On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and […]

AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builders’ Library. To mark the anniversary, Rick Suttles published a full feature timeline covering […]

A standard dedicated server sells you hardware and leaves everything else to you. That division of responsibility sounds clean on paper. In practice, it means the moment volumetric traffic floods your connection, the problem is entirely yours to solve, with whatever tools you thought to assemble before things went wrong. The managed alternative keeps the […]

Agentic AI can think, act, and share information without waiting for human direction. That’s genuinely useful. But alongside that capability, something less visible has emerged: a layer of exposure that doesn’t show up cleanly in logs, doesn’t surface at obvious endpoints, and can quietly put systems, data, and entire workflows at risk without triggering a […]

Or, to put it more plainly: “What Makes an Enterprise AI System Production-Ready, and Why Most Never Get There.” The answer most teams don’t want to hear is that a production-ready AI system has very little to do with how good the model is. What decides whether a system ships or stalls is the reliability, […]

Just over two years ago, I launched the Now Go Build CTO Fellowship with nine technology leaders working in disaster management and climate resilience. Since then, the program has grown to 24 Fellows from 18 countries across four continents, tackling problems in healthcare, education, and food security. Today, we’re releasing the second season of our […]

A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few days with the AWS Startups team, listening to stories of founders talking about the problems they’re actually solving. One story that stayed with me came […]

Managed service providers have long relied on recurring revenue from software licensing and cloud subscriptions to drive growth. While those revenue streams remain important, the channel is placing greater emphasis on services that deliver deeper customer value and support stronger long-term profitability. Microsoft recently highlighted this shift in its 2025 State of the Partner Ecosystem […]

Upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has long been a one way door. Open source Kubernetes doesn’t support control plane rollback, so once you upgrade, there’s no going back. The community is making real progress here, and KEP-4330 introduces emulated versions to ease rollback. But in practice this constraint has pushed organizations to build elaborate compensating […]

In reality, most teams make this decision too quickly and often default to preservation because it feels safer. However, preserving logic that is not understood does not reduce risk; it merely shifts it. The uncertainty moves from COBOL to Java, and the advantage of a proven mainframe environment is lost. The key question is whether […]