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Amazon names logistics head as new AWS CFO
  + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Amazon said Thursday John Felton, the company's top logistics executive, will take over as chief financial officer of its AWS cloud computing unit. In a blog post, Doug Herrington, Amazon's worldwide retail chief, said Felton would take on a new role as senior vice president and Amazon Web Services CFO. Udit Madan, Amazon's vice president of transportation, will replace Felton. Felton has been with Amazon for nearly two decades, most recently serving as the head of its worldwide operations division. Felton will replace AWS' current CFO Richard Puccio.
Persons: John Felton, Doug Herrington, Felton, Udit Madan, Andy Jassy's, I'm, Richard Puccio, Puccio, shakeup Organizations: Amazon, Amazon Web, AWS, Street, CNBC Locations: He's
Silent sacking, Garrison told BI, "is how Amazon is going to reduce operational costs without negatively affecting the stock price. Some Amazon employees recently took to Slack to announce their resignations specifically over the return-to-hub policy. Another AWS employee told BI they feel like they are "doing the job of three people." Any suggestion to the contrary is untrue," the Amazon spokesperson said. Are you an Amazon employee or do you have insight to share?
Persons: they're, Justin Garrison, Garrison, wasn't, URA, hasn't, that's, Slack, RTO, we'd, They've Organizations: Service, Amazon, Business, BI, Amazon Web Services
"Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage of free network data transfer to migrate their data out of Google Cloud," Amit Zavery, a Google cloud vice president, wrote in the post. In 2018, Cloudflare announced the Bandwidth Alliance, a group of companies, including some cloud providers, that reduce or eliminate those data transfer, or egress, fees. "Restrictive licensing practices remain a far bigger issue to customers who want the choice of working with their preferred cloud provider," the spokesperson said. By making transfer free, Google could be pressuring rivals to follow suit or risk losing out on new business prospects. Last year Google expressed concerns about Microsoft's cloud practices to officials in the U.S. and the European Union.
Persons: Amit Zavery, Cloudflare, Zavery, Thomas Kurian Organizations: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Bandwidth Alliance, Oracle, Amazon Web Services, European, European Union Locations: Virginia, U.S
Insider has compiled a list of 100 people at the forefront of artificial intelligence . download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementCloud companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have been building AI offerings for years, and now they are opening the door to generative AI. This year, generative AI took hold of the world. Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud soon followed suit with their own investments and AI products — Google invested in the AI startup Anthropic.
Persons: Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Google, Web Services, AWS, Business Locations: OpenAI
– Thank you, Cathryn, San Francisco We certainly understand and agree it's becoming increasingly difficult to maintain a diversified portfolio that's not dominated by technology stocks. There are also what many investors would think of as tech companies in S & P 500 Communication Services , at an 8.6% weighting. After all, we would say Meta, Alphabet and Amazon are as much tech companies as Apple or Microsoft, with all three considered leaders in artificial intelligence. These are industrial technology companies, not the industrial companies of old. So, using some of the examples provided in the question: Yes, Microsoft and Apple are both considered Information Technology companies.
Persons: Jim Cramer, it's, didn't, We've, they're, Jim Cramer's, Jim Organizations: Technology, Nvidia, Apple, Broadcom, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Communication, Honeywell, Eaton, Web Services, Google, Jim Cramer's Charitable, CNBC Locations: San Francisco
Amazon Web Services' Global AI Innovation Center, led by Sri Elaprolu, launched in July. Elaprolu said AWS customers are getting serious about moving ideas from concept to production. Still, most AWS clients don't quite know where to start with generative AI — that's where the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center comes in, Sri Elaprolu, the global head of AWS Generative AI Innovation Center and an 11-year AWS veteran, said. Interest in the Generative AI Innovation Center has been high since the company announced it in June, Elaprolu said. Many AWS customers are just beginning to think about generative AI, but an increasing number are starting to bring ideas into production.
Persons: Sri, Elaprolu's, , Sri Elaprolu, Elaprolu, It's Organizations: Amazon Web Services, AI Innovation, Service, Web, Center, PGA Tour, Bridgewater Associates, Business, Bridgewater, AWS Locations: Sri Elaprolu, Sri
While another third (32%) said they have not made the spending decision, only 13% said they would not be acquiring similar gen AI capabilities. Microsoft has pointed to customers including Visa, BP, Honda and Pfizer using Copilot, and professional services firm partners on Copilot AI including Accenture, EY, KPMG, and PwC. And even amid the hype, it's important to keep in mind that as gen AI spending grows, it is still dwarfed by companies' cybersecurity budget needs. That means roughly $5 will be spent on security for every dollar spent on gen AI. But it's growing, and for now at least, when it comes to the billions in gen AI spending, Microsoft is in the pole position.
