Author: Prasad Rao

Last week, what excited me most was the launch of the 2026 AWS AI & ML Scholars program by Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AWS Agentic AI, to provide free AI education to up to 100,000 learners worldwide. The program has two phases: a Challenge phase where you’ll learn foundational generative AI skills, followed by a […]

Happy New Year! I hope the holidays gave you time to recharge and spend time with your loved ones. Like every year, I took a few weeks off after AWS re:Invent to rest and plan ahead. I used some of that downtime to plan the next cohort for Become a Solutions Architect (BeSA). BeSA is […]

Modernize complete Windows applications up to five times faster with coordinated AI-powered transformation across application code, UI frameworks, databases, and deployment configurations.

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 […]

Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA (Become a Solutions Architect) cohort. BeSA is a free mentoring program that I host along with a few other AWS employees on a volunteer basis to help people excel in their cloud careers. Last week, the instructors’ lineup was […]

It’s AWS Summit Season! AWS Summits are free in-person events that take place across the globe in major cities, bringing cloud expertise to local communities. Each AWS Summit features keynote presentations highlighting the latest innovations, technical sessions, live demos, and interactive workshops led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts. Last week, events took place at […]

Accelerate .NET modernization with agentic AI. AWS Transform for .NET speeds up large-scale modernization from .NET Framework to cross-platform .NET by up to 4x. With the .NET modernization agent, modernization teams can collaboratively execute larger and more complex projects with consistency, remove Windows license dependencies to reduce operating costs by up to 40%, and enhance code quality, performance, and security.

AWS is expanding its global infrastructure, now providing increased transparency about the specific geographic locations of its 114 Availability Zones across 36 regions to help customers meet regulatory requirements and make informed deployment decisions.