Amazon’s cloud can’t get a break
Another outage
Amazon’s cloud suffered yet another outage and killed off several apps and websites, including those of streaming service Hulu, office messaging app Slack and Epic Games.
Cloud is starting to break the internet
I canna hold her captain
Increasing dependence on cloud structures are starting to hurt the internet infrastructure, according to NBC news.
Amazon fined $1.28 billion for abuse of market dominance
Expect an appeal
Italy's antitrust watchdog has fined Amazon 1.13 billion euro ($1.28 billion) for alleged abuse of market dominance, in one of the biggest penalties imposed on a US tech giant in Europe.
Amazon announces AWS Private 5G
For those wanting to use 5G to build private network
Amazon has announced the preview of “AWS Private 5G,” which is a new service that aims to make it easy to deploy and manage your own private 5G network.
Congress members stunned by Amazon privacy moves
Apparently the company has been “lobbying” politicians
Five members of Congress called for federal consumer-privacy legislation after a Reuters report published last Friday revealed how Amazon has led an under-the-radar campaign to gut privacy protections in 25 states while amassing a valuable trove of personal data on American consumers.
Amazon plans to deliver prototype broadband satellites
Since there is no one in space it will leave them with a neighbouring galaxy
Amazon plans to launch its first prototype broadband satellites in Q4 2022, which would be nearly four years after SpaceX launched its first prototype Starlink satellites.
Amazon wants to build a quantum computer
Just need a few more cats
Amazon is officially entering the race to develop a quantum computer, joining US and Chinese rivals in the quest to harness the ability of cats to be both dead and alive.
Western Digital has SN750 and SN850 SSD deals on Amazon.com
WD_Black 2TB SN850 PCIe 4.0 down by $190
Western Digital launched rather neat deals over at Amazon.com, giving its WD_Black SN750 and SN850 SSDs a decent price cut.
EU set to discipline Big Tech
Also set to rain on their clouds
Draft EU rules to curb the power of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook should also tackle providers of cloud computing services for possible anti-competitive practices, a study said on Tuesday.
Amazon only protects its chums from counterfeiters
If your brand is unknown you get no protection
Amazon only seems interested in protecting big name brands from counterfeiters and not those who come up with good ideas but are not as famous.