Time sure does fly! I wrote about the production launch of Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) back in 2006, with no inkling that I would still be blogging fifteen years later, or that this service would still be growing rapidly while remaining fundamental to the architecture of so many different types of web-scale applications. The […]

There has been no lack of media attention given to the fact that Big Tech is building private subsea cables. Big cloud providers like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft have invested in subsea cable build-outs for years. But in 2018, when Google became the first to develop a private subsea cable in Brazil called ‘Junior’ […]

At AWS, we tirelessly innovate to allow you to focus on your business, not its underlying IT infrastructure. Sometimes we launch a new service or a major capability. Sometimes we focus on details that make your professional life easier. Today, I’m happy to announce one of these small details that makes a difference: VPC security […]

Cryptocurrency seemed to take a jump this year to a new level of internet hype. Bitcoin hit $60,000 and Elon Musk’s tweeting about Dogecoin made millionaires out of memelords. Alongside this new wave of interest there has been a heightened interest in mining crypto-currency. Mining cryptocurrency industry is the process of building the blockchain – […]

In what has now become an annual tradition (check out my 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020 posts for a look back), I am happy to share some of the metrics from this year’s Prime Day and to tell you how AWS helped to make it happen. This year I bought all sorts of useful goodies […]

Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation in all of its forms can augment human workers and enable them to pivot to more valuable work, and perform their jobs with more efficiency, safety, and ease. Yet there’s justifiable concerns emerging regarding the potential of these technologies to displace human workers. Ronald van […]

The convergence of the physical and digital worlds One area that personally fascinates me is how digital technologies are increasingly shaping the physical spaces around us, such as our homes and workplaces. Amazon Alexa is a great example of this—an on-demand AI assistant that exists in the cloud but that we can access with our […]

Hacking DevOps with a Builder’s Mindset If you read this blog, you know I love builders. And I love building. One of the biggest things the COVID-19 pandemic has taught me is that a builder’s mindset is necessary to solve difficult problems. Problems like scaling systems and using cloud technologies to develop vaccines in record […]

Weather forecasting, genome sequencing, geoanalytics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and other types of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads can take advantage of massive amounts of compute power. These workloads are often spikey and massively parallel, and are used in situations where time to results is critical. Old WayGovernments, well-funded research organizations, and Fortune 500 companies invest […]

Weather forecasting, genome sequencing, geoanalytics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and other types of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads can take advantage of massive amounts of compute power. These workloads are often spikey and massively parallel, and are used in situations where time to results is critical. Old WayGovernments, well-funded research organizations, and Fortune 500 companies invest […]