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As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database technology has evolved over the past decade. It’s fascinating to see how architectural decisions made years ago continue to shape the way we build modern applications. This week brings a special milestone that perfectly captures this evolution in cloud […]

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. […]

AWS AI league is a program that helps organizations upskill their workforce by combining fun competition with hands-on learning using AWS AI services. It offers a unique opportunity for both enterprises and developers to gain valuable and practical skills in fine-tuning, model customization, and prompt engineering – essential skills for building generative AI solutions.

Amazon SageMaker has introduced three new capabilities—Amazon QuickSight integration for dashboard creation, governance, and sharing, Amazon S3 Unstructured Data Integration for cataloging documents and media files, and automatic data onboarding from Lakehouse—that eliminate data silos by unifying structured and unstructured data management, visualization, and governance in a single experience.

Amazon EventBridge now supports enhanced logging capabilities that enable you to easily monitor and debug your event-driven applications on AWS. Enhanced logging provides complete event lifecycle tracking with detailed logs that show when events are published, matched against rules, delivered to subscribers, or encounter failures.

Amazon S3 Vectors is a new cloud object store that provides native support for storing and querying vectors at massive scale, offering up to 90% cost reduction compared to conventional approaches while seamlessly integrating with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, SageMaker, and OpenSearch for AI applications.

Amazon S3 now enables improved Apache Iceberg query performance through two new compaction strategies—sort and z-order—available for both S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets, helping organize data more efficiently by clustering similar values together and reducing file scanning during queries.

The AWS Heroes program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community. Heroes go above and beyond to share knowledge in a variety of ways in developer community. We introduce our newest AWS Heroes in the second quarter of 2025. To find and connect […]