Amazon says cloud services are coming back online

AWS Performance & Outage - AWS US East regions are showing continued recovery with error reports trending down [1] - Over 11 million users flagged issues, impacting services like Coinbase, Robin Hood, and Perplexity [1] - The epicenter of the issues was AWS's Northern Virginia data center cluster [2] - This region has experienced multiple outages in the last 5 years [3] Competitive Landscape & Investment - Investor focus is on whether Amazon will boost its $118 billion capex plan [3] - The plan is to compete with Microsoft, Google, Meta, and OpenAI [3] - AWS has been losing deals to Azure, Oracle, and Google [4] - OpenAI is now building its own data centers [4]