Amazon’s largest AI data center is now operational in New Carlisle, Indiana, with half a million AWS Trainium 2 chips entirely devoted to powering OpenAI rival Anthropic. Just over a year ago, the site was nothing but cornfields.

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Indiana that will run artificial intelligence models for Anthropic PBC. CNBC reported the milestone today. The campus, which is located near Lake Michigan, was built as part of an initiative called Project Rainier that AWS announced last year.

Disruptions lasted upward of two hours for most services, though some users—mostly in the United States—continued to see problems for over six hours. AWS announced at 5:27 a.m. ET that core issues had been resolved and most services were recovering, but intermittent disruptions persisted into the morning.

Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning.

Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service run by Amazon, experienced a significant outage that disrupted numerous websites on Oct. 20.

The tech giant is bolstering its cloud-computing and retail businesses in the country as it continues to expand in Europe.

When schools across the U.S. were unable to access various learning management systems, security programs and online assessment tools hosted by AWS last week, teachers had to scramble to figure out workarounds.

A week after HM Revenue & Customs’ reliance on Amazon Web Services came under scrutiny from the Treasury Select Committee, details have emerged that the public cloud giant remains the only supplier in the running for the government tax collection agency’s £500m datacentre exit project.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffers its second major outage in just over a week, knocking a 'huge portion of the internet unusable' as 6,000+ reports flood in.