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AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports vended credentials for Apache Iceberg REST catalog federation. This allows users to read external Iceberg tables using coarse-grained grants and temporary security credentials scoped to S3 prefixes.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro is now available on Amazon Bedrock. The model features a 1-million-token context window and supports prompt caching for agentic tasks like coding and document processing.
Amazon Redshift now supports strings up to 16 million bytes within SUPER data types. This allows for direct ingestion and SQL querying of large documents without requiring pre-loading transformations.
Bulk put items for Amazon DynamoDB is now generally available, allowing users to write data from Amazon S3 into DynamoDB tables without building custom ingestion pipelines.
Amazon S3 Tables now supports managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg. The service handles data validation, compatibility checks, type conversions, and file recompression as a managed, API-driven operation.
Amazon S3 Tables now provides managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg, automating validation, conversion, and compaction while maintaining production workloads.
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (compatible with MySQL 8.0) supports MySQL 8.0.46, which includes community MySQL fixes and Aurora-specific improvements.
A new Anthropic model is now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With Haiku 5.5, all three Claude 5.5 models are now available in Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US). Claude Haiku 5.5 is the fastest model in the Claude 5.5 family.
For organizations that use Amazon Quick, the desktop application now signs users in with the same sign-in method the organization already uses for Quick on the web. Administrators no longer need to register an OIDC application in their identity provider or set up separate desktop sign-in before users can get started.
Amazon MSK now supports TLS 1.3 for data in transit in provisioned clusters. This update improves encryption security and helps meet compliance requirements.
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports Seekable OCI (SOCI)-indexed container images, allowing training and processing jobs to lazy-load images and start in seconds instead of minutes.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0 is now generally available, featuring faster startup, a consistent command structure, and support for managing AI agent resources directly from the terminal.
Amazon Bedrock now supports cross-Region inference for Claude Haiku 5.5 within Canada. This allows organizations to keep inference processing within the country to meet data residency requirements.
Amazon SageMaker MLflow Apps now support MLflow 3.16, featuring a redesigned trace explorer and improved experiment tracking performance for generative AI and agentic workflows.
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey data tiering is now available on Graviton4-based R8gd nodes in Europe (Spain) and Graviton3-based R7gd nodes in Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). This allows for cost-effective scaling using SSDs.
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, offering improved visual reasoning and computer use capabilities for enterprise workloads.
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports OAuth 2.0 bearer token authentication for Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs, allowing secure federated access for third-party analytics platforms.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports a light mode theme for Identity Center-based domains to improve accessibility.
AWS has reduced the EMR charge for EMR on EKS workloads by 30 percent, applying to both per-vCPU-hour and per-GB-hour charges.
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock now supports domain filtering to restrict sources and user location controls to improve result relevance.
Amazon MSK Connect now allows users to pause and resume connectors in place, preserving configuration and offsets without needing to delete and recreate them.
AWS added support for On-Demand Capacity Reservations in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, enabling compute capacity reservations across Availability Zones with flexible scheduling and no long-term commitment.
AWS updated Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization to support configurable sequence lengths up to model maximums via hyperparameter settings in SFT, DPO, and RFT jobs.
Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization now supports prompt shortening, an optional setting that reduces the length of your prompt while maintaining or improving your evaluation scores. Advanced Prompt Optimization optimizes prompts for any model on Amazon Bedrock against your own evaluation criteria. Until now, optimization focused on quality alone.
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports online migration from self-managed Valkey and Redis OSS on Amazon EC2 with zero downtime. Zero downtime means zero Errors returned to the client during migration, measured the same way the ElastiCache SLA measures availability.
Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.7, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work in AWS GovCloud (US). Grok 4.7 builds on Grok 4.6 with better mixed-document handling, more dependable repo-scale coding with planning and error recovery, and enhanced browser-use agents for form fills and portal navigation.
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. This vision-language model from the Nemotron 3.5 family accepts images, video, and text as input and generates text, enabling customers to deploy multimodal AI solutions on AWS infrastructure.
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports IPv6 and dual-stack connectivity, expanding beyond the IPv4-only connectivity that was previously available. You can now run your Apache Spark and Apache Hive jobs over IPv6 in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) by supplying dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) or IPv6-only subnets.
Today, AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization adds support for cross-region deployment of converted Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL databases and is available in seven additional AWS Regions.
Meta's Muse Spark Open is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. This coding-optimized open-weight model from Meta is purpose-built for agentic coding workflows, bringing multi-step reasoning and tool calling to enterprise software engineering on AWS infrastructure.
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in four additional AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and AWS GovCloud (US-West).
Amazon S3, including S3 Tables and S3 Vectors, is now available natively on the Vercel Marketplace and v0. Developers can provision and connect object, vector, and open table storage directly within Vercel.
