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Grok 4 is now available in Azure AI Foundry: Unlock frontier intelligence and business-ready capabilities

By Dustin Ward

Today’s enterprises are entering a new phase of AI adoption—one where trust, flexibility, and production readiness aren’t optional; they’re foundational. Microsoft has collaborated closely with xAI to bring Grok 4, their most advanced model, to…

New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8a instances, the latest addition to the general-purpose M instance family. These instances are powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin)…

Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances

By Dustin Ward

After launching Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) memory-optimized R8i and R8i-flex instances and general-purpose M8i and M8i-flex instances, I am happy to announce the general availability of compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by…

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest

By Dustin Ward

Starting today, you can use your own AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt identity data, such as user and group attributes, stored in AWS IAM Identity Center organization instances. Many organizations operating…

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS Outposts, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, AWS Builder ID, and more (October 6, 2025)

By Dustin Ward

Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few…

Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a new compute option for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) that enables developers to use the full range of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capabilities while…

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