Many IT professionals now recognize that rigid network perimeters have disappeared in the cloud era. When users and the resources they access are dispersed across the internet, fixed boundaries no longer exist. This new model has given rise not just to new approaches to network management (in the form of solutions like next-generation firewalls), but […]

Ask a typical financial services company if it’s prepared to leverage AI, and you’ll likely hear a confident yes. In fact, a majority of businesses in this sector say that they’re already using AI in production. But if you dig deeper into how businesses in this industry are actually approaching AI deployments – if you […]

Amazon Prime Day 2025 was the biggest Amazon Prime Day shopping event ever, setting records for both sales volume and total items sold during the 4-day event. Prime members saved billions while shopping Amazon’s millions of deals during the event. This year marked a significant transformation in the Prime Day experience through advancements in the […]

As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database technology has evolved over the past decade. It’s fascinating to see how architectural decisions made years ago continue to shape the way we build modern applications. This week brings a special milestone that perfectly captures this evolution in cloud […]

For years most firms would have had to employ numerous phone operators and receptionists to deal with any and all calls that came through. Large companies would have employed entire departments simply just to deal with incoming phone calls; it’s a world that seems light years apart from the phone systems that the vast majority […]

Editor’s Note (2025 Update): This article has been updated to reflect current hybrid cloud and business application trends, including AI-assisted development, low-code/no-code platforms, sovereign cloud considerations, and edge-enabled integrations. Cloud computing has hit its stride; it has become a part of IT strategies across the globe, and the benefits of turning to a hosted environment […]

Today, we’re announcing general availability of the new eighth generation, memory optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS. They deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These instances deliver up to 15 […]

In a workplace increasingly saturated with tools for productivity and collaboration, the most disruptive shift isn’t just a new platform, it’s a new kind of co-worker. Agentic AI is redefining the boundaries between tool and teammate, raising a provocative question: when software starts acting independently, who’s really running the digital office? Agentic AI models represent […]

Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA (Become a Solutions Architect) cohort. BeSA is a free mentoring program that I host along with a few other AWS employees on a volunteer basis to help people excel in their cloud careers. Last week, the instructors’ lineup was […]

On August 4, 2025, Gartner published its Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS). Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the longest-running Magic Quadrant Leader, with Gartner naming AWS a Leader for the fifteenth consecutive year. In the report, Gartner once again placed AWS highest on the “Ability to Execute” axis. We believe this […]