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Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation

A decade of AWS innovation: Amazon ECS evolved from simplifying container orchestration to powering massive operations like Prime Day and enabling customers like SmugMug to seamlessly migrate petabytes of data and scale efficiently with “blazingly-fast” performance.

AWS named as a Leader in 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for thirteenth year in a row

On December 4, 2023, AWS was named as a Leader in the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS). AWS is the longest-running Magic Quadrant Leader, with Gartner naming AWS a Leader for the thirteenth consecutive year. AWS is placed highest on the Ability to Execute axis. SCPS, previously known as Magic Quadrant […]

Happy anniversary, Amazon CloudFront: 15 years of evolution and internet advancements

I can’t believe it’s been 15 years since Amazon CloudFront was launched! When Amazon S3 became available in 2006, developers loved the flexibility and started to build a new kind of globally distributed applications where storage was not a bottleneck. These applications needed to be performant, reliable, and cost-efficient for every user on the planet. […]

How to Connect Business and Technology to Embrace Strategic Thinking (Book Review)

Book Review The Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud by David Anderson with Mark McCann and Michael O’Reilly Recently, a new book came to my attention that explores the intersection of business, technology, and people. This is a great read for anyone who wants to understand how […]

AWS Named as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS) Magic Quadrant for the 12th Consecutive Year

This year, and for the twelfth consecutive year, AWS has been named as a Leader in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS). Per Gartner, AWS is the longest-running CIPS Magic Quadrant Leader. AWS was among the first cloud providers when we launched Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon […]

Scaling Ad Verification with Machine Learning and AWS Inferentia

Amazon Advertising helps companies build their brand and connect with shoppers, through ads shown both within and beyond Amazon’s store, including websites, apps, and streaming TV content in more than 15 countries. Businesses or brands of all sizes including registered sellers, vendors, book vendors, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors, app developers, and agencies on Amazon […]