AWS Blog Aug 31, 2:45 PM

AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based c...

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AWS Blog Aug 25, 4:11 PM

Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2

On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-p...

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AWS Blog Aug 24, 4:20 PM

AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026)

During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across the region, and wa...

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AWS Blog Aug 21, 6:53 PM

AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support

AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versi...

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AWS Blog Aug 18, 1:58 PM

In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo

Each location will be a permanent community space to offer free workshops, networking events, pitch nights, content creation spaces, collaboration/co-working...

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AWS Blog Aug 17, 4:02 PM

AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)

Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source de...

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AWS Blog Aug 10, 3:45 PM

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026)

Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS commu...

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AWS Blog Aug 6, 10:58 PM

Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Announcing runtime instances in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore—persistent, managed EC2 infrastructure for production AI agents with multi-agent collaboration, GPU ...

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AWS Blog Aug 5, 2:45 PM

Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale

DynamoDB now supports native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recall. It is designed for any scale, even trillions of vectors and ...

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AWS Blog Aug 3, 4:12 PM

AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026)

Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City office...

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AWS Blog Jul 27, 2:54 PM

AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)

Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech eve...

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AWS Blog Jul 20, 4:37 PM

AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (July 20, 2026)

Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup gr...

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