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2026

Foundations of Agent Authorization

TL;DR: Agent authorization looks like a scary new frontier, but almost all of it is OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, the same flows that already sign you into web apps. Once you can tell apart the three โ€ฆ

Every Catalog Wants to Be an MCP Server

TL;DR: AWS just shipped an open-source MCP server for the Registry of Open Data โ€” 1,100+ datasets from 400+ organizations (NASA, NOAA, NIH, the Allen Institute), now discoverable by asking your AI assโ€ฆ

Weekly Review โ€” Aug 17-23, 2026

TL;DR: Three posts this week, and they rhyme: each one looks past the loud, obvious layer to a quieter one underneath. Amaraโ€™s Law says the AGI peak is what we overrate and the boring, already-useful โ€ฆ

When the SOC Analyst Is an Agent

TL;DR: Amazon GuardDuty now ships an AI investigation agent (in preview) that takes a raw finding, pulls 90 days of related activity, correlates it against threat intel and a knowledge graph, and handโ€ฆ

AI Moved Into the Database. I've Spent 25 Years Getting Logic Out of It.

TL;DR: SQL Server 2025 (and Amazon RDSโ€™s managed version of it) can now store vectors natively and call Amazon Bedrock straight from T-SQL. Half of that is genuinely good: vectors are data, and data bโ€ฆ

Weekly Review โ€” July 27-August 2, 2026

TL;DR: Three posts about where the human stays in charge as agents do more of the work. โ€œLaws & Disorderโ€ closes with Teslerโ€™s Law: you canโ€™t delete a systemโ€™s complexity, only choose who owns each piโ€ฆ

Weekly Review โ€” July 20-26, 2026

TL;DR: Three posts about the cost you canโ€™t see until you go looking. โ€œLaws & Disorderโ€ continues with Hyrumโ€™s Law: every observable behavior of your API is a contract someone depends on, and AI agentโ€ฆ

Weekly Review โ€” July 13-19, 2026

TL;DR: Three posts, one quiet theme: the structure you donโ€™t design still gets drawn. โ€œLaws & Disorderโ€ opens with Conwayโ€™s Law โ€” your architecture mirrors your org chart, so shape the teams first, anโ€ฆ

Weekly Review โ€” July 6-12, 2026

TL;DR: This week was about taking a big idea off the whiteboard and finding the exact AWS building block that turns it on. Two posts continue the โ€œWhiteboard to Cloudโ€ series: compression as the cleanโ€ฆ

Weekly Review โ€” June 29-July 5, 2026

TL;DR: This week was about where knowledge lives, who owns it, and where the real work actually is. Three posts climb the agent-memory ladder: naming the spectrum, then the retrieval mechanism (vectorโ€ฆ

Weekly Review โ€” June 22-28, 2026

๐ŸŽฌ Also available as a blog walkthrough video โ€” a short narrated tour of the weekโ€™s five posts. TL;DR: Five posts this week, and they rhyme. Each one treats an AI agent as a first-class user of a systeโ€ฆ

AI-Assisted Talk Prep: The Recording-Analysis-Iterate Loop

TL;DR: I prepared my AWS Summit Hamburg talk through 6 recorded dry runs, each analyzed by a structured AI skill. The skill transcribes via Amazon Transcribe, counts fillers with word-level timestampsโ€ฆ

8 AWS Guides for Agentic AI โ€” Mapped to the 4 Pillars That Get You to Production

The Gap Between Demo and Deployment TL;DR: AWS released 8 prescriptive guides for building production-ready agentic AI. This post maps each guide to the four pillars that get agents from demo to deploโ€ฆ

Intelligence Is About Time, Not Parameters

The Question Every SA Gets Beyond a complexity threshold, larger models become less insightful, the savant regime. โ€œWhich model should I use?โ€ I hear it in almost every customer conversation about genโ€ฆ

Humorphism: The Interface AI Deserves

Two weeks ago, AWS held its โ€œWhatโ€™s Next with AWSโ€ event. Among the big announcements, one thing caught my attention that wasnโ€™t a product launch. It was a design philosophy. Humorphism. A word I hadnโ€ฆ

๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—”๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—›๐˜‚๐—ฏ: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—™๐˜‚๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—–๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—œ๐˜€ ๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ

๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—”๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—›๐˜‚๐—ฏ: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—™๐˜‚๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—–๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—œ๐˜€ ๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ Just returning from an internal Amazon Connect deep[1] dive. I havenโ€™t touched this particular product since maybe 5 years?! Diโ€ฆ

๐— ๐—–๐—ฃ ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ผ๐˜€ - ๐—ด๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ?!

