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VP of Technology at Amazon Web Services (Data Streaming, Messaging, and Collaboration Services)

On a mission to make 2026 my BEST year EVER!
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio just got a major upgrade: now you can onboard your existing AWS datasets with a single click and instantly launch serverless notebooks powered by a built-in AI agent.

#notebook #Sagemaker #analytics

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New one-click onboarding and notebooks with a built-in AI agent in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio | Amazon Web Services
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces new one-click onboarding experiences and serverless notebooks with a built-in AI agent without any manual set up or provisioning of your domain or compute re...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
High-throughput, low-latency data streaming is now essential for real-time analytics and event-driven apps—but scaling serverless consumers reliably is complex. AWS Lambda’s integration with Apache Kafka, via Event Source Mappings (ESMs), just got a robust upgrade!

#ApacheKafka #Kafka #AmazonMSK
Improving throughput of serverless streaming workloads for Kafka | Amazon Web Services
Event-driven applications often need to process data in real-time. When you use AWS Lambda to process records from Apache Kafka topics, you frequently encounter two typical requirements: you need to p...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports 50 enhanced fan-out consumers for On-demand Advantage streams!

Now you can attach more low-latency, high-throughput consumers to the same stream—unlocking parallel analytics, ML pipelines, and multi-team architectures.
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports up to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports up to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers
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November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ 4.2 which introduces native support for the AMQP 1.0 protocol, a new Raft based metadata store, local shovels, and message priorities for quorum queues.

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Amazon MQ release notes - Amazon MQ
Learn about important changes to Amazon MQ and the Amazon MQ Developer Guide.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I am looking for an Executive Assistant for our AWS Streaming, Messaging, and Collaboration team.
Executive Assistant, AWS Streaming, Messaging, and Collaboration
Are you always looking around corners and anticipating needs? Do you believe that details matter and want to support a highly engaged team?We are looking for a dedicated, well-organized and customer o...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka has just enhanced the MSK Console with the ability to view and manage Kafka topics directly—no need to set up Kafka admin clients anymore. You can now browse, search, and inspect all topics in your MSK cluster effortlessly.

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Amazon MSK Console now supports viewing Kafka topics with new public APIs - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon MSK Console now supports viewing Kafka topics with new public APIs
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November 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Amazon EventBridge now supports Amazon #SQS Fair Queues, empowering architects to build truly equitable, multi-tenant event-driven apps that benefit from fair message distribution—noisy neighbor impacts are a thing of the past.

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Amazon EventBridge now supports targeting SQS fair queues - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon EventBridge now supports targeting SQS fair queues
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November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Discover how to architect scalable, serverless solutions that intelligently route messages based on priority—with Amazon MQ powering enterprise-grade priority queuing, App Runner providing seamless containerized compute, and DynamoDB for lightning-fast persistence.

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Build priority-based message processing with Amazon MQ and AWS App Runner | Amazon Web Services
In this post, we show you how to build a priority-based message processing system using Amazon MQ for priority queuing, Amazon DynamoDB for data persistence, and AWS App Runner for serverless compute....
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November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just announced provisioned mode for #Lambda with #SQS Event Source Mapping—unlocking 3x faster scaling and up to 16x higher concurrency for event-driven applications.
AWS Lambda enhances event processing with provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping | Amazon Web Services
AWS Lambda's new provisioned mode for Amazon SQS event source mapping offers dedicated polling resources that provide 3x faster scaling and 10x higher concurrency, enabling lower latency processing, b...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
AWS Clean Rooms is redefining healthcare collaboration by enabling organizations to securely analyze and collaborate on sensitive data—all without exposing underlying patient information.

#Healthcare #CleanRooms #Collaboration #Data #DataCollaboration

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Datavant and AWS Transform Health Data Discovery with Cloud-First Solution, Backed by Top Pharmaceutical Companies and Industry Partners | Datavant
Datavant, the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare, today announced the broad availability of Datavant Connect powered by AWS Clean Rooms, marking a major milestone in the company’s miss...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Real-time mainframe data can now be modernized for cloud-native analytics. Precisely and #AWS demonstrate a scalable, event-driven path to stream DB2z changes into Amazon MSK and onward to AWS targets like Amazon #RDS for #PostgreSQL.

