Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re expanding Amazon CloudWatch capabilities to unify and manage log data across operational, security, and compliance use cases with flexible and powerful analytics in one place and with reduced data duplication and costs. This enhancement means that CloudWatch can automatically normalize and process data to offer consistency across sources with built-in support for Open…

New and enhanced AWS Support plans add AI capabilities to expert guidance

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing a fundamental shift in how AWS Support helps customers move from reactive problem-solving to proactive issue prevention. This evolution introduces new Support plans that combine AI-powered capabilities with Amazon Web Services (AWS) expertise. The new and enhanced plans help you identify and address potential issues before they impact your business operations, helping…

Amazon OpenSearch Service improves vector database performance and cost with GPU acceleration and auto-optimization

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re announcing serverless GPU acceleration and auto-optimization for vector index in Amazon OpenSearch Service that helps you build large-scale vector databases faster with lower costs and automatically optimize vector indexes for optimal trade-offs between search quality, speed, and cost. Here are the new capabilities introduced today: GPU acceleration – You can build vector databases…

AWS Transform for mainframe introduces Reimagine capabilities and automated testing functionality

By Dustin Ward

In May, 2025, we launched AWS Transform for mainframe, the first agentic AI service for modernizing mainframe workloads at scale. The AI-powered mainframe agent accelerates mainframe modernization by automating complex, resource-intensive tasks across every phase of modernization—from initial assessment to final deployment. You can streamline the migration of legacy mainframe applications, including COBOL, CICS, DB2,…

AWS Transform announces full-stack Windows modernization capabilities

By Dustin Ward

Earlier this year in May, we announced the general availability of AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale. During the early adoption period of the service, we received valuable feedback indicating that, in addition to .NET application modernization, you would like to modernize SQL Server and legacy…