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AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)
The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions , which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent as a tool, so workflows teams already trust became callable without a rewrite. In the same week, the AI blog published how one engagement platform exposed rou
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and more (October 26, 2026)
A few weeks ago I presented to a small group of commercial and technology leaders from Brazilian agribusiness at the AWS office in São Paulo. My talk ran through where generative AI fits across the different stages of an agribusiness operation, and the point I kept returning to is that the markets we call traditional are exactly the ones where keeping up with this technology de
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities . AWS Continuum is a security service that finds and validates code vulnerabilities, then delivers fixes as patches you can automate or as pull requests in your repositories. AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities confirms which findings are exploitable in your environment, ranks the resu
Introducing Amazon ECS Gateway: A fully-managed ingress solution for ECS services
When platform teams manage containerized applications at scale on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) , configuring ingress networking for each service often becomes a bottleneck. For every new service, teams must provision and connect Application Load Balancers (ALBs) , AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificates, AWS WAF web ACLs, and security groups, then keep those
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and more (October 19, 2026)
Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code being live. AWS Lambda learned to run a plain HTTP server with no adapter in front of it, and Amazon S3 became something you can provision from inside the tool you were already using, without opening the AWS Management Console. Different se
Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel
Developers building web and AI applications on Vercel can now add Amazon S3 storage resources directly from the Vercel Marketplace and v0, combining the durability, scalability, and performance of S3 with the convenience of Vercel’s provisioning workflow. Starting today, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) , including Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon S3 Vectors , is natively a
AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026)
Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the daily requests Amazon ElastiCache peaked at during the event. Prime Day ran back in June, so this post always lands as a retrospective, and that gap is part of what makes it worth reading. By the time th
Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions
Today, we’re announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions , a new form factor that lets you run standard HTTP web applications on Lambda without rewriting your code into an event handler. You can take a standard port-listening server built with Express, Hono, Fastify, Next.js, or any Node.js framework, deploy it with a single command, and Lambda automatically handles scaling, multi-regi
All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day ( 2016 , 2017 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023 , 2024 , and 2025 ), I want to share the services and chart-topping metrics from AWS that made your amazing shopping experienc
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI, Q3 service availability updates, Kiro workflows, and more (October 5, 2026)
Last week, we announced a public preview of Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI , built on a customized version of OpenAI’s Agents API engineered to be AWS-native and integrated with AWS resources. You can now build agents optimized for OpenAI models that run entirely inside AWS with the identities, permissions, and governance controls you already use. You can choos
Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview)
Today, we’re announcing the public preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent , an AI-powered service that analyzes your AWS environment to deliver targeted, contextual recommendations for improving your applications’ cost, security, performance, and resilience. The AWS Well-Architected Agent analyzes your infrastructure, understands unique business goals, and delivers contextual re
Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types
Amazon S3 Tables now support all data types in the Apache Iceberg V3 specification. You can create V3 tables or upgrade existing V2 tables to take advantage of V3 features like deletion vectors, row lineage, and new data types such as variant, nanosecond timestamps, unknown, geometry, and geography. Apache Iceberg has become the open standard for managing large analytics datase
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering for higher recall on filtered searches
Today, we’re announcing metadata pre-filtering for Amazon S3 Vectors , which delivers higher recall on filtered queries by evaluating your metadata filter before the similarity search. You can filter on attributes such as tenant, category, status, or time, and pre-filtering adds prefix matching with $startsWith for paths, URLs, and hierarchical keys. Each vector carries up to 2
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake
Today, we’re announcing a new capability for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL that you can use to directly query operational data together with data stored in your data lake in Apache Iceberg and Apache Parquet formats, using your existing PostgreSQL applications and tools. By eliminating the need to extract, transform, and load (ETL) structured data from data lakes into your operation
Celebrating Our Newest AWS Heroes – September 2026
Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program . AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge, mentor others, and build thriving communities. These individuals make a real difference in helping developers and organizations succeed with AWS. This month, we welcome three exceptional community l
AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock, Strands harness, and more (September 28, 2026)
If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model fits this step, at this cost, at this latency?” That’s exactly what landed on Amazon Bedrock over the past few days: GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI, giving you two new points on the intelligence-ver
Introducing enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applications
Organizations building event-driven applications on Amazon EventBridge typically start with a single custom event bus in one account. This works well when a single team owns the architecture. As adoption grows across the organization, though, things get complicated. AWS best practices recommend a multi-account structure, which means each team runs in its own account. To route e
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads
Today, Amazon CloudWatch introduces CloudWatch Omni, a unified observability experience for application and AI workloads that is app-centric, AI-powered, built on open standards, and delivered off-console. CloudWatch Omni is a purpose-built observability, evaluation, and experimentation solution for AI agents. It helps teams design, evaluate, and operate AI agents across any mo
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: collaborative AI-powered observability for your applications
Amazon CloudWatch now offers CloudWatch Omni, an AI-powered observability experience for the applications and AI agents you run together. You reach Omni through a dedicated URL for your organization and sign in with the identities you already manage, so working in Omni does not require access to the AWS Management Console. Omni is built on OpenTelemetry: the telemetry you alrea