Amazon is hosting its annual user conference, re:Invent, this week in Las Vegas. The event brings together AWS practitioners, but also offers Amazon and its partners an opportunity to announce updates across the AWS ecosystem. Here are some of the highlights: Custom transformations in AWS Transform AWS Transform, a platform that can be used to … continue reading
AWS has announced that Lambda is getting a new capability that will help improve the throughput of event-driven applications. Provisioned mode for Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) Event Source Mapping (ESM) allows users to configure dedicated polling resources, allowing events to be processed with lower latency, handle sudden traffic spikes, and maintain precise control … continue reading
AWS and OpenAI today announced a new partnership that will have OpenAI’s workloads running on AWS’s infrastructure. AWS will build compute infrastructure for OpenAI that is optimized for AI processing efficiency and performance. Specifically, the company will cluster NVIDIA GPUs (GB200s and GB300s) on Amazon EC2 UltraServers. OpenAI will commit $38 billion to Amazon over … continue reading
AWS has announced updates to its Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT), its solution that allows customers to track the carbon emissions their AWS usage causes. The CCFT uses the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s classification system that groups emissions into three categories. Scope 1 measures direct emissions, such as those from company facilities or vehicles, while Scope … continue reading
Google adds Data Commons MCP Server, new versions of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite The Data Commons MCP Server allows AI developers to easily access all of Data Commons’ publicly available datasets. It can be accessed via the Gemini CLI or in Google Colab, and Google has a sample agent in Colab as well to … continue reading
AWS has announced the launch of its open source Nova Act extension, which allows developers to build browser automation agents in their IDE, reducing the need to switch between dev and test environments. With the new extension, developers can use natural language to describe their workflow and then the Nova Act extension will generate an … continue reading
OpenAI launches GPT-5 OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-5, which it says is “smarter across the board” compared to previous models. Specifically for coding, GPT-5 achieved significant improvement in complex front-end generation and debugging larger repositories. Early testers said that it made better design choices in terms of spacing, typography, and white space, according to … continue reading
Amazon has announced that Amazon Aurora DSQL is finally generally available after first being introduced as a preview at re:Invent last year. Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database designed for always available applications, featuring capabilities focused on providing scalability, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. Specifically, Amazon claims 99.99% availability in a single … continue reading
Amazon has announced a new agentic coding experience for Amazon Q Developer in Visual Studio Code. “This experience brings interactive coding capabilities, building upon existing prompt-based features. You now have a natural, real-time collaborative partner working alongside you while writing code, creating documentation, running tests, and reviewing changes,” Amazon wrote in a blog post announcing … continue reading
Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share several notable updates around AI that software developers should know about. Docker MCP … continue reading
The integration of AI into the software development life cycle has brought many benefits, but it’s also brought change to the software development role. In the latest episode of our podcast, What the Dev, we interviewed Antje Barth, principal developer advocate for generative AI at AWS, about these changes and the new skills developers need. … continue reading
Piling on to the list of announcements from Amazon at AWS re:Invent, the company announced Amazon Nova, a family of foundation models that promise “frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance.” They can handle typical generative AI tasks, such as analyzing documents and videos, understanding charts, generating video content, or building advanced AI agents. “Whether … continue reading
