Last week, I visited AWS Hong Kong User Group with my team. Hong Kong has a small but strong community, and their energy and passion are high. They recently started a new AI user group, and we hope more people will join. I was able to strengthen my bond with the community through great food […]

The transition to cloud computing represents the most significant operational triumph of the twenty-first century. Over the past decade, the enterprise technology landscape has undergone a massive, fundamental transformation. Organizations across the globe have eagerly traded their ageing physical server racks for the limitless agility of the public cloud. For the vast majority of modern […]

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of cross-account safeguards in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, a new capability that enables centralized enforcement and management of safety controls across multiple AWS accounts within an organization. With this new capability, you can specify a guardrail in a new Amazon Bedrock policy within the management account of your organization that automatically enforces […]

I saw a tweet last week from someone who was genuinely excited about the 1M token context window. “We had 4,700 lines of markdown state machines,” they wrote, “and the 1M window made it unnecessary.” I read that three times trying to figure out if I was missing something. You had 4,700 lines of state […]

Today, we’re announcing managed daemon support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances. This new capability extends the managed instances experience we introduced in September 2025, by giving platform engineers independent control over software agents such as monitoring, logging, and tracing tools, without requiring coordination with application development teams, while also improving reliability […]

Is it possible to build a real estate platform where people can actually know ahead of time what type of property they are interested in? This is an example of how real estate has changed. The field is no longer simply about transactions and listings. It is evolving into a data-driven ecosystem driven by smart […]

As many of you are, I’m a parent. And like you, I think about the world I’m building for my children. That’s part of why today’s launch matters for many of us. I’m excited to announce the launch of the AWS Sustainability console, a standalone service that consolidates all AWS sustainability reporting and resources in […]

Disclaimer: This article has been updated to reflect 2026 trends in digital service delivery, including cloud-native microservices, AI-driven orchestration, edge computing, and predictive personalization.  Most Digital Service Providers (DSPs) aim to provide digital capabilities to customers but struggle to transform with legacy O/BSS systems. According to McKinsey research, 70% of digital transformation projects don’t reach […]

Last week, what excited me most was the launch of the 2026 AWS AI & ML Scholars program by Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AWS Agentic AI, to provide free AI education to up to 100,000 learners worldwide. The program has two phases: a Challenge phase where you’ll learn foundational generative AI skills, followed by a […]

Cybersecurity in 2026 is defined by a quiet but profound shift: the collapse of trust in identity as a security boundary. For decades, enterprise defense strategies were built on a simple premise to keep attackers out, and trust what gets in. That model is no longer holding. Across industries, recent incidents are converging on the […]