Amazon’s Elasticsearch fork OpenSearch hits prime time

Join executive leaders at the Data, Analytics, & Intelligent Automation Summit, presented by Accenture. Register here. Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Amazon has launched the first production-ready version of its Elasticsearch “fork” OpenSearch. This follows six months after Amazon’s AWS first revealed plans to fork Elasticsearch, the Java-based open source […]

Season One Of Amazon’s The Lord Of The Rings Will Cost $465 Million

It seems like Amazon has a good feeling about the upcoming Lord Of The Rings show, which cost the company around $250 million just for the rights to the Tolkien property alone. Even worse, new intel suggests the company will spend a whopping $465 million to produce the first season of “the largest television series ever […]

Amazon’s Luna Boss Resigns Five Months After Cloud Gaming Service’s Debut

Marc Whitten, Amazon’s VP of Entertainment Devices and Services, who oversaw Luna, the company’s cloud gaming service, has resigned just five months after the service was launched. Whitten had previously served as Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Chief Product Officer for Xbox from 1997 to 2014. Whitten has reportedly accepted a position as Senior Vice […]

Amazon’s MMO New World delayed again

New World, Amazon Game Studios’ action-MMO, has been delayed again and will now launch in full on Aug. 31, the company announced this week. The news comes about six months after a preview event involving thousands of players, and lots of feedback and data for developers to gather. The upshot of that data is that […]

Amazon’s Crucible Is Shutting Down For Good

The team behind Amazon Games’ Crucible made the difficult decision to discontinue development. The player count simply isn’t there, and efforts to save the game haven’t paid off. After adding one last feature, the developers are going to move on to New World and other projects. Crucible is a hero-shooter-MOBA hybrid with a steep learning curve […]

Amazon’s Prime Gaming To Launch New Original Program, Clicksport-1

The launch of Prime Gaming’s new original program, Clicksport-1, is just around the corner. The out-of-this-world, three-day gaming tournament, will be hosted by actor Dan Fogler and begins on September 23. Amazon Prime Gaming has given away complimentary games, cosmetics, and a ton of gifts to keep you happy. While Prime Gaming has made a name for itself […]

Amazon’s AI uses a microphone array to localize multiple speakers in a room

In a technical paper scheduled to be presented next month at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), a group of Amazon researchers propose an AI approach to multiple-source localization, or the problem of estimating a sound’s location using microphone audio. They say that in experiments involving real and simulated data (the […]

Amazon’s AI predicts context from search queries

Amazon is using AI and machine learning to predict context from customers’ queries. In a preprint paper accepted to the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval scheduled to take place this month, Amazon researchers describe a system that predicts activities like “running” from queries like “Adidas men’s pants.” It could help to […]