Drinking Amazon's Kool-Aid

Drinking Amazon's Kool-Aid ... !

Today, News about Amazon Literally Flooded my News Feeds!

Here's a few examples of Articles and their respective links:

Amazon’s Growing Power In The U.S. Economy

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lauraheller/2016/11/30/amazons-growing-stranglehold-on-the-us-economy/#641ea2d193e4

Artificial Intelligence and Hybrid Cloud Are High on Amazon’s Agenda

http://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2016/11/30/artificial-intelligence-and-hybrid-cloud-are-high-on-amazons-agenda/#7d714c821c81

Amazon Prime video streaming could launch in Canada on Thursday

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-prime-video-canada-1.3874326

Amazon launches Amazon Lightsail with low-cost $5 virtual private servers

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-launches-amazon-lightsail-low-cost-5-virtual-private-servers/

AWS Announces New Programs, Competencies, and Tools to Support Growing AWS Partner Network

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161129006364/en/AWS-Announces-Programs-Competencies-Tools-Support-Growing

Docker | AWS Launches Amazon Linux Container Image

https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/11/amazon-linux-container-image

AWS Announces Three New Amazon AI Services

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161130006126/en/AWS-Announces-Amazon-AI-Services

Google vs Amazon | Google Home vs. Amazon Echo: Comparison Review Of Specs, Features And More

http://www.ibtimes.com/google-home-vs-amazon-echo-comparison-review-specs-features-more-2451921

Oracle vs Amazon | AWS to Oracle: Now it’s our turn and we got next

http://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-to-oracle-now-its-our-turn-and-we-got-next/

Amazon introduces ‘Lex’, or Alexa for enterprise computing | Amazon brings Alexa voice control to cloud computing

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/30/amazon-brings-alexa-voice-control-to-cloud-computing.html

Aurora Update | What you need to know from re:Invent — FPGAs-as-a-service and more

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/30/amazon_to_personalize_vm_offerings/

Aurora Updates | Datapipe Earns New Designations and Partner Program Recognitions from AWS

http://satprnews.com/2016/11/30/datapipe-earns-new-designations-and-partner-program-recognitions-from-aws/

Lex | Amazon ports Alexa to cloud computing

http://www.financialbuzz.com/amazon-ports-alexa-to-cloud-computing-630391

Amazon Rekognition | Expedia.com Launches First Amazon Alexa Skill for Personalized Real-Time Travel Updates

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/expediacom-launches-first-amazon-alexa-skill-for-personalized-real-time-travel-updates-300370153.html

Amazon Gives IoT Partner Superstars ‘Stamp Of Approval’ With New AWS Competency

http://m.crn.com/news/internet-of-things/300082965/amazon-gives-iot-partner-superstars-stamp-of-approval-with-new-aws-competency.htm

Docker for AWS | Scaling DevOps Deployments with AWS CodePipeline & Dynatrace

http://news.sys-con.com/node/3963493

Amazon Polly | Amazon’s image recognition AI can identify your dog down to its breed

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/30/13799582/amazon-rekognition-machine-learning-image-processing

EC2 Elastic GPUs | Amazon’s next wave of machine learning: Powerful, practical

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3145794/application-development/amazons-next-wave-of-machine-learning-powerful-practical.html

EC2 Elastic GPUs | AWS launches elastic GPUs for EC2, FPGA-backed F1 instances, R4 and refreshed T2, C5 and I3 coming in Q1

http://www.sportal.co.in/motorsport/aws-launches-elastic-gpus-for-ec2-fpga-backed-f1-instances-r4-and-refreshed-t2-c5-and-i3-coming-in-q1-venturebeat/

SnowMobile | This Snowmobile truck seems like a joke, but it’s actually Amazon’s new product

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-snowmobile-truck-is-a-funny-for-real-product-2016-11

SnowMobile | AWS to use a container truck to transport customers’ exabyte-scale data — literally

https://e27.co/aws-to-use-a-gigantic-truck-to-transport-customers-exabyte-scale-data-20161130/