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Security and managed services will be embedded in the cloud and natural interfaces, including the new Alexa for Business, should become the norm to control them all, said Amazon CTO Werner Vogels.

Intel top executive Diane Bryant has jumped ship to join Google Cloud as the new chief operating officer, the company said Thursday.

Following his re:Invent keynote, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy talked with reporters about hybrid cloud strategies, emerging technologies, and where the opportunities lie for AWS partners in a private Q&A session. Here's what solution providers should know.

Andy Jassy's keynote at the re:Invent conference revealed major new products making it easier to scale databases, and make AI accessible to everday developers.

'What we wanted to do is create a company that had the breadth, scale and scope, and be able to address the demands of the market,' Robert Dutkoswky tells CRN.

At re:Invent, AWS channel chief Terry Wise revealed brand-new resources, as well as a rebranded reseller partner program that acknowledges the evolution of channel partners who are looking to expand their profitability with Amazon.

From new integrations for Amazon Web Services environments, to brand-new products and services, Amazon's technology partners and vendors came to AWS re:Invent with a plethora of new offerings. CRN rounds up 10 of the hottest from the conference.

'The cloud consultant partner [offering migration] now, all of a sudden, becomes this partner who can actually do a full end-to-end solution for customers,' Hasan Usmani, global sales enablement lead for Amazon Marketplace, tells an audience of solution providers at the conference.

The on-premises application services, unveiled at the HPE Discover conference in Madrid, provide public cloud pay-per-use economics backed by a comprehensive set of advisory, professional and managed services from HPE's Pointnext.