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…
Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances
As someone who has been using macOS since 2001 and Amazon EC2 Mac instances since their…
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…
New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i Flex instances are now available
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) general-purpose M8i and…
The Double-Edged Sustainability Sword Of AI In Web Design
AI has introduced huge efficiencies for web designers and is frequently being touted as the key…
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…
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…