๐— ๐—–๐—ฃ ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ผ๐˜€ - ๐—ด๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ?! Agentic coding has become reality for developers everywhere ๐Ÿš€. Tools like Anthropicโ€™s Claude Code and Amazonโ€™s Kiro are leading the charge,โ€ฆ

Always takes a customer - my first time in our brand new BER21 in Berlin. Amazing location and Berlin is welcoming us with crispy & bright sunshine.

Always takes a customer - my first time in our brand new BER21 in Berlin. Amazing location and Berlin is welcoming us with crispy & bright sunshine. Always great to (re-) connect with colleagues. Bumpโ€ฆ

๐Ÿš€ Caught up on AWSโ€™s open-sourcing of API models in Smithy format (slipped my radar earlier this year, but timeless value!).

๐Ÿš€ Caught up on AWSโ€™s open-sourcing of API models in Smithy format (slipped my radar earlier this year, but timeless value!). There is a GitHub Repository [4] available with AWS API smithy models for 2โ€ฆ

โ€œGood Morning! said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But G

โ€œGood Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shaโ€ฆ

This could have been a good new year's resolution: Don't make funny prediction about the future if you're

This could have been a good new yearโ€™s resolution: Donโ€™t make funny prediction about the future if youโ€™re not ready to deal with them becoming true ๐Ÿ˜ƒ. On my way to: WS User Group Cologne and Bonn withโ€ฆ

2025

Dennis Kieselhorst is #hiring. Know anyone who might be interested?

Dennis Kieselhorst is #hiring. Know anyone who might be interested? If you donโ€™t know Dennis Kieselhorst, you should get to know him. If you do know him, you already know one reason why this job is woโ€ฆ

๐Ÿšจ Callout for my local network in the Cologne/Bonn/Dรผsseldorf region!

๐Ÿšจ Callout for my local network in the Cologne/Bonn/Dรผsseldorf region! Diana and I will be providing a Re:Invent Recap for the AWS User Group Cologne (AWSUGCGN [1]) on the 7th January, so save the dateโ€ฆ

Jeff Harman in on fireย - pun intendedย in this talk '๐—”๐—ช๐—ฆ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ:๐—œ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ - ๐—”๐—ฑ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต

Jeff Harman in on fireย - pun intendedย in this talk โ€œ๐—”๐—ช๐—ฆ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ:๐—œ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ - ๐—”๐—ฑ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—”๐—œ-๐——๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—”๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ (๐—œ๐—ก๐——๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฐ)โ€ [1]ย while explaining how AdTech teams can use AWSโ€™s AIโ€ฆ

Everything changes all the time - Open Mind for a different view. And nothing else matter.

Everything changes all the time - Open Mind for a different view. And nothing else matter. Last weekโ€™s re:invent is a wrap. I guess many of the folks in my network are still busy with digesting what hโ€ฆ

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—œ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—”๐—ป๐˜๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฐ? ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ถ

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—œ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—”๐—ป๐˜๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฐ? ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜? The week(s) after re:invent are typically the time, where a pile of very good content videos pile up at my end โ€ฆ

Amazing keynote by Swami Sivasubramanian. At least the first 40 minutes are super useful, even if you

Amazing keynote by Swami Sivasubramanian. At least the first 40 minutes are super useful, even if you are not super interested in new service launches. Swami nicely breaks down how AI agents and Agentโ€ฆ

What happens in Las Vegas ... Nah - let's have a look. All things (Gen) AI. Re:Invent 2025 edition

What happens in Las Vegas โ€ฆ Nah - letโ€™s have a look. All things (Gen) AI. Re:Invent 2025 edition ![](assets/reinvent-las-vegas-mu2we-cover.jpg-vCg) What happens in Las Vegas โ€ฆ Nah - letโ€™s have a look.โ€ฆ

To all my friends, customers, colleagues & partners who are about to leave for #AWSreInvent - have safe travels and an awesome time!

