclusive NFL content and enhanced fan viewing experiences around <em>Thursday Night Football</em>, with more information to come ahead of the first game in 2023.</p><p>Today's announcement is a continuation of an expanding relationship between the NFL and Amazon, which first distributed a simulcast of <em>Thursday Night Football</em> during the 2017 season. In April 2020, Amazon and the NFL expanded the existing 11-game <em>Thursday Night Football </em>package on Prime Video to include one exclusive regular-season game per year, the first of which was played on December 26 between the San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals. The matchup drew an estimated 11.2 million total viewers and delivered the highest digital average-minute audience ever for an NFL regular-season game. Additionally, since 2017, the NFL has used Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its official cloud and machine learning provider for Next Gen Stats, which provides real-time location, speed, and acceleration data for every player during every play on every inch of the field.</p><p>In keeping with the NFL's long-standing commitment to make its games available on free, over-the-air television, each game will also be televised in the participating teams' home marketplaces.</p><p><em>About Prime Video Sports</em></p><p>Prime Video supports a growing line-up of live sports globally, including <em>Thursday Night Football, </em>the New York Yankees, and Seattle Sounders FCin the United States;Premier Leaguein the United Kingdom; U.S. Open Tennis, ATP, and WTA in the United Kingdom and Ireland; UEFA Champions League football inGermany and Italy; Roland Garrosin France; Australian Swimming globally; and New Zealand Cricket in India<em>. </em>While availability varies by marketplace, fans can also subscribe to streaming services such as Eurosport, LaLigaTV, MLB.TV, NBA League Pass, NBA TV, and PGA TOUR LIVE through Prime Video Channels. This is in addition to a selection of Amazon Original <em>All or Nothing</em> sports docuseries including <em>All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur</em> and <em>All or Nothing</em> seasons with the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Carolina Panthers, and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the NCAA's Michigan Wolverines. <em>All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs</em> and <em>All or Nothing: Juventus</em> are also coming to Prime Video later this year. For more information, visit amazon.com/primevideo and follow @SportsOnPrime on Twitter and Instagram.</p><p>Prime Video is just one of many shopping and entertainment benefits included with a Prime membership, along with fast, free shipping on millions of Prime-eligible items at Amazon.com, unlimited photo storage, exclusive deals and discounts, and access to ad-free music and Kindle eBooks. To sign up or start a 30-day free trial of Prime, visit: amazon.com/prime.</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/20210318005981/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EC2 X2gd Instances Powered by AWS-designed Graviton2 Processors

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Next generation X2gd instances offer up to 55% better price/performance for memory-intensive workloads compared to current generation x86-based X1 instances SmugMug, Synopsys, and Arm among customers using X2gd instances powered by AWS-designed Graviton2 processors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 16, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) X2gd instances, the next generation of memory-optimized instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors. New X2gd instances utilize AWS Graviton2 processors to deliver up to 55% better price/performance compared to current generation x86-based X1 instances, while also offering increased memory per vCPU compared to other Graviton2-based instances. Together, the higher performance and additional memory of X2gd instances make it possible for customers to more efficiently run memory intensive workloads like in-memory databases, relational databases, electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, real-time analytics, and real-time caching servers. There are no minimum commitments or up-front fees to use X2gd instances, and customers pay only for the amount of compute used. To get started with X2gd instances visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x2. Since becoming available in May 2020, Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors have provided customers with up to 40% better price/performance for a broad range of workloads compared to current generation x86-based instances. Customers including Domo, Formula One, Honeycomb.io, Intuit, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Nielsen, NextRoll, Redbox, SmugMug, Snap, and Twitter have seen significant performance gains and reduced costs from running AWS Graviton2-based instances in production. Additionally, many popular AWS services including Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Elastic Map Reduce now support AWS Graviton2-based instances to deliver to customers of those services up to 40% better price/performance on their use of the underlying EC2 instances. With increasing support from a broad ecosystem of operating system and independent software vendors, Arm processors have become mainstream, and now customers want to take advantage of the performance and cost saving benefits for more workloads, including their most demanding workloads that require even higher memory per vCPU. Additionally, there are other customers that simply want to use the higher memory to scale up the number of containers they can run on EC2 instances to reduce their overall spend on compute. Today, customers use memory-optimized AWS Graviton2 powered R6g instances (which deliver up to 40% better price/performance than current generation x86-based R5 instances) to optimize performance and cost for workloads like relational databases and big data analytics. For workloads like in-memory databases that need an even larger memory footprint, customers typically use x86-based X1 instances, which offer 2x memory per vCPU compared to R6g instances. New X2gd instances utilize AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver the same amount of memory per vCPU as X1 instances, but with up to 55% better price/performance compared to current generation x86-based X1 instances. X2gd instances deliver the lowest cost per GiB of memory of any Amazon EC2 instance to support workloads like in-memory databases (e.g. Redis, Memcached, etc.), relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostGreSQL, etc.), data warehousing applications (e.g. Amazon Redshift), and electronic design automation (EDA). Additionally, as more customers run containers on AWS for application portability and infrastructure efficiency, X2gd instances also make it possible for them to bundle more memory-intensive containerized applications on a single instance to lower their total cost of ownership. "Graviton2 processors have proven incredibly popular with customers because they deliver a major improvement in performance while also significantly lowering costs for a wide variety of workloads," said David Brown, Vice President, Amazon EC2, at AWS. "With up to 55% better price/performance than current generation X1 and double the memory per vCPU compared to the latest Graviton2 R6g instances, new X2gd instances provide the lowest cost per gigabyte of memory we have ever offered in EC2. X2gd instances give customers the ability to consolidate their memory-intensive workloads on instances with fewer vCPUs and realize game-changing performance benefits and cost savings." X2gd instances join the growing portfolio of Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton2 instances, including M6g/M6gd, C6g/C6gd/C6gn, R6g/R6gd, and T4g instances. X2gd instances also benefit from use of the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that streamline the delivery of isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. X2gd instances are available for purchase as On-Demand, with Savings Plans, as Reserved Instances, or as Spot Instances. X2gd instances are initially available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional regions coming later this year. SmugMug is a paid image sharing service, image hosting service, and online video platform on which users can upload photos and videos. The company facilitates the sale of digital and print media for amateur and professional photographers. "SmugMug operates two very large online photo platforms, SmugMug and Flickr, enabling more than 100 million members to safely store, search, share, and sell tens of billions of photos," said Andrew Shieh, Director of Operations, at SmugMug. "Last year we were able to transition our caching servers to r6gd.8xlarge instances with a simple recompile and are enjoying a 33% price benefit and improved latency. The large memory footprint of the new X2gd instances allows us to consolidate our caching on instances that closely match our workload, lowering our cost per instance and cost per GB of RAM by an additional 28%." As an S&P 500 company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and offers the industry's broadest portfolio of application security testing tools and services. "Synopsys' customers are increasingly leveraging cloud for scaling and accelerating applications across our portfolio for system-on-chip (SoC) design processes, including verification, library characterization, analog and digital design implementation flows," said Deirdre Hanford, Chief Security Officer, Synopsys. "Our anchor products, such as Synopsys' VCS functional verification solution, are optimized to use advances in hardware performance and memory introduced in AWS's Graviton2-based X2gd instances, enabling our customers to accelerate SoC verification and design." Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. "Cadence's computational software heritage enables customers to turn electronic design concepts into reality across a variety of end markets, including hyperscale computing, mobile and 5G communications," said Nimish Modi, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Business Development at Cadence. "We have successfully run our verification and library characterization products on the AWS Graviton2-based R6g memory optimized instances, delivering compelling price-performance benefits. The new Graviton2-based X2g instances have a much larger memory footprint, which will allow for more efficient runs and enable even more memory-intensive EDA workloads." Arm is a global leader in semiconductor design and silicon intellectual property development and licensing. "Technology has become ubiquitous in all industries, driving the need for more compute products in less time while simultaneously using fewer resources to keep costs low," said Mark Galbraith, head of productivity engineering, Arm. "The design, verification, and implementation of silicon IP are the most critical phases between idea and a finished product produced in volume, and we have measured a performance uplift of 45% on EDA workloads when running on Arm-based Graviton2-powered X2gd cloud instances compared to previous generation X1 instances." Annapurna Labs, an Amazon company, is the chip development arm of AWS responsible for designing the AWS Nitro System, AWS Graviton processors, AWS Inferentia chips, and AWS Trainium chips. "At Annapurna Labs, we have been running almost all of our chip simulations and verification up till now on Graviton2-based R6g instances," said Nafea Bshara, Vice President, and Distinguished Engineer, at Annapurna Labs. "With the new X2gd instances, we are able to double the number of full chip and cluster level simulations for same instance size, allowing us to do twice the output while reduce costs at the same time." About Amazon Web Services For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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><em>Next generation X2gd instances offer up to 55% better price/performance for memory-intensive workloads compared to current generation x86-based X1 instances</em></p><p><em>SmugMug, Synopsys, and Arm among customers using X2gd instances powered by AWS-designed Graviton2 processors</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 16, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) X2gd instances, the next generation of memory-optimized instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors. New X2gd instances utilize AWS Graviton2 processors to deliver up to 55% better price/performance compared to current generation x86-based X1 instances, while also offering increased memory per vCPU compared to other Graviton2-based instances. Together, the higher performance and additional memory of X2gd instances make it possible for customers to more efficiently run memory intensive workloads like in-memory databases, relational databases, electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, real-time analytics, and real-time caching servers. There are no minimum commitments or up-front fees to use X2gd instances, and customers pay only for the amount of compute used. To get started with X2gd instances visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x2.</p><p>Since becoming available in May 2020, Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors have provided customers with up to 40% better price/performance for a broad range of workloads compared to current generation x86-based instances. Customers including Domo, Formula One, Honeycomb.io, Intuit, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Nielsen, NextRoll, Redbox, SmugMug, Snap, and Twitter have seen significant performance gains and reduced costs from running AWS Graviton2-based instances in production. Additionally, many popular AWS services including Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Elastic Map Reduce now support AWS Graviton2-based instances to deliver to customers of those services up to 40% better price/performance on their use of the underlying EC2 instances. With increasing support from a broad ecosystem of operating system and independent software vendors, Arm processors have become mainstream, and now customers want to take advantage of the performance and cost saving benefits for more workloads, including their most demanding workloads that require even higher memory per vCPU. Additionally, there are other customers that simply want to use the higher memory to scale up the number of containers they can run on EC2 instances to reduce their overall spend on compute.</p><p>Today, customers use memory-optimized AWS Graviton2 powered R6g instances (which deliver up to 40% better price/performance than current generation x86-based R5 instances) to optimize performance and cost for workloads like relational databases and big data analytics. For workloads like in-memory databases that need an even larger memory footprint, customers typically use x86-based X1 instances, which offer 2x memory per vCPU compared to R6g instances. New X2gd instances utilize AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver the same amount of memory per vCPU as X1 instances, but with up to 55% better price/performance compared to current generation x86-based X1 instances. X2gd instances deliver the lowest cost per GiB of memory of any Amazon EC2 instance to support workloads like in-memory databases (e.g. Redis, Memcached, etc.), relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostGreSQL, etc.), data warehousing applications (e.g. Amazon Redshift), and electronic design automation (EDA). Additionally, as more customers run containers on AWS for application portability and infrastructure efficiency, X2gd instances also make it possible for them to bundle more memory-intensive containerized applications on a single instance to lower their total cost of ownership.</p><p>"Graviton2 processors have proven incredibly popular with customers because they deliver a major improvement in performance while also significantly lowering costs for a wide variety of workloads," said David Brown, Vice President, Amazon EC2, at AWS. "With up to 55% better price/performance than current generation X1 and double the memory per vCPU compared to the latest Graviton2 R6g instances, new X2gd instances provide the lowest cost per gigabyte of memory we have ever offered in EC2. X2gd instances give customers the ability to consolidate their memory-intensive workloads on instances with fewer vCPUs and realize game-changing performance benefits and cost savings."</p><p>X2gd instances join the growing portfolio of Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton2 instances, including M6g/M6gd, C6g/C6gd/C6gn, R6g/R6gd, and T4g instances. X2gd instances also benefit from use of the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that streamline the delivery of isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. X2gd instances are available for purchase as On-Demand, with Savings Plans, as Reserved Instances, or as Spot Instances. X2gd instances are initially available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional regions coming later this year.</p><p>SmugMug is a paid image sharing service, image hosting service, and online video platform on which users can upload photos and videos. The company facilitates the sale of digital and print media for amateur and professional photographers. "SmugMug operates two very large online photo platforms, SmugMug and Flickr, enabling more than 100 million members to safely store, search, share, and sell tens of billions of photos," said Andrew Shieh, Director of Operations, at SmugMug. "Last year we were able to transition our caching servers to r6gd.8xlarge instances with a simple recompile and are enjoying a 33% price benefit and improved latency. The large memory footprint of the new X2gd instances allows us to consolidate our caching on instances that closely match our workload, lowering our cost per instance and cost per GB of RAM by an additional 28%."</p><p>As an S&amp;P 500 company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and offers the industry's broadest portfolio of application security testing tools and services. "Synopsys' customers are increasingly leveraging cloud for scaling and accelerating applications across our portfolio for system-on-chip (SoC) design processes, including verification, library characterization, analog and digital design implementation flows," said Deirdre Hanford, Chief Security Officer, Synopsys. "Our anchor products, such as Synopsys' VCS functional verification solution, are optimized to use advances in hardware performance and memory introduced in AWS's Graviton2-based X2gd instances, enabling our customers to accelerate SoC verification and design."</p><p>Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. "Cadence's computational software heritage enables customers to turn electronic design concepts into reality across a variety of end markets, including hyperscale computing, mobile and 5G communications," said Nimish Modi, Senior Vice President, Marketing &amp; Business Development at Cadence. "We have successfully run our verification and library characterization products on the AWS Graviton2-based R6g memory optimized instances, delivering compelling price-performance benefits. The new Graviton2-based X2g instances have a much larger memory footprint, which will allow for more efficient runs and enable even more memory-intensive EDA workloads."</p><p>Arm is a global leader in semiconductor design and silicon intellectual property development and licensing. "Technology has become ubiquitous in all industries, driving the need for more compute products in less time while simultaneously using fewer resources to keep costs low," said Mark Galbraith, head of productivity engineering, Arm. "The design, verification, and implementation of silicon IP are the most critical phases between idea and a finished product produced in volume, and we have measured a performance uplift of 45% on EDA workloads when running on Arm-based Graviton2-powered X2gd cloud instances compared to previous generation X1 instances."</p><p>Annapurna Labs, an Amazon company, is the chip development arm of AWS responsible for designing the AWS Nitro System, AWS Graviton processors, AWS Inferentia chips, and AWS Trainium chips. "At Annapurna Labs, we have been running almost all of our chip simulations and verification up till now on Graviton2-based R6g instances," said Nafea Bshara, Vice President, and Distinguished Engineer, at Annapurna Labs. "With the new X2gd instances, we are able to double the number of full chip and cluster level simulations for same instance size, allowing us to do twice the output while reduce costs at the same time."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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>

Rhode Island Man Sentenced to 30 Months on Multiple Fraud Charges, Including Amazon Return Scheme

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 16, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN): What: On Friday, March 12, The U.S. District Court of Rhode Island sentenced Michael Chaves to 30 months in federal prison for operating a fraudulent product return scheme and defrauding Amazon of more than $50,000, as well as other charges including bank fraud, wire fraud, falsification of records, aggravated identity theft, and tax evasion. Amazon supported the investigation, prosecution, and sentencing. You can see the press release issued by the US Attorney here, and the press release following his arrest in June 2020 here. Statement from Amazon: We work hard to build a great shopping experience and that includes a seamless, customer-friendly returns policy. Mr. Chaves abused our policy, and we took action to protect our selling partners, our store, and the experience for all customers. We are grateful to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Rhode Island in their thorough pursuit of this case. Amazon has teams and systems in place to proactively detect, investigate, and stop suspicious behavior and prohibited activity. Amazon has an extensive history of protecting its customers from fraud and abuse: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-investigation-and-prosecution-four-new-york https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210316006003/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 16, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN):</p><p>What:</p><p>On Friday, March 12, The U.S. District Court of Rhode Island sentenced Michael Chaves to 30 months in federal prison for operating a fraudulent product return scheme and defrauding Amazon of more than $50,000, as well as other charges including bank fraud, wire fraud, falsification of records, aggravated identity theft, and tax evasion. Amazon supported the investigation, prosecution, and sentencing.</p><p>You can see the press release issued by the US Attorney here, and the press release following his arrest in June 2020 here.</p><p>Statement from Amazon:</p><p>We work hard to build a great shopping experience and that includes a seamless, customer-friendly returns policy. Mr. Chaves abused our policy, and we took action to protect our selling partners, our store, and the experience for all customers. We are grateful to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Rhode Island in their thorough pursuit of this case.</p><p>Amazon has teams and systems in place to proactively detect, investigate, and stop suspicious behavior and prohibited activity. Amazon has an extensive history of protecting its customers from fraud and abuse:</p><ul><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-supports-investigation-and-prosecution-four-new-york</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-establishes-counterfeit-crimes-unit-bring-counterfeiters</li><li>https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-stops-multiple-fraudulent-affiliate-marketing-schemes</li></ul><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210316006003/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

New Ipsos Study Finds 8 in 10 Americans Think the Federal Minimum Wage is Too Low and Two-Thirds Support Increasing Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour

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New Ipsos Study Finds 8 in 10 Americans Think the Federal Minimum Wage is Too Low and Two-Thirds Support Increasing Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour

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Study reveals how an increase to a $15 minimum wage would positively impact the lives of tens of millions of individuals and families across the U.S. Americans believe large companies should play a major role in raising the minimum wage—more so than politicians, policymakers, and advocacy groups. Amazon has vocally advocated for raising the minimum wage nationwide since adopting a starting wage of at least $15 an hour for its own employees in 2018. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 16, 2021-- Today, global market research firm Ipsos released a new, comprehensive federal minimum wage study, which polled more than 6,000 Americans on their knowledge of and opinions on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. The study confirmed that the vast majority of Americans agree that the federal minimum wage is too low and should be increased to at least $15 per hour. In addition, the study highlighted the difficulties for those earning less than $15 per hour to afford basic necessities, the significant impact increasing the federal minimum wage would have on American lives, and the role that large businesses should play in increasing the minimum wage. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210316005362/en/ Amazon - Ipsos $15 Minimum Wage Study Infographic (Graphic: Business Wire) In 2018, Amazon raised its starting wage for all U.S. employees to at least $15 an hour, and today well over half of all Amazon front-line employees in the U.S. earn more than $15 an hour. The findings in this study reveal a widely held view that the current amount of $7.25 an hour is too low. Eight in ten Americans (80%) say the federal minimum wage is too low. This consensus was seen across all genders, generations, education levels, races, income levels, and regions of the country. Among those surveyed who hold an opinion on the federal minimum wage, two-thirds support increasing it to $15 per hour. Even when including undecided respondents on the matter, more than half (56%) support a $15 per hour minimum wage. The majority of Americans also believe raising the minimum wage would have a positive impact on employees in general (70%), the country (55%), their community (54%), and the economy (54%). "Virtually any policy discussion today devolves into partisan debates and experts talking past each other," said Chris Jackson, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Ipsos. "Rarely, if ever, do the opinions or preferences of regular Americans enter into these debates, but our study clearly indicates that the American people want to see the federal minimum wage increased. This level of agreement is practically unheard of in contemporary America and reflects an overwhelming public consensus that elected officials should think twice before disputing." The Real Impact of a $15 Starting Wage About two in five hourly, temporary, or seasonal employees say they make less than $15 an hour (37%). Those who make less than $15 an hour are significantly less likely to say they can afford basic human needs such as shopping for groceries, paying for prescription drugs, or a doctor's visit. An unexpected event can financially derail them, and they are significantly less likely to be satisfied with all aspects of their life compared to those who earn $15 or more or are salaried employees. Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would have a significant impact on those currently making less than that amount. About one in four people currently earning $15 an hour or more say that at some point in the past five years, they have earned less than $15 an hour (24%). When they compare what they could afford before their income increased versus now, this group is significantly more likely to say they can afford necessities, such as groceries (a 15% increase), going to the doctor (a 20% increase), and prescription drugs (a 19% increase). People making less than $15 are significantly more likely to say they are spending more than they make (26% compared to 17% of those making $15 or more, and 10% of salaried employees) and more likely to say they pay most of their household bills late (17% compared to 5% of those making $15 or more and 2% of salaried employees). Those making less than $15 an hour are twice as likely to say they are not confident they could come up with $500 if an unexpected need came up in the next month (30%) compared to those making $15 or more (16%). The Role & Responsibility of Large Businesses in Increasing the Minimum Wage When compared to politicians and policymakers (73%), advocacy groups (69%) and the media (51%), more Americans (80%) think large employers should play a role in raising the federal minimum wage. Amazon's 2018 decision to increase starting wages to at least $15 an hour—for all full-time, part-time, temporary, and seasonal employees—immediately drove a positive impact. The increase helped Amazon employees purchase cars, pay for home repairs and college tuition, and build their savings. "Where I worked before Amazon, I made $11 an hour, it was very hard for me to save money to pay my bills," said Kimberly Reece, an Amazon warehouse employee in Miami, Florida. "But now I'm able to pay all my bills on time and was able to move into a bigger house with my mom so I can help take care of her." Stories like Kimberly's are why Amazon, as one of the nation's largest employers, continues to encourage other large companies to raise their wages and to advocate for members of Congress to raise the minimum wage. "We believe that $15 an hour is the minimum that anyone in the U.S. should earn for an hour of labor; that's why we were among the first major employers to offer a $15 an hour starting wage and why we've been advocating for an increase to the federal minimum wage ever since," said Jay Carney, Senior Vice President, Amazon Global Corporate Affairs. "We were thrilled when several other major companies—including Target, Best Buy, and Costco—also increased wages to at least $15 an hour for their employees. We are hopeful that more follow suit. That's what U.S. workers deserve and, as this new study makes clear, what people across the country want." Amazon's minimum wage comes on top of comprehensive benefits like healthcare, 401(k) company matching, and paid parental leave. In addition, Amazon employees can access a wide range of free training programs to learn new skills for in-demand jobs as part of Upskilling 2025–a $700 million commitment to help employees gain critical knowledge so they can move into higher-skilled, better-paying roles. For more on the study, and to see the stories of people who have experienced the benefits of a $15 an hour starting wage, please visit aboutamazon.com/ipsos-study and Ipsos.com. Methodology This Amazon/Ipsos poll was conducted January 28 to February 8, 2021 by Ipsos using the probability-based KnowledgePanel. This poll is based on a nationally representative probability sample of 6,354 with a boost for hourly workers and state boosts in Florida, Minnesota, Washington, Arizona, Georgia. The survey was conducted in English and Spanish. KnowledgePanel is the largest and most well-established online probability-based panel that is representative of the adult US population. Our recruitment process employs a scientifically developed addressed-based sampling methodology using the latest Delivery Sequence File of the USPS – a database with full coverage of all delivery points in the US. Households invited to join the panel are randomly selected from all available households in the U.S. Persons in the sampled households are invited to join and participate in the panel. Those selected who do not already have internet access are provided a tablet and internet connection at no cost to the panel member. Those who join the panel and who are selected to participate in a survey are sent a unique password-protected log-in used to complete surveys online. As a result of our recruitment and sampling methodologies, samples from KnowledgePanel cover all households regardless of their phone or internet status and findings can be reported with a margin of sampling error and projected to the general population. The data were weighted to adjust for gender by age, race/ethnicity, education, Census region, metropolitan status, household income, and party identification. The demographic benchmarks came from 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) from the US Census Bureau. – Gender (Male, Female) by Age (18–29, 30–44, 45–59, and 60+)– Race/Ethnicity (White Non-Hispanic, Black Non-Hispanic, Other or 2+ Races Non-Hispanic, Hispanic)– Education (High School graduate or less, Some College, Bachelor and beyond)– Census Region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West)– Metropolitan status (Metro, non-Metro)– Household Income (Under $25,000, $25,000-$49,999, $50,000-$74,999, $75,000-$99,999, $100,000-$149,999, $150,000+)– Party ID (Democrat, Republican, Independent, Something else) About Amazon  Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) 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 Ipsos Ipsos is the world's third largest Insights and Analytics company, present in 90 markets and employing more than 18,000 people. Our passionately curious research professionals, analysts and scientists have built unique multi-specialist capabilities that provide true understanding and powerful insights into the actions, opinions and motivations of citizens, consumers, patients, customers or employees. We serve more than 5000 clients across the world with 75 business solutions. ISIN code FR0000073298, Reuters ISOS.PA, Bloomberg IPS:FP www.ipsos.com. 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<p><em>Study reveals how an increase to a $15 minimum wage would positively impact the lives of tens of millions of individuals and families across the U.S.</em></p><p><em>Americans believe large companies should play a major role in raising the minimum wage—more so than politicians, policymakers, and advocacy groups.</em></p><p><em>Amazon has vocally advocated for raising the minimum wage nationwide since adopting a starting wage of at least $15 an hour for its own employees in 2018.</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 16, 2021-- Today, global market research firm Ipsos released a new, comprehensive federal minimum wage study, which polled more than 6,000 Americans on their knowledge of and opinions on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. The study confirmed that the vast majority of Americans agree that the federal minimum wage is too low and should be increased to at least $15 per hour. In addition, the study highlighted the difficulties for those earning less than $15 per hour to afford basic necessities, the significant impact increasing the federal minimum wage would have on American lives, and the role that large businesses should play in increasing the minimum wage.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210316005362/en/</p><div><p>Amazon - Ipsos $15 Minimum Wage Study Infographic (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>In 2018, Amazon raised its starting wage for all U.S. employees to at least $15 an hour, and today well over half of all Amazon front-line employees in the U.S. earn more than $15 an hour.</p><p>The findings in this study reveal a widely held view that the current amount of $7.25 an hour is too low.</p><ul><li>Eight in ten Americans (80%) say the federal minimum wage is too low. This consensus was seen across all genders, generations, education levels, races, income levels, and regions of the country.</li><li>Among those surveyed who hold an opinion on the federal minimum wage, two-thirds support increasing it to $15 per hour. Even when including undecided respondents on the matter, more than half (56%) support a $15 per hour minimum wage.</li><li>The majority of Americans also believe raising the minimum wage would have a positive impact on employees in general (70%), the country (55%), their community (54%), and the economy (54%).</li></ul><p>"Virtually any policy discussion today devolves into partisan debates and experts talking past each other," said Chris Jackson, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Ipsos. "Rarely, if ever, do the opinions or preferences of regular Americans enter into these debates, but our study clearly indicates that the American people want to see the federal minimum wage increased. This level of agreement is practically unheard of in contemporary America and reflects an overwhelming public consensus that elected officials should think twice before disputing."</p><p>The Real Impact of a $15 Starting Wage</p><p>About two in five hourly, temporary, or seasonal employees say they make less than $15 an hour (37%). Those who make less than $15 an hour are significantly less likely to say they can afford basic human needs such as shopping for groceries, paying for prescription drugs, or a doctor's visit. An unexpected event can financially derail them, and they are significantly less likely to be satisfied with all aspects of their life compared to those who earn $15 or more or are salaried employees.</p><ul><li>Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would have a significant impact on those currently making less than that amount. About one in four people currently earning $15 an hour or more say that at some point in the past five years, they have earned less than $15 an hour (24%). When they compare what they could afford before their income increased versus now, this group is significantly more likely to say they can afford necessities, such as groceries (a 15% increase), going to the doctor (a 20% increase), and prescription drugs (a 19% increase).</li><li>People making less than $15 are significantly more likely to say they are spending more than they make (26% compared to 17% of those making $15 or more, and 10% of salaried employees) and more likely to say they pay most of their household bills late (17% compared to 5% of those making $15 or more and 2% of salaried employees).</li><li>Those making less than $15 an hour are twice as likely to say they are not confident they could come up with $500 if an unexpected need came up in the next month (30%) compared to those making $15 or more (16%).</li></ul><p>The Role &amp; Responsibility of Large Businesses in Increasing the Minimum Wage</p><p>When compared to politicians and policymakers (73%), advocacy groups (69%) and the media (51%), more Americans (80%) think large employers should play a role in raising the federal minimum wage.</p><p>Amazon's 2018 decision to increase starting wages to at least $15 an hour—for all full-time, part-time, temporary, and seasonal employees—immediately drove a positive impact. The increase helped Amazon employees purchase cars, pay for home repairs and college tuition, and build their savings.</p><p>"Where I worked before Amazon, I made $11 an hour, it was very hard for me to save money to pay my bills," said Kimberly Reece, an Amazon warehouse employee in Miami, Florida. "But now I'm able to pay all my bills on time and was able to move into a bigger house with my mom so I can help take care of her."</p><p>Stories like Kimberly's are why Amazon, as one of the nation's largest employers, continues to encourage other large companies to raise their wages and to advocate for members of Congress to raise the minimum wage.</p><p>"We believe that $15 an hour is the <em>minimum</em> that anyone in the U.S. should earn for an hour of labor; that's why we were among the first major employers to offer a $15 an hour starting wage and why we've been advocating for an increase to the federal minimum wage ever since," said Jay Carney, Senior Vice President, Amazon Global Corporate Affairs. "We were thrilled when several other major companies—including Target, Best Buy, and Costco—also increased wages to at least $15 an hour for their employees. We are hopeful that more follow suit. That's what U.S. workers deserve and, as this new study makes clear, what people across the country want."</p><p>Amazon's minimum wage comes on top of comprehensive benefits like healthcare, 401(k) company matching, and paid parental leave. In addition, Amazon employees can access a wide range of free training programs to learn new skills for in-demand jobs as part of Upskilling 2025–a $700 million commitment to help employees gain critical knowledge so they can move into higher-skilled, better-paying roles.</p><p>For more on the study, and to see the stories of people who have experienced the benefits of a $15 an hour starting wage, please visit aboutamazon.com/ipsos-study and Ipsos.com.</p><p>Methodology</p><p>This Amazon/Ipsos poll was conducted January 28 to February 8, 2021 by Ipsos using the probability-based KnowledgePanel. This poll is based on a nationally representative probability sample of 6,354 with a boost for hourly workers and state boosts in Florida, Minnesota, Washington, Arizona, Georgia. The survey was conducted in English and Spanish.</p><p>KnowledgePanel is the largest and most well-established online probability-based panel that is representative of the adult US population. Our recruitment process employs a scientifically developed addressed-based sampling methodology using the latest Delivery Sequence File of the USPS – a database with full coverage of all delivery points in the US. Households invited to join the panel are randomly selected from all available households in the U.S. Persons in the sampled households are invited to join and participate in the panel. Those selected who do not already have internet access are provided a tablet and internet connection at no cost to the panel member. Those who join the panel and who are selected to participate in a survey are sent a unique password-protected log-in used to complete surveys online. As a result of our recruitment and sampling methodologies, samples from KnowledgePanel cover all households regardless of their phone or internet status and findings can be reported with a margin of sampling error and projected to the general population.</p><p>The data were weighted to adjust for gender by age, race/ethnicity, education, Census region, metropolitan status, household income, and party identification. The demographic benchmarks came from 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) from the US Census Bureau.</p><p>– Gender (Male, Female) by Age (18–29, 30–44, 45–59, and 60+)– Race/Ethnicity (White Non-Hispanic, Black Non-Hispanic, Other or 2+ Races Non-Hispanic, Hispanic)– Education (High School graduate or less, Some College, Bachelor and beyond)– Census Region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West)– Metropolitan status (Metro, non-Metro)– Household Income (Under $25,000, $25,000-$49,999, $50,000-$74,999, $75,000-$99,999, $100,000-$149,999, $150,000+)– Party ID (Democrat, Republican, Independent, Something else)</p><p>About Amazon </p><p>Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) 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 Ipsos</p><p>Ipsos is the world's third largest Insights and Analytics company, present in 90 markets and employing more than 18,000 people. Our passionately curious research professionals, analysts and scientists have built unique multi-specialist capabilities that provide true understanding and powerful insights into the actions, opinions and motivations of citizens, consumers, patients, customers or employees. We serve more than 5000 clients across the world with 75 business solutions. ISIN code FR0000073298, Reuters ISOS.PA, Bloomberg IPS:FP www.ipsos.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210316005362/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Announces First Fulfillment Center in Amarillo, TX

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New operations facility to create over 500 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 11, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to open a new fulfillment center in Amarillo, Texas. The new operations facility is expected to create over 500 new, full-time jobs with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one. See Our Fulfillment Centers in Action "We look forward to becoming part of the fabric of the Amarillo community and are thrilled to be able to expand our operations in the Texas panhandle," said Mark Marzano, Director of Operations at Amazon. "We're grateful for the support we've received from local and state leaders and look forward to creating over 500 new, full-time jobs for the local community." In the new one million square-foot fulfillment center, which is expected to launch in early 2022, Amazon employees will work to pick, pack, and ship bulky or larger-sized customer items such as furniture, outdoor equipment, or rugs. "To say that the addition of Amazon to Amarillo is exciting is an understatement," said Amarillo Mayor Ginger Nelson. "Amazon is one of the more incredibly successful companies in U.S. history. This company will have a significant presence in Amarillo that will provide a boost to not only the Amarillo economy, but the economy of the entire Texas Panhandle. Amazon is creating hundreds of good-paying jobs for Amarillo. This will have a major ripple effect on the local and area economy. I want to congratulate the Amarillo Economic Development Corp. for the hard work in helping make this fantastic partnership with Amazon a reality, and we welcome Amazon, its jobs and its opportunities to Amarillo." On top of Amazon's industry-leading $15 per hour starting wage, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. Amazon prioritizes the safety and health of its employees and has invested millions of dollars to provide a safe workplace. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families. "We're thrilled to welcome Amazon to Amarillo," Kevin Carter, President and CEO of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation, stated. "The addition of the Amazon fulfillment center in Amarillo will have a large impact on not only our community, but the entire Texas Panhandle. Amazon's investment in our city includes the creation of 500 new, full-time jobs. Amarillo has always been a logistical hub, and Amazon's facility will reinforce this." Amazon leverages its scale to help support local communities. Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in-demand jobs. The programs will help Amazon team members from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. "We're proud the new Amazon fulfillment center has chosen Amarillo to call home," Potter County Judge Nancy Tanner said. "This economic development success is a major achievement not only for Potter County, but Amarillo as a whole. The addition of this facility will go on to fuel economic growth for years to come." Amazon in Texas: Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 70,000 jobs in Texas and invested more than $16.9 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to its employees. Amazon's investments have contributed more than $18.8 billion in GDP to the Texas economy and have helped create over 49,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. More than 116,000 independent authors and small and medium businesses in Texas are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state. Additional Resources: See an Amazon Fulfillment Center In Action Amazon Job Creation and Investment U.S. U.S. Investment Map About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210311005683/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New operations facility to create over 500 new, full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 11, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to open a new fulfillment center in Amarillo, Texas. The new operations facility is expected to create over 500 new, full-time jobs with industry-leading pay and comprehensive benefits starting on day one.</p><p>See Our Fulfillment Centers in Action</p><p>"We look forward to becoming part of the fabric of the Amarillo community and are thrilled to be able to expand our operations in the Texas panhandle," said Mark Marzano, Director of Operations at Amazon. "We're grateful for the support we've received from local and state leaders and look forward to creating over 500 new, full-time jobs for the local community."</p><p>In the new one million square-foot fulfillment center, which is expected to launch in early 2022, Amazon employees will work to pick, pack, and ship bulky or larger-sized customer items such as furniture, outdoor equipment, or rugs.</p><p>"To say that the addition of Amazon to Amarillo is exciting is an understatement," said Amarillo Mayor Ginger Nelson. "Amazon is one of the more incredibly successful companies in U.S. history. This company will have a significant presence in Amarillo that will provide a boost to not only the Amarillo economy, but the economy of the entire Texas Panhandle. Amazon is creating hundreds of good-paying jobs for Amarillo. This will have a major ripple effect on the local and area economy. I want to congratulate the Amarillo Economic Development Corp. for the hard work in helping make this fantastic partnership with Amazon a reality, and we welcome Amazon, its jobs and its opportunities to Amarillo."</p><p>On top of Amazon's industry-leading $15 per hour starting wage, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. Amazon prioritizes the safety and health of its employees and has invested millions of dollars to provide a safe workplace. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families.</p><p>"We're thrilled to welcome Amazon to Amarillo," Kevin Carter, President and CEO of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation, stated. "The addition of the Amazon fulfillment center in Amarillo will have a large impact on not only our community, but the entire Texas Panhandle. Amazon's investment in our city includes the creation of 500 new, full-time jobs. Amarillo has always been a logistical hub, and Amazon's facility will reinforce this."</p><p>Amazon leverages its scale to help support local communities. Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in-demand jobs. The programs will help Amazon team members from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>"We're proud the new Amazon fulfillment center has chosen Amarillo to call home," Potter County Judge Nancy Tanner said. "This economic development success is a major achievement not only for Potter County, but Amarillo as a whole. The addition of this facility will go on to fuel economic growth for years to come."</p><p>Amazon in Texas:</p><ul><li>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 70,000 jobs in Texas and invested more than $16.9 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to its employees.</li><li>Amazon's investments have contributed more than $18.8 billion in GDP to the Texas economy and have helped create over 49,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services.</li><li>More than 116,000 independent authors and small and medium businesses in Texas are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state.</li></ul><p>Additional Resources:</p><ul><li>See an Amazon Fulfillment Center In Action</li><li>Amazon Job Creation and Investment U.S.</li><li>U.S. Investment Map</li></ul><p>About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210311005683/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Music Launches New Shopping Experience, Making It Easier for Fans to Find Merch from Their Favorite Artists

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For the first time, customers can discover new music, watch live streams, and browse a curated, Prime-eligible selection of an artist's merch, vinyl, and more — all from the Amazon Music app Launching with products from groundbreaking artists including Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Jack Harlow, and King Princess, and exclusive offerings from Selena Gomez, Weezer, Wale, Florida Georgia Line, and more SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 10, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Music today announced the integration of artist merchandise within its mobile app, combining the convenience customers have come to know and love from Amazon, with a new way for artists to engage with their audience and enrich the fan experience. Artist merchandise will now appear in the Amazon Music app on participating artists' pages, side-by-side with their songs, albums, live streams, and music videos. By seamlessly tying artist merch and music together in the app, fans in the U.S. can now easily shop a genre-spanning selection of merchandise, a majority of which is available with Prime shipping for Prime members, from artists including Billie Eilish, Jack Harlow, King Princess, Lady Gaga, and Gucci Mane while listening to their favorite music, uninterrupted. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210310005579/en/ Amazon Music's in-app merchandise. (Photo: Business Wire) To coincide with today's announcement, Amazon Music is debuting exclusive merchandise collections from an exciting array of artists, including a new line of apparel developed by Selena Gomez to celebrate her upcoming Spanish-language EP, REVELACIÓN, and an exclusive collection celebrating legendary rock band, Weezer. Amazon Music's exclusive offerings feature new merch from Gwen Stefani, Metallica, Queen Naija, Pentatonix, and Florida Georgia Line, and Queen. In addition, Wale has made Amazon Music the exclusive online retail partner for his merchandise collection. "Fashion is an inseparable part of music and culture, and with the addition of merchandise to the Amazon Music app, we're making it easier for artists to connect with their fans through our app," said Sean McMullan, Amazon Music's Director of Artist Product and Services. "It's long been Amazon Music's mission to strengthen the connection between artists and fans, and today's launch furthers that goal by uniting streaming audio, music videos, live streams, podcasts, and now merch under one roof for the first time." Inspired by a Mexico City mural created to commemorate her single "Baila Conmigo," Selena Gomez's REVELACIÓN collection includes a variety of apparel from the pop star, including a colorful hoodie, graphic T-shirts, and a hat. On sale now, the collection is only available from Amazon. "I wanted to offer my fans something special for the release of REVELACIÓN," said Selena Gomez. "That's why I worked to develop a beautiful, new collection of exclusive merch for Amazon Music. I hope you enjoy what I've put together." Weezer will also debut a new collection of merchandise for the launch of Amazon Music's merch integration. Featuring hoodies, T-shirts, and hats adorned with Weezer's iconic "Flying W" logo, classic Blue Album colorways, and the band's trademark earnest tribute to the undeniable power of rock music, the collection is a celebration of all-things Weezer. "Since the pandemic has temporarily eradicated the merch table, we're really excited to have developed an exclusive collection of offerings with Amazon Music to bring the merch table directly to our fans," says Weezer. "We can't wait to see everyone back on the road when it's safe again to tour!" Fans can shop the exclusive merchandise in the Amazon Music app or online or on the Amazon Music Merch Shop, a comprehensive shopping experience on Amazon.com, developed and curated by the Amazon Music team. Additional exclusive merchandise includes: Just in time for the release of her new single, "Slow Clap," this Friday, Gwen Stefani's new merchandise line pays tribute to the artist's extensive career, featuring hoodies and T-shirts that juxtapose Stefani's iconic, SoCal ska-inspired look from the "Just A Girl" music video with her new look introduced in her recent single "Let Me Reintroduce Myself." Queen Naija is now offering Amazon Music customers a new collection of T-shirts, sweatshirts, and hoodies sporting her crown logo, as well as designs tied to her song "Butterflies Pt. 2" and her recent album Misunderstood. Pentatonix is offering an exclusive collection of merch celebrating the group's newest album The Lucky Ones. The selection includes a coffee mug themed to the band's single "Coffee in Bed," a "Happy Now" sweatshirt to commemorate the album's opening track, and a notebook themed to the group's song, "A Little Space." Metallica is offering a set of exclusive throwback T-shirts. Amazon Music is the exclusive online retail partner for Wale, offering a selection of the rapper's merchandise, including hoodies, T-shirts, and more tied to his most recent album, Wow... That's Crazy. Florida Georgia Line has also developed exclusive merch for Amazon Music. Featuring T-shirts, phone cases, totes, and more, the new collection pays tribute to the group's love of fishing, Florida, and the great outdoors. Queen is offering a merchandise collection that features designs inspired by the "Queen Crest," which Freddie Mercury originally designed in 1973 for the band's debut album. 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 70 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 70 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Customers also have free access to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations on Amazon Music. All Amazon Music tiers now offer a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, and live streaming in partnership with Twitch. Engaging with music and culture has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210310005579/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>For the first time, customers can discover new music, watch live streams, and browse a curated, Prime-eligible selection of an artist's merch, vinyl, and more — all from the Amazon Music app</em></p><p><em>Launching with products from groundbreaking artists including Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Jack Harlow, and King Princess, and exclusive offerings from Selena Gomez, Weezer, Wale, Florida Georgia Line, and more</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 10, 2021-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Music today announced the integration of artist merchandise within its mobile app, combining the convenience customers have come to know and love from Amazon, with a new way for artists to engage with their audience and enrich the fan experience. Artist merchandise will now appear in the Amazon Music app on participating artists' pages, side-by-side with their songs, albums, live streams, and music videos. By seamlessly tying artist merch and music together in the app, fans in the U.S. can now easily shop a genre-spanning selection of merchandise, a majority of which is available with Prime shipping for Prime members, from artists including Billie Eilish, Jack Harlow, King Princess, Lady Gaga, and Gucci Mane while listening to their favorite music, uninterrupted.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210310005579/en/</p><div><p>Amazon Music's in-app merchandise. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>To coincide with today's announcement, Amazon Music is debuting exclusive merchandise collections from an exciting array of artists, including a new line of apparel developed by Selena Gomez to celebrate her upcoming Spanish-language EP, <em>REVELACIÓN</em>, and an exclusive collection celebrating legendary rock band, Weezer. Amazon Music's exclusive offerings feature new merch from Gwen Stefani, Metallica, Queen Naija, Pentatonix, and Florida Georgia Line, and Queen. In addition, Wale has made Amazon Music the exclusive online retail partner for his merchandise collection.</p><p>"Fashion is an inseparable part of music and culture, and with the addition of merchandise to the Amazon Music app, we're making it easier for artists to connect with their fans through our app," said Sean McMullan, Amazon Music's Director of Artist Product and Services. "It's long been Amazon Music's mission to strengthen the connection between artists and fans, and today's launch furthers that goal by uniting streaming audio, music videos, live streams, podcasts, and now merch under one roof for the first time."</p><p>Inspired by a Mexico City mural created to commemorate her single "Baila Conmigo," Selena Gomez's <em>REVELACIÓN</em> collection includes a variety of apparel from the pop star, including a colorful hoodie, graphic T-shirts, and a hat. On sale now, the collection is only available from Amazon.</p><p>"I wanted to offer my fans something special for the release of REVELACIÓN," said Selena Gomez. "That's why I worked to develop a beautiful, new collection of exclusive merch for Amazon Music. I hope you enjoy what I've put together."</p><p>Weezer will also debut a new collection of merchandise for the launch of Amazon Music's merch integration. Featuring hoodies, T-shirts, and hats adorned with Weezer's iconic "Flying W" logo, classic <em>Blue Album</em> colorways, and the band's trademark earnest tribute to the undeniable power of rock music, the collection is a celebration of all-things Weezer.</p><p>"Since the pandemic has temporarily eradicated the merch table, we're really excited to have developed an exclusive collection of offerings with Amazon Music to bring the merch table directly to our fans," says Weezer. "We can't wait to see everyone back on the road when it's safe again to tour!"</p><p>Fans can shop the exclusive merchandise in the Amazon Music app or online or on the Amazon Music Merch Shop, a comprehensive shopping experience on Amazon.com, developed and curated by the Amazon Music team.</p><p>Additional exclusive merchandise includes:</p><ul><li>Just in time for the release of her new single, "Slow Clap," this Friday, Gwen Stefani's new merchandise line pays tribute to the artist's extensive career, featuring hoodies and T-shirts that juxtapose Stefani's iconic, SoCal ska-inspired look from the "Just A Girl" music video with her new look introduced in her recent single "Let Me Reintroduce Myself."</li><li>Queen Naija is now offering Amazon Music customers a new collection of T-shirts, sweatshirts, and hoodies sporting her crown logo, as well as designs tied to her song "Butterflies Pt. 2" and her recent album <em>Misunderstood</em>.</li><li>Pentatonix is offering an exclusive collection of merch celebrating the group's newest album <em>The Lucky Ones</em>. The selection includes a coffee mug themed to the band's single "Coffee in Bed," a "Happy Now" sweatshirt to commemorate the album's opening track, and a notebook themed to the group's song, "A Little Space."</li><li>Metallica is offering a set of exclusive throwback T-shirts.</li><li>Amazon Music is the exclusive online retail partner for Wale, offering a selection of the rapper's merchandise, including hoodies, T-shirts, and more tied to his most recent album, <em>Wow... That's Crazy</em>.</li><li>Florida Georgia Line has also developed exclusive merch for Amazon Music. Featuring T-shirts, phone cases, totes, and more, the new collection pays tribute to the group's love of fishing, Florida, and the great outdoors.</li><li>Queen is offering a merchandise collection that features designs inspired by the "Queen Crest," which Freddie Mercury originally designed in 1973 for the band's debut album.</li></ul><p>About Amazon Music</p><p>Amazon Music reimagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music provides unlimited access to new releases and classic hits across iOS and Android mobile devices, PC, Mac, Echo, and Alexa-enabled devices including Fire TV and more. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Listeners can also enjoy the premium subscription service, Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 70 million songs and the latest new releases. And with Amazon Music HD, customers have access to the highest-quality listening experience available, with more than 70 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. Customers also have free access to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations on Amazon Music. All Amazon Music tiers now offer a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, and live streaming in partnership with Twitch. Engaging with music and culture has never been more natural, simple, and fun. For more information, visit amazonmusic.com or download the Amazon Music app.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210310005579/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS Announces New Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System

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AWS Announces New Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System

03/09/2021

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One Zone storage classes provide single Availability Zone (AZ) storage at a 47% lower cost than existing multi-AZ storage classes Capital One, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and Qube Research & Technologies among customers using One Zone storage classes for Amazon Elastic File System SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 9, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced new Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) One Zone storage classes that reduce storage costs by 47% compared to existing Amazon EFS storage classes, while delivering the same features and benefits. One Zone storage classes redundantly store data within a single Availability Zone (AZ) and are ideal for customers who want cost-optimized file storage options for workloads and applications that do not require the level of availability and durability offered by regional Amazon EFS storage classes that redundantly store data across multiple geographically separated AZs. With One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS there are no minimum commitments or up-front fees, and customers pay only for the amount of file system storage used. To get started with One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS visit http://aws.amazon.com/efs/. Customers use Amazon EFS as a simple, serverless, elastic file system with AWS (and on-premises via AWS Direct Connect or AWS VPN) for a broad range of workloads. Traditionally, Amazon EFS storage classes (EFS Standard and EFS Standard-Infrequent Access) store data across multiple, geographically-separated AZs that comprise an AWS Region to offer the highest level of availability and durability. Customers use Amazon EFS for their business critical applications like SAP and Oracle; however, there are some workloads (e.g. content management, developer applications, etc.) that do not require the multi-AZ availability and durability provided by Amazon EFS's existing storage classes. As a result, these customers either end up paying for more durability and availability than their applications may require, or customers choose to deploy self-managed file systems for these kinds of workloads (resulting in a higher TCO and more time spent on management). With new One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS, customers now have the choice of a simple, serverless, fully managed file system that runs in a single AZ, and that costs 47% less than regional Amazon EFS storage classes. One Zone storage classes allow customers to achieve a blended storage price of $0.043/GB-month, while also offering higher availability and durability than self-managed file systems. One Zone storage classes provide these lower costs while delivering the same elasticity and scalability benefits of Amazon EFS Standard and EFS Standard-Infrequent Access, as well as features like lifecycle management, and integration with AWS compute services, including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda. One Zone storage classes are ideal for developer workloads like build and staging environments, and applications like analytics, simulation, and media transcoding that do not require the highest levels of availability and durability of regional Amazon EFS storage classes. One Zone storage classes are also ideal for storing replicas, secondary copies of data residing on-premises, data that can be easily recreated, and data used by applications with built-in replication and high availability features. One Zone for Amazon EFS offers two storage classes (One Zone and One Zone-Infrequent Access). One Zone file systems are configured with a Lifecycle Management policy of 30 days to automatically and transparently move less frequently used files to the One Zone-Infrequent Access storage class, delivering 92% additional savings on storage costs compared to One Zone storage class. "When we set out to build Amazon EFS, we designed it with multi-Availability Zone redundancy to deliver the highest levels of durability and availability. We've also heard from customers that they'd like a lower cost file storage option for workloads that have lower resiliency requirements," said Wayne Duso, Vice President of File, Edge, and Data Services, AWS. "Our new One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS reduce storage costs by almost 50% compared to regional Amazon EFS storage classes, giving our customers an even less expensive file storage option to meet a range of various workloads." All Amazon EFS storage classes are designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) durability. Amazon EFS regional storage classes are designed to provide 99.99% (4 9's) availability, while One Zone for Amazon EFS is designed to provide 99.9% (3 9's) availability. For added data protection, Amazon EFS file systems in One Zone storage classes are automatically backed up using AWS Backup, and can be restored to any AZ within a Region, or copied to a different Region. Amazon EFS One Zone storage classes are available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Milan), Europe (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (Bahrain), and all AWS GovCloud (US) regions, with more regions coming soon. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients through a variety of channels. "Our engineering teams are focused on creating great customer experiences, and they rely on the simplicity and reliability of Amazon EFS for their file system needs," said Andrew Peskin, Director Software Engineering, Cloud and Connectivity, Capital One. "Amazon EFS One Zone will give us additional, lower-cost options for new development, pre-production and test workloads, helping us focus our time, money and energy on developing innovative solutions for our customers instead of managing file storage infrastructure." One of the world's largest human genomic research efforts, The Regeneron Genetics Center is working to rapidly accelerate the development of new therapies for people facing life-threatening conditions. "Every day we are challenged to make scientific discoveries as quickly as possible to help address some of health's biggest challenges," said Jeffrey Reid, Vice President at Regeneron and Chief Data Officer at the Regeneron Genetics Center. "Speed, simplicity, and elasticity matter to our scientists, who work collaboratively on homegrown technologies to translate science into medicine. Amazon EFS delivers on its promise and empowers our team to accelerate their research. Further, Amazon EFS One Zone addresses the needs of many of our research workloads and helps us optimize on storage costs without losing the Amazon EFS features we depend on." Qube Research & Technologies Limited is a technology driven firm implementing a scientific approach to financial investment. "When you're a quantitative investment manager that relies on combining data, research and trading expertise to deliver quality returns to your investors, getting the best value out of your own technology infrastructure is critical," said Jon Fautley, Cloud Engineer at QRT. "Amazon EFS One Zone allows us to choose additional savings of 47% for HPC analytics workloads that don't require regional resilience, with all the EFS capabilities that we know and love. Data powers QRT's innovation dynamic, and EFS One Zone allows us to more efficiently onboard, analyze and evaluate data to deliver high quality returns for our customers." Funambol is a leading provider of cloud solutions to mobile operators and other service providers, with solutions deployed in 50 countries across hundreds of millions of end users. "Funambol's goal is to enable service providers to get to market quickly, with white label solutions for personal cloud, business cloud, IOT, and business intelligence," said Stefano Nichele, Director of Operations for Funambol. "Our customers count on us to provide reliability, performance, and security for the services we deliver across a wide range of devices, from content management to computer vision. We love the elasticity and simplicity of Amazon EFS, and Amazon EFS One Zone provides the perfect set of capabilities, at the right price, to allow us to develop and deploy new media processing workflows and products for our customers." Since 1986, Murex has developed powerful financial technology solutions and spurred growth and innovation in capital markets. "More than 57,000 daily users around the globe rely on our platform for trading, hedging, funding, risk management, or processing operations," said Arnaud de Chavagnac, head of cloud, technology and services marketing at Murex. "We are excited about Amazon EFS One Zone and evaluating the TCO and performance impact it can deliver as part of our mission-critical MX.3 platform. The platform requires highly responsive storage technology to execute computation-intensive tasks such as pricing, market risk and xVA management for our customers, including global sell-side financial institutions, local banks, asset managers, hedge funds, large corporations, and energy utilities." About Amazon Web Services  For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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/20210309006025/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>One Zone storage classes provide single Availability Zone (AZ) storage at a 47% lower cost than existing multi-AZ storage classes</em></p><p><em>Capital One, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and Qube Research &amp; Technologies among customers using One Zone storage classes for Amazon Elastic File System</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 9, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced new Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) One Zone storage classes that reduce storage costs by 47% compared to existing Amazon EFS storage classes, while delivering the same features and benefits. One Zone storage classes redundantly store data within a single Availability Zone (AZ) and are ideal for customers who want cost-optimized file storage options for workloads and applications that do not require the level of availability and durability offered by regional Amazon EFS storage classes that redundantly store data across multiple geographically separated AZs. With One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS there are no minimum commitments or up-front fees, and customers pay only for the amount of file system storage used. To get started with One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS visit http://aws.amazon.com/efs/.</p><p>Customers use Amazon EFS as a simple, serverless, elastic file system with AWS (and on-premises via AWS Direct Connect or AWS VPN) for a broad range of workloads. Traditionally, Amazon EFS storage classes (EFS Standard and EFS Standard-Infrequent Access) store data across multiple, geographically-separated AZs that comprise an AWS Region to offer the highest level of availability and durability. Customers use Amazon EFS for their business critical applications like SAP and Oracle; however, there are some workloads (e.g. content management, developer applications, etc.) that do not require the multi-AZ availability and durability provided by Amazon EFS's existing storage classes. As a result, these customers either end up paying for more durability and availability than their applications may require, or customers choose to deploy self-managed file systems for these kinds of workloads (resulting in a higher TCO and more time spent on management).</p><p>With new One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS, customers now have the choice of a simple, serverless, fully managed file system that runs in a single AZ, and that costs 47% less than regional Amazon EFS storage classes. One Zone storage classes allow customers to achieve a blended storage price of $0.043/GB-month, while also offering higher availability and durability than self-managed file systems. One Zone storage classes provide these lower costs while delivering the same elasticity and scalability benefits of Amazon EFS Standard and EFS Standard-Infrequent Access, as well as features like lifecycle management, and integration with AWS compute services, including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda. One Zone storage classes are ideal for developer workloads like build and staging environments, and applications like analytics, simulation, and media transcoding that do not require the highest levels of availability and durability of regional Amazon EFS storage classes. One Zone storage classes are also ideal for storing replicas, secondary copies of data residing on-premises, data that can be easily recreated, and data used by applications with built-in replication and high availability features. One Zone for Amazon EFS offers two storage classes (One Zone and One Zone-Infrequent Access). One Zone file systems are configured with a Lifecycle Management policy of 30 days to automatically and transparently move less frequently used files to the One Zone-Infrequent Access storage class, delivering 92% additional savings on storage costs compared to One Zone storage class.</p><p>"When we set out to build Amazon EFS, we designed it with multi-Availability Zone redundancy to deliver the highest levels of durability and availability. We've also heard from customers that they'd like a lower cost file storage option for workloads that have lower resiliency requirements," said Wayne Duso, Vice President of File, Edge, and Data Services, AWS. "Our new One Zone storage classes for Amazon EFS reduce storage costs by almost 50% compared to regional Amazon EFS storage classes, giving our customers an even less expensive file storage option to meet a range of various workloads."</p><p>All Amazon EFS storage classes are designed for 99.999999999% (11 9's) durability. Amazon EFS regional storage classes are designed to provide 99.99% (4 9's) availability, while One Zone for Amazon EFS is designed to provide 99.9% (3 9's) availability. For added data protection, Amazon EFS file systems in One Zone storage classes are automatically backed up using AWS Backup, and can be restored to any AZ within a Region, or copied to a different Region. Amazon EFS One Zone storage classes are available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Milan), Europe (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (Bahrain), and all AWS GovCloud (US) regions, with more regions coming soon.</p><p>Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients through a variety of channels. "Our engineering teams are focused on creating great customer experiences, and they rely on the simplicity and reliability of Amazon EFS for their file system needs," said Andrew Peskin, Director Software Engineering, Cloud and Connectivity, Capital One. "Amazon EFS One Zone will give us additional, lower-cost options for new development, pre-production and test workloads, helping us focus our time, money and energy on developing innovative solutions for our customers instead of managing file storage infrastructure."</p><p>One of the world's largest human genomic research efforts, The Regeneron Genetics Center is working to rapidly accelerate the development of new therapies for people facing life-threatening conditions. "Every day we are challenged to make scientific discoveries as quickly as possible to help address some of health's biggest challenges," said Jeffrey Reid, Vice President at Regeneron and Chief Data Officer at the Regeneron Genetics Center. "Speed, simplicity, and elasticity matter to our scientists, who work collaboratively on homegrown technologies to translate science into medicine. Amazon EFS delivers on its promise and empowers our team to accelerate their research. Further, Amazon EFS One Zone addresses the needs of many of our research workloads and helps us optimize on storage costs without losing the Amazon EFS features we depend on."</p><p>Qube Research &amp; Technologies Limited is a technology driven firm implementing a scientific approach to financial investment. "When you're a quantitative investment manager that relies on combining data, research and trading expertise to deliver quality returns to your investors, getting the best value out of your own technology infrastructure is critical," said Jon Fautley, Cloud Engineer at QRT. "Amazon EFS One Zone allows us to choose additional savings of 47% for HPC analytics workloads that don't require regional resilience, with all the EFS capabilities that we know and love. Data powers QRT's innovation dynamic, and EFS One Zone allows us to more efficiently onboard, analyze and evaluate data to deliver high quality returns for our customers."</p><p>Funambol is a leading provider of cloud solutions to mobile operators and other service providers, with solutions deployed in 50 countries across hundreds of millions of end users. "Funambol's goal is to enable service providers to get to market quickly, with white label solutions for personal cloud, business cloud, IOT, and business intelligence," said Stefano Nichele, Director of Operations for Funambol. "Our customers count on us to provide reliability, performance, and security for the services we deliver across a wide range of devices, from content management to computer vision. We love the elasticity and simplicity of Amazon EFS, and Amazon EFS One Zone provides the perfect set of capabilities, at the right price, to allow us to develop and deploy new media processing workflows and products for our customers."</p><p>Since 1986, Murex has developed powerful financial technology solutions and spurred growth and innovation in capital markets. "More than 57,000 daily users around the globe rely on our platform for trading, hedging, funding, risk management, or processing operations," said Arnaud de Chavagnac, head of cloud, technology and services marketing at Murex. "We are excited about Amazon EFS One Zone and evaluating the TCO and performance impact it can deliver as part of our mission-critical MX.3 platform. The platform requires highly responsive storage technology to execute computation-intensive tasks such as pricing, market risk and xVA management for our customers, including global sell-side financial institutions, local banks, asset managers, hedge funds, large corporations, and energy utilities."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services </p><p>For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. 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/20210309006025/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

PGA TOUR Selects AWS as Its Official Cloud Provider

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PGA TOUR uses AWS machine learning and analytics to bring fans closer to the course and transform how they experience the world's greatest golf tournaments AWS, First Tee, and the TOUR will partner to empower children and teenagers to build inner-strength, confidence, and resilience through the game of golf SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 2, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that the PGA TOUR (TOUR) has selected AWS as the Official Cloud Provider of the TOUR. AWS and the TOUR are partnering to transform the way golf content is created, distributed, and experienced, bringing fans closer to the action on the course while also helping the TOUR streamline its media operations. With this agreement, AWS becomes the Official Cloud Provider, Artificial Intelligence Cloud Provider, Deep Learning Cloud Provider, and Machine Learning Cloud Provider of the TOUR. The TOUR will use AWS machine learning, storage, compute, analytics, database, and media services to quickly process and distribute video footage from each golf tournament, while also giving fans new ways to engage with TOUR content. The TOUR captures hundreds of hours of raw footage at each tournament and will leverage AWS to rapidly transform this content into exciting new digital experiences that provide fans with a more complete and personalized experience across TOUR competition. For instance, Every Shot Live, an over-the-top (OTT) streaming platform powered by AWS, will give viewers live access to every shot from every player in a tournament. During a tournament like THE PLAYERS Championship, fans will have access to more than 32,000 shots from a starting field of 144 golfers. The fans can choose to follow any player in real time and experience each shot via streaming content. In addition, AWS will power TOURCast, an evolution of the TOUR leaderboard that will give fans video game-like control of the golf viewing experience, allowing them to change their viewing perspective with alternative camera angles, navigate around the course, view speed rounds, and display player and shot stats on demand. The TOUR will also use AWS Media Services to make it faster to deliver video content for televised event coverage and OTT streaming for online viewers. To accomplish this, the TOUR will use AWS to simultaneously process and distribute OTT content, formatting it for reliable viewing over a variety of delivery platforms and devices, including smartphones and tablets. Using AWS Media Services, the TOUR will make tournament footage available globally to authenticated broadcasters, content subscribers from AWS, and other sources. In addition, the TOUR will build a data lake for real-time and historic multimedia content on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The TOUR will migrate nearly 100 years of media content to AWS – including video, audio, and images dating back to the 1928 Los Angeles Open – and will stream live footage from future tournaments into the data lake. The TOUR will then use Amazon Rekognition (AWS's deep learning service that makes it easy to add image and video analysis to applications) to automatically tag content with specific metadata like player names and sponsor logos. This will help the TOUR and its content partners search, review, annotate, and package new content, as well as give them instant access to key moments from throughout the TOUR's history to aid commentary and add depth to event coverage. Fans, too, will benefit from enhanced access to years of this tagged and archived golf footage and highlights through the TOUR's web and mobile apps. To round out the partnership, AWS will become a Trustee of First Tee, a youth development organization supported by the TOUR that reaches more than 3.7 million young people across the United States and select international locations each year, helping them build their strength of character through the game of golf. As part of wide-ranging support for First Tee, AWS will assist the organization in developing an online community for coaches, parents, and participants where they can access the First Tee curriculum and resources and connect with peers in the program. "This transformational partnership with AWS will give our fans the opportunity to experience the PGA TOUR like never before," said PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan. "Growing and diversifying our fan base is a top priority for us, and thanks to the collaboration and innovation from AWS, we are creating more ways to experience the game of golf, while personalizing our content to enable fans to engage with the tournaments and players they support." "The world's top sports organizations – for instance, the NFL, NHL, Formula One, NASCAR, Bundesliga, and now the PGA TOUR – continue to turn to AWS to help them innovate for their fans and players at an unprecedented rate," said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Inc. "The partnership and experience we create with the TOUR will be unique. Unlike other sports, there's more than one ball in play on a golf course, which makes it harder for fans to follow how every player is performing. Our collaboration with the TOUR will change the way that fans will be able to connect with the sport by giving them real-time access to virtually every moment on the course and letting them determine how they experience the game." For more information, please visit www.aws.amazon.com/sports. About Amazon Web Services For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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 PGA TOUR  By showcasing golf's greatest players, the PGA TOUR engages, inspires and positively impacts our fans, partners and communities worldwide. The PGA TOUR, headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, co-sanctions tournaments on the PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, Korn Ferry Tour, PGA TOUR Latinoamérica, Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada and PGA TOUR Series-China. Members on the PGA TOUR represent the world's best players, hailing from 29 countries and territories (94 members are from outside the United States). Worldwide, PGA TOUR tournaments are broadcast to 216 countries and territories in 28 languages. Virtually all tournaments are organized as non-profit organizations to maximize charitable giving, and to date, tournaments across all Tours have generated more than $3.2 billion. Fans can follow the PGA TOUR on PGATOUR.COM, the No. 1 site in golf, on the PGA TOUR app and on social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram (in English, Spanish and Korean), LinkedIn, Twitter, WeChat, Weibo, Toutiao and Douyin. About PGA TOUR First Tee Foundation ("First Tee") First Tee (www.firsttee.org) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth development organization that is supported by the PGA TOUR. Its mission is to impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character and instill life-enhancing values through the game of golf. Since its inception in 1997, First Tee has expanded to reach more than 3.6 million young people annually through its chapter network, in schools and at youth centers. Headquartered in Ponte Vedra, Florida, USA, programs are delivered in all 50 United States and select international locations. President George W. Bush serves as Honorary Chair. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210302005466/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>PGA TOUR uses AWS machine learning and analytics to bring fans closer to the course and transform how they experience the world's greatest golf tournaments</em></p><p><em>AWS, First Tee, and the TOUR will partner to empower children and teenagers to build inner-strength, confidence, and resilience through the game of golf</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 2, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that the PGA TOUR (TOUR) has selected AWS as the Official Cloud Provider of the TOUR. AWS and the TOUR are partnering to transform the way golf content is created, distributed, and experienced, bringing fans closer to the action on the course while also helping the TOUR streamline its media operations. With this agreement, AWS becomes the Official Cloud Provider, Artificial Intelligence Cloud Provider, Deep Learning Cloud Provider, and Machine Learning Cloud Provider of the TOUR.</p><p>The TOUR will use AWS machine learning, storage, compute, analytics, database, and media services to quickly process and distribute video footage from each golf tournament, while also giving fans new ways to engage with TOUR content. The TOUR captures hundreds of hours of raw footage at each tournament and will leverage AWS to rapidly transform this content into exciting new digital experiences that provide fans with a more complete and personalized experience across TOUR competition. For instance, Every Shot Live, an over-the-top (OTT) streaming platform powered by AWS, will give viewers live access to every shot from every player in a tournament. During a tournament like THE PLAYERS Championship, fans will have access to more than 32,000 shots from a starting field of 144 golfers. The fans can choose to follow any player in real time and experience each shot via streaming content. In addition, AWS will power TOURCast, an evolution of the TOUR leaderboard that will give fans video game-like control of the golf viewing experience, allowing them to change their viewing perspective with alternative camera angles, navigate around the course, view speed rounds, and display player and shot stats on demand.</p><p>The TOUR will also use AWS Media Services to make it faster to deliver video content for televised event coverage and OTT streaming for online viewers. To accomplish this, the TOUR will use AWS to simultaneously process and distribute OTT content, formatting it for reliable viewing over a variety of delivery platforms and devices, including smartphones and tablets. Using AWS Media Services, the TOUR will make tournament footage available globally to authenticated broadcasters, content subscribers from AWS, and other sources.</p><p>In addition, the TOUR will build a data lake for real-time and historic multimedia content on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The TOUR will migrate nearly 100 years of media content to AWS – including video, audio, and images dating back to the 1928 Los Angeles Open – and will stream live footage from future tournaments into the data lake. The TOUR will then use Amazon Rekognition (AWS's deep learning service that makes it easy to add image and video analysis to applications) to automatically tag content with specific metadata like player names and sponsor logos. This will help the TOUR and its content partners search, review, annotate, and package new content, as well as give them instant access to key moments from throughout the TOUR's history to aid commentary and add depth to event coverage. Fans, too, will benefit from enhanced access to years of this tagged and archived golf footage and highlights through the TOUR's web and mobile apps.</p><p>To round out the partnership, AWS will become a Trustee of First Tee, a youth development organization supported by the TOUR that reaches more than 3.7 million young people across the United States and select international locations each year, helping them build their strength of character through the game of golf. As part of wide-ranging support for First Tee, AWS will assist the organization in developing an online community for coaches, parents, and participants where they can access the First Tee curriculum and resources and connect with peers in the program.</p><p>"This transformational partnership with AWS will give our fans the opportunity to experience the PGA TOUR like never before," said PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan. "Growing and diversifying our fan base is a top priority for us, and thanks to the collaboration and innovation from AWS, we are creating more ways to experience the game of golf, while personalizing our content to enable fans to engage with the tournaments and players they support."</p><p>"The world's top sports organizations – for instance, the NFL, NHL, Formula One, NASCAR, Bundesliga, and now the PGA TOUR – continue to turn to AWS to help them innovate for their fans and players at an unprecedented rate," said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Inc. "The partnership and experience we create with the TOUR will be unique. Unlike other sports, there's more than one ball in play on a golf course, which makes it harder for fans to follow how every player is performing. Our collaboration with the TOUR will change the way that fans will be able to connect with the sport by giving them real-time access to virtually every moment on the course and letting them determine how they experience the game."</p><p>For more information, please visit www.aws.amazon.com/sports.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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 PGA TOUR </p><p>By showcasing golf's greatest players, the PGA TOUR engages, inspires and positively impacts our fans, partners and communities worldwide.</p><p>The PGA TOUR, headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, co-sanctions tournaments on the PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, Korn Ferry Tour, PGA TOUR Latinoamérica, Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada and PGA TOUR Series-China. Members on the PGA TOUR represent the world's best players, hailing from 29 countries and territories (94 members are from outside the United States). Worldwide, PGA TOUR tournaments are broadcast to 216 countries and territories in 28 languages. Virtually all tournaments are organized as non-profit organizations to maximize charitable giving, and to date, tournaments across all Tours have generated more than $3.2 billion.</p><p>Fans can follow the PGA TOUR on PGATOUR.COM, the No. 1 site in golf, on the PGA TOUR app and on social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram (in English, Spanish and Korean), LinkedIn, Twitter, WeChat, Weibo, Toutiao and Douyin.</p><p>About PGA TOUR First Tee Foundation ("First Tee")</p><p>First Tee (www.firsttee.org) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth development organization that is supported by the PGA TOUR. Its mission is to impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character and instill life-enhancing values through the game of golf. Since its inception in 1997, First Tee has expanded to reach more than 3.6 million young people annually through its chapter network, in schools and at youth centers. Headquartered in Ponte Vedra, Florida, USA, programs are delivered in all 50 United States and select international locations. President George W. Bush serves as Honorary Chair.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210302005466/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

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AWS (Osaka) Local Region expanded into a standard AWS Region to accommodate an even greater variety of use cases and serve Japan with even lower latency Customers and AWS Partners across Japan welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region, including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, KDDI Corporation, Sansan, NEC, and many more SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 1, 2021-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the launch of a second full region in Japan, the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. The region is an expansion of the existing AWS Osaka Local Region, which opened to select customers in February 2018. The new region consists of three Availability Zones (AZs) and joins the existing 25 Availability Zones in eight AWS Regions across Asia Pacific in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Globally, AWS has 80 Availability Zones across 25 geographic regions, with plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Spain, and Switzerland. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can leverage the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to run their applications locally, serve end-users across Asia with lower latency, and access the broadest and deepest suite of services available in the cloud. For more information on AWS's global infrastructure, go to: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/. "We launched the AWS Osaka Local Region to help select customers run specific workloads in western Japan. Since then, customers have asked AWS to launch a second full region with multiple Availability Zones and broad service selection in the country, and today we're excited to deliver on those requests," said Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, AWS. "Together with the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region provides customers with even lower latency to end users in Japan, as well as the ability to architect workloads across multiple Availability Zones and multiple regions in Japan for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability." "Congratulations on the opening of AWS Osaka Region. The government has adopted a "cloud-by-default" principle and basic policy prioritizing the use of cloud services, and we welcome AWS as a part of our services," said Takuya Hirai, Member of the House of Representatives and Minister of State for Digital Transformation. "The mission of the Japan Digital Transformation Agency, scheduled to be established in September 2021, is to think about how systems should be run on the cloud in order to promote standardization and interoperability, which are necessary for both national and local governments to promote digitalization. In cooperation with various companies, including AWS, we will do our utmost to promote the digitalization of Japan." AWS Regions are comprised of Availability Zones, which place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting customers' 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 networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones and across multiple regions to achieve even greater fault tolerance. Additionally, Japanese customers, from startups to enterprises and the public sector, will have additional infrastructure to leverage advanced technologies including compute, storage, analytics, database, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile services, and more to drive innovation. The launch of a second AWS Region in Japan provides customers with even lower latency across the country and supports disaster recovery applications for business continuity. Customers and AWS Partners welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Millions of active customers use AWS each month in over 190 countries around the world, and hundreds of thousands of active customers use AWS services in Japan each month to accelerate innovation, increase agility, and drive cost savings. Organizations across Japan moving their mission-critical workloads to the cloud include customers such as Bellsystem24, Gibraltar Life Insurance, KDDI, Kindai University, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Nabtesco Corporation, NTT East, OGIS-RI CO. ltd., Prudential Life Insurance, Sony Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, and many more. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), whose business operations include commercial banks, trust banks, securities, and credit cards, adopted a cloud-first strategy and announced its full AWS deployment in 2017. "We have been making steady progress in IT architecture transformation and digitalization by leveraging AWS to build new systems," said Hiroki Kameda, Managing Corporate Executive and Group CIO of MUFG. "AWS enabled us to build a big data platform for all our bank and group data so that we can use it flexibly, streamline administrative processes such as tremendous data entry work using AI, migrate a part of a market risk management system, and conduct applied research in more advanced AI algorithms and other new technologies. We reduced large costs by migrating and building a new system on AWS compared to on-premises. We have been using the AWS Osaka Local Region, and its expansion into the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will enable us to actively run even more workloads and systems to enhance the agility and availability of our customer services. With digital technology playing an increasingly important role in our competitiveness, we will continue to grow our digital workforce both quantitatively and qualitatively to further drive our digital transformation." Sony Bank is an Internet bank established in 2001 as an asset management bank for individuals. It provides various financial services such as foreign currency deposits, home loans, investment trusts, and debit cards. "Since the end of 2013, we have been gradually migrating our general internal business systems and banking peripheral systems onto AWS, and by the end of 2019, approximately 80 percent of our systems had been running on AWS," said Tatsuya Fukushima, Executive Officer leading the System Planning Department, System Development Department, and System Administration Department of Sony Bank. "As a result, infrastructure-related costs have been reduced by up to 60 percent compared to on-premises systems, and infrastructure procurement and construction time have been cut by more than half. We are currently building a next-generation banking system on AWS with a cloud-native architecture designed to ensure high availability by utilizing the AWS services in both the Tokyo and Osaka regions, so the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region is key to our future plans. As an Internet bank, we will continue to improve management efficiency and provide products and services that meet our customers' needs." KDDI Corporation (KDDI), established in 2000, is engaged in telecommunications, Internet, financial services, electricity distribution, intelligent consumer appliances, and other businesses both in Japan and overseas. KDDI started using AWS as its official cloud vendor in 2016 after AWS met its stringent internal security standards. "I am delighted that the AWS Osaka Local Region has expanded into a full AWS Region in such a short time," said Akihiro Nakashima, Administrative Officer and Deputy General Manager, Service Planning and Development Division, Solutions Business Sector, KDDI Corporation. "KDDI currently develops and operates more than 60 services on AWS, such as the back end for our power supply business ‘au Denki', ‘au Home', which leverages IoT to make everyday life more convenient, and the subsystem of ‘au PAY', a smartphone service that allows payment with QR codes. Leveraging AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region, we will be able to provide additional business continuity services through multi-region operations in Japan." Founded in 1983, OGIS-RI CO., ltd. is a global IT consulting firm providing information strategy, systems integration, systems development, network construction, support, and security solutions. OGIS-RI CO., ltd. is a group company of Osaka Gas Group. "Osaka Gas was the first in Japan to deploy IoT technology in consumer gas appliances in April 2016 using AWS. We have since been selling ENE FARM fuel cells, gas water heaters, and other products connected to the Internet around the clock," said Kosuke Nakatani, Director, Executive Officer and Member of the Board, Head of IT Platform Service Division, OGIS-RI CO., ltd., which develops and manages the IT systems of Daigas Group (previously known as Osaka Gas Group) companies. "We use AWS to provide our enterprise customers with ‘ekul,' a simple data measurement service that measures and visualizes gas and electricity usage in real time and transmits information to corporate customers across the country. We also provide cloud integration services based on our experience in the migration of on-premises business systems to AWS and system development on AWS. With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region, we are very pleased to offer our customers in the Kansai area a selection of multiple regions with low latency, enabling us to have even greater availability." Sansan, established in 2007, is the provider of "SanSan," a corporate business card management cloud service, and "Eight," a business card app, under the mission of "creating innovation through encounters." Seita Fujikura, CTO of Sansan, said, "Business cards are the proof of business encounters. SanSan and Eight solve various issues that business people face by accurately converting into data and utilizing the business cards that are captured every day. Our applications are configured on several hundred Amazon EC2 instances. By utilizing a variety of AWS services, we are able to substantially reduce costs and develop our products based on customer requests. The AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will help us further evolve our products and services and provide new value as a business infrastructure." Founded in 1925, Kindai University provides learning to all ages and is one of the largest universities in western Japan with 48 departments ranging from medicine to the arts with 52,000 students enrolled. "Kindai University migrated our teaching system and all 17 cloud-enabled business systems to AWS from on-premises systems in 2015 based on an estimation that the initial investment cost would be reduced by about 70 percent and the total cost of initial investment and running costs over 10 years would be reduced by another 20 percent compared to on-premises systems," said Takumi Ueda, Educational and Administrative Information Systems Department of Kindai University. "AWS enables us to provide a powerful, stable system for our students and faculty, and the opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region gives us the opportunity to provide increased availability and even lower latency." AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners welcomed the arrival of a second AWS Region in Japan. The APN includes tens of thousands of Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Systems Integrators (SI) around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the APN helps by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support. SI Consulting Partners supporting enterprise and public sector customers migrating to AWS include Classmethod, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation, FUJISOFT, iret, NEC, NRI, NTT Data, SCSK, Serverworks, TIS and many others. APN ISVs in Japan including Acroquest Technology, AptPod, Digital Cube, Hatena, VMware, Works Human Intelligence, and many others, are already using AWS to deliver their software to customers around the world and will serve their Japanese customers from the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region at launch. Customers can also easily find, trial, deploy, and buy software solutions for AWS on the AWS Marketplace. For the full list of the members of the AWS Partner Network, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/partners/. NEC is an IT vendor that has been driving innovation in Japan since 1899 and is a premier consulting partner in the APN. NEC has a vision of creating a positive impact on society through technological advances. "The inauguration of the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region significantly broadens NEC's service infrastructure offering in Japan, and we are happy to help accelerate our customers' innovation efforts," said Toshifumi Yoshizaki, Senior Vice President, NEC. "NEC has a long history as an AWS Partner, having joined the AWS Partner Network in 2012 and becoming a certified Premier Consulting Partner in 2016. In 2020, we became the first company in Japan to embark on a strategic corporate-level collaboration with AWS. This collaboration enabled us to provide higher-level managed services to government and corporate customers pursuing digital transformation. NEC Group will be increasing the number of AWS-certified personnel to 3,000 over the next three years and will continue to support large-scale cloud migration projects by significantly strengthening its delivery capabilities." VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered service that brings VMware's enterprise-class software-defined data center software to the AWS Cloud. Delivered as an on-demand service with optimized access to AWS services, VMware Cloud on AWS enables IT teams to leverage the best of both worlds. "AWS is VMware's preferred public cloud partner for all VMware vSphere-based workloads. And VMware Cloud on AWS is the preferred AWS solution for vSphere workloads," said Tadashi Yamanaka, Vice President and General Manager, VMware Japan. "We look forward to serving the needs of customers in Japan with the expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS to the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. This expansion will provide our customers in western Japan with more geographic diversity and disaster recovery alternatives. Customers throughout the country will also gain more flexibility to move their vSphere workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS for application modernization, as well as improved agility, cost and security." Works Human Intelligence Co., Ltd (Works HI), the provider of COMPANY, one of the top HR Payroll ERP software package systems in Japan, is an ISV Partner with AWS. "Works HI first adopted AWS in 2012 when we launched the cloud version of our software solution COMPANY. We continue to modernize the architecture of the SaaS version of COMPANY and enhance its functionality by making use of the multitude of AWS services available in Japan." said Asahi Morita, Product Division Senior General Manager at Works Human Intelligence. "The opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region helps us support a greater number of customers with mission-critical operations and business continuity support with our COMPANY software solution by making it available across multiple regions in Japan." Amazon's Continued Investment in Japan In March 2011, AWS launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region with two Availability Zones as the company's fifth AWS Region. A third Tokyo AZ was added in 2012 and fourth in 2018 to help customers build highly available and fault-tolerant applications across the region's four existing AZs. In February 2018, AWS launched the Osaka Local Region to enable compliance with guidelines for applications that require even greater distance between Availability Zones for select customers. As a response to further customer demand for a standard region in western Japan, today AWS is extending the capability of the Osaka Local Region by expanding it into a standard AWS Region. Amazon is also continuing to invest in the upskilling of local developers, students, and the next generation of IT leaders in Japan through programs such as AWS Academy and AWS Educate. AWS Academy provides higher education institutions with a free, ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum that prepares students to pursue industry-recognized certifications and in-demand cloud jobs. AWS Educate provides student access to AWS services and content designed to build knowledge and skills in cloud computing. About Amazon Web Services For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210301006110/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>AWS (Osaka) Local Region expanded into a standard AWS Region to accommodate an even greater variety of use cases and serve Japan with even lower latency</em></p><p><em>Customers and AWS Partners across Japan welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region, including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group,</em> <em>KDDI Corporation, Sansan, NEC, and many more</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 1, 2021-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the launch of a second full region in Japan, the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. The region is an expansion of the existing AWS Osaka Local Region, which opened to select customers in February 2018. The new region consists of three Availability Zones (AZs) and joins the existing 25 Availability Zones in eight AWS Regions across Asia Pacific in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Globally, AWS has 80 Availability Zones across 25 geographic regions, with plans to launch 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Spain, and Switzerland. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can leverage the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to run their applications locally, serve end-users across Asia with lower latency, and access the broadest and deepest suite of services available in the cloud. For more information on AWS's global infrastructure, go to: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/.</p><p>"We launched the AWS Osaka Local Region to help select customers run specific workloads in western Japan. Since then, customers have asked AWS to launch a second full region with multiple Availability Zones and broad service selection in the country, and today we're excited to deliver on those requests," said Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, AWS. "Together with the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region provides customers with even lower latency to end users in Japan, as well as the ability to architect workloads across multiple Availability Zones and multiple regions in Japan for even greater fault tolerance, resiliency, and availability."</p><p>"Congratulations on the opening of AWS Osaka Region. The government has adopted a "cloud-by-default" principle and basic policy prioritizing the use of cloud services, and we welcome AWS as a part of our services," said Takuya Hirai, Member of the House of Representatives and Minister of State for Digital Transformation. "The mission of the Japan Digital Transformation Agency, scheduled to be established in September 2021, is to think about how systems should be run on the cloud in order to promote standardization and interoperability, which are necessary for both national and local governments to promote digitalization. In cooperation with various companies, including AWS, we will do our utmost to promote the digitalization of Japan."</p><p>AWS Regions are comprised of Availability Zones, which place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting customers' 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 networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones and across multiple regions to achieve even greater fault tolerance. Additionally, Japanese customers, from startups to enterprises and the public sector, will have additional infrastructure to leverage advanced technologies including compute, storage, analytics, database, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile services, and more to drive innovation. The launch of a second AWS Region in Japan provides customers with even lower latency across the country and supports disaster recovery applications for business continuity.</p><p>Customers and AWS Partners welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region</p><p>Millions of active customers use AWS each month in over 190 countries around the world, and hundreds of thousands of active customers use AWS services in Japan each month to accelerate innovation, increase agility, and drive cost savings. Organizations across Japan moving their mission-critical workloads to the cloud include customers such as Bellsystem24, Gibraltar Life Insurance, KDDI, Kindai University, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Nabtesco Corporation, NTT East, OGIS-RI CO. ltd., Prudential Life Insurance, Sony Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Tokio Marine &amp; Nichido Fire Insurance, and many more.</p><p>Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), whose business operations include commercial banks, trust banks, securities, and credit cards, adopted a cloud-first strategy and announced its full AWS deployment in 2017. "We have been making steady progress in IT architecture transformation and digitalization by leveraging AWS to build new systems," said Hiroki Kameda, Managing Corporate Executive and Group CIO of MUFG. "AWS enabled us to build a big data platform for all our bank and group data so that we can use it flexibly, streamline administrative processes such as tremendous data entry work using AI, migrate a part of a market risk management system, and conduct applied research in more advanced AI algorithms and other new technologies. We reduced large costs by migrating and building a new system on AWS compared to on-premises. We have been using the AWS Osaka Local Region, and its expansion into the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will enable us to actively run even more workloads and systems to enhance the agility and availability of our customer services. With digital technology playing an increasingly important role in our competitiveness, we will continue to grow our digital workforce both quantitatively and qualitatively to further drive our digital transformation."</p><p>Sony Bank is an Internet bank established in 2001 as an asset management bank for individuals. It provides various financial services such as foreign currency deposits, home loans, investment trusts, and debit cards. "Since the end of 2013, we have been gradually migrating our general internal business systems and banking peripheral systems onto AWS, and by the end of 2019, approximately 80 percent of our systems had been running on AWS," said Tatsuya Fukushima, Executive Officer leading the System Planning Department, System Development Department, and System Administration Department of Sony Bank. "As a result, infrastructure-related costs have been reduced by up to 60 percent compared to on-premises systems, and infrastructure procurement and construction time have been cut by more than half. We are currently building a next-generation banking system on AWS with a cloud-native architecture designed to ensure high availability by utilizing the AWS services in both the Tokyo and Osaka regions, so the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region is key to our future plans. As an Internet bank, we will continue to improve management efficiency and provide products and services that meet our customers' needs."</p><p>KDDI Corporation (KDDI), established in 2000, is engaged in telecommunications, Internet, financial services, electricity distribution, intelligent consumer appliances, and other businesses both in Japan and overseas. KDDI started using AWS as its official cloud vendor in 2016 after AWS met its stringent internal security standards. "I am delighted that the AWS Osaka Local Region has expanded into a full AWS Region in such a short time," said Akihiro Nakashima, Administrative Officer and Deputy General Manager, Service Planning and Development Division, Solutions Business Sector, KDDI Corporation. "KDDI currently develops and operates more than 60 services on AWS, such as the back end for our power supply business ‘au Denki', ‘au Home', which leverages IoT to make everyday life more convenient, and the subsystem of ‘au PAY', a smartphone service that allows payment with QR codes. Leveraging AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region, we will be able to provide additional business continuity services through multi-region operations in Japan."</p><p>Founded in 1983, OGIS-RI CO., ltd. is a global IT consulting firm providing information strategy, systems integration, systems development, network construction, support, and security solutions. OGIS-RI CO., ltd. is a group company of Osaka Gas Group. "Osaka Gas was the first in Japan to deploy IoT technology in consumer gas appliances in April 2016 using AWS. We have since been selling ENE FARM fuel cells, gas water heaters, and other products connected to the Internet around the clock," said Kosuke Nakatani, Director, Executive Officer and Member of the Board, Head of IT Platform Service Division, OGIS-RI CO., ltd., which develops and manages the IT systems of Daigas Group (previously known as Osaka Gas Group) companies. "We use AWS to provide our enterprise customers with ‘ekul,' a simple data measurement service that measures and visualizes gas and electricity usage in real time and transmits information to corporate customers across the country. We also provide cloud integration services based on our experience in the migration of on-premises business systems to AWS and system development on AWS. With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region, we are very pleased to offer our customers in the Kansai area a selection of multiple regions with low latency, enabling us to have even greater availability."</p><p>Sansan, established in 2007, is the provider of "SanSan," a corporate business card management cloud service, and "Eight," a business card app, under the mission of "creating innovation through encounters." Seita Fujikura, CTO of Sansan, said, "Business cards are the proof of business encounters. SanSan and Eight solve various issues that business people face by accurately converting into data and utilizing the business cards that are captured every day. Our applications are configured on several hundred Amazon EC2 instances. By utilizing a variety of AWS services, we are able to substantially reduce costs and develop our products based on customer requests. The AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will help us further evolve our products and services and provide new value as a business infrastructure."</p><p>Founded in 1925, Kindai University provides learning to all ages and is one of the largest universities in western Japan with 48 departments ranging from medicine to the arts with 52,000 students enrolled. "Kindai University migrated our teaching system and all 17 cloud-enabled business systems to AWS from on-premises systems in 2015 based on an estimation that the initial investment cost would be reduced by about 70 percent and the total cost of initial investment and running costs over 10 years would be reduced by another 20 percent compared to on-premises systems," said Takumi Ueda, Educational and Administrative Information Systems Department of Kindai University. "AWS enables us to provide a powerful, stable system for our students and faculty, and the opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region gives us the opportunity to provide increased availability and even lower latency."</p><p>AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners welcomed the arrival of a second AWS Region in Japan. The APN includes tens of thousands of Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Systems Integrators (SI) around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the APN helps by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support. SI Consulting Partners supporting enterprise and public sector customers migrating to AWS include Classmethod, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation, FUJISOFT, iret, NEC, NRI, NTT Data, SCSK, Serverworks, TIS and many others. APN ISVs in Japan including Acroquest Technology, AptPod, Digital Cube, Hatena, VMware, Works Human Intelligence, and many others, are already using AWS to deliver their software to customers around the world and will serve their Japanese customers from the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region at launch. Customers can also easily find, trial, deploy, and buy software solutions for AWS on the AWS Marketplace. For the full list of the members of the AWS Partner Network, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/partners/.</p><p>NEC is an IT vendor that has been driving innovation in Japan since 1899 and is a premier consulting partner in the APN. NEC has a vision of creating a positive impact on society through technological advances. "The inauguration of the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region significantly broadens NEC's service infrastructure offering in Japan, and we are happy to help accelerate our customers' innovation efforts," said Toshifumi Yoshizaki, Senior Vice President, NEC. "NEC has a long history as an AWS Partner, having joined the AWS Partner Network in 2012 and becoming a certified Premier Consulting Partner in 2016. In 2020, we became the first company in Japan to embark on a strategic corporate-level collaboration with AWS. This collaboration enabled us to provide higher-level managed services to government and corporate customers pursuing digital transformation. NEC Group will be increasing the number of AWS-certified personnel to 3,000 over the next three years and will continue to support large-scale cloud migration projects by significantly strengthening its delivery capabilities."</p><p>VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered service that brings VMware's enterprise-class software-defined data center software to the AWS Cloud. Delivered as an on-demand service with optimized access to AWS services, VMware Cloud on AWS enables IT teams to leverage the best of both worlds. "AWS is VMware's preferred public cloud partner for all VMware vSphere-based workloads. And VMware Cloud on AWS is the preferred AWS solution for vSphere workloads," said Tadashi Yamanaka, Vice President and General Manager, VMware Japan. "We look forward to serving the needs of customers in Japan with the expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS to the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. This expansion will provide our customers in western Japan with more geographic diversity and disaster recovery alternatives. Customers throughout the country will also gain more flexibility to move their vSphere workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS for application modernization, as well as improved agility, cost and security."</p><p>Works Human Intelligence Co., Ltd (Works HI), the provider of COMPANY, one of the top HR Payroll ERP software package systems in Japan, is an ISV Partner with AWS. "Works HI first adopted AWS in 2012 when we launched the cloud version of our software solution COMPANY. We continue to modernize the architecture of the SaaS version of COMPANY and enhance its functionality by making use of the multitude of AWS services available in Japan." said Asahi Morita, Product Division Senior General Manager at Works Human Intelligence. "The opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region helps us support a greater number of customers with mission-critical operations and business continuity support with our COMPANY software solution by making it available across multiple regions in Japan."</p><p>Amazon's Continued Investment in Japan</p><p>In March 2011, AWS launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region with two Availability Zones as the company's fifth AWS Region. A third Tokyo AZ was added in 2012 and fourth in 2018 to help customers build highly available and fault-tolerant applications across the region's four existing AZs. In February 2018, AWS launched the Osaka Local Region to enable compliance with guidelines for applications that require even greater distance between Availability Zones for select customers. As a response to further customer demand for a standard region in western Japan, today AWS is extending the capability of the Osaka Local Region by expanding it into a standard AWS Region.</p><p>Amazon is also continuing to invest in the upskilling of local developers, students, and the next generation of IT leaders in Japan through programs such as AWS Academy and AWS Educate. AWS Academy provides higher education institutions with a free, ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum that prepares students to pursue industry-recognized certifications and in-demand cloud jobs. AWS Educate provides student access to AWS services and content designed to build knowledge and skills in cloud computing.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, 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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210301006110/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 Lookout for Vision

