AWS News Blog
Category: Compute
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EKS, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon API Gateway, and more (April 7, 2025)
AWS Summit season starts this week! These free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q CLI agent, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, and more (March 10, 2025)
As the weather improves in the Northern hemisphere, there are more opportunities to learn and connect. This week, I’ll be in San Francisco, and we can meet at the Nova Networking Night at the AWS GenAI Loft where we’ll dive into the world of Amazon Nova foundation models (FMs) with live demos and real-world implementations. […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Cloud Club Captain Applications, Formula 1®, Amazon Nova Prompt Engineering, and more (Feb 24, 2025)
AWS Developer Day 2025, held on February 20th, showcased how to integrate responsible generative AI into development workflows. The event featured keynotes from AWS leaders including Srini Iragavarapu, Director Generative AI Applications and Developer Experiences, Jeff Barr, Vice President of AWS Evangelism, David Nalley, Director Open Source Marketing of AWS, along with AWS Heroes and technical […]
AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available
AWS CloudTrail now offers network activity events for VPC endpoint logging, enabling comprehensive monitoring and recording of AWS API activity through VPC endpoints to enhance security visibility, detect unauthorized access, and prevent data exfiltration without requiring custom TLS traffic inspection solutions.
AWS CodeBuild for macOS adds support for Fastlane
AWS CodeBuild now includes pre-installed Fastlane in macOS environments, streamlining mobile app development by providing built-in access to automated tools for code signing, testing, and app distribution, without manual setup requirements.
AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024)
Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Hero and 4 AWS Community Builders who shared […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Mexico (Central) Region, simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts, and more (January 20, 2025)
As winter maintains its hold over where I live in the Netherlands, rare moments of sunlight become precious gifts. This weekend offered one such treasure—while cycling along a quiet canal, golden rays broke through the typically gray Dutch sky, creating a perfect moment of serenity. These glimpses of brightness feel particularly special during January, when […]
New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databases
Leverage 1920 vCPUs and 32TB memory with high-performance U7inh instances from AWS, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors; seamlessly migrate SAP HANA and other mission-critical workloads while benefiting from cloud scalability and cost savings.