Category: AWS

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management for always available applications. You can remove the operational burden of patching, upgrades, and maintenance downtime and count on an easy-to-use developer experience to create a new database…

As the tech community we continue to have many opportunities to learn and network with other like-minded folks. This past week AWS customers attended the AWS Summit Dubai for an action-packed day featuring live demos, hands-on experiences with cutting-edge AI/ML tools, and more. Right here in South Africa I attended the Data & AI Community…

Anthropic launched the next generation of Claude models today—Opus 4 and Sonnet 4—designed for coding, advanced reasoning, and the support of the next generation of capable, autonomous AI agents. Both models are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, giving developers immediate access to both the model’s advanced reasoning and agentic capabilities. Amazon Bedrock expands your…

Today, we are announcing EKS Dashboard, a centralized display that enables cloud architects and cluster administrators to maintain organization-wide visibility across their Kubernetes clusters. With EKS Dashboard, customers can now monitor clusters deployed across different AWS Regions and accounts through a unified view, making it easier to track cluster inventory, assess compliance, and plan operational…

I’m pleased to announce developers can now programmatically disable Apple System Integrity Protection (SIP) on their Amazon EC2 Mac instances. System Integrity Protection (SIP), also known as rootless, is a security feature introduced by Apple in OS X El Capitan (2015, version 10.11). It’s designed to protect the system from potentially harmful software by restricting…

Today, we’re introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page, a centralized resource that provides comprehensive information about service availability changes across AWS. The new AWS Product Lifecycle page consolidates all service availability information in one convenient location. This dedicated resource offers detailed visibility into three key categories of changes: 1) services closing access to new customers,…