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Amazon Lookout for Vision uses AWS-trained computer vision models on images and video streams to find anomalies and flaws in products or production processes GE Healthcare, Amazon, and Basler among customers and partners using Lookout for Vision SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Vision, a new service that analyzes images using computer vision and sophisticated machine learning capabilities to spot product or process defects and anomalies in manufactured products. By employing a machine learning technique called "few-shot learning," Amazon Lookout for Vision is able to train a model for a customer using as few as 30 baseline images. Customers can get started quickly using Amazon Lookout for Vision to detect manufacturing and production defects (e.g. cracks, dents, incorrect color, irregular shape, etc.) in their products and prevent those costly errors from progressing down the operational line and from ever reaching customers. Together with Amazon Lookout for Equipment, Amazon Monitron, and AWS Panorama, Amazon Lookout for Vision provides industrial and manufacturing customers with the most comprehensive suite of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services available. With Amazon Lookout for Vision, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee, and customers pay by the hour for their actual usage to train the model and detect anomalies or defects using the service. To get started with Amazon Lookout for Vision, visit https://aws.amazon.com/lookout-for-vision/ In today's manufacturing industry, production line shutdowns due to missed defects or quality inconsistencies can result in millions of dollars of cost overruns and lost revenue every year. To avoid these expensive issues, industrial companies must maintain constant diligence to ensure quality control. Quality assurance in industrial processes typically requires human inspection, which can be tedious and inconsistent at best, or at worst, infeasible. Computer vision brings the speed and accuracy needed to identify defects consistently; however, implementing traditional computer vision solutions can be complex. Building computer vision models from scratch requires large amounts of carefully labeled images for each element of the manufacturing process. Then, teams of data scientists need to build, train, deploy, monitor, and fine tune computer vision models to analyze each individual phase of the product inspection process. Even small changes in the manufacturing process (e.g. replacing an out of stock component with an equivalent alternative, updates to the product specifications, or a change in lighting) means having to retrain and redeploy the individual model and perhaps other models downstream in the production process, which is tedious, complex, and time consuming. Because of these barriers, computer vision-powered visual anomaly systems remain out of reach for the vast majority of companies. Amazon Lookout for Vision offers customers a highly accurate, low-cost anomaly detection solution that uses computer vision to process thousands of images an hour to spot defects and anomalies – with no machine learning experience required. Customers send camera images to Amazon Lookout for Vision in real-time to identify anomalies, such as damage to a product's surface, missing components, and other irregularities in production lines. Utilizing a machine learning technique called few-shot learning (where the machine learning model is able to classify data based on a very small amount of training data), the service needs as few as 30 images of the acceptable and anomalous state as a baseline to begin assessing machine parts or manufactured products. In addition to enabling the service to detect anomalies without large amounts of training data, this capability also allows the service to be adaptable to a wide range of inspection tasks within industrial settings. After analyzing the data, Amazon Lookout for Vision then reports images that differ from the baseline via the service dashboard or the "DetectAnomalies" real-time API so that appropriate action can be taken. Amazon Lookout for Vision is sophisticated enough to maintain high accuracy with variances in camera angle, pose, and lighting arising from changes in work environments. Customers also have the ability to provide feedback on the results (e.g. whether a prediction correctly identified an anomaly or not), and Lookout for Vision will automatically retrain the underlying model so that the service continuously improves. This feature allows the technology to adapt to changes in the manufacturing process and even understand when variations are permissible or not based on customer feedback. This means that customers can be more nimble and adapt their processes based on competitive advantages or external factors impacting their operations. "Whether a customer is placing toppings on a frozen pizza or manufacturing finely-calibrated parts for an airplane, what we've heard unequivocally is that guaranteeing only high-quality products reach end-users is fundamental to their business. While this may seem obvious, ensuring such quality control in industrial pipelines can in fact be very challenging," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Amazon Machine Learning for AWS. "We're excited to deliver Amazon Lookout for Vision to customers of all sizes and across all industries to help them quickly and cost effectively detect defects at scale to save time and money while maintaining the quality their consumers rely on – with no machine learning experience required." Lookout for Vision is available directly via the AWS console as well through supporting partners to help customers embed computer vision into existing operating systems within their facilities. The service is also compatible with AWS CloudFormation. Lookout for Vision is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfort), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Seoul), with availability in additional regions in the coming months. GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator that enables clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications, and services. "We are excited about the encouraging early results from Amazon Lookout for Vision that will promise to help improve the speed, consistency, and accuracy of detecting product defects across our factories," said Kozaburo Fujimoto, Operating Officer, General Manager, Manufacturing Division, Plant Manager, GE Healthcare Japan. "As one of the world's most trusted healthcare companies with more than a century of technological progress and digital innovations, we look forward to capitalizing on the benefits that AWS's industrial machine learning services will potentially bring to our manufacturing environments." Amazon's Print-On-Demand (POD) facilities print books on demand to fulfill customer orders. "With POD, since books are manufactured when ordered by a customer, it is imperative to ensure precision at every step of the manufacturing process to offer a fast delivery time and the highest quality books to our customers," said David Symonds, Worldwide Director of POD for Amazon. "With Amazon Lookout for Vision, we can automate and scale visual inspection at each step of manufacturing while running at full processing speeds, helping us ensure a great customer experience." Basler is a global manufacturer and solution provider in industrial vision, providing cameras and machine vision systems for applications such as semiconductor inspection, robotics, food inspection, postal sorting, and inspections of printed images. "Reducing faults is one of the most important KPIs to consider for manufacturing companies. Traditional manual inspection is labor intensive and difficult to scale. By using computer vision for quality inspection, this process can be automated and lead to a significant reduction of costs," said Gerrit Fischer, Head of Marketing for Basler AG. "Basler and Amazon Lookout for Vision provide a very lean architecture to adopt vision based anomaly detection in any manufacturing site. We're excited to jointly provide our customers with complete vision solutions by combining Basler's expertise in industrial vision and edge platforms with AWS's investments in industrial machine learning." Dafgards is a household name in Sweden, manufacturing a broad assortment of foods. "We previously tried Amazon Lookout for Vision to automate the inspection of our pizza production lines to detect whether pizzas had enough cheese and the correct toppings, with good results," said Fredrik Dafgård, Head of Operational Excellence & Industrial IoT for Dafgards. "We're excited to extend Lookout for Vision to our other production lines such as hamburgers and quiches, to help us detect any anomalies like incorrect ingredients. Over time, we plan to scale Lookout for Vision across multiple production lines. Amazon Lookout for Vision will allow Dafgards to improve the consistency and accuracy of detecting defects and anomalies, allowing us to improve our overall production quality at scale." About Amazon Web Services For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, 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. 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/20210224006095/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon Lookout for Vision</em> <em>uses AWS-trained computer vision models on</em> <em>images and video streams to find anomalies and flaws in products or production processes</em></p><p><em>GE Healthcare, Amazon, and Basler among customers and partners using Lookout for Vision</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Vision, a new service that analyzes images using computer vision and sophisticated machine learning capabilities to spot product or process defects and anomalies in manufactured products. By employing a machine learning technique called "few-shot learning," Amazon Lookout for Vision is able to train a model for a customer using as few as 30 baseline images. Customers can get started quickly using Amazon Lookout for Vision to detect manufacturing and production defects (e.g. cracks, dents, incorrect color, irregular shape, etc.) in their products and prevent those costly errors from progressing down the operational line and from ever reaching customers. Together with Amazon Lookout for Equipment, Amazon Monitron, and AWS Panorama, Amazon Lookout for Vision provides industrial and manufacturing customers with the most comprehensive suite of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services available. With Amazon Lookout for Vision, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee, and customers pay by the hour for their actual usage to train the model and detect anomalies or defects using the service. To get started with Amazon Lookout for Vision, visit https://aws.amazon.com/lookout-for-vision/</p><p>In today's manufacturing industry, production line shutdowns due to missed defects or quality inconsistencies can result in millions of dollars of cost overruns and lost revenue every year. To avoid these expensive issues, industrial companies must maintain constant diligence to ensure quality control. Quality assurance in industrial processes typically requires human inspection, which can be tedious and inconsistent at best, or at worst, infeasible. Computer vision brings the speed and accuracy needed to identify defects consistently; however, implementing traditional computer vision solutions can be complex. Building computer vision models from scratch requires large amounts of carefully labeled images for each element of the manufacturing process. Then, teams of data scientists need to build, train, deploy, monitor, and fine tune computer vision models to analyze each individual phase of the product inspection process. Even small changes in the manufacturing process (e.g. replacing an out of stock component with an equivalent alternative, updates to the product specifications, or a change in lighting) means having to retrain and redeploy the individual model and perhaps other models downstream in the production process, which is tedious, complex, and time consuming. Because of these barriers, computer vision-powered visual anomaly systems remain out of reach for the vast majority of companies.</p><p>Amazon Lookout for Vision offers customers a highly accurate, low-cost anomaly detection solution that uses computer vision to process thousands of images an hour to spot defects and anomalies – with no machine learning experience required. Customers send camera images to Amazon Lookout for Vision in real-time to identify anomalies, such as damage to a product's surface, missing components, and other irregularities in production lines. Utilizing a machine learning technique called few-shot learning (where the machine learning model is able to classify data based on a very small amount of training data), the service needs as few as 30 images of the acceptable and anomalous state as a baseline to begin assessing machine parts or manufactured products. In addition to enabling the service to detect anomalies without large amounts of training data, this capability also allows the service to be adaptable to a wide range of inspection tasks within industrial settings. After analyzing the data, Amazon Lookout for Vision then reports images that differ from the baseline via the service dashboard or the "DetectAnomalies" real-time API so that appropriate action can be taken. Amazon Lookout for Vision is sophisticated enough to maintain high accuracy with variances in camera angle, pose, and lighting arising from changes in work environments. Customers also have the ability to provide feedback on the results (e.g. whether a prediction correctly identified an anomaly or not), and Lookout for Vision will automatically retrain the underlying model so that the service continuously improves. This feature allows the technology to adapt to changes in the manufacturing process and even understand when variations are permissible or not based on customer feedback. This means that customers can be more nimble and adapt their processes based on competitive advantages or external factors impacting their operations.</p><p>"Whether a customer is placing toppings on a frozen pizza or manufacturing finely-calibrated parts for an airplane, what we've heard unequivocally is that guaranteeing only high-quality products reach end-users is fundamental to their business. While this may seem obvious, ensuring such quality control in industrial pipelines can in fact be very challenging," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Amazon Machine Learning for AWS. "We're excited to deliver Amazon Lookout for Vision to customers of all sizes and across all industries to help them quickly and cost effectively detect defects at scale to save time and money while maintaining the quality their consumers rely on – with no machine learning experience required."</p><p>Lookout for Vision is available directly via the AWS console as well through supporting partners to help customers embed computer vision into existing operating systems within their facilities. The service is also compatible with AWS CloudFormation. Lookout for Vision is available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfort), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Seoul), with availability in additional regions in the coming months.</p><p>GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator that enables clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications, and services. "We are excited about the encouraging early results from Amazon Lookout for Vision that will promise to help improve the speed, consistency, and accuracy of detecting product defects across our factories," said Kozaburo Fujimoto, Operating Officer, General Manager, Manufacturing Division, Plant Manager, GE Healthcare Japan. "As one of the world's most trusted healthcare companies with more than a century of technological progress and digital innovations, we look forward to capitalizing on the benefits that AWS's industrial machine learning services will potentially bring to our manufacturing environments."</p><p>Amazon's Print-On-Demand (POD) facilities print books on demand to fulfill customer orders. "With POD, since books are manufactured when ordered by a customer, it is imperative to ensure precision at every step of the manufacturing process to offer a fast delivery time and the highest quality books to our customers," said David Symonds, Worldwide Director of POD for Amazon. "With Amazon Lookout for Vision, we can automate and scale visual inspection at each step of manufacturing while running at full processing speeds, helping us ensure a great customer experience."</p><p>Basler is a global manufacturer and solution provider in industrial vision, providing cameras and machine vision systems for applications such as semiconductor inspection, robotics, food inspection, postal sorting, and inspections of printed images. "Reducing faults is one of the most important KPIs to consider for manufacturing companies. Traditional manual inspection is labor intensive and difficult to scale. By using computer vision for quality inspection, this process can be automated and lead to a significant reduction of costs," said Gerrit Fischer, Head of Marketing for Basler AG. "Basler and Amazon Lookout for Vision provide a very lean architecture to adopt vision based anomaly detection in any manufacturing site. We're excited to jointly provide our customers with complete vision solutions by combining Basler's expertise in industrial vision and edge platforms with AWS's investments in industrial machine learning."</p><p>Dafgards is a household name in Sweden, manufacturing a broad assortment of foods. "We previously tried Amazon Lookout for Vision to automate the inspection of our pizza production lines to detect whether pizzas had enough cheese and the correct toppings, with good results," said Fredrik Dafgård, Head of Operational Excellence &amp; Industrial IoT for Dafgards. "We're excited to extend Lookout for Vision to our other production lines such as hamburgers and quiches, to help us detect any anomalies like incorrect ingredients. Over time, we plan to scale Lookout for Vision across multiple production lines. Amazon Lookout for Vision will allow Dafgards to improve the consistency and accuracy of detecting defects and anomalies, allowing us to improve our overall production quality at scale."</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, 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. 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/20210224006095/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Donates $15 Million to Code.org to Create New Equity-Minded Advanced Placement Computer Science Curriculum to Help High School Students in Underserved Communities Excel in Tech

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Amazon Donates $15 Million to Code.org to Create New Equity-Minded Advanced Placement Computer Science Curriculum to Help High School Students in Underserved Communities Excel in Tech

02/24/2021

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New AP curriculum aims to increase access, participation, and long-term career success for high school students from communities currently underrepresented in tech – with Georgia, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania set to pilot the program during the 2021-2022 school year SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a $15 million donation from Amazon Future Engineer to nonprofit Code.org to support the development and launch of a new equity-minded Advanced Placement computer science programming curriculum. The new curriculum will teach students the same tools and concepts as the existing AP Computer Science A (AP CSA) course, and it will be built inclusively to take into account the unique cultural perspectives, interests, and experiences of Black, Latino, Native American (BLNA), and other minority students. By using a research-backed and culturally responsive approach to teaching in the curriculum, Code.org and Amazon Future Engineer hope to increase equitable access, participation, and achievement in computer science (CS) among high school students of all backgrounds and encourage more BLNA students to pursue careers in engineering. For many students, taking AP CSA is an opportunity to earn a college credit equal to a first semester college CS course—a critical step in a student's CS journey for long-term success. For example, Black students who take the AP CSA course are seven times more likely to study CS in college, according to the College Board, which administers the AP program. However, while Black students made up 15% of the U.S. student body in 2020, they comprised only 3.5% of exam takers—down from 3.9% in 2019 and largely flat for the years prior. Additionally, only 14% of the 70,000 students who took the AP CSA exam in 2020 were from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups* and only 25% of students identified as female, according to Code.org. To make AP CSA more equitable and accessible to all, Code.org will design the new curriculum to incorporate students' diverse interests and experiences into CS concepts. The goal is to empower students to investigate real-world concerns during class activities. Additionally, open-ended projects will enable students to demonstrate mastery of concepts that make no assumptions about their cultural backgrounds or life experiences. Students will also develop and model valuable, real-world career skills, such as conducting code reviews, tracing code segments, reading documentation, and writing code, with both the user and other developers in mind. Through firsthand experiences, students will ultimately be able to envision themselves as capable software engineers. "Since its inception, our Amazon Future Engineer program has worked to ensure more students have the resources and skills they need to build their best futures," said Jeff Wilke, former CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "With our donation to Code.org, we hope that even more students—from a wider variety of backgrounds—will be inspired and prepared to pursue computer science in high school, college, and beyond." "We are excited to develop a much-needed AP-level programming curriculum to inspire, engage, and prepare a more diverse population of students in high school computer science," said Hadi Partovi, CEO and Founder of Code.org. "With our experience of designing CS curricula that break records in student participation and diversity, we are confident of the curriculum's potential impact, and we are grateful for Amazon's generous support to make it possible." State education leaders in Georgia, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania have pledged to expand AP CSA during the 2021-2022 school year. Code.org will supply the curriculum and professional development workshops needed to offer the curriculum to all participating schools, ensuring all interested students will have a trained teacher to prepare them for the year-end exam administered by the College Board. Additionally, each state has committed to requiring all of its high schools in their states to offer computer science. Teachers and others interested in the program can sign up to receive news and updates as the curriculum development progresses. Code.org will make the new AP CSA curriculum available for all schools nationwide for the 2022-2023 school year. "The Georgia Department of Education is committed to transforming computer science education from an elective available for a few students, to a foundational educational discipline accessible to all," said Richard Woods, Georgia State School Superintendent. "This new AP Computer Science A curriculum will be designed to inspire, support, and prepare students from all backgrounds who want to pursue a CS path." In addition to working with states, Code.org is forming both an Education Advisory Council—composed of representatives from nonprofits, colleges, and universities, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities—and an Industry Advisory Council with representatives from a variety of employers. These councils will provide feedback in the development process to ensure the new AP CSA curriculum best prepares students for the next step in their education and careers. The $15 million donation from Amazon Future Engineer, paid over three years, will also help Code.org enhance student awareness around academic and career pathways in computer science. The nonprofit will also use the funding to provide tools to help students succeed in college-level computer science classes and beyond. Amazon Future Engineer is Amazon's signature CS program intended to inspire and educate students from underserved communities and groups currently underrepresented in tech to pursue careers in computer science. In addition, AWS is the strategic cloud solution that powers the Code.org platform for this new curriculum and other offerings like Hour of Code tutorials, ensuring millions of students across the world can learn uninterrupted using advance, secure cloud computing technologies. Amazon's partnership with Code.org is only one part of the company's ongoing work to support education and racial equality initiatives in communities across the country. Recently, the company donated $10 million to organizations that are working to bring about social justice and improve the lives of Black and African Americans. Recipients are selected with the help of Amazon's Black Employee Network (BEN) and include groups focused on fighting systemic racism through the legal system as well as those dedicated to expanding educational and economic opportunity for Black communities. Amazon followed its donation with an employee match program that garnered an additional $17 million, meaning the organizations received a total of $27 million from the Amazon community. In addition, Amazon teamed up with musician Pharrell Williams, his education equity nonprofit YELLOW, and the Georgia Institute of Technology last month to announce an ongoing collaboration called "Your Voice is Power" to encourage middle and high school students to share their voice about the importance of racial justice and equity while learning to code new music remixes. About Amazon Future Engineer At Amazon, we believe in the power of computer science to unleash creativity and unlock human potential. We also know that while talent and passion is spread across all young people, opportunity is not. That is why we created Amazon Future Engineer: our signature computer science education program designed to offer all young people the chance to build their best future. Amazon Future Engineer is a childhood to career program, offering programming that starts with primary school and continues through secondary into career. Amazon Future Engineer inspires and educates millions of students globally, including hundreds of thousands of students in the U.S. each year. Students explore computer science through school curriculum and project based learning using code to make music, program robots, and solve problems. Amazon Future Engineer also awards 100 students each year with four-year, $40,000 scholarships and paid internships at Amazon, and celebrates teachers with professional development and $25,000 Teacher of the Year Awards. Amazon Future Engineer is part of Amazon's $50 million commitment to STEM and computer science education. The program is available in the U.S., UK, Canada, and France. 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. *URG or underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, by Code.org's definition, refers to students from marginalized racial/ethnic groups underrepresented in computer science including students who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx, Native American/Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. See more at code.org/diversity. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210224005596/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>New AP curriculum aims to increase access, participation, and long-term career success for high school students from communities currently underrepresented in tech – with Georgia, New Mexico,</em> <em>Ohio, Oklahoma, and</em> <em>Pennsylvania set to pilot the program during the 2021-2022 school year</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a $15 million donation from Amazon Future Engineer to nonprofit Code.org to support the development and launch of a new equity-minded Advanced Placement computer science programming curriculum. The new curriculum will teach students the same tools and concepts as the existing AP Computer Science A (AP CSA) course, and it will be built inclusively to take into account the unique cultural perspectives, interests, and experiences of Black, Latino, Native American (BLNA), and other minority students. By using a research-backed and culturally responsive approach to teaching in the curriculum, Code.org and Amazon Future Engineer hope to increase equitable access, participation, and achievement in computer science (CS) among high school students of all backgrounds and encourage more BLNA students to pursue careers in engineering.</p><p>For many students, taking AP CSA is an opportunity to earn a college credit equal to a first semester college CS course—a critical step in a student's CS journey for long-term success. For example, Black students who take the AP CSA course are seven times more likely to study CS in college, according to the College Board, which administers the AP program. However, while Black students made up 15% of the U.S. student body in 2020, they comprised only 3.5% of exam takers—down from 3.9% in 2019 and largely flat for the years prior. Additionally, only 14% of the 70,000 students who took the AP CSA exam in 2020 were from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups* and only 25% of students identified as female, according to Code.org.</p><p>To make AP CSA more equitable and accessible to all, Code.org will design the new curriculum to incorporate students' diverse interests and experiences into CS concepts. The goal is to empower students to investigate real-world concerns during class activities. Additionally, open-ended projects will enable students to demonstrate mastery of concepts that make no assumptions about their cultural backgrounds or life experiences. Students will also develop and model valuable, real-world career skills, such as conducting code reviews, tracing code segments, reading documentation, and writing code, with both the user and other developers in mind. Through firsthand experiences, students will ultimately be able to envision themselves as capable software engineers.</p><p>"Since its inception, our Amazon Future Engineer program has worked to ensure more students have the resources and skills they need to build their best futures," said Jeff Wilke, former CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. "With our donation to Code.org, we hope that even more students—from a wider variety of backgrounds—will be inspired and prepared to pursue computer science in high school, college, and beyond."</p><p>"We are excited to develop a much-needed AP-level programming curriculum to inspire, engage, and prepare a more diverse population of students in high school computer science," said Hadi Partovi, CEO and Founder of Code.org. "With our experience of designing CS curricula that break records in student participation and diversity, we are confident of the curriculum's potential impact, and we are grateful for Amazon's generous support to make it possible."</p><p>State education leaders in Georgia, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania have pledged to expand AP CSA during the 2021-2022 school year. Code.org will supply the curriculum and professional development workshops needed to offer the curriculum to all participating schools, ensuring all interested students will have a trained teacher to prepare them for the year-end exam administered by the College Board. Additionally, each state has committed to requiring all of its high schools in their states to offer computer science. Teachers and others interested in the program can sign up to receive news and updates as the curriculum development progresses. Code.org will make the new AP CSA curriculum available for all schools nationwide for the 2022-2023 school year.</p><p>"The Georgia Department of Education is committed to transforming computer science education from an elective available for a few students, to a foundational educational discipline accessible to all," said Richard Woods, Georgia State School Superintendent. "This new AP Computer Science A curriculum will be designed to inspire, support, and prepare students from all backgrounds who want to pursue a CS path."</p><p>In addition to working with states, Code.org is forming both an Education Advisory Council—composed of representatives from nonprofits, colleges, and universities, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities—and an Industry Advisory Council with representatives from a variety of employers. These councils will provide feedback in the development process to ensure the new AP CSA curriculum best prepares students for the next step in their education and careers.</p><p>The $15 million donation from Amazon Future Engineer, paid over three years, will also help Code.org enhance student awareness around academic and career pathways in computer science. The nonprofit will also use the funding to provide tools to help students succeed in college-level computer science classes and beyond. Amazon Future Engineer is Amazon's signature CS program intended to inspire and educate students from underserved communities and groups currently underrepresented in tech to pursue careers in computer science. In addition, AWS is the strategic cloud solution that powers the Code.org platform for this new curriculum and other offerings like Hour of Code tutorials, ensuring millions of students across the world can learn uninterrupted using advance, secure cloud computing technologies.</p><p>Amazon's partnership with Code.org is only one part of the company's ongoing work to support education and racial equality initiatives in communities across the country. Recently, the company donated $10 million to organizations that are working to bring about social justice and improve the lives of Black and African Americans. Recipients are selected with the help of Amazon's Black Employee Network (BEN) and include groups focused on fighting systemic racism through the legal system as well as those dedicated to expanding educational and economic opportunity for Black communities. Amazon followed its donation with an employee match program that garnered an additional $17 million, meaning the organizations received a total of $27 million from the Amazon community. In addition, Amazon teamed up with musician Pharrell Williams, his education equity nonprofit YELLOW, and the Georgia Institute of Technology last month to announce an ongoing collaboration called "Your Voice is Power" to encourage middle and high school students to share their voice about the importance of racial justice and equity while learning to code new music remixes.</p><p>About Amazon Future Engineer</p><p>At Amazon, we believe in the power of computer science to unleash creativity and unlock human potential. We also know that while talent and passion is spread across all young people, opportunity is not. That is why we created Amazon Future Engineer: our signature computer science education program designed to offer all young people the chance to build their best future. Amazon Future Engineer is a childhood to career program, offering programming that starts with primary school and continues through secondary into career. Amazon Future Engineer inspires and educates millions of students globally, including hundreds of thousands of students in the U.S. each year. Students explore computer science through school curriculum and project based learning using code to make music, program robots, and solve problems. Amazon Future Engineer also awards 100 students each year with four-year, $40,000 scholarships and paid internships at Amazon, and celebrates teachers with professional development and $25,000 Teacher of the Year Awards. Amazon Future Engineer is part of Amazon's $50 million commitment to STEM and computer science education. The program is available in the U.S., UK, Canada, and France.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p><em>*URG or underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, by Code.org's definition, refers to students from marginalized racial/ethnic groups underrepresented in computer science including students who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx, Native American/Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. See more at code.org/diversity.</em></p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210224005596/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

20 New Companies Spanning Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Hospitality, Financial Services, Creative Services, Technology, Forestry, and the Construction Sector Join The Climate Pledge

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20 New Companies Spanning Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Hospitality, Financial Services, Creative Services, Technology, Forestry, and the Construction Sector Join The Climate Pledge

02/17/2021

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53 companies and counting across the globe, representing almost every sector of the economy, have now committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, demonstrating the global impact of The Climate Pledge SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2021-- Today, Amazon and Global Optimism announced that 20 new signatories around the world have joined The Climate Pledge: ACCIONA, Colis Prive, Cranswick plc, Daabon, FREE NOW, Generation Investment Management, Green Britain Group, Hotelbeds, IBM, Iceland Foods, Interface, Johnson Controls, MiiR, Ørsted, Prosegur Cash, Prosegur Compañia de Seguridad, Slalom, S4Capital, UPM, and Vanderlande. With the addition of the new signatories, 53 companies across 18 industries and 12 countries have committed to working toward net-zero carbon in their worldwide businesses — which in aggregate has the potential to significantly reduce corporate carbon emissions. Each organization is at a different stage in its journey to net-zero carbon emissions, but all 53 signatories are committed to The Climate Pledge's ambitious goal of meeting the Paris Agreement 10 years early. Signatories to The Climate Pledge agree to: Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis. Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies. Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets to achieve net-zero annual carbon emissions by 2040 — a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement's goal of 2050. The 20 new signatories represent diverse economic sectors, ranging from energy to agricultural and financial services. Each company is implementing science-based, high-impact changes to its business to help decarbonize the value chain, including innovating in circular economy, deploying clean energy solutions, and mobilizing supply chains to reach net-zero by 2040. "As the U.S. takes an important step forward in the fight against climate change by officially rejoining the Paris Agreement this week, I am excited to welcome 20 new companies to The Climate Pledge who want to go even faster," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019 to encourage companies to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early, and we're seeing incredible momentum behind the pledge with 53 companies from 18 industries across 12 countries already joining. Together, we can use our collective scale to help decarbonize the economy and preserve Earth for future generations." Amazon and Global Optimism welcome these new signatories and thank them for their commitment: ACCIONA ACCIONA (ANA.MC) is a global leader in sustainable solutions, ranging from renewable energy to water treatment plants, mass transit systems, and other resilient, low-carbon social infrastructure. The mitigation of climate change and its effects lies at the heart of the company's business rationale. ACCIONA is the world's greenest utility, operating solely with renewable energy, and an innovator in all fields of sustainable infrastructure. ACCIONA became carbon neutral in 2016, the first company in the energy and infrastructure sectors to do so. In line with the latest climate science, ACCIONA is committed to reducing its direct and energy consumption emissions by 60% between 2017 and 2030, as well as a 47% decrease in value chain emissions, consistent with the Paris Climate Agreement's most ambitious goal of limiting global warming to no more than 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels. ACCIONA's emission reduction targets have been certified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). "We urgently need more businesses to commit to regenerative, net-zero carbon growth pathways to avert the threat of catastrophic and irreversible climate change," said José Manuel Entrecanales, ACCIONA chairman and CEO. "I hope more companies sign up for The Climate Pledge to push for the critical mass of companies we need to really move the needle on carbon emissions." Colis Prive A leader in last mile operations, Colis Prive specializes in home and relay delivery, collecting parcels from e-merchants and executing final delivery. Since its founding in 1993, the company continues to take pride in pursuing consistent improvements in its delivery service. With four hubs across France and a network of 3,500 delivery associates, Colis Prive has delivered more than 63 million parcels. Knowing the significant impact of its operations on the environment, Colis Prive is committed to limiting its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with a particular focus on reducing those resulting from last mile deliveries. The company is also doubling down on energy efficiency thanks to the implementation of the ISO 50001 energy standard, aimed at providing global companies a precise framework for setting up an operational and sustainable energy management system to continually reduce their energy use. "At Colis Prive we're committed to running a responsible business across our operations, and that includes prioritizing sustainable practices," said Frédéric Pons, Colis Prive co-founder and chairman. "Joining this global project confirms our engagement alongside Amazon to adapt, learn, measure and optimize our processes. We're thrilled to be the first parcel delivery company to join The Climate Pledge, and we look forward to working with Amazon, Global Optimism, and other signatories to become carbon-neutral by 2040." Cranswick plc As one of the largest food producers in Britain, Cranswick plc is committed to integrating sustainable practices throughout its operations, from farming to sourcing and producing. With its Second Nature sustainability strategy at the center, the company is focused on decarbonizing its farms and significantly reducing food loss and overall resource waste in its supply chain and production, all by 2040. In the last two years Cranswick plc has made significant progress, including switching to 100% renewable grid-supplied electricity, reducing edible food waste down to 0.4% of total production, and removing over 1,200 tonnes of plastic from its operations. "At Cranswick we're committed to running a responsible business across our operations, and that includes prioritizing sustainable practices," said Adam Couch, Cranswick plc CEO. "We want to be part of the solution to climate change, and help inspire positive change across the broader value chain. We believe joining The Climate Pledge reinforces our commitment to sustainability and will have a critical role in enabling us to be that positive influence." Daabon Based in Santa Marta, Colombia, Daabon Group is a leader in the production and processing of organic crops such as bananas, Hass avocado, coffee, and palm oil in South America. The company has worked extensively on circular economy to manage and develop its production processes in a sustainable way. Daabon was the first organic palm oil company to be certified sustainable by the Rainforest Alliance and RSPO in Latin America. The company has developed an innovative process that captures methane gas produced by the organic waste to be used as fuel for energy. "At Daabon our ambition is to run a sustainable and socially responsible business," said Manuel Julián Dávila, Daabon Group CEO. "We are proud of what our team has achieved to tackle environmental challenges, but we can go much further. We are convinced that by joining The Climate Pledge, we will make significant progress in achieving net-zero carbon by 2040." FREE NOW Serving more than 50 million passengers in over 150 cities across Europe, FREE NOW recognizes the urgent need for more environmentally friendly transportation. The company is already committed to shifting 50% of its FREE NOW vehicles across Europe to zero emissions by 2025 and making all passenger trips emission free by 2030. To achieve these ambitious goals, the company is investing millions in supporting drivers to switch to electric vehicles and promoting electric options among customers. "It is our ambition and our commitment to the cities where we operate to do our bit to reduce emissions and make it easier for people to make environmentally friendly choices," said Marc Berg, FREE NOW CEO. "We are proud of the progress we've already made toward our commitments, but we can go much further. We are thrilled to be joining other sustainability minded companies with The Climate Pledge." Generation Investment Management  Generation Investment Management (Generation), founded in 2004, is playing an integral role in the development of sustainable investing and in demonstrating the long-term benefits of this approach. The firm integrates sustainability factors into its investment decisions, engagement with portfolio companies, and a wide range of advocacy and impact initiatives. Generation is committed to aligning investment portfolios with net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040 or sooner, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The firm is helping to lead efforts across the investment management industry to build a coalition of managers willing to make a collective commitment to the goal of net-zero emissions. In December 2020, this led to the launch of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative on the fifth anniversary of the conclusion of the Paris Agreement. This initiative launched with 30 asset managers as founding signatories, responsible for over USD 9 trillion of assets under management. "We believe that climate change demands urgent and universal action," said David Blood, Generation senior partner. "There is still time to keep temperatures from rising to truly catastrophic levels, but a huge effort is needed to halve global emissions this decade. We stand with fellow signatories of The Climate Pledge in a commitment to being net zero by 2040. By joining The Climate Pledge we are reinforcing our commitment to sustainability, and we're pleased to join a community that will share knowledge, ideas, and best practices." Green Britain Group  The Green Britain Group exists in the pursuit of sustainability through business. Its main operations are Ecotricity, the world's first green energy company, and Forest Green Rovers football club (FGR), recognized by the global governing body, FIFA, as the greenest in the game. Founded by Entrepreneur Dr. Dale Vince OBE, the Green Britain Group is focused on tackling environmental and sustainability issues in three areas — energy, transport, and food. Ecotricity now powers over 200,000 homes and businesses with 100% renewable electricity and carbon-neutral gas from its UK-wide network of wind and solar parks. FGR became the world's first sports club to be certified carbon neutral by the United Nations in 2017 and is recognized as the world's greenest football club. FGR has recently been granted planning permission for the construction of Eco Park, a pioneering, new all-wood stadium designed to showcase what's possible in the pursuit of sustainability. "When I started Ecotricity back in 1995 we were the world's first green energy company, and in 25 years, things have come a long way — but there's still much more we all need to do in order to have a zero-carbon country," said Dr. Dale Vince OBE, Green Britain Group founder. "Having a greener life isn't about giving things up — we just need to do the things we do, but differently. We're looking forward to working with Amazon, Global Optimism, and others in The Climate Pledge. Businesses of all sizes need to collaborate and find new ways of tackling climate change, and we have to take everyone on that journey with us." Hotelbeds Hotelbeds is doubling down on its environmental commitments to help lead the charge in sustainable tourism. Certified Carbon Neutral by Carbon Footprint Ltd. for the third year running, the company, which works closely with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), is already making great strides in prioritizing carbon reduction across its operations. In 2020 the company launched The Green Hotels Program with the goal of accelerating the transition of the travel industry towards sustainability. Hotelbeds now has over 15,000 properties within its portfolio certified as sustainable. "As the leaders in our sector, we have a clear responsibility to demonstrate to our stakeholders that we operate a responsible, transparent business model and that we take very seriously the environmental impact we have," said Joan Vilà, Hotelbeds executive chairman. "We recognize our critical responsibility to protect our planet and the destinations where we operate, and we believe this is a time to double down on our investment to create a more sustainable future. We are thrilled to continue with this work as a part of The Climate Pledge." Iceland Foods Iceland Foods seeks to build a growing, profitable, and responsible business that does the right thing for its customers, partners, communities, and the planet. The company has a long history of caring for the environment and exercising sustainable practices, aligning its ambitions with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Iceland Foods is focused on eliminating single-use plastics, and developing solutions and implementing changes to cut the carbon and waste associated with food and drink. The company has already made great strides in reducing its carbon footprint by 74% since 2011. "At Iceland Foods, we believe that every business has a moral responsibility to take ambitious action to address these major and urgent sustainability issues; it is also a commercial imperative for any business that hopes to have a future," said Richard Walker, Iceland Foods managing director. "We are honored and delighted to be the first food retailer to join The Climate Pledge and commit to be net-zero carbon by 2040." IBM IBM is committing to reach net zero by 2030 as part of its efforts to protect the planet. IBM has been committed to environmental leadership for decades, having issued its first corporate policy on environmental responsibility in 1971. The company has disclosed its environmental performance since 1990, began disclosing its CO2 emissions in 1995, and has sustained a goal to reduce CO2 emissions since 2000. In 2007, IBM publicly stated its position on climate change, saying that "climate change is a serious concern that warrants meaningful action on a global basis to stabilize the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases." IBM has fully supported the Paris Agreement since 2015, and in 2019 became a founding member of the Climate Leadership Council, supporting its bipartisan plan for a carbon tax with carbon dividend. "IBM is pleased to join The Climate Pledge and collaborate with others to reduce greenhouse gas emissions," said Jim Whitehurst, IBM president. "IBM aims to have net zero carbon emissions by 2030, before the aspiration of the Paris Agreement, in line with our long commitment to the environment." Interface For over 25 years, global flooring manufacturer Interface has focused on climate action — first by reducing the carbon emissions in its operations and supply chain, and then by reducing the carbon emissions of its products. Last year, Interface introduced the world's first carbon negative carpet tile when measured cradle to gate, and in 2018, the company launched its Carbon Neutral Floors program, certifying that all Interface flooring products are carbon neutral across their full product life cycle. Recognizing it can go even further, Interface continues to look at additional carbon reduction opportunities with the goal of becoming a carbon negative enterprise by 2040. "Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity, and it's no longer enough to limit the damage we do — we need to consider how we can leave a positive impact," said Dan Hendrix, Interface chairman and CEO. "At Interface, our goal is to reverse global warming by taking steps to restore the health of the planet. This is why we are delighted to join The Climate Pledge. Only by working together will we be able to create a climate fit for life." Johnson Controls Johnson Controls is the global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings. Its mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places, and the planet. With a long-standing commitment to protecting and preserving the environment, the company is focused on empowering customers and communities to streamline building operations and deliver energy efficiencies that will help them meet their environmental goals. Johnson Controls is driving sustainability across its entire value chain by focusing on solutions, people, partnerships, performance, and governance. The company has already made great strides in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions intensity, increasing its reliance on clean energy, and improving waste reduction across many of its plants. "Sustainability is at the heart of our business and fundamental to everything we do as a company," said George Oliver, Johnson Controls chairman and CEO. "Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the planet today. Our recent announcement to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 through innovations and technologies, such as our OpenBlue platform, further demonstrates our commitment to protect and preserve the environment. We are looking forward to further enhancing the role we can play by working with Amazon, Global Optimism, and other signatories to reach net-zero carbon emissions a decade before the important Paris Agreement's goal." MiiR MiiR is a generosity-driven company that creates thoughtfully-designed drinkware through its social and environmental mission. Every MiiR product sold helps fund trackable projects around the world, and to-date has granted $1.6 million to non-profit organizations focused on social and environmental causes. Since MiiR was founded in 2010, the company has partnered with numerous nonprofits across the world to fund long term, sustainable projects in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector. The company has also launched numerous projects focused on protecting and preserving the planet's natural resources for generations to come, as well as investing in organizations and programs that build strong communities. MiiR empowers its customers to know the impact of their purchase, including a Give Code on every product which enables customers to see how their purchase is helping fund these ongoing giving projects. "Water, earth, and the relationship that people have with both are critical to our daily lives, and we need to make sure these basic ingredients are cared for and nourished," said Bryan Papé, MiiR founder and CEO. "MiiR continues to emphasize and celebrate these fundamental elements by aligning our giving projects to support clean water, a healthy environment, and strong communities. We are incredibly proud of our accomplishments so far, and we are thrilled to continue with this work as a part of The Climate Pledge." Ørsted Ørsted is committed to reaching carbon neutral energy generation and operations by 2025. Previously one of the most fossil fuel intensive utilities in Europe, now ranked the most sustainable energy company in the world by the 2021 Global 100 index, Ørsted has already made meaningful strides toward this ambitious commitment. Since 2006, Ørsted has shrunk its own carbon emissions by 87%. Today, more than 30% of the world's offshore wind power is installed by Ørsted, and it operates the world's largest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 1 in the UK, powering well over one million UK homes. "The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy, and we are committed to taking a leading role in fundamentally reshaping how the world generates and consumes energy," said Mads Nipper, Ørsted CEO. "Having transformed our own business, we now aspire to be a catalyst for change, helping companies and politicians make bold near-term decisions, because together we can mitigate climate change and create true, meaningful impact on the world. It is a great pleasure to continue with this work as a part of The Climate Pledge." Prosegur Group Today two members of Prosegur Group, Prosegur Compañia de Seguridad and its subsidiary Prosegur Cash, are committing to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, reinforcing the company's focus on sustainable operations. As a global leader in private security, Prosegur Group is committed to lead by example in reducing its environmental impact, generating quality employment, ensuring the health and safety of its workers, complying with regulations, and respecting human rights and good governance. Prosegur Group is already targeting decarbonization of its vehicle fleet, introducing hybrid and electric vehicles into its operations and commercial fleets. Prosegur Cash has also introduced the world's first 100% electric armored truck, a zero-emission vehicle. "At Prosegur Group, we are not only committed to making the world a safer place, taking care of people and businesses, we also recognize the urgent action needed to protect and heal our planet," said Christian Gut, Prosegur CEO. "We are convinced that by joining The Climate Pledge, we will make significant progress in achieving net-zero carbon by 2040." Slalom Slalom is committed to operating every part of its business in ways that are sustainable and responsible, while creating innovative solutions to the world's biggest challenges. The company released its first corporate social responsibility report last year, which included aspirational goals to achieve carbon-neutral emissions and shift to 100% renewable energy by 2030. As Slalom advances its own corporate responsibility efforts across its operations, the company is also scaling its expertise to help customers do the same. "Protecting the environment for future generations directly ties to Slalom's purpose and core values," said Tony Rojas, Slalom president. "We believe embracing sustainability — including achieving carbon-neutral emissions and shifting to 100% renewable energy by 2030 — will enable us to improve the health of the planet and help meet the challenges of our customers and communities where we work and live. We're thrilled to be joining other companies who are showing their sustainability commitment through The Climate Pledge." S4Capital S4Capital's ambition to apply the power of creativity and technology to the greater good is evidenced in a series of actions: its support for the Ten Principles of the UN's Global Compact on Human Rights, Labour, Environment, and Anti-Corruption; its signing the EU Green Deal; and its commitment to report GHG emissions from 2020. Realizing its role in helping brands transform both inside and out, S4Capital is dedicated to adopting exemplary sustainable practices unique among its peers in the creative and marketing industry. "We believe that the focus on ESG is crucial and we are growing S4Capital in a responsible and sustainable way, for the long-term benefit of all," said Sir Martin Sorrell, S4Capital executive chairman. "There's an opportunity for our global team to combine each of our expertise toward the greater good and address critical global issues like climate change together. This is why we are delighted to join The Climate Pledge community. Only by working together, will we be able to rise to the challenge, curb our emissions, and reach net-zero carbon by 2040." UPM UPM is a global forest industry leader with a purpose to create a future beyond fossils. The company offers renewable and recyclable alternatives to fossil-based materials and products to meet the growing global demand for sustainable options. UPM strives to mitigate climate change and drive value creation through innovating novel products, by practicing sustainable forestry, and through significant emission reduction in its own production and supply chain. UPM is committed to the United Nations' Business Ambition for 1.5°C initiative, and the company's 65% emission reduction target by 2030 is approved by The Science Based Target initiative. UPM wants to take an active role by collaborating with scientific and other partners in order to drive the change together and to reach highest possible impact. "UPM is committed to creating value by providing sustainable alternatives to fossil-based, non-renewable materials. We are proud to be the first forest industry company to join The Climate Pledge and this network of global sustainability leaders," said Jussi Pesonen, UPM president and CEO. Vanderlande As a material handling and logistics company, Vanderlande has prioritized sustainability as a key principle of its activities. Through its solutions, the company aims to contribute to its customers' sustainable objectives. Vanderlande is focused on optimizing its energy efficiency across its operations. The company has implemented energy monitoring software at all of its key customer sites, and it has combined the use of energy efficient technology with having process engineers at a growing number of sites in order to improve energy consumption. "We are committed to playing our part in global efforts to address the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions across our operations," says Remo Brunschwiler, Vanderlande CEO. "We aim to do this by being more efficient in the energy we use in our own activities and by contributing to our customers' sustainability objectives. It is a great pleasure to join the Climate Pledge and commit to becoming net-zero by 2040." About The Climate Pledge In 2019, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. Now 53 organizations have signed The Climate Pledge, sending an important signal that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. For more information visit www.theclimatepledge.com.

<p><em>53 companies and counting across the globe, representing almost every sector of the economy, have now committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, demonstrating the global impact of The Climate Pledge</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2021-- Today, Amazon and Global Optimism announced that 20 new signatories around the world have joined The Climate Pledge: ACCIONA, Colis Prive, Cranswick plc, Daabon, FREE NOW, Generation Investment Management, Green Britain Group, Hotelbeds, IBM, Iceland Foods, Interface, Johnson Controls, MiiR, Ørsted, Prosegur Cash, Prosegur Compañia de Seguridad, Slalom, S4Capital, UPM, and Vanderlande.</p><p>With the addition of the new signatories, 53 companies across 18 industries and 12 countries have committed to working toward net-zero carbon in their worldwide businesses — which in aggregate has the potential to significantly reduce corporate carbon emissions. Each organization is at a different stage in its journey to net-zero carbon emissions, but all 53 signatories are committed to The Climate Pledge's ambitious goal of meeting the Paris Agreement 10 years early.</p><p>Signatories to The Climate Pledge agree to:</p><ul><li>Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis.</li><li>Implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and innovations, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies.</li><li>Neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets to achieve net-zero annual carbon emissions by 2040 — a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement's goal of 2050.</li></ul><p>The 20 new signatories represent diverse economic sectors, ranging from energy to agricultural and financial services.</p><p>Each company is implementing science-based, high-impact changes to its business to help decarbonize the value chain, including innovating in circular economy, deploying clean energy solutions, and mobilizing supply chains to reach net-zero by 2040.</p><p>"As the U.S. takes an important step forward in the fight against climate change by officially rejoining the Paris Agreement this week, I am excited to welcome 20 new companies to The Climate Pledge who want to go even faster," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019 to encourage companies to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early, and we're seeing incredible momentum behind the pledge with 53 companies from 18 industries across 12 countries already joining. Together, we can use our collective scale to help decarbonize the economy and preserve Earth for future generations."</p><p>Amazon and Global Optimism welcome these new signatories and thank them for their commitment:</p><p>ACCIONA</p><p>ACCIONA (ANA.MC) is a global leader in sustainable solutions, ranging from renewable energy to water treatment plants, mass transit systems, and other resilient, low-carbon social infrastructure. The mitigation of climate change and its effects lies at the heart of the company's business rationale. ACCIONA is the world's greenest utility, operating solely with renewable energy, and an innovator in all fields of sustainable infrastructure. ACCIONA became carbon neutral in 2016, the first company in the energy and infrastructure sectors to do so. In line with the latest climate science, ACCIONA is committed to reducing its direct and energy consumption emissions by 60% between 2017 and 2030, as well as a 47% decrease in value chain emissions, consistent with the Paris Climate Agreement's most ambitious goal of limiting global warming to no more than 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels. ACCIONA's emission reduction targets have been certified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).</p><p>"We urgently need more businesses to commit to regenerative, net-zero carbon growth pathways to avert the threat of catastrophic and irreversible climate change," said José Manuel Entrecanales, ACCIONA chairman and CEO. "I hope more companies sign up for The Climate Pledge to push for the critical mass of companies we need to really move the needle on carbon emissions."</p><p>Colis Prive</p><p>A leader in last mile operations, Colis Prive specializes in home and relay delivery, collecting parcels from e-merchants and executing final delivery. Since its founding in 1993, the company continues to take pride in pursuing consistent improvements in its delivery service. With four hubs across France and a network of 3,500 delivery associates, Colis Prive has delivered more than 63 million parcels. Knowing the significant impact of its operations on the environment, Colis Prive is committed to limiting its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with a particular focus on reducing those resulting from last mile deliveries. The company is also doubling down on energy efficiency thanks to the implementation of the ISO 50001 energy standard, aimed at providing global companies a precise framework for setting up an operational and sustainable energy management system to continually reduce their energy use.</p><p>"At Colis Prive we're committed to running a responsible business across our operations, and that includes prioritizing sustainable practices," said Frédéric Pons, Colis Prive co-founder and chairman. "Joining this global project confirms our engagement alongside Amazon to adapt, learn, measure and optimize our processes. We're thrilled to be the first parcel delivery company to join The Climate Pledge, and we look forward to working with Amazon, Global Optimism, and other signatories to become carbon-neutral by 2040."</p><p>Cranswick plc</p><p>As one of the largest food producers in Britain, Cranswick plc is committed to integrating sustainable practices throughout its operations, from farming to sourcing and producing. With its Second Nature sustainability strategy at the center, the company is focused on decarbonizing its farms and significantly reducing food loss and overall resource waste in its supply chain and production, all by 2040. In the last two years Cranswick plc has made significant progress, including switching to 100% renewable grid-supplied electricity, reducing edible food waste down to 0.4% of total production, and removing over 1,200 tonnes of plastic from its operations.</p><p>"At Cranswick we're committed to running a responsible business across our operations, and that includes prioritizing sustainable practices," said Adam Couch, Cranswick plc CEO. "We want to be part of the solution to climate change, and help inspire positive change across the broader value chain. We believe joining The Climate Pledge reinforces our commitment to sustainability and will have a critical role in enabling us to be that positive influence."</p><p>Daabon</p><p>Based in Santa Marta, Colombia, Daabon Group is a leader in the production and processing of organic crops such as bananas, Hass avocado, coffee, and palm oil in South America. The company has worked extensively on circular economy to manage and develop its production processes in a sustainable way. Daabon was the first organic palm oil company to be certified sustainable by the Rainforest Alliance and RSPO in Latin America. The company has developed an innovative process that captures methane gas produced by the organic waste to be used as fuel for energy.</p><p>"At Daabon our ambition is to run a sustainable and socially responsible business," said Manuel Julián Dávila, Daabon Group CEO. "We are proud of what our team has achieved to tackle environmental challenges, but we can go much further. We are convinced that by joining The Climate Pledge, we will make significant progress in achieving net-zero carbon by 2040."</p><p>FREE NOW</p><p>Serving more than 50 million passengers in over 150 cities across Europe, FREE NOW recognizes the urgent need for more environmentally friendly transportation. The company is already committed to shifting 50% of its FREE NOW vehicles across Europe to zero emissions by 2025 and making all passenger trips emission free by 2030. To achieve these ambitious goals, the company is investing millions in supporting drivers to switch to electric vehicles and promoting electric options among customers.</p><p>"It is our ambition and our commitment to the cities where we operate to do our bit to reduce emissions and make it easier for people to make environmentally friendly choices," said Marc Berg, FREE NOW CEO. "We are proud of the progress we've already made toward our commitments, but we can go much further. We are thrilled to be joining other sustainability minded companies with The Climate Pledge."</p><p>Generation Investment Management </p><p>Generation Investment Management (Generation), founded in 2004, is playing an integral role in the development of sustainable investing and in demonstrating the long-term benefits of this approach. The firm integrates sustainability factors into its investment decisions, engagement with portfolio companies, and a wide range of advocacy and impact initiatives. Generation is committed to aligning investment portfolios with net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040 or sooner, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The firm is helping to lead efforts across the investment management industry to build a coalition of managers willing to make a collective commitment to the goal of net-zero emissions. In December 2020, this led to the launch of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative on the fifth anniversary of the conclusion of the Paris Agreement. This initiative launched with 30 asset managers as founding signatories, responsible for over USD 9 trillion of assets under management.</p><p>"We believe that climate change demands urgent and universal action," said David Blood, Generation senior partner. "There is still time to keep temperatures from rising to truly catastrophic levels, but a huge effort is needed to halve global emissions this decade. We stand with fellow signatories of The Climate Pledge in a commitment to being net zero by 2040. By joining The Climate Pledge we are reinforcing our commitment to sustainability, and we're pleased to join a community that will share knowledge, ideas, and best practices."</p><p>Green Britain Group </p><p>The Green Britain Group exists in the pursuit of sustainability through business. Its main operations are Ecotricity, the world's first green energy company, and Forest Green Rovers football club (FGR), recognized by the global governing body, FIFA, as the greenest in the game. Founded by Entrepreneur Dr. Dale Vince OBE, the Green Britain Group is focused on tackling environmental and sustainability issues in three areas — energy, transport, and food. Ecotricity now powers over 200,000 homes and businesses with 100% renewable electricity and carbon-neutral gas from its UK-wide network of wind and solar parks. FGR became the world's first sports club to be certified carbon neutral by the United Nations in 2017 and is recognized as the world's greenest football club. FGR has recently been granted planning permission for the construction of Eco Park, a pioneering, new all-wood stadium designed to showcase what's possible in the pursuit of sustainability.</p><p>"When I started Ecotricity back in 1995 we were the world's first green energy company, and in 25 years, things have come a long way — but there's still much more we all need to do in order to have a zero-carbon country," said Dr. Dale Vince OBE, Green Britain Group founder. "Having a greener life isn't about giving things up — we just need to do the things we do, but differently. We're looking forward to working with Amazon, Global Optimism, and others in The Climate Pledge. Businesses of all sizes need to collaborate and find new ways of tackling climate change, and we have to take everyone on that journey with us."</p><p>Hotelbeds</p><p>Hotelbeds is doubling down on its environmental commitments to help lead the charge in sustainable tourism. Certified Carbon Neutral by Carbon Footprint Ltd. for the third year running, the company, which works closely with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), is already making great strides in prioritizing carbon reduction across its operations. In 2020 the company launched The Green Hotels Program with the goal of accelerating the transition of the travel industry towards sustainability. Hotelbeds now has over 15,000 properties within its portfolio certified as sustainable.</p><p>"As the leaders in our sector, we have a clear responsibility to demonstrate to our stakeholders that we operate a responsible, transparent business model and that we take very seriously the environmental impact we have," said Joan Vilà, Hotelbeds executive chairman. "We recognize our critical responsibility to protect our planet and the destinations where we operate, and we believe this is a time to double down on our investment to create a more sustainable future. We are thrilled to continue with this work as a part of The Climate Pledge."</p><p>Iceland Foods</p><p>Iceland Foods seeks to build a growing, profitable, and responsible business that does the right thing for its customers, partners, communities, and the planet. The company has a long history of caring for the environment and exercising sustainable practices, aligning its ambitions with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Iceland Foods is focused on eliminating single-use plastics, and developing solutions and implementing changes to cut the carbon and waste associated with food and drink. The company has already made great strides in reducing its carbon footprint by 74% since 2011.</p><p>"At Iceland Foods, we believe that every business has a moral responsibility to take ambitious action to address these major and urgent sustainability issues; it is also a commercial imperative for any business that hopes to have a future," said Richard Walker, Iceland Foods managing director. "We are honored and delighted to be the first food retailer to join The Climate Pledge and commit to be net-zero carbon by 2040."</p><p>IBM</p><p>IBM is committing to reach net zero by 2030 as part of its efforts to protect the planet. IBM has been committed to environmental leadership for decades, having issued its first corporate policy on environmental responsibility in 1971. The company has disclosed its environmental performance since 1990, began disclosing its CO2 emissions in 1995, and has sustained a goal to reduce CO2 emissions since 2000. In 2007, IBM publicly stated its position on climate change, saying that "climate change is a serious concern that warrants meaningful action on a global basis to stabilize the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases." IBM has fully supported the Paris Agreement since 2015, and in 2019 became a founding member of the Climate Leadership Council, supporting its bipartisan plan for a carbon tax with carbon dividend.</p><p>"IBM is pleased to join The Climate Pledge and collaborate with others to reduce greenhouse gas emissions," said Jim Whitehurst, IBM president. "IBM aims to have net zero carbon emissions by 2030, before the aspiration of the Paris Agreement, in line with our long commitment to the environment."</p><p>Interface</p><p>For over 25 years, global flooring manufacturer Interface has focused on climate action — first by reducing the carbon emissions in its operations and supply chain, and then by reducing the carbon emissions of its products. Last year, Interface introduced the world's first carbon negative carpet tile when measured cradle to gate, and in 2018, the company launched its Carbon Neutral Floors program, certifying that all Interface flooring products are carbon neutral across their full product life cycle. Recognizing it can go even further, Interface continues to look at additional carbon reduction opportunities with the goal of becoming a carbon negative enterprise by 2040.</p><p>"Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity, and it's no longer enough to limit the damage we do — we need to consider how we can leave a positive impact," said Dan Hendrix, Interface chairman and CEO. "At Interface, our goal is to reverse global warming by taking steps to restore the health of the planet. This is why we are delighted to join The Climate Pledge. Only by working together will we be able to create a climate fit for life."</p><p>Johnson Controls</p><p>Johnson Controls is the global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings. Its mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places, and the planet. With a long-standing commitment to protecting and preserving the environment, the company is focused on empowering customers and communities to streamline building operations and deliver energy efficiencies that will help them meet their environmental goals. Johnson Controls is driving sustainability across its entire value chain by focusing on solutions, people, partnerships, performance, and governance. The company has already made great strides in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions intensity, increasing its reliance on clean energy, and improving waste reduction across many of its plants.</p><p>"Sustainability is at the heart of our business and fundamental to everything we do as a company," said George Oliver, Johnson Controls chairman and CEO. "Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the planet today. Our recent announcement to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 through innovations and technologies, such as our OpenBlue platform, further demonstrates our commitment to protect and preserve the environment. We are looking forward to further enhancing the role we can play by working with Amazon, Global Optimism, and other signatories to reach net-zero carbon emissions a decade before the important Paris Agreement's goal."</p><p>MiiR</p><p>MiiR is a generosity-driven company that creates thoughtfully-designed drinkware through its social and environmental mission. Every MiiR product sold helps fund trackable projects around the world, and to-date has granted $1.6 million to non-profit organizations focused on social and environmental causes. Since MiiR was founded in 2010, the company has partnered with numerous nonprofits across the world to fund long term, sustainable projects in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector. The company has also launched numerous projects focused on protecting and preserving the planet's natural resources for generations to come, as well as investing in organizations and programs that build strong communities. MiiR empowers its customers to know the impact of their purchase, including a Give Code on every product which enables customers to see how their purchase is helping fund these ongoing giving projects.</p><p>"Water, earth, and the relationship that people have with both are critical to our daily lives, and we need to make sure these basic ingredients are cared for and nourished," said Bryan Papé, MiiR founder and CEO. "MiiR continues to emphasize and celebrate these fundamental elements by aligning our giving projects to support clean water, a healthy environment, and strong communities. We are incredibly proud of our accomplishments so far, and we are thrilled to continue with this work as a part of The Climate Pledge."</p><p>Ørsted</p><p>Ørsted is committed to reaching carbon neutral energy generation and operations by 2025. Previously one of the most fossil fuel intensive utilities in Europe, now ranked the most sustainable energy company in the world by the 2021 Global 100 index, Ørsted has already made meaningful strides toward this ambitious commitment. Since 2006, Ørsted has shrunk its own carbon emissions by 87%. Today, more than 30% of the world's offshore wind power is installed by Ørsted, and it operates the world's largest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 1 in the UK, powering well over one million UK homes.</p><p>"The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy, and we are committed to taking a leading role in fundamentally reshaping how the world generates and consumes energy," said Mads Nipper, Ørsted CEO. "Having transformed our own business, we now aspire to be a catalyst for change, helping companies and politicians make bold near-term decisions, because together we can mitigate climate change and create true, meaningful impact on the world. It is a great pleasure to continue with this work as a part of The Climate Pledge."</p><p>Prosegur Group</p><p>Today two members of Prosegur Group, Prosegur Compañia de Seguridad and its subsidiary Prosegur Cash, are committing to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, reinforcing the company's focus on sustainable operations. As a global leader in private security, Prosegur Group is committed to lead by example in reducing its environmental impact, generating quality employment, ensuring the health and safety of its workers, complying with regulations, and respecting human rights and good governance. Prosegur Group is already targeting decarbonization of its vehicle fleet, introducing hybrid and electric vehicles into its operations and commercial fleets. Prosegur Cash has also introduced the world's first 100% electric armored truck, a zero-emission vehicle.</p><p>"At Prosegur Group, we are not only committed to making the world a safer place, taking care of people and businesses, we also recognize the urgent action needed to protect and heal our planet," said Christian Gut, Prosegur CEO. "We are convinced that by joining The Climate Pledge, we will make significant progress in achieving net-zero carbon by 2040."</p><p>Slalom</p><p>Slalom is committed to operating every part of its business in ways that are sustainable and responsible, while creating innovative solutions to the world's biggest challenges. The company released its first corporate social responsibility report last year, which included aspirational goals to achieve carbon-neutral emissions and shift to 100% renewable energy by 2030. As Slalom advances its own corporate responsibility efforts across its operations, the company is also scaling its expertise to help customers do the same.</p><p>"Protecting the environment for future generations directly ties to Slalom's purpose and core values," said Tony Rojas, Slalom president. "We believe embracing sustainability — including achieving carbon-neutral emissions and shifting to 100% renewable energy by 2030 — will enable us to improve the health of the planet and help meet the challenges of our customers and communities where we work and live. We're thrilled to be joining other companies who are showing their sustainability commitment through The Climate Pledge."</p><p>S4Capital</p><p>S4Capital's ambition to apply the power of creativity and technology to the greater good is evidenced in a series of actions: its support for the Ten Principles of the UN's Global Compact on Human Rights, Labour, Environment, and Anti-Corruption; its signing the EU Green Deal; and its commitment to report GHG emissions from 2020. Realizing its role in helping brands transform both inside and out, S4Capital is dedicated to adopting exemplary sustainable practices unique among its peers in the creative and marketing industry.</p><p>"We believe that the focus on ESG is crucial and we are growing S4Capital in a responsible and sustainable way, for the long-term benefit of all," said Sir Martin Sorrell, S4Capital executive chairman. "There's an opportunity for our global team to combine each of our expertise toward the greater good and address critical global issues like climate change together. This is why we are delighted to join The Climate Pledge community. Only by working together, will we be able to rise to the challenge, curb our emissions, and reach net-zero carbon by 2040."</p><p>UPM</p><p>UPM is a global forest industry leader with a purpose to create a future beyond fossils. The company offers renewable and recyclable alternatives to fossil-based materials and products to meet the growing global demand for sustainable options. UPM strives to mitigate climate change and drive value creation through innovating novel products, by practicing sustainable forestry, and through significant emission reduction in its own production and supply chain. UPM is committed to the United Nations' Business Ambition for 1.5°C initiative, and the company's 65% emission reduction target by 2030 is approved by The Science Based Target initiative. UPM wants to take an active role by collaborating with scientific and other partners in order to drive the change together and to reach highest possible impact.</p><p>"UPM is committed to creating value by providing sustainable alternatives to fossil-based, non-renewable materials. We are proud to be the first forest industry company to join The Climate Pledge and this network of global sustainability leaders," said Jussi Pesonen, UPM president and CEO.</p><p>Vanderlande</p><p>As a material handling and logistics company, Vanderlande has prioritized sustainability as a key principle of its activities. Through its solutions, the company aims to contribute to its customers' sustainable objectives. Vanderlande is focused on optimizing its energy efficiency across its operations. The company has implemented energy monitoring software at all of its key customer sites, and it has combined the use of energy efficient technology with having process engineers at a growing number of sites in order to improve energy consumption.</p><p>"We are committed to playing our part in global efforts to address the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions across our operations," says Remo Brunschwiler, Vanderlande CEO. "We aim to do this by being more efficient in the energy we use in our own activities and by contributing to our customers' sustainability objectives. It is a great pleasure to join the Climate Pledge and commit to becoming net-zero by 2040."</p><p>About The Climate Pledge</p><p>In 2019, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. Now 53 organizations have signed The Climate Pledge, sending an important signal that there will be rapid growth in demand for products and services that help reduce carbon emissions. For more information visit www.theclimatepledge.com.</p>

Amazon Receives 2021 FMI Food Safety Innovation Award

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Amazon Receives 2021 FMI Food Safety Innovation Award

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SEATTLE—Feb. 12, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been named the 2021 recipient of the Food Industry Association's Food Safety Innovation Award for demonstrating a commitment to the advancement of food protection through performance, practice, creation, sustainment and leadership. "We are constantly innovating to find ways to delight our customers, while keeping them safe throughout their shopping experience," said Allison Jennings, Director, Worldwide Food Safety, Compliance, & Quality at Amazon. "It is exciting to see artificial intelligence, machine learning, the internet of things, and other yet undiscovered technologies being leveraged across industries and government to drive innovation for us all - especially during these unprecedented times." The award recognizes companies that have made an innovative contribution and commitment to food safety. In its release, the nomination committee stated that "Amazon has grown a culture of innovation through its Leadership Principles that drives the company to continue advancing food safety and compliance on behalf of its customers." The committee also cited specific programs such as Amazon's Customer Feedback Monitoring program that allows Amazon to listen to customer reviews, customer return comments, questions and answers, and customer service department contacts which helps drive its safety and compliance processes across all product lines. Food safety remains a priority for the food retail industry and FMI regularly works with partners to promote the advancement of food protection. 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>SEATTLE—Feb. 12, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been named the 2021 recipient of the Food Industry Association's Food Safety Innovation Award for demonstrating a commitment to the advancement of food protection through performance, practice, creation, sustainment and leadership.</p><p>"We are constantly innovating to find ways to delight our customers, while keeping them safe throughout their shopping experience," said Allison Jennings, Director, Worldwide Food Safety, Compliance, &amp; Quality at Amazon. "It is exciting to see artificial intelligence, machine learning, the internet of things, and other yet undiscovered technologies being leveraged across industries and government to drive innovation for us all - especially during these unprecedented times."</p><p>The award recognizes companies that have made an innovative contribution and commitment to food safety. In its release, the nomination committee stated that "Amazon has grown a culture of innovation through its Leadership Principles that drives the company to continue advancing food safety and compliance on behalf of its customers." The committee also cited specific programs such as Amazon's Customer Feedback Monitoring program that allows Amazon to listen to customer reviews, customer return comments, questions and answers, and customer service department contacts which helps drive its safety and compliance processes across all product lines.</p><p>Food safety remains a priority for the food retail industry and FMI regularly works with partners to promote the advancement of food protection.</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>

Amazon and Salvatore Ferragamo File Two Joint Lawsuits Against Counterfeiters

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Amazon and Salvatore Ferragamo File Two Joint Lawsuits Against Counterfeiters

02/11/2021

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2021-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. (SFER:IM), jointly filed two lawsuits against four individuals (the "defendants") and three entities for counterfeiting Ferragamo's products. The defendants attempted to offer the infringing products in Amazon's store, violating Amazon's policies, Ferragamo's intellectual property rights, and the law. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210211005463/en/ The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and alleges the defendants conspired to use Ferragamo's registered trademarks, without authorization, to deceive customers about the authenticity and origin of the products and the affiliation with Ferragamo. Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products in its stores, and in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million to protect customers and brands from fraud and abuse, including counterfeit. Amazon's proactive investments in preventing counterfeit include robust seller vetting, advanced machine-learning based technologies, and industry-leading brand protection tools like Project Zero, Brand Registry, and Transparency. As a result of Amazon's efforts, 99.9% of all products viewed by customers on Amazon have not received a valid counterfeit complaint. In June 2020, Amazon launched its Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a global team dedicated to pursuing bad actors and holding them accountable to the fullest extent of the law, including working with law enforcement. Amazon has filed a series of lawsuits against counterfeiters, including a suit against individuals using social media to promote and facilitate the sale of counterfeits, as well as joint lawsuits with Italian luxury brand Valentino, cosmetics brand KF Beauty, family travel accessory brand JL Childress, and YETI. Over the years, Ferragamo has implemented a series of offline and online anti-counterfeiting measures to protect its customers and the value of its brand, achieving significant results. In 2020, its online monitoring activities enabled the brand to intercept, block, and remove 3 million illicit profiles from the main social media platforms worldwide and approximately 94,000 counterfeit products were blocked and removed from online auction sites. Ferragamo has also filed actions against hundreds of illegal websites through civil proceedings in New York federal court, and was recently awarded $2.8 million in damages. As a part of its policy to fight counterfeiting, Ferragamo also carries out numerous offline investigations and pursues infringers through civil litigation and out-of-court proceedings. In 2020, 240,000 products bearing Ferragamo's counterfeit trademarks were seized worldwide thanks to joint efforts with law enforcement authorities. "We do not allow counterfeit products in our store, and we have made it crystal clear that we take aggressive action to hold accountable bad actors who attempt to evade our proactive protections," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Customer Trust and Partner Support, Amazon. "Through our Counterfeit Crimes Unit, we are working closely with luxury and cosmetics brands, small businesses, and brands with global name recognition. We will continue to fight to protect intellectual property from small family-owned businesses through Fortune 500 companies." "The actions we implemented with great determination in recent years in the fight against counterfeiting have allowed us to achieve good results in protecting the brand. Made in Italy, our brand's quality is based on values such as research, innovation, sustainability and craftsmanship are fundamental for us and for this reason our commitment to safeguarding the brand and our community of consumers is at its highest," added Micaela le Divelec Lemmi, CEO of Salvatore Ferragamo. "The joint action with Amazon underlines how the protection of intellectual property is a priority for Ferragamo and how thecompany is pursuing the fight against counterfeiting with full awareness and resolution." View the court filings here: Case: 2:21-cv-00170, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Case: 2:21-cv-00171, 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 Project Zero launches in 7 new countries Amazon Transparency protects more than 10,000 brands 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 Files Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters Using Social Media to Promote Sales Amazon Supports Resolution of 3M Case Against Fraudsters Amazon Supports Investigation, Prosecution of New York Defendants Charged in Fraud Scheme Amazon and KF Beauty File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters Amazon and Valentino File Joint Lawsuit Against New York-Based Counterfeit Amazon and YETI File Joint Lawsuit 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. 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 Salvatore Ferragamo Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. is the parent Company of the Salvatore Ferragamo Group, one of the world's leaders in the luxury industry and whose origins date back to 1927. The Group is active in the creation, production and sale of shoes, leather goods, apparel, silk products and other accessories, along with women's and men's fragrances. The Group's product offer also includes eyewear and watches, manufactured by licensees. The uniqueness and exclusivity of our creations, along with the perfect blend of style, creativity and innovation enriched by the quality and superior craftsmanship of the 'Made in Italy' tradition, have always been the hallmarks of the Group's products. With approximately 4,000 employees and a network of 656 mono-brand stores as of 30 September 2020, the Ferragamo Group operates in Italy and worldwide through companies that allow it to be a leader in the European, American and Asian markets. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210211005463/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2021-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. (SFER:IM), jointly filed two lawsuits against four individuals (the "defendants") and three entities for counterfeiting Ferragamo's products. The defendants attempted to offer the infringing products in Amazon's store, violating Amazon's policies, Ferragamo's intellectual property rights, and the law.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210211005463/en/</p><p>The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and alleges the defendants conspired to use Ferragamo's registered trademarks, without authorization, to deceive customers about the authenticity and origin of the products and the affiliation with Ferragamo.</p><p>Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products in its stores, and in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million to protect customers and brands from fraud and abuse, including counterfeit. Amazon's proactive investments in preventing counterfeit include robust seller vetting, advanced machine-learning based technologies, and industry-leading brand protection tools like Project Zero, Brand Registry, and Transparency. As a result of Amazon's efforts, 99.9% of all products viewed by customers on Amazon have not received a valid counterfeit complaint.</p><p>In June 2020, Amazon launched its Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a global team dedicated to pursuing bad actors and holding them accountable to the fullest extent of the law, including working with law enforcement. Amazon has filed a series of lawsuits against counterfeiters, including a suit against individuals using social media to promote and facilitate the sale of counterfeits, as well as joint lawsuits with Italian luxury brand Valentino, cosmetics brand KF Beauty, family travel accessory brand JL Childress, and YETI.</p><p>Over the years, Ferragamo has implemented a series of offline and online anti-counterfeiting measures to protect its customers and the value of its brand, achieving significant results. In 2020, its online monitoring activities enabled the brand to intercept, block, and remove 3 million illicit profiles from the main social media platforms worldwide and approximately 94,000 counterfeit products were blocked and removed from online auction sites. Ferragamo has also filed actions against hundreds of illegal websites through civil proceedings in New York federal court, and was recently awarded $2.8 million in damages.</p><p>As a part of its policy to fight counterfeiting, Ferragamo also carries out numerous offline investigations and pursues infringers through civil litigation and out-of-court proceedings. In 2020, 240,000 products bearing Ferragamo's counterfeit trademarks were seized worldwide thanks to joint efforts with law enforcement authorities.</p><p>"We do not allow counterfeit products in our store, and we have made it crystal clear that we take aggressive action to hold accountable bad actors who attempt to evade our proactive protections," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Customer Trust and Partner Support, Amazon. "Through our Counterfeit Crimes Unit, we are working closely with luxury and cosmetics brands, small businesses, and brands with global name recognition. We will continue to fight to protect intellectual property from small family-owned businesses through Fortune 500 companies."</p><p>"The actions we implemented with great determination in recent years in the fight against counterfeiting have allowed us to achieve good results in protecting the brand. Made in Italy, our brand's quality is based on values such as research, innovation, sustainability and craftsmanship are fundamental for us and for this reason our commitment to safeguarding the brand and our community of consumers is at its highest," added Micaela le Divelec Lemmi, CEO of Salvatore Ferragamo. "The joint action with Amazon underlines how the protection of intellectual property is a priority for Ferragamo and how thecompany is pursuing the fight against counterfeiting with full awareness and resolution."</p><p>View the court filings here:</p><ul><li>Case: 2:21-cv-00170, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington</li><li>Case: 2:21-cv-00171, 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 Project Zero launches in 7 new countries</li><li>Amazon Transparency protects more than 10,000 brands</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 Files Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters Using Social Media to Promote Sales</li><li>Amazon Supports Resolution of 3M Case Against Fraudsters</li><li>Amazon Supports Investigation, Prosecution of New York Defendants Charged in Fraud Scheme</li><li>Amazon and KF Beauty File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters</li><li>Amazon and Valentino File Joint Lawsuit Against New York-Based Counterfeit</li><li>Amazon and YETI File Joint Lawsuit 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. 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 Salvatore Ferragamo</p><p>Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. is the parent Company of the Salvatore Ferragamo Group, one of the world's leaders in the luxury industry and whose origins date back to 1927. The Group is active in the creation, production and sale of shoes, leather goods, apparel, silk products and other accessories, along with women's and men's fragrances. The Group's product offer also includes eyewear and watches, manufactured by licensees. The uniqueness and exclusivity of our creations, along with the perfect blend of style, creativity and innovation enriched by the quality and superior craftsmanship of the 'Made in Italy' tradition, have always been the hallmarks of the Group's products. With approximately 4,000 employees and a network of 656 mono-brand stores as of 30 September 2020, the Ferragamo Group operates in Italy and worldwide through companies that allow it to be a leader in the European, American and Asian markets.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210211005463/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS and Bundesliga Enhance Real-Time Game Analysis with New Performance Stats for 2021 Season

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02/11/2021 03:30:00

AWS and Bundesliga Enhance Real-Time Game Analysis with New Performance Stats for 2021 Season

02/11/2021

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AWS machine learning and analytics services continue to bring deeper insights to the game of football and enhance the fan experience with new advanced statistics including Most Pressed Player, Attacking Zones, and Average Positions – Trends SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the German Bundesliga, Germany's top national football league, announced three new Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS to give fans deeper insights into action on the pitch. The new Match Facts – Most Pressed Player, which highlights how often a player in possession experiences a significant pressure situation throughout a match; Attacking Zones, which shows fans where their favorite team is attacking and which side of the pitch they view as most likely to score from; and Average Positions – Trends, which shows how changes to a team's tactical formation can impact a match's outcome – will debut during Matchday 21 on February 12, 2021 featuring RB Leipzig vs. FC Augsburg. Fans can see videos about each stat, read blogs, and learn more here. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210211005287/en/ The Most Pressed Player stat shows how often a player in possession of the ball experiences a significant pressure situation by measuring the number of opposing players involved, their distance to the player, as well as the direction of every players' movement. (Graphic: Business Wire) Bundesliga Match Facts are generated by gathering and analyzing data from live game video feeds as they're streamed into AWS. Fans will see these insights as graphics during broadcasts and in the official Bundesliga app throughout the 2020/2021 season and beyond. The data is then provided back to broadcast viewers around the world in real-time as statistics. These advanced statistics help audiences better understand areas like decision-making on the pitch and the probability of a goal for each shot. The three new Match Facts will better showcase the action on the pitch and give fans, coaches, players, and commentators visual support for analyzing a team's decision making. Understanding the new Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS Most Pressed Player: Football teams are using pressure as a technique, both offensively and defensively, to disrupt a player's rhythm. Until now, it was not possible to quantify the pressure put on an individual player. Most Pressed Player shows how often a player in possession of the ball experiences a significant pressure situation by measuring the number of opposing players involved, their distance to the player, as well as the direction of every players' movement. This advanced statistic will also compare the number of pressing situations a player faces while in possession of the ball with the average number of pressure situations faced by their teammates, helping determine which players are under the most pressure. Attacking Zones: As teams look to exploit defensive weaknesses, approach their opponent's goal, and ultimately score, Attacking Zones allows fans to see where the teams focus their offense to create those scoring opportunities. This new Match Fact divides the last third of the pitch into four equally sized Attacking Zones. Every time the attacking team enters one of these zones, either by dribbling or with a pass, the ball possession algorithm counts an attack and displays it in the graphic. The objective of this advanced statistic is to show fans where their favorite team is attacking and which side of the pitch they seem to view as most likely to score. Average Positions – Trends: This new statistic helps fans, coaches, and commentators identify team strategies by showing how the average positions of players on the pitch change during any desired time frame in the game. It builds on an existing Match Fact, Average Positions (which has been available since the 2019-2020 season), by offering the flexibility to analyze any portion of the game, rather than just at the half or the game's end. Media partners and commentators can now choose which time spans to analyze and then compare those sections of the match, making it easier to identify tactical trends such as whether a team visibly reacts or begins a period of increased pressure after a significant event such as a goal, red card, or substitution. "Every Bundesliga match generates data that can improve play and help fans better understand team strategies, and we are making tremendous strides in leveraging the vast amount of data in our archives and from our league's current games to develop and roll-out new Match Facts. The advanced statistics that we're creating with AWS give fans an even deeper appreciation for how the game is played," said Andreas Heyden, Executive Vice President of Digital Innovations for DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH. "Together with AWS, we're delivering a new perspective on what happens on the field and offering a new and engaging way for fans to follow their favorite teams." "Expanding our work with Bundesliga means more fans will gain an appreciation for the incredible talent on the field and the decisions made by teams, at the same time as the league differentiates itself through the use of advanced analytics to improve the quality of play," said Klaus Buerg, General Manager for AWS Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL. "In just one year since the launch of Match Facts, AWS and Bundesliga have created statistics that are giving fans around the world a completely new way to experience the game. The pace of innovation we've achieved in rolling out these advanced stats will excite even the most rabid fans, help teams shape their strategies, and introduce a whole new generation to the intricacies of football." The growth of advanced statistics in sports has led to deeper understanding about in-game strategies and athlete performance. To give fans even more insight into these advanced stats and the associated gameplay, former Bundesliga player Simon Rolfes will be offering his expertise on the new Match Facts in a series of blogs posts, the first of which is available now. These three new Match Facts join Speed Alert, Average Positions, and xGoals to bring the total number of insights available for Bundesliga fans to six. Information on all of these statistics can be found on aws.amazon.com/sports/bundesliga. Football fans also can follow all of the latest Bundesliga action on Bundesliga.com and via the official Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram channels. About Amazon Web Services For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 managementfrom 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, 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. 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/20210211005287/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services

<p><em>AWS machine learning and analytics services continue to bring deeper insights to the game of football and enhance the fan experience with new advanced statistics including Most Pressed Player, Attacking Zones, and Average Positions – Trends</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the German Bundesliga, Germany's top national football league, announced three new Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS to give fans deeper insights into action on the pitch. The new Match Facts – Most Pressed Player, which highlights how often a player in possession experiences a significant pressure situation throughout a match; Attacking Zones, which shows fans where their favorite team is attacking and which side of the pitch they view as most likely to score from; and Average Positions – Trends, which shows how changes to a team's tactical formation can impact a match's outcome – will debut during Matchday 21 on February 12, 2021 featuring RB Leipzig vs. FC Augsburg. Fans can see videos about each stat, read blogs, and learn more here.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210211005287/en/</p><div><p>The Most Pressed Player stat shows how often a player in possession of the ball experiences a significant pressure situation by measuring the number of opposing players involved, their distance to the player, as well as the direction of every players' movement. (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Bundesliga Match Facts are generated by gathering and analyzing data from live game video feeds as they're streamed into AWS. Fans will see these insights as graphics during broadcasts and in the official Bundesliga app throughout the 2020/2021 season and beyond. The data is then provided back to broadcast viewers around the world in real-time as statistics. These advanced statistics help audiences better understand areas like decision-making on the pitch and the probability of a goal for each shot. The three new Match Facts will better showcase the action on the pitch and give fans, coaches, players, and commentators visual support for analyzing a team's decision making.</p><p>Understanding the new Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS</p><p>Most Pressed Player: Football teams are using pressure as a technique, both offensively and defensively, to disrupt a player's rhythm. Until now, it was not possible to quantify the pressure put on an individual player. Most Pressed Player shows how often a player in possession of the ball experiences a significant pressure situation by measuring the number of opposing players involved, their distance to the player, as well as the direction of every players' movement. This advanced statistic will also compare the number of pressing situations a player faces while in possession of the ball with the average number of pressure situations faced by their teammates, helping determine which players are under the most pressure.</p><p>Attacking Zones: As teams look to exploit defensive weaknesses, approach their opponent's goal, and ultimately score, Attacking Zones allows fans to see where the teams focus their offense to create those scoring opportunities. This new Match Fact divides the last third of the pitch into four equally sized Attacking Zones. Every time the attacking team enters one of these zones, either by dribbling or with a pass, the ball possession algorithm counts an attack and displays it in the graphic. The objective of this advanced statistic is to show fans where their favorite team is attacking and which side of the pitch they seem to view as most likely to score.</p><p>Average Positions – Trends: This new statistic helps fans, coaches, and commentators identify team strategies by showing how the average positions of players on the pitch change during any desired time frame in the game. It builds on an existing Match Fact, Average Positions (which has been available since the 2019-2020 season), by offering the flexibility to analyze any portion of the game, rather than just at the half or the game's end. Media partners and commentators can now choose which time spans to analyze and then compare those sections of the match, making it easier to identify tactical trends such as whether a team visibly reacts or begins a period of increased pressure after a significant event such as a goal, red card, or substitution.</p><p>"Every Bundesliga match generates data that can improve play and help fans better understand team strategies, and we are making tremendous strides in leveraging the vast amount of data in our archives and from our league's current games to develop and roll-out new Match Facts. The advanced statistics that we're creating with AWS give fans an even deeper appreciation for how the game is played," said Andreas Heyden, Executive Vice President of Digital Innovations for DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH. "Together with AWS, we're delivering a new perspective on what happens on the field and offering a new and engaging way for fans to follow their favorite teams."</p><p>"Expanding our work with Bundesliga means more fans will gain an appreciation for the incredible talent on the field and the decisions made by teams, at the same time as the league differentiates itself through the use of advanced analytics to improve the quality of play," said Klaus Buerg, General Manager for AWS Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL. "In just one year since the launch of Match Facts, AWS and Bundesliga have created statistics that are giving fans around the world a completely new way to experience the game. The pace of innovation we've achieved in rolling out these advanced stats will excite even the most rabid fans, help teams shape their strategies, and introduce a whole new generation to the intricacies of football."</p><p>The growth of advanced statistics in sports has led to deeper understanding about in-game strategies and athlete performance. To give fans even more insight into these advanced stats and the associated gameplay, former Bundesliga player Simon Rolfes will be offering his expertise on the new Match Facts in a series of blogs posts, the first of which is available now.</p><p>These three new Match Facts join Speed Alert, Average Positions, and xGoals to bring the total number of insights available for Bundesliga fans to six. Information on all of these statistics can be found on aws.amazon.com/sports/bundesliga. Football fans also can follow all of the latest Bundesliga action on Bundesliga.com and via the official Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram channels.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 managementfrom 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, 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. 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/20210211005287/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services</p>

AWS Teams with the National Hockey League to be the Official Cloud Infrastructure Provider of the NHL

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AWS Teams with the National Hockey League to be the Official Cloud Infrastructure Provider of the NHL

