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(GeekWire Photograph / Taylor Soper) The large outage that hit Amazon Web Services early Monday and took down a number of main websites and providers was attributable to an inner situation inside the cloud big’s infrastructure. In a brand new update Monday at 8:43 a.m. PT, Amazon mentioned the foundation reason behind the outage was an “underlying inner subsystem liable for monitoring the well being of our community load balancers.” The outage impacted the whole lot from websites together with Fb, Coinbase, and Amazon itself, to check-in kiosks at LaGuardia Airport. Amazon mentioned it was seeing connectivity and API restoration…
(Picture by Scott Graham on Unsplash) A brand new regulation that took effect in July makes Washington the primary state within the nation to require corporations to inform the state Legal professional Normal about sure mergers and acquisitions that already set off federal antitrust filings. The aim of the laws is to provide state regulators an earlier take a look at offers that would have an effect on competitors. Some states, together with Washington, have already got related necessities for particular industries akin to healthcare. However the brand new regulation applies to any sector — together with tech. Vishal Mehta,…
Amazon Net Companies is displaying “important indicators of restoration” after a serious outage early Monday that impacted websites and companies together with Fb, Snapchat, Coinbase and Amazon itself — reviving considerations in regards to the web’s heavy reliance on the cloud large. The corporate attributed the failure, which started round 12:11 a.m. PDT, to an issue in its Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) area. In an update shortly after 2 a.m. Pacific, AWS blamed a DNS decision challenge with DynamoDB, which means the web’s telephone e book failed to seek out the right handle for the core database service that 1000’s of…
Get caught up on the most recent know-how and startup information from the previous week. Listed below are the preferred tales on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 12, 2025. Signal as much as obtain these updates each Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Hottest tales on GeekWire A first look at the Amazon-backed, next-generation nuclear facility planned for Washington state A challenge to construct one of many nation’s first next-gen nuclear services has simply introduced its identify — the Cascade Superior Power Facility — and shared renderings of the plant. … Read More…
Xealth CEO Mike McSherry. (Xealth Photograph) When Mike McSherry got down to construct a digital well being startup, the veteran entrepreneur wished to create an organization that might change into ubiquitous in healthcare. Xealth didn’t fairly attain that formidable purpose. However its digital well being software program platform did acquire traction — and drew the eye of a worldwide tech large. Samsung completed its acquisition of Xealth on Friday. The deal, reported by Modern Healthcare at about $115 million, alerts Samsung’s deeper push into digital health because it competes towards Apple, Amazon, Google, and others. It’s additionally a significant milestone…
Seattle Mariners followers go loopy inside T-Cellular Park on Friday after third baseman Geno Suarez hit a grand slam in a 6-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. (GeekWire Picture / Holly Grambihler) The group at T-Cellular Park has been ready all week to maneuver the earth once more for the Seattle Mariners. They received their probability Friday night time. An eighth-inning grand slam by Geno Suarez despatched greater than 46,000 followers right into a frenzy and triggered seismic exercise registered by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN). The group, which screens earthquakes and volcanoes in Washington and Oregon, put…
What occurs to Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC initiative because it goals to make each pc an AI PC? That’s one among our subjects on this week’s GeekWire Podcast. (GeekWire File Photograph / Todd Bishop) Veteran expertise journalist Ed Bott has “seen issues,” after greater than 30 years of protecting Microsoft and the PC trade, and he acknowledges a sample within the firm’s newest AI options for Home windows. Ed Bott, senior contributing editor for ZDNet. It’s a part of a high-stakes effort to place Home windows on the heart of the following massive platform shift — trying to keep away from…
(SWAPMEAT Picture) The crew at Seattle-based sport developer One More Game is lastly sharing its first title with gamers, six years after the corporate initially began. Shortly after landing a $22 million funding round in 2022 from traders together with Lightspeed and Andreessen Horowitz, One Extra Sport determined to scrap Spellcraft, the sport it had been engaged on for over three years. The corporate utterly shelved the hybrid real-time technique fantasy sport and began over from scratch. “I’m actually pleased with Spellcraft — the sport was good,” mentioned One Extra Sport co-founder Jamie Stormbreaker. He mentioned the corporate noticed participant curiosity…
(Peach Photograph) Chicago-based workplace lunch supply firm Fooda has acquired Peach, a Seattle startup that constructed software program to facilitate lunch deliveries. Peach CEO Nishant Singh confirmed that the deal closed in July. It’s a part of a recent wave of meals supply acquisitions, together with DoorDash’s $3.9 billion buy of Deliveroo in October and Surprise shopping for Grubhub final 12 months. “Fooda — together with a number of different corporations — approached us in early 2025,” Singh mentioned. “Given the continuing consolidation in our business, there was a pure synergy that made Fooda a nice match.” Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed. “In…
Jon Jones. (LinkedIn Picture) — Jon Jones, a former Amazon Net Companies vp, is now chief income officer for CoreWeave, the New Jersey-based AI computing firm that went public earlier this 12 months. Jones joined AWS in 2017 and left the place of VP of world startups and enterprise capital. He’ll stay in Seattle. Jones’ three-decades lengthy profession consists of roles from startup founder to enterprise govt management. “I’m thrilled to affix CoreWeave at such an necessary second,” Jones stated in an announcement. “AI adoption is advancing at a rare tempo, and lasting success will depend on pairing world-class know-how…