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Practical digital sovereignty: Navigating the pillars of compliance, continuity, and control In this series of blog posts, we will examine digital sovereignty and provide practical steps you can apply to your AWS workloads and environments to address the requirements of your business. This post is the first in the series and introduces the topic, exploring the concepts and explaining how you can practically implement them.

📰 New article by Damian Randell, Mohan CV, Mehmet Bakkaloglu

Practical digital sovereignty: Navigating the pillars of compliance, continuity, and control

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From cloud sprawl to strategic success: Cornell University’s cloud service transformation Within a decade of moving to the cloud, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was managing 260 accounts—160 of them on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—at an annual spend of $4 million. As part of what they called a “cloudification initiative,” there had been a major push in the early days to capitalize on opportunities to [...]

📰 New article by Jan Day

From cloud sprawl to strategic success: Cornell University’s cloud service transformation

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Reimagining Windows Forms Applications with Kiro and Blazor In this post, we will show how we used Kiro, an AI-powered IDE (Integrated Development Environment) from AWS, to simplify the process of transforming a Windows Forms application into a modern ASP.NET Core Blazor web application. Windows Forms has been a cornerstone of .NET desktop development since 2002, making it easy to build graphically rich [...]

📰 New article by Stephen Foy, Jagadeesh Chitikesi

Reimagining Windows Forms Applications with Kiro and Blazor

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AWS European Sovereign Cloud achieves first compliance milestone: SOC 2 and C5 reports plus seven ISO certifications In January 2026, we announced the general availability of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new, independent cloud for Europe entirely located within the European Union (EU), and physically and logically separate from all other AWS Regions. The unique approach of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud provides the only fully featured, independently operated sovereign cloud [...]

📰 New article by Julian Herlinghaus, Atulsing Patil, Tea Jioshvili

AWS European Sovereign Cloud achieves first compliance milestone: SOC 2 and C5 reports plus seven ISO certifications

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Enhancing Security Incident Response with AWS Partners: Program updates and capabilities AWS Security Incident Response partners are strengthening customer security posture through new integrations that accelerate incident detection, response, and recovery across AWS environments. With enhanced AI-powered capabilities, expanded partner integrations from industry leaders like CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and SentinelOne, and new consumption-based pricing with a free tier, organizations can now build more robust, scalable incident response programs that reduce mean time to resolution while maintaining comprehensive security controls. Learn how AWS and our Security Incident Response partners are helping customers resolve security incidents faster through coordinated expertise, proven methodologies, and seamless service integrations.

📰 New article by Dean Lawrence

Enhancing Security Incident Response with AWS Partners: Program updates and capabilities

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Security is a team sport: AWS at RSAC 2026 Conference The RSAC 2026 Conference brings together thousands of professionals, practitioners, vendors, and associations to discuss issues covering the entire spectrum of cybersecurity—a place where innovation meets collaboration and the industry’s brightest minds converge to shape its future. This March, Amazon Web Services (AWS) returns to the annual RSAC Conference in San Francisco to share how [...]

📰 New article by Idaliz Seymour

Security is a team sport: AWS at RSAC 2026 Conference

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Reducing costs for shuffle-heavy Apache Spark workloads with serverless storage for Amazon EMR Serverless In this post, we explore the cost improvements we observed when benchmarking Apache Spark jobs with serverless storage on EMR Serverless. We take a deeper look at how serverless storage helps reduce costs for shuffle-heavy Spark workloads, and we outline practical guidance on identifying the types of queries that can benefit most from enabling serverless storage in your EMR Serverless Spark jobs.

📰 New article by Praveen Mohan Prasad, Sekar Srinivasan

Reducing costs for shuffle-heavy Apache Spark workloads with serverless storage for Amazon EMR Serverless

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Optimize HBase reads with bucket caching on Amazon EMR In this post, we demonstrate how to improve HBase read performance by implementing bucket caching on Amazon EMR. Our tests reduced latency by 57.9% and improved throughput by 138.8%. This solution is particularly valuable for large-scale HBase deployments on Amazon S3 that need to optimize read performance while managing costs.

📰 New article by Yu-Ting Su, Anirudh Chawla, Xi Yang

Optimize HBase reads with bucket caching on Amazon EMR

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Automated deployments with GitHub Actions for Amazon ECS Express Mode In this post, we will walk you through building an automated deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions. You will create a workflow that triggers on code changes, builds Docker images, pushes them to Amazon ECR, and deploys to Amazon ECS Express Mode using IAM roles for secure authentication. By the end, you will have a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflow that automatically deploys your application when you push code.

📰 New article by Olawale Olaleye, Guillaume Delacour

Automated deployments with GitHub Actions for Amazon ECS Express Mode

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Supercharge Your IDE: Custom .NET MCP Servers for Amazon Q Developer The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) and the new ecosystem around it have fundamentally changed how developers write, debug, and ship software. What once required hours of context-switching between documentation, Stack Overflow, and IDE windows, can now be accomplished in minutes with AI-assisted development. Tools like Amazon Q Developer bring intelligent code suggestions, automated test [...]

📰 New article by Ramkumar Ramanujam

Supercharge Your IDE: Custom .NET MCP Servers for Amazon Q Developer

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Accelerate custom LLM deployment: Fine-tune with Oumi and deploy to Amazon Bedrock In this post, we show how to fine-tune a Llama model using Oumi on Amazon EC2 (with the option to create synthetic data using Oumi), store artifacts in Amazon S3, and deploy to Amazon Bedrock using Custom Model Import for managed inference.

📰 New article by Bashir Mohammed, Bala Krishnamoorthy, Greg Fina, David Stewart, Matthew Persons

Accelerate custom LLM deployment: Fine-tune with Oumi and deploy to Amazon Bedrock

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Upgrade AWS CLI from v1 to v2 using upgrade debug mode Upgrading from AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) v1 to AWS CLI v2 can be challenging and time-consuming due to changes introduced in AWS CLI v2 that can potentially break your existing workflows. If you don’t properly address breaking changes in your scripts or workflows, then executing these workflows after upgrading to AWS CLI v2 may result in unintended consequences, such as failing commands or misconfiguring resources in your AWS account.

📰 New article by Ahmed Moustafa

Upgrade AWS CLI from v1 to v2 using upgrade debug mode

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AWS Security Hub is expanding to unify security operations across multicloud environments After talking with many customers, one thing is clear: the security challenge has not gotten easier. Enterprises today operate across a complex mix of environments, including on-premises infrastructure, private data centers, and multiple clouds, often with tools that were never designed to work together. The result is enterprise security teams spend more time managing tools [...]

📰 New article by Gee Rittenhouse

AWS Security Hub is expanding to unify security operations across multicloud environments

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Create smart city digital twins using IBM GICA on AWS City leaders and municipal governments face challenges coordinating fragmented operations across departments managing traffic, waste collection, structural monitoring, and citizen services. As municipalities evolve toward smarter urban environments, unified digital representations of infrastructure and services optimize resource allocation and reduce operational costs. IBM Consulting’s GICA (Garnet IoT Context-Aware) solution connects diverse urban data sources—from IoT [...]

📰 New article by Diego Colombatto, Alfonso Peñaranda, Gustavo Nogales Moreno, José Ángel Bermúdez Cortés, Luis Miguel Díaz

Create smart city digital twins using IBM GICA on AWS

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Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano as a fully managed serverless model on Amazon Bedrock We are excited to announce that NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Nano is now available as a fully managed and serverless model in Amazon Bedrock. This follows our earlier announcement at AWS re:Invent supporting NVIDIA Nemotron 2 Nano 9B and NVIDIA Nemotron 2 Nano VL 12B models. This post explores the technical characteristics of the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano model and discusses potential application use cases. Additionally, it provides technical guidance to help you get started using this model for your generative AI applications within the Amazon Bedrock environment.

📰 New article by Aris Tsakpinis, Abdullahi Olaoye, Curtice Lockhart, Nirmal Kumar Juluru, Antonio Rodriguez

Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano as a fully managed serverless model on Amazon Bedrock

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Access Anthropic Claude models in India on Amazon Bedrock with Global cross-Region inference In this post, you will discover how to use Amazon Bedrock’s Global cross-Region Inference for Claude models in India. We will guide you through the capabilities of each Claude model variant and how to get started with a code example to help you start building generative AI applications immediately.

📰 New article by Pavan Kumar Rao Navule, Sudhanshu Hate, Jared Dean, Melanie Li, Saurabh Trikande

Access Anthropic Claude models in India on Amazon Bedrock with Global cross-Region inference

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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

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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

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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

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📰 New article by Kartik Bheemisetty, Dejun Hu

Adaptive sampling with AWS X-Ray to capture critical spans

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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📰 New article by Suhail Fouzan, Bianca Velasco

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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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