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At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading superapp (NASDAQ: GRAB), announced that Grab has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. With AWS, Grab is pursuing a technology-led strategy to accelerate growth across its mobility, deliveries, and financial services verticals, including its new digibanks, while continuing to improve its operational efficiencies and reduce IT infrastructure costs.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced four new innovations for Amazon SageMaker AI to help customers get started faster with popular publicly available models, maximize training efficiency, lower costs, and use their preferred tools to accelerate generative artificial intelligence (AI) model development. Amazon SageMaker AI is an end-to-end service used by hundreds of thousands of customers to help build, train, and deploy AI models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new innovations for Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service for building and scaling generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications with high-performing foundation models. Today’s announcements reinforce AWS’s commitment to model choice, optimize how inference is done at scale, and help customers get more from their data.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that XtalPi, a leading global technology company that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to drive the discovery of medicine and innovative materials, has selected AWS as its strategic cloud provider. XtalPi uses AI, quantum physics, and robotics to drive innovation in life sciences, chemistry, and new materials. Using AWS, XtalPi helps hundreds of companies, including 16 of the world’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies, expedite drug discovery and development, ensure data security and privacy compliance, and enhance their success rates in developing promising new therapies for patients.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new capabilities and continued momentum for Amazon Q Business, the most capable generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work. With today's announcements, Amazon Q Business continues to innovate with new features and capabilities that help employees get tedious, time-consuming work done faster.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new enhancements to Amazon Q Developer, including agents that automate unit testing, documentation, and code reviews to help developers build faster across the entire software development process, and a capability to help users address operational issues in a fraction of the time. Amazon Q Developer is the most capable generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for software development that is available everywhere developers need it, including the AWS Management Console, through a new integrated offering with GitLab, integrated development environments (IDEs), and more.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, unifying the capabilities customers need for fast SQL analytics, petabyte-scale big data processing, data exploration and integration, model development and training, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) into one integrated platform.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new capabilities for Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI assistant for software development, that take the undifferentiated heavy-lifting out of complex and time-consuming application migration and modernization projects, saving customers and partners time and money.

Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) introduced Amazon Nova, a new generation of foundation models (FMs) that have state-of-the-art intelligence across a wide range of tasks, and industry-leading price performance. Amazon Nova models will be available in Amazon Bedrock, and include: Amazon Nova Micro (a very fast, text-to-text model); and Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Pro, and Amazon Nova Premier (multi-modal models that can process text, images, and videos to generate text). Amazon also launched two additional models – Amazon Nova Canvas (which generates studio-quality images) and Amazon Nova Reel (which generates studio-quality videos).

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new capabilities for Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service for building and scaling generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications with high-performing foundation models. Today’s announcements help customers prevent factual errors due to hallucinations, orchestrate multiple AI-powered agents for complex tasks, and create smaller, task-specific models that can perform similarly to a large model at a fraction of the cost and latency.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB to support customers’ most demanding workloads that need to operate across multiple Regions with strong consistency, low latency, and the highest availability whether they want SQL or NoSQL.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, introduced new Trn2 UltraServers, enabling customers to train and deploy today’s latest AI models as well as future large language models (LLM) and foundation models (FM) with exceptional levels of performance and cost efficiency, and unveiled next-generation Trainium3 chips.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) features that make S3 the first cloud object store with fully-managed support for Apache Iceberg for faster analytics and the easiest way to store and manage tabular data at any scale. These new features also include the ability to automatically generate queryable metadata, simplifying data discovery and understanding to help customers unlock the value of their data in S3.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence (AI) research hub of South Korean conglomerate LG Group, has used the world’s leading cloud to develop its new pathology foundation model (FM) for earlier cancer diagnosis and treatment. The histopathology image-specific model, EXAONEPath, can securely analyze microscopic images of tissue samples from cancer patients to reduce genetic testing times from two weeks to less than one minute, helping medical professionals improve the speed and effectiveness of treatments.