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Adopt the January 2026 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle for Amazon RDS for Oracle to integrate enhanced security and performance features into your database architecture.

Integrate Microsoft Teams optimization into Amazon WorkSpaces environments to offload audio and video processing to local devices, resulting in enhanced meeting performance and user satisfaction.

Adopt key pair authentication in Amazon Quick to simplify architecture, reduce operational toil, and enable best practice shifts affecting security standards and new integrations.

Adopt the new ActiveMQ 5.19 version to enhance the messaging service's capabilities, ensuring your platform remains up-to-date with the latest performance and security enhancements.

Adopt dual-stack connectivity for Amazon MSK clusters to simplify architecture by supporting both IPv4 and IPv6, reducing operational toil, and preparing the platform for future network requirements.

Adopt dual-stack connectivity for Amazon MSK clusters to simplify architecture and reduce operational toil by supporting both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, ensuring uninterrupted service and compliance with future network standards.

Adopt Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.12 to enhance your database platform with the latest MySQL 8.0.44 features, improving performance, security, and availability across your infrastructure.

Adopt AWS Tools Installer V2 to simplify the architecture of your PowerShell module management, reducing operational toil and enhancing the efficiency of module installations and updates.

Adopt AWS Backup's PrivateLink support for SAP HANA to simplify architecture by ensuring private connectivity for both application and backup traffic, reducing operational toil and enhancing security posture.

Adopt Amazon DocumentDB LTS 5.0 to provide a stable and secure database environment, reducing the need for frequent upgrades and maintenance.

Adopt the new Aurora DSQL Connectors to simplify IAM authentication across your Go, Python, and Node.js applications, enhancing security and reducing operational overhead.

Adopt the expanded SMS capabilities in Amazon SNS to enhance your platform's communication features, allowing for more robust and geographically diverse messaging solutions.

Adopt G7e instances in your architecture to provide users with the highest performance for spatial computing and AI processing, reducing latency and improving throughput for multi-GPU workloads.

Adopt M8i-flex instances in the expanded regions to leverage enhanced performance and price-performance for general-purpose workloads, reducing operational toil and improving application delivery times.

Adopt the new Graviton4 instances in Amazon OpenSearch Service to enhance performance metrics and reduce operational toil, leveraging the best price performance for diverse workloads.

Adopt the new feature to enable direct access to remote Iceberg catalogs in AWS Clean Rooms collaborations, simplifying data analysis workflows and reducing operational toil.

Adopt i7i instances in your OpenSearch deployments to leverage enhanced storage performance and security features provided by the AWS Nitro System, leading to improved application reliability and performance.

Integrate the Aurora DSQL Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with AI agents to provide specialized knowledge and best practices, enabling developers to build Aurora DSQL-backed applications with confidence and speed.

Integrate customer-managed keys into Amazon Managed Grafana deployments to provide an additional layer of security for operational data visualization and analysis.

Integrate AWS Service Quotas with Amazon Connect Cases to provide a centralized governance framework for managing service limits and scaling case workloads effectively.

Adopt the new feature in Amazon Connect that integrates agent time-off requests into draft schedules, enhancing the platform's workforce management capabilities and reducing operational toil.

Adopt Amazon Bedrock's reinforcement fine-tuning to simplify the customization of open-weight models, reducing the need for large labeled datasets and deep machine learning expertise, and enabling faster iteration and deployment of high-quality AI models.

Integrate Claude Sonnet 4.6 into domain-specific applications to accelerate analysis workflows, compliance review processes, and data summarization tasks with professional precision, reducing iteration time and increasing accuracy.

Adopt EC2 C8a instances to provide your teams with high-performance, compute-optimized resources, enabling them to run latency-sensitive and compute-intensive applications more efficiently.

Adopt R8i and R8i-flex instances to provide your teams with high-performance, memory-optimized compute resources that can scale to meet demanding application requirements.

Adopt Hpc8a instances to integrate advanced HPC capabilities into your architecture, leveraging their superior performance metrics and EFA network bandwidth to scale large-scale HPC workloads efficiently.

Integrate the new HealthImaging metrics into your monitoring and management tools to gain granular insights into medical imaging storage and growth trends.

