Amazon Inc. revealed its recruitment plans for cloud units next year. Aside from additional staff, the retail company also plans to keep building data centers. These plans were a clear sign that the company has remained its stability in the industry, as the investment plans have not been detailed.
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HANOVER, GERMANY - MARCH 14: Visitors arrive at the cloud pavillion of Amazon Web Services at the 2016 CeBIT digital technology trade fair on the fair's opening day on March 14, 2016 in Hanover, Germany. The 2016 CeBIT will run from March 14-18.
Amazon Plans Adding Workers in Cloud Units
Despite conducting freeze hiring this year, Amazon will be adding more staff for its cloud units and will keep building data centers in 2023. Bloomberg reported that these plans from the company are a good sign for them to maintain its stability and not derail its investment plans.
Senior Vice President Matt Garman stated during the AWS's re:Invent conference that was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, that the business is still growing rapidly and he "anticipates that we actually will add some more headcount next year."
Earlier this month, the company paused its recruitment in certain areas or with approval from an executive. Adding to this are the plans of cutting 10,000 jobs in the company. But before this decision was made, executives from Amazon Web Services had been debating whether not to implement freeze hiring despite the global economic state.
Amazon's cloud unit sales are the largest provider of ranted data storage and computing as per the report, which totaled $20.5 billion last September with a 27% rate, despite being the slowest year-over-year growth since 2014.
Garman added, "We'll moderate our data center growth when the demand moderates. We have a lot of supply chain models that tell us to keep building data centers, so we're gonna keep building them."
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Other Announcements During the Conference
Amazon also announced during the same event software drawing on its retail expertise. Freight Waves reported that this is part of the company's strategy to boost its sales to businesses and maintain its record as the largest cloud-computing provider compared to Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet's Google.
A service called AWS Supply Chain was introduced by Amazon to attract businesses during their low inventories, which can help them address issues regarding supplies, especially during the pandemic.
"Without real-time context, businesses rely on outdated information or best guesses that make it difficult to respond effectively to unexpected issues. Even when a business has identified the most impactful problems and decided what to do next, supply chain teams often coordinate the resolution across multiple phone calls and emails - without all the needed information to resolve the issue," AWS said.
AWS Clean Rooms were also unveiled by the cloud unit for businesses to alter advertisements to customers while respecting their privacy at the same time. Through this, Reuters reported that it can help Amazon to develop functions for its e-commerce market and if successful, will be offered to other companies to utilize. Amazon Omics for genomic analysis and Amazon Security Lake were also introduced. This helps businesses construct data from cybersecurity venders to other sources.
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