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Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit

Starlink challenger drops the codename, but full-blown service still years out

PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2025 | 17

Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches

Bezos booster blasted by solar emissions

Science13 Nov 2025 | 18

Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape

Vendors (still) keep mum

Security12 Nov 2025 | 4

Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software

Opinion Amazon's spat with Perplexity shows that technology is not the only blocker for the agentic era

AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 35

Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks

Some clever networking hacks open the door

AI + ML05 Nov 2025 | 2

Amazon complains that Perplexity's agentic shopping bot is a terrible customer

Perplexity likens Amazon's legal threat to an attempt to ban access to ... wrenches?

AI + ML05 Nov 2025 | 44

Amazon juggernaut continues hauling in more cash despite recent bad news

The spending will continue until AI revenue improves

Off-Prem31 Oct 2025 | 1

Amazon axes 14,000 desk jobs in AI-powered slimming plan

Layoffs are part of an efficiency drive, not a sign of struggle, says HR exec

AI + ML28 Oct 2025 | 36

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours

PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2025 | 115

Amazon's AI specs aim to stop delivery drivers getting lost between van and porch

Why monitor staff through phones or cameras when Bezos' boxshifter can strap surveillance to their heads?

Offbeat23 Oct 2025 | 52

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

column When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2025 | 188

AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane

Analysis Too many services depend not just on one cloud provider, but on one location

Off-Prem20 Oct 2025 | 67

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Amazon reports DNS issues hitting DynamoDB, leaving services from Roblox to McDonald's struggling

PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2025 | 223

Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington...with X-Energy mini-reactors

Now they just need to get regulatory approval

Networks17 Oct 2025 | 39

Amazon turns James Bond into the Man Without the Golden Gun

Prime Video bowdlerized Bond just in time for 007's special day

Offbeat06 Oct 2025 | 110

Amazon grounds drone deliveries in Arizona after two crashed into a crane

No injuries, but the FAA and NTSB are investigating

Offbeat02 Oct 2025 | 42

Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime

Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net

Legal25 Sep 2025 | 16

Gigs in space: Amazon breaks bandwidth barrier with Kuiper's satellite broadband

Signs up JetBlue for in-flight connection, but not until 2027

Off-Prem04 Sep 2025 | 4

AWS catches Russia's Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials

Look who's visiting the watering hole these days

Security29 Aug 2025 | 3

Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE

Move along, nothing to see here

Patches20 Aug 2025 | 2

Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon

Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon

Systems19 Aug 2025 | 5

Alexa hits snooze on basic functions as alarms and timers KO'd in UK outage

Brits wake to a beeping nightmare as Amazon’s AI assistant forgets how to set – or stop – alarms

Personal Tech14 Aug 2025 | 47

AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev

Updated Cloud giant erased decade of work – denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool

Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2025 | 80

Amazon’s Kuiper satellite broadband to offer commercial services in mid-2026, at least in Australia

Updated Maybe sooner in other places

Networks05 Aug 2025 | 6

Untangling the Jeff Bezos web: Who pays for the billionaire's space lust?

Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart

Science04 Aug 2025 | 21

AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill

Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs

Devops31 Jul 2025 | 12

Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped

Malicious actor reportedly sought to expose AWS 'security theater'

Security24 Jul 2025 | 9

Laid-off AWS employee describes cuts as 'cold and soulless'

Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing

AI + ML18 Jul 2025 | 63

Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far

deep dive It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate

On-Prem04 Jul 2025 | 26

Amazon's latest Graviton 4 EC2 instances pack dual 300Gbps NICs

And no, that's not a typo

PaaS + IaaS02 Jul 2025 | 2

Amazon's Ring can now use AI to 'learn the routines of your residence'

It's meant to cut down on false positives but could be a trove for mischief-makers

Security25 Jun 2025 | 75

Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink

ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites

Networks24 Jun 2025 | 6

Amazon CISO: Iranian hacking crews ‘on high alert’ since Israel attack

Interview Meanwhile, next-gen script kiddies are levelling up faster thanks to agentic AI

CSO18 Jun 2025 | 10

Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff

Expect headcount reductions over the next few years, says Andy Jassy

AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 48

Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch

Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad

Science17 Jun 2025 | 12

Amazon has changed its nuclear deal in Pennsylvania to bypass grumpy regulators

New front-of-the-meter agreement avoids direct delivery snag that drew regulator pushback

Systems12 Jun 2025 | 11

AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge

CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacity

European Supercomputing16 May 2025 | 66

Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans

Rise of the machines postponed ... for now

AI + ML13 May 2025 | 30

Amazon touts Vulcan – its first robot with a sense of 'touch'

Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper

Offbeat08 May 2025 | 13

How Amazon red-teamed Alexa+ to keep your kids from ordering 50 pizzas

RSAC Will the personal assistant shop for groceries? Or get hijacked by a teen?

Spotlight on RSAC01 May 2025 | 35

Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices

World War Fee Revealing import taxes would be 'hostile and political' to Dear Leader

Personal Tech30 Apr 2025 | 230

Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit on an Atlas V

One launch down, 80-plus to go, for a pittance compared to planned AWS spending

Networks29 Apr 2025 | 12

Bezos cost Amazon more than Jassy did in 2024 compensation stakes

Exec pay outlined in Proxy Statement, and things did not go well for either workforce or calls for climate transparency reports

PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2025 | 8

Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance

Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week

Science03 Apr 2025 | 7

Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point

Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot

Applications18 Mar 2025 | 28

Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud

Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway

AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 81

iRobot may be iDead in iYear

We're doomba, say Roomba goombas, unless...

Personal Tech12 Mar 2025 | 47

AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot

Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction

Science27 Feb 2025 | 13

As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick

License To Kill -9 ... For Your iPhone Only ... AI Another Day ... The name's Bezos, Jeff Bezos

Bootnotes21 Feb 2025 | 143

Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM

Updated And US government adverts at that, say senators

Personal Tech08 Feb 2025 | 42

Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build

Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age

AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 4

Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet

Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear

Science06 Feb 2025 | 9

Amazon's Kuiper secures license to take on Starlink in the UK

Everybody is going to play nice, OK?

Networks04 Feb 2025 | 33

Amazon sued for allegedly slurping sensitive data via advertising SDK

Harvesting of location data and other personal info without user consent, lawsuit claims

Personal Tech30 Jan 2025 | 24

Real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret

Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google

On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 10

Former Amazon exec appointed as boss of UK's competition watchdog

Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being 'sufficiently focused on growth'

CxO22 Jan 2025 | 11