# Amazon

[https://timesof.ai/platform/amazon](https://timesof.ai/platform/amazon)

Amazon develops and deploys AI across AWS infrastructure, Alexa, and e-commerce systems.

Amazon focuses on scalable AI services for developers and businesses.

## Coverage

- [Meta Hands Its AI Data Center Build-Out to a Former AWS Executive as Infrastructure Chief Santosh Janardhan Steps Down](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/meta-infrastructure-chief-janardhan-steps-down-dave-brown) — Meta's Santosh Janardhan will step down in 2027; ex-AWS SVP Dave Brown takes over infrastructure under Meta Compute as capex runs $135B-$145B this year.
- [AWS Ships a Free Local Copy of Its Cloud That It Says No Human Wrote or Reviewed](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/aws-emulator-built-entirely-by-ai-agents-cc0) — AWS Emulator mimics 200+ AWS services locally for developers and coding agents. AWS says agents wrote all the code with no human review, gated by agent checks.
- [OpenAI Ships GPT-6 Cyber at Preparedness Critical for Daybreak Red, Citing 81 Firefox Bugs and the 948 Linux Exploits](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/openai-autonomous-pipeline-948-linux-root-exploits-1-2m) — GPT-6 Cyber is Critical under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework for Daybreak Red. Lab scores: 48.5% ExploitGym; 81 Firefox bugs; 948 Linux LPEs.
- [AWS Growth Hit 39% as Amazon Said It Will Sell Trainium Chips Outside Its Cloud From Late 2027](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/amazon-q3-2026-aws-39-percent-trainium-outside-aws) — AWS revenue rose 39% to $46.0B. Jassy projects 40%+ growth in 2027-28 and says Trainium chips will be sold outside AWS from late 2027. Free cash flow: -$42.4B.
- [Amazon's Alexa for Shopping Can Now Skip Subscriptions, Change Delivery Instructions and Chase Refunds](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/amazon-alexa-shopping-subscriptions-delivery-actions) — Amazon's Alexa for Shopping now handles 100+ actions in the U.S., from Subscribe & Save changes to delivery instructions and refunds. Usage figures are Amazon's.
- [Amazon Memo Calls Token Usage and Other AI Input Metrics "Deeply Flawed," Then Tells Managers to Keep Using Them "With Care and Judgement"](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/amazon-memo-token-usage-deeply-flawed-ai-metric) — An Amazon engineering memo calls token usage and AI adoption metrics "deeply flawed" but says they can still be used with care. Amazon says it does not cap tokens.
- [Anthropic's S-1 Spells Out Its Compute Contracts: At Least $114.5B With Google, $110B With Amazon and $44.9B With Microsoft, and Up to $120.5B With xAI](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/anthropic-s1-compute-commitments-xai-120b-google-amazon-microsoft) — Anthropic's S-1 lists compute commitments of at least $114.5B with Google, $110B with Amazon and $44.9B with Microsoft, and up to $120.5B with xAI.
- [Wiz Says Credentials Stolen in the LiteLLM Compromise Were Used Within Hours to Check for Amazon Bedrock Access](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/litellm-1-107-0-pypi-wheels-credential-stealer-aisle-quarantined) — Wiz says stolen AWS credentials from the LiteLLM compromise were checked for Bedrock access within hours, 'consistent with LLMjacking'. LiteLLM says its containers were hit too.
- [Amazon Opens TorchNeuron, a Native PyTorch Backend for Trainium, in Public Beta](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/amazon-torchneuron-pytorch-backend-trainium-public-beta) — TorchNeuron: native PyTorch backend for AWS Trainium in public beta Oct. 20; .to('neuron'); Apache 2.0. Customer gains self-reported.
- [Update: Calcalist Puts Amazon's Proposed Decart Deal at About $5.5 Billion, Below the WSJ's Reported $7 Billion](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/amazon-decart-7b-acquisition-talks-wsj) — Calcalist reports Amazon's proposed Decart deal values it at about $5.5B, below the ~$7B the WSJ reported. Talks only; nothing signed.
- [AWS Puts Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 on Bedrock; Zhipu Shares Jump on a Reported Revenue Share](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/zhipu-glm-5-3-amazon-bedrock) — AWS lists Z.ai’s 753B GLM 5.3 on Bedrock for eligible enterprise customers. Zhipu rose 7.7% in Hong Kong on Oct. 6 on an unconfirmed Chinese media report of a usage-based revenue share.
- [Anthropic Sells India on In-Country Claude Inference — Without Its Newest Models](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/anthropic-india-in-country-inference) — Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5 now process inside India via Bedrock’s Mumbai/Hyderabad profile. Anthropic says India is Claude.ai’s No. 2 market. 5.5 models not included.
- [Amazon’s Built Together: >$1B for Data-Center Communities and an NDA Drop](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/amazon-built-together-data-centers) — AWS CEO Garman: Built Together adds >$1B over five years for U.S. data-center communities; Amazon ends gov NDAs on projects going forward. GeekWire.
- [Airbnb Widens GPT-6 Astra Access Through OpenAI APIs and Bedrock](https://timesof.ai/2026/09/airbnb-gpt-6-astra-access) — Airbnb engineers get broader GPT-6 Astra access through OpenAI APIs and Amazon Bedrock. The 80% shipping claim is customer-reported, not audited.
- [AWS Plans Another 2 Million Nvidia GPUs — And Plans Trainium NVLink Expansion](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/aws-nvidia-2-million-gpus) — AWS plans two million more Nvidia GPUs in 2027–2028, plus Vera CPUs and 100,000 government GPUs — Trainium on NVLink Fusion is the interesting clause.
- [GPT-5.6 Arrives in Kiro With a Vendor-Reported Cost Reduction](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/openai-gpt-5-6-kiro-aws) — GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna land in Amazon’s Kiro coding agent — joint testing cites ~82% Terminal-Bench cost cut for Terra in Kiro.
- [Grok 4.6 Arrives on Amazon Bedrock One Week After Launch](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/spacexai-grok-4-6-amazon-bedrock) — xAI put Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock at $2/$6 per million tokens with a 500k context window — one week after the flagship launch.
- [Daybreak on Bedrock — Cyber Models Become Procurement-Real](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/openai-daybreak-aws-bedrock) — OpenAI Daybreak Blue and Red cyber models are available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock — procurement path for approved defenders.
- [OpenAI Flagships Land on Bedrock at First-Party Prices — No Markup](https://timesof.ai/2026/04/aws-openai-models-bedrock-gpt-5-5-codex) — OpenAI GPT-5.5/5.4 and Codex on Amazon Bedrock — first-party price parity, AWS commitment credit, Bedrock enterprise controls, managed agents.