Dus good Tuesday Morning i spoke with aws ceo exclusively last night covering a wide range of topics. Youll hear about all hour including Data Warehousing and the emergence of snowflake in that space which by the way runs on aws heres what jasy said about whether there is room enough for snowflake and aws sorry, snowflake competitor from aws red shift in the market. I think its unquestionable that theres room for both snowflake and red shift to be very successful and grow to be very, you know, a lot larger than both of them are today. We launched redshift back in 2012 and it was the first Data Warehouse built for the cloud and continues to be the largest Data Warehouse in the cloud. And, you know, snowflake built a Data Warehousing offering as well that is also strong offering and largely runs on top of aws we work just as hard for snowflake in trying to make it easy for people to use redshift. From our perspective, if customers want to run on snowflake for their Data Warehouse on top
Some ople asking if amazon is a monopoly. The question for the democracy is, are we okay with one company essentially winning capitali . How do you and jeff think about the call to break you guys up . Simply because the companys beenes suul doesnt mean its somehow too big. Narrator now on frontline. Domination was very much the idea. Narrator amazon empire. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporationor public broadcasting. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. T and Ford Foundation working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. Additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journalism. The park foundation, dedicated to heighteublic awareness of critical issues. The john and helen glener family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs
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Executive of amazon. And the hero who inspired a nation Queen Elizabeth leads the tributes to captain sir tom moore, whos died at 100. We look at his legacy. A very warm welcome to the programme. Scientists from the World Health Organization have visited a Virology Institute in the chinese city of wuhan which some us officials have said may have been the source of the coronavirus global pandemic. Subsequent checks indicated that none of the Gene Sequences of covid 19 match the viruses held by the institute. Live now to wuhan, and our correspondent, Stephen Mcdonnell. Tell us about this visit and what has been going on . 50. What has been going on . So, this visit to what has been going on . So, this visit to the what has been going on . Srr, this visit to the Wuhan Institute of virology is probably the most contentious part of the who to china because the previous us government, the Trump Administration had said that perhaps the coronavirus had escaped from a lab inside this facility.
The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is