Category: Storage

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now lets you directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in your data lake alongside live operational data—no ETL pipelines required. Powered by DuckDB embedded within Aurora, this capability enables single queries that join transactional and historical data using familiar PostgreSQL syntax. It supports AWS Glue Data Catalog, S3, and S3 Tables, with optimizations like predicate pushdown and caching for efficient performance.

There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are dropping, and it’s nearly sweater weather. The city is back at full speed, and so is the AWS launch calendar. This week that energy showed up in a new frontier model on Amazon Bedrock, a desktop app for Amazon […]

AWS introduces Amazon EBS Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.

Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City office, his first real rush hour train ride, and spent the day exploring how Amazon uses AI, machine learning, and robotics to deliver packages to […]

Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup groups organized by topic and area that collectively host over 100 events each year, primarily in Seoul. My team regularly visits countries across the Asia-Pacific region, listens to feedback […]

Last week AWS Summit New York City brought together thousands of customers, partners, and builders for a free, one-day event showcasing the latest in cloud and AI innovation. Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS unveiled a stack of AI launches in his keynote, all built around one thesis: agents that compound value […]

A recap of the top announcements from AWS’s New York Summit 2026

Amazon S3 now lets you attach up to 1 GB of rich, mutable, and queryable context directly to your objects using annotations, purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows that need to discover, understand, and act on data at scale without maintaining separate metadata systems.