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Author: Esra Kayabali
Esra Kayabali is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, specialising in analytics, including data warehousing, data lakes, big data analytics, batch and real-time data streaming, and data integration. She has more than ten years of software development and solution architecture experience. She is passionate about collaborative learning, knowledge sharing, and guiding community in their cloud technologies journey.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3 turns 20, Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver general availability, and more (March 16, 2026)
Twenty years ago this past week, Amazon S3 launched publicly on March 14, 2006. While Amazon Simple Storage Service is often considered the foundational storage service that defined cloud infrastructure, what began as a simple object storage service has grown into something far larger in scope and scale. As of March 2026, S3 stores more […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)
I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every few months there’s a new instance type landing that pushes performance boundaries further. As of […]
New AWS Security Agent secures applications proactively from design to deployment (preview)
Scale your AppSec expertise with AI-powered design reviews, code analysis, and contextual penetration testing that understand your unique security requirements and application architecture.
AWS Security Hub now generally available with near real-time analytics and risk prioritization
Today, AWS Security Hub is generally available, transforming how security teams identify and respond to critical security risks across their AWS environments. These new capabilities were first announced in preview at AWS re:Inforce 2025. Security Hub prioritizes your critical security issues and unifies your security operations to help you respond at scale by correlating and […]
Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview)
Simplify hybrid DNS management with a unified service that resolves public and private domains globally through secure, anycast-based resolution while reducing operational overhead and maintaining consistent security controls.
AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI partnership, Jane Goodall Institute research archive, and more (November 10, 2025)
AWS re:Invent 2025 is only 3 weeks away and I’m already looking forward to the new launches and announcements at the conference. Last year brought 60,000 attendees from across the globe to Las Vegas, Nevada, and the atmosphere was amazing. Registration is still open for AWS re:Invent 2025. We hope you’ll join us in Las Vegas […]
Monitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage from a single interface with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager
Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager is a new centralized solution that consolidates capacity monitoring and management across all AWS accounts and regions, eliminating operational overhead and providing optimization opportunities for EC2 infrastructure at scale.
Announcing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic teammate for answering questions and taking action
Amazon has announced Quick Suite, a new AI-powered workspace that combines research, business intelligence, and automation tools to help users analyze data and streamline workflows all in one place.