The opening of Amazon's massive new campus has left the tech giant's new neighbors with wildly divergent predictions about what might happen next.

Hundreds of Amazon staff members walked off the job on Wednesday afternoon demanding renewed commitments to reducing carbon emissions to zero -- and a flexible remote work policy.

Six weeks after its announcement, most customers haven’t had a chance to test the technology because they need to secure approval from Amazon first — a highly unusual demand.

The walkout is part of a greater wave of anxiety spilling over into agitation among Silicon Valley workers as hiring freezes follow mass layoffs amid a looming potential recession.

The cuts affect workers in the US, Canada, and Costa Rica, AWS says, which is experiencing slowing growth as corporate customers looks to trim expenses.

Diamond-enabled quantum networking through a collaboration between AWS and De Beers subsidiary Element Six could bring enhanced communication and data security in fields such as finance, healthcare, and defense.

The company last month wrapped up a round of job cuts that totaled about 18,000 workers. The news comes less than a week after Facebook's Meta announced that it was laying off another 10,000 employees.

Amazon, Southwest were talking before the scheduling fiasco. AWS will process fare searches and crew scheduling.

AWS launches an edge computing system leveraging their Outpost offering for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Some analysts say AWS' growth will also slow throughout 2023 and they project Q4 will show a 22% growth rate for the cloud computing market leader.