02/10/2021

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As a foundational machine learning partner, AWS will help the NHL bring fans closer to the ice with new viewing experiences and in-depth stats and analytics built on AWS services SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that it has entered into an agreement with the National Hockey League (NHL) to become the Official Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Infrastructure Provider of the NHL. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210210005858/en/ AWS will help the NHL bring fans closer to the ice with new viewing experiences and in-depth stats and analytics built on AWS services. (Graphic: Business Wire) By tapping into the breadth and depth of AWS services, the NHL will be able to automate video processing and content delivery in the cloud and leverage its Puck and Player Tracking (PPT) System, which runs on AWS cloud infrastructure, to better capture the details of game play for its fans, teams, and media partners. The NHL will also build an enterprise video platform on AWS to aggregate video, data, and related applications into one central repository that will enable easier search and retrieval of archival video footage, give broadcasters instant access to NHL content for syndication and licensing, and facilitate the creation and delivery of new in-game analyses, predictions, and video highlights to enhance mobile, online, and broadcast experiences. The NHL will work with the Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab to apply AWS's deep portfolio of machine learning services to game video and official NHL data – including data from the NHL's new Puck and Player Tracking (PPT) System and from the NHL's Hockey Information & Tracking System (HITS) real-time stats – to develop and share advanced game analytics and metrics that take fans deeper into the game. In addition, the NHL intends to use AWS Elemental Media Services to develop and manage a cloud-based HD and 4K video content delivery system that will provide a complete view of the game to NHL officials, coaches, players, and fans. Powered by AWS, the system will encode, process, store, and transmit game footage from a series of new camera angles to provide continuous video feeds that capture plays and events outside the field of view of traditional broadcast cameras. In addition, by leveraging AWS analytics services including Amazon Kinesis (AWS's service for easily collecting, processing, and analyzing video and data streams in real time) and machine learning services such as Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service that enables data scientists and developers to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly), the NHL will be able to audit its feeds to broadcast partners in real time. This capability will enable the NHL to create a smart monitoring system that detects and automatically fixes potential feed issues, offering fans a seamless in-game experience across viewing platforms. "AWS's state-of-the-art technology and services will provide us with capabilities to deliver analytics and insights that highlight the speed and skill of our game to drive deeper fan engagement," said NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman. "AWS is unmatched in the portfolio of cloud services that it delivers, including computer vision and machine learning, and we intend to leverage them across the board to provide advanced analysis to our teams, officials, and media partners faster than ever before. We're thrilled to have AWS join the NHL's family of blue-chip technology partners as we continue our focus on innovation and building the most advanced technology solutions in sports." "AWS is working with the world's most renowned sports leagues to better understand their data and innovate upon it using our deep portfolio of machine learning services," said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Inc. "With this agreement, AWS will provide our industry-leading cloud technology to the NHL, becoming a foundational partner in delivering NHL performance analytics and collaborating to enhance the way people experience hockey by providing more engaging content and greater insights to fans. AWS's breadth and depth of services, our proven experience in sports analytics, and our relentless focus on innovation give the NHL the ability to bring an entirely new perspective and layer of fan involvement to the game of hockey." The NHL will be introducing its new analytics using AWS services and technology throughout the upcoming season. For more information, please visit www.aws.amazon.com/sports. About Amazon Web Services For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 managementfrom 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, 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. 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 NHL The National Hockey League (NHL), founded in 1917, consists of 31 Member Clubs and proudly welcomes its 32nd franchise, the Seattle Kraken, for the 2021-22 season. Each team roster reflects the League's international makeup with players from more than 20 countries represented, all vying for the most cherished and historic trophy in professional sports – the Stanley Cup. Every year, the NHL entertains more than 670 million fans in-arena and through its partners on national television and radio; more than 151 million followers - league, team and player accounts combined - across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube; and more than 100 million fans online at NHL.com. The League broadcasts games in more than 160 countries and territories through its rightsholders including NBC/NBCSN and the NHL Network in the U.S., Sportsnet and TVA in Canada, Viasat in the Nordic Region and CCTV and Tencent in China. The NHL reaches fans worldwide with games available online in every country including via its live and on-demand streaming service NHL.TV. Fans are engaged across the League's digital assets on mobile devices via the free NHL App; across nine social media platforms; on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio; and on NHL.com, available in eight languages and featuring unprecedented access to player and team statistics as well as every regular-season and playoff game box score dating back to the League's inception, powered by SAP. The NHL is committed to building healthy and vibrant communities through the sport of hockey by increasing youth participation and engagement; fostering positive family experiences; promoting inclusion, positive culture and leadership; and supporting sustainable community impact. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210210005858/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>As a foundational machine learning partner, AWS will help the NHL bring fans closer to the ice with new viewing experiences and in-depth stats and analytics built on AWS services</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2021-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that it has entered into an agreement with the National Hockey League (NHL) to become the Official Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Infrastructure Provider of the NHL.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210210005858/en/</p><div><p>AWS will help the NHL bring fans closer to the ice with new viewing experiences and in-depth stats and analytics built on AWS services. (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>By tapping into the breadth and depth of AWS services, the NHL will be able to automate video processing and content delivery in the cloud and leverage its Puck and Player Tracking (PPT) System, which runs on AWS cloud infrastructure, to better capture the details of game play for its fans, teams, and media partners. The NHL will also build an enterprise video platform on AWS to aggregate video, data, and related applications into one central repository that will enable easier search and retrieval of archival video footage, give broadcasters instant access to NHL content for syndication and licensing, and facilitate the creation and delivery of new in-game analyses, predictions, and video highlights to enhance mobile, online, and broadcast experiences.</p><p>The NHL will work with the Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab to apply AWS's deep portfolio of machine learning services to game video and official NHL data – including data from the NHL's new Puck and Player Tracking (PPT) System and from the NHL's Hockey Information &amp; Tracking System (HITS) real-time stats – to develop and share advanced game analytics and metrics that take fans deeper into the game. In addition, the NHL intends to use AWS Elemental Media Services to develop and manage a cloud-based HD and 4K video content delivery system that will provide a complete view of the game to NHL officials, coaches, players, and fans. Powered by AWS, the system will encode, process, store, and transmit game footage from a series of new camera angles to provide continuous video feeds that capture plays and events outside the field of view of traditional broadcast cameras. In addition, by leveraging AWS analytics services including Amazon Kinesis (AWS's service for easily collecting, processing, and analyzing video and data streams in real time) and machine learning services such as Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service that enables data scientists and developers to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly), the NHL will be able to audit its feeds to broadcast partners in real time. This capability will enable the NHL to create a smart monitoring system that detects and automatically fixes potential feed issues, offering fans a seamless in-game experience across viewing platforms.</p><p>"AWS's state-of-the-art technology and services will provide us with capabilities to deliver analytics and insights that highlight the speed and skill of our game to drive deeper fan engagement," said NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman. "AWS is unmatched in the portfolio of cloud services that it delivers, including computer vision and machine learning, and we intend to leverage them across the board to provide advanced analysis to our teams, officials, and media partners faster than ever before. We're thrilled to have AWS join the NHL's family of blue-chip technology partners as we continue our focus on innovation and building the most advanced technology solutions in sports."</p><p>"AWS is working with the world's most renowned sports leagues to better understand their data and innovate upon it using our deep portfolio of machine learning services," said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Inc. "With this agreement, AWS will provide our industry-leading cloud technology to the NHL, becoming a foundational partner in delivering NHL performance analytics and collaborating to enhance the way people experience hockey by providing more engaging content and greater insights to fans. AWS's breadth and depth of services, our proven experience in sports analytics, and our relentless focus on innovation give the NHL the ability to bring an entirely new perspective and layer of fan involvement to the game of hockey."</p><p>The NHL will be introducing its new analytics using AWS services and technology throughout the upcoming season. For more information, please visit www.aws.amazon.com/sports.</p><p>About Amazon Web Services</p><p>For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. 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 managementfrom 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, 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. 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 NHL</p><p>The National Hockey League (NHL), founded in 1917, consists of 31 Member Clubs and proudly welcomes its 32nd franchise, the Seattle Kraken, for the 2021-22 season. Each team roster reflects the League's international makeup with players from more than 20 countries represented, all vying for the most cherished and historic trophy in professional sports – the Stanley Cup. Every year, the NHL entertains more than 670 million fans in-arena and through its partners on national television and radio; more than 151 million followers - league, team and player accounts combined - across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube; and more than 100 million fans online at NHL.com. The League broadcasts games in more than 160 countries and territories through its rightsholders including NBC/NBCSN and the NHL Network in the U.S., Sportsnet and TVA in Canada, Viasat in the Nordic Region and CCTV and Tencent in China. The NHL reaches fans worldwide with games available online in every country including via its live and on-demand streaming service NHL.TV. Fans are engaged across the League's digital assets on mobile devices via the free NHL App; across nine social media platforms; on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio; and on NHL.com, available in eight languages and featuring unprecedented access to player and team statistics as well as every regular-season and playoff game box score dating back to the League's inception, powered by SAP. The NHL is committed to building healthy and vibrant communities through the sport of hockey by increasing youth participation and engagement; fostering positive family experiences; promoting inclusion, positive culture and leadership; and supporting sustainable community impact.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210210005858/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon and Dutch Blitz File Joint Lawsuit against Counterfeiters

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Amazon and Dutch Blitz File Joint Lawsuit against Counterfeiters

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2021-- Today, Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Counterfeit Crimes Unit filed four federal lawsuits on behalf of Dutch Blitz Acquisition Corporation (Dutch Blitz), a family-owned card game maker. The lawsuits seek recovery of the profits the owners of Dutch Blitz have lost from counterfeit versions of its card game, which was born in the Pennsylvania Dutch country. Amazon and Dutch Blitz filed four lawsuits collectively against four individuals and two entities (the "defendants") for counterfeiting Dutch Blitz's card game product. The defendants attempted to offer the infringing product in Amazon's store, violating Amazon's policies, infringing on Dutch Blitz's trademarks, and breaking the law. The suits were filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and allege that the six defendants used Dutch Blitz's registered trademarks, without authorization, to deceive customers about the authenticity and origin of the products and the affiliation with Dutch Blitz. Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products in its stores, and in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million to protect customers and brands from fraud and abuse, including counterfeit. Amazon's proactive investments in preventing counterfeit include robust seller vetting, advanced machine-learning based technologies, and industry-leading brand protection tools like Project Zero, Brand Registry, and Transparency. As a result of Amazon's efforts, 99.9% of all products viewed by customers on Amazon have not received a valid counterfeit complaint. In June 2020, Amazon launched its Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a global team dedicated to pursuing bad actors and holding them accountable to the fullest extent of the law, including working with law enforcement. Amazon has filed a series of lawsuits against counterfeiters, including a suit against individuals using social media to promote and facilitate the sale of counterfeits, as well as joint lawsuits with Italian luxury brand Valentino, cosmetics brand KF Beauty, family travel accessory brand JL Childress, and YETI. Dutch Blitz is a Pennsylvania-based, family-owned-and-operated business started in the 1960s by Werner Ernst George Muller. Today, Mary and Mike Fisher continue to run Dutch Blitz as a family-owned and family-operated business in Pennsylvania and it is one of more than a million small and medium-sized businesses worldwide that sell their products in Amazon's store. "We strictly prohibit the sale of counterfeits and have done more than any other retailer to stop the trafficking of counterfeit goods online. We continue to launch new and enhanced verification processes and advanced machine learning based systems to protect customers and prevent bad actors from entering our store. We have invented tools to empower brands to partner with us and better protect their intellectual property, and we have launched the Counterfeit Crimes Unit, staffed with former federal prosecutors and other experts, to hold bad actors accountable to the fullest extent of the law. We are proud that we are able to help protect the intellectual property of small and medium size businesses such as Dutch Blitz through our Counterfeit Crimes Unit," said Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Customer Trust and Partner Support. "We are tireless in our efforts to ensure only authentic products are sold in our store, and we urge brands, policymakers, and regulators to remain vigilant and continue to partner with us in our shared mission to stop these bad actors." "We are seeing real results from Amazon's work to eliminate counterfeit products from being sold in their store," said Mary Fisher, President of Dutch Blitz. "It has been incredible to work with their team on these efforts, which have had a meaningful and measurable impact on our brand. We will continue to partner with Amazon to deliver on the commitment we've made to our customers who enjoy our game every day." The court filings are available here: Case: 2:21-cv-00162, 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 Project Zero launches in 7 new countries Amazon Transparency protects more than 10,000 brands Amazon Establishes Counterfeit Crimes Unit to Bring Counterfeiters 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 Files Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters Using Social Media to Promote Sales Amazon Supports Resolution of 3M Case Against Fraudsters Amazon Supports Investigation, Prosecution of New York Defendants Charged in Fraud Scheme Amazon and KF Beauty File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters Amazon and Valentino File Joint Lawsuit Against New York-Based Counterfeiter Amazon and YETI File Joint Lawsuit 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. 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/20210210005579/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2021-- Today, Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Counterfeit Crimes Unit filed four federal lawsuits on behalf of Dutch Blitz Acquisition Corporation (Dutch Blitz), a family-owned card game maker. The lawsuits seek recovery of the profits the owners of Dutch Blitz have lost from counterfeit versions of its card game, which was born in the Pennsylvania Dutch country.</p><p>Amazon and Dutch Blitz filed four lawsuits collectively against four individuals and two entities (the "defendants") for counterfeiting Dutch Blitz's card game product. The defendants attempted to offer the infringing product in Amazon's store, violating Amazon's policies, infringing on Dutch Blitz's trademarks, and breaking the law. The suits were filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and allege that the six defendants used Dutch Blitz's registered trademarks, without authorization, to deceive customers about the authenticity and origin of the products and the affiliation with Dutch Blitz.</p><p>Amazon strictly prohibits counterfeit products in its stores, and in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million to protect customers and brands from fraud and abuse, including counterfeit. Amazon's proactive investments in preventing counterfeit include robust seller vetting, advanced machine-learning based technologies, and industry-leading brand protection tools like Project Zero, Brand Registry, and Transparency. As a result of Amazon's efforts, 99.9% of all products viewed by customers on Amazon have not received a valid counterfeit complaint.</p><p>In June 2020, Amazon launched its Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a global team dedicated to pursuing bad actors and holding them accountable to the fullest extent of the law, including working with law enforcement. Amazon has filed a series of lawsuits against counterfeiters, including a suit against individuals using social media to promote and facilitate the sale of counterfeits, as well as joint lawsuits with Italian luxury brand Valentino, cosmetics brand KF Beauty, family travel accessory brand JL Childress, and YETI.</p><p>Dutch Blitz is a Pennsylvania-based, family-owned-and-operated business started in the 1960s by Werner Ernst George Muller. Today, Mary and Mike Fisher continue to run Dutch Blitz as a family-owned and family-operated business in Pennsylvania and it is one of more than a million small and medium-sized businesses worldwide that sell their products in Amazon's store.</p><p>"We strictly prohibit the sale of counterfeits and have done more than any other retailer to stop the trafficking of counterfeit goods online. We continue to launch new and enhanced verification processes and advanced machine learning based systems to protect customers and prevent bad actors from entering our store. We have invented tools to empower brands to partner with us and better protect their intellectual property, and we have launched the Counterfeit Crimes Unit, staffed with former federal prosecutors and other experts, to hold bad actors accountable to the fullest extent of the law. We are proud that we are able to help protect the intellectual property of small and medium size businesses such as Dutch Blitz through our Counterfeit Crimes Unit," said Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Customer Trust and Partner Support. "We are tireless in our efforts to ensure only authentic products are sold in our store, and we urge brands, policymakers, and regulators to remain vigilant and continue to partner with us in our shared mission to stop these bad actors."</p><p>"We are seeing real results from Amazon's work to eliminate counterfeit products from being sold in their store," said Mary Fisher, President of Dutch Blitz. "It has been incredible to work with their team on these efforts, which have had a meaningful and measurable impact on our brand. We will continue to partner with Amazon to deliver on the commitment we've made to our customers who enjoy our game every day."</p><p>The court filings are available here:</p><ul><li>Case: 2:21-cv-00162, 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 Project Zero launches in 7 new countries</li><li>Amazon Transparency protects more than 10,000 brands</li><li>Amazon Establishes Counterfeit Crimes Unit to Bring Counterfeiters 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 Files Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters Using Social Media to Promote Sales</li><li>Amazon Supports Resolution of 3M Case Against Fraudsters</li><li>Amazon Supports Investigation, Prosecution of New York Defendants Charged in Fraud Scheme</li><li>Amazon and KF Beauty File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters</li><li>Amazon and Valentino File Joint Lawsuit Against New York-Based Counterfeiter</li><li>Amazon and YETI File Joint Lawsuit 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. 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/20210210005579/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

National IPR Center and Amazon's ‘Operation Fulfilled Action' Target Super Bowl LV Counterfeits

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National IPR Center and Amazon's ‘Operation Fulfilled Action' Target Super Bowl LV Counterfeits

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TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Today, Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit and the U.S. government's National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center announced they are expanding the joint Operation Fulfilled Action partnership to fight counterfeit Super Bowl merchandise. The IPR Center and Amazon's CCU will work together in real time to identify counterfeiters wherever they operate: in Tampa, in online stores, and as their goods come through the nation's ports. Operation Fulfilled Action is an on-going effort between Amazon and the IPR Center to protect American consumers by preventing counterfeit goods from entering the U.S. As counterfeiters attempt to take advantage of this major sporting event, Amazon's CCU and the IPR Center are sharing information about counterfeits in real time before, during, and after the Super Bowl. This includes historical information about counterfeiters and real time intelligence as law enforcement agencies conduct on-the-ground inspections and raids. By sharing information such as physical addresses, supply routes, shippers, consignees, and other potential fraud identifiers, Amazon and the IPR Center can more quickly and effectively stop and prevent counterfeits from reaching consumers. "Make no mistake – intellectual property theft is not a victimless crime. American manufacturers and retailers – and those they employ – as well as consumers are the losers in this game," said Steve Francis, IPR Center Director. "Fans who spend their hard-earned money to support the NFL and their favorite team can rest assured that HSI is working around the clock with support from Amazon to ensure they are getting only genuine, high-quality officially licensed merchandise in return." "We know counterfeiters target high visibility events like the Super Bowl, and we are proud to be working with the IPR Center and other agencies to leverage what we know to better protect customers in our store and across the retail industry," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Customer Trust and Partner Support, Amazon. Amazon strictly prohibits the sale of counterfeit products, and in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million to protect its store and customers from counterfeit and other forms of fraud and abuse. These investments include machine learning and automated systems to detect bad actors and potentially counterfeit products, dedicated teams to operate and continually refine its anti-counterfeiting programs, and tools that empower brands to better protect their intellectual property. As a result, 99.9% of pages viewed by customers on Amazon did not receive a valid counterfeit complaint and customers continue to shop with confidence on Amazon. The IPR Center is one of the U.S. government's key weapons in the fight against criminal counterfeiting and piracy. The center uses the expertise of 25 key federal and international agencies to share information, develop initiatives, coordinate enforcement actions, and conduct investigations related to IP theft and commercial fraud crimes. About National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, working collaboratively with its public and private sector partners, stands at the forefront of the United States government's response to combatting global intellectual property theft and enforcing intellectual properties rights violations. The IPR Center was established to combat global intellectual property theft – and, accordingly, has a significant role policing the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods on websites, social media, and the dark web. To report IP theft or to learn more about the IPR Center, visit www.IPRCenter.gov. 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/20210205005477/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Today, Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit and the U.S. government's National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center announced they are expanding the joint Operation Fulfilled Action partnership to fight counterfeit Super Bowl merchandise. The IPR Center and Amazon's CCU will work together in real time to identify counterfeiters wherever they operate: in Tampa, in online stores, and as their goods come through the nation's ports. Operation Fulfilled Action is an on-going effort between Amazon and the IPR Center to protect American consumers by preventing counterfeit goods from entering the U.S.</p><p>As counterfeiters attempt to take advantage of this major sporting event, Amazon's CCU and the IPR Center are sharing information about counterfeits in real time before, during, and after the Super Bowl. This includes historical information about counterfeiters and real time intelligence as law enforcement agencies conduct on-the-ground inspections and raids. By sharing information such as physical addresses, supply routes, shippers, consignees, and other potential fraud identifiers, Amazon and the IPR Center can more quickly and effectively stop and prevent counterfeits from reaching consumers.</p><p>"Make no mistake – intellectual property theft is not a victimless crime. American manufacturers and retailers – and those they employ – as well as consumers are the losers in this game," said Steve Francis, IPR Center Director. "Fans who spend their hard-earned money to support the NFL and their favorite team can rest assured that HSI is working around the clock with support from Amazon to ensure they are getting only genuine, high-quality officially licensed merchandise in return."</p><p>"We know counterfeiters target high visibility events like the Super Bowl, and we are proud to be working with the IPR Center and other agencies to leverage what we know to better protect customers in our store and across the retail industry," said Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Customer Trust and Partner Support, Amazon.</p><p>Amazon strictly prohibits the sale of counterfeit products, and in 2019 alone, invested more than $500 million to protect its store and customers from counterfeit and other forms of fraud and abuse. These investments include machine learning and automated systems to detect bad actors and potentially counterfeit products, dedicated teams to operate and continually refine its anti-counterfeiting programs, and tools that empower brands to better protect their intellectual property. As a result, 99.9% of pages viewed by customers on Amazon did not receive a valid counterfeit complaint and customers continue to shop with confidence on Amazon.</p><p>The IPR Center is one of the U.S. government's key weapons in the fight against criminal counterfeiting and piracy. The center uses the expertise of 25 key federal and international agencies to share information, develop initiatives, coordinate enforcement actions, and conduct investigations related to IP theft and commercial fraud crimes.</p><p>About National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center</p><p>The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, working collaboratively with its public and private sector partners, stands at the forefront of the United States government's response to combatting global intellectual property theft and enforcing intellectual properties rights violations. The IPR Center was established to combat global intellectual property theft – and, accordingly, has a significant role policing the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods on websites, social media, and the dark web. To report IP theft or to learn more about the IPR Center, visit www.IPRCenter.gov.</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/20210205005477/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Continues Investment in Tennessee with Alcoa Fulfillment Center

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Amazon Continues Investment in Tennessee with Alcoa Fulfillment Center

02/03/2021

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New 634,812 square-foot site will create nearly 800 new, full-time jobs SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open a fulfillment center in Alcoa, Tennessee. The site, which is anticipated to launch in 2022, will create nearly 800 new, full-time jobs with benefits and opportunities to engage with advanced robotics. The company currently has fulfillment and sortation centers in Charleston, Chattanooga, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Memphis and Nashville. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210203005744/en/ "We are excited to continue creating a positive economic impact in the region with job opportunities and industry-leading benefits that start on the first day of the job," said Holly Sullivan, Amazon's head of worldwide economic development. "Tennessee is a great state for business and we are excited to have the opportunity to partner, grow and better serve our customers throughout this region." "Over the past year, Amazon has announced projects in each of Tennessee's grand divisions, accounting for nearly3,000 new jobs. As we continue to navigate through the pandemic and reboot our economy, we know our recovery is supported by the success of our Tennessee businesses. We are grateful that Amazon continues to provide jobs to thousands of Tennesseans, and we congratulate the company on its newest fulfillment center in Alcoa," said Tennessee Governor Bill Lee. The Alcoa facility will be Amazon's third fulfillment center in Tennessee to use innovative robotics technology and the company's eighth fulfillment center in the Volunteer State. Amazon employees at the more than 634,812 square-foot fulfillment center will pick, pack and ship smaller customer items, such as books, electronics and consumer goods. "It is a testament to the strength of Tennessee's business climate that companies are attracted to our state and choose to operate and expand here. Amazon is a global brand that has invested $1.5 billion and created more than 25,000 jobs across all three grand divisions of our state, and we appreciate their team for choosing to grow in East Tennessee," said Bob Rolfe, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. "We would also like to thank Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Clay Bright and his outstanding leadership team for their many contributions to help bring this project to fruition." On top of the company's industry-leading starting wage from $15, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. In addition, Amazon has pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in demand jobs. Programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retails stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon. "Blount County, along with the cities of Alcoa and Maryville, are delighted Amazon made its decision to locate here. The jobs and worldwide recognition it brings are extremely beneficial to this area," said Blount County Mayor Ed Mitchell. "We thank Amazon, Governor Bill Lee, Tennessee ECD Commissioner Bob Rolfe, Tennessee Department of Transportation, and our county and city commissioners for tirelessly working together to bring this project to fruition. I, along with the citizens of Blount County, wish them great success and look forward to working with them for many years to come." All associates will go through hours of safety training and have access to continuing education opportunities through Amazon's upskilling programs such as Career Choice. In this program, the company will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program's launch, more than 25,000 employees have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few. "Having Amazon locate in a community has proven to be beneficial for everyone involved, and on behalf of the Blount County Industrial Development Board, I'm happy to welcome its leadership to Blount County and East Tennessee," said Blount County Industrial Development Board Chair Matt Murray. "The regional economic impact of an operation like this will be felt almost immediately. We are excited to get this project progressing quickly and look forward to watching it grow." Amazon's fulfillment network supports millions of businesses of all sizes worldwide through its Fulfillment by Amazon offering, and many of those local organizations are based in Tennessee. There are more than 30,000 authors, small and medium-sized businesses, and developers in Tennessee growing their companies and reaching new customers on Amazon products and services. The project is being developed by Hillwood Development Company, Inc. To learn more about working at an Amazon fulfillment center, visit www.amazondelivers.jobs. About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210203005744/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New 634,812 square-foot site will create nearly 800 new, full-time jobs</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open a fulfillment center in Alcoa, Tennessee. The site, which is anticipated to launch in 2022, will create nearly 800 new, full-time jobs with benefits and opportunities to engage with advanced robotics. The company currently has fulfillment and sortation centers in Charleston, Chattanooga, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Memphis and Nashville.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210203005744/en/</p><p>"We are excited to continue creating a positive economic impact in the region with job opportunities and industry-leading benefits that start on the first day of the job," said Holly Sullivan, Amazon's head of worldwide economic development. "Tennessee is a great state for business and we are excited to have the opportunity to partner, grow and better serve our customers throughout this region."</p><p>"Over the past year, Amazon has announced projects in each of Tennessee's grand divisions, accounting for nearly3,000 new jobs. As we continue to navigate through the pandemic and reboot our economy, we know our recovery is supported by the success of our Tennessee businesses. We are grateful that Amazon continues to provide jobs to thousands of Tennesseans, and we congratulate the company on its newest fulfillment center in Alcoa," said Tennessee Governor Bill Lee.</p><p>The Alcoa facility will be Amazon's third fulfillment center in Tennessee to use innovative robotics technology and the company's eighth fulfillment center in the Volunteer State. Amazon employees at the more than 634,812 square-foot fulfillment center will pick, pack and ship smaller customer items, such as books, electronics and consumer goods.</p><p>"It is a testament to the strength of Tennessee's business climate that companies are attracted to our state and choose to operate and expand here. Amazon is a global brand that has invested $1.5 billion and created more than 25,000 jobs across all three grand divisions of our state, and we appreciate their team for choosing to grow in East Tennessee," said Bob Rolfe, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. "We would also like to thank Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Clay Bright and his outstanding leadership team for their many contributions to help bring this project to fruition."</p><p>On top of the company's industry-leading starting wage from $15, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility with their growing families. In addition, Amazon has pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in demand jobs. Programs will help Amazonians from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retails stores, and transportation network, or pursue career paths outside of Amazon.</p><p>"Blount County, along with the cities of Alcoa and Maryville, are delighted Amazon made its decision to locate here. The jobs and worldwide recognition it brings are extremely beneficial to this area," said Blount County Mayor Ed Mitchell. "We thank Amazon, Governor Bill Lee, Tennessee ECD Commissioner Bob Rolfe, Tennessee Department of Transportation, and our county and city commissioners for tirelessly working together to bring this project to fruition. I, along with the citizens of Blount County, wish them great success and look forward to working with them for many years to come."</p><p>All associates will go through hours of safety training and have access to continuing education opportunities through Amazon's upskilling programs such as Career Choice. In this program, the company will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program's launch, more than 25,000 employees have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few.</p><p>"Having Amazon locate in a community has proven to be beneficial for everyone involved, and on behalf of the Blount County Industrial Development Board, I'm happy to welcome its leadership to Blount County and East Tennessee," said Blount County Industrial Development Board Chair Matt Murray. "The regional economic impact of an operation like this will be felt almost immediately. We are excited to get this project progressing quickly and look forward to watching it grow."</p><p>Amazon's fulfillment network supports millions of businesses of all sizes worldwide through its Fulfillment by Amazon offering, and many of those local organizations are based in Tennessee. There are more than 30,000 authors, small and medium-sized businesses, and developers in Tennessee growing their companies and reaching new customers on Amazon products and services.</p><p>The project is being developed by Hillwood Development Company, Inc.</p><p>To learn more about working at an Amazon fulfillment center, visit www.amazondelivers.jobs.</p><p>About Amazon: Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/ and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210203005744/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition

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02/02/2021 16:03:00

Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition

02/02/2021

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Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will transition to role of Executive Chair in Q3, Andy Jassy to become Chief Executive Officer of Amazon at that time SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2020. Operating cash flow increased 72% to $66.1 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $38.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2019. Free cash flow increased to $31.0 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $25.8 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2019. Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations increased to $20.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $16.2 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2019. Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations increased to $21.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $12.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2019. Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 518 million on December 31, 2020, compared with 512 million one year ago. Fourth Quarter 2020 Net sales increased 44% to $125.6 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $87.4 billion in fourth quarter 2019. Excluding the $1.7 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 42% compared with fourth quarter 2019. Operating income increased to $6.9 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with operating income of $3.9 billion in fourth quarter 2019. Net income increased to $7.2 billion in the fourth quarter, or $14.09 per diluted share, compared with net income of $3.3 billion, or $6.47 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2019. Full Year 2020 Net sales increased 38% to $386.1 billion, compared with $280.5 billion in 2019. Excluding the $1.4 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the year, net sales increased 37% compared with 2019. Operating income increased to $22.9 billion, compared with operating income of $14.5 billion in 2019. Net income increased to $21.3 billion, or $41.83 per diluted share, compared with net income of $11.6 billion, or $23.01 per diluted share, in 2019. Amazon is also announcing today that Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021 and Andy Jassy will become Chief Executive Officer at that time. "Amazon is what it is because of invention. We do crazy things together and then make them normal. We pioneered customer reviews, 1-Click, personalized recommendations, Prime's insanely-fast shipping, Just Walk Out shopping, the Climate Pledge, Kindle, Alexa, marketplace, infrastructure cloud computing, Career Choice, and much more," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "If you do it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal. People yawn. That yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive. When you look at our financial results, what you're actually seeing are the long-run cumulative results of invention. Right now I see Amazon at its most inventive ever, making it an optimal time for this transition." Highlights Investing in Employee Safety and Providing Good Jobs Amazon is working to ensure that its front-line employees receive vaccines as soon as possible. The company is closely monitoring the availability of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide, advocating on behalf of its employees, and working in partnership with global medical experts, governments, and health providers to accelerate vaccination programs. Amazon continues to ramp up its in-house COVID-19 testing program as part of its investments to keep front-line employees safe. More than 700 employees are now tested every hour, and Amazon's dedicated COVID-19 labs have processed more than one million tests globally. Amazon recognized front-line employees by investing $2.5 billion in additional pay in 2020. This is on top of the company's industry-leading starting wage of at least $15 an hour, which is double the federal minimum wage. All full-time employees also receive healthcare and full benefits from their first day on the job. Amazon received the Lee Anderson Veteran and Military Spouse Employment Award for excellence in hiring, training, and retaining veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses. Amazon employs more than 40,000 veterans and military spouses across the U.S. Supporting Communities Amazon announced a new Housing Equity Fund, a $2 billion commitment to preserve and create over 20,000 affordable housing units in Washington State's Puget Sound region; Arlington, Virginia; and Nashville, Tennessee. The Fund provides below-market loans and grants to housing partners, public agencies, and minority-led organizations. It started with initial investments totaling $567 million for 2,300 affordable apartment homes. Amazon announced plans to provide free cloud skills training to 29 million people around the world by 2025, as it continues to invest in upskilling and career development for its customers and employees. The AWS-designed programs range from self-paced online courses to intensive upskilling programs that help participants build new careers in the technology industry. This expands on Amazon's Upskilling 2025 initiative, a $700 million commitment to upskill 100,000 U.S. employees by helping them transition into high-demand, high-paying jobs, as well as Career Choice, a program that pre-pays tuition for employees looking to earn degrees in in-demand fields. Amazon unveiled plans for the second phase of construction for its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Amazon plans to build 2.8 million square feet of office space as part of its commitment to create 25,000 jobs and invest $2.5 billion in the community over the next decade. The project will create more than 2.5 acres of open space for the local community, run on renewable energy, and bring retail and other services to local residents. Amazon in the UK expanded its long-standing partnership with nonprofit Magic Breakfast to reach more children at risk of hunger. In addition to being a significant financial donor, Amazon distributed more than two million free, healthy breakfasts to children studying at home due to COVID-19 who would normally receive these meals at school. In the UK, Amazon delivered more than six million COVID-19 testing kits free of charge, in support of the government's COVID-19 testing program. Globally, Amazon has donated over 65,000 Echo devices, Fire Tablets, and other devices throughout the COVID-19 crisis to organizations that support frontline workers and first responders, and to help keep patients, students, and communities impacted by the pandemic connected. In support of World AIDS Day and Giving Tuesday, Amazon announced the limited-edition (echo)RED. Available in the all-new spherical design, (echo)RED offers premium sound and a built-in smart home hub. Amazon will donate $10 of every (echo)RED sale to support (RED)'s fight against AIDS and COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa. Customers can also donate to (RED)'s fight against the COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS pandemics on any Alexa-enabled device by simply saying, "Alexa, donate to RED." Ring announced a new program with Habitat for Humanity, a global nonprofit that shares Ring's commitment to help make homes and neighborhoods safer, including a donation of $1 million worth of Ring Video Doorbells to provide Habitat homeowners with added peace of mind. Protecting the Planet Amazon became the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, taking another step in its journey to be net-zero carbon by 2040. The company is investing in the building of 26 new utility-scale wind and solar projects in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the U.S., bringing Amazon's total number of renewable energy projects to 127. Amazon's investments will supply its operations with more than 18,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable energy annually, helping put the company on a path to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of the initial 2030 target. Thirty-one organizations have signed The Climate Pledge, a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040. Twenty of those companies signed The Climate Pledge last quarter: Atos, Boom Supersonic, Brooks, Cabify, Canary Wharf Group, Coca-Cola European Partners, ERM, Groupe SEB France, Harbour Air, Henkel, ITV, JetBlue, Microsoft, Neste, Rivian, Rubicon, Signify, Uber, Unilever, and Vaude. Amazon joined the Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions group, an effort by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture to reduce food loss and waste within U.S. company operations by 50% by 2030. Amazon expanded Climate Pledge Friendly, a program to help customers discover and shop for more sustainable products, in five countries across Europe. The program launched with over 40,000 Climate Pledge Friendly products in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses The 2020 holiday season was the best ever for independent businesses selling on Amazon—nearly all of which are small and medium-sized businesses—with worldwide sales growing over 50% compared to the same period in 2019. Sellers surpassed $4.8 billion in worldwide sales from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, growing about 60% from the previous year. During the holiday season as a whole, small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. sold nearly one billion products in Amazon's store. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon has incurred more than $5 billion in operational costs on behalf of independent businesses selling in Amazon's store, and expects to invest billions more through 2021. In 2020, Amazon increased square footage across its fulfillment and logistics network by 50%, dedicated 60% of fulfillment center capacity to seller products, and postponed annual selling fee adjustments until June 2021. As part of the AWS Activate program, Amazon provided more than $1 billion in AWS credits during 2020 to help early stage startups launch their businesses and accelerate their growth. With this help, startups are using scalable, reliable, and secure cloud services like compute, storage, database, analytics, Internet of Things, machine learning, and many others from AWS to scale their businesses. Amazon launched small business accelerator programs across Europe to help entrepreneurs and small businesses succeed in the digital world. These programs offer free access to online training, expert advice, live events, and services, and they include the Amazon Small Business Accelerator in the UK, Quickstart-Online in Germany, Despega in Spain, Accelera con Amazon in Italy, and Accelerateur du Numerique in France. The programs are delivered in collaboration with associations and universities, and they have already supported tens of thousands of small businesses. In December, Amazon India hosted Small Business Day, an event to increase visibility and sales for entrepreneurs and small businesses selling in Amazon's store. Over 55,000 sellers from over 4,000 Postal Index Codes benefitted from Small Business Day, and over 1,500 sellers had their highest ever day of sales on Amazon. In 2020, thousands of independent authors earned more than $50,000 through Kindle Direct Publishing, with more than 1,000 authors surpassing $100,000 in royalties. In 2020, authors using Amazon's self-publishing service Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) earned more than $370 million in royalties from their participation in Kindle Unlimited. KDP authors have earned more than $1.5 billion from participation in Kindle Unlimited since 2014. Shopping and Entertainment Thanks to customers, employees, and selling partners, Amazon had a record-breaking holiday season, delivering more than a billion toys, home, fashion, electronics, beauty, and personal care products to customers worldwide. Amazon Pharmacy launched in the U.S., bringing prescription medications to customers' doorsteps. Customers can now browse medications, create a secure pharmacy profile, and request or manage prescriptions on Amazon.com. Prime members receive unlimited, free two-day delivery on Amazon Pharmacy orders with their membership. Amazon launched a new Amazon Prime prescription savings benefit, which brings pharmacy savings to customers who pay without insurance and can be used at 50,000 participating pharmacies nationwide. Amazon Fashion introduced Made For You, a way for customers to design custom T-shirts to their exact measurements and style preferences. For just $25, U.S. shoppers can customize a T-shirt's fit, fabric, color, sleeve length, shirt length, neckline, and back-neck label. Amazon India's Great Indian Festival shopping event focused on enabling the revival of small and medium-sized businesses and helping customers, even in remote areas of the country, shop safely and conveniently from their homes. During the month-long event, customers purchased items from over 110,000 sellers, the majority of whom were from rural towns. Hudson, a travel experience leader with over 1,000 stores across North America, announced it will use Amazon's Just Walk Out technology in select travel convenience stores. Just Walk Out technology enables shoppers to enter a store, grab what they want, and just go. The first Hudson store with Just Walk Out technology is planned to open in early 2021 at Dallas Love Field Airport, with additional stores coming later this year. Amazon Fresh grocery stores expanded into seven new communities in the U.S.: Irvine, CA; Ladera Heights, CA; Naperville, IL; North Hollywood, CA; Northridge, CA; Schaumburg, IL; and Whittier, CA. To support the continued growth, Amazon is hiring thousands of grocery associates across Chicagoland, the greater Los Angeles area, and Seattle. Amazon was identified as the best overall grocery retailer by dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index that ranks the top 57 grocery retailers in the U.S. based on an annual survey of 10,000 U.S. households. The survey also placed Amazon at the top of the list for customer safety ratings. Amazon Music signed an agreement to acquire innovative podcast publisher, Wondery. Through this acquisition, Amazon Music aims to accelerate the growth and evolution of podcasts by bringing creators, hosts, and immersive experiences to even more listeners across the globe. Wondery will be able to provide more high-quality, innovative content, continuing their mission of bringing a world of entertainment and knowledge to their audiences, wherever they listen. The acquisition is not yet closed and is subject to customary closing conditions. Prime Video continues to launch Amazon Original series and movies globally. Amazon Original movie Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, generated tens of millions of customer streams globally on opening weekend. Other popular Amazon Original movies include Uncle Frank, Sylvie's Love, Sound of Metal, and I'm Your Woman. Prime Video members also enjoyed new and returning Amazon Original series and specials such as What the Constitution Means to Me, Utopia, Truth Seekers, The Pack, Small Axe, The Wilds, The Expanse, Yearly Departed, and the final season of Vikings. Internationally, locally produced Amazon Originals debuting included FERRO (Italy), El Cid (Spain), The Challenge: ETA (Spain), BILD.Macht.Deutschland? (Germany), Binge Reloaded (Germany), Truth Seekers (UK), The Grand Tour: A Massive Hunt (UK), All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur (UK), The Bachelorette (Japan), Mirzapur (India), and Locas por el Cambio (Mexico). The fourth quarter marked Prime Video's strongest viewership for live sports globally. In the U.S., Prime Video's exclusive coverage of the San Francisco 49ers vs. Arizona Cardinals game on December 26 drew an estimated 11.2 million total viewers and delivered the highest digital average-minute-audience ever for an NFL regular season game. In the UK, the number of customers tuning into live Premier League football grew for the second season as millions watched 22 live and exclusive matches on Prime Video. In addition, millions of Prime members streamed live, international rugby for the first-ever Autumn Nations Cup tournament; and in India, Prime Video announced its first foray into live sports, with the acquisition of India territory rights for New Zealand Cricket through 2025-26. Amazon Studios announced deals for upcoming Prime Video series and movies, including the Eddie Murphy comedy Coming 2 America, which premieres in March on Prime Video globally and an unscripted docuseries and new coming-of-age series based on Jessica Simpson's best-selling memoir Open Book. Amazon Devices and Services Amazon announced that Fire TV now reaches more than 50 million monthly active users around the world. Amazon also secured new content deals with premium streaming providers, including HBO Max, discovery+, and Xfinity in the U.S.; Disney+ in Mexico and Brazil; NOW TV in the UK; and CANAL+ in France. The new Fire TV Experience released globally includes a redesigned Home Screen, Profiles, and a new voice-first experience with Alexa to easily discover content. Zoox revealed the first look at their fully functional, electric, autonomous vehicle, which features bi-directional driving and is capable of speeds up to 75 miles per hour. Amazon announced Alexa Custom Assistant, a new service that lets device makers, auto makers, and service providers create custom-branded voice assistants that are powered by and work in cooperation with Alexa. The Alexa Custom Assistant can be built into automobiles and consumer electronics, including smart displays, speakers, set top boxes, fitness devices, and more, providing a complete, managed voice solution that substantially reduces cost, complexity, and time to market. Amazon continued to make progress on Project Kuiper, a low earth orbit satellite constellation that will increase broadband access for unserved and underserved communities around the world. In December, the team revealed designs for the Ka-band phased array antenna that will be used in its customer terminal. The antenna is smaller and lighter than legacy designs, allowing Amazon to produce a customer terminal that is more affordable and easier to install. Ring introduced general availability of its new Mailbox Sensor to customers, launched Customizable Motion Zones for all battery-powered Ring Video Doorbells and Security Cameras, and became the first major smart home security company to offer Video End-to-End Encryption. Additionally, Ring announced Ring Video Doorbell Wired, its smallest doorbell yet, and availability of the Ring Alarm in Spain. Amazon took another step toward making interactions with Alexa more natural, and skills more discoverable, by introducing a new capability that infers customers' latent goals—goals that are implicit in customer requests but not directly expressed—and seamlessly transitions to a relevant skill without requiring the name of the skill, or repeating the same information across skills. Key by Amazon's In-Garage Delivery service expanded to tens of millions of Prime members in over 4,000 cities in the U.S., enabling them to enjoy free, contactless, and secure package delivery conveniently inside their garage to keep packages safe. Amazon announced the first Alexa built-in commercial trucking integration in Volvo Trucks in the EU; the first integration in Brazil with BMW's BMWi and MINI cars; and new vehicle launches with Dodge Durango, Chrysler Pacifica, Fiat 500 electric, and Acura MDX. Additionally, new Alexa integrations were announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), including Harman, Intel, Lenovo, TP-Link, Rise Gardens, and more. Alexa added Netflix to its global roster of streaming service providers for Echo Show customers, giving them more at-home entertainment options. Amazon also added podcast support to Alexa from services like Amazon Music, Apple, and Spotify in more countries around the world. Alexa became more multilingual, allowing members of a household to interact with Alexa in two different languages without needing to change the settings. In the U.S., multilingual mode allows bilingual customers to code-switch from English to Spanish, and vice versa. Amazon also launched multilingual mode in new languages and countries including Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and Japan. Amazon added new Alexa features that make customers' daily lives more convenient, including the ability to share a shopping list with Alexa contacts by voice, video calling on Fire TV, and new Alexa Routines on Fire TV. Amazon Web Services AWS announced significant customer momentum during the quarter with new commitments and migrations spanning major industries, including financial services with JPMorgan Chase, Itaú Unibanco (Latin America's largest bank), Standard Chartered Bank, and Nationwide; media and entertainment with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Thomson Reuters, and ViacomCBS; technology with Arm and Twitter; travel with Boom Technology, Inc. (Boom Supersonic) and Star Alliance (the world's largest airline alliance); retail and e-commerce with Mercado Libre (Latin America's largest online commerce and payments provider) and Zalando (Europe's largest online fashion and lifestyle platform); power and utilities with Siemens Smart Infrastructure (a Siemens AG business group that focuses on energy distribution and intelligent buildings); and automotive with The BMW Group, as well as a multi-year, global agreement to develop and market BlackBerry's Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, IVY. At AWS re:Invent, Amazon's ninth-annual learning conference for the global cloud computing and information technology communities, AWS attracted over 570,000 registered attendees and announced 180 new services and features, including: The industry's first cloud-based Mac instances (EC2 Mac instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) that enable customers to develop, scale, and run macOS workloads in AWS. Five new services that push the envelope on price performance and extend Amazon EC2's lead as the broadest and deepest portfolio of compute instances in the cloud, including Graviton2-powered C6gn instances that provide 40% better price performance for networking and compute-intensive workloads over comparable current generation x86-based instances, AMD-powered G4ad Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) instances that offer the industry's best price performance for graphics-intensive applications, M5zn instances that deliver the fastest Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the cloud, Intel-powered D3/D3en instances that offer the highest storage capacity for local HDD storage in the cloud, and memory-optimized R5b instances that deliver the fastest block storage performance available for Amazon EC2. Nine new capabilities for Amazon SageMaker that make it even easier for developers and data scientists to prepare, build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models. Five new services for industrial customers that use machine learning to improve operational efficiency, quality control, security, and workplace safety. Amazon Monitron and Amazon Lookout for Equipment use sensor data to enable predictive maintenance. The AWS Panorama Appliance and SDK use computer vision to improve product quality and workplace safety. And, Amazon Lookout for Vision uses computer vision to spot anomalies and flaws in products and processes. Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service, enables healthcare organizations to aggregate all their data from disparate locations in various formats, transform that data into a consistent format, store it, and provide easy ways to analyze that data in AWS. Five new capabilities for AWS's rapidly-growing contact center service, Amazon Connect, that significantly improve contact center agents' productivity and customers' experiences. AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift provides an innovative new hardware-accelerated cache that delivers up to 10x better query performance than any other cloud data warehouse. AWS Glue Elastic Views lets developers easily build materialized views that automatically combine and replicate data across storage, data warehouses, and databases. Amazon QuickSight Q delivers a machine learning-powered capability for Amazon QuickSight that lets users type questions about their business data in natural language and receive highly accurate answers in seconds. Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes deliver the first storage area network (SAN) built for the cloud, with up to 256,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS), 4,000 MB/second throughput, and 64 TB of capacity. Amazon EBS Gp3 volumes give customers the ability to provision additional IOPS and throughput performance independent of storage capacity, provide up to 4x peak throughput, and are priced 20% lower per GB than the previous general purpose EBS volumes. Four new container services to help customers develop, deploy, and scale modern applications in the cloud and on-premises: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere enable customers to run Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS in their own data centers, AWS Proton automates container and serverless application development and deployment, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public provides developers an easy and highly available way to share and deploy container software publicly. The next version of Aurora Serverless, Aurora Serverless v2, scales to hundreds of thousands of database transactions in a fraction of a second, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning infrastructure for peak capacity. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL provides a new capability for Amazon Aurora that allows database customers to run SQL Server applications directly on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with little to no code changes (also, a new open source Babelfish for PostgreSQL will be available for all PostgreSQL database users in 2021). Two new observability services for containers, IoT, and operational data, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Service for Grafana, built on popular open source projects to help customers monitor and visualize modern applications at scale. AWS continued to expand its infrastructure footprint around the world, announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, available by mid-2022, and the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions, available in the second half of 2022. AWS provides 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones in six more AWS Regions, including regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain, as well as the recently pre-announced regions in India, Switzerland, and Australia. New AWS Local Zones in Boston, Houston, and Miami place AWS infrastructure close to end users in metropolitan centers, so customers can access low-latency compute, storage, and database services without needing to provision or maintain datacenter space. AWS also announced the availability of AWS Local Zones in 12 additional cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, and Seattle) coming in 2021. AWS announced two new smaller AWS Outposts form factors (1U and 2U servers) that give customers access to AWS on-premises in space-constrained locations, such as branch offices, factories, hospitals, cell towers, or retail stores. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 P4d instances, the next generation of accelerated computing instances powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and AWS petabit-scale networking. P4d instances provide up to 3x faster time to train and 60% lower cost than previous generation instances for machine learning training and high-performance computing in the cloud. EC2 P4d instances are also the only instances in the cloud to feature UltraCluster capability, enabling customers to scale to 2x the computing power as any other cloud provider. AWS announced AWS Trainium, an AWS-designed machine learning training chip that will deliver the most cost-effective training in the cloud. AWS Trainium will deliver the most teraflops of any machine learning training instance in the cloud, support all major frameworks (including TensorFlow, PytTorch, and MXnet), and use the same Neuron SDK used by AWS Inferentia (an AWS-designed chip for machine learning inference acceleration), making it easy for customers to get started training quickly with AWS Trainium. AWS Trainium is coming to Amazon EC2 and Amazon SageMaker in the second half of 2021. Financial Guidance The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of February 2, 2021, 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 February 2, 2021 regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, including those discussed above, and is highly dependent on numerous factors that we may not be able to predict or control, including: the duration and scope of the pandemic, including any recurrence; actions taken by governments, businesses, and individuals in response to the pandemic; the impact of the pandemic on global and regional economies and economic activity, workforce staffing and productivity, and our significant and continuing spending on employee safety measures; our ability to continue operations in affected areas; and consumer demand and spending patterns, as well as the effects on suppliers, creditors, and third-party sellers, all of which are uncertain. This guidance also assumes the impacts on consumer demand and spending patterns, including impacts due to concerns over the current economic outlook, will be in line with those experienced during the first quarter of 2021 to date, and the additional assumptions set forth below. However, it is not possible to determine the ultimate impact on our operations for the first quarter of 2021, or whether other currently unanticipated direct or indirect consequences of the pandemic are reasonably likely to materially affect our operations. First Quarter 2021 Guidance Net sales are expected to be between $100.0 billion and $106.0 billion, or to grow between 33% and 40% compared with first quarter 2020. This guidance anticipates a favorable impact of approximately 300 basis points from foreign exchange rates. Operating income is expected to be between $3.0 billion and $6.5 billion, compared with $4.0 billion in first quarter 2020. 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<p><em>Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will transition to role of Executive Chair in Q3, Andy Jassy to become Chief Executive Officer of Amazon at that time</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2020.</p><ul><li>Operating cash flow increased 72% to $66.1 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $38.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2019.</li><li>Free cash flow increased to $31.0 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $25.8 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2019.</li><li>Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations increased to $20.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $16.2 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2019.</li><li>Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations increased to $21.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $12.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2019.</li><li>Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 518 million on December 31, 2020, compared with 512 million one year ago.</li></ul><p><em>Fourth Quarter 2020</em></p><ul><li>Net sales increased 44% to $125.6 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $87.4 billion in fourth quarter 2019. Excluding the $1.7 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 42% compared with fourth quarter 2019.</li><li>Operating income increased to $6.9 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with operating income of $3.9 billion in fourth quarter 2019.</li><li>Net income increased to $7.2 billion in the fourth quarter, or $14.09 per diluted share, compared with net income of $3.3 billion, or $6.47 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2019.</li></ul><p><em>Full Year 2020</em></p><ul><li>Net sales increased 38% to $386.1 billion, compared with $280.5 billion in 2019. Excluding the $1.4 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the year, net sales increased 37% compared with 2019.</li><li>Operating income increased to $22.9 billion, compared with operating income of $14.5 billion in 2019.</li><li>Net income increased to $21.3 billion, or $41.83 per diluted share, compared with net income of $11.6 billion, or $23.01 per diluted share, in 2019.</li></ul><p>Amazon is also announcing today that Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021 and Andy Jassy will become Chief Executive Officer at that time.</p><p>"Amazon is what it is because of invention. We do crazy things together and then make them normal. We pioneered customer reviews, 1-Click, personalized recommendations, Prime's insanely-fast shipping, Just Walk Out shopping, the Climate Pledge, Kindle, Alexa, marketplace, infrastructure cloud computing, Career Choice, and much more," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "If you do it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal. People yawn. That yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive. When you look at our financial results, what you're actually seeing are the long-run cumulative results of invention. Right now I see Amazon at its most inventive ever, making it an optimal time for this transition."</p><p>Highlights</p><p><em>Investing in Employee Safety and Providing Good Jobs</em></p><ul><li>Amazon is working to ensure that its front-line employees receive vaccines as soon as possible. The company is closely monitoring the availability of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide, advocating on behalf of its employees, and working in partnership with global medical experts, governments, and health providers to accelerate vaccination programs.</li><li>Amazon continues to ramp up its in-house COVID-19 testing program as part of its investments to keep front-line employees safe. More than 700 employees are now tested every hour, and Amazon's dedicated COVID-19 labs have processed more than one million tests globally.</li><li>Amazon recognized front-line employees by investing $2.5 billion in additional pay in 2020. This is on top of the company's industry-leading starting wage of at least $15 an hour, which is double the federal minimum wage. All full-time employees also receive healthcare and full benefits from their first day on the job.</li><li>Amazon received the Lee Anderson Veteran and Military Spouse Employment Award for excellence in hiring, training, and retaining veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses. Amazon employs more than 40,000 veterans and military spouses across the U.S.</li></ul><p><em>Supporting Communities</em></p><ul><li>Amazon announced a new Housing Equity Fund, a $2 billion commitment to preserve and create over 20,000 affordable housing units in Washington State's Puget Sound region; Arlington, Virginia; and Nashville, Tennessee. The Fund provides below-market loans and grants to housing partners, public agencies, and minority-led organizations. It started with initial investments totaling $567 million for 2,300 affordable apartment homes.</li><li>Amazon announced plans to provide free cloud skills training to 29 million people around the world by 2025, as it continues to invest in upskilling and career development for its customers and employees. The AWS-designed programs range from self-paced online courses to intensive upskilling programs that help participants build new careers in the technology industry. This expands on Amazon's Upskilling 2025 initiative, a $700 million commitment to upskill 100,000 U.S. employees by helping them transition into high-demand, high-paying jobs, as well as Career Choice, a program that pre-pays tuition for employees looking to earn degrees in in-demand fields.</li><li>Amazon unveiled plans for the second phase of construction for its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Amazon plans to build 2.8 million square feet of office space as part of its commitment to create 25,000 jobs and invest $2.5 billion in the community over the next decade. The project will create more than 2.5 acres of open space for the local community, run on renewable energy, and bring retail and other services to local residents.</li><li>Amazon in the UK expanded its long-standing partnership with nonprofit Magic Breakfast to reach more children at risk of hunger. In addition to being a significant financial donor, Amazon distributed more than two million free, healthy breakfasts to children studying at home due to COVID-19 who would normally receive these meals at school.</li><li>In the UK, Amazon delivered more than six million COVID-19 testing kits free of charge, in support of the government's COVID-19 testing program.</li><li>Globally, Amazon has donated over 65,000 Echo devices, Fire Tablets, and other devices throughout the COVID-19 crisis to organizations that support frontline workers and first responders, and to help keep patients, students, and communities impacted by the pandemic connected.</li><li>In support of World AIDS Day and Giving Tuesday, Amazon announced the limited-edition (echo)^RED. Available in the all-new spherical design, (echo)^RED offers premium sound and a built-in smart home hub. Amazon will donate $10 of every (echo)^RED sale to support (RED)'s fight against AIDS and COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa. Customers can also donate to (RED)'s fight against the COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS pandemics on any Alexa-enabled device by simply saying, "<em>Alexa, donate to RED.</em>"</li><li>Ring announced a new program with Habitat for Humanity, a global nonprofit that shares Ring's commitment to help make homes and neighborhoods safer, including a donation of $1 million worth of Ring Video Doorbells to provide Habitat homeowners with added peace of mind.</li></ul><p><em>Protecting the Planet</em></p><ul><li>Amazon became the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, taking another step in its journey to be net-zero carbon by 2040. The company is investing in the building of 26 new utility-scale wind and solar projects in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the U.S., bringing Amazon's total number of renewable energy projects to 127. Amazon's investments will supply its operations with more than 18,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable energy annually, helping put the company on a path to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of the initial 2030 target.</li><li>Thirty-one organizations have signed The Climate Pledge, a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040. Twenty of those companies signed The Climate Pledge last quarter: Atos, Boom Supersonic, Brooks, Cabify, Canary Wharf Group, Coca-Cola European Partners, ERM, Groupe SEB France, Harbour Air, Henkel, ITV, JetBlue, Microsoft, Neste, Rivian, Rubicon, Signify, Uber, Unilever, and Vaude.</li><li>Amazon joined the Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions group, an effort by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Agriculture to reduce food loss and waste within U.S. company operations by 50% by 2030.</li><li>Amazon expanded Climate Pledge Friendly, a program to help customers discover and shop for more sustainable products, in five countries across Europe. The program launched with over 40,000 Climate Pledge Friendly products in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK.</li></ul><p><em>Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses</em></p><ul><li>The 2020 holiday season was the best ever for independent businesses selling on Amazon—nearly all of which are small and medium-sized businesses—with worldwide sales growing over 50% compared to the same period in 2019. Sellers surpassed $4.8 billion in worldwide sales from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, growing about 60% from the previous year. During the holiday season as a whole, small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. sold nearly one billion products in Amazon's store.</li><li>Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon has incurred more than $5 billion in operational costs on behalf of independent businesses selling in Amazon's store, and expects to invest billions more through 2021. In 2020, Amazon increased square footage across its fulfillment and logistics network by 50%, dedicated 60% of fulfillment center capacity to seller products, and postponed annual selling fee adjustments until June 2021.</li><li>As part of the AWS Activate program, Amazon provided more than $1 billion in AWS credits during 2020 to help early stage startups launch their businesses and accelerate their growth. With this help, startups are using scalable, reliable, and secure cloud services like compute, storage, database, analytics, Internet of Things, machine learning, and many others from AWS to scale their businesses.</li><li>Amazon launched small business accelerator programs across Europe to help entrepreneurs and small businesses succeed in the digital world. These programs offer free access to online training, expert advice, live events, and services, and they include the Amazon Small Business Accelerator in the UK, Quickstart-Online in Germany, Despega in Spain, Accelera con Amazon in Italy, and Accelerateur du Numerique in France. The programs are delivered in collaboration with associations and universities, and they have already supported tens of thousands of small businesses.</li><li>In December, Amazon India hosted Small Business Day, an event to increase visibility and sales for entrepreneurs and small businesses selling in Amazon's store. Over 55,000 sellers from over 4,000 Postal Index Codes benefitted from Small Business Day, and over 1,500 sellers had their highest ever day of sales on Amazon.</li><li>In 2020, thousands of independent authors earned more than $50,000 through Kindle Direct Publishing, with more than 1,000 authors surpassing $100,000 in royalties.</li><li>In 2020, authors using Amazon's self-publishing service Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) earned more than $370 million in royalties from their participation in Kindle Unlimited. KDP authors have earned more than $1.5 billion from participation in Kindle Unlimited since 2014.</li></ul><p><em>Shopping and Entertainment</em></p><ul><li>Thanks to customers, employees, and selling partners, Amazon had a record-breaking holiday season, delivering more than a billion toys, home, fashion, electronics, beauty, and personal care products to customers worldwide.</li><li>Amazon Pharmacy launched in the U.S., bringing prescription medications to customers' doorsteps. Customers can now browse medications, create a secure pharmacy profile, and request or manage prescriptions on Amazon.com. Prime members receive unlimited, free two-day delivery on Amazon Pharmacy orders with their membership.</li><li>Amazon launched a new Amazon Prime prescription savings benefit, which brings pharmacy savings to customers who pay without insurance and can be used at 50,000 participating pharmacies nationwide.</li><li>Amazon Fashion introduced Made For You, a way for customers to design custom T-shirts to their exact measurements and style preferences. For just $25, U.S. shoppers can customize a T-shirt's fit, fabric, color, sleeve length, shirt length, neckline, and back-neck label.</li><li>Amazon India's Great Indian Festival shopping event focused on enabling the revival of small and medium-sized businesses and helping customers, even in remote areas of the country, shop safely and conveniently from their homes. During the month-long event, customers purchased items from over 110,000 sellers, the majority of whom were from rural towns.</li><li>Hudson, a travel experience leader with over 1,000 stores across North America, announced it will use Amazon's Just Walk Out technology in select travel convenience stores. Just Walk Out technology enables shoppers to enter a store, grab what they want, and just go. The first Hudson store with Just Walk Out technology is planned to open in early 2021 at Dallas Love Field Airport, with additional stores coming later this year.</li><li>Amazon Fresh grocery stores expanded into seven new communities in the U.S.: Irvine, CA; Ladera Heights, CA; Naperville, IL; North Hollywood, CA; Northridge, CA; Schaumburg, IL; and Whittier, CA. To support the continued growth, Amazon is hiring thousands of grocery associates across Chicagoland, the greater Los Angeles area, and Seattle.</li><li>Amazon was identified as the best overall grocery retailer by dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index that ranks the top 57 grocery retailers in the U.S. based on an annual survey of 10,000 U.S. households. The survey also placed Amazon at the top of the list for customer safety ratings.</li><li>Amazon Music signed an agreement to acquire innovative podcast publisher, Wondery. Through this acquisition, Amazon Music aims to accelerate the growth and evolution of podcasts by bringing creators, hosts, and immersive experiences to even more listeners across the globe. Wondery will be able to provide more high-quality, innovative content, continuing their mission of bringing a world of entertainment and knowledge to their audiences, wherever they listen. The acquisition is not yet closed and is subject to customary closing conditions.</li><li>Prime Video continues to launch Amazon Original series and movies globally. Amazon Original movie <em>Borat Subsequent Moviefilm</em>, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, generated tens of millions of customer streams globally on opening weekend. Other popular Amazon Original movies include <em>Uncle Frank</em>, <em>Sylvie's Love</em>, <em>Sound of Metal</em>, and <em>I'm Your Woman</em>. Prime Video members also enjoyed new and returning Amazon Original series and specials such as <em>What the Constitution Means to Me</em>, <em>Utopia</em>, <em>Truth Seekers</em>, <em>The Pack</em>, <em>Small Axe</em>, <em>The Wilds</em>, <em>The Expanse</em>, <em>Yearly Departed</em>, and the final season of <em>Vikings</em>. Internationally, locally produced Amazon Originals debuting included <em>FERRO</em> (Italy), <em>El Cid</em> (Spain), <em>The Challenge: ETA</em> (Spain), <em>BILD.Macht.Deutschland?</em> (Germany), <em>Binge Reloaded</em> (Germany), <em>Truth Seekers</em> (UK), <em>The Grand Tour: A Massive Hunt</em> (UK), <em>All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur</em> (UK), <em>The Bachelorette</em> (Japan), <em>Mirzapur</em> (India), and <em>Locas por el Cambio</em> (Mexico).</li><li>The fourth quarter marked Prime Video's strongest viewership for live sports globally. In the U.S., Prime Video's exclusive coverage of the San Francisco 49ers vs. Arizona Cardinals game on December 26 drew an estimated 11.2 million total viewers and delivered the highest digital average-minute-audience ever for an NFL regular season game. In the UK, the number of customers tuning into live Premier League football grew for the second season as millions watched 22 live and exclusive matches on Prime Video. In addition, millions of Prime members streamed live, international rugby for the first-ever Autumn Nations Cup tournament; and in India, Prime Video announced its first foray into live sports, with the acquisition of India territory rights for New Zealand Cricket through 2025-26.</li><li>Amazon Studios announced deals for upcoming Prime Video series and movies, including the Eddie Murphy comedy <em>Coming 2 America</em>, which premieres in March on Prime Video globally and an unscripted docuseries and new coming-of-age series based on Jessica Simpson's best-selling memoir <em>Open Book</em>.</li></ul><p><em>Amazon Devices and Services</em></p><ul><li>Amazon announced that Fire TV now reaches more than 50 million monthly active users around the world. Amazon also secured new content deals with premium streaming providers, including HBO Max, discovery+, and Xfinity in the U.S.; Disney+ in Mexico and Brazil; NOW TV in the UK; and CANAL+ in France. The new Fire TV Experience released globally includes a redesigned Home Screen, Profiles, and a new voice-first experience with Alexa to easily discover content.</li><li>Zoox revealed the first look at their fully functional, electric, autonomous vehicle, which features bi-directional driving and is capable of speeds up to 75 miles per hour.</li><li>Amazon announced Alexa Custom Assistant, a new service that lets device makers, auto makers, and service providers create custom-branded voice assistants that are powered by and work in cooperation with Alexa. The Alexa Custom Assistant can be built into automobiles and consumer electronics, including smart displays, speakers, set top boxes, fitness devices, and more, providing a complete, managed voice solution that substantially reduces cost, complexity, and time to market.</li><li>Amazon continued to make progress on Project Kuiper, a low earth orbit satellite constellation that will increase broadband access for unserved and underserved communities around the world. In December, the team revealed designs for the Ka-band phased array antenna that will be used in its customer terminal. The antenna is smaller and lighter than legacy designs, allowing Amazon to produce a customer terminal that is more affordable and easier to install.</li><li>Ring introduced general availability of its new Mailbox Sensor to customers, launched Customizable Motion Zones for all battery-powered Ring Video Doorbells and Security Cameras, and became the first major smart home security company to offer Video End-to-End Encryption. Additionally, Ring announced Ring Video Doorbell Wired, its smallest doorbell yet, and availability of the Ring Alarm in Spain.</li><li>Amazon took another step toward making interactions with Alexa more natural, and skills more discoverable, by introducing a new capability that infers customers' latent goals—goals that are implicit in customer requests but not directly expressed—and seamlessly transitions to a relevant skill without requiring the name of the skill, or repeating the same information across skills.</li><li>Key by Amazon's In-Garage Delivery service expanded to tens of millions of Prime members in over 4,000 cities in the U.S., enabling them to enjoy free, contactless, and secure package delivery conveniently inside their garage to keep packages safe.</li><li>Amazon announced the first Alexa built-in commercial trucking integration in Volvo Trucks in the EU; the first integration in Brazil with BMW's BMWi and MINI cars; and new vehicle launches with Dodge Durango, Chrysler Pacifica, Fiat 500 electric, and Acura MDX. Additionally, new Alexa integrations were announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), including Harman, Intel, Lenovo, TP-Link, Rise Gardens, and more.</li><li>Alexa added Netflix to its global roster of streaming service providers for Echo Show customers, giving them more at-home entertainment options. Amazon also added podcast support to Alexa from services like Amazon Music, Apple, and Spotify in more countries around the world.</li><li>Alexa became more multilingual, allowing members of a household to interact with Alexa in two different languages without needing to change the settings. In the U.S., multilingual mode allows bilingual customers to code-switch from English to Spanish, and vice versa. Amazon also launched multilingual mode in new languages and countries including Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and Japan.</li><li>Amazon added new Alexa features that make customers' daily lives more convenient, including the ability to share a shopping list with Alexa contacts by voice, video calling on Fire TV, and new Alexa Routines on Fire TV.</li></ul><p><em>Amazon Web Services</em></p><ul><li>AWS announced significant customer momentum during the quarter with new commitments and migrations spanning major industries, including financial services with JPMorgan Chase, Itaú Unibanco (Latin America's largest bank), Standard Chartered Bank, and Nationwide; media and entertainment with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Thomson Reuters, and ViacomCBS; technology with Arm and Twitter; travel with Boom Technology, Inc. (Boom Supersonic) and Star Alliance (the world's largest airline alliance); retail and e-commerce with Mercado Libre (Latin America's largest online commerce and payments provider) and Zalando (Europe's largest online fashion and lifestyle platform); power and utilities with Siemens Smart Infrastructure (a Siemens AG business group that focuses on energy distribution and intelligent buildings); and automotive with The BMW Group, as well as a multi-year, global agreement to develop and market BlackBerry's Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, IVY.</li><li>At AWS re:Invent, Amazon's ninth-annual learning conference for the global cloud computing and information technology communities, AWS attracted over 570,000 registered attendees and announced 180 new services and features, including:<ul><li>The industry's first cloud-based Mac instances (EC2 Mac instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) that enable customers to develop, scale, and run macOS workloads in AWS.</li><li>Five new services that push the envelope on price performance and extend Amazon EC2's lead as the broadest and deepest portfolio of compute instances in the cloud, including Graviton2-powered C6gn instances that provide 40% better price performance for networking and compute-intensive workloads over comparable current generation x86-based instances, AMD-powered G4ad Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) instances that offer the industry's best price performance for graphics-intensive applications, M5zn instances that deliver the fastest Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the cloud, Intel-powered D3/D3en instances that offer the highest storage capacity for local HDD storage in the cloud, and memory-optimized R5b instances that deliver the fastest block storage performance available for Amazon EC2.</li><li>Nine new capabilities for Amazon SageMaker that make it even easier for developers and data scientists to prepare, build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models.</li><li>Five new services for industrial customers that use machine learning to improve operational efficiency, quality control, security, and workplace safety. Amazon Monitron and Amazon Lookout for Equipment use sensor data to enable predictive maintenance. The AWS Panorama Appliance and SDK use computer vision to improve product quality and workplace safety. And, Amazon Lookout for Vision uses computer vision to spot anomalies and flaws in products and processes.</li><li>Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service, enables healthcare organizations to aggregate all their data from disparate locations in various formats, transform that data into a consistent format, store it, and provide easy ways to analyze that data in AWS.</li><li>Five new capabilities for AWS's rapidly-growing contact center service, Amazon Connect, that significantly improve contact center agents' productivity and customers' experiences.</li><li>AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift provides an innovative new hardware-accelerated cache that delivers up to 10x better query performance than any other cloud data warehouse.</li><li>AWS Glue Elastic Views lets developers easily build materialized views that automatically combine and replicate data across storage, data warehouses, and databases.</li><li>Amazon QuickSight Q delivers a machine learning-powered capability for Amazon QuickSight that lets users type questions about their business data in natural language and receive highly accurate answers in seconds.</li><li>Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes deliver the first storage area network (SAN) built for the cloud, with up to 256,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS), 4,000 MB/second throughput, and 64 TB of capacity.</li><li>Amazon EBS Gp3 volumes give customers the ability to provision additional IOPS and throughput performance independent of storage capacity, provide up to 4x peak throughput, and are priced 20% lower per GB than the previous general purpose EBS volumes.</li><li>Four new container services to help customers develop, deploy, and scale modern applications in the cloud and on-premises: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere enable customers to run Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS in their own data centers, AWS Proton automates container and serverless application development and deployment, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public provides developers an easy and highly available way to share and deploy container software publicly.</li><li>The next version of Aurora Serverless, Aurora Serverless v2, scales to hundreds of thousands of database transactions in a fraction of a second, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning infrastructure for peak capacity.</li><li>Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL provides a new capability for Amazon Aurora that allows database customers to run SQL Server applications directly on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with little to no code changes (also, a new open source Babelfish for PostgreSQL will be available for all PostgreSQL database users in 2021).</li><li>Two new observability services for containers, IoT, and operational data, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Service for Grafana, built on popular open source projects to help customers monitor and visualize modern applications at scale.</li></ul></li><li>AWS continued to expand its infrastructure footprint around the world, announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, available by mid-2022, and the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions, available in the second half of 2022. AWS provides 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones in six more AWS Regions, including regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain, as well as the recently pre-announced regions in India, Switzerland, and Australia.</li><li>New AWS Local Zones in Boston, Houston, and Miami place AWS infrastructure close to end users in metropolitan centers, so customers can access low-latency compute, storage, and database services without needing to provision or maintain datacenter space. AWS also announced the availability of AWS Local Zones in 12 additional cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, and Seattle) coming in 2021.</li><li>AWS announced two new smaller AWS Outposts form factors (1U and 2U servers) that give customers access to AWS on-premises in space-constrained locations, such as branch offices, factories, hospitals, cell towers, or retail stores.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 P4d instances, the next generation of accelerated computing instances powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and AWS petabit-scale networking. P4d instances provide up to 3x faster time to train and 60% lower cost than previous generation instances for machine learning training and high-performance computing in the cloud. EC2 P4d instances are also the only instances in the cloud to feature UltraCluster capability, enabling customers to scale to 2x the computing power as any other cloud provider.</li><li>AWS announced AWS Trainium, an AWS-designed machine learning training chip that will deliver the most cost-effective training in the cloud. AWS Trainium will deliver the most teraflops of any machine learning training instance in the cloud, support all major frameworks (including TensorFlow, PytTorch, and MXnet), and use the same Neuron SDK used by AWS Inferentia (an AWS-designed chip for machine learning inference acceleration), making it easy for customers to get started training quickly with AWS Trainium. AWS Trainium is coming to Amazon EC2 and Amazon SageMaker in the second half of 2021.</li></ul><p>Financial Guidance</p><p>The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of February 2, 2021, 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 February 2, 2021 regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, including those discussed above, and is highly dependent on numerous factors that we may not be able to predict or control, including: the duration and scope of the pandemic, including any recurrence; actions taken by governments, businesses, and individuals in response to the pandemic; the impact of the pandemic on global and regional economies and economic activity, workforce staffing and productivity, and our significant and continuing spending on employee safety measures; our ability to continue operations in affected areas; and consumer demand and spending patterns, as well as the effects on suppliers, creditors, and third-party sellers, all of which are uncertain. This guidance also assumes the impacts on consumer demand and spending patterns, including impacts due to concerns over the current economic outlook, will be in line with those experienced during the first quarter of 2021 to date, and the additional assumptions set forth below. However, it is not possible to determine the ultimate impact on our operations for the first quarter of 2021, or whether other currently unanticipated direct or indirect consequences of the pandemic are reasonably likely to materially affect our operations.</p><p>First Quarter 2021 Guidance</p><ul><li>Net sales are expected to be between $100.0 billion and $106.0 billion, or to grow between 33% and 40% compared with first quarter 2020. This guidance anticipates a favorable impact of approximately 300 basis points from foreign exchange rates.</li><li>Operating income is expected to be between $3.0 billion and $6.5 billion, compared with $4.0 billion in first quarter 2020. This guidance assumes approximately $2.0 billion of costs related to COVID-19.</li><li>This guidance assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions, investments, restructurings, or legal settlements are concluded.</li></ul><p>A conference call will be webcast live today at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET, and will be available for at least three months at amazon.com/ir. This call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding the Company's financial and operating results.</p><p><em>These forward-looking statements are inherently difficult to predict. Actual results could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including, in addition to the factors discussed above, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products and services sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income or other taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of claims, litigation, government investigations, and other proceedings, fulfillment, sortation, delivery, and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, 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. 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>

Amazon Expands Boston Tech Hub With Plans to Create 3,000 New Jobs

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Amazon's new facility in Boston Seaport will add new office space for teams working in Alexa, AWS and Amazon Pharmacy Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 20,000 full- and part-time jobs across Massachusetts and invested more than $6.2 billion in the Commonwealth, from customer fulfillment infrastructure to research facilities, retail locations, and more Amazon currently has more than 400 roles open in the Boston area, from language engineers to software developers to machine learning scientists – those interested can apply at amazon.jobs BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to expand its Boston Tech Hub and create more than 3,000 new corporate and technology jobs over the next several years. The new roles will support teams across the company, including Alexa, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Robotics, and Amazon Pharmacy. Over the last decade, Amazon has invested more than $6.2 billion in Massachusetts and created more than 20,000 jobs across customer fulfillment, retail, corporate and technology functions. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210126005379/en/ A rendering of the new Boston Seaport office expansion at Amazon's Boston Tech Hub. (Credit: WS Development/Amazon) "We're proud to be creating more than 3,000 new jobs over the next several years at our Boston Tech Hub," said Rohit Prasad, Vice President & Head Scientist for Alexa at Amazon. "Much of the technology that makes Alexa smarter every day is invented in Boston. Our teams here play a key role in driving Amazon's innovations – from Alexa to AWS to Amazon Pharmacy – and help us keep delighting customers around the world. We look forward to continuing to be a strong community partner, helping to grow and diversify the local economy, and create new opportunities for Boston and its residents." The 3,000 jobs that Amazon plans to create in its Boston Tech Hub will include technology roles in software development, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, along with non-tech corporate roles in product management, HR, finance, and more. Amazon already employs more than 3,700 people in its Boston Tech Hub. "Our administration welcomes Amazon's continued efforts to invest in our communities," said Governor Charlie Baker. "This expansion is significant and will create thousands more jobs for our highly skilled workforce in different regions of the Commonwealth."​ "By further expanding its Boston Tech Hub, Amazon is continuing to create new economic opportunities in our City," said Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh. "This expansion will grow our technology workforce and support a strong pipeline of diverse talent and a range of new jobs and opportunities for Boston residents." To accommodate its growing teams in Boston, Amazon leased a new 17-story office tower located at One Boston Wharf Road in the 33-acre Boston Seaport project. Owned and developed by Boston-based development company WS Development, the 630,000 square foot location will include working space, innovation labs, and mixed-use common areas for Amazon employees. Set for completion in 2024, One Boston Wharf Road will also feature a community dog park, ground-floor retail space and a new performing arts center for Bostonians to enjoy with two live performance venues consisting of a 500-seat theater and a 100-seat black box theater, which together will add significant state-of-the-art capacity for the performing arts in Boston. "We are proud to continue our partnership with Amazon in Boston's Seaport, a neighborhood that has grown to serve forward-thinking employers, residents, and retailers and that is now a global hub of innovation and talent," said Jeremy Sclar, Chairman and CEO of WS Development. This is Amazon's second full-building lease in Boston's Seaport after securing a 430,000-square foot building at 111 Harbor Way. Now under construction by WS Development, this office will be completed later this year and will host 2,000 Amazon employees. Using our Scale for Good in Massachusetts  Amazon continues to support the communities in which it operates in Boston and Massachusetts. Amazon Future Engineer, our comprehensive childhood-to-career program designed to inspire, educate, and prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities to pursue computer science, supports more than 20 schools in the Boston area, and more than 60 across the state of Massachusetts. The program provides local schools with high quality computer science education curriculum and teacher professional development. Amazon has also provided grants of more than $1.5 million to St. Mary's Center to support women, children and families in need facing homelessness. Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 20,000 jobs in Massachusetts and invested more than $6.2 billion across the Commonwealth, including infrastructure (from fulfillment centers to retail locations to our Boston Tech Hub) and compensation. These investments have contributed an additional $5.3 billion to the Massachusetts economy and have helped create an additional 13,400 jobs on top of those that the company directly employs – from jobs in construction and logistics to healthcare and professional services. Additionally, more than 34,500 independent authors and small and medium businesses in Massachusetts are currently growing their businesses with 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. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210126005379/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon's new facility in Boston Seaport will add new office space for teams working in Alexa, AWS and Amazon Pharmacy</em></p><p><em>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 20,000 full- and part-time jobs across Massachusetts and invested more than $6.2 billion in the Commonwealth, from customer fulfillment infrastructure to research facilities, retail locations, and more</em></p><p><em>Amazon currently has more than 400 roles open in the Boston area, from language engineers to software developers to machine learning scientists – those interested can apply at amazon.jobs</em></p><p>BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to expand its Boston Tech Hub and create more than 3,000 new corporate and technology jobs over the next several years. The new roles will support teams across the company, including Alexa, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Robotics, and Amazon Pharmacy. Over the last decade, Amazon has invested more than $6.2 billion in Massachusetts and created more than 20,000 jobs across customer fulfillment, retail, corporate and technology functions.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210126005379/en/</p><div><p>A rendering of the new Boston Seaport office expansion at Amazon's Boston Tech Hub. (Credit: WS Development/Amazon)</p></div><p>"We're proud to be creating more than 3,000 new jobs over the next several years at our Boston Tech Hub," said Rohit Prasad, Vice President &amp; Head Scientist for Alexa at Amazon. "Much of the technology that makes Alexa smarter every day is invented in Boston. Our teams here play a key role in driving Amazon's innovations – from Alexa to AWS to Amazon Pharmacy – and help us keep delighting customers around the world. We look forward to continuing to be a strong community partner, helping to grow and diversify the local economy, and create new opportunities for Boston and its residents."</p><p>The 3,000 jobs that Amazon plans to create in its Boston Tech Hub will include technology roles in software development, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, along with non-tech corporate roles in product management, HR, finance, and more. Amazon already employs more than 3,700 people in its Boston Tech Hub.</p><p>"Our administration welcomes Amazon's continued efforts to invest in our communities," said Governor Charlie Baker. "This expansion is significant and will create thousands more jobs for our highly skilled workforce in different regions of the Commonwealth."​</p><p>"By further expanding its Boston Tech Hub, Amazon is continuing to create new economic opportunities in our City," said Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh. "This expansion will grow our technology workforce and support a strong pipeline of diverse talent and a range of new jobs and opportunities for Boston residents."</p><p>To accommodate its growing teams in Boston, Amazon leased a new 17-story office tower located at One Boston Wharf Road in the 33-acre Boston Seaport project. Owned and developed by Boston-based development company WS Development, the 630,000 square foot location will include working space, innovation labs, and mixed-use common areas for Amazon employees. Set for completion in 2024, One Boston Wharf Road will also feature a community dog park, ground-floor retail space and a new performing arts center for Bostonians to enjoy with two live performance venues consisting of a 500-seat theater and a 100-seat black box theater, which together will add significant state-of-the-art capacity for the performing arts in Boston.</p><p>"We are proud to continue our partnership with Amazon in Boston's Seaport, a neighborhood that has grown to serve forward-thinking employers, residents, and retailers and that is now a global hub of innovation and talent," said Jeremy Sclar, Chairman and CEO of WS Development.</p><p>This is Amazon's second full-building lease in Boston's Seaport after securing a 430,000-square foot building at 111 Harbor Way. Now under construction by WS Development, this office will be completed later this year and will host 2,000 Amazon employees.</p><p>Using our Scale for Good in Massachusetts </p><p>Amazon continues to support the communities in which it operates in Boston and Massachusetts. Amazon Future Engineer, our comprehensive childhood-to-career program designed to inspire, educate, and prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and underserved communities to pursue computer science, supports more than 20 schools in the Boston area, and more than 60 across the state of Massachusetts. The program provides local schools with high quality computer science education curriculum and teacher professional development. Amazon has also provided grants of more than $1.5 million to St. Mary's Center to support women, children and families in need facing homelessness.</p><p>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 20,000 jobs in Massachusetts and invested more than $6.2 billion across the Commonwealth, including infrastructure (from fulfillment centers to retail locations to our Boston Tech Hub) and compensation. These investments have contributed an additional $5.3 billion to the Massachusetts economy and have helped create an additional 13,400 jobs on top of those that the company directly employs – from jobs in construction and logistics to healthcare and professional services. Additionally, more than 34,500 independent authors and small and medium businesses in Massachusetts are currently growing their businesses with 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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210126005379/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 Fourth Quarter 2020 Financial Results Conference Call

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter 2020 financial results on February 2, 2021 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/20210119005985/en/ Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter 2020 financial results on February 2, 2021 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/20210119005985/en/</p><p>Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Teams Up with Pharrell Williams' YELLOW and Georgia Tech to Launch New Music Remix Competition to Inspire Students to Pursue Computer Science

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Amazon Teams Up with Pharrell Williams' YELLOW and Georgia Tech to Launch New Music Remix Competition to Inspire Students to Pursue Computer Science

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"Your Voice is Power" experience featuring Pharrell's new song, "Entrepreneur," encourages students to examine racial equity while learning coding SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Pharrell Williams' education equity nonprofit YELLOW, and the Georgia Institute of Technology today announced a new educational collaboration called "Your Voice is Power" to encourage middle and high school students to share their voice on equity while learning to code new music remixes. The "Your Voice is Power" collaboration includes five teaching modules with lesson plans that teach coding while kick-starting meaningful conversations among students and their teachers about the importance of racial justice. This collaboration concludes with a competition for students to share their own voices through remixing Pharrell's new song "Entrepreneur" using computer code on Georgia Tech's learn-to-code-through-music platform, EarSketch. "Your Voice is Power" is the latest initiative between Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon Music, and Georgia Tech to expand computer science education to more students from underserved communities and groups currently underrepresented in tech. "Your Voice Is Power" is hoping to attract upwards of 100,000 students as a way to add unique, meaningful, and entrepreneurial-minded content to their current virtual learning experiences. The need for high quality computer science education is more important than ever, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that from 2014 to 2024, the market for computer science professionals will grow twice as fast as the rest of the labor market. BLS research also shows that in 2019, the median annual salary for computer science occupations was approximately $48,000 greater than the median wage for all occupations in the U.S. What's more, while the number of Black students obtaining STEM degrees has increased over the last two decades, Black professionals remain underrepresented within American science and engineering enterprises. The National Science Board (NSB) estimates that the number of Black professionals in science and engineering must more than double to be representative of Black people in the U.S. population in 2030. "This collaboration between YELLOW, Amazon, and Georgia Tech is a celebration of Black creators and change-makers," said Pharrell. "YELLOW at its core believes that education is a pathway to success. Teaching kids future-ready skills like coding, especially those kids for whom opportunities like this have not been equally distributed, is how we prepare the next generation of entrepreneurs." "YELLOW's mission is to even the odds for kids through education. We're teaching for the future," said Mike McGalliard, CEO of YELLOW. "Georgia Tech's EarSketch platform is a powerful tool for kids to explore the connection between coding and creativity. In working alongside Amazon to give kids access to platforms like this, we can help them bring their ideas to life." "Your Voice is Power'' introduces students to real-world computer science-based careers held by people of color. Through this program, students will meet professionals who use music and computer science to fight for racial justice—people including Mike Larson, Pharrell's audio engineer; Chalece DeLaCoudray, a music technologist and Georgia Tech alumna; and Joycelyn Wilson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Hip Hop Studies and Digital Media at Georgia Tech. "Your Voice is Power'' will also encourage students to channel their learning into an original remix of Pharrell's new song ‘Entrepreneur' – a celebration of Black culture – using Python computer code. Specifically, they will use looping (repeating) to extend the length of their song, use strings to create new beats, create custom functions representing different song sections, and learn to upload their own sounds to the EarSketch library. "We're honored to join Amazon Future Engineer, and together build further awareness and enlist more artists to join this program that will break down barriers for students from underrepresented communities," said Ryan Redington, VP of Music Industry at Amazon Music. "The more we support the next generation of artists and creators, the better the future of music will be. We are proud to work alongside Pharrell, a respected, visionary voice in promoting racial justice and helping students achieve long-term success." "Across 13 research studies with over 1000 participants, Georgia Tech has shown that students who learn to code through music using EarSketch have a higher intention to persist in studying and pursuing careers in computing – especially BLNA students and women," said Jason Freeman, Professor and Chair of the School of Music and the co-creator of EarSketch. All middle and high school students around the United States and Canada can participate in "Your Voice is Power." The first round of the competition will run from January 19 through March 12. The second round of the competition will run from March 15 through June 4. Students who submit their remixes to the competition will be judged by a panel of Amazon engineers, Amazon Music team members, and music industry professionals. Winners will be chosen based on the quality of music, complexity and organization of their code, and their inclusion of thoughtful messaging and calls to action about the importance of racial justice. Teachers and students can visit AmazonFutureEngineer.com to get started, and for a full list of rules, prizes, scoring guidelines, and accompanying curriculum. Beyond this competition and throughout 2021, Amazon Future Engineer and Amazon Music will work with additional inspiring artists to add their songs to the EarSketch library. Right now, students can also use computer code to remix Ciara's songs "Set" and "Melanin," and Common's "God is Love" on EarSketch. This partnership is among the latest in Amazon's ongoing work to support education and racial equality initiatives in communities across the country where its employees live and work. Recently, the company donated $10 million to organizations that are working to bring about social justice and improve the lives of Black and African Americans. Recipients—selected with the help of Amazon's Black Employee Network (BEN)—include groups focused on combating systemic racism through the legal system as well as those dedicated to expanding educational and economic opportunity for Black communities. Amazon followed this initial donation with a hugely successful employee match program that resulted in an additional $17 million going to these organizations for a total of $27 million from the Amazon community.

