“AWS is growing at a pace we haven’t seen since 2022, re-accelerating to 20.2% YoY,” Andy Jassy, the president and CEO of Amazon, said in the company’s earnings announcement. “We continue to see strong demand in AI and core infrastructure, and we’ve been focused on accelerating capacity — adding more than 3.8 gigawatts in the past 12 months.”

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

A major outage last week disrupted Amazon's cloud division for 15 hours, affecting hundreds of companies and raising questions about AWS' resilience.

Cloud security is now a key component of business strategy, as multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures have become the norm.

Accelerating a business at the scale of AWS, which has an $132 billion annualized run rate, is no easy feat, President and CEO Andy Jassy highlighted on the earnings call. While Amazon's cloud-computing competitors might have higher percentage growth,

Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers cloud servers that allow these services, and millions of other websites and platforms, to run. AWS is a cloud-computing platform that provides the infrastructure underpinning much of the internet.

Thousands of websites and apps like Snapchat, Roblox, Ring and more were down or experiencing issues Monday morning as a major cloud computing service went offline.

Disruptions to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing services Monday morning caused outages for several websites, including Snapchat and Venmo.

The widespread outage last week caused headaches across the industry. But for some operators, it was business as usual, thanks

Amazon Web Services Inc. not only leads the cloud-computing game, but it ranks at the top of the list for customer satisfaction. Why? The variety of services and support the cloud giant offers make it a popular choice in the enterprise, according to Keith ...