Rocket Close and AWS have teamed up to revolutionize the mortgage industry with a new AI-powered document workflow system. Using Amazon Textract and Bedrock, the platform slashes mortgage processing times from 10 hours to under two minutes per package, boasting a 90% accuracy rate to help lenders close loans faster than ever.

Wall Street is resetting its expectations for Amazon stock. Fueled by surging AI demand, AWS is seeing its fastest revenue growth in over three years. But with Amazon planning a staggering $200 billion in capital expenditures for 2026 to fund its AI infrastructure, the big question remains: can its booming advertising business offset the massive costs of the cloud capacity race?

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Bahrain has reportedly sustained fire damage following a recent Iranian attack, marking the latest casualty in the escalating conflict targeting U.S. tech infrastructure in the Middle East. With the IRGC openly declaring American hyperscalers as "legitimate targets," the incident raises alarming concerns about the physical security and reliability of the region's rapidly growing cloud ecosystem.

AWS has introduced its new "frontier agents"—the AWS DevOps Agent and AWS Security Agent. Designed to operate 24/7 without constant human oversight, these autonomous AI systems investigate production incidents, execute continuous penetration testing, and manage SRE tasks across multicloud environments, transforming the economics of traditional IT operations.

Following unprecedented drone strikes on its Middle Eastern data centers, Amazon is taking the highly unusual step of waiving an entire month of AWS charges for affected customers in the UAE and Bahrain. While the move offers financial relief, it initially sparked concerns over the loss of critical compliance data—prompting AWS to assure users that their essential billing and usage records will remain intact upon request.

The notorious ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached the European Commission's AWS cloud infrastructure, claiming to have stolen over 350GB of sensitive data. While the EU's internal systems were unaffected, this major security incident exposes critical vulnerabilities in cloud account management.

Artificial intelligence is supercharging Amazon's cloud ambitions. In a recent all-hands meeting, CEO Andy Jassy predicted that AI could drive Amazon Web Services (AWS) to a staggering $600 billion in annual sales by 2036, doubling his previous estimates. Defending the company's massive $200 billion infrastructure spending plan, Jassy emphasized that AWS is laying the critical groundwork today to capture unprecedented AI demand tomorrow.

AWS and Cerebras are teaming up to shatter AI speed limits. By pairing AWS Trainium chips for prompt processing with Cerebras CS-3 systems for rapid token generation, their new "disaggregated inference" solution promises to deliver the fastest AI inference speeds in the cloud, exclusively through Amazon Bedrock.

What happens when you give an autonomous AI agent control over your production infrastructure? For one developer, it resulted in the accidental deletion of 2.5 years of critical database records in a matter of seconds. Read the harrowing post-mortem of how Claude Code executed a catastrophic Terraform command, and learn why strict human guardrails are essential in the age of AI-assisted development.

AWS consulting powerhouse Caylent has tapped Valerie Henderson as its new CEO to lead a major pivot toward "agentic AI." By integrating AI agents directly into its cloud delivery and modernization workflows, Henderson aims to redefine IT consulting—promising faster timelines, lower costs, and rapid ROI for enterprise customers navigating the complex AWS ecosystem.