88 articles
The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges and unlock new opportunities. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 that you can […]
Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable instant recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.
Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable rapid recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.
Amazon Bedrock now supports reinforcement fine-tuning delivering 66% accuracy gains on average over base models.
New pricing model helps maintain cost efficiency while providing flexibility with database services and deployment options.
Build and optimize large-scale vector databases up to 10 times faster and at a quarter of the cost with new GPU acceleration and auto-optimization capabilities that automatically balance search quality, speed, and resource usage.
Manage development, testing, and production database workloads more efficiently with new features including Developer Edition support for SQL Server, M7i/R7i instance support with optimize CPU, and expanded storage options up to 256 TiB.
Reduce data management complexity and costs with automatic normalization across sources, native analytics integration, and built-in support for industry-standard formats like OCSF and Apache Iceberg.
Prevent cloud infrastructure issues before they impact your business with AWS Support plans that combine AI-powered insights with expert guidance, offering faster response times and proactive monitoring across performance, security, and cost dimensions.
New capabilities help optimize application performance, analyze unlimited prefixes, and simplify metrics analysis through S3 Tables integration.
New features enable automatic cost optimization through intelligent storage tiering and simplified table replication across AWS Regions and accounts.
Deploy AI agents with confidence using new quality evaluations and policy controls—enabling precise boundaries on agent actions, continuous quality monitoring, and experience-based learning while maintaining natural conversation flows.
New Lambda capability lets you build applications that coordinate multiple steps reliably over extended periods—from seconds to up to one year—without paying for idle compute time when waiting for external events or human decisions.
Simplify AI experimentation with zero-infrastructure MLflow that launches in minutes, scales automatically, and seamlessly integrates with SageMaker's model customization and pipeline capabilities.
New AWS service helps developers build AI agents that automate browser-based tasks like form filling, search & extract, shopping & booking, and QA testing—with over 90% reliability for enterprise deployments.
Build more natural voice interactions with enhanced speech-to-speech AI—now featuring multilingual conversations, dynamic speech control, crossmodal inputs, and improved telephony integration while maintaining conversation context across tasks.
Today, we’re announcing new enhancements to Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection with the addition of two attack sequence findings for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) tasks. These new findings build on the existing Extended Threat Detection capabilities, which already combine sequences involving AWS Identity and Access […]
Today, AWS Security Hub is generally available, transforming how security teams identify and respond to critical security risks across their AWS environments. These new capabilities were first announced in preview at AWS re:Inforce 2025. Security Hub prioritizes your critical security issues and unifies your security operations to help you respond at scale by correlating and […]
New program gives organizations unprecedented access to Nova model training, enabling them to build custom frontier models that deeply embed domain expertise without the traditional barriers of cost, compute, and time.
New fast, cost-effective model supports extended thinking with adjustable reasoning depth, letting you control the balance between speed, intelligence, and cost while building AI applications for everyday workloads.
Scale your AppSec expertise with AI-powered design reviews, code analysis, and contextual penetration testing that understand your unique security requirements and application architecture.
Access FSx for NetApp ONTAP file data through S3 to enable AI/ML workloads and analytics—letting you use enterprise file data with Bedrock, SageMaker, and analytics services while it remains in your file system.
New service acts as an always-on DevOps engineer, helping you respond to incidents, identify root causes, and prevent future issues through systematic analysis of incidents and operational patterns.
Access fully managed foundation models from leading providers like Google, Kimi AI, MiniMax AI, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Qwen, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 3B, 8B, and 14B models through Amazon Bedrock.
New memory-optimized instances deliver up to 5 GHz processor speeds and 3 TiB of memory—ideal for electronic design automation workloads and memory-intensive databases requiring high single-threaded performance.
Scale vector storage and querying to new heights with S3 Vectors' general availability—now supporting up to 1 billion vectors per index, 100ms query latencies, and expanded regional availability, while reducing costs up to 90% compared to specialized databases.
New AI-powered capabilities help transform legacy mainframe applications into cloud-native architectures while automating complex testing processes—reducing modernization timelines from years to months through intelligent analysis and automated test generation.
