Claude Fable 5 is generally available on AWS and makes Mythos-level capabilities available to all customers, with strong safeguards designed to make it safe for broader use. Fable 5 is state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks and…
Today, AWS announces the preview of AWS FinOps Agent, a frontier agent for FinOps practitioners and engineering teams that answers cost questions, surfaces optimization opportunities, automatically investigates cost anomalies, and runs…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now support Amazon EMR Serverless with Apache Spark Connect, giving data engineers and analysts more flexibility in choosing their Spark runtime for interactive analytics and data engineering…
You can now create Amazon S3 Access Grants in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. Amazon S3 Access Grants map identities in directories such as Microsoft Entra ID, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to…
AWS Cost Explorer now supports 'Analyze with Amazon Q', a new capability that delivers comprehensive cost explanations for any report you configure in Cost Explorer. With a single button click you now can receive detailed analysis from…
AWS Backup support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. This expansion brings fully-managed, policy-based data protection and recovery to your Amazon EKS…
Today, AWS announces target coverage analysis in Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer, a capability in AWS Billing and Cost Management that helps you plan your Savings Plans purchases based on your coverage target. Savings Plans Purchase…
AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) is now available as AWS Transform MGN. This name change reflects MGN's role as the proven replication engine powering AWS Transform, the agentic migration service. You can choose between two…
Amazon Connect Customer now provides AI agent traces for self-service voice interactions, enabling you to understand how AI agents reason, act, and respond during each customer conversation. With this launch, you have full visibility into…
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports interactive sessions with Spark Connect, enabling you to develop and run Apache Spark applications from managed notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, as well as your favorite notebook environments…
Amazon Redshift announces a new billing model for manual snapshots on Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift RG instances. With this enhancement, Amazon Redshift now meters manual snapshot storage based on the unique data blocks…
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports engine minor versions, starting with 5.0.1. This release delivers enhanced aggregation capabilities with new operators ($rand, $pow, $dateToParts, $dateFromParts), the active…
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 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 1 in the Amazon…
Today, AWS announced cross-account and cross-role access for the AWS Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS. This feature allows developers using AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, or Codex to work…
Amazon SageMaker AI now offers multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL), a new serverless model customization technique for fine-tuning models on multi-step, agentic tasks. SageMaker AI model customization lets you adapt foundation models…
AWS Compute Optimizer now identifies idle resources for Amazon DynamoDB provisioned tables, Amazon ElastiCache (Redis and Valkey), Amazon MemoryDB, Amazon DocumentDB (provisioned and serverless), Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon SageMaker…
Effective today, Amazon MSK Express Brokers support automatic topic creation with Kafka Streams. Customers can now deploy their Kafka Streams applications on Express Brokers without needing to manually pre-create or manage topics for…
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query language now supports 23 new commands and functions that give you new ways to query, parse, transform, and analyze your logs. Customers analyzing logs in CloudWatch Logs Insights often need to do…
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers TCO assessment in AWS Transform, so you can estimate costs when migrating on-premises SQL Server databases to RDS for SQL Server. Using AI-powered agents, AWS Transform analyzes your on-premises SQL…
AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) is now available in all commercial AWS Regions, except Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Auckland). LMI lets you run Lambda functions on managed Amazon EC2…
Amazon Aurora DSQL introduces support for the PostgreSQL JSONB data type with optional compression. You can now use code and tools that depend on PostgreSQL's JSONB type with Aurora DSQL, making it easier to store semi-structured data…
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now includes AI-powered cost investigation, which uses Amazon Q to analyze the root cause of detected cost anomalies. Investigating a cost change typically requires correlating cost data with AWS CloudTrail…
Today, AWS announced that the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) allows users to install the Agent Toolkit for AWS across multiple coding agents with a simple interactive wizard. The Agent Toolkit for AWS gives coding agents the tools,…
AWS Step Functions now enables you to add AI agent reasoning steps to your workflow through an optimized integration with the managed harness (currently in preview) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow…
Amazon Location Service today announced support for public transit and intermodal routing in the Routes API. Developers can now use the CalculateRoutes operation with two new travel modes, Transit and Intermodal, to plan journeys that…
