Celebrating Our Newest AWS Heroes – September 2026
Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share…
Backup Features Small Business IT Admins Should Demand
Key Takeaways Demand a full API (application programming interface) and CLI (command-line interface), not GUI (graphical user interface)-only operation. Scripting job creation, policy changes, and reporting keeps a one- or…
Beyond OADP: What Regulated OpenShift Environments Need to Prove Recovery
These days, it’s not enough to say an application is protected. Security, risk, and compliance teams want to know where a backup lives, who can access it, whether it can…
AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock, Strands harness, and more (September 28, 2026)
If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model…
Introducing enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applications
Organizations building event-driven applications on Amazon EventBridge typically start with a single custom event bus in one account. This works well when a single team owns the architecture. As adoption…
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: collaborative AI-powered observability for your applications
Amazon CloudWatch now offers CloudWatch Omni, an AI-powered observability experience for the applications and AI agents you run together. You reach Omni through a dedicated URL for your organization and…
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads
Today, Amazon CloudWatch introduces CloudWatch Omni, a unified observability experience for application and AI workloads that is app-centric, AI-powered, built on open standards, and delivered off-console. CloudWatch Omni is a…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center mobile apps, Amazon Connect Talent GA, Amazon Corretto 27, and more (September 21, 2026)
Living in the Netherlands, I spend a fair amount of time on trains, and that is usually where I catch up on what the builder community is writing. Until now,…
New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i…
AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode
Since the first launch of AWS Elastic Beanstalk in 2011, customers have deployed full-stack applications in Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, and Go, trusting Elastic Beanstalk to manage deployment…