To all my friends, customers, colleagues & partners who are about to leave for #AWSreInvent - have safe travels and an awesome time! Pre re:invent phase was crazy already. Take a look at Luc van Donkeโ€ฆ

What happens in Las Vegas ... Nah - let's have a look. All things (Gen) AI.

What happens in Las Vegas โ€ฆ Nah - letโ€™s have a look. All things (Gen) AI. The morning after re:invent day1 having a morning coffee over the lastest announcements. The unofficial AWS News Feedย lists 49โ€ฆ

๐—ก๐—ผ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜†๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ?! ๐Ÿค– - ๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐˜†๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฎ

๐—ก๐—ผ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜†๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ?! ๐Ÿค– - ๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐˜†๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐ŸŽฏ Itโ€™s this time of the year. The AWS Community gets ready for the event of the year: re:Invent. And Werner Vogelsโ€ฆ

โฐ Groundhog Day! - another day, another new, superior model!

โฐ Groundhog Day! - another day, another new, superior model! So great to see how competition drives innovation and progress. Fresh out of the press is Anthropicโ€™s Claude Opus 4.5 [1]. From day 1 availโ€ฆ

๐Ÿซ“ vs ๐Ÿ“ˆ AWS introduced flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security, that includes CloudFront

๐Ÿซ“ vs ๐Ÿ“ˆ AWS introduced flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security, that includesย CloudFront, AWS WAFโ€™s application-layer filtering with DDoS protection bundled alongside, and Route 53 DNโ€ฆ

Working in monetisation, advertising or markteting and youโ€™re not sure what kind of use cases can be

Working in monetisation, advertising or markteting and youโ€™re not sure what kind of use cases can be enhanced with AI Agents? Found your use case but struggle with implementation as too many choices tโ€ฆ

โšก ๐—•๐—ฒ๐˜†๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜๐˜€: ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—–๐—ผ๐˜… ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐——๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ ๐—”๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—”๐—œ ๐—”๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—”๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ

โšก ๐—•๐—ฒ๐˜†๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜๐˜€: ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—–๐—ผ๐˜… ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐——๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ ๐—”๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—”๐—œ ๐—”๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—”๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ In this brand new blog post Brad Abrams and Jawhny Cooke make the case that Claude and Bedrock Agenโ€ฆ

๐Ÿšจ What a start in the year - Re:Invent Recap Time - Exciting Location update!!!

๐Ÿšจ What a start in the year - Re:Invent Recap Time - Exciting Location update!!! Christian Bonzelet is hosting this event at DFL Digital Sports GmbH in Cologne. Diana and I will be providing a Re:Invenโ€ฆ

โ€žOur AWS Trainium chips, designed in-house for AI workloads, now power more than 50% of Amazon Bedrock token usage.

โ€žOur AWS Trainium chips, designed in-house for AI workloads, now power more than 50% of Amazon Bedrock token usage. In practice, that means most of the generative AI responses you see from models on Bโ€ฆ

๐Ÿš€ ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—”๐—ช๐—ฆ ๐—”๐—ป๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—”๐—ฑ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€! ๐Ÿš€

๐Ÿš€ ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—”๐—ช๐—ฆ ๐—”๐—ป๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—”๐—ฑ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€! ๐Ÿš€ AWS just launched RTB Fabric - a purpose-built solution for real-time bidding workloads thatโ€™s changing the game for advertising technology! ๐Ÿ’ก Wโ€ฆ

This is huge news for Advertising Customer.

