Category: Networking & Content Delivery

Happy New Year! I hope the holidays gave you time to recharge and spend time with your loved ones. Like every year, I took a few weeks off after AWS re:Invent to rest and plan ahead. I used some of that downtime to plan the next cohort for Become a Solutions Architect (BeSA). BeSA is […]

Simplify hybrid DNS management with a unified service that resolves public and private domains globally through secure, anycast-based resolution while reducing operational overhead and maintaining consistent security controls.

Amazon Route 53 now offers Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records, a new business continuity feature designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. This enhancement enables customers to continue making critical DNS changes and provisioning infrastructure even during regional outages, ensuring greater resilience for mission-critical applications.

AWS announces VPC encryption controls, a new capability that helps organizations audit and enforce encryption in transit for all traffic within and across VPCs in a Region, simplifying compliance with regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP through automated monitoring and enforcement modes.

AWS RTB Fabric is a fully managed service designed for real-time bidding advertising workloads that enables AdTech companies to connect with their supply and demand partners through a dedicated, high-performance network environment, delivering single-digit millisecond performance and up to 80% lower networking costs compared to standard cloud connections while eliminating the need for colocation infrastructure or upfront commitments.

Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems in a few lines of code. We’ve continuously improved features including support […]

My LinkedIn feed was absolutely packed this week with pictures from the AWS Heroes Summit event in Seattle. It was heartwarming to see so many familiar faces and new Heroes coming together. For those not familiar with the AWS Heroes program, it’s a global community recognition initiative that honors individuals who make outstanding contributions to […]

This new feature helps organizations confidently plan, practice, and orchestrate failover operations between AWS Regions for critical applications through automated workflows and continuous validation.