The Tech Radar - Issue #01 (April 2025)

Imagine being able to get complex insights about our planet — like the impacts of hurricanes or best locations for city infrastructure — simply by asking Gemini. Geospat…

Learn how Google DeepMind and Google Cloud are helping to bring a cinema classic to larger-than-life in Las Vegas.

Here’s a look at what we announced at Google Cloud Next 25.

Enterprise customers are coming to Google Cloud to transform their businesses with AI, and many are turning to our seasoned experts at Google Cloud Consulting to help implement these innovations. Working alongside our many partners, Google Cloud Consulting teams are helping customers identify the right use cases for AI , deliver them safely and securely, and then generate strong ROI .

Today we are announcing that Gemini will be available on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), bringing Google’s most capable models to on-premises environments, with public preview starting in Q3 2025. To do so, we’ve partnered with NVIDIA to bring our Gemini models to NVIDIA Blackwell systems that you can purchase through Google or your preferred channels.

Today at Google Cloud Next, we announced four big updates for generative media within Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s fully-managed, unified AI development platform:Lyria, Goo…

Today at Google Cloud Next, we’re announcing even more features in Google Agentspace to make creating and adopting agents simpler. Starting today, customers can give emp…

Imagine this common scenario: you have a detailed product requirements document for your next project. Instead of reading the whole document and manually starting to code (or defining test cases or API specifications) to implement the required functions, you want to see how AI can shorten your path from the requirements document to a working application prototype.

How is generative AI actually impacting developers' daily work, team dynamics, and organizational outcomes? We've moved beyond simply asking if organizations are using AI, and instead are focusing on how they're using it. That’s why we’re excited to share DORA's Impact of Generative AI in Software Development report. Based on extensive data and developer interviews, the report moves beyond the hype to offer perspective on AI’s impact on individuals, teams, and organizations.

Dolphin researchers are using Gemma and Google Pixel phones to try to decipher how dolphins talk to one another.

We’re introducing Ironwood, our seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) designed to power the age of generative AI inference.

Go behind the scenes on the development of Google Cloud WAN, now available to external customers for the first time.

Go behind the scenes in this new Lab Session and learn how Indian music icon Shankar Mahadevan used Music AI Sandbox to help create the song ''Rubaroo''.

Learn more about NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature and its expansion to more than 50 languages.

At Lowe's, we are always striving to make the shopping experience more enjoyable and convenient for our customers. A common challenge we’ve identified is that many shoppers visit our ecommerce site or mobile application without a clear idea of what they want but believe that they will recognize the right product when they see it. To address this issue and enhance the shopping journey, we introduced Visual Scout — an interactive way to explore the product catalog and quickly find products of...

Cybersecurity is facing a unique moment, where AI-enhanced threat intelligence, products, and services are poised to give defenders an advantage over the threats they face that’s proven elusive — until now. To empower security teams and business leaders in the AI era, and to help organizations proactively combat evolving threats, today at RSA Conference we’re sharing Mandiant’s latest M-Trends report findings, and announcing enhancements across Google Unified Security, our product portfolio,...

The daily grind of sifting through endless alerts and repetitive tasks is burdening security teams. Too often, defenders struggle to keep up with evolving threats, but the rapid pace of AI advancement means it doesn’t have to be that way. Today at the RSA Conference, as we introduce M-Trends 2025 and discuss how we’re boosting defenders , we’re also detailing our vision for how AI agents can help security operations.

Gaining comprehensive visibility into threats across your entire digital landscape is paramount for security teams. We’re excited to bring our capabilities, products, and expertise to the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco, where you can learn more about our latest innovations, and where we’ll be sharing insight from this year’s highly-anticipated M-Trends report .

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2025. Today, Google Cloud Security’s Peter Bailey reviews our top 27 security announcements from Next ‘25. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog . If you’re reading this on the website and you’d like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here .

Today at Google Cloud Next, we are announcing Google Unified Security, new security agents, and innovations across our security portfolio designed to deliver stronger security outcomes and enable every organization to make Google a part of their security team. Introducing Google Unified Security Enterprise infrastructure continues to grow in size and complexity, expanding the attack surface, and making defenders’ jobs increasingly difficult.

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2025. Today, Archana Ramamoorthy, senior director of product management, Google Cloud, explains our approach to digital sovereignty and we believe strongly in meeting this vital customer need. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog . If you’re reading this on the website and you’d like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here .

