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AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)

Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a technical community […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS, Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, AWS service availability updates, and more (July 6, 2026)

A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few days with the AWS Startups team, listening to stories of founders talking about the problems they’re actually solving. One story that stayed with me came […]

Introducing Amazon Nova Forge: Build your own frontier models using Nova

New program gives organizations unprecedented access to Nova model training, enabling them to build custom frontier models that deeply embed domain expertise without the traditional barriers of cost, compute, and time.

AWS services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones

Amazon Prime Day 2025 achieved record-breaking sales with enhanced AI shopping features, while AWS infrastructure handled unprecedented volumes of data—including 1.7 trillion Lambda invocations per day, DynamoDB peaking at 151 million requests per second, and a 77% increase in Fargate container tasks—showcasing the massive scalability required to power the four-day shopping event.

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup: Single GPU P5 instances, Advanced Go Driver, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and more (August 18, 2025)

Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA (Become a Solutions Architect) cohort. BeSA is a free mentoring program that I host along with a few other AWS employees on a volunteer basis to help people excel in their cloud careers. Last week, the instructors’ lineup was […]

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AWS AI League: Learn, innovate, and compete in our new ultimate AI showdown

AWS AI league is a program that helps organizations upskill their workforce by combining fun competition with hands-on learning using AWS AI services. It offers a unique opportunity for both enterprises and developers to gain valuable and practical skills in fine-tuning, model customization, and prompt engineering – essential skills for building generative AI solutions.