Adopt M7i instances to scale your architecture with enhanced performance and price-performance, utilizing the new instance sizes and accelerators to optimize workload efficiency.

Adopt nested virtualization on EC2 to offer your teams advanced virtual environments, enhancing development and testing capabilities, and potentially reducing infrastructure costs by minimizing the need for dedicated physical hardware.

Adopt Kiro to streamline development processes, utilizing its integrated IDE and CLI for spec-driven development, and ensure compliance with enterprise authentication via AWS IAM Identity Center.

Adopt AWS Glue 5.1 in the expanded regions to integrate with your data architecture, leveraging the upgraded engines and new capabilities to simplify data preparation and movement, reducing operational toil and enhancing data security.

Adopt default server-side encryption for new Amazon Aurora clusters to simplify architecture and reduce operational toil by eliminating the need for key management, enhancing data security across the platform.

Commercial AI services are enabling even unsophisticated threat actors to conduct cyberattacks at scale—a trend Amazon Threat Intelligence has been tracking closely. A recent investigation illustrates this shift: Amazon Threat Intelligence observed a Russian-speaking financially motivated threat actor leveraging multiple commercial generative AI services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices across more than 55 countries […]

We recently released v0.11 of the Qiskit-Braket provider, which brings more Qiskit features to Amazon Braket users, improves access to Braket backends through Qiskit, and also enables compilation on the Braket SDK or with OpenQASM Programs. With v0.11, the Qiskit-Braket provider now: Supports flexible compilation features for Braket using common Qiskit transpile functionality through the […]

Government agencies are facing a cybersecurity challenge. Traditional security information and event management (SIEM) systems generate thousands of alerts on a daily basis, overwhelming security operations center (SOC) analysts who spend countless hours manually investigating incidents. Studies show that 70% of alerts turn out to be false positives. This reactive approach creates critical vulnerabilities: alert […]

With a smartphone, mGene’s AI technology can analyze facial features to identify subtle indications of genetic syndromes It’s one of medicine’s tragic paradoxes that, collectively, rare diseases have significant impact on human health. The World Health Organization defines conditions affecting fewer than 1 in 2,000 people as rare, and it’s estimated that over 300 million […]

Every day, AWS customers process millions of compressed files in Amazon S3, from small ZIP archives to multi-gigabyte datasets. While decompressing a single file is straightforward, processing thousands of files efficiently requires complex orchestration, error handling, and infrastructure management. Consider this scenario: Your organization receives over 10,000 compressed files daily from partners, ranging from 5 […]

Adopt IAM Identity Center in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region to streamline access management for AWS applications, reducing operational toil and enhancing security compliance across the platform.

Procurement teams increasing struggle with managing vendor selection and Request for Quotation (RFQ) processes effectively. Buyers spend significant time navigating multiple Enterprise Resource Planning systems and external data sources. They must consolidate supplier information, validate compliance requirements, and compare costs across vendors to identify the optimal option. This fragmentation causes delays, manual errors, and missed […]

Integrate the updated ACM certificate validity periods into your platform architecture, leveraging the cost reductions for exportable public certificates to optimize your security posture and budget.

Modern containerized applications running on Kubernetes enable organizations to deploy read-heavy workloads—such as machine learning inference, data analytics, and High Performance Computing (HPC)—at unprecedented scale. However, when multiple pods on the same node need to access identical datasets, a performance challenge emerges. Each pod typically fetches files from external storage independently over the network. This […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced two federal credit programs totaling up to $100 million to accelerate innovation in support of America’s most critical national security and scientific missions. The AWS Warfighter Capability Accelerator Initiative and AWS Genesis Accelerator Initiative will each provide up to $50 million in AWS credits over three years (2026-2028) to […]

Adopt Agent Plugins for AWS to integrate specialized deployment skills into your development environment, enhancing developer productivity and ensuring consistent, secure, and cost-effective deployments.

Integrate Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Nova models into your AI infrastructure to simplify architecture, reduce operational toil, and enable advanced AI capabilities.

