In the complex universe of software development, every organization seeks a compass to steer its course toward excellence and efficiency. That compass is found in the ethos of DevOps, which aligns development and operations teams to deliver software more reliably and more frequently. DevOps is more than a set of tools or a technical methodology […]

Picture this: You’re a product manager at a fast-growing SaaS company. In the quarterly review, the CFO turns to you and asks, “What’s the ROI of our cloud products?” You have dashboards full of monthly active users, API call counts, and latency graphs-but none of them directly answer the question. This is the modern metrics […]

A month ago, I shared that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS), with Gartner naming AWS a Leader for the fifteenth consecutive year. In 2024, AWS was named as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, Cloud-Native […]

Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems in a few lines of code. We’ve continuously improved features including support […]

As someone who has been using macOS since 2001 and Amazon EC2 Mac instances since their launch 4 years ago, I’ve helped numerous customers scale their continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on AWS. Today, I’m excited to share that Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available. Development teams building […]

How visibility, control, and trust define the next chapter of cloud computing The enterprise cloud continues to transform how we operate, from our professional roles to the realms of social media, entertainment, and daily communication. Today, sophisticated cloud services underpin nearly every critical enterprise operation, including global collaboration, advanced analytics, AI-driven decision-making, and complex workflow […]

Today, we’re announcing LocalStack integration in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent improvements to the AWS Lambda development experience, including the console to IDE integration and remote debugging capabilities we launched in July […]

What is Zero Trust? Zero Trust is a cybersecurity model based on the principle of “never trust, always verify.” Unlike traditional perimeter-based security, Zero Trust assumes that threats may already exist both inside and outside the network. As a result, no user, device, or application is automatically trusted. Access is granted only after strict verification […]

Why wait weeks to test a concept? Vibe coding enables fast, informal app building using intuitive tools and GenAI.  When Airbnb’s founders built their first prototype in 2007, they spent weeks learning to code, designing databases, and experimenting with hosting solutions.  Today, builders could get the same prototype up and running in an afternoon using […]

Summer has drawn to a close here in Utrecht, where I live in the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Community Day 2025, hosted at the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht on September 24. The single-day event will bring together over 500 cloud practitioners from across the Netherlands, featuring 25 breakout sessions across five technical […]