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XXImo becomes one of the first Visa card issuers in the EU to process payments entirely through the AWS Cloud, as it scales up its services to help customers meet new regulatory requirements

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Processing payments through AWS Payment Cryptography and Visa Cloud Connect will enable XXImo to optimize operational expenses and scale its business to help make flexible mobility payments accessible to corporate employers and resellers across Europe.

Key Points: 
  • Processing payments through AWS Payment Cryptography and Visa Cloud Connect will enable XXImo to optimize operational expenses and scale its business to help make flexible mobility payments accessible to corporate employers and resellers across Europe.
  • Processing its payments entirely through AWS will help XXImo scale and optimize its platform requirements and will give it the infrastructure to rapidly expand its business throughout Europe.
  • XXlmo projects that the demand for these compliant services will drive significant growth over the next two years.
  • XXImo supports modern mobility policies and provides its customers with detailed analysis of their employees' mobility footprint, enabling them to meet requirements for reporting carbon emissions from their businesses.

Hyundai and Amazon partner to deliver innovative customer experiences and cloud transformation

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

SEATTLE and SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Hyundai Motor Company announced a broad strategic partnership to bring innovative new experiences to customers. The announcement was made today at the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show and a livestream can be viewed here: https://youtube.com/live/Qzhq1tShTMc. This strategic collaboration includes Amazon launching online sales of Hyundai vehicles in the U.S. in 2024, Hyundai naming AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help facilitate digital transformation, and the Alexa Built-in experience coming to Hyundai's next-generation vehicles.

Key Points: 
  • This strategic collaboration includes Amazon launching online sales of Hyundai vehicles in the U.S. in 2024, Hyundai naming AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help facilitate digital transformation, and the Alexa Built-in experience coming to Hyundai's next-generation vehicles.
  • "Hyundai is a very innovative company that shares Amazon's passion for trying to make customers' lives better and easier every day," said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
  • "Amazon is the ideal partner to help realize our vision of progress for humanity, including improving how people and goods move more efficiently and sustainably.
  • More information about Hyundai Motor and its products can be found at: https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/ or Newsroom: Media Hub by Hyundai .

Hyundai and Amazon partner to deliver innovative customer experiences and cloud transformation

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, November 16, 2023

SEATTLE and SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Hyundai Motor Company announced a broad strategic partnership to bring innovative new experiences to customers. The announcement was made today at the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show and a livestream can be viewed here: https://youtube.com/live/Qzhq1tShTMc. This strategic collaboration includes Amazon launching online sales of Hyundai vehicles in the U.S. in 2024, Hyundai naming AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help facilitate digital transformation, and the Alexa Built-in experience coming to Hyundai's next-generation vehicles.

Key Points: 
  • This strategic collaboration includes Amazon launching online sales of Hyundai vehicles in the U.S. in 2024, Hyundai naming AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help facilitate digital transformation, and the Alexa Built-in experience coming to Hyundai's next-generation vehicles.
  • "Hyundai is a very innovative company that shares Amazon's passion for trying to make customers' lives better and easier every day," said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
  • "Amazon is the ideal partner to help realize our vision of progress for humanity, including improving how people and goods move more efficiently and sustainably.
  • More information about Hyundai Motor and its products can be found at: https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/ or Newsroom: Media Hub by Hyundai .

Hyundai and Amazon partner to deliver innovative customer experiences and cloud transformation

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, November 16, 2023

SEATTLE and SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Hyundai Motor Company announced a broad strategic partnership to bring innovative new experiences to customers. The announcement was made today at the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show and a livestream can be viewed here: https://youtube.com/live/Qzhq1tShTMc. This strategic collaboration includes Amazon launching online sales of Hyundai vehicles in the U.S. in 2024, Hyundai naming AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help facilitate digital transformation, and the Alexa Built-in experience coming to Hyundai's next-generation vehicles.

Key Points: 
  • This strategic collaboration includes Amazon launching online sales of Hyundai vehicles in the U.S. in 2024, Hyundai naming AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help facilitate digital transformation, and the Alexa Built-in experience coming to Hyundai's next-generation vehicles.
  • "Hyundai is a very innovative company that shares Amazon's passion for trying to make customers' lives better and easier every day," said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
  • Cloud Transformation: Hyundai has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to accelerate its digital transformation using broad and industry-leading AWS capabilities—from compute, storage, database, and analytics to generative AI and Internet of Things (IoT).
  • AWS and Hyundai have designed and implemented a Master Builder training and certification program to train Hyundai engineers in critical cloud skills.

Amazon Introduces Compelling New Health Care Benefit for Prime Members for Only $9 a Month (or $99 a Year)

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

It’s a health care experience designed around customers, with a care team that’s on call and ready for members when and where they need them.

Key Points: 
  • It’s a health care experience designed around customers, with a care team that’s on call and ready for members when and where they need them.
  • Virtual care is available nationally, and members don’t incur any additional costs for on-demand virtual care services—it’s all covered by the membership.
  • “The new One Medical benefit gives Prime members access to high-quality primary care and 24/7 on-demand virtual care for only $9 a month or $99 a year—up to $100 savings,” said Jamil Ghani, vice president, Amazon Prime.
  • “This new benefit is the latest example of how we’re making it easier for Prime members to take care of their health.

