Is AWS losing its grip on the cloud market? Q1 2026 earnings show that while Amazon remains the scale leader, Microsoft Azure is growing faster in percentage terms. Discover why Amazon's Bedrock AI platform and custom Trainium silicon are now critical to defending its top spot.

Amazon is doubling down on the future with a staggering $200 billion spending plan for 2026. Driven by aggressive investments in its newly rebranded Amazon Leo satellite network and booming AWS artificial intelligence infrastructure, the tech giant is positioning itself to dominate both the cloud and the stars—prompting analysts to reiterate a strong "Buy" rating.

Connecting AI agents to AWS just got significantly safer and more capable. AWS's managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server has reached General Availability, giving developers an IAM-governed, fully auditable way to grant AI agents secure access to AWS APIs, up-to-date documentation, and sandboxed script execution.

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).