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 | 27
Amazon puts down its Astro robotic business watchdog Now even the 'droids are being laid off – sheesh! Bootnotes03 Jul 2024 | 18
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 | 4
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 | 114
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
Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 3
Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI Updated Twitter tipster points to suspicious signs from author producing thousands of recipes Offbeat20 Mar 2024 | 79
Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage PaaS + IaaS05 Mar 2024 | 3
Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant Off-Prem04 Mar 2024 | 13
Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs Our right to exploit workers trumps your right to probe Public Sector22 Feb 2024 | 37
Date set for for epic Amazon-FTC antitrust showdown Lina Khan may not even be in charge of watchdog by time case gets to trial, if it even goes that far Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 2
Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit Who could possibly have predicted this backlash? Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 162
Amazon overcharges shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, fresh lawsuit claims Bazaar of Bezos buries bargains, allegedly Personal Tech10 Feb 2024 | 46
Amazon extends the life of its servers to six years, expects $900m benefit in 90 days Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume Off-Prem02 Feb 2024 | 16
Amazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators Retailer steps back from Roomba-maker and 350 staff will have to step back from a job Personal Tech29 Jan 2024 | 15
FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to hunt down 'nudity, weapons, explosives' Honestly, it sounds like a fun time AI + ML26 Jan 2024 | 29
FTC drills into Amazon, Microsoft, Google over billions pledged to OpenAI, Anthropic Updated Khaaaaaaan! Khaaaaaaaaaaan! AI + ML25 Jan 2024 | 2
Amazon Ring sounds death knell for surveillance as a service Tough luck non-Americans, the cops can still see your footage Personal Tech25 Jan 2024 | 57
'Birthplace of Amazon' on the market for $2.28M 'Affordable' for the neighborhood Bootnotes24 Jan 2024 | 21
France fines Amazon €32M for watching staff so much they'd have to 'justify each break' French watchdog says non to excessive monitoring of workers as retail giant plans appeal Legal23 Jan 2024 | 13
Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment Land of the rising profit? PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2024 |
It's uncertain where personal technology is heading, but judging from CES, it smells Column Our vulture spent a week in Las Vegas – here are his key takeaways Personal Tech12 Jan 2024 | 33
Amazon already has a colossal ads business and will extend it to Prime Video in January Analysis E-tail giant seeks profitability for its vid-streaming service and a classic Big Tech dominance play Personal Tech29 Dec 2023 | 133
China’s e-commerce players commit to broaden overseas If all goes to plan, more Chinese goods will flow into the global market Off-Prem15 Dec 2023 | 6
In just one year, UK.gov's direct spend on AWS rises 76 percent Cloud vendor remains a distance behind leading tech suppliers though Public Sector13 Dec 2023 | 2
AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications' re:Invent We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer Storage12 Dec 2023 | 6
Amazon's practices are 'the essence of competition,' it tells judge Why would FTC call that antitrust, it asks in dismissal request Legal11 Dec 2023 | 12
Amazon's game-streamer Twitch to quit South Korea, citing savage network costs The idea that Big Content should pay network operators is in trouble Personal Tech08 Dec 2023 | 32
Amazon on the hook for predictably revolting use of concealed clothes hook spy cam Judge finds plaintiff's claim – that Amazon knew about illicit usage – credible enough for case to proceed Personal Tech05 Dec 2023 | 102
Amazon hitches a ride with SpaceX for Project Kuiper launches Working rockets are needed, and only a direct rival can provide for now Science04 Dec 2023 | 9
The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more re:Invent Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most Databases30 Nov 2023 | 6
Two sats, one customer: Japan's NTT signs up for Amazon's space internet Take that, Elon Off-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 1
Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant Re:Invent Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons Devops28 Nov 2023 | 7
Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites nail online orders from orbit Late-stage capitalism ... in spaaace Networks17 Nov 2023 | 22
Amazon bankrolling industry lobbying against Microsoft Azure should surprise no one Updated Coalitions battling Windows giant's software licensing are funded by AWS, report indicates Public Sector17 Nov 2023 | 11
Amazon to staff: Come into the office – it'd be a shame if something happened to your promotion We know who's been naughty and who's been nice, says box-shifting-cum-cloud-computing biz On-Prem15 Nov 2023 | 33