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Amazon Music Expands Its Prime Benefit, Now With a Full Catalog of Music and the Most Top Podcasts Ad-Free

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

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    When Amazon Music first launched for Prime members, we offered an ad-free catalog of 2 million songs, which was completely unique for music streaming at the time, said Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music.
  • Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that connects fans, artists, and creators through music, podcasts, and culture.
  • Amazon Music brings fans closer to what they love, with curated and personalized playlists, artist livestreams, artist merch, and Amazon Exclusive podcasts.
  • Anyone can listen to Amazon Music by downloading the free Amazon Music app, or wherever they listen to music including Alexa-enabled devices.

AWS Announces Amazon Neptune Serverless

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Amazon Neptune Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon Neptune that automatically scales to support unpredictable and business-critical graph database workloads.

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  • Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Amazon Neptune Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon Neptune that automatically scales to support unpredictable and business-critical graph database workloads.
  • Amazon Neptune Serverless includes Amazon Neptunes advanced capabilities for high availability, performance, and resiliency.
  • Amazon Neptune Serverless supports the same popular, easy-to-write graph query languages as Amazon Neptune.
  • Amazon Neptune Serverless is generally available today to customers running Amazon Neptune in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (London), with availability in additional AWS Regions coming soon.

Amazon Canada opens its most technologically advanced robotics facility in the country

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Friday, October 21, 2022

"Today is a huge milestone for Amazon as we celebrate the opening of our most technologically advanced robotics facility in the country," said Harsh Khaitan, Amazon Canada's regional director of operations.

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  • "Today is a huge milestone for Amazon as we celebrate the opening of our most technologically advanced robotics facility in the country," said Harsh Khaitan, Amazon Canada's regional director of operations.
  • "We're thrilled to expand our decade-long presence in Canada through our third facility in the Ottawa area, and we are excited to continue creating jobs for the local community."
  • Spanning more than 2.6 million square feet across four floors, YOW3 will store up to 20 million items at a time.
  • RWC4: A robotic arm that sorts totes, the logistical units of an Amazon facility centre, by destination and builds pallets.

Introducing Amazon Music Live, Thursday Night’s New Can’t-Miss Live Concert Series

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Monday, October 17, 2022

Today, Amazon Music announced Amazon Music Live, a not-to-be-missed new weekly livestreamed concert series featuring the biggest artists performing their latest hits live, hosted by Grammy-winning hip-hop icon 2 Chainz.

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  • Today, Amazon Music announced Amazon Music Live, a not-to-be-missed new weekly livestreamed concert series featuring the biggest artists performing their latest hits live, hosted by Grammy-winning hip-hop icon 2 Chainz.
  • With Amazon Music Live, weve created a new, cant-miss series for fans to experience the most exciting new music together.
  • In addition to hosting Amazon Music Live, 2 Chainz will interview each nights performing artist during Thursday Night Football shoulder programming, providing fans with unprecedented access to their favorite artists.
  • Every Thursday night, Im bringing the biggest and the brightest stars in music to the Amazon Music Live stage in Los Angeles, said 2 Chainz.

Amazon Canada Announces the Return of the Amazon Designer Spotlight

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Monday, October 17, 2022

TORONTO, Oct. 17, 2022 /CNW/ - Amazon Canada today announced the return of the Amazon Designer Spotlight, an exclusive online fashion series celebrating six Canadian designers, hosted by celebrity stylist Brad Goreski .

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  • TORONTO, Oct. 17, 2022 /CNW/ - Amazon Canada today announced the return of the Amazon Designer Spotlight, an exclusive online fashion series celebrating six Canadian designers, hosted by celebrity stylist Brad Goreski .
  • The Amazon Designer Spotlight is one of the many ways that Amazon continues to support and empower brand owners in Canada.
  • To learn more about how Amazon works with business owners across Canada, click here to read the Amazon Canada Small Business Empowerment Report, released today.
  • And to learn more about the Amazon Designer Spotlight, and to shop collections from the creators featured, visit amazon.ca/DesignerSpotlight .