Modernize complete Windows applications up to five times faster with coordinated AI-powered transformation across application code, UI frameworks, databases, and deployment configurations.
Modernize applications at scale with this new AI-powered service that learns your organization's patterns, automates transformations across repositories, and cuts execution time by up to 80% through both pre-built and custom capabilities.
Train ML models on sensitive collaborative data by generating synthetic datasets that preserve statistical patterns while protecting individual privacy through configurable noise levels and protection against re-identification.
Speed up AWS development with an open source tool that analyzes your code to generate valid IAM policies, providing AI coding assistants with up-to-date AWS service knowledge and reliable permission recommendations.
Run Lambda functions on EC2 compute while maintaining serverless simplicity—enabling access to specialized hardware and cost optimizations through EC2 pricing models, with AWS handling all infrastructure management.
Simplify hybrid DNS management with a unified service that resolves public and private domains globally through secure, anycast-based resolution while reducing operational overhead and maintaining consistent security controls.
Streamline Kubernetes development with fully managed platform capabilities that handle workload orchestration and cloud resource management, eliminating infrastructure maintenance while providing enterprise-grade reliability and security.
Access Partner Central directly through the AWS Console to streamline your journey from customer to Partner—manage solutions, opportunities, and marketplace listings in one unified interface with enterprise-grade security.
Discover our most impactful innovations across analytics, AI, compute, containers, security, and more throughout the conference week.
Amazon Route 53 now offers Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records, a new business continuity feature designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. This enhancement enables customers to continue making critical DNS changes and provisioning infrastructure even during regional outages, ensuring greater resilience for mission-critical applications.
Next week, don’t miss AWS re:Invent, Dec. 1-5, 2025, for the latest AWS news, expert insights, and global cloud community connections! Our News Blog team is finalizing posts to introduce the most exciting launches from our service teams. If you’re joining us in person in Las Vegas, review the agenda, session catalog, and attendee guides […]
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces new one-click onboarding experiences and serverless notebooks with a built-in AI agent without any manual set up or provisioning of your domain or compute resources. You can launch SageMaker Unified Studio directly from Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3 Tables console pages, giving a fast path to analytics and AI workloads.
Amazon ECS Express Mode simplifies containerized application deployment by automating infrastructure setup through a single command, allowing developers to focus on building applications while following AWS best practices.
AWS announces VPC encryption controls, a new capability that helps organizations audit and enforce encryption in transit for all traffic within and across VPCs in a Region, simplifying compliance with regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP through automated monitoring and enforcement modes.
AWS introduces Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for S3 general purpose buckets, enabling administrators to automatically manage permissions through tag-based policies that match tags between users, roles, and buckets—eliminating the need to constantly update IAM policies as organizations scale.
AWS Step Functions' enhanced TestState API now enables local unit testing with mocking support, comprehensive state type validation, and individual state testing capabilities without requiring AWS deployment or IAM permissions.
AWS Billing Transfer enables customers to centrally manage and pay bills across multiple AWS organizations by allowing billing administrators to transfer payment responsibility while maintaining individual security and governance autonomy over their accounts.
AWS IAM now enables outbound identity federation, allowing developers to securely authenticate AWS workloads with external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens instead of storing long-term credentials like API keys and passwords.
AWS Billing Transfer enables customers to centrally manage and pay bills across multiple AWS organizations by allowing billing administrators to transfer payment responsibility while maintaining individual security and governance autonomy over their accounts.
Amazon SageMaker Catalog now offers column-level metadata forms and enforced glossary requirements, enabling organizations to improve data classification, discoverability, and governance through standardized business metadata.
Amazon EKS introduces Container Network Observability, providing enhanced visibility into Kubernetes workload traffic and performance insights to help teams monitor and troubleshoot microservice environments.
AWS Control Tower now offers Control Only Experience, enabling faster governance setup for established multi-account environments by providing access to AWS managed controls without requiring a full landing zone implementation.
