3 things leaders need to know from Microsoft Build 2026

By Dustin Ward

In this article 1. Your AI is only as good as what it knows about your business 2. Tools don’t transform organizations. Systems do. 3. The bar has moved. AI is expected to deliver real business outcomes. Your next step to build an AI-powered business Related Build headlines I’ve had a front-row seat to a…

Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors

By Dustin Ward

AWS Graviton processors have improved steadily across generations, with each iteration delivering advances in compute performance, price-performance, and energy efficiency. At re:Invent 2025, we announced Amazon EC2 M9g, the first Graviton5-powered instances, in preview. Since then, customers have tested M9g across a wide range of workloads and shared their results. ClickHouse saw a 36% performance…

Try the new console experience in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIs

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing a new console experience in Amazon Bedrock for you to experiment, iterate, and scale with the latest AI models on Amazon Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine built for high performance, reliability, and security. This console has a refreshed workflow optimized for bedrock-mantle endpoint, which supports the latest GPT, Claude, and open-weight models with…