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Introducing Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry: Bringing high performance, low latency open model inference to Azure

By Dustin Ward

Across industries, organizations are increasingly standardizing on open models to gain greater control over performance, cost, customization, and the security and compliance required for enterprise deployment. Open models give teams the flexibility to choose the…

Twenty years of Amazon S3 and building what’s next

By Dustin Ward

Twenty years ago today, on March 14, 2006, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) quietly launched with a modest one-paragraph announcement on the What’s New page: Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is…

Introducing account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing a new feature of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) you can use to create general purpose buckets in your own account regional namespace simplifying bucket creation and management as your data…

Unpacking your top questions on agentic AI: The Shift podcast

By Dustin Ward

Every day in the hallways at Microsoft, I hear product teams discussing where agents are headed and how software is forever changed. Many of us come into the office more now, and I didn’t realize…

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Connect Health, Bedrock AgentCore Policy, GameDay Europe, and more (March 9, 2026)

By Dustin Ward

Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at Meru University of Science…

The economics of enterprise AI: What the Forrester TEI study reveals about Microsoft Foundry

By Dustin Ward

Leaders are chasing the AI frontier, reimagining business systems as human-led and agent-operated. To do this, customers are on the hunt for smarter models, more capable agents, and market-ready solutions to operationalize AI workflows. When…

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