The elevation of Andy Jassy to become Amazon.com Inc.’s next chief executive is one of the clearest signs yet that fortunes in the tech industry are increasingly made in the cloud. Mr. Jassy was instrumental in helping to transform the online retailing giant he joined in 1997 into a juggernaut in cloud-computing, the business of renting servers and software to customers largely on a pay-as-you-go model.… Read more

At AWS, we strive to provide you a technology platform that allows for agile development, rapid deployment, and unlimited scale, so that you can free up your resources to focus on innovation for your customers. It’s greatly rewarding to see our efforts recognized not just by our customers, but also by leading analysts.… Read more

As the largest cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) really has only one choice when it comes to security—and that is to approach things “holistically,” the company’s top cybersecurity executive said this week during AWS re:Invent 2021. “You don’t want to secure just one thing or one edge—or use one technique or one approach,” said Stephen Schmidt, chief information security officer at AWS, during a session at the conference in Las Vegas Thursday.UnmuteDuration 0:56/Current… Read more