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Amazon has quietly introduced a “special store” called Bazaar in India, featuring affordable and trendy fashion and lifestyle products, as it ramps up efforts against Walmart-owned Flipkart and Reliance’s Ajio,…

Amazon takes on India rivals with Bazaar, a low-cost fashion store

Amazon has seen AWS growth rates dropping substantially over the last three quarters, from 20% to 16% to 12% this quarter. That’s not the kind of trend any company wants…

AWS revenue growth dropped to 12% in Q2, but company remains optimistic about cloud biz

Amazon plans to more than double its investment in India in the next seven years, the e-commerce group said, joining a roster of other high-profile American giants ramping up commitment…

Amazon plans to invest another $15B in India by 2030

When Amazon announced it was laying off another 9,000 employees today, AWS employees were not exempt with Amazon CEO (and former AWS CEO) Andy Jassy announcing the cloud division would…

AWS takes a hit in latest round of Amazon layoffs

Yesterday Amazon reported earnings, with AWS growing a modest 20% for the quarter over the prior year to $21 billion. But perhaps even more troubling, the company reported in the…

AWS says growth dropped to mid-teens to start new year as customer cost-cutting continues

Although Amazon as a whole has hit a bit of a post-peak pandemic rough patch, AWS keeps delivering.

While Amazon had a rocky year, AWS remains a reliable cash cow

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy worked his way to the corner office the old-fashioned way but is facing immense challenges amid falling profits.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy faces enormous challenges amid falling profits and negative numbers

Given the ongoing economic headwinds and the company’s expensive belt-tightening under CEO Andy Jassy, it ought not come as a surprise that Amazon has instituted a corporate hiring freeze. The…

Amazon exec confirms corporate hiring freeze through end of year

Amazon’s annual sales event Prime Day delivered more than $12 billion in sales, according to third-party estimates. The retailer hosted the popular shopping event in the U.S. and in more…

Analysts estimate single-digit growth for all retailers during Prime Day sales

Prime Day, Amazon’s annual event where it and sellers on the platform discount a huge number of items for a burst of sales activity, is coming to a screen near…

Amazon Prime Day lands on July 12-13

Amazon stock plunged to a two-year low as shares slid as much as 12% on Friday morning after the company reported its first-quarter results yesterday. The company reported a loss…

Amazon stock plunges to two-year low following first-quarter loss

It’s always a sticky business predicting what’s going to happen in tech, because who knows what’s going on behind the scenes or what’s coming next.

AWS will buy a SaaS company, and other 2022 enterprise predictions

There is often a mistaken impression that covering the enterprise is kind of dull when compared to the consumer side of the house, but having followed the space for a…

Five stories that shook up the enterprise in 2021

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has been in his job for 16 years, but the 63-year-old isn’t quite ready to retire. “There is so much more to do. I’m not finished…

Why Amazon CTO Werner Vogels isn’t ready to retire just yet

Adam Selipsky gave his first AWS re:Invent keynote this morning since taking over as CEO from Andy Jassy earlier this year. He had big shoes to fill, but it’s not…

‘What does this have to do with selling books?’

It’s that magical time of year. No, I’m not talking about the upcoming holiday season. Instead, it’s time for AWS’s annual customer extravaganza re:Invent, which starts next week. The conference…

With his first re:Invent looming, what will AWS’s new boss bring to the table?

A group of senators sent new Amazon CEO Andy Jassy a letter Friday pressing the company for more information about how it scans and stores customer palm prints for use…

Lawmakers ask Amazon what it plans to do with palm print biometric data

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We asked several analysts to identify the top problems he will have to address in his new role.

3 analysts weigh in: What are Andy Jassy’s top priorities as Amazon’s new CEO?

When the Pentagon killed the JEDI cloud program yesterday, it was the end of a long and bitter road for a project that never seemed to have a chance. The…

The single vendor requirement ultimately doomed the DoD’s $10B JEDI cloud contract

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has always liked to motivate his employees by saying every day is Day 1. Well, it is actually Day 1 for his successor Andy…

Today is Day 1 for Andy Jassy as former AWS CEO moves to Amazon corner office

When AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced in an email to employees yesterday that Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky was returning to run AWS, it was probably not the choice most considered.…

Why Adam Selipsky was the logical choice to run AWS

When Amazon announced last month that Jeff Bezos was moving into the executive chairman role, and AWS CEO Andy Jassy would be taking over the entire Amazon operation, speculation began…

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky is returning to AWS to replace Andy Jassy as CEO

Last month Jeff Bezos announced he would step down as CEO of Amazon later this year, moving into the executive chairman role, while passing the baton to AWS CEO Andy…

Could Marc Benioff be the next CEO to move to executive chairman?

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Is overseeing cloud operations the new career path to CEO?

Amazon, Microsoft and IBM have each elevated people who ran their cloud divisions to the CEO role.

Is overseeing cloud operations the new career path to CEO?

Blockbuster news struck late this afternoon when Amazon announced that Jeff Bezos would be stepping back as CEO of Amazon, the company he built from a business in his garage…

What Andy Jassy’s promotion to Amazon CEO could mean for AWS

Amazon founder and current CEO Jeff Bezos will be transitioning to executive chair of the company sometime in Q3 of this year, with current AWS CEO Andy Jassy taking over…

Jeff Bezos will no longer be CEO of Amazon as of later this year

One of the areas that is often left behind when it comes to cloud computing is the industrial sector. That’s because these facilities often have older equipment or proprietary systems…

AWS launches new services for its industrial customers

When Amazon Web Services launched QuickSight, its business intelligence service, back in 2016, the company wanted to provide product information and customer information for business users — not just developers.…

AWS adds natural language search service for business intelligence from its data sets

At AWS re:Invent today, Andy Jassy announced DevOps Guru, a new tool for DevOps teams to help the operations side find issues that could be having an impact on an…

AWS announces DevOps Guru to find operational issues automatically