I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every few months there’s a new instance type landing that pushes performance boundaries further. As of […]

Augmented reality has moved beyond pilot projects and experimental demos in education. In 2026, AR increasingly appears inside real learning environments where institutions expect measurable results, stable performance, and clear learning impact. Schools, universities, and training providers no longer adopt immersive technology for novelty. They use it to solve concrete instructional problems. The challenge today […]

A student was flagged for AI-generated writing. The essay was written by hand, then typed. The detector was wrong. The school didn’t care. AI detection is everywhere now where schools scan student essays, employers analyze communications, platforms flag content. The promise is accountability. The problem is three-fold: consent, transparency, and trust. AI detection technology has […]

Once upon a time, the largest pain point facing most enterprise software developers was writing and testing code. Thanks to the generative and agentic AI capabilities that have become widespread over the past few years, however, the coding part of development work has become substantially easier. But here’s an equally pressing challenge for software developers […]

Here are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention this week. Let’s start with news related to compute and networking infrastructure: Introducing Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances: These new Amazon EC2 […]

Last year, we launched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i instances, M8i instances, and R8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency. They deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. Today we’re announcing […]

Educational app development in 2026 typically costs between $40,000 and $180,000 or more. Teams that work with experienced educational app developers often discover that the final cost depends far less on interface design than on learning logic, content workflows, and scalability assumptions. This is the same reason why many educational platforms, from consumer apps like […]

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS IAM Identity Center multi-Region support to enable AWS account access and managed application use in additional AWS Regions. With this feature, you can replicate your workforce identities, permission sets, and other metadata in your organization instance of IAM Identity Center connected to an external identity provider (IdP), […]

Over the past week, we passed Laba festival, a traditional marker in the Chinese calendar that signals the final stretch leading up to the Lunar New Year. For many in China, it’s a moment associated with reflection and preparation, wrapping up what the year has carried, and turning attention toward what lies ahead. Looking forward, […]

Zero-downtime deployment means releasing updates to a WordPress site without interrupting service or affecting users. In production environments, this ensures that visitors continue browsing, transactions complete normally, and no content or data is lost during new code deployment. Traditional FTP-based or in-place updates often cause temporary outages, broken layouts, inconsistent plugin states, or database mismatches […]