The news: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is slowing down data center expansion plans, mimicking a pullback by Microsoft but leaving room for in-house construction.
- The company is pausing talks on leading colocation centers, in which AWS would partner to build large-scale data centers that it leases space in but doesn’t fully own.
- Some plans may have been too costly or unable to support AWS’ computing capacity needs, per AWS global data centers vice president Kevin Miller.