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Apr 13, 2026, 9:44 AM

OpenAI sees ‘staggering’ demand for Amazon offering, says Microsoft partnership held it back

OpenAI’s chief revenue officer touted the AWS alliance as a key enterprise growth driver, saying that the Microsoft relationship has constrained the company’s reach into big business. Read More

Apr 9, 2026, 5:36 AM

‘Not on a hunch’: Andy Jassy defends Amazon’s $200B spending spree

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reveals new details about AWS’s AI revenue and its booming chip business in a new shareholder letter that defends the company’s massive capital spending. Read More

Apr 7, 2026, 12:37 PM

Amazon revamps S3 cloud storage for the AI era, removing a key barrier for apps and agents

Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system, bridging a divide between two types of storage that has frustrated developers and data scientists for nearly two decades. Read More

Apr 7, 2026, 9:11 AM

Amazon sued by YouTubers for allegedly scraping their content to train AI video tool

High-profile creators, including the owners of the H3 Podcast, are suing Amazon for allegedly deploying a sophisticated “extraction” scheme to use their copyrighted videos to train its Nova Reel AI. Read More

Apr 4, 2026, 11:00 AM

Amazon meets FedEx Office: A seamless return and one very dumb question about stamps

Amazon and FedEx severed their logistics relationship in 2019. Now they’re patching things up, and GeekWire’s Todd Bishop put the new returns partnership to the test. Read More

Mar 31, 2026, 7:33 AM

Chasing Starlink, Amazon Leo strikes satellite Wi-Fi deal for future Delta flights

Amazon Leo has landed its highest-profile customer yet, reaching a deal with Delta Air Lines to provide satellite-powered Wi-Fi on 500 aircraft starting in 2028. The agreement gives Amazon’s fledgling satellite internet venture a big new partner as it races to catch up with SpaceX’s Starlink. Read More

Mar 30, 2026, 10:16 AM

Report: Amazon buys 1,300 acres near Columbia River that could become a giant data center

Amazon has purchased 1,300 acres in Boardman, Ore., for a potential $12 billion “exascale” data center campus capable of housing up to 20 buildings, the Oregonian reports. Read More

Mar 25, 2026, 8:43 AM

Amazon and FedEx, together again, this time for e-commerce returns

More than 1,500 FedEx Office locations are now accepting box-free Amazon returns, expanding a partnership rekindled last year after a six-year split. Read More

Mar 22, 2026, 9:46 AM

AWS at 20*: Inside the rise of Amazon’s cloud empire, and what’s at stake in the AI era

With Amazon marking the 20th anniversary of AWS this month, GeekWire spoke with early builders, current AWS insiders, and longtime observers of the company to tell the story of how the business got started, how it won the cloud, and what it’s up against now. Read More

Illustration: Amazon Leo network connections creating a web around Earth
Mar 21, 2026, 9:55 AM

Why Amazon’s second shot at a smartphone might not be as crazy as it sounds

When news emerged this week that Amazon is working on a new smartphone, the reflexive reaction was obvious: Didn’t they already try this? But dismissing the effort as a sequel to the Fire Phone disaster misses the point. Read More

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Mar 20, 2026, 7:25 AM

Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch had one Amazon exec on edge when he took the wheel of Treasure Truck

Doug Herrington, CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores and an early champion of the deals-on-wheels concept, once worried that Marshawn Lynch was going to crash the party just as it got rolling. Read More

Mar 17, 2026, 3:00 AM

Amazon rolls out 1-hour and 3-hour options in latest offering of ever-faster deliveries

It’s the latest in a sometimes-dizzying assortment of delivery options from the e-commerce giant, which currently offers Primer members same-day and next-day delivery for free. Read More

Mar 14, 2026, 9:16 AM

How AI is changing the business and art of video — from ‘chaos machine’ to creative catalyst

Seattle creative studio leaders Brice Budke and Zeek Earl discuss how AI is transforming video production — and what still requires human creativity, taste, and intuition. Read More

Mar 10, 2026, 9:09 AM

Judge blocks Perplexity’s AI bot from shopping on Amazon in early test of agentic commerce

A federal judge sided with Amazon in its lawsuit over Perplexity’s Comet browser, granting a preliminary injunction in an early legal test of AI-powered shopping tools. Read More

Mar 10, 2026, 8:39 AM

I got my hair cut at the one-of-a-kind Amazon Salon in London: See before and after photos

We all know Amazon as a master of book sales, cloud computing and Prime Video — but GeekWire’s John Cook had to determine how a Seattle-based tech juggernaut fared at cutting hair. Read More

