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AWS to Provide up to $1bn in Cloud Discounts

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has signed another discount deal with a cloud provider, Amazon which will see Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the GSA with up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training across US federal agencies through to the end ...

August 09, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-ac...

August 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS Now Offers OpenAI Models Access

Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed on August 5 that it would be offering "open weight models" from OpenAI via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI for the first time. This will include OpenAI's two new open weight foundation models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b."Open weight models are an imp...

August 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS Signs 80MW PPA with Gentari

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Gentari, a Malaysian-based renewable developer, for 80MW of wind power from a project in Tamil Nadu, India.The wind project is expected to commence operations in mid-2027 and will generate approximately 300,00...

August 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS Achieves $123bn Annualized Revenue Run Rate

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved an annualized revenue run rate of more than $123 billion, CEO Andy Jassy revealed in the company's Q2 2025 earnings call.The cloud unit saw a revenue of $30.9bn for the quarter, up 17.5 percent year over year (YoY) and more than the previous quarter's $29...

August 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS and KSAT Sign Ground Station Agreement

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a ground station-as-a-service (GSaaS) partnership with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT). Under the deal, KSAT will integrate cloud services into its global network and offer access to both AWS Ground Station’s and KSAT’s antennas to its customers.“Today,...

July 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Amazon to Invest $13bn in Data Centers in Australia

Amazon is planning to invest AU$20 billion (US$13bn) by 2029 in expanding data center infrastructure in Australia. The investment will see Amazon developing additional data centers and expanding its existing facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, said of the company's inve...

June 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

LLNL Partners with AWS on AI Troubleshooting System

The US' Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for an AI-driven troubleshooting and reliability system at LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF). While AI is already used to manage the data generated by those experiences and to improve predi...

June 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Amazon to expand Data Centers using Recycled Water to 120

Amazon this week announced it will expand its use of water recycling to more than 120 locations in states and counties where the cloud giant has data center operations by 2030.“By scaling our use of recycled water—water that has been previously used and treated—we expect to preserve over 530 m...

June 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Campaigners Oppose AWS-linked Data Center in Bedfordshire, UK

Campaigners are opposing a hyperscale data center campus planned for Bedfordshire, UK, over concerns about its impact on the water supply. The facility is likely to host servers for Amazon’s AWS cloud platform, with Amazon Data Services named in several council documents. However, advocacy gr...

June 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Iberia Airlines Migrates to AWS

Iberia Airlines has decommissioned its data centers and has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, and in a multi-year transformation project, has successfully migrated to the cloud. The airline is now using AWS services, including Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Dyn...

June 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS Establishes European Sovereign Cloud as Separate Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has established a new company for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in light of increasing anxiety expressed by European customers. AWS European Sovereign Cloud will now have an independent European governance structure and its own dedicated Security Operations Center,...

June 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Amazon to Invest $10bn in North Carolina

Amazon has revealed plans to invest $10 billion for the expansion of its data center infrastructure in North Carolina which will be used to support the company's cloud and AI services, and is expected to bring 500 full time jobs to the region.“Artificial intelligence is changing the way we wor...

June 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS' Quantum General Manager Joins Google

The general manager of quantum technologies at Amazon Web Services Simone Severini has left for Google after spending more than six years at the cloud giant, which is developing its own quantum computers along with offering other companies' systems on its Braket service. He is also a professor...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS Retires Private 5G Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an update published on May 20, revealed that its 5G service had reached the end of its support date and could no longer be accessed. The Private 5G offering integrated small cell radio units, Outposts servers, a 5G core, and radio access network (RAN) software runn...

May 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Insurer Marsh McLennan Selects AWS as Preferred Cloud Provider

Insurance giant Marsh McLennan has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider across its four global businesses - Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. The company will migrate the majority of its global on-premises infrastructure to AWS, significantly reducing the company's physic...

May 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Canadian gov't urges Amazon to reconsider shutting down the distribution centers in Quebec

Amazon announced this week that it would be closing seven warehouses in Quebec over the next two months, cutting more than 1,700 workers as a result. Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry - François-Philippe Champagne - has written to Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy, requesting the co...

January 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

AWS to invest in cloud infrastructure in Maharashta, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed to invest $8.3 billion in developing cloud infrastructure for its AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region in Maharashtra, India. The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on January 22, 2025, during the World Economic Forum 2025 to formalize the pl...

January 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Susquehanna Nuclear files petition to review FERC order

Susquehanna Nuclear LLC, the owner and operator of the 2.5GW Susquehanna steam electric station, has filed a petition in the Fifth Circuit court seeking a review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) order rejecting an expanded interconnection service agreement (ISA) at the powe...

January 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

General Catalyst chooses AWS as primary cloud provder

General Catalyst, a global investment company, is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the development of healthcare AI tools, to be the company's official preferred cloud provider, supplying the necessary technology and compute for the development of solutions for healthcare systems....

January 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

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