Meta has announced a deal to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton chips to power its agentic AI ambitions, marking a major expansion of its relationship with AWS beyond cloud services into custom chip infrastructure.
AWS Enterprise Strategist Mark Schwartz says AI is making developers more productive, so companies should use the gain to deliver more of their backlog and may even need to hire more developers to capture the value.
AWS Transform has expanded from app-only .NET modernization into a full-stack Windows modernization service. It now coordinates .NET porting, SQL Server-to-Aurora PostgreSQL migration, and legacy ASP.NET UI updates (including Web Forms to Blazor) in wave-based workflows, with optional Linux deployment for testing.
AWS now offers Claude Sonnet 4.5 (by Anthropic) in Amazon Bedrock via GovCloud US-West and US-East, enabling high-performance coding and agentic workflows for government-grade use.
AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS, the managed service for Kubernetes, offering a fully managed, centralized solution for backing up EKS clusters and persistent application data across Regions and accounts.
AWS has made its EC2 M8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, available in the US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over M7a instances.
Eating its own dogfood, Amazon expands its AI-driven robotics fleet past 1 million systems, spotlighting Blue Jay and Project Eluna as new technologies designed to speed fulfillment, streamline same-day operations, and reduce repetitive work alongside employees.
Amazon says a new multi-year partnership gives OpenAI immediate access to AWS infrastructure, with hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, scaling to tens of millions of CPUs and a $38 billion commitment.
The NBA and AWS have launched a multi-year partnership to power "NBA Inside the Game powered by AWS," a cloud and AI platform bringing advanced metrics, real-time insights and interactive digital experiences to fans worldwide.
CloudWatch now exposes two per-minute, no-cost metrics at the EC2 instance level that flag when EBS IOPS or throughput limits are exceeded, enabling faster detection and right-sizing.
Amazon EBS added two default, no-cost CloudWatch metrics--VolumeAvgIOPS and VolumeAvgThroughput--to provide per-minute visibility into volume demand for faster troubleshooting and capacity planning.
AWS has integrated nine new image editing tools from Stability AI into Amazon Bedrock, enabling professional visual workflows directly within its managed generative AI platform.
AWS introduced a new professional certification for generative AI developers and expanded its AI credential lineup, aiming to close the AI skills gap as certified professionals see up to 47% higher salaries.
AWS's new Project Rainier supercluster uses Trainium2 chips and distributed multi-site design to power next-generation AI model training, offering five times more compute than existing clusters.
Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now generally available, offering up to 30% higher compute performance, improved memory and I/O bandwidth, and better price-performance compared to M7a
AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors can now route through a customer's VPC for private file transfers between Amazon S3 and remote SFTP servers using existing security and networking infrastructure.
AWS's Customer Carbon Footprint Tool now reports Scope 3 emissions (plus enhanced Scope 1/2 data) so customers can better track the full lifecycle carbon impact of their AWS usage.
Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, now GA in Amazon Bedrock, unifies text, image, video, and audio retrieval in one model for RAG and semantic search, with four embedding dimensions and built-in content safety.
Amazon Nova Web Grounding is now GA on Amazon Bedrock, adding turnkey retrieval with citations to improve accuracy, initially on Nova Premier with regional rollout and additional cost
New feature enables near-instant replication of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone for testing and dev workloads.