Tens Of Millions Of Prime Members Shopped Amazon’s Holiday Kick-Off Event, Ordering Items From Top-Selling Categories Like Apparel, Home, Toys, and Amazon Devices

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Thursday, October 13, 2022

Prime members around the world purchased items across toys, home, beauty and personal care, apparel, and electronics.

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  • Prime members around the world purchased items across toys, home, beauty and personal care, apparel, and electronics.
  • Prime member favorites also included deals from must-have brands like Apple, Drybar, and Laneige, and from Amazon devices.
  • Our Prime Early Access Sale was a great kickoff to the holidays, and the best part is that its only the beginning.
  • Prime members ordered more than 100 million items from Amazons selling partners, most of which are small businesses and medium-sized businesses.

AWS and the BMW Group Collaborate to Deliver BMW’s New Cloud-Based Vehicle Data Platform

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Thursday, October 13, 2022

The BMW Group will be the first automaker to use the software, which will serve as the basis for its next-generation, cloud-based vehicle data platform.

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  • The BMW Group will be the first automaker to use the software, which will serve as the basis for its next-generation, cloud-based vehicle data platform.
  • With the launch of the Neue Klasse, BMWs next generation of vehicles, our offboard cloud platform, powered by AWS, will process roughly triple the volume of vehicle data compared to the current generation of BMW models, said Nicolai Krmer, vice president of Vehicle Connectivity Platforms at the BMW Group.
  • The BMW Group and AWS co-developed solution collects BMW vehicle signals and fleet intelligence data, then securely processes and routes the data in the cloud.
  • The data is then combined with AWS capabilities, including analytics, machine learning, database, storage, and compute, enabling the BMW Group experts to create new vehicle features and applications.

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances Powered by AWS-Designed Trainium Chips

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Monday, October 10, 2022

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances powered by AWS-designed Trainium chips.

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  • Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances powered by AWS-designed Trainium chips.
  • AWS already provides the broadest and deepest choice of compute offerings featuring hardware accelerators for machine learning, including Inf1 instances with AWS-designed Inferentia chips, G5 instances, P4d instances, and DL1 instances.
  • New Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium chips offer the best price performance and the fastest machine learning model training on AWS, providing up to 50% lower cost to train deep learning models compared to the latest GPU-based P4d instances.
  • Trn1 instances will be available via additional AWS services including Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), and AWS Batch.

Amazon is Hiring 150,000 Employees to Help Deliver Great Holiday Experiences

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Thursday, October 6, 2022

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it is hiring 150,000 employees throughout the U.S. in full-time, seasonal, and part-time roles across its operations network.

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  • Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it is hiring 150,000 employees throughout the U.S. in full-time, seasonal, and part-time roles across its operations network.
  • Employees can earn, on average, more than $19 per hour based on position and location in the U.S.
  • Were proud to offer a wide variety of roles for people of all backgrounds, with more than 150,000 roles available across the country.
  • Amazon employees around the world team up to meet the needs of customers every day.

Amazon's New Prime Early Access Sale Kicks Off October 11-12 by Offering Early Holiday Deals, Exclusively for Prime Members

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Thursday, October 6, 2022

(NASDAQ: AMZN)Today, Amazon announced a sneak peek of the top deals that Prime members can shop during the new Prime Early Access Sale.

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  • (NASDAQ: AMZN)Today, Amazon announced a sneak peek of the top deals that Prime members can shop during the new Prime Early Access Sale.
  • The sale is a two-day event, October 11-12, offering Prime members exclusive access to early deals this holiday season.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221005005935/en/
    As we kick off the holiday season, were so excited to find new ways to surprise and delight our Amazon Prime members, said Jamil Ghani, vice president of Amazon Prime.
  • During Prime Early Access Sale, members will be able to shop some of the best holiday deals of the season, including first-time deals from national must-have brands like Peloton and some of Amazons lowest prices of the year.