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 75 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2024, a decrease from the number we identified in 2023 (98 vulnerabilities), but still an increase from 2022 (63 vulnerabilities). We divided the reviewed vulnerabilities into two main categories: end-user platforms and products (e.g.

One of the ways threat actors keep up with the constantly evolving cyber defense landscape is by raising the level of sophistication of their attacks. This trend can be seen across many of our engagements, particularly when responding to China-nexus groups. These actors have demonstrated the ability to create custom malware ecosystems , identify and use zero-day vulnerabilities in security and other appliances , leverage proxy networks akin to botnets, target edge devices and platforms that...

In October 2024, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed a novel phishing campaign targeting European government and military organizations that was attributed to a suspected Russia-nexus espionage actor we track as UNC5837. The campaign employed signed .rdp file attachments to establish Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections from victims' machines.

On Thursday, April 3, 2025, Ivanti disclosed a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2025-22457, impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (“ICS”) VPN appliances version 22.7R2.5 and earlier. CVE-2025-22457 is a buffer overflow vulnerability, and successful exploitation would result in remote code execution. Mandiant and Ivanti have identified evidence of active exploitation in the wild against ICS 9.X (end of life) and 22.7R2.

Since our September 2024 report outlining the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) IT worker threat , the scope and scale of their operations has continued to expand. These individuals pose as legitimate remote workers to infiltrate companies and generate revenue for the regime. This places organizations that hire DPRK IT workers at risk of espionage, data theft, and disruption.

Today at Google Cloud Next we announced updates and new tools for Gemini in Workspace.To start, we're bringing audio capabilities directly into Google Docs so you’ll be …

The web browser has become the heart of how we work. And while AI gives new opportunities to change how work is done, cyber threats and insider risks continue to evolve and make it harder than ever for companies to protect corporate data. The browser remains a prime spot to introduce helpful and secure AI, and we’re continuing to harden the protections for employees as they do more work on the web.

Our latest Google Workspace feature drop is here with new tools to help you collaborate, stay on top of your to-do list and do your best work. Plus, this latest update h…

When it came to IT security, Wake Forest University had relied on a fragmented approach, using a legacy identity provider alongside Google Workspace for Education. This …

Today we announced new features for Google Slides, making it easier to create visually stunning presentations. Here’s what’s new:Workspace recently announced that they’r…

These are some of this months new features and improvements for Google Workspace: Express yourself and quickly respond to emails with emojis reactions in Gmail; Expanding Google Vids to Business Starter, Enterprise Starter and Nonprofit customers; Use NotebookLM to generate Audio Overviews more than 50 languages; Enhance Your Organization’s Security with Out-of-Domain File Warnings in Google Workspace; Introducing Frontline Plus: Enhanced Security and AI features for Frontline Workers; Data...

These are some of this months new features and improvements for Google Workspace: Updates for configuring your preferred language for “Take notes for me”, recorded captions, and meeting transcripts; Introducing the ability to grade and assign grading labels in bulk in Google Classroom; Control Workspace Business and Enterprise users’ access to new Google Workspace with Gemini features before general availability; Introducing silent reading mode in Google Classroom’s Read Along; Google Classroom.

These are some of this months new features and improvements for Google Workspace: Save time making changes or updates to AI voiceovers in Google Vids; Preview summaries in the Google Chat home view now available in three additional languages; Reference your Google Calendar using Gemini in the side panel of Gmail in additional languages; Create and manage grading periods using the Google Classroom API; Educators can now upload content to Read Along in Google Classroom; Help me write in Gmail now.

According to Gartner®, “Gartner clients now report that 90% or more of their time is spent preparing data (as high as 94% in complex industries) for advanced analytics, data science and data engineering.” 1 . Last year, we introduced BigQuery data preparation , which helps data analyst teams wrangle data with help from Gemini in BigQuery. With it, the tedious task of data preparation becomes a breeze as Gemini analyzes your data and schema, and offers context-aware suggestions for cleaning,...

Breaking down the data silos between IT (business data) and OT (industrial data) is critical for manufacturers seeking to harness the power of AI for competitive advantage. This week, at Hannover Messe , Google Cloud is excited to announce the latest release of its signature solution, Manufacturing Data Engine , to help manufacturers unlock the full potential of their operational data and drive AI transformation on-and-off the factory floor faster.

