Category Archives: Blog

Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference

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 […]

Why Ethical AI Must Act, Not Just Talk: A Conversation With ActionAI CEO Miriam Haart

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 […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026)

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 […]

Most ransomware playbooks don’t address machine credentials. Attackers know it.

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 […]

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available

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, […]

Announcing Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models

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 […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)

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 […]

Augmented Reality in Education: Practical Use Cases and Implementation Tips

Augmented reality has moved beyond pilot projects and experimental demos in education. In 2026, AR increasingly appears inside real learning environments where institutions expect measurable results, stable performance, and clear learning impact. Schools, universities, and training providers no longer adopt immersive technology for novelty. They use it to solve concrete instructional problems. The challenge today […]