Category Archives: Blog

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Developer, AWS Step Functions, AWS Cloud Club Captain deadline, and more (September 22, 2025)

Three weeks ago, I published a post about the new AWS Region in New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). This led to an incredible opportunity to visit New Zealand, where I met passionate builders and presented at several events including Serverless and Platform Engineering meetup, AWS Tools and Programming meetup, AWS Cloud Clubs in Auckland, and AWS Community […]

APIs or Scrapers? The High-Stakes Choice Behind Enterprise AI Success

AI agents are only as powerful as the data they consume. Whether they’re surfacing insights, powering faster medical diagnoses from analyzing radiology images or automating back-office workflows, access to relevant, high-quality data—especially unstructured data–is what makes them valuable. Yet today, there’s a growing divide in how AI agents get that data: should they scrape or […]

Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock

Today we are adding Qwen models from Alibaba in Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, Amazon Bedrock continues to expand model choice by adding access to Qwen3 open weight foundation models (FMs) in a full managed, serverless way. This release includes four models: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, and Qwen3-32B (Dense). Together, these models feature both mixture-of-experts (MoE) […]

DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock

In March, Amazon Web Services (AWS) became the first cloud service provider to deliver DeepSeek-R1 in a serverless way by launching it as a fully managed, generally available model in Amazon Bedrock. Since then, customers have used DeepSeek-R1’s capabilities through Amazon Bedrock to build generative AI applications, benefiting from the Bedrock’s robust guardrails and comprehensive […]

Many Popular VPNs Secretly Controlled by Firms Linked to China, Cybersecurity Experts Warn

New research reveals that many of the most downloaded VPNs since the introduction of state age verification laws are linked to foreign intelligence. New York, September 18, 2025 – Cybersecurity experts NymVPN are warning US consumers to be cautious of many popular virtual private network (VPN) apps, after a new report[1] by academics at Arizona State University, Citizen Lab (University […]

DevOps as a Mindset: Driving Collaboration in Modern Software Development

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 […]

AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management

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 […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025)

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 […]