At Google Cloud, we’re continuously working on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) scalability so it can run increasingly demanding workloads. Recently, we announced that GKE can support a massive 65,000-node cluster , up from 15,000 nodes. This signals a new era of possibilities, especially for AI workloads and their ever-increasing demand for large-scale infrastructure.

For over 25 years, Google has pushed the boundaries of the network, with innovations that connect billions of users around the world to essential services like Gmail, YouTube, and Search. At the foundation lies Google's vast backbone network . With 202 points of presence (PoPs), powered by over 2 million miles of fiber, 33 subsea cables, and backed by a 99.99% reliability SLA, Google's network provides a robust and resilient global platform.

As an object storage service, Google Cloud Storage is popular for its simplicity and scale, a big part of which is due to the stateless REST protocols that you can use to read and write data. But with the rise of AI and as more customers look to run data-intensive workloads, two major obstacles to using object storage are its higher latency and lack of file-oriented semantics.

When it comes to AI, inference is where today’s generative AI models can solve real-world business problems. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is seeing increasing adoption of gen AI inference. For example, customers like HubX run inference of image-based models to serve over 250k images/day to power gen AI experiences, and Snap runs AI inference on GKE for its ad ranking system. However, there are challenges when deploying gen AI inference.

For decades, businesses have wrestled with unlocking the true potential of their data for real-time operations. Bigtable , Google Cloud's pioneering NoSQL database, has been the engine behind massive-scale, low-latency applications that operate at a global scale. It was purpose-built for the challenges faced in real-time applications, and remains a key piece of Google infrastructure, including YouTube and Ads .

Yesterday’s databases aren‘t sufficient for tomorrow’s applications, which need to deliver dynamic, AI-driven experiences at unpredictable scale and with zero downtime. To help, at Google Cloud Next 25 , we announced new functionality, improved performance, and migration tooling to simplify modernizing database workloads from MySQL to Spanner , Google Cloud’s horizontally scalable, always-on operational database.

In today's data-driven world, the ability to extract meaningful insights quickly is paramount. Yet, for many, the journey from raw data to actionable intelligence is fraught with challenges. Complex SQL queries, time-consuming iterative analyses, and the gap between technical and non-technical users often hinder progress. BigQuery data canvas is a visual workspace designed to democratize data analysis and empower everyone to unlock the power of their BigQuery data.

In 2023, the Waze platform engineering team transitioned to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Google Cloud's Config Connector (KCC) — and we haven’t looked back since. We embraced Config Connector, an open-source Kubernetes add-on, to manage Google Cloud resources through Kubernetes. To streamline management, we also leverage Config Controller, a hosted version of Config Connector on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), incorporating Policy Controller and Config Sync.

For data scientists and ML engineers, building analysis and models in Python is almost second nature, and Python’s popularity in the data science community has only skyrocketed with the recent generative AI boom. We believe that the future of data science is no longer just about neatly organized rows and columns. For decades, many valuable insights have been locked in images, audio, text, and other unstructured formats.

The traditional drug discovery process involves massive capital investments, prolonged timelines, and is plagued with daunting failure rates. From initial research to obtaining regulatory approval, bringing a new drug to market can take decades. During this time, many drug candidates that had seemed very promising fail to deliver, either due to inefficacy or safety concerns. Only a small fraction of candidates successfully make it through clinical trials and regulatory hurdles.

At Next ’25, we introduced several new innovations within BigQuery, the autonomous data to AI platform. BigQuery ML provides a full range of AI and ML capabilities, enabling you to easily build generative AI and predictive ML applications with BigQuery. The new AI and ML capabilities from BigQuery ML include: a new state-of-the-art pre-trained forecasting model (TimesFM) which drastically simplifies forecasting problems support for generating or extracting structured data with large language...

The rise of AI is revolutionizing data management platforms, where advanced automation, built-in data intelligence, and AI-powered data management are changing how organizations manage traditional tasks like data ingestion, data processing and governance. We’re excited to announce that Google was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Management for Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025 report. In the report, Google received 5 out of 5, the highest score possible, across 13 different criteria.

At Google Cloud Next 25, we expanded the availability of Gemini in Looker , including Conversational Analytics, to all Looker platform users, redefining how line-of-business employees can rapidly gain access to trusted data-driven insights through natural language. Due to the complexity inherent in traditional business intelligence products, which require steep learning curves or advanced SQL knowledge, many potential users who could benefit from BI tools simply don’t.

