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Amazon ECS introduces new high-resolution metrics for faster service auto scaling

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload demand with comprehensive scaling policies, including predictive scaling for recurring traffic patterns, scheduled scaling for planned events, and target tracking to scale dynamically on real-time metrics. You can choose proactive scaling by using predictive scaling (automatic) and scheduled scaling […]

The Communications Cloud: Why Voice Now Needs Cloud Monitoring Services Too

Voice. Messaging. Video. The shared rooms where teams actually get work done. All of it is migrating onto distributed software and cloud infrastructure, and that move shows no sign of slowing in 2026. The faster that shift runs, the harder it gets to keep real-time communications both managed and secure. Zero-trust has become the default […]

The Vault Inside the Drive: A Tech Industry Interview with FIU’s Professor Zhu

DZ In conversation with Dr. Weidong Zhu — Assistant Professor, Florida International University Professor Zhu, before we get into the research itself, could you tell us a little about your background and what drew you to the intersection of hardware and cybersecurity at FIU? I’m an assistant professor at FIU’s Knight Foundation School of Computing […]

Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2026

Today at the AWS Summit in New York City, Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP of Agentic AI, provided the day’s keynote. Here’s our roundup of the biggest announcements from the event: New in agents customers create We’re introducing new capabilities on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: connecting AI agents to organizational, web, and paid knowledge, helping teams find […]

Introducing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for faster, more accurate enterprise AI applications

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a new set of capabilities that enables developers to build enterprise-grade generative AI applications with their proprietary data in minutes. Organizations building agentic AI applications need secure, reliable, and up-to-date access to enterprise-wide data to deliver accurate, fast, and trusted outcomes. Managed Knowledge Base abstracts away the […]

Announcing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Ground your AI agents in current, accurate web knowledge

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed tool that enables agents to ground responses in current, cited web knowledge with zero data egress from customer’s secured AWS environment. Web Search uses a built-in connector target on Bedrock AgentCore Gateway using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Your […]

Proactively reduce tech debt autonomously with AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview)

Today, we’re announcing AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview), a new capability of AWS Transform for continuous, autonomous tech debt analysis and remediation at scale. AWS Transform already helps enterprises migrate out of data centers, modernize mainframe and Windows applications, and handle the undifferentiated work of software maintenance: upgrading Java versions, swapping deprecated frameworks, and […]

AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capabilities to assess code changes before production (preview)

Today, we’re announcing a new release management capability in AWS DevOps Agent that is now available in preview. AWS DevOps Agent is your always-available teammate that spans software changes and operations across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments. The practice of DevOps aims to make software change and operations smooth and increasingly autonomous, and AWS DevOps […]

AWS Security Agent adds threat modeling, Kiro power and Claude Code plugin, and more

At re:Invent 2025, we previewed AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum), a frontier agent that proactively secures your applications throughout the development lifecycle across all your environments. You can perform on-demand penetration testing customized to your application, discovering and reporting security risks verified through exploitability testing. Since the preview, we announced general availability […]

The True Cost of HIPAA Non-Compliance for Healthcare

Cloud computing has become essential to modern healthcare operations. Electronic health records, telehealth platforms, medical imaging systems, patient portals, and cloud-based communication tools all rely on infrastructure capable of securely storing and processing sensitive patient information. Health plans, health care clearinghouses, certain health care providers, and their business associates rely on cloud environments to support […]