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Prime Video to Become the Home of National Monday Night NHL Games in Canada Beginning in 2024-25 Season, with Prime Monday Night Hockey

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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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TORONTO, April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Rogers Communications, and the National Hockey League (NHL) today announced a milestone two-year agreement in Canada to bring hockey fans Monday night NHL hockey exclusively on Prime Video.

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  • TORONTO, April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Rogers Communications, and the National Hockey League (NHL) today announced a milestone two-year agreement in Canada to bring hockey fans Monday night NHL hockey exclusively on Prime Video.
  • Prime Monday Night Hockey will stream all national regular season Monday night NHL games in English for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 NHL seasons.
  • The deal is the NHL’s first exclusive national broadcast package with a digital-only streaming service in Canada.
  • The Prime Monday Night Hockey package, produced by Prime Video, will feature a new broadcast team offering in-depth analysis and play-by-play coverage, and stream live exclusively to Prime members in Canada.

CrowdStrike and AWS Extend Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Cloud Security and AI Innovation

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Thursday, May 2, 2024
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced an expanded strategic partnership to accelerate cybersecurity consolidation and cloud transformation.

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  • Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced an expanded strategic partnership to accelerate cybersecurity consolidation and cloud transformation.
  • In addition, CrowdStrike is expanding its use of AWS services, including Amazon Bedrock and AWS SageMaker, to drive industry leading innovation in cloud security, SIEM transformation, and novel cybersecurity AI use cases.
  • CrowdStrike and AWS continue to bring together the best technologies to help customers build and secure business in the cloud.
  • By leveraging the rigorous security, privacy and compliance built into AWS, CrowdStrike enables organizations to responsibly adopt AI innovations with security and trust built-in natively.

Amazon Business Celebrates Third Annual Small Business Month with New Immersive Educational Hub and Over $250,000 in Grants

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
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Amazon Business (NASDAQ: AMZN), the company’s business-to-business procurement store, today kicked off its third annual Small Business Month to help support the growth of small businesses in the U.S.

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  • Amazon Business (NASDAQ: AMZN), the company’s business-to-business procurement store, today kicked off its third annual Small Business Month to help support the growth of small businesses in the U.S.
  • This year, Small Business Month includes an exciting and interactive new online resource center called Small Business Success Studio [ https://business.amazon.com/studio ].
  • The studio provides small businesses with free online educational tools and resources to start, run, and grow their business.
  • As part of Small Business Month, Amazon Business also launched the 2024 Small Business Grants program that gives eligible small businesses in the U.S. the chance to win over $250,000 in monetary grants.

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Q, the Most Capable Generative AI-Powered Assistant for Accelerating Software Development and Leveraging Companies’ Internal Data

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Q, the most capable generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data.

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  • Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Q, the most capable generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data.
  • Today, AWS is also introducing Amazon Q Apps, a new and powerful capability that lets employees build generative AI apps from their company’s data.
  • By integrating Amazon Q’s generative AI capabilities with solutions that developers know, use, and trust, developers can update and create software faster.
  • "Amazon Q Business provided our team insights into the areas of most critical need, accelerating the effectiveness of our technical debt assessment by 25%.

Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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Net sales increased 13% to $143.3 billion in the first quarter, compared with $127.4 billion in first quarter 2023.

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  • Net sales increased 13% to $143.3 billion in the first quarter, compared with $127.4 billion in first quarter 2023.
  • Excluding the $0.2 billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 13% compared with first quarter 2023.
  • Operating income increased to $15.3 billion in the first quarter, compared with $4.8 billion in first quarter 2023.
  • Net income increased to $10.4 billion in the first quarter, or $0.98 per diluted share, compared with $3.2 billion, or $0.31 per diluted share, in first quarter 2023.

Amazon Bedrock Launches New Capabilities as Tens of Thousands of Customers Choose It as the Foundation to Build and Scale Secure Generative AI Applications

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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They aim to reduce the time spent managing the health records of individuals by up to 50% with their generative AI automation tool built on Amazon Bedrock.

