Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation

Today, we celebrate 10 years of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and its incredible journey of pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the cloud! What began as a solution to streamline running Docker containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) has evolved into a cornerstone technology, offering both impressive performance and operational simplicity, including a […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: New code editor in AWS Lambda console, Amazon Q Business analytics, Claude 3.5 upgrades, and more (October 28, 2024)

Two weeks ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to host subject matter experts from across Asia Pacific in the global 24 Hours of Amazon Q live stream event. This continuous 24-hour stream offered insights from AWS experts on Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business, featuring use cases, product demos, and Q&A sessions. The highlight for […]

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EC2 Image Builder now supports building and testing macOS images

I’m thrilled to announce macOS support in EC2 Image Builder. This new capability allows you to create and manage machine images for your macOS workloads in addition to the existing support for Windows and Linux. A golden image is a bootable disk image, also called an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), pre-installed with the operating system […]

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Upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic (available now), computer use (public beta), and Claude 3.5 Haiku (coming soon) in Amazon Bedrock

Four months ago, we introduced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 in Amazon Bedrock, raising the industry bar for AI model intelligence while maintaining the speed and cost of Claude 3 Sonnet. Today, I am excited to announce three new capabilities for the Claude 3.5 model family in Amazon Bedrock: Upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet – You now have […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s App, AWS Lambda, Load Balancers, AWS Console, and more (Oct 14, 2024).

Last week, AWS hosted free half-day conferences in London and Paris. My colleagues and I demonstrated how developers can use generative AI tools to speed up their design, analysis, code writing, debugging, and deployment workflows. These events were held at the GenAI Lofts. These lofts are open until October 25 (London) and November 5 (Paris). […]

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Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available

Today, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of AWS Console-to-Code that makes it easy to convert AWS console actions to reusable code. You can use AWS Console-to-Code to record your actions and workflows in the console, such as launching an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, and review the AWS Command Line Interface […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: HIPAA eligible with Amazon Q Business, Amazon DCV, AWS re:Post Agent, and more (Oct 07, 2024)

Last Friday, I had the privilege of attending China Engineer’s Day 2024(CED 2024) in Hangzhou as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) speaker. The event was organized by the China Computer Federation (CCF), one of the most influential professional developer communities in China. At CED 2024, I spoke about how AI development tools can improve developer […]

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NICE DCV is now Amazon DCV with 2024.0 release

Today, NICE DCV has a new name. So long NICE DCV, welcome Amazon DCV. Today, with the 2024.0 release, along with enhancements and bug fixes, NICE DCV is rebranded to Amazon DCV. The new name is now also used to consistently refer to the DCV protocol powering AWS managed services such as Amazon AppStream 2.0 […]

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