AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.8 on AWS, Aurora MySQL with Kiro Powers, and more (June 1, 2026)
In my last Week in Review post, I shared what I’d been hearing from customers in…
Introducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications
Today, we’re announcing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector…
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…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform at 1 year, Claude Platform on AWS, EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, and more (May 18, 2026)
Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, Agent Toolkit for AWS, and more (May 11, 2026)
My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities…
The AWS MCP Server is now generally available
I have been building with AI agents and MCP tools for a while now, and one…
AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s Next with AWS 2026, Amazon Quick, OpenAI partnership, and more (May 4, 2026)
Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Interconnect GA, and more (April 20, 2026)
Last week I had the honor of delivering a commencement speech at the University of Namur…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS AI/ML Scholars program, Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless, and more (March 30, 2026)
Last week, what excited me most was the launch of the 2026 AWS AI & ML…
Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in seconds
At re:Invent 2025, Colin Lazier, vice president of databases at AWS, emphasized the importance of building…
AWS Weekly Roundup: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on Amazon Bedrock, Nova Forge SDK, Amazon Corretto 26, and more (March 23, 2026)
Hello! I’m Daniel Abib, and this is my first AWS Weekly Roundup. I’m a Senior Specialist…
20 years in the AWS Cloud – how time flies!
AWS has reached its 20th anniversary! With a steady pace of innovation, AWS has grown to…