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The future may be 'frustrating' for engineers seeking a 'pure software development career,' AWS VP says

Junior software engineers may increasingly engage with customers rather than solely focusing on coding in isolation.

Startup companies

Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity

eBay pioneered many technologies but ultimately could not save the company despite doubling engineering productivity.

E-Commerce

19 hours ago

Amazon Will Sell You Your Next Car

Amazon Autos offers extensive vehicle options and payment choices, revolutionizing car shopping with geotargeting and online convenience.

Information security

3 hours ago

Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents

Traditional IAM tools are inadequate for managing agent access, which is ephemeral and complex, requiring a new approach to runtime enforcement.

Venture

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10 hours ago

AI datacenter startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation months after hitting $7.5B, says report | TechCrunch

Fluidstack is negotiating a $1 billion funding round at an $18 billion valuation, following a significant partnership with Anthropic.

#amazon

fromModern Retail

10 hours ago

Marketing tech

Amazon hits pause on controversial change to its advertising payment system that had caused a seller revolt

Tech industry

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load

Tech industry

Amazon's Amazing Comeback

DevOps

Amazon creates 'Project Houdini' to make data center delays disappear

Amazon's Project Houdini aims to speed up data center construction by moving processes to factories, addressing AI demand and capacity constraints.

Artificial intelligence

Is AWS Worth More Than All Of Amazon?

AWS generated 56% of Amazon's operating income and shows higher growth and profitability, implying the cloud business warrants a separate, high-valuation treatment.

fromModern Retail

10 hours ago

Marketing tech

Amazon hits pause on controversial change to its advertising payment system that had caused a seller revolt

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load

Amazon's chip business could generate ~$50 billion annually if sold independently, highlighting significant demand and growth potential.

Amazon's Amazing Comeback

Amazon's stock has outperformed the S&P 500, driven by its ambitious AI chip plans and a $200 billion investment in AI.

Amazon creates 'Project Houdini' to make data center delays disappear

Amazon's Project Houdini aims to speed up data center construction by moving processes to factories, addressing AI demand and capacity constraints.

Artificial intelligence

Is AWS Worth More Than All Of Amazon?

Quantum Agile By Codewave Becomes India's first framework for software teams working with AI agents.

Quantum Agile™ is India's first framework for software teams utilizing AI agents, positioning the country as a leader in next-gen software development methodologies.

Data science

Google Cloud introduces QueryData to help AI agents create reliable database queries

QueryData enhances AI agents' accuracy in querying databases by translating natural language into precise database queries.

23 hours ago

Agentic CI/CD is Not Automation: Why the Distinction Will Define DevOps in 2026 - DevOps.com

LLM-powered agents in CI/CD require a governance layer distinct from traditional automation to avoid catastrophic failures.

Amazon Pays You Weekly Now - Here's the ETF Making It Happen

AMZW is designed to provide weekly distributions and calendar week returns equal to 1.2 times the calendar week total return of Amazon common shares, amplifying both upside and risk.

Business

#datacentres

Environment

Go West! US datacentres head for available and cheap energy | Computer Weekly

Datacentre construction in the US is shifting towards central regions, particularly Texas, due to power availability and water use mitigation technologies.

London startup

Datacentre developers tout benefits to local communities, but do they deliver? | Computer Weekly

Datacentre developments are causing challenges for local businesses, raising concerns about energy consumption and community impact despite potential local benefits.

Environment

Go West! US datacentres head for available and cheap energy | Computer Weekly

Datacentre construction in the US is shifting towards central regions, particularly Texas, due to power availability and water use mitigation technologies.

London startup

fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Datacentre developers tout benefits to local communities, but do they deliver? | Computer Weekly

Datacentre developments are causing challenges for local businesses, raising concerns about energy consumption and community impact despite potential local benefits.

more#datacentres

London startup

London's data centre surge is creating a capacity squeeze for businesses across the capital - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

London's data centre market is expanding rapidly due to rising demand, but securing timely access to infrastructure is becoming increasingly challenging for businesses.

React

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Embed a live AI browser agent in your React app with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Amazon Web Services

Users need visibility into AI agents' actions to maintain trust and control over their interactions.

