Amazon Web Services has launched AWS Continuum, a new offering designed to help organizations manage cloud operations, governance and infrastructure at scale through a more unified framework. AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities, available in gated preview, works the full lifecycle of a vulnerability at machine speed. The service is intended to provide enterprises with centralized visibility and control across AWS environments while simplifying operational management and policy enforcement.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 06/17/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Harness, a service designed to help organizations evaluate, test and improve AI agents before deploying them into production environments. The offering provides tools for validating agent behavior, measuring performance and assessing reliability across a range of enterprise use cases.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 06/17/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced new log analytics capabilities for Amazon CloudWatch, expanding the ways users can search, transform and analyze operational data. The update adds a range of query functions and commands designed to simplify log investigation, including tools for string manipulation, data parsing, encoding and decoding, and geographic calculations.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 06/16/20260 comments
Caylent has signed a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services aimed at accelerating customer adoption of artificial intelligence, cloud modernization and automated operations. Caylent's Amazon Connect team now delivers the full arc of customer engagement transformation, from legacy contact center migration to Agentic CX, backed by Caylent's cloud engineering depth and AI-native delivery model.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 06/10/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has made Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 model available through its AI platform offerings, giving customers another foundation model option for developing and deploying generative AI applications. Fable 5 is state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks and delivers a step-change in autonomous knowledge work and coding for developers and enterprises building production AI applications. The model joins a growing roster of third-party and proprietary AI models available through AWS services.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 06/10/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added new capabilities to the AWS MCP Server, a service built around the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to help developers connect AI agents and applications with enterprise tools, data repositories and operational systems, part of the AWS Agent Toolkit. The feature allows developers using AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, or Codex to work across multiple AWS accounts and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles within a single session, with no restarts required.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 06/05/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced new generative AI evaluation capabilities for Amazon Connect, focused on improving self-service customer experiences in contact centers. The tools allow organizations to assess AI-driven interactions across self-service channels, helping teams evaluate response quality, effectiveness and customer experience outcomes. The capabilities are designed to provide insights into how generative AI systems perform during customer engagements. Managers can review these insights in aggregate and on individual contacts, alongside self-service interaction recordings and transcripts, to identify opportunities to improve AI agent performance.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/28/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 model to its AI platform offerings, expanding access to advanced foundation models for enterprise customers. Claude Opus 4.8 is available through AWS services, enabling organizations to build and deploy generative AI applications using Anthropic’s latest large language model technology. The model is designed to support tasks such as content generation, reasoning, analysis and enterprise workflow automation.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/28/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced AWS ExtendDB for Amazon DynamoDB, a capability aimed at helping organizations manage and scale data-intensive applications more efficiently. The ExtendDB is designed to extend how DynamoDB workloads handle storage, performance and data access across large-scale environments. The feature is intended to support applications requiring greater flexibility in managing rapidly growing datasets while maintaining low-latency performance.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/20/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced updates to the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI, expanding support for AWS CloudFormation in serverless development environments. The enhancements are designed to improve how developers build, test and deploy serverless applications using infrastructure-as-code workflows. The updated capabilities provide tighter integration with CloudFormation, allowing teams to manage resources and application stacks more consistently across development and production environments.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/18/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced AI agent capabilities within AWS Partner Central, expanding automation tools for partner opportunity management. The new features are designed to help partners manage sales opportunities, track engagement and streamline workflow processes through AI-driven assistance. The agents can support tasks such as organizing opportunity data, surfacing relevant information and automating administrative actions within Partner Central.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/18/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced data agent capabilities for Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, designed to help organizations automate data-related tasks in AI and analytics workflows. The feature enables intelligent agents to assist with activities such as data discovery, preparation, organization and access management. The goal is to reduce the manual effort involved in preparing datasets for machine learning and analytics projects.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/13/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services is expanding support for Anthropic’s Claude models across its cloud platform, further strengthening ties between the two companies in the enterprise AI market. The update is designed to give customers broader access to Claude models and related AI capabilities through AWS infrastructure and services. The integration aims to simplify the deployment and management of generative AI applications while allowing organizations to use Claude within existing AWS workflows. Access to Anthropic's native Claude Platform experience, including APIs, console, and early-access beta features, occurs directly through an existing AWS account, without managing separate accounts, billing, or tracking.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/11/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced Agent Toolkit, a set of tools designed to help developers build and manage artificial intelligence agents across enterprise environments. The toolkit provides frameworks, integrations and orchestration capabilities for creating AI agents that can interact with applications, APIs and enterprise data sources. The goal is to simplify development workflows and reduce the complexity of deploying agent-based systems at scale. The AWS MCP Server, now generally available, is a fully-managed MCP server that allows coding agents to interact with any AWS service and equips agents with tools to efficiently retrieve and search documentation with agent plugins that bundle the AWS MCP server and curated skill set into a single install.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/06/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced an integration between Amazon Quick and New Relic, aimed at improving how organizations access and analyze observability data. The integration enables users to query application performance metrics and logs from New Relic using natural language through Amazon Quick. This allows developers and operations teams to retrieve insights without manually navigating dashboards or writing complex queries. The company said, " Quick Flows can also invoke New Relic AI agents to automate recurring triage runbooks or escalation workflows."
