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…
In today’s digital economy, business leaders face a relentless challenge: how to deliver innovation, scale, and resilience without spiraling costs or compromising performance. At the heart of this challenge lies data infrastructure, which is often one of the most critical and most constrained layers of the enterprise stack. At Microsoft, we’ve seen firsthand how legacy…
Organizations today face mounting pressure to grow revenue, strengthen security, and innovate—often all at the same time. To meet these demands, many are accelerating cloud migration as a way to unlock greater business outcomes. According to the IDC White Paper,1 sponsored by Microsoft, the top driver for moving to the cloud is operational efficiency, with…
Announcing new agents for modernization that are built to scale and designed for control. When you watch a live broadcast—like the Olympics Games or a major sporting event—you aren’t thinking about the coordination behind it. You simply experience the event. Out of sight, specialized teams synchronize cameras, replays, data, and commentary in real time. When…
Announcing new agents for modernization that are built to scale and designed for control. When you watch a live broadcast—like the Olympics Games or a major sporting event—you aren’t thinking about the coordination behind it. You simply experience the event. Out of sight, specialized teams synchronize cameras, replays, data, and commentary in real time. When…