federal contracts Amazon unhappy Microsoft won $10 billion 'war cloud' Pentagon contract Xeni Jardin

aws Facial recognition: Amazon adds 'fear' to range of emotions Rekognition can detect Xeni Jardin

magecart A prolific credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured "buckets" in Amazon's cloud and has compromised 17,000 domains (so far) Cory Doctorow

aws Amazon's cloud business leads American companies in shifting its electric cost to taxpayers Cory Doctorow

bongo Fedex bought a company that stored 119,000 pieces of scanned customer IDs in a public Amazon cloud server, shut the company down, left the scans online for anyone to download Cory Doctorow

Altamira Technologies US Army doxes itself, reveals $100 million NSA spy program that got flushed before it was ever used Cory Doctorow

outage That big Amazon S3 outage was caused by a typo, company admits Xeni Jardin