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Now that Jeff Barr has retired from the AWS Information Weblog as of December final 12 months, the AWS Information Weblog group will maintain sharing an important and impactful AWS product launches the second they change into obtainable. I wish to quote Jeff’s final touch upon the way forward for the Information Weblog once more:
Going ahead, the group will proceed to develop and the objective stays the identical: to supply our prospects with fastidiously chosen, high-quality details about the most recent and most significant AWS launches. The weblog is in nice arms and this group will proceed to maintain you knowledgeable even because the AWS tempo of innovation continues to speed up.
Since 2016, Jeff has been constructing the AWS Information Weblog as a group. At the moment, we’re a bunch of 11 bloggers working in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. We co-work with AWS product groups, testing new options firsthand on behalf of consumers, and delivering key particulars within the Information Weblog the best way Jeff has at all times executed.
The Management Rules for AWS Information Bloggers that Jeff shared on LinkedIn are a textbook for anybody writing for patrons in tech firms. They’re the basics that may make it easier to perceive and get began running a blog shortly, and we’ll proceed to stay to those rules with our group. That is why the AWS Information Weblog is totally different from different tech firms’ product information channels.
Voices from weblog writers
Chances are you’ll be acquainted with the names of Information Weblog writers, however you could not have had the prospect to listen to about them. Allow us to introduce ourselves!
I’m honored to proceed Jeff’s legacy as a brand new lead blogger of the Information Weblog group; he’s my position mannequin. Once I joined AWS in 2014, the very first thing I did was to create the AWS Korea Weblog and I began translating Jeff’s weblog posts into the Korean language. In the course of the journey, I discovered the best way to write correct, sincere, and highly effective guides to assist prospects get began with new AWS merchandise and options.
Since my first Information Weblog publish in 2018, I’ve discovered a lot by being a part of this group. Working with product managers and repair groups is at all times a tremendous expertise. I’m considering serverless, event-driven architectures, and AI/ML. It’s unimaginable how applied sciences like generative AI have gotten a part of software program improvement implicitly (by way of AI-enabled improvement instruments) and explicitly (by utilizing fashions in code).
I’m lucky to have been part of this group since 2019. Once I don’t write posts, I produce episodes of the AWS Builders Podcast and le podcast AWS en français. I additionally work with the groups for Amazon EC2 Mac, AWS SDK for Swift, and the CodeBuild and CodeArtifact groups attempting to make the AWS Cloud simpler to make use of for Apple builders. My pet undertaking is the Swift Runtime for AWS Lambda.
The Amazon Management Rules (LPs) information all that we do right here at AWS, together with the work we do as authors of the Information Weblog. As a developer advocate, I’ve taken the steering of the LPs and used it to information members of the AWS group who want to create technical content material, particularly these new of their technical content material creation journey.
Identical to brewing espresso, being a weblog creator has been a mixture of enjoyable, problem, and reward. I’ve been notably lucky to watch how buyer obsession is constructed into AWS groups. I’ve seen how they work backwards, reworking your suggestions into providers or options. I genuinely hope that you just get pleasure from studying our articles and look ahead to the subsequent chapter of the Information Weblog group.
As an creator, I’m dedicated to delivering well timed details about the most recent AWS improvements and launches to our international viewers of builders, builders, and know-how fans. I perceive the significance of offering clear, correct, and actionable content material that helps you employ AWS providers successfully. Pleased studying everybody!
My specialties are .NET improvement and microservices, however I’ve at all times been a jack-of-all-trades and writing for this weblog helps me to maintain my knife sharp throughout all corners of contemporary know-how, whereas additionally serving to others do the identical. Hundreds of individuals learn the AWS Information Weblog and use it as a go-to supply to maintain up with what’s new and to assist them make choices, so I do know that what we’re doing is significant work with big affect.
Via my blogs, I attempt to focus on not simply the “what” of latest providers, but in addition the “why” and “how” they will rework companies and person experiences. As a options architect specializing in Microsoft Workloads on AWS, I assist prospects migrate and modernize their workloads and construct scalable structure on AWS. I additionally mentor numerous individuals to excel of their cloud careers.
Each time I begin writing a brand new weblog, I really feel honored to be a part of this group, to have the ability to experiment with one thing new earlier than it’s launched, and to have the ability to share my expertise with the reader. This group is made up of specialists of all ranges and from a number of international locations and collectively, we’re a multicultural and multi-specialty group. Thanks, reader, for being right here.
Becoming a member of the Information Weblog group has remodeled how I talk about know-how. With an ever-curious mindset, I method every new announcement aiming to make modern providers accessible and interesting. By bringing my distinctive and numerous perspective to technical content material, I attempt to assist builders really get pleasure from exploring our newest applied sciences.
Micah Walter
As a senior options architect, I help enterprise prospects within the New York Metropolis area and past. I counsel executives, engineers, and designers at each step alongside their journey to the cloud, with a deep deal with sustainability and sensible design.
I additionally wish to give credit score to our behind-the-scenes editor-in-chief, Jane Watson, and program supervisor, Jane Scolieri, who play a necessary position in serving to us get product launch information to you as quickly because it occurs, together with the 60 launches we introduced in a single week at re:Invent 2024!
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