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| March 2025 | DeepSeek-R1 is fully-managed and available in Amazon Bedrock |
| January 2025 | DeepSeek-R1 models become available on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker |
| December 2024 | AWS announced Amazon Nova, its own family of foundation models available through Amazon Bedrock, designed for tasks including content generation, video understanding, and building agentic applications, offered in six different sizes. |
| December 3 2024 | Amazon launches EC2 Trn2 Instances and Trn2 UltraServers for AI/ML training and inference |
| July 19 2024 | AWS updated its documentation to recommend more secure implementation practices for Application Load Balancer authentication. |
| July 11 2024 | AWS confirmed the Application Load Balancer security issue affecting its customers. |
| June 20 2024 | Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet foundation model, described as its most intelligent model to date, becomes generally available in Amazon Bedrock. |
| June 19 2024 | Amazon SageMaker adds a fully managed MLflow capability |
| May 7 2024 | Amazon launches Bedrock Studio for collaborative AI application development and introduces Amazon Titan Text Premier, a high-performance enterprise-grade language model |
| May 6 2024 | AWS signs a strategic collaboration agreement with Mavenir to jointly architect cloud-native Telco solutions for 5G, IP Multimedia Subsystem, and Radio Access Network technologies. |
| April 2024 | Security researchers from Miggo security identified a configuration vulnerability in AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) that could allow attackers to bypass access controls. |
| April 2024 | AWS announced Deadline Cloud, a new service for setting up, deploying, and scaling graphics and visual effects rendering pipelines on cloud infrastructure. |
| April 30 2024 | Amazon Q Business goes generally available and Amazon Q Apps enters Preview |
| April 23 2024 | Amazon introduces model evaluation capability for Amazon Bedrock, along with Guardrails featuring new safety filters and privacy controls, and Custom Model Import |
| 2023 | Approximately 90% of workers were from the U.S., with about half of the remaining workers from India. |
| October 2023 | Periodic updates to the Project Nimbus procurement document continued, highlighting ongoing controversy surrounding Amazon Web Services' contract with Israeli government and defense organizations. |
| September 25 2023 | Amazon and Anthropic select AWS as their primary cloud provider, planning to train and deploy future foundation models on AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips. |
| June 13 2023 | Customers experienced increased error rates and latencies for AWS Lambda function invocations in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region from 11:49 AM to 3:37 PM PDT. |
| March 2023 | AWS signed a cooperation agreement with the New Zealand Government to build large data centers in New Zealand. |
| February 7 2023 | Ateme completes ISV Accelerate Program and ISW Workload Migration, becoming available on AWS Marketplace after meeting AWS technical standards. |
| 2022 | 90% of all Amazon operations, including data centers, were powered by renewable energy sources. |
| 2022 | Amazon secured a $9 billion cloud computing contract from the United States Department of Defense, sharing the contract with Google, Microsoft, and Oracle. |
| November 2022 | Amazon CloudFront operated from 400 edge locations across every continent except Antarctica, expanding its global content delivery network infrastructure. |
| June 2022 | AWS launched the AWS Snowcone, a small computing device, to the International Space Station on the Axiom Mission 1. |
| April 2022 | AWS announced a $30 million commitment over three years to support early-stage start-ups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, and Women founders through the AWS Impact Accelerator, offering up to $225,000 in cash and credits per qualifying start-up. |
| April 19 2022 | AWS released updated patches addressing critical security flaws in the initial Log4Shell vulnerability patches, which could potentially allow container escape and privilege escalation. |
| January 2022 | AWS joined the MACH Alliance, a non-profit enterprise technology advocacy group. |
| 2021 | A study was published examining the impact of quality control approaches on survey results when using Mechanical Turk, specifically demonstrating how different screening methods can influence behavioral and mental healthcare screening tools. |
| 2021 | A government procurement document was published revealing 'obligatory customers' for Project Nimbus, including Israeli state-owned weapons manufacturers Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. |
| 2021 | DISH Network announced plans to develop and launch its 5G network entirely on AWS cloud infrastructure. |
| December 22 2021 | Power loss in US-East-1 for about 1 hour, with extended recovery procedures. AWS attributed the failure to a single availability zone, USE1-AZ4. |
| December 15 2021 | US-West-1 Region was unavailable for approximately 30 minutes. |
| December 7 2021 | An outage mainly affecting the Eastern United States disrupted delivery service and streaming. |
| December 7 2021 | Network device impairment in the US-EAST-1 Region caused widespread errors in all AWS services from 10:45 AM PST, with root cause mitigation by 4:35 PM PST. |
| October 2021 | UK spy agencies and government departments including GCHQ, MI5, MI6, and the Ministry of Defence contracted AWS to host their classified materials. |
| April 2021 | AWS reported 32% yearly growth and accounted for 32% of the $41.8 billion cloud market in Q1. |
| January 2021 | AWS joined the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, committing to achieve climate neutrality of data centers by 2030. |
| 2020 | Amazon became the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the world, establishing a global portfolio of over 20 GW of renewable energy capacity. |
| November 30 2020 | Amazon announced the addition of macOS to EC2 service, with initial support for macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina running on Mac Mini. |
| November 25 2020 | Kinesis Data Streams API became impaired in the US-EAST-1 Region, preventing customers from reading or writing data starting at 9:52 AM PST. |
| May 2020 | Kyvos BI acceleration platform announces availability on AWS, expanding cloud-based business intelligence solutions. |
| 2019 | A CloudResearch study found that typical MTurk workers spent five to eight hours per week and earned around $7 per hour. |
| 2019 | Over 80% of Germany's listed DAX companies were reported to be using AWS cloud services. |
| 2019 | AWS reported 37% yearly growth and accounted for 12% of Amazon's revenue. |
| November 2019 | Amazon announced Savings Plans as a flexible alternative to Reserved Instances, introducing two plan types: Compute Savings Plans and EC2 Instances Savings Plans to provide cost optimization options for cloud computing services. |
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