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Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries

Lawsuit says e-commerce giant cut two zip codes from its own fleet without telling residents

Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 56

Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net

Re:Invent Tens of thousands of AWS’ Trn2 instances to fuel Anthropic's next-gen models

Systems03 Dec 2024 | 5

AWS unveils cloud security IR service for a mere $7K a month

Re:Invent Tap into the infinite scalability... of pricing

Security03 Dec 2024 | 5

Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional

Big Tech's big war on American labor watchdog stumbles... bigly

Legal18 Nov 2024 | 71

AWS opens cluster of 40K Trainium AI accelerators to researchers

Throwing novel hardware at academia. It's a tale as old as time

Systems12 Nov 2024 | 2

Amazon confirms employee data exposed in leak linked to MOVEit vulnerability

Over 5 million records from 25 organizations posted to black hat forum

Cyber-crime12 Nov 2024 | 2

Amazon's nuclear datacenter dreams stall as watchdog rejects power deal

Updated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cites grid stability concerns

On-Prem04 Nov 2024 | 56

Amazon adds MFA to its enterprise email service ... eight years after launch

No rush, guys

On-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 1

AWS boss: Don't want to come back to the office? Go work somewhere else

It's our way or the highway

PaaS + IaaS18 Oct 2024 | 112

Tech giants set to pay through the nose for nuclear power that's still years away

Google, Amazon, Microsoft dive into costly deals that aren't generating anything yet

On-Prem18 Oct 2024 | 95

Amazon makes $500M bet on itty-bitty nuclear reactors to fuel cloud empire

The duo eyes a target of 5 GW online in US by 2039, assuming tech comes to fruition

Systems16 Oct 2024 | 38

AWS must fork out $30.5M after losing P2P network patent scrap

No one really wins when a troll, sorry, assertion entity scores a victory

Networks30 Sep 2024 | 31

Anthropic's UK revenue not enough to stop $4B Amazon union, says watchdog

Tie-up between AI toolmaker and Bezos biz doesn't qualify for merger partnership probe

AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 5

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

'Decisions like the one from Jassy are a big reason why I don’t want kids'

On-Prem25 Sep 2024 | 109

Amazon, Tesla, Meta considered harmful to democracy

Exploiting workers, undermining public services, exacerbating climate crisis, ITUC says

Bootnotes23 Sep 2024 | 41

Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time

And vows to cut ratio of managers-to-employees to 'flatten' the ranks

On-Prem16 Sep 2024 | 70

Amazon to pour £8B into UK datacenters through to 2028

How kind. Now how about looking at the corporation tax bill...

On-Prem11 Sep 2024 | 20

Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works

Web services souk celebrates 'leader' designation for Q Developer

AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 10

'Error' causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump

Bot shouldn't have political opinions, says Amazon

Software04 Sep 2024 | 67

Amazon antitrust case in Washington DC is resurrected

DC appeals court reverses dismissal, finding enough evidence of anticompetitive behavior to proceed

Personal Tech22 Aug 2024 | 2

From windfarms to Amazon Prime, UK plans to long range test six drone services

BVLOS operations to modernize airspace

Edge + IoT16 Aug 2024 | 50

UK monopoly police launch full blown probe of Amazon's Anthropic tie-up

Poor cloud titans, just trying to give a helping hand to AI startups valued at billions of dollars

AI + ML09 Aug 2024 | 5

Amazon: Our cloud growth just sped up. Did you know we are also quite a big retailer?

Reveals Kuiper broadband sats to fly later this year and solid Q2 sales

Cloud Infrastructure Month02 Aug 2024 | 9

Remember Nokia? Amazon's lawyers do, in patent infringement suit

Updated Finnish firm started the networking and cloud fight, Amazon could finish it

Networks31 Jul 2024 | 10

Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks

E-super-souk isn't having any of it

Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 | 92

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'

Bernie Sanders puts e-souk titan on blast for workplace harm

Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 44

Kindle sputters out: Amazon's e-readers couldn't download content for a short time

Updated Support line reports 'high volume of contacts' about the problem

Personal Tech05 Jul 2024 | 26

Amazon puts down its Astro robotic business watchdog

Now even the 'droids are being laid off – sheesh!

