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Hyundai and Amazon partner to deliver innovative customer experiences and cloud transformation

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

SEATTLE and SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Hyundai Motor Company announced a broad strategic partnership to bring innovative new experiences to customers. The announcement was made today at the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show and a livestream can be viewed here: https://youtube.com/live/Qzhq1tShTMc. This strategic collaboration includes Amazon launching online sales of Hyundai vehicles in the U.S. in 2024, Hyundai naming AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help facilitate digital transformation, and the Alexa Built-in experience coming to Hyundai's next-generation vehicles.

Key Points: 
  • This strategic collaboration includes Amazon launching online sales of Hyundai vehicles in the U.S. in 2024, Hyundai naming AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help facilitate digital transformation, and the Alexa Built-in experience coming to Hyundai's next-generation vehicles.
  • "Hyundai is a very innovative company that shares Amazon's passion for trying to make customers' lives better and easier every day," said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
  • Cloud Transformation: Hyundai has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to accelerate its digital transformation using broad and industry-leading AWS capabilities—from compute, storage, database, and analytics to generative AI and Internet of Things (IoT).
  • AWS and Hyundai have designed and implemented a Master Builder training and certification program to train Hyundai engineers in critical cloud skills.

Customers Can Now Get Amazon's Fast, Affordable Grocery Delivery Without a Prime Membership

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Thursday, November 9, 2023

This service expansion, previously available only to Prime members, makes it easier for all customers to get their grocery needs met both in-store and online.

Key Points: 
  • This service expansion, previously available only to Prime members, makes it easier for all customers to get their grocery needs met both in-store and online.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231109480423/en/
    “We’re always looking for ways to make grocery shopping easy, fast, and affordable for all of our customers.
  • Amazon will also soon expand its grocery delivery and free pickup where available from Whole Foods Market to customers without a Prime membership.
  • With this delivery expansion, customers have even more options to get what they need, when they need it, from Amazon’s grocery offerings.

Amazon Introduces Compelling New Health Care Benefit for Prime Members for Only $9 a Month (or $99 a Year)

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

It’s a health care experience designed around customers, with a care team that’s on call and ready for members when and where they need them.

Key Points: 
  • It’s a health care experience designed around customers, with a care team that’s on call and ready for members when and where they need them.
  • Virtual care is available nationally, and members don’t incur any additional costs for on-demand virtual care services—it’s all covered by the membership.
  • “The new One Medical benefit gives Prime members access to high-quality primary care and 24/7 on-demand virtual care for only $9 a month or $99 a year—up to $100 savings,” said Jamil Ghani, vice president, Amazon Prime.
  • “This new benefit is the latest example of how we’re making it easier for Prime members to take care of their health.

Amazon Music Soundtracks the Holiday Season With New Amazon Music Original Songs From Chlöe, Stephen Sanchez, Jorja Smith, Meghan Trainor, and TWICE

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Today, Amazon Music announced new Original songs from some of today’s hottest global artists, some appearing in new holiday films and soundtracks on Prime Video, just in time for the holiday season.

Key Points: 
  • Today, Amazon Music announced new Original songs from some of today’s hottest global artists, some appearing in new holiday films and soundtracks on Prime Video, just in time for the holiday season.
  • This collection of holiday songs includes new Original tracks and unique spins on holiday classics from Chlöe (Chloe Bailey), Amazon Music Breakthrough Artist Stephen Sanchez, Jorja Smith, Meghan Trainor, TWICE, and more.
  • Also appearing in Candy Cane Lane is a previously released Amazon Music Original from Foo Fighters, “Run Rudolph Run,” their cover of Chuck Berry’s original holiday favorite.
  • I hope fans feel holiday joy and cheer when they hear my Amazon Music Original holiday tracks this year, however it means to them!”
    Check out the full list of new exclusive Amazon Music Original holiday songs for 2023 below.

Deck the Halls with Millions of Deals During Amazon’s Black Friday Event Starting November 17

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Monday, November 6, 2023

To find the most up-to-date deals during the events, visit amazon.com/blackfriday and amazon.com/cybermonday .

Key Points: 
  • To find the most up-to-date deals during the events, visit amazon.com/blackfriday and amazon.com/cybermonday .
  • The New York Jets will take on the Miami Dolphins during the first ever Black Friday NFL game on November 24 with coverage beginning at 1:30 p.m. EST.
  • To sign up for an Amazon account, visit amazon.com/newuser , and watch the game for free on any device from anywhere.
  • Amazon also makes it easy for customers to find deals they’re interested in with personalized recommendations.

