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Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2020 Grant Recipients

The Amazon Literary Partnership today announced $1 million in grant funding to 66 organizations across the country.

Amazon Funds Urban Greening Program to Increase Climate-Resilience of German Cities

Amazon today announced a €3.75 million commitment to The Nature Conservancy in an effort to reduce climate change risks and increase species biodiversity in three German cities. The initial project is in Berlin’s Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. Learnings will be applied in two other German locations, and then shared across other European cities. With this, Amazon is recognizing the urgency of the climate crisis and its impacts on urban communities. The announcement follows The Climate Pledge, the company’s commitment to be net zero carbon by 2040.

Amazon Web Services and Bundesliga to Deliver Real Time Game Analysis with "Bundesliga Match Facts Powered by AWS"

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the German Bundesliga will debut the first two Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS during tonight’s highlight match at 18:30 CET featuring Borussia Dortmund vs. Bayern Muenchen on broadcast television in over 200 countries. The two new statistics, Average Positions and Expected Goals (xGoals), will give fans deeper insights into a team’s intended playing style based on real-time analysis performed of data captured from tracking players’ locations on the field, and the probability of a player scoring a goal. Germany’s top national football league will leverage AWS’s unmatched set of cloud services, including machine learning and analytics, to introduce additional advanced statistics in 2020 and upcoming seasons. AWS and the Bundesliga are the first to deliver this unique combination of real-time advanced statistics and game analyses to football (soccer) fans around the world.

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Mary’s Place Opens Washington State’s Largest Family Shelter Within Amazon’s Seattle HQ – Providing Safe and Supportive Housing for Hundreds of Family Members Experiencing Homelessness Amid COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Mary’s Place and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today that the Mary’s Place Family Center in The Regrade, a one-of-a-kind, permanent family shelter built inside an Amazon office building with capacity for up to 200 moms, dads, and children experiencing homelessness each night, is now open. The shelter, which began housing families at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Seattle, is expected to support more than 1,000 family members per year. Mary’s Place Family Center in The Regrade increased Mary’s Place’s overall shelter capacity in King County by 40%. It is the largest family shelter in Washington state at 63,000 square feet and is nestled within the heart of Amazon’s downtown Seattle headquarters.

Amazon Announces Five New Utility-Scale Solar Projects to Power Global Operations in China, Australia, and the U.S.

Today, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced five new renewable energy projects in China, Australia and the U.S. that further support Amazon’s commitment to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030 (and potentially as early as 2025), as well as to reach net zero carbon by 2040.

Hunt. Level. Adapt. Amazon Games Launches Crucible

Amazon Games Launches Crucible, free-to-play competitive team-based shooter for PC.

Lyell Immunopharma Goes All-In on AWS as its Cloud Provider

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Lyell Immunopharma is going all-in on AWS—running its cloud infrastructure on AWS—and has selected AWS as its standard for machine learning (ML) workloads. Lyell leverages AWS’s highly performant and scalable infrastructure to run its secure data and analytics platform as well as support its high-performance computing workloads to accelerate the research of new cell therapies as it searches for cures for cancer.

Amazon Studios to Provide $1 Million for Jon & Vinny’s Restaurant to Feed Angelenos in Need

Amazon Studios announced today that it was providing $1 million for the catering team at the award-winning Jon & Vinny’s restaurant group to prepare meals for local charities feeding those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic, including No Kid Hungry, Off Their Plate, the Los Angeles Mission and the Motion Picture & Television Fund. As part of the initiative, Jon & Vinny’s will team with other L.A. restaurants including the Culver City restaurant Hatchet Hall, whose kitchen staffs will also work to prepare and deliver food to be distributed.

AWS Announces Major Enhancements to Amazon Macie

AWS announced major enhancements to Amazon Macie, delivering important new features, greater availability worldwide, and substantially reduced pricing

Amazon Announces New Tablets for the Entire Family – the All-New Fire HD 8, Fire HD 8 Plus, and Fire HD 8 Kids Edition

(NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon today announced the next generation of its Fire HD 8 tablet lineup, designed with the entire family in mind: the all-new Fire HD 8, Fire HD 8 Plus, and Fire HD 8 Kids Edition.