Mar 5, 2026, 6:00 AM

Amazon makes a new bet on healthcare AI, rivaling Microsoft in the doctor’s office

AWS is launching Amazon Connect Health, handling patient calls, clinical documentation and billing codes in a new challenge to Microsoft’s Nuance and a crowded field of AI scribe startups.
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Mar 4, 2026, 2:29 PM

Amazon lays off robotics staff in latest cuts

The layoffs are separate from Amazon’s broader cuts announced in January that impacted more than 16,000 corporate workers. Read More

Mar 3, 2026, 7:57 AM

Amazon launches AI-generated ‘canvas’ for sellers as e-commerce platforms race to add AI tools

Amazon is rolling out a “dynamic canvas” in Seller Central that generates personalized visual dashboards in response to seller prompts, building on its existing AI-powered Seller Assistant. The feature launches as Shopify, Walmart and others race to add AI to their merchant tools. Read More

Mar 1, 2026, 9:28 AM

Filings: How Amazon’s $50B OpenAI deal actually works, and what they’re keeping secret

Amazon’s $50 billion OpenAI investment made big headlines, but the SEC filings tell a more complicated story. Here’s how the money flows, what triggers the payments, and what the companies are keeping secret. Read More

Feb 27, 2026, 7:37 AM

Amazon invests $50B in OpenAI, deepens AWS partnership with expanded $100B cloud deal

“We think they’ll be one of the big winners in AI, we can help them grow, and we believe we’ll earn a strong return for Amazon over the long term,” said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Read More

Feb 25, 2026, 6:45 AM

Pick Alexa’s personality: Amazon lets users choose ‘Brief,’ ‘Chill,’ or ‘Sweet’ conversation styles

Amazon is letting Alexa+ users customize how the voice assistant communicates, choosing between Brief, Chill, and Sweet personality styles. It’s a first for Alexa. Read More

Feb 24, 2026, 6:54 PM

Amazon to move out of longtime office building near its main Seattle headquarters

The tech giant has occupied the seven-story, 251,000-square-foot space owned by Seattle Children’s since 2014. Read More

Feb 24, 2026, 3:44 PM

Head of Amazon’s AGI lab is leaving in latest exit from high-profile Adept startup deal

David Luan, who led Amazon’s AGI Lab and its Nova Act AI agent initiative, is leaving less than two years after joining through the Adept acqui-hire deal. Four of five Adept co-founders have now left the company. Read More

Feb 23, 2026, 2:43 PM

Water, power, and transparency: Amazon’s $12B data center deal signals a new era of accountability

Amazon announced a $12 billion data center project in Louisiana in which the company vowed to pay its own way for energy and other infrastructure. Read More

Feb 20, 2026, 6:16 PM

Amazon pushes back on Financial Times report blaming AI coding tools for AWS outages

Amazon issued an unusually pointed rebuttal to a Financial Times report that its AI coding tools caused AWS outages, calling one key claim “entirely false.” Read More

Feb 18, 2026, 6:13 AM

Cloud and AWS cost consultant Duckbill expands to software, raises $7.75M for new Skyway platform

Cloud cost consultant Duckbill, known for co-founder Corey Quinn’s sharp takes on AWS, raises $7.75M and launches Skyway, a financial planning and forecasting platform for enterprise cloud spending. Read More

Feb 13, 2026, 10:45 AM

Ring cancels Flock partnership amid broader surveillance concerns

Ring has canceled its planned partnership with Flock Safety, the license-plate-recognition company, citing integration challenges, amid growing scrutiny of the role of home security cameras in surveillance and law enforcement. Read More

Feb 10, 2026, 11:14 AM

What Ring’s ‘Search Party’ actually does, and why its Super Bowl ad gave people the creeps

Ring’s Super Bowl ad for its AI-powered lost-dog feature was meant to be heartwarming. Instead, it set off a firestorm over privacy, surveillance, and what the technology could be used for next. Here’s what it actually does. Read More

Feb 5, 2026, 2:31 PM

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy defends $200B spending plan: ‘This isn’t some sort of quixotic top-line grab’

Amazon’s cloud unit posted its fastest growth in more than three years, but the company’s plan to spend $200 billion on infrastructure in 2026 sent shares tumbling 10% after hours. Read More

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Feb 5, 2026, 1:30 PM

Amazon stock sinks 10% after Q4 profit miss as Jassy signals $200B in capital spending

Amazon posted record quarterly revenue and strong cloud growth in Q4 — but its stock fell after the company revealed its capital expenditure plans for 2026. Read More

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