Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI's for-profit transformation OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, adding another hyperscaler alongside Microsoft Azure for its growing AI compute needs.

AWS outage from DNS, EC2 and DynamoDB issues explained as cloud infrastructure at data centers and potentially AI technology played a role as Amazon invests in AI.

Amazon Web Services plays a central role in powering Zoox’s futuristic robotaxis. The Amazon subsidiary relies on the cloud provider’s infrastructure to train, test and refine the machine learning models that handle navigation and safety.

Internal dependencies again prove problematic Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region, which last week caused massive disruption to online services, is having another bad day as internal dependencies again prove problematic.

The company listed all of the systems that went haywire, but never really identified what happened differently that day to cause problems. Worse yet, putting out technology brushfires this way leaves the forest in danger of burning again.