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The AWS Heroes program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community. Heroes go above and beyond to share knowledge in a variety of ways in developer community. We introduce our newest AWS Heroes in the second quarter of 2025. To find and connect

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region is generally available with three Availability Zones and Region code ap-east-2. The new Region brings AWS infrastructure and services closer to customers in Taiwan. Skyline of Taipei including the Taipei 101 building As the first infrastructure Region in Taipei and the fifteenth Region

AWS now provides daily updates of Smithy API models on GitHub, enabling developers to build custom SDK clients, understand AWS API behaviors, and create developer tools for better AWS service integration.

AWS announces significant price reductions of up to 45 percent for NVIDIA GPU-accelerated EC2 instances, increasing accessibility to these high-demand resources for generative AI workloads amid industry-wide GPU shortages.

The AWS community is a vibrant network of innovators, problem-solvers, and thought leaders who drive cloud technology forward. Today, we’re excited to shine a spotlight on three exceptional individuals who embody the spirit of innovation, knowledge-sharing, and community building. From architecting scalable solutions for millions of users to fostering inclusive tech groups, these professionals are

It’s AWS Summit Season! AWS Summits are free in-person events that take place across the globe in major cities, bringing cloud expertise to local communities. Each AWS Summit features keynote presentations highlighting the latest innovations, technical sessions, live demos, and interactive workshops led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts. Last week, events took place at

Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering storage class provides cost-effective, virtually unlimited elastic file storage for ML and HPC workloads that automatically optimizes costs by tiering data based on access frequency.

AWS introduces specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Amazon ECS, EKS, Finch and AWS Serverless, providing real-time contextual responses and service-specific guidance to guide AI assisted application development.

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.

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

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 is coming soon.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.