<p><em>"Your Voice is Power" experience featuring Pharrell's new song, "Entrepreneur," encourages students to examine racial equity while learning coding</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Pharrell Williams' education equity nonprofit YELLOW, and the Georgia Institute of Technology today announced a new educational collaboration called "Your Voice is Power" to encourage middle and high school students to share their voice on equity while learning to code new music remixes. The "Your Voice is Power" collaboration includes five teaching modules with lesson plans that teach coding while kick-starting meaningful conversations among students and their teachers about the importance of racial justice. This collaboration concludes with a competition for students to share their own voices through remixing Pharrell's new song "Entrepreneur" using computer code on Georgia Tech's learn-to-code-through-music platform, EarSketch. "Your Voice is Power" is the latest initiative between Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon Music, and Georgia Tech to expand computer science education to more students from underserved communities and groups currently underrepresented in tech. "Your Voice Is Power" is hoping to attract upwards of 100,000 students as a way to add unique, meaningful, and entrepreneurial-minded content to their current virtual learning experiences.</p><p>The need for high quality computer science education is more important than ever, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that from 2014 to 2024, the market for computer science professionals will grow twice as fast as the rest of the labor market. BLS research also shows that in 2019, the median annual salary for computer science occupations was approximately $48,000 greater than the median wage for all occupations in the U.S. What's more, while the number of Black students obtaining STEM degrees has increased over the last two decades, Black professionals remain underrepresented within American science and engineering enterprises. The National Science Board (NSB) estimates that the number of Black professionals in science and engineering must more than double to be representative of Black people in the U.S. population in 2030.</p><p>"This collaboration between YELLOW, Amazon, and Georgia Tech is a celebration of Black creators and change-makers," said Pharrell. "YELLOW at its core believes that education is a pathway to success. Teaching kids future-ready skills like coding, especially those kids for whom opportunities like this have not been equally distributed, is how we prepare the next generation of entrepreneurs."</p><p>"YELLOW's mission is to even the odds for kids through education. We're teaching for the future," said Mike McGalliard, CEO of YELLOW. "Georgia Tech's EarSketch platform is a powerful tool for kids to explore the connection between coding and creativity. In working alongside Amazon to give kids access to platforms like this, we can help them bring their ideas to life."</p><p>"Your Voice is Power'' introduces students to real-world computer science-based careers held by people of color. Through this program, students will meet professionals who use music and computer science to fight for racial justice—people including Mike Larson, Pharrell's audio engineer; Chalece DeLaCoudray, a music technologist and Georgia Tech alumna; and Joycelyn Wilson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Hip Hop Studies and Digital Media at Georgia Tech. "Your Voice is Power'' will also encourage students to channel their learning into an original remix of Pharrell's new song ‘Entrepreneur' – a celebration of Black culture – using Python computer code. Specifically, they will use looping (repeating) to extend the length of their song, use strings to create new beats, create custom functions representing different song sections, and learn to upload their own sounds to the EarSketch library.</p><p>"We're honored to join Amazon Future Engineer, and together build further awareness and enlist more artists to join this program that will break down barriers for students from underrepresented communities," said Ryan Redington, VP of Music Industry at Amazon Music. "The more we support the next generation of artists and creators, the better the future of music will be. We are proud to work alongside Pharrell, a respected, visionary voice in promoting racial justice and helping students achieve long-term success."</p><p>"Across 13 research studies with over 1000 participants, Georgia Tech has shown that students who learn to code through music using EarSketch have a higher intention to persist in studying and pursuing careers in computing – especially BLNA students and women," said Jason Freeman, Professor and Chair of the School of Music and the co-creator of EarSketch.</p><p>All middle and high school students around the United States and Canada can participate in "Your Voice is Power." The first round of the competition will run from January 19 through March 12. The second round of the competition will run from March 15 through June 4. Students who submit their remixes to the competition will be judged by a panel of Amazon engineers, Amazon Music team members, and music industry professionals. Winners will be chosen based on the quality of music, complexity and organization of their code, and their inclusion of thoughtful messaging and calls to action about the importance of racial justice. Teachers and students can visit AmazonFutureEngineer.com to get started, and for a full list of rules, prizes, scoring guidelines, and accompanying curriculum.</p><p>Beyond this competition and throughout 2021, Amazon Future Engineer and Amazon Music will work with additional inspiring artists to add their songs to the EarSketch library. Right now, students can also use computer code to remix Ciara's songs "Set" and "Melanin," and Common's "God is Love" on EarSketch.</p><p>This partnership is among the latest in Amazon's ongoing work to support education and racial equality initiatives in communities across the country where its employees live and work. Recently, the company donated $10 million to organizations that are working to bring about social justice and improve the lives of Black and African Americans. Recipients—selected with the help of Amazon's Black Employee Network (BEN)—include groups focused on combating systemic racism through the legal system as well as those dedicated to expanding educational and economic opportunity for Black communities. Amazon followed this initial donation with a hugely successful employee match program that resulted in an additional $17 million going to these organizations for a total of $27 million from the Amazon community.</p>

Amazon Expands Investment in Metro Detroit, Creates Thousands of New Jobs to Support Operations

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Amazon Expands Investment in Metro Detroit, Creates Thousands of New Jobs to Support Operations

01/11/2021

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Further engages in community with $100,000 donation to the Detroit Public Schools Community District's STEM program SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced its continued investment in the metro Detroit area with five new buildings to support operations closer to customers. The sites are expected to create more than 2,000 permanent full- and part-time jobs with a minimum $15 per hour wage and comprehensive benefits starting on the employee's first day. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210111005173/en/ New Amazon facilities in Metro Detroit. (Graphic: Business Wire) "We're excited to be expanding our network to better serve our customers in the great city of Detroit," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We are grateful for the strong support we've received from local and state leaders as we broaden our footprint throughout Michigan. We look forward to bringing more than 2,000 good jobs to Metro Detroit and contributing positively to the community." "We're thrilled that Amazon selected Detroit for what will be one of the largest fulfillment centers in Michigan," said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. "Amazon has been a great partner and its most important delivery will be the 3,000 construction jobs, 1,200 permanent jobs and new small business opportunities this new facility will bring to our city." INVESTING IN COMMUNITIES As Amazon grows in Detroit, it is committed to contributing in a variety of ways to the local community where our teams live and work, including by supporting food banks with monetary contributions and delivery services, funding computer science education for underserved and underrepresented students, and providing in-kind donations to meet immediate and basic needs. Most recently, Amazon donated $100,000 to the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) to help the district enhance its science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs and expand its resources. Beyond the donation, Amazon plans to support the school's STEM programs with hands-on learning and mentorship opportunities in the coming year. "Amazon's investment in our expanding Career Academy work with a focus on STEM will allow students to continue to experience a more relevant high school education," said Dr. Nikolai Vitti, Detroit Public Schools Community District's superintendent. "We are continuing to see more companies recognize that there is a shared responsibility in ensuring that career pathways are developed at the high school level and through the traditional public school system to ensure that the greatest number of students in the city can actualize their talent. When this happens, students, companies, and the city all benefit." In total, Amazon invested over $2.5 million in 2020 to multiple nonprofit organizations in the region, including: Beaumont Children's Center Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit Cass Community Social Services Inc. COTS of Detroit Forgotten Harvest Friends of Animals Detroit Forgotten Harvest Matrix Human Services JOB CREATION On one of the five new sites, Amazon plans to open a new 823,000 square-foot fulfillment center in Detroit, creating 1,200 new full-time jobs when it launches in 2021. The site will be the fourth fulfillment center in the state using Amazon robotics to help associates pick, pack and ship smaller items to customers. The other four sites include a same-day facility, XL fulfillment center and two sortation centers that play critical roles in the fulfillment of large products and "middle mile," or the process of transporting packages between Amazon sites before last mile delivery for customers. Packages are shipped to sort centers from Amazon Air hubs, gateways and fulfillment centers to be sorted by zip code before being transported to delivery stations or last-mile delivery partners for customer delivery. In 2021, Amazon's new fulfillment and sortation centers in Detroit include: Detroit – Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center. Hazel Park – Sub-Same-Day Fulfillment Center. Pinnacle Park – Amazon "XLFC" Fulfillment Center. Pinnacle Park – Amazon Sort Center. Plymouth – Amazon Sort Center. Pontiac – Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center. Amazon currently operates 10 sites in Detroit that support customer fulfillment and delivery operations, including four facilities that launched in 2020. "With this deal, we are able to appropriately redevelop the Pinnacle property – adding roughly 1,000 new jobs for local residents while expanding our tax base at the same time," said Wayne County Executive Warren Evans. "When I took office, I made it a priority to repurpose the land in a more productive way that made sense for the location. Working in collaboration with Huron Township leaders and Detroit Aerotropolis, my team identified a new approach for the site that was both economically viable and consistent with the community's vision. I'm pleased that Amazon agrees that Pinnacle is a prime location for a world-class logistics and distribution facility that will put Wayne County residents to work." "Huron Township welcomes the creation of approximately 1,000 jobs the Amazon facilities offer. This Amazon project will serve to jump-start additional economic growth that will make up a much larger comprehensive mixed use development planned for this area," said David Glaab, Huron Township Supervisor. "This investment will serve to bolster and compliment the efforts of the Detroit Region Aerotropolis in its mission to attract advanced manufacturing, next generation mobility and emerging technologies to this region." COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum $15 per hour wage, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families. Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in-demand jobs, and in 2020 it promoted more than 35,000 associates in its operations network. The upskilling programs will help Amazon team members from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores and transportation network, or pursue career paths in high-demand fields outside of Amazon. AMAZON IN MICHIGAN Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 13,500 jobs in Michigan and invested more than $2.5 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to its employees. Amazon's investments have contributed more than $2.1 billion in GDP to the Michigan economy and have helped create over 10,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services. More than 42,000 independent authors and small and medium businesses in Michigan are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state. KEEPING EMPLOYEES SAFE Amazon prioritizes the safety and health of its employees to provide a safe workplace, and the company invested more than $10 billion to help keep employees safe and deliver products to customers throughout 2020. This includes more than $961 million invested in safety measures and equipment in Amazon buildings, including masks, temperature screening, pexiglas shields, sanitizing products, additional cleaning teams, and even an on-site testing program. Amazon has also made over 150 significant process changes to make sure they keep their team safe throughout each day, including new social distancing measures and enhanced cleaning and sanitizing across every site. Amazon was recently ranked #2 on the Forbes World's Best Employers list. For more information about current job openings in Detroit, visit www.amazondelivers.jobs. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: See an Amazon Fulfillment Center In Action Amazon Job Creation and Investment U.S. U.S. Investment Map About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210111005173/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Further engages in community with $100,000 donation to the Detroit Public Schools Community District's STEM program</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2021-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced its continued investment in the metro Detroit area with five new buildings to support operations closer to customers. The sites are expected to create more than 2,000 permanent full- and part-time jobs with a minimum $15 per hour wage and comprehensive benefits starting on the employee's first day.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210111005173/en/</p><div><p>New Amazon facilities in Metro Detroit. (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"We're excited to be expanding our network to better serve our customers in the great city of Detroit," said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon's vice president of global customer fulfillment. "We are grateful for the strong support we've received from local and state leaders as we broaden our footprint throughout Michigan. We look forward to bringing more than 2,000 good jobs to Metro Detroit and contributing positively to the community."</p><p>"We're thrilled that Amazon selected Detroit for what will be one of the largest fulfillment centers in Michigan," said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. "Amazon has been a great partner and its most important delivery will be the 3,000 construction jobs, 1,200 permanent jobs and new small business opportunities this new facility will bring to our city."</p><p>INVESTING IN COMMUNITIES</p><p>As Amazon grows in Detroit, it is committed to contributing in a variety of ways to the local community where our teams live and work, including by supporting food banks with monetary contributions and delivery services, funding computer science education for underserved and underrepresented students, and providing in-kind donations to meet immediate and basic needs. Most recently, Amazon donated $100,000 to the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) to help the district enhance its science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs and expand its resources. Beyond the donation, Amazon plans to support the school's STEM programs with hands-on learning and mentorship opportunities in the coming year.</p><p>"Amazon's investment in our expanding Career Academy work with a focus on STEM will allow students to continue to experience a more relevant high school education," said Dr. Nikolai Vitti, Detroit Public Schools Community District's superintendent. "We are continuing to see more companies recognize that there is a shared responsibility in ensuring that career pathways are developed at the high school level and through the traditional public school system to ensure that the greatest number of students in the city can actualize their talent. When this happens, students, companies, and the city all benefit."</p><p>In total, Amazon invested over $2.5 million in 2020 to multiple nonprofit organizations in the region, including:</p><ul><li>Beaumont Children's Center</li><li>Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit</li><li>Cass Community Social Services Inc.</li><li>COTS of Detroit Forgotten Harvest</li><li>Friends of Animals Detroit</li><li>Forgotten Harvest</li><li>Matrix Human Services</li></ul><p>JOB CREATION</p><p>On one of the five new sites, Amazon plans to open a new 823,000 square-foot fulfillment center in Detroit, creating 1,200 new full-time jobs when it launches in 2021. The site will be the fourth fulfillment center in the state using Amazon robotics to help associates pick, pack and ship smaller items to customers.</p><p>The other four sites include a same-day facility, XL fulfillment center and two sortation centers that play critical roles in the fulfillment of large products and "middle mile," or the process of transporting packages between Amazon sites before last mile delivery for customers. Packages are shipped to sort centers from Amazon Air hubs, gateways and fulfillment centers to be sorted by zip code before being transported to delivery stations or last-mile delivery partners for customer delivery. In 2021, Amazon's new fulfillment and sortation centers in Detroit include:</p><ul><li>Detroit – Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center.</li><li>Hazel Park – Sub-Same-Day Fulfillment Center.</li><li>Pinnacle Park – Amazon "XLFC" Fulfillment Center.</li><li>Pinnacle Park – Amazon Sort Center.</li><li>Plymouth – Amazon Sort Center.</li><li>Pontiac – Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center.</li></ul><p>Amazon currently operates 10 sites in Detroit that support customer fulfillment and delivery operations, including four facilities that launched in 2020.</p><p>"With this deal, we are able to appropriately redevelop the Pinnacle property – adding roughly 1,000 new jobs for local residents while expanding our tax base at the same time," said Wayne County Executive Warren Evans. "When I took office, I made it a priority to repurpose the land in a more productive way that made sense for the location. Working in collaboration with Huron Township leaders and Detroit Aerotropolis, my team identified a new approach for the site that was both economically viable and consistent with the community's vision. I'm pleased that Amazon agrees that Pinnacle is a prime location for a world-class logistics and distribution facility that will put Wayne County residents to work."</p><p>"Huron Township welcomes the creation of approximately 1,000 jobs the Amazon facilities offer. This Amazon project will serve to jump-start additional economic growth that will make up a much larger comprehensive mixed use development planned for this area," said David Glaab, Huron Township Supervisor. "This investment will serve to bolster and compliment the efforts of the Detroit Region Aerotropolis in its mission to attract advanced manufacturing, next generation mobility and emerging technologies to this region."</p><p>COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS</p><p>On top of Amazon's industry-leading minimum $15 per hour wage, the company offers full-time employees comprehensive benefits including full medical, vision, and dental insurance as well as a 401(k) with 50 percent match starting on day one. The company also offers up to 20 weeks of maternal and parental paid leave and innovative benefits such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents flexibility to support their growing families.</p><p>Amazon has also pledged to invest over $700 million to provide upskilling training for 100,000 U.S. employees for in-demand jobs, and in 2020 it promoted more than 35,000 associates in its operations network. The upskilling programs will help Amazon team members from all backgrounds access training to move into highly skilled roles across the company's corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores and transportation network, or pursue career paths in high-demand fields outside of Amazon.</p><p>AMAZON IN MICHIGAN</p><ul><li>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 13,500 jobs in Michigan and invested more than $2.5 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to its employees.</li><li>Amazon's investments have contributed more than $2.1 billion in GDP to the Michigan economy and have helped create over 10,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon's direct hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional services.</li><li>More than 42,000 independent authors and small and medium businesses in Michigan are selling to customers in Amazon's store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state.</li></ul><p>KEEPING EMPLOYEES SAFE</p><p>Amazon prioritizes the safety and health of its employees to provide a safe workplace, and the company invested more than $10 billion to help keep employees safe and deliver products to customers throughout 2020. This includes more than $961 million invested in safety measures and equipment in Amazon buildings, including masks, temperature screening, pexiglas shields, sanitizing products, additional cleaning teams, and even an on-site testing program. Amazon has also made over 150 significant process changes to make sure they keep their team safe throughout each day, including new social distancing measures and enhanced cleaning and sanitizing across every site.</p><p>Amazon was recently ranked #2 on the Forbes World's Best Employers list. For more information about current job openings in Detroit, visit www.amazondelivers.jobs.</p><p>ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:</p><ul><li>See an Amazon Fulfillment Center In Action</li><li>Amazon Job Creation and Investment U.S.</li><li>U.S. Investment Map</li></ul><p>About Amazon</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/20210111005173/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Launches $2 Billion Housing Equity Fund to Make Over 20,000 Affordable Homes Available for Families in Communities It Calls Home

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Amazon Launches $2 Billion Housing Equity Fund to Make Over 20,000 Affordable Homes Available for Families in Communities It Calls Home

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New Housing Equity Fund will preserve and create equitable housing through below-market loans and grants to housing partners, public agencies, and minority-led organizations First investment of more than $567 million will make up to 1,300 affordable apartment homes available near Amazon's new Arlington, Virginia headquarters and up to 1,000 apartment homes available near Amazon's Puget Sound, Washington headquarters, with more investments to come SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the Housing Equity Fund, a more than $2 billion commitment to preserve and create over 20,000 affordable housing units in Washington State's Puget Sound region; Arlington, Virginia; and Nashville, Tennessee—three communities where the company has or expects to have at least 5,000 employees each in the coming years. Amazon's Housing Equity Fund will help preserve existing housing and help create inclusive housing developments through below-market loans and grants to housing partners, traditional and non-traditional public agencies, and minority-led organizations. The Fund underscores Amazon's commitment to affordable housing and will help ensure that moderate- to low-income families can afford housing in resource-rich communities with easy access to neighborhood services, amenities, and jobs. Amazon's first investments include $381.9 million in below-market loans and grants to the Washington Housing Conservancy to preserve and create up to 1,300 affordable homes on the Crystal House property in Arlington and $185.5 million in below-market loans and grants to King County Housing Authority to preserve up to 1,000 affordable homes in the state of Washington, with additional investments to come in all three regions. "Amazon has a long-standing commitment to helping people in need, including the Mary's Place family shelter we built inside our Puget Sound headquarters. The shelter now supports over 200 women and children experiencing homelessness every night," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "This new $2 billion Housing Equity Fund will create or preserve 20,000 affordable homes in all three of our headquarters regions—Arlington, Puget Sound, and Nashville. It will also help local families achieve long-term stability while building strong, inclusive communities." Amazon's Housing Equity Fund includes: $2 Billion in Below-Market Capital Amazon is providing below-market capital—in the form of loans, lines of credit, and grants—to preserve and create 20,000 homes affordable for moderate- to low-income families in the Puget Sound region, Arlington, and Nashville. In each of these areas, Amazon is targeting households making between 30% to 80% of the area's median income (AMI). In the Washington, D.C. metro area, this translates to a household of four earning less than $79,600 a year. In the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area, this translates to a household of four earning less than $95,250 a year. $125 Million in Grants to Minority-Led Organizations and Public Agencies Amazon's Housing Equity Fund will provide an additional $125 million in cash grants to businesses, nonprofits, and minority-led organizations to help them build a more inclusive solution to the affordable housing crisis, which disproportionately affects communities of color. The Fund will also give grants to government partners not traditionally involved in affordable housing issues, such as transit agencies and school districts, to provide them with resources to advance and create equitable and affordable housing initiatives. "In booming cities across the U.S., many apartment buildings affordable for teachers, healthcare providers, transit workers, and others with modest incomes are increasingly being redeveloped into luxury apartments, causing displacement and reducing housing options for working families," said Sarah Rosen Wartell, President, Urban Institute. "Investments like those announced today by Amazon that help preserve these existing buildings and maintain moderate rent levels are critical to local efforts that promote economic inclusion and support the stability and economic mobility of moderate- and low-income families." Amazon's first Housing Equity Fund commitments include: Washington Housing Conservancy's Crystal House in Arlington, Virginia  Amazon's first Housing Equity Fund commitment in Virginia includes a $339.9 million below-market loan and grants worth $42 million to the Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC)—a nonprofit organization that preserves homes so they are affordable for moderate- to low-income residents. A typical affordable housing acquisition would be financed with a combination of loans and private investment, with interest rates as high as 15% for certain portions of the financing. Access to Amazon's lower-cost long-term financing will allow WHC to maintain affordability well into the future in the National Landing neighborhood of Arlington. Amazon's grants also include $2 million to fund WHC's social impact work. According to the Arlington County government, Arlington County has lost approximately 14,400 privately owned affordably priced housing units since 2000. Between 2010 and 2018, the median home value climbed approximately 20% (after adjusting for inflation) and median rents climbed 11%, while median household incomes climbed only 7%. With Amazon's flexible capital, WHC was able to execute the purchase of Crystal House in under two months, an expedited timeline for commercial real estate transactions. WHC's finance partner, the Washington Housing Initiative and Impact Pool, created by developer JBG SMITH, provided commercial real estate expertise and an additional loan of $6.7 million. Crystal House will offer a dynamic rental structure. Through natural renter turnover, rents will be significantly lowered to appeal to households earning less than 80% of AMI. The conversion of existing apartments to more affordable apartments began on Jan. 1, 2021 and will continue over the next five years. A 99-year covenant ensures that Crystal House will remain affordable for the long term. JBG SMITH will manage the property on behalf of WHC. "Washington Housing Conservancy disrupts a market cycle that leads to displacement and offers the kind of stability that lets residents focus on their future, instead of the uncertainty of escalating rents," said Kimberly Driggins, Executive Director, Washington Housing Conservancy. "With Amazon's support, we are advancing our vision for inclusive, mixed-income communities of racially diverse middle-income and low-income families and individuals, to live near their employment and access high-performing schools and community amenities." "Amazon's investment in affordable housing in Arlington is transformational—and couldn't come at a better time," said Matt de Ferranti, Arlington County Board Chair. "We are delighted to further strengthen our partnership with Amazon and to work together to serve our shared commitment to equity and economic opportunity for all of our residents." King County Housing Authority Portfolio in Washington State As part of Amazon's ongoing and growing partnership with the King County Housing Authority (KCHA), Amazon's first Housing Equity Fund commitment in Washington will fund an initial $161.5 million below-market loan and $24 million in grants to preserve affordability for 1,000 apartment homes. The funds, to start, will allow KCHA to complete acquisition financing on 470 recently acquired units across three properties—Pinewood Village (108 units), Hampton Greens (326 units), and the Illahee Apartments (36 units)—preserving these critical resources as affordable housing by maintaining rent affordable to households earning at or below 80% of local median incomes. This commitment includes $4 million of the grant funds to support the preservation of housing for extremely low-income households (less than 30% of AMI) at the Illahee Apartments. According to a January 2020 McKinsey study, King County added 67,000 units of mostly market rate rental housing over the past 10 years. However, during this same period, King County lost more than 112,000 units (or over 40%) of its housing affordable to households earning 80% of AMI or less. KCHA was the nation's first housing authority to access the municipal bond market for preservation and conversion of market-rate apartments to affordable housing, beginning with an acquisition in 1991. The Housing Authority's portfolio currently includes over 7,000 housing units affordable to moderate- and low-income workers. With support from Amazon's Housing Equity Fund, KCHA will continue to build its portfolio and increase affordability over time by minimizing rent increases. These buildings will remain affordable long term—for at least 99 years. "Acquiring these properties in Bellevue to ensure that they stay affordable is critical to preserving the economic diversity of this area," said Stephen Norman, Executive Director, King County Housing Authority. "We are excited to work with Amazon to preserve affordable housing options close to jobs, transit, and schools. Our whole region thrives when a range of housing options is available to all." "I'm thrilled Amazon and King County Housing Authority are working together to make our growing Bellevue community more inclusive, equitable, and opportunity-rich for families of all income levels," said Bellevue City Manager Brad Miyake. "Corporate-nonprofit partnerships like this will ensure fast, strategic action, as well as positive, long-term change as we tackle this affordability crisis together as a region." Since announcing its selection of Arlington as the site of its second headquarters, Amazon has donated more than $19 million to community organizations across the Washington, D.C. metro area. Most recently, Amazon gave $3 million across four legal service agencies to support families and individuals facing eviction issues due to challenges stemming from the ongoing pandemic. In Seattle, Amazon has provided more than $100 million in cash and in-kind donations to Mary's Place, a nonprofit focused on fighting family homelessness, and in March 2020, Mary's Place opened the largest shelter in Washington State within a new Amazon office building. In December 2020, Amazon donated $2.25 million to The Housing Fund nonprofit in Nashville to help moderate- to low- income households preserve homeownership and build financial stability. Please visit amazon.com/housingequity to read more about Amazon's Housing Equity Fund. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210106005304/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>New Housing Equity Fund will preserve and create equitable housing through below-market loans and grants to housing partners, public agencies, and minority-led organizations</em></p><p><em>First investment of more than $567 million will make up to 1,300 affordable apartment homes available near Amazon's new Arlington, Virginia headquarters and up to 1,000 apartment homes available near Amazon's Puget Sound, Washington headquarters, with more investments to come</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2021-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the Housing Equity Fund, a more than $2 billion commitment to preserve and create over 20,000 affordable housing units in Washington State's Puget Sound region; Arlington, Virginia; and Nashville, Tennessee—three communities where the company has or expects to have at least 5,000 employees each in the coming years. Amazon's Housing Equity Fund will help preserve existing housing and help create inclusive housing developments through below-market loans and grants to housing partners, traditional and non-traditional public agencies, and minority-led organizations. The Fund underscores Amazon's commitment to affordable housing and will help ensure that moderate- to low-income families can afford housing in resource-rich communities with easy access to neighborhood services, amenities, and jobs. Amazon's first investments include $381.9 million in below-market loans and grants to the Washington Housing Conservancy to preserve and create up to 1,300 affordable homes on the Crystal House property in Arlington and $185.5 million in below-market loans and grants to King County Housing Authority to preserve up to 1,000 affordable homes in the state of Washington, with additional investments to come in all three regions.</p><p>"Amazon has a long-standing commitment to helping people in need, including the Mary's Place family shelter we built inside our Puget Sound headquarters. The shelter now supports over 200 women and children experiencing homelessness every night," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "This new $2 billion Housing Equity Fund will create or preserve 20,000 affordable homes in all three of our headquarters regions—Arlington, Puget Sound, and Nashville. It will also help local families achieve long-term stability while building strong, inclusive communities."</p><p>Amazon's Housing Equity Fund includes:</p><p>$2 Billion in Below-Market Capital</p><p>Amazon is providing below-market capital—in the form of loans, lines of credit, and grants—to preserve and create 20,000 homes affordable for moderate- to low-income families in the Puget Sound region, Arlington, and Nashville<em>. </em>In each of these areas, Amazon is targeting households making between 30% to 80% of the area's median income (AMI). In the Washington, D.C. metro area, this translates to a household of four earning less than $79,600 a year. In the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area, this translates to a household of four earning less than $95,250 a year.</p><p>$125 Million in Grants to Minority-Led Organizations and Public Agencies</p><p>Amazon's Housing Equity Fund will provide an additional $125 million in cash grants to businesses, nonprofits, and minority-led organizations to help them build a more inclusive solution to the affordable housing crisis, which disproportionately affects communities of color. The Fund will also give grants to government partners not traditionally involved in affordable housing issues, such as transit agencies and school districts, to provide them with resources to advance and create equitable and affordable housing initiatives.</p><p>"In booming cities across the U.S., many apartment buildings affordable for teachers, healthcare providers, transit workers, and others with modest incomes are increasingly being redeveloped into luxury apartments, causing displacement and reducing housing options for working families," said Sarah Rosen Wartell, President, Urban Institute. "Investments like those announced today by Amazon that help preserve these existing buildings and maintain moderate rent levels are critical to local efforts that promote economic inclusion and support the stability and economic mobility of moderate- and low-income families."</p><p>Amazon's first Housing Equity Fund commitments include:</p><p>Washington Housing Conservancy's Crystal House in Arlington, Virginia </p><p>Amazon's first Housing Equity Fund commitment in Virginia includes a $339.9 million below-market loan and grants worth $42 million to the Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC)—a nonprofit organization that preserves homes so they are affordable for moderate- to low-income residents. A typical affordable housing acquisition would be financed with a combination of loans and private investment, with interest rates as high as 15% for certain portions of the financing. Access to Amazon's lower-cost long-term financing will allow WHC to maintain affordability well into the future in the National Landing neighborhood of Arlington. Amazon's grants also include $2 million to fund WHC's social impact work.</p><p>According to the Arlington County government, Arlington County has lost approximately 14,400 privately owned affordably priced housing units since 2000. Between 2010 and 2018, the median home value climbed approximately 20% (after adjusting for inflation) and median rents climbed 11%, while median household incomes climbed only 7%.</p><p>With Amazon's flexible capital, WHC was able to execute the purchase of Crystal House in under two months, an expedited timeline for commercial real estate transactions. WHC's finance partner, the Washington Housing Initiative and Impact Pool, created by developer JBG SMITH, provided commercial real estate expertise and an additional loan of $6.7 million. Crystal House will offer a dynamic rental structure. Through natural renter turnover, rents will be significantly lowered to appeal to households earning less than 80% of AMI. The conversion of existing apartments to more affordable apartments began on Jan. 1, 2021 and will continue over the next five years. A 99-year covenant ensures that Crystal House will remain affordable for the long term. JBG SMITH will manage the property on behalf of WHC.</p><p>"Washington Housing Conservancy disrupts a market cycle that leads to displacement and offers the kind of stability that lets residents focus on their future, instead of the uncertainty of escalating rents," said Kimberly Driggins, Executive Director, Washington Housing Conservancy. "With Amazon's support, we are advancing our vision for inclusive, mixed-income communities of racially diverse middle-income and low-income families and individuals, to live near their employment and access high-performing schools and community amenities."</p><p>"Amazon's investment in affordable housing in Arlington is transformational—and couldn't come at a better time," said Matt de Ferranti, Arlington County Board Chair. "We are delighted to further strengthen our partnership with Amazon and to work together to serve our shared commitment to equity and economic opportunity for all of our residents."</p><p>King County Housing Authority Portfolio in Washington State</p><p>As part of Amazon's ongoing and growing partnership with the King County Housing Authority (KCHA), Amazon's first Housing Equity Fund commitment in Washington will fund an initial $161.5 million below-market loan and $24 million in grants to preserve affordability for 1,000 apartment homes. The funds, to start, will allow KCHA to complete acquisition financing on 470 recently acquired units across three properties—Pinewood Village (108 units), Hampton Greens (326 units), and the Illahee Apartments (36 units)—preserving these critical resources as affordable housing by maintaining rent affordable to households earning at or below 80% of local median incomes. This commitment includes $4 million of the grant funds to support the preservation of housing for extremely low-income households (less than 30% of AMI) at the Illahee Apartments.</p><p>According to a January 2020 McKinsey study, King County added 67,000 units of mostly market rate rental housing over the past 10 years. However, during this same period, King County lost more than 112,000 units (or over 40%) of its housing affordable to households earning 80% of AMI or less. KCHA was the nation's first housing authority to access the municipal bond market for preservation and conversion of market-rate apartments to affordable housing, beginning with an acquisition in 1991. The Housing Authority's portfolio currently includes over 7,000 housing units affordable to moderate- and low-income workers. With support from Amazon's Housing Equity Fund, KCHA will continue to build its portfolio and increase affordability over time by minimizing rent increases. These buildings will remain affordable long term—for at least 99 years.</p><p>"Acquiring these properties in Bellevue to ensure that they stay affordable is critical to preserving the economic diversity of this area," said Stephen Norman, Executive Director, King County Housing Authority. "We are excited to work with Amazon to preserve affordable housing options close to jobs, transit, and schools. Our whole region thrives when a range of housing options is available to all."</p><p>"I'm thrilled Amazon and King County Housing Authority are working together to make our growing Bellevue community more inclusive, equitable, and opportunity-rich for families of all income levels," said Bellevue City Manager Brad Miyake. "Corporate-nonprofit partnerships like this will ensure fast, strategic action, as well as positive, long-term change as we tackle this affordability crisis together as a region."</p><p>Since announcing its selection of Arlington as the site of its second headquarters, Amazon has donated more than $19 million to community organizations across the Washington, D.C. metro area. Most recently, Amazon gave $3 million across four legal service agencies to support families and individuals facing eviction issues due to challenges stemming from the ongoing pandemic. In Seattle, Amazon has provided more than $100 million in cash and in-kind donations to Mary's Place, a nonprofit focused on fighting family homelessness, and in March 2020, Mary's Place opened the largest shelter in Washington State within a new Amazon office building. In December 2020, Amazon donated $2.25 million to The Housing Fund nonprofit in Nashville to help moderate- to low- income households preserve homeownership and build financial stability.</p><p>Please visit amazon.com/housingequity to read more about Amazon's Housing Equity Fund.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210106005304/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Continues to Expand Its Transportation Fleet With Purchased Aircraft

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Amazon Continues to Expand Its Transportation Fleet With Purchased Aircraft

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Amazon purchases eleven aircraft from Delta Air Lines and WestJet Airlines to join the Amazon Air cargo network in 2021 and 2022 The expanded fleet supports Amazon's growing customer base during a time when people continue to rely on receiving items they need quickly SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Today, Amazon announced its first-ever purchase of eleven Boeing 767-300 aircraft, expanding its fleet to continue to serve customers. The purchases include seven aircraft from Delta and four aircraft from WestJet, which will join the network by 2022. Amazon Air's fleet expansion comes at a time when customers are relying on fast, free shipping more than ever. "Our goal is to continue delivering for customers across the U.S. in the way that they expect from Amazon, and purchasing our own aircraft is a natural next step toward that goal," said Sarah Rhoads, Vice President of Amazon Global Air. "Having a mix of both leased and owned aircraft in our growing fleet allows us to better manage our operations, which in turn helps us to keep pace in meeting our customer promises." Amazon Air plays a central role in delivering for customers by transporting items across longer distances in shorter timeframes. The four aircraft purchased from WestJet in March are currently undergoing passenger to cargo conversion and will join Amazon Air's network in 2021, and the seven aircraft from Delta will enter Amazon's air cargo network in 2022. These fleet additions will ensure added capacity in Amazon Air's network for years to come. The company will continue to rely on third-party carriers to operate these new aircraft. Amazon Air continues to expand globally to meet the needs of its growing customer base, while investing in jobs and sustainable solutions to power its network. Last year, Amazon launched its first-ever air hub at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany and new regional air operations at Lakeland Linder International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Richmond International Airport, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, Kahului Airport, Kona International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport and Louis Armstrong International Airport. This summer, Amazon Air announced its purchase of six million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel and has already invested in leading-edge electric ground service equipment and solar rooftop panels planned at some facilities. Since Amazon Air's launch in 2016, Amazon has invested hundreds of millions of dollars and created thousands of new jobs at Amazon Air locations across the U.S. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210105005198/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon purchases eleven aircraft from Delta Air Lines and WestJet Airlines to join the Amazon Air cargo network in 2021 and 2022</em></p><p><em>The expanded fleet supports Amazon's growing customer base during a time when people continue to rely on receiving items they need quickly</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2021-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Today, Amazon announced its first-ever purchase of eleven Boeing 767-300 aircraft, expanding its fleet to continue to serve customers. The purchases include seven aircraft from Delta and four aircraft from WestJet, which will join the network by 2022. Amazon Air's fleet expansion comes at a time when customers are relying on fast, free shipping more than ever.</p><p>"Our goal is to continue delivering for customers across the U.S. in the way that they expect from Amazon, and purchasing our own aircraft is a natural next step toward that goal," said Sarah Rhoads, Vice President of Amazon Global Air. "Having a mix of both leased and owned aircraft in our growing fleet allows us to better manage our operations, which in turn helps us to keep pace in meeting our customer promises."</p><p>Amazon Air plays a central role in delivering for customers by transporting items across longer distances in shorter timeframes. The four aircraft purchased from WestJet in March are currently undergoing passenger to cargo conversion and will join Amazon Air's network in 2021, and the seven aircraft from Delta will enter Amazon's air cargo network in 2022. These fleet additions will ensure added capacity in Amazon Air's network for years to come. The company will continue to rely on third-party carriers to operate these new aircraft.</p><p>Amazon Air continues to expand globally to meet the needs of its growing customer base, while investing in jobs and sustainable solutions to power its network. Last year, Amazon launched its first-ever air hub at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany and new regional air operations at Lakeland Linder International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Richmond International Airport, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, Kahului Airport, Kona International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport and Louis Armstrong International Airport. This summer, Amazon Air announced its purchase of six million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel and has already invested in leading-edge electric ground service equipment and solar rooftop panels planned at some facilities. Since Amazon Air's launch in 2016, Amazon has invested hundreds of millions of dollars and created thousands of new jobs at Amazon Air locations across the U.S.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210105005198/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon's Custom Electric Delivery Vehicles from Rivian Start Rolling Out Across the U.S.

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Customers will see electric delivery vehicles on the road in more than a dozen cities including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Nashville, San Diego, and Seattle The state-of-the-art vehicles are part of Amazon's commitment to create a more sustainable delivery fleet that will help it reach net-zero carbon across its operations by 2040 as part of The Climate Pledge Amazon and Rivian plan to bring thousands of custom electric delivery vehicles to more than 100 cities by the end of this year, and 100,000 across the U.S. by 2030 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 21, 2022-- Starting today, customers across the U.S. will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities. This rollout is just the beginning of what is expected to be thousands of Amazon's custom electric delivery vehicles in more than 100 cities by the end of this year—and 100,000 across the U.S. by 2030. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220721005211/en/ Amazon's custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian (Photo: Business Wire) The vehicles are designed from the ground-up with safety, sustainability, and comfort in mind, and have been thoroughly tested by drivers across the country. They are the product of Amazon's partnership with Rivian, which the companies announced in 2019 when Amazon co-founded, and became the first signatory of The Climate Pledge—a commitment to reach net-zero carbon across our operations by 2040. As part of the Pledge, Amazon is creating a more sustainable delivery fleet, and its work with Rivian is an important part of decarbonizing its last mile logistics as well as accelerating innovation that can help others reach net-zero carbon. With its commitment to have all 100,000 electric delivery vehicles on the road by 2030, Amazon will save millions of metric tons of carbon per year. "Fighting the effects of climate change requires constant innovation and action, and Amazon is partnering with companies who share our passion for inventing new ways to minimize our impact on the environment. Rivian has been an excellent partner in that mission, and we're excited to see our first custom electric delivery vehicles on the road," said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon. "Today marks a significant milestone in our Climate Pledge commitment. Rivian was one of the first companies Amazon invested in through the Climate Pledge Fund, and we're just getting started on our journey to have 100,000 of Rivian's vehicles on the road by 2030. And, in addition to being sustainable, these new vehicles are also great for drivers—they were designed with driver input and feedback along the way, and they're among the safest and most comfortable delivery vehicles on the road today." "Today represents an important step, not just for Amazon and Rivian as partners, but also for transportation and the environment," said RJ Scaringe, CEO of Rivian. "In 2019, Rivian and Amazon committed to fast-tracking a new type of delivery vehicle that would result in a significant reduction of carbon emissions. Thanks to our teams' dedication, hard work and collaboration, and a shared commitment to make the world a better place for our kids' kids, that vision is now being realized. To say this is an exciting moment is an understatement—we're thrilled to see this partnership has kickstarted decarbonization projects across the logistics delivery industry." Amazon has been testing deliveries with Rivian preproduction vehicles since 2021, delivering over 430,000 packages and accumulating over 90,000 miles. This significant testing has allowed Rivian to continuously improve the vehicle's performance, safety and durability in various climates and geographies as well as its state-of-the-art features to ensure driver satisfaction, and overall functionality. Rivian has also completed certifications with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, California Air Resources Board, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The custom vehicles are made at Rivian's factory in Illinois, and include innovative technology and features such as: A safety-first design focused on superior 360-degree visibility, and vehicle features that protect drivers and pedestrians. A suite of innovative safety features including sensor detection, highway, and traffic assist technology, a large windshield to enhance driver visibility, automatic emergency breaking, adaptive cruise control, and collision warnings. First-of-its-kind embedded technology that fully integrates the delivery workflow with the vehicle, enabling seamless access to routing, navigation, driver support and more. Features to enhance the driver experience, and create ease on the road such as automatic door locking/unlocking as the driver approaches or leaves the vehicle, and a powered bulkhead door that opens when drivers reach their delivery location. A strengthened door on the driver's side for additional protection, and an ergonomically designed driver's cabin and cargo area for safe, and easy movement inside the van. Batteries that are light, resilient, and low cost in addition to lasting the lifetime of the vehicle. Amazon has added thousands of charging stations at its delivery stations across the country, and will continue to invest in building an infrastructure to support a more sustainable delivery fleet. Amazon has also partnered with the nonprofit CERES, and several other fleet operators to launch the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance, bringing together companies to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. To learn more about Amazon's sustainable transportation visit 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. About Rivian Rivian exists to create products and services that help our planet transition to carbon neutral energy and transportation. Rivian designs, develops, and manufactures category-defining electric vehicles and accessories and sells 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. Learn more about the company, products, and careers at rivian.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220721005211/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Customers will see electric delivery vehicles on the road in more than a dozen cities including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Nashville, San Diego, and Seattle</em></p><p><em>The state-of-the-art vehicles are part of Amazon's commitment to create a more sustainable delivery fleet that will help it reach net-zero carbon across its operations by 2040 as part of The Climate Pledge</em></p><p><em>Amazon and Rivian plan to bring thousands of custom electric delivery vehicles to more than 100 cities by the end of this year, and 100,000 across the U.S. by 2030</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 21, 2022-- Starting today, customers across the U.S. will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities. This rollout is just the beginning of what is expected to be thousands of Amazon's custom electric delivery vehicles in more than 100 cities by the end of this year—and 100,000 across the U.S. by 2030.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220721005211/en/</p><div><p>Amazon's custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>The vehicles are designed from the ground-up with safety, sustainability, and comfort in mind, and have been thoroughly tested by drivers across the country. They are the product of Amazon's partnership with Rivian, which the companies announced in 2019 when Amazon co-founded, and became the first signatory of The Climate Pledge—a commitment to reach net-zero carbon across our operations by 2040. As part of the Pledge, Amazon is creating a more sustainable delivery fleet, and its work with Rivian is an important part of decarbonizing its last mile logistics as well as accelerating innovation that can help others reach net-zero carbon. With its commitment to have all 100,000 electric delivery vehicles on the road by 2030, Amazon will save millions of metric tons of carbon per year.</p><p>"Fighting the effects of climate change requires constant innovation and action, and Amazon is partnering with companies who share our passion for inventing new ways to minimize our impact on the environment. Rivian has been an excellent partner in that mission, and we're excited to see our first custom electric delivery vehicles on the road," said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon. "Today marks a significant milestone in our Climate Pledge commitment. Rivian was one of the first companies Amazon invested in through the Climate Pledge Fund, and we're just getting started on our journey to have 100,000 of Rivian's vehicles on the road by 2030. And, in addition to being sustainable, these new vehicles are also great for drivers—they were designed with driver input and feedback along the way, and they're among the safest and most comfortable delivery vehicles on the road today."</p><p>"Today represents an important step, not just for Amazon and Rivian as partners, but also for transportation and the environment," said RJ Scaringe, CEO of Rivian. "In 2019, Rivian and Amazon committed to fast-tracking a new type of delivery vehicle that would result in a significant reduction of carbon emissions. Thanks to our teams' dedication, hard work and collaboration, and a shared commitment to make the world a better place for our kids' kids, that vision is now being realized. To say this is an exciting moment is an understatement—we're thrilled to see this partnership has kickstarted decarbonization projects across the logistics delivery industry."</p><p>Amazon has been testing deliveries with Rivian preproduction vehicles since 2021, delivering over 430,000 packages and accumulating over 90,000 miles. This significant testing has allowed Rivian to continuously improve the vehicle's performance, safety and durability in various climates and geographies as well as its state-of-the-art features to ensure driver satisfaction, and overall functionality. Rivian has also completed certifications with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, California Air Resources Board, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.</p><p>The custom vehicles are made at Rivian's factory in Illinois, and include innovative technology and features such as:</p><ul><li>A safety-first design focused on superior 360-degree visibility, and vehicle features that protect drivers and pedestrians.</li><li>A suite of innovative safety features including sensor detection, highway, and traffic assist technology, a large windshield to enhance driver visibility, automatic emergency breaking, adaptive cruise control, and collision warnings.</li><li>First-of-its-kind embedded technology that fully integrates the delivery workflow with the vehicle, enabling seamless access to routing, navigation, driver support and more.</li><li>Features to enhance the driver experience, and create ease on the road such as automatic door locking/unlocking as the driver approaches or leaves the vehicle, and a powered bulkhead door that opens when drivers reach their delivery location.</li><li>A strengthened door on the driver's side for additional protection, and an ergonomically designed driver's cabin and cargo area for safe, and easy movement inside the van.</li><li>Batteries that are light, resilient, and low cost in addition to lasting the lifetime of the vehicle.</li></ul><p>Amazon has added thousands of charging stations at its delivery stations across the country, and will continue to invest in building an infrastructure to support a more sustainable delivery fleet. Amazon has also partnered with the nonprofit CERES, and several other fleet operators to launch the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance, bringing together companies to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. To learn more about Amazon's sustainable transportation visit 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>About Rivian</p><p>Rivian exists to create products and services that help our planet transition to carbon neutral energy and transportation. Rivian designs, develops, and manufactures category-defining electric vehicles and accessories and sells 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. Learn more about the company, products, and careers at rivian.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220721005211/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

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One Medical is a human-centered, technology-powered U.S. primary care organization on a mission to make quality healthcare more affordable, accessible, and enjoyable through a seamless combination of in-person, digital, and virtual care services One Medical combines in-person care in inviting offices across the country with digital health and virtual care services, making it easier for patients to schedule appointments, renew prescriptions, access up-to-date health records, and advance health outcomes SEATTLE & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 21, 2022-- Today Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and One Medical (NASDAQ:ONEM) announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire One Medical. One Medical is a human-centered, technology-powered national primary care organization on a mission to make quality care more affordable, accessible, and enjoyable through a seamless combination of in-person, digital, and virtual care services that are convenient to where people work, shop, and live. "We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention. Booking an appointment, waiting weeks or even months to be seen, taking time off work, driving to a clinic, finding a parking spot, waiting in the waiting room then the exam room for what is too often a rushed few minutes with a doctor, then making another trip to a pharmacy – we see lots of opportunity to both improve the quality of the experience and give people back valuable time in their days," said Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services. "We love inventing to make what should be easy easier and we want to be one of the companies that helps dramatically improve the healthcare experience over the next several years. Together with One Medical's human-centered and technology-powered approach to health care, we believe we can and will help more people get better care, when and how they need it. We look forward to delivering on that long-term mission." "The opportunity to transform health care and improve outcomes by combining One Medical's human-centered and technology-powered model and exceptional team with Amazon's customer obsession, history of invention, and willingness to invest in the long-term is so exciting," said Amir Dan Rubin, One Medical CEO. "There is an immense opportunity to make the health care experience more accessible, affordable, and even enjoyable for patients, providers, and payers. We look forward to innovating and expanding access to quality healthcare services, together." Amazon will acquire One Medical for $18 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion, including One Medical's net debt. Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by One Medical's shareholders and regulatory approval. On completion, Amir Dan Rubin will remain as CEO of One Medical. 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 One Medical One Medical is a U.S. national human-centered and technology-powered primary care organization with seamless digital health and inviting in-office care, convenient to where people work, shop, live, and click. One Medical's vision is to delight millions of members with better health and better care while reducing costs, within a better team environment. One Medical's mission is to transform health care for all through a human-centered, technology-powered model. Headquartered in San Francisco, 1Life Healthcare, Inc. is the administrative and managerial services company for the affiliated One Medical physician-owned professional corporations that deliver medical services in-office and virtually. 1Life and the One Medical entities do business under the "One Medical" brand. Cautionary Statement Regarding Amazon Forward-Looking Statements Amazon's statements related to the proposed acquisition of One Medical contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding expected benefits of the acquisition. Actual results could differ materially from those projected or forecast in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include the following: the conditions to the completion of the transaction may not be satisfied, or the regulatory approvals required for the transaction may not be obtained on the terms expected, on the anticipated schedule, or at all; closing of the transaction may not occur or may be delayed, either as a result of litigation related to the transaction or otherwise; Amazon may be unable to achieve the anticipated benefits of the transaction; revenues following the transaction may be lower than expected; the duration and scope of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any recurrence, may affect the results of operations; operating costs, customer loss, and business disruption (including, without limitation, difficulties in maintaining relationships with employees, partners, and commercial counterparties) may be greater than expected; Amazon may assume unexpected risks and liabilities; completing the transaction may distract Amazon's management from other important matters; and the other factors discussed in "Risk Factors" in Amazon's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and in Amazon's other filings with the SEC, which are available at http://www.sec.gov. Amazon assumes no obligation to update the information in this press release, except as otherwise required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof. Cautionary Statements Regarding One Medical Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements which include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expected timing, completion and effects of the proposed acquisition. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. One Medical's expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements as a result of uncertainties, risks, and changes in circumstances, including but not limited to risks and uncertainties related to: the ability of the parties to consummate the proposed acquisition in a timely manner or at all; the satisfaction (or waiver) of closing conditions to the consummation of the proposed acquisition, including with respect to the approval of One Medical's stockholders; potential delays in consummating the proposed acquisition; the ability of One Medical to timely and successfully achieve the anticipated benefits of the proposed acquisition; the impact of health epidemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, on the parties' respective businesses and the actions the parties may take in response thereto; the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance or condition that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement; the impact of natural and man-made disasters and similar events on One Medical's business, financial condition and results of operations; the effect of the announcement or pendency of the proposed acquisition on One Medical's business relationships, operating results and business generally; costs related to the proposed acquisition; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against One Medical or any of its directors or officers related to the merger agreement or the proposed acquisition; anticipated membership growth and revenue potential from One Medical's members; One Medical's ability to retain members; One Medical's ability to successfully introduce and drive adoption of new products; changes in the pricing One Medical offers to its members; One Medical's relationships with its health network partners and enterprise clients and any changes to, accommodations in or terminations of One Medical's contracts with the health network partners or enterprise clients; One Medical's ability to improve cost of care and margins, including timing and expenses of new office openings and entry into new geographies; One Medical's ability to improve its medical claims expense ratio; changes in laws or regulations; One Medical's involvement in existing and potential litigation, including medical malpractice claims and consumer class actions; any governmental investigations or inquiries, including those related to COVID-19 vaccine administration or challenges to One Medical's relationships with the One Medical PCs under the administrative services agreements; One Medical's strategic plan; the impact of new laws and regulations on One Medical's industry, including Medicare, general economic and market conditions; One Medical's financial outlook; One Medical's focus areas for investment and One Medical's investments; announcements by One Medical', One Medical's health network partners or One Medical's competitors of business or strategic developments; and One Medical's overall business trajectory. Additional risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements are included under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in One Medical's most annual and quarterly reports filed with the SEC, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and any subsequent reports on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q or Form 8-K filed with the SEC from time to time and available at www.sec.gov. These documents can be accessed on One Medical's web page at https://investor.onemedical.com/ by clicking on the link "SEC Filings." The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof. One Medical assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law. Additional Information and Where to Find It In connection with the proposed acquisition of One Medical by Amazon, One Medical intends to file with the SEC preliminary and definitive proxy statements relating to such acquisition and other relevant documents. The definitive proxy statement will be mailed to One Medical's stockholders as of a record date to be established for voting on the proposed acquisition and any other matters to be voted on at the special meeting. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENTS, ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO, ANY OTHER SOLICITING MATERIALS AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS TO BE FILED WITH THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED ACQUISITION OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THE PROXY STATEMENTS WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ONE MEDICAL AND THE PROPOSED ACQUISITION. Investors and security holders may obtain free copies of these documents (when they are available) on the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov, on One Medical's website at https://investor.onemedical.com/ or by contacting One Medical's Investor Relations via email at https://investor.onemedical.com/contact-ir. Participants in the Solicitation One Medical and its directors and executive officers may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of One Medical in connection with the proposed acquisition and any other matters to be voted on at the special meeting. Information regarding the names, affiliations and interests of such directors and executive officers will be included in the preliminary and definitive proxy statements (when available). Additional information regarding such directors and executive officers is included in One Medical's definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 21, 2022. Information regarding the persons who may, under SEC rules, be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies of One Medical's stockholders in connection with the proposed acquisition and any other matters to be voted upon at the special meeting will be set forth in the preliminary and definitive proxy statements (when available) for the proposed acquisition. These documents are available free of charge as described in the preceding paragraph. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220720006113/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>One Medical</em><em> is a human-centered, technology-powered U.S. primary care </em><em>organization on a mission to make quality healthcare more affordable, accessible, and enjoyable through a seamless combination of in-person, digital, and virtual care services</em></p><p><em>One Medical</em><em> combines in-person care in inviting offices across the country with digital health and virtual care services, making it easier for patients to schedule appointments, renew prescriptions, access up-to-date health records, and advance health outcomes</em></p><p>SEATTLE &amp; SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 21, 2022-- Today Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and One Medical (NASDAQ:ONEM) announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire One Medical. One Medical is a human-centered, technology-powered national primary care organization on a mission to make quality care more affordable, accessible, and enjoyable through a seamless combination of in-person, digital, and virtual care services that are convenient to where people work, shop, and live.</p><p>"We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention. Booking an appointment, waiting weeks or even months to be seen, taking time off work, driving to a clinic, finding a parking spot, waiting in the waiting room then the exam room for what is too often a rushed few minutes with a doctor, then making another trip to a pharmacy – we see lots of opportunity to both improve the quality of the experience <em>and </em>give people back valuable time in their days," said Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services. "We love inventing to make what should be easy easier and we want to be one of the companies that helps dramatically improve the healthcare experience over the next several years. Together with One Medical's human-centered and technology-powered approach to health care, we believe we can and will help more people get better care, when and how they need it. We look forward to delivering on that long-term mission."</p><p>"The opportunity to transform health care and improve outcomes by combining One Medical's human-centered and technology-powered model and exceptional team with Amazon's customer obsession, history of invention, and willingness to invest in the long-term is so exciting," said Amir Dan Rubin, One Medical CEO. "There is an immense opportunity to make the health care experience more accessible, affordable, and even enjoyable for patients, providers, and payers. We look forward to innovating and expanding access to quality healthcare services, together."</p><p>Amazon will acquire One Medical for $18 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion, including One Medical's net debt. Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by One Medical's shareholders and regulatory approval. On completion, Amir Dan Rubin will remain as CEO of One Medical.</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 One Medical</p><p>One Medical is a U.S. national human-centered and technology-powered primary care organization with seamless digital health and inviting in-office care, convenient to where people work, shop, live, and click. One Medical's vision is to delight millions of members with better health and better care while reducing costs, within a better team environment. One Medical's mission is to transform health care for all through a human-centered, technology-powered model. Headquartered in San Francisco, 1Life Healthcare, Inc. is the administrative and managerial services company for the affiliated One Medical physician-owned professional corporations that deliver medical services in-office and virtually. 1Life and the One Medical entities do business under the "One Medical" brand.</p><p><em>Cautionary Statement Regarding Amazon Forward-Looking Statements</em></p><p>Amazon's statements related to the proposed acquisition of One Medical contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding expected benefits of the acquisition. Actual results could differ materially from those projected or forecast in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include the following: the conditions to the completion of the transaction may not be satisfied, or the regulatory approvals required for the transaction may not be obtained on the terms expected, on the anticipated schedule, or at all; closing of the transaction may not occur or may be delayed, either as a result of litigation related to the transaction or otherwise; Amazon may be unable to achieve the anticipated benefits of the transaction; revenues following the transaction may be lower than expected; the duration and scope of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any recurrence, may affect the results of operations; operating costs, customer loss, and business disruption (including, without limitation, difficulties in maintaining relationships with employees, partners, and commercial counterparties) may be greater than expected; Amazon may assume unexpected risks and liabilities; completing the transaction may distract Amazon's management from other important matters; and the other factors discussed in "Risk Factors" in Amazon's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and in Amazon's other filings with the SEC, which are available at http://www.sec.gov. Amazon assumes no obligation to update the information in this press release, except as otherwise required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof.</p><p><em>Cautionary Statements Regarding One Medical Forward-Looking Statements</em></p><p>This press release contains forward-looking statements which include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expected timing, completion and effects of the proposed acquisition. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. One Medical's expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements as a result of uncertainties, risks, and changes in circumstances, including but not limited to risks and uncertainties related to: the ability of the parties to consummate the proposed acquisition in a timely manner or at all; the satisfaction (or waiver) of closing conditions to the consummation of the proposed acquisition, including with respect to the approval of One Medical's stockholders; potential delays in consummating the proposed acquisition; the ability of One Medical to timely and successfully achieve the anticipated benefits of the proposed acquisition; the impact of health epidemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, on the parties' respective businesses and the actions the parties may take in response thereto; the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance or condition that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement; the impact of natural and man-made disasters and similar events on One Medical's business, financial condition and results of operations; the effect of the announcement or pendency of the proposed acquisition on One Medical's business relationships, operating results and business generally; costs related to the proposed acquisition; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against One Medical or any of its directors or officers related to the merger agreement or the proposed acquisition; anticipated membership growth and revenue potential from One Medical's members; One Medical's ability to retain members; One Medical's ability to successfully introduce and drive adoption of new products; changes in the pricing One Medical offers to its members; One Medical's relationships with its health network partners and enterprise clients and any changes to, accommodations in or terminations of One Medical's contracts with the health network partners or enterprise clients; One Medical's ability to improve cost of care and margins, including timing and expenses of new office openings and entry into new geographies; One Medical's ability to improve its medical claims expense ratio; changes in laws or regulations; One Medical's involvement in existing and potential litigation, including medical malpractice claims and consumer class actions; any governmental investigations or inquiries, including those related to COVID-19 vaccine administration or challenges to One Medical's relationships with the One Medical PCs under the administrative services agreements; One Medical's strategic plan; the impact of new laws and regulations on One Medical's industry, including Medicare, general economic and market conditions; One Medical's financial outlook; One Medical's focus areas for investment and One Medical's investments; announcements by One Medical', One Medical's health network partners or One Medical's competitors of business or strategic developments; and One Medical's overall business trajectory. Additional risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements are included under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in One Medical's most annual and quarterly reports filed with the SEC, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and any subsequent reports on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q or Form 8-K filed with the SEC from time to time and available at www.sec.gov. These documents can be accessed on One Medical's web page at https://investor.onemedical.com/ by clicking on the link "SEC Filings."</p><p>The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof. One Medical assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law.</p><p><em>Additional Information and Where to Find It</em></p><p>In connection with the proposed acquisition of One Medical by Amazon, One Medical intends to file with the SEC preliminary and definitive proxy statements relating to such acquisition and other relevant documents. The definitive proxy statement will be mailed to One Medical's stockholders as of a record date to be established for voting on the proposed acquisition and any other matters to be voted on at the special meeting. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENTS, ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO, ANY OTHER SOLICITING MATERIALS AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS TO BE FILED WITH THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED ACQUISITION OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THE PROXY STATEMENTS WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ONE MEDICAL AND THE PROPOSED ACQUISITION. Investors and security holders may obtain free copies of these documents (when they are available) on the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov, on One Medical's website at https://investor.onemedical.com/ or by contacting One Medical's Investor Relations via email at https://investor.onemedical.com/contact-ir.</p><p><em>Participants in the Solicitation</em></p><p>One Medical and its directors and executive officers may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of One Medical in connection with the proposed acquisition and any other matters to be voted on at the special meeting. Information regarding the names, affiliations and interests of such directors and executive officers will be included in the preliminary and definitive proxy statements (when available). Additional information regarding such directors and executive officers is included in One Medical's definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 21, 2022.</p><p>Information regarding the persons who may, under SEC rules, be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies of One Medical's stockholders in connection with the proposed acquisition and any other matters to be voted upon at the special meeting will be set forth in the preliminary and definitive proxy statements (when available) for the proposed acquisition. These documents are available free of charge as described in the preceding paragraph.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220720006113/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

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Registration Now Open for Accelerate 2022

07/20/2022

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Amazon's annual seller conference to take place in Seattle and virtually September 14-15, 2022 Accelerate 2022 will feature headline speakers Doug Herrington and Venus Williams The conference will offer a personalized event experience designed to help accelerate the selling journey SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 20, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that registration has opened for its annual seller conference, Amazon Accelerate. Accelerate 2022 promises Amazon's largest seller announcements of the year, a fireside chat with Doug Herrington, Amazon's new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, and special guest speaker Venus Williams, legendary tennis champion, successful entrepreneur, and small business advocate. Amazon's third annual conference will be hosted at the Seattle Convention Center on September 14 and 15, 2022, and for the first time, the event will offer in-person and virtual attendance options. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220720005334/en/ "We're excited to bring our community of selling partners together at Amazon Accelerate 2022 to hear inspiring insights from dynamic guest speakers, and have the opportunity to learn, connect, and engage with other sellers and as Amazonians," said Dharmesh Mehta, vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Services. "Accelerate gives us an opportunity to connect with sellers, accelerate their journey, and celebrate the best partnership in the history of retail." Attendees will hear directly from Amazon senior leaders about new products, tools, and resources, and learn from hundreds of Amazon subject-matter experts in deep dive breakout sessions with live Q&As that will help sellers accelerate their businesses. Sellers will be able to connect directly with each other, and learn from one another's successes and challenges as part of a thriving worldwide selling community. Attendees can personalize their event experience with a customized agenda tailored to their business. "Now in its third year, Accelerate has become one of our most anticipated Amazon conferences, where sellers can expect to hear major announcements, participate in deep dive breakout sessions hosted by Amazon experts, and connect with other sellers," said Claire O'Donnell, director of Selling Partner Empowerment, Community, and Trust. "We are excited to offer several new activities for thousands of in-person and virtual attendees, including personalized event experiences, inspiring guest speakers, live support, networking opportunities, and access to solution providers." What's in store for sellers at Amazon Accelerate 2022? This year's conference will offer even more content, education, and community-building opportunities for in-person and virtual participants to accelerate their selling journeys. Attendees will: Be inspired—Gain insights on exciting new innovations that will help drive business growth. Hear from the new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, Doug Herrington, as well as legendary tennis champion, successful entrepreneur, and small business advocate Venus Williams, who will share her perspective on launching a brand and building a successful business. Learn—Chart learning paths and join sessions that will have a direct impact on business. Whether just starting out or a seasoned seller, attendees will build personal agendas based on experience and interests. Connect—Expand networks and knowledge. Meet and learn from fellow sellers, Amazon employees, and service providers. Engage—Get product questions answered by Amazon experts during a breakout session Q&A or a one-on-one appointment in the Seller Café. Register today Secure your spot at Accelerate 2022—REGISTER TODAY. Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/ and follow us on social media @sell_on_amazon to stay connected on conference updates. 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/20220720005334/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon's annual seller conference to take place in Seattle and virtually September 14-15, 2022</em></p><p><em>Accelerate 2022 will feature headline speakers Doug Herrington and Venus Williams</em></p><p><em>The conference will offer a personalized event experience designed to help accelerate the selling journey</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 20, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that registration has opened for its annual seller conference, Amazon Accelerate. Accelerate 2022 promises Amazon's largest seller announcements of the year, a fireside chat with Doug Herrington, Amazon's new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, and special guest speaker Venus Williams, legendary tennis champion, successful entrepreneur, and small business advocate. Amazon's third annual conference will be hosted at the Seattle Convention Center on September 14 and 15, 2022, and for the first time, the event will offer in-person and virtual attendance options.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220720005334/en/</p><p>"We're excited to bring our community of selling partners together at Amazon Accelerate 2022 to hear inspiring insights from dynamic guest speakers, and have the opportunity to learn, connect, and engage with other sellers and as Amazonians," said Dharmesh Mehta, vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Services. "Accelerate gives us an opportunity to connect with sellers, accelerate their journey, and celebrate the best partnership in the history of retail."</p><p>Attendees will hear directly from Amazon senior leaders about new products, tools, and resources, and learn from hundreds of Amazon subject-matter experts in deep dive breakout sessions with live Q&amp;As that will help sellers accelerate their businesses. Sellers will be able to connect directly with each other, and learn from one another's successes and challenges as part of a thriving worldwide selling community. Attendees can personalize their event experience with a customized agenda tailored to their business.</p><p>"Now in its third year, Accelerate has become one of our most anticipated Amazon conferences, where sellers can expect to hear major announcements, participate in deep dive breakout sessions hosted by Amazon experts, and connect with other sellers," said Claire O'Donnell, director of Selling Partner Empowerment, Community, and Trust. "We are excited to offer several new activities for thousands of in-person and virtual attendees, including personalized event experiences, inspiring guest speakers, live support, networking opportunities, and access to solution providers."</p><p>What's in store for sellers at Amazon Accelerate 2022?</p><p>This year's conference will offer even more content, education, and community-building opportunities for in-person and virtual participants to accelerate their selling journeys. Attendees will:</p><ul><li>Be inspired—Gain insights on exciting new innovations that will help drive business growth. Hear from the new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, Doug Herrington, as well as legendary tennis champion, successful entrepreneur, and small business advocate Venus Williams, who will share her perspective on launching a brand and building a successful business.</li><li>Learn—Chart learning paths and join sessions that will have a direct impact on business. Whether just starting out or a seasoned seller, attendees will build personal agendas based on experience and interests.</li><li>Connect—Expand networks and knowledge. Meet and learn from fellow sellers, Amazon employees, and service providers.</li><li>Engage—Get product questions answered by Amazon experts during a breakout session Q&amp;A or a one-on-one appointment in the Seller Café.</li></ul><p>Register today</p><p>Secure your spot at Accelerate 2022—REGISTER TODAY. Learn more about Accelerate at https://www.amazonaccelerate.com/ and follow us on social media @sell_on_amazon to stay connected on conference updates.</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/20220720005334/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2022 Grant Recipients

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07/19/2022 09:00:00

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07/19/2022

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The Amazon Literary Partnership announced more than $1 million in funding to 74 nonprofits nationwide Amazon Literary Partnership is committed to supporting writing programs and nonprofit literary organizations that amplify emerging writers and diversity in storytelling SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 19, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Today, the Amazon Literary Partnership announced more than $1 million in grant funding to 74 literary nonprofits across the U.S. A longtime champion of the written word, Amazon Literary Partnership's funding supports groups that are working to empower diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented voices, helping writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive in 2022 and beyond. Included in this year's cohort are 10 first-time grant recipient organizations. For the fourth time, the Amazon Literary Partnership has also awarded grants of $140,000 each to the Academy of American Poets and to the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), to be used to fund dozens of literary organizations supporting poetry groups and literary magazines. The Academy of American Poets and CLMP will announce the recipients of the Poetry Fund and Literary Magazine Fund grants at a later date. "We're extremely grateful to work with the Amazon Literary Partnership to support a diverse community of poetry organizations and publishers whose work sparks compassion and helps us imagine new ways forward," said Jennifer Benka, president and executive director of the Academy of American Poets. "CLMP is extremely grateful to the Amazon Literary Partnership for providing support to literary magazines, which, like all publishers, continue to face the ongoing challenges of supply chain disruptions and rising production costs, but with fewer resources," said CLMP Executive Director Mary Gannon. "Essential to the publishing ecosystem, literary magazines have shown resilience and innovation, fueled by their commitment to writers and the transformative power of literature. They deserve all the support they can get." Guided by the mission of having a lasting impact on the literary community, the Amazon Literary Partnership grants have supported more than 160 organizations with $15 million in grant funding since 2009. The grants have assisted tens of thousands of writers in telling their stories, amplifying their work, and finding their audiences. "It's an honor to support these vital institutions that ceaselessly champion writers and their work," said Al Woodworth, manager of the Amazon Literary Partnership. "At Amazon, we believe in the power of the written word to expand our thinking, advance our empathy, and change our world. We are grateful for the incredible work that these organizations do for writers and their readers, today and every day." The Amazon Literary Partnership 2022 grant recipients, including the Poetry Fund and Literary Magazine Fund recipients, represent 30 states and support more than 20 new organizations that help writers throughout the lifecycle of their publishing career—from youth writing programs and publishing opportunities to residency programs, festivals, and workshops to speaking events and award programs. Organizations like the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Empowering Latino Futures, Hurston/Wright Foundation, Lambda Literary, and Torch Literary Arts are explicitly focused on supporting underrepresented, underserved, and marginalized literary voices. "I cannot tell you what wonderful feedback we received from the Amazon Writers cohort/participants," said Angela Flowers, executive director of Writers in the Schools (WITS) for Houston. "The work invigorated my staff members in a challenging year, and the authors who coached and led workshops were so open to mentoring these young creatives. We love this program so very much and appreciate the Amazon Literary Partnership for supporting this essential creative work." "We are thrilled to again be awarded funding for The SpeakEasy Bookmobile through the Amazon Literary Partnership and are grateful for the opportunity this award presents to expand this initiative in the year ahead," said Paul Morris, executive director of House of SpeakEasy. "For the last four years, this grant has provided critical support for our bookmobile operations, allowing us to give away new books regularly in book deserts throughout the five boroughs of New York and in the 18 cities we visited in 2019. During the height of the pandemic, increased funding from Amazon Literary Partnership helped us put free books, book bags, and school supplies into the hands of students and families hardest hit by COVID-19." For more than a decade, the Amazon Literary Partnership has been the sole funder of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 program. "We are so grateful for the generous support of the Amazon Literary Partnership, which allows us to celebrate five authors each year whose debut titles provide a first look at their exceptional talent as fiction writers," said Ruth Dickey, executive director at the National Book Foundation. "It's a joy to welcome the 5 Under 35 authors into the National Book Foundation family, champion their debuts, and connect readers everywhere with these wonderful new voices." "We are very thankful for the support received from the Amazon Literacy Partnership, as it represents a big step for our organization toward uplifting Latino author voices in literature," said Kirk Whisler, president of Empowering Latino Futures. "For a long time, we lacked the resources to support in more meaningful ways our community of Latino authors, but now they are thankful for finally seeing their books displayed and being promoted in a directory that represents them." 2022 Amazon Literary Partnership grants (*denotes new recipients) 826 New Orleans* (LA) 826 Valencia (CA) 826DC (DC) 826NYC (NY) Academy of American Poets (NY) Archipelago Books (NY) Art Omi (NY) Arte Publico Press* (TX) Asian American Writers' Workshop (NY) ASJA, American Society of Journalists and Authors (NY) Aspen Words (CO) Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) (MD) Brooklyn Book Festival (NY) Center for the Art of Translation (CA) Centrum (WA) CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth*(MD) Chicago Humanities Festival (IL) City of Asylum (PA) CityLit Project (MD) Clarion West (WA) Coffee House Press (MN) Community of Literary Magazine and Presses (CLMP) (NY) Community-Word Project (NY) Creative Writing Program, University of Washington (WA) Deep Vellum (TX) Empowering Latino Futures (CA) Georgia Writers Association* (GA) Girls Write Now (NY) Graywolf Press (MN) Hedgebrook (WA) Heyday (CA) Highlights Foundation, Inc.* (PA) House of SpeakEasy Foundation (NY) Hub City Press (SC) Hugo House (WA) Humanities Washington (WA) Hurston/Wright Foundation (DC) Indiana Writers Center (IN) Kundiman (NY) Lambda Literary (NY) Lighthouse Writers Workshop (CO) Literary Freedom Project* (NY) LitNet (NY) The Loft Literary Center (MN) MacDowell (NY) Milkweed Editions (MN) Narrative 4 (N4) (NY) National Book Foundation (NY) National Novel Writing Month (CA) PEN American (NY) Poets & Writers, Inc. (NY) Red Hen Press* (CA) Restless Books (NY) Roots. Wounds. Words (NY) Seattle Arts & Lectures (WA) Seattle City of Literature (WA) Seattle Escribe* (WA) Shout Mouse Press (DC) The Cabin (ID) The Center for Black Literature (NY) The Center for Fiction (NY) The Moth (NY) The Telling Room (ME) Torch Literary Arts* (TX) Torrey House Press (UT) Town Hall Seattle (WA) Transit Books (CA) Turtle Point Press (NY) Ucross Foundation (WY) Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA)* (FL) Words Without Borders (NY) WriteGirl (CA) Writers in the Schools (WITS) for Houston (TX) Yaddo (NY) To learn more about the Amazon Literary Partnership and Amazon in the Community, visit www.amazonliterarypartnership.com

<p><em>The Amazon Literary Partnership announced more than $1 million in funding </em><em>to 74 nonprofits nationwide</em></p><p><em>Amazon Literary Partnership is committed to supporting writing programs and nonprofit literary organizations that amplify emerging writers and diversity in storytelling</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 19, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Today, the Amazon Literary Partnership announced more than $1 million in grant funding to 74 literary nonprofits across the U.S. A longtime champion of the written word, Amazon Literary Partnership's funding supports groups that are working to empower diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented voices, helping writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive in 2022 and beyond. Included in this year's cohort are 10 first-time grant recipient organizations.</p><p>For the fourth time, the Amazon Literary Partnership has also awarded grants of $140,000 each to the Academy of American Poets and to the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), to be used to fund dozens of literary organizations supporting poetry groups and literary magazines. The Academy of American Poets and CLMP will announce the recipients of the Poetry Fund and Literary Magazine Fund grants at a later date.</p><p>"We're extremely grateful to work with the Amazon Literary Partnership to support a diverse community of poetry organizations and publishers whose work sparks compassion and helps us imagine new ways forward," said Jennifer Benka, president and executive director of the Academy of American Poets.</p><p>"CLMP is extremely grateful to the Amazon Literary Partnership for providing support to literary magazines, which, like all publishers, continue to face the ongoing challenges of supply chain disruptions and rising production costs, but with fewer resources," said CLMP Executive Director Mary Gannon. "Essential to the publishing ecosystem, literary magazines have shown resilience and innovation, fueled by their commitment to writers and the transformative power of literature. They deserve all the support they can get."</p><p>Guided by the mission of having a lasting impact on the literary community, the Amazon Literary Partnership grants have supported more than 160 organizations with $15 million in grant funding since 2009. The grants have assisted tens of thousands of writers in telling their stories, amplifying their work, and finding their audiences.</p><p>"It's an honor to support these vital institutions that ceaselessly champion writers and their work," said Al Woodworth, manager of the Amazon Literary Partnership. "At Amazon, we believe in the power of the written word to expand our thinking, advance our empathy, and change our world. We are grateful for the incredible work that these organizations do for writers and their readers, today and every day."</p><p>The Amazon Literary Partnership 2022 grant recipients, including the Poetry Fund and Literary Magazine Fund recipients, represent 30 states and support more than 20 new organizations that help writers throughout the lifecycle of their publishing career—from youth writing programs and publishing opportunities to residency programs, festivals, and workshops to speaking events and award programs. Organizations like the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Empowering Latino Futures, Hurston/Wright Foundation, Lambda Literary, and Torch Literary Arts are explicitly focused on supporting underrepresented, underserved, and marginalized literary voices.</p><p>"I cannot tell you what wonderful feedback we received from the Amazon Writers cohort/participants," said Angela Flowers, executive director of Writers in the Schools (WITS) for Houston. "The work invigorated my staff members in a challenging year, and the authors who coached and led workshops were so open to mentoring these young creatives. We love this program so very much and appreciate the Amazon Literary Partnership for supporting this essential creative work."</p><p>"We are thrilled to again be awarded funding for The SpeakEasy Bookmobile through the Amazon Literary Partnership and are grateful for the opportunity this award presents to expand this initiative in the year ahead," said Paul Morris, executive director of House of SpeakEasy. "For the last four years, this grant has provided critical support for our bookmobile operations, allowing us to give away new books regularly in book deserts throughout the five boroughs of New York and in the 18 cities we visited in 2019. During the height of the pandemic, increased funding from Amazon Literary Partnership helped us put free books, book bags, and school supplies into the hands of students and families hardest hit by COVID-19."</p><p>For more than a decade, the Amazon Literary Partnership has been the sole funder of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 program. "We are so grateful for the generous support of the Amazon Literary Partnership, which allows us to celebrate five authors each year whose debut titles provide a first look at their exceptional talent as fiction writers," said Ruth Dickey, executive director at the National Book Foundation. "It's a joy to welcome the 5 Under 35 authors into the National Book Foundation family, champion their debuts, and connect readers everywhere with these wonderful new voices."</p><p>"We are very thankful for the support received from the Amazon Literacy Partnership, as it represents a big step for our organization toward uplifting Latino author voices in literature," said Kirk Whisler, president of Empowering Latino Futures. "For a long time, we lacked the resources to support in more meaningful ways our community of Latino authors, but now they are thankful for finally seeing their books displayed and being promoted in a directory that represents them."</p><p>2022 Amazon Literary Partnership grants (*denotes new recipients)</p><ul><li>826 New Orleans* (LA)</li><li>826 Valencia (CA)</li><li>826DC (DC)</li><li>826NYC (NY)</li><li>Academy of American Poets (NY)</li><li>Archipelago Books (NY)</li><li>Art Omi (NY)</li><li>Arte Publico Press* (TX)</li><li>Asian American Writers' Workshop (NY)</li><li>ASJA, American Society of Journalists and Authors (NY)</li><li>Aspen Words (CO)</li><li>Association of Writers &amp; Writing Programs (AWP) (MD)</li><li>Brooklyn Book Festival (NY)</li><li>Center for the Art of Translation (CA)</li><li>Centrum (WA)</li><li>CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth*(MD)</li><li>Chicago Humanities Festival (IL)</li><li>City of Asylum (PA)</li><li>CityLit Project (MD)</li><li>Clarion West (WA)</li><li>Coffee House Press (MN)</li><li>Community of Literary Magazine and Presses (CLMP) (NY)</li><li>Community-Word Project (NY)</li><li>Creative Writing Program, University of Washington (WA)</li><li>Deep Vellum (TX)</li><li>Empowering Latino Futures (CA)</li><li>Georgia Writers Association* (GA)</li><li>Girls Write Now (NY)</li><li>Graywolf Press (MN)</li><li>Hedgebrook (WA)</li><li>Heyday (CA)</li><li>Highlights Foundation, Inc.* (PA)</li><li>House of SpeakEasy Foundation (NY)</li><li>Hub City Press (SC)</li><li>Hugo House (WA)</li><li>Humanities Washington (WA)</li><li>Hurston/Wright Foundation (DC)</li><li>Indiana Writers Center (IN)</li><li>Kundiman (NY)</li><li>Lambda Literary (NY)</li><li>Lighthouse Writers Workshop (CO)</li><li>Literary Freedom Project* (NY)</li><li>LitNet (NY)</li><li>The Loft Literary Center (MN)</li><li>MacDowell (NY)</li><li>Milkweed Editions (MN)</li><li>Narrative 4 (N4) (NY)</li><li>National Book Foundation (NY)</li><li>National Novel Writing Month (CA)</li><li>PEN American (NY)</li><li>Poets &amp; Writers, Inc. (NY)</li><li>Red Hen Press* (CA)</li><li>Restless Books (NY)</li><li>Roots. Wounds. Words (NY)</li><li>Seattle Arts &amp; Lectures (WA)</li><li>Seattle City of Literature (WA)</li><li>Seattle Escribe* (WA)</li><li>Shout Mouse Press (DC)</li><li>The Cabin (ID)</li><li>The Center for Black Literature (NY)</li><li>The Center for Fiction (NY)</li><li>The Moth (NY)</li><li>The Telling Room (ME)</li><li>Torch Literary Arts* (TX)</li><li>Torrey House Press (UT)</li><li>Town Hall Seattle (WA)</li><li>Transit Books (CA)</li><li>Turtle Point Press (NY)</li><li>Ucross Foundation (WY)</li><li>Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA)* (FL)</li><li>Words Without Borders (NY)</li><li>WriteGirl (CA)</li><li>Writers in the Schools (WITS) for Houston (TX)</li><li>Yaddo (NY)</li></ul><p>To learn more about the Amazon Literary Partnership and Amazon in the Community, visit www.amazonliterarypartnership.com</p>

Amazon Targets Fake Review Fraudsters on Social Media

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07/19/2022 00:00:00

Amazon Targets Fake Review Fraudsters on Social Media

07/19/2022

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Amazon files lawsuit against fake review brokers across more than 10,000 groups on Facebook SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 19, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today filed legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that attempt to orchestrate fake reviews on Amazon in exchange for money or free products. These groups are set up to recruit individuals willing to post incentivized and misleading reviews on Amazon's stores in the U.S., the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan. Amazon will use information discovered in this legal action to identify bad actors and remove fake reviews commissioned by these fraudsters that haven't already been detected by Amazon's advanced technology, expert investigators, and continuous monitoring. "Our teams stop millions of suspicious reviews before they're ever seen by customers, and this lawsuit goes a step further to uncover perpetrators operating on social media," said Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon's vice president of Selling Partner Services. "Proactive legal action targeting bad actors is one of many ways we protect customers by holding bad actors accountable." The fraudsters behind such groups solicit fake reviews for hundreds of products available for sale on Amazon, including car stereos and camera tripods. One of the groups identified in the lawsuit is "Amazon Product Review," which had more than 43,000 members until Meta took down the group earlier this year. Amazon's investigations revealed that the group's administrators attempted to hide their activity and evade Facebook's detection, in part by obfuscating letters from problematic phrases. Amazon strictly prohibits fake reviews and has more than 12,000 employees around the world dedicated to protecting its stores from fraud and abuse, including fake reviews. A dedicated team investigates fake review schemes on social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, and regularly reports the abusive groups to those companies.Since 2020, Amazon has reported more than 10,000 fake review groups to Meta. Of these, Meta has taken down more than half of the groups for policy violations and continues to investigate others. Amazon was a pioneer of product reviews, having introduced them in 1995 to help customers make more informed shopping decisions. The company aims to ensure every review that appears in its stores is trustworthy and reflects an actual customer experience. Amazon's expert investigators use industry-leading tools to detect and block fake reviews. As a result, Amazon proactively stopped more than 200 million suspected fake reviews in 2020 alone. Today's legal action is the latest step by Amazon aimed at stopping fraudsters who attempt to post fake reviews in Amazon's stores. In the past year, legal action from Amazon has shut down multiple major review brokers targeting customers in the U.S., the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. However, the nefarious business of brokering fake reviews remains an industry-wide problem, and civil litigation is only one step. Permanently ridding fake reviews across retail, travel, and other sectors will require greater public-private partnership, including collaboration between the affected companies, social media sites, and law enforcement, all focused on a goal of greater consumer protection. Amazon remains eager to continue to partner with all the relevant stakeholders to achieve that mutual goal. 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/20220718005747/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon files lawsuit against fake review brokers across more than 10,000 groups on Facebook</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 19, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today filed legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that attempt to orchestrate fake reviews on Amazon in exchange for money or free products. These groups are set up to recruit individuals willing to post incentivized and misleading reviews on Amazon's stores in the U.S., the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan.</p><p>Amazon will use information discovered in this legal action to identify bad actors and remove fake reviews commissioned by these fraudsters that haven't already been detected by Amazon's advanced technology, expert investigators, and continuous monitoring.</p><p>"Our teams stop millions of suspicious reviews before they're ever seen by customers, and this lawsuit goes a step further to uncover perpetrators operating on social media," said Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon's vice president of Selling Partner Services. "Proactive legal action targeting bad actors is one of many ways we protect customers by holding bad actors accountable."</p><p>The fraudsters behind such groups solicit fake reviews for hundreds of products available for sale on Amazon, including car stereos and camera tripods. One of the groups identified in the lawsuit is "Amazon Product Review," which had more than 43,000 members until Meta took down the group earlier this year. Amazon's investigations revealed that the group's administrators attempted to hide their activity and evade Facebook's detection, in part by obfuscating letters from problematic phrases.</p><p>Amazon strictly prohibits fake reviews and has more than 12,000 employees around the world dedicated to protecting its stores from fraud and abuse, including fake reviews. A dedicated team investigates fake review schemes on social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, and regularly reports the abusive groups to those companies.Since 2020, Amazon has reported more than 10,000 fake review groups to Meta. Of these, Meta has taken down more than half of the groups for policy violations and continues to investigate others.</p><p>Amazon was a pioneer of product reviews, having introduced them in 1995 to help customers make more informed shopping decisions. The company aims to ensure every review that appears in its stores is trustworthy and reflects an actual customer experience. Amazon's expert investigators use industry-leading tools to detect and block fake reviews. As a result, Amazon proactively stopped more than 200 million suspected fake reviews in 2020 alone.</p><p>Today's legal action is the latest step by Amazon aimed at stopping fraudsters who attempt to post fake reviews in Amazon's stores. In the past year, legal action from Amazon has shut down multiple major review brokers targeting customers in the U.S., the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.</p><p>However, the nefarious business of brokering fake reviews remains an industry-wide problem, and civil litigation is only one step. Permanently ridding fake reviews across retail, travel, and other sectors will require greater public-private partnership, including collaboration between the affected companies, social media sites, and law enforcement, all focused on a goal of greater consumer protection. Amazon remains eager to continue to partner with all the relevant stakeholders to achieve that mutual goal.</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/20220718005747/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon.com to Webcast Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call

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Amazon.com to Webcast Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 14, 2022-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its second quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, July 28, 2022, 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/20220714005812/en/ Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 14, 2022-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its second quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, July 28, 2022, 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/20220714005812/en/</p><p>Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com</p>

Prime Day 2022 was the Biggest Prime Day Event Ever

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Prime Day 2022 was the Biggest Prime Day Event Ever

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Amazon Prime members worldwide saved over $1.7 billion—more than any other Prime Day event This year was the biggest Prime Day event for Amazon's selling partners, most of whom are small and medium-sized businesses, whose sales growth in Amazon's store outpaced Amazon's retail business Amazon Devices had a record-breaking Prime Day, selling more devices than any other Prime Day event SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 14, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Prime members purchased more than 300 million items worldwide during Prime Day 2022, making this year's event the biggest Prime Day event in Amazon's history. And, more shopping means more savings—Prime members saved over $1.7 billion, more than any previous Prime Day event. This year was the biggest Prime Day event for Amazon's selling partners, most of whom are small and medium-sized businesses, whose sales growth in Amazon's store outpaced Amazon's retail business. Customers spent over $3 billion on more than 100 million small business items included in the Support Small Businesses to Win Big sweepstakes. "Prime Day is a celebration of our Prime members, who look forward to this event every year, and we're thrilled to have delivered incredible savings to them once again," said Doug Herrington, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Stores. "This special event is made possible because of the support of our employees, vendors, and sellers, and I want to give a big thank you to all of them for making this a Prime Day to remember." "We were ecstatic to partner with Amazon for this year's Prime Day," said Rob Jackson, Ujamaa Lighting, a high-quality energy-efficient lightbulb company based in Austin, Texas. "Being a part of Amazon has provided Ujamaa with exposure to so many new customers beyond those in our local community—which has been invaluable to this small father/son business. We applaud Amazon for their efforts in promoting small businesses and look forward to working with them more in the future." Worldwide and U.S. shopping trends around Amazon's Prime Day event include: Worldwide Prime Day Trends Shopping Prime members worldwide purchased more than 100,000 items per minute during this year's Prime Day event. Some of the best-selling categories worldwide this Prime Day were Amazon Devices, Consumer Electronics, and Home. Prime members worldwide did the most shopping from 9 a.m.—10 a.m. PT on Tuesday, July 12 during the entire Prime Day event. Some of the best-selling items worldwide this Prime Day were from premium beauty brands, including LANEIGE and NuFACE; Apple Watch Series 7; diapers and wipes from Pampers and The Honest Company; kitchen essentials from Rachael Ray, Le Creuset, and Hamilton Beach; VTech and LeapFrog toys; Vital Proteins Collagen Whey; Levi's apparel and accessories; Chemical Guys car wash products; and pet products from NUTRO, TEMPTATIONS, and GREENIES. Since Prime Day shopping began on July 12, select Fire TV, Echo, and Blink devices were some of the best-selling items on Amazon worldwide. Small Businesses Customers supported small businesses in the three-week lead-up to Prime Day, generating more than $3 billion in sales for small businesses included in the Support Small Businesses to Win Big sweepstakes. Customers purchased more than 100 million small business items in the three weeks leading up to Prime Day. U.S. Prime Day Trends Shopping Prime members in the U.S. purchased more than 60,000 items per minute during this year's Prime Day event. Prime members in the U.S. did the most shopping from 8 p.m.—9 p.m. PT on Wednesday, July 13 during the U.S. Prime Day event. Some of the best-selling categories in the U.S. this Prime Day were Consumer Electronics, Household Essentials, and Home. Some of the best-selling items in the U.S. this Prime Day were premium beauty brands, including LANEIGE and NuFACE; Apple Watch Series 7; Crest Teeth Whitening and Oral-B electric toothbrushes; kids' and baby clothing from Simple Joys by Carter's; Bentgo Kids lunch boxes; Levi's apparel and accessories; Shark vacuums, air purifiers, and steam mops; Beats by Dre headphones and earbuds; Coleman, Marmot, and ExOfficio outdoor gear and apparel; and construction toys including LEGO sets, Magna-Tiles, and PLAYMOBIL. Customers in the U.S. used Prime Day to celebrate summer, purchasing more than 1.2 million pairs of sunglasses and more than 1 million swimsuits. Since Prime Day shopping began on July 12, select Fire TV, Echo, and Blink devices were some of the best-selling items on Amazon in the U.S. Small Businesses During the three weeks leading up to Prime Day, customers shopped from small businesses included in the Support Small Businesses to Win Big sweepstakes across all 50 U.S. states, with those in Delaware, New York, and Wyoming seeing the biggest sales per capita. Amazon Live Amazon Live Prime Day streams had more than 100 million views. Thousands of creators streamed throughout Prime Day 2022. Every Day Made Better With Prime Prime offers the best of shopping, savings, and entertainment to more than 200 million paid members around the world. In the U.S., that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and series with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs, thousands of stations and playlists, and thousands of podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, more than 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, and incredible savings with Prime Day. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. Prime members enjoy ultrafast grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns, free Same-Day Delivery on hundreds of thousands of items in over 90 major metropolitan areas, and free One-Day Delivery on more than 20 million items coast to coast. Prime members also receive fast, free delivery on prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy and prescription savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S. To join Prime or start a 30-day free trial, visit amazon.com/prime. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. 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/20220714005486/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon Prime members worldwide saved over $1.7 billion—more than any other Prime Day event</em></p><p><em>This year was the biggest Prime Day event for Amazon's selling partners, most of whom are small and medium-sized businesses, whose sales growth in Amazon's store outpaced Amazon's retail business</em></p><p><em>Amazon Devices had a record-breaking Prime Day, selling more devices than any other Prime Day event</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 14, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Prime members purchased more than 300 million items worldwide during Prime Day 2022, making this year's event the biggest Prime Day event in Amazon's history. And, more shopping means more savings—Prime members saved over $1.7 billion, more than any previous Prime Day event.</p><p>This year was the biggest Prime Day event for Amazon's selling partners, most of whom are small and medium-sized businesses, whose sales growth in Amazon's store outpaced Amazon's retail business. Customers spent over $3 billion on more than 100 million small business items included in the Support Small Businesses to Win Big sweepstakes.</p><p>"Prime Day is a celebration of our Prime members, who look forward to this event every year, and we're thrilled to have delivered incredible savings to them once again," said Doug Herrington, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Stores. "This special event is made possible because of the support of our employees, vendors, and sellers, and I want to give a big thank you to all of them for making this a Prime Day to remember."</p><p>"We were ecstatic to partner with Amazon for this year's Prime Day," said Rob Jackson, Ujamaa Lighting, a high-quality energy-efficient lightbulb company based in Austin, Texas. "Being a part of Amazon has provided Ujamaa with exposure to so many new customers beyond those in our local community—which has been invaluable to this small father/son business. We applaud Amazon for their efforts in promoting small businesses and look forward to working with them more in the future."</p><p>Worldwide and U.S. shopping trends around Amazon's Prime Day event include:</p><p>Worldwide Prime Day Trends</p><p><em>Shopping</em></p><ul><li>Prime members worldwide purchased more than 100,000 items per minute during this year's Prime Day event.</li><li>Some of the best-selling categories worldwide this Prime Day were Amazon Devices, Consumer Electronics, and Home.</li><li>Prime members worldwide did the most shopping from 9 a.m.—10 a.m. PT on Tuesday, July 12 during the entire Prime Day event.</li><li>Some of the best-selling items worldwide this Prime Day were from premium beauty brands, including LANEIGE and NuFACE; Apple Watch Series 7; diapers and wipes from Pampers and The Honest Company; kitchen essentials from Rachael Ray, Le Creuset, and Hamilton Beach; VTech and LeapFrog toys; Vital Proteins Collagen Whey; Levi's apparel and accessories; Chemical Guys car wash products; and pet products from NUTRO, TEMPTATIONS, and GREENIES.</li><li>Since Prime Day shopping began on July 12, select Fire TV, Echo, and Blink devices were some of the best-selling items on Amazon worldwide.</li></ul><p><em>Small Businesses</em></p><ul><li>Customers supported small businesses in the three-week lead-up to Prime Day, generating more than $3 billion in sales for small businesses included in the Support Small Businesses to Win Big sweepstakes.</li><li>Customers purchased more than 100 million small business items in the three weeks leading up to Prime Day.</li></ul><p>U.S. Prime Day Trends</p><p><em>Shopping</em></p><ul><li>Prime members in the U.S. purchased more than 60,000 items per minute during this year's Prime Day event.</li><li>Prime members in the U.S. did the most shopping from 8 p.m.—9 p.m. PT on Wednesday, July 13 during the U.S. Prime Day event.</li><li>Some of the best-selling categories in the U.S. this Prime Day were Consumer Electronics, Household Essentials, and Home.</li><li>Some of the best-selling items in the U.S. this Prime Day were premium beauty brands, including LANEIGE and NuFACE; Apple Watch Series 7; Crest Teeth Whitening and Oral-B electric toothbrushes; kids' and baby clothing from Simple Joys by Carter's; Bentgo Kids lunch boxes; Levi's apparel and accessories; Shark vacuums, air purifiers, and steam mops; Beats by Dre headphones and earbuds; Coleman, Marmot, and ExOfficio outdoor gear and apparel; and construction toys including LEGO sets, Magna-Tiles, and PLAYMOBIL.</li><li>Customers in the U.S. used Prime Day to celebrate summer, purchasing more than 1.2 million pairs of sunglasses and more than 1 million swimsuits.</li><li>Since Prime Day shopping began on July 12, select Fire TV, Echo, and Blink devices were some of the best-selling items on Amazon in the U.S.</li></ul><p><em>Small Businesses</em></p><ul><li>During the three weeks leading up to Prime Day, customers shopped from small businesses included in the Support Small Businesses to Win Big sweepstakes across all 50 U.S. states, with those in Delaware, New York, and Wyoming seeing the biggest sales per capita.</li></ul><p><em>Amazon Live</em></p><ul><li>Amazon Live Prime Day streams had more than 100 million views.</li><li>Thousands of creators streamed throughout Prime Day 2022.</li></ul><p>Every Day Made Better With Prime</p><p>Prime offers the best of shopping, savings, and entertainment to more than 200 million paid members around the world. In the U.S., that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and series with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs, thousands of stations and playlists, and thousands of podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, more than 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, and incredible savings with Prime Day. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. Prime members enjoy ultrafast grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns, free Same-Day Delivery on hundreds of thousands of items in over 90 major metropolitan areas, and free One-Day Delivery on more than 20 million items coast to coast. Prime members also receive fast, free delivery on prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy and prescription savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S. To join Prime or start a 30-day free trial, visit amazon.com/prime.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. 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/20220714005486/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Three New Serverless Analytics Offerings

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AWS Announces General Availability of Three New Serverless Analytics Offerings