Verisk, a catastrophe modeling SaaS provider serving insurance and reinsurance companies worldwide, cut processing time from hours to minutes-level aggregations while reducing storage costs by implementing a lakehouse architecture with Amazon Redshift and Apache Iceberg. If you’re managing billions of catastrophe modeling records across hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires, this approach eliminates the traditional compute-versus-cost trade-off by separating storage from processing power. In th

When running database migration with AWS DMS, you may encounter opportunities to streamline your workflow: interpreting error messages, understanding configuration parameter relationships, and navigating between the console, documentation, and community forums during troubleshooting. What if you could have an AI-powered assistant that understands your migration context, diagnoses issues in real-time, and provides actionable guidance—all within your workflow? In this post, we show you have Amazon

Adopt the new backup configuration feature during restore operations to streamline backup management, improve resource utilization, and enhance overall platform efficiency.

Adopt the Job Queue and Share Utilization Visibility feature to enhance your platform's resource management capabilities, allowing for better allocation of compute resources and reducing operational overhead by 15%.

Adopt the latest minor versions of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to simplify database management at scale through automatic upgrades and phased rollouts using AWS Organizations and Blue/Green deployments.

Integrate granular access controls in Amazon Connect dashboards to provide precise visibility and control over analytics data, enhancing security and compliance across the platform.

Adopt the increased quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud to enhance the platform's AI capabilities, allowing for more efficient resource utilization and improved performance in regulated environments.

Adopt the latest Cumulative Update (CU23) for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS to ensure your database environment is secure and optimized for performance.

Adopt the new MariaDB minor versions in Amazon RDS to provide your teams with the latest database capabilities and ensure your infrastructure is secure and performant.

Integrate broker logs on Express Brokers into your observability pipelines to streamline Kafka operational telemetry and improve overall system monitoring.

Adopt the new MSK topic management features to provide your teams with simplified Kafka operations, reducing the need for external Kafka admin clients and enhancing overall platform efficiency.

Adopt the new logging capabilities for EKS Auto Mode to simplify architecture and reduce operational toil by enabling reliable, secure log delivery with built-in AWS authentication and authorization.

Adopt the new node actions feature in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to simplify node management, reduce operational toil, and enhance the reliability of AI/ML workloads by providing a consistent and efficient interface for node recovery and maintenance.

Adopt the new managed minor version upgrade feature for Aurora Global Database to simplify global cluster management, reduce operational toil, and ensure consistent minor version upgrades across all regions.

Adopt the in-app notifications feature to enhance user experience and operational efficiency by ensuring critical alerts are surfaced without interrupting workflows.

Adopt the new identity columns and sequence objects feature in Amazon Aurora DSQL to enhance database-managed integer identifier capabilities, reducing operational toil and improving development efficiency.

Integrate High Memory U7i instances into your architecture to provide customers with scalable, high-performance compute options for memory-intensive applications, utilizing up to 16TiB of DDR5 memory and advanced network features.

Integrate AI-powered Task overviews within your contact center workflows to leverage generative AI for improved task management and agent guidance, potentially reducing resolution times and enhancing service quality.

Adopt the multi-language AI troubleshooting feature in the AWS Support Center Console to provide your users with a more inclusive and efficient support experience, reducing the language barrier in technical issue resolution.

Adopt M8azn instances to integrate advanced compute and network capabilities, reducing latency and improving performance for high-frequency trading and real-time analytics applications.

Integrate Amazon S3 Access Grants into your data management architecture to simplify permission management and enhance security compliance.

Adopt Resource Control Policies for DynamoDB to centralize permission management, simplify architecture, and reduce operational toil associated with managing permissions across multiple accounts and resources.

Adopt the new C8i, M8i, and R8i instances on second-generation Outposts racks to enhance the platform's on-premises compute capabilities, offering better performance and efficiency for a wide range of workloads.

Adopt the new cross-Region snapshot copy capability to simplify your data protection architecture, reduce costs, and improve recovery times, leveraging AWS Backup's integration with Amazon Aurora, Neptune, and DocumentDB across all supported Regions.

Adopt the new open-weight model support in Amazon Bedrock for Asia Pacific (Sydney) to enhance your platform's AI capabilities, leveraging Project Mantle for improved performance, reliability, and compatibility with OpenAI API specifications.

Adopt the partition and sort order feature in Amazon S3 Tables to enhance data management capabilities, reduce operational toil, and improve overall platform performance.

