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On Monday, Amazon announced a partnership that will allow OpenAI to use the company’s cloud computing services to run AI systems for products like the popular ChatGPT. OpenAI is paying $38 billion to access Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers and “hundreds of thousands of state-of-the-art NVIDIA GPUs.”
Verizon announced a deal with Amazon Web Services on Monday to build high-capacity fiber routes connecting AWS data centers, aiming to strengthen infrastructure for the next generation of artificial intelligence applications.
On social media and elsewhere, impacted employees and others reacted to Amazon's decision to cut 14,000 corporate and tech workers across numerous divisions.
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Amazon’s Return-to-Office Chickens Come Home to Roost
The exodus of senior talent from Amazon Web Services might be why it took forever to figure out why it broke the internet.
Were you affected by Monday’s AWS outage? Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud computing service, went down for over 12 hours, and took a big chunk of the Internet with it. “The incident highlights the complexity and fragility of the internet,
Amazon ( AMZN) crushed Q3 estimates with better-than-expected net sales, profits, and subscription revenues, and more importantly, a beat on the company’s AWS, all of which offset compressed margins and launched shares sharply higher in after-hours trading.
Yes, 30,000 job cuts is a big deal—but more damaging for the tech industry is how leadership talks about these layoffs.