I think this a popup for their shopping research promotion feature they added last week. I guess its a first party ad for their own new feature, but I don’t think its the third party ads that this article is talking about.

I would imagine they couldn't offer models through Bedrock. I think this means training and traditional computing workloads for their products (such as the workspaces for Codex cloud)

This is the difference between “partitions” and “regions”. Partitions have fully separate IAM, DNS names, etc. This is how there are things like US Gov Cloud, the Chinese AWS cloud, and now the EU sovereign cloud

Yes, although unfortunately it’s not how AWS sold regions to customers. AWS folks consistently told customers that regions were independent and customers architected on that belief.

It was only when stuff started breaking that all this crap about “well actually stuff still relies on us-east-1” starts coming out.

Yes - they told me quite specifically that until they launch their their sovereign cloud, the mothership will be around.

Which are lies btw - Amazon has admitted the "EU sovereign cloud" is still susceptible to US government whims.

Thats most articles posted to HN

For some people the "uphill battle" is the fun part

I think we’ll start to see a bunch of fintech companies use stablecoins for things, but as more of an implementation detail and not really a speculative market like it was before.

Well stablecoins by design cannot really fluctuate a lot in value (unless they collapse), so speculation on them is pretty much out.

It's still pretty unclear to me why you'd actually want a blockchain for managing it though, rather than a traditional database hosted by the central bank that is responsible for the currency that the stablecoin is following. You'd get vastly more throughput at much lower costs, and it's not like you really need decentralization for such a system anyway. The stablecoin is backed by something the central bank already has authority over.

then why hasn't the central bank done this yet

Depends. Several central banks are working on exactly that, see for example the recent speech by the FED and the whole GENIUS act regulation framework.

But to be honest where I am (northwest Europe) we already have subsecond person-to-person transactions via the normal banking system, no matter which bank the sender and receiver use. So stablecoin-ifying the Euro wouldn't make a huge difference. There might be more to gain if the region doesn't have that kind of payment infrastructure yet.

US Mobile is really good. You can also get on any carrier you want via it (and multiple if you are really inclined)

> You need to go through your provider to transfer, which requires calling them and verifying your identity.

I don't think this is true for all providers. I've never had to do this for T-Mobile for instance, it just activated without intervention.

I was using Orion for a while, but it was so hopelessly buggy that I had to go back to Arc. Hope that changes in the future.