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Author: Micah Walter
Micah Walter is a Sr. Solutions Architect supporting enterprise customers in the New York City region and beyond. He advises executives, engineers, and architects at every step along their journey to the cloud, with a deep focus on sustainability and practical design. In his free time, Micah enjoys the outdoors, photography, and chasing his kids around the house.
AWS Clean Rooms launches privacy-enhancing synthetic dataset generation for ML model training
Train ML models on sensitive collaborative data by generating synthetic datasets that preserve statistical patterns while protecting individual privacy through configurable noise levels and protection against re-identification.
Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility
Run Lambda functions on EC2 compute while maintaining serverless simplicity—enabling access to specialized hardware and cost optimizations through EC2 pricing models, with AWS handling all infrastructure management.
Simplify IAM policy creation with IAM Policy Autopilot, a new open source MCP server for builders
Speed up AWS development with an open source tool that analyzes your code to generate valid IAM policies, providing AI coding assistants with up-to-date AWS service knowledge and reliable permission recommendations.
Amazon Route 53 launches Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records
Amazon Route 53 now offers Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records, a new business continuity feature designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. This enhancement enables customers to continue making critical DNS changes and provisioning infrastructure even during regional outages, ensuring greater resilience for mission-critical applications.
AWS Lambda enhances event processing with provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping
AWS Lambda’s new provisioned mode for Amazon SQS event source mapping offers dedicated polling resources that provide 3x faster scaling and 10x higher concurrency, enabling lower latency processing, better handling of traffic spikes, and greater control over event processing resources.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS RTB Fabric, Carbon Footprint Tool for Scope 3, AWS Secret-West Region, and more (October 27, 2025)
This week started with challenges for many using services in the the North Virginia (us-east-1) Region. On Monday, we experienced a service disruption affecting DynamoDB and several other services due to a DNS configuration problem. The issue has been fully resolved, and you can read the full details in our official summary. As someone who […]
Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications
Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced security and observability configurations.
Announcing AWS Outposts third-party storage integration with Dell and HPE
AWS Outposts is now integrated with Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra MP B10000 systems, enabling customers to seamlessly use their on-premises external storage infrastructure with AWS services while maintaining data residency requirements.