Adopt the new AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Bedrock to simplify and expedite the onboarding of new models, leveraging Project Mantle's distributed inference engine for higher performance and reliability.

Adopt C8i and C8i-flex instances to offer your teams enhanced compute capabilities with significant performance improvements for various workloads.

Adopt the new auto-accept settings in Amazon Connect to streamline agent workflows and enhance the customer service experience across multiple communication channels.

Adopt Amazon DocumentDB in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region to provide your teams with a fully managed, scalable document database service, reducing operational toil and enabling faster deployment of document-oriented applications.

Adopt the expanded AWS Data Transfer Terminal service to leverage high throughput network connections for uploading data to AWS services, enhancing platform capabilities for large data transfers and integration with existing AWS services.

Adopt the new GitHub Actions for Elastic Beanstalk to simplify application deployment, leveraging automated workflows that handle version management and environment setup, ultimately reducing platform management overhead.

Adopt the new Europe (Zurich) region for Amazon DocumentDB to enhance your platform's global footprint, ensuring data residency and compliance requirements are met while simplifying architecture with a fully managed, scalable document database service.

Adopt the enhanced cross-account sharing capabilities in AWS Lake Formation to simplify permissions management and enable fine-grained access controls for multi-account analytics environments.

Adopt R8i and R8i-flex instances for your memory-intensive workloads, utilizing their enhanced performance and memory capabilities to improve application efficiency and reduce operational toil.

Adopt Aurora DSQL in the new regions to simplify architecture and reduce operational toil, benefiting from its effortless scaling and resilience features.

Adopt AWS Payment Cryptography to provide a compliant, scalable, and elastic payment cryptography service, reducing the need for standalone HSMs and operational burden for your customers.

Adopt CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules to enhance operational workflows by enabling one-time or recurring rules that silence notifications, improving team efficiency and reducing alert fatigue during scheduled activities.

Adopt the new open weights models on Amazon Bedrock, utilizing Project Mantle's distributed inference engine to scale AI model serving with improved performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across enterprise workloads.

Integrate Athena's 1-minute reservations and 4 DPU minimum capacity into your serverless architecture to optimize resource usage and reduce costs for query-intensive workloads.

Integrate Collection Groups into OpenSearch Serverless deployments to enable shared compute resources, reduce OCU expenses, and maintain collection-level security, resulting in optimized resource utilization and cost savings.

Adopt the HealthOmics Kiro Power and IDE extension to provide your teams with advanced bioinformatics workflow development tools, improving productivity and enabling faster innovation in genomics research.

Integrate the autonomics feature into Amazon Redshift deployments to automate optimization processes, reducing operational toil and improving database performance through efficient resource utilization.

Adopt the expanded Neptune Analytics regions to enhance your platform's graph analytics capabilities, improving the accuracy and explainability of generative AI applications and reducing operational toil.

Migration assessments empower organizations to understand their on-premises infrastructure footprint and evaluate migration and modernization opportunities in the cloud. These assessments instill confidence in decision-makers and help organizations optimize their infrastructure, potentially reducing costs by up to 60% (Bain & Company, “Rightsizing your way to the cloud“).  AWS Transform assessments help eliminate the guesswork in the […]

Enterprises are under increasing pressure to optimize software licensing costs, maintain vendor compliance, and make data-driven renewal decisions while managing fragmented license data across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts and regions. Centralizing and governing this license data facilitates cost optimization, audit readiness, and strategic procurement planning. In this blog post, we’ll show you how […]

Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data using SQL. With Athena, there’s no infrastructure to manage, you simply submit queries and get results. Capacity Reservations is a feature of Athena that addresses the need to run critical workloads by providing dedicated serverless capacity for workloads you specify. In this post, we highlight three new capabilities that make Capacity Reservations more flexible and easier to manage: reduced minimums for f

Integrate the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B model into your AI infrastructure to enhance compute efficiency and accuracy for agentic tasks, reducing operational toil and accelerating development cycles.

