Amazon Redshift Data API introduces new capabilities that reduce the number of API calls to retrieve SQL statement metadata or results, provide visibility into sessions, and allow batch statements to execute on separate transactions. Long…
AWS Glue now supports VPC connections, filter pushdown, and partition support for the REST API connector. The REST API connector enables you to ingest data from any source that exposes a REST-based API, including proprietary systems and…
You can now run OpenSearch version 3.7 on Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch 3.7 introduces improvements in vector search performance, search relevance, and Query Insights. With this launch, 1-bit scalar quantization on the Faiss and…
AWS announces the general availability (GA) of AWS Interconnect — multicloud with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Customers have been adopting multicloud strategies while migrating more applications to the cloud. They do so for many…
Amazon CloudWatch announces the launch of coding agent insights, giving engineering leaders visibility into how AI coding tools are driving value across their organization. Coding Agent Insights integrates with Claude apps gateway for AWS…
Amazon Connect Customer now automatically surfaces relevant examples of an agent's evaluations when managers are preparing coaching feedback, so they can deliver actionable, evidence-backed coaching to agents. When a manager prepares agent…
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh as a new AWS CloudFormation update policy. When you configure the new AutoScalingInstanceRefresh update policy and update properties that require instance replacement, CloudFormation…
IAM Identity Center helps you configure the single sign-on experience of your workforce to AWS accounts and applications. You can now replicate IAM Identity Center from the primary AWS Region where you first enabled it to additional…
AWS announces the preview of the AWS Security Hub MCP App, a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings your Security Hub exposure findings directly into Claude Desktop. This capability can help accelerates your security…
Today, AWS WAF adds pre-parse text transformations for query arguments and ten new text transformations for use in any rule statement. Both help you normalize request content so that AWS WAF inspects requests the same way your application…
Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication in AWS GovCloud (US), allowing customers to replicate file systems between AWS accounts. EFS Replication enables you to easily maintain an up-to-date replica of your file system in the AWS…
Today, AWS announces a research preview of aws-bench, an open-source benchmark that measures how accurately and efficiently AI agents complete real-world AWS tasks. Model providers and AI researchers building agents that operate on AWS…
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5 on Amazon Bedrock. Claude Sonnet 5 delivers strong performance across coding, professional work, and agentic tasks while maintaining the balance of capability, cost, and speed. For coding, it…
On July 22, 2026, Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Support (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 26.0.2, 25.0.4, 21.0.12, 17.0.20, 11.0.32, and 8u502 are now…
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the existing AWS Direct Connect location within the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions…
Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now display real-time and historical metrics for agent queues. Agent queues are used to directly route contacts to a specific agent. Now, supervisors can track how these agents perform in their own…
Today, AWS announces the availability of KNFSD File Cache, an open-source, Apache-2.0 licensed solution for deploying a scalable, high-speed Network File System (NFS) cache on AWS. KNFSD File Cache mounts exports from one or more source…
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports agent-based data transfers with Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS), Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and self-managed object storage. Additionally, Enhanced mode agents can now be deployed on…
AWS now offers Claude Opus 5 — the most advanced Opus model yet, and compatible with zero data retention (ZDR) — bringing a step-change in coding, long-running agents, and complex professional work to teams building at the highest level.…
Amazon Redshift announces the availability of All Upfront payment option for 3-year Serverless Reservations, providing up to 50% savings over on-demand rates. With All Upfront pricing, you pay for the full reservation term at the start and…
Amazon EKS now delivers faster pod autoscaling across all Provisioned Control Plane clusters by increasing Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) sync concurrency to up to 40 times the default Kubernetes value. This reduces the time it takes for…
AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, allowing customers to surface insights from Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub on their Console Home dashboard. With the…
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or colocation space for a truly…
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET, empowering C# developers to build resilient, long-running workflows using Lambda durable functions. With this SDK, developers can create…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I8ge instances in AWS Europe (London) and Canada (Central) regions. I8ge instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better compute performance…
Today, AWS announces the general availability of node lifecycle actions in AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS). With node lifecycle actions, you can run custom scripts automatically at defined points in a compute node's lifecycle. You can…
AWS Wickr now offers a managed Data Retention Service feature for Premium users, enabling organizations to retain conversations across their network for data archiving purposes. AWS Wickr is an enterprise-grade, secure collaboration…
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports up to 1.5 billion active metric time series and up to 200,000 total recording and alerting rules per workspace. Customers can also create many workspaces per account, enabling the storage…
AWS Partner Central agents now support all AWS Partner funding programs. AWS Partners can get guidance on eligibility requirements, application processes, and program details for any funding program and receive documentation-backed answers…
Today, AWS announces standardized product metadata for Amazon Bedrock in AWS Data Exports (Cost and Usage Report), giving FinOps teams and cloud administrators consistent, structured attributes to understand Bedrock costs. AWS Data Exports…
Today, AWS launches enhanced event filtering for network activity events for VPC end points, a CloudTrail event type that captures actions transmitted through a Virtual Private Cloud Endpoint. Customers can now control which network…
