LocalStack Revamps CLI for Emulating AWS Cloud Services on Local Machines
LocalStack at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference this week unveiled a revamped command line interface (CLI), dubbed 1stk, for its framework that enables emulations of Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments to be run on a local machine. The CLI in version 3 of the AWS 2026 edition of the framework, in addition to providing […]
Eclipse Foundation Extends Scope and Reach of Open VSX Registry
The Eclipse Foundation launches a new framework for the Open VSX Registry, enhancing security features and transitioning to a hybrid architecture. With support from AI tool provider Cursor, this initiative aims to promote safer software supply chains.
A Blog Post About COBOL Just Cost IBM $30 Billion. Here’s What Actually Happened.
A single Anthropic blog post wiped billions off IBM’s market value—but the AI-driven COBOL modernization it described has existed for years. This is a case study in how AI hype, not fundamentals, is driving market volatility.
AWS Extends Agentic AI Capabilities of Kiro Developer Tool to Improve Code Quality
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added two additional capabilities to its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that promise to make it simpler to both create higher quality software in the first place and fix any bugs that might have inadvertently been included. At the core of that capability is a specifications-based approach to enabling […]
AWS Just Turned “Deploy to AWS” Into a Five-Word Prompt
AWS Agent Plugins give coding agents the skills to architect, estimate costs, and deploy to AWS. Type “deploy to AWS” and the agent handles the rest.
Checkmarx Extends Vulnerability Detection to AI Coding Tool from AWS
Checkmarx this week revealed it has added support for the Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its Checkmarx Developer Assist that leverages AI to surface vulnerabilities before code is committed. The Checkmarx IDE extension for Kiro is designed to be activated from within the Developer Assist tab that […]
Harness Allies with AWS to Integrate AI Agents for Software Engineering
Harness this week extended its alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate their respective artificial intelligence (AI) agents to automate DevOps workflows. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2025 conference, Harness is now integrating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server it added to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with the Kiro AI coding tool […]
re:Invent Proves It: DevOps Isn’t Dead, Cloud Native Isn’t Fading, and Platform Engineering Isn’t a Fad
What a difference two or three days make. When I first landed in Las Vegas for re:Invent and saw the keynote previews, it looked like AWS was putting all its chips on one square: Agentic AI. Every sign, every teaser, every whisper pointed in the same direction. And yes, after the keynotes, that impression held […]
AWS Adds Specialized AI Agents to Kiro Coding Tool to Automate DevOps Tasks
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today at its re:Invent 2025 conference extended its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) tool to provide access to a set of agents that have been trained to trigger specific actions as they observe the way code is being created. Adnan Ijaz, director of project management for Kiro at AWS, said these specialized […]
AWS Transform Modernizes Any Codebase, App, API or Runtime
Platforms, paradigms, processes and processing itself all evolve. Because the information technology industry crosses from one chasm to another on an apparently endless loop of perpetual change, applications and wider systems need to be almost continually modernized. Amazon Web Services wants to enable that process with AWS Transform, a service that now ships with new […]
AWS Extends Kiro AI Tool to Generate Higher Quality Code
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today with the general availability of its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool added additional capabilities, including a version that can now be invoked via a command line interface (CLI). At the same time, Kiro now enables property-based testing (PBT) to measure whether the code generated matches the behavior defined in […]
Vibe Coding vs. Spec-Driven Development: Finding Balance in the AI Era
David Yanacek, Sr. Principal Engineer, AWS Agentic AI, dives into the rise of vibe coding versus traditional spec-driven development. As generative AI continues to transform how code is created, developers are moving faster than ever, but not always with the same level of structure, review, or intent that defined earlier software engineering practices. Yanacek explains […]
AWS to Help Fund Open VSX Registry Hosted by Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation this week revealed that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is providing funds needed to strengthen the reliability, performance and security of the infrastructure used to make the Open VSX Registry, an online marketplace for Visual Studio Code extensions. Like other AI coding tools, the Kiro tool developed by AWS relies heavily on Visual […]
AWS Previews AI IDE to Accelerate Software Development
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today previewed an internal developer environment (IDE) infused with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that promises to make it simpler for application developers to invoke multiple agents.
AWS Extends MCP Support in Amazon Q Developer to Multiple IDEs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the Visual Studio Code and JetBrains plugins that are provided for Amazon Q Developer, a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that automate a range of software development tasks.
AWS Extends Cloud Security Reach to Include DevSecOps Tools to Scan Code
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made Amazon Inspector, a code scanning tool for surfacing vulnerabilities that is designed to be natively integrated with GitHub and GitLab platforms, generally available. Announced at the AWS re:Inforce 2025 conference, Amazon Inspector combines a static application security testing (SAST) tool for analyzing application source-code with a software composition […]
Cloud ROI is Broken. Agentic AI Might Be the Fix.
Cloud environments are more complex to manage than anticipated, and the associated costs have spiraled far beyond early projections.
AWS Application Modernization Service Employs AI Agents to Refactor Code
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made generally available a service that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to migrate and modernize infrastructure, applications and code. Sriram Devanathan, general manager for low-code/no-code AppBuilder service at AWS, said the AWS Transform service provides access to a natural language chat interface that makes it simpler to either […]
AWS Previews GitHub Integration for Amazon Q Developer
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding the DevOps platforms its generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents for application developers are integrated with to now include GitHub code repositories.
AWS Adds MCP Support to Amazon Q Developer Platform
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week added support for the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Amazon Q Developer, a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) agents for application developers that can now be more easily integrated with other AI tools and data sources.
AWS Adds Support for Multiple Languages to Amazon Q Developer
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added multiple language support to the GenAI agents it makes available for application developers.
AWS Brings Generative AI Capabilities to OpenSearch Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today revealed it is streamlining IT incident management by adding generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the Amazon OpenSearch service. Widely used to troubleshoot IT incidents involving AWS cloud computing environments, the generative AI capabilities are being provided via integrations with Amazon Q Developer, a set of AI agents that automate […]
AWS Extends AI Agent Reach into the Realm of Testing Code
AWS has extended the reach of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents for developers into the realm of application testing.