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Category: Compute
AWS Weekly Roundup: re:Inforce re:Cap, Valkey GLIDE 2.0, Avro and Protobuf or MCP Servers on Lambda, and more (June 23, 2025)
Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were announced, including enhanced IAM Access Analyzer capabilities, MFA enforcement for root users, and threat […]
Amazon GuardDuty expands Extended Threat Detection coverage to Amazon EKS clusters
Expanded Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection for EKS clusters uses proprietary correlation algorithms to identify sophisticated multi-stage attack sequences across Kubernetes audit logs, container runtime behaviors, and AWS API activities through a new critical severity finding type: AttackSequence:EKS/CompromisedCluster.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Inforce 2025, AWS WAF, AWS Control Tower, and more (June 16, 2025)
Today marks the start of AWS re:Inforce 2025, where security professionals are gathering for three days of technical learning sessions, workshops, and demonstrations. This security-focused conference brings together AWS security specialists who build and maintain the services that organizations rely on for their cloud security needs. AWS Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Amy Herzog will […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Heroes, Amazon Q Developer, EC2 GPU price reduction, and more (June 9, 2025)
The AWS Heroes program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community. Heroes go above and beyond to share knowledge in a variety of ways in developer community. We introduce our newest AWS Heroes in the second quarter of 2025. To find and connect […]
Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances
AWS announces significant price reductions of up to 45 percent for NVIDIA GPU-accelerated EC2 instances, increasing accessibility to these high-demand resources for generative AI workloads amid industry-wide GPU shortages.
Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server
AWS introduces specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Amazon ECS, EKS, Finch and AWS Serverless, providing real-time contextual responses and service-specific guidance to guide AI assisted application development.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, EKS Dashboard, community events, and more (May 26, 2025)
As the tech community we continue to have many opportunities to learn and network with other like-minded folks. This past week AWS customers attended the AWS Summit Dubai for an action-packed day featuring live demos, hands-on experiences with cutting-edge AI/ML tools, and more. Right here in South Africa I attended the Data & AI Community […]
Centralize visibility of Kubernetes clusters across AWS Regions and accounts with EKS Dashboard
EKS Dashboard provides cloud architects and cluster administrators with a centralized view to monitor and govern Kubernetes clusters across multiple AWS Regions and accounts, offering insights into clusters, managed node groups, and EKS add-ons through a unified interface in the AWS Console.