“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.”

Improved performance and redundancy come with deeper vendor entanglement. CIOs must benchmark architecture costs and enforce pricing clarity, analysts suggest.

Comms provider and hyperscaler unite on network infrastructure and suite of products designed to enable global enterprises to deploy AI workloads at scale.

Verizon and AWS have signed an agreement to expand their fiber networks, enhancing connectivity and supporting large-scale AI workloads.

The news comes less than a week after the ChatGPT developer revised the terms of its relationship with Microsoft Corp. The tech giant was OpenAI’s sole cloud provider for about two years. Under the modified partnership, Microsoft no longer has the right of first refusal on OpenAI cloud contracts.

Partners with AWS to build fiber network connecting data centers for AI applications, expanding existing collaboration as AI demand grows.

Verizon announced a deal with Amazon Web Services on Monday to build high-capacity fiber routes connecting AWS data centers, aiming to strengthen infrastructure for the next generation of artificial intelligence applications.

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.

Verizon Business today announced a new Verizon AI Connect deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide the resilient high-capacity, low-latency network infrastructure essential for the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation.

As for what caused the problem, Microsoft said on X that "a recent configuration change to a portion of Azure infrastructure" is believed to be the culprit—distinct echoes of the AWS outage, which was reportedly also caused by a bug in the software.