The Rhythmic Blog

AWS Sync is a monthly brief of AWS announcements, tuned specifically for businesses that need the signal without the noise. Among AWS’s January 2025 announcements, several updates stand out for their impact on security posture and compliance capabilities. From enhanced root access controls to cr…

AWS recently dropped a new feature that’s going to make cloud governance significantly less painful—declarative policies. While that might sound about as exciting as watching paint dry in us-east-1, this is actually a big deal for anyone running production workloads at scale.

AWS continues to push the boundaries of inference optimization, as demonstrated by several groundbreaking announcements during AWS re:Invent 2024. This post explores the latest developments in latency optimization for Bedrock and what they mean for organizations building production AI applications.

This will be my fifth in-person re:Invent and I am still tweaking my pre-conference preparation. Here are a few tips based on my experiences that will help you to rock out the week.

Discover how AWS is celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting women engineers and their contributions. Learn about the new carbon footprint tool for measuring the environmental impact of your cloud workloads and the release of the DeleteOrganization API for automating account lifecycles.

Learn how AWS Service Catalog enables platform building and streamlines infrastructure management using CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and other tools for automation and self-service.

Discover how the updated AWS Web Console’s widget-based experience allows users to customize their homepages and easily monitor costs, improving user experience and financial transparency.

Discover how AWS Athena’s new feature of including cost calculations in query plans helps developers optimize costs and embrace the “shift-left” philosophy for better financial management in the cloud.

Discover how AWS IAM Access Analyzer’s expanded support for EC2, Lambda, and IAM allows users to refine policies based on actual usage, ensuring least privilege access and enhancing security.

Discover how AWS EC2 Image Builder’s new CloudFormation support simplifies the deployment of image pipelines, enabling infrastructure as code and reducing manual configuration.