Three weeks ago, I published a post about the new AWS Region in New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). This led to an incredible opportunity to visit New Zealand, where I met passionate

Continue ReadingAWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Developer, AWS Step Functions, AWS Cloud Club Captain deadline, and more (September 22, 2025)

In March, Amazon Web Services (AWS) became the first cloud service provider to deliver DeepSeek-R1 in a serverless way by launching it as a fully managed, generally available model in

Continue ReadingDeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock

A month ago, I shared that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS), with Gartner naming AWS

Continue ReadingAWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management

Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview

Continue ReadingAWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025)

As someone who has been using macOS since 2001 and Amazon EC2 Mac instances since their launch 4 years ago, I’ve helped numerous customers scale their continuous integration and delivery

Continue ReadingAnnouncing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances

Today, we’re announcing LocalStack integration in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement

Continue ReadingAccelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE

Summer has drawn to a close here in Utrecht, where I live in the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Community Day 2025, hosted at the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs

Continue ReadingAWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform, Amazon Neptune, and more (September 8, 2025)

Kia ora! Today, I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-6. With the new Region,

Continue ReadingNow Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

My LinkedIn feed was absolutely packed this week with pictures from the AWS Heroes Summit event in Seattle. It was heartwarming to see so many familiar faces and new Heroes

Continue ReadingAWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2, Amazon Q Developer, IPv6 updates, and more (September 1, 2025)