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 […]

Today, I’m excited to announce enhanced local testing capabilities for AWS Step Functions through the TestState API, our testing API. These enhancements are available through the API, so you can build automated test suites that validate your workflow definitions locally on your development machines, test error handling patterns, data transformations, and mock service integrations using […]

Multi-tenant applications often require strict isolation when processing tenant-specific code or data. Examples include software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms for workflow automation or code execution where customers need to ensure that execution environments used for individual tenants or end users remain completely separate from one another. Traditionally, developers have addressed these requirements by deploying separate Lambda functions […]

Amazon SageMaker Catalog, which is now built in to Amazon SageMaker, can help you collect and organize your data with the accompanying business context people need to understand it. It automatically documents assets generated by AWS Glue and Amazon Redshift, and it connects directly with Amazon Quick Sight, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, […]

Today, we’re announcing a Controls Dedicated experience in AWS Control Tower. With this feature, you can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed controls without the need to set up resources you don’t need, which means you get started faster if you already have an established multi-account environment and want to use AWS Control Tower only […]

Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces new service tiers that give you more control over your AI workload costs while maintaining the performance levels your applications need. I’m working with customers building AI applications. I’ve seen firsthand how different workloads require different performance and cost trade-offs. Many organizations running AI workloads face challenges balancing performance requirements with […]

AI has moved far beyond the experimental stage. Across industries, organizations are proving that AI can deliver measurable business value, when it’s built on a strong foundation of data strategy. Recent research from AllCloud shows that 92 percent of companies with a well-defined data and AI strategy are seeing tangible benefits from their initiatives. These […]

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 […]

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of provisioned mode for AWS Lambda with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) Event Source Mapping (ESM), a new feature that customers can use to optimize the throughput of their event-driven applications by configuring dedicated polling resources. Using this new capability, which provides 3x faster scaling, and 16x higher […]