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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.
Tracking 678 AWS releases · Updated
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Amazon Connect adds 50+ languages, new voices, and improved conversational AI
Amazon Connect now supports over 50 languages and offers more than 100 new voice options, enhancing AI agent interactions with more natural, fluid, and responsive conversations. These updates aim to create smoother customer experiences by improving response pacing, turn-taking, and allowing adjustments to speed, volume, and emotion. The new capabilities are available to Amazon Connect customers seeking to deliver more human-like self-service voice experiences across channels.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: AI Model Updates, S3 Enhancements, Lambda Features
AWS announced several updates, including new OpenAI models on Bedrock, faster S3 storage transitions, and improved Lambda code management. These changes aim to enhance AI capabilities, optimize storage costs, and streamline serverless development for engineers and architects. Notable additions include GPT-5.6 models, same-day S3 IA transitions, and self-managed code storage for Lambda.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiobservabilityawsengineerfinance ·
CloudWatch Coding Agent Insights launched
Amazon CloudWatch now offers Coding Agent Insights to help engineering leaders track the ROI of AI coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot. This feature integrates with Claude apps gateway and uses OpenTelemetry metrics to provide visibility into adoption, cost, and impact on delivery velocity. It is available in most AWS commercial regions and requires configuring the Claude apps gateway to emit telemetry to CloudWatch.
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SageMaker HyperPod supports partition-level topology for Slurm clusters
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now allows partition-level network topology configuration for Slurm clusters, enabling different topologies within a single cluster based on instance types. This change optimizes distributed training by aligning job placement with interconnect characteristics, improving GPU communication and throughput. The feature is available in all supported AWS Regions and is enabled by default for Slurm 25.11+ clusters.
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AWS Strands Agents SDK Enhances AI Agent Integration with Open Protocols
AWS's Strands Agents SDK now supports multiple open protocols like MCP and A2A, simplifying integration between AI agents and various systems. This approach reduces custom code and enables agents to collaborate and access tools more effectively. The SDK is now available as an open-source Apache 2.0 licensed project, making it easier for developers to build extensible AI agentic systems.
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Amazon EC2 G7e instances with NVIDIA GPUs now in more AWS regions
Amazon EC2 G7e instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, are now available in additional AWS Regions, including Frankfurt, Stockholm, and Mumbai. These instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance for AI and spatial computing workloads compared to G6e. They are suitable for deploying LLMs, agentic AI, and multimodal generative AI models, featuring advanced GPU and networking capabilities. G7e instances can be purchased via On-Demand, Spot Instances, or Savings Plans.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service integrates with AWS Agent Toolkit
Amazon OpenSearch Service now integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS, allowing AI coding agents to manage OpenSearch domains and collections via natural language. This integration, powered by the AWS MCP server and a curated OpenSearch skill, simplifies tasks like migration, operations, search, and analytics without requiring infrastructure changes. Support is available in all AWS regions where OpenSearch Service and OpenSearch Serverless are offered, with setup involving the aws-data-analytics plugin.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineermedia ·
AWS Managed Service for Apache Flink adds AI Agent Skills
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now includes AI Agent Skills to provide expert guidance for building and operating Flink applications. These skills simplify common tasks and accelerate development, enabling users to keep applications performant and easily upgrade Apache Flink versions. Customers can use these skills with existing AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, or Cursor.
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AWS Partner Central Adds AI-Powered Lead Prospecting
AWS Partner Central now features Partner Lead Prospecting, an AI-driven tool to help eligible AWS Partners convert leads more efficiently. This enhancement builds on previous lead enrichment by generating personalized sales plays, scripts, and emails tailored to customer context and partner offerings. The goal is to reduce manual research and drafting, enabling partners to engage prospects with more relevant messaging. The feature is available globally to ACE-eligible AWS Partners through the AWS Partner Central console.
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Amazon GuardDuty adds AI Protection for AI workloads
Amazon GuardDuty now offers AI Protection, expanding threat detection to AI workloads like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker. This new capability addresses the security gap for AI services by continuously monitoring for threats such as anomalous model invocations, cost harvesting, and prompt injection without requiring manual configuration. It analyzes CloudTrail events and integrates with Bedrock Guardrails, with findings flowing into Security Hub for a unified view and prioritized response. AI Protection is available with a 30-day free trial for existing GuardDuty customers.
