Category: Management Tools

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 […]

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager is a new centralized solution that consolidates capacity monitoring and management across all AWS accounts and regions, eliminating operational overhead and providing optimization opportunities for EC2 infrastructure at scale.

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 […]

Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems in a few lines of code. We’ve continuously improved features including support […]

To be honest, I’m still recovering from the AWS Summit in New York, doing my best to level up on launches like Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Preview) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Vectors. There’s a lot of new stuff to learn! Meanwhile, it’s been an exciting week for AWS builders focused on reliability and observability. […]

Amazon EventBridge now supports enhanced logging capabilities that enable you to easily monitor and debug your event-driven applications on AWS. Enhanced logging provides complete event lifecycle tracking with detailed logs that show when events are published, matched against rules, delivered to subscribers, or encounter failures.

Summer is well and truly here in the UK! I’m a bit of a summer grinch though so, unlike most people, I’m not crazy about “the glorious sun” scorching me when I’m out and about. On the upside, this provides the perfect excuse to retreat to the comfort of a well-ventilated room where I can […]

Every time I visit Seattle, the first thing that greets me at the airport is Mount Rainier. Did you know that the most innovative project at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named after this mountain? Project Rainier is a new project to create what is expected to be the world’s most powerful computer for training […]