Editor’s note (2025): This article has been updated to reflect the latest developments and accurate information as of 2025. Microservices are an architectural style that has matured from a transformative trend into a fundamental pillar of modern digital strategy. They are extremely important for organizations wanting to innovate through a stronger, more agile engagement with […]

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records, a new Domain Name Service (DNS) business continuity feature that is designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. This enhancement ensures that customers can continue making DNS changes and […]

For much of the world, technology has become so intertwined with our day-to-day lives that it influences everything. Our relationships, the care we seek, how we work, what we do to protect ourselves, even the things we choose to learn and when. It would be understandable to read this as a dystopian nightmare conjured up […]

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 […]

Today we’re announcing a faster way to get started with your existing AWS datasets in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. You can now start working with any data you have access to in a new serverless notebook with a built-in AI agent, using your existing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and permissions. New updates […]

Deploying containerized applications to production requires navigating hundreds of configuration parameters across load balancers, auto scaling policies, networking, and security groups. This overhead delays time to market and diverts focus from core application development. Today, I’m excited to announce Amazon ECS Express Mode, a new capability from Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) that helps […]

Today, we’re announcing virtual private cloud (VPC) encryption controls, a new capability of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that helps you audit and enforce encryption in transit for all traffic within and across VPCs in a Region. Organizations across financial services, healthcare, government, and retail face significant operational complexity in maintaining encryption compliance across […]

As organizations scale, managing access permissions for storage resources becomes increasingly complex and time-consuming. As new team members join, existing staff changes roles, and new S3 buckets are created, organizations must constantly update multiple types of access policies to govern access across their S3 buckets. This challenge is especially pronounced in multi-tenant S3 environments where […]

For decades, it has been a mantra of virtually every business domain – from sales to engineering and everything in between – that you can’t optimize what you can’t measure. That sentiment remains as true today as ever. Hence why SaaS businesses continue to collect and analyze a wide variety of metrics and KPIs as […]

When building applications that span multiple cloud providers or integrate with external services, developers face a persistent challenge: managing credentials securely. Traditional approaches require storing long-term credentials like API keys and passwords, creating security risks and operational overhead. Today, we’re announcing a new capability called AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound identity federation that customers […]