AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick desktop GA, Kiro for students, and more (September 14, 2026)
There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)
Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)
The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026)
During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I…
AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)
Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026)
Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026)
Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day”…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)
Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders…
AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (July 20, 2026)
Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center at 1 year, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and more (July 13, 2026)
AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform…
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…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Agentic CX designer for Amazon Connect Customer, EC2 AMI Watermarks, Open Governance for MySQL, and more (June 29, 2026)
It has been a busy stretch on the AWS Summit circuit. At the New York City…