It begins innocently enough. A job seeker hits “Apply” on a company’s careers page. Somewhere, buried beneath a layer of stylized UI and friendly UX, an algorithm comes to life. It scans the resume, ranks it, sorts it, and without hesitation, either discards it or promotes it up the chain. There is no handshake. No […]

To be honest, I’m still recovering from the AWS Summit in New York, doing my best to level up on launches like Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Preview) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Vectors. There’s a lot of new stuff to learn! Meanwhile, it’s been an exciting week for AWS builders focused on reliability and observability. […]

An AWS Savings Plan is a flexible pricing model offered by Amazon Web Services that enables organizations to save up to 72% on their compute usage compared to On-Demand instance pricing. Introduced as a more flexible alternative to Reserved Instances (RIs), AWS Savings Plans make it easier for businesses to commit to cloud usage and […]

Streaming was supposed to simplify things. One platform, one subscription, instant access to live sports and replays. That’s how it was sold to us. But for many fans across the globe, that promise has unraveled. It’s not just about having too many subscriptions. It’s the rising prices, the mediocre video quality, the restrictions based on […]

As we wrote in our initial analysis of the CrowdStrike incident, the July 19, 2024, outage served as a stark reminder of the importance of cyber resilience. Now, one year later, both CrowdStrike and the industry have undergone significant transformation, with the catalyst being driven by 78 minutes that changed everything. “The first anniversary of July 19 marks […]

The limitations of cloud storage built for a pre-AI world are now clear. We’re beyond digital transformation. We’re in full-scale AI acceleration, where the question isn’t just whether your storage can scale, but whether it can scale in all the dimensions AI workloads demand. That’s where multidimensional scaling (MDS) comes in. Powered by disaggregated architecture, […]

Rishab Jolly is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, where he plays a pivotal role in shaping the product strategy and execution of application monitoring within Azure Monitor—one of the most advanced and scalable cloud observability platforms in the world. With over 11 years in the technology space and more than 8 years focused on […]

I’m writing this as I depart from Ho Chi Minh City back to Singapore. Just realized what a week it’s been, so let me rewind a bit. This week, I tried my first Corne keyboard, wrapped up rehearsals for AWS Summit Jakarta with speakers who are absolutely raising the bar, and visited Vietnam to participate […]

Let’s start things off with something familiar: when Outlook crashes, your workday grinds to a halt. Deadlines slip. Frustration builds. If your organization depends on Microsoft Office 365, even a short disruption can throw everything off balance. Most of these crashes come down to one thing – problematic data files. PSTs and OSTs act like […]

Today, we’re announcing two significant enhancements to AWS Lambda that make it easier than ever for developers to build and debug serverless applications in their local development environments: console to IDE integration and remote debugging. These new capabilities build upon our recent improvements to the Lambda development experience, including the enhanced in-console editing experience and […]