Accelerating a business at the scale of AWS, which has an $132 billion annualized run rate, is no easy feat, President and CEO Andy Jassy highlighted on the earnings call. While Amazon's cloud-computing competitors might have higher percentage growth,

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially activated its Project Rainier supercluster of Trainium2 chips. According to a blog post from AWS, the cluster is now fully operational, with nearly 500,000 of the home-developed Trainium2 chips.

The platform seeks to help businesses upgrade mainframe, .NET and VMware workloads, in line with a vendor push toward agent-driven modernization.

Disruptions lasted upward of two hours for most services, though some users—mostly in the United States—continued to see problems for over six hours. AWS announced at 5:27 a.m. ET that core issues had been resolved and most services were recovering, but intermittent disruptions persisted into the morning.

Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service run by Amazon, experienced a significant outage that disrupted numerous websites on Oct. 20.

A week after HM Revenue & Customs’ reliance on Amazon Web Services came under scrutiny from the Treasury Select Committee, details have emerged that the public cloud giant remains the only supplier in the running for the government tax collection agency’s £500m datacentre exit project.

The company that invented the cloud business is widely perceived as trailing its rivals in artificial intelligence.

The US cloud giant’s infrastructure investments through 2028 aim to capture and bolster AI agent development at companies in 14 APEC economies.

Amazon shares jumped 10% as the company's third quarter numbers beat Wall Street forecasts on the top and bottom lines by a lot and by even more for the closely watched Amazon Web Services, or AWS, division.