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

By Dustin Ward

Since 2018, AWS DeepRacer has engaged over 560,000 builders worldwide, demonstrating that developers learn and grow through competitive experiences. Today, we’re excited to expand into the generative AI era with AWS Artificial Intelligence (AI) League. This is a unique competitive experience – your chance to dive deep into generative AI regardless of your skill level,…

Accelerate safe software releases with new built-in blue/green deployments in Amazon ECS

By Dustin Ward

While containers have revolutionized how development teams package and deploy applications, these teams have had to carefully monitor releases and build custom tooling to mitigate deployment risks, which slows down shipping velocity. At scale, development teams spend valuable cycles building and maintaining undifferentiated deployment tools instead of innovating for their business. Starting today, you can…

Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2025

By Dustin Ward

Today at the AWS Summit in New York City, Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP of Agentic AI, provided the day’s keynote on how we’re enabling customers to deliver production-ready AI agents at scale. Here’s our roundup of the biggest announcements from the event: Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)…

Announcing Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing a suite of customization capabilities for Amazon Nova in Amazon SageMaker AI. Customers can now customize Nova Micro, Nova Lite, and Nova Pro across the model training lifecycle, including pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and alignment. These techniques are available as ready-to-use Amazon SageMaker recipes with seamless deployment to Amazon Bedrock, supporting both on-demand…

Streamline the path from data to insights with new Amazon SageMaker Catalog capabilities

By Dustin Ward

Modern organizations manage data across multiple disconnected systems—structured databases, unstructured files, and separate visualization tools—creating barriers that slow analytics workflows and limit insight generation. Separate visualization platforms often create barriers that prevent teams from extracting comprehensive business insights. These disconnected workflows prevent your organizations from maximizing your data investments, creating delays in decision making and…