AWS is growing 20% year-over-year and ended the third quarter with $33.1 billion in sales through the first nine months of the year, Amazon announced in its third-quarter earnings release on Thursday. The business segment’s operating income increased to $11.4 billion in Q3, up from $10.4 billion at the same point in 2024.

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

A major outage last week disrupted Amazon's cloud division for 15 hours, affecting hundreds of companies and raising questions about AWS' resilience.

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

Accelerating a business at the scale of AWS, which has an $132 billion annualized run rate, is no easy feat, President and CEO Andy Jassy highlighted on the earnings call. While Amazon's cloud-computing competitors might have higher percentage growth,

Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers cloud servers that allow these services, and millions of other websites and platforms, to run. AWS is a cloud-computing platform that provides the infrastructure underpinning much of the internet.

The widespread outage last week caused headaches across the industry. But for some operators, it was business as usual, thanks

Disruptions to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing services Monday morning caused outages for several websites, including Snapchat and Venmo.

Thousands of websites and apps like Snapchat, Roblox, Ring and more were down or experiencing issues Monday morning as a major cloud computing service went offline.

Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service run by Amazon, experienced a significant outage that disrupted numerous websites on Oct. 20.