Alla Seiffert @ [email protected]

Techie. Lawyer. Cloud Policy @aws_gov. Former Internet Assn, @18F @USGSA. Forever @techladymafia. Original Fellow @ilpfoundry. Views expressed are my own.

[Alla Seiffert @ [email protected] @AllaSeiffert]

Cloud accreditation has been talked about in gov and regulated industries for much of the last decade. Here's a comprehensive whitepaper on the different approaches and best practices ☁️🖥☁️

[AWS Security @AWSSecurityInfo]

New Whitepaper: Accreditation Models for Secure Cloud Adoption provides best practices for cloud accreditation to help organizations capitalize on the security benefits of cloud. Read ➡️ https://t.co/F1sib75cJl

[Elizabeth Fuentes @ElizabethFue12]

📰🚨 Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025

#AWSreInvent2025 #CloudInnovation #MachineLearning #ServerlessArchitecture #DataSecurity

https://t.co/hNeYjzat9m

[Elizabeth Fuentes @ElizabethFue12]

Build multi-modal AI agents that scale 🤖

New 3-part series:
✅ Process images, docs & videos
✅ Persistent memory (FAISS → S3 Vectors)
✅ Prototype to production
✅ Few lines of code

https://t.co/SfqEjQjbVS

#AWS #AI

[AWS for Government @AWS_Gov]

🏦 AWS is accelerating @USGSA's OneGov strategy with up to $1B in cloud savings to modernize systems & lead in AI innovation.

Learn more about how your agency can benefit. 🔗 ️https://t.co/oigVoflfBB

[CSET @CSETGeorgetown]

How does the U.S. government buy and use AI tools, and how can it improve?

February 24 at 3pm ET, join @AllaSeiffert of @aws_gov & CSET’s @oschinski, moderated by @elizabethan of @CenDemTech. Hosted by @BeeckCenter, and GU's Tech Institute. (RSVP in comments)

[Alla Seiffert @ [email protected] @AllaSeiffert]

evergreen

[sm @sashax]

Gov't Digital Service progression:
year 1: "Why y'all talk about procurement so much? How boring."
year 2: "Man, procurement's a pain."
yr 3: "We should really consider doing something about procurement"
yr 4: "Holy crap there's nothing more important than solving procurement!"

[OpenSSF @openssf]

🛡️ Cybersecurity starts with readiness, and your input matters!

Developers, tech leaders, and manufacturers: help shape the future of digital security by taking the Cybersecurity Readiness & Best Practices Survey. 🌐

👉 Share your insights: https://t.co/xnPStyMS4Y

[Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman]

An underrated feeling is when you meet someone, and you realize you have a mutual friend, so you take a picture together and send it to that friend with no context. What a rush!

[Swami Sivasubramanian @SwamiSivasubram]

We’re on the second day of #AWSreInvent. It was an amazing experience to see @ajassy being back on the stage and Matt Garman acing it :)

Personally, I’m proud of what my team and I worked on that was launched today. It’s hard for me to pick favorites—from Aurora DSQL to DynamoDB Global Tables to next generation SageMaker to Bedrock Automated Reasoning Checks and Bedrock Model Distillation to Amazon Q Dev launches, including the Mainframe modernization, and Amazon Q Business launches, including the agent to automate your workflows. We can’t fit all the things our teams worked on, and we have lots of new launches in my keynote tomorrow that I’m excited to share with you :)

Of course, I’m also very excited for how our new Amazon Nova models are going to change the game on intelligence and price performance for foundation models:

🟠 Amazon Nova Micro, a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at very low cost.

🟠 Amazon Nova Lite, a very low-cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing image, video, and text inputs

🟠 Amazon Nova Pro, a highly capable multimodal model with the best combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks

🟠 Amazon Nova Premier, the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.

🟠 Amazon Nova Canvas, a state-of-the-art image generation model that creates professional grade images from text or images provided in prompts.

🟠 Amazon Nova Reel, a state-of-the-art video generation model that allows customers to easily create high-quality video from text and images.

Here are my takeaways from this morning’s keynote ⬇️

[Andy Jassy @ajassy]

It’s been three years since I was last at #AWSreInvent and excited to be back.

