Amazon Connect Customer announces the general availability of agentic CX designer, a no-code canvas for designing and deploying AI-powered self-service experiences. You can now build and launch voice and digital experiences that bring…
AWS announces the availability of TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, enabling customers to create multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content. Amazon Bedrock Managed…
Today, AWS Lambda durable functions announces an integration with Pydantic AI, an open source framework for building AI agents in Python. AWS Lambda durable functions saves your Pydantic AI agent's progress as it runs, so after an…
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB) for the July 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database version 19c and 26ai. Starting with April 2026 releases, the Oracle…
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. The latest and most capable model from OpenAI to date, GPT-6 Astra brings deeper reasoning and judgment, professional-quality writing and design,…
Today, AWS announced that AWS Transform for .NET can automatically generate unit tests for the code it modernizes. When enabled, AWS Transform generates unit tests that target the testable classes in your transformed .NET application, such…
Today, AWS announces the general availability of second-generation single-rack AWS Outposts, a self-contained 42U rack that integrates compute, storage and networking into a single compact unit purpose-built for workloads requiring low…
AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports Video Aligned Locking, a new feature to synchronize video pipelines without requiring timecode from the source. Previously, achieving frame-accurate locking across video outputs required investing in…
AWS Lambda now supports direct read configuration for Amazon S3 Files, letting you configure which storage your functions read from: S3 Files high-performance storage or your S3 bucket. With this launch, you can optimize the throughput and…
AWS DevOps Agent now enables engineers to manage production operations across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments with the complete investigation lifecycle directly within Slack. Previously, on-call engineers and DevOps teams…
Today, AWS announced the general availability of an AWS-managed transformation for .NET modernization in AWS Transform custom that you can trigger with a single one-line CLI command. You can run this transformation interactively, or script…
AWS announces the CheckIngestedDocumentAcl and GetIngestedDocumentAcl APIs for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, giving customers a self-service way to debug document access issues and audit document-level permissions. When a user…
AWS announces the Confluence Data Center data source connector for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers running self-hosted Confluence Data Center instances can now…
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) announces the availability of the AWS Private CA Connector for Kubernetes as a managed Amazon EKS add-on and the AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and…
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3, the latest minors released by community MariaDB. In addition to operational…
Today, AWS announced four new features for Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront (DIT), an AWS supported solution that helps customers transform images in response to their needs. Customers can now use enhanced smart cropping…
Amazon EMR now gives you more time, at no additional cost, to migrate off older releases before they reach end of support. If you are actively migrating, your workloads on eligible releases keep receiving support while you move to a…
Version 1.0 of the Nx Plugin for AWS, an open source toolkit for scaffolding full-stack applications on AWS, is now available. AI assistants can stand up an application on AWS in minutes, but rarely get security, observability, and…
Memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are…
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching, an inference optimization that pre-loads model weights and container images onto cluster nodes so pods start in seconds instead of minutes. When running LLM inference at scale for…
AWS announces user-managed setup (3LO) for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence data sources in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base. Previously, configuring these data sources required generating 2LO credentials on the third-party side,…
AWS announces the ServiceNow data source connector for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers can now connect their ServiceNow instance to crawl knowledge articles and…
AWS announces automatic sync scheduling for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service that handles data ingestion, storage optimization, and advanced retrieval without requiring you…
Today, AWS Model Context Protocol Server (AWS MCP Server) added a serverless capability so that coding agents such as Claude Code and Kiro can efficiently diagnose issues with your Lambda functions. The serverless capability helps you…
Starting today, customers can subscribe and manage flat-rate pricing plans programmatically using the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, CloudFormation, CDK, or the PricingPlanManager API. CloudFront flat-rate plans give you one monthly price covering…
Amazon Quick now offers Quick Max, a new plan for power users who want to get the absolute most out of Quick. With 5x the usage and 5x the storage of Plus, Max gives you the room to do more: more agents, more workflows, more of whatever…
Today, AWS announces the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 (AL2027), the next version of the Amazon Linux operating system, purpose-built for cloud-native workloads on AWS with performance, scale, and security in mind. Built on AL2023's…
AWS Transform for migrations adds Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a generally available storage target for block storage workloads, alongside Amazon EBS. With AWS Transform, you can now migrate block storage directly to FSx for ONTAP as…
Today, AWS announces support for self-managed PostgreSQL databases in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Using CloudWatch Database Insights, you can now monitor your self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on Amazon EC2, alongside…
AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, giving you visibility into workflow resource utilization as runs execute. The 14 new run metrics span CPU and GPU usage, memory usage, file system usage and I/O…
Today, Amazon Quick offers new capabilities that make it easier to organize your work, govern it across an organization, and trust the answers it produces. These capabilities build on Amazon Quick across desktop and mobile, bringing…
AWS Entity Resolution now provides record-level confidence scores for Machine Learning (ML) based matching workflows, giving you a per-record signal of how confident the model is in each individual identity match. Previously, all records…
AWS Transform is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, enabling government agencies and regulated organizations to plan and execute large-scale migrations to AWS. With this launch, customers operating in AWS GovCloud (US) can…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now lets developers submit content directly for long-term memory extraction without persisting it as a short-term memory event. The new IngestData API accepts content, fans it out to the memory's configured…
