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April 3, 2025
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Mark Otto
Introduction This post demonstrates how to leverage AWS CloudFormation Lambda Hooks to enforce compliance rules at provisioning time, enabling you to evaluate and validate Lambda function configurations against custom policies before deployment. Often these policies impact the way a software should be built, restricting language…
April 3, 2025
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Mark Otto
In 2022, we published a post describing the advantages of running video encoding workloads on AWS Graviton processors. Since that time, AWS launched Graviton4 powered C8g instances which offer up to 30% better performance than Graviton3. On video encoding workloads, Graviton4 performs 12-15% better than…
April 2, 2025
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Mark Otto
Introduction Software engineering stands at an inflection point. While previous technological shifts enhanced what developers could build, AI is fundamentally changing how we build. Amazon Q has driven a shift in how developers at Amazon approach software development. At re:Invent 2024, our breakout session Unleashing…
April 2, 2025
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Mark Otto
As we have done for 4 consecutive years, we’re excited to announce that we’re back to gather insights for our annual research on how developers and organizations kickstart their web applications. Building on last year’s 2024 research, this year’s special focus is on the so-called…
April 2, 2025
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Mark Otto
React 19.1 Released — Not cool enough to get a full blog post on the official blog, but 19.1 brings a lot to the table in terms of fixes, small additions (e.g. support for streaming in edge environments), a new API for prerendering RSCs on…
April 1, 2025
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Mark Otto
Amazon Q Developer recently added support for customizing C# and C++ suggestions based on your company’s codebase. This blog post explores how developers can tailor the AI assistant to provide accurate inline suggestions and contextual code understanding for their C# and C++ projects. You will…
April 1, 2025
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Mark Otto
💬 I was amused by some discussion about the release on Reddit, where maintainer Wes Todd said: “We tried to kill [Express] over and over and it keeps on getting up and converting more people into zombies for the zombie mob. So we did the…
March 31, 2025
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Mark Otto
Increasing developer productivity has been a persistent challenge for senior leaders over the past decades. With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), a new wave of innovation is transforming how software teams work. Generative AI tools like Amazon Q Developer are emerging as game-changers,…
March 31, 2025
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Mark Otto
Today, Amazon Web Services is proud to reaffirm our commitment to providing vital infrastructure for free and open source software projects. One of the ways we are doing this is with an extended $3 million annual commitment to the Kubernetes project, the container orchestration platform…
March 31, 2025
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Mark Otto
AI automation and AI agents have become a buzzword in 2025. All until you see the price tag, which makes you roll eyes and rethink the investment more cautiously. Not every company has the resources to build AI-powered agents from scratch. The typical price is…