Today at Google Cloud Next 25, we’re unveiling new geospatial analytics datasets and capabilities from Earth Engine and Google Maps Platform, integrated directly into BigQuery, Google’s unified data to AI platform. As BigQuery users, you know the power of data-driven insights, and these new capabilities will give you new dimensions of analysis, leveraging comprehensive geospatial data, to make better and faster decisions.

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At Google Cloud Next 25, L’Oréal, Reddit, Deutsche Bank and more share how generative AI is creating exciting opportunities across industries.

It’s AWS Summit season! Free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I’ll be attending the AWS Amsterdam Summit and would love to meet you—if you’re planning...

Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 enables the generation of multi-shot videos up to 2-minutes in length and style consistency across shots, and quality and latency improvements over Amazon Nova Reel 1.0.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails introduces enhanced capabilities to help enterprises implement responsible AI at scale, including multimodal toxicity detection, PII protection, IAM policy enforcement, selective policy application, and policy analysis features that customers like Grab, Remitly, and KONE are leveraging to standardize safeguards across generative AI applications.

In this post, we combine Amazon Bedrock Agents and Foursquare APIs to demonstrate how you can use a location-aware agent to bring personalized responses to your users.

Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Prompt Optimization on Amazon Bedrock. With this capability, you can now optimize your prompts for several use cases with a single API call or a click of a button on the Amazon Bedrock console. In this blog post, we discuss how Prompt Optimization improves the performance of large language models (LLMs) for intelligent text processing task in Yuewen Group.

In this post, we explore how Infosys developed Infosys Event AI to unlock the insights generated from events and conferences. Through its suite of features—including real-time transcription, intelligent summaries, and an interactive chat assistant—Infosys Event AI makes event knowledge accessible and provides an immersive engagement solution for the attendees, during and after the event.

Today, we’re happy to announce the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing. In this blog post, we detail various highlights from our internal testing, how you can get started, and point out some caveats and best practices. We encourage you to incorporate Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing into your new and existing generative AI applications.

In this post, we introduced the Open Source Bedrock Agent Evaluation framework, a Langfuse-integrated solution that streamlines the agent development process. We demonstrated how this evaluation framework can be integrated with pharmaceutical research agents. We used it to evaluate agent performance against biomarker questions and sent traces to Langfuse to view evaluation metrics across question types.

Summit season is in full throttle! If you haven’t been to an AWS Summit, I highly recommend you check one out that’s nearby. They are large-scale all-day events where you can attend talks, watch interesting demos and activities, connect with AWS and industry people, and more. Best of all, they are free—so all you need...

Writer's Palmyra X5 and X4 models in Amazon Bedrock features extensive context windows and enterprise-grade security for building sophisticated AI applications across multiple industries.

In this post, we demonstrate model customization (fine-tuning) for tool use with Amazon Nova. We first introduce a tool usage use case, and gave details about the dataset. We walk through the details of Amazon Nova specific data formatting and showed how to do tool calling through the Converse and Invoke APIs in Amazon Bedrock. After getting the baseline results from Amazon Nova models, we explain in detail the fine-tuning process, hosting fine-tuned models with provisioned throughput, and...

Meta's newest AI models, Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B, are now available as fully managed, serverless models in Amazon Bedrock, offering natively multimodal capabilities with enhanced reasoning, image understanding, and extended context processing for enterprise applications across multiple industries.

In this post, we present an LLM migration paradigm and architecture, including a continuous process of model evaluation, prompt generation using Amazon Bedrock, and data-aware optimization. The solution evaluates the model performance before migration and iteratively optimizes the Amazon Nova model prompts using user-provided dataset and objective metrics.

This post demonstrates how AWS LLM League’s gamified enablement accelerates partners’ practical AI development capabilities, while showcasing how fine-tuning smaller language models can deliver cost-effective, specialized solutions for specific industry needs.

In this post, we explore how AWS services can be seamlessly integrated with open source tools to help establish a robust red teaming mechanism within your organization. Specifically, we discuss Data Reply’s red teaming solution, a comprehensive blueprint to enhance AI safety and responsible AI practices.

Many AWS Organizations customers begin by creating and manually applying service control policies (SCPs) and resource control policies (RCPs) through the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) when they first set up their environments. However, as the organization grows and the number of policies increases, this manual approach can become cumbersome. It can...

