Accelerating AI and databases with Azure Container Storage, now 7 times faster and open source

By Dustin Ward

More companies than ever before are choosing to run stateful workloads—such as relational databases, AI inferencing, and messaging queues—on Kubernetes. For developers building on Kubernetes, storage performance has never been more important. Today, we’re announcing the next major release of Azure Container Storage – v2.0.0. Compared to prior versions, it delivers up to 7 times higher…

Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances

By Dustin Ward

As someone who has been using macOS since 2001 and Amazon EC2 Mac instances since their launch 4 years ago, I’ve helped numerous customers scale their continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on AWS. Today, I’m excited to share that Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available. Development teams building…

Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing LocalStack integration in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent improvements to the AWS Lambda development experience, including the console to IDE integration and remote debugging capabilities we launched in July…

Ask Ralph: Where style meets AI—a new era of conversational commerce

By Dustin Ward

Over the past few years, AI has seamlessly woven itself into the fabric of our daily routines, transforming the ways we access information and organize our lives. From intelligent search engines to virtual assistants that help us plan trips, AI is behind the effortless convenience we now expect. It’s also transforming the way we shop.…