Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern time, with most reports concentrated in the company’s US-EAST-1 region.

Comms provider and hyperscaler unite on network infrastructure and suite of products designed to enable global enterprises to deploy AI workloads at scale.

Cipher Mining signed a $5.5 billion, 15-year lease with AWS to provide AI infrastructure, bringing total hosting contracts to $8.5 billion.

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. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps.

Amazon posted higher fiscal third quarter profit and sales compared with a year ago, fueled by accelerating growth in its cloud computing business and strong spending by its customers looking for low prices at a time when inflation is resurging.

The new cable will improve global connectivity and meet rising demand for cloud computing and AI, said the company

On Wednesday Amazon announced the completion of its data-center initiative Project Rainier, which will primarily be used to service Anthropic's compute needs. The company expects Anthropic's Claude to be using over one million of Amazon's custom Trainium2 chips by year-end.

At the time of updating this article, the global number of reports against the Reddit outage has crossed a whopping number of 20,000 in a few minutes.