Wicked6 Cyber Games 2025 brought hundreds of women together worldwide from March 28–30. This dynamic virtual competition, sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS), helped attendees tackle real-world cybersecurity challenges through e-sports experiences. With 72 hours of women talking about cybersecurity, 11 cybersecurity games, and an attack and defense tournament streamed live, the weekend-long event highlighted...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the release of new Security Reference Architecture (SRA) code examples for securing generative AI workloads. The examples include two comprehensive capabilities focusing on secure model inference and RAG implementations, covering a wide range of security best practices using AWS generative AI services. These new code examples are...

Note: This post was first published April 21, 2016. The updated version aligns with the latest version of AWS WAF (AWS WAF v2) and includes screenshots that reflect the changes in the AWS console experience. AWS WAF Classic has been deprecated and will be end-of-life (EOL) in September 2025. This update describes how to use...

OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group is currently drafting a new specification (version 1.0, draft 03 at the time of publication) and associated standard mechanisms, protocols, and formats to communicate authorization-related information between components involved in access control and authorization. Today, we’re publishing an open-source reference implementation demonstrating seamless integration between an AuthZEN-compliant policy enforcement point...

AWS Network Firewall is a managed, stateful network firewall and intrusion detection and prevention service. It allows you to implement security rules for fine-grained control of your VPC network traffic. In this blog post, we discuss flow capture and flow flush, new features of AWS Network Firewall that enhance network visibility and security policy enforcement.

Today’s organizations rely heavily on secure and reliable communication channels and digital certificates play a crucial role in securing internal and external-facing infrastructure by establishing trust and enabling encrypted communication. While public certificates are commonly used to secure internet applications, many organizations prefer private certificates for internal resources to maintain confidentiality and enable custom configurations...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful renewal of the United Kingdom Cyber Essentials Plus certification. The Cyber Essentials Plus certificate is valid for one year until March 21, 2026. Cyber Essentials Plus is a UK Government-backed, industry-supported certification scheme intended to help organizations demonstrate organizational cybersecurity against common cybersecurity threats. An...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that the latest hybrid post-quantum key agreement standards for TLS have been deployed to three AWS services. Today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), and AWS Secrets Manager endpoints now support Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) for hybrid post-quantum key agreement in non-FIPS endpoints...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the successful completion of the Cloud Security Assurance Program (CSAP) low-tier certification for the AWS Seoul (ICN) Region for the very first time. The certification is valid for a period of five years, from March 28, 2025 to March 27, 2030. The Cloud Security Assurance Program (CSAP)

IAM Roles Anywhere is a feature of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) that enables you to use X.509 certificates from your public key infrastructure (PKI) to request temporary Amazon Web Services (AWS) security credentials. By using IAM Roles Anywhere, your workloads, applications, containers, or devices that run external to AWS can access AWS resources and perform tasks like...

This post was co-written with Ariana Lopez, Sr. Partner Solution Architect at AWS; Scott Weber, Managing Director at PwC US and AWS Ambassador; Justin Guse, Director at PwC US and AWS Ambassador; and Joshua Sarkis, Senior Associate at PwC US. Building environments to meet various industry regulations and regulated workloads can be a complex task,

This blog post was written by Yasunori Kirimoto – CEO of MIERUNE Building geospatial applications requires expertise in handling geospatial data, as well as designing and developing systems. It also requires skills in collecting and managing vast amounts of geospatial data and using it effectively within the application. This process can be very labor intensive,

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Contact-Center-As-A-Service Platforms, Q2 2025. We believe this recognition underscores the continued evolution and strength of Amazon Connect, our cloud-based contact center solution, since its launch in 2017. This report evaluates the 10 most significant CCaaS providers based on Forrester’s comprehensive research criteria. In this...

Agents are critical components of any contact center, and it is essential for organisations to provide them with the right tools for success. By supporting agents effectively, companies not only improve the agent experience but also enhance the end-customer experience. To address this need, Amazon Connect offers Amazon Q in Connect, a generative AI assistant...

As businesses increasingly rely on SMS messaging to engage customers, AWS End User Messaging is enhancing its SMS Protect feature to now include automated message filtering based on the risk of Artificially Inflated Traffic (AIT) from each message request. This new capability helps protect against AIT, also known as SMS pumping. AIT occurs when malicious...

I. Introduction AWS End User Messaging has made updates to how it handles SMS origination identities. These changes impact Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) and Amazon Pinpoint, which allow sending SMS messages. The updates aim to provide security, flexibility, and control over SMS messaging for AWS users. For companies and developers using AWS for sending...