TC Energy Goes All-In on AWS

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that TC Energy is going all-in on the world’s leading cloud, moving its entire infrastructure to AWS. The North American energy company, headquartered in Canada, has migrated almost 90 percent of its corporate and commercial applications, including its SAP platform, to AWS. TC Energy is leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS services, including machine learning, analytics, database, serverless, storage, and compute to deliver energy and generate power more efficiently for millions of homes in North America. The migration also positioned TC Energy to respond quickly to the evolving COVID-19 situation, with TC Energy employees using Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops remotely – which extend the functionality of in-office software resources to at-home users – to work securely from home.

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Kendra

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service powered by machine learning.

Amazon Original Series Regular Heroes to Premiere May 8 Highlighting Courageous Stories From the Front-Lines of COVID-19

Regular Heroes is an eight-episode docuseries highlighting the contributions and personal sacrifices of just some of today’s most generous individuals who are going above and beyond to support their communities during the COVID-19 crisis. The series premieres on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia on Friday, May 8. In addition to shining the spotlight on the heroes’ tireless work and amplifying their efforts in cities including New York City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Chicago, and Seattle among others, the series will offer support and assistance with donations of goods, services and more so that they can continue to pay it forward and help their communities. New episodes of Regular Heroes will be available every Friday. The series will premiere in all other Amazon Prime Video territories May 12, 2020.

IMDb Launches First-Ever Podcast — Movies That Changed My Life — New Weekly Series Features Celebrities Dishing on Their All-Time Favorite Films

IMDb Launches First-Ever Podcast — Movies That Changed My Life — New Weekly Series Features Celebrities Dishing on Their All-Time Favorite Films

Garth Brooks Joins Amazon Prime and Zynga’s Collaboration to Bring Free Mobile Content to Words With Friends

Garth Brooks Joins Amazon Prime and Zynga’s Collaboration to Bring Free Mobile Content to Words With Friends

AWS Announces General Availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service.

Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2020.

National Football League and Amazon Renew and Expand Streaming Partnership

Amazon and the National Football League (NFL) announce a multi-year agreement to renew and expand their streaming partnership ahead of 2020 season.

Amazon Donates $3.9 Million to CodeVA to Expand Computer Science Education for 500,000 Students and Training for 12,000 Teachers in 700 Underserved Communities across Virginia—with Virtual Training Starting Immediately

(Nasdaq:AMZN) – Amazon will donate $3.9 million to CodeVA through 2022 to support their long-term plan to offer computer science education and training to every high needs school across Virginia – more than 700 schools, including rural regions like the Eastern Shore, the Tobacco Commission service region and Appalachia that may otherwise lack access, training or funding. The donation will support more than 500,000 students and more than 12,000 teachers, particularly those in underserved and underrepresented communities.

AWS Launches Region in Italy

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Europe (Milan) Region.

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I)

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I), a fully managed service that makes it easy to add human review to machine learning predictions to improve model and application accuracy by continuously identifying and improving low confidence predictions. Amazon A2I helps developers add human review for model predictions to new or existing applications using reviewers from Mechanical Turk, third party vendors, or their own employees. Amazon A2I makes it easier for developers to build the human review system, structure the review process, and manage the human review workforce. For example, developers could use Amazon A2I to quickly spin up and manage a workforce of humans to review and validate the accuracy of machine learning predictions for an application that extracts financial information from scanned mortgage documents or an application that uses image recognition to identify counterfeit items online, so that the quality of results improve over time. There are no upfront commitments to use Amazon A2I, and users pay only for each review needed. To get started with Amazon A2I, visit aws.amazon.com/augmented-ai

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra).

Happiness Continues for Jonas Brothers Fans With an All New Concert Documentary Premiering Tomorrow, Friday April 24, 2020 Exclusively on Amazon Prime Video

Happiness Continues: A Jonas Brothers Concert Film, which offers a behind the scenes look at the GRAMMY-nominated multiplatinum powerhouse trio Jonas Brothers on their sold-out "Happiness Begins" 2019 concert tour, will premiere tomorrow, Friday April 24, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.