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New serverless options for Amazon EMR, Amazon MSK, and Amazon Redshift help customers analyze vast amounts of data without having to configure, scale, or manage the underlying infrastructure Informatica, NextGen Healthcare, and Huron among customers and partners using new serverless analytics options SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 12, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of three new serverless analytics offerings that make it even easier for customers to analyze vast amounts of data without having to configure, scale, or manage the underlying infrastructure. Today's announcements include new serverless offerings for Amazon EMR to enable customers to run analytics applications using open-source big data frameworks (Apache Spark and Hive) without having to manage the underlying infrastructure, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) to simplify real-time data ingestion and streaming, and Amazon Redshift to allow customers to run high-performance data warehousing and analytics workloads on petabytes of data without having to manage clusters. Along with other serverless analytics offerings from AWS such as Amazon QuickSight for business intelligence and AWS Glue for data integration, the new offerings announced today make it significantly easier and more cost-effective for customers to modernize their infrastructure and analyze vast amounts of data without worrying about capacity planning or incurring excess costs by over-provisioning for peak demand. There are no upfront commitments or additional costs to use Amazon EMR Serverless, Amazon MSK Serverless, and Amazon Redshift Serverless, and customers only pay for the precise capacity needed for their analytics workloads. "By offering the most serverless options for data analytics in the cloud—including options for data warehousing, big data processing, real-time data analysis, data integration, interactive dashboards and visualizations, and more—we are making it even easier for customers to maximize the value of their data to drive innovation, improve customer experiences, and make better decisions faster," said Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS. "With these new serverless options, customers can run even the most variable and intermittent analytics workloads and expand the use of analytics throughout their organizations without worrying about provisioning or scaling capacity—or incurring excess cost." AWS customers choose from a wide variety of purpose-built analytics services to derive maximum value from their organizations' data, including Amazon EMR for processing vast amounts of unstructured data (using open-source big data frameworks like Apache Spark and Hive), Amazon MSK for ingesting real-time data streams, and Amazon Redshift for data warehousing. While many customers appreciate the fine-grained control these services offer, a subset of customers with highly variable or intermittent workloads would prefer to have AWS manage the underlying infrastructure by automatically adding or subtracting resources based on application demand. To remove the complexity of scaling and managing infrastructure, AWS introduced the concept of serverless, event-driven computing in 2014. Many customers have since adopted serverless technologies on AWS—including Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for real-time data streaming, AWS Glue for data integration, and Amazon QuickSight for interactive dashboards and visualizations—to take advantage of benefits like automatic provisioning, on-demand scaling, and pay-for-use pricing. With the new serverless offerings for Amazon EMR, Amazon MSK, and Amazon Redshift, AWS offers the broadest set of serverless analytics capabilities in the cloud, making it even easier for customers to lower costs, expand analytics to more users, and maximize their data's value. Serverless big data analytics with Amazon EMR Serverless: Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon EMR to run open-source frameworks like Apache Spark and Hive for large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications. Amazon EMR supports the most big data frameworks in the cloud, enabling customers to run big data applications and petabyte-scale data analytics faster, and at less than half the cost of on-premises solutions. With Amazon EMR Serverless, customers can simply specify the framework they want to run, and Amazon EMR Serverless automatically provisions, manages, and scales the necessary compute and memory resources as workload demands change. Customers can get started with Amazon EMR Serverless by simply selecting an open-source framework and submitting their jobs using the Amazon EMR application programming interface (API), the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or an integrated development environment (IDE) with Amazon EMR Studio. Amazon EMR Serverless is generally available today to customers running Amazon EMR in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. To get started with Amazon EMR Serverless, visit aws.amazon.com/emr/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 Internet of Things (IoT) devices, website clickstreams, database logs, and many other sources where dynamic data is continuously generated. With this new serverless option, Amazon MSK Serverless now provisions, manages, and scales clusters automatically, so customers no longer have to worry about capacity planning or unpredictable streaming workloads. To take advantage of 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. Amazon MSK Serverless is generally available today to customers running Amazon MSK in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. To get started with Amazon MSK Serverless, visit aws.amazon.com/msk/features/msk-serverless. Serverless data warehouse with Amazon Redshift Serverless: 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 than other enterprise cloud data warehouses, providing customers with faster data analytics at lower cost. Amazon Redshift Serverless now makes it even easier to get insights from data quickly without the need to manage data warehouse infrastructure. Customers currently managing their own Amazon Redshift clusters can choose to move them to the new serverless option using the Amazon Redshift console or API without making changes to their applications. Amazon Redshift Serverless is generally available today to customers running Amazon Redshift in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and Europe (Stockholm), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. To get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless, visit aws.amazon.com/redshift/redshift-serverless. Amobee provides advertising solutions that help customers unify audiences to optimize results across all TV, connected TV, and digital media to drive customers' growth. "While we like the flexibility that Amazon EMR provides to scale resources up or down automatically based on workload requirements, some of our infrequent but heavy jobs were disrupting existing clusters, necessitating us to create and manage additional clusters for these jobs," said David Ortiz, senior manager of Engineering at Amobee. "Amazon EMR Serverless allowed us to right-size the CPU and memory resources that the jobs required without the overhead of any additional processes, helping us streamline our workflows and cut costs by providing just the right amount of capacity to meet workload demands precisely when we need it." Powered by Apache Kylin, Kyligence Cloud accelerates organizations' business intelligence and analytics on big data. "To help customers make critical business decisions from an extensive volume of data, our platform loads and processes a significant amount of data using Spark jobs. Doing this at scale became costly and required operational overhead," said Luke Han, co-founder and CEO at Kyligence. "We adopted Amazon EMR Serverless to help us eliminate the costs and administrative tasks of maintaining and tuning clusters. Amazon EMR Serverless has helped us reduce that complexity by taking over the time-consuming tasks of managing, tuning, and optimizing clusters for performance as workload demand changes. And because it is less expensive than our previous solution, we can pass cost savings on to our customers." Glas Data provides simplified data management for the agricultural sector. "We ingest and process data in real time using Amazon MSK to inform automated data analytics and alerts for our customers. Our workloads can be highly variable and unpredictable, with some actions generating only a few messages that require a small amount of capacity, and others creating a much larger number of messages that require significantly more capacity," said Robert Sanders, CTO and founder at Glas Data. "This workload variability makes it difficult to predict which action will be taken at what time, causing us to monitor and adjust capacity constantly to avoid unexpected capacity constraints. Amazon MSK Serverless automatically scales capacity up and down based on workload requirements, removing the system administration overhead and freeing us up to develop our solution without worrying about memory and storage constraints or incurring excess costs." NextGen Healthcare is a leading provider of innovative healthcare technology solutions on a mission to improve the lives of those who practice medicine and their patients. "Our NextGen Population Health solution provides actionable insights directly to care teams via the aggregation and transformation of multi-source data. Optimizing our systems to reduce manual interventions like setting up and managing data warehouse infrastructure is critical to our success," said Owen Zacharias, vice president of Application Delivery at NextGen Healthcare. "With Amazon Redshift Serverless, we're no longer managing complex warehouse orchestration systems. Amazon Redshift Serverless has improved workload performance, and its auto-scaling capabilities allow us to use the speed of Amazon Redshift for even our most dynamic workloads, while only paying for what we use. We're excited to migrate additional workloads to Amazon Redshift Serverless. It's a game changer." Informatica provides an end-to-end cloud data management platform that connects, manages, unifies, and governs data, empowering enterprises to modernize and advance their data strategies. "Organizations today are looking to expand data and analytics, but face challenges with data silos, cost constraints, and infrastructure management," said Rik Tamm-Daniels, GVP of Ecosystems at Informatica. "Amazon Redshift Serverless helps address these challenges by automatically provisioning and scaling resources to meet demand, making it easy to run analytics without the need to set up and manage data warehouse infrastructure or the worry of incurring excess costs by overprovisioning for peak demand. Together with our Intelligent Data Management Cloud on AWS, Amazon Redshift Serverless helps us provide Informatica customers with a serverless data and analytics foundation to power their most business-critical initiatives." The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) brings together the companies that run Britain's railway into a single team to deliver a better railway experience. "Amazon Redshift Serverless delivers high performance for our teams, and because it automatically provisions and manages the underlying data warehouse, more of our business users can quickly and easily get insights from data," said Toby Ayre, head of Data and Analytics at Rail Delivery Group. "Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically scales data warehouse capacity to handle even our most demanding and unpredictable workloads, helping us lower our costs and expand the use of analytics across our organization." Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with clients to create sound strategies, optimize operations, accelerate digital transformation, and empower businesses and their people to own their future. "We're thrilled to include Amazon Redshift Serverless as an exciting addition to our data analytics workflow. This offering seamlessly replaces several parts of our previous infrastructure, and its simplicity makes it very easy to use," said Harry Gollakota, data engineer at Huron. "Amazon Redshift Serverless drastically helps reduce data engineering latency and acts as a force multiplier in accelerating development. Implementing Amazon Redshift Serverless helped us cut through our data engineering backlog and now allows us to spend more of our time gathering insights from the data." 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 www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220711005974/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New serverless options for Amazon EMR, Amazon MSK, and Amazon Redshift help customers analyze vast amounts of data without having to configure, scale, or manage the underlying infrastructure</em></p><p><em>Informatica, NextGen Healthcare, and Huron among customers and partners using new serverless analytics options</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 12, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of three new serverless analytics offerings that make it even easier for customers to analyze vast amounts of data without having to configure, scale, or manage the underlying infrastructure. Today's announcements include new serverless offerings for Amazon EMR to enable customers to run analytics applications using open-source big data frameworks (Apache Spark and Hive) without having to manage the underlying infrastructure, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) to simplify real-time data ingestion and streaming, and Amazon Redshift to allow customers to run high-performance data warehousing and analytics workloads on petabytes of data without having to manage clusters. Along with other serverless analytics offerings from AWS such as Amazon QuickSight for business intelligence and AWS Glue for data integration, the new offerings announced today make it significantly easier and more cost-effective for customers to modernize their infrastructure and analyze vast amounts of data without worrying about capacity planning or incurring excess costs by over-provisioning for peak demand. There are no upfront commitments or additional costs to use Amazon EMR Serverless, Amazon MSK Serverless, and Amazon Redshift Serverless, and customers only pay for the precise capacity needed for their analytics workloads.</p><p>"By offering the most serverless options for data analytics in the cloud—including options for data warehousing, big data processing, real-time data analysis, data integration, interactive dashboards and visualizations, and more—we are making it even easier for customers to maximize the value of their data to drive innovation, improve customer experiences, and make better decisions faster," said Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS. "With these new serverless options, customers can run even the most variable and intermittent analytics workloads and expand the use of analytics throughout their organizations without worrying about provisioning or scaling capacity—or incurring excess cost."</p><p>AWS customers choose from a wide variety of purpose-built analytics services to derive maximum value from their organizations' data, including Amazon EMR for processing vast amounts of unstructured data (using open-source big data frameworks like Apache Spark and Hive), Amazon MSK for ingesting real-time data streams, and Amazon Redshift for data warehousing. While many customers appreciate the fine-grained control these services offer, a subset of customers with highly variable or intermittent workloads would prefer to have AWS manage the underlying infrastructure by automatically adding or subtracting resources based on application demand. To remove the complexity of scaling and managing infrastructure, AWS introduced the concept of serverless, event-driven computing in 2014. Many customers have since adopted serverless technologies on AWS—including Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for real-time data streaming, AWS Glue for data integration, and Amazon QuickSight for interactive dashboards and visualizations—to take advantage of benefits like automatic provisioning, on-demand scaling, and pay-for-use pricing. With the new serverless offerings for Amazon EMR, Amazon MSK, and Amazon Redshift, AWS offers the broadest set of serverless analytics capabilities in the cloud, making it even easier for customers to lower costs, expand analytics to more users, and maximize their data's value.</p><ul><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 and Hive for large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications. Amazon EMR supports the most big data frameworks in the cloud, enabling customers to run big data applications and petabyte-scale data analytics faster, and at less than half the cost of on-premises solutions. With Amazon EMR Serverless, customers can simply specify the framework they want to run, and Amazon EMR Serverless automatically provisions, manages, and scales the necessary compute and memory resources as workload demands change. Customers can get started with Amazon EMR Serverless by simply selecting an open-source framework and submitting their jobs using the Amazon EMR application programming interface (API), the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or an integrated development environment (IDE) with Amazon EMR Studio. Amazon EMR Serverless is generally available today to customers running Amazon EMR in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. To get started with Amazon EMR Serverless, visit aws.amazon.com/emr/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 Internet of Things (IoT) devices, website clickstreams, database logs, and many other sources where dynamic data is continuously generated. With this new serverless option, Amazon MSK Serverless now provisions, manages, and scales clusters automatically, so customers no longer have to worry about capacity planning or unpredictable streaming workloads. To take advantage of 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. Amazon MSK Serverless is generally available today to customers running Amazon MSK in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. To get started with Amazon MSK Serverless, visit aws.amazon.com/msk/features/msk-serverless.</li><li>Serverless data warehouse with Amazon Redshift Serverless: 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 than other enterprise cloud data warehouses, providing customers with faster data analytics at lower cost. Amazon Redshift Serverless now makes it even easier to get insights from data quickly without the need to manage data warehouse infrastructure. Customers currently managing their own Amazon Redshift clusters can choose to move them to the new serverless option using the Amazon Redshift console or API without making changes to their applications. Amazon Redshift Serverless is generally available today to customers running Amazon Redshift in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and Europe (Stockholm), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. To get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless, visit aws.amazon.com/redshift/redshift-serverless.</li></ul><p>Amobee provides advertising solutions that help customers unify audiences to optimize results across all TV, connected TV, and digital media to drive customers' growth. "While we like the flexibility that Amazon EMR provides to scale resources up or down automatically based on workload requirements, some of our infrequent but heavy jobs were disrupting existing clusters, necessitating us to create and manage additional clusters for these jobs," said David Ortiz, senior manager of Engineering at Amobee. "Amazon EMR Serverless allowed us to right-size the CPU and memory resources that the jobs required without the overhead of any additional processes, helping us streamline our workflows and cut costs by providing just the right amount of capacity to meet workload demands precisely when we need it."</p><p>Powered by Apache Kylin, Kyligence Cloud accelerates organizations' business intelligence and analytics on big data. "To help customers make critical business decisions from an extensive volume of data, our platform loads and processes a significant amount of data using Spark jobs. Doing this at scale became costly and required operational overhead," said Luke Han, co-founder and CEO at Kyligence. "We adopted Amazon EMR Serverless to help us eliminate the costs and administrative tasks of maintaining and tuning clusters. Amazon EMR Serverless has helped us reduce that complexity by taking over the time-consuming tasks of managing, tuning, and optimizing clusters for performance as workload demand changes. And because it is less expensive than our previous solution, we can pass cost savings on to our customers."</p><p>Glas Data provides simplified data management for the agricultural sector. "We ingest and process data in real time using Amazon MSK to inform automated data analytics and alerts for our customers. Our workloads can be highly variable and unpredictable, with some actions generating only a few messages that require a small amount of capacity, and others creating a much larger number of messages that require significantly more capacity," said Robert Sanders, CTO and founder at Glas Data. "This workload variability makes it difficult to predict which action will be taken at what time, causing us to monitor and adjust capacity constantly to avoid unexpected capacity constraints. Amazon MSK Serverless automatically scales capacity up and down based on workload requirements, removing the system administration overhead and freeing us up to develop our solution without worrying about memory and storage constraints or incurring excess costs."</p><p>NextGen Healthcare is a leading provider of innovative healthcare technology solutions on a mission to improve the lives of those who practice medicine and their patients. "Our NextGen Population Health solution provides actionable insights directly to care teams via the aggregation and transformation of multi-source data. Optimizing our systems to reduce manual interventions like setting up and managing data warehouse infrastructure is critical to our success," said Owen Zacharias, vice president of Application Delivery at NextGen Healthcare. "With Amazon Redshift Serverless, we're no longer managing complex warehouse orchestration systems. Amazon Redshift Serverless has improved workload performance, and its auto-scaling capabilities allow us to use the speed of Amazon Redshift for even our most dynamic workloads, while only paying for what we use. We're excited to migrate additional workloads to Amazon Redshift Serverless. It's a game changer."</p><p>Informatica provides an end-to-end cloud data management platform that connects, manages, unifies, and governs data, empowering enterprises to modernize and advance their data strategies. "Organizations today are looking to expand data and analytics, but face challenges with data silos, cost constraints, and infrastructure management," said Rik Tamm-Daniels, GVP of Ecosystems at Informatica. "Amazon Redshift Serverless helps address these challenges by automatically provisioning and scaling resources to meet demand, making it easy to run analytics without the need to set up and manage data warehouse infrastructure or the worry of incurring excess costs by overprovisioning for peak demand. Together with our Intelligent Data Management Cloud on AWS, Amazon Redshift Serverless helps us provide Informatica customers with a serverless data and analytics foundation to power their most business-critical initiatives."</p><p>The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) brings together the companies that run Britain's railway into a single team to deliver a better railway experience. "Amazon Redshift Serverless delivers high performance for our teams, and because it automatically provisions and manages the underlying data warehouse, more of our business users can quickly and easily get insights from data," said Toby Ayre, head of Data and Analytics at Rail Delivery Group. "Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically scales data warehouse capacity to handle even our most demanding and unpredictable workloads, helping us lower our costs and expand the use of analytics across our organization."</p><p>Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with clients to create sound strategies, optimize operations, accelerate digital transformation, and empower businesses and their people to own their future. "We're thrilled to include Amazon Redshift Serverless as an exciting addition to our data analytics workflow. This offering seamlessly replaces several parts of our previous infrastructure, and its simplicity makes it very easy to use," said Harry Gollakota, data engineer at Huron. "Amazon Redshift Serverless drastically helps reduce data engineering latency and acts as a force multiplier in accelerating development. Implementing Amazon Redshift Serverless helped us cut through our data engineering backlog and now allows us to spend more of our time gathering insights from the data."</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 www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220711005974/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 AWS Cloud WAN

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New managed service makes it faster and easier for enterprises to build, manage, and monitor a global network that seamlessly connects cloud and on-premises environments Avalara, Foundation Medicine, and Slalom among customers and partners using AWS Cloud WAN SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 12, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN, a new managed wide area network (WAN) service that connects on-premises data centers, colocation facilities, branch offices, and cloud resources to simplify operating a global network. Using a central management dashboard built into AWS Cloud WAN, customers can define their network configuration, view the health of their global network, and automate routine configuration and security tasks. With AWS Cloud WAN, enterprises can access the AWS global network to build a single, unified network for their organization to improve network health, performance, and security. To get started with AWS Cloud WAN, visit aws.amazon.com/cloud-wan. Many enterprises today run their networks across multiple environments, including on-premises data centers, colocation facilities, branch offices, and the cloud. To connect these disparate environments together, customers build and manage their own global networks, while also leveraging networking, security, and internet services from multiple third-party providers. AWS makes it easy for customers to connect cloud and on-premises environments using AWS networking services (e.g., Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Direct Connect). 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. This leads to a complex web of networks, each having different connectivity, security, monitoring, and performance management tools and requirements. As a result, networking teams face challenges configuring, securing, and managing an expanding mix of technologies required to build, scale, and operate a secure global network for their organizations. AWS Cloud WAN makes it faster and easier for customers to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network that seamlessly connects their cloud and on-premises environments. AWS Cloud WAN allows customers to connect on-premises data centers, colocation facilities, branch offices, and AWS Regions into a single, unified global network with just a few clicks in a central management dashboard—removing the need to configure and manage individual networks that use different technologies. Using the central management dashboard, networking teams can have a single view of their global network, apply policies, and automate configuration and security tasks across their entire network. For example, with just a few clicks, teams can quickly and easily apply a policy that requires network traffic from branch offices to be routed through a specific network firewall before reaching cloud resources running in an AWS Region. AWS Cloud WAN integrates with leading SD-WAN, network appliance, and independent software vendors—including Aruba, Aviatrix, Checkpoint, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Systems, Prosimo, and VMware—making it easier for customers to connect their on-premises SD-WAN devices to AWS. Enterprises can now use AWS Cloud WAN to simplify the way they build, manage, and monitor their networks using a single dashboard with minimal complexity. "Many wide area networks used by enterprises today consist of a patchwork of connections between branch offices and data centers that were optimized for applications that run on premises," said David Brown, vice president of Amazon EC2 at AWS. "As the edge of the cloud continues to be pushed outward, and more customers move their applications to AWS to become more agile, reduce complexity, and save money, they need an easier way to evolve their networks to support a modern, distributed model that allows them to reach their customers and end users globally with high performance. With AWS Cloud WAN, enterprises can simplify their operations and leave the time-consuming task of managing complex webs of networks behind." To get started, customers can build their global networks in the AWS Cloud WAN central management dashboard by first selecting the AWS Regions closest to their on-premises locations and adding their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds. After extending their existing WAN to AWS, customers can add and remove remote locations and data centers with just a few clicks in the dashboard or by using the AWS Cloud WAN application programming interface (API). AWS Cloud WAN is available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain). For more details on AWS Cloud WAN, visit aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloud-wan-a-managed-wan-service. Avalara builds cloud-based tax compliance solutions for businesses of all sizes, across industries globally, addressing needs from indirect tax calculation, returns, remittance, and document management, to business licensing, tax answers, insurance premium tax, property tax compliance, and more. "We expect AWS Cloud WAN to provide us the opportunity to transform our network by interconnecting our global AWS presence, while ensuring segmentation of business functions," said Brian Capps, senior director of network engineering at Avalara. "We expect it to simplify management, routing, and security—consolidating complex configurations to be deployed as infrastructure as code." Cisco is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. "In today's world, organizations need fast, secure, and scalable connectivity across global cloud and on-premises environments. To meet these demands, it's imperative to provide innovative networking and security solutions that are flexible and easy to use," said Chris Stori, senior vice president and general manager at Cisco Networking Experiences. "Cisco continues to invest in cloud networking by integrating the Cisco SD-WAN product portfolios with AWS Cloud WAN to securely connect multi-AWS Region workloads, increase application performance, and reduce deployment times." Foundation Medicine is a pioneer in molecular profiling for cancer, working to shape the future of clinical care and research by helping physicians make informed treatment decisions for their patients and empowering researchers to develop new medicines. "AWS Cloud WAN simplifies how Foundation Medicine connects our globally distributed labs and cloud resources," said Karl Langdon, head of cloud infrastructure at Foundation Medicine. "This streamlined system supports efficient collaboration between departments and sites, which enables us to provide doctors and researchers with the insights they need to improve patient access to precision cancer care." Slalom is a global consulting firm focused on technology and business transformation that helps organizations innovate and scale for business agility. "With AWS Cloud WAN, we immediately recognized its network segmentation capability as an accelerator that could greatly reduce the effort and complexity of network provisioning and routing automation. It did not disappoint," said Charlie Christina, platform engineering principal at Slalom. "The ease of defining the core network, segmentation, and attachment policies via a single policy document greatly simplified global network creation. With AWS Cloud WAN our estimate for a recent network transformation project for a leading genomics company that wanted a fully automated, self-servicing high performance computing (HPC) solution was accurately reduced from months to weeks, and it allowed us to focus time and energy on the network-attached HPC design." VMware is a leading innovator in enterprise software and cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. "Delivering critical networking, security, and edge compute services to employee devices located anywhere is a top priority for enterprise IT teams," said Craig Connors, vice president and general manager of VMware's SASE business. "The integration of VMware SD-WAN, a VMware SASE service, and AWS Cloud WAN, provides a networking architecture to deliver compute across the distributed edge, while providing more secure and high-quality application performance of workloads in AWS environments, regardless of user location. Through this partnership, customers can achieve seamless connectivity from users to clouds." 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/20220712005793/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New managed 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>Avalara, Foundation Medicine, and Slalom among customers and partners using AWS Cloud WAN</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 12, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN, a new managed wide area network (WAN) service that connects on-premises data centers, colocation facilities, branch offices, and cloud resources to simplify operating a global network. Using a central management dashboard built into AWS Cloud WAN, customers can define their network configuration, view the health of their global network, and automate routine configuration and security tasks. With AWS Cloud WAN, enterprises can access the AWS global network to build a single, unified network for their organization to improve network health, performance, and security. To get started with AWS Cloud WAN, visit aws.amazon.com/cloud-wan.</p><p>Many enterprises today run their networks across multiple environments, including on-premises data centers, colocation facilities, branch offices, and the cloud. To connect these disparate environments together, customers build and manage their own global networks, while also leveraging networking, security, and internet services from multiple third-party providers. AWS makes it easy for customers to connect cloud and on-premises environments using AWS networking services (e.g., Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Direct Connect). 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. This leads to a complex web of networks, each having different connectivity, security, monitoring, and performance management tools and requirements. As a result, networking teams face challenges configuring, securing, and managing an expanding mix of technologies required to build, scale, and operate a secure global network for their organizations.</p><p>AWS Cloud WAN makes it faster and easier for customers to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network that seamlessly connects their cloud and on-premises environments. AWS Cloud WAN allows customers to connect on-premises data centers, colocation facilities, branch offices, and AWS Regions into a single, unified global network with just a few clicks in a central management dashboard—removing the need to configure and manage individual networks that use different technologies. Using the central management dashboard, networking teams can have a single view of their global network, apply policies, and automate configuration and security tasks across their entire network. For example, with just a few clicks, teams can quickly and easily apply a policy that requires network traffic from branch offices to be routed through a specific network firewall before reaching cloud resources running in an AWS Region. AWS Cloud WAN integrates with leading SD-WAN, network appliance, and independent software vendors—including Aruba, Aviatrix, Checkpoint, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Systems, Prosimo, and VMware—making it easier for customers to connect their on-premises SD-WAN devices to AWS. Enterprises can now use AWS Cloud WAN to simplify the way they build, manage, and monitor their networks using a single dashboard with minimal complexity.</p><p>"Many wide area networks used by enterprises today consist of a patchwork of connections between branch offices and data centers that were optimized for applications that run on premises," said David Brown, vice president of Amazon EC2 at AWS. "As the edge of the cloud continues to be pushed outward, and more customers move their applications to AWS to become more agile, reduce complexity, and save money, they need an easier way to evolve their networks to support a modern, distributed model that allows them to reach their customers and end users globally with high performance. With AWS Cloud WAN, enterprises can simplify their operations and leave the time-consuming task of managing complex webs of networks behind."</p><p>To get started, customers can build their global networks in the AWS Cloud WAN central management dashboard by first selecting the AWS Regions closest to their on-premises locations and adding their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds. After extending their existing WAN to AWS, customers can add and remove remote locations and data centers with just a few clicks in the dashboard or by using the AWS Cloud WAN application programming interface (API). AWS Cloud WAN is available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain). For more details on AWS Cloud WAN, visit aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloud-wan-a-managed-wan-service.</p><p>Avalara builds cloud-based tax compliance solutions for businesses of all sizes, across industries globally, addressing needs from indirect tax calculation, returns, remittance, and document management, to business licensing, tax answers, insurance premium tax, property tax compliance, and more. "We expect AWS Cloud WAN to provide us the opportunity to transform our network by interconnecting our global AWS presence, while ensuring segmentation of business functions," said Brian Capps, senior director of network engineering at Avalara. "We expect it to simplify management, routing, and security—consolidating complex configurations to be deployed as infrastructure as code."</p><p>Cisco is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. "In today's world, organizations need fast, secure, and scalable connectivity across global cloud and on-premises environments. To meet these demands, it's imperative to provide innovative networking and security solutions that are flexible and easy to use," said Chris Stori, senior vice president and general manager at Cisco Networking Experiences. "Cisco continues to invest in cloud networking by integrating the Cisco SD-WAN product portfolios with AWS Cloud WAN to securely connect multi-AWS Region workloads, increase application performance, and reduce deployment times."</p><p>Foundation Medicine is a pioneer in molecular profiling for cancer, working to shape the future of clinical care and research by helping physicians make informed treatment decisions for their patients and empowering researchers to develop new medicines. "AWS Cloud WAN simplifies how Foundation Medicine connects our globally distributed labs and cloud resources," said Karl Langdon, head of cloud infrastructure at Foundation Medicine. "This streamlined system supports efficient collaboration between departments and sites, which enables us to provide doctors and researchers with the insights they need to improve patient access to precision cancer care."</p><p>Slalom is a global consulting firm focused on technology and business transformation that helps organizations innovate and scale for business agility. "With AWS Cloud WAN, we immediately recognized its network segmentation capability as an accelerator that could greatly reduce the effort and complexity of network provisioning and routing automation. It did not disappoint," said Charlie Christina, platform engineering principal at Slalom. "The ease of defining the core network, segmentation, and attachment policies via a single policy document greatly simplified global network creation. With AWS Cloud WAN our estimate for a recent network transformation project for a leading genomics company that wanted a fully automated, self-servicing high performance computing (HPC) solution was accurately reduced from months to weeks, and it allowed us to focus time and energy on the network-attached HPC design."</p><p>VMware is a leading innovator in enterprise software and cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. "Delivering critical networking, security, and edge compute services to employee devices located anywhere is a top priority for enterprise IT teams," said Craig Connors, vice president and general manager of VMware's SASE business. "The integration of VMware SD-WAN, a VMware SASE service, and AWS Cloud WAN, provides a networking architecture to deliver compute across the distributed edge, while providing more secure and high-quality application performance of workloads in AWS environments, regardless of user location. Through this partnership, customers can achieve seamless connectivity from users to clouds."</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/20220712005793/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

AWS Selected as Delta's Preferred Cloud Provider

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AWS Selected as Delta's Preferred Cloud Provider

07/13/2022

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Global airline uses AWS to deliver new digital travel services, streamline processes, enhance customer service, and provide cloud training to employees globally SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 12, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), is part of the latest acceleration in Delta Air Lines' digital business transformation with the announcement of a multi-year agreement to serve as the airline's preferred cloud provider. AWS will help Delta unlock technologies and streamline processes that will make the customer experience faster, smoother, and more secure—from the booking process to the flight experience. "Continuous innovation is at the core of Delta's commitment to its customers," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Global Services at Amazon Web Services. "Delta is using AWS's global infrastructure, proven operating expertise, and wide range of services to drive innovation in delivering superior customer service, as well as enhancing efficiency and reliability across its global network." Delta is building on AWS's broad portfolio of cloud technologies and solutions to meet unique industry and regulatory requirements, as well as the company's continuous drive for efficiency and reliability. With AWS, Delta is providing a secure infrastructure for timely data-driven insights. In addition, Delta is providing its employees with the opportunity to take part in training with the AWS Designated Virtual Trainer (DVT) program to increase cloud adoption and develop new client-facing and internal capabilities. Delta plans to scale the program across its global hubs to ensure employees around the world have access to in-person and online cloud skills training. "We're not just transforming our IT backbone—we're rallying our entire organization to use leading technology to improve our customers' travel experience in meaningful ways," said Delta's Rahul Samant, E.V.P. and Chief Information Officer. "Our work with AWS is one of many critical steps we're taking to modernize our technology platform, empower our employees with the best tools available, and give customers even more control over the way they fly." The airline is also working with AWS to modernize the core technology platforms that support its customer engagement center operations. Thanks to Amazon Connect (a fully managed, easy-to-use, omnichannel cloud contact center service), customers who call Delta's reservations and customer care specialists will have a more streamlined experience. Delta customer care specialists can respond in real time to customers with new online and text support. Delta's collaboration with Amazon extends beyond technology innovation. The airline is also Amazon's most preferred carrier, supporting Amazon's business travel needs around the globe. 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. About Delta More than 4,000 Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) flights take off every day, connecting people across more than 275 destinations on six continents with award-winning operational excellence, customer service, safety and innovation. Our people lead the way in delivering a world-class customer experience, and we're continuing to ensure the future of travel is personalized, enjoyable and stress-free. Delta is America's most awarded airline thanks to the dedication, passion and professionalism of its people, recognized by J.D. Power, Fortune's World Most Admired Companies, the Wall Street Journal, and Business Travel News, among many others. Delta has served as many as 200 million customers annually. Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta operates significant hubs and key markets in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York-JFK and LaGuardia, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Seoul-Incheon and Tokyo. Connect with Delta on Delta News Hub, delta.com, via @DeltaNewsHub on Twitter and Facebook.com/delta. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220711005660/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Global airline uses AWS to deliver new digital travel services, streamline processes, enhance customer service, and provide cloud training to employees globally</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 12, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), is part of the latest acceleration in Delta Air Lines' digital business transformation with the announcement of a multi-year agreement to serve as the airline's preferred cloud provider. AWS will help Delta unlock technologies and streamline processes that will make the customer experience faster, smoother, and more secure—from the booking process to the flight experience.</p><p>"Continuous innovation is at the core of Delta's commitment to its customers," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Global Services at Amazon Web Services. "Delta is using AWS's global infrastructure, proven operating expertise, and wide range of services to drive innovation in delivering superior customer service, as well as enhancing efficiency and reliability across its global network."</p><p>Delta is building on AWS's broad portfolio of cloud technologies and solutions to meet unique industry and regulatory requirements, as well as the company's continuous drive for efficiency and reliability. With AWS, Delta is providing a secure infrastructure for timely data-driven insights. In addition, Delta is providing its employees with the opportunity to take part in training with the AWS Designated Virtual Trainer (DVT) program to increase cloud adoption and develop new client-facing and internal capabilities. Delta plans to scale the program across its global hubs to ensure employees around the world have access to in-person and online cloud skills training.</p><p>"We're not just transforming our IT backbone—we're rallying our entire organization to use leading technology to improve our customers' travel experience in meaningful ways," said Delta's Rahul Samant, E.V.P. and Chief Information Officer. "Our work with AWS is one of many critical steps we're taking to modernize our technology platform, empower our employees with the best tools available, and give customers even more control over the way they fly."</p><p>The airline is also working with AWS to modernize the core technology platforms that support its customer engagement center operations. Thanks to Amazon Connect (a fully managed, easy-to-use, omnichannel cloud contact center service), customers who call Delta's reservations and customer care specialists will have a more streamlined experience. Delta customer care specialists can respond in real time to customers with new online and text support.</p><p>Delta's collaboration with Amazon extends beyond technology innovation. The airline is also Amazon's most preferred carrier, supporting Amazon's business travel needs around the globe.</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>About Delta</p><p>More than 4,000 Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) flights take off every day, connecting people across more than 275 destinations on six continents with award-winning operational excellence, customer service, safety and innovation. Our people lead the way in delivering a world-class customer experience, and we're continuing to ensure the future of travel is personalized, enjoyable and stress-free.</p><p>Delta is America's most awarded airline thanks to the dedication, passion and professionalism of its people, recognized by J.D. Power, Fortune's World Most Admired Companies, the Wall Street Journal, and Business Travel News, among many others.</p><p>Delta has served as many as 200 million customers annually. Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta operates significant hubs and key markets in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York-JFK and LaGuardia, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Seoul-Incheon and Tokyo.</p><p>Connect with Delta on Delta News Hub, delta.com, via @DeltaNewsHub on Twitter and Facebook.com/delta.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220711005660/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Ready, Set, Shop—Prime Day Delivers Millions of Deals Worldwide

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07/07/2022 01:01:00

Ready, Set, Shop—Prime Day Delivers Millions of Deals Worldwide

07/07/2022

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Lowest price ever for Fire TV smart TVs on Amazon will be available, starting at $49.99 Prime members can shop 50% off select top-selling items from 23andMe, boscia, Garmin, Keurig, Schwinn, and Sunday Riley, and score additional savings on must-have brands like Columbia, KORA Organics by Miranda Kerr, Momofuku, NYX, PATTERN Beauty by Tracee Ellis Ross,Ray-Ban, Sun Bum, and Vitamix This Prime Day, members can also shop early for school and college essentials from celebrities like Busy Philipps, Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, Neil Patrick Harris, Storm Reid, and Vinnie Hacker SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 7, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Prime Day is back with millions of deals worldwide for Prime members to shop exclusively. The 48-hour shopping event kicks off July 12 at 3 a.m. EDT, offering must-have deals of up to 79% off across categories, including electronics, devices, toys, beauty, fashion, and home, from top national brands and small businesses. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220706005908/en/ Prime Day 2022 (Graphic: Business Wire) This Prime Day, Amazon will offer some of the best savings for members to shop and save big, including Amazon's lowest prices ever on select Bose and Sony headphones. Prime Day will also offer customers the lowest price ever for Fire TV smart TVs on Amazon, including lightning deals for a $49.99 Insignia 32-inch Smart HD Fire TV (72% off) and a $99.99 Amazon Fire TV 50-inch 4K UHD Smart TV (79% off). With savings across every category, Prime Day is offering deals for all members this year, including on HP and Kipling for students getting ready to go back to school, Mattel and LEGO for parents shopping for toys their kids will love, and other brands for everyone in between. "Prime members deserve the best, and that's exactly what we're giving them—deals with epic savings across every category this Prime Day," said Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime. "And we're excited to offer a new Small Business Badge, making it easier for members to discover, shop, and support small business brands and artisans." Prime Day Preview: Shop Big, Save Big New deals will drop throughout Prime Day, including brands from small businesses and Amazon's Climate Pledge Friendly program. Members can shop deals of up to 79% off across categories, including Amazon devices, electronics, entertainment, beauty, fashion, and home. All Prime Day deals are available while supplies last. Here is a sneak peek of some of this year's hottest Prime Day deals: Amazon Devices: Save up to 79% off on Fire TV devices, including Amazon Fire TV 50-inch 4K UHD Smart TV ($99.99), Insignia 32-inch Smart HD Fire TV ($49.99), and Fire TV Stick Lite ($11.99); 28% on Echo Show 15 ($179.99); 30% on Kindle Oasis ($174.99) and 55% on Kindle Kids ($49.99); up to 40% on Ring devices, including Ring Alarm 2.0 five-piece kit ($119.99); and 55% on Amazon Halo View ($44.99). Beauty and Wellness: Save up to 50% on select products from boscia, Oribe, and Sunday Riley; 30% on Drybar and KORA Organics by Miranda Kerr; up to 20% on Goop, NYX, PATTERN Beauty by Tracee Ellis Ross, and Sun Bum. Additionally, save 50% on 23andMe Health + Ancestry Personal Genetic Service Kits. Electronics: Save up to 50% on select headphones from Beats, Sony, and JBL, and 30% on e-bikes, Segways, and scooters. Fashion: Save up to 40% on select styles from Levi's and baby apparel from Burt's Bees and HonestBaby; up to 30% on styles from Amazon Essentials, Champion, Ray-Ban, and Oakley; and up to 25% on select styles from Shopbop, including APL, English Factory, and Free People. Home & Kitchen: Save up to 50% on select products from Keurig; up to 45% on SharkNinja and Casper; up to 40% on iRobot Roomba; up to 40% on products from SodaStream; up to 30% on Vitamix blenders; up to 25% on Momofuku products; and 20% on Caraway cookware and bakeware. Pets: Save up to 30% on pet essentials from Amazon brands, including Amazon Basics, Kitzy, Wag, and Wonder Bound. Sports & Outdoors: Save up to 50% on Garmin wearables and navigation; 30% on NordicTrack T 6.5 S and Si Treadmills; and 25% on select Columbia Sportswear apparel, outerwear, and footwear. Toys: Save 40% on select American Girl dolls; and up to 30% on select toys from Fisher-Price and Mattel, including Barbie and Hot Wheels. Additionally, save up to 30% on select LEGO sets and Magna-Tiles, and select dolls and playsets from L.O.L. Surprise! and Rainbow High. Back to School and Off to College Prime members can get ahead of shopping for the school year this Prime Day. Savings are available up to 45% on dorm room essentials; 30% on select backpacks from Kipling, Kenneth Cole, and Travelon; 30% on school supplies from Elmer's, Sharpie, and Pilot; and 25% on selectClimate Pledge Friendly laptops, monitors, and desktops from HP, Dell, and Microsoft. Members can also shop curated lists from celebrities, including Busy Philipps, Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, Neil Patrick Harris, Storm Reid, and Vinnie Hacker, featuring their top picks for going back to school and college. Parents, kids, and teachers can shop for supplies featuring their favorite characters, by grade, and customers' most loved items at amazon.com/backtoschool. College students can get dorm room recommendations at amazon.com/offtocollege. Ways to Shop This Prime Day Prime Day makes shopping more rewarding with offerings that help members save, make easy payments, and chat live with celebrities. Members can stay up to date on Prime Day with Alexa by saying, "Alexa, when is Prime Day?" Customers who are not yet Prime members can join or start a 30-day free trial at amazon.com/primeday to participate in Prime Day. Use Amazon Prime credit cards to save: Customers with an eligible Prime membership can earn up to 20% back on select Prime Day deals and 6% back on Amazon purchases during Prime Day with the Amazon Prime Visa Card, Prime Store Card, and Amazon Prime Secured Card.Visit amazon.com/pcb for more information. Buy now, pay over time with Affirm: Prime members can get 0% APR on three, six, or 12 equal monthly payments when spending $50 or more on eligible products on Amazon upon credit approval by Affirm. For example, a $1,000 flat-screen TV might cost a customer $83.34 a month over 12 months at 0% APR. Visit amazon.com/affirm to learn more. Save on select gift card purchases: New this year,customers can enjoy up to 25% off select gift cards from brands like Amazon, Airbnb, Grubhub, Old Navy, UberEats, and more. For more details, visit amazon.com/giftcardspd22. Shop Climate Pledge Friendly products: Customers can discover and shop more-sustainable products as part of the Climate Pledge Friendly program, including deals on Logitech, Mario Badescu, Seventh Generation, and select Amazon Devices. Learn more at amazon.com/ClimatePledgeFriendly. Additionally, Prime members with an Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card, Prime Store Card, or Amazon Prime Secured Card can earn 10% back on select Climate Pledge Friendly Amazon devices purchases. Visit amazon.com/pcb for more information. Support small business: Members can save on deals from small businesses, including select retro Bluetooth speakers from Muzen, kids' waterproof digital cameras from PROGRACE, 12-piece leakproof baby food storage by WeeSprouts, and Artestia's Cast Iron Fondue Set. Shop more deals and curated collections from small businesses—including from Black-owned, woman-owned, and military family-owned at amazon.com/supportsmall. Shop with celebrities on Amazon Live: Amazon Live is bringing Prime members live chats and celebrity cameos, including from Kevin Hart, Miranda Kerr, Kandi Burruss, Kyle Richards, and Chrishell Stause. Plus, exciting deals from Citizen, Cricut, JBL, and more brands will be revealed first on Amazon Live. Creators will stream daily to talk about their favorite Prime Day deals. Viewers can easily shop the featured products and brands through a carousel that updates in real-time. To watch, visit amazon.com/live or download the Amazon Live Shopping app on Fire TV. Shop using Buy with Prime: For the first time ever, members can shop Prime Day deals on online stores beyond Amazon using Buy with Prime. Members can save on deals from select merchants including Miroir, Epic Water Filters, Live by Being, Amazin' Aces, and Bossy Cosmetics. Discover more about Buy with Prime at amazon.com/buywithprime. Prime Day Deliveries This Prime Day, millions of orders will be picked, packed, and shipped by Amazon employees and partners who work to create the best possible experience for customers. The safety and well-being of all Amazon employees and delivery partners are important. Amazon also strives to create an inclusive and diverse workplace. To improve the experience for employees, customers, and partners, Amazon continues to invest in research, development, and technology that improves safety and extends the reach and capability of people to make tasks easier. This includes the strides made in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning to enable different robotics to move millions of packages each day, while also improving the safety and the overall work experience for employees. Amazon invested $300 million in 2021 in safety projects and expanded the global workplace health and safety team to nearly 8,000 employees who each day use Amazon's innovation, technology, and data to ensure employees are kept safe. Amazon also invested more than $1 billion in safety technology in delivery vans, driver training programs, rate card increases, and continuous improvements so that drivers deliver safely and seamlessly, and with the support they need from Amazon. EveryDay Made BetterWith Prime Prime offers the best of shopping, savings, and entertainment to more than 200 million paid members around the world. In the U.S., that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and series with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs, thousands of stations and playlists, and thousands of podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, more than 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, and incredible savings with Prime Day. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. Prime members enjoy ultrafast grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns, free Same-Day Delivery on hundreds of thousands of items in over 90 major metropolitan areas, and free One-Day Delivery on more than 20 million items coast to coast. Prime members also receive fast, free delivery on prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy and prescription savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S. To join Prime or start a 30-day free trial, visit amazon.com/prime. About Amazon Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. 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/20220706005908/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Lowest price ever for Fire TV smart TVs on Amazon will be available, starting at $49.99</em></p><p><em>Prime members can shop 50% off select top-selling items from</em> <em>23andMe, boscia, Garmin, Keurig, Schwinn, and Sunday Riley, </em><em>and score additional savings on </em><em>must-have brands like Columbia, KORA Organics by Miranda Kerr, </em><em>Momofuku, NYX, </em><em>PATTERN Beauty by Tracee Ellis Ross,</em><em>Ray-Ban, Sun Bum, </em><em>and Vitamix</em></p><p><em>This Prime Day, members can also shop early for school and college essentials from celebrities like Busy Philipps, Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, Neil Patrick Harris, Storm Reid, and Vinnie Hacker</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 7, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Prime Day is back with millions of deals worldwide for Prime members to shop exclusively. The 48-hour shopping event kicks off July 12 at 3 a.m. EDT, offering must-have deals of up to 79% off across categories, including electronics, devices, toys, beauty, fashion, and home, from top national brands and small businesses.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220706005908/en/</p><div><p>Prime Day 2022 (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>This Prime Day, Amazon will offer some of the best savings for members to shop and save big, including Amazon's lowest prices ever on select Bose and Sony headphones. Prime Day will also offer customers the lowest price ever for Fire TV smart TVs on Amazon, including lightning deals for a $49.99 Insignia 32-inch Smart HD Fire TV (72% off) and a $99.99 Amazon Fire TV 50-inch 4K UHD Smart TV (79% off).</p><p>With savings across every category, Prime Day is offering deals for all members this year, including on HP and Kipling for students getting ready to go back to school, Mattel and LEGO for parents shopping for toys their kids will love, and other brands for everyone in between.</p><p>"Prime members deserve the best, and that's exactly what we're giving them—deals with epic savings across every category this Prime Day," said Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime. "And we're excited to offer a new Small Business Badge, making it easier for members to discover, shop, and support small business brands and artisans."</p><p>Prime Day Preview: Shop Big, Save Big</p><p>New deals will drop throughout Prime Day, including brands from small businesses and Amazon's Climate Pledge Friendly program. Members can shop deals of up to 79% off across categories, including Amazon devices, electronics, entertainment, beauty, fashion, and home. All Prime Day deals are available while supplies last.</p><p>Here is a sneak peek of some of this year's hottest Prime Day deals:</p><ul><li>Amazon Devices: Save up to 79% off on Fire TV devices, including Amazon Fire TV 50-inch 4K UHD Smart TV ($99.99), Insignia 32-inch Smart HD Fire TV ($49.99), and Fire TV Stick Lite ($11.99); 28% on Echo Show 15 ($179.99); 30% on Kindle Oasis ($174.99) and 55% on Kindle Kids ($49.99); up to 40% on Ring devices, including Ring Alarm 2.0 five-piece kit ($119.99); and 55% on Amazon Halo View ($44.99).</li><li>Beauty and Wellness: Save up to 50% on select products from boscia, Oribe, and Sunday Riley; 30% on Drybar and KORA Organics by Miranda Kerr; up to 20% on Goop, NYX, PATTERN Beauty by Tracee Ellis Ross, and Sun Bum. Additionally, save 50% on 23andMe Health + Ancestry Personal Genetic Service Kits.</li><li>Electronics: Save up to 50% on select headphones from Beats, Sony, and JBL, and 30% on e-bikes, Segways, and scooters.</li><li>Fashion: Save up to 40% on select styles from Levi's and baby apparel from Burt's Bees and HonestBaby; up to 30% on styles from Amazon Essentials, Champion, Ray-Ban, and Oakley; and up to 25% on select styles from Shopbop, including APL, English Factory, and Free People.</li><li>Home &amp; Kitchen: Save up to 50% on select products from Keurig; up to 45% on SharkNinja and Casper; up to 40% on iRobot Roomba; up to 40% on products from SodaStream; up to 30% on Vitamix blenders; up to 25% on Momofuku products; and 20% on Caraway cookware and bakeware.</li><li>Pets: Save up to 30% on pet essentials from Amazon brands, including Amazon Basics, Kitzy, Wag, and Wonder Bound.</li><li>Sports &amp; Outdoors: Save up to 50% on Garmin wearables and navigation; 30% on NordicTrack T 6.5 S and Si Treadmills; and 25% on select Columbia Sportswear apparel, outerwear, and footwear.</li><li>Toys: Save 40% on select American Girl dolls; and up to 30% on select toys from Fisher-Price and Mattel, including Barbie and Hot Wheels. Additionally, save up to 30% on select LEGO sets and Magna-Tiles, and select dolls and playsets from L.O.L. Surprise! and Rainbow High.</li></ul><p>Back to School and Off to College</p><p>Prime members can get ahead of shopping for the school year this Prime Day. Savings are available up to 45% on dorm room essentials; 30% on select backpacks from Kipling, Kenneth Cole, and Travelon; 30% on school supplies from Elmer's, Sharpie, and Pilot; and 25% on selectClimate Pledge Friendly laptops, monitors, and desktops from HP, Dell, and Microsoft. Members can also shop curated lists from celebrities, including Busy Philipps, Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, Neil Patrick Harris, Storm Reid, and Vinnie Hacker, featuring their top picks for going back to school and college. Parents, kids, and teachers can shop for supplies featuring their favorite characters, by grade, and customers' most loved items at amazon.com/backtoschool. College students can get dorm room recommendations at amazon.com/offtocollege.</p><p>Ways to Shop This Prime Day</p><p>Prime Day makes shopping more rewarding with offerings that help members save, make easy payments, and chat live with celebrities. Members can stay up to date on Prime Day with Alexa by saying, "Alexa, when is Prime Day?" Customers who are not yet Prime members can join or start a 30-day free trial at amazon.com/primeday to participate in Prime Day.</p><ul><li>Use Amazon Prime credit cards to save: Customers with an eligible Prime membership can earn up to 20% back on select Prime Day deals and 6% back on Amazon purchases during Prime Day with the Amazon Prime Visa Card, Prime Store Card, and Amazon Prime Secured Card.Visit amazon.com/pcb for more information.</li><li>Buy now, pay over time with Affirm: Prime members can get 0% APR on three, six, or 12 equal monthly payments when spending $50 or more on eligible products on Amazon upon credit approval by Affirm. For example, a $1,000 flat-screen TV might cost a customer $83.34 a month over 12 months at 0% APR. Visit amazon.com/affirm to learn more.</li><li>Save on select gift card purchases: New this year,customers can enjoy up to 25% off select gift cards from brands like Amazon, Airbnb, Grubhub, Old Navy, UberEats, and more. For more details, visit amazon.com/giftcardspd22.</li><li>Shop Climate Pledge Friendly products: Customers can discover and shop more-sustainable products as part of the Climate Pledge Friendly program, including deals on Logitech, Mario Badescu, Seventh Generation, and select Amazon Devices. Learn more at amazon.com/ClimatePledgeFriendly. Additionally, Prime members with an Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card, Prime Store Card, or Amazon Prime Secured Card can earn 10% back on select Climate Pledge Friendly Amazon devices purchases. Visit amazon.com/pcb for more information.</li><li>Support small business: Members can save on deals from small businesses, including select retro Bluetooth speakers from Muzen, kids' waterproof digital cameras from PROGRACE, 12-piece leakproof baby food storage by WeeSprouts, and Artestia's Cast Iron Fondue Set. Shop more deals and curated collections from small businesses—including from Black-owned, woman-owned, and military family-owned at amazon.com/supportsmall.</li><li>Shop with celebrities on Amazon Live: Amazon Live is bringing Prime members live chats and celebrity cameos, including from Kevin Hart, Miranda Kerr, Kandi Burruss, Kyle Richards, and Chrishell Stause. Plus, exciting deals from Citizen, Cricut, JBL, and more brands will be revealed first on Amazon Live. Creators will stream daily to talk about their favorite Prime Day deals. Viewers can easily shop the featured products and brands through a carousel that updates in real-time. To watch, visit amazon.com/live or download the Amazon Live Shopping app on Fire TV.</li><li>Shop using Buy with Prime: For the first time ever, members can shop Prime Day deals on online stores beyond Amazon using Buy with Prime. Members can save on deals from select merchants including Miroir, Epic Water Filters, Live by Being, Amazin' Aces, and Bossy Cosmetics. Discover more about Buy with Prime at amazon.com/buywithprime.</li></ul><p>Prime Day Deliveries</p><p>This Prime Day, millions of orders will be picked, packed, and shipped by Amazon employees and partners who work to create the best possible experience for customers. The safety and well-being of all Amazon employees and delivery partners are important. Amazon also strives to create an inclusive and diverse workplace. To improve the experience for employees, customers, and partners, Amazon continues to invest in research, development, and technology that improves safety and extends the reach and capability of people to make tasks easier. This includes the strides made in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning to enable different robotics to move millions of packages each day, while also improving the safety and the overall work experience for employees. Amazon invested $300 million in 2021 in safety projects and expanded the global workplace health and safety team to nearly 8,000 employees who each day use Amazon's innovation, technology, and data to ensure employees are kept safe. Amazon also invested more than $1 billion in safety technology in delivery vans, driver training programs, rate card increases, and continuous improvements so that drivers deliver safely and seamlessly, and with the support they need from Amazon.</p><p>EveryDay Made BetterWith Prime</p><p>Prime offers the best of shopping, savings, and entertainment to more than 200 million paid members around the world. In the U.S., that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and series with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs, thousands of stations and playlists, and thousands of podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, more than 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, and incredible savings with Prime Day. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. Prime members enjoy ultrafast grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns, free Same-Day Delivery on hundreds of thousands of items in over 90 major metropolitan areas, and free One-Day Delivery on more than 20 million items coast to coast. Prime members also receive fast, free delivery on prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy and prescription savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S. To join Prime or start a 30-day free trial, visit amazon.com/prime.</p><p>About Amazon</p><p>Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. 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/20220706005908/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

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Starting today, Prime members in the U.S. can enjoy no food-delivery fees with a free, one-year Grubhub+ membership Now live: a new 60-second sneak peek of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, available exclusively to Prime members around the world as a first-look for 48 hours U.S. Prime members will receive exclusive deals on electronics ahead of Thursday Night Football kicking off exclusively on Prime Video SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 6, 2022-- Ahead of Prime's biggest savings event exclusively for members, Prime Day on July 12-13, Amazon announced new offers and experiences exclusively for members. Starting today, Prime members in the U.S. can enjoy a free, one-year Grubhub+ membership with no food-delivery fees on eligible orders. Members can use this new perk in more than 4,000 cities with hundreds of thousands of restaurants across the country when ordering on Grubhub. Amazon is also announcing exciting, exclusive Prime member content for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Additionally, Amazon is also unveiling exclusive deals for Prime members ahead of Thursday Night Football's anticipated launch, as well as exclusive experiences for members at the upcoming Ultimate Crown streamers vs. gamers battle featuring MrBeast and Ninja. In anticipation of Prime Video's most eagerly awaited new series launching on September 2, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Prime members globally can enjoy 48-hour advance access to a never-before-seen 60-second exclusive sneak peek starting today. This week, Amazon also surprised lucky Prime members from around the world with an opportunity to attend the London Global Premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in August. Ahead of the first exclusive Thursday Night Football game kicking off on Prime Video on September 15, Amazon is offeringmembers Prime Day savings a week early. Exclusive deals range from home entertainment devices, like Fire TV smart TVs, to fan gear for members to prepare their living rooms and get ready for game day. "Being the first to watch a sneak peek of one of the most highly anticipated shows of 2022 or ordering your favorite takeout while watching a football game on a TV you snagged for a great price—that's the promise of Prime, and there's never been a better time to take advantage of all the membership has to offer," said Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime. "Prime already delivers great value for members. These new exclusive offers and experiences show how a single Prime membership unlocks a whole world of potential." Whether members want to have an epic, cinematic experience streaming the new The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series or order wings for their game-day parties, Prime has them covered—all within their one membership. For visual assets related to this news, visit aboutamazon.com/primeexclusives. Get Your Grub OnStarting today,all Prime members in the U.S. can get even more delivered to their door with a Prime membership. Members can now enjoy a free, full one-year Grubhub+ membership valued at $9.99 per month—at no added cost to their Prime membership. To activate this deal, members simply visit amazon.com/grubhub. This new offer includes unlimited, $0 food delivery fees on orders over $12 as well as exclusive perks for Grubhub+ members and rewards like free food and order discounts. Plus, diners can "eat good while doing good" by opting into Grubhub's Donate the Change program, a donation-matching initiative that raised more than $25 million in 2021 alone, benefiting more than 20 charitable organizations across the country. Additional terms and eligibility rules apply. Exclusive Sneak Peek Inside Middle-earthThe highly anticipated series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premieres exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world on Friday, September 2. J.R.R. Tolkien's fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history takes center stage in this epic drama set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books. In this 60-second sneak peek, available as a first-look exclusively to Prime members for 48 hours starting July 6 at 3 a.m. EDT, an ominous sign in the night sky raises questions for the inhabitants of Middle-earth. Prime members can sign into their account and go to amazon.com/RingsOfPower to view the exclusive sneak peek of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and add the series to their Watchlist. This week, 20 Prime members around the world who added themselves to The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Watchlist on Prime Video were the lucky recipients of an exclusive invitation with a guest to attend the London Global Premiere in August of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. For these lucky fans of Middle-earth, this will be an unforgettable experience. Deals to Kick-Off Football Season RightThe first ever Thursday Night Football game exclusively on Prime Video is right around the corner. Legendary announcer Al Michaels and Emmy-winning analyst Kirk Herbstreit will be in the booth for Thursday Night Football, which will include fan-favorite interactive features like X-Ray and Next Gen Stats powered by AWS. Anchor Charissa Thompson hosts the pregame, halftime, and postgame shows, with veteran quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez, and All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman serving as analysts. In anticipation of Thursday Night Football's kickoff on Prime Video on September 15, Prime members will have access to exclusive deals on home entertainment devices and more, along with some Fan Shop deals on NFL-licensed products. Fans can upgrade their living rooms for an optimized Thursday Night Football watching experience with deals on Fire TV smart TVs and streaming sticks. Score deals on NFL licensed products in the Fan Shop: Save up to 15% now through July 11 on home accessories (including bed comforters, blankets, beach towels, and more) and electronics (including Bluetooth speakers and earbuds, wireless charging mousepads, and more). Save on Smart TVs and more now through July 11: Amazon Fire TV 55-inch 4-Series 4K UHD smart TV – Save up to 45% Amazon Fire TV 50-inch 4-Series 4K UHD smart TV – Save up to 45% Amazon Fire TV 55-inch Omni Series UHD smart TV – Save up to 46% Hisense U6 Series 50-inch 4K QLED Smart Fire TV – Save up to 25% Insignia 24-inch HD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 47% Insignia 32-inch HD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 44% Insignia 43-inch Class F30 Series 4K UHD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 36% Insignia 50-inch Class F30 Series 4K UHD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 40% Insignia 55-75-inch Class F30 Series 4K UHD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 30%-38% Pioneer 43-50-inch 4K UHD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 38%-40% Toshiba 43-75-inch C350-Series 4K UHD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 30% Fire TV Cube – Save up to 50% Fire TV Stick – Save up to 58% (available starting July 7 at 12:01 a.m. EDT through July 11) Prime Video is the first streaming service to air a season-long exclusive national broadcast package with the NFL. Viewers can stream from the web at amazon.com or by using the Prime Video app, which is available on smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes, game consoles, or select smart TVs. The games will also stream live on Twitch and will be available on over-the-air TV stations in the two home markets of the competing teams. For all the latest information regarding Thursday Night Football on Prime Video, visit amazon.com/TNF and follow NFL on Prime on Twitter. Tune in to Ultimate Crown: MrBeast vs NinjaOn July 9 between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. EDT, Prime members around the world can tune in to Ultimate Crown on Twitch.tv/Crown and Prime Video to watch MrBeast and Ninja battle it out in League of Legends with an all-star lineup of gamers and content creators live from Las Vegas at the HyperX Arena. Prime members have a chance to attend in-person or participate in live chats to win exclusive giveaways and gifted subscriptions. For more details, visit amazon.com/crownchannel. These exclusive offers and experiences build on Prime's most exclusive member experience: the annual Prime Day event. This year, Prime Day returns July 12 and 13, offering members 48 hours of epic deals from Customers' Most Loved, Internet Famous, small and medium-sized businesses, and a selection of Climate Pledge Friendly products, and many, many more. For more information on how to prep for the big day and to start shopping early deals, visit www.amazon.com/primeday. Not a Prime member yet? Join Prime or start a free 30-day trial at amazon.com/prime. Amazon also offers two discounted memberships so all qualifying customers can enjoy Prime. Qualifying recipients of government assistance, including EBT and Medicaid, are eligible to enjoy all of Prime's benefits for just $6.99 per month—half the regular cost of a Prime membership. To learn more, visit www.amazon.com/qualifynow. Additionally, Prime Student membership is designed specifically for higher education students and costs just $7.49 per month or $69 per year. Prime Student members also enjoy exclusive perks for college life, like six months free of LinkedIn Premium and up to 10% off flights and hotels through StudentUniverse. College students who haven't yet tried Prime Student can sign up for a six-month trial at www.amazon.com/joinstudent. Every Day Made Better with PrimePrime offers the best of shopping, savings, and entertainment to more than 200 million paid members around the world. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and series with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs, thousands of stations and playlists, and thousands of podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, more than 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, and incredible savings with Prime Day. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. Prime members enjoy ultrafast grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns, free Same-Day Delivery on hundreds of thousands of items in over 90 major metropolitan areas, and free One-Day Delivery on more than 20 million items coast to coast. Prime members also receive fast, free delivery on prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy and prescription savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S. To join Prime or start a 30-day free trial, visit amazon.com/prime. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220706005280/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Starting today, Prime members in the U.S. can enjoy no food-delivery fees </em><em>with a free, one-year Grubhub+ membership</em></p><p><em>Now live: a new 60-second sneak peek of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, available exclusively to Prime members around the world as a first-look for 48 hours</em></p><p><em>U.S. Prime members will receive exclusive deals on electronics ahead of </em><em>Thursday Night Football kicking off exclusively on Prime Video</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 6, 2022-- Ahead of Prime's biggest savings event exclusively for members, Prime Day on July 12-13, Amazon announced new offers and experiences exclusively for members. Starting today, Prime members in the U.S. can enjoy a free, one-year Grubhub+ membership with no food-delivery fees on eligible orders. Members can use this new perk in more than 4,000 cities with hundreds of thousands of restaurants across the country when ordering on Grubhub. Amazon is also announcing exciting, exclusive Prime member content for <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. </em>Additionally, Amazon is also unveiling exclusive deals for Prime members ahead of <em>Thursday Night Football</em>'s anticipated launch, as well as exclusive experiences for members at the upcoming <em>Ultimate Crown</em> streamers vs. gamers battle featuring MrBeast and Ninja.</p><p>In anticipation of Prime Video's most eagerly awaited new series launching on September 2, <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power</em>, Prime members globally can enjoy 48-hour advance access to a never-before-seen 60-second exclusive sneak peek starting today. This week, Amazon also surprised lucky Prime members from around the world with an opportunity to attend the London Global Premiere of <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power</em> in August.</p><p>Ahead of the first exclusive <em>Thursday Night Football </em>game kicking off on Prime Video on September 15, Amazon is offeringmembers Prime Day savings a week early. Exclusive deals range from home entertainment devices, like Fire TV smart TVs, to fan gear for members to prepare their living rooms and get ready for game day.</p><p>"Being the first to watch a sneak peek of one of the most highly anticipated shows of 2022 or ordering your favorite takeout while watching a football game on a TV you snagged for a great price—that's the promise of Prime, and there's never been a better time to take advantage of all the membership has to offer," said Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime. "Prime already delivers great value for members. These new exclusive offers and experiences show how a single Prime membership unlocks a whole world of potential."</p><p>Whether members want to have an epic, cinematic experience streaming the new <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power</em> series or order wings for their game-day parties, Prime has them covered—all within their one membership. For visual assets related to this news, visit aboutamazon.com/primeexclusives.</p><p>Get Your Grub OnStarting today,all Prime members in the U.S. can get even more delivered to their door with a Prime membership. Members can now enjoy a free, full one-year Grubhub+ membership valued at $9.99 per month—at no added cost to their Prime membership. To activate this deal, members simply visit amazon.com/grubhub. This new offer includes unlimited, $0 food delivery fees on orders over $12 as well as exclusive perks for Grubhub+ members and rewards like free food and order discounts. Plus, diners can "eat good while doing good" by opting into Grubhub's Donate the Change program, a donation-matching initiative that raised more than $25 million in 2021 alone, benefiting more than 20 charitable organizations across the country. Additional terms and eligibility rules apply.</p><p>Exclusive Sneak Peek Inside Middle-earthThe highly anticipated series <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power</em> premieres exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world on Friday, September 2. J.R.R. Tolkien's fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history takes center stage in this epic drama set thousands of years before the events of <em>The Hobbit</em> and <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> books. In this 60-second sneak peek, available as a first-look exclusively to Prime members for 48 hours starting July 6 at 3 a.m. EDT, an ominous sign in the night sky raises questions for the inhabitants of Middle-earth. Prime members can sign into their account and go to amazon.com/RingsOfPower to view the exclusive sneak peek of <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power</em> and add the series to their Watchlist.</p><p>This week, 20 Prime members around the world who added themselves to <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power </em>Watchlist on Prime Video were the lucky recipients of an exclusive invitation with a guest to attend the London Global Premiere in August of <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power</em>. For these lucky fans of Middle-earth, this will be an unforgettable experience.</p><p>Deals to Kick-Off Football Season RightThe first ever <em>Thursday Night Football</em> game exclusively on Prime Video is right around the corner. Legendary announcer Al Michaels and Emmy-winning analyst Kirk Herbstreit will be in the booth for <em>Thursday Night Football</em>, which will include fan-favorite interactive features like X-Ray and Next Gen Stats powered by AWS. Anchor Charissa Thompson hosts the pregame, halftime, and postgame shows, with veteran quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez, and All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman serving as analysts. In anticipation of <em>Thursday Night Football</em>'s kickoff on Prime Video on September 15, Prime members will have access to exclusive deals on home entertainment devices and more, along with some Fan Shop deals on NFL-licensed products. Fans can upgrade their living rooms for an optimized <em>Thursday Night Football </em>watching experience with deals on Fire TV smart TVs and streaming sticks.</p><p>Score deals on NFL licensed products in the Fan Shop:</p><ul><li>Save up to 15% now through July 11 on home accessories (including bed comforters, blankets, beach towels, and more) and electronics (including Bluetooth speakers and earbuds, wireless charging mousepads, and more).</li></ul><p>Save on Smart TVs and more now through July 11:</p><ul><li>Amazon Fire TV 55-inch 4-Series 4K UHD smart TV – Save up to 45%</li><li>Amazon Fire TV 50-inch 4-Series 4K UHD smart TV – Save up to 45%</li><li>Amazon Fire TV 55-inch Omni Series UHD smart TV – Save up to 46%</li><li>Hisense U6 Series 50-inch 4K QLED Smart Fire TV – Save up to 25%</li><li>Insignia 24-inch HD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 47%</li><li>Insignia 32-inch HD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 44%</li><li>Insignia 43-inch Class F30 Series 4K UHD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 36%</li><li>Insignia 50-inch Class F30 Series 4K UHD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 40%</li><li>Insignia 55-75-inch Class F30 Series 4K UHD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 30%-38%</li><li>Pioneer 43-50-inch 4K UHD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 38%-40%</li><li>Toshiba 43-75-inch C350-Series 4K UHD Smart Fire TV – Save up to 30%</li><li>Fire TV Cube – Save up to 50%</li><li>Fire TV Stick – Save up to 58% (available starting July 7 at 12:01 a.m. EDT through July 11)</li></ul><p>Prime Video is the first streaming service to air a season-long exclusive national broadcast package with the NFL. Viewers can stream from the web at amazon.com or by using the Prime Video app, which is available on smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes, game consoles, or select smart TVs. The games will also stream live on Twitch and will be available on over-the-air TV stations in the two home markets of the competing teams. For all the latest information regarding <em>Thursday Night Football</em> on Prime Video, visit amazon.com/TNF and follow NFL on Prime on Twitter.</p><p>Tune in to <em>Ultimate Crown</em>: MrBeast vs NinjaOn July 9 between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. EDT, Prime members around the world can tune in to <em>Ultimate Crown</em> on Twitch.tv/Crown and Prime Video to watch MrBeast and Ninja battle it out in <em>League of Legends </em>with an all-star lineup of gamers and content creators live from Las Vegas at the HyperX Arena. Prime members have a chance to attend in-person or participate in live chats to win exclusive giveaways and gifted subscriptions. For more details, visit amazon.com/crownchannel.</p><p>These exclusive offers and experiences build on Prime's most exclusive member experience: the annual Prime Day event. This year, Prime Day returns July 12 and 13, offering members 48 hours of epic deals from Customers' Most Loved, Internet Famous, small and medium-sized businesses, and a selection of Climate Pledge Friendly products, and many, many more. For more information on how to prep for the big day and to start shopping early deals, visit www.amazon.com/primeday.</p><p>Not a Prime member yet? Join Prime or start a free 30-day trial at amazon.com/prime. Amazon also offers two discounted memberships so all qualifying customers can enjoy Prime. Qualifying recipients of government assistance, including EBT and Medicaid, are eligible to enjoy all of Prime's benefits for just $6.99 per month—half the regular cost of a Prime membership. To learn more, visit www.amazon.com/qualifynow. Additionally, Prime Student membership is designed specifically for higher education students and costs just $7.49 per month or $69 per year. Prime Student members also enjoy exclusive perks for college life, like six months free of LinkedIn Premium and up to 10% off flights and hotels through StudentUniverse. College students who haven't yet tried Prime Student can sign up for a six-month trial at www.amazon.com/joinstudent.</p><p>Every Day Made Better with PrimePrime offers the best of shopping, savings, and entertainment to more than 200 million paid members around the world. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and series with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs, thousands of stations and playlists, and thousands of podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, more than 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, and incredible savings with Prime Day. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. Prime members enjoy ultrafast grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns, free Same-Day Delivery on hundreds of thousands of items in over 90 major metropolitan areas, and free One-Day Delivery on more than 20 million items coast to coast. Prime members also receive fast, free delivery on prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy and prescription savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S. To join Prime or start a 30-day free trial, visit amazon.com/prime.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220706005280/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Over 25,000 Employees Joined Amazon Career Choice in the Last 6 Months

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Over 25,000 Employees Joined Amazon Career Choice in the Last 6 Months

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Amazon saw a 45% employee participant increase in the program since 2021 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 28, 2022-- "Amazon creates an environment where I can balance work and school," said Catherine Lemonds, an Amazon employee. "I'm so glad they updated the Career Choice program. With the new limitless learning benefit, I'm able to work on completing my bachelor's degree." Catherine is one of more than 25,000 employees who have joined Amazon Career Choice this year, bringing worldwide total participation to more than 80,000 employees since the most recent enhancements were announced in September. Career Choice is designed to help frontline employees grow their skills for career success at Amazon or elsewhere. Launched in 2012, Career Choice expanded its benefits in January to include fully funded college tuition, new industry certifications, courses to improve English-language proficiency, and high school completion programs. Participation grew by more than 25,000 employees in the last six months thanks in part to these new benefits. The new benefits and education tracks launched in January now include: Pre-paid tuition. Amazon pays employees' tuition in advance rather than offering reimbursement after coursework completion, ensuring employees have access to the funds they need to access the education options they want. Limitless learning. Amazon frontline employees have access to annual funds for education for as long as they remain at the company, with no limit to the number of years they can benefit. Fast starts. All 750,000 U.S. hourly employees are eligible to participate in Career Choice just 90 days after starting at Amazon. "We've been listening to employees about the benefits that are important to them, and the 45% increase in Career Choice participants in just six months shows that we're offering the kind of educational programs and upskilling opportunities they're asking for from their employer," said Tammy Thieman, global program lead of Amazon's Career Choice program. "We're looking forward to seeing participation continue to increase in the coming months as even more employees take advantage of this important benefit." "The expansion of the Amazon Career Choice program earlier this year has led to tremendous growth in the number of Amazon associates pursuing an education at our colleges," said Dr. Steven R. Gonzales, interim chancellor for the Maricopa County Community College District. "We are proud to have served more than 200 Amazon associates across all 10 Maricopa Community Colleges in the Spring 2022 semester, and we look forward to continuing to support these students as they work toward completing their certificate and degree programs." We've also made it easier for employees to benefit from the Career Choice program and advance their education with more accessible classes. Employees can take classes online, in person at a local campus, or even on site at one of the more than 110 Career Choice classrooms located in Amazon fulfillment centers in 37 states. This year, we've invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in video conference equipment to ensure employees can attend classes while on site. As of today, Amazon's Career Choice program works with more than 200 education providers across the U.S., which includes colleges and universities, partners providing industry certifications, English-language proficiency, and high school completion programs. Postsecondary education and career training are just some of the industry-leading benefits we offer our team members. Amazon jobs come with an average starting pay of more than $18 an hour, well over twice the federal minimum wage, and hourly pay may go up to $28 per hour in some locations. In addition, Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package to all regular full-time employees, which includes health insurance from an employee's first day on the job, a 401(k) plan with a company match, up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, free mental health support, access to subsidized skills training opportunities, and more. Career Choice is one of nine free skills training and education programs offered to Amazon employees as part of its upskilling 2025 pledge to invest $1.2 billion and upskill 300,000 people in the next three years. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220628005360/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon saw a 45% employee participant increase in the program since 2021</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 28, 2022-- "Amazon creates an environment where I can balance work and school," said Catherine Lemonds, an Amazon employee. "I'm so glad they updated the Career Choice program. With the new limitless learning benefit, I'm able to work on completing my bachelor's degree."</p><p>Catherine is one of more than 25,000 employees who have joined Amazon Career Choice this year, bringing worldwide total participation to more than 80,000 employees since the most recent enhancements were announced in September.</p><p>Career Choice is designed to help frontline employees grow their skills for career success at Amazon or elsewhere. Launched in 2012, Career Choice expanded its benefits in January to include fully funded college tuition, new industry certifications, courses to improve English-language proficiency, and high school completion programs. Participation grew by more than 25,000 employees in the last six months thanks in part to these new benefits.</p><p>The new benefits and education tracks launched in January now include:</p><ul><li>Pre-paid tuition. Amazon pays employees' tuition in advance rather than offering reimbursement after coursework completion, ensuring employees have access to the funds they need to access the education options they want.</li><li>Limitless learning. Amazon frontline employees have access to annual funds for education for as long as they remain at the company, with no limit to the number of years they can benefit.</li><li>Fast starts. All 750,000 U.S. hourly employees are eligible to participate in Career Choice just 90 days after starting at Amazon.</li></ul><p>"We've been listening to employees about the benefits that are important to them, and the 45% increase in Career Choice participants in just six months shows that we're offering the kind of educational programs and upskilling opportunities they're asking for from their employer," said Tammy Thieman, global program lead of Amazon's Career Choice program. "We're looking forward to seeing participation continue to increase in the coming months as even more employees take advantage of this important benefit."</p><p>"The expansion of the Amazon Career Choice program earlier this year has led to tremendous growth in the number of Amazon associates pursuing an education at our colleges," said Dr. Steven R. Gonzales, interim chancellor for the Maricopa County Community College District. "We are proud to have served more than 200 Amazon associates across all 10 Maricopa Community Colleges in the Spring 2022 semester, and we look forward to continuing to support these students as they work toward completing their certificate and degree programs."</p><p>We've also made it easier for employees to benefit from the Career Choice program and advance their education with more accessible classes. Employees can take classes online, in person at a local campus, or even on site at one of the more than 110 Career Choice classrooms located in Amazon fulfillment centers in 37 states. This year, we've invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in video conference equipment to ensure employees can attend classes while on site. As of today, Amazon's Career Choice program works with more than 200 education providers across the U.S., which includes colleges and universities, partners providing industry certifications, English-language proficiency, and high school completion programs.</p><p>Postsecondary education and career training are just some of the industry-leading benefits we offer our team members. Amazon jobs come with an average starting pay of more than $18 an hour, well over twice the federal minimum wage, and hourly pay may go up to $28 per hour in some locations. In addition, Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package to all regular full-time employees, which includes health insurance from an employee's first day on the job, a 401(k) plan with a company match, up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, free mental health support, access to subsidized skills training opportunities, and more.</p><p>Career Choice is one of nine free skills training and education programs offered to Amazon employees as part of its upskilling 2025 pledge to invest $1.2 billion and upskill 300,000 people in the next three years.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220628005360/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Save the Date: July 12 & 13—Prime Day Returns Offering Amazon's Lowest Prices Ever on Select Products

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Save the Date: July 12 & 13—Prime Day Returns Offering Amazon's Lowest Prices Ever on Select Products

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The two-day savings event includes must-have brands such as Beats, Casper, ELEMIS, Levi's, iRobot, and SharkNinja; fashion styles from Amazon Essentials and Simple Joys by Carter's; and Amazon's lowest prices ever on select products from Sony, Bose, and GE Early deals start June 21, including 55% off select Amazon devices, up to 50% off Fire TV, and more deals from top brands like De'Longhi, Dove, and SodaStream Prime members can also win big prizes by supporting small businesses from June 21 to July 11 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 16, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon's annual Prime Day event is back. The 48-hour event kicks off July 12 at 3 a.m. EDT and runs through July 13 for Prime members in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, the U.K., the U.S., and for the first time ever in Poland and Sweden. Later this summer, Prime Day deals events will be held in India, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in Egypt for the first time. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220615006176/en/ Prime Day 2022 (Graphic: Business Wire) Customers will be able to shop products from top national brands and more third-party sellers than last year's Prime Day, including many small and medium-sized businesses. New deals—from fashion and electronics to toys and home—will go live throughout Prime Day, offering savings on products across categories, including from Customers' Most Loved, Internet Famous, and a selection of Climate Pledge Friendly products. "With the small businesses and national brands our members love and trust, we're excited to offer some of our best Prime Day deals yet to even more customers around the world," said Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime. "This year, we're making it simple for members to find the best deals, from personalized deal recommendations to Alexa reminders. It's never been easier for Prime members to shop, save, and make the most of Prime Day." Shop Early, Save Big Customers don't have to wait to save this Prime Day. Early deals and new, member-only offerings start June 21. Score Big on Amazon Devices: Get deals starting June 21 and save up to 55% on select Amazon devices, including Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen) and Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen) Kids, Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon Glow with Tangram Bits, Halo Band, Luna Controller, Fire 7 Tablet (2019 release), Echo Dot (4th Gen) with a Free Smart Bulb, Ring Alarm Security Kit 8-Piece (2nd Gen), Blink Video Doorbell, eero mesh WiFi routers, and more. Save on Fire TV smart TVs: Starting at just $89.99, save early with Fire TV smart TVs from brands including Toshiba, Insignia, Pioneer, and Amazon. Insignia 24-inch HD Smart Fire TV: $89.99 (47% off) Insignia 32-inch HD Smart Fire TV: $99.99 (44% off) Amazon Fire TV 55-inch Omni Series 4K UHD smart TV, hands-free with Alexa: $299.99 (46% off) Amazon Fire TV 43-inch 4-Series 4K UHD smart TV: $199.99 (46% off) Amazon Fire TV 50-inch 4-Series 4K UHD smart TV: $259.99 (45% off) Amazon Fire TV 55-inch 4-Series 4K UHD smart TV: $284.99 (45% off) Toshiba 75-inch M550-Series 4K UHD Smart Fire TV: $699.99 (50% off) Pioneer 43-inch 4K UHD Smart TV: $199.99 (37% off) Shop on Amazon Live: Starting June 21, customers will have an opportunity to shop early Prime Day deals alongside their favorite celebrities and influencers, including Porsha Williams, Joe and Frank Mele, and Lala Kent. On June 28 at 1 p.m. EDT, Hilary Duff will join some of her favorite small business owners who will showcase their products and share inspiring stories behind their brands. To watch, visit amazon.com/liveprimeday or download the Amazon Live Shopping app on Fire TV. Buy Now, Pay Over Time with Affirm: From June 28 through July 11, Prime members can get 0% APR on three equal monthly payments when they spend $50 or more on eligible products on Amazon upon credit approval by Affirm. For example, a $300 purchase might cost $100/month over three months at 0% APR. Visit amazon.com/affirm to learn more. Save with new Amazon Fresh Stores Prime Benefit: Starting June 29, Prime members will save 20% on select everyday essentials at Amazon Fresh stores across the U.S. Members can enjoy this new benefit year-round by scanning their Amazon app at the register or paying with a credit card registered to their Prime account. Earn Rewards with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card: From July 1 through July 29, Prime members get a $200 Amazon Gift Card instantly upon approval for the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card. Cardmembers with an eligible Prime membership can earn 6% back at Amazon and Whole Foods Market on Prime Day and 5% back year-round, plus 2% back at restaurants, gas stations, and drugstores, and 1% back everywhere Visa is accepted. Shopping Small Businesses This year we've made it easier than ever to support small businesses. Win Big by Supporting Small: From June 21 through July 11, for every $1 spent on eligible small business products, customers will receive a chance to win epic prizes. In the U.S., this includes a pre-game experience and tickets to Super Bowl LVII, VIP passes to music experiences in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, tickets to a special New York City screening and cast meet-and-greet for Prime Video's upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series, and a VIP trip to Amazon's first-ever clothing store, Amazon Style, near Los Angeles. Plus, hundreds of thousands of sweepstakes entrants globally will have a chance to win Amazon gift cards. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 or older to enter. To learn more about the sweepstakes and to see official rules, visit amazon.com/primedaysweepstakes. Look for the Small Business Badge: Prime members can discover and shop products from small business brands in Amazon's store with the new Small Business Badge. This new badge makes it easier for members to identify products from small business brands and artisans. To learn more and shop curated collections—including from Black-owned, woman-owned, and military family-owned small businesses—visit amazon.com/supportsmall. Get Ready Ahead of Prime Day This year, Amazon makes preparing for Prime Day easier and more rewarding than ever. Members can earn credit to put toward their Prime Day purchases, receive custom product recommendations, and set up deal notifications and reminders to get ready. Amazon is also offering an exclusive gaming experience just for Prime members to celebrate before Prime Day. Customers can join Prime or start a free trial at amazon.com/primeday to participate. Create Deal Alerts for Personalized Recommendations: Prime members can subscribe to receive deal alert notifications related to their recent Amazon searches and recently viewed items. All they have to do is visit the Prime Day event page on the Amazon app between now and Prime Day to create deal alerts. Once Prime Day arrives, members will receive push notifications on any available deals. Earn a $10 Credit Through Prime Stampcard: From June 16 through Prime Day, members are invited to explore the perks of membership to receive a $10 credit toward their Prime Day order or future Amazon purchase. To participate, members collect a stamp for completing each of four Prime activities: stream Prime Video, listen to Prime Music, borrow a Prime Reading or Kindle Unlimited book or add one to their library, and make a Prime-shipping eligible purchase. Members can visit https://amazon.com/cer/stampcard/home to learn more. Get Deal Notifications from Alexa: Prime members never have to worry about missing a deal thanks to Alexa. Members can add products to their Wish List, Cart, or Save for Later, and then ask Alexa to notify them about the deal when it's live or even order it on their behalf. Set a Reminder: Prime members can tell their Alexa devices, "Remind me when Prime Day starts," to be alerted when the two-day deals event begins. Tune in to Ultimate Crown: On July 9 starting at 7 p.m. EDT, Prime members can tune in globally to the gaming event of the summer—Ultimate Crown—on Twitch.tv/Crown and Prime Video. An all-star lineup of gamers and streamers will battle live from Las Vegas at the HyperX Arena. Prime members will have a chance to attend in person or participate in live chats for a chance to win exclusive giveaways and gifted subs. Prime Day Deliveries Fast, free delivery of Prime Day orders is made possible thanks to Amazon's global transportation network, which is powered by a combination of innovative technology, transportation services, dedicated associates, and partners. Amazon continues to build, innovate, and scale this network around the world—from rail and trucks to planes, vans, and more—while focusing on the safety, well-being, and career advancement of the people and partners who work across the Journey of an Amazon Package. From a veteran loading cargo into the belly of an Amazon Air aircraft to the driver who delivers that familiar Amazon box, it's the people and partners across the operations network who make it all possible. EveryDay Made Betterwith Prime Prime offers the best of shopping, savings, and entertainment to more than 200 million paid members around the world. In the U.S., that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and series with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs, thousands of stations and playlists, and thousands of podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, more than 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, and incredible savings with Prime Day. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. Prime members enjoy ultrafast grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns, free Same-Day Delivery on hundreds of thousands of items in over 90 major metropolitan areas, and free One-Day Delivery on more than 20 million items coast to coast. Prime members also receive fast, free delivery on prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy and prescription savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S. To join Prime or start a free trial, visit amazon.com/prime.

