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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 Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025)
I’ve always been fascinated by how quickly we’re able to stand up new Regions and Availability Zones at AWS. Today there are 36 launched Regions and 114 launched Availability Zones. That’s amazing! This past week at AWS was marked by significant expansion to our global infrastructure. The announcement of a new Region in the works […]
Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks with breakthrough performance and scalability on-premises
AWS announces significant upgrades to Outposts racks, featuring the latest x86-powered EC2 instances and new accelerated networking options designed for ultra-low latency and high-throughput on-premises workloads.
Enhance real-time applications with AWS AppSync Events data source integrations
Developers can connect Lambda functions, DynamoDB tables, and other resources to create sophisticated real-time applications with features like data transformation, persistent storage, and validation.
New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage
AWS introduces new EC2 instance families (C8gd, M8gd, R8gd) powered by Graviton4 processors with NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 30% better performance, 3x more vCPUs and memory, and up to 11.4TB local storage compared to Graviton3-based predecessors.