Global SMS messaging with consistent Sender ID branding requires configuring the same Sender ID across multiple countries, which is a time-consuming process for businesses operating internationally. In this post, we’ll show you how to automate the configuration of Sender IDs for countries that do not have registration requirements using the AWS End User Messaging v2...

This blog post is the fourth in a four-part series series to provide you a step-by-step guide on how to optimize costs throughout an AWS Rehost migration, specifically: Exploring your cost components and on-premises environment. Building an accurate business case during the assess phase. Understanding and controlling cloud spend during the mobilize phase. Optimizing costs...

Increasing developer productivity has been a persistent challenge for senior leaders over the past decades. With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), a new wave of innovation is transforming how software teams work. Generative AI tools like Amazon Q Developer are emerging as game-changers, supporting developers across the entire software development lifecycle. But how...

In this post, we highlight often overlooked architectural designs and the inherent features of Aurora that optimize costs when deploying an open source database. The following sections examine various use cases, contrasting typical self-managed database configurations and their associated costs with the equivalent solution on Aurora, highlighting potential cost savings and operational efficiencies.

AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) empowers you to adopt chaos engineering at scale within your AWS environment. Chaos engineering injects real-world, controlled failures into a system to verify resilience and reliability, ultimately improving the customer experience. This proactive, resilience-focused approach increases your confidence in a system’s ability to respond to adverse conditions in production. You...

Welcome to part two of our series where we focus on scaling AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) within your organization. In part one, we learned how customers can enable individual accounts within organizations by introducing a Service Control Policies (SCPs) rule to run network experiments when operating with a centralized networking infrastructure. In this blog,

In the first two parts of our series, we explored how to scale AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) across AWS Organizations. Part one focused on implementing FIS in a single AWS account environment, introducing the concept of standardized IAM roles and Service Control Policies (SCPs) as guardrails for controlled chaos engineering experiments, particularly in centralized...

Customers have long turned to IBM’s Maximo Application Suite (MAS) as their enterprise asset management (EAM) solution. It’s designed to help organizations efficiently manage their physical assets, such as buildings, vehicles, and equipment, throughout their lifecycle. Maximo provides a unified platform with tools for maintenance management, inventory management, procurement, and work order management. MAS supports...

As data grows exponentially, organizations running Oracle databases prioritize minimizing backup time and quicker recovery times in the event of disasters. Oracle databases on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) often configure an Oracle Fast Recovery Area (FRA) to fulfil data protection, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements. The FRA is a centralized, Oracle-managed storage location that streamlines...

Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in the command line interface (CLI). Developers can connect external data sources to Amazon Q Developer CLI with MCP support for more context-aware responses. By integrating MCP tools and prompts into Q Developer CLI, you get access to an expansive list of pre-built integrations...

This post is co-written with Matthew Kozlowski from Stericycle, Inc. Discover how a five Person infrastructure team migrated 450+ servers for 24/7 operations, achieving cost savings and efficiency gains. This case study reveals their successful strategy. Stericycle, Inc. has been protecting what matters since 1989. Headquartered in Bannockburn, Illinois, this leader in compliance-based solutions serves...

Capacity Blocks for ML (CBML) are a powerful feature that allows you to reserve highly sought-after GPU based EC2 instances for a future date to support your short-duration machine learning (ML) workloads. Since the reservations are “for a future date” you must have a mechanism to launch the instances that you have paid for and place jobs onto them at that specific time. This is where AWS Batch comes in.

Effective August 1, 2025, AWS will standardize billing for the initialization (INIT) phase across all AWS Lambda function configurations. This change specifically affects on-demand invocations of Lambda functions packaged as ZIP files that use managed runtimes, for which the INIT phase duration was previously unbilled. This update standardizes billing of the INIT phase across all runtime types, deployment packages, and invocation modes.

Introduced at re:Invent 2022, SnapStart is a performance optimization that makes it easier to build highly responsive and scalable applications using AWS Lambda. The largest contributor to startup latency (often referred to as cold-start time) is the time spent initializing a function. This post discusses ‘Priming’, a technique to further optimize startup times for AWS Lambda functions built using Java and Spring Boot.

