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AWS CEO Matt Garman discusses Amazon's plan to hire 11,000 interns and junior employees, emphasizing the company's long-term investment in early-career talent to build a strong pipeline for the future, even as AI reshapes the tech industry and workforce needs.

AWS Hero team shares how three people managed 6,000 AWS accounts using a single platform. The article covers lessons on automation, governance, and centralized account management at scale.

Users report that AWS CloudWatch Logs in the Console shows "There are no log groups" despite log groups existing, affecting at least us-east-1 and us-west-2. The AWS Health Dashboard does not list this issue, while other CloudWatch resources like dashboards and alarms appear normal.

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service for building event-driven applications. It connects AWS services, integrated SaaS partners, and custom apps by routing events to targets like Lambda or Step Functions, with schema registry and filtering support.

AWS announced it added more data center capacity than any other company in 2025, including 12 gigawatts in the fourth quarter alone, highlighting its continued dominance in cloud infrastructure expansion.

A developer is setting up Mr.Jassy, a read-only AWS butler bot, as a Slack app that runs 'claude -p' inside a Lambda triggered by Slack events, and asks whether this approach is optimal or if a better alternative exists. They also maintain thread context by resuming previous sessions.

Mark Zuckerberg stated that Meta is considering launching a cloud computing business to compete with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, describing the move as "definitely on the table" as the company looks to expand beyond social media and advertising.

Irongate is a serverless authentication solution for AWS that provides a complete auth system using Amazon API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB, handling user sign-up, sign-in, and token management without requiring dedicated server infrastructure.

AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by custom-built AWS Graviton5 processors. These instances offer up to 30% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based C8g instances, making them suitable for compute-intensive workloads like HPC, gaming, and media processing.

AWS announced updates to service availability across its global infrastructure, including new Region expansions and service launches. The changes aim to provide customers with lower latency, greater resilience, and broader geographic coverage for AWS cloud services.

Amazon Linux 2 reaches end of life (EOL) today, as confirmed by AWS. Users are encouraged to migrate to Amazon Linux 2023 for continued support and security updates.

Amazon Web Services is investing $1 billion to create a new AI unit that will embed engineers directly with customers to help them adopt and integrate artificial intelligence technologies.

This guide details a methodology for migrating PostgreSQL databases from on-premises servers to AWS Cloud with zero downtime, covering replication, schema migration, and cutover strategies.

AWS has joined the MySQL Steering Committee alongside Oracle and Google Cloud, marking a move toward more open governance for the MySQL community. The committee will oversee the development and direction of the MySQL project, aiming to foster broader collaboration among key stakeholders.

A visual AWS infrastructure builder that generates Terraform code has been launched. The tool allows users to design cloud architectures through a graphical interface and automatically produce corresponding Terraform configurations.

The article introduces a tool called InfraViewer that helps detect drift between AWS infrastructure and Terraform configuration files, alerting users when the actual cloud environment differs from the declared state.

WebbyNode reports that AWS and Google Cloud both experienced network failures on the same path between Seoul and Seoul, highlighting a shared infrastructure vulnerability or routing issue affecting major cloud providers in the region.

AWS CEO Matt Garman discusses Amazon's decision to hire 11,000 interns and junior employees, emphasizing the company's commitment to investing in early-career talent and developing the next generation of technologists. He explains that while AI will automate certain tasks, it will also create new opportunities, and human skills like creativity and problem-solving remain crucial.

AWS RDS Extended Support allows users to stay on end-of-life database versions for an additional fee. The pricing depends on the database engine and instance size, with costs increasing over time. This option is designed for users who need extra time to plan migrations away from older versions.

AWS RDS Free Tier offers 750 hours per month of db.t3.micro instances for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and SQL Server Express, along with 20 GB of storage and automated backups. The tier is designed for learning, development, and low-traffic applications, but exceeding usage limits incurs standard costs.

The AWS CloudShell CLI is a command-line tool that provides an interactive shell environment for managing AWS CloudShell sessions, enabling users to start, stop, and manage CloudShell environments directly from their terminal without needing the AWS Console.

Anthropic has expanded the Claude Desktop app to run on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry, allowing enterprise customers to access the full Claude experience—including Projects and Artifacts—through their preferred cloud platforms while maintaining data security and compliance requirements.

The article compares Databricks and AWS native managed services for large-scale data workloads, focusing on a 20TB use case. It examines factors like cost, performance, ease of use, and ecosystem integration to help users decide which platform best fits their specific needs and data architecture.

A developer showcases a more Pythonic AWS SDK for Python, aiming to provide a more intuitive and idiomatic interface for interacting with AWS services compared to the official boto3 library.

AWS announced AWS Blocks, an open-source framework for composing application back ends on AWS. The framework is designed to help developers build and manage backend services more efficiently using reusable components.

AWS Continuum is an initiative by Amazon Web Services that provides a unified framework for building, deploying, and managing applications across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments. It aims to offer a consistent experience for developers and operators, enabling them to work seamlessly across different infrastructure types using familiar AWS services and tools.

The European Union is reportedly set to classify Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as "gatekeepers" under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This designation would subject the two cloud providers to stricter rules regarding competition, transparency, and data access within the EU's digital market.

Ordered key sharding partitions DynamoDB data into ordered key ranges across shards instead of using hash-based distribution, enabling efficient range queries and ordered scans while preserving write scalability.

Amazon S3 has launched annotations, a new feature that lets users attach rich, queryable metadata directly to their objects. This allows adding structured context like descriptions, tags, or relationships alongside the object data, which can then be searched and filtered using the S3 console or API for improved data discovery and management at scale.

Amazon describes how it built Cedar, a policy language for access control, using automated reasoning to formally verify correctness and differential testing to compare against a reference implementation. The approach helped catch subtle bugs early and ensure the language's safety and reliability before release.