by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS)
I’m about to be released into the wild as a free roaming web developer. I won’t have the company hosting anymore and it’s damn well about time I got my own shit sorted. After a little reading I have decided to give Amazon Web Services a try. So far I...
by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Amazon, General News
It’s been a year since Amazon.com Inc. agreed to buy Whole Foods for $13.5 billion. The biggest beneficiaries of the deal might be Amazon Prime members. Sky-blue signs advertising discounts for Prime members greet shoppers in some Whole Foods parking lots....
by ray | Jun 14, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google
It’s no surprise that cloud computing has literally taken the world by storm. For most businesses and enterprises, gone are the days of struggling with complicated on-premise server rooms and complicated networking. Over the past decade, cloud computing has become...
by ray | Jun 12, 2018 | Amazon, General News
News broke out earlier this week that Amazon’s Alexa assistant recorded a private conversation between two people and then sent that recording to a third party. Alexa, of course, is supposed to listen to everything you say but only act when you utter the designated...
by ray | Jun 12, 2018 | Amazon, General News
Amazon has a solution for employees who no longer want to work there — pay them to quit. Once a year, the company offers to pay full-time associates at Amazon fulfillment centers up to $5,000 to leave the company. Employees are eligible after one year of service, but...
by ray | Jun 12, 2018 | Amazon, General News
Fifty thousand well-paid jobs, a $5 billion investment, winning the affection of perhaps America’s most dynamic and fast-growing company: Why wouldn’t a city go all out to win Amazon’s second headquarters? A few reasons, actually. And as a fight over...