More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.

A mid the wave of hype over artificial intelligence, a growing chorus of fear has sprung around software engineering, where executives are threatening to automate swaths of work. But an ongoing overhaul at America's second-largest private employer has a more immediate warning - already on warehouse floors.

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Amazon, which has asserted its dominance in retail and the tech industry with its cloud computing services, has turned heads this year with dramatic workforce changes as it invests billions into artificial intelligence.

Amazon.com is building an e-commerce fulfillment business where humans are more efficient and less necessary, thanks to artificial intelligence and robots.

An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`

Millions around the world found themselves unable to access popular services thanks to a Domain Name System issue with Amazon Web Services.

In one post, Amazon highlighted Blue Jay, a robot it calls “an extra set of hands that helps employees with tasks that involve reaching and lifting,” and its agentic AI system Project Eluna, which “acts like an extra teammate, helping reduce that cognitive load” while optimizing sorting to reduce bottlenecks.

When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet.