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From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: Dutchie’s database migration journey Dutchie, a leading technology platform serving the cannabis industry, manages critical operations for thousands of dispensaries across multiple states, processing millions of transactions annually. In this post, we explore how Dutchie successfully navigated the challenges of migrating mission-critical workloads to Amazon RDS for SQL Server in preparation for 4/20 week in 2025.

📰 New article by Kendra Little, Colleen Betik, Mehul Y. Shah, Sudarshan Roy, Saroj Kumar Das, Sudhir Amin

From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: Dutchie’s database migration journey

#AWS #Databases

Kinesis On-demand Advantage saves 60%+ on streaming costs On November 4, 2025, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams introduced On-demand Advantage mode, a capability that enables on-demand streams to handle instant throughput increases at scale and cost optimization for consistent streaming workloads. Historically, you had to choose between provisioned mode, which required managing stream capacity, and on-demand mode, which automatically scaled capacity, but this new offering removes the need to think about stream type at all. In this post, we show three real-world scenarios comparing different usage patterns and demonstrate how On-demand Advantage mode can optimize your streaming costs while maintaining performance and flexibility.

📰 New article by Pratik Patel, Kalyan Janaki, Varsha Palepu, Sandhya Khanderia

Kinesis On-demand Advantage saves 60%+ on streaming costs

#AWS #BigData

How Razorpay achieved 11% performance improvement and 21% cost reduction with Amazon EMR In this post, we explore how Razorpay, India’s leading FinTech company, transformed their data platform by migrating from a third-party solution to Amazon EMR, unlocking improved performance and significant cost savings. We’ll walk through the architectural decisions that guided this migration, the implementation strategy, and the measurable benefits Razorpay achieved.

📰 New article by Narendra Kumar, Ravi Kompella, Shreshtha Dutta

How Razorpay achieved 11% performance improvement and 21% cost reduction with Amazon EMR

#AWS #BigData

📰 New article by Kartik Bheemisetty, Dejun Hu

Adaptive sampling with AWS X-Ray to capture critical spans

#AWS #Management #Governance

Enabling resilient hybrid edge architectures with AWS Organizations operating in austere environments require robust, resilient architectures that maintain operations regardless of connectivity status. This post explores how to implement and deploy resilient hybrid edge architectures using Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a focus on network resilience, data synchronization, security, and configuration management. We’ll cover best practices for deploying and managing hybrid architectures [...]

📰 New article by Zack Colbert, Mark Simonds, Wallace Cole

Enabling resilient hybrid edge architectures with AWS

#AWS #PublicSector

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Connect Health, Bedrock AgentCore Policy, GameDay Europe, and more (March 9, 2026) Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at Meru University of Science and Technology, with keynotes from my colleagues Veliswa and Tiffany, and sessions on everything from GitOps to cloud-native engineering, and [...]

📰 New article by Sébastien Stormacq

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Connect Health, Bedrock AgentCore Policy, GameDay Europe, and more (March 9, 2026)

#AWS #News

Framework for platform expansion to Europe, Middle East and beyond In a previous post on the Public Sector Blog, we covered six key strategies in which Amazon Web Services (AWS) empowers AWS Partners to expand their platforms globally to reach more customers while meeting requirements such as data residency and sovereignty. These ranged from using AWS Global Infrastructure to AWS services that make it easier for [...]

📰 New article by Mehmet Bakkaloglu, Wallace Printz

Framework for platform expansion to Europe, Middle East and beyond

#AWS #PublicSector

AVEVA and AWS expand cloud capabilities for industrial operations AVEVA and AWS are strengthening their collaboration to help industrial organizations reduce IT challenges and accelerate cloud adoption. Building on their 10-year relationship, AVEVA has successfully validated key components of its industrial operations software portfolio on AWS infrastructure, including AVEVA System Platform and Manufacturing Execution System on Amazon EC2, plus integration of Amazon RDS with AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure. Organizations can now manage their entire operational technology stack within a unified AWS environment, addressing critical pain points like system maintenance, data integration challenges, and total cost of ownership.

📰 New article by Christophe Renard, Henning Rudolf, David Nardone, Ernst Van Wyk, Rajesh Gomatam

AVEVA and AWS expand cloud capabilities for industrial operations

#AWS #AWSPartnerNetwork

📰 New article by Suhail Fouzan, Bianca Velasco

Microsoft and VMware workloads on AWS: Your complete AWS re:Invent 2025 playlist

#AWS #Migrations #Modernization

Accelerating GovTech development with Kiro Government agencies, educational institutions, and GovTech vendors face a unique challenge: delivering AI-powered applications while navigating compliance requirements, limited budgets, and legacy constraints. A single accessibility remediation cycle can cost $50,000 or more. Audit preparation takes weeks. Security reviews delay citizen services by months. Small IT teams struggle to maintain expertise across Federal Risk and [...]

📰 New article by Warner Bell

Accelerating GovTech development with Kiro

#AWS #PublicSector

Transforming renewable asset development using Agentic AI The renewable energy sector stands at a critical inflection point. After almost two decades of relatively flat electricity demand in the USA is set to increase by 25% until 2030, Meanwhile, over 90% of that demand will be covered by renewable additions. With global renewable power capacity projected to increase almost 4,600 GW between 2025 [...]

📰 New article by Dr. Annette Werth, Harun Hasdal

Transforming renewable asset development using Agentic AI

#AWS #Industries

AI, activism, and impact: What to expect at AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026 Can you imagine what’s possible when nonprofit organizations are empowered to harness today’s most advanced technology on behalf of people and the planet? On March 19, nonprofit leaders, technologists, and changemakers will gather at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, to celebrate a decade of impact and explore what’s next at the 10th [...]

📰 New article by Rick Buettner

AI, activism, and impact: What to expect at AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026

#AWS #PublicSector

Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers (Part 3) This post is part 3 of the three-part series ‘Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers’. We provide you with code samples and considerations for implementing custom logic to automate Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) relaunch on Outposts servers. This post focuses on guidance for using Outposts servers with third party storage for boot [...]

📰 New article by Brianna Rosentrater, Eric Ganske, Jared Thompson

Enabling high availability of Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts servers (Part 3)

#AWS #Compute

TIC 3.0 architecture migration for federal agencies using AWS Transit Gateway Federal agencies operating in the cloud face a challenge with Trusted Internet Connection 2.0. All internet traffic must backhaul through on-premises infrastructure, creating bottlenecks that limit cloud adoption and degrade performance. The TIC 3.0 initiative addresses this by enabling agencies to implement security controls directly in the cloud, providing secure internet connectivity for federal workloads, [...]

📰 New article by Natti Swaminathan, Tushar Jagdale

TIC 3.0 architecture migration for federal agencies using AWS Transit Gateway

#AWS #PublicSector

IBM watsonx Orchestrate now supports GPT-OSS 120B on Amazon Bedrock As AI agent deployments grow across enterprise systems, organizations need a way to bring together foundation models, tools, and governance frameworks to scale AI reliably across business functions. IBM watsonx Orchestrate addresses this by bringing AI agents, business workflows, and enterprise integrations together in a single governed environment. It is available as a fully managed [...]

📰 New article by Eduardo Monich Fronza, Jyotsna K Narayanan, Mithun Katti

IBM watsonx Orchestrate now supports GPT-OSS 120B on Amazon Bedrock

#AWS #IBM #RedHat

Automating Amazon RDS backup and maintenance windows for Daylight Saving Time shifts In this post, you’ll learn how to deploy a serverless solution using AWS CloudFormation that automatically adjusts RDS maintenance and backup windows for DST transitions.

📰 New article by Naseer Sayyad, Paras Babbar, Prashant S Chaudhari

Automating Amazon RDS backup and maintenance windows for Daylight Saving Time shifts

#AWS #Databases

AWS spotlights 50 early-stage startups shaping the future of education technology through the GSV Cup From a student receiving algebra advice with an AI tutor to a mid-career professional reskilling for a new industry, the way people learn is changing fast. Education technology (EdTech) startups around the world are building tools to shape the future of learning. The 2026 GSV Cup 50, presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and GSV [...]

📰 New article by AWS Public Sector Blog Team

AWS spotlights 50 early-stage startups shaping the future of education technology through the GSV Cup

#AWS #PublicSector

AWS Load Balancer Controller adds general availability support for Kubernetes Gateway API AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Load Balancer Controller support for Kubernetes Gateway API. Previously, AWS Load Balancer Controller satisfied Kubernetes Ingress and Service resource requirements by provisioning Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) respectively. With this new capability, you can now define your AWS load balancing [...]

📰 New article by Alexandra Huides, Zac Nixon

AWS Load Balancer Controller adds general availability support for Kubernetes Gateway API

#AWS #Networking #CDN

AWS End User Computing (EUC) Dashboard Guide: Optimizing WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Applications with Cloud Intelligence Dashboards IT teams managing hundreds or thousands of Amazon WorkSpaces face a critical challenge controlling costs while maintaining optimal user experience across their virtual desktop infrastructure. Without deep visibility into usage patterns, session data, and resource utilization, organizations struggle to identify cost optimization opportunities, spot inactive workspaces, and make informed decisions about AutoStop versus AlwaysOn configurations. [...]

📰 New article by Christian O'Donoghue

AWS End User Computing (EUC) Dashboard Guide: Optimizing WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Applications with Cloud Intelligence Dashboards

#AWS #DesktopStreaming #ApplicationStreaming

Announcing the end-of-support for the AWS Copilot CLI We are announcing that AWS Copilot CLI will reach end of support on June 12, 2026. Copilot simplified building, releasing, and operating production-ready containerized applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or AWS App Runner by providing a command-line interface (CLI) tool. While AWS Copilot CLI will continue to be available as an open-source project on GitHub, it will no longer receive new features or security updates from AWS.

📰 New article by Sushanth Mangalore, Bhupendra Washishtha

Announcing the end-of-support for the AWS Copilot CLI

#AWS #Containers

How AWS powers Dramaze AI-enhanced streaming platform Netmedias recently launched Dramaze.com, a groundbreaking freemium video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platform that brings short-form drama episodes to audiences across Asia and the Middle East. In an increasingly competitive streaming landscape where content localization and rapid scaling are critical for success, the company faced the challenge of delivering culturally relevant entertainment while maintaining operational efficiency and [...]

📰 New article by Jeffrey Lewis, Subin Hutton

How AWS powers Dramaze AI-enhanced streaming platform

#AWS #Media

📰 New article by Greg Breen, Mike Garbuz, Farzad Khodadadi, Mike Lee

The data behind the win: How Catapult and AWS IoT are transforming pro sports

#AWS #IoT

Three questions to build workforce readiness for AI transformation with Pluralsight For years, boardroom conversations about AI focused on whether the technology was ready to be rolled out into production environments. Although AI seems to be everywhere today, an estimated 80% of AI pilots still fail to reach production. One important reason for this breakdown is that workforces aren’t adequately prepared to adopt the technology. Pluralsight [...]

📰 New article by AWS Public Sector Blog Team

Three questions to build workforce readiness for AI transformation with Pluralsight

#AWS #PublicSector

AWS completes the 2026 annual Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) certification audit We’re excited to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed the annual Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) certification audit to operate as a Tier 1 Cloud Service Provider (CSP) for the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. This alignment with DESC requirements demonstrates our continued commitment to adhere to the heightened expectations for CSPs. Government [...]

📰 New article by Tariro Dongo

AWS completes the 2026 annual Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) certification audit

#AWS #Security #Identity #Compliance

Standardizing construct properties with AWS CDK Property Injection Standardizing CDK construct properties across a large organization requires repetitive manual effort that scales poorly as teams and repositories grow. Development teams working with AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) must apply the same configuration properties across similar resources to meet security, compliance, and operational standards but manual configuration leads to drift, maintenance burden, and [...]

📰 New article by Marco Frattallone

Standardizing construct properties with AWS CDK Property Injection

#AWS #DevOps #DeveloperProductivity

Adding a voice layer to WhatsApp conversations with AWS End User Messaging With AWS End User Messaging, businesses can now enable both voice note input and voice note responses on WhatsApp. In this blog post, we explore why voice notes matter, where they make a difference, and how AWS helps you enable them through a sample voice note messaging solution.

📰 New article by Pavlos Ioannou Katidis

Adding a voice layer to WhatsApp conversations with AWS End User Messaging

#AWS #Messaging #Targeting

Drive organizational growth with Amazon Lex multi-developer CI/CD pipeline In this post, we walk through a multi-developer CI/CD pipeline for Amazon Lex that enables isolated development environments, automated testing, and streamlined deployments. We show you how to set up the solution and share real-world results from teams using this approach.

📰 New article by Grazia Russo Lassner, Ken Erwin

Drive organizational growth with Amazon Lex multi-developer CI/CD pipeline

#AWS #AI #MachineLearning

Building custom model provider for Strands Agents with LLMs hosted on SageMaker AI endpoints This post demonstrates how to build custom model parsers for Strands agents when working with LLMs hosted on SageMaker that don’t natively support the Bedrock Messages API format. We’ll walk through deploying Llama 3.1 with SGLang on SageMaker using awslabs/ml-container-creator, then implementing a custom parser to integrate it with Strands agents.

📰 New article by Dan Ferguson

Building custom model provider for Strands Agents with LLMs hosted on SageMaker AI endpoints

#AWS #AI #MachineLearning

Bridge legacy and modern applications with Amazon S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx Organizations rely on file storage accessed from traditional, file-based, applications while simultaneously wanting to build modern, cloud-native applications and services that access the same underlying data. Consequently, many cloud-native apps are built to work with Amazon S3. Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a new capability, S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx which solves challenges [...]

📰 New article by Aaron Dailey, Luke Miller

Bridge legacy and modern applications with Amazon S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx

#AWS #Storage

Game on: AWS takes over City View at METREON for GDC 2026 Amazon Web Services (AWS) is taking over the iconic City View at METREON for this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) Festival of Gaming for exclusive events, demos, and gameplay experiences. As the annual conference celebrates its 40th year in San Francisco, CA, AWS will dive deep into the technologies and trends transforming the future of [...]

📰 New article by Jeff Harris

Game on: AWS takes over City View at METREON for GDC 2026

#AWS #GameTech