Amazon Web Services’ big annual event, re:Invent 2025, is getting into full swing in Las Vegas today. Last year’s event was largely focused on their AI efforts, including new foundation models, ...

You might think Amazon’s biggest swing in the AI race was its $8 billion investment in Anthropic. But AWS has also been building in-house foundation models, new chips, massive data centers, and agents ...

UPDATE Tuesday, 1:41 p.m. ET: With Amazon's AWS issues fully resolved, the online world was left to parse through the postmortem on Tuesday. The modern internet is vast but delicate. As many news ...

When AWS suffered a series of cascading failures that crashed its systems for hours in late October, the industry was once again reminded of its extreme dependence on major hyperscalers. (As if to ...

A massive AWS outage Monday that brought down some of the world’s most popular apps and services all started with a glitch. The bug – which occurred when two automated systems were trying to update ...

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A detailed explanation of this week’s Amazon Web Services outage, released Thursday morning, confirms that it wasn’t a hardware glitch or an outside attack but a complex, cascading failure triggered ...

My tween-age daughters make me proud in countless ways, but I am still adjusting to the fact that they are not bookworms. I’m pretty sure that two generations ago, they would have been more like I was ...

When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras.

Amazon's data center in Ashburn, Va. (Ted Shaffrey/AP) Amazon says Amazon Web Services, its cloud computer service that powers many of the internet’s most popular apps and websites, has fully ...

The 15-hour disruption to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-based computing service, on Monday shook internet users around the world, disrupting everything from travel to financial transactions — and ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) made worldwide headlines on Monday when the service went offline for hours, disrupting popular apps, services and tools from Zoom and Venmo to Snapchat and Reddit. According ...