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Now that Jeff Barr has retired from the AWS Information Weblog as of December final yr, the AWS Information Weblog crew will maintain sharing an important and impactful AWS product launches the second they turn into out there. I wish to quote Jeff’s final touch upon the way forward for the Information Weblog once more:
Going ahead, the crew will proceed to develop and the purpose stays the identical: to offer our clients with fastidiously chosen, high-quality details about the most recent and most significant AWS launches. The weblog is in nice arms and this crew 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 crew. At present, 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 way in which Jeff has at all times performed.
The Management Ideas for AWS Information Bloggers that Jeff shared on LinkedIn are a textbook for anybody writing for patrons in tech corporations. They’re the basics that may assist you perceive and get began running a blog rapidly, and we’ll proceed to stay to those ideas with our crew. That is why the AWS Information Weblog is totally different from different tech corporations’ product information channels.
Voices from weblog writers
It’s possible you’ll be conversant in the names of Information Weblog writers, however you could not have had the possibility 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 crew; he’s my position 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. Through the journey, I realized how one can write correct, sincere, and highly effective guides to assist clients get began with new AWS merchandise and options.
Since my first Information Weblog submit in 2018, I’ve realized a lot by being a part of this crew. Working with product managers and repair groups is at all times an incredible expertise. I’m desirous about 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 (via AI-enabled improvement instruments) and explicitly (through the use of fashions in code).
I’m lucky to have been part of this crew 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 challenge is the Swift Runtime for AWS Lambda.
The Amazon Management Ideas (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 neighborhood who wish 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 look at how buyer obsession is constructed into AWS groups. I’ve seen how they work backwards, reworking your suggestions into companies or options. I genuinely hope that you simply get pleasure from studying our articles and sit up for the subsequent chapter of the Information Weblog crew.
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 expertise fans. I perceive the significance of offering clear, correct, and actionable content material that helps you employ AWS companies 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 expertise, whereas additionally serving to others do the identical. 1000’s 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 large influence.
By means of my blogs, I attempt to focus on not simply the “what” of recent companies, but additionally the “why” and “how” they’ll remodel companies and consumer experiences. As a options architect specializing in Microsoft Workloads on AWS, I assist clients 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 crew, 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 crew is made up of specialists of all ranges and from a number of nations and collectively, we’re a multicultural and multi-specialty crew. Thanks, reader, for being right here.
Becoming a member of the Information Weblog crew has remodeled how I talk about expertise. With an ever-curious mindset, I strategy every new announcement aiming to make revolutionary companies accessible and fascinating. By bringing my distinctive and various 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 clients 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 give attention to 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 vital 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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