Microsoft recognized once again as a Leader for its Ability to execute and Completeness of vision in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure

By Dustin Ward

Organizations of all sizes are accelerating their digital transformation to leverage cloud-connected experiences and capabilities across diverse use cases. Whether processing data at the source, running mission-critical applications, or ensuring regulatory compliance, extending these capabilities across cloud and edge is essential. However, a significant challenge they face is in maintaining centralized control while reliably deploying these…

AWS Weekly Roundup: Agentic workflows, Amazon Transcribe, AWS Lambda insights, and more (October 21, 2024)

By Dustin Ward

Agentic workflows are quickly becoming a cornerstone of AI innovation, enabling intelligent systems to autonomously handle and refine complex tasks in a way that mirrors human problem-solving. Last week, we launched Serverless Agentic Workflows with Amazon Bedrock, a new short course developed in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI. This hands-on course, taught by…

Leverage Microsoft Azure tools to navigate NIS2 compliance 

By Dustin Ward

Robust cybersecurity measures are vital for organizations to address evolving cyberthreats and navigate regulatory requirements and their impact on compliance strategies. Cybersecurity directives like the Network and Information Security Directive 2 (NIS2) in the European Union provide a baseline of security measures to mitigate risks of cyberthreats and overall level of cybersecurity. As of October…

Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines are now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Today we are announcing the general availability of the new Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines (VMs). These VMs run on Microsoft’s first 64-bit Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, which has been fully designed in-house. They represent a significant milestone in our journey in designing and building out our cloud infrastructure, with optimization and customization across…

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redshift now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Today, I am excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redshift. Zero-ETL integration seamlessly makes transactional or operational data available in Amazon Redshift, removing the need to build and manage complex data pipelines that perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations. It automates the…