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Author: Micah Walter
Micah Walter is a Sr. Solutions Architect supporting enterprise customers in the New York City region and beyond. He advises executives, engineers, and architects at every step along their journey to the cloud, with a deep focus on sustainability and practical design. In his free time, Micah enjoys the outdoors, photography, and chasing his kids around the house.
Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE
AWS is announcing integrated LocalStack support in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent improvements to the Lambda development experience, including the console to IDE integration and remote debugging capabilities we launched in July 2025, continuing our commitment to simplify serverless development on AWS.
Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) enables organizations to run VMware Cloud Foundation environments directly within Amazon VPCs, simplifying workload migration while maintaining familiar tools and providing access to the scalability, agility, and elasticity of AWS.
AWS Weekly Roundup: SQS fair queues, CloudWatch generative AI observability, and more (July 28, 2025)
To be honest, I’m still recovering from the AWS Summit in New York, doing my best to level up on launches like Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Preview) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Vectors. There’s a lot of new stuff to learn! Meanwhile, it’s been an exciting week for AWS builders focused on reliability and observability. […]
Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda
Developers can now build serverless applications faster through seamless console-to-IDE transition and debugging of functions running in the cloud from local IDE.
Amazon CloudFront simplifies web application delivery and security with new user-friendly interface
Try the simplified console experience with Amazon CloudFront to accelerate and secure web applications within a few clicks by automating TLS certificate provisioning, DNS configuration, and security settings through an integrated interface with AWS WAF’s enhanced Rule Packs.
Verify internal access to critical AWS resources with new IAM Access Analyzer capabilities
A new capability in IAM Access Analyzer helps security teams verify which principals within their AWS organization have access to critical resources like S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, and RDS snapshots by using automated reasoning to evaluate multiple policies and provide findings through a unified dashboard.
Centralize visibility of Kubernetes clusters across AWS Regions and accounts with EKS Dashboard
EKS Dashboard provides cloud architects and cluster administrators with a centralized view to monitor and govern Kubernetes clusters across multiple AWS Regions and accounts, offering insights into clusters, managed node groups, and EKS add-ons through a unified interface in the AWS Console.
AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025)
I’ve always been fascinated by how quickly we’re able to stand up new Regions and Availability Zones at AWS. Today there are 36 launched Regions and 114 launched Availability Zones. That’s amazing! This past week at AWS was marked by significant expansion to our global infrastructure. The announcement of a new Region in the works […]