The outage is certain to raise questions about whether Amazon — and its fellows in Big Tech — supervise their systems with the rigor appropriate to crucial services with a global footprint. As lawyers put it, "res ipsa loquitur" — "the thing speaks for itself." The answer it gives is "no."

Yesterday, a major AWS outage brought the world to a standstill. But why did it happen? And will it ever happen again?

A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is wreaking havoc on the Internet. In an update Monday morning, Amazon said that it is “still experiencing elevated errors.” A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is affected major websites and apps on Monday. Downdetector is even running a breaking news bar at the top of the site.

“Major shopping events like Prime Day create perfect storms for cybercriminals. Scammers know that shoppers’ excitement and urgency around limited-time deals make them more susceptible to clicking on malicious links or sharing personal information,” says Marijus Briedis, chief technology officer (CTO) at NordVPN.

If you have a Prime account with Amazon, you need to be on high alert this week. The online retailer is about to kickstart two days of deals. That's clearly great for bargain hunters, but it's also a prime time to be scammed.

The Amazon Q Developer VS Code Extension is reportedly vulnerable to stealthy prompt injection attacks using invisible Unicode Tag characters. According to the author of the “Embrace The Red” blog, the developer-focused extension for Visual Studio Code ...

Crimson Collective, the threat actor behind the recent breach at Red Hat, is now going after Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments, looking to establish persistence, steal data, and extort the victims for money.

Amazon will be cracking down on illegal Fire Stick use, in the latest measure designed to combat people watching for free. It follows the likes of Disney+ and Netflix banning account sharing, and will put an end to illegal streaming on Amazon devices.