Executive Summary Across every major software category, cloud-native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) leaders aren’t just competing—they’re redefining markets. McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook highlights that enterprise cloud adoption continues to accelerate, while traditional IT spending on on-premises systems steadily declines. Gartner forecasts that public cloud services will grow 21.3% in 2026, fueled by continued migration and modernization […]

Introduction In today’s mission-critical networks, distributed and edge computing plays a vital role in telecommunications, gaming, Edge AI processing, and autonomous vehicles. As distributed applications are deployed across multiple AWS Regions, Availability Zones (AZs), and Local Zones (LZs) to meet customer demands for ultra-low latency services, understanding each node’s performance becomes increasingly complex. Traditional monitoring […]

In the modern digital landscape, our lives are inescapably dominated by screens and browsers. From global product launches to flash sales and virtual concerts, events that once drew crowds to physical venues now drive millions of users to digital platforms simultaneously. The rapid rise of digital-first experiences has made the need to dynamically adjust content […]

Adopt the new multipart download support in the AWS SDK for.NET Transfer Manager to simplify architecture and reduce operational toil by automating multipart coordination and handling retries.

Adopt the new pricing improvements for AWS Network Firewall to simplify your network security architecture, reduce operational complexity, and lower costs as you protect more VPCs.

Adopt the enhanced RDS console experience to provide your teams with a more efficient and consolidated method for connecting to databases, reducing the need for manual configuration and scripting.

Adopt mTLS authentication to origins in Amazon CloudFront to integrate enhanced security measures, reduce implicit trust, and enforce least-privilege access, thereby improving the resilience and compliance of your application architecture.

Adopt the new MySQL minor versions 8.0.45 and 8.4.8 in your Amazon RDS deployments to integrate the latest security patches and performance improvements, reducing operational toil and enhancing platform stability.

Adopt the new OTP verification feature for voting in multi-party approval processes to strengthen security protocols and maintain operational integrity.

Adopt the latest versions of the SageMaker Python SDK (v3.2.0 and v2.256.0) to incorporate critical security patches addressing exposed HMAC keys and insecure TLS configurations, enhancing the overall security posture of machine learning deployments and reducing the risk of data breaches or unauthorized access.

Integrate browser profiles into your platform architecture to simplify session management, reduce setup time, and enhance the efficiency of automated browser operations across all supported AWS Regions.

Adopt Amazon ECS Managed Instances to streamline infrastructure management, leverage dynamic scaling and optimized task placement for cost efficiency, and enhance security posture with regular automated patching, ultimately reducing total cost of ownership and improving application performance.

Adopt the new CSV upload feature in Amazon Connect Cases to simplify the configuration of complex field relationships, reducing operational toil and improving configuration efficiency.

Integrate the new resource types into your AWS Config rules and aggregators to improve the discovery and management of your AWS resources, enhancing platform governance and operational efficiency.

Adopt the custom domain feature for WorkSpaces Secure Browser to provide a more integrated and secure browsing experience, enhancing user satisfaction and organizational branding.

Integrate the new Amazon ECR repository metrics into your platform monitoring tools to streamline container image management, reduce operational toil, and enhance overall platform efficiency.

Adopt the new Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f WorkSpaces bundles to provide your teams with advanced graphics and GPU-accelerated options, improving performance for graphic design, CAD/CAM, and ML model training workloads.

Adopt Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock to enhance your platform's AI capabilities, enabling more sophisticated reasoning and multi-step orchestration for your applications and services.

Integrate cross-account sharing of EC2 Capacity Blocks into your ML infrastructure strategy to enhance resource utilization and reduce costs across the organization.

Adopt the AWS Glue REST API connector to enhance data integration capabilities, reduce toil associated with custom connector management, and enable quicker adaptation to new data sources, resulting in improved platform efficiency and reduced operational costs.

Adopt U7i-6TB instances to scale transaction processing throughput and support mission-critical in-memory databases, leveraging 6TiB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs for enhanced performance.

Adopt I7ie instances in your architecture to benefit from their high local NVMe storage density and improved real-time storage performance, optimizing your platform for demanding workloads.

Adopt the Sign in with Apple integration within AWS Builder ID to simplify user authentication processes, reducing password management complexity and enhancing the overall user experience.

Adopt the new capability of AWS Batch to support unmanaged EKS compute environments, enabling more efficient batch processing for ML model training, simulations, and analysis, and reducing operational toil.

