Amazon’s cloud story entered a new chapter this quarter: AWS reported roughly $30.8–$30.9 billion in revenue for Q2 2025 while launching a major, renewable‑powered infrastructure region in New Zealand—an investment AWS says will strengthen APAC presence, lower latency for local customers, and...
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Amazon’s cloud business is no longer the unambiguous growth engine it once was; recent quarters have exposed a gap between scale and momentum that has competitors seizing narrative advantage and enterprise mindshare.
Background: the claim that started this debate
The Analytics Insight piece...
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Amazon’s Q2 results forced a recalibration: the cloud unit that once underwrote Amazon’s long-term bets is still massive, but its growth and margins are under pressure in an AI-driven market that increasingly rewards integrated, productized models over raw compute capacity. The data from Q2 —...
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Amazon’s recent pullback has reignited a familiar debate: is Amazon falling behind in the race to monetize generative AI — or is the company quietly laying the groundwork to reclaim momentum? Investor jitters about AWS’s cloud revenue growth and Microsoft’s head start with OpenAI have pressured...
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For more than a decade, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the engine that transformed Amazon from an online retailer into one of the world’s most valuable and strategically diversified technology companies—and yet, the cloud computing race is no longer a straight sprint for raw scale. Recent...
Amazon’s cloud engine is still humming, but the tempo has slowed: the company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit reported mid‑teens growth in its most recent quarter while rivals logged dramatically higher expansion, a gap that spooked investors, sharpened questions about AWS’s AI strategy, and...
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Cloud professionals starting 2025 with a goal to pick the best cloud platform to learn face a market reshaped by generative AI, massive infrastructure spend, and accelerating multi‑cloud adoption — and the practical answer is nuanced: AWS remains the safest, most versatile entry, Azure is the...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upended the cloud computing landscape by announcing the integration of OpenAI’s cutting-edge AI models, disrupting Microsoft’s previously exclusive access and promising a transformative era for enterprise artificial intelligence at scale. The move, which debuted on...
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In a dramatic shakeup of the cloud AI landscape, Amazon Web Services announced it will now host OpenAI’s newly unveiled open-weight GPT models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, on both Bedrock and SageMaker platforms. This strategic decision bypasses Microsoft Azure’s long-held exclusive rights to...
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When cloud customers start grumbling, you know someone’s AI honeymoon is over. Recent reports reveal a swelling chorus of AWS users expressing their dismay—not with the price or speed, but with the frustrating usage limits on Anthropic’s cutting-edge AI models delivered via Bedrock, Amazon’s...
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If you’ve got the Link Removed and want to get some virtual dirt under your very real fingernails, check out the new free content waiting for you from the Pixel Heads team. Farm Life, this week’s Bedrock Community Celebration gift, is now available in the Minecraft Marketplace. Head over to...
Mojang Studios is ending the year by celebrating the Minecraft community in weekly free giveaways. Link Removed players can look for free content made by community creators for both Bedrock and Java editions of the game, with new character creator items and maps over the course of four weeks...