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2025-10-20

"It was DNS" - problems in the AWS zone "us-east-1" cause a havoc on the internet.

As Amazon is one of the largest cloud providers, issues in their “AWS” cloud affect many other services. The issue was in the “us-east-1” zone. As “us-east-1” is the first compartment of AWS, many services still run exclusively in “us-east-1” or on this particular zone. The services began to recover since 11:30 (CET). Outside of Amazon's own services — like Prime Video and “global AWS features” — the outage impacted Epic Games, various Apple services, Atlassian services, Docker, Snapchat, Roblox, Robinhood, Coinbase, McDonald's app, and even the Signal messenger (this list is not comprehensive). According to Amazon, the root cause were problems with the DNS (domain name) resolution of its DynamoDB product. This product is apparently used internally by various “global features”, such as IAM (identity access management). “During this time, customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases.”

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2025-06-13

Amazon renews deal to buy 1.92 GW nuclear power

The retail and data center giant has renewed a deal to buy nuclear power for its data centers in Pennsylvania. The original contract dates back to last year, but was overturned by regulators when Amazon tried to avoid paying fees to support the public power grid.

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2025-06-10

Amazon wants to create a 'not so sovereign' sovereign cloud in German region deprived of water

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Local politicians cheer Amazon announced plans to create a 'sovereign cloud' in Germany, but critics claim it might be not so sovereign at all. After all US laws do still apply to subsidiaries of Amazon. This would mean US intelligence services could still spy on Germany and European customer's data and or even black mail Europeans. Amazon plans building data centers in Brandenburg (Germany), a region suffering from a water shortage. The investment value will be about 8 billion Euros.

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2025-06-05

Carbon emission grew 182% from 2020-2023 - Amazon with the largest growth

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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published a report showing that major cloud providers have massively increased their emissions. Amazon's operational carbon emissions grew the most at 182% in 2023 compared to three years before, followed by Microsoft at 155%, Meta at 145% and Alphabet at 138%. Interestingly, Amazon claims it is running on 100% clean energy. Reuters reported first.