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#ApacheKafka #AmazonMSK #Kafka
Stream mainframe data to AWS in near real time with Precisely and Amazon MSK | Amazon Web Services
In this post, we introduce an alternative architecture to synchronize mainframe data to the cloud using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) for greater flexibility and scalability. ...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams has launched new Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions to inject API errors, such as throttling, internal faults, service unavailable events, or expired iterator exceptions, directly into their workflows.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces new Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions for API errors - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces new Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions for API errors
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October 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Customer Managed Keys (CMKs), giving you enhanced control over your data security. You can leverage your own AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys to manage encryption for your streaming applications.

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August 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
🚀 Data Volumes Are Growing—Now Amazon #SQS Message Sizes Are, Too! 🚀

Amazon SQS now supports individual message payloads up to 1MiB. This is a fourfold increase from the previous 256KiB limit.

#AWS #AmazonSQS #Data #Messaging #EventDriven #Serverless
Amazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB
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August 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just read the latest AWS Big Data blog post: “Optimize traffic costs of Amazon #MSK consumers on Amazon EKS with rack awareness.” If you’re running #ApacheKafka workloads in #Kubernetes, this is a must-read to cut costs without sacrificing resilience!

#ApacheKafka #DataStreaming
Optimize traffic costs of Amazon MSK consumers on Amazon EKS with rack awareness | Amazon Web Services
In this post, we walk you through a solution for implementing rack awareness in consumer applications that are dynamically deployed across multiple Availability Zones using Amazon EKS.
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August 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#Amazon #SNS now introduces three powerful message filtering operators: wildcard matching, anything-but matching, and expanded case-insensitive matching. These enhancements make it even easier to route only the right messages to your subscribers and cut down unnecessary processing.

#Messaging #AWS
Amazon SNS launches additional message filtering operators - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon SNS launches additional message filtering operators
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August 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Amazon #SNS standard topics now support Amazon SQS fair queues, making it easier to manage message distribution in multi-tenant environments. By including message group IDs in messages sent to SNS topics, you can now activate fair queueing in all subscribed SQS standard queues.

#Queues #Messaging
Amazon SNS standard topics now support Amazon SQS fair queues - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon SNS standard topics now support Amazon SQS fair queues
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August 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Now you can streamline industrial hashtag#IoT analytics with Amazon Data Firehose and Amazon hashtag#S3 Tables with Apache Iceberg. This low-code architecture enables you to ingest, transform, and route data from edge devices to AWS using Greengrass.

#AWS #Iceberg #Firehose #Data
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July 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Effective message prioritization is at the heart of modern distributed systems, ensuring time-critical and high-value events are processed first—no matter the scale or industry.
Implementing message prioritization with quorum queues on Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ | Amazon Web Services
Quorum queues are now available on Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ from version 3.13. Quorum queues are a replicated First-In, First-Out (FIFO) queue type that uses the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain dat...
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July 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Yesterday, I shared that Amazon Simple Queue Service (hashtag#SQS) launched Fair Queues and today I want to dive deep into why it matters. lnkd.in/gs7V85WD

#Queues #Messaging #AWS
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July 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
#Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon #MSK) now supports up to 5x more partitions per Express Broker, improving price-performance by up to 50% for partition-bound workloads. With this launch, partition-bound workloads can be hosted on fewer brokers.

#ApacheKafka #AWS #Day1
Best practices for Express brokers - Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
Best practices for managing your Amazon MSK cluster when using Express brokers.
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July 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Today, Amazon SQS announced the launch of Fair Queues—a powerful new feature tackling the “noisy neighbor” problem in multi-tenant standard queues.

#AWS #SQS #Messaging #Queues
Amazon SQS introduces fair queues for multi-tenant workloads - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon SQS introduces fair queues for multi-tenant workloads
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July 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Amazon Simple Queue Service (#SQS) now supports #IPv6 over #VPC endpoints across all AWS commercial regions, including those in China. This enhancement, delivered via #AWS #PrivateLink, means you can now make API requests to Amazon SQS using IPv6 within your VPC.

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Amazon SQS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon SQS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions
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July 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon #SNS) now supports IPv6 connectivity through VPC endpoints via AWS PrivateLink across all AWS commercial regions! This major enhancement means you can make API requests to Amazon SNS over IPv6 from your VPCs.

#AWS #ipv6

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Amazon SNS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon SNS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions
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July 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM