… S3 launched on March 14th, 2006, and according to Amazon’s birthday party post by principal developer advocate Sébastien Stormacq, initially offered “approximately one petabyte of total storage capacity across about 400 storage nodes in 15 racks spanning three data centers, with 15 Gbps of total ba… …
… In fairness, nobody plans for this Before anyone starts composing their "AWS should have been prepared for this" hot take: No. Stop. AWS engineers availability zones for certain classes of failure. …
… Emissions up 48% since 2019 Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest AWS wants to cook its datacenter chips with vegetable oil As The Register has previously reported, hyperscalers are not being entirely transparent about their carbon footprint, and AWS was … …
… The Financial Times report follows coverage last month that AWS's Kiro AI tool made system changes that affected the availability of AWS Cost Explorer in the Mainland China partition. …
… It also points to its AWS IAM Outbound Identity Federation, which enables customers to federate their AWS identities to external services, and claims it supports new interoperability protocols as they come along, such as the model context protocol MCP for AI. …
… AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM have been the top five vendors — in that order — since 2022. …
… When Microsoft announced its Anthropic partnership in November and advertised Claude availability for Foundry customers, he assumed his credits applied. …
… Retrofitting facilities is expensive and slow, and energy availability now shapes infrastructure decisions. …
… MORE CONTEXT AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline Most devs don't trust AI-generated code, but fail to check it anyway 'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year. …
… AWS reportedly lost business to Google Cloud last year due to inability to meet AI demand. And Microsoft Azure has been having capacity troubles recently. GitHub too has been struggling with availability . …