Amazon Inspector now offers improved agent-based EC2 scanning with the new Inspector VM Scanner, delivering expanded detection coverage and reduced CPU utilization on your EC2 instances. Security teams can now detect vulnerabilities across…
AWS now offers Claude Opus 4.8 -- Anthropic's most capable generally available model to date -- delivering meaningful advances across agentic coding, professional knowledge work, and long-running autonomous tasks for developers and…
Today, AWS announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector engine designed for customers building agents. The next generation of OpenSearch Serverless auto scales…
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, enabling you to build and scale generative AI applications. Today, Amazon Bedrock…
Amazon Bedrock now supports GPT-5.4 from OpenAI in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Government and regulated industry customers can use GPT-5.4 for complex reasoning, coding, document analysis, and multi-step workflows while benefiting from the…
Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports IBM Db2 v12.1. With Db2 v12.1, RDS now supports Db2 Standard, Db2 Advanced, and Db2 Community Edition. Db2 Community Edition provides all the features available in Standard and Advanced Editions, with no…
Amazon Connect Customer now enables contact center supervisors to receive real-time alerts directly on the dashboard when specific keywords, phrases, or sentiment patterns are detected during live calls and chats, enabling faster…
Today, AWS announces durability support for Amazon ElastiCache. Durability enables you to use ElastiCache for workloads that require microsecond read latency but cannot tolerate data loss. With durability support, ElastiCache now stores…
AWS today announced that AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0) provides new integration options with AWS Athena and AWS Redshift. This capability allows customers to analyze the data from their AWS CUR 2.0 in Amazon Simple Storage…
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server launches Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) for Microsoft SQL Server. With BYOM, customers who migrate SQL Server applications from on-premises environments can adopt a managed…
AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow version 26.04, enabling customers to take advantage of new Nextflow features and enhancements: record types, the strict syntax parser, workflow output summaries, and agent logging mode. AWS HealthOmics…
Today, AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) launches PCS-ready DLAMI, an AWS-maintained Amazon Machine Image built on the Deep Learning Base GPU AMI (Ubuntu 24.04). It provides a production-quality foundation for AI/ML training and…
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new set of deliverability features that help customers get more information about their outbound sending deliverability performance and reputation. Customers can now see the percentage of…
AWS Shield Advanced announces distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack flow logs, giving you packet-level visibility into traffic hitting Shield Advanced protected resources during a DDoS attack. The log data is published to Amazon S3,…
Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for Budgets widgets in BCM Dashboards, giving you the flexibility to customize your cost management console with the views that matter most to your organization. You can now…
Today, AWS IoT Core launches two new MQTT connection management APIs, GetConnection and ListSubscriptions, enabling you to easily access MQTT client connection and subscription information for your Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These…
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub, a central location in the AWS console that helps platform engineering and site reliability teams assess and strengthen the resilience of their…
Today, AWS announces an enhancement to the opportunity deal sizing capability in AWS Partner Central, by allowing Partners to estimate deals using total contract value (TCV). Partners can now submit the TCV from the deal with the customer,…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports interactive shells through a new InvokeAgentRuntimeCommandShell API, opening a persistent, PTY-backed terminal directly into a running agent session over WebSocket. This complements the…
Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now integrates with SageMaker Catalog business context and metadata, enabling data practitioners to discover datasets and generate more accurate SQL and Python code using business terminology instead of cryptic…
AWS IoT Device Management adds MQTT session data to connectivity status API, enabling you to troubleshoot connectivity issues and audit connection patterns across your Internet of things (IoT) device fleet. This launch brings AWS IoT…
Amazon SageMaker Data Agent, available in SageMaker Unified Studio now supports conversation history, enabling data practitioners to maintain continuity across analytical sessions. Data analysts and data scientists can now seamlessly…
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now returns an iterator position in the GetRecords response for change data capture (CDC) streams, indicating whether a consumer has reached the tip of the stream or whether additional records may be…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio enhanced its global accessibility by introducing support for twelve languages across the user interface. Supported languages include English (American), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German,…
