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Keynote lead @AWS, ex MSFT, speaker, security, cloud, developer, YouTuber, technologist, husband, dad.

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Introducing GPT-5.4 Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.

OpenAI released GPT‑5.4 yesterday openai.com/index/introd... #openai #genAI

06.03.2026 12:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool | TechCrunch Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by a new addition to the codebase, a Slack message, or a simple timer.

Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/c... #genAI #agents #AgentEconomy

06.03.2026 12:10 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Just remember to apologize and you’re good :)

27.02.2026 18:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI agents.

OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership -
openai.com/index/amazon...

27.02.2026 17:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Have you started apologizing yet? If not, then there’s space to grow you inner Canadian

27.02.2026 17:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Amplifying — AI Benchmark Research Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.

What Claude Code Actually Chooses - amplifying.ai/research/cla...

27.02.2026 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Episode #277: Moving Towards Spec-Driven Development – The Real Python Podcast What are the advantages of spec-driven development compared to vibe coding with an LLM? Are these recent trends a move toward declarative programming? This week on the show, Marc Brooker, VP and Disti...

Moving Towards Spec-Driven Development with Kiro and Agentic AI. Listen to @marcbrooker.bsky.social on The Real Python Podcast @realpython.com realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...

05.01.2026 20:36 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Building a Splunk Investigator Agent with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Overview In this post, I share how to build an AI agent that leverages logging tools such...

dev.to/aws-builders...

Log investigation is a common use case where AI agents can add real value with huge amounts of data to comb. Instead of manually writing SPL queries, an agent can take a transaction ID and search through Splunk logs to build an investigation report automatically. (1️⃣/3️⃣)

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31.12.2025 16:09 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
On the success of 'natural language programming' - Marc's Blog

On the success of ‘natural language programming’ via @marcbrooker.bsky.social brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12... #programming #genAI #aI

18.12.2025 12:54 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Exploring the OpenAI-Compatible APIs in Amazon Bedrock: A CLI Journey Through Project Mantle After Amazon Bedrock introduced OpenAI-compatible application programming interfaces (APIs) through...

Amazon Bedrock now has OpenAI-compatible APIs through Project Mantle. I built a CLI to explore them and learned some interesting things about the two different approaches. 🧵

dev.to/aws/explorin...

#AWS #AI #OpenAI #Python

16.12.2025 13:15 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I had a windows phone before it was even a phone. Palm Pilot with Windows CE. Yes! I’m that old 😁

14.12.2025 15:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#aws | Swami Sivasubramanian | 10 comments It was an incredible week at TEDAI Vienna. I was honored to present a talk in September on the power of AI agents, and how this technology will fundamentally change how we live and work.  When agent...

It was an amazing privilege to be part of this event. Thank you to #TedAI and @SwamiSivasubram for this unique opportunity. #agenticAI #genAI #aws www.linkedin.com/posts/swamin...

21.11.2025 15:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New 'Markovian Thinking' technique unlocks a path to million-token AI reasoning venturebeat.com/ai/new-marko... #genAI #AI #LLM

22.10.2025 12:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seven Years of Firecracker - Marc's Blog

New blog post, reflecting on nearly seven years since the Firecracker launch, and how we're using Firecracker to power serverless databases (in Aurora DSQL) and infrastructure for AI agents (in Bedrock AgentCore).

Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...

23.09.2025 16:46 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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Key components of a data-driven agentic AI application | Amazon Web Services In this post, we look at the costs, benefits, and drawbacks of replacing services for agentic AI with direct database access. Including those that work well and are proven in production, and new servi...

Excellent blog post by Marc Brooker - Key components of a data-driven agentic AI application aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa... @awscloud.bsky.social #data #genAI #agenticAI

09.10.2025 11:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fantastic AWS Policies and Where to Find Them - Tools for AWS IAM There are more than you think, and now it's easy to find them.

FANTASTIC AWS POLICIES AND WHERE TO FIND THEM iam.cloudcopilot.io/posts/fantas... @awscloud.bsky.social #aws #amazon #security

09.10.2025 11:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 | Amazon Web Services Amazon’s threat intelligence team has identified and disrupted a watering hole campaign conducted by APT29 (also known as Midnight Blizzard), a threat actor associated with Russia’s Foreign Intelligen...

Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi... @awscloud.bsky.social #security #cloud

26.09.2025 17:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Qualcomm CEO: Android for PC is coming, and it's 'incredible' A Google executive reconfirmed that a merging of ChromeOS and Android is coming at some point in the near future.

Google and Qualcomm execs confirm Android for PC is coming: 'I've seen it, it is incredible' mashable.com/article/goog... #android #genAI #desktop

25.09.2025 12:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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how AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives

How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs #s3 #aws #storage #cloud #scale
open.substack.com/pub/bigdatas...

25.09.2025 12:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

25.09.2025 11:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services Developers can now build serverless applications faster through seamless console-to-IDE transition and debugging of functions running in the cloud from local IDE.

Some amazing new developer-focused Lamdba innovations: console to IDE and remote debugging aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/si... @awscloud.bsky.social #aws #lambda #serverless #devtools #amazon

19.07.2025 23:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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tsx tsx (TypeScript Execute) - The easiest way to run TypeScript in Node.js

tsx is a Node.js enhancement to run TypeScript. #node #typescript #javascript

tsx.is?utm_source=t...

18.07.2025 12:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Deploy & Operate AI Agents in Minutes | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Deploy & Operate AI Agents in Minutes | Amazon Web Services YouTube video by Amazon Web Services

Intro to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore youtube.com/watch?v=usFI... #agenticAI #Amazon #aws #genAI #agents @awscloud.bsky.social

17.07.2025 12:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Introducing Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers: Powering Frontier AI at Scale | Amazon Web Services
Introducing Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers: Powering Frontier AI at Scale | Amazon Web Services YouTube video by Amazon Web Services

Introducing Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers: Powering Frontier AI at Scale youtu.be/u81NapG8yL0?... @awscloud.bsky.social #amazon #genAI #Nvidia

09.07.2025 22:54 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This Amazon Q prompt gives you a 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 for your application architecture drawn in draw.io. | Ebrahim (EB) Khiyami This Amazon Q prompt gives you a 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 for your application architecture drawn in draw.io. It covers about 60% of what I typically do in person with customers when reviewing the...

Using Amazon Q Developer CLI and draw.io to create application architecure diagrams and get advoce how to fix isses based on the AWS Well Architected Framework. www.linkedin.com/posts/eb-khi... @awscloud.bsky.social #amazon #genAI #devTools

25.06.2025 00:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazon Q CLI blows my mind every time I use it to solve coding problems or add new features. Between Q in VS Code & Q in the CLI, there hasn’t been a challenge I wasn’t able to tackle successfully with very little adjustment. #newworld #programming #GenAI #AgenticAI @amazonwebservices.bsky.social

14.06.2025 16:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Those were the days, indeed. Gen X know the pain…

08.06.2025 22:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services – Communications of the ACM

Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services cacm.acm.org/practice/sys... #amazon @amazonwebservices.bsky.social

30.05.2025 10:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why model choice matters: Flexible AI unlocks freedom to innovate | Amazon Web Services Organizations achieve more effective and efficient results when they can select and use different AI models that precisely match their specific business needs and use cases.

Why model choice matters: Flexible AI unlocks freedom to innovate aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-in... #aws #genAI #amazon

28.05.2025 10:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions - AWS Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions @awscloud.bsky.social‬⁩ #data
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

08.05.2025 00:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0