We’re thrilled to celebrate three exceptional developer community leaders as AWS Heroes. These individuals represent the heart of what makes the AWS community so vibrant. In addition to sharing technical knowledge, they build connections, forge genuine human relationships, and create pathways for others to grow. From pioneering cloud culture in mountain villages to leading cybersecurity…
Twenty years ago this past week, Amazon S3 launched publicly on March 14, 2006. While Amazon Simple Storage Service is often considered the foundational storage service that defined cloud infrastructure, what began as a simple object storage service has grown into something far larger in scope and scale. As of March 2026, S3 stores more…
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 designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used…
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 storage needs grow in size and scope. You can create general purpose bucket names across multiple AWS Regions with assurance…
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 and Technology, with keynotes from my colleagues Veliswa and Tiffany, and sessions on everything from GitOps to cloud-native engineering, and…
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to launch OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels. Your Lightsail OpenClaw instance is pre-configured with Amazon Bedrock as the default AI model provider. Once you complete setup, you can start chatting with your AI assistant immediately —…