Tag: AWS

Amazon’s trying to turn its massive shipping operation into another AWS

Amazon might have a part in delivering all kinds of stuff to your door soon, as its...

13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon’s own AI tools

A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of...

Amazon reveals 16,000 jobs cut worldwide, with AWS hit hard, as it looks at ‘reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy’

Amazon announces 16,000 more job cuts after 14,000 in OctoberIt's all part of a restructuring plan to...

AWS signs mega deal with Rio Tinto for the first new copper mine in the US for years – here’s what it could do...

AWS demand dwarfs Arizona copper output despite renewed domestic mining activityNuton technology shortens copper processing while leaving...

Critical AWS supply chain vulnerability could have let hackers take over key GitHub repositories

Wiz discovered AWS CodeBuild misconfiguration enabling unauthorized privileged builds, dubbed “CodeBreach.” Flaw risked exposing GitHub tokens and...

AWS brings ‘Sovereign’ cloud to Europe – you can pause your geopatriation plans, for now

AWS launches a sovereign 'European Cloud' offeringThis service will be independent logically and physically It will be...

“Threat actors have a goal in mind and they’ll use whatever path they see to get that goal” – AWS CISO tells us how...

With AI now a common presence in businesses everywhere, a need for smarter and more intuitive cybersecurity...

“We are living in times of great change” – I speak to AWS’ top AI minds to hear how it wants to open up...

AI and agents were big focuses at AWS re:Invent 2025, with the cloud giant unveiling a host...

AWS systems targeted by crypto mining scam using hijacked IAM credentials

Attackers used stolen high‑privilege IAM credentials to rapidly deploy large‑scale cryptomining on EC2 and ECSThey launched GPU‑heavy...

Arm64 dominates AWS Lambda in 2025: Rust 4-5x faster than x86, costs 30% less across all workloads

Rust on arm64 completed CPU-intensive tasks up to 5x faster than x86Arm64 reduces cold start latency across...

AWS Graviton5 is its most powerful and efficient CPU to date – and could mean big changes for your key cloud workloads

AWS Graviton5 launches at re:Invent 2025New CPU offers huge advances in efficiency and performanceNew Graviton5-based EC2 M9g...

AWS Nova Forge could be your company’s cue to start building custom AI models

AWS Nova Forge offers a new way to incorporate AI modelsCustomers can pick from a range of...

AWS wants to be a part of Nvidia’s “AI Factories” – and it could change everything about how your business treats AI

AWS and Nvidia look to supercharge AI FactoriesCollaboration including some of the latest hardware aroundBusinesses and governments...

“The world is not slowing down” – AWS CEO says AI agents will be bigger than the Internet, so act now

AWS CEO Matt Garman outlines his view on the future of AI agentsAgents will be bigger than...

AWS wants to make your AI agents more intelligent and more human

Amazon Connect adds new upgrades for AI agentsAgents can now understand, monitor and respond in more detailThe...

AWS wants to take the strain out of modernizing all your old code – and ending tech debt quicker than ever before

AWS Transform gets new AI capabilities to help tackle tech debtWindows capabilities get a major boost, with...

AWS thinks it has the answer to your multi-cloud interoperability issues

AWS and Google Cloud announces closer tiesNew multicloud interoperability tool looks to lessen headaches across the boardAWS...

AWS re:Invent 2025 – all the news and updates as it happens

Welcome to our live coverage of AWS re:Invent 2025!I'm on the ground in Las Vegas, ready for...

This devious botnet tried a trial run during the recent AWS outage – so when will it be back?

ShadowV2, a Mirai-based cloud-native botnet, appeared briefly during an AWS outageIt targeted IoT devices via multiple vendor...

AWS might now have around 900 data centers – that’s twice as many as previously thought

New data claims Amazon was believed to have over 900 data centers - and it could now...

Global cloud wars see AWS increasingly under threat from Microsoft and Google

AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud occupy more of the cloud market than beforeAnalysts claim AWS position...

AWS is launching a “meeting simulator” to help train workers for stressful jobs

AWS launches AI meeting simulator to provide practical, life-like experienceParticipants can get instant feedback on hor they...

AWS is building a new high-speed subsea internet cable to connect the US and Ireland

Fastnet will connect the US with Ireland, with over 320 Tbps of capacityAWS will bury it 1.5m...

OpenAI and AWS team up in potentially one of the biggest tech partnerships ever seen – so what will it mean for you?

New partnership gives OpenAI access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs on AWSAWS will cluster GB200...

Amazon says automation bug caused massive AWS outage

Amazon has published a lengthy report about the outage that knocked numerous websites, services, apps and games...

AWS reveals new cloud incident reporting tool, with almost zero sense of irony

AWS is adding a new “comprehensive post-incident analysis” reporting toolIt will identify patterns and give users actionable...

Smart bed owners experience AWS outage nightmare as they’re left sweating and stuck in upright position

Smart bed owners were hit by this week's big AWS outageOwners of the Eight Sleep Pod reported...