It’s AWS Summit Season! AWS Summits are free in-person events that take place across the globe in major cities, bringing cloud expertise to local communities. Each AWS Summit features keynote presentations highlighting the latest innovations, technical sessions, live demos, and interactive workshops led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts. Last week, events took place at […]

The SaaS industry continues to evolve rapidly, fundamentally reshaping how platforms are designed and delivered. System and network administrators increasingly demand integrated, all-in-one platforms that consolidate multiple management tasks into a seamless experience. The managed DNS industry exemplifies this transformation, with providers developing sophisticated platforms that combine real-time monitoring, advanced query management, and AI-driven optimization. […]

Seismic imaging is a geophysical technique used to create detailed pictures of the Earth’s subsurface structure. It works by generating seismic waves that travel into the ground, reflect off various rock layers and structures, and return to the surface where they’re detected by sensitive instruments known as geophones or hydrophones. The huge volumes of acquired […]

Today, we’re introducing specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and AWS Serverless, now available in the AWS Labs GitHub repository. These open source solutions extend AI development assistants capabilities with real-time, contextual responses that go beyond their pre-trained knowledge. While Large Language […]

*This article has been updated to reflect current cloud security trends and data as of 2025. The conversation around cloud adoption has evolved significantly over recent years. What was once a debate about whether to move workloads to the cloud has shifted to how organizations can securely and efficiently manage their cloud environments at scale. […]

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 […]