<p><em>The two-day savings event includes must-have brands such as Beats, Casper, ELEMIS, Levi's, iRobot, and SharkNinja; fashion styles from Amazon Essentials and Simple Joys by Carter's; and Amazon's lowest prices ever on select products from Sony, Bose, and GE</em></p><p><em>Early deals start June 21, including 55% off select Amazon devices, up to 50% off Fire TV, and more deals from top brands like De'Longhi, Dove, and SodaStream</em></p><p><em>Prime members can also win big prizes by supporting small businesses from June 21 to July 11</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 16, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon's annual Prime Day event is back. The 48-hour event kicks off July 12 at 3 a.m. EDT and runs through July 13 for Prime members in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, the U.K., the U.S., and for the first time ever in Poland and Sweden. Later this summer, Prime Day deals events will be held in India, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in Egypt for the first time.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220615006176/en/</p><div><p>Prime Day 2022 (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Customers will be able to shop products from top national brands and more third-party sellers than last year's Prime Day, including many small and medium-sized businesses. New deals—from fashion and electronics to toys and home—will go live throughout Prime Day, offering savings on products across categories, including from Customers' Most Loved, Internet Famous, and a selection of Climate Pledge Friendly products.</p><p>"With the small businesses and national brands our members love and trust, we're excited to offer some of our best Prime Day deals yet to even more customers around the world," said Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime. "This year, we're making it simple for members to find the best deals, from personalized deal recommendations to Alexa reminders. It's never been easier for Prime members to shop, save, and make the most of Prime Day."</p><p>Shop Early, Save Big</p><p>Customers don't have to wait to save this Prime Day. Early deals and new, member-only offerings start June 21.</p><ul><li>Score Big on Amazon Devices: Get deals starting June 21 and save up to 55% on select Amazon devices, including Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen) and Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen) Kids, Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon Glow with Tangram Bits, Halo Band, Luna Controller, Fire 7 Tablet (2019 release), Echo Dot (4th Gen) with a Free Smart Bulb, Ring Alarm Security Kit 8-Piece (2nd Gen), Blink Video Doorbell, eero mesh WiFi routers, and more.</li><li>Save on Fire TV smart TVs: Starting at just $89.99, save early with Fire TV smart TVs from brands including Toshiba, Insignia, Pioneer, and Amazon.<ul><li>Insignia 24-inch HD Smart Fire TV: $89.99 (47% off)</li><li>Insignia 32-inch HD Smart Fire TV: $99.99 (44% off)</li><li>Amazon Fire TV 55-inch Omni Series 4K UHD smart TV, hands-free with Alexa: $299.99 (46% off)</li><li>Amazon Fire TV 43-inch 4-Series 4K UHD smart TV: $199.99 (46% off)</li><li>Amazon Fire TV 50-inch 4-Series 4K UHD smart TV: $259.99 (45% off)</li><li>Amazon Fire TV 55-inch 4-Series 4K UHD smart TV: $284.99 (45% off)</li><li>Toshiba 75-inch M550-Series 4K UHD Smart Fire TV: $699.99 (50% off)</li><li>Pioneer 43-inch 4K UHD Smart TV: $199.99 (37% off)</li></ul></li><li>Shop on Amazon Live: Starting June 21, customers will have an opportunity to shop early Prime Day deals alongside their favorite celebrities and influencers, including Porsha Williams, Joe and Frank Mele, and Lala Kent. On June 28 at 1 p.m. EDT, Hilary Duff will join some of her favorite small business owners who will showcase their products and share inspiring stories behind their brands. To watch, visit amazon.com/liveprimeday or download the Amazon Live Shopping app on Fire TV.</li><li>Buy Now, Pay Over Time with Affirm: From June 28 through July 11, Prime members can get 0% APR on three equal monthly payments when they spend $50 or more on eligible products on Amazon upon credit approval by Affirm. For example, a $300 purchase might cost $100/month over three months at 0% APR. Visit amazon.com/affirm to learn more.</li><li>Save with new Amazon Fresh Stores Prime Benefit: Starting June 29, Prime members will save 20% on select everyday essentials at Amazon Fresh stores across the U.S. Members can enjoy this new benefit year-round by scanning their Amazon app at the register or paying with a credit card registered to their Prime account.</li><li>Earn Rewards with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card: From July 1 through July 29, Prime members get a $200 Amazon Gift Card instantly upon approval for the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card. Cardmembers with an eligible Prime membership can earn 6% back at Amazon and Whole Foods Market on Prime Day and 5% back year-round, plus 2% back at restaurants, gas stations, and drugstores, and 1% back everywhere Visa is accepted.</li></ul><p>Shopping Small Businesses</p><p>This year we've made it easier than ever to support small businesses.</p><ul><li>Win Big by Supporting Small: From June 21 through July 11, for every $1 spent on eligible small business products, customers will receive a chance to win epic prizes. In the U.S., this includes a pre-game experience and tickets to Super Bowl LVII, VIP passes to music experiences in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, tickets to a special New York City screening and cast meet-and-greet for Prime Video's upcoming <em>The</em> <em>Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power </em>series<em>, </em>and a VIP trip to Amazon's first-ever clothing store, Amazon Style, near Los Angeles. Plus, hundreds of thousands of sweepstakes entrants globally will have a chance to win Amazon gift cards. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 or older to enter. To learn more about the sweepstakes and to see official rules, visit amazon.com/primedaysweepstakes.</li><li>Look for the Small Business Badge: Prime members can discover and shop products from small business brands in Amazon's store with the new Small Business Badge. This new badge makes it easier for members to identify products from small business brands and artisans. To learn more and shop curated collections—including from Black-owned, woman-owned, and military family-owned small businesses—visit amazon.com/supportsmall.</li></ul><p>Get Ready Ahead of Prime Day</p><p>This year, Amazon makes preparing for Prime Day easier and more rewarding than ever. Members can earn credit to put toward their Prime Day purchases, receive custom product recommendations, and set up deal notifications and reminders to get ready. Amazon is also offering an exclusive gaming experience just for Prime members to celebrate before Prime Day. Customers can join Prime or start a free trial at amazon.com/primeday to participate.</p><ul><li>Create Deal Alerts for Personalized Recommendations: Prime members can subscribe to receive deal alert notifications related to their recent Amazon searches and recently viewed items. All they have to do is visit the Prime Day event page on the Amazon app between now and Prime Day to create deal alerts. Once Prime Day arrives, members will receive push notifications on any available deals.</li><li>Earn a $10 Credit Through Prime Stampcard: From June 16 through Prime Day, members are invited to explore the perks of membership to receive a $10 credit toward their Prime Day order or future Amazon purchase. To participate, members collect a stamp for completing each of four Prime activities: stream Prime Video, listen to Prime Music, borrow a Prime Reading or Kindle Unlimited book or add one to their library, and make a Prime-shipping eligible purchase. Members can visit https://amazon.com/cer/stampcard/home to learn more.</li><li>Get Deal Notifications from Alexa: Prime members never have to worry about missing a deal thanks to Alexa. Members can add products to their Wish List, Cart, or Save for Later, and then ask Alexa to notify them about the deal when it's live or even order it on their behalf.</li><li>Set a Reminder: Prime members can tell their Alexa devices, "Remind me when Prime Day starts," to be alerted when the two-day deals event begins.</li><li>Tune in to <em>Ultimate Crown</em>: On July 9 starting at 7 p.m. EDT, Prime members can tune in globally to the gaming event of the summer—<em>Ultimate Crown</em>—on Twitch.tv/Crown and Prime Video. An all-star lineup of gamers and streamers will battle live from Las Vegas at the HyperX Arena. Prime members will have a chance to attend in person or participate in live chats for a chance to win exclusive giveaways and gifted subs.</li></ul><p>Prime Day Deliveries</p><p>Fast, free delivery of Prime Day orders is made possible thanks to Amazon's global transportation network, which is powered by a combination of innovative technology, transportation services, dedicated associates, and partners. Amazon continues to build, innovate, and scale this network around the world—from rail and trucks to planes, vans, and more—while focusing on the safety, well-being, and career advancement of the people and partners who work across the Journey of an Amazon Package. From a veteran loading cargo into the belly of an Amazon Air aircraft to the driver who delivers that familiar Amazon box, it's the people and partners across the operations network who make it all possible.</p><p>EveryDay Made Betterwith Prime</p><p>Prime offers the best of shopping, savings, and entertainment to more than 200 million paid members around the world. In the U.S., that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and series with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs, thousands of stations and playlists, and thousands of podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, more than 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, and incredible savings with Prime Day. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. Prime members enjoy ultrafast grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns, free Same-Day Delivery on hundreds of thousands of items in over 90 major metropolitan areas, and free One-Day Delivery on more than 20 million items coast to coast. Prime members also receive fast, free delivery on prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy and prescription savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S. To join Prime or start a free trial, visit amazon.com/prime.</p>

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Is Amazon's Best Book of the Year So Far for 2022

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Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Is Amazon's Best Book of the Year So Far for 2022

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Amazon Books' editorial team selects their favorite books across genres and categories to determine the Best Books of the Year So Far Amazon Books Editorial Director Sarah Gelman reveals the top picks on CBS Mornings SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 15, 2022-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Today, Amazon announced its picks for 2022's Best Books of the Year So Far, selecting Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel Remarkably Bright Creatures—cited by Amazon Editors as "a novel that delivers a message about love and loss that's poignant, charming, and irresistible"—as the No. 1 selection. The other top picks are Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know, a standout memoir about healing from complex trauma, and Sabaa Tahir's All My Rage, a tragic and poignant young adult novel examining the complexities of young and old love. In the children's books category, Christopher Denise's picture book Knight Owl tops the list, featuring wordplay and optimism in a story about how bravery, cleverness, and friendship can rule over brawn. Throughout the year, Amazon Books Editors pore over thousands of pages and hundreds of books to determine the Best Books of the Month, Best Books of the Year So Far, and Best Books of the Year, discussing and debating new releases across various categories. The Editors are passionate about uniting readers with their next favorite read. After reading titles released from January through June 2022, Amazon Books Editors selected the overall top 20 Best Books of the Year So Far, as well as the top 20 in popular categories like literary fiction, mystery and thrillers, romance, history, biographies and memoirs, cookbooks, and children's books. Across these lists, customers can find reads that are perfect for summer reading—whether you're looking for serious nonfiction, a rom-com, a gripping psychological thriller, or something in between. "Selecting this midyear list is one of the most fun parts of the editorial team's job," said Sarah Gelman, Amazon Books editorial director. "You haven't seen passion until you watch a group of book lovers argue for their favorite books to be shared with customers! This year, fiction is having a real moment as readers look for an escape, and summer is the perfect time to do that." After being told Remarkably Bright Creatures was Amazon Books' top pick for the first half of 2022, Van Pelt said: "I'm beyond thrilled to be Amazon's top pick of the year so far! I never imagined my little octopus story would touch so many people, and hearing that readers are sharing it with loved ones across generations makes my heart so happy." "We all fell in love with Shelby Van Pelt's stunning debut, Remarkably Bright Creatures," Gelman said. "This novel is wholly original and it somehow manages to be all the things at once: sweet, poignant, funny, and wise. I still miss these characters, but particularly the wise octopus at the center of the story." Here are the Amazon Books Editors' Top 10 picks of 2022 so far, and their reviews for what made each book stand out: 1. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt: We all loved this story of an unlikely friendship that begins at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, between a misanthropic octopus named Marcellus, and a widowed staffer named Tova. The grumpy invertebrate turns detective to solve a mystery for Tova, as he—and the novel—deliver a message about love and loss that's poignant, charming, and irresistible. –Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor 2. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo: There is no dearth of books on trauma in the marketplace right now, so it's no easy feat standing out. But What My Bones Know does. A deep dive into the scourge of complex PTSD, this stirring memoir serves as a reminder of the resilience of the human spirit, no matter what any of us is struggling with in life. – Erin Kodicek, Amazon Editor 3. All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir: Dreams take a toll on the dreamer, and so it is for Misbah, Toufiq, and their teenage son Salahudin. As a young couple's fresh start turns sour, Tahir exposes how relationships can burn white-hot with love—and anger. Flipping between past and present, this brilliant novel about immigrants, family, first love, and forgiveness, is raw, real, and unstoppable. – Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor 4. The Maid by Nita Prose: This story of a quirky, endearing hotel maid who discovers a dead guest—and nearly ends up accused of his murder—was another novel that had us all raving about its charms. This is both a solid mystery and a sweet, amusing ode to giving people a chance to bloom where they're planted. – Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor 5. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard: Full of adventure, ambushes, false starts, and the pursuit of conquest, River of the Gods tells the story of three explorers—Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, and Sidi Mubarak Bombay—who set out to discover the origins of the Nile. Using diary entries and letters, Millard thrusts you into the jungle with these larger-than-life characters, while deftly navigating the tangled reality of colonial exploitation…A thrill of a ride. – Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor 6. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus: Elizabeth Zott stumbles into motherhood, and success as a TV cooking host, when she's blocked from becoming a scientist—inspiring a generation of women who have been written-off in 1960s America. This satisfying—and delightful—read is for anyone who has felt underestimated, or held back due to fear of what others may think. – Lindsay Powers, Amazon Editor 7. Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow: This knockout novel follows three generations of unforgettable Black women as they gather strength from one another's fortitude, humor, and care amidst the heartbreak, racism, and violence of Memphis. With music sprinkled throughout the novel, ‘50s songs become the soundtrack to falling in love with these women who are bold, brash, hurting, and hopeful. – Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor 8. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel: If you're sick of the pandemic and don't like science fiction, guess what? You're still going to love Emily St. John Mandel's beautiful, absorbing novel that involves science fiction and a pandemic. It is a lyrical and profound page turner. – Chris Schluep, Amazon Editor 9. Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith: An intoxicating summer read of love, lust, and second chances. Vincent has left her lying American husband for the art-and-music-filled streets of Paris. As she begins to uncover more about her husband's deceit, she also begins to fall hard for a student in her class. Smart, empowering, and, like Leesa Cross-Smith's other books, a tribute to the beauty of all the small moments that make life worth living. – Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor 10. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir by Molly Shannon: Shannon's "break-the-rules, everything-is-an-adventure, people-are-mostly-good mentality" is infectious and ever-present in the pages of Hello, Molly!. Opening up about a childhood tragedy, a complicated paternal relationship, and the hilarity of Hollywood, this inspiring, optimistic, and very funny memoir is as original and delightful as the Saturday Night Live characters Shannon is famous for. – Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor To celebrate their appearances on the annual list of Best Books of the Year So Far, three of the authors— Van Pelt, Foo, and Tahir—will appear on the Amazon Live Author Live series on June 15 at 1:30 p.m. PDT to discuss their titles, their writing processes, and more. Viewers can watch, listen, and join the conversation by visiting Amazon Live. To view the complete list of the Best Books of the Year So Far, covering children's, romance, science, mysteries, business, history, and more, visit www.amazon.com/bestbookssofar. For more coverage of the books featured on the Best Books of the Year So Far list, as well as insightful reviews on new books, author interviews, and hand-curated roundups in popular categories, visit the Amazon Book Review at www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview. You can also follow the Amazon Book Editors' recommendations and conversations on Amazon Books' Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

<p><em>Amazon Books' editorial team selects their favorite books across genres and categories </em><em>to determine the Best Books of the Year So Far</em></p><p><em>Amazon Books Editorial Director Sarah Gelman reveals the top picks on </em>CBS Mornings</p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 15, 2022-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Today, Amazon announced its picks for 2022's Best Books of the Year So Far, selecting Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel <em>Remarkably Bright Creatures</em>—cited by Amazon Editors as "a novel that delivers a message about love and loss that's poignant, charming, and irresistible"—as the No. 1 selection. The other top picks are Stephanie Foo's<em> What My Bones Know</em>, a standout memoir about healing from complex trauma, and Sabaa Tahir's <em>All My Rage</em>, a tragic and poignant young adult novel examining the complexities of young and old love. In the children's books category, Christopher Denise's picture book <em>Knight Owl</em> tops the list, featuring wordplay and optimism in a story about how bravery, cleverness, and friendship can rule over brawn.</p><p>Throughout the year, Amazon Books Editors pore over thousands of pages and hundreds of books to determine the Best Books of the Month, Best Books of the Year So Far, and Best Books of the Year, discussing and debating new releases across various categories. The Editors are passionate about uniting readers with their next favorite read.</p><p>After reading titles released from January through June 2022, Amazon Books Editors selected the overall top 20 Best Books of the Year So Far, as well as the top 20 in popular categories like literary fiction, mystery and thrillers, romance, history, biographies and memoirs, cookbooks, and children's books. Across these lists, customers can find reads that are perfect for summer reading—whether you're looking for serious nonfiction, a rom-com, a gripping psychological thriller, or something in between.</p><p>"Selecting this midyear list is one of the most fun parts of the editorial team's job," said Sarah Gelman, Amazon Books editorial director. "You haven't seen passion until you watch a group of book lovers argue for their favorite books to be shared with customers! This year, fiction is having a real moment as readers look for an escape, and summer is the perfect time to do that."</p><p>After being told <em>Remarkably Bright Creatures</em> was Amazon Books' top pick for the first half of 2022, Van Pelt said: "I'm beyond thrilled to be Amazon's top pick of the year so far! I never imagined my little octopus story would touch so many people, and hearing that readers are sharing it with loved ones across generations makes my heart so happy."</p><p>"We all fell in love with Shelby Van Pelt's stunning debut, <em>Remarkably Bright Creatures</em>," Gelman said. "This novel is wholly original and it somehow manages to be all the things at once: sweet, poignant, funny, and wise. I still miss these characters, but particularly the wise octopus at the center of the story."</p><p>Here are the Amazon Books Editors' Top 10 picks of 2022 so far, and their reviews for what made each book stand out:</p><p><em>1. Remarkably Bright Creatures</em> by Shelby Van Pelt:</p><p><em>We all loved this story of an unlikely friendship that begins at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, between a misanthropic octopus named Marcellus, and a widowed staffer named Tova. The grumpy invertebrate turns detective to solve a mystery for Tova, as he—and the novel—deliver a message about love and loss that's poignant, charming, and irresistible. –Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor</em></p><p><em>2. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma</em> by Stephanie Foo:</p><p><em>There is no dearth of books on trauma in the marketplace right now, so it's no easy feat standing out. But </em>What My Bones Know<em> does. A deep dive into the scourge of complex PTSD, this stirring memoir serves as a reminder of the resilience of the human spirit, no matter what any of us is struggling with in life. – Erin Kodicek, Amazon Editor</em></p><p><em>3. All My Rage</em> by Sabaa Tahir:</p><p><em>Dreams take a toll on the dreamer, and so it is for Misbah, Toufiq, and their teenage son Salahudin. As a young couple's fresh start turns sour, Tahir exposes how relationships can burn white-hot with love—and anger. Flipping between past and present, this brilliant novel about immigrants, family, first love, and forgiveness, is raw, real, and unstoppable. – Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor</em></p><p><em>4. The Maid </em>by Nita Prose:</p><p><em>This story of a quirky, endearing hotel maid who discovers a dead guest—and nearly ends up accused of his murder—was another novel that had us all raving about its charms. This is both a solid mystery and a sweet, amusing ode to giving people a chance to bloom where they're planted. – Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor</em></p><p><em>5. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile</em> by Candice Millard:</p><p><em>Full of adventure, ambushes, false starts, and the pursuit of conquest, </em>River of the Gods<em> tells the story of three explorers—Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, and Sidi Mubarak Bombay—who set out to discover the origins of the Nile. Using diary entries and letters, Millard thrusts you into the jungle with these larger-than-life characters, while deftly navigating the tangled reality of colonial exploitation…A thrill of a ride. – Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor</em></p><p><em>6. Lessons in Chemistry</em> by Bonnie Garmus:</p><p><em>Elizabeth Zott stumbles into motherhood, and success as a TV cooking host, when she's blocked from becoming a scientist—inspiring a generation of women who have been written-off in 1960s America. This satisfying—and delightful—read is for anyone who has felt underestimated, or held back due to fear of what others may think. – Lindsay Powers, Amazon Editor</em></p><p><em>7. Memphis</em> by Tara M. Stringfellow:</p><p><em>This knockout novel follows three generations of unforgettable Black women as they gather strength from one another's fortitude, humor, and care amidst the heartbreak, racism, and violence of Memphis. With music sprinkled throughout the novel, ‘50s songs become the soundtrack to falling in love with these women who are bold, brash, hurting, and hopeful. – Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor</em></p><p><em>8. Sea of Tranquility</em> by Emily St. John Mandel:</p><p><em>If you're sick of the pandemic and don't like science fiction, guess what? You're still going to love Emily St. John Mandel's beautiful, absorbing novel that involves science fiction and a pandemic. It is a lyrical and profound page turner. – Chris Schluep, Amazon Editor</em></p><p><em>9. Half-Blown Rose</em> by Leesa Cross-Smith<em>:</em></p><p><em>An intoxicating summer read of love, lust, and second chances. Vincent has left her lying American husband for the art-and-music-filled streets of Paris. As she begins to uncover more about her husband's deceit, she also begins to fall hard for a student in her class. Smart, empowering, and, like Leesa Cross-Smith's other books, a tribute to the beauty of all the small moments that make life worth living. – Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor</em></p><p><em>10. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir</em> by Molly Shannon:</p><p><em>Shannon's "break-the-rules, everything-is-an-adventure, people-are-mostly-good mentality" is infectious and ever-present in the pages of </em>Hello, Molly!<em>. Opening up about a childhood tragedy, a complicated paternal relationship, and the hilarity of Hollywood, this inspiring, optimistic, and very funny memoir is as original and delightful as the </em>Saturday Night Live<em> characters Shannon is famous for. – Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor</em></p><p>To celebrate their appearances on the annual list of Best Books of the Year So Far, three of the authors— Van Pelt, Foo, and Tahir—will appear on the Amazon Live Author Live series on June 15 at 1:30 p.m. PDT to discuss their titles, their writing processes, and more. Viewers can watch, listen, and join the conversation by visiting Amazon Live.</p><p>To view the complete list of the Best Books of the Year So Far, covering children's, romance, science, mysteries, business, history, and more, visit www.amazon.com/bestbookssofar.</p><p>For more coverage of the books featured on the Best Books of the Year So Far list, as well as insightful reviews on new books, author interviews, and hand-curated roundups in popular categories, visit the Amazon Book Review at www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview. You can also follow the Amazon Book Editors' recommendations and conversations on Amazon Books' Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.</p>

Amazon and Cartier File Two Joint Lawsuits Against Counterfeiters Using Social Media to Traffic Counterfeit Luxury Goods

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Amazon and Cartier File Two Joint Lawsuits Against Counterfeiters Using Social Media to Traffic Counterfeit Luxury Goods

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Bad actors sought to evade Amazon's detection by listing generic products in Amazon's store while purposefully promoting counterfeits on social media SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 15, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Cartier today announced two joint lawsuits against a social media influencer and eight businesses (collectively, the "defendants") for advertising, promoting, and facilitating the sale of counterfeit luxury goods through Instagram and other websites, infringing on Cartier's registered trademarks and violating Amazon's policies. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220615005687/en/ The lawsuits were filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and allege the defendants colluded with each other to sell counterfeit products and engage in false advertising. "By using social media to promote counterfeit products, bad actors undermine trust and mislead customers," said Kebharu Smith, associate general counsel and director of the Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU). "Amazon will keep investing and innovating to stay ahead of counterfeiters, and working with brands and law enforcement to hold bad actors accountable. We don't just want to chase them away from Amazon—we want to stop them for good." Among the nine defendants, the lawsuits allege that a social media influencer conspired with bad actors to attempt to circumvent Amazon's anti-counterfeiting detection tools by promoting counterfeit luxury products—including fake Cartier bracelets, necklaces, and rings—on Instagram as well as their own websites. The criminals openly posted photos of counterfeit Cartier jewelry, with a description of the infringing product on Instagram, but on Amazon and other websites, they created product detail pages for generic products with no indication of infringement. The defendants then provided customers on Instagram a link to the generic product on Amazon or other websites, and they told customers if they purchased the generic item, they would receive a counterfeit Cartier product. One such product attempted to replicate Cartier's iconic LOVE bracelet, which was first introduced as part of Cartier's LOVE collection in 1969. This product was listed on Amazon disguised as a non-branded product with the description "Women's Fashion Classic Screw Love Titanium Steel Bracelet" with no mention of Cartier and an image that carefully concealed the screw motif of Cartier's authentic LOVE bracelet. On Instagram the product was clearly advertised as a counterfeit with images bearing the Cartier name and screw motif. When the generic product was purchased from Amazon, the counterfeit Cartier LOVE bracelet bearing the Cartier trademarks was shipped to the customer. The criminals repeatedly directed and instructed their social media followers on how to try to purchase infringing products on Amazon, by directing them to links or sending direct messages from Instagram, on how to purchase "high-quality copies" of luxury brands such as Cartier in the Amazon store and other online marketplaces. Amazon is deeply committed to protecting brands' intellectual property and strictly prohibits counterfeit products in its stores. In 2021, Amazon invested more than $900 million and employed more than 12,000 people dedicated to protecting customers, brands, selling partners, and the store from counterfeit, fraud, and other forms of abuse. Amazon's proactive investments in preventing counterfeits include robust seller vetting, advanced machine learning technologies, and industry-leading brand protection tools like Project Zero, Brand Registry, and Transparency. The Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit is a global team with specialized experience in investigating and bringing legal action against bad actors to protect consumers and brands. The CCU works closely with law enforcement and brand partners to investigate and litigate, including bringing both criminal and civil suits. It has filed a series of lawsuits against counterfeiters in partnership with brands such as YETI, GoPro, Hanes, Valentino, Salvatore Ferragamo, and many others. More on Amazon's efforts to protect brands and hold bad actors accountable be found in Amazon's latest Brand Protection Report. The court filings are available here: Case: 2:22-cv-00840, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Case: 2:22-cv-00841, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington 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 Cartier A reference in the world of luxury, Cartier, whose name is synonymous with open-mindedness and curiosity, stands out with its creations and reveals beauty wherever it may lie. Jewellery, high jewellery, watchmaking and fragrances, leather goods and accessories: Cartier's creations symbolize the convergence between exceptional craftsmanship and a timeless signature. Today, Cartier is part of Richemont and has a worldwide presence through its network of flagships and boutiques, authorized retail partners, and online. www.cartier.com View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220615005687/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Bad actors sought to evade Amazon's detection by listing generic products in Amazon's store while purposefully promoting counterfeits on social media</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 15, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Cartier today announced two joint lawsuits against a social media influencer and eight businesses (collectively, the "defendants") for advertising, promoting, and facilitating the sale of counterfeit luxury goods through Instagram and other websites, infringing on Cartier's registered trademarks and violating Amazon's policies.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220615005687/en/</p><p>The lawsuits were filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and allege the defendants colluded with each other to sell counterfeit products and engage in false advertising.</p><p>"By using social media to promote counterfeit products, bad actors undermine trust and mislead customers," said Kebharu Smith, associate general counsel and director of the Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU). "Amazon will keep investing and innovating to stay ahead of counterfeiters, and working with brands and law enforcement to hold bad actors accountable. We don't just want to chase them away from Amazon—we want to stop them for good."</p><p>Among the nine defendants, the lawsuits allege that a social media influencer conspired with bad actors to attempt to circumvent Amazon's anti-counterfeiting detection tools by promoting counterfeit luxury products—including fake Cartier bracelets, necklaces, and rings—on Instagram as well as their own websites.</p><p>The criminals openly posted photos of counterfeit Cartier jewelry, with a description of the infringing product on Instagram, but on Amazon and other websites, they created product detail pages for generic products with no indication of infringement. The defendants then provided customers on Instagram a link to the generic product on Amazon or other websites, and they told customers if they purchased the generic item, they would receive a counterfeit Cartier product.</p><p>One such product attempted to replicate Cartier's iconic LOVE bracelet, which was first introduced as part of Cartier's LOVE collection in 1969. This product was listed on Amazon disguised as a non-branded product with the description "Women's Fashion Classic Screw Love Titanium Steel Bracelet" with no mention of Cartier and an image that carefully concealed the screw motif of Cartier's authentic LOVE bracelet. On Instagram the product was clearly advertised as a counterfeit with images bearing the Cartier name and screw motif<em>. </em>When the generic product was purchased from Amazon, the counterfeit Cartier LOVE bracelet bearing the Cartier trademarks was shipped to the customer.</p><p>The criminals repeatedly directed and instructed their social media followers on how to try to purchase infringing products on Amazon, by directing them to links or sending direct messages from Instagram, on how to purchase "high-quality copies" of luxury brands such as Cartier in the Amazon store and other online marketplaces.</p><p>Amazon is deeply committed to protecting brands' intellectual property and strictly prohibits counterfeit products in its stores. In 2021, Amazon invested more than $900 million and employed more than 12,000 people dedicated to protecting customers, brands, selling partners, and the store from counterfeit, fraud, and other forms of abuse. Amazon's proactive investments in preventing counterfeits include robust seller vetting, advanced machine learning technologies, and industry-leading brand protection tools like Project Zero, Brand Registry, and Transparency.</p><p>The Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit is a global team with specialized experience in investigating and bringing legal action against bad actors to protect consumers and brands. The CCU works closely with law enforcement and brand partners to investigate and litigate, including bringing both criminal and civil suits. It has filed a series of lawsuits against counterfeiters in partnership with brands such as YETI, GoPro, Hanes, Valentino, Salvatore Ferragamo, and many others. More on Amazon's efforts to protect brands and hold bad actors accountable be found in Amazon's latest Brand Protection Report.</p><p>The court filings are available here:</p><ul><li>Case: 2:22-cv-00840, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington</li><li>Case: 2:22-cv-00841, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington</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 Cartier</p><p>A reference in the world of luxury, Cartier, whose name is synonymous with open-mindedness and curiosity, stands out with its creations and reveals beauty wherever it may lie. Jewellery, high jewellery, watchmaking and fragrances, leather goods and accessories: Cartier's creations symbolize the convergence between exceptional craftsmanship and a timeless signature. Today, Cartier is part of Richemont and has a worldwide presence through its network of flagships and boutiques, authorized retail partners, and online. <em>www.cartier.com</em></p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220615005687/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Fashion Introduces a More Convenient Way to Shop with Virtual Try-On for Shoes

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Amazon Fashion Introduces a More Convenient Way to Shop with Virtual Try-On for Shoes

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Virtual Try-On for Shoes allows customers to visualize how a pair of shoes will look from every angle, whether they're in the comfort of their home or on the go Customers can shop thousands of styles with Virtual Try-On for Shoes, including New Balance, adidas, Reebok, and more SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 9, 2022-- Today, Amazon Fashion announced the launch of Virtual Try-On for Shoes, an interactive mobile experience that uses augmented reality to help customers visualize how a pair of shoes will look on themselves from every angle and to better inform purchasing decisions, from the comfort of their home or on the go. Customers using the Amazon shopping app on iOS can use Virtual Try-On for Shoes to visualize thousands of sneaker styles from brands including New Balance, adidas, Reebok, Puma, Superga, Lacoste, Asics, and Saucony. Once they select a shoe, customers can tap the "Virtual Try-On" button on the product detail page and point the camera on their mobile device at their feet to see how the shoes will look on. Customers can then move their feet to see how the shoe looks from every angle and use the carousel to easily swap colors of the same style without needing to exit the experience. Customers also have the option of taking a photo of their virtual try-on experienceand sharing the image with friends on social media by clicking the "Share" icon. "Amazon Fashion's goal is to create innovative experiences that make shopping for fashion online easier and more delightful for customers," said Muge Erdirik Dogan, president of Amazon Fashion. "We're excited to introduce Virtual Try-On for Shoes, so customers can try on thousands of styles from brands they know and love at their convenience, wherever they are. We look forward to listening and learning from customer feedback as we continue to enhance the experience and expand to more brands and styles." Virtual Try-On for Shoes also provides brands a new way to showcase their products and to make shopping for their styles easier and more interactive. "Innovation and elevating consumer experiences are at the core of New Balance. We're excited to showcase our footwear selection in Amazon Fashion's Virtual Try-On for Shoes as we continue to look for immersive ways to engage our shared customer base," said Melissa Worth, senior vice president of North America at New Balance. Amazon customers in the U.S. and Canada, using the Amazon shopping app on iOS, are able to access the experience starting today by going to amazon.com/virtualtryon. About Amazon FashionAmazon Fashion, the fashion retail division of Seattle-based Amazon, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), is a one-stop destination for head-to-toe style. Find apparel, shoes, accessories, jewelry, watches, handbags, and luggage from a wide range of designer, contemporary, and emerging brands for any occasion, any style, and any budget. Amazon Fashion continues to expand its wide selection and create new experiences on behalf of its customers, including Prime exclusive programs like Prime Try Before You Buy, allowing customers to try before they buy, and Personal Shopper by Prime Try Before You Buy, a service that provides style inspiration and curated recommendations. Amazon Fashion also introduced The Drop, an innovative shopping experience that gives customers access to limited-edition street-style collections designed by fashion influencers around the world. In 2020, Amazon Fashion unveiled Luxury Stores, a destination that brings established and emerging luxury fashion and beauty brands directly to U.S. customers. Amazon Fashion aims to reinvent shopping for fashion and uses technology to serve customers with products and brands that are relevant to them. For more information, please visit www.amazon.com/fashion. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220609005131/en/ Media ContactsDanielle Sirianni | siriannd@amazon.com Source: Amazon Fashion

<p><em>Virtual Try-On for Shoes allows customers to visualize how a pair of shoes will look from every angle, whether they're in the comfort of their home or on the go</em></p><p><em>Customers can shop thousands of styles with Virtual Try-On for Shoes, including New Balance, adidas, Reebok, and more</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 9, 2022-- Today, Amazon Fashion announced the launch of Virtual Try-On for Shoes, an interactive mobile experience that uses augmented reality to help customers visualize how a pair of shoes will look on themselves from every angle and to better inform purchasing decisions, from the comfort of their home or on the go.</p><p>Customers using the Amazon shopping app on iOS can use Virtual Try-On for Shoes to visualize thousands of sneaker styles from brands including New Balance, adidas, Reebok, Puma, Superga, Lacoste, Asics, and Saucony. Once they select a shoe, customers can tap the "Virtual Try-On" button on the product detail page and point the camera on their mobile device at their feet to see how the shoes will look on. Customers can then move their feet to see how the shoe looks from every angle and use the carousel to easily swap colors of the same style without needing to exit the experience. Customers also have the option of taking a photo of their virtual try-on experienceand sharing the image with friends on social media by clicking the "Share" icon.</p><p>"Amazon Fashion's goal is to create innovative experiences that make shopping for fashion online easier and more delightful for customers," said Muge Erdirik Dogan, president of Amazon Fashion. "We're excited to introduce Virtual Try-On for Shoes, so customers can try on thousands of styles from brands they know and love at their convenience, wherever they are. We look forward to listening and learning from customer feedback as we continue to enhance the experience and expand to more brands and styles."</p><p>Virtual Try-On for Shoes also provides brands a new way to showcase their products and to make shopping for their styles easier and more interactive.</p><p>"Innovation and elevating consumer experiences are at the core of New Balance. We're excited to showcase our footwear selection in Amazon Fashion's Virtual Try-On for Shoes as we continue to look for immersive ways to engage our shared customer base," said Melissa Worth, senior vice president of North America at New Balance.</p><p>Amazon customers in the U.S. and Canada, using the Amazon shopping app on iOS, are able to access the experience starting today by going to amazon.com/virtualtryon.</p><p>About Amazon FashionAmazon Fashion, the fashion retail division of Seattle-based Amazon, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), is a one-stop destination for head-to-toe style. Find apparel, shoes, accessories, jewelry, watches, handbags, and luggage from a wide range of designer, contemporary, and emerging brands for any occasion, any style, and any budget. Amazon Fashion continues to expand its wide selection and create new experiences on behalf of its customers, including Prime exclusive programs like Prime Try Before You Buy, allowing customers to try before they buy, and Personal Shopper by Prime Try Before You Buy, a service that provides style inspiration and curated recommendations. Amazon Fashion also introduced The Drop, an innovative shopping experience that gives customers access to limited-edition street-style collections designed by fashion influencers around the world. In 2020, Amazon Fashion unveiled Luxury Stores, a destination that brings established and emerging luxury fashion and beauty brands directly to U.S. customers. Amazon Fashion aims to reinvent shopping for fashion and uses technology to serve customers with products and brands that are relevant to them. For more information, please visit www.amazon.com/fashion.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220609005131/en/</p><p>Media ContactsDanielle Sirianni | siriannd@amazon.com</p><p>Source: Amazon Fashion</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization

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AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization

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New AWS Mainframe Modernization service makes it faster and easier for customers to modernize mainframe workloads by moving them to the cloud and benefiting from the superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings of AWS TCS, Infosys, and CGI among customers and partners using AWS Mainframe Modernization SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 8, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization, a new service that makes it faster and easier for customers to modernize mainframe-based workloads by moving them to the cloud to enjoy AWS's superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings. With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers can refactor their mainframe workloads to run on AWS by transforming mainframe-based applications into modern cloud services. Alternatively, customers can keep their applications as written and replatform their workloads to AWS by reusing existing code with minimal changes. A managed runtime environment built into AWS Mainframe Modernization provides the necessary compute, memory, and storage to run both refactored and replatformed applications and helps automate the details of capacity provisioning, security, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring. The AWS Mainframe Modernization service also provides the development, testing, and deployment tools necessary to automate the modernization of mainframe applications to run on AWS. There are no upfront costs, and customers only pay for the amount of compute provisioned. To get started with the AWS Mainframe Modernization service, visit aws.amazon.com/mainframe-modernization. Many customers today in a variety of industries want to modernize their mainframe-based applications to take advantage of the cloud, but to do so, they need to go through a lengthy and complex process. This process of modernizing mainframe workloads to run in the cloud requires multiple steps to discover, assess, test, and operate the new workload environments. Each step can be difficult and requires custom or third-party tooling that must be calibrated to each individual customer environment—before modernization project teams can begin the intricate task of transforming mainframe programs into cloud services. Because of the complexity involved in modernizing mainframe applications, organizations typically turn to consultants and systems integrators (SIs) to lead mainframe modernization projects. Organizations also face the challenge of needing to configure, run, and operate mainframe systems with modern application development and deployment best practices in the new cloud environments. As more customers want to modernize their mainframe-based applications, they can derive outsized benefits from better tools that make it easier for them to run their workloads in the cloud to realize improved costs and agility. AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a complete development and runtime environment that makes it faster and easier for customers to modernize and run their mainframe workloads on AWS. AWS Mainframe Modernization integrates the tools needed to modernize mainframe applications using a single environment that creates an end-to-end modernization pipeline. With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers can refactor their workloads written for mainframes to modern cloud services. Or, customers can maintain existing applications as written and replatform them to AWS with minimal code changes. Whether customers choose to refactor or replatform their workloads, AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a managed, cloud-based runtime environment for the modernized applications that helps automate capacity provisioning, security, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring with no underlying infrastructure to manage. 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. Customers and SIs can also use AWS Mainframe Modernization to help teams better assess modernizing mainframe applications and de-risk and accelerate the modernization of mainframe workloads using AWS. "Customers often tell us that AWS is the best place to run any type of application because of its unmatched breadth and depth of purpose-built services. However, businesses in a wide variety of industries have relied on mainframes to run business-critical applications for decades. These businesses naturally want to modernize their mainframe-based applications to reduce costs and eliminate technical debt, but they don't know how or where to get started," said William Platt, General Manager of Migration Services at AWS. "With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers and systems integrators can now more quickly and easily refactor or replatform mainframe applications to run in the cloud. AWS Mainframe Modernization provides the necessary tools for organizations to take full advantage of the elasticity, scalability, and reliability of AWS, while also saving time and money." AWS Mainframe Modernization is generally available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and South America (São Paulo) with availability in additional AWS Regions in the coming months. TCS helps enterprises across the world pursue their innovation, growth, and transformation using AWS. TCS's AWS Business Unit—a full-stack, multidisciplinary group—offers end-to-end consulting and implementation services and solutions around cloud migration, application and data modernization, managed services, and industry-specific innovation. "Mainframe applications are often the biggest hurdles to digital transformation. Using our Assessment and Migration Factory for AWS Mainframe Modernization, we are helping clients draw up their migration strategy and accelerating their transition to the cloud," said Krishna Mohan, Global Head of AWS Business Unit at TCS. "Our Assessment and Migration Factory leverages our deep domain expertise in mainframe workload migration, domain-specific reference architectures, and best practices for mainframe modernization to provide clients a faster and surer pathway to transform their mainframe workloads and run them on AWS." Infosys Public Services, a U.S. headquartered subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), is a leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. "Refactoring mainframe code bases and rehosting mainframe-based applications remain popular modernization approaches for public sector organizations looking to realize the benefits of the cloud and retain the years of business knowledge built into their systems," said Eric Paternoster, President and CEO at Infosys Public Services. "The AWS Mainframe Modernization service allows us to deliver these benefits to our clients. It has strengthened our already extensive mainframe modernization capabilities and enables us to build modern, scalable, digitally native applications faster—and at a lower cost and risk. For example, we are leveraging AWS services to automate and accelerate the migration of core COBOL-based applications into Java-based applications for a public sector transportation provider. The new applications are more scalable, easier to maintain, and are reducing cost of maintenance for the organization. We are excited about working with AWS in helping public sector organizations modernize their mainframe applications at speed with the AWS Mainframe Modernization service." CGI is among the world's largest business and strategic IT consulting services firms, with intellectual property-based solutions transforming clients' businesses globally. "CGI's leading wealth management solution in Canada—Funds360—leveraged AWS Mainframe Modernization to transform into a modern, digitally enabled, and service-based application, while maintaining and enhancing all functional capabilities," said Len Brooks, Vice President, Global Wealth Solutions at CGI. "The combination of CGI's capabilities with AWS Mainframe Modernization has delivered modern, best-in class-software, while minimizing disruption and de-risking implementation." 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/20220607006349/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New AWS Mainframe Modernization service makes it faster and easier for customers to modernize mainframe workloads by moving them to the cloud and benefiting from the superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings of AWS</em></p><p><em>TCS, Infosys, and CGI among customers and partners using AWS Mainframe Modernization</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 8, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization, a new service that makes it faster and easier for customers to modernize mainframe-based workloads by moving them to the cloud to enjoy AWS's superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings. With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers can refactor their mainframe workloads to run on AWS by transforming mainframe-based applications into modern cloud services. Alternatively, customers can keep their applications as written and replatform their workloads to AWS by reusing existing code with minimal changes. A managed runtime environment built into AWS Mainframe Modernization provides the necessary compute, memory, and storage to run both refactored and replatformed applications and helps automate the details of capacity provisioning, security, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring. The AWS Mainframe Modernization service also provides the development, testing, and deployment tools necessary to automate the modernization of mainframe applications to run on AWS. There are no upfront costs, and customers only pay for the amount of compute provisioned. To get started with the AWS Mainframe Modernization service, visit aws.amazon.com/mainframe-modernization.</p><p>Many customers today in a variety of industries want to modernize their mainframe-based applications to take advantage of the cloud, but to do so, they need to go through a lengthy and complex process. This process of modernizing mainframe workloads to run in the cloud requires multiple steps to discover, assess, test, and operate the new workload environments. Each step can be difficult and requires custom or third-party tooling that must be calibrated to each individual customer environment—before modernization project teams can begin the intricate task of transforming mainframe programs into cloud services. Because of the complexity involved in modernizing mainframe applications, organizations typically turn to consultants and systems integrators (SIs) to lead mainframe modernization projects. Organizations also face the challenge of needing to configure, run, and operate mainframe systems with modern application development and deployment best practices in the new cloud environments. As more customers want to modernize their mainframe-based applications, they can derive outsized benefits from better tools that make it easier for them to run their workloads in the cloud to realize improved costs and agility.</p><p>AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a complete development and runtime environment that makes it faster and easier for customers to modernize and run their mainframe workloads on AWS. AWS Mainframe Modernization integrates the tools needed to modernize mainframe applications using a single environment that creates an end-to-end modernization pipeline. With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers can refactor their workloads written for mainframes to modern cloud services. Or, customers can maintain existing applications as written and replatform them to AWS with minimal code changes. Whether customers choose to refactor or replatform their workloads, AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a managed, cloud-based runtime environment for the modernized applications that helps automate capacity provisioning, security, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring with no underlying infrastructure to manage. 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. Customers and SIs can also use AWS Mainframe Modernization to help teams better assess modernizing mainframe applications and de-risk and accelerate the modernization of mainframe workloads using AWS.</p><p>"Customers often tell us that AWS is the best place to run any type of application because of its unmatched breadth and depth of purpose-built services. However, businesses in a wide variety of industries have relied on mainframes to run business-critical applications for decades. These businesses naturally want to modernize their mainframe-based applications to reduce costs and eliminate technical debt, but they don't know how or where to get started," said William Platt, General Manager of Migration Services at AWS. "With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers and systems integrators can now more quickly and easily refactor or replatform mainframe applications to run in the cloud. AWS Mainframe Modernization provides the necessary tools for organizations to take full advantage of the elasticity, scalability, and reliability of AWS, while also saving time and money."</p><p>AWS Mainframe Modernization is generally available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and South America (São Paulo) with availability in additional AWS Regions in the coming months.</p><p>TCS helps enterprises across the world pursue their innovation, growth, and transformation using AWS. TCS's AWS Business Unit—a full-stack, multidisciplinary group—offers end-to-end consulting and implementation services and solutions around cloud migration, application and data modernization, managed services, and industry-specific innovation. "Mainframe applications are often the biggest hurdles to digital transformation. Using our Assessment and Migration Factory for AWS Mainframe Modernization, we are helping clients draw up their migration strategy and accelerating their transition to the cloud," said Krishna Mohan, Global Head of AWS Business Unit at TCS. "Our Assessment and Migration Factory leverages our deep domain expertise in mainframe workload migration, domain-specific reference architectures, and best practices for mainframe modernization to provide clients a faster and surer pathway to transform their mainframe workloads and run them on AWS."</p><p>Infosys Public Services, a U.S. headquartered subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), is a leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. "Refactoring mainframe code bases and rehosting mainframe-based applications remain popular modernization approaches for public sector organizations looking to realize the benefits of the cloud and retain the years of business knowledge built into their systems," said Eric Paternoster, President and CEO at Infosys Public Services. "The AWS Mainframe Modernization service allows us to deliver these benefits to our clients. It has strengthened our already extensive mainframe modernization capabilities and enables us to build modern, scalable, digitally native applications faster—and at a lower cost and risk. For example, we are leveraging AWS services to automate and accelerate the migration of core COBOL-based applications into Java-based applications for a public sector transportation provider. The new applications are more scalable, easier to maintain, and are reducing cost of maintenance for the organization. We are excited about working with AWS in helping public sector organizations modernize their mainframe applications at speed with the AWS Mainframe Modernization service."</p><p>CGI is among the world's largest business and strategic IT consulting services firms, with intellectual property-based solutions transforming clients' businesses globally. "CGI's leading wealth management solution in Canada—Funds360—leveraged AWS Mainframe Modernization to transform into a modern, digitally enabled, and service-based application, while maintaining and enhancing all functional capabilities," said Len Brooks, Vice President, Global Wealth Solutions at CGI. "The combination of CGI's capabilities with AWS Mainframe Modernization has delivered modern, best-in class-software, while minimizing disruption and de-risking implementation."</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/20220607006349/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Holds Bad Actors Accountable, Protects Customers and Brands from Counterfeit

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Amazon Holds Bad Actors Accountable, Protects Customers and Brands from Counterfeit

06/09/2022

2022

Latest Brand Protection Report highlights how Amazon safeguards customers, brands and selling partners from counterfeiters SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 8, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today released its second Brand Protection Report, which highlights Amazon's commitment to the authenticity of goods sold in its store and to fighting bad actors so that customers can shop with confidence. Amazon and its millions of selling partners—the vast majority of which are small and medium-sized businesses—serve hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Customers expect that when they purchase an item in Amazon's store, sold either by Amazon or by one of its third-party selling partners, they will receive an authentic product. In 2021, Amazon invested more than $900 million and had more than 12,000 people—including machine learning scientists, software developers, and expert investigators—who were dedicated to protecting customers, brands, selling partners, and their store from counterfeit, fraud, and other forms of abuse. "Our team continues to innovate to stay ahead of bad actors while working in partnership with rights owners, law enforcement, and other experts to ensure customers can continue to shop with confidence," said Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon's vice president of Selling Partner Services. "While we are proud of the progress we have made, we will not stop until we drive counterfeits to zero in our store." The second Amazon Brand Protection Report details a wide range of progress against three key areas: powerful and highly effective proactive efforts to protect Amazon's store; industry-leading tools enabling rights owners to partner with us to better protect their brands; and holding bad actors accountable. Here are some highlights from the report: Deterring and Stopping Bad Actors: Amazon stopped more than 2.5 million attempts to create fraudulent selling accounts, preventing these bad actors from publishing a single product for sale. This is down from more than 6 million attempts the prior year, thanks to robust seller and product vetting, along with efforts to hold bad actors accountable that are deterring them from attempting to sell on Amazon. Increasing Adoption of Brand Protection Tools: Brand Registry, which unlocks a suite of tools to build and protect a brand on Amazon, grew to include more than 700,000 active brands, an increase of 40% from the prior year. At the same time, the average number of valid notices of infringement submitted to Amazon by a brand in Brand Registry decreased by 25% from the prior year, as continued growth in the adoption and efficacy of automated brand protection tools continue to reduce the number of issues that brands are able to find and report. Holding Counterfeiters Accountable: Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU) continued to focus on ensuring that counterfeiters are held accountable—stopping them from abusing Amazon's stores and those of other retailers across the industry. In 2021, Amazon's CCU: Filed civil litigation against more than 170 counterfeiters in U.S. courts. Sued or referred more than 600 criminals for investigation in the U.S., UK, EU, and China, an increase of more than 300% over 2020. Identifying and Seizing Counterfeits: Amazon identified, seized, and appropriately disposed of more than 3 million counterfeit products, preventing them from harming customers or being resold elsewhere in the retail supply chain. This includes counterfeits that were sent to Amazon's fulfillment centers and situations where Amazon worked with brands and law enforcement to find counterfeiters' warehouses and facilities, and get them shut down. Forging Public-Private Partnerships: Amazon published a blueprint for public and private sector partnership to stop counterfeiters, building on learning and progress in protecting Amazon's store. This included the importance of information exchanges in the private sector to stop counterfeiters across retailers, partnering with customs to protect the borders, and the need for increasing resources for law enforcement to prosecute counterfeiters. That blueprint is driving productive dialogue and helping shape data sharing pilots and potential legislation. To view the full Amazon Brand Protection Report, click here. 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. 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<p><em>Latest Brand Protection Report highlights how Amazon safeguards customers, brands and selling partners from counterfeiters</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 8, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today released its second Brand Protection Report, which highlights Amazon's commitment to the authenticity of goods sold in its store and to fighting bad actors so that customers can shop with confidence.</p><p>Amazon and its millions of selling partners—the vast majority of which are small and medium-sized businesses—serve hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Customers expect that when they purchase an item in Amazon's store, sold either by Amazon or by one of its third-party selling partners, they will receive an authentic product.</p><p>In 2021, Amazon invested more than $900 million and had more than 12,000 people—including machine learning scientists, software developers, and expert investigators—who were dedicated to protecting customers, brands, selling partners, and their store from counterfeit, fraud, and other forms of abuse.</p><p>"Our team continues to innovate to stay ahead of bad actors while working in partnership with rights owners, law enforcement, and other experts to ensure customers can continue to shop with confidence," said Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon's vice president of Selling Partner Services. "While we are proud of the progress we have made, we will not stop until we drive counterfeits to zero in our store."</p><p>The second Amazon Brand Protection Report details a wide range of progress against three key areas: powerful and highly effective proactive efforts to protect Amazon's store; industry-leading tools enabling rights owners to partner with us to better protect their brands; and holding bad actors accountable. Here are some highlights from the report:</p><ul><li>Deterring and Stopping Bad Actors: Amazon stopped more than 2.5 million attempts to create fraudulent selling accounts, preventing these bad actors from publishing a single product for sale. This is down from more than 6 million attempts the prior year, thanks to robust seller and product vetting, along with efforts to hold bad actors accountable that are deterring them from attempting to sell on Amazon.</li><li>Increasing Adoption of Brand Protection Tools: Brand Registry, which unlocks a suite of tools to build and protect a brand on Amazon, grew to include more than 700,000 active brands, an increase of 40% from the prior year. At the same time, the average number of valid notices of infringement submitted to Amazon by a brand in Brand Registry decreased by 25% from the prior year, as continued growth in the adoption and efficacy of automated brand protection tools continue to reduce the number of issues that brands are able to find and report.</li><li>Holding Counterfeiters Accountable: Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU) continued to focus on ensuring that counterfeiters are held accountable—stopping them from abusing Amazon's stores and those of other retailers across the industry. In 2021, Amazon's CCU:<ul><li>Filed civil litigation against more than 170 counterfeiters in U.S. courts.</li><li>Sued or referred more than 600 criminals for investigation in the U.S., UK, EU, and China, an increase of more than 300% over 2020.</li></ul></li><li>Identifying and Seizing Counterfeits: Amazon identified, seized, and appropriately disposed of more than 3 million counterfeit products, preventing them from harming customers or being resold elsewhere in the retail supply chain. This includes counterfeits that were sent to Amazon's fulfillment centers and situations where Amazon worked with brands and law enforcement to find counterfeiters' warehouses and facilities, and get them shut down.</li><li>Forging Public-Private Partnerships: Amazon published a blueprint for public and private sector partnership to stop counterfeiters, building on learning and progress in protecting Amazon's store. This included the importance of information exchanges in the private sector to stop counterfeiters across retailers, partnering with customs to protect the borders, and the need for increasing resources for law enforcement to prosecute counterfeiters. That blueprint is driving productive dialogue and helping shape data sharing pilots and potential legislation.</li></ul><p>To view the full Amazon Brand Protection Report, click here.</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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220607006316/en/</p><p>Amazon Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Mindy Kaling Selects Sonali Dev's The Vibrant Years and Lauren Thoman's I'll Stop the World For Mindy's Book Studio, An Imprint of Amazon Publishing

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Mindy Kaling Selects Sonali Dev's The Vibrant Years and Lauren Thoman's I'll Stop the World For Mindy's Book Studio, An Imprint of Amazon Publishing

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Mindy Kaling and Amazon Publishing announce the first acquisitions for Mindy's Book Studio SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 1, 2022-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Today, Mindy Kaling and Amazon Publishing announced the first acquisitions for Mindy's Book Studio, a boutique story studio created to publish stories by emerging and established diverse voices and imagine books from page to screen. Selected by Kaling, best-selling author Sonali Dev's hilarious and heartfelt novel, The Vibrant Years, will be the first to publish under Mindy's Book Studio on December 1. The second book will be debut author Lauren Thoman's clever coming-of-age mystery, I'll Stop the World, set to publish in April 2023. Readers will have early access to both books a month ahead of publication through Amazon First Reads, as well as through Kindle Unlimited, print, and audio. Amazon Studios has first-look rights to adapt as feature motion pictures. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220601005565/en/ The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev (Graphic: Business Wire) "There are so many talented women who are writing smart, juicy, funny stories, and I'm so excited that through Mindy's Book Studio, I can help bring readers everywhere more books that reflect the diversity of our society," said Kaling. "Sonali Dev's The Vibrant Years and Lauren Thoman's I'll Stop the World capture the spirit of Mindy's Book Studio. The Vibrant Years is a joyful and empowering read following a group of unconventional women trying to find themselves, and I'll Stop the World is a whip-smart mystery with a vibrant cast of teenagers that gives off great ‘80s vibes." Packed with humor and heart, Dev's The Vibrant Years is a timely story about three generations of women who are done with being underestimated. Led by beloved rebel grandmother Bindu Desai, the three women set out on a journey of self-discovery, hilariously embracing their missteps, impulsive decisions, and cringeworthy dates that ultimately upend their lives for the better as they learn to live life on their own terms. Known for her Bollywood-style stories, Dev is an award-winning and USA Today best-selling author of eight novels, including the acclaimed Rajes series. Dev is represented by Alexandra Machinist at ICM Partners. "The Vibrant Years is a culmination of all the things I've always wanted to say about being a woman, and to have the immensely talented Mindy Kaling choose it as the first book for Mindy's Book Studio is an actual dream come true," said Dev. "The work Mindy has done over the past few decades has changed the landscape for diverse creators. Mindy's Book Studio is another way she's creating space for many silenced voices that need to be read, and I'm so honored and excited to be part of what she's building." Told in alternating perspectives, Thoman's electric debut novel, I'll Stop the World, is a heart-pounding coming-of-age mystery. Exploring the power of friendship, forgiveness, and second chances, Thoman's novel follows two teens from different worlds as their attempts to solve a murder leads to consequences that reverberate through multiple lifetimes. A freelance writer whose work has appeared in outlets including Parade and Vulture, Thoman is represented by Holly Root at Root Literary. "I love that Mindy's Book Studio is focused on championing traditionally underrepresented voices in publishing, both for the readers who still long to see themselves in fiction and for the readers whose hearts will be expanded through engaging with new perspectives," said Thoman. "I've been a fan of Mindy's for a long time, and I am thrilled for the opportunity to work with her and the amazing team at Mindy's Book Studio. I can't wait to read the books Mindy selects for the imprint, and I'm honored that she picked mine to be one of them." Announced in February, Mindy's Book Studio publishes fresh, vibrant, binge-worthy reads from emerging and established diverse voices. Amazon Studios has first-look rights to adapt the material as feature motion pictures, and Kaling holds first-producer option on adaptations. Coming soon, Kaling will also publish her debut novel and her next collection of personal essays with Amazon Publishing. About Amazon Publishing Amazon Publishing is a leading trade publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books with a mission to empower outstanding storytellers and connect them with readers worldwide. We publish emerging, best-selling, and critically acclaimed authors in digital, print, and audio formats. About Amazon Studios Amazon Studios is the home for talent, creating and producing Original films and television series for a global audience. Original series premiere exclusively on Prime Video, which is available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Amazon Studios also produces and acquires Original movies for theatrical release and exclusively for Prime Video, in addition to producing Original content for Freevee, Amazon's premium free streaming service. 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/20220601005565/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Mindy Kaling and Amazon Publishing announce the first acquisitions for Mindy's Book Studio</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 1, 2022-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Today, Mindy Kaling and Amazon Publishing announced the first acquisitions for Mindy's Book Studio, a boutique story studio created to publish stories by emerging and established diverse voices and imagine books from page to screen. Selected by Kaling, best-selling author Sonali Dev's hilarious and heartfelt novel, <em>The Vibrant Years</em>, will be the first to publish under Mindy's Book Studio on December 1. The second book will be debut author Lauren Thoman's clever coming-of-age mystery, <em>I'll Stop the World</em>, set to publish in April 2023. Readers will have early access to both books a month ahead of publication through Amazon First Reads, as well as through Kindle Unlimited, print, and audio. Amazon Studios has first-look rights to adapt as feature motion pictures.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220601005565/en/</p><div><p>The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev (Graphic: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"There are so many talented women who are writing smart, juicy, funny stories, and I'm so excited that through Mindy's Book Studio, I can help bring readers everywhere more books that reflect the diversity of our society," said Kaling. "Sonali Dev's <em>The Vibrant Years</em> and Lauren Thoman's <em>I'll Stop the World</em> capture the spirit of Mindy's Book Studio. <em>The Vibrant Years</em> is a joyful and empowering read following a group of unconventional women trying to find themselves, and <em>I'll Stop the World</em> is a whip-smart mystery with a vibrant cast of teenagers that gives off great ‘80s vibes."</p><p>Packed with humor and heart, Dev's <em>The Vibrant Years</em> is a timely story about three generations of women who are done with being underestimated. Led by beloved rebel grandmother Bindu Desai, the three women set out on a journey of self-discovery, hilariously embracing their missteps, impulsive decisions, and cringeworthy dates that ultimately upend their lives for the better as they learn to live life on their own terms. Known for her Bollywood-style stories, Dev is an award-winning and USA Today best-selling author of eight novels, including the acclaimed Rajes series. Dev is represented by Alexandra Machinist at ICM Partners.</p><p>"<em>The Vibrant Years</em> is a culmination of all the things I've always wanted to say about being a woman, and to have the immensely talented Mindy Kaling choose it as the first book for Mindy's Book Studio is an actual dream come true," said Dev. "The work Mindy has done over the past few decades has changed the landscape for diverse creators. Mindy's Book Studio is another way she's creating space for many silenced voices that need to be read, and I'm so honored and excited to be part of what she's building."</p><p>Told in alternating perspectives, Thoman's electric debut novel,<em> I'll Stop the World</em>, is a heart-pounding coming-of-age mystery. Exploring the power of friendship, forgiveness, and second chances, Thoman's novel follows two teens from different worlds as their attempts to solve a murder leads to consequences that reverberate through multiple lifetimes. A freelance writer whose work has appeared in outlets including Parade and Vulture, Thoman is represented by Holly Root at Root Literary.</p><p>"I love that Mindy's Book Studio is focused on championing traditionally underrepresented voices in publishing, both for the readers who still long to see themselves in fiction and for the readers whose hearts will be expanded through engaging with new perspectives," said Thoman. "I've been a fan of Mindy's for a long time, and I am thrilled for the opportunity to work with her and the amazing team at Mindy's Book Studio. I can't wait to read the books Mindy selects for the imprint, and I'm honored that she picked mine to be one of them."</p><p>Announced in February, Mindy's Book Studio publishes fresh, vibrant, binge-worthy reads from emerging and established diverse voices. Amazon Studios has first-look rights to adapt the material as feature motion pictures, and Kaling holds first-producer option on adaptations. Coming soon, Kaling will also publish her debut novel and her next collection of personal essays with Amazon Publishing.</p><p>About Amazon Publishing</p><p>Amazon Publishing is a leading trade publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books with a mission to empower outstanding storytellers and connect them with readers worldwide. We publish emerging, best-selling, and critically acclaimed authors in digital, print, and audio formats.</p><p>About Amazon Studios</p><p>Amazon Studios is the home for talent, creating and producing Original films and television series for a global audience. Original series premiere exclusively on Prime Video, which is available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Amazon Studios also produces and acquires Original movies for theatrical release and exclusively for Prime Video, in addition to producing Original content for Freevee, Amazon's premium free streaming service.</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/20220601005565/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Doubles Size of Disaster Relief Hub in Atlanta—1 Million Critical Relief Supplies Donated and Ready to Ship to Communities for the 2022 Hurricane Season

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Amazon Doubles Size of Disaster Relief Hub in Atlanta—1 Million Critical Relief Supplies Donated and Ready to Ship to Communities for the 2022 Hurricane Season

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Amazon's Global Disaster Relief Hub—strategically located to quickly respond to natural disasters in the Gulf Coast, the Caribbean, and Central America—will store 1 million relief supplies to support humanitarian aid partners on the front lines of disaster-prone communities Since 2017, Amazon has provided over 18 million items to support relief partners worldwide during 81 natural disasters ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 1, 2022-- With the 2022 hurricane season starting today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced it is doubling the size of its Global Disaster Relief hub in Atlanta to help communities affected by natural disasters. The company will donate 1 million critical relief supplies, increase logistics support, and double storage space in the hub, which can quickly distribute disaster relief kits to communities both in and outside the U.S. when a catastrophe strikes. The hub will pre-position 1 million emergency relief items that include shelter materials, hygiene supplies, medical equipment, cleanup and repair materials, and toys and household items for children — more than double compared to last year. Amazon is now ready to activate the hub for a wider range of disaster events, including hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, and humanitarian crises. The hub will expand to 20,000 cubic feet of fulfillment center space and support more than 10 relief organizations. Partners include Save the Children, the American Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Medical Corps, World Central Kitchen, SBP USA, MedShare, All Hands All Hearts, and others. "Over the past year, the Amazon disaster relief hub has allowed us to deliver aid to communities impacted by disasters faster than ever before. We've utilized Amazon's expertise in global logistics and delivery to provide help to those in need—quickly. Through our disaster relief hub in Atlanta and our humanitarian sites in Slovakia and Poland, which we built in just 10 days after the war in Ukraine started, we've helped our partners get critical relief items into the hands of the communities that need them the most," said Abe Diaz, Amazon's disaster relief lead. "Hurricane season is now officially underway, and we are ready to continue our work with dozens of community partners to support people facing crises or seeking refuge." The 2022 hurricane season is forecast to see between 14 and 21 named storms, with between six and 10 storms expected to reach hurricane strength, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The location of the disaster relief hub in Atlanta allows Amazon to quickly respond to hurricanes and other natural disasters in the southeastern U.S., along the Gulf Coast, and in the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico. Amazon analyzed its data across four years of disaster support and designed a pre-positioning strategy for the most common relief supplies needed by its humanitarian aid partners, ensuring that the most demanded items are as close as possible to where they will be needed. During a natural disaster, critical relief items are rapidly delivered, and the company then works with community partners to identify other supplies from Amazon's vast selection of products to fill additional needs on the ground. Amazon employee volunteers also support the company's humanitarian efforts by preparing disaster relief kits, which Amazon donates and distributes when a disaster strikes. The kits include commonly requested items during disasters, ranging from first aid products to towels and hygiene items. "In times of emergency and crisis, strong partnerships make a world of difference for kids and families who are most affected. Save the Children is proud and grateful to work with Amazon and its Disaster Relief Hub to ensure kids and their families can quickly get essential child-focused supplies that will aid in their recovery," said David Niersbach, head of U.S. humanitarian and emergency response for Save the Children. "Marty and I have been alongside first responders and emergency management personnel when disasters hit the Peach State, so we know firsthand how critical it is for resources to be made available quickly and efficiently," said Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp. "We're proud that Amazon is continuing to build out their humanitarian aid network from right here in Georgia. The Global Disaster Relief hub will continue to have a positive impact, and we're grateful for this good corporate citizenship in times of great need." Since 2017, Amazon's disaster relief and response efforts have provided over 18 million items in response to 81 natural disasters and humanitarian aid crises around the world. Those efforts utilize Amazon's vast operational excellence, innovative technologies, and global logistics network to provide fast and effective support to relief teams worldwide responding to large-scale natural disasters. Amazon has filled cargo jets and shipped truckloads of Amazon-donated items for communities ravaged by hurricanes. The company has also sent solar-powered lights to people living without power after tsunamis, enabled customers to easily donate products and cash to such relief efforts on Amazon.com, and helped both governments and nonprofits expedite response efforts at scale through Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services. 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. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220601005720/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon's Global Disaster Relief Hub—strategically located to quickly respond to natural disasters in the Gulf Coast, the Caribbean, and Central America—will store 1 million relief supplies to support humanitarian aid partners on the front lines of disaster-prone communities</em></p><p><em>Since 2017, Amazon has provided over 18 million items to support relief partners worldwide during 81 natural disasters</em></p><p>ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 1, 2022-- With the 2022 hurricane season starting today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced it is doubling the size of its Global Disaster Relief hub in Atlanta to help communities affected by natural disasters. The company will donate 1 million critical relief supplies, increase logistics support, and double storage space in the hub, which can quickly distribute disaster relief kits to communities both in and outside the U.S. when a catastrophe strikes.</p><p>The hub will pre-position 1 million emergency relief items that include shelter materials, hygiene supplies, medical equipment, cleanup and repair materials, and toys and household items for children — more than double compared to last year. Amazon is now ready to activate the hub for a wider range of disaster events, including hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, and humanitarian crises. The hub will expand to 20,000 cubic feet of fulfillment center space and support more than 10 relief organizations. Partners include Save the Children, the American Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Medical Corps, World Central Kitchen, SBP USA, MedShare, All Hands All Hearts, and others.</p><p>"Over the past year, the Amazon disaster relief hub has allowed us to deliver aid to communities impacted by disasters faster than ever before. We've utilized Amazon's expertise in global logistics and delivery to provide help to those in need—quickly. Through our disaster relief hub in Atlanta and our humanitarian sites in Slovakia and Poland, which we built in just 10 days after the war in Ukraine started, we've helped our partners get critical relief items into the hands of the communities that need them the most," said Abe Diaz, Amazon's disaster relief lead. "Hurricane season is now officially underway, and we are ready to continue our work with dozens of community partners to support people facing crises or seeking refuge."</p><p>The 2022 hurricane season is forecast to see between 14 and 21 named storms, with between six and 10 storms expected to reach hurricane strength, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The location of the disaster relief hub in Atlanta allows Amazon to quickly respond to hurricanes and other natural disasters in the southeastern U.S., along the Gulf Coast, and in the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico.</p><p>Amazon analyzed its data across four years of disaster support and designed a pre-positioning strategy for the most common relief supplies needed by its humanitarian aid partners, ensuring that the most demanded items are as close as possible to where they will be needed. During a natural disaster, critical relief items are rapidly delivered, and the company then works with community partners to identify other supplies from Amazon's vast selection of products to fill additional needs on the ground. Amazon employee volunteers also support the company's humanitarian efforts by preparing disaster relief kits, which Amazon donates and distributes when a disaster strikes. The kits include commonly requested items during disasters, ranging from first aid products to towels and hygiene items.</p><p>"In times of emergency and crisis, strong partnerships make a world of difference for kids and families who are most affected. Save the Children is proud and grateful to work with Amazon and its Disaster Relief Hub to ensure kids and their families can quickly get essential child-focused supplies that will aid in their recovery," said David Niersbach, head of U.S. humanitarian and emergency response for Save the Children.</p><p>"Marty and I have been alongside first responders and emergency management personnel when disasters hit the Peach State, so we know firsthand how critical it is for resources to be made available quickly and efficiently," said Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp. "We're proud that Amazon is continuing to build out their humanitarian aid network from right here in Georgia. The Global Disaster Relief hub will continue to have a positive impact, and we're grateful for this good corporate citizenship in times of great need."</p><p>Since 2017, Amazon's disaster relief and response efforts have provided over 18 million items in response to 81 natural disasters and humanitarian aid crises around the world. Those efforts utilize Amazon's vast operational excellence, innovative technologies, and global logistics network to provide fast and effective support to relief teams worldwide responding to large-scale natural disasters. Amazon has filled cargo jets and shipped truckloads of Amazon-donated items for communities ravaged by hurricanes. The company has also sent solar-powered lights to people living without power after tsunamis, enabled customers to easily donate products and cash to such relief efforts on Amazon.com, and helped both governments and nonprofits expedite response efforts at scale through Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services.</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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220601005720/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EC2 C7g Instances Powered by AWS-designed Graviton3 Processors

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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EC2 C7g Instances Powered by AWS-designed Graviton3 Processors

05/23/2022

2022

New C7g instances powered by next-generation AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better performance than comparable instances powered by Graviton2 processors—offering the best price performance for running compute-intensive workloads on AWS Snap, Sprinklr, and NextRoll among customers using C7g instances powered by Graviton3 processors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances, the next generation of compute-optimized instances powered by AWS-designed Graviton3 processors. New C7g instances use AWS Graviton3 processors to provide up to 25% better compute performance for compute-intensive applications than current generation C6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. The higher performance of C7g instances makes it possible for customers to run more efficiently a wide range of compute-intensive workloads—from web servers, load balancers, and batch processing to electronic design automation (EDA), high performance computing (HPC), gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, machine learning inference, and ad serving. There are no minimum commitments or upfront fees to use C7g instances, and customers pay only for the amount of compute used. To get started with C7g instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c7g. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220523005894/en/ AWS Graviton3 Processor (Photo: Business Wire) Since launching in 2020, Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS-designed Graviton2 processors have provided customers with significant performance improvements and cost savings for a broad range of applications. Today, 48 of the top 50 Amazon EC2 customers use AWS Graviton2-based instances to deliver superior price performance to their customers. Customers like DirecTV, Discovery, Epic Games, Formula 1, Honeycomb.io, Intuit, Lyft, Mercardo Libre, NextRoll, Nielsen, SmugMug, Snap, Splunk, and Sprinklr have seen significant performance gains, with reduced costs, running AWS Graviton2-based instances in production. The AWS Graviton-based instance portfolio offers 13 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 high-performance, cost-effective, and power-efficient compute in the cloud for all sorts of applications. As customers bring more compute-intensive workloads to the cloud to transform their organizations and fuel new opportunities, they want even better price performance and greater energy efficiency when running these demanding workloads. To provide even better price performance for a wide variety of customer applications, new C7g instances powered by next generation AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better performance for compute-intensive applications over current generation C6g instances. Compared to previous generation AWS Graviton2 processors, AWS Graviton3 processors deliver up to 2x faster performance for cryptographic workloads, up to 3x faster performance for machine learning inference, and nearly 2x higher floating point performance for scientific, machine learning, and media encoding workloads. AWS Graviton3 processors are also more energy efficient, using up to 60% less energy for the 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 than AWS Graviton2-based instances to improve the performance of memory-intensive scientific applications like computational fluid dynamics, geoscientific simulations, and seismic processing. C7g instances also deliver 20% higher networking bandwidth than C6g instances for network intensive applications like network load balancing and data analytics. "Customers of all sizes are seeing significant performance gains and cost savings using AWS Graviton-based instances," said David Brown, Vice President of Amazon EC2 at AWS. "Since we own the end-to-end chip development process, we're able to innovate and deliver new instances to customers faster. With up to 25% better performance than current generation Graviton instances, new C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors make it easy for organizations to get the most value from running their infrastructure on AWS." New C7g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that streamline the delivery of isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. The AWS Nitro System offloads the CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software, delivering performance that is nearly indistinguishable from bare metal. For customers looking to enhance the performance of applications that require parallel processing like HPC and video encoding, C7g instances in the coming weeks will include support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), which allows applications to communicate directly with network interface cards, providing lower and more consistent latency. C7g instances are available for purchase as On-Demand Instances, with Savings Plans, as Reserved Instances, or as Spot Instances. C7g instances are available today in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming later this year. Snap Inc. is a camera company focused on empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. "We trialed the new AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7g instances and found that they provide significant performance improvements on real workloads compared to previous generation C6g instances," said Aaron Sheldon, Software Engineer at Snap. "We are excited to migrate our Graviton2-based workloads to Graviton3, including the messaging, storage and the friend graph workloads." 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 run a wide variety of workloads on AWS Graviton-based instances for their significant price performance benefits," said Jamal Mazhar, Vice President of Infrastructure and DevOps at Sprinklr. "After the announcement of AWS Graviton3, we benchmarked our workloads on the new Amazon EC2 C7g instances and observed 27% better performance compared to the previous generation instances. Based on these results, we are looking forward to adopting AWS Graviton3-based instances in production." NextRoll, Inc. is a marketing and data technology company with a mission to accelerate growth for companies, big and small. Powered by machine learning, NextRoll's technology gathers data, delivers reliable insights, and provides business with approachable tools to target buyers in strategic ways – all on one platform. "We have found that AWS Graviton3-based C7g instances are ideal for bidders, ad servers, and ElastiCache clusters," said Valentino Volonghi, CTO at NextRoll. "We are seeing about 15% more requests handled by C7g instances compared to AWS Graviton2-based C6g instances. With C7g instances, we also observed up to 40% better latency. Based on these findings, we are looking forward to adopting AWS Graviton3-based C7g instances in production." Ansys is a global leader in engineering simulation. "As engineers and designers face increasingly complex problems, cloud computing helps lower the barrier of access to high-performance computing, allowing users to solve problems faster," said Prith Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer at Ansys. "Ansys has also been focusing on green computing initiatives with the goal of improving energy efficiency and reducing costs to customers. With the support of LS-DYNA on the AWS Graviton3 processor powered by AWS, Ansys customers will get the best of both worlds – access to a world-class multiphysics solver without compromising on speed, and lower energy and costs." Beamr is a leading provider of image and video optimization solutions that enable professional photographers to improve their workflows, photo sharing services to improve user experience (UX) and reduce churn, and video service providers to reduce storage and delivery costs. "Beamr's JPEGmini software, written in C/C++, optimizes JPEG image files by reducing their file size without compromising quality. The application is compute-intensive and includes functions for image decoding, image encoding, and a quality measure algorithm that analyzes various image attributes," said Dan Julius, Vice President of R&D at Beamr. "Since the mobile version of this software runs on Arm processors, we decided to test its performance on AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7g instances. Rebuilding our software to run on C7g instances took us one working day, and the results were promising. When running on C7g instances, we saw 30% improved performance over comparable x86-based instances. Based on these results, we plan to recommend to our customers to run the Beamr JPEGmini software on Graviton3-based instances once those become GA, and we plan to benchmark Beamr's H.264 and HEVC video encoders on Graviton instances as well." 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/20220523005894/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New C7g instances powered by next-generation AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better performance than comparable instances powered by Graviton2 processors—offering the best price performance for running compute-intensive workloads on AWS</em></p><p><em>Snap, Sprinklr, and NextRoll among customers using C7g instances powered by Graviton3 processors</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances, the next generation of compute-optimized instances powered by AWS-designed Graviton3 processors. New C7g instances use AWS Graviton3 processors to provide up to 25% better compute performance for compute-intensive applications than current generation C6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. The higher performance of C7g instances makes it possible for customers to run more efficiently a wide range of compute-intensive workloads—from web servers, load balancers, and batch processing to electronic design automation (EDA), high performance computing (HPC), gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, machine learning inference, and ad serving. There are no minimum commitments or upfront fees to use C7g instances, and customers pay only for the amount of compute used. To get started with C7g instances, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c7g.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220523005894/en/</p><div><p>AWS Graviton3 Processor (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>Since launching in 2020, Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS-designed Graviton2 processors have provided customers with significant performance improvements and cost savings for a broad range of applications. Today, 48 of the top 50 Amazon EC2 customers use AWS Graviton2-based instances to deliver superior price performance to their customers. Customers like DirecTV, Discovery, Epic Games, Formula 1, Honeycomb.io, Intuit, Lyft, Mercardo Libre, NextRoll, Nielsen, SmugMug, Snap, Splunk, and Sprinklr have seen significant performance gains, with reduced costs, running AWS Graviton2-based instances in production. The AWS Graviton-based instance portfolio offers 13 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 high-performance, cost-effective, and power-efficient compute in the cloud for all sorts of applications. As customers bring more compute-intensive workloads to the cloud to transform their organizations and fuel new opportunities, they want even better price performance and greater energy efficiency when running these demanding workloads.</p><p>To provide even better price performance for a wide variety of customer applications, new C7g instances powered by next generation AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better performance for compute-intensive applications over current generation C6g instances. Compared to previous generation AWS Graviton2 processors, AWS Graviton3 processors deliver up to 2x faster performance for cryptographic workloads, up to 3x faster performance for machine learning inference, and nearly 2x higher floating point performance for scientific, machine learning, and media encoding workloads. AWS Graviton3 processors are also more energy efficient, using up to 60% less energy for the 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 than AWS Graviton2-based instances to improve the performance of memory-intensive scientific applications like computational fluid dynamics, geoscientific simulations, and seismic processing. C7g instances also deliver 20% higher networking bandwidth than C6g instances for network intensive applications like network load balancing and data analytics.</p><p>"Customers of all sizes are seeing significant performance gains and cost savings using AWS Graviton-based instances," said David Brown, Vice President of Amazon EC2 at AWS. "Since we own the end-to-end chip development process, we're able to innovate and deliver new instances to customers faster. With up to 25% better performance than current generation Graviton instances, new C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors make it easy for organizations to get the most value from running their infrastructure on AWS."</p><p>New C7g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that streamline the delivery of isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. The AWS Nitro System offloads the CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software, delivering performance that is nearly indistinguishable from bare metal. For customers looking to enhance the performance of applications that require parallel processing like HPC and video encoding, C7g instances in the coming weeks will include support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), which allows applications to communicate directly with network interface cards, providing lower and more consistent latency. C7g instances are available for purchase as On-Demand Instances, with Savings Plans, as Reserved Instances, or as Spot Instances. C7g instances are available today in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming later this year.</p><p>Snap Inc. is a camera company focused on empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. "We trialed the new AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7g instances and found that they provide significant performance improvements on real workloads compared to previous generation C6g instances," said Aaron Sheldon, Software Engineer at Snap. "We are excited to migrate our Graviton2-based workloads to Graviton3, including the messaging, storage and the friend graph workloads."</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 run a wide variety of workloads on AWS Graviton-based instances for their significant price performance benefits," said Jamal Mazhar, Vice President of Infrastructure and DevOps at Sprinklr. "After the announcement of AWS Graviton3, we benchmarked our workloads on the new Amazon EC2 C7g instances and observed 27% better performance compared to the previous generation instances. Based on these results, we are looking forward to adopting AWS Graviton3-based instances in production."</p><p>NextRoll, Inc. is a marketing and data technology company with a mission to accelerate growth for companies, big and small. Powered by machine learning, NextRoll's technology gathers data, delivers reliable insights, and provides business with approachable tools to target buyers in strategic ways – all on one platform. "We have found that AWS Graviton3-based C7g instances are ideal for bidders, ad servers, and ElastiCache clusters," said Valentino Volonghi, CTO at NextRoll. "We are seeing about 15% more requests handled by C7g instances compared to AWS Graviton2-based C6g instances. With C7g instances, we also observed up to 40% better latency. Based on these findings, we are looking forward to adopting AWS Graviton3-based C7g instances in production."</p><p>Ansys is a global leader in engineering simulation. "As engineers and designers face increasingly complex problems, cloud computing helps lower the barrier of access to high-performance computing, allowing users to solve problems faster," said Prith Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer at Ansys. "Ansys has also been focusing on green computing initiatives with the goal of improving energy efficiency and reducing costs to customers. With the support of LS-DYNA on the AWS Graviton3 processor powered by AWS, Ansys customers will get the best of both worlds – access to a world-class multiphysics solver without compromising on speed, and lower energy and costs."</p><p>Beamr is a leading provider of image and video optimization solutions that enable professional photographers to improve their workflows, photo sharing services to improve user experience (UX) and reduce churn, and video service providers to reduce storage and delivery costs. "Beamr's JPEGmini software, written in C/C++, optimizes JPEG image files by reducing their file size without compromising quality. The application is compute-intensive and includes functions for image decoding, image encoding, and a quality measure algorithm that analyzes various image attributes," said Dan Julius, Vice President of R&amp;D at Beamr. "Since the mobile version of this software runs on Arm processors, we decided to test its performance on AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7g instances. Rebuilding our software to run on C7g instances took us one working day, and the results were promising. When running on C7g instances, we saw 30% improved performance over comparable x86-based instances. Based on these results, we plan to recommend to our customers to run the Beamr JPEGmini software on Graviton3-based instances once those become GA, and we plan to benchmark Beamr's H.264 and HEVC video encoders on Graviton instances as well."</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/20220523005894/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Introducing the Next Generation Fire 7 and Fire 7 Kids—Amazon's Most Popular Tablet, Upgraded to Deliver Even More for the Whole Family

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Introducing the Next Generation Fire 7 and Fire 7 Kids—Amazon's Most Popular Tablet, Upgraded to Deliver Even More for the Whole Family

05/18/2022

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Watch movies, play games, and stay connected at home or on-the-go with up to 10 hours of battery life, USB-C for easy charging, a 30% faster processor, and double the RAM—for only $59.99 New Fire 7 Kids comes with one year of Amazon Kids+ offering thousands of ad-free apps, books, games, videos, and more, plus easy-to-use parental controls, a kid-proof case, and a two-year worry-free guarantee—all for $109.99 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the next-generation Fire 7 and Fire 7 Kids tablets—bringing more speed, performance, and value to the company's most affordable tablet. The new Fire 7 and Fire 7 Kids offer double the RAM and 40% longer battery life for continual hours of entertainment, video calling, and fun for every member of the family, while the compact size makes it a perfect on-the-go companion. The Fire 7 Kids includes a kid-proof protective case, a one-year subscription of Amazon Kids+, and a two-year worry-free guarantee. Both tablets are available to order today and will begin shipping on June 29. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220517006342/en/ Thin and light, Fire 7 comes in black, denim, and rose colors. (Photo: Business Wire) "Fire 7 is our most popular tablet—and now it's even better," said Kevin Keith, vice president of Amazon Devices. "This new generation gives customers more of what they love—improved performance and longer battery life, all for just $59. And for parents looking for a complete kids' tablet experience, the new Fire 7 Kids has offerings kids love and parents trust, including a year of Amazon Kids+, a virtual playground of ad-free educational and entertainment content that's like no other." The All-New Fire 7 Includes: Faster responsiveness—Fire 7 has a 30% faster quad-core processor and double the RAM so you can quickly get back to your game or jump between apps. Longer battery life—Now with 40% more battery life for up to 10 hours of browsing, watching videos, and more. Available with USB-C and 5W in-box adapter for easier charging. Thin, light, and durable—With a 7-inch touchscreen, Fire 7 is easy to carry around and stands up against drops, tumbles, spills, and everyday wear and tear, testing twice as durable as the latest iPad Mini in tumble tests. Access to entertainment—Watch or download movies and TV shows on Disney+, Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and HBO Max. You can also enjoy popular apps like TikTok, make Zoom or Alexa calls, connect with friends over Facebook or Instagram, browse the web, read eBooks, or play games. Great for Roblox or cloud gaming with Amazon Luna, including your favorite racing, sports, and action adventure games. Kindle content—With Android Dark theme support, customers can comfortably read anytime, day or night, with a white-on-black mode. Enjoy millions of books from the Kindle Store and a three-month free trial of Kindle Unlimited for a limited time. Stay connected—Optimized for video calls in landscape mode, with 2MP front and rear-facing cameras with 720p HD video recording for photos and video calls. Better with Alexa—Just by saying "Alexa," customers can ask to play videos and music, open apps, shop online, check the weather, access compatible smart home devices, call or message almost anyone, and much more. Designed with your privacy in mind, you have control of your Alexa settings and can turn off hands-free mode at any time. Climate Pledge Friendly—As part of our commitment to The Climate Pledge, Fire 7 tablets are certified by Carbon Trust's "Reducing CO2" Product Carbon Footprint Label, with a design that reflects de-carbonization efforts in line with The Climate Pledge. In addition, Fire 7 tablets feature 35% post-consumer recycled plastics, and 95% of its packaging is made of wood fiber-based materials from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources. Fire 7 Kids—Quality Kids Content and Peace of Mind for ParentsThe perfect first tablet for kids ages 3 and up, Fire 7 Kids is a tablet kids will love and parents can trust. In addition to a two-year worry-free guarantee, it comes with a one-year Amazon Kids+ subscription, allowing kids to discover fun and educational content and giving parents peace of mind with age-appropriate content. Kids have access to content from Disney+, Sesame Street Workshop, PBS Kids, National Geographic, and Homer, as well as Amazon Kids+ Original series like Blippi's Treehouse and Lego Monkie Kid and original mobile games like Super Spy Ryan and Do, Re, & Mi. Parents and guardians can use the Amazon Parent Dashboard to easily manage their kids' screen time and set educational goals, age filters, and time limits for both weekdays and weekends. In addition, kids are able to use the Fire 7 Kids as a calling device with contacts approved by their parents to connect with remote loved ones. Pricing and AvailabilityFire 7 starts at only $59.99 and is available today for pre-order at www.amazon.com/fire7. The all-new Fire 7 comes in black, denim, and rose colors, with coordinating covers for $28.99, and will begin shipping June 29. Fire 7 Kids is available for pre-order today starting at $109.99, and for the first time, it offers 16GB or 32GB storage options. The device comes with a refreshed design of the kid-proof case in blue, red, and purple, and features an adjustable kickstand that doubles as a handle. After one year, customers can continue their Amazon Kids+ subscription starting at $2.99 per month for Prime members. Customers can use the same Amazon Kids+ subscription across any compatible device to access even more kid-friendly content, including Fire tablets, Fire TV, Kindle, Echo, iOS, Chromebook, or Android devices. 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 www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220517006342/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Watch movies, play games, and stay connected at home or on-the-go with up to 10 hours of battery life, USB-C for easy charging, a 30% faster processor, and double the RAM—for only $59.99</em></p><p><em>New Fire 7 Kids comes with one year of Amazon Kids+ offering thousands of ad-free apps, books, games, videos, and more, plus easy-to-use parental controls, a kid-proof case, and a two-year worry-free guarantee—all for $109.99</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the next-generation Fire 7 and Fire 7 Kids tablets—bringing more speed, performance, and value to the company's most affordable tablet. The new Fire 7 and Fire 7 Kids offer double the RAM and 40% longer battery life for continual hours of entertainment, video calling, and fun for every member of the family, while the compact size makes it a perfect on-the-go companion. The Fire 7 Kids includes a kid-proof protective case, a one-year subscription of Amazon Kids+, and a two-year worry-free guarantee. Both tablets are available to order today and will begin shipping on June 29.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220517006342/en/</p><div><p>Thin and light, Fire 7 comes in black, denim, and rose colors. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"Fire 7 is our most popular tablet—and now it's even better," said Kevin Keith, vice president of Amazon Devices. "This new generation gives customers more of what they love—improved performance and longer battery life, all for just $59. And for parents looking for a complete kids' tablet experience, the new Fire 7 Kids has offerings kids love and parents trust, including a year of Amazon Kids+, a virtual playground of ad-free educational and entertainment content that's like no other."</p><p>The All-New Fire 7 Includes:</p><ul><li>Faster responsiveness—Fire 7 has a 30% faster quad-core processor and double the RAM so you can quickly get back to your game or jump between apps.</li><li>Longer battery life—Now with 40% more battery life for up to 10 hours of browsing, watching videos, and more. Available with USB-C and 5W in-box adapter for easier charging.</li><li>Thin, light, and durable—With a 7-inch touchscreen, Fire 7 is easy to carry around and stands up against drops, tumbles, spills, and everyday wear and tear, testing twice as durable as the latest iPad Mini in tumble tests.</li><li>Access to entertainment—Watch or download movies and TV shows on Disney+, Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and HBO Max. You can also enjoy popular apps like TikTok, make Zoom or Alexa calls, connect with friends over Facebook or Instagram, browse the web, read eBooks, or play games. Great for Roblox or cloud gaming with Amazon Luna, including your favorite racing, sports, and action adventure games.</li><li>Kindle content—With Android Dark theme support, customers can comfortably read anytime, day or night, with a white-on-black mode. Enjoy millions of books from the Kindle Store and a three-month free trial of Kindle Unlimited for a limited time.</li><li>Stay connected—Optimized for video calls in landscape mode, with 2MP front and rear-facing cameras with 720p HD video recording for photos and video calls.</li><li>Better with Alexa—Just by saying "Alexa," customers can ask to play videos and music, open apps, shop online, check the weather, access compatible smart home devices, call or message almost anyone, and much more. Designed with your privacy in mind, you have control of your Alexa settings and can turn off hands-free mode at any time.</li><li>Climate Pledge Friendly—As part of our commitment to The Climate Pledge, Fire 7 tablets are certified by Carbon Trust's "Reducing CO2" Product Carbon Footprint Label, with a design that reflects de-carbonization efforts in line with The Climate Pledge. In addition, Fire 7 tablets feature 35% post-consumer recycled plastics, and 95% of its packaging is made of wood fiber-based materials from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources.</li></ul><p>Fire 7 Kids—Quality Kids Content and Peace of Mind for ParentsThe perfect first tablet for kids ages 3 and up, Fire 7 Kids is a tablet kids will love and parents can trust. In addition to a two-year worry-free guarantee, it comes with a one-year Amazon Kids+ subscription, allowing kids to discover fun and educational content and giving parents peace of mind with age-appropriate content. Kids have access to content from Disney+, Sesame Street Workshop, PBS Kids, National Geographic, and Homer, as well as Amazon Kids+ Original series like <em>Blippi's Treehouse</em> and <em>Lego Monkie Kid</em> and original mobile games like <em>Super Spy Ryan</em> and <em>Do, Re, &amp; Mi</em>. Parents and guardians can use the Amazon Parent Dashboard to easily manage their kids' screen time and set educational goals, age filters, and time limits for both weekdays and weekends. In addition, kids are able to use the Fire 7 Kids as a calling device with contacts approved by their parents to connect with remote loved ones.</p><p>Pricing and AvailabilityFire 7 starts at only $59.99 and is available today for pre-order at www.amazon.com/fire7. The all-new Fire 7 comes in black, denim, and rose colors, with coordinating covers for $28.99, and will begin shipping June 29.</p><p>Fire 7 Kids is available for pre-order today starting at $109.99, and for the first time, it offers 16GB or 32GB storage options. The device comes with a refreshed design of the kid-proof case in blue, red, and purple, and features an adjustable kickstand that doubles as a handle. After one year, customers can continue their Amazon Kids+ subscription starting at $2.99 per month for Prime members. Customers can use the same Amazon Kids+ subscription across any compatible device to access even more kid-friendly content, including Fire tablets, Fire TV, Kindle, Echo, iOS, Chromebook, or Android devices.</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 www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220517006342/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Commits $10.6 Million to Create 130 Affordable Homes and Expand Social Services in Nashville, Bringing Total Commitment in Local Affordable Housing to Nearly $100 Million

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Amazon Commits $10.6 Million to Create 130 Affordable Homes and Expand Social Services in Nashville, Bringing Total Commitment in Local Affordable Housing to Nearly $100 Million

