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• Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database is now generally available 27/05/2025
  Amazon Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management for always available applications. You can remove the operational burden of patching, upgrades, and maintenance downtime and count on an easy-to-use developer experience to create a new database in a few quick steps.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, EKS Dashboard, community events, and more (May 26, 2025) 26/05/2025
  As the tech community we continue to have many opportunities to learn and network with other like-minded folks. This past week AWS customers attended the AWS Summit Dubai for an action-packed day featuring live demos, hands-on experiences with cutting-edge AI/ML tools, and more. Right here in South Africa I attended the Data & AI Community […]
  Veliswa Boya
• Introducing Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, the most powerful models for coding from Anthropic 22/05/2025
  Claude Opus 4 is now available on Amazon Bedrock for developers to build advanced AI agents with improved reasoning and coding capabilities, as well as expanded context for building more autonomous AI agents that can handle complex, multistep workflows across software development and enterprise operations. Claude Sonnet 4, which is optimized for high-volume production workloads […]
  Sébastien Stormacq
• Centralize visibility of Kubernetes clusters across AWS Regions and accounts with EKS Dashboard 21/05/2025
  EKS Dashboard provides cloud architects and cluster administrators with a centralized view to monitor and govern Kubernetes clusters across multiple AWS Regions and accounts, offering insights into clusters, managed node groups, and EKS add-ons through a unified interface in the AWS Console.
  Micah Walter
• Configure System Integrity Protection (SIP) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances 21/05/2025
  Amazon EC2 Mac developers can now programmatically disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) through API and command line to modify core system files and settings that are typically restricted for security purposes.
  Sébastien Stormacq
• Introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page and AWS service availability updates 20/05/2025
  Today, we’re introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page, a centralized resource that provides comprehensive information about service availability changes across AWS. The new AWS Product Lifecycle page consolidates all service availability information in one convenient location. This dedicated resource offers detailed visibility into three key categories of changes: 1) services closing access to new customers, […]
  Sébastien Stormacq
• Join AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn cutting-edge innovations building global cloud infrastructure 19/05/2025
  AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day, a free virtual event on May 22, 2025, will showcase AWS's latest innovations in cloud infrastructure, including advances in compute, AI/ML, storage, networking, and serverless technologies, featuring technical sessions and expert speakers from AWS and customer organizations.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• Amazon Inspector enhances container security by mapping Amazon ECR images to running containers 19/05/2025
  Amazon ECR image-to-container mapping that shows which images are actively running in containers and how widely they're deployed, and extended vulnerability scanning support for minimal base images including scratch, distroless, and Chainguard containers.
  Elizabeth Fuentes
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025) 19/05/2025
  Many events are taking place in this period! Last week I was at the AI Week in Italy. This week I’ll be in Zurich for the AWS Community Day – Switzerland. On May 22, you can join us remotely for AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn about cutting-edge advances across compute, AI/ML, storage, networking, serverless […]
  Danilo Poccia
• New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations 15/05/2025
  The P6-B200 EC2 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs offer up to twice the performance of previous P5en instances for machine learning and high-performance computing workloads.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability 15/05/2025
  AWS CodeBuild now offers Docker Server capability, enabling a dedicated and persistent Docker server within projects that dramatically reduces build times by maintaining a centralized cache, as demonstrated by a 98% reduction in build time from 24 minutes to just 16 seconds.
  Donnie Prakoso
• Accelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS Transform 15/05/2025
  AWS Transform leverages the power agentic AI to accelerate modernization of legacy workloads. It deploys specialized AI agents to automate complex tasks like code analysis, refactoring, decomposition, dependency mapping, validation, and transformation planning, dramatically reducing project timelines and helping organization modernize with greater confidence.
  Matheus Guimaraes
• AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale 15/05/2025
  Accelerate .NET modernization with agentic AI. AWS Transform for .NET speeds up large-scale modernization from .NET Framework to cross-platform .NET by up to 4x. With the .NET modernization agent, modernization teams can collaboratively execute larger and more complex projects with consistency, remove Windows license dependencies to reduce operating costs by up to 40%, and enhance […]
  Prasad Rao
• AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025) 12/05/2025
  I’ve always been fascinated by how quickly we’re able to stand up new Regions and Availability Zones at AWS. Today there are 36 launched Regions and 114 launched Availability Zones. That’s amazing! This past week at AWS was marked by significant expansion to our global infrastructure. The announcement of a new Region in the works […]
  Micah Walter
• In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region 07/05/2025
  AWS announces plans to launch a new AWS Region in Chile by the end of 2026 with three Availability Zones, marking the third AWS Region in Latin American alongside existing Regions in São Paulo and Mexico, and bringing AWS infrastructure and services closer to Chile including AI capabilities while supporting data residency requirements.
  Elizabeth Fuentes
• Accelerate the transfer of data from an Amazon EBS snapshot to a new EBS volume 06/05/2025
  Amazon EBS introduces a new Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization to accelerate data transfer from EBS snapshots to new EBS volumes by specifying a consistent volume initialization rate, improving workflow efficiency and predictability.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q CLI, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Outposts, and more (May 5, 2025) 05/05/2025
  Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge, where developers can meet, discuss ideas, enjoy lightning talks, win SWAGs at AWS Builder ID Prize Wheel, take a challenge at Amazon Q Developer Coding Challenge, or learn Generative AI at […]
  Donnie Prakoso
• Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation 05/05/2025
  Amazon Q Developer is now available in preview on GitHub, enabling developers to assign tasks to an AI agent that can develop features, conduct code reviews, enhance security, and migrate Java code, all directly within GitHub issues.
  Matheus Guimaraes
• Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience 02/05/2025
  This new interactive, agentic coding experience for Visual Studio Code allows Q Developer to intelligently take actions on behalf of the developer.
  Elizabeth Fuentes
• Amazon Nova Premier: Our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation 30/04/2025
  Nova Premier is designed to excel at complex tasks requiring deep context understanding, multistep planning, and coordination across tools and data sources. It has capabilities for processing text, images, and videos while also serving as a teacher model for distilling smaller, more efficient models for production use.
  Danilo Poccia