A recent Amazon Web Services report points to continued global cloud growth across sectors, with security, compliance and cost ranking among the key factors shaping adoption.

“AWS is growing at a pace we haven’t seen since 2022, re-accelerating to 20.2% YoY,” Andy Jassy, the president and CEO of Amazon, said in the company’s earnings announcement. “We continue to see strong demand in AI and core infrastructure, and we’ve been focused on accelerating capacity — adding more than 3.8 gigawatts in the past 12 months.”

Verizon announced a deal with Amazon Web Services on Monday to build high-capacity fiber routes connecting AWS data centers, aiming to strengthen infrastructure for the next generation of artificial intelligence applications.

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, said its service had recovered after a widespread disruption on Monday degraded services for a range of customers including

Cloud security is now a key component of business strategy, as multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures have become the norm.

The agency is taking note of the growing number of cloud services providers cleared at the FedRAMP High level.

Amazon announced on Monday a seven-year deal to supply cloud computing capacity to the maker of ChatGPT. ・Retail investors and analysts say the deal is a major win for Amazon Cloud Services, which was previously seen as lagging behind its competitors.