AWS announced new capabilities in AWS Budgets that provides greater flexibility in how you track and manage your AWS spend. These enhancements include support for additional cost metrics (net unblended costs and net amortized costs), an ability to exclude specific dimension values when creating budgets (such as services, accounts, and instance types), new filtering capabilities for charge types for fine-grained control to include or exclude AWS Savings Plans (SPs) or Reservation (RI) upfront...

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of just-in-time node access, a new capability in AWS Systems Manager. Just-in-time node access enables dynamic, time-bound access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), on-premises, and multicloud nodes managed by AWS Systems Manager. It uses a policy-based approval process, allowing you to remove long-standing access while...

Discover how AWS re/Start and Momentum are creating pathways for women in tech through their collaborative workforce development program. Learn about the upcoming opportunities to engage with newly certified AWS Certified Cloud Practitioners and how your organization can contribute to building a more inclusive tech future while strengthening your technical teams.

Today, Amazon Web Services is proud to reaffirm our commitment to providing vital infrastructure for free and open source software projects. One of the ways we are doing this is with an extended $3 million annual commitment to the Kubernetes project, the container orchestration platform which underpins the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). We’re...

Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of warehouse efficiency, inventory planning, and supply chain management, Amazon continues to innovate with its Fulfillment Center (FC) model. Amazon offers free in-person and virtual tours at select locations worldwide, to introduce the people, technology, and processes behind customer order preparation. Amazon Tour allows customers to see different types...

Discover how AWS Training and Certification resources can accelerate your cloud migration journey by addressing key challenges across assessment, mobilization, and modernization phases. Learn how to equip your teams with essential cloud skills while building organizational alignment and technical expertise needed for a successful AWS migration.

The virtualization of electronic control units (ECUs) and the applications they support has become a cornerstone of innovation in the automotive industry. Continental is redefining embedded software development by taking the development and testing of ECU software and decoupling it from the constraints of physical hardware. Virtualization opens the door to parallelizing hardware and software...

Introduction In today’s fast-paced financial markets, the sheer volume and velocity of news pose significant challenges for investors, traders, and financial institutions. The ability to quickly process, analyze, and act on relevant information can mean the difference between seizing opportunities and falling behind. This blog post introduces an innovative solution that leverages Amazon Bedrock to...

In this post, we identify the components of an efficient architecture review process, define what an ARB is, and describe how to build and operate an effective enterprise ARB.

Snowflake Corporate IT Cloud Operations reached a critical juncture in its cloud infrastructure evolution. Managing large-scale containerized workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) demanded a modern, secure, and efficient operating system. The existing setup, running on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2), was functional but presented several challenges. Security hardening required frequent updates and patching,

The Transformation of Vehicle Experiences Vehicle experiences are undergoing a fundamental transformation as generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities create opportunities for more natural, intelligent interactions. Modern vehicles are evolving into sophisticated environments where occupants expect seamless, personalized experiences that span navigation, entertainment, gaming, safety, and comfort. These experiences must adapt to user preferences, anticipate needs,

Modern cloud architectures demand a new governance approach. In this post, we show how collaborative architecture oversight can transform team performance through automation, self-service platforms, and distributed decision-making.

In April 2025, we launched 14 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including 9 new AWS Builder Labs, 4 new Digital Classroom courses, and a new game-based learning offering, AWS Skill Builder Trivia, an immersive learning tool that enables you to create dynamic, multiplayer trivia quizzes for live training sessions and events.

Learn all about AWS Skill Builder Trivia, a new tool that transforms knowledge reinforcement into a fun, competitive experience. Designed to create and deliver real-time multi-participant competitions, AWS Skill Builder Trivia offers an interactive format for knowledge checks, icebreakers, and team challenges that strengthen understanding of key cloud concepts.

The development of a new mine is a long process. Figures from S&P Global1 show that the average lead time is now extended to over 15 years from discovery to operations. To meet soaring demand for critical minerals, the mining industry is increasingly targeting previously mined or explored areas, and re-evaluating viability of these deposits...

Introduction Each year, hundreds of thousands of children across America receive critical care. For these young patients, brain injury poses a serious risk that can lead to long-term health complications. Now, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop an innovative solution that...

Join UVA students as they dive into cloud computing and cybersecurity through an innovative bootcamp at AWS Skills Center Arlington. Learn how this comprehensive program combines hands-on learning, industry networking, and AWS certification prep to launch tech careers, and discover how AWS Skills Centers are making similar opportunities accessible to learners everywhere.