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#aws

Amazon has been a steady winner in 2025, even as investors debate how quickly artificial intelligence will translate into dollars for the tech and retail giant. The company operates a massive online marketplace and logistics network, a fast-growing advertising platform embedded across its properties, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's largest cloud infrastructure business. Recent results and guidance point to a company leaning further into its most profitable areas.

For years, Microsoft worked almost exclusively with OpenAI, in which it has invested more than $13 billion. This collaboration gave the company a solid lead in the AI market. However, Microsoft is now opting for a broader approach. Developers involved in the AI features in Office have reportedly found that Anthropic's latest models perform better than OpenAI's in specific tasks, such as automating financial calculations in Excel or creating attractive presentations in PowerPoint.

Legacy code modernization presents significant challenges for organizations looking to stay competitive in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape. Organizations face the dual challenge of maintaining business continuity while modernizing their legacy systems for cloud environments. This transformation requires organizations to carefully navigate between preserving essential business logic and implementing modern architectural patterns. This is where AI-powered development tools can make a transformative impact, as demonstrated in EPAM's recent legacy modernization project using Amazon Q Developer.

The R8i comes in variants from two to 384 vCPUs. Intel offers many Xeon 6 variants with 96 cores, which we mention as AWS counts a vCPU as one thread on an x86 processor. A single 96-core CPU therefore offers 192 EC2 vCPUs, and a two socket-server provides 384 - matching the mightiest of the R8* instance types. The instances also allow users to vary bandwidth configuration so it's allocated differently between network access and connections to Amazon's elastic block store. Doing so can apparently improve database performance.

The AWS Tools for PowerShell v4.x will reach end-of-support on June 1, 2026, where it will only receive critical bug fixes and security updates.

"The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is designed to provide customers with an autonomous cloud that operates independently in Europe and for Europe," the company said in a statement.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recommended that Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) face "targeted and bespoke" interventions to curb harmful competitive behaviours in the UK cloud market.

Pinterest's Hadoop Control Center (HCC) automates the management of Hadoop clusters, transforming manual workflows into a fully automated system that enhances efficiency and scalability.

Developers find AWS Elastic Beanstalk invaluable for deploying web applications without managing infrastructure. You upload code, and it manages scaling, monitoring, and load balancing.

"Our collaboration with Amazon Web Services marks a significant leap forward in integrating advanced AI technologies into our nuclear energy research and development initiatives," INL Director John Wagner said in a press release. "This collaboration underscores the critical role of linking the nation's nuclear energy laboratory with AWS."

AgentCore, part of Amazon Bedrock, addresses security and governance concerns in AI agents while maintaining reliability, allowing agents to operate autonomously.

TimescaleDB is a PostgreSQL extension designed for high-performance real-time analytics on time-series and event data, essentially offering a customized PostgreSQL experience.

Kiro's output also includes a list of services and actual code that's pushed to Git, ensuring that developers have the necessary resources at hand for their projects.

A survey found 82% of PostgreSQL users concerned about cloud region failures, with 21% experiencing such failures in the past year.

A standardized CI/CD pipeline for microservices should address key challenges such as coordinating cross-service releases, managing backward compatibility, and preventing configuration duplication.

"We are thrilled to work with AWS in providing customers with the most advanced, out-of-the-box observability and security monitoring for Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF," said CEO Ariel Assaraf. "Not only can AWS customers affordably monitor far more edge data than before, but they can leverage a modern approach to observability that aligns with today's dynamic infrastructures."

This is the first time we are building such a large-scale training cluster that will allow a customer, in this case Anthropic, to train a single model across all of that infrastructure."

"Create an alias for versioning purposes by clicking on the create alias button and giving it a name before clicking on Create Alias."

Previously, users could only create public certificates within AWS Certificate Manager or import certificates issued by third-party certificate authorities for use with AWS services.

AWS's expansion of GuardDuty's capabilities now includes runtime monitoring for EKS clusters, enhancing threat detection for container-level threats through managed eBPF technology.

For anyone who still has doubts about MFA: just ask Snowflake CISO Brad Jones, who last year saw more than 160 of his customers' accounts compromised using stolen credentials. None of these had MFA enabled, and this safeguard likely would have prevented the intruders from accessing the customers' databases.