Chalk this one up under "The most clever (alleged) legal sidesteps this side of Tony Soprano." On Wednesday, The Guardian published a report about a so-called "winking mechanism" regarding Israeli cloud computing contracts with Amazon and Google.

A problem at Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world. The outage on Monday took down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.

Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world.

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services on Monday morning demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth's computational infrastructure everyday — and laid bare the vulnerabilities of an increasingly concentrated system.

SAN FRANCISCO >> Amazon.com said today that a cloud computing unit at its data center in northern Virginia had largely contained fallout from a widespread internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites,

Amazon will report its quarterly earnings on Tuesday, following a massive AWS outage and amid concerns about its AI growth.