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AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI
When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps.

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Amazon apologises to customers impacted by huge AWS outage
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Major AWS Outage Resolved, Amazon Promises Detailed Breakdown
AWS was down — live updates following massive outage that broke the internet
In the early morning hours of October 20, Amazon Web Services suffered from what became a multihour outage that affected a multitude of websites, apps and platforms.

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Amazon workers joke 'kill switch' triggered massive outage that took down 'half the internet'
AWS outage takes down most of the internet, here is what really happened
The impact was felt not only by social media platforms but even banking apps and airline services were hampered.

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Amazon’s global outage exposes major vulnerabilities to American life
AWS outage impacts popular sites and services, now ‘fully mitigated’

Amazon’s latest attempt at selling stuff with AI is the ‘Help Me Decide’ button

Amazon is launching a new AI-powered tool that’s supposed to help you choose which product to buy. Now, when you look at multiple similar items on Amazon’s app or mobile website, it may display a “Help me decide” button that picks one for you based on your browsing activity, searches, shopping history, and preferences.

Amazon is 'last place' in the AI cloud race. Why that might not be a 'death sentence.'

One of the top tech analysts on Wall Street says other cloud providers are doing better in the generative AI era.

Amazon defends ambitious AI strategy that could prevent 600,000 future hires through innovation

Amazon's AI systems and advanced technology will create a "safe, more productive" environment for employees as the e-commerce giant plans to avoid hiring 600,000 workers by 2033.

Amazon Testing New Warehouse Robots and AI Tools for Workers

Amazon.com is building an e-commerce fulfillment business where humans are more efficient and less necessary, thanks to artificial intelligence and robots.

Amazon admits it's missing the next wave of AI startups for its cloud business

Amazon Web Services struggles to find AI solopreneurs and bootstrapped startups, highlighting a blind spot in its customer discovery process.

Amazon claims the headline isn’t robots taking jobs as it reveals new cost-cutting robots

In one post, Amazon highlighted Blue Jay, a robot it calls “an extra set of hands that helps employees with tasks that involve reaching and lifting,” and its agentic AI system Project Eluna, which “acts like an extra teammate, helping reduce that cognitive load” while optimizing sorting to reduce bottlenecks.

Amazon employees will soon suffer from alarming workplace trend

Amazon, which has asserted its dominance in retail and the tech industry with its cloud computing services, has turned heads this year with dramatic workforce changes as it invests billions into artificial intelligence.

Is Amazon The Next Big AI Winner? One Analyst Thinks Wall Street Is Wrong

Amazon is set to counter recent investor concerns about its position in the AI race, analyst Justin Post wrote.
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