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AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)
Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a technical community […]
CISA, NSA, FBI and Partners Warn Zimbra Collaboration Suite Users of Ongoing Russian State-Supported Malicious Threat Activity
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CISA, FBI, EPA and U.S. Government Partners Update Warning of Iran-Affiliated Threat Actors Targeting Critical Infrastructure Programmable Logic Controllers
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AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (July 20, 2026)
Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup groups organized by topic and area that collectively host over 100 events each year, primarily in Seoul. My team regularly visits countries across the Asia-Pacific region, listens to feedback […]
July 2026 Security Release
The July 2026 security release for Next.js is now available
CISA and Partners Publish Guidance to Help Software Manufacturers and Online Service Providers Work With Security Researchers
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CISA Joins NSA, FBI, DC3 and International Partners Warning of Russian Cyber Threat Activity Targeting Communications, Energy, Government and Other Critical Infrastructure Sectors
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Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale
On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center at 1 year, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and more (July 13, 2026)
AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builders’ Library. To mark the anniversary, Rick Suttles published a full feature timeline covering […]
Next.js Security Release and Our Next Patch Release
Next.js is moving to a formal security release process
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS, Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, AWS service availability updates, and more (July 6, 2026)
A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few days with the AWS Startups team, listening to stories of founders talking about the problems they’re actually solving. One story that stayed with me came […]
Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks
Learn how Kubernetes version rollbacks for Amazon EKS let you reverse cluster upgrades within seven days. This new feature provides a safety net for upgrade failures—no cluster rebuilds required—turning Kubernetes version upgrades into a reversible, low-risk operation.
CISA Announces New Advisory Council to Strengthen Partnerships and Secure Critical Infrastructure
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Accelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express mode
AWS CloudFormation speeds up infrastructure deployment with Express mode, enabling AI agents and developers to receive deployment confirmation in seconds and iterate faster. Available in all commercial Regions at no additional cost.
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now available
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5, are now generally available. They deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4-based instances, 5x larger cache, fastest memory of any processor instances in the cloud, and local NVMe storage options (C9gd).
Turbopack: What's New in Next.js 16.3
Turbopack in Next.js 16.3 adds development memory eviction, persistent file cache for builds, experimental Rust React Compiler, and `import.meta.glob` support.
Next.js 16.3: AI Improvements
Actionable errors with paste-ready fix prompts, first-party Skills for the dev loop and Cache Components, and tooling that keeps coding agents in sync with your project.
Next.js 16.3: Instant Navigations
A new suite of tools that brings the responsiveness of a single-page app to the server-centric model of Next.js.