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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Picture this: You’re a product manager at a fast-growing SaaS company. In the quarterly review, the CFO turns to you and asks, “What’s the ROI of our cloud products?” You have dashboards full of monthly active users, API call counts, and latency graphs-but none of them directly answer the question. This is the modern metrics […]

A month ago, I shared that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS), with Gartner naming AWS a Leader for the fifteenth consecutive year. In 2024, AWS was named as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, Cloud-Native […]

Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems in a few lines of code. We’ve continuously improved features including support […]

As someone who has been using macOS since 2001 and Amazon EC2 Mac instances since their launch 4 years ago, I’ve helped numerous customers scale their continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on AWS. Today, I’m excited to share that Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available. Development teams building […]