Amazon Connect customers can now deliver more natural, human-sounding agentic voice experiences with expanded support across 50+ languages including Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Thai, over 100 new voice…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I8ge instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) regions. I8ge instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared…
Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece. The Athens Local Zone is the second Local Zone in EMEA with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon…
Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for Cost Efficiency widget in BCM Dashboards. You can now view cost efficiency trends alongside Cost Explorer, Budgets, and reports for Savings Plans and Reserved Instance…
Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of two new RG instance sizes - rg.large and rg.12xlarge. These new sizes deliver the same Graviton-powered performance benefits as existing RG instances, including up to 2.4x faster query…
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre as source or destination locations. AWS DataSync is a secure, high-speed data transfer service that simplifies moving data over a network. Enhanced mode processes…
Amazon S3 Tables now support the Variant data type as defined in the Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) specification. You can now write semi-structured data like JSON directly to S3 Tables without defining a fixed schema in advance, allowing…
Amazon Neptune Database now supports tag-based access control (TBAC) for IAM, enabling customers to use AWS resource tags and IAM principal tags as conditions in IAM policies and Service Control Policies (SCPs) to control access to Neptune…
AWS Glue Data Quality now supports anomaly detection for Catalog-based data quality evaluations and the ability to write evaluation results to AWS Glue Data Catalog (GDC) tables. These capabilities work across both ETL jobs and Catalog…
AWS Glue Data Quality now supports a new Distribution Analyzer that generates frequency distribution profiles for your data. Using this new Distribution Analyzer in the Data Quality Definition Language (DQDL), you can generate histograms…
Agents using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows 365 Cloud PC can now take calls directly from their virtual desktop session with audio optimization enabled. To get started, IT administrators need to complete a one-time setup…
Duplicate patient records are one of the costliest problems in healthcare data management, scattering a patient's information, leading to redundant tests, missed diagnoses, billing errors, manual reconciliation, and broken analytics that…
Two new models are now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Claude Opus 4.8 is the most intelligent Opus model, delivering stronger self-verification, more efficient tool calling, and better follow-through…
Amazon GameLift Streams now supports Custom Aspect Ratio and Dynamic Resolution, giving you greater control over the streaming experience across diverse player devices and network conditions. With Custom Aspect Ratio, you can configure a…
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports AWS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC discovery and JWKS endpoint. You can now reach the endpoint used by IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA) privately from your VPC without…
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now gives you direct control over ad decision server (ADS) timeout. Previously, changing these settings required contacting AWS Support. You can now configure individual HTTP ad request timeouts, total ad…
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports version community MySQL 9.7 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers agent traces and prompts to the same log group as your agent's logs, giving you unified observability for AI agents in a single Amazon CloudWatch log group. Previously, AgentCore split agent telemetry…
We are pleased to announce the availability of Amazon EC2 G7e instances in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) on Amazon SageMaker AI inference. G7e instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server…
We are pleased to announce the availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region on Amazon SageMaker AI inference. G6 instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs, each with 24 GB of memory, and…
AWS Entity Resolution now supports real-time matching with advanced matching workflows, enabling customers to match records in milliseconds using complex rulesets through the GenerateMatchId API. Previously, real-time matching was limited…
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…
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) introduces Action Logs, a new observability feature that delivers detailed, timestamped records of the actions Amazon ECS performs on behalf of customers during service deployments and…
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink version 2.3. This release includes adaptive partition selection for improved backpressure handling, so applications run more smoothly under uneven load. It also introduces…
Amazon GameLift Streams now supports assigning an IAM role to a stream session, enabling your application to securely access resources in your AWS account, such as Amazon S3 buckets and DynamoDB tables. With this launch, you can pass a…
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 19 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 in the Amazon…
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports restoring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)-enabled SQL Server databases on Multi-AZ instances and instances configured with a read replica in the same region,…
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.11.2. Amazon MWAA is a managed service that runs Apache Airflow at scale without the operational overhead of managing the underlying infrastructure.…
Starting today, customers can create Host Resource Groups (HRGs) for EC2 Dedicated Hosts without the previously required step of creating Self-Managed Licenses (SMLs) and associating AMIs through AWS License Manager. This flexibility is…
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale. On-demand streams automatically increase ingest capacity in response to rising data ingest…
AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) capacity providers to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, giving you visibility into scaling activity and instance lifecycle operations. LMI enables you to run Lambda functions on Amazon…
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now offers a simplified console experience for sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager. Mail Manager is a capability within SES for managing email flow, but configuring its resources individually to…
