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.

Two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted AWS infrastructure in the UAE and Bahrain, Amazon has announced that restoring full cloud operations will take several more months. With billing suspended and an estimated $150 million in usage charges already waived, AWS is strongly urging affected customers to migrate their data to alternate cloud regions.

Amazon Web Services posted its fastest growth in nearly four years, with Q1 2026 revenue jumping 28% to $37.6 billion. However, this massive AI-driven cloud expansion comes at a high cost, as Amazon's quarterly capital expenditures topped $43 billion to support the infrastructure boom.

Ahead of the 2026 Draft Combine in Chicago, the NBA has launched its new AWS-powered Data Hub. The platform turns raw testing metrics—like wingspans and vertical leaps—into valuable insights, offering historical context that lets fans and analysts compare this year's top prospects against a quarter-century of Combine data.