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for Microsoft SQL Server…
AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now supported for functions running in Europe Sovereign Cloud. Recursive loop detection automatically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda functions and other supported services,…
Amazon API Gateway now supports configurable delivery destinations and larger log events for REST API execution logs. Previously, execution logs were delivered to a single API Gateway-managed CloudWatch Logs log group with log events…
Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.3 which adds quorum queue feature enhancements such as compaction, increased priority levels, native delayed retries, and graceful consumer timeouts. RabbitMQ 4.3 also includes various bug fixes…
You can now build full-stack search and AI applications in minutes using Amazon OpenSearch Serverless on v0 by Vercel, an AI-powered platform that transforms your ideas into production-ready web applications. OpenSearch Serverless…
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports the IAM condition keys for CPU and memory resources on the RunTask and StartTask APIs. Administrators can use these keys to enforce consistent CPU and memory limits across all…
Amazon EC2 now enables AMI owners to define which instance types are compatible with their AMIs. Owners can specify supported instance types, unsupported instance types, or both — and any launch attempt on a non-permitted instance type is…
Amazon Connect Customer now automates evaluations of human and AI agents in Malay using generative AI. Managers define custom evaluation criteria in natural language and receive AI-generated evaluations with justifications in their…
Amazon Quick connectors let users leverage tools and services such as Outlook, Slack, Salesforce, Jira, and homegrown MCP servers directly into their workflows across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research. Today, Amazon Quick…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD expands its open-source deployment toolkit with two new capabilities: (1) an AI agent skill that automates manifest authoring, and (2) native notebook promotion across environments. Together, they help…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a managed consent portal that eliminates the need for custom OAuth callback infrastructure when connecting agents to third-party tools and services. Developers using AgentCore Gateway to connect…
Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. RG instances deliver better performance, running data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as previous…
With synthetic monitors in Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring, you can now determine whether a network performance issue on a path that crosses an AWS Transit Gateway inter-Region peering connection is caused by the AWS network. This…
AWS Elemental Inference now generates contextual metadata from live video streams in real time, using AI to produce scene-level intelligence without custom machine learning infrastructure. The new capability analyzes live video in parallel…
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now offers Yield Optimization, a new capability that automatically monetizes unused ad inventory with Amazon Ads demand during server-side ad insertion (SSAI) for livestreams. Available exclusively to publishers…
AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports A/B forensic watermarking, enabling content owners to trace the source of unauthorized redistribution of live video content. A single MediaLive channel produces two synchronized output variants, each…
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS) ad insertion using HLS Interstitials. MediaTailor is a channel assembly and personalized ad insertion service for video providers that monetizes live streams,…
AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS 140-3 validated endpoints over AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 File Gateway. Previously, FIPS endpoints for File Gateway were available only over the public internet. Now you can keep FIPS-compliant…
AWS Elemental MediaPackage now offers Dynamic Multiview, a server-side capability that composes multiple live video sources into viewer-selected tiled layouts on demand. Content providers can deliver multi-angle, multi-game, and…
Today, we're announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Europe (Spain), and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. This expansion provides more options to leverage…
AWS Marketplace sellers that activated the request demo or request private offer call-to-action buttons on their listings can now act on customer requests within minutes of submission, while customers are still actively evaluating their…
Amazon Connect Customer now gives contact center managers the ability to set specific capacity limits for different kinds of work. Previously, concurrency settings were applied at the channel level so all contacts within a channel were…
AWS Lambda now supports a 90-minute function timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping (ESM) invocations on Lambda Managed Instances (LMI), a 6x increase from the previous 15-minute limit. You can now run data processing, media…
AWS Lambda now supports AWS Graviton5-powered C9g, C9gd, M9g, and M9gd instances on Lambda Managed Instances. You can now run your Lambda functions on the latest generation of Graviton processors, delivering up to 25% better compute…
The Amazon Quick activity feed is now available on the Amazon Quick mobile app for iOS and Android, keeping you connected to your most important work from anywhere. The activity feed is your single, prioritized view of everything that…
The Amazon Quick desktop app is now generally available on macOS and Windows. The desktop app brings the full power of Amazon Quick to your computer, working directly with your local files and staying connected to your calendar, email, and…
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Volume Clones now supports copying EBS volumes across AWS accounts with re-encryption. You can copy EBS volumes to any AWS account, re-encrypting with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in…
Today, AWS Systems Manager extends its diagnosis capability to identify six additional categories of issues that can prevent Amazon EC2 instances and hybrid-activated nodes from becoming managed by Systems Manager. An instance must be…
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now sends segment membership events, providing the ability to receive real-time and scheduled notifications when customer profiles enter or exit a segment, such as high-value customers or low-satisfaction…
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now lets you run your own custom Python plugins on the managed versions of InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise editions. You host your plugin code in public or private repositories you control and the engine…
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed capability that makes it easy to compute, store, and retrieve features for training and deploying AI models. SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature-level writes, a new capability for…
