Amazon Web Services provides infrastructure for many big-name companies, as well as state and local governments.

Amazon has agreed to pay a $2.5 billion settlement after coercing customers into subscriptions. Here's how to know if you are eligible for payments.

Current and former Amazon Prime members will be a part of what the Federal Trade Commission is calling a “historic” $2.5 billion settlement. The lawsuit claims Amazon enrolled millions of consumers in Prime subscriptions without their consent and knowingly made it difficult for consumers to cancel.

The FTC accused Amazon of using "deceptive methods" to register millions of customers for paid Prime subscriptions.

While the settlement was a total of $2.5 billion, over half — $1.5 billion— will go to consumers. The remaining $1 billion is a civil penalty.

Millions of Amazon Prime customers are eligible for a refund following a historic antitrust lawsuit. Here's what to know about the Amazon settlement.

A status page for Amazon's cloud unit showed more than 80 of its services and features were affected early Monday.

The online retail giant is required to pay a $1 billion civil penalty and an additional $1.5 billion in refunds to customers who were “harmed by their deceptive" business practices.

Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world’s most popular apps – Snapchat and Reddit – and disrupted businesses globally.