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/06/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced updates to Amazon SageMaker AI focused on streamlining the development and deployment of machine learning models. The enhancements are designed to unify tools for data preparation, model training and deployment within a single environment. AWS aims to reduce the complexity of managing AI workflows by providing more integrated capabilities across the model lifecycle. The feature enables developers to use natural language interactions with coding agents, use case definition to production deployment of a high-quality model.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/05/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced LagStatus monitoring for AWS Outposts in Amazon CloudWatch, aimed at improving visibility into hybrid cloud operations. The feature enables customers to track synchronization delays between Outposts deployments and their associated AWS regions. This helps organizations identify latency or replication issues that could affect application performance and data consistency. The metric allows users to set alarms, troubleshoot connectivity issues and ensure that Outposts racks are correctly integrated with on-premises infrastructure.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/01/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced an integration between Amazon Quick and Microsoft 365, in preview. The extension allows Quick to perform tasks with extensions for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, allowing AI to perform complex tasks including redlining documents, building financial models and creating presentation-ready decks. The extensions transform daily work across teams, streamlining tasks and workflows.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 05/01/20260 comments
Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Connect Decisions, designed to help contact centers automate interactions and improve customer engagement. The updates enable organizations to define rules and logic that guide how customer interactions are handled across channels. This includes routing requests, triggering actions and personalizing responses based on customer data and context. The update can be used by businesses across various industries that want to transform their supply chain operations, surfacing what matters most to teams based on business priorities with actionable recommendations.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/29/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced an integration between Amazon Quick and Visier Vee, aimed at bringing workforce analytics into its AI assistant, through the model context protocol. The integration allows users to query human resources and workforce data using natural language through Amazon Quick. By connecting to Visier’s analytics platform, the feature is designed to provide insights into areas such as employee performance, retention and organizational trends. Vee, the AI assistant, can be invoked from automated Quick Flows to run recurring workforce reviews, while Quick can intelligently route relevant prompts to Vee with contextualized answers.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/27/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced NVIDIA GPU auto repair and health monitoring capabilities for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), designed to improve reliability for GPU-based workloads. The feature automatically detects unhealthy GPU instances and replaces them without manual intervention. This helps maintain application availability for workloads such as machine learning, high-performance computing and graphics processing that rely on GPU resources. The update allows monitoring GPU health through the DescribeContainerInstances API and allows users to receive notifications through Amazon EventBridge when instances become impaired.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/23/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced updates to Windows Server licensing for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), aimed at simplifying how organizations run Windows workloads in VMware-based cloud environments. The changes provide more flexible licensing options, allowing customers to better align Windows Server costs with their infrastructure usage.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/21/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced AI-powered troubleshooting capabilities for AWS Deadline Cloud, designed to help users identify and resolve issues in rendering workflows. The feature uses artificial intelligence to analyze job failures and performance issues, providing recommendations to help users diagnose problems more quickly. This is intended to reduce the time required to troubleshoot complex rendering tasks in distributed environments. The assistant investigates identified failed jobs, analyzes logs and metrics, detects common issues and provides troubleshooting recommendations.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/21/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced tooltip enhancements for Quick Sight in Amazon Quick, designed to improve how users explore and interpret data within dashboards. The update allows tooltips to display richer contextual information when users hover over data points in visualizations. This includes additional metrics, calculations and supporting details that help users better understand trends and relationships without leaving the dashboard. Users can now assign one tooltip sheet to multiple visuals that can be switched between basic, detailed and tables or pivot tables at any time, delivering instant, focused breakdowns.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/16/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services Transform is now available through developer tools, Kiro and Visual Studio Code, designed to help developers modernize applications more efficiently. The feature enables developers to analyze and transform existing codebases directly within the IDE, supporting tasks such as refactoring, migration and code updates. By integrating Kiro into Visual Studio Code, AWS aims to bring modernization workflows closer to where developers already build and manage applications. The new integration offers users the opportunity to build and iterate custom transformations and run any agent repeatedly across several repositories at once.