You can now configure Amazon API Gateway REST APIs to present an AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate to your backend during the TLS handshake, enabling mutual TLS (mTLS). Previously, API Gateway could present only a self-signed…
Today, AWS HealthOmics introduces the resource fallback directive, enabling you to define an ordered list of preferred accelerator types, including an option to fallback to CPU instances, for tasks in your Workflow Description Language…
AWS Builder ID, your personal profile for accessing AWS applications including AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, Amazon Quick and Kiro, now offers new ways to protect and recover your profile. You can add a recovery email…
Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention, allowing you to apply write-once-read-many (WORM) protection to objects whose required retention period starts with a future event, such as a contract closing or an audit completing.…
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Amazon MWAA Serverless eliminates the operational overhead of managing Apache Airflow infrastructure by…
Amazon GuardDuty now offers Custom Detection Rules, a library of 35 prebuilt, opt-in rules for CloudTrail management events that let you extend threat detection coverage to match your environment. Custom Detection Rules produces 26 unique…
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports Early Success Criteria for rolling service deployments, giving you the flexibility to define when a deployment is considered successful based on your confidence level and the…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei, New Zealand), and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to…
AWS Transfer Family SFTP Connectors now continue running file transfers while you rotate the credentials used to authenticate with remote SFTP servers. You no longer need to update the connector to point to a new secret version each time a…
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports Amazon EC2 G6e instances for batch transform. Batch Transform enables you to run predictions on datasets stored in Amazon S3 and is suited for large datasets that do not require a persistent inference…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed…
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now support non-critical Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances. You can configure a daemon as non-critical so that your mission-critical application tasks continue running uninterrupted,…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) regions. AWS Graviton5 processors are the…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. These instances offer up to 2x performance compared to P5en…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) P6-B300 instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. P6-B300 instances provide 8xNVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB high bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA…
AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) now supports sending TCP Reset (RST) packets when a target becomes unhealthy, is deregistered, or when a flow's idle timeout expires. This feature helps reduce traffic interruptions from minutes to seconds…
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Graphics G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon Scalable (6th Gen) processors. G7 instances deliver up to 2.1× better performance for…
Amazon Redshift rg.large instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, now support single-node clusters. Single-node support for rg.large clusters is available on P204 or later patch versions. Customers can now create a single-node…
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 8.4 will support MySQL 8.4.8. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, Aurora MySQL 8.4.8 includes several improvements, such as support for post-quantum TLS…
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL supports two new replication capabilities: multi-source replication and delayed replication. Multi-source replication lets a single Aurora MySQL cluster replicate from multiple source databases at the…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows now supports PythonOperator and BashOperator, enabling you to run custom Python functions and shell commands directly in your serverless workflows without provisioning separate compute resources.…
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now includes a built-in monitoring experience on the environment detail page in the AWS Management Console. A new metrics dashboard displays key Amazon CloudWatch metrics for your…
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now supports Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) signing, giving you a way to help recipients verify your emails are authentic. An S/MIME signature lets recipients confirm that a message…
Amazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink for endpoints that have been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. Customers with security and compliance requirements can use FIPS-validated cryptographic…
The Web Search built-in server-side tool on Amazon Bedrock is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), helping bring grounded web results to compliance-sensitive government and public-sector workloads. Web Search helps supported OpenAI GPT…
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or…
AWS CloudFormation now supports contract tests v2, available through the --v2 flag of the cfn test command in the CloudFormation CLI. Previously, the contract test suite covered only basic scenarios around the CRUD handlers. Contract tests…
AWS Config now supports 60 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon EC2, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Organizations. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to…
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon MemoryDB from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between…
AWS User Experience Customization (UXC) is now available in all commercial AWS Regions. UXC enables account administrators to set a custom account color and control which services and Regions appear in the AWS Management Console.…
Starting today, AWS Lambda supports SnapStart for functions packaged as container images, reducing startup times from several seconds to as low as sub-second. Lambda SnapStart is an opt-in capability that makes it easier for you to build…
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports 18 additional SQL trace flags that you can enable through database parameter groups. Trace flags are configuration switches that modify SQL Server engine behavior — such as query optimizer cardinality…
Now generally available, Amazon Quick lets you build custom applications by simply describing them in natural language. Create project trackers, customer dashboards, and training portals in minutes instead of months. Whether you're a…
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports sharing job bundles, giving teams a simple way to distribute and reuse render job templates without manual file distribution. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps teams run compute-intensive…
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports a dry run feature to check whether an API request would succeed without executing the operation. Customers can now set the new optional parameter ‘DryRun’ to true in their API requests to validate…