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Esra Kayabali

Author: Esra Kayabali

Esra Kayabali is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, specializing 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 WAF adds AI traffic monetization capability to help content owners charge AI bots for content access

AWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that enables content providers and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. AWS WAF now lets you set a price for that access, accept payment through third-party providers, and grant scoped access directly at the edge.

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS FinOps Agent in preview, Gemma 4 on Bedrock, Kiro Pro Max, and more (June 15, 2026)

This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to see them go live this week. I just won’t be […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s Next with AWS 2026, Amazon Quick, OpenAI partnership, and more (May 4, 2026)

Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood for nearly a thousand years, walked along medieval walls, and spent an evening on a ghost tour hearing stories passed down through centuries. There’s something […]

AWS Weekly Roundup

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 […]

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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 […]