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Author: Prasad Rao
Prasad Rao is a Principal Partner Solutions Architect at AWS based in the UK. His focus areas are migrating and modernizing workloads on AWS. He leverages his experience to help AWS Partners across EMEA with their long-term technical enablement to build scalable architectures on AWS. He also mentors diverse people who are new to cloud and would like to get started on AWS.
Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 10,000 AIdeas Competition, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS Managed Instances and more (January 5, 2026)
Happy New Year! I hope the holidays gave you time to recharge and spend time with your loved ones. Like every year, I took a few weeks off after AWS re:Invent to rest and plan ahead. I used some of that downtime to plan the next cohort for Become a Solutions Architect (BeSA). BeSA is […]
AWS Transform announces full-stack Windows modernization capabilities
Modernize complete Windows applications up to five times faster with coordinated AI-powered transformation across application code, UI frameworks, databases, and deployment configurations.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, ECS Managed Instances, Builder ID updates, and more (October 6, 2025)
Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Single GPU P5 instances, Advanced Go Driver, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and more (August 18, 2025)
Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA (Become a Solutions Architect) cohort. BeSA is a free mentoring program that I host along with a few other AWS employees on a volunteer basis to help people excel in their cloud careers. Last week, the instructors’ lineup was […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora DSQL, MCP Servers, Amazon FSx, AI on EKS, and more (June 2, 2025)
It’s AWS Summit Season! AWS Summits are free in-person events that take place across the globe in major cities, bringing cloud expertise to local communities. Each AWS Summit features keynote presentations highlighting the latest innovations, technical sessions, live demos, and interactive workshops led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts. Last week, events took place at […]
AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale
Accelerate .NET modernization with agentic AI. AWS Transform for .NET speeds up large-scale modernization from .NET Framework to cross-platform .NET by up to 4x. With the .NET modernization agent, modernization teams can collaboratively execute larger and more complex projects with consistency, remove Windows license dependencies to reduce operating costs by up to 40%, and enhance code quality, performance, and security.
Detailed geographic information for all AWS Regions and Availability Zones is now available
AWS is expanding its global infrastructure, now providing increased transparency about the specific geographic locations of its 114 Availability Zones across 36 regions to help customers meet regulatory requirements and make informed deployment decisions.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Pi Day, Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration, Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon S3 Tables, and more (March 17, 2025)
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the fifth annual AWS Pi Day on March 14. Since its inception in 2021, commemorating the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 15th anniversary, AWS Pi Day has grown into a flagship event highlighting the transformative power of cloud technologies in data management, analytics, and AI. This year’s […]