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The latest news and top stories on Amazon Web Services. A leading entity in the cloud computing sector, Washington-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) specialises in a broad suite of scalable on-demand cloud services including computing storage, networking, database and AI offerings. It serves individuals, companies and governments of all sizes from startups to large enterprises.
The Pentagon seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington in 2022. Photo: AP
United States

US Pentagon signs AI deals with Google, Nvidia and SpaceX, focus on ‘lawful’ use

The deal comes even as some tech workers raise concerns about the use of AI for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

Artificial intelligence

China banks buffer against AI contagions as US sweats over Anthropic’s Mythos

Artificial intelligence

Opinion | AI infrastructure on the front line: Lessons for Asean from the Iran war

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba and Baidu lift cloud prices by up to 34% amid AI demand surge

The Chinese firms’ price increases are ‘a reasonable response to evolving market conditions’, says IDC China analyst Cui Tingting.

Alibaba Cloud led China’s AI cloud services sector in the first half of 2025 with a 36 per cent market share. Photo: Shutterstock
Iran

Southeast Asia faces spillover cyber risk from Iran war as ‘blast radius’ widens

Many Asean firms are tied into the global network in the Gulf, Europe and the US, facing the risk of cyberattacks linked to the war.

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Middle East

Opinion | Data centres are a symbol of the Gulf’s economic future and weakness

AI data centres, financial hubs and tourism are not peripheral to the Gulf’s growth; they are central to both opportunity and vulnerability.

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Technology

Asian tech stocks reel as US-Iran war threatens infrastructure and supply chains

South Korea’s Kospi is the worst-hit in Asia, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix falling 11.7 per cent and 9.6 per cent, respectively.

Currency dealers monitor exchange rates as an electronic screen shows South Korea’s benchmark stock index on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Middle East

Iran war disrupts Chinese tech firms’ Middle East operations

Baidu, WeRide and Meituan among companies halting operations or instituting remote work, as some Chinese nationals seek to escape region.

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Artificial intelligence

Price rises on horizon for Chinese cloud firms after Google, AWS set new rates

Surging AI workloads, memory prices push Chinese cloud providers to consider increases after global peers act.

Hong Kong economy

Exclusive | Paul Chan upbeat about Hong Kong economy despite ‘volatility’ from US policies

Finance chief tells the Post at Davos summit that Western view of Hong Kong ‘more positive’, says city must attract tech giants to build ecosystem.

Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI in talks to raise US$10 billion from Amazon and adopt Trainium chips

The deal is under discussion could value OpenAI upwards of US$500 billion, a source said.

OpenAI was last valued at US$500 billion in an employee share sale. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Amazon to use Nvidia tech in AI chips, roll out new servers

Nvidia has been pushing to sign up other chip firms to adopt its NVLink technology, with Intel, Qualcomm and now AWS on board.

Singapore

Singapore-based AI start-ups draw most funding in Southeast Asia: report

A total of 495 AI start-ups secured US$1.31 billion in funding in Singapore in the first half of this year.

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Ant Group

Ant Group affiliate OceanBase uses Hong Kong as hub to challenge Oracle

Oracle remains the world’s top database provider, but OceanBase has an infrastructure better suited for AI workloads, CEO says.

OceanBase CEO Evan Yang announces the company’s global expansion plans at its office in Hong Kong on Thursday. Photo: Xinmei Shen
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI to pay Amazon US$38 billion in 7-year cloud services deal

The deal underscores the AI industry’s insatiable appetite for computing power, pushing Amazon shares to an all-time high.

OpenAI and Amazon have signed a US$38 billion cloud services deal. Photo: Reuters
China manufacturing

China’s ‘smart healthcare’ firms draw crowds as Canton Fair wraps up

While Chinese medical technology companies are gaining market share, insiders said trust still needs to be built for global success.

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Amazon

Amazon reports higher sales and earnings on fast-growing web services business

Amazon is rapidly automating its warehouses, raising big questions on how many workers it will need in the future.

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Amazon

Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10 per cent of its corporate employees.

The logo of Amazon is pictured at the company logistics centre in Carquefou near Nantes, France, October 15, 2024. Photo: Reuters
China Future Tech briefing

Semiconductors | Chinese quantum computer cracks billion-year problems in seconds

Superfast and powerful, quantum computers could help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges, as well as transforming finance, drug discovery and other fields.

United States

Amazon says cloud service back to normal after internet outage causes global turmoil

Internet services cut for hours in the largest disruption since last year’s CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems worldwide.

US-China relations

Opinion | US-China tit-for-tat escalation is now a feature, not a bug

Expect Beijing and Washington to repeat a familiar pattern every time the other side achieves a breakthrough or an edge in market dominance.

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An employee works at a semiconductor factory in Huaian, Jiangsu province, on April 29, 2024. Photo: AFP
China Future Tech briefing

AI | AI accelerators offer opportunity for China chipmakers

Huawei and Alibaba are among Chinese companies working on specialised AI chips called ASICs that work alongside GPUs made by Nvidia and others.

AI accelerators offer opportunity for China chipmakers
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