Amazon has executed a massive round of corporate job cuts last week – second biggest layoff in less than six months – eliminating 16,000 roles. Even as the company’s offices reel from the loss of staff, leadership is urging remaining employees to “take care of each other” and more importantly, lean heavily on technology to…
Europe’s biggest aerospace company Airbus reportedly wants to move away from two of the biggest American technology companies — Google and Microsoft. According to a report in Register, Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud. The aerospace manufacturer uses products and services of Google…
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR AWS (Noah Berger/AWS via AP Content Services) AWS CEO Matt Garman recently spoke to Wired. In the long interview, Garman answered a range of questions, including many on how AI is shaping the technology industry, its workforce and where Amazon stands in the industry. Replying to a question on if Amazon has…
AWS CEO Matt Garman asserts AI amplifies human skills, not replacing jobs, citing efficiency gains like a codebase rewrite by six people. This comes amid Amazon’s significant AI infrastructure investment and workforce reductions, which internal communications linked to AI’s transformative power. Over 1,000 employees, however, voiced concerns about AI’s impact on democracy, jobs, and climate…
Amazon on Monday announced a $50-billion investment to expand artificial intelligence and supercomputing capacity for the US government, positioning itself as a central player in developing customised AI technology for federal missions.In a statement, the company said the initiative will give US agencies access to advanced machine-learning services, AI chips and software-development tools supporting areas…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially confirmed that its cloud infrastructure is back online after the major outage which disrupted hundreds of websites and apps across the internet. The company stated that the incident was caused by a combination of DNS resolution failures and internal load balancer degradation in its US-EAST-1 region, one of its…
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the backbone of much of the internet, has experienced its second major outage this month. Similar to the AWS outage on October 20, this one too appears to be widespread. Reports suggest disruptions across websites, apps, and cloud-based platforms. As reported by DownDetector, the incident started Wednesday (October 29) and it…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently witnessed a major outage. The service outage sent shockwaves across the internet on Monday (October 20). The outage disrupted operations at some of the world’s biggest companies including McDonald’s, Microsoft Office 365, Apple Music, Alexa and dozens of others. The outrage started early morning in the AWS’s US-East-1 region. The…
Soon after Amazon Web Services experienced an outage, Tesla CEO and owner of X (formerly Twitter) took a dig at the company through multiple posts on the social media platform. He also asked people to rely on X as the platform offers ‘no advertising hooks or strange “AWS dependencies”. “The messages are fully encrypted with…