YieldMax™ ETFs Announces Monthly Distributions on AMDY (65.22%), CONY (58.23%), TSLY (57.79%), DISO (42.66%), PYPY (38.82%) and Others

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

The Distribution Rate is calculated by multiplying an ETF’s Distribution per Share by twelve (12), and dividing the resulting amount by the ETF’s most recent NAV.

Key Points: 
  • The Distribution Rate is calculated by multiplying an ETF’s Distribution per Share by twelve (12), and dividing the resulting amount by the ETF’s most recent NAV.
  • The Distribution Rate and 30-Day SEC Yield are not indicative of future distributions, if any, on the ETFs.
  • Distributions for the ETFs (if any) are variable and may vary significantly from month to month and may be zero.
  • If the Fund does make distributions, the amounts of such distributions will likely vary greatly from one distribution to the next.

Deck the Halls with Millions of Deals During Amazon’s Black Friday Event Starting November 17

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Monday, November 6, 2023

To find the most up-to-date deals during the events, visit amazon.com/blackfriday and amazon.com/cybermonday .

Key Points: 
  • To find the most up-to-date deals during the events, visit amazon.com/blackfriday and amazon.com/cybermonday .
  • The New York Jets will take on the Miami Dolphins during the first ever Black Friday NFL game on November 24 with coverage beginning at 1:30 p.m. EST.
  • To sign up for an Amazon account, visit amazon.com/newuser , and watch the game for free on any device from anywhere.
  • Amazon also makes it easy for customers to find deals they’re interested in with personalized recommendations.

Amazon Business Adds Affirm as First Buy Now, Pay Later Provider at Checkout

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Now, these Amazon Business customers can split the total cost of eligible purchases and pay over time with Affirm without late or hidden fees.

Key Points: 
  • Now, these Amazon Business customers can split the total cost of eligible purchases and pay over time with Affirm without late or hidden fees.
  • Amazon Business will start to roll out Affirm today to eligible sole proprietor businesses, and the new payment option will be available at checkout to all eligible Amazon Business sole proprietor customers by Black Friday.
  • By selecting Affirm at checkout on Amazon Business and entering a few simple pieces of information, such as registered business name and business address, small business owners will receive an instant credit decision.
  • Customers looking to use Affirm through Amazon Business can do so using the Amazon Business website and Amazon Business mobile app.

MongoDB and AWS Collaborate to Optimize Amazon CodeWhisperer Suggestions for Developers Building Applications on MongoDB

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Monday, November 6, 2023

NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) company, today announced the two companies are collaborating to optimize Amazon CodeWhisperer to provide enhanced suggestions for application development and modernization on MongoDB's industry-leading developer data platform that millions of developers and tens of thousands of customers rely on every day for business-critical applications. Trained on billions of lines of Amazon and publicly available code, Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI-powered coding companion from AWS that generates code suggestions based on natural-language comments or existing code in developers' integrated development environments (IDEs). Working together with AWS, MongoDB provided curated training data for MongoDB use cases and took part in the evaluation of Amazon CodeWhisperer outputs throughout the training process to promote high-quality code suggestions. While Amazon CodeWhisperer already provided support for building applications on MongoDB, developers can now get enhanced suggestions that reflect best practices, allowing developers to ideate more quickly, rapidly prototype new features, and accelerate application development.

Key Points: 
  • Working together with AWS, MongoDB provided curated training data for MongoDB use cases and took part in the evaluation of Amazon CodeWhisperer outputs throughout the training process to promote high-quality code suggestions.
  • While Amazon CodeWhisperer already provided support for building applications on MongoDB, developers can now get enhanced suggestions that reflect best practices, allowing developers to ideate more quickly, rapidly prototype new features, and accelerate application development.
  • "Collaborating with AWS to train Amazon CodeWhisperer on MongoDB is a step in that direction, and developers can now build more quickly and focus on higher-value tasks.
  • Amazon CodeWhisperer now helps reduce the amount of time developers spend creating code for building data-driven applications on MongoDB and will continue to be trained to improve and refine code suggestions.

AWS Announces Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML Workloads

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, an industry-first consumption model that enables any customer to access highly sought-after GPU compute capacity to run their short duration machine learning (ML) workloads.

Key Points: 
  • Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, an industry-first consumption model that enables any customer to access highly sought-after GPU compute capacity to run their short duration machine learning (ML) workloads.
  • With EC2 Capacity Blocks, customers can reserve hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs colocated in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters designed for high-performance ML workloads.
  • EC2 Capacity Blocks help ensure customers have reliable, predictable, and uninterrupted access to the GPU compute capacity required for their critical ML projects.
  • With EC2 Capacity Blocks, customers can reserve the amount of GPU capacity they need for short durations to run their ML workloads, eliminating the need to hold onto GPU capacity when not in use.