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

When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps.

On Wednesday Amazon announced the completion of its data-center initiative Project Rainier, which will primarily be used to service Anthropic's compute needs. The company expects Anthropic's Claude to be using over one million of Amazon's custom Trainium2 chips by year-end.

An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`

Amazon reports Q3 2025 earnings today, with investor focus on AWS growth, AI monetization, and job cuts as analysts eye recovery.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) was due to report its earnings when this show was aired. The results saw the firm deliver 20% growth with its crucial Amazon Web Services cloud business.

AWS was the star of the retail giant's Q3 earnings report, with sales in the cloud business growing 20% year-over-year.

Amazon.com, Inc. outperformed expectations for Q3 2025, with AWS and Ads growth accelerating. Learn more about AMZN stock here.

Amazon’s cloud-computing arm plans to invest an additional $5 billion in South Korea over the next six years to build new artificial-intelligence data centers in the country.

Amazon shares soared over 11% following strong growth in its cloud division and a promising sales outlook. Amazon Web Services reported a 20% revenue increase, reassuring investors of the tech giant's position in the competitive AI sector.