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…
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…
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 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: Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, and more (August 4, 2025)
This week brings an array of innovations spanning from generative AI capabilities to enhancements of foundational…
Introducing Amazon Application Recovery Controller Region switch: A multi-Region application recovery service
As a developer advocate at AWS, I’ve worked with many enterprise organizations who operate critical applications…
Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon DocumentDB Serverless, a new configuration for Amazon DocumentDB…
Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda
Today, we’re announcing two significant enhancements to AWS Lambda that make it easier than ever for…
AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in credits
When you’re new to Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can get started with AWS Free Tier…
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…
Introducing Oracle Database@AWS for simplified Oracle Exadata migrations to the AWS Cloud
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering for Oracle Exadata workloads,…