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The company announced new investments in Nashville from the Amazon Housing Equity Fund to help build and renovate more than 130 local homes, including a mixed-income development, and fund supportive and substance abuse recovery services Over the past two years, Amazon has committed more than $94 million to affordable housing projects in Nashville—including affordable housing development near high-traffic transit sites, and an accelerator program to increase the number of real estate developers of color who focus on affordable housing NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2022-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it will invest a total of $10.6 million to help build and renovate more than 130 affordable homes in partnership with the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA), and support the social work of the local nonprofit CrossBridge Inc. This commitment is part of the Amazon Housing Equity Fund, a more than $2 billion commitment to create and preserve 20,000 affordable homes for individuals and families earning moderate-to-low incomes in Nashville, Washington state's Puget Sound region, and the Arlington, Virginia, region. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220504005473/en/ Cherry Oak Apartments in the Cayce Place neighborhood in East Nashville. (Photo: Business Wire) "We've already hired more than 2,500 people at our Nashville office, and we're continuing to invest and create jobs across the city. We also know that the city's growth, the impacts of the pandemic, and various other factors affect the availability of affordable housing, and we want to do our part to help. As one important piece of that, we're proud to be partnering with MDHA and CrossBridge to bring new housing to residents," said Michelle Gaskin Brown, Amazon's Nashville manager of public policy. "These new developments will provide affordable housing, social services support, and convenient access to public transportation to hundreds of families and individuals in the city. We look forward to continuing our investment in Nashville and helping to create and preserve affordable homes so everyone has the opportunity to live, work, and thrive here." Amazon's commitment to MDHA consists of a $7.1 million low-rate loan to support the construction of Cherry Oak Apartments, a mixed-income residential development featuring 96 apartments, including 53 affordable homes in the Cayce Place neighborhood in East Nashville. Cherry Oak Apartments will provide housing in proximity to high-quality transit, employment centers, and parks. Families living in the affordable units at Cherry Oak Apartments will have guaranteed affordability at or below 80% of area medium income (AMI) for 99 years. "Cherry Oak Apartments is one of many new residential developments at Cayce Place as we move forward with transforming our largest subsidized housing property into a mixed-income community," said MDHA Executive Director Dr. Troy D. White. "We are grateful to receive Amazon's first major investment for affordable housing in Nashville, and we hope this is just the start of a successful partnership." Additionally, Amazon is providing a $3.5 million grant to CrossBridge, a Nashville nonprofit that provides housing and supportive services to adults overcoming addiction. The grant will support CrossBridge's housing projects on Lindsley Avenue in the Rolling Hill Mill neighborhood. CrossBridge owns an entire city block, where the organization is completing a new 50-unit building and renovating an existing 24-unit building into a 34-unit building. The grant will allow CrossBridge to complete its projects, operate at affordable rents, and expand services. CrossBridge will also provide tenants with mental health counseling, addiction support, workforce reentry support, and other services. Supportive housing, which helps people with substance use disorders, is the most resource-intensive type of housing. The rents are extremely low and service requirements are high, making it necessary to provide long-term subsidies. The 84 CrossBridge units this funding supports will add to the most difficult to finance stock of permanent supportive housing in Nashville. "CrossBridge provides effective solutions to end destructive cycles," said Tina Mitchell, president-executive director of CrossBridge. "Through our Restoration House Program, we serve men and women struggling with substance use disorders. By offering high-quality, safe, and affordable housing within the context of a supportive community, we provide a reliable path to break the cycles of addiction, incarceration, and homelessness." Bill Hart, CrossBridge vice president and general counsel, said, "This grant from the Amazon Housing Equity Fund will allow us to do so much more for those who have so little, resulting in transformed lives and a safer community." Over the past two years, Amazon has committed more than $94 million to affordable housing efforts in Nashville. In 2020, Amazon donated $2.25 million to local affordable housing nonprofit The Housing Fund—and followed up with another $1.5 million in 2021—to support housing residents in Nashville at risk of losing their homes. After launching the Housing Equity Fund in January 2021, Amazon announced a $75 million commitment to create 800 affordable homes near WeGo transit corridors. Most recently, Amazon launched an accelerator program in collaboration with the Urban League of Middle Tennessee, which offers professional development, mentorship, and early grant funding to emerging developers of color to help increase inclusive housing developments and community building. To read more about the Amazon Housing Equity Fund's impact and our recent announcements, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/impact/economy/housing-equity/fund 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. 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<p><em>The company announced new investments in Nashville from the Amazon Housing Equity Fund to help build and renovate more than 130 local homes, including a mixed-income development, and fund supportive and substance abuse recovery services</em></p><p><em>Over the past two years, Amazon has committed more than $94 million to affordable housing projects in Nashville—including affordable housing development near high-traffic transit sites, and an accelerator program to increase the number of real estate developers of color who focus on affordable housing</em></p><p>NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2022-- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it will invest a total of $10.6 million to help build and renovate more than 130 affordable homes in partnership with the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA), and support the social work of the local nonprofit CrossBridge Inc. This commitment is part of the Amazon Housing Equity Fund, a more than $2 billion commitment to create and preserve 20,000 affordable homes for individuals and families earning moderate-to-low incomes in Nashville, Washington state's Puget Sound region, and the Arlington, Virginia, region.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220504005473/en/</p><div><p>Cherry Oak Apartments in the Cayce Place neighborhood in East Nashville. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"We've already hired more than 2,500 people at our Nashville office, and we're continuing to invest and create jobs across the city. We also know that the city's growth, the impacts of the pandemic, and various other factors affect the availability of affordable housing, and we want to do our part to help. As one important piece of that, we're proud to be partnering with MDHA and CrossBridge to bring new housing to residents," said Michelle Gaskin Brown, Amazon's Nashville manager of public policy. "These new developments will provide affordable housing, social services support, and convenient access to public transportation to hundreds of families and individuals in the city. We look forward to continuing our investment in Nashville and helping to create and preserve affordable homes so everyone has the opportunity to live, work, and thrive here."</p><p>Amazon's commitment to MDHA consists of a $7.1 million low-rate loan to support the construction of Cherry Oak Apartments, a mixed-income residential development featuring 96 apartments, including 53 affordable homes in the Cayce Place neighborhood in East Nashville. Cherry Oak Apartments will provide housing in proximity to high-quality transit, employment centers, and parks. Families living in the affordable units at Cherry Oak Apartments will have guaranteed affordability at or below 80% of area medium income (AMI) for 99 years.</p><p>"Cherry Oak Apartments is one of many new residential developments at Cayce Place as we move forward with transforming our largest subsidized housing property into a mixed-income community," said MDHA Executive Director Dr. Troy D. White. "We are grateful to receive Amazon's first major investment for affordable housing in Nashville, and we hope this is just the start of a successful partnership."</p><p>Additionally, Amazon is providing a $3.5 million grant to CrossBridge, a Nashville nonprofit that provides housing and supportive services to adults overcoming addiction. The grant will support CrossBridge's housing projects on Lindsley Avenue in the Rolling Hill Mill neighborhood. CrossBridge owns an entire city block, where the organization is completing a new 50-unit building and renovating an existing 24-unit building into a 34-unit building. The grant will allow CrossBridge to complete its projects, operate at affordable rents, and expand services. CrossBridge will also provide tenants with mental health counseling, addiction support, workforce reentry support, and other services.</p><p>Supportive housing, which helps people with substance use disorders, is the most resource-intensive type of housing. The rents are extremely low and service requirements are high, making it necessary to provide long-term subsidies. The 84 CrossBridge units this funding supports will add to the most difficult to finance stock of permanent supportive housing in Nashville.</p><p>"CrossBridge provides effective solutions to end destructive cycles," said Tina Mitchell, president-executive director of CrossBridge. "Through our Restoration House Program, we serve men and women struggling with substance use disorders. By offering high-quality, safe, and affordable housing within the context of a supportive community, we provide a reliable path to break the cycles of addiction, incarceration, and homelessness." Bill Hart, CrossBridge vice president and general counsel, said, "This grant from the Amazon Housing Equity Fund will allow us to do so much more for those who have so little, resulting in transformed lives and a safer community."</p><p>Over the past two years, Amazon has committed more than $94 million to affordable housing efforts in Nashville. In 2020, Amazon donated $2.25 million to local affordable housing nonprofit The Housing Fund—and followed up with another $1.5 million in 2021—to support housing residents in Nashville at risk of losing their homes. After launching the Housing Equity Fund in January 2021, Amazon announced a $75 million commitment to create 800 affordable homes near WeGo transit corridors. Most recently, Amazon launched an accelerator program in collaboration with the Urban League of Middle Tennessee, which offers professional development, mentorship, and early grant funding to emerging developers of color to help increase inclusive housing developments and community building.</p><p>To read more about the Amazon Housing Equity Fund's impact and our recent announcements, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/impact/economy/housing-equity/fund</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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220504005473/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon Gives Another $2.2 Million to Help Meet the Basic Needs of Students in Underserved Communities in the Puget Sound Region, Bringing the Total so Far to $8 Million

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Amazon Gives Another $2.2 Million to Help Meet the Basic Needs of Students in Underserved Communities in the Puget Sound Region, Bringing the Total so Far to $8 Million

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Amazon's donations to the Right Now Needs Fund give students immediate access to basic necessities like food, clothing, school supplies, and hygiene products, so they can focus on learning Since 2018, Amazon has donated more than $8 million to support tens of thousands of students through the Right Now Needs Fund, which the company created to support all 106 schools in the Seattle Public Schools district and all 29 schools in the Bellevue School District SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today a new $2.2 million donation to support the immediate needs of thousands of students from underserved communities in the Puget Sound region through the Right Now Needs Fund. The Fund, created by Amazon in 2018 in partnership with the nonprofits Alliance for Education and Bellevue LifeSpring, helps address students' basic and immediate needs like food, shelter, clothing, and school supplies so students arrive at school prepared to learn. The donation will support all 106 schools within the Seattle Public Schools district and all 29 schools in the Bellevue School District. "Many local families in underserved communities are feeling the impact of surging food and housing prices, and they're making tough sacrifices to meet their immediate needs. We are determined to help by funding meals, shelter, clothing, school supplies, and other basic needs so kids can be successful students," said David Zapolsky, Amazon general counsel and senior vice president, and Alliance for Education board member. "The Right Now Needs Fund helps our nonprofit partners and schools quickly identify and eliminate barriers to learning for students across the Puget Sound region, and we're committed to continue supporting their work as one piece of our broader efforts to help our neighbors throughout the region." Amazon's donation includes $1.4 million to the Alliance for Education to help identify and close opportunity gaps for local students and families at all of Seattle Public Schools' 106 schools. Since the Fund was created with the Alliance for Education in 2018, donations have supported more than 38,000 requests for student support, including helping to cover costs for rent and utilities, food, clothing, and other basic needs. "Amazon has been a tremendous partner to our Seattle Public Schools school community," said Dr. Brent Jones, superintendent of Seattle Public Schools. "Throughout the life of our collaboration, they have demonstrated time and again that they are committed to expanding resources and providing immediate and tangible solutions for Seattle Public Schools students and families. We extend our gratitude and heartfelt thanks to Amazon and look forward to an even greater partnership in the future." Amazon also donated $700,000 in cash and $150,000 in Amazon Gift Cards to Bellevue LifeSpring to support all 29 schools in the Bellevue School District. Bellevue LifeSpring supports nearly 4,000 underserved students enrolled in the Bellevue School District and their families. Since the Fund was created with Bellevue LifeSpring in 2020, there have been more than 15,000 instances of student support, including issuing more than 5,400 food vouchers for students, ensuring 178 students remained in their homes, and providing clothing for 666 students. "Our colleagues are working with students and families during these incredibly tough times, and many of the families need support from the Right Now Needs Fund," said Julie Bronson, family engagement and preschool coordinator at the Bellevue School District. "The challenges are wide-ranging, from food and clothing needs to help with housing while facing financial challenges and other emergencies. We are very grateful for the support from Amazon and our partnership with both the Amazon and Bellevue LifeSpring teams because it ensures a quick response so that no child goes without basic supports that we all deserve." School-based staff within the districts work with students and families to identify needs and submit requests for financial assistance through their respective nonprofit partner. In addition, any school community member can request assistance if they notice a specific student need. To date, every school within Seattle Public Schools and the Bellevue School District has used the Right Now Need Fund to help students. Since launching the first Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle in 2018, Amazon has donated more than $8 million to provide support across all 106 schools within Seattle Public Schools and all 29 schools in the Bellevue School District. Combined, the donations have supported more than 55,000 requests for support—from clothing to hygiene products to school supplies— for students and their families. In addition to the Right Now Needs Fund donations, Amazon has donated 9,000 laptops and devices to Seattle Public Schools for remote learning. Amazon also delivered more than 1 million school meals to Seattle Public Schools students during the pandemic, to help ensure that students who rely on school meals had access to food while learning remotely, and donated $1 million to the City of Bellevue's Health and Human Services Fund to support local families in need who were disproportionately affected by COVID-19. 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/20220502005990/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Amazon's donations to the Right Now Needs Fund give students immediate access to basic necessities like food, clothing, school supplies, and hygiene products, so they can focus on learning</em></p><p><em>Since 2018, Amazon has donated more than $8 million to support tens of thousands of students through the Right Now Needs Fund, which the company created to support all 106 schools in the Seattle Public Schools district and all 29 schools in the Bellevue School District</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today a new $2.2 million donation to support the immediate needs of thousands of students from underserved communities in the Puget Sound region through the Right Now Needs Fund. The Fund, created by Amazon in 2018 in partnership with the nonprofits Alliance for Education and Bellevue LifeSpring, helps address students' basic and immediate needs like food, shelter, clothing, and school supplies so students arrive at school prepared to learn. The donation will support all 106 schools within the Seattle Public Schools district and all 29 schools in the Bellevue School District.</p><p>"Many local families in underserved communities are feeling the impact of surging food and housing prices, and they're making tough sacrifices to meet their immediate needs. We are determined to help by funding meals, shelter, clothing, school supplies, and other basic needs so kids can be successful students," said David Zapolsky, Amazon general counsel and senior vice president, and Alliance for Education board member. "The Right Now Needs Fund helps our nonprofit partners and schools quickly identify and eliminate barriers to learning for students across the Puget Sound region, and we're committed to continue supporting their work as one piece of our broader efforts to help our neighbors throughout the region."</p><p>Amazon's donation includes $1.4 million to the Alliance for Education to help identify and close opportunity gaps for local students and families at all of Seattle Public Schools' 106 schools. Since the Fund was created with the Alliance for Education in 2018, donations have supported more than 38,000 requests for student support, including helping to cover costs for rent and utilities, food, clothing, and other basic needs.</p><p>"Amazon has been a tremendous partner to our Seattle Public Schools school community," said Dr. Brent Jones, superintendent of Seattle Public Schools. "Throughout the life of our collaboration, they have demonstrated time and again that they are committed to expanding resources and providing immediate and tangible solutions for Seattle Public Schools students and families. We extend our gratitude and heartfelt thanks to Amazon and look forward to an even greater partnership in the future."</p><p>Amazon also donated $700,000 in cash and $150,000 in Amazon Gift Cards to Bellevue LifeSpring to support all 29 schools in the Bellevue School District. Bellevue LifeSpring supports nearly 4,000 underserved students enrolled in the Bellevue School District and their families. Since the Fund was created with Bellevue LifeSpring in 2020, there have been more than 15,000 instances of student support, including issuing more than 5,400 food vouchers for students, ensuring 178 students remained in their homes, and providing clothing for 666 students.</p><p>"Our colleagues are working with students and families during these incredibly tough times, and many of the families need support from the Right Now Needs Fund," said Julie Bronson, family engagement and preschool coordinator at the Bellevue School District. "The challenges are wide-ranging, from food and clothing needs to help with housing while facing financial challenges and other emergencies. We are very grateful for the support from Amazon and our partnership with both the Amazon and Bellevue LifeSpring teams because it ensures a quick response so that no child goes without basic supports that we all deserve."</p><p>School-based staff within the districts work with students and families to identify needs and submit requests for financial assistance through their respective nonprofit partner. In addition, any school community member can request assistance if they notice a specific student need. To date, every school within Seattle Public Schools and the Bellevue School District has used the Right Now Need Fund to help students.</p><p>Since launching the first Right Now Needs Fund in Seattle in 2018, Amazon has donated more than $8 million to provide support across all 106 schools within Seattle Public Schools and all 29 schools in the Bellevue School District. Combined, the donations have supported more than 55,000 requests for support—from clothing to hygiene products to school supplies— for students and their families. In addition to the Right Now Needs Fund donations, Amazon has donated 9,000 laptops and devices to Seattle Public Schools for remote learning. Amazon also delivered more than 1 million school meals to Seattle Public Schools students during the pandemic, to help ensure that students who rely on school meals had access to food while learning remotely, and donated $1 million to the City of Bellevue's Health and Human Services Fund to support local families in need who were disproportionately affected by COVID-19.</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/20220502005990/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Announces Plans to Create 2,500 Corporate and Tech Jobs in California with Expansions in Santa Monica, Irvine, and San Diego

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Amazon Announces Plans to Create 2,500 Corporate and Tech Jobs in California with Expansions in Santa Monica, Irvine, and San Diego

05/03/2022

2022

Amazon currently employs more than 170,000 people across California, with thousands of roles available from tech to logistics Adding capacity to its Tech Hubs network, the company aims to recruit talent beyond its headquarter locations in Washington state's Puget Sound region and Arlington, Virginia SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to create more than 2,500 corporate and technology jobs over the coming years in multiple cities across California. The company will expand its Tech Hubs in San Diego and the Los Angeles area, including Irvine and Santa Monica, as it seeks to recruit local talent and continue inventing and innovating on behalf of its customers. These latest investments come after Amazon opened more than 15 sites across Southern California and created more than 17,000 jobs statewide in 2021 alone. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220503005583/en/ Amazon plans to create more than 1,000 new corporate and tech jobs in Santa Monica over the coming years and has signed a lease for a 200,000-square-foot space with J.P. Morgan Asset Management at the Water Garden, managed by CBRE. The new site will begin welcoming employees in mid-2023. (Photo: CBRE) "Communities across California have welcomed Amazon over the past decade and have seen firsthand how our investments can unlock new opportunities for their neighbors and local economies. We've created more than 170,000 jobs across the state and are committed to continue investing here," said Holly Sullivan, Amazon's vice president of worldwide economic development. "These 2,500 new jobs includeroles building cloud infrastructure, improving the Alexa experience,and designing cutting edge video games. They're afantastic opportunity for Californians of all backgrounds to join Amazon and build a successful career." Amazon's expansions in California will support various teams across the company, including retail, Amazon Games, Amazon Web Services, and operations. A variety of roles are already available, including software development engineers, game designers, and user experience designers, along with positions in human resources, finance, IT, and more. People interested in applying for roles at Amazon can learn more here. "Economic development, especially job creation, is critical to our city's growth. Amazon's expansion of its tech hub in Irvine is a testament to the fantastic talent pool and high quality of life our city has to offer," said Farrah Khan, Mayor of Irvine. "Investments like Amazon's act as a vote of confidence for Irvine and these 800 new corporate and tech roles will continue to unlock economic opportunity for our community." "Job creation and economic development is essential to a sustainable and vibrant city," said San Diego City Councilmember Chris Cate. "I am excited to see how Amazon's expanded presence in San Diego will drive new investments in our region and bring 700 new tech and corporate jobs, boosting economic growth for years to come. San Diego is the perfect place for Amazon to bring cutting edge innovation and technology to reality." Amazon's investments in California will include new office space in three cities, contributing to local job creation and the revitalization of downtown areas. These investments include: Santa Monica – As part of Amazon's expansion at its Los Angeles Tech Hub, the company plans to create more than 1,000 new corporate and tech jobs in Santa Monica over the coming years. To accommodate this hiring effort, Amazon has signed a lease for a 200,000-square-foot space with J.P. Morgan Asset Management at the Water Garden. The new site will begin welcoming employees in mid-2023. Irvine – Further expanding its Los Angeles Tech Hub, Amazon also plans to create more than 800 corporate and tech jobs over the next few years in Irvine. The company has signed a lease for 116,000 square feet of space at Spectrum Terrace with Irvine Company and plans to occupy the office space later this year. San Diego – Amazon has signed a lease for a 123,000-square-foot space with Seritage Growth Properties and Invesco at University Town Center to accommodate more than 700 employees. About 1,000 tech and corporate employees are already working at Amazon's San Diego Tech Hub. The new office space will open for employees in early 2023. Amazon is constantly innovating and creating new programs to provide candidates of all backgrounds and levels of experience the opportunity to join the company. Now, candidates from California can benefit from Amazon Returnship, an initiative to help professionals get back to work after they've lost or left their jobs—including people displaced by the impacts of COVID-19. People applying for a tech role can also use Amazon's newest recruiting program, Best Fit, which uses a new technology that allows software engineers to apply once and be considered for thousands of jobs across hundreds of Amazon teams—including some roles they may not have even thought of. Unlocking opportunity in Southern CaliforniaBeyond its hiring efforts, Amazon contributes millions of dollars and continues to partner with more than 100 organizations across Southern California, including the Orange County Children's Hospital, United Way of Orange County, the San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center, the San Ysidro Women's Club, and the Surfrider Foundation. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon has donated transportation services to deliver more than 4 million meals on behalf of LA Regional Food Bank. The company also made philanthropic contributions to programs that provided small business relief, allowed for the expansion of online learning, supported food distribution programs, and created mobile COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinics. As the U.S. emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon continues to build economic opportunity in the communities it calls home. In Southern California, Amazon has built workforce development partnerships with city and county agencies across the region to offer Californian workers the opportunity to learn new skills in emerging fields like robotics, advanced logistics, and cloud computing. Amazon also supports local schools through Amazon Future Engineer, the company's global philanthropic computer science education program designed to inspire and educate millions of students each year to try computer science and coding. The program supports close to 600 schools across California, including Los Angeles and San Diego schools, providing students with high-quality computer science curriculum, robotics clubs, and project-based learning. Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 170,000 full- and part-time jobs in California and invested more than $81 billion across the state, including infrastructure from fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market locations, and three Tech Hubs. These investments have contributed an additional $80 billion to the California economy and support 259,000 indirect jobs—in addition to the employees the company directly employs—in industries like construction, logistics, and professional services. Currently, more than 220,000 independent authors and small and medium-sized businesses in California are growing their businesses with Amazon. 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. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220503005583/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p><em>Amazon currently employs more than 170,000 people across California, with thousands of roles available from tech to logistics</em></p><p><em>Adding capacity to its Tech Hubs network, the company aims to recruit talent beyond its headquarter locations in Washington state's Puget Sound region and Arlington, Virginia</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to create more than 2,500 corporate and technology jobs over the coming years in multiple cities across California. The company will expand its Tech Hubs in San Diego and the Los Angeles area, including Irvine and Santa Monica, as it seeks to recruit local talent and continue inventing and innovating on behalf of its customers. These latest investments come after Amazon opened more than 15 sites across Southern California and created more than 17,000 jobs statewide in 2021 alone.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220503005583/en/</p><div><p>Amazon plans to create more than 1,000 new corporate and tech jobs in Santa Monica over the coming years and has signed a lease for a 200,000-square-foot space with J.P. Morgan Asset Management at the Water Garden, managed by CBRE. The new site will begin welcoming employees in mid-2023. (Photo: CBRE)</p></div><p>"Communities across California have welcomed Amazon over the past decade and have seen firsthand how our investments can unlock new opportunities for their neighbors and local economies. We've created more than 170,000 jobs across the state and are committed to continue investing here," said Holly Sullivan, Amazon's vice president of worldwide economic development. "These 2,500 new jobs includeroles building cloud infrastructure, improving the Alexa experience,and designing cutting edge video games. They're afantastic opportunity for Californians of all backgrounds to join Amazon and build a successful career."</p><p>Amazon's expansions in California will support various teams across the company, including retail, Amazon Games, Amazon Web Services, and operations. A variety of roles are already available, including software development engineers, game designers, and user experience designers, along with positions in human resources, finance, IT, and more. People interested in applying for roles at Amazon can learn more here.</p><p>"Economic development, especially job creation, is critical to our city's growth. Amazon's expansion of its tech hub in Irvine is a testament to the fantastic talent pool and high quality of life our city has to offer," said Farrah Khan, Mayor of Irvine. "Investments like Amazon's act as a vote of confidence for Irvine and these 800 new corporate and tech roles will continue to unlock economic opportunity for our community."</p><p>"Job creation and economic development is essential to a sustainable and vibrant city," said San Diego City Councilmember Chris Cate. "I am excited to see how Amazon's expanded presence in San Diego will drive new investments in our region and bring 700 new tech and corporate jobs, boosting economic growth for years to come. San Diego is the perfect place for Amazon to bring cutting edge innovation and technology to reality."</p><p>Amazon's investments in California will include new office space in three cities, contributing to local job creation and the revitalization of downtown areas. These investments include:</p><ul><li>Santa Monica – As part of Amazon's expansion at its Los Angeles Tech Hub, the company plans to create more than 1,000 new corporate and tech jobs in Santa Monica over the coming years. To accommodate this hiring effort, Amazon has signed a lease for a 200,000-square-foot space with J.P. Morgan Asset Management at the Water Garden. The new site will begin welcoming employees in mid-2023.</li></ul><ul><li>Irvine – Further expanding its Los Angeles Tech Hub, Amazon also plans to create more than 800 corporate and tech jobs over the next few years in Irvine. The company has signed a lease for 116,000 square feet of space at Spectrum Terrace with Irvine Company and plans to occupy the office space later this year.</li></ul><ul><li>San Diego – Amazon has signed a lease for a 123,000-square-foot space with Seritage Growth Properties and Invesco at University Town Center to accommodate more than 700 employees. About 1,000 tech and corporate employees are already working at Amazon's San Diego Tech Hub. The new office space will open for employees in early 2023.</li></ul><p>Amazon is constantly innovating and creating new programs to provide candidates of all backgrounds and levels of experience the opportunity to join the company. Now, candidates from California can benefit from Amazon Returnship, an initiative to help professionals get back to work after they've lost or left their jobs—including people displaced by the impacts of COVID-19. People applying for a tech role can also use Amazon's newest recruiting program, Best Fit, which uses a new technology that allows software engineers to apply once and be considered for thousands of jobs across hundreds of Amazon teams—including some roles they may not have even thought of.</p><p>Unlocking opportunity in Southern CaliforniaBeyond its hiring efforts, Amazon contributes millions of dollars and continues to partner with more than 100 organizations across Southern California, including the Orange County Children's Hospital, United Way of Orange County, the San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center, the San Ysidro Women's Club, and the Surfrider Foundation.</p><p>Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon has donated transportation services to deliver more than 4 million meals on behalf of LA Regional Food Bank. The company also made philanthropic contributions to programs that provided small business relief, allowed for the expansion of online learning, supported food distribution programs, and created mobile COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinics. As the U.S. emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon continues to build economic opportunity in the communities it calls home. In Southern California, Amazon has built workforce development partnerships with city and county agencies across the region to offer Californian workers the opportunity to learn new skills in emerging fields like robotics, advanced logistics, and cloud computing.</p><p>Amazon also supports local schools through Amazon Future Engineer, the company's global philanthropic computer science education program designed to inspire and educate millions of students each year to try computer science and coding. The program supports close to 600 schools across California, including Los Angeles and San Diego schools, providing students with high-quality computer science curriculum, robotics clubs, and project-based learning.</p><p>Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 170,000 full- and part-time jobs in California and invested more than $81 billion across the state, including infrastructure from fulfillment centers, Whole Foods Market locations, and three Tech Hubs. These investments have contributed an additional $80 billion to the California economy and support 259,000 indirect jobs—in addition to the employees the company directly employs—in industries like construction, logistics, and professional services. Currently, more than 220,000 independent authors and small and medium-sized businesses in California are growing their businesses with Amazon.</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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220503005583/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results

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Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results

04/28/2022

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 28, 2022-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2022. Operating cash flow decreased 41% to $39.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $67.2 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Free cash flow decreased to an outflow of $18.6 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $26.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $29.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $14.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $22.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $16.8 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 523 million on March 31, 2022, compared with 519 million one year ago. Net sales increased 7% to $116.4 billion in the first quarter, compared with $108.5 billion in first quarter 2021. Excluding the $1.8 billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 9% compared with first quarter 2021. Operating income decreased to $3.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $8.9 billion in first quarter 2021. Net loss was $3.8 billion in the first quarter, or $7.56 per diluted share, compared with net income of $8.1 billion, or $15.79 per diluted share, in first quarter 2021. First quarter 2022 net loss includes a pre-tax valuation loss of $7.6 billion included in non-operating expense from our common stock investment in Rivian Automotive, Inc. "The pandemic and subsequent war in Ukraine have brought unusual growth and challenges," said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO. "With AWS growing 34% annually over the last two years, and 37% year-over-year in the first quarter, AWS has been integral in helping companies weather the pandemic and move more of their workloads into the cloud. Our Consumer business has grown 23% annually over the past two years, with extraordinary growth in 2020 of 39% year-over-year that necessitated doubling the size of our fulfillment network that we'd built over Amazon's first 25 years—and doing so in just 24 months. Today, as we're no longer chasing physical or staffing capacity, our teams are squarely focused on improving productivity and cost efficiencies throughout our fulfillment network. We know how to do this and have done it before. This may take some time, particularly as we work through ongoing inflationary and supply chain pressures, but we see encouraging progress on a number of customer experience dimensions, including delivery speed performance as we're now approaching levels not seen since the months immediately preceding the pandemic in early 2020." Highlights Shopping Amazon announced Buy with Prime, a new benefit for Prime members in the U.S. that extends the convenience of shopping with Prime to online stores beyond Amazon.com. Prime members can shop directly from participating merchants' online stores using their Prime member benefits, including fast and free delivery, a seamless checkout experience, and free returns on eligible orders. This year, Prime Day will take place in July in more than 20 countries. During Amazon's annual shopping event, Prime members will be able to save on products from national brands and small businesses across every category. Amazon continued to invent and expand ways for customers to discover fashion products. For example, View in 3D enables customers in the U.S. and Canada to view a shoe at any angle, and The Drop provides customers worldwide with access to limited-edition, size-inclusive clothing collections by fashion influencers globally. Amazon also launched Style Feed, a shoppable stream of influencer-curated content on the Amazon shopping app for customers in the U.S. and India to explore fashion, home décor, and beauty items. Amazon launched Amazon Aware, a new brand of consciously created everyday products that span apparel, home, and beauty, and that are made from materials such as recycled polyester, organic cotton, and bio-based ingredients. All Amazon Aware products are certified as carbon neutral and feature certifications that are part of Amazon's Climate Pledge Friendly program. Amazon opened eight new Amazon Fresh grocery stores and now has 46 Amazon Fresh grocery stores around the world. The newest Amazon Fresh store in Seattle is the world's first grocery store seeking Zero Carbon certification from the International Future Living Institute and features more than a dozen store design upgrades expected to save nearly 185 tons of carbon emissions each year when compared to an industry-standard grocery store. Amazon opened a new, larger Amazon Go store format for customers in suburban areas in the U.S., with the first location in Mill Creek, Washington. The new format features Amazon's Just Walk Out technology for a checkout-free shopping experience, an expanded selection of grab-and-go food and beverage items, and a Made-to-Order kitchen with freshly prepared, customizable breakfast and lunch items. Amazon has plans to expand this format to the Los Angeles area in the coming months. For the first time, Amazon introduced Just Walk Out technology at two Whole Foods Market stores in Washington, D.C., and Sherman Oaks, California. Just Walk Out technology also rolled out at new third-party locations, including travel retailer WHSmith in LaGuardia Airport in New York City; UBS Arena in New York; and Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. In addition, a food and beverage store equipped with Just Walk Out technology and Amazon One will be opening soon at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. The combination of technologies will give fans the option to enter the store with their palm or credit card, take what they want, and leave without stopping to check out. Amazon Business launched Punch-in, an industry-first procurement tool that simplifies the buying experience for businesses. With Punch-in, businesses can start their purchasing directly on Amazon Business and submit their cart to their e-Procurement system for purchase order creation and reconciliation. Entertainment Amazon closed its acquisition of MGM, and MGM employees joined Prime Video and Amazon Studios. The storied, nearly century-old studio has more than 4,000 film titles, 17,000 TV episodes, 180 Academy Awards, and 100 Emmy Awards. The catalog includes franchise favorites such as James Bond, Rocky, and Legally Blonde, and classic movies such as Thelma & Louise, The Silence of the Lambs, The Magnificent Seven, and Raging Bull. The deal complements Prime Video and Amazon Studios' work in delivering a diverse slate of original films and TV shows to a global audience and will create even more opportunities to deliver quality storytelling to customers. The teaser trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power broke a global record for the most-watched entertainment trailer to debut during a Super Bowl telecast, with 257 million views globally in the first 24 hours of its release. Customers continue to watch the trailer at www.amazon.com/ringsofpower. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will debut Friday, September 2, 2022. Iconic announcer Al Michaels and Emmy-winning analyst Kirk Herbstreit are joining Prime Video as the voices for its exclusive coverage of NFL Thursday Night Football. Joining them is executive producer Fred Gaudelli, who marks his 33rd season as the lead producer for the NFL in primetime. The inaugural season of NFL Thursday Night Football under Prime Video's historic 11-year agreement kicks off Thursday, September 15, 2022. Prime Video became the first streaming service to exclusively carry a major awards show live with the 57th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, which aired on March 7, 2022. Amazon created a 360-degree fan experience for customers across Prime Video, Amazon Live, Amazon Music, Amazon Fashion, IMDb TV, and Twitch. Reacher, Prime Video's new drama series starring Alan Ritchson, ranked on Nielsen's overall Streaming Top 10 list for the first three weeks of its premiere, with a No. 1 ranking and more than 1.5 billion minutes watched in its first full week and six consecutive weeks in the Top 10 Streaming Originals list. The hit series has been renewed for a second season. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel also landed on Nielsen's Streaming Top 10 list, with 499 million minutes viewed during the week of its Season Four premiere and six consecutive weeks in the Top 10 Streaming Originals list. Additional Prime Video series releases included the second season of Greg Daniels' futuristic comedy Upload, mystery series Outer Range starring Josh Brolin, and global superstar Lizzo's first series, Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls. Prime Video debuted 30 local originals internationally, including new seasons of the unscripted franchise LOL in Canada, France, Germany, and Italy, as well as Luxe Listings (Australia), Mahaan (India), Bang Bang Baby (Italy), and HOMESTAY (Japan). New locally produced series and movies launched in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. On April 27, IMDb TV became Freevee. The new name better defines the brand and what it offers customers—free, premium streaming content. Amazon launched a U.S. beta version of Amp, a new live radio app that enables creators to DJ their own shows for free, with tens of millions of licensed songs. Early traction with emerging creators and established talent is strong—with live shows from artists, including Pusha T, Travis Barker, Tinashe, Lil Yachty, and Nikita Dragun—and the Amp debut of Nicki Minaj's Queen Radio is coming soon. Amazon Music and Wondery won six awards—including Podcast of the Year—at the premier podcasting event of the year, The Ambies. The awards spanned four original podcasts: Suspect (Best True Crime), Business Wars (Best Business Podcast), The Lead (Best Sports Podcast), and 9/12 (Podcast of the Year, Best Reporting, and Best Original Score and Music Supervision). This was the second consecutive year that a Wondery podcast won Podcast of the Year. Lost Ark, the free-to-play multiplayer online game, exceeded 20 million global users and became the second-highest played title of all time by peak concurrent players on the distribution platform Steam. Published by Amazon Games in Australia, Europe, Latin America, New Zealand, and North America, the critically acclaimed game was developed by Smilegate RPG. Amazon announced the general availability of its Amazon Luna cloud gaming service, which offers an expanded lineup of games and new features. Luna includes the Retro Channel, with beloved classic games; the Family Channel, with a curated collection of games for families; and the Prime Gaming Channel, where Prime members can access a rotating selection of games on Luna for free. Amazon announced the launch of Mindy's Book Studio, a boutique story studio with best-selling author, actor, screenwriter, and producer Mindy Kaling. Amazon Publishing will publish books selected by Kaling from emerging and established diverse voices under Mindy's Book Studio. Amazon Studios and Kaling will also adapt material published under Mindy's Book Studio as feature motion pictures that will stream exclusively on Prime Video. Devices and Services Amazon launched new Alexa experiences for customers. Customers can now ask Alexa about symptoms for common health ailments and possible causes, and virtually connect to health care professionals through a new collaboration with Teladoc. They can also access more live and on-demand video content on Echo Show 15 through a new integration with Sling TV. In addition, Amazon introduced a new Alexa shopping experience that can notify customers about upcoming deals for items on their wish list or in their shopping cart, remind them when a deal is available, or order an item when it is discounted. Amazon introduced Alexa person and package detection announcements for Ring, Abode, and Google devices. With the new feature, customers can receive an announcement from Alexa, set up a Routine such as turning on a porch light, and automatically view live video feeds on Echo Show, Fire TV, and Fire tablet devices when a person or package is detected by their smart camera or video doorbell. Ring launched in Japan, bringing its lineup of whole-home security devices—including video doorbells, indoor and outdoor cameras, and accessories—to the country for the first time. Ring devices are now available for sale in 30 countries around the world. Amazon and Yamada Holdings announced the first smart TV with Amazon Fire TV built-in, offering a content-driven viewing experience, a simple and intuitive user interface, Alexa, and hands-free TV control for customers in Japan. eero announced two new additions to the eero family of home mesh wifi systems that will give customers fast connectivity and high performance in any room of the house: eero Pro 6E, the first Wi-Fi 6E-enabled eero system designed for gigabit+ internet plans; and eero 6+, the most affordable gigabit-capable eero system. Emerging Businesses Amazon Care's virtual health services are now available 24/7 across the U.S. Additionally, Amazon Care expanded its in-person services to Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, and will add more than 15 other cities this year, including Houston, Miami, New York City, and Phoenix. The service provides immediate access to a wide range of urgent and primary care services, including COVID-19 and flu testing, vaccinations, treatment of illnesses and injuries, preventive care, sexual health, and prescription requests and refills. Amazon announced agreements with Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance to provide launch services for Project Kuiper, Amazon's initiative to increase global broadband access using a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit. Amazon secured up to 83 launches across the three contracts, providing heavy-lift capacity to launch the majority of Amazon's 3,236-satellite constellation. The agreements comprise the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history and will support thousands of suppliers and highly skilled jobs across the global space industry. Amazon Web Services AWS announced significant customer momentum, with new commitments and migrations from customers across many major industries. Telecommunications: T-Systems, a global service provider for information technologies and digital transformation, selected AWS to launch a managed service in the cloud to provide encryption and implement transparent residency controls for customers' data in the EU. Verizon migrated its fleet management software platform, Verizon Connect, to AWS to help businesses of all sizes more effectively manage their commercial transportation needs. Spanish telecommunications provider Telefónica expanded its strategic collaboration with AWS to invest in joint go-to-market activities, develop new cloud solutions, and increase AWS Cloud skills among the Telefónica workforce. Telefónica will use AWS to bring innovation to customers faster and help them better leverage the agility of the cloud by launching value-added solutions such as edge computing and built-for-the-cloud private 5G networks that run on AWS Outposts. Commnet Broadband, a broadband communications provider for tribal and rural communities in the U.S., is working with AWS to transform its network and bring AWS services to health care, education, tribal, government, mining, business, and carrier customers in the rural, southwest U.S. Etisalat UAE, a telecommunications provider based in the United Arab Emirates, announced a collaboration with AWS to use 5G private networks and mobile edge computing to build prepackaged solutions for industrial use cases including energy, manufacturing, and logistics. Aerospace: Boeing, a global manufacturer of airplanes and space systems, selected AWS as a strategic cloud provider to deliver tools to support more powerful, sustainable, and efficient aerospace design, engineering, and management solutions. Boeing will run high-performance computing workloads on AWS and plans to move many of their most important applications to AWS. Boeing will use AWS to streamline its approach to cloud computing as Boeing takes on ambitious engineering feats, like developing a more sustainable future of flight. Sports: German national football league Bundesliga announced new Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS to give fans deeper insights into the action on the pitch, including Set Piece Threat, which provides information on a team's scoring ability from plays such as free kicks and corner kicks, and Skill, which compares Bundesliga players to visualize the skills they bring to their teams and positions. The National Hockey League (NHL) and AWS announced Face-off Probability, a live in-game stat that instantly shows the odds of a player winning a face-off and possession of the puck. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, the owner of some of Canada's best-known sports franchises, including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Toronto Football Club, and Toronto Argonauts, selected AWS as its official cloud provider and official provider of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning cloud services to create and deliver extraordinary sports moments and enhanced fan engagement. Technology: Database platform MongoDB expanded its relationship with AWS, making it easier for joint customers to advance their cloud adoption journey. This includes integrated go-to-market activities, shared developer relations activities, and technology integrations to streamline the migration of on-premises workloads to MongoDB Atlas on AWS. Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, used AWS to implement a program enabling 12 billion secure, real-time online and offline business transactions per day in the cloud. Tech Mahindra, a provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business reengineering solutions, selected AWS to power an automation platform designed to accelerate the adoption and deployment of 5G networks by telecommunications carriers. Health care and life sciences: THREAD, a clinical trials technology and service provider, is using AWS for real-time access to data and insights that will enable faster, more efficient, and less-costly clinical trials that optimize research and advance precision medicine. AWS completed the launch of its first 16 Local Zones in the U.S. and announced plans for new Local Zones in 32 metropolitan areas in 26 countries around the world. AWS Local Zones is a type of infrastructure deployment that extends AWS Regions to place compute, storage, database, and other AWS services at the edge of the cloud near large population, industry, and information technology centers. These new Local Zones expand AWS's infrastructure footprint globally beyond its existing 84 Availability Zones in 26 geographic regions, enabling AWS customers to build applications that deliver single-digit millisecond latency performance at the edge of the cloud to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next generation of the Amazon Aurora database that automatically scales in fine-grained increments in a fraction of a second—providing customers up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning for peak capacity. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 also includes Amazon Aurora's capabilities for high availability, performance, and resiliency, with low latency and faster querying. AWS announced the general availability of AWS IoT TwinMaker, which makes it significantly faster and easier for developers to create digital twins of real-world systems like buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines—helping more customers build applications that improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime. 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 announced the general availability of AWS Amplify Studio, a new visual development environment for creating rich user interfaces that extends the benefits of AWS Amplify to make it easier for developers to create fully customizable web applications with minimal coding in days instead of weeks. Investing in Employees and Our Workplace For the second year in a row, Amazon ranked No. 1 in the U.S. on LinkedIn's annual Top Companies list, which identifies the best companies for career growth based on their ability to attract and retain the best talent, including through promotions, opportunities for employees of all backgrounds to gain new skills, company stability, and gender diversity. For the sixth year in a row, Amazon ranked No. 2 on Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Companies list, which evaluates corporate reputation based on factors such as quality of management and products, commitment to social responsibility, and ability to attract talent. Amazon achieved the Top Employer Certification by the Top Employers Institute for 2022 in France, Italy, Poland, and Spain in recognition of Amazon's quality work environment, professional development opportunities, and programs available to employees. In India, Amazon ranked No. 1 in Business Today magazine's 2022 Best Companies to Work list, which highlights the company's growth and learning opportunities, clarity of company goals, and flexibility at work. Amazon launched the Welcome Door program in the U.S., a new initiative to provide additional resources and support to its refugee and humanitarian-basedimmigrant employees. Through the program, eligible Amazon employees will have access to reimbursement for Employment Authorization Document fees, a new citizenship assistance portal, free legal resources, English as a Second Language proficiency programs, and mentorship. Amazon will expand the program globally by the end of the year. Amazon expanded its Career Choice program in the U.S. to include partnerships with more than 140 national and local universities and other schools to offer fully funded college tuition, high school completion and GED preparation courses, English as a Second Language programs, and college preparation courses. Career Choice is designed to help front-line employees grow their skills for careers at Amazon or elsewhere. This program—which is available to Amazon's more than 750,000 hourly employees in the U.S.—helps move the company closer to meeting its Upskilling 2025 pledge, a $1.2 billion commitment to upskill more than 300,000 Amazon employees by 2025. Amazon expanded its mental health benefits to provide employees, their families, and their household members in more than 50 countries worldwide with a single starting point for personalized, convenient, and confidential mental health and daily life support. These mental health benefits enhance existing benefits, which include 24/7 access to free, one-on-one counseling sessions, suicide prevention resources, and customized support. Supporting Communities, Selling Partners, and the Economy Amazon teams around the world mobilized to provide humanitarian support to those affected by the war in Ukraine. Amazon launched two humanitarian aid hubs in Slovakia and Poland, with more than 90,000 square feet of dedicated logistics space to expedite relief products to Ukrainian refugees. Through the hub, Amazon has delivered more than 1 million clothing items, first-aid products, food items, hygiene products, and medical supplies. Amazon also donated more than $10 million in cash to more than 150 nonprofits working on the ground, committed technological assistance and more than $15 million in free cloud credits to organizations addressing the humanitarian crisis, and provided free legal assistance to organizations helping refugees seek resettlement in Europe. Amazon also pledged to support the immediate and longer-term needs of Ukrainian refugees by joining the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a global nonprofit and network of 200 companies that helps integrate refugees into new communities. Amazon announced it has allocated more than half of the Housing Equity Fund's $2 billion commitment to create and preserve affordable housing for families in Amazon's hometown communities of the Puget Sound region of Washington state; the Arlington, Virginia, region; and Nashville, Tennessee. The Fund has a strong focus on transit-oriented affordable housing development and recently awarded funds to create more than 1,000 new affordable housing units on land owned by transit agencies or privately owned land within a 10-minute walk to quality public transit stations. Amazon launched a $1 billion venture investment program called the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund to empower companies that are developing emerging technologies in customer fulfillment, logistics, and the supply chain. Starting with five recipients, the Fund will invest in companies imagining solutions that incrementally increase delivery speed and further improve the experience of employees working in warehousing and logistics fields. AWS launched a three-year, $30 million commitment to the AWS Impact Accelerator, a series of programs to help early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, and women founders build successful companies. Each participating startup receives $225,000 in cash and credits, extensive training, mentoring and technical guidance, as well as introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking opportunities with potential investors, and ongoing advisory support. The Arlington County Board approved Amazon's final plans for PenPlace, the next phase of the company's second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Amazon's more than $2.5 billion investment in its Arlington headquarters will include more than 4.5 acres of park space, two dog runs, and more than 150,000 square feet of retail and retail-equivalent space (including two daycare centers), which will be accessible to the entire community. HQ2 will be powered with 100% renewable energy through a combination of off-site and on-site solar projects. Amazon plans to create 25,000 direct jobs in Arlington over the next decade, which together with the company's investment in the surrounding area will help generate thousands of indirect jobs across the region. Amazon Future Engineer, the company's global computer science education program for students from underserved and historically underrepresented communities, awarded $40,000 college scholarships to 250 students across the U.S. to study computer science. Since launching this program four years ago, Amazon has awarded $22 million in scholarships to 550 students who are also granted paid internships at Amazon. Amazon introduced new tools for sellers including New Seller Incentives, a suite of benefits (such as bonuses, credits, and discounts) worth more than $50,000 in potential value, and the Perfect Launch playbook, a tool with actionable steps for new-to-Amazon selling partners. Both tools help partners grow their brand, scale their business, and promote their products to hundreds of millions of Amazon customers worldwide. Amazon launched Road to Ownership, a 16-week accelerated training and development program that helps create a pathway for delivery associates and team members of existing Delivery Service Partners (DSP) to start their career as DSP small business owners. The program provides a comprehensive understanding of operating a DSP business and fosters business acumen. Upon completion, participants receive a $30,000 grant to cover startup costs and living expenses while they establish their business. Protecting the Planet Amazon welcomed nearly 100 new signatories to The Climate Pledge, including HARMAN, Maersk, SAP, Sunrun, and Weyerhaeuser. The new signatories bring the total number of companies that have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 to more than 300. Pledge signatories in total generate over $3.5 trillion in global annual revenues and have more than 8 million employees across 51 industries in 29 countries. Amazon is working with the U.S. Department of Energy to advance research on reducing plastic pollution through innovation in materials and recycling. The effort is led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Amazon's team of materials scientists and experts is working with the laboratory to develop technologies and materials that will enable the full life cycle of plastics to be net-zero carbon. Amazon announced 37 new renewable energy projects around the world, marking significant progress on its ambitious path to power 100% of company operations with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. The new projects increase Amazon's total capacity by nearly 30% and reinforce Amazon's leadership position as the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy, with 310 renewable energy projects across 19 countries and 15.7 gigawatts of clean energy capacity—enough electricity output to power 3.9 million U.S. homes annually. In India, Amazon and Sun Mobility, a local provider of energy infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EVs), announced an expanded deployment of EVs with battery-swapping technology, which eliminates the need for lengthy recharging. These EVs will be part of Amazon's transportation and logistics services, and contribute to Amazon India's commitment of adding 10,000 electric vehicles to its delivery fleet by 2025. As part of AWS's ongoing commitment to help customers reduce their environmental impact and reach their sustainability goals, AWS launched a carbon footprint tool that helps customers quantify their carbon usage across AWS products. The tool gives AWS customers a view of their historic carbon emissions, evaluates emission trends as their use of AWS evolves, estimates the carbon emissions they have avoided by using AWS instead of an on-premises solution, and projects forecasted emissions based on current usage. Financial Guidance The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of April 28, 2022, 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, inflation, 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 April 28, 2022 regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations as well as the effect of other factors discussed above. Second Quarter 2022 Guidance Net sales are expected to be between $116.0 billion and $121.0 billion, or to grow between 3% and 7% compared with second quarter 2021. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 200 basis points from foreign exchange rates. Operating income (loss) is expected to be between $(1.0) billion and $3.0 billion, compared with $7.7 billion in second quarter 2021. This guidance assumes that Prime Day occurs in third quarter 2022. This guidance assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions, 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. 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<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 28, 2022-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2022.</p><ul><li>Operating cash flow decreased 41% to $39.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $67.2 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2021.</li><li>Free cash flow decreased to an outflow of $18.6 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $26.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2021.</li><li>Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $29.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $14.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2021.</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 $22.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $16.8 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2021.</li><li>Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 523 million on March 31, 2022, compared with 519 million one year ago.</li><li>Net sales increased 7% to $116.4 billion in the first quarter, compared with $108.5 billion in first quarter 2021. Excluding the $1.8 billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 9% compared with first quarter 2021.</li><li>Operating income decreased to $3.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $8.9 billion in first quarter 2021.</li><li>Net loss was $3.8 billion in the first quarter, or $7.56 per diluted share, compared with net income of $8.1 billion, or $15.79 per diluted share, in first quarter 2021. First quarter 2022 net loss includes a pre-tax valuation loss of $7.6 billion included in non-operating expense from our common stock investment in Rivian Automotive, Inc.</li></ul><p>"The pandemic and subsequent war in Ukraine have brought unusual growth and challenges," said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO. "With AWS growing 34% annually over the last two years, and 37% year-over-year in the first quarter, AWS has been integral in helping companies weather the pandemic and move more of their workloads into the cloud. Our Consumer business has grown 23% annually over the past two years, with extraordinary growth in 2020 of 39% year-over-year that necessitated doubling the size of our fulfillment network that we'd built over Amazon's first 25 years—and doing so in just 24 months. Today, as we're no longer chasing physical or staffing capacity, our teams are squarely focused on improving productivity and cost efficiencies throughout our fulfillment network. We know how to do this and have done it before. This may take some time, particularly as we work through ongoing inflationary and supply chain pressures, but we see encouraging progress on a number of customer experience dimensions, including delivery speed performance as we're now approaching levels not seen since the months immediately preceding the pandemic in early 2020."</p><p>Highlights</p><p><em>Shopping</em></p><ul><li>Amazon announced Buy with Prime, a new benefit for Prime members in the U.S. that extends the convenience of shopping with Prime to online stores beyond Amazon.com. Prime members can shop directly from participating merchants' online stores using their Prime member benefits, including fast and free delivery, a seamless checkout experience, and free returns on eligible orders.</li><li>This year, Prime Day will take place in July in more than 20 countries. During Amazon's annual shopping event, Prime members will be able to save on products from national brands and small businesses across every category.</li><li>Amazon continued to invent and expand ways for customers to discover fashion products. For example, View in 3D enables customers in the U.S. and Canada to view a shoe at any angle, and The Drop provides customers worldwide with access to limited-edition, size-inclusive clothing collections by fashion influencers globally. Amazon also launched Style Feed, a shoppable stream of influencer-curated content on the Amazon shopping app for customers in the U.S. and India to explore fashion, home décor, and beauty items.</li><li>Amazon launched Amazon Aware, a new brand of consciously created everyday products that span apparel, home, and beauty, and that are made from materials such as recycled polyester, organic cotton, and bio-based ingredients. All Amazon Aware products are certified as carbon neutral and feature certifications that are part of Amazon's Climate Pledge Friendly program.</li><li>Amazon opened eight new Amazon Fresh grocery stores and now has 46 Amazon Fresh grocery stores around the world. The newest Amazon Fresh store in Seattle is the world's first grocery store seeking Zero Carbon certification from the International Future Living Institute and features more than a dozen store design upgrades expected to save nearly 185 tons of carbon emissions each year when compared to an industry-standard grocery store.</li><li>Amazon opened a new, larger Amazon Go store format for customers in suburban areas in the U.S., with the first location in Mill Creek, Washington. The new format features Amazon's Just Walk Out technology for a checkout-free shopping experience, an expanded selection of grab-and-go food and beverage items, and a Made-to-Order kitchen with freshly prepared, customizable breakfast and lunch items. Amazon has plans to expand this format to the Los Angeles area in the coming months.</li><li>For the first time, Amazon introduced Just Walk Out technology at two Whole Foods Market stores in Washington, D.C., and Sherman Oaks, California. Just Walk Out technology also rolled out at new third-party locations, including travel retailer WHSmith in LaGuardia Airport in New York City; UBS Arena in New York; and Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. In addition, a food and beverage store equipped with Just Walk Out technology and Amazon One will be opening soon at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. The combination of technologies will give fans the option to enter the store with their palm or credit card, take what they want, and leave without stopping to check out.</li><li>Amazon Business launched Punch-in, an industry-first procurement tool that simplifies the buying experience for businesses. With Punch-in, businesses can start their purchasing directly on Amazon Business and submit their cart to their e-Procurement system for purchase order creation and reconciliation.</li></ul><p><em>Entertainment</em></p><ul><li>Amazon closed its acquisition of MGM, and MGM employees joined Prime Video and Amazon Studios. The storied, nearly century-old studio has more than 4,000 film titles, 17,000 TV episodes, 180 Academy Awards, and 100 Emmy Awards. The catalog includes franchise favorites such as James Bond, Rocky, and Legally Blonde, and classic movies such as <em>Thelma &amp; Louise</em>, <em>The Silence of the Lambs</em>, <em>The Magnificent Seven</em>, and <em>Raging Bull</em>. The deal complements Prime Video and Amazon Studios' work in delivering a diverse slate of original films and TV shows to a global audience and will create even more opportunities to deliver quality storytelling to customers.</li><li>The teaser trailer for <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power</em> broke a global record for the most-watched entertainment trailer to debut during a Super Bowl telecast, with 257 million views globally in the first 24 hours of its release. Customers continue to watch the trailer at www.amazon.com/ringsofpower. <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power</em> will debut Friday, September 2, 2022.</li><li>Iconic announcer Al Michaels and Emmy-winning analyst Kirk Herbstreit are joining Prime Video as the voices for its exclusive coverage of NFL <em>Thursday Night Football</em>. Joining them is executive producer Fred Gaudelli, who marks his 33rd season as the lead producer for the NFL in primetime. The inaugural season of NFL <em>Thursday Night Football</em> under Prime Video's historic 11-year agreement kicks off Thursday, September 15, 2022.</li><li>Prime Video became the first streaming service to exclusively carry a major awards show live with the 57th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, which aired on March 7, 2022. Amazon created a 360-degree fan experience for customers across Prime Video, Amazon Live, Amazon Music, Amazon Fashion, IMDb TV, and Twitch.</li><li><em>Reacher</em>, Prime Video's new drama series starring Alan Ritchson, ranked on Nielsen's overall Streaming Top 10 list for the first three weeks of its premiere, with a No. 1 ranking and more than 1.5 billion minutes watched in its first full week and six consecutive weeks in the Top 10 Streaming Originals list. The hit series has been renewed for a second season. <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em> also landed on Nielsen's Streaming Top 10 list, with 499 million minutes viewed during the week of its Season Four premiere and six consecutive weeks in the Top 10 Streaming Originals list. Additional Prime Video series releases included the second season of Greg Daniels' futuristic comedy <em>Upload, </em>mystery series <em>Outer Range</em> starring Josh Brolin, and global superstar Lizzo's first series, <em>Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls</em>.</li><li>Prime Video debuted 30 local originals internationally, including new seasons of the unscripted franchise <em>LOL </em>in Canada, France, Germany, and Italy, as well as <em>Luxe Listings </em>(Australia), <em>Mahaan </em>(India), <em>Bang Bang Baby </em>(Italy), and <em>HOMESTAY </em>(Japan). New locally produced series and movies launched in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.</li><li>On April 27, IMDb TV became Freevee. The new name better defines the brand and what it offers customers—free, premium streaming content.</li><li>Amazon launched a U.S. beta version of Amp, a new live radio app that enables creators to DJ their own shows for free, with tens of millions of licensed songs. Early traction with emerging creators and established talent is strong—with live shows from artists, including Pusha T, Travis Barker, Tinashe, Lil Yachty, and Nikita Dragun—and the Amp debut of Nicki Minaj's Queen Radio is coming soon.</li><li>Amazon Music and Wondery won six awards—including Podcast of the Year—at the premier podcasting event of the year, The Ambies. The awards spanned four original podcasts: Suspect (Best True Crime), Business Wars (Best Business Podcast), The Lead (Best Sports Podcast), and 9/12 (Podcast of the Year, Best Reporting, and Best Original Score and Music Supervision). This was the second consecutive year that a Wondery podcast won Podcast of the Year.</li><li><em>Lost Ark</em>, the free-to-play multiplayer online game, exceeded 20 million global users and became the second-highest played title of all time by peak concurrent players on the distribution platform Steam. Published by Amazon Games in Australia, Europe, Latin America, New Zealand, and North America, the critically acclaimed game was developed by Smilegate RPG.</li><li>Amazon announced the general availability of its Amazon Luna cloud gaming service, which offers an expanded lineup of games and new features. Luna includes the Retro Channel, with beloved classic games; the Family Channel, with a curated collection of games for families; and the Prime Gaming Channel, where Prime members can access a rotating selection of games on Luna for free.</li><li>Amazon announced the launch of Mindy's Book Studio, a boutique story studio with best-selling author, actor, screenwriter, and producer Mindy Kaling. Amazon Publishing will publish books selected by Kaling from emerging and established diverse voices under Mindy's Book Studio. Amazon Studios and Kaling will also adapt material published under Mindy's Book Studio as feature motion pictures that will stream exclusively on Prime Video.</li></ul><p><em>Devices and Services</em></p><ul><li>Amazon launched new Alexa experiences for customers. Customers can now ask Alexa about symptoms for common health ailments and possible causes, and virtually connect to health care professionals through a new collaboration with Teladoc. They can also access more live and on-demand video content on Echo Show 15 through a new integration with Sling TV. In addition, Amazon introduced a new Alexa shopping experience that can notify customers about upcoming deals for items on their wish list or in their shopping cart, remind them when a deal is available, or order an item when it is discounted.</li><li>Amazon introduced Alexa person and package detection announcements for Ring, Abode, and Google devices. With the new feature, customers can receive an announcement from Alexa, set up a Routine such as turning on a porch light, and automatically view live video feeds on Echo Show, Fire TV, and Fire tablet devices when a person or package is detected by their smart camera or video doorbell.</li><li>Ring launched in Japan, bringing its lineup of whole-home security devices—including video doorbells, indoor and outdoor cameras, and accessories—to the country for the first time. Ring devices are now available for sale in 30 countries around the world.</li><li>Amazon and Yamada Holdings announced the first smart TV with Amazon Fire TV built-in, offering a content-driven viewing experience, a simple and intuitive user interface, Alexa, and hands-free TV control for customers in Japan.</li><li>eero announced two new additions to the eero family of home mesh wifi systems that will give customers fast connectivity and high performance in any room of the house: eero Pro 6E, the first Wi-Fi 6E-enabled eero system designed for gigabit+ internet plans; and eero 6+, the most affordable gigabit-capable eero system.</li></ul><p><em>Emerging Businesses</em></p><ul><li>Amazon Care's virtual health services are now available 24/7 across the U.S. Additionally, Amazon Care expanded its in-person services to Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, and will add more than 15 other cities this year, including Houston, Miami, New York City, and Phoenix. The service provides immediate access to a wide range of urgent and primary care services, including COVID-19 and flu testing, vaccinations, treatment of illnesses and injuries, preventive care, sexual health, and prescription requests and refills.</li><li>Amazon announced agreements with Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance to provide launch services for Project Kuiper, Amazon's initiative to increase global broadband access using a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit. Amazon secured up to 83 launches across the three contracts, providing heavy-lift capacity to launch the majority of Amazon's 3,236-satellite constellation. The agreements comprise the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history and will support thousands of suppliers and highly skilled jobs across the global space industry.</li></ul><p><em>Amazon Web Services</em></p><ul><li>AWS announced significant customer momentum, with new commitments and migrations from customers across many major industries.<ul><li>Telecommunications: T-Systems, a global service provider for information technologies and digital transformation, selected AWS to launch a managed service in the cloud to provide encryption and implement transparent residency controls for customers' data in the EU. Verizon migrated its fleet management software platform, Verizon Connect, to AWS to help businesses of all sizes more effectively manage their commercial transportation needs. Spanish telecommunications provider Telefónica expanded its strategic collaboration with AWS to invest in joint go-to-market activities, develop new cloud solutions, and increase AWS Cloud skills among the Telefónica workforce. Telefónica will use AWS to bring innovation to customers faster and help them better leverage the agility of the cloud by launching value-added solutions such as edge computing and built-for-the-cloud private 5G networks that run on AWS Outposts. Commnet Broadband, a broadband communications provider for tribal and rural communities in the U.S., is working with AWS to transform its network and bring AWS services to health care, education, tribal, government, mining, business, and carrier customers in the rural, southwest U.S. Etisalat UAE, a telecommunications provider based in the United Arab Emirates, announced a collaboration with AWS to use 5G private networks and mobile edge computing to build prepackaged solutions for industrial use cases including energy, manufacturing, and logistics.</li><li>Aerospace: Boeing, a global manufacturer of airplanes and space systems, selected AWS as a strategic cloud provider to deliver tools to support more powerful, sustainable, and efficient aerospace design, engineering, and management solutions. Boeing will run high-performance computing workloads on AWS and plans to move many of their most important applications to AWS. Boeing will use AWS to streamline its approach to cloud computing as Boeing takes on ambitious engineering feats, like developing a more sustainable future of flight.</li><li>Sports: German national football league Bundesliga announced new Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS to give fans deeper insights into the action on the pitch, including Set Piece Threat, which provides information on a team's scoring ability from plays such as free kicks and corner kicks, and Skill, which compares Bundesliga players to visualize the skills they bring to their teams and positions. The National Hockey League (NHL) and AWS announced Face-off Probability, a live in-game stat that instantly shows the odds of a player winning a face-off and possession of the puck. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, the owner of some of Canada's best-known sports franchises, including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Toronto Football Club, and Toronto Argonauts, selected AWS as its official cloud provider and official provider of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning cloud services to create and deliver extraordinary sports moments and enhanced fan engagement.</li><li>Technology: Database platform MongoDB expanded its relationship with AWS, making it easier for joint customers to advance their cloud adoption journey. This includes integrated go-to-market activities, shared developer relations activities, and technology integrations to streamline the migration of on-premises workloads to MongoDB Atlas on AWS. Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, used AWS to implement a program enabling 12 billion secure, real-time online and offline business transactions per day in the cloud. Tech Mahindra, a provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business reengineering solutions, selected AWS to power an automation platform designed to accelerate the adoption and deployment of 5G networks by telecommunications carriers.</li><li>Health care and life sciences: THREAD, a clinical trials technology and service provider, is using AWS for real-time access to data and insights that will enable faster, more efficient, and less-costly clinical trials that optimize research and advance precision medicine.</li></ul></li><li>AWS completed the launch of its first 16 Local Zones in the U.S. and announced plans for new Local Zones in 32 metropolitan areas in 26 countries around the world. AWS Local Zones is a type of infrastructure deployment that extends AWS Regions to place compute, storage, database, and other AWS services at the edge of the cloud near large population, industry, and information technology centers. These new Local Zones expand AWS's infrastructure footprint globally beyond its existing 84 Availability Zones in 26 geographic regions, enabling AWS customers to build applications that deliver single-digit millisecond latency performance at the edge of the cloud to hundreds of millions of people worldwide.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next generation of the Amazon Aurora database that automatically scales in fine-grained increments in a fraction of a second—providing customers up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning for peak capacity. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 also includes Amazon Aurora's capabilities for high availability, performance, and resiliency, with low latency and faster querying.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of AWS IoT TwinMaker, which makes it significantly faster and easier for developers to create digital twins of real-world systems like buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines—helping more customers build applications that improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime. 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.</li><li>AWS announced the general availability of AWS Amplify Studio, a new visual development environment for creating rich user interfaces that extends the benefits of AWS Amplify to make it easier for developers to create fully customizable web applications with minimal coding in days instead of weeks.</li></ul><p><em>Investing in Employees and Our Workplace</em></p><ul><li>For the second year in a row, Amazon ranked No. 1 in the U.S. on LinkedIn's annual Top Companies list, which identifies the best companies for career growth based on their ability to attract and retain the best talent, including through promotions, opportunities for employees of all backgrounds to gain new skills, company stability, and gender diversity.</li><li>For the sixth year in a row, Amazon ranked No. 2 on <em>Fortune</em> magazine's World's Most Admired Companies list, which evaluates corporate reputation based on factors such as quality of management and products, commitment to social responsibility, and ability to attract talent.</li><li>Amazon achieved the Top Employer Certification by the Top Employers Institute for 2022 in France, Italy, Poland, and Spain in recognition of Amazon's quality work environment, professional development opportunities, and programs available to employees. In India, Amazon ranked No. 1 in <em>Business Today </em>magazine's 2022 Best Companies to Work list, which highlights the company's growth and learning opportunities, clarity of company goals, and flexibility at work.</li><li>Amazon launched the Welcome Door program in the U.S., a new initiative to provide additional resources and support to its refugee and humanitarian-basedimmigrant employees. Through the program, eligible Amazon employees will have access to reimbursement for Employment Authorization Document fees, a new citizenship assistance portal, free legal resources, English as a Second Language proficiency programs, and mentorship. Amazon will expand the program globally by the end of the year.</li><li>Amazon expanded its Career Choice program in the U.S. to include partnerships with more than 140 national and local universities and other schools to offer fully funded college tuition, high school completion and GED preparation courses, English as a Second Language programs, and college preparation courses. Career Choice is designed to help front-line employees grow their skills for careers at Amazon or elsewhere. This program—which is available to Amazon's more than 750,000 hourly employees in the U.S.—helps move the company closer to meeting its Upskilling 2025 pledge, a $1.2 billion commitment to upskill more than 300,000 Amazon employees by 2025.</li><li>Amazon expanded its mental health benefits to provide employees, their families, and their household members in more than 50 countries worldwide with a single starting point for personalized, convenient, and confidential mental health and daily life support. These mental health benefits enhance existing benefits, which include 24/7 access to free, one-on-one counseling sessions, suicide prevention resources, and customized support.</li></ul><p><em>Supporting Communities, Selling Partners, and the Economy</em></p><ul><li>Amazon teams around the world mobilized to provide humanitarian support to those affected by the war in Ukraine. Amazon launched two humanitarian aid hubs in Slovakia and Poland, with more than 90,000 square feet of dedicated logistics space to expedite relief products to Ukrainian refugees. Through the hub, Amazon has delivered more than 1 million clothing items, first-aid products, food items, hygiene products, and medical supplies. Amazon also donated more than $10 million in cash to more than 150 nonprofits working on the ground, committed technological assistance and more than $15 million in free cloud credits to organizations addressing the humanitarian crisis, and provided free legal assistance to organizations helping refugees seek resettlement in Europe. Amazon also pledged to support the immediate and longer-term needs of Ukrainian refugees by joining the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a global nonprofit and network of 200 companies that helps integrate refugees into new communities.</li><li>Amazon announced it has allocated more than half of the Housing Equity Fund's $2 billion commitment to create and preserve affordable housing for families in Amazon's hometown communities of the Puget Sound region of Washington state; the Arlington, Virginia, region; and Nashville, Tennessee. The Fund has a strong focus on transit-oriented affordable housing development and recently awarded funds to create more than 1,000 new affordable housing units on land owned by transit agencies or privately owned land within a 10-minute walk to quality public transit stations.</li><li>Amazon launched a $1 billion venture investment program called the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund to empower companies that are developing emerging technologies in customer fulfillment, logistics, and the supply chain. Starting with five recipients, the Fund will invest in companies imagining solutions that incrementally increase delivery speed and further improve the experience of employees working in warehousing and logistics fields.</li><li>AWS launched a three-year, $30 million commitment to the AWS Impact Accelerator, a series of programs to help early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, and women founders build successful companies. Each participating startup receives $225,000 in cash and credits, extensive training, mentoring and technical guidance, as well as introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking opportunities with potential investors, and ongoing advisory support.</li><li>The Arlington County Board approved Amazon's final plans for PenPlace, the next phase of the company's second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Amazon's more than $2.5 billion investment in its Arlington headquarters will include more than 4.5 acres of park space, two dog runs, and more than 150,000 square feet of retail and retail-equivalent space (including two daycare centers), which will be accessible to the entire community. HQ2 will be powered with 100% renewable energy through a combination of off-site and on-site solar projects. Amazon plans to create 25,000 direct jobs in Arlington over the next decade, which together with the company's investment in the surrounding area will help generate thousands of indirect jobs across the region.</li><li>Amazon Future Engineer, the company's global computer science education program for students from underserved and historically underrepresented communities, awarded $40,000 college scholarships to 250 students across the U.S. to study computer science. Since launching this program four years ago, Amazon has awarded $22 million in scholarships to 550 students who are also granted paid internships at Amazon.</li><li>Amazon introduced new tools for sellers including New Seller Incentives, a suite of benefits (such as bonuses, credits, and discounts) worth more than $50,000 in potential value, and the Perfect Launch playbook, a tool with actionable steps for new-to-Amazon selling partners. Both tools help partners grow their brand, scale their business, and promote their products to hundreds of millions of Amazon customers worldwide.</li><li>Amazon launched Road to Ownership, a 16-week accelerated training and development program that helps create a pathway for delivery associates and team members of existing Delivery Service Partners (DSP) to start their career as DSP small business owners. The program provides a comprehensive understanding of operating a DSP business and fosters business acumen. Upon completion, participants receive a $30,000 grant to cover startup costs and living expenses while they establish their business.</li></ul><p><em>Protecting the Planet</em></p><ul><li>Amazon welcomed nearly 100 new signatories to The Climate Pledge, including HARMAN, Maersk, SAP, Sunrun, and Weyerhaeuser. The new signatories bring the total number of companies that have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 to more than 300. Pledge signatories in total generate over $3.5 trillion in global annual revenues and have more than 8 million employees across 51 industries in 29 countries.</li><li>Amazon is working with the U.S. Department of Energy to advance research on reducing plastic pollution through innovation in materials and recycling. The effort is led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Amazon's team of materials scientists and experts is working with the laboratory to develop technologies and materials that will enable the full life cycle of plastics to be net-zero carbon.</li><li>Amazon announced 37 new renewable energy projects around the world, marking significant progress on its ambitious path to power 100% of company operations with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. The new projects increase Amazon's total capacity by nearly 30% and reinforce Amazon's leadership position as the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy, with 310 renewable energy projects across 19 countries and 15.7 gigawatts of clean energy capacity—enough electricity output to power 3.9 million U.S. homes annually.</li><li>In India, Amazon and Sun Mobility, a local provider of energy infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EVs), announced an expanded deployment of EVs with battery-swapping technology, which eliminates the need for lengthy recharging. These EVs will be part of Amazon's transportation and logistics services, and contribute to Amazon India's commitment of adding 10,000 electric vehicles to its delivery fleet by 2025.</li><li>As part of AWS's ongoing commitment to help customers reduce their environmental impact and reach their sustainability goals, AWS launched a carbon footprint tool that helps customers quantify their carbon usage across AWS products. The tool gives AWS customers a view of their historic carbon emissions, evaluates emission trends as their use of AWS evolves, estimates the carbon emissions they have avoided by using AWS instead of an on-premises solution, and projects forecasted emissions based on current usage.</li></ul><p>Financial Guidance</p><p>The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com's expectations as of April 28, 2022, 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, inflation, 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 April 28, 2022 regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations as well as the effect of other factors discussed above.</p><p>Second Quarter 2022 Guidance</p><ul><li>Net sales are expected to be between $116.0 billion and $121.0 billion, or to grow between 3% and 7% compared with second quarter 2021. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 200 basis points from foreign exchange rates.</li><li>Operating income (loss) is expected to be between $(1.0) billion and $3.0 billion, compared with $7.7 billion in second quarter 2021.</li><li>This guidance assumes that Prime Day occurs in third quarter 2022.</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 and outcomes 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. 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, global economic conditions and additional or unforeseen effects from the COVID-19 pandemic amplify many of these risks. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.</em></p><p>Our investor relations website is amazon.com/ir and we encourage investors to use it as a way of easily finding information about us. 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Chinese Authorities Raid Warehouse and Seize Counterfeit Belts With Intelligence From Amazon and Salvatore Ferragamo

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04/26/2022 05:00:00

Chinese Authorities Raid Warehouse and Seize Counterfeit Belts With Intelligence From Amazon and Salvatore Ferragamo

04/26/2022

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 26, 2022-- Today, Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon") (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that its Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU) worked closely with Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. (SFER:IM) to report a counterfeiter of Ferragamo's iconic Gancini belt to the Market Supervision and Administration (MSA) authorities located in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, China. Following an investigation by the MSA and Amazon's CCU, officials raided the criminal's warehouse, seizing hundreds of counterfeit belts and buckle accessories that may otherwise have been sold through retail channels around the world. Amazon and Ferragamo will continue to assist law enforcement in investigating counterfeiters and preventing their products from entering the global supply chain, to help stop this illicit trade at the source. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220426005524/en/ "Amazon is grateful for the collaboration from Ferragamo and the MSA in protecting customers from these counterfeit products," said Kebharu Smith, head of Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit. "This should serve as a reminder that bad actors will be held accountable, as Amazon collaborates with both brands and law enforcement agencies around the world to stop inauthentic products from being sold across the retail industry." The case originates from a worldwide investigative effort against certain bad actors, which Amazon and Ferragamo identified as trying to sell in Amazon's store. In February 2021, Amazon and Ferragamo jointly filed two lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and allege the defendants conspired to use Ferragamo's registered trademarks, without authorization, to deceive customers about the authenticity and origin of the products and the affiliation with Ferragamo. Over the years, Salvatore Ferragamo has implemented a series of offline and online anti-counterfeiting measures to protect its customers and its brand. Thanks to these actions, in 2021, more than 22,000 infringing products and pieces of illicit content were removed from social media platforms and more than 130,000 listings related to counterfeit products were identified and removed from marketplace service providers. In 2021, Salvatore Ferragamo also carried out regular controls on physical stores launching several in-and out-of-court administrative and criminal proceedings, with a specific focus on China. Thanks to the increasing cooperation from local authorities, almost 450,000 counterfeit products were seized worldwide. 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. Amazon launched the CCU in 2020 to help hold counterfeiters accountable through the courts and law enforcement. This global team—which is made up of former federal prosecutors, former law enforcement agents, experienced investigators and data analysts—pursues targets around the globe. Amazon's CCU supports law enforcement efforts to bring justice to those attempting to sell counterfeits to protect customers, brands, Amazon's stores, and the retail industry. Amazon has an extensive history of protecting brands and taking action to hold bad actors accountable: Amazon and Weber File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit Reaches Settlement with Influencers Who Ran Social Media Counterfeiting Scheme Amazon and GoPro File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters 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 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 Salvatore Ferragamo Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. is the parent Company of the Salvatore Ferragamo Group, one of the leaders in the luxury industry, and whose origins date back to 1927. Salvatore Ferragamo is renowned for the creation, production and worldwide distribution of luxury collections of shoes, leather goods, apparel, silk products and other accessories for men and women, including also eyewear, watches and fragrances under license. Embedding the spirit of its Founder, Ferragamo reinterprets its heritage with creativity, innovation and sustainable thinking. Uniqueness and exclusivity, along with the blend of style and exquisite 'Made in Italy' savoir-faire, are the hallmarks of all Ferragamo's products. www.ferragamo.com View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220426005524/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com, Inc.

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 26, 2022-- Today, Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon") (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that its Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU) worked closely with Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. (SFER:IM) to report a counterfeiter of Ferragamo's iconic Gancini belt to the Market Supervision and Administration (MSA) authorities located in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, China. Following an investigation by the MSA and Amazon's CCU, officials raided the criminal's warehouse, seizing hundreds of counterfeit belts and buckle accessories that may otherwise have been sold through retail channels around the world. Amazon and Ferragamo will continue to assist law enforcement in investigating counterfeiters and preventing their products from entering the global supply chain, to help stop this illicit trade at the source.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220426005524/en/</p><p>"Amazon is grateful for the collaboration from Ferragamo and the MSA in protecting customers from these counterfeit products," said Kebharu Smith, head of Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit. "This should serve as a reminder that bad actors will be held accountable, as Amazon collaborates with both brands and law enforcement agencies around the world to stop inauthentic products from being sold across the retail industry."</p><p>The case originates from a worldwide investigative effort against certain bad actors, which Amazon and Ferragamo identified as trying to sell in Amazon's store. In February 2021, Amazon and Ferragamo jointly filed two lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and allege the defendants conspired to use Ferragamo's registered trademarks, without authorization, to deceive customers about the authenticity and origin of the products and the affiliation with Ferragamo.</p><p>Over the years, Salvatore Ferragamo has implemented a series of offline and online anti-counterfeiting measures to protect its customers and its brand. Thanks to these actions, in 2021, more than 22,000 infringing products and pieces of illicit content were removed from social media platforms and more than 130,000 listings related to counterfeit products were identified and removed from marketplace service providers. In 2021, Salvatore Ferragamo also carried out regular controls on physical stores launching several in-and out-of-court administrative and criminal proceedings, with a specific focus on China. Thanks to the increasing cooperation from local authorities, almost 450,000 counterfeit products were seized worldwide.</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>Amazon launched the CCU in 2020 to help hold counterfeiters accountable through the courts and law enforcement. This global team—which is made up of former federal prosecutors, former law enforcement agents, experienced investigators and data analysts—pursues targets around the globe. Amazon's CCU supports law enforcement efforts to bring justice to those attempting to sell counterfeits to protect customers, brands, Amazon's stores, and the retail industry.</p><p>Amazon has an extensive history of protecting brands and taking action to hold bad actors accountable:</p><ul><li>Amazon and Weber File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters</li><li>Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit Reaches Settlement with Influencers Who Ran Social Media Counterfeiting Scheme</li><li>Amazon and GoPro File Joint Lawsuit Against Counterfeiters</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>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 Salvatore Ferragamo</p><p>Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. is the parent Company of the Salvatore Ferragamo Group, one of the leaders in the luxury industry, and whose origins date back to 1927. Salvatore Ferragamo is renowned for the creation, production and worldwide distribution of luxury collections of shoes, leather goods, apparel, silk products and other accessories for men and women, including also eyewear, watches and fragrances under license. Embedding the spirit of its Founder, Ferragamo reinterprets its heritage with creativity, innovation and sustainable thinking. Uniqueness and exclusivity, along with the blend of style and exquisite 'Made in Italy' savoir-faire, are the hallmarks of all Ferragamo's products. www.ferragamo.com</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220426005524/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless v2

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04/21/2022 13:49:00

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless v2

04/21/2022

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New version of Amazon Aurora Serverless scales to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning for peak capacity 3M, SmugMug, and Pagely among customers using Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today at AWS Summit San Francisco announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next generation of Amazon Aurora Serverless that automatically scales to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second to support even the most demanding applications. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 scales capacity in fine-grained increments based on an application's needs, providing customers up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning database capacity for peak load. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 also includes Amazon Aurora's capabilities for high availability, performance, and resiliency, with low latency and fast querying. There are no upfront commitments or additional costs to use Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, and customers only pay for the database capacity used. To get started with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, visit aws.amazon.com/aurora/serverless. Customers often face a dilemma when managing database capacity—provision too much and overspend, or underestimate capacity needs and risk application downtime. Since launching in 2018, Amazon Aurora Serverless has been used by tens of thousands of customers as a cost-effective database option for applications that have infrequent, intermittent, or unpredictable traffic, like test and development workloads. V1 of Amazon Aurora Serverless scales database capacity within five to 50 seconds by doubling capacity each time it is needed—­­and because it is serverless, customers don't have to worry about managing database capacity. However, to run a wider variety of production workloads with Amazon Aurora Serverless, customers need capacity to scale in fractions of a second and in more precise increments. These customers also want to take advantage of the full range of Amazon Aurora's capabilities. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 automatically scales database workloads to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second to support even the most demanding applications. Instead of doubling capacity every time a workload must scale, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 continuously monitors database activity and adjusts capacity in fine-grained increments to provide just the right amount of database resources an application needs. With Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, customers only pay for the capacity they consume, which can save up to 90% of database costs when compared to the cost of provisioning for peak capacity. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 also provides the full breadth of Amazon Aurora's capabilities, including using multiple AWS Availability Zones for high availability, Global Database for local reads with low latency, Read Replicas for high performance, and Parallel Query for faster querying. As a result, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is ideal for a much broader set of applications. For example, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 can now support enterprises that have hundreds of thousands of applications and must manage capacity across their entire fleet of databases, as well as software as a service (SaaS) vendors that have multi-tenant environments with hundreds of thousands of databases that each support a different customer. "Amazon Aurora is the first relational database built from the ground up for the cloud. Today, more than a hundred thousand customers choose to run their database workloads on Amazon Aurora because it delivers the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at one-tenth the cost," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Databases, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS. "With the next generation of Amazon Aurora Serverless, it is now even easier for customers to leave the constraints of old-guard databases behind and enjoy the immense cost savings of scalable, on-demand capacity with all of the advanced capabilities in Amazon Aurora." Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is generally available today for MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible editions of Amazon Aurora in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. 3M is one of the world's largest providers of software for the health care industry. "At 3M, we are committed to empowering clinicians, providers, and payers by reducing the administrative burden of technology," said Dhanraj Shriyan, Enterprise Data Architect at 3M. "Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 helps us take huge steps toward this goal by automatically scaling database resources based on our business needs, enabling us to spend less time managing database capacity and more time solving customer challenges." SmugMug is a paid image sharing service, image hosting service, and online video platform on which users can upload photos and videos. The company facilitates the sale of digital and print media for amateur and professional photographers. "As the world's largest photographer-focused community, SmugMug is built on AWS to provide our customers with a secure, fast, and reliable service to store, share, and sell their photography," said Don MacAskill, CEO & Chief Geek of SmugMug. "With Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, we can innovate more with the fine-grained scalability that removes the overhead of peak capacity planning—and the associated costs of paying for more than we need, saving our customers money while accelerating performance." Pagely is a leading managed WordPress hosting platform. "Managing database capacity with spiky and unpredictable workloads is a challenging and resource-intensive task," said Joshua Eichorn, Chief Technology Officer at Pagely. "With Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, that task is much simpler. We no longer need to worry about fluctuating and unpredictable workloads—database capacity scales automatically by just the right amount to meet demand, keeping up with any spike regardless of size, and scaling down when demand decreases, to minimize costs." UJET offers an all-in-one cloud contact center platform, developed specifically to transform customer experience for the digital economy and smartphone era. "Because our workloads can vary drastically based on the time of the day, we either need to constantly adjust database capacity or over-provision for peak usage," said Dave Bullock, Vice President of Engineering at UJET. "Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 scales to just the right amount of capacity on demand to support our workload needs, helping us save cost without compromising customer experience." The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) is one of the largest community college districts in the United States. "At MCCCD, we work hard to ensure that high-quality education is accessible and affordable for all of our students," said Joseph Licata, Associate Chief Information Officer at MCCCD. "Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 can help us optimize costs, automate maintenance and patching, and ensure high availability across our district. We are building exciting new student support technology tools, specifically designed to take advantage of these serverless capabilities, to solve problems with fewer technical resources. By applying patches and maintenance quickly and automatically, we also decrease our threat surface by ensuring our environment is up to date, freeing up our team to focus on delivering transformational technology solutions that improve the student 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 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 www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220421005957/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>New version of Amazon Aurora Serverless scales to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning for peak capacity</em></p><p><em>3M, SmugMug, and Pagely among customers using Amazon Aurora Serverless v2</em></p><p>SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today at AWS Summit San Francisco announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next generation of Amazon Aurora Serverless that automatically scales to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second to support even the most demanding applications. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 scales capacity in fine-grained increments based on an application's needs, providing customers up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning database capacity for peak load. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 also includes Amazon Aurora's capabilities for high availability, performance, and resiliency, with low latency and fast querying. There are no upfront commitments or additional costs to use Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, and customers only pay for the database capacity used. To get started with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, visit aws.amazon.com/aurora/serverless.</p><p>Customers often face a dilemma when managing database capacity—provision too much and overspend, or underestimate capacity needs and risk application downtime. Since launching in 2018, Amazon Aurora Serverless has been used by tens of thousands of customers as a cost-effective database option for applications that have infrequent, intermittent, or unpredictable traffic, like test and development workloads. V1 of Amazon Aurora Serverless scales database capacity within five to 50 seconds by doubling capacity each time it is needed—­­and because it is serverless, customers don't have to worry about managing database capacity. However, to run a wider variety of production workloads with Amazon Aurora Serverless, customers need capacity to scale in fractions of a second and in more precise increments. These customers also want to take advantage of the full range of Amazon Aurora's capabilities.</p><p>Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 automatically scales database workloads to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second to support even the most demanding applications. Instead of doubling capacity every time a workload must scale, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 continuously monitors database activity and adjusts capacity in fine-grained increments to provide just the right amount of database resources an application needs. With Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, customers only pay for the capacity they consume, which can save up to 90% of database costs when compared to the cost of provisioning for peak capacity. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 also provides the full breadth of Amazon Aurora's capabilities, including using multiple AWS Availability Zones for high availability, Global Database for local reads with low latency, Read Replicas for high performance, and Parallel Query for faster querying. As a result, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is ideal for a much broader set of applications. For example, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 can now support enterprises that have hundreds of thousands of applications and must manage capacity across their entire fleet of databases, as well as software as a service (SaaS) vendors that have multi-tenant environments with hundreds of thousands of databases that each support a different customer.</p><p>"Amazon Aurora is the first relational database built from the ground up for the cloud. Today, more than a hundred thousand customers choose to run their database workloads on Amazon Aurora because it delivers the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at one-tenth the cost," said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Databases, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS. "With the next generation of Amazon Aurora Serverless, it is now even easier for customers to leave the constraints of old-guard databases behind and enjoy the immense cost savings of scalable, on-demand capacity with all of the advanced capabilities in Amazon Aurora."</p><p>Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is generally available today for MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible editions of Amazon Aurora in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon.</p><p>3M is one of the world's largest providers of software for the health care industry. "At 3M, we are committed to empowering clinicians, providers, and payers by reducing the administrative burden of technology," said Dhanraj Shriyan, Enterprise Data Architect at 3M. "Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 helps us take huge steps toward this goal by automatically scaling database resources based on our business needs, enabling us to spend less time managing database capacity and more time solving customer challenges."</p><p>SmugMug is a paid image sharing service, image hosting service, and online video platform on which users can upload photos and videos. The company facilitates the sale of digital and print media for amateur and professional photographers. "As the world's largest photographer-focused community, SmugMug is built on AWS to provide our customers with a secure, fast, and reliable service to store, share, and sell their photography," said Don MacAskill, CEO &amp; Chief Geek of SmugMug. "With Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, we can innovate more with the fine-grained scalability that removes the overhead of peak capacity planning—and the associated costs of paying for more than we need, saving our customers money while accelerating performance."</p><p>Pagely is a leading managed WordPress hosting platform. "Managing database capacity with spiky and unpredictable workloads is a challenging and resource-intensive task," said Joshua Eichorn, Chief Technology Officer at Pagely. "With Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, that task is much simpler. We no longer need to worry about fluctuating and unpredictable workloads—database capacity scales automatically by just the right amount to meet demand, keeping up with any spike regardless of size, and scaling down when demand decreases, to minimize costs."</p><p>UJET offers an all-in-one cloud contact center platform, developed specifically to transform customer experience for the digital economy and smartphone era. "Because our workloads can vary drastically based on the time of the day, we either need to constantly adjust database capacity or over-provision for peak usage," said Dave Bullock, Vice President of Engineering at UJET. "Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 scales to just the right amount of capacity on demand to support our workload needs, helping us save cost without compromising customer experience."</p><p>The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) is one of the largest community college districts in the United States. "At MCCCD, we work hard to ensure that high-quality education is accessible and affordable for all of our students," said Joseph Licata, Associate Chief Information Officer at MCCCD. "Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 can help us optimize costs, automate maintenance and patching, and ensure high availability across our district. We are building exciting new student support technology tools, specifically designed to take advantage of these serverless capabilities, to solve problems with fewer technical resources. By applying patches and maintenance quickly and automatically, we also decrease our threat surface by ensuring our environment is up to date, freeing up our team to focus on delivering transformational technology solutions that improve the student 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 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 www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220421005957/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 AWS Amplify Studio

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AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Amplify Studio

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2022

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 Cloud Brigade, CirrusHQ, and QsrSoft among customers and partners using AWS Amplify Studio SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today at AWS Summit San Francisco announced the general availability of AWS Amplify Studio, a new visual development environment for creating web application user interfaces (UIs) that extends AWS Amplify so developers can create fully customizable web applications on AWS with minimal coding. Today, customers like Amazon Music, Credit Genie, Neiman Marcus, Noom, Orangetheory Fitness, and State Auto use AWS Amplify to more easily configure and deploy AWS services (e.g., database, compute, storage, etc.) to power their applications. AWS Amplify Studio extends the capabilities of AWS Amplify to provide a unified visual development environment for building feature-rich web applications on AWS—from provisioning the AWS services that power the application to creating dynamic UIs. Developers can use AWS Amplify Studio to 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. AWS Amplify Studio then converts the UI into JavaScript or TypeScript code, which saves developers from writing thousands of lines of code while allowing them to fully customize their web application design and behavior using familiar programming languages. There are no upfront fees or commitments to use AWS Amplify Studio, and customers only pay for the AWS services used to run their application. To get started with AWS Amplify Studio, visit aws.amazon.com/amplify/studio. Most cloud-based web applications are broadly comprised of three parts—a UI that users engage with, business logic that defines how the web application works, and the backend cloud services that power a range of 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 finished web application, but often takes weeks of time and effort, including provisioning the backend services, writing the business logic, and collaborating with UX designers on the UI. Alternatively, developers can use low-code tools to quickly build an application. However, applications built with these tools are often 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 significantly 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 visual development environment to automatically provision the AWS services (e.g., Amazon Cognito for authentication, Amazon DynamoDB for a database, Amazon S3 for storage, etc.) that will power their application. Developers can then build their UI using AWS Amplify Studio's library of prebuilt UI components, incorporate data or capabilities from AWS services into their UI with just a few clicks, 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. With AWS Amplify Studio, developers get the precision of writing their own application code with the speed of a low-code tool, so they can build feature-rich, fully customizable applications on AWS faster. "Developers tell us that they want tools that help make them more productive when building on AWS without sacrificing the precision they need to deliver tailored experiences to their end users," said Ken Exner, Director of AWS Developer Tools at AWS. "With AWS Amplify Studio, we are extending the same fast, flexible backend development experience that customers love when using AWS Amplify to the UI creation process, so they can build feature-rich web applications with minimal coding. AWS Amplify Studio is a game changer for any developer building web applications on AWS, because it enables greater productivity without compromising control throughout the application development process." AWS Amplify Studio is available 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), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo). Cloud Brigade provides specialized business and technical services that solve complex business challenges for its clients. "Our team is focused on designing and developing innovative, custom web applications that help our clients operate efficiently and effectively. We use AWS Amplify because it allows us to take advantage of the breadth and depth of AWS to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions," said Chris Miller, Chief Executive Officer at Cloud Brigade. "We are always looking for tools that can help accelerate our development velocity, while still giving us the control we need to meet our clients' exacting standards. AWS Amplify Studio looks like it will deliver the perfect balance of speed and precision by allowing us to quickly create client applications using a visual interface and then dive into the code to fully customize the experience to meet our clients' needs." CirrusHQ provides specialized cloud consultancy and helps accelerate digital transformation and innovation in the cloud for small and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, public institutions, and educational establishments. "Our company focuses on delivering high-quality applications and services for our clients that help them gain greater agility while simplifying the management of their cloud workloads. We use AWS Amplify to help us create rapid application prototypes, test our hypotheses, iterate on the design, and quickly build and deploy web and mobile applications for our customers that address a variety of use cases," said John Walker, Head of Architecture at CirrusHQ. "AWS Amplify Studio will enable us to achieve this with even greater efficiency, while empowering our developers to quickly create pixel-perfect UIs using Amplify Studio's library of pre-built UI components, without the need for deep design expertise. This will allow us to deliver robust, feature-rich prototypes and finished applications that closely reflect the needs of our clients in a fraction of the time." 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. "QsrSoft TV is our digital huddle board that allows our customers to connect, gamify, recognize, and engage with their employees to improve retention and drive shared organization-wide goals. We chose to build QsrSoft TV using AWS Amplify to deliver a modern serverless application backed by the scalability and flexibility of AWS," said Adam Pehas, Director of Development at QsrSoft. "AWS Amplify Studio helps close the gap between design and development through its integration with Figma, so we can rapidly iterate on new features and fully customize the experience through code. We look forward to integrating AWS Amplify Studio into new and existing products so we can continue to surprise and delight 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 84 Availability Zones (AZs) 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/20220421005953/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>Cloud Brigade, CirrusHQ, and QsrSoft among customers and partners using AWS Amplify Studio</em></p><p>SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today at AWS Summit San Francisco announced the general availability of AWS Amplify Studio, a new visual development environment for creating web application user interfaces (UIs) that extends AWS Amplify so developers can create fully customizable web applications on AWS with minimal coding. Today, customers like Amazon Music, Credit Genie, Neiman Marcus, Noom, Orangetheory Fitness, and State Auto use AWS Amplify to more easily configure and deploy AWS services (e.g., database, compute, storage, etc.) to power their applications. AWS Amplify Studio extends the capabilities of AWS Amplify to provide a unified visual development environment for building feature-rich web applications on AWS—from provisioning the AWS services that power the application to creating dynamic UIs. Developers can use AWS Amplify Studio to 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. AWS Amplify Studio then converts the UI into JavaScript or TypeScript code, which saves developers from writing thousands of lines of code while allowing them to fully customize their web application design and behavior using familiar programming languages. There are no upfront fees or commitments to use AWS Amplify Studio, and customers only pay for the AWS services used to run their application. To get started with AWS Amplify Studio, visit aws.amazon.com/amplify/studio.</p><p>Most cloud-based web applications are broadly comprised of three parts—a UI that users engage with, business logic that defines how the web application works, and the backend cloud services that power a range of 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 finished web application, but often takes weeks of time and effort, including provisioning the backend services, writing the business logic, and collaborating with UX designers on the UI. Alternatively, developers can use low-code tools to quickly build an application. However, applications built with these tools are often 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 significantly 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 visual development environment to automatically provision the AWS services (e.g., Amazon Cognito for authentication, Amazon DynamoDB for a database, Amazon S3 for storage, etc.) that will power their application. Developers can then build their UI using AWS Amplify Studio's library of prebuilt UI components, incorporate data or capabilities from AWS services into their UI with just a few clicks, 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. With AWS Amplify Studio, developers get the precision of writing their own application code with the speed of a low-code tool, so they can build feature-rich, fully customizable applications on AWS faster.</p><p>"Developers tell us that they want tools that help make them more productive when building on AWS without sacrificing the precision they need to deliver tailored experiences to their end users," said Ken Exner, Director of AWS Developer Tools at AWS. "With AWS Amplify Studio, we are extending the same fast, flexible backend development experience that customers love when using AWS Amplify to the UI creation process, so they can build feature-rich web applications with minimal coding. AWS Amplify Studio is a game changer for any developer building web applications on AWS, because it enables greater productivity without compromising control throughout the application development process."</p><p>AWS Amplify Studio is available 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), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo).</p><p>Cloud Brigade provides specialized business and technical services that solve complex business challenges for its clients. "Our team is focused on designing and developing innovative, custom web applications that help our clients operate efficiently and effectively. We use AWS Amplify because it allows us to take advantage of the breadth and depth of AWS to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions," said Chris Miller, Chief Executive Officer at Cloud Brigade. "We are always looking for tools that can help accelerate our development velocity, while still giving us the control we need to meet our clients' exacting standards. AWS Amplify Studio looks like it will deliver the perfect balance of speed and precision by allowing us to quickly create client applications using a visual interface and then dive into the code to fully customize the experience to meet our clients' needs."</p><p>CirrusHQ provides specialized cloud consultancy and helps accelerate digital transformation and innovation in the cloud for small and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, public institutions, and educational establishments. "Our company focuses on delivering high-quality applications and services for our clients that help them gain greater agility while simplifying the management of their cloud workloads. We use AWS Amplify to help us create rapid application prototypes, test our hypotheses, iterate on the design, and quickly build and deploy web and mobile applications for our customers that address a variety of use cases," said John Walker, Head of Architecture at CirrusHQ. "AWS Amplify Studio will enable us to achieve this with even greater efficiency, while empowering our developers to quickly create pixel-perfect UIs using Amplify Studio's library of pre-built UI components, without the need for deep design expertise. This will allow us to deliver robust, feature-rich prototypes and finished applications that closely reflect the needs of our clients in a fraction of the time."</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. "QsrSoft TV is our digital huddle board that allows our customers to connect, gamify, recognize, and engage with their employees to improve retention and drive shared organization-wide goals. We chose to build QsrSoft TV using AWS Amplify to deliver a modern serverless application backed by the scalability and flexibility of AWS," said Adam Pehas, Director of Development at QsrSoft. "AWS Amplify Studio helps close the gap between design and development through its integration with Figma, so we can rapidly iterate on new features and fully customize the experience through code. We look forward to integrating AWS Amplify Studio into new and existing products so we can continue to surprise and delight 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 84 Availability Zones (AZs) 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/20220421005953/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 AWS IoT TwinMaker

