AWS News Blog
Category: Compute
AWS Weekly Roundup: 20 years of AWS News Blog, Express brokers for HAQM MSK, Windows Server 2025 images on EC2, and more (Nov 11, 2024)
Happy 20th Anniversary of the AWS News Blog! 🎉🥳🎊 On November 9, 2004, Jeff Barr published his first blog post. At the time, he started a personal blog site using TypePad. He wanted to speak to his readers with his personal voice, not the company or team. On April 29, 2014, we created a new […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda, HAQM Bedrock, HAQM Redshift, HAQM CloudWatch, and more (Nov 4, 2024)
The spooky season has come and gone now. While there aren’t any Halloween-themed releases, AWS has celebrated it in big style by having a plethora of exciting releases last week! I think it’s safe to say that we have truly entered the ‘pre’ re:Invent stage as more and more interesting things are being released every […]
Celebrating 10 Years of HAQM ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation
A decade of AWS innovation: HAQM ECS evolved from simplifying container orchestration to powering massive operations like Prime Day and enabling customers like SmugMug to seamlessly migrate petabytes of data and scale efficiently with “blazingly-fast” performance.
AWS Weekly Roundup: New code editor in AWS Lambda console, HAQM Q Business analytics, Claude 3.5 upgrades, and more (October 28, 2024)
Two weeks ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to host subject matter experts from across Asia Pacific in the global 24 Hours of HAQM Q live stream event. This continuous 24-hour stream offered insights from AWS experts on HAQM Q Developer and HAQM Q Business, featuring use cases, product demos, and Q&A sessions. The highlight for […]
EC2 Image Builder now supports building and testing macOS images
Streamline workflows, automate installs like Xcode, and centralize management across operating systems. Set up pipelines building versioned, validated AMIs for your macOS workloads.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Agentic workflows, HAQM Transcribe, AWS Lambda insights, and more (October 21, 2024)
Agentic workflows are quickly becoming a cornerstone of AI innovation, enabling intelligent systems to autonomously handle and refine complex tasks in a way that mirrors human problem-solving. Last week, we launched Serverless Agentic Workflows with HAQM Bedrock, a new short course developed in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI. This hands-on course, taught by […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s App, AWS Lambda, Load Balancers, AWS Console, and more (Oct 14, 2024)
Last week, AWS hosted free half-day conferences in London and Paris. My colleagues and I demonstrated how developers can use generative AI tools to speed up their design, analysis, code writing, debugging, and deployment workflows. These events were held at the GenAI Lofts. These lofts are open until October 25 (London) and November 5 (Paris). […]
Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available
AWS Console-to-Code generates reusable infrastructure as code from your AWS console actions, supporting HAQM EC2, RDS, and VPC. With a few clicks, get CloudFormation, CDK (TypeScript, Python, Java), or CLI code – a game-changer for streamlining cloud automation workflows.