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/15/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced document-level access controls for Google Drive content within Amazon Quick, aimed at improving security and data governance. The feature allows organizations to enforce permissions at the individual document level when AI tools access Google Drive data. This ensures that users and AI-generated responses only surface content they are authorized to view. The combination of ACL replication for efficient pre-retrieval filtering with real-time permission checks in Google Drive offers users performance benefits guarded by incorrectly mapped permission data.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/14/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added blue/green deployment support to Amazon RDS Proxy, designed to help organizations manage database updates with reduced disruption. The feature allows applications using RDS Proxy to switch between production and updated database environments during blue/green deployments. This enables more controlled transitions, helping teams test changes and shift traffic with minimal downtime. RDS Proxy can now quickly redirect connections to the Green environment for faster application recovery.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/09/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced a natural language query capability for AWS Cost Explorer, aimed at simplifying how organizations analyze cloud spending via Amazon Q Developer's gen AI capabilities. The feature allows users to ask questions about costs using plain language, such as identifying spending trends or breaking down expenses by service or account. The system translates these prompts into structured queries, enabling users to retrieve insights without requiring detailed knowledge of Cost Explorer’s interface. Prompts include readily available frequently asked questions and allow custom questions using your own words.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/08/20260 comments
Quickplay announced expanded partnerships with Amazon Web Services and TwelveLabs aimed at delivering enhanced capabilities for media and entertainment companies. The collaboration integrates AWS cloud infrastructure with TwelveLabs’ video understanding technology to support AI-driven media workflows. The combined approach is designed to help organizations analyze video content, improve content discovery and streamline streaming operations.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/06/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced a new Java client framework based on Smithy, its interface definition language, designed to streamline development of service clients. The framework provides a standardized approach for generating and maintaining Java clients that interact with AWS services. By using Smithy models, developers can define service APIs and automatically generate client code, reducing manual implementation and improving consistency. Smithy-Java provides a blocking-style API that is simple to use and competitive with other async alternatives. The main benefits of the feature include auto-generated type-safe clients, protocol flexibility and a Java client code generator, among others.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/06/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced updates to AWS Marketplace metering designed to improve revenue tracking and support for partners offering usage-based services. The enhancements, Partner Revenue Management, integrates with AWS Marketplace Metering for Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and Machine Learning (ML) products listed on Marketplace. This allows partners to better align revenue reporting with customer consumption by integrating metering data more directly into partner revenue systems. This is intended to provide greater transparency into how services are used and billed across AWS Marketplace offerings. Partners can gain visibility into how solutions impact Elastic Compute Cloud and SageMaker AI service consumption across partner and customer-managed accounts.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/03/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced a sustainability console designed to help organizations monitor and manage the environmental impact of their AWS cloud usage. The console provides access to metrics such as estimated carbon emissions, energy consumption and usage trends across AWS services. The tool is intended to help customers understand how their cloud workloads contribute to overall sustainability goals and identify opportunities to reduce environmental impact. The console also offers improved customizable visualizations, personalized date tracking, customizable CSV reports and API/SDK access for seamless integration of emissions data into existing workflows.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/01/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has announced general availability of its DevOps Agent, an artificial intelligence–driven tool designed to automate software development and operations tasks. The agent can assist with activities such as code deployment, pipeline management and troubleshooting within AWS environments. By integrating with existing development and operations tools, the agent is intended to help teams manage workflows and respond to issues more efficiently. DevOps Agent investigates incidents and identifies operational improvements by learning individual applications and correlating telemetry, code and deployment data.