Christos Matskas
@christosmatskas.bsky.social
Keynote lead @AWS, ex MSFT, speaker, security, cloud, developer, YouTuber, technologist, husband, dad.
Moving Towards Spec-Driven Development with Kiro and Agentic AI. Listen to @marcbrooker.bsky.social on The Real Python Podcast @realpython.com realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...
Episode #277: Moving Towards Spec-Driven Development – The Real Python Podcast
What are the advantages of spec-driven development compared to vibe coding with an LLM? Are these recent trends a move toward declarative programming? This week on the show, Marc Brooker, VP and Disti...
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January 5, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Moving Towards Spec-Driven Development with Kiro and Agentic AI. Listen to @marcbrooker.bsky.social on The Real Python Podcast @realpython.com realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...
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Log investigation is a common use case where AI agents can add real value with huge amounts of data to comb. Instead of manually writing SPL queries, an agent can take a transaction ID and search through Splunk logs to build an investigation report automatically. (1️⃣/3️⃣)
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Log investigation is a common use case where AI agents can add real value with huge amounts of data to comb. Instead of manually writing SPL queries, an agent can take a transaction ID and search through Splunk logs to build an investigation report automatically. (1️⃣/3️⃣)
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Building a Splunk Investigator Agent with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Overview In this post, I share how to build an AI agent that leverages logging tools such...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Log investigation is a common use case where AI agents can add real value with huge amounts of data to comb. Instead of manually writing SPL queries, an agent can take a transaction ID and search through Splunk logs to build an investigation report automatically. (1️⃣/3️⃣)
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Log investigation is a common use case where AI agents can add real value with huge amounts of data to comb. Instead of manually writing SPL queries, an agent can take a transaction ID and search through Splunk logs to build an investigation report automatically. (1️⃣/3️⃣)
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On the success of ‘natural language programming’ via @marcbrooker.bsky.social brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12... #programming #genAI #aI
On the success of 'natural language programming' - Marc's Blog
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December 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
On the success of ‘natural language programming’ via @marcbrooker.bsky.social brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12... #programming #genAI #aI
Reposted by Christos Matskas
Amazon Bedrock now has OpenAI-compatible APIs through Project Mantle. I built a CLI to explore them and learned some interesting things about the two different approaches. 🧵
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#AWS #AI #OpenAI #Python
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#AWS #AI #OpenAI #Python
Exploring the OpenAI-Compatible APIs in Amazon Bedrock: A CLI Journey Through Project Mantle
After Amazon Bedrock introduced OpenAI-compatible application programming interfaces (APIs) through...
dev.to
December 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Amazon Bedrock now has OpenAI-compatible APIs through Project Mantle. I built a CLI to explore them and learned some interesting things about the two different approaches. 🧵
dev.to/aws/explorin...
#AWS #AI #OpenAI #Python
dev.to/aws/explorin...
#AWS #AI #OpenAI #Python
It was an amazing privilege to be part of this event. Thank you to #TedAI and @SwamiSivasubram for this unique opportunity. #agenticAI #genAI #aws www.linkedin.com/posts/swamin...
#aws | Swami Sivasubramanian | 10 comments
It was an incredible week at TEDAI Vienna. I was honored to present a talk in September on the power of AI agents, and how this technology will fundamentally change how we live and work.
When agent...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It was an amazing privilege to be part of this event. Thank you to #TedAI and @SwamiSivasubram for this unique opportunity. #agenticAI #genAI #aws www.linkedin.com/posts/swamin...
New 'Markovian Thinking' technique unlocks a path to million-token AI reasoning venturebeat.com/ai/new-marko... #genAI #AI #LLM
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October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
New 'Markovian Thinking' technique unlocks a path to million-token AI reasoning venturebeat.com/ai/new-marko... #genAI #AI #LLM
Reposted by Christos Matskas
New blog post, reflecting on nearly seven years since the Firecracker launch, and how we're using Firecracker to power serverless databases (in Aurora DSQL) and infrastructure for AI agents (in Bedrock AgentCore).
Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...
Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...
Seven Years of Firecracker - Marc's Blog
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September 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New blog post, reflecting on nearly seven years since the Firecracker launch, and how we're using Firecracker to power serverless databases (in Aurora DSQL) and infrastructure for AI agents (in Bedrock AgentCore).
Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...
Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...
Excellent blog post by Marc Brooker - Key components of a data-driven agentic AI application aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa... @awscloud.bsky.social #data #genAI #agenticAI
Key components of a data-driven agentic AI application | Amazon Web Services
In this post, we look at the costs, benefits, and drawbacks of replacing services for agentic AI with direct database access. Including those that work well and are proven in production, and new servi...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Excellent blog post by Marc Brooker - Key components of a data-driven agentic AI application aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa... @awscloud.bsky.social #data #genAI #agenticAI
FANTASTIC AWS POLICIES AND WHERE TO FIND THEM iam.cloudcopilot.io/posts/fantas... @awscloud.bsky.social #aws #amazon #security
Fantastic AWS Policies and Where to Find Them - Tools for AWS IAM
There are more than you think, and now it's easy to find them.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
FANTASTIC AWS POLICIES AND WHERE TO FIND THEM iam.cloudcopilot.io/posts/fantas... @awscloud.bsky.social #aws #amazon #security
Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi... @awscloud.bsky.social #security #cloud
Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 | Amazon Web Services
Amazon’s threat intelligence team has identified and disrupted a watering hole campaign conducted by APT29 (also known as Midnight Blizzard), a threat actor associated with Russia’s Foreign Intelligen...
