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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform at 1 year, Claude Platform on AWS, EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, and more (May 18, 2026)
Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we…
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Amazon Bedrock introduces new advanced prompt optimization and migration tool
Today, we’re announcing Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization, a new tool that you can use to optimize your prompts for any model on Amazon Bedrock, while comparing your original prompts…
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Amazon Redshift introduces AWS Graviton-based RG instances with an integrated data lake query engine
Since 2013, Amazon Redshift has given the full power of a data warehouse in the cloud, at a fraction of the on-premises cost. Every architectural generation—from dense compute to Amazon…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, Agent Toolkit for AWS, and more (May 11, 2026)
My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content,…
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The AWS MCP Server is now generally available
I have been building with AI agents and MCP tools for a while now, and one question kept coming up: how do you give an agent real, authenticated access to…
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Modernize your workflows: Amazon WorkSpaces now gives AI agents their own desktop (preview)
Enterprises face a significant challenge when deploying AI agents: the desktop and legacy applications that power most business workflows are simply inaccessible to modern AI systems. According to a 2024…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s Next with AWS 2026, Amazon Quick, OpenAI partnership, and more (May 4, 2026)
Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood…
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Top announcements of the What’s Next with AWS, 2026
Today at the What’s Next with AWS, Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, Colleen Aubrey, SVP Amazon Applied AI Solutions, Julia White, CMO of AWS, and OpenAI leaders discussed how they…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic & Meta partnership, AWS Lambda S3 Files, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI, and more (April 27, 2026)
Late March took me to Seattle for the Specialist Tech Conference, one of the most energizing gatherings of AWS specialists from around the world. It was an incredible opportunity to…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.7 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Interconnect GA, and more (April 20, 2026)
Last week I had the honor of delivering a commencement speech at the University of Namur (uNamur) for their 2025 graduation ceremony. Standing in front of freshly minted computer science…