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

Companies are advised to carefully examine their DR plans and SLAs so they're not caught off-guard by major events like this.

By Maxwell Cooter

Mar 3, 2026 4 mins

Amazon Web Services Disaster Recovery IaaS

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

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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

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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

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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 Services Artificial Intelligence Cloud 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 Services Government Laws 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

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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 Services Google Cloud Platform IaaS

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 Services Cloud Computing IaaS

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 Services Artificial Intelligence IaaS