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.”

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

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

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

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

Under the Verizon AI Connect agreement, the telecom giant will construct long-haul, low-latency fiber pathways to enhance the performance and reliability of AI workloads running on AWS cloud. The companies did not disclose financial details of the deal.

AWS outage reports spiked again for the cloud service yesterday (October 29) after a mass outage last week. But this time, AWS was quick to dispute these reports with us.