Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation

By Dustin Ward

Ten years ago, we announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora, a database that combined the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. As Jeff described it in its launch blog post: “With storage replicated both within and across three Availability Zones, along with an update…

Meet our newest AWS Heroes — August 2025

By Dustin Ward

We are excited to announce the latest cohort of AWS Heroes, recognized for their exceptional contributions and technical leadership. These passionate individuals represent diverse regions and technical specialties, demonstrating notable expertise and dedication to knowledge sharing within the AWS community. From AI and machine learning to serverless architectures and security, our new Heroes showcase the…

Minimize AI hallucinations and deliver up to 99% verification accuracy with Automated Reasoning checks: Now available

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m happy to share that Automated Reasoning checks, a new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy that we previewed during AWS re:Invent, is now generally available. Automated Reasoning checks helps you validate the accuracy of content generated by foundation models (FMs) against a domain knowledge. This can help prevent factual errors due to AI hallucinations. The…

OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS is committed to bringing you the most advanced foundation models (FMs) in the industry, continuously expanding our selection to include groundbreaking models from leading AI innovators so that you always have access to the latest advancements to drive your business forward. Today, I am happy to announce the availability of two new OpenAI models…