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 04/01/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced cluster insights for Amazon OpenSearch Service through the AWS Management Console, aimed at giving users a clearer view of cluster health and performance. The feature provides a centralized interface that aggregates key metrics, configuration details and operational signals across OpenSearch clusters. The capability is designed to help administrators identify performance issues, monitor resource utilization and troubleshoot problems more efficiently. Cluster Insights now also publishes insights as events in Amazon EventBridge.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/30/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced enhanced targeting capabilities for AWS AppConfig, enabling more precise control over feature flag rollouts and allows segmentation of configuration data. The update allows developers to define advanced audience segments when releasing application features, using attributes such as user characteristics, environment conditions or custom rules. The feature is designed to help teams gradually roll out changes, test new functionality and limit exposure in case of issues. AWS AppConfig uses customer-provided entity identities to make specific feature flag or configuration data specific to individual target segments. By using AppConfig Agent, the updates are able to be deployed via fine-grained control using individual user IDs for added safety.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/27/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced an agent plugin for serverless environments designed to help developers connect AI agents with cloud-based applications and services. The plugin allows developers to build, deploy, troubleshoot and manage serverless applications using AI coding assistants such as Kiro, Claude Code or Cursor. The plugin also enables agents to trigger workflows, retrieve data and execute actions within serverless architectures using standardized interfaces. Additionally, the plugin packages skills, sub-agents, hooks and MCP servers into a single modular unit, with relevant guidance and expertise for building production-ready serverless applications.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/25/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added integration between AWS DataSync and AWS Secrets Manager to improve how organizations handle credentials during data transfer tasks. The update allows DataSync to retrieve authentication credentials directly from Secrets Manager, eliminating the need to store sensitive information in configurations or scripts. The feature is designed to enhance security by centralizing credential management and reducing exposure risks. The update also allows you to encrypt credentials with your own AWS KMS key for enhanced security and governance.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/23/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced operating system update controls for Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, allowing administrators to manage OS-level updates more directly. The feature enables customers to apply, schedule and control operating system patches within RDS Custom environments. Unlike standard managed database services, RDS Custom is designed for workloads that require deeper control over the underlying infrastructure, including OS configurations.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/19/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA announced an expanded strategic collaboration aimed at helping enterprises accelerate the transition from AI experimentation to production deployments. The partnership will combine AWS infrastructure with NVIDIA’s GPUs, software and AI frameworks to support large-scale model training and inference. The effort includes deeper integration of NVIDIA technologies across AWS services, enabling customers to build, deploy and manage AI applications more efficiently. Key integrations include accelerating data analytics with Amazon EMR and NVIDIA GPUs and expanding NVIDIA Nemotron model support on Amazon Bedrock, among others.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/17/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced AI-driven agents within AWS Partner Central designed to help partners accelerate co-selling activities. The agents can assist partners in identifying sales opportunities, managing pipelines and navigating AWS co-sell programs. The tools are intended to provide recommendations and insights that help partners align their offerings with AWS sales motions and customer needs. Built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the agentic capabilities work alongside sale teams, allowing AWS Partners to engage directly in the console through Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling access from within their own CRM systems.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/17/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added service-level objective (SLO) capabilities to CloudWatch Application Signals, expanding the service’s ability to monitor application reliability and performance. Three new console-based capabilities were launched, including SLO Recommendations, Service-Level SLO's and SLO Performance Report. The update allows developers and operations teams to define SLOs based on metrics such as request latency, availability and error rates. The feature helps organizations track whether applications are meeting defined reliability targets and quickly identify when performance falls outside acceptable thresholds.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/16/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added support for Windows Server 2025 in Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core, expanding operating system options for organizations using the managed virtual desktop platform. The update allows customers to launch WorkSpaces environments running Windows Server 2025, giving administrators access to the latest server features and security improvements while maintaining centralized desktop management. The service enables organizations to deliver cloud-hosted Windows desktops that employees can access from various devices.