Cloud adoption has evolved significantly in the past decade. What was once seen as a lofty ambition is now a fundamental part of business infrastructure for organizations of all sizes. However, many companies still face the same hurdles when it comes to cloud migration: cost and security. These are the two primary drivers that influence […]

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management for always available applications. You can remove the operational burden of patching, upgrades, and maintenance downtime and count on an easy-to-use developer experience to create a new database […]

At re:Invent we announced Aurora DSQL, and since then I’ve had many conversations with builders about what this means for database engineering. What’s particularly interesting isn’t just the technology itself, but the journey that got us here. I’ve been wanting to dive deeper into this story, to share not just the what, but the how […]

The emerging Cognitive Insights-as-a-Service (CIaaS) based on artificial intelligence is bringing real-time data-driven decision-making to verticals through cloud-born scalable solutions and no-code platforms. Artificial intelligence (AI) has also gone beyond its novelty phase transforming companies all over the world. What was Alan Turing’s vision in 1950 about machines emulating human intelligence is a reality today. […]

Veliswa Boya Veliswa Boya is a Senior Developer Advocate, based in South Africa and working closely with the builder community in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has fulfilled many roles in tech, which range from developer to analyst, architect to cloud engineer, and now a developer advocate. Veliswa especially enjoys working with those who are new to […]

Anthropic launched the next generation of Claude models today—Opus 4 and Sonnet 4—designed for coding, advanced reasoning, and the support of the next generation of capable, autonomous AI agents. Both models are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, giving developers immediate access to both the model’s advanced reasoning and agentic capabilities. Amazon Bedrock expands your […]

The managed service provider (MSP) landscape is rapidly transforming, driven by shifting customer expectations, growing compliance demands, and the surge of AI-driven automation. At the forefront of this evolution is Matthew Warner, CEO and co-founder of Blumira, a cybersecurity company with deep roots in the MSP space. In this CloudTweaks interview, Matthew shares his insights […]

Today, we are announcing EKS Dashboard, a centralized display that enables cloud architects and cluster administrators to maintain organization-wide visibility across their Kubernetes clusters. With EKS Dashboard, customers can now monitor clusters deployed across different AWS Regions and accounts through a unified view, making it easier to track cluster inventory, assess compliance, and plan operational […]

I’m pleased to announce developers can now programmatically disable Apple System Integrity Protection (SIP) on their Amazon EC2 Mac instances. System Integrity Protection (SIP), also known as rootless, is a security feature introduced by Apple in OS X El Capitan (2015, version 10.11). It’s designed to protect the system from potentially harmful software by restricting […]

If you’ve been around the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) space for a while, you likely remember the days when GRC workflows centered around manually collecting screenshots from a number of systems, filling out control statuses in spreadsheets, and hoping you’re ready for your next audit(s). Those days are gone – or at least, they […]