We took TechCrunch on a tour of Amazon’s custom chip lab, and here’s what they thought 👇 “It looks like a cross between a high school shop class and a Hollywood set for a high-end lab, except the engineers are dressed in jeans, not white lab coats.” Julie Bort is one of the few tech editors to see AWS’s Annapurna Labs in action. And her take on the unconventional lab is spot on. During the visit, Julie walked through rows of workstations topped with open server sleds, watched an engineer weld tiny integrated circuit components by way of microscope, and snapped a selfie with chip PR lead Doron Aronson inside the lab’s mini data center. I mean, how could you not? See that selfie and more from Julie’s visit to the lab: https://go.aws/4d9qcoe
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The AWS Bahrain Region has been disrupted due to the ongoing conflict. We're prioritizing personnel safety and supporting customer migrations to alternate AWS Regions. Latest update here: https://go.aws/484NqIu
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From the ocean floor to the highest peaks, National Geographic Society is migrating nearly 15 petabytes of history to AWS. 🌍📸 The high-performance media platform, using Amazon Bedrock and additional services, will consolidate 138 years of exploration into a single "living library." Using AWS generative AI, the platform will transcribe footage, create metadata, and identify key figures—allowing production teams to quickly surface existing content for new stories. "This initiative is the first step in a multi-year journey where the Society will leverage AWS infrastructure and services to centralize the production and preservation of its media assets," said Jason Southern, chief technology and information officer at the National Geographic Society. Read the full announcement: https://go.aws/4soBfi4
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From fighting spam to scaling DNS to securing AI, Paul Vixie has spent decades building internet infrastructure. 💻 🔧 Now, as an AWS Distinguished Engineer, he's tackling AI-enabled cyber threats and helping secure the next era of computing. Meet the internet pioneer helping advance security in the agentic AI era: https://go.aws/3PsDKkG
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AI is changing the economics of cyberattacks—making speed and scale cheaper for threat actors. But the fundamentals of defense matter more than ever. AWS's Amy Herzog joined the FBI's "Ahead of the Threat" podcast to discuss how AI is reducing the cost and time for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities and misconfigurations—particularly targeting organizations with weak credentials and improperly configured systems. Herzog and FBI Special Agent Brett Leatherman explored why security basics—multi-factor authentication, patching, configuration hygiene, and robust logging—remain the most effective defenses. They also discussed why understanding your true speed to response (not just meeting SLAs) is critical as attackers weaponize vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure. Listen to the full conversation: https://go.aws/47QOoIe
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A little over a year ago, AWS made a $100M commitment to help close the education gap worldwide. Here's what that looks like in practice. 300+ organizations in 40+ countries are now building with AWS credits — a digital library giving kids in Pakistan access to 2,000+ books. An AI tutor helping 600,000 students in Brazil prep for national exams. A robotics platform opening doors to STEM careers across Africa. The technology is giving more students more access and more opportunity, and 76% of organizations in the AWS Education Equity Initiative are building with AI and machine learning. Full story: https://go.aws/4sMZQNb
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Evri announces 'Veri Snap AI'—a system that uses Amazon Nova Lite via Amazon Bedrock to automatically verify 90 million delivery photos every month across the UK. 📦 AWS brings generative AI capabilities through Amazon Bedrock, enabling Evri to check every delivery photo for compliance—verifying parcel location, delivery conditions, and courier best practices. After a successful trial with 20 million photos, the technology is now deployed across Evri's network of 900 million annual deliveries. What's next? Real-time guidance for couriers on where to safely leave parcels based on previous successful deliveries. Full announcement: https://go.aws/4cT9uJG
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The telecom industry has spent years talking about transformation. At MWC26, the conversation finally shifted from cost-cutting to revenue generation—and AWS is at the center of it. Through collaborations with Nokia, Amdocs, Ericsson, and others, AWS is helping operators move 5G core and RAN workloads to the cloud, turning network infrastructure into something programmable, API-driven, and composable. The real game changer is agentic AI operating inside the network itself. Agents that sense congestion, allocate resources, and execute intent-based network slicing in real time. That means telcos can sell dynamic, guaranteed connectivity for specific use cases like remote surgery or industrial IoT. Analysis from Zeus Kerravala in Network World. https://go.aws/4uMdGRY
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20 years ago, SmugMug's co-founder and Chief Executive, Don MacAskill, heard about a new service called Amazon S3. Today, SmugMug is still choosing AWS as its sole cloud provider. So are 4 million other customers. What's next for AWS? Agentic AI—agents that don't just answer questions, they get work done. From S3 to AI agents. Twenty years of innovation, and counting. Read the full story from Robert Hof at SiliconANGLE & theCUBE: https://go.aws/4bLRQGw
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3/14/2006 (yes, Pi Day) was the day AWS launched S3 - our Simple Storage Service. Before S3, you bought hardware and took your best guess at demand. AWS changed that by giving developers something new: a simple, durable, and secure-by-default way to store virtually unlimited data, from anywhere, at any time. Twenty years later, S3 stores hundreds of exabytes of data, more than 500 trillion objects, and serves millions of customers worldwide. From web apps to data lakes, and a whole lot more — S3 became the foundation for it all. https://go.aws/4rvmSaw *no employees were harmed while lighting the candles