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Yahoo Selects AWS as Its Preferred Public Cloud Provider for Its Ad Tech Business

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Yahoo has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider for its advertising technology business Yahoo Ad Tech.

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  • At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Yahoo has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider for its advertising technology business Yahoo Ad Tech.
  • In addition to giving brands a platform to reach audiences, the Yahoo Ad Tech platform offers media owners and publishers an ad-decisioning engine to help attract advertisers and manage their ad business.
  • Using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Yahoo Ad Tech will construct a centralized data lake to store hundreds of petabytes of data.
  • To expedite cloud adoption for Yahoo Ad Tech and develop new advertising solutions, Yahoo is providing employees with cloud skills training using the AWS Designated Virtual Trainer (DVT) program.

American Family Insurance and AWS Team Up to Drive Innovation in the Insurance Industry

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

With AWS, were embarking on a mission to accelerate digital innovation in every part of our business, said Peter Settel, American Family Insurances chief strategy and technology officer.

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  • With AWS, were embarking on a mission to accelerate digital innovation in every part of our business, said Peter Settel, American Family Insurances chief strategy and technology officer.
  • The American Family Group of companies are customer-driven and powered by purposewe champion dreams and opportunities so everyone can rise.
  • American Family Insurances expanded partnership with AWS will accelerate the insurance companys cloud migration.
  • The American Family Insurance group also includes CONNECT, powered by American Family Insurance, The General, Homesite and Main Street America Insurance.

AWS and Slalom Expand Next-Generation Strategic Collaboration

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Slalom, LLC (Slalom), a global business and technology consulting company, announced a multiyear extension to the companies global Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA).

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  • At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Slalom, LLC (Slalom), a global business and technology consulting company, announced a multiyear extension to the companies global Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA).
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221130006016/en/
    As part of the agreement, AWS and Slalom are expanding upon their 2019 announced collaboration to deliver AWS | Slalom Launch Centers (Launch Centers) that help enterprises accelerate their business transformations and modernize information technology services.
  • Over the last three years, more than 160 customers have migrated and modernized to AWS through their work with Launch Centers.
  • AWS is working with Slalom to develop solutions to help customers solve specific industry challenges.

Stability AI Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider to Build Artificial Intelligence for the Future

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Stability AI, a community-driven, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) company, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to build and scale its AI models for image, language, audio, video, and 3D content generation.

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  • At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Stability AI, a community-driven, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) company, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to build and scale its AI models for image, language, audio, video, and 3D content generation.
  • Going forward, Stability AI plans to use AWS machine learning and AI services to build and train future models to achieve the best performance at the lowest cost.
  • At Stability AI, our mission is to build the foundation to activate humanity's potential through AI, said Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI.
  • Headquartered in London with developers distributed across the globe, Stability AI was founded to build the foundation to activate humanity's potential through artificial intelligence (AI).

AWS Announces Eight New Amazon SageMaker Capabilities

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced eight new capabilities for Amazon SageMaker, its end-to-end machine learning (ML) service.

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  • At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced eight new capabilities for Amazon SageMaker, its end-to-end machine learning (ML) service.
  • Todays announcement includes new Amazon SageMaker governance capabilities that provide visibility into model performance throughout the ML lifecycle.
  • Finally, new capabilities within Amazon SageMaker automate model validation and make it easier to work with geospatial data.
  • Amazon SageMaker offers new capabilities that help customers more easily scale governance across the ML model lifecycle.

AWS and Atos Strengthen Collaboration with New Strategic Partnership to Transform the Infrastructure Outsourcing Industry

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The multiyear, industry-first agreement extends the strategic relationship between Atos and AWS, with Atos selecting AWS as its preferred enterprise cloud provider and AWS naming Atos as a strategic partner for IT outsourcing and data center transformation.

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  • The multiyear, industry-first agreement extends the strategic relationship between Atos and AWS, with Atos selecting AWS as its preferred enterprise cloud provider and AWS naming Atos as a strategic partner for IT outsourcing and data center transformation.
  • As part of the strategic partnership, Atos employees will also be trained on AWS, scaling up their skills and knowledge to continue supporting customers on their digital transformation journeys.
  • We are proud to strengthen our partnership with AWS in a first-of-its-kind collaboration, which is transformational in both its approach and its impact on our customers and the IT outsourcing industry.
  • In addition, this partnership represents another significant step in Atos transformation, said Nourdine Bihmane, Co-CEO in charge of the Tech Foundations Business line at Atos.

Amazon Announces Biggest Holiday Shopping Weekend Ever

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

(NASDAQ: AMZN)Amazon today announced that this Thanksgiving holiday shopping weekend was its biggest ever, with customers around the world purchasing hundreds of millions of products between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday.

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  • (NASDAQ: AMZN)Amazon today announced that this Thanksgiving holiday shopping weekend was its biggest ever, with customers around the world purchasing hundreds of millions of products between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday.
  • This was a record-breaking holiday shopping weekend for Amazon.
  • Customers supported small businesses this holiday shopping weekend, generating more than $1 billion in sales for small businesses in the U.S.
  • Customers can also make returns with no packaging or a label at select locations, including Whole Foods, Kohls, Amazon Stores (Amazon Go, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Style), Amazon Counter and Locker+, and UPS Stores by showing the QR code provided.

Brookfield Asset Management Selects AWS to Enhance Its Renewable Energy Operations

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

In addition to its agreement with AWS, Brookfield Renewable, a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management and one of the worlds largest publicly traded renewable power platforms, will provide 601.6 megawatts (MW) of clean wind and solar energy capacity to power Amazons operations in Europe, North America, and India.

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  • In addition to its agreement with AWS, Brookfield Renewable, a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management and one of the worlds largest publicly traded renewable power platforms, will provide 601.6 megawatts (MW) of clean wind and solar energy capacity to power Amazons operations in Europe, North America, and India.
  • In return, Brookfield Renewable will provide renewable power to Amazon on three continents, which will help Amazon stay on path to power its operations with 100% renewable energy.
  • Together with Brookfield Asset Management, we are advancing the use of renewable energy around the globe, said Howard Gefen, general manager of Energy & Utilities at AWS.
  • Brookfield Renewable is the flagship listed renewable power company of Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager with approximately $750 billion of assets under management.

Wallbox Goes All-In on AWS

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Running on AWS, Wallbox is developing innovative smart charging products that will help accelerate the adoption of electric cars and enable customers to return excess energy to the grid.

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  • Running on AWS, Wallbox is developing innovative smart charging products that will help accelerate the adoption of electric cars and enable customers to return excess energy to the grid.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221129005246/en/
    Running on AWS enables Wallbox to increase operational efficiencies, improve analytics, and provide better customer service around the world.
  • Wallbox is an example of a company that started by working backward from the customer to make the EV charging experience simple for consumers, said Tanuja Randery, managing director, EMEA at AWS.
  • As EV charging gains momentum around the world, AWS is providing Wallbox with the insights and predictive capabilities it needs to scale its business.

AWS Announces AWS Clean Rooms

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

With AWS Clean Rooms, customers can create a secure data clean room in minutes and collaborate with any other company in the AWS Cloud to generate unique insights about advertising campaigns, investment decisions, clinical research, and more.

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  • With AWS Clean Rooms, customers can create a secure data clean room in minutes and collaborate with any other company in the AWS Cloud to generate unique insights about advertising campaigns, investment decisions, clinical research, and more.
  • Customers can use AWS Clean Rooms to create their own clean rooms in minutes and to start analyzing their collective datasets with just a few clicks.
  • With AWS Clean Rooms, customers can easily collaborate with companies that are already using AWS, without moving data out of their AWS environment or loading it into another platform.
  • With AWS Clean Rooms, we will meet our customers where they are in the AWS Cloud, pairing our identity capabilities with AWS Clean Rooms privacy-enhancing data access controls.