Persons: Dan Ives, Google Bard, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Altman, Jason Wong, Wong, Joe Atkinson, That's, Copilot, It's, Gartner, it's, Will, John Lovelock Organizations: Microsoft, Wedbush Securities, " Enterprises, Google, CNBC Technology, Survey, Gartner, Visa, BP, Honda, Pfizer, Accenture, EY, KPMG, CNBC, CNBC TEC, SAP, Adobe, Amazon Web, Meta, SharePoint Locations: San Francisco , California, U.S, Copilot, Salesforce, that's
LinkedIn has set aside an effort to relocate its data center technology out of its physical facilities and into Microsoft's Azure cloud, according to people familiar with the matter. A LinkedIn spokesperson confirmed that the Microsoft subsidiary changed direction on Blueshift and said LinkedIn continues to use Azure. Under the leadership of Nadella, Microsoft has moved some of its acquired assets to Azure, including GitHub and Minecraft developer Mojang. More recently, Azure has gained attention because of Microsoft's investment in OpenAI, which uses Azure infrastructure for running the large language models powering ChatGPT and other products. Microsoft said in October that third-quarter revenue from Azure and other cloud services grew 29%, while LinkedIn revenue was up 8%.
Persons: Satya Nadella, Mohak Shroff, Raghu Hiremagalur, we've, Hiremagalur, Nadella, OpenAI, LinkedIn's Karin Kimbrough Organizations: Microsoft, LinkedIn, Amazon Web Services, CNBC, Nadella, Wired, OpenAI Locations: Blueshift, OpenAI
In aggregate, the survey results point to a 60 to 70 basis point acceleration for IT spending growth in each of the next three years, with cloud spending growth much stronger at 150 to 300 basis points. Cloud and AI A rebound in cloud growth is expected thanks in large part the renewed focus and need to invest in artificial intelligence. In fact, 73% of the CIO respondents said they are "implementing now, plan to implement, or are testing generative AI." As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.
Persons: Piper Sandler's, Piper, OpenAI, Einstein, Jim Cramer, Jim Cramer's, Jim, Chino Organizations: Microsoft, Web Services, Google, IBM, Oracle, Nvidia, Piper, Broadcom, Marvell Technology, VMWare, Cybersecurity, Palo Alto Networks, Broadcom —, CNBC Locations: Silicon Valley, America
Either way, one thing is certain: Companies are getting serious about cloud spend. And while Wall Street analysts hope the excitement over generative AI will drive customers to spend more money on cloud services next year, it's clear that optimization won't go away. "Cloud spend got big enough at most of the Fortune 500s that it's actually material now," Storment said. Cloud cost-cutting servicesTo save money on cloud services, customers often must first spend money. Customers aren't spending much on generative AI yetEven though "generative AI is the new sexy thing that everyone is exploring," the technology didn't come up in many conversations about budget, Lowell said.
Persons: Adam Selipsky, Werner Vogels, Sid Nag, Gartner, Nag, wasn't, Dave Linthicum, , Storment, Craig Lowell, Lowell, Linthicum, they're, Bernstein, Mark Schilsky, Ellen Thomas Organizations: Amazon Web, Business, AWS, Wall, Microsoft, Google, Deloitte, FinOps Foundation, Fortune, Venetian Convention, Expo, Companies Locations: Las Vegas, DoiT, ethomas@insider.com
Oracle shares slide as revenue misses estimates
  + stars: | 2023-12-11 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2018. Oracle shares dropped more than 9% in extended trading Monday after the software company reported fiscal second-quarter revenue and quarterly revenue guidance that fell short of Wall Street expectations. Analysts polled by LSEG had predicted $1.37 in adjusted earnings per share and $13.34 billion in revenue, which implies 7.6% revenue growth. "We did not bring up as much capacity as we could have used this past quarter," Oracle CEO Safra Catz said on the call. OCI is the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the company's answer to Microsoft Azure and the market-leading Amazon Web Services.
Persons: Larry Ellison, LSEG, Safra Catz, Oracle, Ellison, Edward Jones Organizations: Oracle Corp, Oracle, Elon, Halliburton, Samsung, Microsoft, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, Technik Locations: San Francisco, LSEG
Some Amazon employees have noticed an increasing number of Slack messages lately from colleagues who are quitting over the company's strict return-to-office mandate. Many Amazon employees received deadlines for starting to work in offices and the uptick in departures may be related to teams nearing those various deadlines. "This [is] my last day at Amazon," another AWS employee wrote on Friday. However, BI has asked the company for comment on its RTO policy many times in recent months. "Tomorrow is my last day at Amazon," one Amazon employee wrote on Thursday.
