Amazon is securing 111,000sq ft of additional office space in Redmond, Washington for Amazon Web Services (AWS) employees. The new office will host both tech and engineering teams supporting Amazon Web Services’ database services and will open in 2021 with capacity for more than six hundred employees.
“Our new Redmond office is part of our plan to continue growing and creating jobs in the Puget Sound region,” said John Schoettler, Amazon VP of global real estate and facilities. “In addition to Redmond’s strong existing talent pool and close access to our Seattle and Bellevue locations, these new facilities will also provide more flexible work options for employees, allowing us to continue our sustainable growth in the region for years to come.”
“AWS finished 2019 as nearly a $40 billion run rate business and it continues to grow,” said Shawn Bice, VP of databases for Amazon Web Services. “We continue to build new capabilities and services at an accelerating pace to meet and anticipate customers’ needs, and you can expect us to continue to innovate and invest not only across our database services, but in other key areas like compute, storage, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and so much more, in order to do so.”
