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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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AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)
AWS agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, a popular open-source analytical database. DuckDB will remain open source under its independent foundation, and AWS plans to …
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026)
AWS launched Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, offering verified higher education students 12 months of premium Skill Builder access, badges for engagement, and up to $130 in AWS credits and a $1…
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AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support
AWS announced the general availability of AWS Glue 6.0, offering a 30% price reduction and full support for Apache Iceberg v3 features. The update includes a modernized runtime with Apache Spark 4.1, …
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In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo
AWS announced plans to open permanent Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo, expanding its community-focused physical spaces for developers. These hubs will offer free workshops, networkin…
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Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS introduced runtime instances, a new managed compute option for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling persistent, stateful AI agent workflows that can run for up to 14 days with shared sessions, GPU a…
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Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale
AWS launched general availability of native vector search in DynamoDB, enabling similarity searches on vector embeddings stored alongside operational data with single-digit millisecond latency. The fe…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026)
AWS announced an 80% price cut for OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna model and a 20% reduction for GPT-5.6 Terra in Amazon Bedrock, effective July 30, 2026. Luna now costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20…
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