Aaron Goldsmid has worked for Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon. He made these 3 mistakes early in his career.

The deal, announced in October 2023, saw Amazon commit to a $1 billion spend over a five-year period to get access to Microsoft 365 applications like Word, Excel and Outlook for 1

Security executives applaud Amazon for publicly shaming Microsoft security, although some suspect that it is a thinly veiled AWS sales pitch.

CEO Andy Jassy noted, "We've seen significant reacceleration of AWS growth for the last four quarters," putting its annualized revenue run rate at $110 billion. With that, AWS controls roughly 33% of the cloud infrastructure services market, more than Azure and Google Cloud combined, according to research firm Canalys.

What are the Magnificent Seven stocks? How much market cap weighting do AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, META, TSLA and NVDA have on the Nasdaq?

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is the world's fourth-largest company, at this writing, with a market capitalization of $2.4 trillion. The company's strong cloud growth, soaring profits, and leadership position in artificial intelligence (AI) have contributed to the solid gain.

So keep your eyes on Bitcoin shareholder activism. Microsoft had a chance to make a momentous decision about Bitcoin and passed on the opportunity. But if you're a Bitcoin investor, there's no need to worry. In just a few months, Amazon will be the next big company with a chance to vote on Bitcoin adoption.

Microsoft leads cloud AI with 45% of new case studies and 62% in gen AI, while Amazon excels in AI and Google integrates AI deeply.

The Bitcoin adoption wave appears unshaken by Microsoft’s shareholders' decision not the add the asset to its portfolio when they met as scheduled on December

Amazon had donated roughly $58,000 to Trump's 2017 inaugural, much lower than than $1 million it now plans to donate. The company also streamed Biden's inauguration on Prime Video in 2021.

AWS, Amazon's profit center, benefits from user lock-in and scale advantages, especially among startups and SMEs. Read why I rate AMZN stock a hold now.

Amazon.com Inc. has delayed the deployment of Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-based Office suite for a year as the two companies work to resolve Amazon concerns about the security of the bundle of email and productivity software.