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September 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi... @awscloud.bsky.social #security #cloud
Google and Qualcomm execs confirm Android for PC is coming: 'I've seen it, it is incredible' mashable.com/article/goog... #android #genAI #desktop
Qualcomm CEO: Android for PC is coming, and it's 'incredible'
A Google executive reconfirmed that a merging of ChromeOS and Android is coming at some point in the near future.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Google and Qualcomm execs confirm Android for PC is coming: 'I've seen it, it is incredible' mashable.com/article/goog... #android #genAI #desktop
How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs #s3 #aws #storage #cloud #scale
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how AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives
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September 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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September 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Some amazing new developer-focused Lamdba innovations: console to IDE and remote debugging aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/si... @awscloud.bsky.social #aws #lambda #serverless #devtools #amazon
Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services
Developers can now build serverless applications faster through seamless console-to-IDE transition and debugging of functions running in the cloud from local IDE.
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July 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Some amazing new developer-focused Lamdba innovations: console to IDE and remote debugging aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/si... @awscloud.bsky.social #aws #lambda #serverless #devtools #amazon
tsx is a Node.js enhancement to run TypeScript. #node #typescript #javascript
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tsx (TypeScript Execute) - The easiest way to run TypeScript in Node.js
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July 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
tsx is a Node.js enhancement to run TypeScript. #node #typescript #javascript
tsx.is?utm_source=t...
tsx.is?utm_source=t...
Intro to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore youtube.com/watch?v=usFI... #agenticAI #Amazon #aws #genAI #agents @awscloud.bsky.social
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Deploy & Operate AI Agents in Minutes | Amazon Web Services
YouTube video by Amazon Web Services
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July 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Intro to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore youtube.com/watch?v=usFI... #agenticAI #Amazon #aws #genAI #agents @awscloud.bsky.social
Introducing Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers: Powering Frontier AI at Scale youtu.be/u81NapG8yL0?... @awscloud.bsky.social #amazon #genAI #Nvidia
Introducing Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers: Powering Frontier AI at Scale | Amazon Web Services
YouTube video by Amazon Web Services
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July 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Introducing Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers: Powering Frontier AI at Scale youtu.be/u81NapG8yL0?... @awscloud.bsky.social #amazon #genAI #Nvidia
Using Amazon Q Developer CLI and draw.io to create application architecure diagrams and get advoce how to fix isses based on the AWS Well Architected Framework. www.linkedin.com/posts/eb-khi... @awscloud.bsky.social #amazon #genAI #devTools
This Amazon Q prompt gives you a 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 for your application architecture drawn in draw.io. | Ebrahim (EB) Khiyami
This Amazon Q prompt gives you a 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 for your application architecture drawn in draw.io. It covers about 60% of what I typically do in person with customers when reviewing the...
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June 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Using Amazon Q Developer CLI and draw.io to create application architecure diagrams and get advoce how to fix isses based on the AWS Well Architected Framework. www.linkedin.com/posts/eb-khi... @awscloud.bsky.social #amazon #genAI #devTools
Amazon Q CLI blows my mind every time I use it to solve coding problems or add new features. Between Q in VS Code & Q in the CLI, there hasn’t been a challenge I wasn’t able to tackle successfully with very little adjustment. #newworld #programming #GenAI #AgenticAI @amazonwebservices.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Amazon Q CLI blows my mind every time I use it to solve coding problems or add new features. Between Q in VS Code & Q in the CLI, there hasn’t been a challenge I wasn’t able to tackle successfully with very little adjustment. #newworld #programming #GenAI #AgenticAI @amazonwebservices.bsky.social
Those were the days, indeed. Gen X know the pain…
June 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Those were the days, indeed. Gen X know the pain…
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services cacm.acm.org/practice/sys... #amazon @amazonwebservices.bsky.social
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services – Communications of the ACM
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May 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services cacm.acm.org/practice/sys... #amazon @amazonwebservices.bsky.social
Why model choice matters: Flexible AI unlocks freedom to innovate aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-in... #aws #genAI #amazon
Why model choice matters: Flexible AI unlocks freedom to innovate | Amazon Web Services
Organizations achieve more effective and efficient results when they can select and use different AI models that precisely match their specific business needs and use cases.
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May 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Why model choice matters: Flexible AI unlocks freedom to innovate aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-in... #aws #genAI #amazon
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions @awscloud.bsky.social #data
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Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions
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May 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions @awscloud.bsky.social #data
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Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am... #amazonQ #generativeAI #developer @awscloud.bsky.social
Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Q Developer is now available in preview on GitHub, enabling developers to assign tasks to an AI agent that can develop features, conduct code reviews, enhance security, and migrate Java code, a...
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May 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am... #amazonQ #generativeAI #developer @awscloud.bsky.social
Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am... @awscloud.bsky.social #DeveloperTools #generativeAI #aws
Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience | Amazon Web Services
This new interactive, agentic coding experience for Visual Studio Code allows Q Developer to intelligently take actions on behalf of the developer.
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May 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am... @awscloud.bsky.social #DeveloperTools #generativeAI #aws