I’m excited to announce that AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel test execution, so you can run your test suites concurrently and reduce build times significantly. With the demo project I wrote for this post, the total test time went down from 35 minutes to six minutes, including the time to provision the environments. These two screenshots from the AWS Management Console show the difference. Sequential execution of the test suite Parallel execution of the test suite Very long test times pose a significant challenge when running continuous integration (CI) at scale. As projects grow in complexity and team size, the time required to execute comprehensive test suites can increase dramatically, leading to extended pipeline execution times. This not only delays…
Firewall support for AWS Amplify hosted sites
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the AWS WAF integration with AWS Amplify Hosting. Web application owners are constantly working to protect their applications from a variety of threats. Previously, if you wanted to implement a robust security posture for your Amplify Hosted applications, you needed to create architectures using Amazon CloudFront distributions with AWS WAF protection, which required additional configuration steps, expertise, and management overhead. With the general availability of AWS WAF in Amplify Hosting, you can now directly attach a web application firewall to your AWS Amplify apps through a one-click integration in the Amplify console or using infrastructure as code (IaC). This integration gives you access to the full range of AWS WAF capabilities including managed…
Detailed geographic information for all AWS Regions and Availability Zones is now available
Starting today, you can get more granular visibility of geographic location information for AWS Regions and AWS Availability Zones (AZs). This detailed information will help you choose the Regions and AZs that align with your regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements. We continue to expand the AWS global infrastructure to meet your business requirements and now have 114 AZs across 36 Regions. We have announced plans to add 12 more AZs and four Regions in New Zealand, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. One of the things we’ve learned from our customers is the need to have more visibility into the specific location of infrastructure within an AWS Region. This is important for customers in highly…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Omdia recognition, Amazon Bedrock RAG evaluation, International Women’s Day events, and more (March 24, 2025)
As we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) this March, I had the privilege of attending the ‘Women in Tech’ User Group meetup in Shenzhen last weekend. I was inspired to see over 100 women in tech from different industries come together to discuss AI ethics from a female perspective. Together, we explored strategies such as reducing gender bias in AI systems and promoting diverse representation in model training data. In the AWS Cloud Lab, participants used Amazon Bedrock with large language models (LLMs) to generate rose bloom videos, which was the most popular part of this meetup. These gatherings are crucial to our efforts to engage more women in AI technology exploration and development, and to help make sure that…