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…
Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE
Today, we’re announcing LocalStack integration in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it…
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 services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones
Amazon Prime Day 2025 was the biggest Amazon Prime Day shopping event ever, setting records for…
Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances
Today, we’re announcing general availability of the new eighth generation, memory optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud…
AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for 15 years in a row
On August 4, 2025, Gartner published its Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS)….
Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation
Ten years ago, we announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora, a database that combined the…
Meet our newest AWS Heroes — August 2025
We are excited to announce the latest cohort of AWS Heroes, recognized for their exceptional contributions…
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…
OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS
AWS is committed to bringing you the most advanced foundation models (FMs) in the industry, continuously…
Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), a new AWS…