Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said the company has stopped using nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) in its dealings with government agencies as it seeks approval to build new data centers. Garman’s statement is just one sentence in a longer blog post in which he tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers, and
Some Amazon cloud customers woke up Friday to a surprise bill estimate that said they owed billions of dollars for cloud services they had never used. Amazon confirmed Friday that it is trying to resolve an error in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) billing portal that showed some customers were owed millions or billions in
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,” adding: “Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues