Say “hacker” to most people and they picture the same thing — dark room, hoodie, something dramatic unfolding on a screen. That image has been everywhere for so long it’s become background noise. The reality is less cinematic and considerably more relevant to anyone actually working in security in 2026. The hat colors come from […]

AWS WAF now includes AI traffic monetization capability that gives digital content owners and publishers a way to charge AI bots and agents for access to protected web content directly at the network edge. The capability helps content owners and publishers set per-request pricing by content path, bot category, or verification tier without modifying their […]

This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to see them go live this week. I just won’t be […]

Cloud spending has crossed a tipping point. As organizations scale Kubernetes deployments, embrace GenAI workloads, and grapple with multi-cloud sprawl, the manual approach to cost management has become untenable. The dominant trend reshaping this space is the shift from recommendation to automation where platforms no longer just flag waste; they remediate it autonomously, in real […]

RPA automation is no longer the frontier of enterprise technology; it is the baseline. Recent technology gains and the COVID-19 pandemic pushed many organizations into automation, and intelligent automation became the mechanism they reached for to streamline workflows. That much is settled. What is not settled is whether the people on the receiving end actually […]

AWS Graviton processors have improved steadily across generations, with each iteration delivering advances in compute performance, price-performance, and energy efficiency. At re:Invent 2025, we announced Amazon EC2 M9g, the first Graviton5-powered instances, in preview. Since then, customers have tested M9g across a wide range of workloads and shared their results. ClickHouse saw a 36% performance […]

Today, we’re announcing the availability of Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Fable 5 makes Mythos-level capabilities available to customers, with strong safeguards designed to make it safe for broader use. Fable 5 is state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks and delivers exceptional performance in software engineering, knowledge work […]

Why is it important to have a cloud roadmap? To my understanding, a cloud roadmap is an essential requirement both for the whole cloud journey and for the business. For example, if we were talking about a trip to another country, you would want to plan as much as possible, wouldn’t you? You would need […]

This week, the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift reached general availability. As a member of the Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG), this one caught my attention. The SDK brings production-ready MQTT 5 connectivity, Device Shadow, Jobs, and fleet provisioning to Swift developers on macOS, iOS, tvOS, and Linux. I’m curious to see what you will build with it. […]

Today, we’re announcing a new console experience in Amazon Bedrock for you to experiment, iterate, and scale with the latest AI models on Amazon Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine built for high performance, reliability, and security. This console has a refreshed workflow optimized for bedrock-mantle endpoint, which supports the latest GPT, Claude, and open-weight models with […]