For as long as most of us have been building with data, the systems we reach for — databases, query engines, data warehouses — have, at any appreciable scale, been separate systems. As a community, we’ve generated a lot of healthy arguments about their design along the way. Single host, clustered, or distributed, whether data […]

Twenty years ago today, Jeff Barr wrote a blog post that launched the Amazon EC2 Beta. That single post introduced resizable Linux virtual servers in the cloud, billed by the hour, with one instance type (m1.small) in one Region (US East). It was minimal yet useful, and it changed how the world thinks about computing […]

Behind nearly every merger or acquisition is a cloud migration project waiting to happen. Once a deal closes, IT teams need to bring together users, data, identities, applications, and devices that may have operated in entirely separate environments. That work often must happen on a tight timeline, turning M&A into a growing source of cloud […]

During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across the region, and watching the potential in the room is always a strong motivator. It reminds me of why I do this work, and that the students I meet today may […]

Many implementations of Zero Trust assume a person is at the other end of the connection. That assumption is now the problem. The core principles still hold. Verify explicitly. Enforce least privilege. Assume breach. None of those are wrong, and none of them go away when autonomous agents enter the environment. What changes is the […]

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Glue 6.0, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions and introducing full support for Apache Iceberg v3 features. AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13, delivering faster performance. With this release, AWS Glue […]

When people talk about “their AI coding agent,” they usually picture a single product doing a single job. A helpful assistant living in the editor, suggesting code, running tasks. One thing, in one place. That picture is often wrong, and the gap between the picture and the truth matters more than many developers realise. The […]

In this episode of the CloudTweaks Podcast, host Steve Prentice sits down with Francis Martens, CEO and co‑founder of Exalate, to explore one of the most urgent and least understood challenges in modern enterprise technology: integration in the age of AI agents. As Steve frames it in the opening, AI agents are beginning to act […]

In the early days of cloud computing, AWS supported intensive learning for builders in a physical space called the AWS Pop-up Lofts in cities worldwide. These spaces were accessible to startup entrepreneurs, developers, and others interested in learning more about AWS for events, meetings, and co-working. With the recent emergence of generative AI, AWS Gen […]

Start at the KPI and work backward. Most 90-day plans fail because they start at the other end, with the data or the tool, and focus on selecting tools and automating workflows. KPI: Pick a number that is important to the business that has struggled to move. Action: Understand what actions need to be taken, […]