The European Union is considering stricter scrutiny for Amazon and Microsoft's cloud businesses.

Amazon says its cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services, is back up and running normally following a widespread outage on Monday that disrupted businesses, gaming networks, and payment systems across the country.

Detroit Lions fans heading to Ford Field for Monday night’s game are facing ticket access issues due to a widespread internet outage caused by Amazon Web Services.

A problem at Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world.

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An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press.

Amazon says it will spend $20 billion on two data center complexes in Pennsylvania, including one it is building alongside a nuclear power plant that has drawn federal scrutiny over its arrangement to essentially plug right into the power plant.

Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals that would let them plug directly into power plants.

Mexican officials say companies have pledged $20 billion in new foreign direct investment in Mexico.

Amazon has reported a boost in its quarterly profits, but the company missed revenue estimates, sending its stock lower in after-hours trading.

Amazon’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services plans to invest $11 billion to build a data center in northern Indiana that will create at least 1,000 new jobs.

Amazon on Thursday reported strong revenue and profits from the summer months driven by growth in online sales and its advertising business.

Amazon’s profitable cloud business will invest roughly $7.8 billion by the end of 2029 to expand its data center operations in central Ohio.

The tech industry’s drive to dot the Virginia landscape with data centers may have hit a snag this week in Prince William County.

Amazon’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services experienced an outage on Tuesday, affecting publishers that suddenly found themselves unable to operate their sites.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin says the state has reached a deal with Amazon Web Services for the company to invest $35 billion in new data centers.

Northern Virginia has established itself as the world's largest home for data centers.

The Kremlin's raft of online censorship measures has exposed serious shortcomings in its efforts to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China's so-called Great Firewall.

The NHL is launching a faceoff probability stat that uses 10 years of data to determine the likelihood of each player in the circle winning the draw.

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Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, disrupting access to many popular sites.

A sculpture sponsored by Amazon Web Services that uses artificial intelligence to integrate viewers' feelings into the artwork is being featured at the Smithsonian.

Australia's swim team head home from the Tokyo Games with a haul of nine gold medals - their best ever performance at the Olympics, partly thanks to a switch to a new data analytics system aimed at improving athletes' performances.

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An outage at a little-known firm that knocked a lot of top internet destinations offline, disrupting business and leisure for untold millions globally, was quickly resolved Tuesday.

The process of building the NFL schedule used to be a painstaking one with executives spending months slotting the games one by one on a board until there was a final product for the commissioner to approve.

(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)The NHL is taking another step forward in data, analytics, and puck and player tracking. The league has reached an agreement with Amazon Web Services to put all its video and data on the cloud. AdNHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy unveiled the deal on NBC Sports Network late Wednesday. Later this season, fans looking up stats on the NHL's website will get corresponding video clips and vice versa. “It kind of melts your mind with the number of opportunities that are sitting in front of us.”___More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports

Though stripped of his Twitter account for inciting rebellion, President Donald Trump does have alternative options of much smaller reach. Amazon kicked Parler off its web-hosting service, and the social media app promptly sued to get back online, telling a federal judge that the tech giant had breached its contract and abused its market power. It was a roller coaster of activity for Parler, a 2-year-old magnet for the far right that welcomed a surge of new users. Organizers of pro-Trump forces are already regrouping in other forums, such as the conservative-friendly social media site Gab, as new actions are planned ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. Cutting off Parler removes a key recruitment tool for various groups that are connected by Trump's misinformation about the presidential election, Brookie said.

Copyright 2019 CNN(CNN) - Amazon is spending heavily to keep growing and that appears to be making investors nervous. Shares of Amazon fell as much as 8% in after-hours trading Thursday as its earnings came in below Wall Street estimates. Three months later, Amazon said the actual cost ended up being even higher. Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing segment and one of its key profit drivers, is experiencing slower growth. AWS is the clear leader in cloud computing; its performance follows a larger industry trend of slowing growth as cloud computing becomes more widely adopted.