Amazon opens London tech 'loft' – the first outside the US

Company says hub will offer support to the sizable community of technology startups in the Capital

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Amazon's Jeff Bezos
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Amazon has announced it will open a 'loft' – its own jargon for technical support hubs for its cloud computing arm – in London next month, marking the first time it has rolled out such a facility outside America.

The Financial Times says [1] the company's Amazon Web Services arm generated $5.16bn in revenue in the year ending March, having gravitated upmarket from an initial customer base of US startups to "Fortune 500 companies and the US government". It rents out computing power and data storage for businesses that are operating increasing in 'the cloud'.

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