Amazon suspends engineer who protested company’s work with Israel

Amazon suspends engineer who protested company’s work with Israel

Amazon suspended a software engineer who protested the company’s work with the Israeli government, CNBC has confirmed. Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer who works for Amazon’s Whole Foods business and is based in Seattle, was informed Monday morning that he was being suspended with pay “until further notice” after he posted messages on Slack criticizing…

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Amazon launches cloud AI tool to help engineers recover from outages

Amazon launches cloud AI tool to help engineers recover from outages

Mateusz Slodkowski | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Amazon’s cloud unit on Tuesday announced AI-enabled software designed to help clients better understand and recover from outages. DevOps Agent, as the artificial intelligence tool from Amazon Web Services is called, predicts the cause of technical hiccups using input from third-party tools such as Datadog…

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