Amazon today expanded its logistics arm by launching Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), making its freight, warehousing and delivery infrastructure available to external retail, wholesale and commercial clients. The offering leverages a network built over three years, featuring more than 80,000 trailers, 24,000 intermodal containers and over 100 aircraft, and supports ocean, air, ground and rail transport as well as time-sensitive shipments, customs clearance and end-to-end visibility.

Major corporations including Procter & Gamble, 3M, Lands’ End and American Eagle Outfitters have begun using ASCS to move raw materials, distribute finished goods and fulfill orders across multiple sales channels. Clients benefit from Amazon’s unified inventory pool, cost efficiencies and fast delivery speeds previously exclusive to Amazon’s retail operations.

Iranian drone attacks struck three AWS data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, causing structural and water damage that has disrupted core computing, storage and database services. Amazon paused billing for affected customers, advised migrating workloads to other regions and forecasted several months of repair work due to power system failures and server rack losses.

The damage has led to outages and performance slowdowns for e-commerce platforms, logistics providers and digital marketplaces in the Middle East, prompting some global retailers to shift operations to European and Asian data centers. The incident underscores physical vulnerabilities of cloud infrastructure in conflict zones and raises concerns over regional supply chain continuity.