Web design

Alternative transportation

Seven leading hosting providers for small businesses that need reliable performance - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Small business owners should prioritize uptime, speed, and support quality when choosing a hosting provider.

fromTNW | Amazon

Uber joins Amazon's Trainium roster with AWS expansion deal

Uber expands AWS contract to enhance ride-matching infrastructure using Amazon's Graviton4 and pilots AI model training on Trainium3.

#aws

DevOps

Troubleshooting environment with AI analysis in AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Amazon Web Services

DevOps

AWS Launches Sustainability Console with API Access and Scope 1-3 Emissions Reporting

DevOps

AWS launches Agent Registry for managing AI agents

DevOps

AWS put a file system on S3; I stress-tested it

AWS targets AI agent sprawl with new Bedrock Agent Registry

AWS introduces Agent Registry to help enterprises manage and govern AI agents effectively.

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry

AWS Agent Registry enhances visibility and control over AI agents in corporate environments.

Troubleshooting environment with AI analysis in AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Amazon Web Services

AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies web application deployment and scaling, now enhanced with AI Analysis for troubleshooting environment health issues.

AWS Launches Sustainability Console with API Access and Scope 1-3 Emissions Reporting

AWS launched a Sustainability console for consolidated carbon emissions reporting with enhanced access and API features.

AWS launches Agent Registry for managing AI agents

AWS introduces the Agent Registry to centralize AI agent management and reduce chaos in organizations deploying numerous agents.

AWS put a file system on S3; I stress-tested it

AWS S3 Files allows mounting S3 buckets as NFS shares, providing solid conflict resolution and cost-effective storage options.

AWS targets AI agent sprawl with new Bedrock Agent Registry

AWS introduces Agent Registry to help enterprises manage and govern AI agents effectively.

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry

AWS Agent Registry enhances visibility and control over AI agents in corporate environments.

more#aws

Business intelligence

22 hours ago

The Midwest's rise to America's second-biggest data center hub is fueled by these key states

Texas and the Midwest are becoming key hubs for data centers, shifting from Northern Virginia due to power availability and new developments.

Commvault launches AI tools for secure agentic AI era

"In agentic environments, agents mutate state across data, systems, and configurations in ways that compound fast and are hard to trace," says Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault.

Information security

E-Commerce

fromForbes

Why The AI Checkout Debate Misses The Real Shift In Retail

AI is reshaping retail by determining visibility and influencing consumer decisions through personalized insights and streamlined processes.

#ai

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic leases data center capacity from CoreWeave

Information security

Runtime security becomes critical as AI accelerates threats

DevOps

CloudBees Delivers on AI Promise to Improve Application Testing - DevOps.com

Anthropic leases data center capacity from CoreWeave

Anthropic signed a multi-year contract with CoreWeave for data center space to meet the growing demand for its Claude AI models.

Information security

Runtime security becomes critical as AI accelerates threats

Artificial intelligence accelerates innovation and cyber threats, necessitating a focus on runtime security for effective enterprise protection.

CloudBees Delivers on AI Promise to Improve Application Testing - DevOps.com

CloudBees Smart Tests uses AI to prioritize tests, reducing CI/CD processing time significantly.

Beyond One-Click: Designing an Enterprise-Grade Observability Extension for Docker

Docker Extensions enhance developer productivity but may not meet enterprise needs for security, compliance, and integration.

fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent

Microsoft is reducing Windows 365 cloud PC prices by 20% to enhance cost-effectiveness for small and medium businesses starting May 1st.

#ai-infrastructure

Tech industry

Google Cloud deepens AI infrastructure partnership with Intel across Xeon and custom chips

fromFast Company

Artificial intelligence

The AI race won't be won in the cloud

fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Google Cloud deepens AI infrastructure partnership with Intel across Xeon and custom chips

Google Cloud and Intel are enhancing their AI infrastructure partnership, focusing on CPU deployment and custom chip co-development.

fromFast Company

The AI race won't be won in the cloud

Community consent and trust are essential for the success of AI infrastructure, which must be built responsibly and transparently.

more#ai-infrastructure

Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities - DevOps.com

DevOps.com is launching a weekly jobs report to highlight opportunities for DevOps professionals.

