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AWS services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Prime Day 2025 was the biggest Amazon Prime Day shopping event ever, setting records for both sales volume and total items sold during the 4-day event. Prime members saved billions while shopping Amazon’s millions…

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora 10th anniversary, Amazon EC2 R8 instances, Amazon Bedrock and more (August 25, 2025)

By Dustin Ward

As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database technology has evolved over the past decade. It’s fascinating to see how architectural decisions made years ago continue to…

Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft’s engagement with the open source community has transformed the company from a one-time skeptic to now being one of the world’s leading open source contributors. In fact, over the past three years, Microsoft Azure…

Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms 

By Dustin Ward

We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for a second year in a row, and the furthest to the right in…

Agent Factory: Building your first AI agent with the tools to deliver real-world outcomes

By Dustin Ward

This blog post is the second out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which will share best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Tools are defining…

Building the Frontier Firm with Microsoft Azure: The business case for cloud and AI modernization

By Dustin Ward

A new kind of enterprise is emerging—and it’s rewriting the rules of leadership. Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index calls them Frontier Firms: organizations that are not just adopting AI, but are powered by intelligence on…

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