If you’ve sat through a vendor pitch in the last six months, you’ve heard both terms used to mean more or less the same thing. Generative AI. Agentic AI. Smart AI. Next-gen AI. The vocabulary gets fuzzy fast, and salespeople are not rushing to clear it up. But in 2026, the distinction has real consequences. […]

Today, we’re announcing AWS Elemental Inference, a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms and maximizes live and on-demand video broadcasts to engage audiences at scale. At launch, you’ll be able to use AWS Elemental Inference to adapt video content into vertical formats optimized for mobile and social platforms in real time. With AWS Elemental […]

As AI rapidly shifts from experimental tools to systems that execute real world decisions, questions of bias, safety, and accountability are no longer theoretical but operational. In this CloudTweaks interview, we speak with Miriam Haart, CEO of ActionAI, Stanford trained computer scientist, and star of Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life. Haart sits at the intersection of […]

Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of building and evolving applications where humans and AI collaborate as co-developers using Kiro. Other colleagues spoke about building and deploying production-ready AI agents. Everyone stayed to ask and […]

Your AI assistant knows your doctor, your salary, your boss’s email, and what you had for lunch. The question isn’t whether that’s useful. It’s who else gets to know and what happens when the system can’t tell the difference. Last week you asked your AI agent to draft a message to your doctor. The week […]

Three and a half years ago, I sat down with Amazon Distinguished Scientist and VP Byron Cook to talk about automated reasoning. At the time, we were seeing this technology move from research labs into production systems, and the conversation we had focused on the fundamentals: how automated reasoning worked, why it mattered for cloud […]

The gap between ransomware threats and the defenses meant to stop them is getting worse, not better. Ivanti’s 2026 State of Cybersecurity Report found that the preparedness gap widened by an average of 10 points year over year across every threat category the firm tracks. Ransomware hit the widest spread: 63% of security professionals rate […]

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc8a instances, a new high performance computing (HPC) optimized instance type powered by latest 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. These instances are ideal for compute-intensive tightly coupled HPC workloads, including computational fluid dynamics, […]

Since we launched Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI at AWS NY Summit 2025, customers have been asking for the same capabilities with Amazon Nova as they do when they customize open weights models in Amazon SageMaker Inference. They also wanted have more control and flexibility in custom model inference over instance types, auto-scaling […]

I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every few months there’s a new instance type landing that pushes performance boundaries further. As of […]