AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)

By Dustin Ward

Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable 5.1 is built for long-running, high-stakes work that runs for hours and spans many applications. It can own more of a software project on its…

Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment

By Dustin Ward

Summary The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into production. Enterprise AI is moving into production, and our customers are becoming multi-model. Organizations will use frontier models where capability matters, and smaller, specialized, and open-weight…

How Microsoft’s Physical Security Engineering Team scaled hybrid operations with Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop

By Dustin Ward

When a physical security operator begins a shift supporting Microsoft’s global datacenter operations, they depend on a collection of applications and systems that help monitor access activity, review video feeds, investigate alerts, and coordinate physical security operations across a complex global environment. Those tools must be available, responsive, and reliable from the moment a shift…

Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS

By Dustin Ward

As organizations accelerate AI adoption and modernize their digital estates, applications, data, and infrastructure increasingly span multiple cloud environments. Customers are choosing the best platform for each workload, leveraging unique capabilities across providers to drive innovation, resilience, and business agility. Yet while multicloud strategies have become commonplace, networking between cloud environments remains complex. Establishing private…