Starting today, Amazon Aurora DSQL supports multi-Region clusters in four additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless, distributed SQL database, with active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency. Each multi-Region cluster provides a writable endpoint in both peered Regi…
Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances with up to 53% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. R8i and M8i instances offer up to 15% better pri…
AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, Java 11, and Java 17 runtimes on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), available as both managed runtimes and container base images. These new runtimes enable customers running Lambda functions on Java 8, 11, or 17 to migrate from Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) to AL2023 without requiring a simultaneous Java version upgrade. The existing Lambda runtimes for Java 8, 11 and 17 run on AL2…
Amazon CloudWatch now supports collecting Prometheus metrics from your AWS infrastructure using fully managed collectors — enabling you to monitor Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon MSK, and Amazon OpenSearch Service workloads without deploying or managing any agents. Previously, getting Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch required deploying, scaling, and maintaining a self-managed OpenTele…
AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises servers, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon ECS services. Customers in these newly add…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Milan) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. C7i-flex instances are the easiest w…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Milan) and Canada West (Calgary) regions. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. C7i instances…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio gives project members full Git version control directly within the tools you already use - Query Editor, Visual ETL, Workflows, and Notebooks. The enhanced Repositories experience replaces the previous automatic sync approach with flexible, file-level version control. This brings a consistent source control experience across all project tools, including Notebooks, w…
AWS Direct Connect now provides Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route visibility, allowing you to view the routes exchanged between AWS and your on-premises routers across your private, transit, and public virtual interfaces (VIFs). You can now see which routes AWS accepted from your router and which routes AWS is advertising to your router, along with their AS path and BGP community values. This vi…
Amazon Redshift now supports Graviton-based RG instances on the trailing track. Starting today, rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance types are available for customers running workloads on the trailing track on patch P202 and onwards. The trailing track is designed for customers who prioritize stability for production workloads, running on a version already validated through the leading track. With RG…
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announces a major update to IAM Policy Simulator, the tool you use to test and validate the permissions your IAM policies grant before you deploy them. This update changes the simulator in three ways: it now lives in the IAM console, it can test service control policies (SCPs), and it adds flexibility to model more of the scenarios that security and platfor…
Today, OpenAI announced lower prices for GPT‑5.6 Luna and GPT‑5.6 Terra. Effective July 30, 2026, on-demand inference prices on Amazon Bedrock for GPT‑5.6 Luna are reduced by 80%, while prices for GPT‑5.6 Terra are reduced by 20%. These reductions are in-line with OpenAI's first-party pricing changes for these models. GPT‑5.6 Luna is optimized for fast, high-volume workloads and can use tools to c…
AWS Transit Gateway now supports Policy-Based Routing (PBR), giving network administrators granular control over how traffic is forwarded across their AWS network. With PBR, forwarding decisions can be based on a combination of packet attributes including source and destination IP addresses, ports, and protocol rather than destination IP address alone. Previously, customers needing traffic steerin…
Amazon MSK Express brokers now deliver data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg, a new capability that continuously materializes Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables. Amazon MSK data delivery to streaming tables can reduce the cost of ingesting and delivering Apache Kafka data into Amazon S3 Tables by up to 60% versus self-managed deployments and reduces downstream q…
Amazon MSK Express brokers now delivers data to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets, providing a fully managed capability to deliver Apache Kafka data in Amazon S3 for downstream processing in the easiest and most reliable way. This capability automatically scales to deliver high-throughput Kafka data to S3 with end-to-end reliability for mission-critical workloads, while reducing ingestion and deli…
The Gemma 4 family of open-weight models from Google DeepMind on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). With Gemma 4, you can build generative AI applications across reasoning, multimodal understanding, agentic, and software engineering workflows. The Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock includes three variants - Gemma 4 31B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, and Gemma 4 E2B - spanning dense and mixture-of-experts…
xAI's Grok 4.3 model is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). With this launch, xAI joins Amazon Bedrock as a model provider in AWS GovCloud (US-West), giving you even more choice as you build generative AI applications across reasoning, agentic, and enterprise workflows. Grok 4.3 is a reasoning-first model that offers configurable reasoning effort (none, low, medium, high). I…
AWS Directory Service now allows you to upgrade your AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory from Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition directly through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and API without migrating to a new directory or re-joining your existing workloads. Standard Edition is designed for organizations with up to 5,000 users and objects, while Enterprise Edition supports up to 500,000…
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 Lucene engines compresses vectors, reducing the storage and memory required by vector workloads while maintaining search accuracy. You can now retrieve vectors fas…
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 automatically triggers an Instance Refresh. With this integration, you can now access Instance Refresh capabilities including replace root volume for in-place upda…
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 polling: Long polling enables you to retrieve SQL statement metadata or results without polling repeatedly until the SQL statement reaches a terminal state, by d…
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 emerging platforms without native AWS Glue connectors. With this launch, you can operate your ETL pipelines from data sources with REST API endpoints by securely c…
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 interprets them. Pre-parse text transformations normalize a raw query string before AWS WAF parses it into key-value pairs, closing HTTP parameter pollution 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 reasons including interoperability requirements, the freedom to choose technology that best suits their needs, and the ability to build and deploy applications on a…
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 coaching feedback in Amazon Connect Customer, they automatically receive examples of recent evaluations where the agent scored high or low on the chosen coachin…
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 GovCloud (US) Region of your choice. With this launch, EFS Replication customers can meet business continuity, multi-account disaster recovery, and compliance re…
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 Regions of your choice when using Identity Center directory as your identity source. This extends the multi-Region support capability, previously available for Identit…
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 HPA-driven workloads to scale in response to increased load, enabling faster responsiveness to demand. The Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) continuousl…
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 Cost and Usage widget, customers can track month-to-date and forecasted costs, identify savings opportunities, and see how their spend breaks down by service over t…
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 consistent hybrid experience. Organizations from startups to enterprises and the public sector in and outside of India can now order their Outposts racks connected…