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Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instancesby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on October 6, 2025 at 8:33 pm
AWS launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS to offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations.
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AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at restby Sébastien Stormacq on October 6, 2025 at 7:52 pm
Gain control over encryption and comply with regulations using customer-managed keys for AWS IAM Identity Center’s user data and passwords.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS Outposts, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, AWS Builder ID, and more (October 6, 2025)by Prasad Rao on October 6, 2025 at 3:42 pm
Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand
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Reduce Docker image build time on AWS CodeBuild using Amazon ECR as a remote cacheby Kirubakaran Sundaramoorthy on October 3, 2025 at 3:01 pm
In modern software development, containerization with Docker has revolutionized how we build and deploy applications. While Docker enables packaging applications into portable containers, the continuous need to update these images can be resource intensive. AWS CodeBuild addresses this challenge by providing a managed build service that eliminates infrastructure maintenance overhead. In this blog post, we’ll
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Multi-Cloud Code Deployments using Amazon Q Developer with Echo3Dby Kevon Mayers on October 3, 2025 at 2:59 pm
Overview Founded in 2018, echo3D built a revolutionary 3D digital asset management (DAM) platform to address the surging demand for immersive content across industries. The company’s platform enables enterprises to seamlessly store, secure, optimize, and share 3D content, serving over 200,000 professionals across energy, healthcare, gaming, retail, and beyond. echo3D’s platform has become the go-to
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Key components of a data-driven agentic AI applicationby Marc Brooker on October 3, 2025 at 2:29 pm
In this post, we look at the costs, benefits, and drawbacks of replacing services for agentic AI with direct database access. Including those that work well and are proven in production, and new services yet to be built. Let’s take a closer look at the anatomy of an agentic AI application and what would factor into such decisions.
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Build a dynamic workflow orchestration engine with Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambdaby Xan Huang on October 2, 2025 at 10:06 pm
In this post, I show you how to build a serverless workflow orchestration engine that uses Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda. The complete implementation is available in a GitHub repository, which includes two fully functional examples that you can deploy and run immediately to see the orchestration engine in action.
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Set up proactive monitoring for Amazon RDS for SQL Server with real-time Slack notificationsby Kanchan Bhattacharyya on October 2, 2025 at 10:04 pm
In this post, we demonstrate how to build an efficient, serverless monitoring system for Amazon RDS for SQL Server using AWS native services and Slack integration.
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Defending against supply chain attacks like Chalk/Debug and the Shai-Hulud wormby Chi Tran on October 2, 2025 at 4:43 pm
Building on top of open source packages can help accelerate development. By using common libraries and modules from npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, and others, teams can focus on writing code that is unique to their situation. These open source package registries host millions of packages that are integrated into thousands of programs daily. Unfortunately,
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Enhance your SMB file transfer security with Kerberos and AWS DataSyncby Andrew Riley on October 1, 2025 at 9:05 pm
Businesses replicate data from on-premises file shares to the cloud to power analytics processes, enable migrations, or free up archival storage. When authenticating to Windows Server Message Block (SMB) file shares, the NTLM protocol has been ubiquitous for decades. However, Microsoft announced its deprecation in 2024. Whether your business operates in a highly regulated industry
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Simplify cross-account storage management with Amazon EFS and Amazon EKSby Samyak Kathane on October 1, 2025 at 3:30 pm
Organizations are increasingly adopting a multi-account Amazon Web Services (AWS) strategy to achieve enhanced security, governance, and operational efficiency at scale. Implementing separate accounts for production and non-production environments enables enterprises to group workloads based on business purpose, apply distinct security postures by environments, restrict access to sensitive data, and streamline cost management. You can
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Accelerating AWS Infrastructure Deployment: A Practical Guide to Console-to-Codeby Damola Oluyemo on September 30, 2025 at 11:47 pm
In today’s cloud-first environment, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become crucial for managing cloud resources effectively. However, organizations often face significant challenges in adopting IaC practices, including steep learning curves, complex syntax requirements, and difficulty translating manual operations into code. Amazon Q Developer‘s Console-to-Code feature addresses these challenges by providing an intuitive bridge between manual AWS
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Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applicationsby Micah Walter on September 30, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced security and observability configurations.
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Announcing AWS Outposts third-party storage integration with Dell and HPEby Micah Walter on September 30, 2025 at 4:39 pm
AWS Outposts is now integrated with Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra MP B10000 systems, enabling customers to seamlessly use their on-premises external storage infrastructure with AWS services while maintaining data residency requirements.
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Defending LLM applications against Unicode character smugglingby Russell Dranch on September 30, 2025 at 4:22 pm
When interacting with AI applications, even seemingly innocent elements—such as Unicode characters—can have significant implications for security and data integrity. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we continuously evaluate and address emerging threats across aspects of AI systems. In this blog post, we explore Unicode tag blocks, a specific range of characters spanning from U+E0000 to
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Automating server creation with EC2 Image Builder and AWS Systems Manager: A collaboration between AWS and Ziff Davisby Pedram Jahangiri on September 30, 2025 at 3:02 pm
In this post, AWS and Ziff Davis collaborated to tackle server management challenges by implementing an automated solution using EC2 Image Builder and AWS Systems Manager. The solution addressed issues of inconsistent configurations, undocumented processes, and manual patching, resulting in improved efficiency, consistency, and disaster recovery capabilities for Ziff Davis’s virtual phone number services.
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How Smartsheet enhances recommendations using Amazon Neptune and Knowledge Graphsby Divya Moorjaney on September 29, 2025 at 10:58 pm
Smartsheet is a leading SaaS-based collaborative work management platform trusted by enterprises worldwide to manage projects, automate workflows, and drive collaboration at scale. In this post, we describe the Smartsheet Knowledge Graph, built in partnership between Smartsheet and AWS. The Smartsheet Knowledge Graph is a unified data model connecting people, content, and work in Smartsheet, representing how users interact with assets, content, and their collaborators.
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Build secure network architectures for generative AI applications using AWS servicesby Joydipto Banerjee on September 29, 2025 at 7:11 pm
As generative AI becomes foundational across industries—powering everything from conversational agents to real-time media synthesis—it simultaneously creates new opportunities for bad actors to exploit. The complex architectures behind generative AI applications expose a large surface area including public-facing APIs, inference services, custom web applications, and integrations with cloud infrastructure. These systems are not immune to
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Amazon ECS announces IPv6-only supportby Dumlu Timuralp on September 29, 2025 at 6:29 pm
In this post, Amazon ECS announces support for IPv6-only workloads, allowing users to run containerized applications in IPv6-only environments without IPv4 dependencies while maintaining compatibility with existing applications and AWS services. The new capability helps organizations address IPv4 address exhaustion challenges, streamline network architecture, improve security posture, and meet compliance requirements for IPv6 adoption.
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Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock: Anthropic’s most intelligent model, best for coding and complex agentsby Matheus Guimaraes on September 29, 2025 at 5:56 pm
Amazon Web Services announces Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, featuring advanced capabilities in coding, tool handling, and long-horizon tasks, with improvements in memory management, context processing, and industry-specific applications across finance, research, and cybersecurity sectors.