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Stop Piloting, Start Scaling: How Partners Can Make Agentic AI Real

Across industries, a tectonic shift is underway in how teams get things done. Financial institutions are resolving compliance issues before regulators come calling. Utilities are automatically rerouting service teams in response to outages. Healthcare providers are coordinating patient care across multiple systems without the need for manual intervention. These breakthroughs have one thing in common: […]

Cloud vs. Edge Balance in IoT Software Development: Hybrid Models and 5 Trusted Developers

Smartwatches, thermostats, and assembly line robots all share the same secret: they want answers, and they want them now. As the world becomes more connected, businesses need technology that can keep up. Think about the last time your smart assistant lagged; that moment of hesitation isn’t just a minor annoyance. For manufacturers and healthcare providers, […]

Accelerate AI agent development with the Nova Act IDE extension

Today, I’m excited to announce the Nova Act extension — a tool that streamlines the path to build browser automation agents without leaving your IDE. The Nova Act extension integrates directly into IDEs like Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Kiro, and Cursor, helping you to create web-based automation agents using natural language with the Nova […]

AI, Cloud, and Cybersecurity: Oleksiy Pototskyy’s Perspective on Today’s IT Challenges

CloudTweaks recently had the opportunity to interview Oleksiy Pototskyy, Founder of Nubes Consulting. With over 20 years of experience leading complex IT projects across industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing, Oleksiy has worked with both enterprise executives and startup founders to drive smarter technology decisions and guide change management initiatives. Combining deep technical […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Developer, AWS Step Functions, AWS Cloud Club Captain deadline, and more (September 22, 2025)

Three weeks ago, I published a post about the new AWS Region in New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). This led to an incredible opportunity to visit New Zealand, where I met passionate builders and presented at several events including Serverless and Platform Engineering meetup, AWS Tools and Programming meetup, AWS Cloud Clubs in Auckland, and AWS Community […]

APIs or Scrapers? The High-Stakes Choice Behind Enterprise AI Success

AI agents are only as powerful as the data they consume. Whether they’re surfacing insights, powering faster medical diagnoses from analyzing radiology images or automating back-office workflows, access to relevant, high-quality data—especially unstructured data–is what makes them valuable. Yet today, there’s a growing divide in how AI agents get that data: should they scrape or […]

Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock

Today we are adding Qwen models from Alibaba in Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, Amazon Bedrock continues to expand model choice by adding access to Qwen3 open weight foundation models (FMs) in a full managed, serverless way. This release includes four models: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, and Qwen3-32B (Dense). Together, these models feature both mixture-of-experts (MoE) […]

DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock

In March, Amazon Web Services (AWS) became the first cloud service provider to deliver DeepSeek-R1 in a serverless way by launching it as a fully managed, generally available model in Amazon Bedrock. Since then, customers have used DeepSeek-R1’s capabilities through Amazon Bedrock to build generative AI applications, benefiting from the Bedrock’s robust guardrails and comprehensive […]

Many Popular VPNs Secretly Controlled by Firms Linked to China, Cybersecurity Experts Warn

New research reveals that many of the most downloaded VPNs since the introduction of state age verification laws are linked to foreign intelligence. New York, September 18, 2025 – Cybersecurity experts NymVPN are warning US consumers to be cautious of many popular virtual private network (VPN) apps, after a new report[1] by academics at Arizona State University, Citizen Lab (University […]

DevOps as a Mindset: Driving Collaboration in Modern Software Development

In the complex universe of software development, every organization seeks a compass to steer its course toward excellence and efficiency. That compass is found in the ethos of DevOps, which aligns development and operations teams to deliver software more reliably and more frequently. DevOps is more than a set of tools or a technical methodology […]