Persons: Slack, RTO, Merritt Baer, Brad Glasser, there's, we've, Ashley Stewart Organizations: Business, Amazon, Web Services, BI Locations: RTO
Club holding Amazon (AMZN) is a stock to own going into 2024, with the ecommerce giant poised for further profitability, according to Bernstein Research — a view we enthusiastically share. Bernstein on Tuesday named Amazon its "best idea" in the internet space for 2024, citing acceleration in its cloud business, cost discipline, digital advertising growth, and its continued leadership in ecommerce. The firm has an outperform rating on Amazon stock, with a price target of $175 a share. Amazon stock closed up 1.4% on Tuesday, to settle at $146.88 a share. AMZN YTD mountain Amazon stock performance year-to-date.
Persons: Bernstein, Jim Cramer, Jim, he's, Amazon's, Jim Cramer's, Omar Marques Organizations: Bernstein Research, CNBC, Lightrocket, Getty Locations: ecommerce
Employers said they expect workers with AI skills to receive at least a 30% pay bump. AdvertisementIf your annual review is coming up, flexing your AI skills could be what helps you get that higher salary, a recent study suggests. AdvertisementIn turn, 84% of employees surveyed said that acquiring AI skills could lead to positive impacts on their careers — one of which is higher pay. While more than 80% of younger employees — including Gen Zers and millennials — expressed an interest in developing their AI skills, more than 65% of baby boomers and Gen Xers said they are keen on picking up AI skills as well. The findings on the AI skills premium comes as companies big and small ramp up their efforts to hire generative AI talent.
Persons: , OpenAI's ChatGPT, Gen Zers, millennials —, Gen Xers, Richard Baldwin Organizations: Employers, Service, Amazon Web Services, AWS, Companies
GitLab stock jumped as much as 18% in extended trading on Monday after the developer-tools software maker announced fiscal third-quarter results and quarterly guidance that impressed Wall Street. Here's how the company did, compared with consensus of estimates among analysts polled by LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv:Earnings: 9 cents per share, adjusted, vs. loss of 1 cent per share expected. 9 cents per share, adjusted, vs. loss of 1 cent per share expected. Revenue: $149.7 million, vs. $141.5 million expected. Excluding the after-hours move, GitLab stock is up 16% so far this year, while the S&P 500 stock index has gained 19% over the same period.
Persons: Wall, GitLab, Brian Robins, Sid Sijbrandij, GitLab's, Robins, Sijbrandij, LSEG Organizations: LSEG, Revenue, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, AWS
A former Amazon employee said they developed PTSD from the demanding work. A former Amazon employee was put on PIP and lost a $110,000 deposit on a houseA former Amazon Web Services employee thought things were going well before he was put on a performance-improvement plan called Pivot. An Amazon employee said Amazon placed some employees in a coaching program called FocusA marketing manager at Amazon described getting emails from their manager saying they were underperforming and needed coaching. Later, they said, a coworker pointed out that the manager might've been referring to a coaching program for underperformers called Focus. AdvertisementAn Amazon representative disputed the former employee's account, saying it "does not represent the experience of the vast majority of our employees."
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Amazon Web Services unveiled Q, its business-focused generative AI chatbot, last week. Q was designed to be a more reliable alternative to consumer-focused AI chatbots. AdvertisementAmazon's Q , the AI chatbot for workers its cloud division unveiled on Tuesday, appears to have a few issues. It's not uncommon for generative AI chatbots to falter. It wasn't long after Microsoft released its consumer-focused generative AI assistant, Sydney, that it went viral with its own hallucinations .
Persons: , Slack, it's, It's Organizations: Amazon Web Services, Service, Microsoft Locations: Sydney
The person behind a female coder's Instagram account is a man, 404 Media reports. The page, called coding_unicorn, has 115,000 followers and claims to be run by a woman called Julia. AdvertisementA popular Instagram account fronted by a woman named Julia Kirsina is run by a man, according to a 404 Media investigation. But in reality, the person running the account is a male software developer called Eduards Sizovs, according to a 404 Media report. Advertisement404 Media dug into Sizovs' IP logs and old YouTube videos, and said it found that he had access to an email account called coding_unicorn.
Persons: Julia, , Julia Kirsina, Kirsina, coding_unicorn, Sizovs, Ayodeji, Satya Nadella, Gergely Orosz, Anna Boyko, Alina Prokhoda, Kristine Howard, Julia Kirsina —, Scott Hanselman Organizations: Service, Business, Sizovs, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Bloomberg
One in particular is open only to very important cloud customers: a meeting for "XXL" or "extra-extra-large" AWS users. Roughly 50 people attended the meeting, they said, including about a dozen AWS representatives and employees from eight large AWS customers, including Salesforce and Adobe. Not all of the largest AWS customers attended the meeting. Though the meeting is for important customers, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky did not attend, the people said. Do you have information or insight to share about AWS or other large cloud providers?
