Will AI trigger a wave of mass unemployment? AWS CEO Matt Garman doesn't think so. Pushing back against industry doomsayers, Garman argues that while routine tasks will be automated, AI will ultimately create massive value, demand for higher-level systems engineering, and entirely new categories of work.

After leading AI strategy at PwC for nearly two years, Matt Wood is heading back to AWS. In his newly created role as Chief AI and Technology Officer, Wood will work directly with enterprise customers to help them realize the full value of AWS's rapidly expanding artificial intelligence ecosystem.

In what security experts are calling a textbook example of poor security hygiene, a CISA contractor left highly privileged AWS GovCloud keys and internal passwords exposed on a public GitHub repository. Shockingly, the administrator explicitly bypassed GitHub's automated secret detection tools, leaving the sensitive government data completely unprotected.

Stuck with an AI bill for tens of thousands of dollars? You're not alone by a long shot. AWS and Google Cloud users are reporting skyrocketing costs as compromised API keys and flawed automatic billing mechanisms leave developers on the hook for massive unauthorized AI usage.

AWS has just made Amazon Aurora Serverless dramatically faster and more efficient. The newly released Platform Version 4 boasts a 45% faster scale-up time during traffic spikes and up to 34% better database performance, delivering major cost savings for demanding workloads.

The WNBA is bringing cutting-edge AI to the court. In a first-of-its-kind deal for a women's professional sports league, the WNBA has partnered with AWS to launch "Inside the Game"—a new platform offering advanced, real-time analytics to give fans unprecedented insights into every play and possession.

Could logistics be the new cloud? Following the massively successful playbook of AWS, Amazon is now renting out its world-class shipping and fulfillment network to third-party businesses through the newly launched Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS).

After a major multi-day outage disrupted apps across the internet, Amazon has revealed the culprit: a "thermal event" at a northern Virginia data center. AWS teams successfully restored the cooling systems, stabilizing capacity and bringing impaired resources back online.

A major Amazon Web Services outage affecting the US-EAST-1 region has entered its second day, causing ripple effects across the internet. With popular apps like Coinbase and FanDuel experiencing significant disruptions, Amazon warns that full recovery efforts are moving slower than previously anticipated.

Are AI agents going to replace software engineers? AWS CEO Matt Garman says the exact opposite. Dismissing industry fears about AI-driven job disruption, Garman claims the demand for coders is rapidly accelerating and announced that Amazon plans to hire 11,000 interns in 2026.