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/12/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced new capabilities in Amazon Connect designed to help contact centers improve agent workflows and training. One update allows agents to select the "from" email address when responding to customer inquiries. The feature enables organizations to manage communications across different brands, departments or support functions while maintaining consistent workflows inside the Amazon Connect interface. Administrators can configure multiple addresses per queue, allowing agents to search and select the appropriate email address based on the queue they are working within. The feature is useful to contact centers supporting multiple brands from a single Amazon Connect instance.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/11/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced an AI-powered predictive insights capability for Amazon Connect, designed to help organizations anticipate customer needs and improve contact center performance. The feature uses machine learning models to analyze customer interaction data and operational metrics within the Amazon Connect platform. The enhancements offer businesses automatic engagement with customers at just the right time, reducing the time required to deploy AI-powered personalization. Businesses can also offer targeted campaigns for specific customers that are personalized based on recorded preferences.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/10/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced user preference controls in Amazon Quick Suite, designed to give individuals more control over how they prefer Quick to look, feel and work. Chat panel layouts can be customized with a default chat agent, with chosen personalized settings saved as the default for each time users log in. The update allows users to set personal preferences for dashboard settings, including default display options and viewing configurations. The feature helps users tailor their analytics experience without requiring administrators to modify shared dashboards or underlying configurations.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/10/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced agentic artificial intelligence capabilities for Amazon Connect designed specifically for healthcare organizations, called Amazon Connect Health. The update aims to help providers automate patient engagement tasks and streamline administrative workflows. New capabilities allow healthcare organizations to deploy AI-driven agents that can assist with common patient service interactions, such as appointment scheduling, answering questions and routing requests to appropriate care teams. The system integrates with Amazon Connect, AWS’s cloud contact center platform, enabling healthcare providers to manage patient communications across multiple channels.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/05/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced an artificial intelligence–based analysis feature for AWS Elastic Beanstalk designed to help developers diagnose and improve application performance. The update allows Elastic Beanstalk users to run AI-driven analysis on application environments to identify configuration problems, performance bottlenecks and potential operational risks. The feature examines logs, metrics and environment details to generate insights that can help developers troubleshoot issues more quickly and sends logs directly to Bedrock for analysis. An AI analysis can tell you when your environment's health status is Warning, Degraded or Severe and provides step-by-step troubleshooting recommendations tailored to your environment's state.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/05/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of Policy controls for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, introducing governance capabilities designed to help enterprises manage AI agent behavior and access. Policy operates outside your agent code enabling stricter security, compliance and operations without modifying agent code. This also helps to maintain agents within defined parameters while maintaining organizational visibility and governance.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 03/03/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has announced that Amazon ECS Managed Instances now support Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations, allowing customers to reserve compute capacity for containerized workloads in advance. The enhancement is designed to help organizations ensure instance availability in specific availability zones, particularly for mission-critical or time-sensitive applications. Specifying reservation preferences optimizes cost and availability while maintaining flexibility to fall back to on-demand capacity when needed.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/27/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of AWS Elemental Inference, a service designed to integrate machine learning models directly into live video processing pipelines. The offering enables customers to apply AI-based analysis, such as object detection, content moderation and metadata generation, within broadcast and streaming environments in real time. The service offers two AI features: vertical video cropping and advanced metadata analysis. The agentic AI application requires no prompt; it simply scales content automatically for each platform.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/25/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has announced the introduction of Video Probe in AWS Elemental MediaConvert, adding enhanced media analysis capabilities to its cloud-based video processing service. The feature enables customers to inspect detailed properties of video files prior to transcoding, including codec information, frame rate, resolution and other technical attributes. The analysis capability is ideal for content creators, developers and media professionals who can use Elementals' step functions to make encoding decisions.