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Amazon replaces Grubhub with Uber Eats for Prime members

Amazon has made Uber Eats the restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States. The new arrangement ends Amazon’s existing deal with Grubhub, while Prime members who had already activated Grubhub+ can keep using that membership through December 31, 2027. Prime food orders move to Uber Eats Under the partnership announced Thursday, Prime members can order food from Uber Eats through Amazon.com and the Amazon Shopping app. They…

Saugata DattaNov 5, 20262 min read32

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AWS Powers Amazon’s Record Margins While AI Spending Drains Cash Flow

Amazon’s third-quarter 2026 results painted a study in contrasts: robust top-line growth and record operating margins driven largely by AWS, paired with mounting cash-flow pressure as heavy AI investments and capital expenditures weigh on liquidity. Revenue rose to $201.9 billion, operating income jumped sharply, yet free cash flow turned negative for the trailing year—signs that Amazon is balancing a profitable core with aggressive, expensive bets on AI infrastructure. A quarter…

Saugata DattaOct 30, 20263 min read155

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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…

Saugata DattaOct 4, 20264 min read384

AI Agents and Frameworks

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 DattaMay 6, 20265 min read479

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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…

Saugata DattaMay 2, 20263 min read464

Artificial Intelligence

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 DattaApr 21, 20264 min read640

Artificial Intelligence

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 DattaApr 16, 20263 min read682

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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 DattaApr 2, 20263 min read649

Artificial Intelligence

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 DattaMar 18, 20265 min read636

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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 DattaMar 5, 20264 min read743

Automation

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 DattaJan 16, 20264 min read1.2K

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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…

Saugata DattaMay 11, 20205 min read4.8K

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