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🏋️♂️ Meet Amazon's very own strongman! 🏋️♂️ This weekend, 27-year-old Luke Sperduti from Bristol, England will be competing for the title of UK’s Strongest Man. 💪 Since joining Amazon in 2020, Luke has risen to the role of Operations Supervisor and will soon take on a new challenge. His journey to strength started in the Corps of Royal Engineers, where he developed his passion for powerlifting. Fuelled by an impressive diet, Luke's daily intake includes porridge, tortellini pasta, and 4-5 meals a day, totaling around 6000 calories. 🍽️ Everyone wish Luke good luck ahead of his competition! Go, Luke!

Love who you want to love. Be who you want to be. Here's to equality. Here's to Pride. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️

Sharing a note I sent to all AWS employees today: Team, Over the past 18 years, I've had the privilege of working alongside the most talented, innovative, and customer-obsessed people on the planet. The journey has been nothing short of amazing, and today, I'm incredibly excited to mark Day 1 as CEO of AWS. From the very beginning, we’ve been driven by a commitment to deliver innovative products and services that solve real problems for our customers, and to anticipate ones they haven’t encountered yet. I love how this customer obsession allows us to tackle what sometimes seems impossible—and that relentless focus is still at our core today. We remain intent on providing secure, high-performing, sustainable, and operationally excellent cloud infrastructure and services that customers and partners can trust with their most precious data and workloads. The advances we're seeing in generative AI present one of the most exciting technological opportunities of our lifetimes, and thanks to all of you, we are helping tens of thousands of customers across every industry move quickly with this technology and change the way they work. As we continue expanding our array of building blocks to help customers take advantage of new technologies, we’re also continually growing our infrastructure around the world to help them securely run their mission-critical workloads. AWS has always been a place where smart risk-taking, customer obsession, and a never-ending drive to innovate are embraced and celebrated. With that foundation, there’s massive opportunity ahead. I’m looking forward to building this next chapter together. Matt

Great to be named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential companies for 2024. TIME’s annual list reflects companies making extraordinary impacts worldwide – for us that includes our investments in #AI and expansion into South Africa. The selection process involved nominations across sectors, followed by rigorous evaluation by TIME’s editors on key criteria such as impact, innovation, ambition, and success. 🙏 Full article here: https://amzn.to/3VaN2RA

Happiness is seeing these faces every day at work! 🐶

At a time when rapid responses to natural disasters are essential, we have taken a decisive step: Our new disaster relief base in Rheinberg, Germany, near Düsseldorf, is now operational. 🚀 🇩🇪 We have 13 Disaster Relief Hubs that span across Germany, Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. These bases allow us to respond efficiently to emergencies like floods, fires, and earthquakes by leveraging our global logistics network to quickly deliver relief supplies. Our items in stock include tents, blankets, camp beds, mats, sleeping bags, and hygiene kits with soap, toothbrushes, and toothpaste. Our data analysis confirms that over 80% of the items required in the event of a disaster are always the same, which underlines our preparedness and efficiency. We work closely with national and international aid organizations such as Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Save the Children Deutschland, and IOM - UN Migration to meet their needs and procure the products they need in advance. 👀 Thanks to our teams, and the NGO partners for working to build this together. 👏 ⛑️

"I think an embarrassing amount of how well you do [in your career] has to do with attitude. Do you work hard? Are you more can-do than nay-saying? Do you show up on time? Do you do what you said you were going to do? Can you work on a team? Those things seem so simple, and there’s so many things you can’t control in your work life, but you can control your attitude." Our CEO, Andy Jassy, sat down for an exclusive interview with LinkedIn’s CEO, Ryan Roslansky, to talk about his unique career journey, including his top 3 pieces of career advice. You definitely want to check it out! ⬇️ What career advice would you give to someone?

May is Military Appreciation Month. In 2021, we pledged to hire 100,000 veterans and military spouses worldwide by 2024, and we’re pleased to share that we passed that goal back in January. "Employees with a military background are not just valued members of our workforce; they are integral to our culture, enriching Amazon with their diverse perspectives, unwavering commitment, and exceptional leadership qualities," said J. Ofori Agboka, VP of People Experience & Technology. We’re lucky to have so many great veterans and military spouses on board, and we want to support them in any way we can. That’s why we offer a range of career programs to assist transitioning service members and military spouses, including company-funded skills training through the Amazon Technical Apprenticeship Program and AWS re/Start. They can also take advantage of free upskilling opportunities through programs like Career Choice, Amazon’s prepaid tuition program for employees looking to move into high-demand occupations. Veterans and military spouses working at Amazon also have access to fellowships, mentorships, military spouse support, and deployment benefits. Read more about how we’re supporting veterans and military spouses: https://amzn.to/3wnOLuA

Data tells us the current pharmacy system is broken. For example, 30% of people don’t pick up their medications on time, which can lead to health risks. The good news? Home delivery has been shown to improve the likelihood that patients get and take their medication. 💊 🩺 Prescription medication delivery has existed since the 1940s, but it accounts for just 10% of U.S. pharmacy orders. Amazon Pharmacy is modernizing the home-delivery experience by reducing delivery speeds to just hours in some cases, providing real-time delivery updates, and helping customers manage acute conditions like the flu from home. Amazon uses generative AI and machine learning to help pharmacists fill prescriptions more quickly and accurately. This tech doesn’t replace pharmacists – it relieves them of duplicative and time-consuming administrative work, so they can focus on helping more people. For example, the traditional process of manually filling, labeling, and sending prescriptions takes three minutes. Our robotic arms can do that in as little as 30 seconds while reducing the likelihood of administrative errors. That lets pharmacists focus their time and energy on patient care – they also verify that every prescription leaving a fulfillment center includes the right medicine, strength, dosage, quantity, and address label. We’re grateful for our entire Amazon Pharmacy team, who’s helping us make customer lives easier! 👏 https://amzn.to/44TZauW

Congrats to our Prime Video & Amazon Studios and MGM teams who worked on Fallout, our second most-watched title ever with 65 million views in its first 16 days. 🤯 With a 94% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8.5 from viewers on IMDb.com, we're just as excited as fans that it's been renewed for a second season. For those new to Fallout, it's based on the iconic video game franchise and takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where citizens live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants, and bandits. Watch below as Walton Goggins transforms into his character, The Ghoul, before filming. Kudos to all of our employees and partners who helped bring this show to life! 🎬 👏