Persons: Adam Selipsky, Ellen Thomas Organizations: Web Services, AWS, Business, Venetian Convention, Expo, Adobe, FinOps Foundation, Microsoft, Google Locations: Las Vegas, ethomas@insider.com
Some Amazon Web Services employees are concerned about a large number of departures among its senior engineers. At last month's internal staff meeting for AWS, VP of infrastructure services Prasad Kalyanaraman answered an employee question about turnover among senior engineers, according to a transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider. It is one of the many challenges AWS employees are currently dealing with, alongside slowing growth and a more bureaucratic culture, as BI previously reported . As we've previously told Insider, attrition among AWS employees has declined in recent years and to suggest anything otherwise is inaccurate. Amazon unveiled Amazon Q this week, an AI chatbot for businesses, and previously launched CodeWhisperer, a coding assistant for developers.
Persons: Prasad Kalyanaraman, Kalyanaraman, Rob Munoz, we've, Prasad, Munoz, Peter DeSantis, DeSantis, Charlie Bell, Rachel Thornton, Chris Vonderhaar Organizations: Web Services, Business, Amazon's, AWS
AdvertisementIn today's big story, we're looking at the growing tension at AWS with rising employee burnout. Just like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Bard, Amazon Q is a generative AI chatbot users can talk to like a human. Amazon Web Services, which developed Amazon Q, announced the new product under the fanfare of its annual event in Las Vegas, AWS re:Invent. Business Insider's Eugene Kim, our resident Amazon expert, has a report on the growing tension and burnout among AWS employees. Jon Krause for InsiderThe burnout at AWS reminds me of another company at the top of its field facing turmoil: Goldman Sachs.
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VCs threatened to sue OpenAI's board, and some jockeyed to get in on whatever new situation might replace the fizzled startup. And in OpenAI's case, Altman was brought back as CEO and all the employees stayed. AdvertisementUntil this moment, the consensus was that Altman came through this crisis looking even more powerful and crucial to OpenAI's future. 'The company will be totally fine without me'Silicon Valley just realized that the fate of the world's most important AI company rested in the hands of just one person. The startup's near-death experience unsettled the companies and developers that have come to rely on OpenAI's artificial intelligence platform.
Persons: OpenAI, Altman, , Sam Altman, VCs, OpenAI's, Wesley Chan, Claude, Guillermo Rauch, Rauch, pinged Rauch, , Bret Taylor, Madeline Renbarger Organizations: Service, Microsoft, FDIC, FPV Ventures, Google, Services Locations: Silicon Valley, It's
AWS's growth rate has slowed and its SMB sales unit will likely miss 2023 targets, sources say. AWS built a lead in cloud computing by better catering to startups and small businesses than rivals. The Amazon Web Services team responsible for selling services to startups and small businesses is struggling to meet its 2023 sales goals, two people with direct knowledge of the situation tell Business Insider. One believes the SMB team will surely miss its targets and said managers are facing mounting pressure to improve their numbers. Both people requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press.
Organizations: Web Services, AWS, Business
In 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure had a combined 70-80% share of Britain's public cloud infrastructure services market, Ofcom said. Such practices directly harmed customers, and were the only significant barrier to competition in Britain’s cloud computing market, the company said. "A lot of our software and cloud services interoperate, and can run on AWS or on Azure as well, so you're not restricted," he said. "If you don't fix this, eventually you will have fewer cloud providers, and then innovation will not really happen, and investments will start shrinking." Asked why Amazon, which boasts a larger share of the cloud market than Microsoft, did not pose a similarly anticompetitive risk, Zavery said AWS consumers were not facing the same restrictions.
Persons: Arnd, Amit Zavery, Microsoft’s, Zavery, , Martin Coulter, Jeffrey Dastin, Kenneth Li Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, Reuters, European Union, CMA, Markets Authority, Ofcom, Amazon Web Services, Google, Google Cloud, Thomson Locations: Zurich, Switzerland, Britain, London, New York
For Amazon, AWS is more important than ever. Targets missedAWS is falling short of reaching sales goals in its startups and small-business segments, two employees told BI. Burnout and attritionSeveral AWS employees also pointed to high turnover as a major point of concern. AWS employees told BI it still remains to be seen how all these changes will manifest in the months to come. "The most significant single sentiment we feel is uncertainty," one of the AWS employees told BI.
Persons: Matt Garman, Garman, Mark Shmulik, Bernstein, Rob Munoz, Munoz, Charlie Bell, Rachel Thornton, Chris Vonderhaar, Peter DeSantis, DeSantis, Andy Jassy Mike Blake, AWS's, Prasad Kalyanaraman, Kalyanaraman, Amazon's, Bard, Adam Selipsky, Adam Selipsky Noah Berger, Selipsky, Andy Jassy, Jeff Bezos, Jassy, Geekwire Organizations: Amazon Web, AWS, Business, Amazon, SMB, Enterprise, Reuters, Microsoft, Google, BI Locations: Las Vegas, AMZN's, billings
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