Ten years ago, we announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora, a database that combined the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open

Continue ReadingCelebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation

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

Continue ReadingMeet our newest AWS Heroes — August 2025

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,

Continue ReadingAWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI models, Automated Reasoning checks, Amazon EVS, and more (August 11, 2025)

Today, I’m happy to share that Automated Reasoning checks, a new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy that we previewed during AWS re:Invent, is now generally available. Automated Reasoning checks helps you

Continue ReadingMinimize AI hallucinations and deliver up to 99% verification accuracy with Automated Reasoning checks: Now available

AWS is committed to bringing you the most advanced foundation models (FMs) in the industry, continuously expanding our selection to include groundbreaking models from leading AI innovators so that you

Continue ReadingOpenAI open weight models now available on AWS

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), a new AWS service that lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments directly within your Amazon

Continue ReadingIntroducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS

As a developer advocate at AWS, I’ve worked with many enterprise organizations who operate critical applications across multiple AWS Regions. A key concern they often share is the lack of

Continue ReadingIntroducing Amazon Application Recovery Controller Region switch: A multi-Region application recovery service

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon DocumentDB Serverless, a new configuration for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) that automatically scales compute and memory based on your application’s demand.

Continue ReadingAmazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available