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Travelling into a long weekend and looking back to this weekโ€™s family reunion event aka #AWSSummit Berlin. To be honest, Iโ€™m a little exhausted but energised at the same time after meeting so many cusโ€ฆ

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#AWSSummit Berlin week. 2/5 days already in the books. Super excited to present tomorrow and Thursday with Philipp the session โ€œBuild a cost-effective conversational agent with Llama 2โ€. Tech check doโ€ฆ

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๐ŸŒง โ˜• Kind of trapped in a cafe while a little thunderstorm is cleaning the air in Dรผsseldorf, I finally take the time to talk about the upcoming Berlin Summit week - week after next. ๐ŸŽฌ Iโ€™m super thrillโ€ฆ

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๐Ÿ˜ฎ Very exciting times at NAB. Generative AI(GenAI) based solutions are starting to change Advertising and Marketing โ€” contextual advertising being a prime example. ๐ŸŽ™ Thanks to Anuj Gupta for sharing tโ€ฆ

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Wrapping up for the weekend. Spending the last two working hours of the week reflecting on what happened - it has been an intense week - and preparing for what is ahead. ๐Ÿ’ก Yesterday I had the opportunโ€ฆ

AWS Summit Amsterdam is in the books and it has been a blast. Very good energy and loads of good conversations with customers

AWS Summit Amsterdam is in the books and it has been a blast. Very good energy and loads of good conversations with customers, partners and colleagues. ๐Ÿ”ฆ I was very happy to see so much attention on tโ€ฆ

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I hope all of you had a good easter break. Iโ€™m now back to work and busy preparing upcoming talks and workshops. Iโ€™m excited to meet customers, partners and colleagues in Amsterdam next week โ€ฆ โ›‘ Worksโ€ฆ

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As I will be presenting at the AWS Summit in Amsterdam on April 9, 2024, my colleagues Olivier and Tobias and I took the opportunity to run a workshop as part of the AWS HouseWarming happening on the โ€ฆ

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๐Ÿš‚ Iโ€™m right now on my way back from Berlin - hopefully I make it back before the various strikes in Germany freeze the country. ๐Ÿ”‡ Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining a podium discussion โ€œMore thanโ€ฆ

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Right now calming down a little in our Berlin offices. It has been a very intensive week including two fully packed days drinking from the firehose during the AWS Deep Dive Days 2024 - Generative AI (โ€ฆ

Good morning! On my way to Munich for the Generative Deep Dive Days

Good morning! On my way to Munich for the Generative Deep Dive Days (https://awsdeepdivedaysgenerativeai.splashthat.com/). Looking forward to two days packed with deep dive sessions on Generative AI. โ€ฆ

2023

๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Good morning, what an awesome - despite early - start in the day. On my way to meet the team to

๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Good morning, what an awesome - despite early - start in the day. On my way to meet the team to close off 2023. Personally, it has been a very active year and it feels good to cool down a little โ€ฆ

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Time is flying and now it is too late to visit the sustainability are at #reinvent2023 , but I have seen amazing demos there. Feel free to get in touch with Bishesh Adhikari and the other Builders to โ€ฆ

I left #reinvent2023 in Las Vegas with a big bag of impressions: Countless interactions with Customers, Colleagues and Friends.

I left #reinvent2023 in Las Vegas with a big bag of impressions: Countless interactions with Customers, Colleagues and Friends. I had the pleasure to reinvent with customers during Workshops and Chalkโ€ฆ

I spent some amazing time during the workshop. Seeing customer to master all of this in just 2h, clearly

I spent some amazing time during the workshop. Seeing customer to master all of this in just 2h, clearly indicates the disruptive power of this technology. My favourite customer quote: โ€œI struggled toโ€ฆ

Just returned super excited from the chalk talk Bishesh Adhikari and I had here at #reinvent on the

Just returned super excited from the chalk talk Bishesh Adhikari and I had here at #reinvent on the topic of generative AI use cases in Advertising & Marketing. ๐Ÿ’ชTogether we developed a GenAI flywheelโ€ฆ

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๐ŸŽฌI just arrived in Las Vegas today and already met some customers, partners and colleagues - I love the vibe. If you are around, give me a buzz that we can meet. ๐Ÿ’ญThis year I took the time and made a โ€ฆ

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Loads of awesome sessions on Generative AI next week at #reinvent2023. Check out this guide โ€” AWSโ€™s โ€œYour guide to generative AI and ML at AWS re:Invent 2023โ€ โ€” and make sure that you reserve your seaโ€ฆ

On my way back from an intense but fulfilling week with customers, partners and colleagues, I got some