Amazon SageMaker Studio now lets new customers sign up with their Google, GitHub, or Apple credentials and land inside a fully configured Studio environment - no traditional AWS account setup, no credit card, and no console navigation required.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now lets you set a time-to-live (TTL) on long-term memory records, so they are automatically deleted after a retention period you define. By default, long-term memory records do not expire.
Your coding agent can select, train, optimize and deploy models on Amazon SageMaker AI while working across the rest of your AWS environment in a single natural-language workflow. The AWS AI/ML skill is now a core skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS , so it works alongside the toolkit's other AWS skills like EC2, Bedrock, and more.
Announcing consumption-based pricing for short-term memory in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Amazon Bedrock AgentCore memory now prices short-term memory (STM) based on the data your agents ingest, retrieve, and store, replacing the previous flat rate per event.
Starting today, you can upload brand templates in Amazon Quick, allowing you to create presentations and documents that match your approved visual identity. Brand managers set up a template once and everyone gets on-brand output, without hunting for the right file in each chat.
Today, AWS announces the availability of Ultrafast mode for GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Ultrafast mode provides faster inference for workloads where speed matters most. The Amazon Bedrock inference engine delivers the performance, security, and reliability required for production workloads.
Amazon GuardDuty announces an expansion of RDS Protection that extends threat detection beyond login anomalies to identify data exfiltration and data destruction attacks targeting Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases.
AWS now offers Claude Haiku 5.5, the fastest and most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive work. According to Anthropic, it costs around 75% less than Claude Haiku 4.5 for most tasks.
Today, we announce the general availability of Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, our latest speech-to-speech model for natural, real-time voice agents. This release brings improved reasoning, instruction following, and tool-calling accuracy to real-time voice applications. The model also delivers lower latency, enabling faster, more natural interactions.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides validation advisory for domain configuration changes, which helps you make informed decisions about changes that carry risk but can still be applied.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway now supports TLS certificates signed by private certificate authorities (CAs) on MCP, OpenAPI, and HTTP proxy targets. This feature enables you to connect securely to gateway targets that use TLS certificates issued by your own private certificate authority.
Amazon Aurora DSQL now lets you build an index over a specific subset of a table, storing only qualifying rows rather than every row in the entire table, which improves query performance and lowers index storage cost. Many tables hold a small working set alongside a much larger history, such as open orders among years of completed ones.
Today, AWS announces enhanced visualization for Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console. Amazon Q now reasons across hundreds of AWS APIs to answer complex questions and deliver complete answers about your entire account, across all regions and services.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct queries of data stored in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats within data lakes. This eliminates the need for ETL pipelines when combining transactional data with historical records.
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. An upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6.1 Sol delivers exceptionally strong performance on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24, which include bug fixes from the PostgreSQL community and Aurora-specific enhancements.
You can now use AWS Transform agentic migration assessments to evaluate the migration of on-premises Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) .
AWS now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient Sonnet that delivers a clear leap forward on coding and knowledge work with at a lower cost per task for most work at faster speed. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet and a step up from Sonnet 5, making it a natural upgrade for teams already building on Sonnet.
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports retryable writes, 5 new aggregation stages, and change stream enhancements starting from minor version 8.0.2. This release expands MongoDB API compatibility and improves query performance, making it easier to migrate MongoDB workloads to Amazon DocumentDB without application code changes.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports two new connection capabilities: (1) Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) connections for external Apache Iceberg catalogs, and (2) IAM authentication for Amazon DocumentDB. Together, they let data teams connect to a broader set of governed data sources and use credential-less authentication across projects.
Amazon ElastiCache now supports resource tagging and tag-based access control (TBAC) for Global Datastore. Previously, ElastiCache supported tagging on all resources except Global Datastore, which prevented customers from applying a single, consistent permission and cost-allocation model across their ElastiCache fleet.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing system that deploys as a single EKS managed add-on on existing SageMaker HyperPod infrastructure with zero application changes.
Starting today, Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) is available in five additional AWS Regions: Canada (Central), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore), bringing the total number of supported Regions to 15.
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex tasks and software development.
Amazon EMR 7.14 is now available with new features across Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR on EKS, and Amazon EMR Serverless, along with version upgrades for additional applications. This release also upgrades Apache Spark to 3.5.8 and Apache Iceberg to 1.10.1.
AWS Glue Data Quality now generates data quality rules in seconds, reducing the time to establish data quality checks for your tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. You get a ready-to-use set of rules with full coverage across every column, with no manual setup, so you can move from raw data to trusted data faster while authoring pipelines.
Amazon Bedrock continues to expand its open weight model portfolio with the same security and governance that customers rely on. Today, Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new option for coding and knowledge work.
Amazon Quick now expands Generate Analysis with two new ways to create dashboards faster. You can generate a single sheet inside an existing analysis by describing it in natural language, and you can generate a new analysis from an image of an existing dashboard.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis.
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