As a developer advocate working with web and mobile application developers, I’ve often heard about the need to maintain consistent user authentication in the unlikely event of a regional service interruption. The increasing use of agentic AI, microservices, automation, and service accounts has sparked a similar need for machine-to-machine authentication. Today, I’m excited to share […]

Walk into most engineering teams and you’ll find dashboards for everything. Everything except what’s actually flowing through the system. Ask an engineer what they track in a live ML deployment. You’ll get the full tour — latency dashboards, error rate alerts, compute utilization graphs. Useful? Sure. But then ask whether they’re watching feature distributions, schema […]

As we previewed in What’s Next with AWS 2026, we’re announcing the general availability of OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock, giving you access to frontier models and a coding agent for software development. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 models are excellent for coding, reasoning, agentic workflows, and complex professional work. […]

In my last Week in Review post, I shared what I’d been hearing from customers in the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops I’ve been delivering. Last week I was back at it, this time in Denver for a two-day AI-DLC workshop, where I helped facilitate 17 teams to deliver nearly 20 separate use cases in […]

I am not aware if there have been studies investigating what missteps financial services organizations have actually taken. But one doesn’t necessarily need such studies to draw conclusions regarding what it cost them in time, money, or credibility. Imagine an institution handling customer requests for withdrawals and deposits, the processing of a mortgage application, or […]

Today, we’re announcing the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub with a significantly expanded experience that brings together a new application model, dependency discovery assessment, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and organization-wide reporting. Organizations running hundreds of applications share a common challenge: availability is a top concern, yet there is no consistent […]

Today, we’re announcing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector engine designed for customers building AI agents. The next generation of OpenSearch Serverless scales from zero to thousands of requests per second and back to zero when idle, offering up to 60% cost savings compared to the cost of […]

The cybersecurity industry has a hiring problem that isn’t getting better. ISC2’s latest Cybersecurity Workforce Study puts the global shortfall at 4.8 million unfilled positions — up 19 percent year over year, even as active hiring stalled. ISACA found that 55 percent of security teams are currently understaffed and 38 percent take three to six […]

We’re excited to welcome four outstanding community leaders as our newest AWS Heroes. These individuals embody the spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing that makes the AWS community thrive. From building AI-powered tools that help fellow builders navigate AWS re:Invent, to leading some of the largest AWS communities in Latin America, to sharing deep cloud […]

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated from its original publication to reflect current trends, data, and market realities relevant to 2026. The core framework and foundational guidance remain intact; updated sections include the AI and forecasting discussion, close management trends, and labor market context. Running a healthy and growing organization is not easy. There […]