AWS: news, timeline and key numbers

Recent stories involving Amazon Web Services have centered on cloud security and computing capacity.

On 2026-10-19, security researcher Paulos Yibelo named a flaw he found in Linux KVM, the hypervisor used by most hyperscale clouds. A hypervisor is software that splits one server into isolated virtual machines. The stakes are high because virtualization depends on guests being unable to see what the host or other guests are doing. Both public and private clouds rely on that isolation.

On 2026-10-20, a draft IPO prospectus reviewed by The Wall Street Journal showed that Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, has not been able to secure as much cloud computing capacity as it wants from Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft. The gap matters because the company's costs and obligations are rising fast.

On 2026-10-22, a security brief reported that two critical flaws in PHP, the open-source language that powers a large share of websites, are being exploited. Fixes were released on Wednesday.

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