Garth Brooks to Headline First Amazon Music Live Concert on Black Friday

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Today, Amazon Music announced that Garth Brooks, the best-selling solo artist in U.S. history, will headline the first-ever Black Friday Amazon Music Live (AML) special on November 24.

Key Points: 
  • Today, Amazon Music announced that Garth Brooks, the best-selling solo artist in U.S. history, will headline the first-ever Black Friday Amazon Music Live (AML) special on November 24.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231102295577/en/
    Download a Hi-Res Garth Brooks Image here: https://smarturl.it/IU6w2ZoW (Graphic: Business Wire)
    Airing on Prime Video and Twitch at 7 p.m. EST, The Black Friday AML special will find Garth Brooks performing brand-new music, live for the very first time to eager fans around the globe.
  • “Amazon Music Live and Garth Brooks are coming together for Black Friday after the game to livestream a special ‘Dive Bar’ concert from the grand opening of the Friends In Low Places Bar and Honky-Tonk in Nashville,” said Brooks.
  • To prepare for AML, fans can stream Garth Brooks’ full catalog available only on Amazon Music.

MongoDB and AWS Collaborate to Optimize Amazon CodeWhisperer Suggestions for Developers Building Applications on MongoDB

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Monday, November 6, 2023

NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) company, today announced the two companies are collaborating to optimize Amazon CodeWhisperer to provide enhanced suggestions for application development and modernization on MongoDB's industry-leading developer data platform that millions of developers and tens of thousands of customers rely on every day for business-critical applications. Trained on billions of lines of Amazon and publicly available code, Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI-powered coding companion from AWS that generates code suggestions based on natural-language comments or existing code in developers' integrated development environments (IDEs). Working together with AWS, MongoDB provided curated training data for MongoDB use cases and took part in the evaluation of Amazon CodeWhisperer outputs throughout the training process to promote high-quality code suggestions. While Amazon CodeWhisperer already provided support for building applications on MongoDB, developers can now get enhanced suggestions that reflect best practices, allowing developers to ideate more quickly, rapidly prototype new features, and accelerate application development.

Key Points: 
  • Working together with AWS, MongoDB provided curated training data for MongoDB use cases and took part in the evaluation of Amazon CodeWhisperer outputs throughout the training process to promote high-quality code suggestions.
  • While Amazon CodeWhisperer already provided support for building applications on MongoDB, developers can now get enhanced suggestions that reflect best practices, allowing developers to ideate more quickly, rapidly prototype new features, and accelerate application development.
  • "Collaborating with AWS to train Amazon CodeWhisperer on MongoDB is a step in that direction, and developers can now build more quickly and focus on higher-value tasks.
  • Amazon CodeWhisperer now helps reduce the amount of time developers spend creating code for building data-driven applications on MongoDB and will continue to be trained to improve and refine code suggestions.

AWS Announces Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML Workloads

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, an industry-first consumption model that enables any customer to access highly sought-after GPU compute capacity to run their short duration machine learning (ML) workloads.

Key Points: 
  • Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML, an industry-first consumption model that enables any customer to access highly sought-after GPU compute capacity to run their short duration machine learning (ML) workloads.
  • With EC2 Capacity Blocks, customers can reserve hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs colocated in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters designed for high-performance ML workloads.
  • EC2 Capacity Blocks help ensure customers have reliable, predictable, and uninterrupted access to the GPU compute capacity required for their critical ML projects.
  • With EC2 Capacity Blocks, customers can reserve the amount of GPU capacity they need for short durations to run their ML workloads, eliminating the need to hold onto GPU capacity when not in use.

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Monday, October 30, 2023

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Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Results

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Thursday, October 26, 2023

Net sales increased 13% to $143.1 billion in the third quarter, compared with $127.1 billion in third quarter 2022.

Key Points: 
  • Net sales increased 13% to $143.1 billion in the third quarter, compared with $127.1 billion in third quarter 2022.
  • Excluding the $1.4 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 11% compared with third quarter 2022.
  • Operating income increased to $11.2 billion in the third quarter, compared with $2.5 billion in third quarter 2022.
  • Net income increased to $9.9 billion in the third quarter, or $0.94 per diluted share, compared with $2.9 billion, or $0.28 per diluted share, in third quarter 2022.