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Amazon claims its data centers are 7x more water-efficient than the industry average

New figures position the company ahead of rivals on water consumption as hyperscalers race to prove AI's growing infrastructure footprint is sustainable.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 11, 20267 mins

Amazon Web ServicesData Center AutomationIaaS

New data center routing design cuts AWS networking energy costs by 40%, Amazon claims

By John E. Dunn

Jun 5, 20265 mins

Amazon Web ServicesData Center DesignIaaS

Meta's compute grab continues with agreement to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores

By Taryn Plumb

Apr 24, 20266 mins

Amazon Web ServicesCPUs and ProcessorsIaaS

Lack of regulatory action on hyperscaler dominance prompts inquiry chair to quit

By Maxwell Cooter

Mar 5, 20265 mins

Amazon Web ServicesGovernmentLaws and Regulations

AWS Middle East outage: a reminder not to rely on cloud as disaster recovery plan

By Maxwell Cooter

Mar 3, 20264 mins

Amazon Web ServicesDisaster RecoveryIaaS

Articles

OpenAI launches stateful AI on AWS, signaling a control plane power shift

While reaffirming its Microsoft partnership, the company is building a Bedrock-native orchestration layer that positions it firmly in multi-cloud territory.

By Taryn Plumb

Feb 27, 2026 8 mins

Amazon Web ServicesIaaSMicrosoft Azure

What hyperscalers’ hyper-spending on data centers tells us

Capital expenditure and not new features could now become the clearest signal of cloud resilience, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 6, 2026 5 mins

Amazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformMicrosoft Azure

Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts, including to AWS

AWS staff learned of the cuts early when an internal meeting invitation was posted in error.

By Peter Sayer

Jan 28, 2026 2 mins

Amazon Web ServicesIT JobsIaaS

Amazon layoffs expected to disproportionately hit AWS and tech talent

Analysts and AWS watchers agree that the roughly 15,000 cuts are caused by ‘culture’, but there is disagreement about what that actually means.

By Evan Schuman

Jan 23, 2026 6 mins

Amazon Web ServicesArtificial IntelligenceCloud Computing

AWS European cloud service launch raises questions over sovereignty

AWS’s new sovereign cloud for Europe boosts compliance controls, but analysts say its US ownership raises unresolved questions about legal authority and service continuity.

By Matthew Finnegan

Jan 19, 2026 5 mins

Amazon Web ServicesGovernmentLaws and Regulations

With AI Factories, AWS aims to help enterprises scale AI while respecting data sovereignty

AWS is changing the cost equation for enterprises weighing up where to put AI infrastructure for processing sensitive data.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 4, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web ServicesAmazon re:InventLaws and Regulations

AWS finally moves to simplify multicloud operations with Google

AWS is taking a step towards simplifying multicloud operations with Google; it plans to add Azure to the mix next year.

By Maxwell Cooter

Dec 1, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformIaaS

AWS launches ‘Capabilities by Region’ to simplify planning for cloud deployments

The tool could help enterprises gain future visibility into planned expansion of services across cloud regions, helping avoid costly replanning and deployment.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 7, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web ServicesCloud ComputingIaaS

AWS opens giant data center for AI training

To be used to train and run the AI model Claude.

By Mikael Markander

Oct 30, 2025 2 mins

Amazon Web ServicesArtificial IntelligenceIaaS

Post outage, AWS adds automated incident reporting to its CloudWatch service

While the report generation feature will help enterprises accelerate post-mortem of an incident, it is far from enough to avoid similar outages in the future, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 23, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web Services

AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers.

By Peter Sayer

Oct 20, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web ServicesDNSIaaS

Amazon and SAP partner on European data sovereignty platforms to offer better oversight

Two systems are better than one, say vendors. But what about vendor lock-in?

By John E. Dunn

Sep 24, 2025 5 mins

Amazon Web ServicesCloud Computing

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Amazon claims its data centers are 7x more water-efficient than the industry average

New data center routing design cuts AWS networking energy costs by 40%, Amazon claims

Meta's compute grab continues with agreement to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores

AI demand is so high, AWS customers are trying to buy out its entire capacity

Amazon Middle East datacenter suffers second drone hit as Iran steps up attacks

Amazon waives entire month's AWS charges after Iranian drone attack

OpenAI’s $50B AWS deal puts its Microsoft alliance to the test

Lack of regulatory action on hyperscaler dominance prompts inquiry chair to quit

AWS Middle East outage: a reminder not to rely on cloud as disaster recovery plan

Articles

OpenAI launches stateful AI on AWS, signaling a control plane power shift

What hyperscalers’ hyper-spending on data centers tells us

Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts, including to AWS

Amazon layoffs expected to disproportionately hit AWS and tech talent

AWS European cloud service launch raises questions over sovereignty

With AI Factories, AWS aims to help enterprises scale AI while respecting data sovereignty

AWS finally moves to simplify multicloud operations with Google

AWS launches ‘Capabilities by Region’ to simplify planning for cloud deployments

AWS opens giant data center for AI training

Post outage, AWS adds automated incident reporting to its CloudWatch service

AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

Amazon and SAP partner on European data sovereignty platforms to offer better oversight

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