AWS

Amazon delivered a strong Q1 2026 earnings report, and the cleanest way to read it is this: the operating business beat expectations in exactly the places investors care most about right now. Revenue came in above expectations. AWS re-accelerated meaningfully. Advertising kept growing like a second high-margin engine. Retail profitability also improved. The one major caveat is that the headline EPS beat looked better than the underlying operating story because net income was boosted by a large Anthropic-related non-operating gain. ...

AWS Middle East Data Center Attacks: Strategic Analysis and Lessons Learned Date: April 5, 2026 Author: Cloud Infrastructure Security Team Classification: Public Technical Insight Executive Summary In March-April 2026, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced unprecedented kinetic attacks on its Middle East data center infrastructure, marking the first documented wartime strikes against major hyperscaler facilities. Iranian Shahed-136 drones and ballistic missiles targeted AWS regions ME-CENTRAL-1 (United Arab Emirates) and ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain), causing structural damage, service disruptions, and forcing a fundamental reevaluation of cloud infrastructure resilience assumptions. ...