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Validate Your Lambda Runtime with CloudFormation Lambda Hooks

April 3, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction This post demonstrates how to leverage AWS CloudFormation Lambda Hooks to enforce compliance rules at provisioning time, enabling you to evaluate and validate Lambda function configurations against custom policies before deployment. Often these policies impact the way a software should be built, restricting language…

Video Encoding on Graviton in 2025

April 3, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

In 2022, we published a post describing the advantages of running video encoding workloads on AWS Graviton processors. Since that time, AWS launched Graviton4 powered C8g instances which offer up to 30% better performance than Graviton3. On video encoding workloads, Graviton4 performs 12-15% better than…

How generative AI is transforming developer workflows at Amazon

April 2, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Software engineering stands at an inflection point. While previous technological shifts enhanced what developers could build, AI is fundamentally changing how we build. Amazon Q has driven a shift in how developers at Amazon approach software development. At re:Invent 2024, our breakout session Unleashing…

[Research] Starting Web App in 2025: Vibe-coding, AI Agents…

April 2, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

As we have done for 4 consecutive years, we’re excited to announce that we’re back to gather insights for our annual research on how developers and organizations kickstart their web applications. Building on last year’s 2024 research, this year’s special focus is on the so-called…

Customizing C# and C++ with Amazon Q Developer

April 1, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon Q Developer recently added support for customizing C# and C++ suggestions based on your company’s codebase. This blog post explores how developers can tailor the AI assistant to provide accurate inline suggestions and contextual code understanding for their C# and C++ projects. You will…

Adopting Amazon Q Developer in Enterprise Environments

March 31, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Increasing developer productivity has been a persistent challenge for senior leaders over the past decades. With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), a new wave of innovation is transforming how software teams work. Generative AI tools like Amazon Q Developer are emerging as game-changers,…

Announcing the AWS CDK L2 Construct for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools

March 27, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Today we’re announcing the general availability (GA) of the new Amazon Cognito Identity Pool Level 2 (L2) construct in the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). This construct simplifies the creation and management of identity pools, permissions, and provider integrations by providing intent-based APIs that…