There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are dropping, and it’s nearly sweater weather. The city is back at full speed, and

Continue ReadingAWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick desktop GA, Kiro for students, and more (September 14, 2026)

Last year, we introduced Volume Clones of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a new capability that lets you create instant point-in-time copies of your EBS volumes within the same

Continue ReadingIntroducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones across AWS accounts

Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable

Continue ReadingAWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open

Continue ReadingAWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

Twenty years ago today, Jeff Barr wrote a blog post that launched the Amazon EC2 Beta. That single post introduced resizable Linux virtual servers in the cloud, billed by the

Continue ReadingHappy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2

During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across the region, and watching the potential

Continue ReadingAWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026)

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Glue 6.0, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions and introducing full support for Apache Iceberg v3 features. AWS

Continue ReadingAWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support

In the early days of cloud computing, AWS supported intensive learning for builders in a physical space called the AWS Pop-up Lofts in cities worldwide. These spaces were accessible to

Continue ReadingIn the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo

Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the

Continue ReadingAWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)