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 […]

There’s something genuinely energizing about working with startups — something I’ve been doing intensely for more than two years now. Startups operate at a different frequency: the urgency is real, the constraints are tight, and the stakes are personal. Helping them navigate the challenge of proving their business model requires not just technical depth but […]

My name is Priten. I’m an educator, philosopher, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology and humanistic values in education. I’ve taught debate, written multiple books on AI and education, including AI & the Future of Education and Ethical Ed Tech, and worked across the sector. As CEO of Pedagogy Ventures, I support nonprofits, […]

At BitTitan, we’ve seen organizations increasingly struggle with identity complexity as hybrid and multi-cloud environments become the norm. Cloud migration used to be relatively straightforward. Teams would move workloads, validate access, and decommission legacy systems. That model worked when environments were more contained and identities were simpler to manage. Today, migration looks very different. Organizations […]

Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we introduced AWS Transform custom, which enables organizations to modernize and transform code at scale using AWS-managed and custom transformations. You can upgrade language versions, migrate […]

From my perspective, the “sovereignty-first” approach creates a paradox. On one hand, the highly regulated industries that use Ada or COBOL or Rust, such as defense, aerospace, banking, require that air-gapped security for survival. On the other hand, isolation is the natural enemy of discovery. The real risk is that in our rush to be […]

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization, a new tool that you can use to optimize your prompts for any model on Amazon Bedrock, while comparing your original prompts to optimized prompts across up to 5 models simultaneously. With the new prompt optimization, you can migrate to a new model or improve performance from […]

Threat hunting is the proactive process of searching for signs of malicious activity that may have bypassed automated security tools and traditional alerting systems. It assumes that attackers may already be operating inside the environment without detection, using legitimate tools and stolen credentials to blend into normal activity. Within security operations, threat hunting strengthens overall […]

Most IT leaders I talk to are confident their asset records are accurate. The dashboard shows 100% patch deployment. Offboarding is marked complete. Hardware rollouts report full coverage. The numbers look clean. The problem is somewhere between what the records say and what’s actually in the field, a gap opens. It starts small. A device […]