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Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global economy itself: we live in the age of 'Amazon Capitalism'. 'One-click' instant consumerism and its immense variety of products has made Amazon a worldwide household name, with over 60% of US households subscribing to Amazon Prime. In turn, these subscribers are surveilled by the corporation. Amazon is also one of the world's largest logistics companies, resulting in weakened unions and lowered labor standards. The company has also become the largest provider of cloud-computing services and home surveillance systems, not to mention the ubiquitous Alexa. With cutting-edge analyses, this book looks at the many dark facets of the corporation, including automation, surveillance, tech work, workers' struggles, algorithmic challenges, the disruption of local democracy and much more. The Cost of Free Shipping shows how Amazon represents a fundamental shift in global capitalism that we should name, interrogate and be primed to resist.

Business & Economics / Labor --- Economics --- Amazon.com (Firm) --- E-books --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Amazon (Firm) --- Amazon.com, Inc. --- Amazon(tm) --- Amazon trademark

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Learn to design, build, and manage your infrastructure on the most popular of all the Cloud platforms - Amazon Web Services About This Book Learn how to leverage various Amazon Web Services (AWS) components and services to build a secure, reliable, and robust environment to host your applications on Deep dive into the core AWS service offerings with hands-on tutorials, real-world use case scenarios, and best practices A self-paced, systematic, and step-by-step guide to learning and implementing AWS in your own environment Who This Book Is For This book is for those who want to learn and leverage AWS. Although no prior experience with AWS is required, it is recommended that you have some hands-on experience of Linux, Web Services, and basic networking. What You Will Learn A brief introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS accompanied by steps to sign up for your first AWS account Create and manage users, groups, and permissions using AWS Identity and Access Management services Get started with deploying and accessing EC2 instances, working with EBS Volumes and Snapshots Customize and create your very own Amazon Machine Image Design and deploy your instances on a highly secured, network isolated environment using Amazon VPC Effectively monitor your AWS environment using specialized alarms, custom monitoring metrics, and much more Explore the various benefits of Database-as-a-Service offerings and leverage them using Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB Take an in-depth look at what's new with AWS, including EC2 Container Service and Elastic File System In Detail AWS is at the forefront of Cloud Computing today. Many businesses are moving away from traditional datacenters and toward AWS because of its reliability, vast service offerings, lower costs, and high rate of innovation. Because of its versatility and flexible design, AWS can be used to accomplish a variety of simple and complicated tasks such as hosting multitier websites, running large scale parallel processing, content delivery, petabyte storage and archival, and lots more. Whether you are a seasoned sysadmin or a rookie, this book will provide you with all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications on the AWS cloud platform. The book guides you through the core AWS services such as IAM, EC2, VPC, RDS, and S3 using a simple real world application hosting example that you can relate to. Each chapter is designed to provide you with the most information possible about a p...

Web services. --- Cloud computing. --- Electronic data processing --- Web services --- Application software --- Cloud computing --- Distributed processing --- Amazon Web Services (Firm) --- Amazon.com (Firm) --- Amazon (Firm) --- Amazon.com, Inc. --- Amazon(tm) --- Amazon trademark --- Amazon.com (Firm).

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Create stunning 3D games in a short amount of time using Amazon Lumberyard, a free and exciting game development platform. This book is a ground-up, out-of-the-box tutorial on 3D game development and programming with Lua and Amazon Lumberyard with little or no game development experience required. Beginning Game Development with Amazon Lumberyard walks you through the user interface of the Amazon Lumberyard engine; teaches you how to develop detailed terrain using heightmaps, megatextures, weather, and vegetation; and takes you through exporting the game for distribution. The book will show you how to create a player as well as enemies while not getting bogged down with third-party tools for animation or model creation. You will also work with simple physics, colliders, meshes, weather generation, Lua scripting, user interface development, and much more. By the end of the book, you will be able to create many different types of video games using the Amazon Lumberyard engine and even have a completed project ready to release or put in your portfolio. You will: Discover the mechanics and terminology of game development Familiarize yourself with the Amazon Lumberyard game engine in detail Modify game scripts using the Lua language Discover how to optimally structure game layers.

Computer games. --- Amazon.com (Firm) --- Computer games—Programming. --- Computer science. --- Game Development. --- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters. --- Informatics --- Science --- Application software --- Electronic games --- Amazon (Firm) --- Amazon.com, Inc. --- Amazon(tm) --- Amazon trademark --- Programming languages (Electronic computers). --- Computer languages --- Computer program languages --- Computer programming languages --- Machine language --- Electronic data processing --- Languages, Artificial

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"On peut dire que le grand gagnant de la crise du coronavirus est Amazon. Tandis qu’à la mi-avril 2020, la pandémie approchait de son moment le plus critique, la valeur des actions de la firme augmentait de 30 % par rapport à l’année précédente ; et en l’espace de seulement deux mois, la fortune nette du PDG Jeff Bezos augmentait de 24 milliards de dollars. Comme le résume un analyste de l’industrie numérique : “Le Covid-19 a été comme une injection d’hormones de croissance pour Amazon.” L’enquête d’Alec MacGillis débute bien avant la crise sanitaire actuelle. Sa méthode est simple et efficace : c’est par une mosaïque d’approches et de vies que l’on comprend le mieux un système, comment ce dernier affecte ceux qui entrent en contact avec sa trajectoire. À la manière des grands reportages littéraires, Le Système Amazon décortique l’implacable machine et ses rouages à travers une impressionnante série de portraits et de tableaux. À Seattle, ce sont les cadres bien rémunérés de la firme qui accélèrent la gentrification d’un quartier populaire historique ; dans une banlieue de Virginie, ce sont des propriétaires qui tentent de protéger leur quartier de l’impact environnemental d’un nouveau data center Amazon ; à El Paso, ce sont des petites entreprises de fournitures de bureau qui tentent de résister à la prise de contrôle par Amazon de l’ensemble des marchés publics ; à Baltimore, c’est un entrepôt qui remplace une usine sidérurgique légendaire, etc. Il montre également comment la firme est devenue un lobby à part entière à Washington, l’auteur poussant les portes du gigantesque manoir de Jeff Bezos, dans le quartier de Kalorama, où l’on croise lobbyistes, députés, sénateurs et membres du gouvernement. Plus qu’un énième pamphlet sur l’impact destructeur du géant jaune au large sourire, ce livre, fruit d’années d’enquete, offre à lire le récit édifiant d’une société sous emprise. De centres de livraison en data centers, de campus d’entreprises en entrepôts du mastodonte, visitez un autre monde, en proie à son Amazonisation, qui se divise entre gagnants et perdants, entre vies déconnectées et vies broyées par ce système."

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"An in-depth analysis of Amazon as a ubiquitous brand that has decisively shaped retail, both online and off, and normalized monpoly"--

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