AWS Config now supports 9 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Amazon SageMaker. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more…
Kubernetes version 1.36 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.36. Starting today, you…
AWS Config now supports internal service linked rules, enabling AWS services to evaluate AWS resource configurations using AWS Config managed rules. Internal service linked rules extend the existing service linked recorder capability by…
AWS HealthOmics now allows customers to specify the Nextflow engine version at run time via the StartRun API, enabling customers to pin runs to a specific Nextflow version for controlled migration. With this launch, customers can select…
Amazon Connect Customer now optimizes placement of ad-hoc activities in agent schedules, making it easier for you to schedule non-productive events while automatically minimizing impact to service level goals. For example, automatically…
Amazon Connect Customer now supports up to 5,000 agents per schedule, making it easier for you to schedule larger business units or multiple business units that share agents (multi-skilled agents) within a single schedule. Additional scale…
Amazon Connect Customer now provides schedule update notifications, making it easier for you to automatically notify agents when their schedules change. You can define rules to send email or text notifications (via EventBridge) to…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now allows customers the ability to reference existing AWS Secrets Manager secret ARNs directly in AgentCore Identity Credential Providers. Previously, AgentCore Identity used a service-managed secret…
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides troubleshooting skills that bring expert-level AI/ML cluster diagnostics directly into AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Kiro. SageMaker HyperPod is a purpose-built infrastructure…
You can now use GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 in production workloads on Amazon Bedrock and build with Codex for AI-powered software development, with the same security, governance, and operational controls you already use across AWS. GPT-5.5 is the…
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle April 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c, and the corresponding Supplemental Patch Bundle for Oracle Database version 19c. We…
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions. Amazon S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, streamlining tabular data storage at scale.…
We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances in AWS US East (N. Virginia) on SageMaker notebook instances. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances are powered by 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of…
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports AWS IAM-based authorization for Amazon S3 Tables and Apache Iceberg materialized views. With IAM-based authorization, you can define all necessary permissions across storage, catalog, and query engines in…
Amazon OpenSearch Service expands its modernized operational analytics experience to GovCloud regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), enabling users to gain insights across data spanning managed domains and…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8in instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore, Malaysia) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. C8in instances are powered by custom, sixth generation Intel Xeon…
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate now supports 32vCPU compute configurations, enabling customers to run more demanding applications with greater flexibility and performance. AWS Fargate offers 32vCPU tasks with…
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB serverless databases are now available on Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel in additional AWS Regions, offering you more flexibility to build applications with Vercel and…
Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication, enabling you to synchronize user and machine identity data — including credentials, user pool configurations, and federation setups — to a secondary user pool in a standby Region you…
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Capabilities can now be configured as log delivery sources using Amazon CloudWatch Vended Logs. This enables customers to monitor and troubleshoot their EKS Capabilities for Argo CD, AWS…
AWS Deadline Cloud now gives you an easier way to deliver plugins to cloud workers when using service-managed fleets. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps teams run compute-intensive workloads in the cloud for visual…
You can now deploy Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. This new independent cloud for Europe is located entirely within the EU, designed to help customers in regulated industries and public sector…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now enables you to schedule, parameterize, and orchestrate notebook runs directly from the notebook interface without managing external orchestration infrastructure. This makes it easier for customers to…
AWS Compute Optimizer now lets you extend the lookback period of your Amazon EBS volume and Amazon ECS rightsizing recommendations from the default 14 days to 32 days, at no additional cost. A longer lookback period allows Compute…
Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch helps customers orchestrate the failover of their multi-Region applications to achieve a bounded recovery time in the event of a Regional impairment. Today, we are announcing three…
