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CyberCube: Insured Loss Estimate From AWS Outage Likely About $40M
Oct 27 2025 // Cyber analytics firm CyberCube said losses from the Amazon Web Services outage could eclipse $580 million. CyberCube late last week put out a preliminary global insured loss estimate of between $38 million and $581 million...
New Jersey Claims Amazon Discriminated Against Pregnant, Disabled Workers
Oct 23 2025 // The state of New Jersey sued Amazon.com on Wednesday, accusing the company of unlawfully refusing workplace accommodations to warehouse employees who have disabilities or were pregnant and firing some who asked for...
AWS Outage a ‘Moderate Incident,’ Another Near Miss for Insurance Industry
Oct 22 2025 // The recent 15-hour or so outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) again raised questions about the potential for systemic loss to the cyber insurance market, but losses from the temporary lapse in cloud services are not likely...
Amazon Cloud Reputation Takes Hit After Outage
Oct 22 2025 // Amazon.com Inc.’s reputation as a reliable provider of cloud services took a hit on Monday when an outage lasting some 15 hours disrupted the operations of hundreds of companies, ranging from Apple Inc. to...
Amazon Says All Cloud Services Restored After 15-Hour Outage
Oct 21 2025 // Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, resolved the issues that plagued its services for about 15 hours on Monday, an episode that highlighted how much of the internet is dependent on the operations...
Amazon Delivery Firms Are Bailing Amid Rising Costs, Meager Profit
Oct 20 2025 // In 2022, Jake Clay started an Amazon delivery firm in Odessa, Texas, after hearing about the company-sponsored program from a friend. He sank $75,000 into the business and earned more than $200,000 in the first year. An...
Amazon’s AWS Struggles to Recover After Major Outage Disrupts Apps, Services
Oct 20 2025 // Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world’s most popular apps – Snapchat and Reddit...
Amazon Defeats Bias Lawsuit by Black Worker Placed on Improvement Plan
Oct 1 2025 // Amazon.com won the dismissal on Tuesday of a lawsuit accusing the online retailer of discriminating against a Black former employee by reducing her duties and putting her on a performance improvement plan. U.S. District...
Amazon, FTC Reach $2.5 Billion Deal in Prime Subscription Case
Sep 26 2025 // Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $2.5 billion in penalties and refunds and change its process for how to cancel its Prime subscription to settle a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission. The company will pay $1 billion in...
Amazon Sues to Block New York State Labor Law
Sep 25 2025 // Amazon.com sued the New York State Public Employment Relations Board on Monday to block it from enforcing a new law that the online retailer considers an attempt to illegally regulate private sector labor relations. In a...
Amazon’s Zoox to Launch Robotaxi Rides to Public in Las Vegas
Sep 10 2025 // Amazon.com Inc.’s autonomous driving unit Zoox has started offering rides to the public in Las Vegas, marking a first in the U.S. for a purpose-built robotaxi with no driver controls. Starting Wednesday, Zoox will...
Amazon Faces UK Lawsuits Worth Up to $5.4 Billion From Retailers, Consumers
Jul 25 2025 // Amazon faces two mass lawsuits from retailers and consumers worth up to 4 billion pounds ($5.4 billion) for allegedly abusing its dominant position, after a London tribunal on Thursday certified the cases could proceed....
New York Times Agrees to License Content to Amazon for AI Use
May 29 2025 // The New York Times Co. has reached a deal to license its editorial content to Amazon.com Inc. for use across its artificial intelligence platforms, marking the first such agreement the newspaper company has struck after...
Amazon’s Zoox Expands Robotaxi Trials to Rival Turf in Atlanta
May 21 2025 // Amazon.com Inc.’s Zoox is expanding testing of its autonomous driving technology to Atlanta, moving in on a market where Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo is expanding with Uber Technologies Inc. Zoox has already deployed...
Virginia’s Top Court Rejects Amazon’s ‘Zig-Zag’ in Upholding Flex Drivers as Employees
Mar 10 2025 // The Virginia Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that Amazon Flex drivers are employees and not independent contractors while criticizing the company for changing its arguments after it lost in prior decisions. Amazon...
Labor Department Investigating Nvidia, Amazon-Backed Startup Scale AI
Mar 7 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating Scale AI, a data labeling startup backed by tech giants Nvidia, Amazon and Meta, for its compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, the California-based firm said on...
Amazon Workers in North Carolina Vote Against Joining Union
Feb 18 2025 // Workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina rejected a proposal to unionize, becoming the latest group of the company’s employees to side against union representation. About three-quarters of employees at an...
Amazon, Alphabet Targeted as Oklahoma Joins Anti-DEI Investor Ranks
Feb 6 2025 // Oklahoma is poised to become the first Republican state to try to use its influence as an investor to end DEI in corporate America, targeting companies including Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc. in shareholder proxy...
Lawsuit Accuses Amazon of Secretly Tracking Consumers Through Cellphones
Jan 30 2025 // Amazon.com was sued on Wednesday by consumers who accused the retailing giant of secretly tracking their movements through their cellphones, and selling data it collects. According to a proposed class action in San...
Amazon Is Halting Some of Its Diversity and Inclusion Programs
Jan 15 2025 // Amazon.com Inc. is halting some of its diversity and inclusion programs, a move that coincides with activist pressure on US companies to abandon efforts to build a more diverse workforce. In a memo to employees, Candi...
