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Customers Scale Their Use of Amazon Q Business as New Innovations Transform How Employees Work
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new capabilities and continued momentum for Amazon Q Business, the most capable generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work. With today's announcements, Amazon Q Business continues to innovate with new features and capabilities that help employees get tedious, time-consuming work done faster.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
Amazon Q Developer Reimagines How Developers Build and Operate Software With Generative AI
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new enhancements to Amazon Q Developer, including agents that automate unit testing, documentation, and code reviews to help developers build faster across the entire software development process, and a capability to help users address operational issues in a fraction of the time. Amazon Q Developer is the most capable generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for software development that is available everywhere developers need it, including the AWS Management Console, through a new integrated offering with GitLab, integrated development environments (IDEs), and more.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
AWS Unveils the Next Generation of Amazon SageMaker, Delivering a Unified Platform for Data, Analytics, and AI
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, unifying the capabilities customers need for fast SQL analytics, petabyte-scale big data processing, data exploration and integration, model development and training, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) into one integrated platform.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
New Amazon Q Developer Capabilities Accelerate Large-Scale Transformations of Legacy Workloads
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new capabilities for Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI assistant for software development, that take the undifferentiated heavy-lifting out of complex and time-consuming application migration and modernization projects, saving customers and partners time and money.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
Introducing Amazon Nova: A New Generation of Foundation Models
Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) introduced Amazon Nova, a new generation of foundation models (FMs) that have state-of-the-art intelligence across a wide range of tasks, and industry-leading price performance. Amazon Nova models will be available in Amazon Bedrock, and include: Amazon Nova Micro (a very fast, text-to-text model); and Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Pro, and Amazon Nova Premier (multi-modal models that can process text, images, and videos to generate text). Amazon also launched two additional models – Amazon Nova Canvas (which generates studio-quality images) and Amazon Nova Reel (which generates studio-quality videos).
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
AWS Strengthens Amazon Bedrock with Industry-First AI Safeguard, New Agent Capability, and Model Customization
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new capabilities for Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service for building and scaling generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications with high-performing foundation models. Today’s announcements help customers prevent factual errors due to hallucinations, orchestrate multiple AI-powered agents for complex tasks, and create smaller, task-specific models that can perform similarly to a large model at a fraction of the cost and latency.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
AWS Announces New Database Capabilities Including Amazon Aurora DSQL, the Fastest Distributed SQL Database
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB to support customers’ most demanding workloads that need to operate across multiple Regions with strong consistency, low latency, and the highest availability whether they want SQL or NoSQL.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
AWS Trainium2 Instances Now Generally Available
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, introduced new Trn2 UltraServers, enabling customers to train and deploy today’s latest AI models as well as future large language models (LLM) and foundation models (FM) with exceptional levels of performance and cost efficiency, and unveiled next-generation Trainium3 chips.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
Amazon S3 Expands Capabilities with Managed Apache Iceberg Tables for Faster Data Lake Analytics and Automatic Metadata Generation to Simplify Data Discovery and Understanding
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) features that make S3 the first cloud object store with fully-managed support for Apache Iceberg for faster analytics and the easiest way to store and manage tabular data at any scale. These new features also include the ability to automatically generate queryable metadata, simplifying data discovery and understanding to help customers unlock the value of their data in S3.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
LG AI Research Develops AI Model on AWS for Rapid Cancer Diagnosis
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence (AI) research hub of South Korean conglomerate LG Group, has used the world’s leading cloud to develop its new pathology foundation model (FM) for earlier cancer diagnosis and treatment. The histopathology image-specific model, EXAONEPath, can securely analyze microscopic images of tissue samples from cancer patients to reduce genetic testing times from two weeks to less than one minute, helping medical professionals improve the speed and effectiveness of treatments.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
Amazon’s Record-Breaking Black Friday Week And Cyber Monday Deal Event Was Its Biggest Thanksgiving Holiday Shopping Event Ever
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that its Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday holiday shopping event—from November 21 through December 2—was its biggest ever compared to the same 12-day period ending on Cyber Monday in prior years. The deal event saw record sales and a record number of items sold.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
Generative AI Startup Twelve Labs Works with AWS to Make Videos as Searchable as Text
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Twelve Labs, a startup that uses multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) to bring human-like understanding to video content, is building and scaling its proprietary foundation models on AWS. Twelve Labs will use AWS technologies to accelerate the development of its foundation models that map natural language to what’s happening inside a video. This includes actions, objects, and background sounds, allowing developers to create applications that can search through videos, classify scenes, summarize, and split video clips into chapters.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
GROW with SAP on AWS to Simplify Cloud ERP Deployment
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced GROW with SAP on AWS, which will allow customers of all sizes to rapidly deploy SAP’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution while leveraging the reliability, security, and scalability of the world’s most broadly adopted cloud. The collaboration will simplify and accelerate the adoption of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and unlock new generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered innovation for customers. This expands on the two companies’ longstanding joint commitment to help customers transform their businesses and establishes AWS as the first cloud provider to offer the GROW with SAP solution through its cloud marketplace.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 3, 2024
