AWS News Blog
Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service
AWS Weekly Roundup: How to join AWS re:Invent 2025, plus Kiro GA, and lots of launches (Nov 24, 2025)
Next week, don’t miss AWS re:Invent, Dec. 1-5, 2025, for the latest AWS news, expert insights, and global cloud community connections! Our News Blog team is finalizing posts to introduce the most exciting launches from our service teams. If you’re joining us in person in Las Vegas, review the agenda, session catalog, and attendee guides […]
Build production-ready applications without infrastructure complexity using Amazon ECS Express Mode
Amazon ECS Express Mode simplifies containerized application deployment by automating infrastructure setup through a single command, allowing developers to focus on building applications while following AWS best practices.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Project Rainier online, Amazon Nova Web Grounding, MCP Proxy for AWS, and more (November 3, 2025)
Last week I met Jeff Barr at the AWS Shenzhen Community Day. Jeff shared stories about how builders around the world are experimenting with generative AI and encouraged local developers to keep pushing ideas into real prototypes. Many attendees stayed after the sessions to discuss model grounding, evaluation, and how to bring generative AI into […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, ECS Managed Instances, Builder ID updates, and more (October 6, 2025)
Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand […]
Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications
Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced security and observability configurations.
AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management
AWS was named as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms in two consecutive years positioned highest on “Ability to Execute”, and for Container Management in three years positioned furthest for “Completeness of Vision”.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform, Amazon Neptune, and more (September 8, 2025)
Summer has drawn to a close here in Utrecht, where I live in the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Community Day 2025, hosted at the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht on September 24. The single-day event will bring together over 500 cloud practitioners from across the Netherlands, featuring 25 breakout sessions across five technical […]
Accelerate safe software releases with new built-in blue/green deployments in Amazon ECS
Perform safer container application deployments without custom deployment tooling, enabling you to ship software updates more frequently with near-instantaneous rollback capability.





