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AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)
Last week AWS Summit New York City brought together thousands of customers, partners, and builders for a free, one-day event showcasing the latest in cloud and AI innovation. Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS unveiled a stack of AI launches in his keynote , all built around one thesis: agents that compound value over time. Agents for working – You can launch au
Announcing Amazon EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances, delivering high performance GPU acceleration for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads. AWS is the first major cloud provider to support NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 instances are accelerated by these GPUs with custom sixth-generati
Amazon ECS introduces new high-resolution metrics for faster service auto scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload demand with comprehensive scaling policies, including predictive scaling for recurring traffic patterns, scheduled scaling for planned events, and target tracking to scale dynamically on real-time metrics. You can choose proactive scaling by using predictive sca
AITop announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2026
AWS Summit New York 2026 focused heavily on agentic AI capabilities, with major announcements centered on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enhancements for enterprise AI agent development. Key launches include managed knowledge bases, web search integration, AI traffic monetization through AWS WAF, and security automation tools like AWS Continuum that operate at machine speed to identify and remediate vul
AIAnnouncing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Ground your AI agents in current, accurate web knowledge
AWS has launched Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed tool that enables AI agents to ground responses in current web knowledge while keeping all data within customers' AWS environments. The service leverages Amazon's search infrastructure and combines web index data with structured knowledge graph information to provide more accurate responses than traditional web search, elimin
AIIntroducing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for faster, more accurate enterprise AI applications
AWS has launched Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed service that simplifies building enterprise RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines for generative AI applications. The service abstracts infrastructure complexity by providing native connectors to six enterprise data sources, intelligent parsing capabilities, and an agentic retriever for complex queries. Developers can
AIAmazon S3 annotations: attach rich, queryable context directly to your objects
Amazon S3 has introduced annotations, a new metadata capability that allows organizations to attach up to 1 GB of rich, queryable business context directly to storage objects without rewriting them. This feature addresses limitations of existing metadata options by supporting mutable, large-scale context in flexible formats (JSON, XML, YAML, plain text) that automatically moves with objects during
AIAWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization capability to help content owners charge AI bots for content access
AWS WAF has introduced an AI traffic monetization capability that enables digital content owners and publishers to charge AI bots for accessing their web content at the network edge. The feature addresses the growing challenge where AI bots now account for over 50% of web traffic for many providers, consuming content without generating the traditional referral traffic, ad impressions, or conversio
AIAWS Weekly Roundup: AWS FinOps Agent in preview, Gemma 4 on Bedrock, Kiro Pro Max, and more (June 15, 2026)
AWS announced multiple significant updates at its New York Summit, including the preview of AWS FinOps Agent for automated cost optimization and anomaly detection, and general availability of M9g/M9gd EC2 instances powered by Graviton5 processors. The week also featured new AI model releases on Amazon Bedrock, including Gemma 4 and Claude Fable 5 (though Claude models were temporarily revoked due
AINow available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by Graviton5 processors, delivering up to 25% better compute performance and 35% faster performance for web applications compared to Graviton4. The new instances feature 192 cores, 5x larger L3 cache, DDR5-8800 memory, PCIe Gen6 support, and introduce the Nitro Isolation Engine—the first formally verified cloud hypervisor for enhanced secu
AIAnthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now available
Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock and AWS, offering Mythos-level AI capabilities with built-in safeguards for broader enterprise use. The model features long-running task execution, advanced vision capabilities for document processing, and proactive self-verification, while automatically routing high-risk prompts to the less capable Opus 4.8 model. Enterprise customers can ac
AIAWS Weekly Roundup: BYOM for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, and more (June 8, 2026)
AWS announced several significant updates this week, including general availability of the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) licensing support for Amazon RDS SQL Server, and multi-Region replication for Amazon Cognito. The week also saw OpenAI's GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex become generally available on Amazon Bedrock, alongside numerous enhancements to EKS, ECS, and other A
AITry the new console experience in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIs
Amazon Bedrock has launched a new console experience optimized for the bedrock-mantle endpoint, supporting the latest GPT, Claude, and open-weight models through OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible APIs. The refreshed interface introduces project-based workflows, enhanced model comparison capabilities, and live documentation with auto-populated code snippets to accelerate development from evaluation t
AIImprove your application resilience with Amazon Cognito multi-Region replication
Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication to improve application resilience during regional service interruptions, automatically synchronizing user data, credentials, and configurations to a secondary AWS Region. The feature maintains uninterrupted authentication for both end-users and machine-to-machine communications during failover, though write operations like new registrations are un
AIGet started with OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock
AWS announces general availability of OpenAI's GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex coding agent on Amazon Bedrock, providing enterprises with frontier AI models through a next-generation inference engine. GPT-5.5 targets demanding workloads while GPT-5.4 offers optimal price-performance, both accessible via the Responses API with pay-per-token pricing and no per-developer seat licenses. Codex integ
AIAWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.8 on AWS, Aurora MySQL with Kiro Powers, and more (June 1, 2026)
AWS announces the availability of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, its most capable model for agentic coding and autonomous task execution, through Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. The update also includes a reimagined AWS Resilience Hub with AI-powered assessments, next-generation Amazon OpenSearch Serverless optimized for agentic AI with 20x faster scaling, and Aurora MySQL integration wit
AIIntroducing the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub for generative AI-based SRE resilience journey
AWS has launched the next generation of Resilience Hub, introducing a comprehensive platform for enterprise-wide application resilience management powered by generative AI. The enhanced service enables Site Reliability Engineers and development teams to define modular resilience policies, automatically discover dependencies, conduct AI-powered failure mode assessments, and report compliance across
AIMeet Our Newest AWS Heroes – May 2026
AWS has announced four new AWS Heroes for May 2026, recognizing community leaders from Italy, Canada, and Argentina who demonstrate exceptional commitment to knowledge sharing and community building. These individuals specialize in AI, serverless architecture, and cloud solutions, contributing through user group leadership, content creation, conference speaking, and developing tools that benefit t
AIIntroducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications
AWS has launched the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector engine optimized for building AI agents. The service offers up to 60% cost savings through scale-to-zero capabilities, provisions resources in seconds (20x faster than previous generation), and scales from zero to thousands of requests per second automatically. It includes native integrations wi