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…

Improve your application resilience with Amazon Cognito multi-Region replication

By Dustin Ward

As a developer advocate working with web and mobile application developers, I’ve often heard about the need to maintain consistent user authentication in the unlikely event of a regional service interruption. The increasing use of agentic AI, microservices, automation, and service accounts has sparked a similar need for machine-to-machine authentication. Today, I’m excited to share…

AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.

By Dustin Ward

AI has arrived in the enterprise, and the shift is happening all at once. Every function, every role, every workflow is being reshaped. At the same time, a new class of organizations is emerging, one that will look fundamentally different from the companies that defined the last era of business. The winners won’t be those…