Category Archives: Jeff Bezos

Nobody wins as DoD finally pulls the plug on controversial $10B JEDI contract

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After several years of fighting and jockeying for position by the biggest cloud infrastructure companies in the world, the Pentagon finally pulled the plug on the controversial winner-take-all $10 billion JEDI contract today. In the end, nobody won. “With the shifting technology environment, it has become clear that the JEDI cloud contract, which has long […] Continue reading Nobody wins as DoD finally pulls the plug on controversial $10B JEDI contract→

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

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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 about who would replace Jassy. People considered a number of internal candidates viable, such as Peter DeSantis, vice president of global infrastructure at AWS and […] Continue reading Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky is returning to AWS to replace Andy Jassy as CEO→

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

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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 Jassy. Could Marc Benioff, co-founder, chairman and CEO at Salesforce be the next big-name executive to make a similar move? A Reuter’s story published on […] Continue reading Could Marc Benioff be the next CEO to move to executive chairman?→

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

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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 to worldwide behemoth. As he takes on the role of executive chairman, his replacement will be none other than AWS CEO Andy Jassy. With Jassy […] Continue reading What Andy Jassy’s promotion to Amazon CEO could mean for AWS→

WhyLabs brings more transparancy to ML ops

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WhyLabs, a new machine learning startup that was spun out of the Allen Institute, is coming out of stealth today. Founded by a group of former Amazon machine learning engineers, Alessya Visnjic, Sam Gracie and Andy Dang, together with Madrona Venture Group principal Maria Karaivanova, WhyLabs’ focus is on ML operations after models have been […] Continue reading WhyLabs brings more transparancy to ML ops→