On my way back from an intense but fulfilling week with customers, partners and colleagues, I got some timeโ€Šโ€”โ€Šspecifically 6 minutes - in the train to make my own 1st experience with PartyRock(https:/โ€ฆ

Seeking for some inspiration and prescriptive guidance on how to engineer prompts for your marketing

Seeking for some inspiration and prescriptive guidance on how to engineer prompts for your marketing & advertising use cases, I can highly recommend to have a read of this blog post: https://medium.coโ€ฆ

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You are following theย #GenAIย topic and wondering how to apply it in #Advertising and #Marketing use cases? Or maybe you already build something and want to extend your knowledge? Letโ€™s dive deep togetโ€ฆ

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Read entirely - Exciting news at the end ๐Ÿ˜ƒ : On my way back from AWS Summit in Johannesburg(https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/johannesburg/). Feeling a little tired after the night flight, but my โ€ฆ

The silence before the storm - actually not really as it is super windy today ๐Ÿ˜‰. Nevertheless a quiet day in Johannesburg due to national holidays.

The silence before the storm - actually not really as it is super windy today ๐Ÿ˜‰. Nevertheless a quiet day in Johannesburg due to national holidays. At the same time busy as speakers meet to fin tune pโ€ฆ

On my way to the IBC in Amsterdam

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Yesterday we run the Machine Learning for Real-Time Advertising Workshop in our London offices

Yesterday we run the Machine Learning for Real-Time Advertising Workshop(https://machinelearningrealtimeworkshop.splashthat.com/) in our London offices. Absolut thrilling conversations and deep discusโ€ฆ

Mor Tene and Edo Friedman thanks for inviting me over to join you at AWS IL for Advertising and Marketing

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Last weekโ€™s Amsterdam Summit is in the books. It has been a blast. A great opportunity to (re-)connect with customers, partners and colleagues. Heiko Hotzโ€™s and my talk โ€œGenerative AI - The new way toโ€ฆ

Only a few days left until AWS Summit in Amsterdam. Slides are ready, demos prepared - Heiko Hotz

Only a few days left until AWS Summit in Amsterdam. Slides are ready, demos prepared - Heiko Hotz and I are looking forward to welcome you to the session โ€žAIM301: Generative AI - The new way to generaโ€ฆ

Just a little bit more than one week left to the AWS Summit in Berlin. On the day before (3rd May) we organized a bunch of hands-on workshops.

Just a little bit more than one week left to the AWS Summit in Berlin. On the day before (3rd May) we organized a bunch of hands-on workshops. Have a look and maybe we meet at https://berlin-housewarmโ€ฆ

And here we go with the registration page โ€” I'll be running the RTB Intelligence Kit Workshop

And here we go with the registration page: https://berlin-housewarming.splashthat.com/. Iโ€™ll be running the RTB Intelligence Kit Workshop (one time in the morning and another time in the afternoon). Iโ€ฆ

Wonder how to apply Machine Learning(ML) for your AdTech Use cases?

Wonder how to apply Machine Learning(ML) for your AdTech Use cases? This solution guideline outlines a Framework which aims to reduce the effort to build and deploy ML models. It comes with an end-2-eโ€ฆ

2022

Re:invent 2022 is in the books. 220.145 steps and more importantly uncountable valuable interactions

Re:invent 2022 is in the books. 220.145 steps and more importantly uncountable valuable interactions with customers, partners and colleagues. Itโ€™s a global world and we all work in distributed teams. โ€ฆ

The keynote is quite a start into the day. Thrilled to explore and push limits with you. If you around in Vegas, make sure to meet tonight.

