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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 staff will hold sharing a very powerful and impactful AWS product launches the second they develop into obtainable. I need to quote Jeff’s final touch upon the way forward for the Information Weblog once more:
Going ahead, the staff will proceed to develop and the objective stays the identical: to offer our prospects with rigorously chosen, high-quality details about the newest and most significant AWS launches. The weblog is in nice arms and this staff 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 staff. At the moment, we’re a gaggle 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 shoppers, and delivering key particulars within the Information Weblog the best way Jeff has at all times achieved.
The Management Rules for AWS Information Bloggers that Jeff shared on LinkedIn are a textbook for anybody writing for purchasers in tech corporations. They’re the basics that may aid you perceive and get began running a blog shortly, and we’ll proceed to stay to those rules with our staff. Because of this the AWS Information Weblog is totally different from different tech corporations’ product information channels.
Voices from weblog writers
It’s possible you’ll be accustomed to the names of Information Weblog writers, however chances are you’ll 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 staff; he’s my function mannequin. After 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. Throughout the journey, I discovered the way to write correct, trustworthy, and highly effective guides to assist prospects get began with new AWS merchandise and options.
Since my first Information Weblog put up in 2018, I’ve discovered a lot by being a part of this staff. Working with product managers and repair groups is at all times an incredible expertise. I’m enthusiastic about serverless, event-driven architectures, and AI/ML. It’s unbelievable how applied sciences like generative AI have gotten a part of software program improvement implicitly (by AI-enabled improvement instruments) and explicitly (by utilizing fashions in code).
I’m lucky to have been part of this staff since 2019. After 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 making an attempt to make the AWS Cloud simpler to make use of for Apple builders. My pet mission 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 steerage 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.
Similar to brewing espresso, being a weblog creator has been a mixture of enjoyable, problem, and reward. I’ve been significantly 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 stay up for the following chapter of the Information Weblog staff.
As an creator, I’m dedicated to delivering well timed details about the newest AWS improvements and launches to our world viewers of builders, builders, and expertise fanatics. I perceive the significance of offering clear, correct, and actionable content material that helps you employ AWS providers successfully. Completely satisfied 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 recent expertise, 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 selections, so I do know that what we’re doing is significant work with big impression.
Via my blogs, I try to spotlight not simply the “what” of recent providers, but in addition the “why” and “how” they will rework companies and consumer 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 various folks 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 staff, 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 staff is made up of specialists of all ranges and from a number of nations and collectively, we’re a multicultural and multi-specialty staff. Thanks, reader, for being right here.
Becoming a member of the Information Weblog staff has remodeled how I talk about expertise. With an ever-curious mindset, I method every new announcement aiming to make revolutionary providers accessible and fascinating. By bringing my distinctive and various perspective to technical content material, I try to assist builders actually 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 need to give credit score to our behind-the-scenes editor-in-chief, Jane Watson, and program supervisor, Jane Scolieri, who play a vital function 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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