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Author: Donnie Prakoso
Donnie Prakoso is a software engineer, self-proclaimed barista, and Principal Developer Advocate at AWS. With more than 17 years of experience in the technology industry, from telecommunications, banking to startups. He is now focusing on helping the developers to understand varieties of technology to transform their ideas into execution. He loves coffee and any discussion of any topics from microservices to AI / ML.
Accelerate AI agent development with the Nova Act IDE extension
The Nova Act extension is a new IDE-integrated tool that enables developers to create browser automation agents using natural language through the Nova Act model, offering features like Builder Mode, chat capabilities, and predefined templates while streamlining the development process without leaving their preferred development environment.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Developer, AWS Step Functions, AWS Cloud Club Captain deadline, and more (September 22, 2025)
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 builders and presented at several events including Serverless and Platform Engineering meetup, AWS Tools and Programming meetup, AWS Cloud Clubs in Auckland, and AWS Community […]
Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
AWS has launched its first New Zealand Region with three Availability Zones, marking its 16th Region in Asia Pacific and enabling local data residency for New Zealand organizations.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro, AWS Lambda remote debugging, Amazon ECS blue/green deployments, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and more (July 21, 2025)
I’m writing this as I depart from Ho Chi Minh City back to Singapore. Just realized what a week it’s been, so let me rewind a bit. This week, I tried my first Corne keyboard, wrapped up rehearsals for AWS Summit Jakarta with speakers who are absolutely raising the bar, and visited Vietnam to participate […]
Accelerate safe software releases with new built-in blue/green deployments in Amazon ECS
Perform safer container application deployments without custom deployment tooling, enabling you to ship software updates more frequently with near-instantaneous rollback capability.
Streamline the path from data to insights with new Amazon SageMaker Catalog capabilities
Amazon SageMaker has introduced three new capabilities—Amazon QuickSight integration for dashboard creation, governance, and sharing, Amazon S3 Unstructured Data Integration for cataloging documents and media files, and automatic data onboarding from Lakehouse—that eliminate data silos by unifying structured and unstructured data management, visualization, and governance in a single experience.
Monitor and debug event-driven applications with new Amazon EventBridge logging
Amazon EventBridge now supports enhanced logging capabilities that enable you to easily monitor and debug your event-driven applications on AWS. Enhanced logging provides complete event lifecycle tracking with detailed logs that show when events are published, matched against rules, delivered to subscribers, or encounter failures.
Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables
Amazon DynamoDB now offers multi-Region strong consistency capability for global tables, providing the highest level of application resilience and enabling your applications to be always available.