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Mercek is a desktop IDE for Amazon ECS that lets developers manage services across multiple AWS accounts and regions, offering features like deployment tracking, metrics, cost estimation, log tailing, and interactive shell access — all using local AWS credentials with no telemetry.

AWS has open-sourced AI-DLC (AI-Driven Development Life Cycle), a set of development lifecycle workflow rules designed for AI coding agents to help developers control agent behavior and ensure quality. It supports multiple platforms including Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

A detailed cookbook guide on configuring and using OpenAI models via Amazon Bedrock, covering text generation, structured outputs, tools, file inputs, and more using the OpenAI Python SDK.

OpenAI's frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, enabling enterprises to integrate them into existing AWS workflows for faster AI deployment.

Amazon unveiled 'Resilient Network Graphs' (RNG), a data center network design that reduces hardware needs by 69% and increases throughput by 33%, now default for most AWS workloads after quiet deployment since last year.

An AWS employee recounts his four years at the company, citing organizational changes and an intensified focus on Generative AI as reasons for his departure and relief at being fired.

AWS engineers demonstrate building autonomous AI agents with Claude using the new open-source Strands SDK on real client workloads, including tool use and MCP server integration.

Lawmakers demand answers after a CISA contractor intentionally exposed AWS GovCloud keys and other secrets on a public GitHub repository, raising concerns about the agency's security culture amid staffing disruptions.

A comprehensive guide to debugging and managing Amazon EKS clusters in production, focusing on common failure modes, incident response, and safe upgrades. Covers key differences between EKS and standard Kubernetes.

AWS has secured a large number of Apple's M3 Ultra Mac Studio units for cloud services, while regular consumers face continued shortages and limited availability.

A CISA contractor leaked highly privileged AWS GovCloud credentials and internal system passwords on a public GitHub repository, representing one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.

A voice agents hackathon hosted by Y Combinator in San Francisco on May 30th, with prizes including a guaranteed YC interview and awards from sponsors like Cekura, NVIDIA, AWS, and Twilio. Participants will build production-scale voice agents using tools like Cekura, NVIDIA Nemotron models on AWS, Twilio telephony, and the Pipecat developer ecosystem.

crunr is a tool that allows users to launch and run any compute job on AWS with a single command, simplifying cloud compute management.

A user praises the control plane architecture of AWS Agent Core.

AWS Developers announced the release of an MCP server with full AWS API coverage, sandboxed script execution, and real-time documentation access.

An AWS user faces a $30,000 bill from a runaway Claude instance on Bedrock, exposing failures in cost anomaly detection. The article also covers AI agent deployment risks, security concerns, and industry cost pressures.

This article provides a guide on how to register free locality domains (e.g., city.state.us) by using Amazon Lightsail for nameservers and submitting the required government template.

Anthropic announces the general availability of the Claude Platform on AWS, allowing customers to access full Claude API features with native AWS authentication, billing, and deployment of managed agents.

This article outlines the architectural building blocks for training and inferring foundation models on AWS, covering infrastructure, resource orchestration, ML software stacks, and observability.

This article analyzes the strategic implications of Anthropic operating the Claude platform directly on AWS. By integrating billing and identity, this move achieves stronger customer lock-in and allows enterprises to simultaneously utilize the security of Bedrock and the latest features of the Platform.