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Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes Read More »

Many organizations rely on the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) as the industry standard for exchanging critical business data. Traditionally, securely connecting to private SFTP servers required custom infrastructure, manual scripting, or exposing endpoints to the public internet. Today, AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support connectivity to remote SFTP servers through Amazon Virtual Private …

AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support VPC-based connectivity Read More »

This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). I am also excited to try the new Amazon Quick …

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Quick Suite, Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, and more (October 13, 2025) Read More »

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Quick Suite, a new agentic teammate that quickly answers your questions at work and turns those insights into actions for you. Instead of switching between multiple applications to gather data, find important signals and trends, and complete manual tasks, Quick Suite brings AI-powered research, business intelligence, and automation capabilities into a …

Announcing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic teammate for answering questions and taking action Read More »

Today, we’re announcing the availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8a instances, the latest addition to the general-purpose M instance family. These instances are powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors with a maximum frequency of 4.5GHz. Customers can expect up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better …

New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available Read More »

After launching Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) memory-optimized R8i and R8i-flex instances and general-purpose M8i and M8i-flex instances, I am happy to announce the general availability of compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency and feature a 2:1 …

Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances Read More »