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…
AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management
A month ago, I shared that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is recognized as a Leader in…
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…
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…
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…
OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS
AWS is committed to bringing you the most advanced foundation models (FMs) in the industry, continuously…