From a jaw-dropping $100B Anthropic partnership and OpenAI alliances to sweeping corporate layoffs and data center disruptions, look back at the top 10 defining AWS headlines shaping the tech industry this year.

In a massive shift for national defense tech, AWS has launched its Secret Cloud for Industry (ASCI), enabling defense contractors to run classified workloads on the cloud for the first time. Backed by over $1 billion in migration initiatives, this rollout marks a major evolution in military and intelligence capabilities.

AWS is shaking up the enterprise AI race with a massive $1 billion investment to build a "Forward Deployed Engineering" unit. Discover how Amazon plans to send thousands of its own top tech talent directly into client offices to build, deploy, and scale custom AI systems in record time.

AWS CEO Matt Garman explains why the AI transition is moving vastly faster than the cloud revolution, and why he remains wildly optimistic about the future of human jobs in an automated world.

KRAFTON and AWS are looking well beyond the gaming sector, as their top executives recently met in Seattle to explore the frontiers of AI model training, advanced simulation, and robotics.

Before an NBA team goes on the clock, their front office needs every piece of data available to evaluate a prospect. Thanks to the AWS NBA Draft Combine and Insights by SportRadar, teams and fans now have access to advanced analytics that connect physical measurements with in-game performance data to provide a comprehensive look at the league's next wave of talent.

AWS is making it easier than ever for AI agents to write your backend. The cloud giant has launched Blocks, a new open-source TypeScript framework that allows developers and AI assistants to build local backends that deploy perfectly to AWS production services with zero code changes.

EchoStar can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The FCC's highly anticipated re-auction of AWS-3 wireless licenses has officially cleared $3.1 billion, meaning the telecom giant will not be on the hook for a massive shortfall payment over spectrum licenses its subsidiary Dish returned nearly a decade ago.

Are your enterprise AI agents running amok? To solve the growing chaos of fragmented AI deployments, ServiceNow and AWS have expanded their partnership to build a unified governance architecture. By seamlessly integrating ServiceNow AI Control Tower with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the two tech giants are helping businesses put necessary guardrails in place to safely scale autonomous solutions.

Is Azure struggling to keep up with the AI boom? Driven by explosive demand for GitHub Copilot, Microsoft is reportedly turning to its biggest cloud rival, AWS, to plug massive compute capacity gaps and prevent further outages as platform commits skyrocket toward 14 billion in 2026.