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AWS Interconnect offers free 500 Mbps tier for multicloud connections
AWS has launched a free 500 Mbps tier for its Interconnect service, enabling easier private connections between AWS and other public clouds. This offering simplifies multicloud adoption and testing, providing a fully managed, resilient connection at no charge from the AWS side. It benefits customers evaluating or operating workloads across multiple cloud providers, with a free CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor included.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle adds April 2026 RU and Supplemental Patch Bundle
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2026 Release Update (RU) and its Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB). This update includes important security patches and is recommended for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. Users can apply these updates via the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI, with options for automatic updates and staggered rollouts using AWS Organizations.
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Oracle Database@AWS Expands to Twenty Regions
Oracle Database@AWS is now available in eight new AWS regions, bringing the total to twenty. This expansion allows customers in Europe, South America, and Asia Pacific to leverage Oracle Exadata systems within AWS data centers, enabling migration of on-premises Oracle applications with in-region data residency.
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AWS Budgets widget now available in Billing & Cost Management Dashboards
AWS Billing and Cost Management now supports Budgets widgets directly in its dashboards. This integration allows users to monitor AWS Budgets alongside Cost Explorer and Savings Plans reports in a single, customizable view, reducing the need to navigate between separate console pages. Finance teams and cloud administrators can now benefit from faster budget monitoring and easier reporting to stakeholders.
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AWS IoT Core adds APIs for MQTT connection and subscription management
AWS IoT Core now offers GetConnection and ListSubscriptions APIs to retrieve MQTT client connection and topic subscription details. These features aid in troubleshooting connectivity, monitoring client behavior, and auditing device fleet activity by providing granular insights into device sessions and subscriptions.
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AWS Resilience Hub Next Generation Achieves General Availability
AWS Resilience Hub's next generation is now generally available, enhancing resilience assessment for critical workloads. This update introduces a new application model, dependency discovery, generative AI for failure mode analysis, and organization-wide reporting, benefiting platform engineering and SRE teams. The improvements aim to provide deeper insights and more actionable recommendations for workload resilience.
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AWS Organizations now emits CloudTrail events for account membership changes
AWS Organizations now automatically emits CloudTrail events to your management account for account join and departure events. This enhances visibility for security teams and cloud administrators, enabling faster detection of unauthorized activities and facilitating security monitoring and incident investigation.
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Amazon Connect adds generative AI post-contact summaries in 8 new languages
Amazon Connect now generates AI-powered post-contact summaries in eight new languages, including Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This expansion also includes non-US English variations, allowing for more localized and efficient agent wrap-up and manager review across global support operations. The feature is now available in all AWS Regions where post-contact summaries are supported.
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Claude Opus 4.8 available on AWS
AWS now offers Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic's most capable generally available model, bringing significant improvements in coding, knowledge work, and autonomous tasks. This model offers enhanced reasoning, consistency, and error recovery, making it suitable for production AI applications. Developers and enterprises can access Claude Opus 4.8 via Amazon Bedrock for AWS-integrated data security or the Claude Platform on AWS for a native Anthropic experience with AWS billing and authentication.
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Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Next Generation Generally Available
AWS announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, featuring auto-scaling up to 20x faster and resource provisioning in seconds. This release decouples compute and storage, offers scale-to-zero pricing for cost savings, and simplifies network connectivity with new endpoints, making it ideal for agentic workflows and AI development platforms.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds Windows Desktop OS support via BYOL
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Windows Desktop OS with Bring Your Own License (BYOL). This allows customers to use existing Windows licenses for eligible Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, offering cost savings and a consistent user experience across on-premises and virtual environments. The feature is available in multiple AWS Regions for eligible organizations meeting Microsoft's licensing requirements.
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DynamoDB Streams Adds PrivateLink for FIPS Endpoints in GovCloud
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This enables government agencies with federal compliance requirements to establish private connectivity to DynamoDB Streams FIPS endpoints from their VPCs, enhancing security and simplifying network architecture for real-time data processing. Customers can now leverage DynamoDB Streams for compliant, secure data streaming applications while meeting federal security standards.
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AWS IoT Core adds direct messaging for devices
AWS IoT Core now supports sending point-to-point messages directly to connected devices using the SendDirectMessage API. This feature improves visibility into message delivery, offers lower costs, and provides delivery acknowledgements. This impacts engineers and architects working with IoT devices connected to AWS, enabling more robust communication and debugging.
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AWS Partner Central adds Total Contract Value (TCV) for deal sizing
AWS Partner Central now supports estimating deal sizing using Total Contract Value (TCV). This enhancement enables partners to quickly convert TCV to forecasted monthly recurring revenue (MRR), improving forecast accuracy and accelerating deal velocity. The feature is available globally in AWS Partner Central and via API, affecting partners managing customer opportunities.
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Amazon Connect UI Builder integrates AI Assistant
Amazon Connect's AI assistant is now embedded in the UI builder, allowing managers to generate and modify contact center views using natural language prompts. This feature aims to significantly reduce the time and expertise required for building user interfaces, potentially by up to 70%. The assistant handles tasks from creating forms to configuring layouts and styling, simplifying the UI development process for managers.
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AWS SageMaker Notebooks Gain NVIDIA H100 GPU Instances in Tokyo
Amazon EC2 P5.48xl instances, featuring NVIDIA H100 GPUs, are now generally available on SageMaker notebook instances in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances offer up to 4x performance improvement and a 40% cost reduction for training ML models, benefiting users working with LLMs and generative AI applications.
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AWS SageMaker Notebooks Add NVIDIA Blackwell GPU Instances
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in US East (N. Virginia). These instances offer up to 2x performance improvement for AI training, enabling efficient development and fine-tuning of large foundation models, including LLMs, for generative AI applications.
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AWS SageMaker Notebooks Expand P4de Instance Support to Tokyo Region
Amazon EC2 P4de instances, featuring 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB HBM2e memory each, are now generally available on SageMaker notebook instances in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances offer up to 60% better ML training performance and 20% lower cost compared to P4d instances, benefiting workloads with large, high-resolution datasets and accelerating time to market for ML models. This expansion is relevant for ML engineers and data scientists training large models.
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Terraform AWS Provider v6.47.0: New Resources and Attribute Deprecations
This release introduces new resources for AWS Bedrock Agent and S3 Multi-Region Access Points, along with several enhancements and bug fixes. Multiple data sources now deprecate the `id` attribute in favor of more descriptive alternatives, and some `secretsmanager` attributes are updated. These changes affect users managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform, particularly those working with Bedrock, S3, or leveraging the updated data sources.
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Amazon Bedrock adds Service Quotas support for bedrock-mantle endpoint
Amazon Bedrock now supports AWS Service Quotas for its bedrock-mantle endpoint, providing customers with visibility into inference quotas for OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. This allows for consistent tracking of limits across AWS services and helps customers proactively plan for production workloads.
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