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In the shadow of the cloud: Thane protests proposed hyperscale data centre

September 06, 2026 11:12 am

As Mumbai Metropolitan Region races to become a data centre hub, Thane residents are asking what the digital boom will cost a city already struggling with water, power and space

AWS CEO defends hiring fresh grads in AI era: ‘You need their energy and excitement’

June 30, 2026 9:11 am

Matt Garman said Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and graduates this year because they bring fresh ideas, adapt quickly, and embrace new AI tools.

Pentagon reaches agreements with top AI companies, but not Anthropic

May 03, 2026 9:28 am

The seven companies are SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, several of which already work with the Pentagon.

Iran attacks Amazon's cloud business in Bahrain: Report

April 02, 2026 4:00 am

Iran's attack on Amazon in Bahrain raises tensions after a reported strike on AWS facility triggered a fire, following threats against US companies in the region.

Amazon's AWS reports outage after UAE data centre struck by 'objects'

March 03, 2026 8:44 am

The cloud division ​expected full recovery to "be many hours away" ⁠for both UAE and Bahrain.

Amazon's cloud unit reports fire after objects hit UAE data center

March 02, 2026 10:21 am

The UAE is reeling from Iran's ⁠retaliatory ​missile and drone strikes following U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

Amazon's cloud unit hit by outage involving AI tools in December

February 24, 2026 8:53 am

The report said ​AWS ​suffered a 13-hour interruption ⁠to a system used by customers when engineers allowed its Kiro ‌AI coding tool to carry out certain changes.

AWS, Yotta to support govt apps and services during peak demand with hybrid ‘Outposts’

February 18, 2026 8:59 am

Speaking at an AWS Symposium on the sidelines of the AI Summit in New Delhi, Minister of State for IT Jitin Prasada said that India will ensure that everyone reaps the benefits of AI by democratising access to compute.

Industry body representing Microsoft, AWS seeks copyright exemption to train AI in India

November 08, 2025 10:47 am

It has also recommended the removal of restrictions to cross border data transfers while expanding access to “non-sensitive high-value government datasets”.

What the AWS outage reveals about the internet’s backbone

October 23, 2025 4:30 pm

AWS outage October 2025: The cloud computing market is said to have a brittle foundation because it is dominated by just a few hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

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