AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m happy to announce the general availability of network activity events for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints in AWS CloudTrail. This feature helps you to record and monitor AWS API activity traversing your VPC endpoints, helping you strengthen your data perimeter and implement better detective controls. Previously, it was hard to detect…

AWS CodeBuild for macOS adds support for Fastlane

By Dustin Ward

I’m pleased to announce the availability of Fastlane in your AWS CodeBuild for macOS environments. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. Fastlane is an open source tool suite designed to automate various aspects of mobile application development. It provides mobile application…

DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS

By Dustin Ward

During this past AWS re:Invent, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared valuable lessons learned from Amazon’s own experience developing nearly 1,000 generative AI applications across the company. Drawing from this extensive scale of AI deployment, Jassy offered three key observations that have shaped Amazon’s approach to enterprise AI implementation. First is that as you get to…