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Known as Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, the cloud computing contract is intended to give the military better access to data and technology from remote locations.

The move comes in wake of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has caused businesses to temporarily close and people to stay home.

The median home value in the Big Apple is $652,307, while median monthly rent is $2,900.

The emails and text messages sent to employees say the Washington location has undergone "multiple enhanced cleanings," but an anonymous employee said the store conducts its "enhanced cleanings" while employees are working.

Regular worldwide testing across all industries would "help keep people safe and help get the economy back up and running," Jeff Bezos wrote to shareholders.

Amazon’s moves to reduce strain on its grocery businesses by putting new online shoppers on waitlists and switching more Whole Foods resources to filling orders, is unmasking limitations at the company that was expected to upend the supermarket industry.

Amazon Web Services had long been considered a leading candidate to run the Pentagon’s JEDI project.

Amazon has been facing public scrutiny over safety and working conditions of warehouse, delivery and retail gig workers

Amazon will begin allowing third-party sellers on its platform to resume shipping so-called nonessential items this week.

The move is a welcome relief for scores of individuals who have been laid off or furlough as part of the crisis. 

Amazon said it would have to relegate all new online grocery customers to a wait list

The initiative is set to take place over the next few weeks.

Earlier this week, Walmart Grocery was the top downloaded shopping app on Google Play and Apple’s App store, according to analytics firm App Annie.

Amazon announced on Thursday that they are in the process of building up "incremental testing capacity" for the coronavirus. 

Amazon's Jeff Bezos thanked employees working amid the novel coronavirus pandemic at Whole Foods and a fulfillment center Wednesday.

Warehouse workers at Amazon said on Wednesday that they are struggling to get paid through the company's sick leave policy.

Five Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday wrote Amazon.com Inc to raise concern about its firing of a worker who protested warehouse operations during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters.