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Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 4: Inter-Agent Communication on A2A

Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 4: Inter-Agent Communication on A2A

Welcome to Part 4 of our blog series on Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability where we will cover the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, AWS’ involvement with the Linux Foundation-based open standard, and our support of A2A in the Strands Agents SDK. Here is what we’ve covered so far: Part 1: How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) […]

Powering AI-Driven Security with the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework

Powering AI-Driven Security with the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework

As organizations continue to innovate and scale their operations, security teams face a fundamental challenge: the lack of a common language for security data across diverse tools and services. This fragmentation makes it increasingly difficult to efficiently process and analyze vast amounts of security data, limiting threat detection and response capabilities. This is where the […]

Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 3: Strands Agents & MCP

Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 3: Strands Agents & MCP

Developers are architecting and building systems of AI agents that work together to autonomously accomplish users’ tasks. In Part 1 of our blog series on Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability we covered how Model Context Protocol (MCP) can be used to facilitate inter-agent communication and the MCP specification enhancements AWS is working on to enable […]

Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 2: Authentication on MCP

Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 2: Authentication on MCP

In Part 1 of our blog series on Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability we covered how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) can be used to facilitate inter-agent communication and the MCP specification enhancements AWS is working on to enable that. In Part 2 of this blog series we dive deep into authentication in the latest […]

Accelerate Microservices Development with DAPR and Amazon EKS

Microservices and containers are revolutionizing how modern applications are built, deployed, and managed in the cloud. However, developing and operating microservices can introduce significant complexity, often requiring developers to spend valuable time on cross-cutting concerns like service discovery, state management, and observability. Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) is an open source runtime for building microservices on […]

Modernizing Snowflake Corporate's Kubernetes Infrastructure with Bottlerocket and Karpenter

Modernizing Snowflake Corporate’s Kubernetes Infrastructure with Bottlerocket and Karpenter

Snowflake Corporate IT Cloud Operations reached a critical juncture in its cloud infrastructure evolution. Managing large-scale containerized workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) demanded a modern, secure, and efficient operating system. The existing setup, running on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2), was functional but presented several challenges. Security hardening required frequent updates and patching, […]

Introducing Qonto’s Prometheus RDS Exporter to Enhance Amazon RDS Monitoring

Introducing Qonto’s Prometheus RDS Exporter – An Open Source Solution to Enhance Monitoring Amazon RDS

Databases are a critical part of most applications and essential to business continuity. To ensure performance, availability, and scalability, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) administrators typically monitor various metrics, such as the usage of CPU, RAM, IOPS, storage, or service quotas. Today, these metrics are found in several AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch […]

Improving API performance at Sonar with Lambda SnapStart and Micronaut

Improving API performance at Sonar with Lambda SnapStart and Micronaut

SonarQube Cloud is a software as a service (SaaS) solution developed by Sonar that provides a comprehensive code analysis platform. It uses advanced static analysis techniques to automatically find and fix code quality issues, security vulnerabilities, and technical debt. They provide support for over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure as code (IaC) platforms. Sonar […]

Achieving Zero Trust Security on Amazon EKS with Istio

Achieving Zero Trust Security on Amazon EKS with Istio

This is the fourth blog post of our “Istio on EKS” series. In this blog post, we’ll explore how Istio, a powerful service mesh, enables organizations to implement a zero trust security model on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). We will start by understanding how Istio implements peer authentication between microservices by Mutual Transport […]