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EP018 - Target "Goldfish", Instacart, and Amazon Peeves

The Jason & Scot Show · March 18, 2016 · 49 min

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EP018 - Target "Goldfish", Instacart, and Amazon Peeves Amazon News: This week is the 10th anniversary of AWS.  Stratechery has a great piece about how Amazon leverages AWS with it's novel strategy for scale  Journalists touring Amazon Fulfillment centers, noticed that Amazon uses video shaming to discourage theft.  You can take your own tour of an Amazon FC by signing up here.  Dropbox announced that they are (mostly) moving off of AWS and developing their own storage. Walmart has released OneOps, their platform for deploying cloud based infrastructure apps, such as Walmarts own e-commerce platform.  Apps can be agnostically deployed across Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Rackspace, and OpenStack. Amazon has VR guru Avi Bar-Zeev, and filed for a patent on room based headset-less VR.  Amazon also filed for a patent around using selfies for payment. Amazon private label s<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-suit-re

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