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/24/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced a new feature in AWS Trusted Advisor that identifies unused NAT Gateways, helping customers optimize networking costs, powered by AWS Compute Optimizer. The check analyzes NAT Gateway usage patterns and flags gateways that show no data processing activity over a defined period, enabling administrators to review and potentially remove unnecessary resources. The tool analyzes additional CloudWatch metrics over a 32-day lookback period to verify NAT Gateways associated with route tables.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/24/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced generative AI-based artifacts in Amazon Q, expanding the service’s ability to support software development and project collaboration. The new feature allows users to generate structured outputs, such as documents, plans, code snippets and other project assets, directly within Amazon Q, helping teams move from ideation to execution more quickly. Available generally within the AWS Management Console, users can select the Q icon and ask questions about AWS resources and visualize costs and billing charts. A sample Prompt Library enables users to get started quickly for effective use of the feature.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/24/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced native connectors for Go, Python and Node.js for Aurora DSQL, expanding developer access to its distributed SQL database service, simplifying IAM authentication. The new connectors are designed to streamline application integration, enabling developers to connect to Aurora DSQL using familiar language-specific libraries while maintaining support for scalable, distributed database operations. The update offers tokens that are automatically generated for each connection, ensuring that tokens remain valid and compatible with existing PostgreSQL driver features.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/19/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has announced that Amazon Connect Cases now integrates with AWS Service Quotas, giving administrators clearer visibility into usage limits and capacity thresholds. The update enables organizations to view and manage service quotas for Amazon Connect Cases directly through the AWS Service Quotas console, helping teams monitor limits and request increases as needed. Quota increases can be directly requested from the Service Quotas console with automatic approvals for eligible requests.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/18/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced additional metrics for AWS HealthImaging, expanding the service’s monitoring and observability capabilities through Amazon CloudWatch. The new metrics provide customers with deeper visibility into imaging data ingestion, storage and retrieval performance, helping organizations track system health and usage patterns more effectively. The update is intended to support operational insight and performance optimization for large-scale medical imaging workloads. Metrics provided allows teams to better manage single and multi-tenant workloads at a petabyte scale.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/17/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced job queue share utilization metrics for AWS Batch, giving customers greater visibility into how compute resources are allocated and consumed across job queues. The enhancement enables organizations to monitor the proportion of compute capacity used by each queue when fair-share scheduling policies are in place. The feature is intended to help teams make more informed decisions about workload prioritization and capacity planning. With the update Queue and Share Utilization Visibility helps teams understand allocation consumption and pinpoint where resource consumption is the most.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/13/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has expanded Amazon Bedrock’s support for AWS PrivateLink to include OpenAI-compatible API endpoints, allowing customers to access foundation models through private network connections rather than over the public internet. The enhancement enables organizations to use AWS PrivateLink to access applications using the bedrock-mantle endpoint, powered by Project Mantle. The move is designed to improve security and compliance for enterprise AI deployments. The offers higher default quotas with automated capacity management and unified pools, including out-of-the-box compatibility with OpenAI API specifications.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/13/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added managed minor version upgrades to Amazon Aurora Global Database, allowing customers to apply database engine updates across regions with less manual effort. The enhancement enables AWS to coordinate minor version upgrades for primary and secondary regions, helping ensure consistency while reducing operational complexity. The feature is designed to improve security posture and reliability without requiring customers to manage upgrades region by region. The update allows a single Aurora database to span up to 11 AWS regions, accelerating disaster recovery and global distribution.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/11/20260 comments
