Author Archives: Lucian Systems

Accelerate safe software releases with new built-in blue/green deployments in Amazon ECS

While containers have revolutionized how development teams package and deploy applications, these teams have had to carefully monitor releases and build custom tooling to mitigate deployment risks, which slows down shipping velocity. At scale, development teams spend valuable cycles building and maintaining undifferentiated deployment tools instead of innovating for their business. Starting today, you can […]

Generative AI in Education and Industry: What the Data Really Says

A new generation of tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and similar large language models is rapidly changing how people learn, teach, and build software. While public buzz around Generative AI (GenAI) often swings between fear and fascination, a new report offers something far more grounded: data. The 2024 study Beyond the Hype: “A Comprehensive Review […]

Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2025

Today at the AWS Summit in New York City, Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP of Agentic AI, provided the day’s keynote on how we’re enabling customers to deliver production-ready AI agents at scale. Here’s our roundup of the biggest announcements from the event: Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)Amazon […]

Announcing Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI

Today, we’re announcing a suite of customization capabilities for Amazon Nova in Amazon SageMaker AI. Customers can now customize Nova Micro, Nova Lite, and Nova Pro across the model training lifecycle, including pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and alignment. These techniques are available as ready-to-use Amazon SageMaker recipes with seamless deployment to Amazon Bedrock, supporting both on-demand […]

Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)

In just a few years, foundation models (FMs) have evolved from being used directly to create content in response to a user’s prompt, to now powering AI agents, a new class of software applications that use FMs to reason, plan, act, learn, and adapt in pursuit of user-defined goals with limited human oversight. This new […]

Streamline the path from data to insights with new Amazon SageMaker Catalog capabilities

Modern organizations manage data across multiple disconnected systems—structured databases, unstructured files, and separate visualization tools—creating barriers that slow analytics workflows and limit insight generation. Separate visualization platforms often create barriers that prevent teams from extracting comprehensive business insights. These disconnected workflows prevent your organizations from maximizing your data investments, creating delays in decision making and […]

AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in credits

When you’re new to Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can get started with AWS Free Tier to learn about AWS services, gain hands-on experience, and build applications. You can explore the portfolio of services without incurring costs, making it even easier to get started with AWS. Today, we’re announcing some enhancements to the AWS Free Tier […]

Monitor and debug event-driven applications with new Amazon EventBridge logging

Starting today, you can use enhanced logging capability in Amazon EventBridge to monitor and debug your event-driven applications with comprehensive logs. These new enhancements help improve how you monitor and troubleshoot event flows. Here’s how you can find this new capability on the Amazon EventBridge console: The new observability capabilities address microservices and event-driven architecture […]

Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview)

Today, we’re announcing the preview of Amazon S3 Vectors, a purpose-built durable vector storage solution that can reduce the total cost of uploading, storing, and querying vectors by up to 90 percent. Amazon S3 Vectors is the first cloud object store with native support to store large vector datasets and provide subsecond query performance that […]