Bootstrapping

How I Deployed a Production Server on AWS EC2 as a Fresher - Step by Step

A computer science graduate deployed a production-level website on AWS EC2 without prior job experience, mentorship, or funding, using Ubuntu, Nginx, and GitHub CI/CD automation.

Vue

What is AWS S3 and How I Used It - A Beginner's Guide

AWS S3 is a cloud storage service for developers that stores files (objects) in containers (buckets), offering 99.999999999% durability, infinite scalability, low cost, and global accessibility.

Cloudflare introduces new features for building and deploying agents

Cloudflare is transforming AI development with Dynamic Workers, Sandboxes, and Artifacts for secure, scalable, and efficient code execution.

Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix

Western Union is six months into a migration of 900 to 1,200 applications that run across a 3,900-core server fleet. The decision to move came during a period of re-invention at Western Union, a 175-year-old company that is currently working to become more customer-focused and therefore is open to new suppliers to help reach that goal.

Tech industry

Information security

fromSecurityWeek

TeamPCP Moves From OSS to AWS Environments

TeamPCP has exploited compromised credentials to target open source software, leading to significant data exfiltration and supply chain attacks.

Azure customers up in arms over 'full' UK South region | Computer Weekly

Microsoft Azure is facing capacity issues in the UK South region, affecting virtual machine availability and customer migrations.

Set it up once, test it properly, and let the system handle the rest.

Automating SSL certificate renewal prevents production outages and reduces stress during incidents.

AWS turns its S3 storage service into a file system for AI agents

S3 Files simplifies access to Amazon S3, enhancing its role as a primary data layer for AI and modern applications.

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes'

Amazon S3 celebrates 20 years of operation, growing from 1 petabyte capacity to storing over 500 trillion objects while maintaining complete API backward compatibility since 2006.

AWS turns its S3 storage service into a file system for AI agents

S3 Files simplifies access to Amazon S3, enhancing its role as a primary data layer for AI and modern applications.

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes'

Amazon S3 celebrates 20 years of operation, growing from 1 petabyte capacity to storing over 500 trillion objects while maintaining complete API backward compatibility since 2006.

AWS Introduces Nested Virtualization on EC2 Instances

AWS now supports nested virtual machines within EC2 instances using KVM or Hyper-V on C8i, M8i, and R8i instances, enabling app emulation and hardware simulation.

1 week ago

AWS S3 buckets now support file systems

S3 Files is built on Amazon EFS and automatically translates file system operations into S3 requests, allowing applications to work with S3 data without code changes.

DevOps

Google Cloud Highlights Ongoing Work on PostgreSQL Core Capabilities

Google Cloud has made significant technical contributions to PostgreSQL, enhancing logical replication, upgrade processes, and system stability.

Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VM on K8s at the edge

Nutanix plans to support KubeVirt to enable running both containers and VMs on the edge, enhancing resource efficiency.

AWS expands EC2 with support for nested virtualization

AWS enables nested virtualization on C8i, M8i, and R8i EC2 instances, permitting virtual machines to host additional VMs using Intel Xeon 6 processors and Nitro.

Bringing databases and Kubernetes together

Automating Kubernetes workloads with Operators can provide the same level of functionality as DBaaS, while still avoiding lock-in to a specific provider.

DevOps

AWS Launches Agent Plugins to Automate Cloud Deployment

AWS Agent Plugins enable AI coding agents to deploy applications on AWS using natural language commands, generating complete deployment pipelines with architecture recommendations and cost estimates.

Java

AWS Transform custom: AI-driven Java modernization to reduce tech debt | Amazon Web Services

AWS Transform custom automates large-scale Java modernization using agentic AI, standardized AWS-managed transformations, and customizable packages to reduce technical debt and speed upgrades.

US politics

fromFortune

Inside the race to build data centers | Fortune

Mega-scale AI data centers are driving AI growth, transforming landscapes, straining energy and water resources, and creating major political and economic conflicts.

1 week ago

Securely connect AWS DevOps Agent to private services in your VPCs | Amazon Web Services

AWS DevOps Agent enhances operational efficiency by securely connecting to private resources in VPCs, optimizing performance and incident management.