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that its Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday holiday shopping event—from November 21 through December 2—was its biggest ever compared to the same 12-day period ending on Cyber Monday in prior years. The deal event saw record sales and a record number of items sold.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Twelve Labs, a startup that uses multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) to bring human-like understanding to video content, is building and scaling its proprietary foundation models on AWS. Twelve Labs will use AWS technologies to accelerate the development of its foundation models that map natural language to what’s happening inside a video. This includes actions, objects, and background sounds, allowing developers to create applications that can search through videos, classify scenes, summarize, and split video clips into chapters.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced GROW with SAP on AWS, which will allow customers of all sizes to rapidly deploy SAP’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution while leveraging the reliability, security, and scalability of the world’s most broadly adopted cloud. The collaboration will simplify and accelerate the adoption of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and unlock new generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered innovation for customers. This expands on the two companies’ longstanding joint commitment to help customers transform their businesses and establishes AWS as the first cloud provider to offer the GROW with SAP solution through its cloud marketplace.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new data center components designed to support the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and customers’ evolving needs. These capabilities combine innovations in power, cooling, and hardware design to create a more energy efficient data center that will underpin further customer innovation. These new capabilities will be implemented globally in AWS’s new data centers, and many components are already deployed in its existing data centers. To learn more, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIrNGwUu14.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Lotus Technology (“Lotus”, NASDAQ:LOT), a leading global intelligent and luxury mobility provider, has chosen AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help support its development of intelligent, luxury car experiences. The automaker will use AWS to implement its Vision80 Strategy, a plan to transform the company into a global luxury technology brand by 2028.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new generative AI enhancements for Amazon Connect, AWS’s cloud contact center solution. These new features will further improve customer experiences by enabling more personalized, efficient, and proactive customer service. As a result, organizations can help significantly improve customer satisfaction through faster issue resolution and continuous contact center optimization, while simultaneously reducing operational costs.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Buy with Prime, a direct-to-customer (DTC) offering, is now available on SteveMadden.com. For millions of U.S.-based Prime members, Buy with Prime is a benefit that unlocks even more selection of popular brands beyond the Amazon store. With Buy with Prime, Prime members can shop directly from Steve Madden’s online store using the shopping benefits they already know and love—including fast, free delivery, easy returns, 24/7 shopper support, and a convenient checkout experience. Now in addition to the savings, convenience, and entertainment all in a single membership, Prime members can conveniently shop on SteveMadden.com using their Prime shopping benefits with Buy with Prime.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today revealed the Amazon Books Editors’ picks for the Best Books of 2024 with Thomas Fuller’s uplifting narrative nonfiction, The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory, topping the list at No. 1. Additional titles within the top five include Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods, Percival Everett’s James, Kristin Hannah’s The Women, and Sharon McMahon’s The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday deal events, kicking off November 21 at 12:01 a.m. PST through December 2. Customers can shop millions of deals across more than 35 categories, including electronics, home, beauty, and fashion from popular brands like Sonos, Staub, Supergoop!, and Levi’s. Customers can also shop deals on some of the hottest toys of the season including from brands like Squishmallows, Furby, and Tonies; holiday must-haves like matching pajamas and festive apparel starting at $6; and wardrobe staples with up to 40% off on Amazon Essentials outerwear. With new deals dropping daily, Amazon encourages customers to come back and shop often to discover some of the most exciting deals of the gifting season. Not a Prime member yet? It’s not too late to get the gift of Prime. Prime members can complete their holiday shopping while enjoying unlimited fast, free delivery including more than 300 million items available with free Prime shipping in the U.S., and tens of millions of the most popular items available with Same-Day or One-Day Delivery. To stay up-to-date on the latest deals, visit amazon.com/blackfriday and amazon.com/cybermonday.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2024.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Prime members can now save $0.10 per gallon at approximately 7,000 bp, Amoco, and ampm gas stations across the U.S. This offer could save Prime members on average nearly $70 per year on gas if purchasing at qualifying locations*. Additionally, Prime members can expect even more savings on transportation-related costs in the future—in 2025, Amazon plans to add an electric vehicle charging savings offer with bp pulse, bp’s electric vehicle charging business, with more details to be revealed next year.