AWS US-EAST-1 Power Loss Highlights Fragility of Cloud Infrastructure Amazon Web Services is scrambling to restore full service after a power outage hit its notoriously troubled US-EAST-1 region, leaving customers with impaired EC2 instances and disrupted workloads. The... AWS Cloud Computing Enterprise Infrastructure Outage May 8, 2026
AWS Boosts Aurora Serverless with Up to 30% Better Performance and Smarter Scaling for Bursty AI Workloads AWS has announced a major Aurora Serverless update, stating that the newest platform version delivers up to 30% better performance than prior versions while adding smarter scaling behavior for variabl... AWS Agentic AI Aurora Serverless Cloud Databases Cloud Infrastructure Apr 21, 2026
AWS Expands EBS Volume Modification Capabilities in European Sovereign Cloud Region AWS What's New published a notable update in the past 24 hours: AWS extended Amazon EBS volume modification enhancements to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region, improving storage operations for so... AWS Cloud Infrastructure Data Sovereignty Enterprise IT Apr 21, 2026
Anthropic-Amazon $5B Funding Deal Signals a New Era of AI Cloud Lock-In Anthropic has secured another major cash injection from Amazon, with TechCrunch reporting a fresh $5 billion investment that pushes Amazon’s total backing of the company to roughly $13 billion . The c... AI AWS Anthropic Cloud Infrastructure Enterprise Strategy Apr 20, 2026
AWS Launches Amazon Bio Discovery, Bringing Agentic AI Workflows to Drug Research Amazon Web Services has announced Amazon Bio Discovery , a new AI application aimed at accelerating life sciences research by connecting model-driven design with lab feedback loops. The promise is str... AI AWS Drug Discovery Healthcare Life Sciences Apr 14, 2026