Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks
Upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has long been a one way door.Open source Kubernetes doesn’t support control plane rollback, so once you upgrade, there’s no going back.…
The community is making real progress here, and KEP-4330 introduces em…
But in practice this constraint has pushed organizations to build elab…
With Kubernetes releasing three minor versions per year, teams managin…
Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale
On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.…
We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way …
If one service called another directly and that service was slow or un…
Message queuing solved this by letting services communicate asynchrono…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)
Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners.…
What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a …
People traded architecture ideas over coffee, sketched out solutions o…
It’s a good reminder that, for all the tooling we build, the community…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026)
Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community.…
The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global …
Day 1 started with an inspiring fireside chat from AWS CEO Matt Garman.
From an insightful AMA with James Hamilton on Day 2 to breakout sessio…