Am going to try doing a few low-key videos this week on recapping what I’m excited about and what we’re hearing from customers. Will start this series with a little reminiscing about the origin of AWS re:Invent.

Intend to share some thoughts on some launches tomorrow.

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @JoeBeOne]

Let's Encrypt is now used by more than 500,000,000 websites!!! I could not be more happy and proud of everyone who has played a part in this colossal contribution to online safety, integrity, and confidentiality: https://t.co/qjjspDVOoU @letsencrypt

[Future Caucus @futurecaucus]

Thank you to all of our speakers, @KathyBoockvar, @AllaSeiffert, Margaret Palmieri, and @haddadmedia, for joining the “AI: Navigating Promises and Protections” panel at #FutureSummit!

[Andy Jassy @ajassy]

.@AnthropicAI's latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, just released on Amazon Bedrock today.

This model combines the speed and affordability customers have really liked thus far from the original Sonnet model, but with much better performance. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the best performing model in the world today across multiple industry benchmarks for one-fifth of the cost of Opus.

Pretty exciting for customers and part of what makes building on Bedrock so powerful – you can update your combination of models as your needs or the technology evolves.

I think customers are going to be really impressed with what the Anthropic team has built here. https://t.co/FxJ6E5fEPC

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

I throw my arms up in the air sometimes…Saying ayeoh, I’m a saguaro. 🌵

📸@SaguaroNPS

[Alla Seiffert @ [email protected] @AllaSeiffert]

Today, George Mason University's @Costello_Biz released a white paper on the potential effects of raising the micro-purchase threshold for federal #procurement. More info here: https://t.co/AbBNETZKXH

[FedScoop - @fedscoop.bsky.social @fedscoop]

.@AllaSeiffert of @AWS_Gov was joined by @DHSgov's Chris Kraft and @USDA's @rdpiazza at #AWSInnovate. They discussed how their agencies and stakeholder communities are leveraging GenAI and traditional AI, and addressed the AI risk framework established by OMB 24-10.

[Adam Selipsky @aselipsky]

🚀 Today, we are thrilled to share that Amazon Q is now generally available.
◼Amazon Q is the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data. It eliminates tedious work for developers and employees across organizations.
◼Q helps to test, debug and write code, and has the highest reported code acceptance rates in the industry, for assistants that perform multi-line code suggestions. @BTGroup recently reported they accepted 37% of Q’s code suggestions and National Australia Bank reported a 50% acceptance rate.
◼Amazon Q Developer Agents can autonomously perform a range of tasks—everything from implementing features, documenting, and refactoring code, to performing software upgrades. Developers can ask Amazon Q to implement an application feature, and the agent will analyze their existing application code and generate a step-by-step implementation plan.
◼Amazon Q's capabilities extend beyond coding. It also allows employees to easily get insight from their company's internal data that is spread across multiple documents, systems, and applications. Q connects all these siloed sources and can answer questions, provide summaries, analyze trends, and generate content.
◼We're also introducing Q Apps, a powerful new way for anyone to create generative AI apps based on their organization's data—no prior coding experience required. Simply describe the app you need in natural language, and Q Apps will build it for you. This unlocks endless possibilities for teams to automate workflows and daily tasks.
Customers across industries are using Amazon Q to transform the way they work. I'm incredibly excited to see what Q can do for you. https://t.co/GehdLFroGH

[Alla Seiffert @ [email protected] @AllaSeiffert]

@bethanymarz @SuffsMusical Pantsuit!!

[Amazon News @amazonnews]

Exciting news for builders from @awscloud! ⬇️

[Adam Selipsky @aselipsky]

We’re celebrating AWS #PiDay AND the 18th birthday of our first generally available service, Amazon S3! Since it launched, S3 has grown to become the world’s most popular cloud data store with more than 350 trillion objects and now 1 million+ data lakes running on @awscloud. S3 helps customers innovate quickly and securely with technologies like generative AI. Great to celebrate with the S3 team and Buckets! Check out #AWS PiDay. https://t.co/i9B4W4NM9X

[Secretary Gina Raimondo @SecRaimondo]

This morning, I held a roundtable with some of the leading AI CEOs and stakeholders as part of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium. By working together, we can develop the measurements and standards needed to maintain America’s competitive edge and develop AI responsibly.