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Tag: Week in Review
AWS Weekly Roundup: SQS fair queues, CloudWatch generative AI observability, and more (July 28, 2025)
To be honest, I’m still recovering from the AWS Summit in New York, doing my best to level up on launches like Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Preview) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Vectors. There’s a lot of new stuff to learn! Meanwhile, it’s been an exciting week for AWS builders focused on reliability and observability. […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro, AWS Lambda remote debugging, Amazon ECS blue/green deployments, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and more (July 21, 2025)
I’m writing this as I depart from Ho Chi Minh City back to Singapore. Just realized what a week it’s been, so let me rewind a bit. This week, I tried my first Corne keyboard, wrapped up rehearsals for AWS Summit Jakarta with speakers who are absolutely raising the bar, and visited Vietnam to participate […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center, Amazon Q, Oracle Database@AWS, and more (July 14, 2025)
Summer is well and truly here in the UK! I’m a bit of a summer grinch though so, unlike most people, I’m not crazy about “the glorious sun” scorching me when I’m out and about. On the upside, this provides the perfect excuse to retreat to the comfort of a well-ventilated room where I can […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock API keys, EC2 C8gn instances, Amazon Nova Canvas virtual try-on, and more (July 7, 2025)
Every Monday we tell you about the best releases and blogs that caught our attention last week. This week I’m making an exception to include a release from today: Amazon Bedrock API keys. This new feature simplifies generative AI development by providing direct API authentication without needing to manually configure IAM principals and policies. Amazon […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Project Rainier, Amazon CloudWatch investigations, AWS MCP servers, and more (June 30, 2025)
Every time I visit Seattle, the first thing that greets me at the airport is Mount Rainier. Did you know that the most innovative project at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named after this mountain? Project Rainier is a new project to create what is expected to be the world’s most powerful computer for training […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: re:Inforce re:Cap, Valkey GLIDE 2.0, Avro and Protobuf or MCP Servers on Lambda, and more (June 23, 2025)
Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were announced, including enhanced IAM Access Analyzer capabilities, MFA enforcement for root users, and threat […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Inforce 2025, AWS WAF, AWS Control Tower, and more (June 16, 2025)
Today marks the start of AWS re:Inforce 2025, where security professionals are gathering for three days of technical learning sessions, workshops, and demonstrations. This security-focused conference brings together AWS security specialists who build and maintain the services that organizations rely on for their cloud security needs. AWS Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Amy Herzog will […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Heroes, Amazon Q Developer, EC2 GPU price reduction, and more (June 9, 2025)
The AWS Heroes program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community. Heroes go above and beyond to share knowledge in a variety of ways in developer community. We introduce our newest AWS Heroes in the second quarter of 2025. To find and connect […]