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Cutting-edge technology. we have over 3,000 government agencies using aws. thats a significant responsible. were aware of that. >> but most americans are not aware of the extent to which our government, our economy, and our homes now rely on amazon. >> alexa, popcorn. >> starting popcorn. >> although a vastly different kind of technology, alexa, like the cloud, has unleashed its own revolution. >> we launched with 13 skills. now we have over 80,000 skills. alexa can do over a million things. >> ...

All right, tonight we have a cnn special report, lifting the vail on amazon. introducing you to the king of the cloud. this is a side of amazon really no one has seen before. >> well, cnn anchor poppy harlow is here with a preview of the cnn special report. whatd you get, poppy? >> the last six months of my life between the show. we all know amazon very well we think buts we actually dont. this is company that has a reach into so many parts of our life, our government, our economy, and a big par...

Amazon we take a look at just how much more there is to the tech giant than online shopping. in fact, amazons most powerful business may be one that many people dont know about at all. it is cloud business or amazon web services known as aws. i sat down with aws ceo andy jassy one of the jeff bezos top leaders who many people call the most powerful man in the cloud. look. >> in the beginning a lot of companies would poo poo the cloud and say that nobody would use it for anything interesting and ...

Spoke with is andy jassieb known by many as one of the most powerful men in the cloud. heres the clip. >> in the beginning a lot of companies would say nobody was going to use it for anything interesting. when the value proposition is that good for consumers you can howl at the wind all you want but you cant fight gravity. >> reporter: 13 years later the cloud is now a $70 billion industry. and while familiar competitors have emerged amazon continues to dominate with the seemingly endless list o...

A lot of good viewing again. tonight or early tomorrow morning or early tuesday morning. as many as 50 an hour, i recommend you get outside, theres areas where it up be tough because we are talking big weather. you see all the cloud cover around it. once again an area we paid attention to yesterday stretching across montana and back into the planes a threat to favor your weather, ending entered into the overnight hours. we will see a chance of seeing big thunderstorms, winds up to 60 miles an ho...

Up against big obstacles. cloud fair, the service provider, cut off their access with the cloud fair chief executive saying here, weve seen a pattern where this lawless community has demonstrated its ability to create real harm and real damage. if we see a bad thing in the world and we can get in front of it, we have some obligation to do that. but then early today, 8 chan found a new service provider and went back online for a short time until the new provider also shut it down. 8 chan is now t...

Because of the esa views. it can cause issues when you have ease-of-use and numerous configure something. its traditionally not moved to the cloud because of security concerns and privacy concerns. we are seeing it be more and more common for the financial industry to start to leverage the cloud more and more. usually with less sensitive data. the fact that its been out since 2005 and theres one over 106 million records, its an alarming number. >> neil: when you say less sensitive data, credit r...

Addresses, dates of birth, self-reported income. the nations fifth-largest credit card issuer says will contact those affected by the hack and offer them free credit monitoring and identity protection. neil, lawyers jumping right in, slapping a capital one with the class action lawsuit accusing the firm of serious security failures and negligence after theyve had multiple past security breaches and clearly have not cleaned up their act, according to these lawyers. >> neil: robert gray, thank you...

Happened. i am committed to making it right." does the industry change, charles cookes remix because they have to change. we have to know that our information is secure. now this brings into amazon, also these other major cloud players. what are they doing? everything will be in the cloud, the so-called cloud. we have got to know that it is secure, that one person working on the inside doesnt have the ability to do that. >> sandra: can we talk about the new study showing that 46% of them admitte...

Steal and use. >> absolutely right. anything you can leverage. sales information might not be as sensitive. trading information that isnt relevant to specific individuals, those might be less sensitive. all of these are what we typically see the cloud being leverage for. when it comes to protecting your personal information, having encryption in place and having good controls is what we would consider best practices, especially in the finance industry. >> neil: the finance industry has a lot of ...