InfoQ - AWS

AWS Introduces Preview of Well-Architected Agent

Renato Losio — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:29:00 GMT

AWS recently announced the preview of the Well-Architected Agent, a service that analyzes environments against Well-Architected best practices and provides prioritized recommendations across cost, security, performance, and reliability. The AI agent can also suggest remediation steps and review infrastructure-as-code before deployment.

By Renato Losio

AWS Will Run Its European Sovereign Cloud Without the Global Backbone for Several Hours

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT

On October 24, AWS will operate its European Sovereign Cloud without a connection to the AWS Global Network backbone, with a team of EU residents and the region’s own hardware and software. AWS says neither of the two systems being severed is operation-critical, and practitioners are divided over whether the exercise answers the question customers are asking.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Amazon Acquires DuckLabs and Integrates DuckDB in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Gianmarco Nalin — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Amazon has acquired DuckLabs, the company behind the analytical database DuckDB. Co-founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt will continue to lead the team under AWS. The acquisition aims to enhance the development and reach of DuckDB while maintaining its open-source status. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL gets its first DuckDB-powered feature following the acquisition.

By Gianmarco Nalin

AWS Introduces Strands Decider 2B and Strands Box for AI Agent Development

Daniel Dominguez — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:47:00 GMT

AWS has introduced two open-source projects for AI agent development: Strands Decider 2B, a small model designed to make decisions within agent workflows, and Strands Box, a sandbox for controlling agent execution. Both projects address different aspects of building agents that use tools, execute code, and interact with external systems.

By Daniel Dominguez

AWS Reworks EventBridge Custom Buses for Enterprise-Scale Event-Driven Architectures

Craig Risi — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

AWS has introduced an enhanced Custom Event Bus for Amazon EventBridge, targeting a problem that often emerges when event-driven architectures move beyond a single team or AWS account: the event infrastructure itself becomes fragmented.

By Craig Risi

AWS Introduces Enhanced Custom Event Buses for EventBridge

Renato Losio — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:35:00 GMT

AWS recently announced enhanced custom event buses for Amazon EventBridge, allowing organizations to share a centralized bus across accounts with ordered delivery, simplified subscriber management, event replay, content-based deduplication, and a new publisher/subscriber-based pricing model.

By Renato Losio