Verizon announced a deal with Amazon Web Services on Monday to build high-capacity fiber routes connecting AWS data centers, aiming to strengthen infrastructure for the next generation of artificial intelligence applications.

Andy Jassy explains Amazon’s 14,000 layoffs, buying Nvidia chips, upcoming Trainium3 AI chips, AWS capacity and sales growth, and its Bedrock AI agent platform.

AWS outage reports spiked again for the cloud service yesterday (October 29) after a mass outage last week. But this time, AWS was quick to dispute these reports with us.

Verizon Business today announced a new Verizon AI Connect deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide the resilient high-capacity, low-latency network infrastructure essential for the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation.

Here’s hoow AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud fared during the third-quarter 2025 in terms of cloud revenue, cloud sales growth, operating income and parent company revenue.

Partners with AWS to build fiber network connecting data centers for AI applications, expanding existing collaboration as AI demand grows.

The outage prevented advertisers from accessing the Microsoft Advertising console, but its ad serving was not affected.

Overall, Amazon's revenue rose by 13% year over year to $180.2 billion, which came in above the $177.8 billion analyst consensus, as compiled by LSEG. Earnings per share climbed 36% to $1.95, which easily surpassed analyst expectations of $1.57.

Amazon's stock popped 13% on Thursday afternoon, fueled by huge Q3 growth at AWS. The earnings call with analysts is scheduled for 5 p.m. ET.