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Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA (Become a Solutions Architect) cohort. BeSA is a free mentoring program that I host along with a few other AWS employees on a volunteer basis to help people excel in their cloud careers. Last week, the instructors’ lineup was

AWS is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for the fifteenth consecutive year. In the report, Gartner once again placed AWS highest on the “Ability to Execute” axis. We believe this reflects our ongoing commitment to giving customers the broadest and deepest set of capabilities to accelerate innovation as well as unparalleled security, reliability, and performance they can trust for their most critical applications.

Amazon Aurora is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a livestream event on August 21, 2025, highlighting a decade of database innovation since its groundbreaking architecture that decoupled storage from compute.

We are excited to announce the latest cohort of AWS Heroes, recognized for their exceptional contributions and technical leadership. These passionate individuals represent diverse regions and technical specialties, demonstrating notable expertise and dedication to knowledge sharing within the AWS community. From AI and machine learning to serverless architectures and security, our new Heroes showcase the

AWS Summits in the northern hemisphere have mostly concluded but the fun and learning hasn’t yet stopped for those of us in other parts of the globe. The community, customers, partners, and colleagues enjoyed a day of learning and networking last week at the AWS Summit Mexico City and the AWS Summit Jakarta. Last week’s

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AWS continues to expand access to the most advanced foundation models with OpenAI open weight models now available in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Accessing these new models from OpenAI on AWS, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, gives you more freedom to innovate and choose the right model for your specific use cases while maintaining complete control over your infrastructure and data.

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) enables organizations to run VMware Cloud Foundation environments directly within Amazon VPCs, simplifying workload migration while maintaining familiar tools and providing access to the scalability, agility, and elasticity of AWS.

This week brings an array of innovations spanning from generative AI capabilities to enhancements of foundational services. Whether you’re building AI-powered applications, managing databases, or optimizing your cloud infrastructure, these updates help build more advanced, robust, and flexible applications. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention this week: Amazon DocumentDB –

This new feature helps organizations confidently plan, practice, and orchestrate failover operations between AWS Regions for critical applications through automated workflows and continuous validation.

Amazon DocumentDB Serverless automatically scales capacity up or down in fine-grained increments based on your application’s demand, offering up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning for peak capacity.

To be honest, I’m still recovering from the AWS Summit in New York, doing my best to level up on launches like Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Preview) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Vectors. There’s a lot of new stuff to learn! Meanwhile, it’s been an exciting week for AWS builders focused on reliability and observability.

I’m writing this as I depart from Ho Chi Minh City back to Singapore. Just realized what a week it’s been, so let me rewind a bit. This week, I tried my first Corne keyboard, wrapped up rehearsals for AWS Summit Jakarta with speakers who are absolutely raising the bar, and visited Vietnam to participate

Developers can now build serverless applications faster through seamless console-to-IDE transition and debugging of functions running in the cloud from local IDE.

AWS AI league is a program that helps organizations upskill their workforce by combining fun competition with hands-on learning using AWS AI services. It offers a unique opportunity for both enterprises and developers to gain valuable and practical skills in fine-tuning, model customization, and prompt engineering – essential skills for building generative AI solutions.

Perform safer container application deployments without custom deployment tooling, enabling you to ship software updates more frequently with near-instantaneous rollback capability.

Read about all the new launches, including Nova enhancements, Bedrock AgentCore, SageMaker, and AI Agents.

AWS now enables extensive customization of Amazon Nova foundation models through SageMaker AI with techniques including continued pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, direct preference optimization, reinforcement learning from human feedback and model distillation to better address domain-specific requirements across industries.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables rapid deployment and scaling of AI agents with enterprise-grade security. It provides memory management, identity controls, and tool integration—streamlining development while working with any open-source framework and foundation model.

Amazon SageMaker has introduced three new capabilities—Amazon QuickSight integration for dashboard creation, governance, and sharing, Amazon S3 Unstructured Data Integration for cataloging documents and media files, and automatic data onboarding from Lakehouse—that eliminate data silos by unifying structured and unstructured data management, visualization, and governance in a single experience.