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Meta will deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores to power CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar partnership that AWS describes as one of its largest Graviton commitments to date and that extends Meta's push to diversify beyond Nvidia.

Amazon's third major Anthropic investment deepens the two companies' infrastructure partnership, with Anthropic pledging over $100 billion in AWS spending over ten years.

AWS moved its cross-cloud private networking service to general availability on April 14, turning a preview into production and a bilateral deal into what analysts are calling a de facto standard.

The European Commission confirms a breach of its AWS-hosted Europa.eu platform after ShinyHunters published over 90 GB of stolen data. CERT-EU traces the intrusion to a supply chain attack on the Trivy security scanner.

The third Iceberg Summit in San Francisco brought 70+ sessions and announcements from Snowflake, Google, Dremio, Databricks, and AWS as the open table format's V3 specification reaches production readiness.

The CMA will begin a Strategic Market Status investigation in May, examining whether Microsoft's licensing practices disadvantage rival cloud providers and whether AI integration into productivity tools could entrench dominance.

The EU's executive arm is investigating a breach of its Amazon Web Services account that exposed Europa.eu infrastructure, the second cloud incident to hit the institution in 2026.

Iranian drones struck three AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain, knocking two availability zones offline and challenging the cloud industry's core resilience assumptions.

Amazon S3 marks its 20th anniversary storing over 500 trillion objects across hundreds of exabytes, while AWS progressively rewrites core storage components in Rust for memory safety and performance.

Threat actor FulcrumSec exploited the React2Shell vulnerability in LexisNexis AWS infrastructure, exfiltrating 3.9 million records and claiming access to 400,000 user profiles including U.S. government personnel.

Amazon launched its AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Brandenburg, Germany in January 2026 with €7.8 billion in investment and ~90 services, but legal experts warn the U.S. CLOUD Act may undermine its core sovereignty guarantees.

Amazon beats Q4 revenue estimates with AWS growing 24%, but a $200B capex plan — $51B above consensus — and 16,000 job cuts signal the true cost of competing in AI