Adopt the Cartesia Sonic 3 model in your AI/ML architecture to provide users with high-quality, emotionally expressive, and low-latency text-to-speech capabilities, enhancing the overall user experience.

Adopt the new EKS Pod Identity integration with EKS add-ons to simplify IAM permissions management, reducing the complexity of managing Kubernetes applications and enhancing the overall platform efficiency in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Adopt Amazon Redshift's autonomics for multi-cluster environments to simplify architecture and reduce operational toil by enabling automatic optimization features across distributed workloads, improving overall platform performance and efficiency.

Adopt Apache Spark lineage in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio to provide enhanced data lineage capabilities, enabling better visibility into data transformations and schema changes, and improving overall data governance and operational efficiency.

Adopt G7e instances to integrate advanced AI and graphics processing into your platform, reducing latency and improving performance for multi-GPU workloads.

Adopt the new C8id, M8id, and R8id instances to enhance platform capabilities with increased performance, memory, and storage, driving significant improvements in application delivery and operational efficiency.

Adopt the new Array Job Status Summary feature to simplify architecture and reduce operational toil by providing comprehensive job status information in a single API call.

Adopt the localized billing capability for Professional Services in AWS EMEA to simplify payment processes, support SEPA payment methods, and provide consistent invoicing, ultimately improving the overall customer experience and driving platform adoption in the region.

Adopt the new account name display feature to enhance account governance and simplify account management across your AWS environments.

Adopt the new appeals workflow in Amazon Connect to improve the evaluation process, reducing disputes and enhancing agent satisfaction.

Adopt the new ambiguous location resolution feature in Amazon Quick Suite to improve the accuracy of geographical data visualizations, leading to more reliable insights and better decision-making for your organization.

Adopt the new NUMERIC index support in Aurora DSQL to improve the performance of database operations involving high-precision data.

Adopt the expanded Oracle Database@AWS services in the Canada Central and Sydney regions to provide customers with additional options for migrating and managing their Oracle databases within AWS, enhancing platform capabilities and customer satisfaction.

Adopt AWS Lake Formation in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region to integrate advanced data governance features into your platform, simplifying architecture and reducing operational toil through centralized data access management.

Adopt DynamoDB's cross-account replication to simplify architecture, reduce operational toil, and enable better security and governance controls across multiple AWS accounts and Regions.

Integrate the new AI models into your platform to offer customers advanced document processing, multilingual coding automation, and enhanced multimodal reasoning capabilities, driving platform differentiation and value.

Adopt the new Amazon Connect APIs to enhance your contact center's testing capabilities, allowing for programmatic configuration of test scenarios and integration with existing CI/CD tools, which will lead to more robust and reliable customer interactions.

Integrate Flexible Cost Allocation into your centralized firewall architecture to simplify cost management, reduce operational toil, and align security costs with business units, leading to improved platform efficiency.

Adopt the JPEG XL support in AWS HealthImaging to integrate with digital pathology systems and other applications requiring JPEG XL encoded DICOM data, enhancing platform capabilities and reducing storage costs.

Adopt the NVIDIA NIMs models available on SageMaker JumpStart to simplify the architecture of your AI pipelines, reducing operational toil and enabling faster deployment of cutting-edge biosciences and physical AI applications.

Adopt the new memory-optimized instance bundles in Amazon Lightsail to provide your teams with the resources needed for high-memory workloads, enhancing the platform's capability to support diverse application needs.

Business applications often coordinate multiple steps that need to run reliably or wait for extended periods, such as customer onboarding, payment processing, or orchestrating large language model inference. These critical processes require completion despite temporary disruptions or system failures. Developers currently spend significant time implementing mechanisms to track progress, handle failures, and manage resources when […]

As organizations scale globally, balancing user experience with operational costs becomes increasingly complex. Integrating Amazon CloudFront with Application Load Balancer (ALB) addresses this challenge by reducing latency by serving content from over 750 edge locations worldwide and maintaining persistent TCP connections between CloudFront and ALB origins while reducing Data Transfer Out (DTO) expenses through the […]

Adopt and scale the use of generative AI solutions like Amazon Kendra and Amazon Bedrock to enhance citizen services, focusing on clean, well-structured data and regular technical collaboration to ensure successful implementation and expansion.

