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AWS Compute Optimizer now provides rightsizing recommendations for 389 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and 276 in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Customers running regulated and government workloads can find the same cost and performance opportunities on current-generation instance types without manual analysis. Compute Optimizer has expanded support […]

AWS Sign-In now supports OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange (RFC 8693), enabling applications to exchange third-party OpenID Connect (OIDC) tokens for short-lived, AWS service-scoped OAuth access tokens. This allows customers to securely integrate third-party applications with supported AWS services without sharing AWS credentials, while maintaining access controls through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). This capability […]

Today, AWS announces a new bi-directional, zero-copy integration between AWS Analytics services and Workday Data Cloud. Instead of building and maintaining ETL pipelines to replicate data between systems, joint customers can now query across their AWS and Workday datasets in place, without moving or copying data, while retaining existing security controls in both environments. From […]

Amazon Route 53 Profiles now lets you associate more than one Profile with a VPC. Previously, a VPC could have only one Profile, so teams that managed Route 53 configurations separately (for example, security teams managing DNS Firewall rule groups while cloud infrastructure and network admin teams manage private hosted zones and Resolver forwarding rules) […]

Claude Fable 5.2 is now available on AWS and brings Anthropic’s most capable generally available model for technical work to all customers. Fable 5.2 sets a new standard on the hardest projects in coding, math, and science, and Anthropic recommends it for fields like software engineering, scientific research, and finance, where judgment, iteration, and accuracy are […]

Amazon DocumentDB Serverless now provides up to 35% higher throughput with the launch of platform version 4. Platform versions represent improvements in performance, scaling capabilities, or features, and are automatically managed at the cluster level. All new serverless clusters launch on the latest platform version available in your AWS Region. You can upgrade existing clusters […]

Today, AWS is introducing an open-source solution with a local web UI that helps customers turn data lake records into graphs for analysis with Amazon Neptune Analytics. By projecting selected records and relationships, customers can investigate connections across tables and run graph algorithms without building their own ETL pipelines. For example, a customer could project […]

Amazon Connect Customer now provides evaluation form templates so managers don’t have to build forms from scratch, reducing the time to deploy automated evaluations of human and AI agent performance. These templates cover typical customer interaction scenarios: customer service, inbound sales, and self-service. Each template assesses human and AI agent behaviors. For example, the customer […]

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) now supports DuckDB operators. DuckDB is an embedded analytical database that lets customers perform data quality checks, summaries, and transformations on data from sources DuckDB supports, including Amazon S3. Native support is available for DuckDB on Amazon MWAA Provisioned environments running Apache Airflow 3.3.1. DuckDB comes preinstalled […]

Amazon Quick, the AI workspace built only for work, is now AWS Quick, a name that reflects the enterprise security and governance built into Quick from the start as an AWS service. The new name now appears across the Quick website, the web, desktop, and mobile apps, and AWS documentation. Existing customers don’t need to […]

AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) now lets your workloads use their AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) identity in one partition to get temporary credentials for an IAM role in a different partition, without storing long-term credentials, which can help improve your security posture. Partitions are groups of AWS Regions, such as the commercial […]

AWS Glue now supports 100 new native connectors that simplify access to data in popular SaaS and REST API-based applications. Previously, bringing data from SaaS applications into AWS required writing custom code. Now, teams can create a connection once in the AWS Glue Data Catalog and reuse it across ETL jobs with the same permissions […]

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports account-level retention policies, so you can use a single policy to set how long log data is kept across all or subset of log groups in an AWS account. Account-level policies allow platform and security teams to bring each log group in line with their retention standards. With today’s launch, […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Web Search API on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, which lets you search the web with a single API call. Web Search on AgentCore has been available as an MCP tool through AgentCore Gateway. The new InvokeWebSearch API gives applications, custom agent loops, and data pipelines search results with […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports clone-based upgrades, which let you validate a new OpenSearch version alongside your current one and cut over to it only when you’re satisfied. If you find a problem, you can cancel before you cut over or roll back afterward. With clone-based upgrades, you can move to new versions with more […]