Network World

AWS hikes prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks amid soaring GPU demand

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated the pricing structure for some of its Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML offerings. Raised by approximately 15%, this move could affect ...
Mashable

Amazon confirms years-long Russian cyberattack against AWS customers' devices

Amazon Web Services has been under attack for half a decade by Russian state actors. Credit: Ismail Kaplan/Anadolu via Getty Images Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud web hosting platform which ...
CNBC

Amazon closes at record after $38 billion OpenAI deal with AWS

OpenAI has signed a $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services, and will immediately start accessing Nvidia's graphics processing units. It's one of OpenAI's biggest moves away from Microsoft, which ...
New York Post

Days after massive AWS outage, some users report sequel that Amazon says is false

Amazon Web Services faced a brief wave of outage reports Wednesday, though the cloud giant said there were no such issues. User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern ...
Wall Street Journal

Amazon Web Services Plans Additional $5 Billion AI Investment in South Korea

Amazon Web Services plans to invest an additional $5 billion in South Korea over the next six years to build new artificial-intelligence data centers in the country. Amazon’s cloud-computing arm said ...
Futurism

After Bringing Down Internet, Amazon Announces Biggest Mass Firing in Its History

Just a few days after taking out half of the world’s internet, Amazon is undergoing the biggest layoffs in the corporation’s 31 year history. Reuters was the first to alert workers that the job cuts ...
Wired

Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web

The cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide swaths of the web. Monday’s meltdown illustrated the world’s ...
InfoQ

AWS Launches EC2 Capacity Manager for Centralized, Cross-Account Capacity Optimization

AWS has recently introduced a new centralized solution with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, designed to consolidate monitoring, analysis, and management of EC2 capacity usage across all customer accounts ...
CNN

How a tiny bug spiraled into a massive outage that took down the internet

A massive AWS outage Monday that brought down some of the world’s most popular apps and services all started with a glitch. The bug – which occurred when two automated systems were trying to update ...
CNET

That Massive AWS Outage Explained: Failures and Fixes Tripping Over Themselves

Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent, covering tech policy and Big Tech in the EU and UK. Unofficially, she serves as CNET's Taylor ...
Bleeping Computer

Amazon: This week’s AWS outage caused by major DNS failure

Amazon says a major DNS failure was behind a massive AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage that took down many websites and online services on Monday. As BleepinComputer reported earlier this week, this ...