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For a long time, Amazon would not release its carbon footprint data. But, in 2019, Amazon pivoted. Our series 'The Prime Effect' looks inside Amazon's impact on the environment.
An Amazon Web Services logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) If you use Slack at work, Zoom for school or binge watch Netflix at home, guess what? You’re also using Amazon. Amazon Web Services currently controls 30% of the cloud computing market. The fourth installment in our series The Prime Effect goes inside AWS, one of the biggest parts of Amazon you may have never heard of. Guests Tim Bray, senior principal technologist, then VP and distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services from December 2014 to May 2020. He quit Am...
Who is Jeff Bezos? In the second part of our series 'Amazon: The Prime Effect,' we hear what the creation of Alexa tells us about the man who built Amazon.
Listen • 47:17 Jeff Bezos speaks at the the Amazon re:MARS convention in Las Vegas. (John Locher, File/AP Photo) Who is Jeff Bezos? In the second part of our series Amazon: The Prime Effect, we hear what the creation of Alexa tells us about the man who built Amazon. Guests Also Featured Janet Slifka, director of research science in the Alexa A.I. division at Amazon. She’s worked on Alexa technology since 2012. First Person: ‘Origins Of Alexa’ Transcript This hour is our second in our series Amazon: The Prime Effect — where we take an in-depth look at the myria...