The European Commission has reached a preliminary conclusion that Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure should be designated as "gatekeepers" under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). This move marks a significant expansion of the EU's regulatory reach, bringing cloud infrastructure—the backbone of the modern digital and AI economy—under the same strict competition rules as social media and app stores.


EU Eyes Tougher Rules For Cloud Giants | AWS and Azure Face EU Digital Scrutiny

Amazon has disclosed for the first time that its global data centres used more than 9 billion litres of water in 2025. The announcement comes as AI-driven data-centre growth faces increasing scrutiny over its impact on water resources, energy use and local communities.

'9 billion litres': Here's how much water Amazon's data centres used in 2025

Amazon Web Services posted its fastest growth in over three years, with Q4 2025 revenue up 24 per cent to $35.6 billion. Strong enterprise cloud deals and rising AI workloads pushed AWS to a $142 billion annual run rate, reinforcing its lead in AI-driven cloud demand.

How AI, data and enterprise spending are driving AWS revenue growth

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage affecting users in the US and India early Thursday. Multiple platforms and applications relying on AWS reported disruptions, causing widespread service interruptions. Engineers are working to restore full functionality as users monitor updates.

AWS Outage Hits Services in US and India, Users Report Widespread Issues

OpenAI has finalized a massive $38 billion, seven-year deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power its AI infrastructure. The partnership grants OpenAI access to hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs and millions of CPUs to train next-generation AI models at scale.

OpenAI–AWS: OpenAI Strikes Mega $38B Cloud Deal with Amazon Web Services 

An outage at Amazon Web Services brought parts of the internet to a standstill. From social media platforms to banking systems and Amazon's own products, services across the world came to a halt. The failure exposed how deeply the world depends on a handful of cloud giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. In this video, we explain what caused the AWS outage, why a glitch in one company’s servers can ripple across the globe, and what it reveals about the dangers of centralising the internet’s infrastructure.

Explainer: Why Did AWS Outage Cause Half The Internet To Go Dark?

On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a massive outage in its critical US-East-1 region, disrupting countless services around the globe. Major platforms like Snapchat, Perplexity AI, Alexa, Roblox, Fortnite, Prime Video, Reddit, and even McDonald's app experienced crashes, login issues, and backend failures. In this video, we break down what happened, which services were impacted, and what Amazon has said so far about this huge tech disruption. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell for updates on major tech news!

AWS Outage Cripples Internet: Snapchat, Alexa, Perplexity, Roblox, & More Go Down Globally

OpenAI has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer its new open-weight AI models on the cloud. This move expands OpenAI’s reach beyond Microsoft Azure and fuels competition in cloud AI services.

OpenAI partners with Amazon AWS to expand its AI services

The Australian defence minister, Richard Marles, announced that Australia will shift its top-secret intelligence data to the cloud under an A$2 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services.

Australia secures $2 Billion deal with AWS to fortify intelligence

An Illinois jury said on Wednesday that Amazon Web Services (AWS), the big cloud-service group owned by Amazon, must pay a tech firm named Kove $525 million. This is because they broke Kove's rights to patents on how to store data.

Amazon Web Services ordered to pay $525 million for patent infringement

Amazon.com said cloud services offered by its unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), were restored after a big disruption on Tuesday affected websites of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Boston Globe among others.

Amazon cloud services back up after big outage hits thousands of users

E-commerce company Amazon began laying off employees in its human resource and cloud computing divisions on Wednesday as part of the previously announced job cuts that will affect 9,000 people.

Amazon cuts deep: largest layoffs in company's history hit cloud computing, ad teams

After reports claimed the UK had struck a deal with Amazon’s cloud computing platform, AWS, home secretary Priti Patel is reportedly under pressure to reveal if there is a national security risk involved in striking the deal with the US company.

Amazon cloud contract: UK opposition demands explanation from Priti Patel

Britain’s three spy agencies have entered into a contract with Amazon’s cloud computing platform, AWS, to host classified materials aimed at facilitating data analysis and artificial intelligence for espionage activities, the Financial Times has reported.

British spy agencies sign deal with Amazon to host ‘top secret data’ for espionage: Report

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that Andy Jassy would be taking over as CEO of the company after he steps down later this year. Jassy, 52, heads the company's valuable on-demand cloud computing division Amazon Web Services(AWS).

Meet Andy Jassy, next Amazon CEO after Jeff Bezos

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