Today we’re announcing AWS Emulator, a local emulator for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that you run on your machine. The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), the AWS SDKs, and your coding agents speak to it over a local HTTPS endpoint using the same AWS APIs they would use in the cloud, from your laptop.…
Most of the cost of adopting something new isn’t the new thing, it’s the move. Moving a Hive table to Apache Iceberg has typically meant weeks of engineering work. Last week, Amazon S3 Tables turned that into three steps: start, sync as often as you need, complete. The source stays writable except for a few…
Microsoft and fal partner to expand video generation in Microsoft Foundry, helping developers bring creative ideas into enterprise applications.Video workloads do not all start with the same input or aim for the same result. A creative team might explore several interpretations of a written brief. A retailer might turn an approved product image into a…
Transformation begins at the line between an experiment that works and a capability the business depends on. Scaling intelligence requires production capabilities built for sustained business performance, with investments prioritized against financial thresholds, tied to measurable outcomes, instrumented for unit costs, and owned by accountable leaders. This approach manages cost, performance, governance, and reliability as…
Every Azure chip Microsoft has built started as electronic design automation (EDA) jobs used to design, test, and validate silicon before it is manufactured. This includes simulation sweeps that run for days, verification regressions that fan out across thousands of cores overnight, and physical signoff runs that use hundreds of gigabytes of memory for a…
Today, we’re announcing a simple, cost-effective path for data lake modernization. Amazon S3 Tables now support managed migration of your Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg. Migration works with Parquet tables in Amazon S3 that are registered in the AWS Glue Data Catalog and allows you to upgrade your data lake with no pipelines to…