Amazon’s largest AI data center is now operational in New Carlisle, Indiana, with half a million AWS Trainium 2 chips entirely devoted to powering OpenAI rival Anthropic. Just over a year ago, the site was nothing but cornfields.

Amazon will report earnings after the closing bell on Thursday. Analysts want updates on AI progress, AWS, and retail margins.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffers its second major outage in just over a week, knocking a 'huge portion of the internet unusable' as 6,000+ reports flood in.

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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.

The tech giant is bolstering its cloud-computing and retail businesses in the country as it continues to expand in Europe.

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

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest more than $5 billion to build AI data centers in Incheon and Gyeonggi Province by 2031.