Damon O'Connor

Father, Husband, Brother, Snow Skier, Chess player. I work for @AWSCloud & my opinions are my own. he/him/y'all

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New at AWS Summit NYC 🗽: AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview). It scans your repos against configurable baselines, surfaces prioritized tech debt findings, and ships PRs to fix them — autonomously, at scale. https://t.co/yYf5YZnSzz

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We just made it dramatically easier to get agents to production. AgentCore handles the orchestration, memory, context, and security so you can focus on what your agent actually does. Excited about this! https://t.co/m8IpDUKZGX

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Context is the new compute. At AWS Summit NYC today, we launched AWS Context, giving AI agents a governed way to access the business knowledge, data relationships, and rules they need to make trusted decisions. https://t.co/2r2qshpOOo

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Building something and owning something are very different decisions. Rick Fast at Expedia Group breaks down how his team navigates that in the age of AI.

Worth a read ➜ https://t.co/04ppzkeoRl

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Proud to be part of a company turning 20 and still building. This Fast Company piece highlights how customers like Capital One are putting AWS AI to work across financial services. https://t.co/hkjTHVxjj1

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Excited about the latest Amazon Quick upgrades! A new desktop app that connects to your files, calendar, and email, and takes action. Now anyone can get started with just an email.

Read more from siliconANGLE: https://t.co/AXDK2ObdD0

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Enjoyed reading these upgrades from The Deep View.

Amazon Quick will have a new desktop app that connects to your local files, calendar, email, and apps, and learns you over time! https://t.co/TFF45SSziP

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AWS and OpenAI's biggest collaboration yet: OpenAI models on Bedrock, Codex on Bedrock, and Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI — all in limited preview. Check out the news in Bloomberg Technology: https://t.co/d0i3QjxpsH

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Breaking: The London Stock Exchange Group and AWS are transforming real-time data with enhanced flexibility, speed and resilience for the world's most comprehensive financial data universe covering 100+ million instruments from 575+ exchanges globally. https://t.co/ezroURH4qu

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AWS introduced Amazon Bio Discovery, a new application that helps scientists design and test antibody drug candidates using AI. Awesome to see this work to bring new treatments to patients sooner. https://t.co/MM7eH4taLy

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Incredible deep dive on AWS at 20 from GeekWire. The Cape Town EC2 origin story (14 engineers, one 4Mbps DSL line, daily VPN token hunts) is worth it alone. https://t.co/ySSya5DWby

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bro casually walks and explains 5 GPU performance optimization methods for LLMs. one of the most simple and intuitive explanations for beginners.

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Fortune covers the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center's journey helping 1,000+ customers move from pilot to production, with 65%+ of 2025 projects now live—far above industry averages. The secret? Alignment first, then execution. Read more: https://t.co/9wP9UbWnon

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HCLTech launches pre-built, industry-compliant solutions for contact center modernization and core platform transformation, partnering with AWS to accelerate innovation for Banking, Wealth, and Insurance. Learn more: https://t.co/nWmZh2BpfF

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We announced a strategic partnership between AWS and BlackRock to offer Aladdin, the firm’s investment management technology platform, on AWS’s secure, scalable cloud infrastructure while delivering flexibility, performance and security. https://t.co/vgrGO1nuzh

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🚀 AWS re:Invent: Graviton5 is here!

With 25% better performance, 192 cores per chip, and 5x larger cache, it’s already powering companies like Formula 1, SAP, and Epic Games. Plus, it’s energy-efficient, helping businesses meet sustainability goals. https://t.co/q4dcQ8KwjX

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Excited to see AWS VP Swami talking to Yahoo! Finance about the frontier agents launch at #AWSreInvent.

"The agentic era is arguably going to be one of the biggest technology transformations since the beginning of cloud computing." https://t.co/fjuLxbq4BM

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TechCrunch reports on AWS announcing new capabilities for its AI agent builder at #AWSreInvent. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is getting upgrades to make building and monitoring AI agents easier for enterprises. Check out the features: https://t.co/0JVDBInHAa

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AWS Marketplace launches new capabilities for partners and customers at #AWSreInvent: CRN breaks down all 5 key updates. Worth checking out → https://t.co/WlKIweoW8W

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new OpenSource project on Github: The Instana MCP server is built as a unified layer that exposes Instana’s full REST API capabilities through MCP. It translates conversational queries into precise API calls and formats responses for AI assistants. https://t.co/YioUYNrUz2