Top updates from 2026
October 2026
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All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
AWS powered Amazon Prime Day 2026 (June 23–26) with record-breaking metrics across multiple services, including 49% of EC2 compute via AWS Graviton, 2.3 trillion Lambda invocations/day, and DynamoDB p…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026)
AWS introduced Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, enabling OpenAI model-based agents to run natively within AWS with existing identity, permissions, and governance controls. Users can ch…
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Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview)
AWS introduced the Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered service in public preview that analyzes cloud environments to deliver contextual recommendations for cost, security, performance, and resilienc…
September 2026
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Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types
AWS announced full support for Apache Iceberg V3 data types in Amazon S3 Tables, including variant, nanosecond timestamps, geometry, geography, and unknown types. The update enables native handling of…
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Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering for higher recall on filtered searches
AWS introduced metadata pre-filtering for Amazon S3 Vectors, enabling filtered queries to evaluate metadata constraints before similarity searches. This improves recall by up to 5x on selective filter…
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake
AWS announced Aurora PostgreSQL can now directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in data lakes without ETL, using familiar PostgreSQL tools. The feature integrates DuckDB for efficient query pro…
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Celebrating Our Newest AWS Heroes – September 2026
AWS announced three new Heroes in September 2026: Avinash Shashikant Dalvi (serverless/container expert in Bengaluru), Joanne Skiles (serverless/AI educator in Orlando), and Xiaofei Li (community lead…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock, Strands harness, and more (September 28, 2026)
AWS introduced three new AI models to Amazon Bedrock: GPT-6 Sol and Luna from OpenAI, and Claude Opus 5.5 from Anthropic. These models target different use cases—development/operations, high-volume ta…
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Introducing enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applications
AWS introduced an enhanced custom event bus in Amazon EventBridge to simplify event-driven architectures across multi-account organizations. The new bus enables a single, centralized event backbone wi…
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Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: collaborative AI-powered observability for your applications
AWS introduced CloudWatch Omni, an AI-powered observability experience that organizes telemetry around applications rather than infrastructure components. The feature integrates existing CloudWatch da…
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Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads
AWS introduced CloudWatch Omni, a unified AI-powered observability solution for generative AI and agentic workloads, now generally available. It provides app-centric, IDE-integrated tracing, evaluatio…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center mobile apps, Amazon Connect Talent GA, Amazon Corretto 27, and more (September 21, 2026)
AWS introduced a mobile app for AWS Builder Center on iOS and Android, enabling users to access trending articles, 600+ Skill Builder courses, workshops, and community features via AWS Builder ID. New…
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New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available
AWS announced general availability of EC2 T8i instances, powered by custom sixth-gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids). These burstable instances deliver up to 30% better price performan…
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode
AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduced Cluster Mode, a fully-managed feature that deploys, scales, and maintains multiple applications on shared Amazon EKS infrastructure. This reduces per-application costs…
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AWS reimagines the getting started experience
AWS introduced a streamlined getting-started experience for new builders, prioritizing AI workflows. Users sign up via Google, GitHub, or Apple, skip credit card requirements initially, and receive $1…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick desktop GA, Kiro for students, and more (September 14, 2026)
AWS announced the general availability of OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock, offering deeper reasoning, professional writing, and advanced computer/browser use with a 1M-token context window. The…
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Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones across AWS accounts
AWS extended Amazon EBS Volume Clones to support copying volumes across AWS accounts, enabling secure data sharing for development and testing. Users can re-encrypt shared volumes with a target accoun…
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How AWS Built a Live AI-Powered Vertical Video Capability for Fox Sports with AWS Elemental Inference
AWS built a live AI-powered vertical video capability for Fox Sports using AWS Elemental Inference, automating key moment detection, vertical reformatting, and distribution within 20–30 seconds of liv…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)
AWS introduced Claude Fable 5.1, a new AI model optimized for long-running, high-stakes tasks like coding and enterprise workflows. It is designated a Covered Model with 30-day data retention, human s…
August 2026
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Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available
AWS announced general availability of EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4-based R8g instances. R9g is memory-…
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