Cloud Mentoring
The cloud can be fast paced at times with new information being released daily and it can be hard to keep up if you are just getting started. I am offering time to speak with…
$15 Microsoft Certifications
Has the COVID-19 pandemic left you unemployed or furloughed? If so Microsoft is here to help get you back into the workforce by offering discounted certifications and free training. People who have completed training for…
HOW TO TAKE AN AWS CERTIFICATION EXAM ONLINE
As we are currently in quarantine for the foreseeable future, you are most likely taking certification exams at home. In this blog post, I will give you a few tips and tricks on how to…
AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management
A month ago, I shared that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS), with Gartner naming AWS a Leader for the fifteenth…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025)
Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands…
Accelerating AI and databases with Azure Container Storage, now 7 times faster and open source
More companies than ever before are choosing to run stateful workloads—such as relational databases, AI inferencing, and messaging queues—on Kubernetes. For developers building on Kubernetes, storage performance has never been more important. Today, we’re announcing…
Agent Factory: Connecting agents, apps, and data with new open standards like MCP and A2A
This blog post is the fifth out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which will share best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. An agent that…
Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances
As someone who has been using macOS since 2001 and Amazon EC2 Mac instances since their launch 4 years ago, I’ve helped numerous customers scale their continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on AWS. Today,…
Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE
Today, we’re announcing LocalStack integration in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent improvements…