Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.

Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses.

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Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services, cited a problem at its data center in Northern Virginia. The outage highlighted the fragility of global internet infrastructure.

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As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

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Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services for companies, said it was working to resolve an issue that appeared to be affecting websites.

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