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Crook exploited security hole, went on spending spree with punter's bank account A fraudster exploited a bizarre weakness in Amazon's handling of customer devices to hijack a netizen's account and...

The Pentagon said Friday it is awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, following a highly scrutinized bidding process which Amazon had been favored to win. read more

Lawmakers Ask FTC to Investigate Whether Amazon Broke Federal LawDemocratic lawmakers are urging the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into whether Amazon violated federal law...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers experienced service interruptions yesterday as the company struggled to fight off a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. As part of such an assault,...

Amazon is endorsing the idea of government regulation of facial recognition technology, as part of a wide-ranging statement of its principles on a range of social and political issues. read more

Here are Larry Dignan's key takeaways from Amazon's 2019 hardware event and what it means for smart home integration, privacy, and digital assistants.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of G4 instances, a new GPU-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance designed to help...

Amazon launched its Simple Storage Service (better known as S3) back in 2006 as a platform for storing just about any type of data under the sun. Since then, S3 buckets have become one of the most...

Quilt Data, where the world’s data comes together, launched open.quiltdata.com, a visual index to Amazon’s public cloud data. open.quiltdata.com offers unprecedented access to a universe of data...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a fully managed service that provides a high-performance, immutable,...