How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales

By Dustin Ward

The last Amazon Prime Day 2024 (July 17-18) was Amazon’s biggest Prime Day shopping event ever, with record sales and more items sold during the two-day event than any previous Prime Day event. Prime members shopped for millions of deals and saved billions across more than 35 categories globally. I live in South Korea, but…

Amazon Titan Image Generator v2 is now available in Amazon Bedrock

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Amazon Titan Image Generator v2 model with new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock. With Amazon Titan Image Generator v2, you can guide image creation using reference images, edit existing visuals, remove backgrounds, generate image variations, and securely customize the model to maintain brand style and subject consistency.…

Plan your advertising campaigns with Amazon Marketing Cloud on AWS Clean Rooms, now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) on AWS Clean Rooms to help advertisers use their first-party signals to collaborate with Amazon Ads unique signals. With this collaboration, advertisers can generate differentiated insights, discover new audiences, and enable advertising campaign planning, activation, and measurement use cases, all without having to…

AWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancements

By Dustin Ward

When I speak to large-scale AWS customers about their challenges and concerns, the conversation often turns to the topic of multicloud. Whether by intent or by accident, these customers sometimes choose to make use of services from more than one cloud provider, sometimes in conjunction with applications or services that are still hosted on-premises. In…