The Register reports AWS added Graviton-powered Redshift instances, claiming faster analytics for data-heavy workloads.

Reports about OpenAI’s compute strategy and Amazon access sharpened attention on AI cloud dependence and costs.

Amazon began offering OpenAI products on AWS after Microsoft and OpenAI loosened their exclusive cloud relationship.

Amazon has agreed to invest as much as $25 billion more in Anthropic, deepening ties as Anthropic commits over $100 billion to AWS cloud over a decade.

Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Bio Discovery, an agentic AI application with 40+ biology models to speed early-stage drug discovery for scientists.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's shareholder letter defended massive AI infrastructure spending and disclosed that its custom chip business now exceeds $20 billion in annual revenue.

AWS CEO Matt Garman explained Amazon's strategy of simultaneously backing both Anthropic ($8B) and OpenAI ($50B), saying there is no single winner in AI.

Uber expands its AWS contract to leverage Amazon's custom chips for ride-sharing features and AI model training, bypassing Oracle and Google.

OpenAI has signed a new partnership with Amazon Web Services to distribute its AI models to U.S. defense and civilian government agencies, including through AWS GovCloud and classified regions, expanding its federal footprint amid Anthropic's Pentagon fallout.

Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage in December after its agentic AI coding tool Kiro autonomously deleted and recreated a customer-facing environment. Amazon attributes the incident to user error, not AI autonomy.

Amazon reveals unprecedented $200 billion capital expenditure plan for 2026, primarily targeting AI infrastructure and data centers, marking a 50% increase from 2025.

AI search startup Perplexity expands beyond AWS with three-year $750M Microsoft Azure deal, gaining access to Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI models.

AWS data center in Dublin provides 100% of heating for university campus through innovative waste heat recovery, demonstrating sustainable AI infrastructure solutions.