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AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda Durable Execution for .NET
AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, to support local data residency requirements and low-latency applications. This week also saw the general availability of AWS Lambda durable execution SDK for .NET, enabling resilient serverless workflows for .NET developers. Additionally, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 is now accessible via Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, offering advanced AI capabilities with zero data retention by default. These updates affect developers and organizations looking to leverage AWS infrastructure closer to end-users, build more robust serverless applications, and utilize cutting-edge AI models.
feature announcement patch - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-s3 ·
AWS GovCloud gains new Claude models and user activity monitoring
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 models, enhancing reasoning and efficiency for complex tasks. Additionally, Kiro IDE provides enterprise administrators with user activity monitoring, including usage dashboards and per-user reports stored in customer S3 buckets. These updates are available to users with updated IDE/CLI versions and can be accessed via the model selector.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Claude Opus 5 available on AWS with zero data retention
Anthropic's most advanced Claude Opus 5 model is now available on AWS, offering significant improvements in coding, long-running agents, and complex document analysis. This release is crucial for teams building advanced applications that require top-tier AI capabilities and data governance. Customers can access Claude Opus 5 via Amazon Bedrock with zero data retention (ZDR) enabled by default, or through the Claude Platform on AWS with ZDR available on request.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
AWS releases open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
AWS has announced a research preview of aws-bench, an open-source benchmark designed to measure the accuracy and efficiency of AI agents performing tasks on AWS infrastructure. This tool addresses the need for objective, reproducible performance measurement and failure diagnosis for AI researchers and model providers. It includes a public suite of test cases based on real AWS usage scenarios and offers a CLI for easy execution and scoring, available now on GitHub.
announcement feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineerfinanceaws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET now GA
AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET is now generally available, allowing C# developers to build resilient, long-running workflows with durable functions. This SDK simplifies the creation of multi-step applications like payment processing or AI orchestration by automatically checkpointing progress and pausing execution for up to a year. It offers an idiomatic C# experience for tracking progress, integrating callbacks, durable invocation, and efficient suspension, with local testing support. Developers can install it via NuGet and find detailed guides in the Lambda durable functions developer guide.
feature announcement - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reaches end of life in 7 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (7 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.46.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.40 reaches end of life in 7 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.40 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (7 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.40.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.41 reaches end of life in 7 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.41 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (7 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.41.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.42 reaches end of life in 7 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.42 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (7 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.42.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.43 reaches end of life in 7 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.43 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (7 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.43.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.44 reaches end of life in 7 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.44 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (7 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.44.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.45 reaches end of life in 7 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.45 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (7 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.45.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.46 reaches end of life in 7 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.46 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (7 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.46.
deprecation - AWS What's New infraawsautomotiveaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EVS expands to additional AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Stockholm) Regions, offering more options for running VMware workloads on AWS. This expansion enables lower latency and supports data residency requirements for organizations migrating VMware environments to the cloud. It includes support for VCF 9.0 and 9.1, allowing users to leverage the latest VMware features.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgapreviewengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL adds MySQL 9.7 support in preview
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports community MySQL 9.7 in the RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the latest LTS release. This allows users to test applications and new capabilities before general availability. The preview instances are retained for 60 days and priced the same as production instances in us-east-1.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awshealthcare ·
AWS HealthOmics Private Workflows Expand to Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (Ohio) Regions
AWS HealthOmics private workflows are now available in two new AWS Regions, Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (Ohio). This expansion provides regional compliance and accessibility for bioinformatics workflows in research, drug discovery, and agriculture. The service is HIPAA-eligible and supports popular workflow languages, helping customers accelerate scientific discovery.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgovernmentaws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
Amazon SageMaker AI inference adds G6 instances in AWS GovCloud
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G6 instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region. Powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs, these instances offer up to 2x deep learning inference performance compared to G4dn instances, providing government agencies with enhanced capabilities for generative AI workloads. This expansion enables compliance with strict data residency requirements for agencies operating in GovCloud.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
Amazon SageMaker G7e instances expand to Seoul, London, and Tokyo
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G7e instances in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These instances offer high-performance NVIDIA GPUs and increased memory, crucial for deploying large language models and other generative AI workloads with reduced latency. This expansion enables users to deploy inference endpoints closer to their users in these regions, supporting medium-to-large models efficiently.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Claude Sonnet 5 available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 model is now accessible via Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This availability enhances capabilities for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work within the secure government cloud environment. It integrates with AWS features like Guardrails and Knowledge Bases, keeping data within AWS infrastructure. Users can access Sonnet 5 through bedrock-runtime or bedrock-mantle endpoints.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaarchitectaws-ec2 ·
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery expands to six new regions
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (Bangkok, Malaysia, New Zealand, Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). This expansion makes the disaster recovery service available in 36 AWS Regions, offering enhanced resilience for critical applications and databases across a wider geographic footprint. The service supports recovery from various infrastructure sources like on-premises servers and other cloud environments, as well as enabling cross-region recovery for EC2 instances.
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