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AWS Security Hub adds AI inventory for organization-wide asset visibility
AWS Security Hub now offers an AI inventory to provide central security teams with an organization-wide view of AI assets and their security posture. This feature addresses the growing challenge of visibility into rapidly deployed AI workloads across AWS environments. It automatically discovers and catalogs AI assets using various AWS services and includes security findings for prioritization, available at no additional cost.
feature - AWS Open Source Blog blogaiawspreviewengineeraws-eksaws-iam ·
Build Stateful IT Service Desk Agent with LangGraph on EKS
This post demonstrates building an AI-powered IT service desk agent using LangGraph on Amazon EKS that can autonomously handle routine L1 support requests and escalate complex issues to human engineers. The agent leverages LangGraph's stateful workflow capabilities, such as interrupt() and checkpointing, with Amazon DynamoDB for state persistence, providing context-preserving escalations and durable state across failures. The solution uses Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for retrieval, Anthropic's Claude on Amazon Bedrock for generation, and Karpenter for efficient node autoscaling, offering a portable and scalable pattern for IT support automation.
feature announcement - AWS Open Source Blog blogaiawsengineer ·
AWS introduces Loom for secure AI agent development and deployment
AWS has released Loom, an enterprise-grade platform designed to simplify the secure development, deployment, and operation of AI agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This addresses challenges organizations face in implementing security and governance frameworks for agentic capabilities. Loom offers a unified management UI, identity provider integration, and built-in security best practices, targeting platform engineering teams looking to build AI applications on AWS.
feature announcement - AWS Open Source Blog blogaiawsengineer ·
AWS Open Data Registry Adds AI-Powered Dataset Discovery
AWS has released an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Registry of Open Data (RODA), enabling AI assistants to discover and evaluate datasets. This feature aims to simplify the research process by allowing users to ask natural language questions to find relevant datasets and preview their contents. The MCP server supports AI assistants like Kiro and Claude Code, making the discovery of RODA's extensive data catalog more efficient for researchers across various domains.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiawsfinancemedia ·
AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization to charge bots for content access
AWS WAF now offers an AI traffic monetization capability allowing content owners to charge AI bots for accessing web content at the network edge. This feature enables per-request pricing based on content path, bot category, or verification tier, with payments settled in stablecoins to a specified wallet. The capability addresses the growing cost of serving AI bot traffic which now exceeds 50% of web traffic for many providers, without a corresponding increase in traditional revenue streams. It is available for web ACLs associated with Amazon CloudFront distributions, requiring AWS WAF Bot Control to be enabled.
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AWS Open Sources MCP Gateway and Registry for AI Asset Governance
AWS has released the open-source MCP Gateway and Registry, an Apache 2.0 licensed project designed to help enterprises govern and discover AI assets at scale. This tool addresses the need for both human users and AI agents to access approved AI resources, functioning similarly to enterprise data and software catalogs but with an AI-first focus. It offers a UI for humans and a machine-readable API for AI agents, with deployment options on Kubernetes (EKS) or serverless (ECS Fargate), and supports federation with other registries.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
AWS Weekly Roundup: AI agents, Hanoi Local Zone, Grok 4.3, price cuts
AWS announced several new AI agent capabilities, including features for working, securing, and building code, with new deployments like the Hanoi Local Zone in Vietnam to meet data residency requirements. Several new models and tools were introduced on Amazon Bedrock, such as Grok 4.3 from xAI, and Amazon S3 now supports object annotations for AI agents. Additionally, AWS detailed price reductions on services like S3 Vectors and GameLift Servers, alongside enhancements to ECS auto scaling and EC2 G7 instances.
feature patch announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiinfraawsengineeraws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda Introduces MicroVMs for Isolated, Stateful Workloads
AWS Lambda now offers MicroVMs, a new compute primitive providing virtual machine-level isolation and stateful execution environments for user- or AI-generated code. Powered by Firecracker, this feature enables near-instant launch and resume capabilities, addressing the need for secure, dedicated environments in multi-tenant applications like AI assistants and interactive code editors. Customers can now run untrusted code with robust isolation and low latency without managing underlying infrastructure, with MicroVMs complementing existing Lambda Functions for event-driven tasks.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Builder Center Anniversary, Security Hub Enhancements, SageMaker, EKS/ECS GPU Cost Reduction
This AWS weekly roundup highlights the first anniversary of the AWS Builder Center, which has grown into a significant ecosystem for developers. Key updates include new capabilities in AWS Security Hub for network scanning and Azure integration, enhanced Hugging Face integration in Amazon SageMaker Studio, and significant cost reductions for GPU instance management in Amazon EKS and ECS. Additionally, Amazon Aurora DSQL change data capture (CDC) is now generally available, alongside new developments in building secure AI agents with Loom and managing Claude models via a new gateway.
feature patch announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds web search grounding
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers a generally available Web Search tool that grounds AI agent responses in current, cited web knowledge without data egress. This feature leverages Amazon's search infrastructure and knowledge graph to provide more accurate and relevant information than traditional web search, allowing developers to focus on agent building rather than search integration. It is available today in US East (N. Virginia) with usage-based pricing.
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