AWS Clean Rooms now supports larger worker types of 32 vCPUs with 244 GB of memory for SQL analyses, allowing you to run more compute and memory-intensive workloads. Previously, the largest worker type available was 16 vCPUs with 120 GB of…
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) introduces zone-aware routing for ECS Service Connect, enabling customers to reduce cross Availability Zone (AZ) data transfer costs and latency by automatically prioritizing service-to-service…
AWS now enables customers who pay through electronic funds transfer to configure preferences for how credit memos are automatically applied to outstanding invoices. Customers can choose from different application preferences directly on…
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer (ALB) logs as vended logs, improving observability and simplifying debugging for network traffic patterns. You can now analyze ALB access, connection and health check logs…
Today, we're announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. This expansion provides more options to leverage the scale and…
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-16TB instances (u7in-16tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS South America (São Paulo) region, and U7in-24TB instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region. U7i instances are…
Starting today, the compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in AWS US West (N. California) Region. C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver…
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz,…
Amazon EC2 M8id instances are now available in (Ireland). These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and deliver up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation M6id instances.…
Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports listener rules allowing you to route connections to different target groups based on the source IP address type. With listener rules, a single dual-stack NLB sends IPv6 client traffic to IPv6…
AWS Lambda durable functions now supports encryption of durable execution data with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. Lambda durable functions lets you build long-running, reliable workflows directly in your…
AWS Organizations now supports up to 2,000 resource control policies (RCPs) per organization, doubling the previous limit of 1,000. RCPs enable centralized management of the maximum permissions available to resources across member accounts…
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, enabling you to deploy machine learning models with up to 4.6x AI inference performance compared to previous-generation…
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Amazon EC2 placement groups and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) network device configuration for node pools on EKS Auto Mode and the open-source Karpenter project, enabling you to optimize…
AWS Secrets Manager now automatically publishes events to Amazon EventBridge whenever your secret values change, enabling you to build event-driven workflows that respond in real time to secret updates. Until now, you had to rely on AWS…
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central).…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central) regions. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Amazon OpenSearch as a data source, enabling you to query and analyze your search and log analytics data directly alongside your other data assets. With this new connection, you can combine…
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, making software updates for containerized applications safer and allowing you to…
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) introduced pricing plans, making it easy to purchase and access SES capabilities without evaluating them individually. Amazon SES pricing plans include three hierarchical options: Essentials, Pro,…
AWS Marketplace now enables India-based sellers to upload and manage their seller signatures directly through AWS Partner Central, eliminating the previous manual, email-based submission process. Sellers located in India are required to…
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 for Enterprise, Standard, and Developer editions. SQL Server 2025 brings AI integration directly into the database engine, enabling…
AWS HealthOmics private workflows are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (Ohio) Regions, expanding access to fully-managed bioinformatics workflows for research, drug discovery, and agriculture science initiatives with…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (Stockholm, Zurich) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering…
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage options on multi-session fleets. Users streaming on multi-session fleets can now connect their OneDrive or Google Drive…
With Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, you can now create, share, and reuse custom visual transforms in visual ETL flows. This capability enables data engineers to build reusable, business-specific transformation logic and make it available…
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports one-click migration from legacy OpenSearch Dashboards to OpenSearch UI, for both OpenSearch domains and serverless collections. OpenSearch UI is the new, zero-downtime, serverless interface for search…
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports network topology configuration at the partition level for Slurm orchestrated clusters. A single cluster can now run tree topology in one partition and block topology in another, with each partition…
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports customer managed AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys for encrypting canary environment variables, giving you full control over the encryption of sensitive configuration data such as API keys,…
Amazon Managed Grafana is now a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance…
Amazon EC2 now surfaces the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store parameters associated with public AMIs directly in the AMI metadata. When you describe a public AMI, the response includes the associated public SSM parameter, making it…
Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags in events delivered to all destinations including Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and AWS Lambda. System-generated tags are metadata labels attached to your bucket…
Customers can now view annual water withdrawals data associated with their AWS workloads in AWS Sustainability, alongside existing carbon emissions data. This enhancement helps organizations gain comprehensive visibility into their…
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors…
You can now transition objects to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) as soon as the day they are created, without the previous 30-day minimum retention in S3 Standard. These…