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Amazon Drops NDAs as Data Center Backlash Grows

Amazon Drops NDAs as Data Center Backlash Grows

Amazon’s recent move to stop using nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) with government agencies marks a tactical shift in a widening dispute over the role of large data centers in local communities. Announced by AWS CEO Matt Garman in a blog post, the change comes as cities and states across the U.S. consider moratoriums and tougher scrutiny of new facilities. The announcement is short but strategic: Amazon is trying to blunt a…

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Amazon Expands Developer Toolset: Claude Code and Codex Join Kiro on AWS

Amazon Expands Developer Toolset: Claude Code and Codex Join Kiro on AWS

Amazon has quietly shifted the rules of engagement for its internal developer community. In a recent staff note, the company announced that tens of thousands of its developers will now have immediate access to Anthropic’s Claude Code and, soon, OpenAI’s Codex — both hosted on AWS and Amazon Bedrock. The move signals a notable loosening of earlier restrictions that favored Amazon’s own agentic coding service, Kiro, and underscores a broader…

Saugata Datta5 min read226
Amazon Faces Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes Cripple Middle East Data Centers

Amazon Faces Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes Cripple Middle East Data Centers

Amazon Web Services says recovery from drone strikes that hit its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will be measured in months, leaving customers in the region facing prolonged disruption and prompting a broader rethink of investments in Middle East infrastructure. The attacks, part of a wider bout of regional hostilities, knocked core compute racks offline, triggered flooding when fire suppression systems activated, and damaged cooling systems—problems…

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Anthropic and Amazon Expand Partnership, Securing Up to 5GW of Compute for Claude

Anthropic and Amazon Expand Partnership, Securing Up to 5GW of Compute for Claude

Anthropic announced on April 20, 2026, a major expansion of its collaboration with Amazon that will secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of new compute capacity to train and deploy Claude. The agreement accelerates capacity coming online this year and ties together deeper infrastructure, platform integration, and additional capital investment — steps Anthropic says are needed to meet surging customer demand and keep Claude reliable at scale. What the agreement…

Saugata Datta4 min read384
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 Arrives in Amazon Bedrock — Smarter Coding, Vision, and 1M-Token Context

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 Arrives in Amazon Bedrock — Smarter Coding, Vision, and 1M-Token Context

Amazon Bedrock now offers Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, a major upgrade aimed at production-grade workflows that demand stronger reasoning, longer context windows, and more reliable scaling. Opus 4.7 builds on the Opus family’s strengths and targets real-world use cases such as agentic coding, multi-step knowledge work, long-running tasks, and high-resolution visual understanding. Running on Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine, the model is positioned for enterprise deployments where performance, privacy, and availability…

Saugata Datta3 min read428
Iran Strikes Bahrain’s Batelco, Damaging Amazon Web Services Infrastructure

Iran Strikes Bahrain’s Batelco, Damaging Amazon Web Services Infrastructure

On April 1, Iranian forces launched missiles and drones that struck the Batelco headquarters in Hamala, Bahrain — a site that hosts cloud infrastructure tied to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The attack, one of the most direct hits on a US-linked technology asset in the region, elevated already high tensions and prompted warnings for businesses operating in nearby facilities. What happened Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had recently singled out several US-linked…

Saugata Datta3 min read398
Two Words, One Deal: How “Stateful” vs “Stateless” Could Decide a $50 Billion Cloud Dispute

Two Words, One Deal: How “Stateful” vs “Stateless” Could Decide a $50 Billion Cloud Dispute

Last week’s reporting brought into sharp relief a narrowly technical — but potentially enormous — dispute between Microsoft, Amazon and OpenAI over a reported $50 billion commercial arrangement. At the center of the controversy are two terms engineers use every day: “stateful” and “stateless.” Depending on how those words are interpreted, Microsoft may have grounds to claim a breach of its exclusivity agreement with OpenAI, or Amazon and OpenAI may…

Saugata Datta5 min read390
When Drones Hit the Cloud: AWS Middle East Outage Disrupts 109 Services

When Drones Hit the Cloud: AWS Middle East Outage Disrupts 109 Services

A series of drone strikes against Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East triggered one of the most significant regional outages in AWS history, disrupting services across the ME-CENTRAL-1 (UAE) region and causing collateral damage in the nearby ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain) region. The incident began in the early hours of March 1, 2026, and left many customers scrambling to fail over workloads and recover data for days. Incident timeline and…

Saugata Datta4 min read494
Face-Off: Windows PowerShell vs PowerShell Core — The Real-World Transition

Face-Off: Windows PowerShell vs PowerShell Core — The Real-World Transition

PowerShell has come a long way since its inception, becoming an essential tool not only for Windows administrators but also for IT professionals working across platforms. The transition from the original Windows PowerShell to PowerShell Core represents more than just a version change—it’s a fundamental evolution in how command-line automation and configuration management are approached in the modern IT landscape. For those who have relied on the familiar blue prompt…

Saugata Datta4 min read937
Do not trust any public VPN service, Create your own Secure SOCKS5 Proxy for just $5 – Be Free :)

Do not trust any public VPN service, Create your own Secure SOCKS5 Proxy for just $5 – Be Free :)

If someone ask me to recommend one good proxy service, I would recommend none. Why should I trust any of them, as they can do what ever they want with my internet traffic, we don't have any control over them, nor we should trust their privacy policy. So, what will be the solution? Very simple, create your own in pubic cloud. There are many public cloud vendors out there offering…

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Migrated this blog to Amazon LightSail from GoDaddy

Migrated this blog to Amazon LightSail from GoDaddy

Finally, I managed to migrate my blog from GoDaddy to Amazon Lightsail, and everything looks good so far. Thanks to Amazon Lightsail for providing a static public IP (34.198.110.82). It's really simple to migrate your blogs from any other hosting Amazon Lightsail, details information can be found here. They have very attractive pricing, which is one of the reason I moved from GoDaddy to Amazon (recently GoDaddy started charging additional…

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AWS Region now in India – AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

AWS Region now in India – AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

AWS expanding their footprint again, this time with a new region in Mumbai, India. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region to better serve end users in India. New Region The new Mumbai region has two Availability Zones, raising the global total to 35. It supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (C4, M4, T2, D2, I2, and R3 instances are available) and related services including Amazon…

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