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Widespread AWS Outage Hits Financial and Consumer Sites  Bloomberg.com Huge global outage impacts Amazon, Fortnite and Snapchat  CNN Amazon Web Services outage hits dozens of websites and apps  The Guardian Many Websites Are Down After AWS Outage: Live Updates  The New York Times Snapchat and Duolingo among major apps down in Amazon internet services outage  BBC Source link

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region” — though outages are …

A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has caused widespread internet disruptions this morning, taking down dozens of popular apps, games, and websites including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo, and Ring. Users began reporting problems at approximately 8 AM UK time (midnight PT), with the tracking website Downdetector showing massive, simultaneous spikes in outage reports for services that rely on Amazon’s …

For years, Amazon Web Services was among the first, and often the largest, line item on a startup’s budget. The AI boom is upending that spending pattern. Internal documents obtained by Business Insider reveal that AWS has flagged a “fundamental” shift in how startups are allocating their cloud budgets. Increasingly, they’re delaying AWS cloud adoption and diverting spending toward AI …

AWS has introduced new pricing for Kiro, its AI-driven coding tool, but unlike the pricing originally announced, the latest plans are “a wallet-wrecking tragedy,” according to many of its users. “Kiro’s spec-driven AI IDE is a gem,” said open source PHP and Laravel engineer Antonio Ribeiro on GitHub, “until I saw your new pricing.” AWS introduced Kiro last month as …

Sam Altman’s blowtorch to his competitors is so hot, it even includes a new partnership with Amazon Web Services. As OpenAI announced two open-weight reasoning models with capabilities on par with its o-series, Amazon announced that the new models would become available on AWS on Tuesday. This is the first time that OpenAI models will be offered by AWS, the …

Amazon’s (AMZN) stock sank on Friday after the performance of its AWS unit failed to live up to the hype built up by rivals Google (GOOG, GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT). The tech giant announced its second quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, beating on the top and bottom lines and offering better-than-anticipated Q3 revenue guidance of between $174 billion …

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted its latest AWS Summit this week in New York, and the importance of AI for the company was manifest in its announcements. While the first 20 years of its existence and success has been firmly rooted in the cloud, like all of its rivals and many more companies that wouldn’t be considered direct competitors it …

Exclusive: Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit cuts at least hundreds of jobs, sources say  Reuters Amazon cuts some jobs in cloud computing unit as layoffs continue  CNBC Exclusive-Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit cuts jobs  Yahoo Finance Amazon workers are piecing together cloud division layoffs in internal messages  Business Insider Amazon Cuts Jobs in Cloud Services Arm Amid Spiraling AI Costs  Bloomberg Source link