8080 Books, an imprint of Microsoft, launches, offering thought leadership titles spanning technology, business and society

As fans of books, especially in their physical format, it is our great pleasure to launch 8080 Books, an imprint of Microsoft. Our first title, No Prize for Pessimism, is authored by Sam Schillace, deputy chief technology officer at Microsoft, and is available today. Our second title, Platform Mindset, by Marcus Fontoura, will be available…

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New autonomous agents scale your team like never before

Already, 60 percent of the Fortune 500 are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to accelerate business results and empower their teams. With Copilot supporting sales associates, Lumen Technologies projects $50 million dollars in savings annually. Honeywell(1) equates productivity gains to adding 187 full-time employees and Finastra is reducing creative production time from seven months to seven…

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Microsoft names new Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer

Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees this morning.  As we mark our 50th year, I’ve been reflecting on how we have remained a consequential company decade after decade in an industry where there is no franchise value. And it is because — time and time again when tech paradigms…

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Amazon WorkSpaces Pools: Cost-effective, non-persistent virtual desktops

Streamline virtual desktop management: provision non-persistent desktops, configure apps and resources, and automatically scale capacity based on demand, all from a centralized platform.

AWS Weekly Roundup: AI21 Labs’ Jamba-Instruct in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon WorkSpaces Pools, and more (July 1, 2024)

AWS Summit New York is 10 days away, and I am very excited about the new announcements and more than 170 sessions. There will be A Night Out with AWS event after the summit for professionals from the media and entertainment, gaming, and sports industries who are existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers or have […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3 Access Grants, AWS Lambda, European Sovereign Cloud Region, and more (July 8, 2024).

I counted only 21 AWS news since last Monday, most of them being Regional expansions of existing services and capabilities. I hope you enjoyed a relatively quiet week, because this one will be busier. This week, we’re welcoming our customers and partners at the Jacob Javits Convention Center for the AWS Summit New York on […]

AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 R8g instances: best price performance in Amazon EC2

Discover the price performance and sustainability benefits of Graviton4 with Amazon EC2 R8g instances, ideal for memory-intensive workloads.

Integrate your data and collaborate using data preparation in AWS Glue Studio

With AWS Glue’s new visual interface, data teams can collaboratively build ETL pipelines, bridging the gap between analysts and engineers through an intuitive, shareable canvas.

Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024

Along with a plethora of new launches, read about the latest models in Amazon Bedrock and new features for Amazon Q.

Monitor data events in Amazon S3 Express One Zone with AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail data event logging enables auditing for governance and compliance of object operations like PutObject and GetObject. Leverage high performance and low cost for latency-sensitive workloads.