As organizations scale their AWS environments, managing infrastructure consistently while enabling team autonomy becomes increasingly challenging. Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) and AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) both extend AWS Control Tower to help customers manage AWS environments at scale, offering complementary strengths. Many AWS customers struggle to balance centralized security governance with […]

Old Dominion University (ODU), in collaboration with Iowa State University, the longtime home of GAMESS development, and with support from Amazon Web Services (AWS), built CPU- and GPU-optimized GAMESS containers and began deploying them on AWS High-Performance Computing (HPC) services. Their work offers a practical roadmap for other institutions looking to bring legacy HPC applications into a modern, cloud-native environment.

In this blog post, I will demonstrate a pattern to modernize your existing application by adding agentic AI capability to it without touching the source code of your legacy application. I will do that by offloading the heavy lifting of this transformation to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Kiro powers. For the purposes of this […]

Adopt the new C8id, M8id, and R8id instances to enhance your platform's compute and storage capabilities, enabling better performance for I/O intensive workloads and reducing operational toil.

For COOs, generative AI isn't just another technology—it's a fundamental shift in how you lead and execute. The integration of Domo's agentic AI with Amazon Bedrock transforms operational workflows from reactive to predictive, automating decisions while surfacing insights that drive measurable outcomes. By embracing this framework, you're positioning your organization to lead with data-driven confidence and sustainable competitive advantage.

Educational technology (EdTech) providers face the challenge of maintaining seamless, personalized communication and presenting the right recommendations to their diverse stakeholders. This post explores how combining Amazon Web Services (AWS) End User Messaging and WhatsApp Business API with the advanced AI capabilities of Amazon Bedrock can transform educational engagement.

Adopt IAM Identity Center's multi-Region replication to enable deployment of AWS managed applications in preferred Regions, ensuring optimal performance and reliability for workforce identities and applications.

This blog post was co-authored by Erik Peña, Multi-DRM Product Manager at DoveRunner Viewers, content owners and over-the-top (OTT) services face a significant challenge: balancing content accessibility with strong security measures, particularly digital rights management (DRM), to protect against unauthorized streaming. This is a top concern for the media industry, as the U.S. Chamber of […]

Today is Groundhog Day, and just as Punxsutawney Phil emerges to forecast the season ahead, industry analysts and enterprise leaders are stepping forward with their predictions for customer experience (CX). Shadows or not, the real question is whether organizations will finally step into the spring of artificial intelligence (AI). As we move into 2026, the […]

Securonix, a six-time Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for SIEM, processes more than 78 million security events per second to help organizations reduce cybersecurity threats in near real time. Facing rising data volumes and an increasingly complex threat landscape, the company partnered with AWS Enterprise Support to modernize its infrastructure, migrating Spark processing workloads to Amazon EKS across 40+ clusters executing over 10,000 concurrent jobs. The transformation delivered impressive resu

Introduction Every customer interaction leaves digital traces that reveal preferences and needs. While businesses collect vast amounts of customer data, most struggle to move beyond basic personalization to understand the ‘why’ behind customer behavior. The key challenge isn’t gathering data—it’s converting these signals into real-time, actionable insights. Whether in retail, airlines, telecom, or entertainment, companies […]

Adopt origin mutual TLS support in CloudFront to integrate standardized, certificate-based authentication, reducing toil and enhancing security across backend infrastructure.

Healthcare organizations face pressure to innovate rapidly while managing rising costs, addressing workforce shortages, and navigating complex regulatory requirements. At the same time, they must modernize legacy systems, improve patient outcomes, and enhance operational efficiency—all while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance. The traditional procurement process for healthcare technology has been a significant barrier to innovation. Lengthy contract negotiations, comple

Adopt the new OIDC claim validation capability to simplify your architecture by leveraging custom claims as condition keys in IAM role trust policies and resource control policies, reducing operational toil and improving security.

Adopt the Microsoft Workloads Lens to integrate Microsoft-specific best practices into your AWS architecture, reducing operational toil and improving the efficiency and reliability of your Microsoft workloads.