The keynote is quite a start into the day. Thrilled to explore and push limits with you. If you around in Vegas, make sure to meet tonight. For the German folks: We are ready for you at the Global Louโ€ฆ

It's this time of the year, focus shifts to Las Vegas. Many hours of good work with customers and colleagues

Itโ€™s this time of the year, focus shifts to Las Vegas. Many hours of good work with customers and colleagues turn into a very condensed week of learning, unpacking and exchange. While being a little tโ€ฆ

Re:invent 2022 is approaching fast. A lot of preparation work has been already done. ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ™Œ

Re:invent 2022 is approaching fast. A lot of preparation work has been already done. ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ™Œ If you are around in Las Vegas and are interested in how to apply ML in AdTech use cases without starting from zโ€ฆ

Looking forward to share what we have been working on since a while with our customers at our upcoming

Looking forward to share what we have been working on since a while with our customers at our upcoming โ€œMachine Learning for Real-Time Advertising Workshopโ€ (https://aws-machine-learning-for-real-timeโ€ฆ

Time is moving fast. Already 5 years though it feels like I just started. Still Day 1. At Amazon Web

Time is moving fast. Already 5 years though it feels like I just started. Still Day 1. At Amazon Web Services (AWS) I found an awesome place to work with my customers and develop myself. While interviโ€ฆ

AWSSummit 2022 in Berlin has been a blast. Felt like someone accidentally hit the pause button two y

#AWSSummit 2022 in Berlin has been a blast. Felt like someone accidentally hit the pause button two years ago and finally managed to resume. It was awesome to meet people again outside of the countlesโ€ฆ

Berlin here I come! Looking forward to meet you next week at the AWS Summit in Berlin. Taking a little

Berlin here I come! Looking forward to meet you next week at the AWS Summit in Berlin. Taking a little detour to Innsbruck first to enjoy some fine trails at the Innsbruck Alpin Trailrun Festival and โ€ฆ

In just 14 days it's finally happening: AWS Summit Berlin 2022, May 11 - 12. Can't wait to meet you

In just 14 days itโ€™s finally happening: AWS Summit Berlin 2022, May 11 - 12. Canโ€™t wait to meet you (again) in person! A fully packed agenda is waiting for you and it would be my pleasure if you join โ€ฆ

Dieser Vortrag von Johannes Eiglsperger und Joachim Aumann liefert spannende Einsichten rund um das

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For those of you, who are interested to get a concise recap of re:Invent 2021 the following might be

For those of you, who are interested to get a concise recap of re:Invent 2021 the following might be interesting: Dennis Traub and myself will be hosting an online live event,ย Tuesday, 08. February 20โ€ฆ

2021

Curious how to apply ML for anomaly detection without PhD in AI/ML? - join my demo session at AWS Innovate Online on February 24th!

Curious how to apply ML for anomaly detection without PhD in AI/ML? - join my demo session at AWS Innovate Online on February 24th! Note that this session is in German, but we have overall 50+ sessionโ€ฆ

[German] Is your workload well-architected? Curious to understand the benefits of an architecture review

[German] Is your workload well-architected? Curious to understand the benefits of an architecture review based on best practices and to figure out how to successfully execute reviews? Tufan ร–zduman anโ€ฆ

Working at AWS brings many positive things. As you know: The only constant in life is change. Today

Working at AWS brings many positive things. As you know: The only constant in life is change. Today our flat changed into a home recording studio. Iโ€™ll be recording a session for the German track at tโ€ฆ

Curious how the Twelve-Factor App methodology can be mapped to #InfrastructureAsCode on #AWS? My colleague Wladi โ˜๏ธ Mitzel and I

Curious how the Twelve-Factor App methodology can be mapped to #InfrastructureAsCode on #AWS? My colleague Wladi โ˜๏ธ Mitzel and I are. Give it a read - heads-up: potential extra challenge: article is iโ€ฆ

2020

Great work, Benedikt Stemmildt and team. Pleasure to work with you guys: Die Migration der gesamten

Great work, Benedikt Stemmildt and team. Pleasure to work with you guys. Aus der AWS-Fallstudie: โ€œDie Migration der gesamten Onlineplattform in die AWS Cloud ermรถglichte dem Unternehmen, sein Geschรคftโ€ฆ

Great to see customer's success. Awsome work with Franรงois Guerraz, Janko Kovaฤeviฤ‡, Gerry Louw and

Great to see customerโ€™s success. Awsome work with Franรงois Guerraz, Janko Kovaฤeviฤ‡, Gerry Louw and the wider team. Optimizing customerโ€™s cost is a daily driver of my work and itโ€™s great to see anotheโ€ฆ

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