Microsoft is winding down its demand-side platform "Microsoft Invest" and has named Amazon DSP its preferred partner. But it's not the only big tech company putting its trust in Amazon. How will consolidation affect the ad industry?

The internet can seem like an endless sea of different websites and apps. But it increasingly depends on a small cluster of giant companies to keep it running.

A major Amazon Web Services outage recently impacted platforms like Snapchat and Roblox. This incident revealed the internet's deep reliance on a few cloud giants. Businesses, governments, and users worldwide faced disruptions.

Amazon Web Services is debuting Amazon Quick Suite, a new agentic AI platform that automates business tasks and connects data across company systems — a direct challenge to Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini in the digital workplace.

Microsoft’s shift to Amazon DSP gives advertisers access to Amazon’s data-driven targeting and premium inventory as it phases out its own DSP.

Microsoft Corp. MSFT plans to shift most new product manufacturing out of China as early as next year, joining other U.S. tech giants in expanding production beyond the world's second-largest economy,

Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage that triggered connectivity issues for thousands of websites and services across the globe.

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