AWS has introduced a Kiro Power and Kiro IDE extension for AWS HealthOmics, designed to make bioinformatics workflow development faster and more accessible for researchers and developers. The plugin integrates HealthOmics with Kiro IDE, a workflow development environment, allowing users to design, validate and iterate on genomics and bioinformatics pipelines more efficiently. The goal is to reduce the complexity traditionally associated with building and maintaining large-scale analysis workflows. Kiro Power is a curated repository of MCP servers that accelerates specialized software development and deployment use cases. The extension provides syntax highlighting, code completion and troubleshooting with engine compatibility checking and automated diagnostics.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/10/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has introduced a new option in Amazon Redshift that allows customers to allocate additional compute resources specifically for automatic optimizations, known as autonomics. The feature enables Redshift to run background optimization tasks, such as statistics updates, sort key improvements, and other performance enhancements, without competing with active query workloads. The goal is to help customers maintain consistent query performance while continuing to benefit from automated tuning. Redshift workloads can allocate additional resources to enable autonomics, eliminating the need for manually scheduled optimizations such as ATO, ATS, Auto Vacuum and Auto Analyze.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/10/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) remained a strong growth driver for the company in Q4, with cloud revenue increasing 24% year-over-year to $35.6 billion. That growth outpaced the broader company sales increase and represented the fastest AWS revenue expansion in several quarters, highlighting ongoing demand for enterprise cloud and AI infrastructure services. AWS segment operating income also climbed, rising to $12.5 billion from $10.6 billion a year earlier, underscoring continued profitability in the cloud unit.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/06/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has expanded Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core with new 12 graphics bundles, introducing G6, Gr6 and G6f bundles designed to support more demanding desktop workloads. The new bundles provide higher CPU, memory and graphics performance, targeting use cases such as design, engineering, media creation and power-user productivity. The additions give customers more flexibility to match virtual desktop performance to specific user needs. All bundles support Windows Server 2022 and allows customers to bring their own Windows licenses for Windows 11.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/05/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added support for unmanaged compute environments when running AWS Batch on Amazon EKS, giving customers more flexibility in how they operate container-based batch workloads. With the update, organizations can use AWS Batch to schedule and manage jobs on existing, self-managed EKS clusters rather than relying solely on AWS-managed compute environments. The capability is intended to support teams that require tighter control over cluster configuration, scaling policies or cost optimization strategies. This capability allows the creation of unmanaged compute environments through the CreateComputeEnvironment API and AWS Batch console using existing EKS clusters and a specified Kubernetes namespace to associate EKS nodes with.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/04/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added mutual TLS (mTLS) support for Amazon CloudFront origins, allowing customers to authenticate connections between CloudFront and their origin servers using TLS certificates. The feature enables CloudFront to present a client certificate when connecting to an origin, while also validating the origin’s certificate, reducing reliance on network-based trust or shared secrets. The update is designed to help customers secure sensitive content and APIs with stronger, identity-based controls. By enforcing strict authentication for proprietary content, the update ensures that only verified CloudFront distributions can establish secure connections. Customers can configure mTLS using AWS Management Console, CLI, SDK, CDK or CloudFormation.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/03/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has expanded cross-region replica support for Amazon RDS for Oracle by adding the ability to use additional storage volumes. The update allows organizations running Oracle databases on AWS to scale storage more flexibly while maintaining cross-region replication for disaster recovery and read scalability. The enhancement is designed to support larger, more demanding Oracle workloads without requiring architectural changes or manual storage management. Customers can add up to three storage volumes of 64 TiB each, in addition to the primary storage, allowing greater flexibility.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/30/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has increased the maximum event payload size in Amazon EventBridge from 256 KB to 1MB, giving developers more flexibility when building event-driven applications. The change allows events to carry more contextual data directly within the payload, reducing the need to offload information to external storage services. The update is designed to simplify architectures and improve developer productivity for complex integration scenarios. The new 1MB payload support ensures streamlining and a reduced need for complex data chunking.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/29/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has expanded the self-service AMI listing experience in AWS Marketplace to include FPGA products, allowing vendors to independently publish and manage FPGA-based Amazon Machine Images. The update enables partners to create, modify and update listings without relying on manual review cycles, streamlining how FPGA solutions are brought to market. The change is intended to reduce friction for vendors delivering specialized acceleration workloads through marketplace. Sellers are also guided through step-by-step workflow to fill in required information about listings with a comprehensive self-service experience that includes inline validation and error messages that help streamline configurations before publishing.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/28/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added one-hour prompt caching to Amazon Bedrock for selected Anthropic Claude models, allowing developers to reuse prompts across multiple model invocations without resending the same input each time. The update improves the original five-minute default to an hour, ideal for longer-running agentic workflows and multi-turn conversations. This maintains context for users who may interact less frequently or need time in between longer sessions.