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Tracking 678 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS News Blog blogaiinfraawsengineerenergyaws-lambda ·
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 News Blog blogaiawsengineeraws-lambdaaws-bedrock ·
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 Open Source Blog blogaiawsengineer ·
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.
feature announcement - 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.
feature - AWS News Blog bloginfraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 GPUs now available
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 G7 instances, the first major cloud provider offering with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These instances provide significant performance gains for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads compared to previous generations. They are suitable for a wide range of GPU-enabled applications and are now available in two AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS Open Source Blog bloggovernanceawsengineer ·
AWS Supports New Open Governance Model for MySQL
Oracle has announced a new community governance model for MySQL, enabling broader participation in the project's development. This move is supported by AWS, which views open governance as crucial for producing better software and fostering community investment. The model establishes defined roles for contributors and a Steering Committee with external representation, aiming to strengthen MySQL's long-term health and innovation. AWS will hold a seat on the committee, focusing on performance, vector search, and the extensions framework.
announcement feature - AWS Open Source Blog blogaiawsengineer ·
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 blogdataawsengineeraws-s3 ·
Amazon S3 adds annotations for rich, queryable object metadata
Amazon S3 now supports annotations, allowing users to attach up to 1 GB of rich, mutable metadata per object in flexible formats like JSON, XML, or plain text. This feature is designed to support AI agents and autonomous workflows by providing scalable, queryable context that moves with the object. When S3 Metadata annotation tables are enabled, annotations are automatically indexed into queryable Apache Iceberg tables accessible via Amazon Athena. This aims to simplify complex metadata management across industries by eliminating the need for separate databases or sidecar files.
feature - AWS News Blog bloginfraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances with Graviton5 processors now available
Amazon has launched new EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. These compute-optimized instances offer up to 25% higher performance per vCPU than previous generations, with faster memory, larger L3 cache, and enhanced network and EBS bandwidth. They are suitable for compute-intensive workloads including AI, analytics, and batch processing, and are available now in select AWS regions.
feature - AWS News Blog bloginfraawsengineeraws-s3aws-ec2aws-sqs ·
Amazon SQS celebrates 20 years with significant scalability and feature enhancements
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is celebrating its 20th anniversary, marking two decades of reliable message queuing for AWS customers. Recent updates have focused on dramatically increasing throughput, enhancing security defaults, and adding flexibility for complex workloads, including AI applications. These advancements benefit developers and architects building distributed systems and AI-driven applications who rely on decoupled communication for resilience and scale.
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 bloginfraawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Transform adds continuous tech debt analysis and remediation (preview)
AWS Transform now includes a continuous modernization capability for autonomous tech debt analysis and remediation at scale, addressing the fragmentation of existing tooling and the rapid accumulation of debt due to AI-assisted development. This new feature provides continuous code scanning, prioritized findings, and automated pull request generation for fixes, helping engineering organizations reduce manual effort and maintain code currency. It is available today in preview and integrates with AWS Security Agent.
feature 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.
feature - AWS News Blog blogaiinfraawsengineer ·
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.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog bloginfraawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS Certificate Manager adds ACME support for public TLS certificates
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now supports the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol for issuing public TLS certificates. This allows organizations to automate certificate renewal and management using existing ACME clients, addressing challenges with shorter certificate validity periods and fragmented visibility. PKI administrators gain centralized control, fine-grained access management via IAM roles, and enhanced monitoring through CloudTrail and CloudWatch. The feature is available now for public certificates issued by Amazon Trust Services.
feature - AWS News Blog bloginfraawspreviewengineer ·
AWS DevOps Agent adds preview release management features
AWS DevOps Agent now offers preview release management capabilities, including release readiness reviews and autonomous release testing. These features aim to help teams assess code changes against production standards and automatically test them, addressing the increased volume of code, especially from AI tools. The capabilities are designed for engineers and architects working with CI/CD pipelines across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments.
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