Weighing the benefits of AWS Lambda's durable functions

AWS Lambda durable functions add native stateful orchestration and long-running waits, improving serverless workflows but increasing vendor lock-in risk.

AWS CloudFormation 2025 Year In Review | Amazon Web Services

CloudFormation and CDK improved 2025 features for early template validation, deployment safety via drift management, and AI-integrated IaC tooling for multi-account deployments.

fromBusiness Insider

AI rewrites the economics of Amazon's cloud-consulting business

If GenAI enhances or speeds things up, they should get more value faster and shouldn't pay the same rates. Our customers' buying patterns shifted to favor agile, outcome-based, AI-powered engagements with faster time to value and clear ROI, creating a significant revenue and workload concentration risk in our top revenue cohort.

Business intelligence

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: The bare metal facts | Computer Weekly

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is strategically significant, with $4.9bn revenue and a focus on high-performance, low-cost cloud services.

Cloud Cloning: A new approach to infrastructure portability

Cloud Cloning captures complete cloud infrastructure snapshots and maps them onto target cloud services and configurations to enable accurate cloud portability.

Reusing CloudFront, ALB, and API Gateway in a Serverless Platform

Edge architecture decisions around CloudFront, ALB, and API Gateway significantly impact deployment speed and isolation in serverless platforms while balancing security, compliance, and cost.

3 weeks ago

Cloud at 20: Cost, complexity, and control

Cloud computing has failed to deliver on its promise of simplified IT operations and cost savings, instead creating greater complexity and spiraling expenses for most enterprises.

The private cloud returns, for AI workloads

A North American manufacturer spent most of 2024 and early 2025 doing what many innovative enterprises did: aggressively standardizing on the public cloud by using data lakes, analytics, CI/CD, and even a good chunk of ERP integration. The board liked the narrative because it sounded like simplification, and simplification sounded like savings. Then generative AI arrived, not as a lab toy but as a mandate. "Put copilots everywhere," leadership said. "Start with maintenance, then procurement, then the call center, then engineering change orders."

Artificial intelligence

Five MCP servers to rule the cloud

Major cloud providers now offer official MCP servers that let AI agents automate cloud operations using existing cloud credentials and natural language commands.

Smash tech debt with AWS Transform: The new era of migration and modernization | Amazon Web Services

Agentic AI via AWS Transform eliminates technical debt, accelerating enterprise modernization while saving developer effort and reducing costs.

Running agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides enterprise-grade infrastructure for deploying and managing AI agents at scale, supporting multiple models, frameworks, and integrations while remaining model-agnostic.

AWS prepares to invest $200 billion in AI infrastructure by 2026

Amazon will invest about $200 billion by 2026, primarily in AWS, expanding data-center capacity to meet structurally higher AI-driven compute demand.

Automate AWS Lambda Runtime Upgrades with AWS Transform custom | Amazon Web Services

AWS Transform custom is an AI agent that automates code transformations across organizations, learning organization-specific patterns and executing them at scale to reduce technical debt from aging codebases and deprecated runtimes.

Building a scalable code modernization solution with AWS Transform custom | Amazon Web Services

An open-source infrastructure enables enterprise-scale, parallel AWS Transform custom code modernizations using AWS Batch, Fargate, REST APIs, and CloudWatch monitoring.

Migrate Amazon EC2 to ECS Express Mode using Kiro CLI and MCP servers | Amazon Web Services

Amazon ECS Express Mode simplifies containerized workload deployment by automating task definitions and service orchestration, reducing manual operational overhead and accelerating migration from traditional EC2 deployments.

Choosing between Amazon ECS Blue/Green Native or AWS CodeDeploy in AWS CDK | Amazon Web Services

Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) have long been a go-to pattern for shipping zero-downtime deployments. Historically, the recommended approach in the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) was to wire ECS to AWS CodeDeploy for traffic shifting, lifecycle hooks, and tight integration with AWS CodePipeline. In July 2025, Amazon ECS launched built-in blue/green deployments. This allows you to operate directly within the ECS service, without requiring the use of Amazon CodeDeploy.

DevOps