AWS Open Source Blog
Category: Best Practices
Building intelligent physical AI: From edge to cloud with Strands Agents, Bedrock AgentCore, Claude 4.5, NVIDIA GR00T, and Hugging Face LeRobot
Agentic AI systems are rapidly expanding beyond the digital world and into the physical, where AI agents perceive, reason, and act in real environments. As AI systems increasingly interact with the physical world through robotics, autonomous vehicles, and smart infrastructure, a fundamental question emerges: how do we build agents that leverage massive cloud compute for […]
Video Encoding on Graviton in 2025
In 2022, we published a post describing the advantages of running video encoding workloads on AWS Graviton processors. Since that time, AWS launched Graviton4 powered C8g instances which offer up to 30% better performance than Graviton3. On video encoding workloads, Graviton4 performs 12-15% better than Graviton3, depending on the encoder, as shown in the following […]
Build More Sustainable AWS Workloads with the Sustainability Scanner
Sustainability Scanner is an open source tool designed to help customers create a more sustainable infrastructure on AWS by evaluating your infrastructure as code against a set of sustainability best practices and suggested improvements to apply to your code.
Deep PostgreSQL Thoughts: Valuing Currency
PostgreSQL currency buys you fewer bugs, higher security, and comes with relatively low risks.
Enhancing Network Resilience with Istio on Amazon EKS
Explore how Istio on Amazon EKS can enhance network resilience for microservices.
Accelerate your Application Modernization to Amazon EKS with Konveyor
Get at introduction to Konveyor, an open source tool that you can use in your modernization projects on Kubernetes.
Two New Open Source Rust Crates Create Easier Cedar Policy Management
Developers using the Cedar SDK can use two new open source Rust crates, cedar-local-agent and avp-local-agent, to reduce their development burden and ease policy management tasks.
How Open Source Projects are Using Kani to Write Better Software in Rust
AWS open source project Kani is succeeding in changing the perception, effectiveness, and usability of verification tools that were previously thought to be cumbersome or beyond reach.
Behind the Scenes on AWS Contributions to Cloud Native Open Source Projects
In the past year alone, AWS contributed significantly to containerd, Cortex, etcd, Fluentd, nerdctl, Notary, OpenTelemetry, Thanos, and Tinkerbell.
Right-size your Kubernetes Applications Using Open Source Goldilocks for Cost Optimization
Learn how to optimize resource allocation and right-size applications in Kubernetes environments to reduce costs using open source Goldilocks.