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  • They aim to reduce the time spent managing the health records of individuals by up to 50% with their generative AI automation tool built on Amazon Bedrock.
  • “Customers are excited by Amazon Bedrock because it offers enterprise-grade security and privacy, wide choice of leading foundation models, and the easiest way to build generative AI applications.
  • In just a few clicks, customers can take models that they customized on Amazon SageMaker, or other tools, and easily add them to Amazon Bedrock.
  • Llama 3 is designed for developers, researchers, and businesses to build, experiment, and responsibly scale their generative AI ideas.

Amazon Introduces Low-Cost Grocery Delivery Subscription for Prime Members and Customers Using EBT

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a new grocery delivery subscription benefit now available to Prime members and customers using EBT in more than 3,500 cities and towns across the U.S. At $9.99 per month for Prime members, this subscription offers unlimited grocery delivery on orders over $35 from Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Market, and a variety of local grocery and specialty retailers on Amazon.com, and provides access to even more convenient delivery and pickup options.

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  • Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a new grocery delivery subscription benefit now available to Prime members and customers using EBT in more than 3,500 cities and towns across the U.S. At $9.99 per month for Prime members, this subscription offers unlimited grocery delivery on orders over $35 from Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Market, and a variety of local grocery and specialty retailers on Amazon.com, and provides access to even more convenient delivery and pickup options.
  • Customers with a registered EBT card can experience the same grocery subscription benefits without a Prime membership for just $4.99 per month.
  • Grocery delivery subscribers receive convenient delivery and pickup time slots for grocery orders from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh.
  • Prime members and customers with a registered EBT card can learn more about how Amazon is making grocery shopping easier, faster, and more affordable through the grocery subscription benefit, and sign up here .

Amazon.com to Webcast First Quarter 2024 Financial Results Conference Call

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2024 financial results on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m.

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  • Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2024 financial results on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m.
  • ET.
  • The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at www.amazon.com/ir .
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Prime Video to Become the Home of National Monday Night NHL Games in Canada Beginning in 2024-25 Season, with Prime Monday Night Hockey

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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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TORONTO, April 25, 2024 /CNW/ - Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Rogers Communications, and the National Hockey League (NHL) today announced a milestone two-year agreement in Canada to bring hockey fans Monday night NHL hockey exclusively on Prime Video.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, April 25, 2024 /CNW/ - Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Rogers Communications, and the National Hockey League (NHL) today announced a milestone two-year agreement in Canada to bring hockey fans Monday night NHL hockey exclusively on Prime Video.
  • Prime Monday Night Hockey will stream all national regular season Monday night NHL games in English for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 NHL seasons.
  • The Prime Monday Night Hockey package, produced by Prime Video, will feature a new broadcast team offering in-depth analysis and play-by-play coverage, and stream live exclusively to Prime members in Canada.
  • "With Prime Monday Night Hockey, we're offering our customers even more from their Prime membership," said Magda Grace, head of Prime Video, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

AWS and NVIDIA Extend Collaboration to Advance Generative AI Innovation

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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“Our collaboration with AWS is accelerating new generative AI capabilities and providing customers with unprecedented computing power to push the boundaries of what's possible."

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  • “Our collaboration with AWS is accelerating new generative AI capabilities and providing customers with unprecedented computing power to push the boundaries of what's possible."
  • Announced at AWS re:Invent 2023, Project Ceiba is a collaboration between NVIDIA and AWS to build one of the world’s fastest AI supercomputers.
  • NVIDIA research and development teams will use Ceiba to advance AI for LLMs, graphics (image/video/3D generation) and simulation, digital biology, robotics, self-driving cars, NVIDIA Earth-2 climate prediction, and more to help NVIDIA propel future generative AI innovation.
  • AWS and NVIDIA have joined forces to offer high-performance, low-cost inference for generative AI with Amazon SageMaker integration with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, available with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.