My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, it removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building customized systems for billing, credential management, and […]
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I have been building with AI agents and MCP tools for a while now, and one question kept coming up: how do you give an agent real, authenticated access to AWS without handing it the keys to the kingdom? Today, there is an answer. I’m happy to announce the general availability of the AWS MCP […]
Enterprises face a significant challenge when deploying AI agents: the desktop and legacy applications that power most business workflows are simply inaccessible to modern AI systems. According to a 2024 Gartner report, 75% of organizations run legacy applications that lack modern APIs, and 71% of Fortune 500 companies operate critical processes on mainframe systems without […]
Tax compliance sneaks up on you. One quarter you’re selling into a handful of U.S. states. The next, you’ve got customers in Germany, a contractor in Canada, and a distributor in Singapore. Suddenly you owe VAT, GST, and provincial sales tax on the same revenue stream. Three jurisdictions. Three filing deadlines. Three different definitions of […]
Containers and the Cloud Disclaimer: This article has been updated May 5th, 2026 from its original publication to reflect the current state of container adoption, including orchestration maturity, platform engineering practices, modern security requirements, and the growing complexity of AI workloads running inside containers. Docker and other container services are appealing for a good reason: […]
Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood for nearly a thousand years, walked along medieval walls, and spent an evening on a ghost tour hearing stories passed down through centuries. There’s something […]
AI capability grew faster in 2025 than at any point in the last decade, and the infrastructure built to monitor that growth has not kept pace. Stanford HAI’s 2026 AI Index documents both trends with equal precision: frontier models are clearing tests designed to defeat them in months, while the responsible AI benchmarks meant to […]
Today at the What’s Next with AWS, Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, Colleen Aubrey, SVP Amazon Applied AI Solutions, Julia White, CMO of AWS, and OpenAI leaders discussed how they and their customers are changing how businesses operate with agents. Here’s our roundup of the biggest announcements from the event: Amazon Quick is an AI […]
Modern e-commerce architecture in 2026 has moved beyond the constraints of traditional monolithic systems. While all-in-one platforms served as a reliable foundation for years, their tightly coupled nature often creates bottlenecks for brands requiring rapid deployment and specialized frontend experiences. This shift toward agility has made headless commerce a standard architectural choice for engineering teams […]
Late March took me to Seattle for the Specialist Tech Conference, one of the most energizing gatherings of AWS specialists from around the world. It was an incredible opportunity to connect with peers, exchange experiences, and go deep on the latest advancements in Generative AI and Amazon Bedrock — and a powerful reminder of something […]