AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS, Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, AWS service availability updates, and more (July 6, 2026)
A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with…
Accelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express mode
Today, we’re announcing AWS CloudFormation Express mode, a new deployment mode that accelerates deployments for developers and…
Amazon ECS introduces new high-resolution metrics for faster service auto scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload…
Introducing the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub for generative AI-based SRE resilience journey
Today, we’re announcing the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub with a significantly expanded experience that…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Local Zones in Istanbul, open-source ExtendDB, Kiro Web, and more (May 25, 2026)
There’s something genuinely energizing about working with startups — something I’ve been doing intensely for more…
The AWS MCP Server is now generally available
I have been building with AI agents and MCP tools for a while now, and one…
Customize your AWS Management Console experience with visual settings including account color, region and service visibility
In August 2025, we introduced AWS User Experience Customization (UXC) capability to tailor user interfaces (UIs) to…
Introducing account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets
Today, we’re announcing a new feature of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) you can use…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock agent workflows, Amazon SageMaker private connectivity, and more (February 2, 2026)
Over the past week, we passed Laba festival, a traditional marker in the Chinese calendar that…
Amazon S3 Vectors now generally available with increased scale and performance
Today, I’m excited to announce that Amazon S3 Vectors is now generally available with significantly increased…
Amazon Bedrock adds 18 fully managed open weight models, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of an additional 18 fully managed open weight models in…
Introducing Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors for memory-intensive workloads
Today, we’re announcing the availability of new memory-optimized, high-frequency Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8aedz…