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances now supports AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia, purpose-built AI accelerators designed to deliver scalable performance and cost efficiency for training and inference across a…
AWS IoT Core now provides two new Amazon CloudWatch Log event types that help you troubleshoot device connectivity issues and authentication errors across your Internet of Things (IoT) fleet. The new Ping log event type is emitted when…
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports persistent storage for Service-Managed Fleets (SMF), allowing you to maintain data across worker lifecycle events. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that makes it easy for teams to run…
Amazon SageMaker Studio quick setup now completes in under twenty seconds, reduced from over two minutes. Whether you are building ML pipelines, exploring data, developing with notebooks, or fine-tuning foundation models, you can go from…
Amazon Quick Research now enables customers to encrypt their data using customer-managed keys (CMK) through AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This enhancement allows organizations with strict security and compliance requirements to manage…
Amazon Quick now enables enterprise customers to connect their privately hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to Quick through Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Amazon Quick is an AI assistant that turns questions into answers,…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom IAM permissions boundaries, so organizations that enforce Service Control Policies (SCPs) requiring permissions boundaries on all IAM roles can adopt SageMaker Unified Studio without…
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and…
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8azn instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) Region. These general purpose high-frequency high-network instances are powered by fifth generation AMD EPYC (formerly code named Turin) processors and offer…
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports EFA-only network interfaces for cluster instance groups, enabling you to configure dedicated Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) devices without the traditional Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) for IP…
AWS Direct Connect now supports Virtual Interface (VIF) Rate Limiters on dedicated connections, which help you prevent network congestion caused by unexpected traffic spikes on a VIF which can potentially consume all available bandwidth,…
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, enabling you to build and scale generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock customers…
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now supports tenant-level suppression lists, allowing email senders to isolate bounces and complaints per tenant. Previously, all tenants in an account shared a single suppression list, meaning one…
AWS End User Messaging now supports RCS for Business messaging in 20 additional countries, bringing the total to 22. Businesses can now send verified, branded RCS messages to customers in Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark,…
AWS HealthLake now provides native support for healthcare payers to comply with the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F). This rule requires Medicare Advantage organizations, Medicaid managed care plans,…
Amazon Connect Customer now supports scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance, helping organizations plan, route, and track long-running follow-up work. For example, an insurance team managing an auto repair claim can schedule future…
Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 4 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada…
AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps multicloud Interconnect, making it easier to privately connect your workloads on AWS and other public clouds. Customers have been adopting multicloud strategies while migrating more…
Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available in eight additional AWS Regions: EU-Central-2 (Zurich), EU-South-1 (Milan), EU-South-2 (Spain), EU-West-3 (Paris), AP-Northeast-3 (Osaka), AP-Southeast-1 (Singapore), AP-Southeast-4…
Amazon CloudWatch now allows you to query metrics data up to two weeks in the past using the Metrics Insights query source. CloudWatch Metrics Insights offers fast, flexible, SQL-based queries. This new capability allows you to display,…
AWS Organizations now automatically emits CloudTrail events to your management account whenever accounts join or leave your organization. These new events—AccountJoinedOrganization and AccountDepartedOrganization—provide security teams and…
Amazon Connect Customer now supports generative AI-powered post-contact summaries in eight additional language families: Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Post-contact summaries also now support…
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. DynamoDB Streams captures time-ordered sequences of item-level modifications in DynamoDB…
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports the ability to set up streaming resources powered by Windows Desktop operating systems using Bring Your Own License (BYOL). Customers can now bring their existing Windows Desktop licenses to…
AWS IoT Core now supports the ability to send point-to-point messages to any connected device, providing better visibility into message delivery and lower messaging cost. AWS IoT Core is a fully managed service that securely connects IoT…
Amazon Connect Customer Assistant is now integrated within the UI builder, enabling contact center managers to create and modify views using natural language. Managers describe what they need, such as "Create a feedback form with rating…