An industrywide power crunch is changing how Amazon runs its e-commerce empire

Amazon is undertaking a multiyear effort called "Region Flex" to spread e-commerce workloads across more AWS cloud regions, aiming for greater flexibility and resilience. This strategic shift is driven by industrywide power constraints caused by the AI boom, leading Amazon to redesign its cloud setup as data center capacity becomes increasingly limited. The initiative involves reducing the retail operations' footprint in major hubs such as Northern Virginia and Dublin.