AWS Lambda introduces tenant isolation mode, enabling separate execution environments for each tenant within a single function to meet strict security requirements without managing dedicated per-tenant infrastructure.
Amazon announces the general availability of EC2 P6-B300 instances, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, which deliver 2x networking bandwidth and 1.5x GPU memory than previous generations, making them well suited for training and serving large-scale AI models with trillion parameters across distributed GPU clusters
Amazon Bedrock introduces three service tiers—Priority, Standard, and Flex—allowing you to optimize AI workload costs by matching performance requirements with pricing for different application needs.
This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). My sessions there will be about AI agents and context […]
Last week I met Jeff Barr at the AWS Shenzhen Community Day. Jeff shared stories about how builders around the world are experimenting with generative AI and encouraged local developers to keep pushing ideas into real prototypes. Many attendees stayed after the sessions to discuss model grounding, evaluation, and how to bring generative AI into […]
The weeks before AWS re:Invent, my team is full steam ahead preparing content for the conference. I can’t wait to meet you at one of my three talks: CMP346 : Supercharge AI/ML on Apple Silicon with EC2 Mac, CMP344: Speed up Apple application builds with CI/CD on EC2 Mac, and DEV416: Develop your AI Agents […]
This week started with challenges for many using services in the the North Virginia (us-east-1) Region. On Monday, we experienced a service disruption affecting DynamoDB and several other services due to a DNS configuration problem. The issue has been fully resolved, and you can read the full details in our official summary. As someone who […]
The weeks before AWS re:Invent, my team is full steam ahead preparing content for the conference. I can’t wait to meet you at one of my three talks: CMP346 : Supercharge AI/ML on Apple Silicon with EC2 Mac, CMP344: Speed up Apple application builds with CI/CD on EC2 Mac, and DEV416: Develop your AI Agents […]
AWS Lambda's new provisioned mode for Amazon SQS event source mapping offers dedicated polling resources that provide 3x faster scaling and 10x higher concurrency, enabling lower latency processing, better handling of traffic spikes, and greater control over event processing resources.
AWS IoT Core Device Location service enables Amazon Sidewalk devices to resolve location data without GPS modules, allowing cost-effective asset tracking solutions using Sidewalk's network infrastructure.
With AWS re:Invent approaching, we’re celebrating three exceptional AWS Heroes whose diverse journeys and commitment to knowledge sharing are empowering builders worldwide. From advancing women in tech and rural communities to bridging academic and industry expertise and pioneering enterprise AI solutions, these leaders exemplify the innovative spirit that drives our community forward. Their stories showcase […]
AWS re:Invent 2025 is only 3 weeks away and I’m already looking forward to the new launches and announcements at the conference. Last year brought 60,000 attendees from across the globe to Las Vegas, Nevada, and the atmosphere was amazing. Registration is still open for AWS re:Invent 2025. We hope you’ll join us in Las Vegas […]
AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS, providing a fully managed, centralized solution to back up and restore Kubernetes clusters and application data without requiring custom scripts or third-party tools.
AWS re:Invent 2025 is only 3 weeks away and I’m already looking forward to the new launches and announcements at the conference. Last year brought 60,000 attendees from across the globe to Las Vegas, Nevada, and the atmosphere was amazing. Registration is still open for AWS re:Invent 2025. We hope you’ll join us in Las Vegas […]
AWS Capabilities by Region is a new planning tool that provides detailed visibility into AWS services, features, APIs, and CloudFormation resources across different AWS Regions, helping customers make informed decisions for global deployments and prevent costly rework through side-by-side regional comparisons and forward-looking roadmap information.
Last week I met Jeff Barr at the AWS Shenzhen Community Day. Jeff shared stories about how builders around the world are experimenting with generative AI and encouraged local developers to keep pushing ideas into real prototypes. Many attendees stayed after the sessions to discuss model grounding, evaluation, and how to bring generative AI into […]
AWS announced Amazon Nova Web Grounding, a new built-in tool for Nova models on Amazon Bedrock that automatically retrieves current, cited information to reduce AI hallucinations and improve accuracy in applications requiring up-to-date factual data.
Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings is a new state-of-the-art embedding model available in Amazon Bedrock. It is the industry’s first embedding model that supports text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single unified model, enabling cross-modal retrieval and semantic search applications with leading accuracy, at industry-leading costs.
This week started with challenges for many using services in the the North Virginia (us-east-1) Region. On Monday, we experienced a service disruption affecting DynamoDB and several other services due to a DNS configuration problem. The issue has been fully resolved, and you can read the full details in our official summary. As someone who […]
Three weeks ago, I published a post about the new AWS Region in New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). This led to an incredible opportunity to visit New Zealand, where I met passionate builders and presented at several events including Serverless and Platform Engineering meetup, AWS Tools and Programming meetup, AWS Cloud Clubs in Auckland, and AWS Community […]
AWS launches DeepSeek-V3.1 as a fully managed models in Amazon Bedrock. DeepSeek-V3.1 is a hybrid open weight model that switches between thinking mode for detailed step-by-step analysis and non-thinking mode for faster responses.
Amazon Bedrock has expanded its model offerings with the addition of Qwen 3 foundation models enabling users to access and deploy them in a fully managed, serverless environment. These models feature both mixture-of-experts (MoE) and dense architectures to support diverse use cases including advanced code generation, multi-tool business automation, and cost-optimized AI reasoning.
The Nova Act extension is a new IDE-integrated tool that enables developers to create browser automation agents using natural language through the Nova Act model, offering features like Builder Mode, chat capabilities, and predefined templates while streamlining the development process without leaving their preferred development environment.
AWS launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS to offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations.
Amazon Web Services announces Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, featuring advanced capabilities in coding, tool handling, and long-horizon tasks, with improvements in memory management, context processing, and industry-specific applications across finance, research, and cybersecurity sectors.
Gain control over encryption and comply with regulations using customer-managed keys for AWS IAM Identity Center's user data and passwords.
Wow, can you all believe it? We’re nearing the end of the year already. Next thing you know, AWS re:Invent will be here! This is our biggest event that takes place every year in Las Vegas from December 1st to December 5th where we reveal and release many of the things that we’ve been working […]
Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced security and observability configurations.
Amazon has announced Quick Suite, a new AI-powered workspace that combines research, business intelligence, and automation tools to help users analyze data and streamline workflows all in one place.
AWS RTB Fabric is a fully managed service designed for real-time bidding advertising workloads that enables AdTech companies to connect with their supply and demand partners through a dedicated, high-performance network environment, delivering single-digit millisecond performance and up to 80% lower networking costs compared to standard cloud connections while eliminating the need for colocation infrastructure or upfront commitments.
AWS Outposts is now integrated with Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra MP B10000 systems, enabling customers to seamlessly use their on-premises external storage infrastructure with AWS services while maintaining data residency requirements.
Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand […]
AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support VPC-based connectivity, allowing secure file transfers between Amazon S3 and remote SFTP servers through your existing VPC infrastructure without exposing endpoints to the internet.
I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of the activities we’ve initiated this year. The tech community in South Africa is […]
Amazon EC2 has launched new M8a instances powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors, offering up to 30% better performance and 19% better price performance compared to M7a instances, along with improved memory bandwidth, networking, and storage capabilities for various general-purpose workloads.
This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). My sessions there will be about AI agents and context […]
AWS has expanded its Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT) to include Scope 3 emissions data alongside updated Scope 1 and 2 emissions, giving customers more insight into their carbon impact. The CCFT now tracks emissions from fuel- and energy-related activities (FERA), IT hardware, buildings, equipment, and transportation. AWS customers can access this information and track changes over time through the AWS Billing console.
AWS launched Amazon EBS Volume Clones, a new capability that allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call, eliminating the previous multi-step process of taking snapshots and creating volumes from them.
Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager is a new centralized solution that consolidates capacity monitoring and management across all AWS accounts and regions, eliminating operational overhead and providing optimization opportunities for EC2 infrastructure at scale.