Category: Amazon Machine Learning

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 […]

Amazon Web Services announces Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, featuring advanced capabilities in coding, tool handling, and long-horizon tasks, with improvements in memory management, context processing, and industry-specific applications across finance, research, and cybersecurity sectors.

The Nova Act extension is a new IDE-integrated tool that enables developers to create browser automation agents using natural language through the Nova Act model, offering features like Builder Mode, chat capabilities, and predefined templates while streamlining the development process without leaving their preferred development environment.

Three weeks ago, I published a post about the new AWS Region in New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). This led to an incredible opportunity to visit New Zealand, where I met passionate builders and presented at several events including Serverless and Platform Engineering meetup, AWS Tools and Programming meetup, AWS Cloud Clubs in Auckland, and AWS Community […]

Amazon Bedrock has expanded its model offerings with the addition of Qwen 3 foundation models enabling users to access and deploy them in a fully managed, serverless environment. These models feature both mixture-of-experts (MoE) and dense architectures to support diverse use cases including advanced code generation, multi-tool business automation, and cost-optimized AI reasoning.

AWS launches DeepSeek-V3.1 as a fully managed models in Amazon Bedrock. DeepSeek-V3.1 is a hybrid open weight model that switches between thinking mode for detailed step-by-step analysis and non-thinking mode for faster responses.

Summer has drawn to a close here in Utrecht, where I live in the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Community Day 2025, hosted at the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht on September 24. The single-day event will bring together over 500 cloud practitioners from across the Netherlands, featuring 25 breakout sessions across five technical […]

As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database technology has evolved over the past decade. It’s fascinating to see how architectural decisions made years ago continue to shape the way we build modern applications. This week brings a special milestone that perfectly captures this evolution in cloud […]