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04/21/2022

2022

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 use IoT and data to improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime Siemens, Carrier, and INVISTA among customers and partners using AWS IoT TwinMaker SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today at AWS Summit San Francisco announced the general availability of 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 use real-world data to mimic the structure, state, and behavior of the objects they represent and are updated with new data as conditions change. 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 that improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime. There are no upfront commitments or fees to use AWS IoT TwinMaker, and customers only pay for accessing the data used to build and operate digital twins. To get started with AWS IoT TwinMaker, visit aws.amazon.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—and then ensure the digital twin is kept up to date as conditions change. 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 who can leverage machine learning and analytics to extract business insights about the real-time operational performance of their physical systems. Because the work required is complex, 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 get started quickly 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 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS IoT SiteWise, and Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (or customers can add their own connectors for data sources like Amazon Timestream, Snowflake, and Siemens MindSphere) 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 system 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. "Sensors for equipment, buildings, and industrial processes are proliferating and generating massive amounts of data. Customers are increasingly eager to use that data to optimize their operations and processes and one way to do that is using digital twins, but they find that building a digital twin and custom applications is difficult, time consuming, and prohibitively expensive to maintain today," said Michael MacKenzie, General Manager, IoT at AWS. "With AWS IoT TwinMaker, customers can now derive previously unavailable insights about their operations that inform real-time improvements to their buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines, and make accurate predictions about system behavior with minimal effort." AWS IoT TwinMaker is generally available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Ireland) with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon. Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leader in industrial software including digital twin solutions that connect information technology and operational technology across the entire product lifecycle through design, manufacturing, production, and service. "Through this collaboration, we can leverage AWS IoT TwinMaker and other AWS services within the low-code, data management, visualization, simulation, and industrial IoT applications in our Xcelerator portfolio, making it easier for customers to create digital twin solutions that can scale from the simplest to the most complex use cases," said Brenda Discher, Senior Vice President for Global Strategy & Marketing, Siemens Digital Industries Software. "Together, we are helping our customers increase manufacturing productivity and flexibility, optimize material costs, and better meet their energy and sustainability goals." Carrier is a leading provider of healthy, safe, sustainable, and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. "At Carrier, we are pushing to drive more innovation and connectivity to make buildings and the cold chain more sustainable, efficient, and comfortable. To enable rapid development of more digital solutions, we embarked on the development of a shared services platform—carrier.io—as the foundation of all Carrier digital services," said Dan Levine, Senior Director IoT, Cloud, and Software Engineering at Carrier. "AWS IoT services will be a key enabler to accelerating the development of our carrier.io IoT platform, and AWS IoT TwinMaker will be used to provide critical asset modeling for the platform, enabling our applications to easily create and integrate digital twins of real-world systems. These applications allow our customers to use their data alongside advanced machine learning and data analytics to decrease service costs, optimize maintenance schedules, and increase reliability, efficiency, and profitability of their Carrier equipment." INVISTA, which is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, transforms daily life through its innovations in the nylon and specialty materials industries used in clothing, carpets, cars, and computers, just to name a few. "INVISTA is using AWS IoT TwinMaker to help our field personnel efficiently address operational notifications and alerts from plant floors across multiple, distributed locations," said Jerry Grunewald, Vice President of Operations Transformation at INVISTA. "With AWS IoT TwinMaker, we can quickly and easily build a digital twin of our manufacturing operations to give field workers a consolidated view of all assets and operational data. By doing so, INVISTA operations is making significant progress on our vision of the connected worker as the outcome of our transformation effort. For example, a field technician could pinpoint the source of equipment anomalies and identify appropriate corrective actions." John Holland is one of Australia's leading integrated infrastructure, rail, multi-modal transport, and building companies. By finding solutions to complex challenges and opportunities, John Holland transforms communities to make them easier to move around, be more connected, and become better to live in. "By their nature, construction projects create change to their surrounding environment, and through the use of IoT and other emerging technologies, John Holland can expand the capabilities of our people," said Bastian Uber, Chief Digital and Information Officer at John Holland. "As an example, projects are subject to environmental regulations, evidence collection, and monitoring of environmental factors such as noise, dust, vibration, and air quality. Using AWS IoT TwinMaker to create a construction digital twin, we aim to provide environmental managers a 360-degree view into the environmental impact of their project. Our platform collects, analyzes, and displays environmental data in a realistic 3D representation of the construction site, so environmental managers can monitor performance, investigate claims, and gather comprehensive historical evidence." Element helps industrial enterprises achieve cleaner, safer, healthier, and more profitable operations through analytical insights that are made possible by uniting IT/OT metadata in a flexible knowledge graph, speeding time to insight and governing data in context. "Built with industrial organizations in mind, Element Unify uses automated, no-code data pipelines to integrate and contextualize IT/OT metadata and then stores relationships within the Unify Graph," said Andy Bane, CEO at Element. "AWS IoT TwinMaker enables users to create highly contextualized 3D scenes and digital twin applications for analytical insights and actions across the plant floor, control room, and remote operations center to help teams collaboratively solve problems with data. The relationships stored in Unify Graph are provisioned as data models in AWS IoT TwinMaker, which is an essential part of making all of this work. Unify shrinks digital twin development cycles by up to tenfold, significantly speeding time to value. It improves data quality through graph-based relationships and brings much needed governance to digital twins that rely on data from multiple legacy IT/OT systems blended together with data from new IoT sources." FuseForward provides critical energy, education, and health care service providers a clear path to an intelligent digital future, with expertise across cloud, intelligent systems, advanced analytics, data privacy and governance, and cybersecurity. "Recently, FuseForward embarked on a collaboration with a team of academic researchers to create a digital twin of a complete university campus. We started with one building, and the next step is to scale up to all 60, and AWS IoT TwinMaker will make this possible," said Dr. Michael Lamoureux, VP of Research and Lab Operations at FuseForward. "With AWS IoT TwinMaker, we now have the tools to facilitate the creation of our digital twins at scale. Components of AWS IoT TwinMaker will support digital twin development through secure streaming data ingestion and storage, 3D visualization of buildings and artifacts, display of operating data, and more. These methods will allow our industry to move away from bespoke, one-off, custom-made solutions and move into an automated digital twin creation process for smart cities that rapidly meets the customers' needs and expectations over the long term." Radix is a global technology company that provides consulting, engineering, operations technology, and digital solutions. "In today's world of highly automated manufacturing, many enterprises seek innovations that help modernize older process equipment to remain competitive. A historical obstacle to the development of digital twins was the effort to locate and build the relationships between the metadata and all of the different pieces of process equipment," said Elliott Bell, Program Director at Radix Engineering & Software. "We at Radix have found that AWS IoT TwinMaker helps systematically build the relationships that exist within the engineering documentation, process data, business systems, and maintenance systems, without human intervention. When applied correctly, digital twins are the ‘automatic spell checker' of a manufacturing process. This greatly reduces the activities that don't add value in creating digital twins. Without the obstacles of mapping the metadata, our engineers are able to assist our customers in reaching higher levels of value creation faster." Matterport is a spatial-data company digitizing the built world that unlocks unparalleled spatial-data insights for companies and individuals to better design, build, promote, and manage their most valuable asset. "Using immersive, dimensionally accurate 3D models from Matterport, AWS IoT TwinMaker allows customers to create game-changing 3D experiences for their users," said Conway Chen, Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Alliances at Matterport. "Through our collaboration with AWS, enterprise customers in the industrial, manufacturing, and smart-building industries can connect their immersive, dimensionally accurate 3D models from Matterport with IoT devices to enhance remote monitoring, increase working efficiencies, and enable root-cause analysis. This collaboration provides digital twin visualization of any space with associated data insights and analytics, as well as real-time and historical data access to their spaces." 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/20220421005951/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<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 use IoT and data to improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime</em></p><p><em>Siemens, Carrier, and INVISTA among customers and partners using AWS IoT TwinMaker</em></p><p>SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today at AWS Summit San Francisco announced the general availability of 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 use real-world data to mimic the structure, state, and behavior of the objects they represent and are updated with new data as conditions change. 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 that improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime. There are no upfront commitments or fees to use AWS IoT TwinMaker, and customers only pay for accessing the data used to build and operate digital twins. To get started with AWS IoT TwinMaker, visit aws.amazon.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—and then ensure the digital twin is kept up to date as conditions change. 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 who can leverage machine learning and analytics to extract business insights about the real-time operational performance of their physical systems. Because the work required is complex, 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 get started quickly 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 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS IoT SiteWise, and Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (or customers can add their own connectors for data sources like Amazon Timestream, Snowflake, and Siemens MindSphere) 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 system 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.</p><p>"Sensors for equipment, buildings, and industrial processes are proliferating and generating massive amounts of data. Customers are increasingly eager to use that data to optimize their operations and processes and one way to do that is using digital twins, but they find that building a digital twin and custom applications is difficult, time consuming, and prohibitively expensive to maintain today," said Michael MacKenzie, General Manager, IoT at AWS. "With AWS IoT TwinMaker, customers can now derive previously unavailable insights about their operations that inform real-time improvements to their buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines, and make accurate predictions about system behavior with minimal effort."</p><p>AWS IoT TwinMaker is generally available today in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Ireland) with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon.</p><p>Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leader in industrial software including digital twin solutions that connect information technology and operational technology across the entire product lifecycle through design, manufacturing, production, and service. "Through this collaboration, we can leverage AWS IoT TwinMaker and other AWS services within the low-code, data management, visualization, simulation, and industrial IoT applications in our Xcelerator portfolio, making it easier for customers to create digital twin solutions that can scale from the simplest to the most complex use cases," said Brenda Discher, Senior Vice President for Global Strategy &amp; Marketing, Siemens Digital Industries Software. "Together, we are helping our customers increase manufacturing productivity and flexibility, optimize material costs, and better meet their energy and sustainability goals."</p><p>Carrier is a leading provider of healthy, safe, sustainable, and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. "At Carrier, we are pushing to drive more innovation and connectivity to make buildings and the cold chain more sustainable, efficient, and comfortable. To enable rapid development of more digital solutions, we embarked on the development of a shared services platform—carrier.io—as the foundation of all Carrier digital services," said Dan Levine, Senior Director IoT, Cloud, and Software Engineering at Carrier. "AWS IoT services will be a key enabler to accelerating the development of our carrier.io IoT platform, and AWS IoT TwinMaker will be used to provide critical asset modeling for the platform, enabling our applications to easily create and integrate digital twins of real-world systems. These applications allow our customers to use their data alongside advanced machine learning and data analytics to decrease service costs, optimize maintenance schedules, and increase reliability, efficiency, and profitability of their Carrier equipment."</p><p>INVISTA, which is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, transforms daily life through its innovations in the nylon and specialty materials industries used in clothing, carpets, cars, and computers, just to name a few. "INVISTA is using AWS IoT TwinMaker to help our field personnel efficiently address operational notifications and alerts from plant floors across multiple, distributed locations," said Jerry Grunewald, Vice President of Operations Transformation at INVISTA. "With AWS IoT TwinMaker, we can quickly and easily build a digital twin of our manufacturing operations to give field workers a consolidated view of all assets and operational data. By doing so, INVISTA operations is making significant progress on our vision of the connected worker as the outcome of our transformation effort. For example, a field technician could pinpoint the source of equipment anomalies and identify appropriate corrective actions."</p><p>John Holland is one of Australia's leading integrated infrastructure, rail, multi-modal transport, and building companies. By finding solutions to complex challenges and opportunities, John Holland transforms communities to make them easier to move around, be more connected, and become better to live in. "By their nature, construction projects create change to their surrounding environment, and through the use of IoT and other emerging technologies, John Holland can expand the capabilities of our people," said Bastian Uber, Chief Digital and Information Officer at John Holland. "As an example, projects are subject to environmental regulations, evidence collection, and monitoring of environmental factors such as noise, dust, vibration, and air quality. Using AWS IoT TwinMaker to create a construction digital twin, we aim to provide environmental managers a 360-degree view into the environmental impact of their project. Our platform collects, analyzes, and displays environmental data in a realistic 3D representation of the construction site, so environmental managers can monitor performance, investigate claims, and gather comprehensive historical evidence."</p><p>Element helps industrial enterprises achieve cleaner, safer, healthier, and more profitable operations through analytical insights that are made possible by uniting IT/OT metadata in a flexible knowledge graph, speeding time to insight and governing data in context. "Built with industrial organizations in mind, Element Unify uses automated, no-code data pipelines to integrate and contextualize IT/OT metadata and then stores relationships within the Unify Graph," said Andy Bane, CEO at Element. "AWS IoT TwinMaker enables users to create highly contextualized 3D scenes and digital twin applications for analytical insights and actions across the plant floor, control room, and remote operations center to help teams collaboratively solve problems with data. The relationships stored in Unify Graph are provisioned as data models in AWS IoT TwinMaker, which is an essential part of making all of this work. Unify shrinks digital twin development cycles by up to tenfold, significantly speeding time to value. It improves data quality through graph-based relationships and brings much needed governance to digital twins that rely on data from multiple legacy IT/OT systems blended together with data from new IoT sources."</p><p>FuseForward provides critical energy, education, and health care service providers a clear path to an intelligent digital future, with expertise across cloud, intelligent systems, advanced analytics, data privacy and governance, and cybersecurity. "Recently, FuseForward embarked on a collaboration with a team of academic researchers to create a digital twin of a complete university campus. We started with one building, and the next step is to scale up to all 60, and AWS IoT TwinMaker will make this possible," said Dr. Michael Lamoureux, VP of Research and Lab Operations at FuseForward. "With AWS IoT TwinMaker, we now have the tools to facilitate the creation of our digital twins at scale. Components of AWS IoT TwinMaker will support digital twin development through secure streaming data ingestion and storage, 3D visualization of buildings and artifacts, display of operating data, and more. These methods will allow our industry to move away from bespoke, one-off, custom-made solutions and move into an automated digital twin creation process for smart cities that rapidly meets the customers' needs and expectations over the long term."</p><p>Radix is a global technology company that provides consulting, engineering, operations technology, and digital solutions. "In today's world of highly automated manufacturing, many enterprises seek innovations that help modernize older process equipment to remain competitive. A historical obstacle to the development of digital twins was the effort to locate and build the relationships between the metadata and all of the different pieces of process equipment," said Elliott Bell, Program Director at Radix Engineering &amp; Software. "We at Radix have found that AWS IoT TwinMaker helps systematically build the relationships that exist within the engineering documentation, process data, business systems, and maintenance systems, without human intervention. When applied correctly, digital twins are the ‘automatic spell checker' of a manufacturing process. This greatly reduces the activities that don't add value in creating digital twins. Without the obstacles of mapping the metadata, our engineers are able to assist our customers in reaching higher levels of value creation faster."</p><p>Matterport is a spatial-data company digitizing the built world that unlocks unparalleled spatial-data insights for companies and individuals to better design, build, promote, and manage their most valuable asset. "Using immersive, dimensionally accurate 3D models from Matterport, AWS IoT TwinMaker allows customers to create game-changing 3D experiences for their users," said Conway Chen, Vice President of Business Development &amp; Strategic Alliances at Matterport. "Through our collaboration with AWS, enterprise customers in the industrial, manufacturing, and smart-building industries can connect their immersive, dimensionally accurate 3D models from Matterport with IoT devices to enhance remote monitoring, increase working efficiencies, and enable root-cause analysis. This collaboration provides digital twin visualization of any space with associated data insights and analytics, as well as real-time and historical data access to their spaces."</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/20220421005951/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Unveils Buy with Prime, Expanding Prime Shopping Benefits Beyond Amazon.com

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Amazon Unveils Buy with Prime, Expanding Prime Shopping Benefits Beyond Amazon.com

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Millions of Prime members can enjoy the trusted experience and benefits of Prime while shopping directly from participating online merchants Buy with Prime brings fast and free delivery, free returns, and a seamless checkout experience directly to merchants' online stores SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2022-- Today, Amazon announced Buy with Prime—a new benefit for Prime members that will extend the convenience of Prime shopping to online stores beyond Amazon.com. Buy with Prime will initially be available by invitation only for merchants using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) and will roll out through 2022 as merchants are invited to participate, including those not selling on Amazon or using FBA. Expanded Shopping Benefits for Prime Members Buy with Prime will allow millions of U.S.-based Prime members to shop directly from merchants' online stores with the trusted experience they expect from Amazon—including fast, free delivery, a seamless checkout experience, and free returns on eligible orders. Prime members will see the Prime logo and delivery promise on eligible products in merchants' online stores, which signals the item is available for free delivery, as fast as next day, with free returns. When shopping with Buy with Prime, checkout is simple and convenient. Prime members will use the payment and shipping information stored in their Amazon account and receive timely shipping and delivery notifications after an order is placed. "We always aim to exceed Prime members' expectations by offering more selection, exclusive deals, quality content, and convenient features," said Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime. "With the introduction of Buy with Prime, we're expanding where members can enjoy trusted and convenient Prime shopping benefits beyond Amazon, adding even more value to their membership. Members will have the flexibility to shop from merchants directly, all while enjoying the fast, free delivery, seamless checkout, and easy returns they've come to know and love from Amazon." A New Way for Merchants to Grow their Online Stores "For over 20 years, we've been empowering small and medium-sized businesses with opportunities to grow," said Peter Larsen, Amazon's vice president of Buy with Prime. "Allowing merchants to offer Prime shopping benefits on their own direct-to-consumer online stores is an exciting next step in our mission to help merchants of all sizes grow their business—whether on Amazon or beyond. With shoppers purchasing directly from merchants' online stores, Buy with Prime will allow merchants to build customer relationships and brand loyalty while offering conversion-driving benefits like fast, free shipping." For merchants already using FBA, Buy with Prime can be added to their online store within minutes because their inventory is already stored in Amazon fulfillment centers. To get started, merchants sign up for Buy with Prime, link an Amazon Seller Central account, use Multi-Channel Fulfillment to offer one pool of inventory for multiple channels, and link an Amazon Pay account to offer a seamless checkout experience for Prime members. Then, by installing a JavaScript widget in their online store, merchants can easily add Buy with Prime to one or more products. With Buy with Prime, merchants will receive shopper order information, including email addresses for customer orders, which they can use to provide customer service and build direct relationships with shoppers. Using Buy with Prime, merchants simply pay for what they use. Pricing is based on a service fee, a payment processing fee, and fulfillment and storage fees that are calculated per unit. With no fixed subscription fee or long-term contract required, merchants can expand selection or cancel at any time. "Buy with Prime will be a game changer for our brand. Prime members will enjoy the trust and familiarity they have with shopping on Amazon while connecting with our business directly on our own site," said David Ghiyam, president of MaryRuth Organics. "When we began using Fulfillment by Amazon, our business quadrupled in growth thanks to Amazon's logistics network and our Prime-eligible listings. Using Buy with Prime, we will be able to drive the conversion we've experienced with Fulfillment by Amazon while running our business on our own site." Buy with Prime is designed to work with most online stores, including ecommerce service providers such as BigCommerce. "Buy with Prime represents a compelling value-add for BigCommerce merchants who wish to increase their sales and optimize the omnichannel experience they provide their customers," said Troy Cox, senior vice president of product at BigCommerce. "Prime set the bar for a shopping experience customers trust, including convenient and fast shipping. As one of the top ecommerce platforms collaborating with Amazon to add Buy with Prime, extending these benefits to our merchants will help elevate their online shopper experiences, build brand loyalty, and power them to grow and scale." Learn more about Buy with Prime: https://buywithprime.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. Every Day Made Better with Prime Prime offers the best of shopping, savings, and entertainment to more than 200 million paid members around the world. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and series with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs, thousands of stations and playlists, and thousands of podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, more than 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, and incredible savings with Prime Day. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. Prime members enjoy ultrafast grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns, free Same-Day Delivery on millions of items in 90 major metropolitan areas, and free One-Day Delivery on more than 15 million items coast to coast. Prime members also receive fast, free delivery on prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy and prescription savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S. To join Prime or start a free trial, visit amazon.com/prime. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220420006188/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Millions of Prime members can enjoy the trusted experience and benefits of Prime while shopping directly from participating online merchants</em></p><p><em>Buy with Prime brings fast and free delivery, free returns, and a seamless checkout experience</em> <em>directly to merchants' online stores</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 21, 2022-- Today, Amazon announced Buy with Prime—a new benefit for Prime members that will extend the convenience of Prime shopping to online stores beyond Amazon.com. Buy with Prime will initially be available by invitation only for merchants using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) and will roll out through 2022 as merchants are invited to participate, including those not selling on Amazon or using FBA.</p><p>Expanded Shopping Benefits for Prime Members</p><p>Buy with Prime will allow millions of U.S.-based Prime members to shop directly from merchants' online stores with the trusted experience they expect from Amazon—including fast, free delivery, a seamless checkout experience, and free returns on eligible orders. Prime members will see the Prime logo and delivery promise on eligible products in merchants' online stores, which signals the item is available for free delivery, as fast as next day, with free returns. When shopping with Buy with Prime, checkout is simple and convenient. Prime members will use the payment and shipping information stored in their Amazon account and receive timely shipping and delivery notifications after an order is placed.</p><p>"We always aim to exceed Prime members' expectations by offering more selection, exclusive deals, quality content, and convenient features," said Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime. "With the introduction of Buy with Prime, we're expanding where members can enjoy trusted and convenient Prime shopping benefits beyond Amazon, adding even more value to their membership. Members will have the flexibility to shop from merchants directly, all while enjoying the fast, free delivery, seamless checkout, and easy returns they've come to know and love from Amazon."</p><p>A New Way for Merchants to Grow their Online Stores</p><p>"For over 20 years, we've been empowering small and medium-sized businesses with opportunities to grow," said Peter Larsen, Amazon's vice president of Buy with Prime. "Allowing merchants to offer Prime shopping benefits on their own direct-to-consumer online stores is an exciting next step in our mission to help merchants of all sizes grow their business—whether on Amazon or beyond. With shoppers purchasing directly from merchants' online stores, Buy with Prime will allow merchants to build customer relationships and brand loyalty while offering conversion-driving benefits like fast, free shipping."</p><p>For merchants already using FBA, Buy with Prime can be added to their online store within minutes because their inventory is already stored in Amazon fulfillment centers. To get started, merchants sign up for Buy with Prime, link an Amazon Seller Central account, use Multi-Channel Fulfillment to offer one pool of inventory for multiple channels, and link an Amazon Pay account to offer a seamless checkout experience for Prime members. Then, by installing a JavaScript widget in their online store, merchants can easily add Buy with Prime to one or more products. With Buy with Prime, merchants will receive shopper order information, including email addresses for customer orders, which they can use to provide customer service and build direct relationships with shoppers.</p><p>Using Buy with Prime, merchants simply pay for what they use. Pricing is based on a service fee, a payment processing fee, and fulfillment and storage fees that are calculated per unit. With no fixed subscription fee or long-term contract required, merchants can expand selection or cancel at any time.</p><p>"Buy with Prime will be a game changer for our brand. Prime members will enjoy the trust and familiarity they have with shopping on Amazon while connecting with our business directly on our own site," said David Ghiyam, president of MaryRuth Organics. "When we began using Fulfillment by Amazon, our business quadrupled in growth thanks to Amazon's logistics network and our Prime-eligible listings. Using Buy with Prime, we will be able to drive the conversion we've experienced with Fulfillment by Amazon while running our business on our own site."</p><p>Buy with Prime is designed to work with most online stores, including ecommerce service providers such as BigCommerce. "Buy with Prime represents a compelling value-add for BigCommerce merchants who wish to increase their sales and optimize the omnichannel experience they provide their customers," said Troy Cox, senior vice president of product at BigCommerce. "Prime set the bar for a shopping experience customers trust, including convenient and fast shipping. As one of the top ecommerce platforms collaborating with Amazon to add Buy with Prime, extending these benefits to our merchants will help elevate their online shopper experiences, build brand loyalty, and power them to grow and scale."</p><p>Learn more about Buy with Prime: https://buywithprime.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>Every Day Made Better with Prime</p><p>Prime offers the best of shopping, savings, and entertainment to more than 200 million paid members around the world. In the U.S. that includes unlimited access to award-winning movies and series with Prime Video, ad-free listening of 2 million songs, thousands of stations and playlists, and thousands of podcasts with Amazon Music, free games with Prime Gaming, more than 3,000 books and magazines with Prime Reading, unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos, and incredible savings with Prime Day. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free shipping. Prime members enjoy ultrafast grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market in more than 5,000 cities and towns, free Same-Day Delivery on millions of items in 90 major metropolitan areas, and free One-Day Delivery on more than 15 million items coast to coast. Prime members also receive fast, free delivery on prescriptions from Amazon Pharmacy and prescription savings at more than 60,000 participating pharmacies in the U.S. To join Prime or start a free trial, visit amazon.com/prime.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220420006188/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

AWS Impact Accelerator Launches with $30 Million for Startups Led by Underrepresented Founders

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Each startup receives $125,000 cash, up to $100,000 in AWS Activate credits, business and technical guidance, a peer community, and ongoing support to help accelerate their growth SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 20, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced it has committed more than $30 million to early stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, and women founders as part of its new AWS Impact Accelerator. Over the three-year commitment, AWS will provide funding and guidance for a series of programs that will help these organizations build successful companies. Each qualifying startup receives up to $225,000 in cash and credits, extensive training, mentoring and technical guidance, as well as introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking opportunities with potential investors, and ongoing advisory support. Eligible startups can now apply to the first of these programs, the AWS Impact Accelerator for Black Founders. The AWS Impact Accelerator gives high-potential, pre-seed startups the tools and knowledge to reach key milestones such as raising funds or being accepted to a seed-stage accelerator program, while creating powerful solutions in the cloud. On acceptance into the eight-week program, participants will create a wide-ranging, personalized training curriculum from dozens of available sessions delivered by AWS startup experts and guest speakers. A single day could include lessons from an AWS solutions architect on optimizing cloud infrastructure, guidance on investor pitching from an experienced startup CEO, and leadership dos and don'ts from a third-party organization that provides support to startups. Startups will also learn how to use Amazon processes such as "two-way door decision making" and "working backwards" to drive day-to-day decisions and build nimble, innovative teams. "When we launched in 2006, AWS changed the game for startups by giving them access to the same technology as the world's largest enterprises," said Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services. "Today, we continue to level the playing field so that founders can pursue their ideas and grow successful businesses regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or race. AWS is committed to helping underrepresented founders succeed and build powerful cloud solutions that capture the attention of investors and customers. The possibilities for these startups are endless, and I can't wait to see what they create." Each qualifying startup will receive the following benefits: Unrestricted cash grant of $125,000. Up to $100,000 in AWS service credits through AWS Activate, a program that has helped hundreds of thousands of early stage startups grow their businesses in the cloud. Startups that qualify for AWS Activate can use these credits for scalable, reliable, and secure AWS Cloud services such as compute, storage, database, analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning. Access to more than 80 exclusive offers, through AWS Activate, on products and services that help startups grow, from companies like Dropbox, New Relic, Notion, and Stripe. Access to a dedicated team of mentors and AWS technologists to guide startups during and after the program. Access to AWS IQ for startups to engage AWS-certified, third-party developers when building their cloud-based solutions. Engagements with Amazon teams and leaders to discuss potential collaborations and get relevant advice. For example, a startup working on a music app can be connected for a confidential discussion with the Amazon Music team, or a startup working on a voice-enabled chat solution can be connected with the Alexa team. Networking sessions with investors and pitch coaching from startup experts to help participants raise seed funding. Startups will have the opportunity to learn from and connect with more than 20 collaborating organizations that are on board to support the AWS Impact Accelerator as mentors, guest speakers, and advisors. They include organizations that work with Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, and women founders such as Black Women Talk Tech (BWTT), digitalundivided, and StartOut, as well as venture capital firms such as Backstage Capital and Lightship Capital. The program will also prepare startups for entry into seed-stage accelerators that work closely with AWS, such as Visible Hands. "Innovation plays such an important role in unlocking opportunities for women and people of color, and we need to make sure more of them are able to go from early-stage founder to success story," said Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, General Partner and Co-founder of Visible Hands. "These AWS programs fill a genuine need along that journey and will provide a crucial lift for disruptors who are driving economic growth through entrepreneurship and invention." Applications open today for the first AWS Impact Accelerator for Black Founders, with the program kicking off in June for U.S.-based startups. The first AWS Impact Accelerator for Women Founders will take place in the second half of the year for U.S.-based startups. The AWS Impact Accelerator for LGBTQIA+ Founders and AWS Impact Accelerator for Latino Founders will follow in 2023. After a startup completes an AWS Impact Accelerator, they will continue to receive guidance and resources through a virtual community, alumni events, permanent access to the curriculum (including future content), and ongoing advisory support from mentors and AWS technical experts. "We would love to have been part of something like this in the early days of our company, because building a startup is not easy," said Dave Salvant, a confirmed guest speaker at the upcoming AWS Impact Accelerator for Black Founders, and President and Co-founder of Squire, a startup that offers a technology platform for barbershops. "We're honored to have the opportunity to share what we've learned with the next wave of Black founders and make a meaningful difference in their journey." 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 (AZs) 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/20220420005425/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Each startup receives $125,000 cash, up to $100,000 in AWS Activate credits, business and technical guidance, a peer community, and ongoing support to help accelerate their growth</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 20, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced it has committed more than $30 million to early stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, and women founders as part of its new AWS Impact Accelerator. Over the three-year commitment, AWS will provide funding and guidance for a series of programs that will help these organizations build successful companies. Each qualifying startup receives up to $225,000 in cash and credits, extensive training, mentoring and technical guidance, as well as introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking opportunities with potential investors, and ongoing advisory support. Eligible startups can now apply to the first of these programs, the AWS Impact Accelerator for Black Founders.</p><p>The AWS Impact Accelerator gives high-potential, pre-seed startups the tools and knowledge to reach key milestones such as raising funds or being accepted to a seed-stage accelerator program, while creating powerful solutions in the cloud. On acceptance into the eight-week program, participants will create a wide-ranging, personalized training curriculum from dozens of available sessions delivered by AWS startup experts and guest speakers. A single day could include lessons from an AWS solutions architect on optimizing cloud infrastructure, guidance on investor pitching from an experienced startup CEO, and leadership dos and don'ts from a third-party organization that provides support to startups. Startups will also learn how to use Amazon processes such as "two-way door decision making" and "working backwards" to drive day-to-day decisions and build nimble, innovative teams.</p><p>"When we launched in 2006, AWS changed the game for startups by giving them access to the same technology as the world's largest enterprises," said Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services. "Today, we continue to level the playing field so that founders can pursue their ideas and grow successful businesses regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or race. AWS is committed to helping underrepresented founders succeed and build powerful cloud solutions that capture the attention of investors and customers. The possibilities for these startups are endless, and I can't wait to see what they create."</p><p>Each qualifying startup will receive the following benefits:</p><ul><li>Unrestricted cash grant of $125,000.</li><li>Up to $100,000 in AWS service credits through AWS Activate, a program that has helped hundreds of thousands of early stage startups grow their businesses in the cloud. Startups that qualify for AWS Activate can use these credits for scalable, reliable, and secure AWS Cloud services such as compute, storage, database, analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning.</li><li>Access to more than 80 exclusive offers, through AWS Activate, on products and services that help startups grow, from companies like Dropbox, New Relic, Notion, and Stripe.</li><li>Access to a dedicated team of mentors and AWS technologists to guide startups during and after the program.</li><li>Access to AWS IQ for startups to engage AWS-certified, third-party developers when building their cloud-based solutions.</li><li>Engagements with Amazon teams and leaders to discuss potential collaborations and get relevant advice. For example, a startup working on a music app can be connected for a confidential discussion with the Amazon Music team, or a startup working on a voice-enabled chat solution can be connected with the Alexa team.</li><li>Networking sessions with investors and pitch coaching from startup experts to help participants raise seed funding.</li></ul><p>Startups will have the opportunity to learn from and connect with more than 20 collaborating organizations that are on board to support the AWS Impact Accelerator as mentors, guest speakers, and advisors. They include organizations that work with Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, and women founders such as Black Women Talk Tech (BWTT), digitalundivided, and StartOut, as well as venture capital firms such as Backstage Capital and Lightship Capital. The program will also prepare startups for entry into seed-stage accelerators that work closely with AWS, such as Visible Hands.</p><p>"Innovation plays such an important role in unlocking opportunities for women and people of color, and we need to make sure more of them are able to go from early-stage founder to success story," said Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, General Partner and Co-founder of Visible Hands. "These AWS programs fill a genuine need along that journey and will provide a crucial lift for disruptors who are driving economic growth through entrepreneurship and invention."</p><p>Applications open today for the first AWS Impact Accelerator for Black Founders, with the program kicking off in June for U.S.-based startups. The first AWS Impact Accelerator for Women Founders will take place in the second half of the year for U.S.-based startups. The AWS Impact Accelerator for LGBTQIA+ Founders and AWS Impact Accelerator for Latino Founders will follow in 2023.</p><p>After a startup completes an AWS Impact Accelerator, they will continue to receive guidance and resources through a virtual community, alumni events, permanent access to the curriculum (including future content), and ongoing advisory support from mentors and AWS technical experts.</p><p>"We would love to have been part of something like this in the early days of our company, because building a startup is not easy," said Dave Salvant, a confirmed guest speaker at the upcoming AWS Impact Accelerator for Black Founders, and President and Co-founder of Squire, a startup that offers a technology platform for barbershops. "We're honored to have the opportunity to share what we've learned with the next wave of Black founders and make a meaningful difference in their journey."</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 (AZs) 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/20220420005425/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

Amazon Extends Position as the World's Largest Corporate Buyer of Renewable Energy

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37 new renewable energy projects totaling 3.5 GW of clean energy capacity Amazon is on a path to reach 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years earlier than original target of 2030 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 20, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced 37 new renewable energy projects around the world, marking significant progress on its path to power 100% of its operations with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. The new projects increase the capacity of Amazon's renewable energy portfolio by nearly 30%, from 12.2 gigawatts (GW) to 15.7 GW, and bring the total number of renewable energy projects to 310 across 19 countries. The additional 3.5 GW of clean energy capacity from these new projects extends Amazon's leadership position as the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy, and advances its efforts to meet The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. "Our commitment to protecting the planet and limiting Amazon's impact on the environment has led us to become the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world in both 2020 and 2021. Given the growth of our business, and our mission to run 100% of Amazon's operations on renewable energy, we aren't slowing our renewable investments down," said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon. "We now have 310 wind and solar projects across 19 countries, and are working hard to reach our goal of powering 100% of our business on renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of our original target of 2030." The 37 new projects announced today are located across the U.S., Spain, France, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates. They vary in project type and size, with three new wind farms, 26 new solar farms, and eight new rooftop solar installations at its buildings around the world. As a result of these projects, Amazon now has a total of 310 renewable energy projects, including 134 wind and solar farms and 176 rooftop solar projects. Once operational, Amazon's 310 projects are expected to produce 42,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable energy each year—enough electricity output to power 3.9 million U.S. homes annually. The carbon-free energy generated by these projects will also help avoid 17.3 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually, avoiding the equivalent of the annual emissions of more than 3.7 million cars in the U.S. each year. Amazon also continues to invest in renewable energy projects paired with energy storage. The energy storage systems allow Amazon to store clean energy produced by its solar projects and deploy it when solar energy is not available, such as in the evening hours, or during periods of high demand. This strengthens the climate impact of Amazon's clean energy portfolio by enabling carbon-free electricity throughout more parts of the day. The new projects include a 300-megawatt (MW) solar project paired with 150 MW of battery storage in Arizona and a 150 MW solar project paired with 75 MW of battery storage in California. Combined, the two projects double Amazon's total announced solar paired with energy storage from 220 MW to 445 MW. Below are more details about the latest series of renewable energy projects announced today, which will supply clean energy for Amazon's operations, including its corporate offices, fulfillment centers, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers that support millions of customers globally: 23 projects in the U.S., spread across 13 states: This brings Amazon's total clean energy procurement in the U.S. from 7.2 GW to 10.4 GW. Notably, the new projects include Amazon's largest renewable energy project (by capacity) announced to date, which is a 500 MW solar farm in Texas. The announcement also includes the company's first renewable energy projects in Missouri. The remaining projects are in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Virginia. Five new projects in Spain: The company added an additional 314 MW of renewable energy capacity in Spain, bringing its total investment to 1.4 GW in the country. The five new projects include three solar farms and two wind farms, bringing Amazon's total renewable energy projects in Spain to 14. A second renewable energy project in France: Amazon announced its second solar project in France, which brings the company's total renewable energy capacity announced to date to 38 MW in the country. Eight additional rooftop solar projects: The company added its first rooftop solar project in the United Arab Emirates, which is a 2.7 MW installation in Dubai. Amazon also announced seven rooftop solar projects in Australia, Canada, India, and Japan totaling over 5 MW of clean energy capacity. To see Amazon's renewable energy projects around the world, visit the company's renewable energy project interactive map. "As number one on CEBA's Deal Tracker Top 10 for the second year in a row, Amazon continues to demonstrate its commitment to advancing clean energy. Amazon's recent announcement highlights the increasingly sophisticated strategies used by energy customers to deploy carbon-free energy projects across the nation and the world, and the critical role energy customers play in optimizing emissions reductions," said Miranda Ballentine, CEO of Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA). "Amazon continues to be a leader in rapidly scaling up renewable energy projects here in the U.S. This increasingly includes hybrid projects that pair energy storage with renewable energy generation, unlocking the ability to use clean reliable energy throughout all hours of the day," said Heather Zichal CEO of the American Clean Power Association (ACP). Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, committing to reach net-zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. The Pledge now has more than 300 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. Amazon is also delivering on its Shipment Zero vision to make all Amazon shipments net-zero carbon, with 50% net-zero carbon by 2030, and purchasing 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, the largest order ever of electric delivery vehicles. The company is also investing $2 billion in the development of decarbonizing services and solutions through the Climate Pledge Fund. For more information, visit https://sustainability.aboutamazon.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 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. 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<p><em>37 new renewable energy projects totaling 3.5 GW of clean energy capacity</em></p><p><em>Amazon is on a path to reach 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years earlier than original target of 2030</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 20, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced 37 new renewable energy projects around the world, marking significant progress on its path to power 100% of its operations with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. The new projects increase the capacity of Amazon's renewable energy portfolio by nearly 30%, from 12.2 gigawatts (GW) to 15.7 GW, and bring the total number of renewable energy projects to 310 across 19 countries. The additional 3.5 GW of clean energy capacity from these new projects extends Amazon's leadership position as the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy, and advances its efforts to meet The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement.</p><p>"Our commitment to protecting the planet and limiting Amazon's impact on the environment has led us to become the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world in both 2020 and 2021. Given the growth of our business, and our mission to run 100% of Amazon's operations on renewable energy, we aren't slowing our renewable investments down," said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon. "We now have 310 wind and solar projects across 19 countries, and are working hard to reach our goal of powering 100% of our business on renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of our original target of 2030."</p><p>The 37 new projects announced today are located across the U.S., Spain, France, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates. They vary in project type and size, with three new wind farms, 26 new solar farms, and eight new rooftop solar installations at its buildings around the world. As a result of these projects, Amazon now has a total of 310 renewable energy projects, including 134 wind and solar farms and 176 rooftop solar projects.</p><p>Once operational, Amazon's 310 projects are expected to produce 42,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable energy each year—enough electricity output to power 3.9 million U.S. homes annually. The carbon-free energy generated by these projects will also help avoid 17.3 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually, avoiding the equivalent of the annual emissions of more than 3.7 million cars in the U.S. each year.</p><p>Amazon also continues to invest in renewable energy projects paired with energy storage. The energy storage systems allow Amazon to store clean energy produced by its solar projects and deploy it when solar energy is not available, such as in the evening hours, or during periods of high demand. This strengthens the climate impact of Amazon's clean energy portfolio by enabling carbon-free electricity throughout more parts of the day. The new projects include a 300-megawatt (MW) solar project paired with 150 MW of battery storage in Arizona and a 150 MW solar project paired with 75 MW of battery storage in California. Combined, the two projects double Amazon's total announced solar paired with energy storage from 220 MW to 445 MW.</p><p>Below are more details about the latest series of renewable energy projects announced today, which will supply clean energy for Amazon's operations, including its corporate offices, fulfillment centers, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers that support millions of customers globally:</p><ul><li>23 projects in the U.S., spread across 13 states: This brings Amazon's total clean energy procurement in the U.S. from 7.2 GW to 10.4 GW. Notably, the new projects include Amazon's largest renewable energy project (by capacity) announced to date, which is a 500 MW solar farm in Texas. The announcement also includes the company's first renewable energy projects in Missouri. The remaining projects are in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Virginia.</li><li>Five new projects in Spain: The company added an additional 314 MW of renewable energy capacity in Spain, bringing its total investment to 1.4 GW in the country. The five new projects include three solar farms and two wind farms, bringing Amazon's total renewable energy projects in Spain to 14.</li><li>A second renewable energy project in France: Amazon announced its second solar project in France, which brings the company's total renewable energy capacity announced to date to 38 MW in the country.</li><li>Eight additional rooftop solar projects: The company added its first rooftop solar project in the United Arab Emirates, which is a 2.7 MW installation in Dubai. Amazon also announced seven rooftop solar projects in Australia, Canada, India, and Japan totaling over 5 MW of clean energy capacity.</li></ul><p>To see Amazon's renewable energy projects around the world, visit the company's renewable energy project interactive map.</p><p>"As number one on CEBA's Deal Tracker Top 10 for the second year in a row, Amazon continues to demonstrate its commitment to advancing clean energy. Amazon's recent announcement highlights the increasingly sophisticated strategies used by energy customers to deploy carbon-free energy projects across the nation and the world, and the critical role energy customers play in optimizing emissions reductions," said Miranda Ballentine, CEO of Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA).</p><p>"Amazon continues to be a leader in rapidly scaling up renewable energy projects here in the U.S. This increasingly includes hybrid projects that pair energy storage with renewable energy generation, unlocking the ability to use clean reliable energy throughout all hours of the day," said Heather Zichal CEO of the American Clean Power Association (ACP).</p><p>Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, committing to reach net-zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. The Pledge now has more than 300 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. Amazon is also delivering on its Shipment Zero vision to make all Amazon shipments net-zero carbon, with 50% net-zero carbon by 2030, and purchasing 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, the largest order ever of electric delivery vehicles. The company is also 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>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 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>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220420005101/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 2022 Financial Results Conference Call

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 14, 2022-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, April 28, 2022, 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/20220414005839/en/ Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com

<p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 14, 2022-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, April 28, 2022, 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/20220414005839/en/</p><p>Amazon.com Public Relationsamazon-pr@amazon.comamazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com</p>

Amazon to Award 250 High School Seniors From Underserved Communities College Scholarships to Study Computer Science

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Through its Amazon Future Engineer program, the company will award $10 million in $40,000 scholarships for each selected student, and will also offer them a paid internship at Amazon Amazon Future Engineer is a childhood-to-career initiative designed to inspire and educate millions of students each year from underrepresented and historically underserved communities to build life-changing skills that leverage computer science and coding to bring their dreams to life This year's investment more than doubles the company's commitment from last year—Since 2019, Amazon has awarded $22 million to 550 scholarship recipients across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Guam SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 13, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced its largest commitment to supporting students' post-secondary science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education by awarding $10 million in college scholarships to 250 high school seniors from underserved and historically underrepresented communities. Each Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipient will receive $40,000 over four years to study computer science at a college of their choice starting this fall. Recipients will also receive a paid internship at Amazon after their freshman year of college to gain hands-on, practical work experience with mentorship from Amazon leaders. Amazon has more than doubled its scholarship commitment from last year by recognizing 250 computer science students from underserved communities. The program has awarded $22 million in scholarships to 550 students across the U.S. since 2019. Recipients were chosen based on a variety of criteria, including their academic achievement, demonstrated leadership, participation in school and community activities, work experience, future goals, and financial need. Amazon partnered with Scholarship America to review the applications and select the 250 scholars. This year's recipients come from more than 30 states and U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico and, for the first time, an American military base in Europe. More than 70% of scholarship recipients identify as Black, Latinx, and Native American (BLNA) and 50% identify as women, groups that are currently underrepresented in STEM. "Each year, we are inspired by the talent, work ethic, and passion of our Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipients. We're thrilled to expand our commitment to $10 million in scholarship funds to help 250 students from historically underrepresented and underserved communities pursue a computer science education," said Victor Reinoso, Global Director of Amazon's philanthropic education initiatives. "These opportunities are imperative to building a diverse tech industry and enriching our communities. These students have fulfilling careers ahead, and we look forward to seeing them at their Amazon internships and all they will achieve." Computer science is the fastest-growing profession within the STEM field. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that job opportunities for computer science workers will grow 13% between 2020 and 2030, yet only 8% of STEM graduates earn a computer science degree, and only a small percentage of those come from underserved and historically underrepresented communities. Additionally, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the median annual wage for computer and information technology occupations was $91,250 in May 2020, which is more than twice the median annual wage for all occupations. Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon's global philanthropic computer science education program, aims to bridge the divide between interested students and computer science courses and opportunities. The childhood-to-career education program helps students explore computer science through school curriculum and project-based learning, using code to make music, program robots, and solve problems, and offers teachers professional development opportunities. Amazon launched the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship program in 2019, awarding 100 students annually with $40,000 scholarships over four years to pursue an undergraduate degree in computer science, along with paid internships at Amazon. "Without this scholarship, I likely would not be able to attend my dream school," said Destiny Ogar, senior at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and a 2022 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipient. "This scholarship will open doors for me and allow me to pursue a career in technology." Rising high school seniors can apply for the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship when the application opens in fall 2022. Requirements for the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship include: completion of an Advanced Placement computer science course in high school, intent to pursue a computer science degree at a four-year college or university, and a teacher recommendation. For more information on the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship program, please visit: www.amazonfutureengineer.com/scholarship About Amazon Future Engineer Amazon Future Engineer is a childhood-to-career computer science education program intended to inspire and educate millions of students from historically underrepresented communities globally, including hundreds of thousands of students in the U.S. each year. Students explore computer science through school curriculum and project-based learning, using code to make music, program robots, and solve problems. Additionally, each year Amazon Future Engineer awards 250 students with four-year, $40,000 scholarships and paid internships at Amazon, as well as names 10 Teacher of the Year winners, awarding $30,000 prize packages for going above and beyond to inspire students in computer science and to promote diversity and inclusion in the field. The program is currently available in the U.S., UK, France, Canada, India, and Germany. For more information, visit amazonfutureengineer.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/20220413005644/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>Through its Amazon Future Engineer program, the company will award $10 million in $40,000 scholarships for each selected student, and will also offer them a paid internship at Amazon</em></p><p><em>Amazon Future Engineer is a childhood-to-career initiative designed to inspire and educate millions of students each year from underrepresented and historically underserved communities to build life-changing skills that leverage computer science and coding to bring their dreams to life</em></p><p><em>This year's investment more than doubles the company's commitment from last year—Since 2019, Amazon has awarded $22 million to 550 scholarship recipients across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Guam</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 13, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced its largest commitment to supporting students' post-secondary science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education by awarding $10 million in college scholarships to 250 high school seniors from underserved and historically underrepresented communities. Each Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipient will receive $40,000 over four years to study computer science at a college of their choice starting this fall. Recipients will also receive a paid internship at Amazon after their freshman year of college to gain hands-on, practical work experience with mentorship from Amazon leaders. Amazon has more than doubled its scholarship commitment from last year by recognizing 250 computer science students from underserved communities. The program has awarded $22 million in scholarships to 550 students across the U.S. since 2019.</p><p>Recipients were chosen based on a variety of criteria, including their academic achievement, demonstrated leadership, participation in school and community activities, work experience, future goals, and financial need. Amazon partnered with Scholarship America to review the applications and select the 250 scholars. This year's recipients come from more than 30 states and U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico and, for the first time, an American military base in Europe. More than 70% of scholarship recipients identify as Black, Latinx, and Native American (BLNA) and 50% identify as women, groups that are currently underrepresented in STEM.</p><p>"Each year, we are inspired by the talent, work ethic, and passion of our Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipients. We're thrilled to expand our commitment to $10 million in scholarship funds to help 250 students from historically underrepresented and underserved communities pursue a computer science education," said Victor Reinoso, Global Director of Amazon's philanthropic education initiatives. "These opportunities are imperative to building a diverse tech industry and enriching our communities. These students have fulfilling careers ahead, and we look forward to seeing them at their Amazon internships and all they will achieve."</p><p>Computer science is the fastest-growing profession within the STEM field. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that job opportunities for computer science workers will grow 13% between 2020 and 2030, yet only 8% of STEM graduates earn a computer science degree, and only a small percentage of those come from underserved and historically underrepresented communities. Additionally, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the median annual wage for computer and information technology occupations was $91,250 in May 2020, which is more than twice the median annual wage for all occupations.</p><p>Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon's global philanthropic computer science education program, aims to bridge the divide between interested students and computer science courses and opportunities. The childhood-to-career education program helps students explore computer science through school curriculum and project-based learning, using code to make music, program robots, and solve problems, and offers teachers professional development opportunities. Amazon launched the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship program in 2019, awarding 100 students annually with $40,000 scholarships over four years to pursue an undergraduate degree in computer science, along with paid internships at Amazon.</p><p>"Without this scholarship, I likely would not be able to attend my dream school," said Destiny Ogar, senior at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and a 2022 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipient. "This scholarship will open doors for me and allow me to pursue a career in technology."</p><p>Rising high school seniors can apply for the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship when the application opens in fall 2022. Requirements for the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship include: completion of an Advanced Placement computer science course in high school, intent to pursue a computer science degree at a four-year college or university, and a teacher recommendation. For more information on the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship program, please visit: www.amazonfutureengineer.com/scholarship</p><p>About Amazon Future Engineer</p><p>Amazon Future Engineer is a childhood-to-career computer science education program intended to inspire and educate millions of students from historically underrepresented communities globally, including hundreds of thousands of students in the U.S. each year. Students explore computer science through school curriculum and project-based learning, using code to make music, program robots, and solve problems. Additionally, each year Amazon Future Engineer awards 250 students with four-year, $40,000 scholarships and paid internships at Amazon, as well as names 10 Teacher of the Year winners, awarding $30,000 prize packages for going above and beyond to inspire students in computer science and to promote diversity and inclusion in the field. The program is currently available in the U.S., UK, France, Canada, India, and Germany. For more information, visit amazonfutureengineer.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/20220413005644/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

For Love & Country Documentary by Amazon Music Out Today

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Proclaiming that country music has always been Black music, For Love & Country features interviews and performances from Jimmie Allen, Blanco Brown, Breakthrough Artist for Amazon Music BRELAND, Shy Carter, Mickey Guyton, Willie Jones, Valerie June, Amythyst Kiah, Reyna Roberts, Allison Russell, Brittney Spencer, and Frankie Staton Directed by acclaimed director and photographer Joshua Kissi, For Love & Country is out now on Amazon Music and Prime Video Fans can stream all new Amazon Original songs by Jimmie Allen, Shy Carter, Willie Jones, Amythyst Kiah, Reyna Roberts, Allison Russell, and Brittney Spencer on the "For Love & Country" official playlist NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 7, 2022-- Amazon Music announced today the release of For Love & Country, a new Amazon Music Original feature-length documentary, which proclaims country music has always been Black music. For Love & Country observes country music's complicated past and how the music industry itself helped to enshrine a skewed version of the genre, its artists, and fans. Directed by Joshua Kissi, For Love & Country examines country music through the personal stories of a new generation of Black artists claiming space in Nashville—and helping to transform the genre in the process. For Love & Country is out in the Amazon Music app and on Prime Video. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220407005280/en/ Amazon Music launches For Love & Country documentary April 7 in the Amazon Music app and on Prime Video (Photo: Business Wire) Watch For Love & Country HERE and HEREStill images and artist photography are available HEREListen to the official playlist HERE featuring new Amazon Original songs by artists in the film "My hope is for people to watch this beautiful piece of film while having a different appreciation for the genre of country music and the artists who so boldly choose to stand in the light," said Joshua Kissi. "Country music has always been the premier genre for telling stories, but so many of them have been silenced, erased, and rewritten," said BRELAND. "What's so powerful about this unique time in country music's history is that we are finally creating space for uncovering those lost stories and reshaping our understanding of what the genre looks like. Being a part of this film was an incredible opportunity in and of itself, made sweeter by the brilliant direction of Joshua Kissi and the relationships I've been able to form with the other amazing artists in the film. This is a must-watch, trust me." For Love & Country is an exploration of the space between myth and reality of a genre, an industry, and a city. The genre not only owes part of its origin story to Black musicians, but through its history, prominent Black voices have pushed the genre forward with little recognition or fanfare. A new crop of Black artists is seeking to change country's long-held identity as music by-and-for white audiences. For Love & Country features interviews and performances by Black voices leading this renaissance, including Grammy-nominated Jimmie Allen, Grammy-nominated Blanco Brown, Breakthrough Artist for Amazon Music BRELAND, award-winning songwriter and 2021 Artist to Watch for Amazon Music Shy Carter, Grammy-nominated Mickey Guyton, Grammy-nominated Valerie June, Grammy-nominated Amythyst Kiah, 2022 Artists to Watch for Amazon Music Willie Jones and Reyna Roberts, Grammy-nominated Allison Russell, rising star Brittney Spencer, pianist and singer-songwriter Frankie Staton, and Nashville-based rapper Mike Floss. "This documentary is so awesome and special to me," said Shy Carter. "I'm so grateful for everyone who put it together. They have really created something that showcases the talent in country music that may have a harder time getting recognized. It documents the journey of finding a new path and what it's like for an artist who is doing something that might be considered unorthodox—but is true to them. It's a beautiful story of pushing through the opposition and becoming everything you believe you can be." In celebration of the film, new Amazon Original songs are available on the "For Love & Country" official playlist including "All Tractors Ain't Green" by Jimmie Allen, "Hard" by Shy Carter," "Bein' Green" by Willie Jones, "Black Myself" by Amythyst Kiah, "Another Round" by Reyna Roberts, "Quasheba, Quasheba" by Allison Russell, and "Independence Day" by Brittney Spencer. "I am excited to be included in the Amazon Music Original feature length documentary, For Love & Country," said Allison Russell. "The driving message of this film is that country music has always been Black music and it is important to share this with a global audience. Black musicians are a critical part of country music's history and continued growth, though we may not always be given the proper credit. For Love & Country helps amplify our story." In addition to artist perspectives, the film features interviews with several local Nashville residents sharing their stories, including journalist and New York Times best-selling author Andrea Williams,Davidson County criminal court clerk and former vice mayor Howard Gentry, academic and author Amanda Marie Martínez, and former artist manager and local business owner Camille Alston. "I needed to participate in this film," said Blanco Brown. "My purpose is to continue narrating the story and shedding light on sound… No one owns it, music is bigger than all of us!" "In telling this story, it was imperative for us to amplify the personal narratives of these wonderfully diverse country artists, because in them lie the stories of Black contributions to the genre," said Raymond Roker, global head of editorial for Amazon Music. "These are also very universal stories of acceptance, being welcomed into spaces we choose to occupy despite how open the door is to us, and how stories and history can become marginalized over time. The title of the film is also a reminder that these artists have all come from a place of love, adoration, and even reverence for country music's past, its heroes, and contributors across the spectrum." For Love & Country is an Amazon Music Original feature-length documentary directed by Joshua Kissi and produced by DPM Projects in association with Pizza Night and division7. Kesshann Cortez and Tara Hallarman served as executive producers of a story by Cody Whitman, with Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Andrea Williams as writers. The film was edited by Daniel Roman and Dillon Hayes, with Michael Fernandez serving as the director of photography. The original score is by BUTTER Music + Sound composer Nat Jenkins. Runtime: 101 minutes. 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 90 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 90 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 (NASDAQ:AMZN) 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 For Love & Country HERE and HEREStill images and artist photography are available HEREListen to the official playlist HERE featuring new Amazon Original songs by artists in the film View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220407005280/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Music

<p><em>Proclaiming that country music has always been Black music, </em>For Love &amp; Country <em>features interviews and performances from Jimmie Allen, Blanco Brown, Breakthrough Artist for Amazon Music BRELAND, Shy Carter, Mickey Guyton, Willie Jones, Valerie June, Amythyst Kiah, Reyna Roberts, Allison Russell, Brittney Spencer, and Frankie Staton</em></p><p><em>Directed by acclaimed director and photographer Joshua Kissi, </em>For Love &amp; Country<em> is out now on Amazon Music and Prime Video</em></p><p><em>Fans can stream all new Amazon Original songs by Jimmie Allen, Shy Carter, Willie Jones, Amythyst Kiah, Reyna Roberts, Allison Russell, and Brittney Spencer on the </em>"For Love &amp; Country"<em> official playlist</em></p><p>NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 7, 2022-- Amazon Music announced today the release of <em>For Love &amp; Country</em>, a new Amazon Music Original feature-length documentary, which proclaims country music has always been Black music. <em>For Love &amp; Country</em> observes country music's complicated past and how the music industry itself helped to enshrine a skewed version of the genre, its artists, and fans. Directed by Joshua Kissi, <em>For Love &amp; Country</em> examines country music through the personal stories of a new generation of Black artists claiming space in Nashville—and helping to transform the genre in the process. <em>For Love &amp; Country</em> is out in the Amazon Music app and on Prime Video.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220407005280/en/</p><div><p>Amazon Music launches For Love &amp; Country documentary April 7 in the Amazon Music app and on Prime Video (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p><em>Watch </em>For Love &amp; Country <em>HERE and HEREStill images and artist photography are available HEREListen to the official playlist HERE featuring new Amazon Original songs by artists in the film</em></p><p>"My hope is for people to watch this beautiful piece of film while having a different appreciation for the genre of country music and the artists who so boldly choose to stand in the light," said Joshua Kissi.</p><p>"Country music has always been the premier genre for telling stories, but so many of them have been silenced, erased, and rewritten," said BRELAND. "What's so powerful about this unique time in country music's history is that we are finally creating space for uncovering those lost stories and reshaping our understanding of what the genre looks like. Being a part of this film was an incredible opportunity in and of itself, made sweeter by the brilliant direction of Joshua Kissi and the relationships I've been able to form with the other amazing artists in the film. This is a must-watch, trust me."</p><p><em>For Love &amp; Country</em> is an exploration of the space between myth and reality of a genre, an industry, and a city. The genre not only owes part of its origin story to Black musicians, but through its history, prominent Black voices have pushed the genre forward with little recognition or fanfare. A new crop of Black artists is seeking to change country's long-held identity as music by-and-for white audiences. <em>For Love &amp; Country </em>features interviews and performances by Black voices leading this renaissance, including Grammy-nominated Jimmie Allen, Grammy-nominated Blanco Brown, Breakthrough Artist for Amazon Music BRELAND, award-winning songwriter and 2021 Artist to Watch for Amazon Music Shy Carter, Grammy-nominated Mickey Guyton, Grammy-nominated Valerie June, Grammy-nominated Amythyst Kiah, 2022 Artists to Watch for Amazon Music Willie Jones and Reyna Roberts, Grammy-nominated Allison Russell, rising star Brittney Spencer, pianist and singer-songwriter Frankie Staton, and Nashville-based rapper Mike Floss.</p><p>"This documentary is so awesome and special to me," said Shy Carter. "I'm so grateful for everyone who put it together. They have really created something that showcases the talent in country music that may have a harder time getting recognized. It documents the journey of finding a new path and what it's like for an artist who is doing something that might be considered unorthodox—but is true to them. It's a beautiful story of pushing through the opposition and becoming everything you believe you can be."</p><p>In celebration of the film, new Amazon Original songs are available on the "For Love &amp; Country" official playlist including "All Tractors Ain't Green" by Jimmie Allen, "Hard" by Shy Carter," "Bein' Green" by Willie Jones, "Black Myself" by Amythyst Kiah, "Another Round" by Reyna Roberts, "Quasheba, Quasheba" by Allison Russell, and "Independence Day" by Brittney Spencer.</p><p>"I am excited to be included in the Amazon Music Original feature length documentary, <em>For Love &amp; Country</em>," said Allison Russell. "The driving message of this film is that country music has always been Black music and it is important to share this with a global audience. Black musicians are a critical part of country music's history and continued growth, though we may not always be given the proper credit<em>. For Love &amp; Country</em> helps amplify our story."</p><p>In addition to artist perspectives, the film features interviews with several local Nashville residents sharing their stories, including journalist and <em>New York Times</em> best-selling author Andrea Williams,Davidson County criminal court clerk and former vice mayor Howard Gentry, academic and author Amanda Marie Martínez, and former artist manager and local business owner Camille Alston.</p><p>"I needed to participate in this film," said Blanco Brown. "My purpose is to continue narrating the story and shedding light on sound… No one owns it, music is bigger than all of us!"</p><p>"In telling this story, it was imperative for us to amplify the personal narratives of these wonderfully diverse country artists, because in them lie the stories of Black contributions to the genre," said Raymond Roker, global head of editorial for Amazon Music. "These are also very universal stories of acceptance, being welcomed into spaces we choose to occupy despite how open the door is to us, and how stories and history can become marginalized over time. The title of the film is also a reminder that these artists have all come from a place of love, adoration, and even reverence for country music's past, its heroes, and contributors across the spectrum."</p><p><em>For Love &amp; Country</em> is an Amazon Music Original feature-length documentary directed by Joshua Kissi and produced by DPM Projects in association with Pizza Night and division7. Kesshann Cortez and Tara Hallarman served as executive producers of a story by Cody Whitman, with Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Andrea Williams as writers. The film was edited by Daniel Roman and Dillon Hayes, with Michael Fernandez serving as the director of photography. The original score is by BUTTER Music + Sound composer Nat Jenkins. Runtime: 101 minutes.</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 90 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 90 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 (NASDAQ:AMZN) 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 </em>For Love &amp; Country <em>HERE and HEREStill images and artist photography are available HEREListen to the official playlist HERE featuring new Amazon Original songs by artists in the film</em></p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220407005280/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Music</p>

Boeing and AWS Join Forces to Transform Aerospace Design and Manufacturing

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Leading global aerospace company selects AWS as a strategic cloud provider and will use AWS's comprehensive cloud portfolio to strengthen its digital foundations for engineering and manufacturing Amazon Air uses Boeing aircraft to expedite package delivery for customers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 6, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Boeing (NYSE: BA) today announced an expanded relationship that extends the aerospace leader's existing cloud operations and streamlines Boeing's approach to cloud computing. Boeing will migrate applications out of on-premises data centers to AWS and create a technology foundation that will strengthen engineering and manufacturing processes. AWS will power new and existing Boeing digital applications to unlock valuable insights to drive product innovation, more efficient operations, and improved customer support. Beyond the cloud relationship, Amazon Air has grown its fleet to more than 110 Boeing aircraft to facilitate the movement of goods to Amazon customers worldwide. "Today's announcement represents a significant investment in Boeing's digital future. Our work with AWS will help us advance Boeing's people, products, and services by enabling everyone with the latest tools, technology and expertise," said Susan Doniz, Boeing Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Information Technology & Data Analytics. "Our cloud strategy removes infrastructure restraints, allowing for more ownership within teams, simplifies our processes, creates easier and more secure access to information, and empowers our people to perform their best." Boeing is a leading global manufacturer of airplanes and space systems, with aerospace engineering at the heart of its operations for more than 100 years. This collaboration with AWS expands the company's current cloud operations and allows Boeing to take advantage of AWS's scalable, power-efficient, and high-performing infrastructure, as well as its industry-leading cloud services, including high performance computing (HPC). "Boeing and AWS share a builder culture and are committed to using advanced technologies to take on the most ambitious engineering feats like developing new sustainable energy sources and interplanetary human travel. Together, we will deliver more powerful, sustainable, and efficient aerospace design, engineering, and management solutions that will help Boeing customers today and in future aerospace travel," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "AWS's proven cloud infrastructure and deep portfolio of services allow Boeing to create new solutions for its global customers and suppliers that will increase innovation and adaptability to enhance the movement of people and goods around the world, including Amazon's own deliveries for our customers through Amazon Air." 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. About Boeing As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing's diverse team is committed to innovating for the future and living the company's core values of safety, quality and integrity. Learn more at www.boeing.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220406005023/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

<p><em>Leading global aerospace company selects AWS as a strategic cloud provider and will use AWS's comprehensive cloud portfolio to strengthen its digital foundations for engineering and manufacturing</em></p><p><em>Amazon Air uses Boeing aircraft to expedite package delivery for customers</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 6, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Boeing (NYSE: BA) today announced an expanded relationship that extends the aerospace leader's existing cloud operations and streamlines Boeing's approach to cloud computing. Boeing will migrate applications out of on-premises data centers to AWS and create a technology foundation that will strengthen engineering and manufacturing processes. AWS will power new and existing Boeing digital applications to unlock valuable insights to drive product innovation, more efficient operations, and improved customer support. Beyond the cloud relationship, Amazon Air has grown its fleet to more than 110 Boeing aircraft to facilitate the movement of goods to Amazon customers worldwide.</p><p>"Today's announcement represents a significant investment in Boeing's digital future. Our work with AWS will help us advance Boeing's people, products, and services by enabling everyone with the latest tools, technology and expertise," said Susan Doniz, Boeing Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Information Technology &amp; Data Analytics. "Our cloud strategy removes infrastructure restraints, allowing for more ownership within teams, simplifies our processes, creates easier and more secure access to information, and empowers our people to perform their best."</p><p>Boeing is a leading global manufacturer of airplanes and space systems, with aerospace engineering at the heart of its operations for more than 100 years. This collaboration with AWS expands the company's current cloud operations and allows Boeing to take advantage of AWS's scalable, power-efficient, and high-performing infrastructure, as well as its industry-leading cloud services, including high performance computing (HPC).</p><p>"Boeing and AWS share a builder culture and are committed to using advanced technologies to take on the most ambitious engineering feats like developing new sustainable energy sources and interplanetary human travel. Together, we will deliver more powerful, sustainable, and efficient aerospace design, engineering, and management solutions that will help Boeing customers today and in future aerospace travel," said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Amazon Web Services, Inc. "AWS's proven cloud infrastructure and deep portfolio of services allow Boeing to create new solutions for its global customers and suppliers that will increase innovation and adaptability to enhance the movement of people and goods around the world, including Amazon's own deliveries for our customers through Amazon Air."</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>About Boeing</p><p>As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing's diverse team is committed to innovating for the future and living the company's core values of safety, quality and integrity. Learn more at www.boeing.com.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220406005023/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc.</p>

LinkedIn Names Amazon No. 1 Company Where Americans Want to Work in 2022 for Second Year in a Row

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LinkedIn Names Amazon No. 1 Company Where Americans Want to Work in 2022 for Second Year in a Row

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LinkedIn again recognizes Amazon as the most desirable workplace in the U.S. based on the company's ability to attract and retain talent, including how it provides career advancement opportunities for employees of all backgrounds This past year, the company expanded its Career Choice program to pay full college tuition for front-line employees as part of its commitment to invest more than $1.2 billion to upskill more than 300,000 employees by 2025 Amazon currently employs over 1.1 million people in the U.S. and 1.6 million globally SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 6, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—LinkedIn today named Amazon the No. 1 company where Americans want to work in 2022, marking the second consecutive year Amazon has topped the annual list. Amazon ranked first on LinkedIn's annual Top Companies list, which identifies the most sought-after places to work in the U.S. using data from LinkedIn's 810 million members. The list is designed to help professionals identify the best companies to grow their careers. LinkedIn's methodology evaluates how companies are able to attract and retain the best talent, including through promotions, opportunities for employees of all backgrounds to gain new skills, gender diversity, and even how much recruiters from other companies search for employees currently working at Amazon. "Thank you to all of our employees for continuing to make Amazon a top place to work. We're proud to have been named No. 1 by LinkedIn and know there's even more to do. That's why we keep listening, investing, and inventing to make the employee experience even better," said Beth Galetti, Amazon's senior vice president of People eXperience and Technology. "This is a place where people come to build on behalf of our customers, and together we're determined to make every day better for our employees and our customers." In 2021, Amazon created more than 200,000 jobs in the U.S, where the company currently employs more than 1.1 million people. As part of its pledge to help upskill the American workforce, Amazon recently announced a commitment to fully fund college tuition, books, and fees, as well as high school diplomas, GEDs, college preparatory courses, and English as a Second Language (ESL) proficiency certifications, for its front-line hourly employees though the popular Career Choice program. The program is part of the company's pledge to invest more than $1.2 billion to upskill more than 300,000 employees by 2025. Amazon prides itself on providing all kinds of jobs for all kinds of people at all levels of their career. Amazon jobs come with an average starting pay of $18 an hour, more than twice the federal minimum wage. In addition, Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package to all regular full-time employees, which includes health insurance from an employee's first day on the job, a 401(k) plan with a company match, up to 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, free mental health support, and access to subsidized skills training opportunities. LinkedIn has ranked Amazon among the top three companies in the U.S. to work at for five consecutive years. Additionally, Amazon currently ranks No. 2 on both Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Companies list and the Drucker Institute's list of Best Managed Companies in the U.S., and was selected by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers. This year, Amazon has also been recognized as a Top Employer in Spain, Italy, France, and Poland by the Top Employers Institute and was ranked No. 1 on Business Today's Great Places to Work list in India. Amazon was also awarded a top score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index, which recognizes the best workplaces for the LGBTQ+ community, and named a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion by the Disability Equality Index. For more information about LinkedIn's ranking and methodology, visit here. To apply for a job at Amazon, visit www.amazon.jobs View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220406005359/en/ Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon

<p><em>LinkedIn again recognizes Amazon as the most desirable workplace in the U.S. based on the company's ability to attract and retain talent, including how it provides career advancement opportunities for employees of all backgrounds</em></p><p><em>This past year, the company expanded its Career Choice program to pay full college tuition for front-line employees as part of its commitment to invest more than $1.2 billion to upskill more than 300,000 employees by 2025</em></p><p><em>Amazon currently employs over 1.1 million people in the U.S. and 1.6 million globally</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 6, 2022-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)—LinkedIn today named Amazon the No. 1 company where Americans want to work in 2022, marking the second consecutive year Amazon has topped the annual list. Amazon ranked first on LinkedIn's annual Top Companies list, which identifies the most sought-after places to work in the U.S. using data from LinkedIn's 810 million members. The list is designed to help professionals identify the best companies to grow their careers. LinkedIn's methodology evaluates how companies are able to attract and retain the best talent, including through promotions, opportunities for employees of all backgrounds to gain new skills, gender diversity, and even how much recruiters from other companies search for employees currently working at Amazon.</p><p>"Thank you to all of our employees for continuing to make Amazon a top place to work. We're proud to have been named No. 1 by LinkedIn and know there's even more to do. That's why we keep listening, investing, and inventing to make the employee experience even better," said Beth Galetti, Amazon's senior vice president of People eXperience and Technology. "This is a place where people come to build on behalf of our customers, and together we're determined to make every day better for our employees and our customers."</p><p>In 2021, Amazon created more than 200,000 jobs in the U.S, where the company currently employs more than 1.1 million people. As part of its pledge to help upskill the American workforce, Amazon recently announced a commitment to fully fund college tuition, books, and fees, as well as high school diplomas, GEDs, college preparatory courses, and English as a Second Language (ESL) proficiency certifications, for its front-line hourly employees though the popular Career Choice program. The program is part of the company's pledge to invest more than $1.2 billion to upskill more than 300,000 employees by 2025. Amazon prides itself on providing all kinds of jobs for all kinds of people at all levels of their career.</p><p>Amazon jobs come with an average starting pay of $18 an hour, more than twice the federal minimum wage. In addition, Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package to all regular full-time employees, which includes health insurance from an employee's first day on the job, a 401(k) plan with a company match, up to 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, free mental health support, and access to subsidized skills training opportunities.</p><p>LinkedIn has ranked Amazon among the top three companies in the U.S. to work at for five consecutive years. Additionally, Amazon currently ranks No. 2 on both <em>Fortune</em> magazine's World's Most Admired Companies list and the Drucker Institute's list of Best Managed Companies in the U.S., and was selected by <em>Forbes</em> as one of the World's Best Employers. This year, Amazon has also been recognized as a Top Employer in Spain, Italy, France, and Poland by the Top Employers Institute and was ranked No. 1 on <em>Business Today's</em> Great Places to Work list in India. Amazon was also awarded a top score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index, which recognizes the best workplaces for the LGBTQ+ community, and named a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion by the Disability Equality Index.</p><p>For more information about LinkedIn's ranking and methodology, visit here. To apply for a job at Amazon, visit www.amazon.jobs</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220406005359/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon</p>

Amazon Secures Up to 83 Launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance for Project Kuiper

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Agreements comprise the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history, providing heavy-lift capacity for Project Kuiper to deploy majority of its low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of 3,236 satellites Launches planned with Arianespace's Ariane 6, Blue Origin's New Glenn, and United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rockets; Beyond Gravity to build low-cost, scalable dispenser system to deploy satellites Agreements will drive innovation and job creation across the space industry, supporting thousands of suppliers and highly skilled jobs in 49 states across the United States and 13 countries in Europe SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 5, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced agreements with Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to provide heavy-lift launch services for Project Kuiper, Amazon's initiative to increase global broadband access using a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). The contracts total up to 83 launches over a five-year period, providing capacity for Amazon to deploy the majority of its 3,236-satellite constellation. It is the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220405005519/en/ Artist's concept of the Ariane 6, New Glenn, and Vulcan Centaur rockets to be used by Amazon's Project Kuiper. (Photo: Business Wire) "Project Kuiper will provide fast, affordable broadband to tens of millions of customers in unserved and underserved communities around the world," said Dave Limp, Senior Vice President for Amazon Devices & Services. "We still have lots of work ahead, but the team has continued to hit milestone after milestone across every aspect of our satellite system. These launch agreements reflect our incredible commitment and belief in Project Kuiper, and we're proud to be working with such an impressive lineup of partners to deliver on our mission." Project Kuiper aims to provide high-speed, low-latency broadband to a wide range of customers, including individual households, schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, disaster relief operations, mobile operators, and other organizations working in places without reliable internet connectivity. Amazon is designing and developing the entire system in-house, combining a constellation of advanced LEO satellites with small, affordable customer terminals and a secure, resilient ground-based communications network. Project Kuiper will leverage Amazon's global logistics and operations footprint, as well as Amazon Web Services' (AWS) networking and infrastructure, to serve a diverse, global customer base. Project Kuiper will also apply Amazon's experience producing low-cost devices and services like Echo and Kindle to deliver service at an affordable, accessible price for customers. "Securing launch capacity from multiple providers has been a key part of our strategy from day one," said Rajeev Badyal, Vice President of Technology for Project Kuiper at Amazon. "This approach reduces risk associated with launch vehicle stand-downs and supports competitive long-term pricing for Amazon, producing cost savings that we can pass on to our customers. These large, heavy-lift rockets also mean we can deploy more of our constellation with fewer launches, helping simplify our launch and deployment schedule. We're excited to move one step closer to connecting residential, business, and government customers around the world." The scale of these contracts will also boost the wider launch services industry, driving innovation and job creation in the United States and Europe. Suppliers from 49 U.S. states help develop and manufacture the next-generation, heavy-lift launch vehicles from Blue Origin and ULA, while Arianespace relies on ArianeGroup's network of suppliers from 13 European countries to produce its Ariane 6 rocket. In addition, Amazon is working with Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space), a Switzerland-headquartered space technology provider, to build low-cost, scalable satellite dispensers that will help deploy the Project Kuiper constellation. Beyond Gravity is opening an all-new production facility as a result of the partnership, doubling its production capacity and creating dozens of jobs in Linköping, Sweden. Arianespace Arianespace, the European spaceline, has established itself as a leader in the global launch services industry, completing 15 successful launches last year, including the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in late December. Arianespace is on its way to start operating its next-generation heavy-lift launch vehicle, Ariane 6, which is scheduled to launch for the first time by the end of this year. Amazon has secured 18 Ariane 6 rockets as part of this initial agreement. "This contract, the largest we've ever signed, is a great moment in Arianespace's history. We are honored to be given a significant role to play in the deployment of Amazon's Project Kuiper, which aims to connect tens of millions of people to the internet," said Stéphane Israël, CEO of Arianespace. "It will build on the European innovative spirit, industrial might, and years of experience, and it is a major win for the European launcher industry. That Amazon has chosen the Ariane 6 to do the job is a matter of tremendous pride for us and a great vote of confidence in our new launch vehicle." Blue Origin Amazon has signed an agreement with Blue Origin to secure 12 launches using New Glenn, with options for up to 15 additional launches. New Glenn is powered by seven BE-4 engines and its reusable first stage is built for a minimum of 25 missions. "We're honored to support Amazon's ambitious mission to provide reliable, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world through New Glenn and our BE-4 engines," said Jarrett Jones, Senior Vice President, New Glenn, Blue Origin. "New Glenn's seven-meter fairing offers unprecedented mass and volume capabilities, providing Project Kuiper maximum launch flexibility. We also congratulate our partner, United Launch Alliance. We're proud to build American-made engines for ULA's Vulcan Centaur." United Launch Alliance Amazon's agreement with ULA covers 38 launches on Vulcan Centaur, ULA's newest heavy-lift launch vehicle. This launch services contract also covers production and launch infrastructure to support a higher cadence of launches at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, including a new, dedicated version of the Vulcan Launch Platform (VLP). ULA is making additional investments in its Spaceflight Processing & Operations Center (SPOC) to deliver a second ULA facility capable of full vehicle processing, transforming the launch site to have two parallel "launch lanes" for high-cadence operations. The agreement is in addition to Project Kuiper's existing deal to secure nine Atlas V vehicles from ULA. "This agreement marks the beginning of an exciting new era for ULA and for the entire U.S. launch industry. With a total of 47 launches between our Atlas and Vulcan vehicles, we are proud to launch the majority of this important constellation," said Tory Bruno, ULA's president and CEO. "It will support hundreds of jobs, especially in places like Alabama, Colorado and Florida, and Amazon's investments in launch infrastructure and capability upgrades will benefit both commercial and government customers." Project Kuiper plans to launch two prototype missions later this year on ABL Space Systems' RS1 rocket. There are now more than 1,000 people at Amazon working on Project Kuiper, and the team continues to make progress as it approaches a full, production-ready deployment—finalizing its high-performance satellite design, producing a compact, affordable customer terminal, and deploying a secure, reliable communications network that connects satellites to customers and infrastructure on the ground. Once deployed, the Kuiper System will have the capacity to serve tens of millions of residential, business, and government customers in places without reliable broadband. Moving forward, Amazon will continue to partner with companies that share its commitment to closing the global digital divide and creating new opportunities for innovation. To learn more about Project Kuiper, watch our overview video. 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 press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact, including statements regarding anticipated business activities, made in this press release are forward-looking. We use words such as aims, anticipates, believes, expects, future, intends, will, and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements reflect management's current expectations and are inherently uncertain. Actual results and outcomes could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including, among others, changes in our liquidity, financial condition, or capital allocation and financing strategies or in the debt and equity markets, including as a result of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet, online commerce, and cloud services, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products and services sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income or other taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of claims, litigation, government investigations, and other proceedings, fulfillment, sortation, delivery, and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, variability in demand, the degree to which we enter into, maintain, and develop commercial agreements, proposed and completed acquisitions and strategic transactions, payments risks, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. In addition, the global economic climate and additional or unforeseen effects from the global pandemic amplify many of these risks. These risks and uncertainties, as well as other risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ significantly from management's expectations, are described in greater detail 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. Although we undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law, you are advised to consult any additional disclosures we make in our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC. 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<p><em>Agreements comprise the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history, providing heavy-lift capacity for Project Kuiper to deploy majority of its low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of 3,236 satellites</em></p><p><em>Launches planned with Arianespace's Ariane 6, Blue Origin's New Glenn, and United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rockets; Beyond Gravity to build low-cost, scalable dispenser system to deploy satellites</em></p><p><em>Agreements will drive innovation and job creation across the space industry, supporting thousands of suppliers and highly skilled jobs in 49 states across the United States and 13 countries in Europe</em></p><p>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 5, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced agreements with Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to provide heavy-lift launch services for Project Kuiper, Amazon's initiative to increase global broadband access using a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). The contracts total up to 83 launches over a five-year period, providing capacity for Amazon to deploy the majority of its 3,236-satellite constellation. It is the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history.</p><p>This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220405005519/en/</p><div><p>Artist's concept of the Ariane 6, New Glenn, and Vulcan Centaur rockets to be used by Amazon's Project Kuiper. (Photo: Business Wire)</p></div><p>"Project Kuiper will provide fast, affordable broadband to tens of millions of customers in unserved and underserved communities around the world," said Dave Limp, Senior Vice President for Amazon Devices &amp; Services. "We still have lots of work ahead, but the team has continued to hit milestone after milestone across every aspect of our satellite system. These launch agreements reflect our incredible commitment and belief in Project Kuiper, and we're proud to be working with such an impressive lineup of partners to deliver on our mission."</p><p>Project Kuiper aims to provide high-speed, low-latency broadband to a wide range of customers, including individual households, schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, disaster relief operations, mobile operators, and other organizations working in places without reliable internet connectivity. Amazon is designing and developing the entire system in-house, combining a constellation of advanced LEO satellites with small, affordable customer terminals and a secure, resilient ground-based communications network. Project Kuiper will leverage Amazon's global logistics and operations footprint, as well as Amazon Web Services' (AWS) networking and infrastructure, to serve a diverse, global customer base. Project Kuiper will also apply Amazon's experience producing low-cost devices and services like Echo and Kindle to deliver service at an affordable, accessible price for customers.</p><p>"Securing launch capacity from multiple providers has been a key part of our strategy from day one," said Rajeev Badyal, Vice President of Technology for Project Kuiper at Amazon. "This approach reduces risk associated with launch vehicle stand-downs and supports competitive long-term pricing for Amazon, producing cost savings that we can pass on to our customers. These large, heavy-lift rockets also mean we can deploy more of our constellation with fewer launches, helping simplify our launch and deployment schedule. We're excited to move one step closer to connecting residential, business, and government customers around the world."</p><p>The scale of these contracts will also boost the wider launch services industry, driving innovation and job creation in the United States and Europe. Suppliers from 49 U.S. states help develop and manufacture the next-generation, heavy-lift launch vehicles from Blue Origin and ULA, while Arianespace relies on ArianeGroup's network of suppliers from 13 European countries to produce its Ariane 6 rocket. In addition, Amazon is working with Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space), a Switzerland-headquartered space technology provider, to build low-cost, scalable satellite dispensers that will help deploy the Project Kuiper constellation. Beyond Gravity is opening an all-new production facility as a result of the partnership, doubling its production capacity and creating dozens of jobs in Linköping, Sweden.</p><p>Arianespace</p><p>Arianespace, the European spaceline, has established itself as a leader in the global launch services industry, completing 15 successful launches last year, including the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in late December. Arianespace is on its way to start operating its next-generation heavy-lift launch vehicle, Ariane 6, which is scheduled to launch for the first time by the end of this year. Amazon has secured 18 Ariane 6 rockets as part of this initial agreement.</p><p>"This contract, the largest we've ever signed, is a great moment in Arianespace's history. We are honored to be given a significant role to play in the deployment of Amazon's Project Kuiper, which aims to connect tens of millions of people to the internet," said Stéphane Israël, CEO of Arianespace. "It will build on the European innovative spirit, industrial might, and years of experience, and it is a major win for the European launcher industry. That Amazon has chosen the Ariane 6 to do the job is a matter of tremendous pride for us and a great vote of confidence in our new launch vehicle."</p><p>Blue Origin</p><p>Amazon has signed an agreement with Blue Origin to secure 12 launches using New Glenn, with options for up to 15 additional launches. New Glenn is powered by seven BE-4 engines and its reusable first stage is built for a minimum of 25 missions.</p><p>"We're honored to support Amazon's ambitious mission to provide reliable, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world through New Glenn and our BE-4 engines," said Jarrett Jones, Senior Vice President, New Glenn, Blue Origin. "New Glenn's seven-meter fairing offers unprecedented mass and volume capabilities, providing Project Kuiper maximum launch flexibility. We also congratulate our partner, United Launch Alliance. We're proud to build American-made engines for ULA's Vulcan Centaur."</p><p>United Launch Alliance</p><p>Amazon's agreement with ULA covers 38 launches on Vulcan Centaur, ULA's newest heavy-lift launch vehicle. This launch services contract also covers production and launch infrastructure to support a higher cadence of launches at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, including a new, dedicated version of the Vulcan Launch Platform (VLP). ULA is making additional investments in its Spaceflight Processing &amp; Operations Center (SPOC) to deliver a second ULA facility capable of full vehicle processing, transforming the launch site to have two parallel "launch lanes" for high-cadence operations. The agreement is in addition to Project Kuiper's existing deal to secure nine Atlas V vehicles from ULA.</p><p>"This agreement marks the beginning of an exciting new era for ULA and for the entire U.S. launch industry. With a total of 47 launches between our Atlas and Vulcan vehicles, we are proud to launch the majority of this important constellation," said Tory Bruno, ULA's president and CEO. "It will support hundreds of jobs, especially in places like Alabama, Colorado and Florida, and Amazon's investments in launch infrastructure and capability upgrades will benefit both commercial and government customers."</p><p>Project Kuiper plans to launch two prototype missions later this year on ABL Space Systems' RS1 rocket. There are now more than 1,000 people at Amazon working on Project Kuiper, and the team continues to make progress as it approaches a full, production-ready deployment—finalizing its high-performance satellite design, producing a compact, affordable customer terminal, and deploying a secure, reliable communications network that connects satellites to customers and infrastructure on the ground. Once deployed, the Kuiper System will have the capacity to serve tens of millions of residential, business, and government customers in places without reliable broadband. Moving forward, Amazon will continue to partner with companies that share its commitment to closing the global digital divide and creating new opportunities for innovation. To learn more about Project Kuiper, watch our overview video.</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 press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact, including statements regarding anticipated business activities, made in this press release are forward-looking. We use words such as aims, anticipates, believes, expects, future, intends, will, and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements reflect management's current expectations and are inherently uncertain. Actual results and outcomes could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including, among others, changes in our liquidity, financial condition, or capital allocation and financing strategies or in the debt and equity markets, including as a result of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet, online commerce, and cloud services, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products and services sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income or other taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of claims, litigation, government investigations, and other proceedings, fulfillment, sortation, delivery, and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, variability in demand, the degree to which we enter into, maintain, and develop commercial agreements, proposed and completed acquisitions and strategic transactions, payments risks, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. In addition, the global economic climate and additional or unforeseen effects from the global pandemic amplify many of these risks. These risks and uncertainties, as well as other risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ significantly from management's expectations, are described in greater detail 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. Although we undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law, you are advised to consult any additional disclosures we make in our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC.</p><p>View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220405005519/en/</p><p>Amazon.com, Inc.Media HotlineAmazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr</p><p>Source: Amazon.com, Inc.</p>