Bootnotes03 Jul 2024 | 19

Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal

AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC

On-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 2

Amazon's Project Kuiper slips to end of 2024 for first full-scale launch

Starlink rival slips again, but service still set for 2025

Networks28 Jun 2024 | 4

SoftBank boss says 'artificial superintelligence' could be three years away

Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei closer to divorcing Android; India probes Amazon warehouses; Singapore gets autonomous street sweepers

AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 31

Amazon Labor Union votes overwhelmingly to join forces with Teamsters in NYC

Hey Andy, how do you like them Big Apples?

Personal Tech18 Jun 2024 | 13

After contentious Amazon datacenter fight, US county says it has learned a lesson

Interview 'We love our farms' says Culpeper, but we also like internet mega-souk and others setting up servers

On-Prem05 Jun 2024 | 5

Twitch ditches Safety Advisory Council, relaunches with vetted 'ambassadors'

Who needs experts when you have an army of hand-picked super users telling you what you want to hear?

Personal Tech31 May 2024 | 13

Amazon to add 15 datacenters to atomic-powered campus

And with up to 960MW of capacity on the table, that may only be the beginning

On-Prem30 May 2024 | 8

Amazon Prime Air delivery drones allowed off line-of-sight leash

Sky shipping can now go beyond visual range of operators – starting in Texas and then maybe airspace near you

Personal Tech30 May 2024 | 7

AWS pledges to spend €15.7B expanding Spanish operations

Much of the money will go to mountainous Aragón – not mainly in the plain

Off-Prem24 May 2024 | 7

UK competition cops say Microsoft's stake in Mistral is not a merger

Watchdog drops official probe but IT giant's deal with Inflection AI and Amazon's with Anthropic still in play

AI + ML17 May 2024 | 1

AWS to pump billions into sovereign cloud for Germany

It'll own the datacenters, but keep data and employees local

PaaS + IaaS17 May 2024 | 20

AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm

Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see

SaaS14 May 2024 | 2

Amazon and Epson accuse a bunch of traders of selling knockoff print ink

Multiple Marketplace accounts sold fake bottles, cartridges for 2 years+, claim companies

Personal Tech08 May 2024 | 27

Amazon boss receives tap on wrist for statements breaking labor laws

Jass sass gets a pass

Legal02 May 2024 | 13

AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire

Updated Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day

Storage01 May 2024 | 66

AWS hits $100B revenue run rate, expands margins, delivers most of Amazon's profit

Growth is rather slower than cloudy rivals, but boss Andy Jassy can explain that

Off-Prem01 May 2024 | 3

Amazon to ditch WorkDocs sharing service, support countdown begins

Updated Cloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order

Applications26 Apr 2024 | 9

Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns

Talk about going round the (South) Bend

PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2024 | 4

Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls'

Cash to go out as refunds to punters

Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 35

Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble

Tech giants confident everything's in order

AI + ML25 Apr 2024 | 4

Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI

High-flying AI scientist claims unfair dismissal following pregnancy leave

AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 47

Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road

Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan

Storage17 Apr 2024 | 13

Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says

Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect

Networks12 Apr 2024 | 8

GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes

And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way

Off-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 15

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources

Exclusive Users report being pointed to other EU regions if they need more grunt

On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 115

AWS severs connection with several hundred staff

'Necessary,' 'focusing our efforts,' 'deliver maximum impact' ... sounds just like all the other tech layoffs lately

PaaS + IaaS03 Apr 2024 | 13

Amazon to lure upstarts with $500K in AWS AI credits each

Come on in, drill into Anthropic and Mistral – that's not the sound of a door slamming shut behind you

AI + ML02 Apr 2024 | 1

Amazon fined in Europe for screwing shoppers with underhand dark patterns

E-commerce titan to appeal sanction amounting to three hours of annual profit

Personal Tech29 Mar 2024 | 58