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)….
Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
Today we are adding Qwen models from Alibaba in Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, Amazon Bedrock…
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…
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…
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…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform, Amazon Neptune, and more (September 8, 2025)
Summer has drawn to a close here in Utrecht, where I live in the Netherlands. In…
Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Kia ora! Today, I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (New…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora 10th anniversary, Amazon EC2 R8 instances, Amazon Bedrock and more (August 25, 2025)
As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Single GPU P5 instances, Advanced Go Driver, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and more (August 18, 2025)
Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA…
Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation
Ten years ago, we announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora, a database that combined the…
AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI models, Automated Reasoning checks, Amazon EVS, and more (August 11, 2025)
AWS Summits in the northern hemisphere have mostly concluded but the fun and learning hasn’t yet…
Minimize AI hallucinations and deliver up to 99% verification accuracy with Automated Reasoning checks: Now available
Today, I’m happy to share that Automated Reasoning checks, a new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy that…