On Monday, Amazon announced a partnership that will allow OpenAI to use the company’s cloud computing services to run AI systems for products like the popular ChatGPT. OpenAI is paying $38 billion to access Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers and “hundreds of thousands of state-of-the-art NVIDIA GPUs.”

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI have agreed a $38 billion strategic partnership that will see AWS’s infrastructure run and scale OpenAI’s core artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Under the seven-year agreement OpenAI will access AWS compute comprising hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs,

AWS is retiring EC2-Classic soon: Here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent Amazon Web Services has announced its plans to shut down its venerable EC2-Classic product, with some users unable to access the service beginning on October 30, 2021.

A massive AWS outage brought Internet-reliant services, from software to smart devices, down worldwide, and we now know what problem led to the outage.

The company listed all of the systems that went haywire, but never really identified what happened differently that day to cause problems. Worse yet, putting out technology brushfires this way leaves the forest in danger of burning again.

The cloud hosting company's incident was caused by a major outage at AWS’ US-East-1 region, during which a DNS issue prevented services from reaching the DynamoDB API, which is used for low latency, high throughput applications like gaming, IoT and ecommerce.

It wasn’t a hack, but instead it had a Domain Name System or DNS error that occurred at AWS’s US-EAST-1 location in northern Virginia.