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Amazon Web Services releases and Terraform AWS provider. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.
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AWS GovCloud adds OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super
AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region now offers OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B models via the Kiro IDE and CLI. These models enhance AI application development with capabilities like complex reasoning, coding, and efficient inference. GPT-5.4 features a 272K context window, while Nemotron 3 offers efficient inference via a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and a 256K context window. Users can access these models by updating and restarting their IDE or CLI.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aisecurityawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
AWS WAF protects Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
AWS WAF now offers protection for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, shielding agentic AI applications from common web exploits and abuse as they move to production. This feature allows security and platform teams to enforce consistent, customizable web protections like IP-based access controls and rate-based rules at the Gateway layer. A single configuration applied at the Gateway protects all downstream agents and integrations, and is available in all regions where both services are offered.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
Amazon Connect launches Agentic CX designer in preview
Amazon Connect now offers Agentic CX designer, a no-code canvas for building AI-powered self-service experiences, in preview. This feature combines agentic and deterministic AI to transform customer service, enabling business teams to design, test, and deploy experiences faster. It also introduces Live Sync, which guides users through web or mobile apps in real-time during voice or chat interactions, creating a unified guided experience.
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AWS GovCloud (US) adds FedRAMP High/DoD IL-4/5 approved OpenAI and NVIDIA models on Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) now offers FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approved OpenAI GPT, OpenAI GPT OSS, and NVIDIA Nemotron models. This enables federal and public sector organizations to build generative AI applications meeting stringent government security requirements. The models leverage Mantle, a high-performance inference engine on Bedrock, for serverless deployment with automated management and OpenAI API compatibility.
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Kiro Achieves FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 Authorization on AWS GovCloud
Kiro, an agentic AI development platform, has achieved FedRAMP High and Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG) Impact Level (IL) 4 and 5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This allows federal agencies and public sector organizations to use Kiro for sensitive workloads with confidence in its security and compliance. Kiro aids in building applications by converting prompts into specs, code, and documentation, and integrates with enterprise resources via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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Amazon GuardDuty adds AI-powered threat investigations (Preview)
Amazon GuardDuty is introducing a preview of AI-powered investigations to help security teams automatically analyze findings and distinguish true threats. This feature aims to reduce manual investigation time and alert fatigue, accelerating incident response for cloud security analysts. It provides disposition assessments, MITRE ATT&CK classifications, and recommendations, and is available in preview across 10 AWS Regions.
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Claude Tag beta launched for Slack integration on AWS Marketplace
Anthropic has released Claude Tag in beta, integrating the Claude AI assistant into Slack channels for collaborative task delegation. Available to AWS customers using Claude Enterprise via AWS Marketplace, this feature allows teams to tag Claude for specific tasks. It offers context awareness, task planning, and enhanced security/governance controls with consumption-based pricing.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7e GPU instances
Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7e instances, featuring up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs per instance. These instances are optimized for demanding AI and graphics workloads, including LLMs and spatial computing, and are now available in specific AWS regions. This enables users to leverage higher GPU performance for their machine learning development within SageMaker Studio.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service adds AI to migration assistant
Amazon OpenSearch Service Migration Assistant now features an AI-assisted workflow to streamline migrations from self-managed Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch deployments. This enhancement leverages AI tools to aid in planning, infrastructure deployment, and data migration execution, making the complex process faster and more reliable. The update also includes live traffic capture and replay for Solr migrations and is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Notebook Instances Add Support for G6e EC2 Instances
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 G6e instances, featuring NVIDIA L40s GPUs and AMD EPYC processors. This enhancement offers up to 2.5x better performance than G5 instances, enabling faster interactive model training and deployment for generative AI, LLMs, and diffusion models. G6e instances are available in select AWS regions and are suitable for users working with large models.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-s3aws-kinesisaws-bedrockaws-sns ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory adds cross-account access
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports cross-account access, enabling the creation of multi-account architectures for memory resources and agents. This feature allows permission grants between accounts using resource-based policies and configuration of delivery destinations in separate accounts. It is available in all supported AWS Regions, simplifying complex, distributed AI agent deployments.
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Amazon Bedrock Guardrails gets automated policy refinement
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers automated refinement workflows for its Automated Reasoning checks, simplifying policy improvement for generative AI responses. These new features help customers reduce hallucinations and improve validation accuracy with less manual effort by iteratively refining policies based on test cases or resolving ambiguities in variable descriptions. Both workflows are available via API and the AWS Management Console in all regions supporting Guardrails Automated Reasoning checks.
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Amazon MSK introduces AI Agent Skills for operational guidance
Amazon MSK now provides AI Agent Skills, offering developers expert guidance for operational tasks like troubleshooting, sizing, and monitoring. These skills enable faster, more informed cluster management and accelerate migrations to MSK Express, offering significant performance and efficiency benefits. Teams can integrate these skills with existing AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, or Cursor to streamline operations and simplify Kafka management.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineermediaaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX GPUs now generally available
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7 instances, featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These instances offer significant performance improvements for AI inference and graphics workloads compared to G6, supporting applications like language translation, real-time graphics rendering, and game streaming. G7 instances are now available in two AWS Regions and can be purchased through various pricing models.
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SageMaker AI adds observability for inference endpoints
Amazon SageMaker AI now offers an observability capability for generative AI inference workloads, providing real-time visibility into token performance and infrastructure health. This feature automates the collection and display of key metrics, reducing manual troubleshooting time from hours to minutes. It is designed for engineers and architects managing production AI inference, with a new CloudWatch dashboard and Grafana integration available across multiple AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-sagemaker ·
Mistral-3-14B-Instruct model available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers the Mistral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 foundation model, enabling multimodal reasoning and agentic AI capabilities. This compact 14B-parameter model supports advanced AI assistants, vision-enabled applications, and native function calling, with easy deployment via SageMaker Studio or SDK. It is optimized for edge deployment and handles multilingual text and image analysis.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsaws-sagemaker ·
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds all-MiniLM-L12-v2 for semantic search
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers the all-MiniLM-L12-v2 model for semantic search and sentence similarity. This allows AWS customers to efficiently build applications like information retrieval and document clustering using dense vector representations. The model is readily deployable via SageMaker Studio or the Python SDK, ideal for production workloads needing fast, high-quality text embeddings.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Harness GA
AWS has launched the managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling faster development of functional agents. This feature provides the orchestration layer, tool execution, state management, and error recovery, previously requiring significant manual development. It allows customers to define agents via configuration rather than coding the loop, offering flexibility in model selection and integration with tools and knowledge sources. The harness is available today in all commercial AWS Regions where AgentCore is offered.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aisecurityawsengineer ·
AWS Secrets Manager adds secret safety skill to Agent Toolkit
AWS Secrets Manager now includes a secret safety skill within the Agent Toolkit for AWS's aws-core plugin, enhancing security for AI coding agents. This feature prevents sensitive secrets from being exposed to AI models or session logs during agentic workflows. It is available today for all supported agent harnesses and AWS Regions, offering a crucial security upgrade for developers building on AWS.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-s3 ·
Oracle Database@AWS adds Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless
Oracle Database@AWS now supports Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (ADB-S), a managed Exadata service. This integration allows provisioning directly from AWS, simplifying operations for AI Transaction Processing, AI Lakehouse, AI JSON Database, and APEX workloads. ADB-S includes automated management, independent scaling, high availability, and integrates with AWS security and monitoring services, launching in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions.
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