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Santosh Janardhan, Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering since joining in 2009, told staff in a memo on November 11 that he will step down, CNBC and TechCrunch report. Dave Brown, who spent 19 years at Amazon and joined Meta in July, will lead infrastructure within the Meta Compute initiative. Janardhan will stay through the first quarter of 2027 for the transition and then move to an advisory role on Meta Compute. Meta did not give a reason.

AWS released AWS Emulator on November 11, a free local emulator built from more than 400 API models covering more than 200 AWS services, so developers and coding agents can test against AWS APIs without an account or network calls. AWS says autonomous agents wrote all of the code and its team has not written or reviewed any of it, relying instead on agent-run tests checked against real AWS and an automated merge gate. The code is public under CC0; unsupported operations return 501 Not Implemented.

Updated November 6: OpenAI has named the model behind its November 4 Linux pipeline as GPT-6 Cyber, raised its Preparedness Framework cybersecurity rating to Critical from High, and opened it to select Daybreak Red customers first. OpenAI reports 48.5% on ExploitGym versus 32.1% for GPT-5.6 Cyber, 81 previously unknown high-severity Firefox vulnerabilities, and the same 948 Linux LPE exploits; access expands to all approved Daybreak Red over coming weeks.

Amazon Web Services revenue rose 39% to $46.0 billion in the third quarter, its fastest growth since late 2021, and Andy Jassy projected growth above 40% in both 2027 and 2028. On the call he said Amazon will offer its Trainium AI chips outside AWS late in 2027, CNBC reported. AI spending left Amazon's trailing free cash flow at minus $42.4 billion.

Amazon said on Oct. 29 that Alexa for Shopping, the assistant in its shopping app and website, now handles more than 100 new actions, including editing lists and registries, managing Subscribe & Save deliveries, updating delivery instructions and answering billing and refund questions. It is available to all U.S. customers. Amazon says 400 million customers used the assistant in the past year; usage figures are Amazon's own.

Amazon published on October 27 a memo from its engineering leadership telling software engineers and managers that input metrics such as token usage and AI tool adoption are "deeply flawed" and that "tokenmaxxing is at odds with frugality," while saying the metrics still correlate with results and can be used "with care and judgement." CNBC reports the memo first circulated internally in September and that Amazon says it has not capped employees' token usage.

The S-1 states Anthropic's compute commitments: at least about $114.5B with Google, at least $110.0B with Amazon and at least $44.9B with Microsoft, and up to $120.5B with xAI, plus up to about $44.6B with Nscale and about $41.3B with Lambda. The terms mix minimums, ceilings and arrangements that can be cancelled on 90 days' notice, and the filing leaves its contractual-obligations table blank.

Wiz says that about 4.5 hours after exfiltration, the attacker behind the malicious LiteLLM 1.107.0 release validated stolen AWS instance-role credentials and listed available Bedrock models, activity Wiz calls 'consistent with LLMjacking'; Wiz does not report models being run. LiteLLM says the release also reached its Docker Hub and GHCR images, via GitHub tokens it believes were taken from an exposed internal server's logs.

AWS announced TorchNeuron, an Apache 2.0 open-source native PyTorch backend for Trainium2 and Trainium3, entering public beta on Oct. 20. Models move with .to('neuron'). Reuters via Business Standard says more than 30 early customers took part. Customer speed-ups are self-reported.

Calcalist reported on Oct. 13 that Amazon's proposed acquisition of Decart would value the startup at about $5.5 billion, with a deal possibly signed by the end of October. The Wall Street Journal had reported a deal valued at around $7 billion; the Oct. 12 report follows.

AWS said on Oct. 5 that Z.ai’s open-weight GLM 5.3, which it describes as a 753B-parameter mixture-of-experts model for coding and long-horizon agent work, is available on Amazon Bedrock to eligible enterprise customers through managed APIs. On Oct. 6 Zhipu’s Hong Kong shares rose 7.7% to HK$716 in morning trade; etnet tied the move to a Chinese media report that AWS will share revenue with Zhipu based on usage. That revenue share is not in AWS’s post and has not been confirmed.

Anthropic India managing director Irina Ghose told the Times of India that Claude requests sent through Amazon Bedrock’s India endpoint are now processed on servers in India, the data-residency condition regulated banks and government bodies asked for. She said India is Claude.ai’s second-largest market. The India profile AWS launched on Sept. 29 covers Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 — not the newer 5.5 models.

AWS CEO Matt Garman posted that Amazon will add more than $1 billion over five years — on top of existing community spending — under Built Together for U.S. data-center communities, and codified a Data Center Commitment that includes ending nondisclosure agreements with government agencies on these projects. Garman asserts more than 100 data-center moratoriums are being considered. GeekWire matches the dollars and NDA change and reports Amazon said the NDA shift is forward-looking.

OpenAI says a new agreement gives Airbnb’s engineering and product teams broader access to frontier models, including GPT-6 Astra, through OpenAI APIs and Amazon Bedrock. Airbnb’s 80% more-features claim is a customer year-over-year line, not an audited productivity study.

Amazon and Nvidia said AWS will add two million more Nvidia GPUs in 2027–2028 on top of the GTC 2026 million-plus commitment, bring Vera CPUs to AWS, and put 100,000 GPUs on IL6+ AWS for U.S. federal AI factories. No dollar terms. The interesting clause is Trainium on NVLink Fusion.

OpenAI put the GPT-5.6 family — Sol, Terra, and Luna — into Kiro, AWS’s spec-driven software development agent. Joint testing claimed GPT-5.6 Terra completed successful Terminal-Bench 2.1 tasks in Kiro at roughly an 82% cost reduction. Vendor harness claim, not an independent AA/Arena rank of a new checkpoint.

xAI announced Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock at the same $2 / $0.50 cached / $6 per million tokens as its first-party API, with a 500k context window and low, medium, high and xhigh reasoning effort.

OpenAI made Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red, including GPT-5.6-Cyber, available on Amazon Bedrock for eligible Daybreak Access customers.

AWS puts GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock with OpenAI-matching rates, no add-on fees, and usage counting toward AWS commitments. The trade is multi-cloud OpenAI inside existing IAM/PrivateLink stacks — vendor performance claims on Bedrock’s inference engine remain unaudited.