Architecture is no longer only about technology. It is about understanding where your technology physically and politically lives. Geopolitical resilience is not about building the most complex system. It is about choosing the right level of protection for the real level of risk. Multi-AZ and multi-region are not the same as geopolitical resilience – if […]

Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at Meru University of Science and Technology, with keynotes from my colleagues Veliswa and Tiffany, and sessions on everything from GitOps to cloud-native engineering, and […]

The same technology defenders are counting on is already being used against them. Here’s where that leaves us. Security teams have always been playing catch-up. New attack surfaces emerge, defenders scramble to cover them, and the cycle repeats. That dynamic is as old as the profession. What’s different now is the velocity. Artificial intelligence hasn’t […]

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to launch OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels. Your Lightsail OpenClaw instance is pre-configured with Amazon Bedrock as the default AI model provider. Once you complete setup, you can start chatting with your AI assistant immediately — […]

Following our discussion last week with ActionAI CEO Miriam Haart on the ethical mandates of autonomous systems, we continue our exploration into the mechanics of trust. While Haart addressed the cultural and ethical foundations of AI, the practical implementation of such systems requires a level of mathematical certainty that defines the next frontier of the […]

Teams often hit data issues before they spot model issues. That leads to a question: what is data annotation once projects move past demos and into real use? It is the work that defines meaning in raw data so models can learn consistent patterns. When that work breaks down, training slows and results become hard […]

This past week, I’ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) workshops. Throughout 2026, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating these sessions for numerous customers, guiding them through a structured framework that helps organizations identify, prioritize, and implement AI use cases that deliver measurable business value. AI-DLC is […]

At re:Invent 2025, we introduced a completely re-imagined AWS Security Hub that unifies AWS security services, including Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Inspector into a single experience. This unified experience automatically and continuously analyzes security findings in combination to help you prioritize and respond to your critical security risks. Today, we’re announcing AWS Security Hub Extended, […]

If you’ve sat through a vendor pitch in the last six months, you’ve heard both terms used to mean more or less the same thing. Generative AI. Agentic AI. Smart AI. Next-gen AI. The vocabulary gets fuzzy fast, and salespeople are not rushing to clear it up. But in 2026, the distinction has real consequences. […]

Today, we’re announcing AWS Elemental Inference, a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms and maximizes live and on-demand video broadcasts to engage audiences at scale. At launch, you’ll be able to use AWS Elemental Inference to adapt video content into vertical formats optimized for mobile and social platforms in real time. With AWS Elemental […]