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/27/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to AWS Transfer Family, expanding secure file transfer options for enterprises with NetApp-based storage architectures. The update allows organizations to use AWS Transfer Family’s managed SFTP, FTPS, AS2, FTP and web-browser based interfaces to move data directly into FSx for ONTAP file systems, without custom integration or self-managed infrastructure. The feature is designed to simplify partner data exchange and legacy workload integration while maintaining enterprise-grade performance and data management features. Access is controlled through standard IAM policies and S3 Access Point configurations.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/27/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added conditional logic and real-time updates to step-by-step guides in Amazon Connect, enhancing support for contact center agents during live customer interactions. The updates allow guides to dynamically adjust based on customer responses, system data or interaction context, rather than following static scripts. The goal is to help agents respond more accurately and consistently while reducing cognitive load during complex calls. In addition to the update, Step-by-Step Guides can now automatically refresh data from Connect resources at specific intervals to keep agents up to date.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/23/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has enhanced Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with new debugging capabilities that make it easier to identify and resolve issues during cluster node provisioning. The updates improve visibility into failures and performance issues across distributed environments, making it easier for teams to identify root causes when training jobs stall, underperform, or fail. When an issue is flagged in lifecycle scripts, detailed error messages are sent with specific CloudWatch log groups and stream names. These are also conveniently available for viewing in the SageMaker console, making log access seamless. The enhancements are particularly relevant for foundation model training and other compute-intensive workloads that run across hundreds or thousands of accelerators.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/21/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has expanded dashboard customization capabilities in Quick Sight, adding new options for tables and pivot tables that give users greater flexibility in how data is presented. The update allows authors to better control formatting, structure and visual organization directly within Quick Sight dashboards, reducing the need for workarounds or external tooling and without the need for updates from dashboard authors. The enhancements are designed to help teams build more tailored, business-friendly dashboards while maintaining the simplicity of Quick Sight’s managed analytics model.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/20/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has expanded Amazon Quick Suite with enhanced SPICE engine capabilities for faster ingestion, higher scale support and broader data types. The update strengthens SPICE's data type support with increased string limits and extended support timestamps. Optimization ingestion further supports faster data loading to power advanced analytics and AI-driven workloads.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/20/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added support for certificate-based authentication using mutual TLS (mTLS) for RabbitMQ brokers in Amazon MQ. The update allows clients and brokers to authenticate each other using X.509 certificates, reducing reliance on username-and-password credentials and strengthening security for message-based applications. The feature is designed to simplify secure connectivity for organizations running sensitive or regulated workloads that depend on RabbitMQ messaging.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/12/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has added job-run level controls to Amazon EMR Serverless, giving customers finer-grained visibility and management over individual job runs. The update allows teams to view, monitor and manage executions at the job-run level rather than only at the application level, making it easier to troubleshoot failures, analyze performance and control costs in shared serverless environments. The enhancement is intended to improve day-to-day operability as organizations scale analytics workloads without provisioning or tuning clusters.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/12/20260 comments
Amazon Web Services has expanded support for cross-region read replicas for Amazon RDS for SQL Server into 16 additional AWS regions, giving customers more options for high availability and geographic resilience. The feature allows organizations to asynchronously replicate data from a primary SQL Server instance to a read-only instance in another region, supporting disaster recovery planning and read-heavy workloads without deploying custom replication architectures. AWS aims to expand availability to help customers meet stricter business continuity and data access requirements.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/12/20260 comments
AWS has expanded Amazon Lightsail by introducing larger managed database bundles, giving developers and small teams more headroom as applications grow. The new options provide increased compute, memory and storage capacity for managed databases while retaining Lightsail’s simplified pricing and operational model. AWS launched two larger database bundles of up to 8 vCPUs, 32GB memory and 960 GB SSD storage. The update is designed for workloads that have outgrown entry-level configurations but do not yet require the complexity of services such as Amazon RDS.
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Posted by AWS Editors on 01/12/20260 comments