AWS Announces New Data Center Components to Support AI Innovation and Further Improve Energy Efficiency
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new data center components designed to support the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and customers’ evolving needs. These capabilities combine innovations in power, cooling, and hardware design to create a more energy efficient data center that will underpin further customer innovation. These new capabilities will be implemented globally in AWS’s new data centers, and many components are already deployed in its existing data centers. To learn more, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIrNGwUu14.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 2, 2024
Lotus Chooses AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider to Advance Connected and Automated Vehicles
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Lotus Technology (“Lotus”, NASDAQ:LOT), a leading global intelligent and luxury mobility provider, has chosen AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help support its development of intelligent, luxury car experiences. The automaker will use AWS to implement its Vision80 Strategy, a plan to transform the company into a global luxury technology brand by 2028.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 2, 2024
Amazon Connect Puts Generative AI to Work Improving End-to-End Customer Experiences
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new generative AI enhancements for Amazon Connect, AWS’s cloud contact center solution. These new features will further improve customer experiences by enabling more personalized, efficient, and proactive customer service. As a result, organizations can help significantly improve customer satisfaction through faster issue resolution and continuous contact center optimization, while simultaneously reducing operational costs.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · December 1, 2024
Buy with Prime Expands with Launch of New Merchant SteveMadden.com
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Buy with Prime, a direct-to-customer (DTC) offering, is now available on SteveMadden.com. For millions of U.S.-based Prime members, Buy with Prime is a benefit that unlocks even more selection of popular brands beyond the Amazon store. With Buy with Prime, Prime members can shop directly from Steve Madden’s online store using the shopping benefits they already know and love—including fast, free delivery, easy returns, 24/7 shopper support, and a convenient checkout experience. Now in addition to the savings, convenience, and entertainment all in a single membership, Prime members can conveniently shop on SteveMadden.com using their Prime shopping benefits with Buy with Prime.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · November 26, 2024
Unwrap Millions of Deals During Amazon’s Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday Deal Events Running November 21 through December 2
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday deal events, kicking off November 21 at 12:01 a.m. PST through December 2. Customers can shop millions of deals across more than 35 categories, including electronics, home, beauty, and fashion from popular brands like Sonos, Staub, Supergoop!, and Levi’s. Customers can also shop deals on some of the hottest toys of the season including from brands like Squishmallows, Furby, and Tonies; holiday must-haves like matching pajamas and festive apparel starting at $6; and wardrobe staples with up to 40% off on Amazon Essentials outerwear. With new deals dropping daily, Amazon encourages customers to come back and shop often to discover some of the most exciting deals of the gifting season. Not a Prime member yet? It’s not too late to get the gift of Prime. Prime members can complete their holiday shopping while enjoying unlimited fast, free delivery including more than 300 million items available with free Prime shipping in the U.S., and tens of millions of the most popular items available with Same-Day or One-Day Delivery. To stay up-to-date on the latest deals, visit amazon.com/blackfriday and amazon.com/cybermonday.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · November 13, 2024
The Boys of Riverside by Thomas Fuller Named Amazon’s Best Book of 2024
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today revealed the Amazon Books Editors’ picks for the Best Books of 2024 with Thomas Fuller’s uplifting narrative nonfiction, The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory, topping the list at No. 1. Additional titles within the top five include Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods, Percival Everett’s James, Kristin Hannah’s The Women, and Sharon McMahon’s The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · November 13, 2024
Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Results
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2024.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · October 31, 2024
Amazon Announces New Fuel Savings Offer for Prime Members
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Prime members can now save $0.10 per gallon at approximately 7,000 bp, Amoco, and ampm gas stations across the U.S. This offer could save Prime members on average nearly $70 per year on gas if purchasing at qualifying locations*. Additionally, Prime members can expect even more savings on transportation-related costs in the future—in 2025, Amazon plans to add an electric vehicle charging savings offer with bp pulse, bp’s electric vehicle charging business, with more details to be revealed next year.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · October 23, 2024
Amazon.com to Webcast Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results Conference Call
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2024 financial results on Thursday, October 31, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · October 17, 2024
Amazon Launches Entirely New Kindle Lineup, Including Reimagined Kindle Scribe and First-Ever Color Kindle
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today launched an entirely new lineup of Kindle devices—introducing the first-ever color Kindle, a re-imagined Kindle Scribe, the fastest Kindle Paperwhite ever, and a new entry Kindle in a fun, new Matcha color. To learn more about the new Kindle family, visit amazon.com/kindlefamily.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · October 16, 2024
Amazon Ads Launches New AI Tools for Advertisers – AI Creative Studio and Audio Generator
(NASDAQ: AMZN) — At unBoxed 2024, Amazon Ads introduced AI creative studio and Audio generator, two new generative AI tools designed to lower creative barriers and expand opportunities for advertisers to scale their reach. By building a suite of self-service, AI-powered tools, Amazon Ads is enabling brands of all sizes to create engaging content across media types and eliminating boundaries across ad formats.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · October 15, 2024
Amazon Unveils Simplified Product Launch, Optimization, and Measurement Solutions for Full-funnel Performance
(NASDAQ: AMZN) — At unBoxed 2024, Amazon Ads launched a suite of new advertising capabilities that bring together insights from across the marketing funnel to help advertisers optimize their media investments. The announcements showcased how Amazon Ads is making its powerful insights easier to access and activate by every advertiser, across every ad product.
By Amazon.com, Inc. · Via Business Wire · October 15, 2024