Kia ora! Today, I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-6. With the new Region, customers can now run workloads and securely store data in New Zealand while serving end users with even lower latency. The new AWS Asia Pacific […]

My LinkedIn feed was absolutely packed this week with pictures from the AWS Heroes Summit event in Seattle. It was heartwarming to see so many familiar faces and new Heroes coming together. For those not familiar with the AWS Heroes program, it’s a global community recognition initiative that honors individuals who make outstanding contributions to […]

The world of cloud has always celebrated self-service. With AWS, Azure, and GCP making it ridiculously easy to spin up resources in minutes, the natural assumption is: Why would anyone still need a reseller? After all, enterprises can buy cloud services directly from hyperscalers without a middleman. And yet, cloud resellers not only continue to […]

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

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 […]