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Alpine Group is providing Washington representation for Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing platform.
The focus is on federal appropriations matters and management of cloud computing technologies.
AWS registered $66.5B in nine-month revenues and chalked up $17.4 billion in operating income.
It boasts of major federal contracts, led by the $10B ten-year “Wild and Stormy” pact with the National Security Agency, and work for the Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency and the US Navy.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a fraught relationship with Donald Trump. The company in 2019 said Trump launched “behind the scenes attacks” on it, which caused it to lose a major federal contact to Microsoft.
CEO Les Spivey leads the five-member AWS team, which includes Keenan Austin Reed, executive director and board member at Alpine’s parent company, Public Policy Holding Company.
Miller Strategies, the well-connected Republican firm, has inked a $1.5M one-year consulting contract from Emirates Global Aluminum, the biggest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil & gas sector.
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence start-up, has retained Republican powerhouse firm Fierce Government Relations for DC representation.
Chad Horrell, who was senior manager for government relations at DoorDash, has joined BGR Group as VP in its state and local practice.
Continental Strategy, which has close ties with the Trump administration, has registered Geneva-based Rolex as a client for services regarding the tariffs on watch imports.
Kimberly-Clark calls on Ballard Partners as it moves to acquires Kenvue, maker of Tylenol. 
