Amazon Web Services

Companies and governments assume we will always have access to the web these days

Snapchat among popular sites hit by outage

Big tech firms take first four slots in The Irish Times’ annual Top 1000 ranking of companies

Oracle market value jumps more than $290bn on AI surge after ‘astonishing quarter’

Amazon Web Services uses Formula One as a ‘powerful storytelling vehicle’ while Wimbledon helps IBM ‘drive meaningful conversation and pipeline with clients’

Tech giant’s decision highlights extent of limitations on State electricity network

Accounts for Dublin-based Amazon R&D subsidiary show it spent €191m on wages and salaries for 1,540 staff

Facility ‘will have no significant impact on climate’, company’s planning consultant says

The pay package for directors last year totalled €1.34m

Company attempting to build three additional data centres on 65-acre north Dublin campus

Louth-based whistleblower believes he was dismissed for highlighting security shortfalls

Arrival of Niamh Gallagher means women hold two of Amazon’s main leadership roles in Ireland

Part of the lure is the deals. But I think it’s more existential. Call it postcolonial status anxiety

Flexibility in the workplace is still enough of a factor for people to consider cuts to pay or benefits

Seen & Heard: Tax still key for foreign investment, warning on cocoa prices and bread merger

Market capitalisation more than doubled over past five years from growing cloud and advertising businesses as well as expanding margins in retail

Ireland has one of the highest percentages of employees working from home in the EU

Move comes with Intel expected to lay off hundreds of workers at Irish operation

Company is celebrating 20-year anniversary in Ireland

Amazon Web Services is a sponsor of Formula One but it’s also leveraging its tech to delve deeper into the sport

Planning board faced calls for oral hearing from groups opposing Amazon’s proposal for north Dublin

Amazon Web Services wants regulator to ‘come forward asap in a way that allows US companies to continue to do business in Ireland’

Issues around technology’s reliability and potential to displace jobs raised at Oireachtas enterprise committee

Amazon, Google and Microsoft to discuss impact of technology business in the Republic and risks to workers

Companies will spend next decade figuring out what AI means for them and their workforces, IDA Ireland chief argues

Travel sector hopes generative AI can offer customers the best of the traditional agent model and the modern do-it-yourself approach

Platform gives customers access to more than 100 live channels

While rivals race to add AI capabilities to products, AWS focuses on making it easier and more secure for firms to integrate it into workflows

Nevada politicians are considering introducing a state lottery but there are concerns that it could take money away from its vast gambling economy

Company holding its developer conference in Las Vegas this week

Tech firm queried Minister for Housing on rules governing use of backup generators to maintain critical services

Shares in online retailer climb in extended trading

Ofcom says study shows features that make it more difficult for UK businesses to switch to and use multiple cloud suppliers

Cerabyte data is physically written, stable across a wide range of temperatures, is fire and water resistant, and can survive exposure to radiation or electromagnetic pulses

Slowdown in growth at ecommerce company’s cloud division proves less severe than anticipated

Alternative Energy Ireland, which has been in operation since 2007, designs and installs renewable energy systems

Solid financial performance across US tech giants has buoyed confidence on Wall Street at an important moment

Network to be extended to local apartments and houses in coming years

Sales increase by a third even as pretax profit falls

Startup Loft is located in company’s Charlemont Street offices