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The latest AI and developer news from AWS Blog, with short summaries.
Visit website →AWS Emulator launches as a local tool for testing AWS services with AWS CLI and SDKs
The tool runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, supports AWS SDKs and CLI, and is built in Rust to minimize resource usage.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AgentCore Runtime V2, S3 Tables Hive Migration, and DynamoDB Bulk Put
The new runtime uses snapshots to keep cold starts at 2 seconds for images up to 2 GB, while S3 Tables now migrates Hive data to Iceberg in three steps.
Amazon S3 Tables adds managed migration for Apache Hive to Apache Iceberg
The managed service handles data validation, type conversion, and compaction, allowing users to pay only for copied data without provisioning infrastructure.
AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock with input and output tokens priced at least 50% lower than GPT-6.1 Sol.
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities reaches general availability with automated sandboxed proof-of-concept generation
The service builds a context graph to rank risks by proximity to critical systems and opens fixes as pull requests, currently available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities reaches general availability
The service confirms which findings are exploitable in your environment and delivers fixes as pull requests, currently available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).
Amazon Threat Intelligence detects PHP2Shell exploitation four days before public disclosure
Exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 were observed on Oct. 17, 2026, prior to the Oct. 21 public release, indicating pre-disclosure threat activity.
AWS Launches Amazon ECS Gateway for Managed Ingress Networking
The new account-level resource separates platform and application responsibilities, automatically provisioning ALBs, certificates, and security groups without requiring networking expertise.
AWS Lambda Web Functions enables standard HTTP servers without adapters; S3 available on Vercel Marketplace
The new form factor supports Express, Hono, Fastify, and Next.js apps, handling up to 128 concurrent requests per environment with CPU-based billing.
Amazon S3, S3 Tables, and S3 Vectors now available on Vercel Marketplace and v0
Developers can provision S3 storage directly within Vercel, integrating with existing AWS database services on a single bill.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026)
Claude Haiku 5.5 is available on Amazon Bedrock at roughly 75 percent less than Haiku 4.5, while Prime Day 2026 saw ElastiCache peak at 2.3 quadrillion daily requests.
AWS Launches Lambda Web Functions for Standard HTTP Applications
The new form factor supports Node.js 24 on Arm64 and allows standard port-listening servers to run without code rewriting.
AWS Graviton Powers Up to 49% of Amazon EC2 Compute During Prime Day 2026
Amazon DynamoDB processed over 59 trillion requests and peaked at 192 million requests per second during the four-day event.
AWS Adds OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 to Bedrock, Launches Managed Agents Preview
Amazon Bedrock now hosts OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol and Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5, alongside a public preview of Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI.
AWS Launches Well-Architected Agent in Public Preview to Automate Cloud Optimization
The AI-powered agent analyzes infrastructure across 65+ AWS services to provide prioritized, context-aware remediation steps.
Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types
The update enables native handling of variant, geospatial, and nanosecond timestamp data types, along with deletion vectors and row lineage.
PickAmazon S3 Vectors adds metadata pre-filtering for higher recall on filtered searches
The new feature delivers up to 5x more matching vectors on selective filters without requiring re-ingestion or additional costs.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Adds Direct Querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet Data via Embedded DuckDB
Available now in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional charge, the feature supports Aurora PostgreSQL versions 17.11+ and 18.6+.
AWS Introduces Three New Heroes for September 2026
AWS introduces three new Heroes for September 2026, including two Serverless Heroes and one Community Hero from India, the USA, and China.
AWS Bedrock Adds GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and Claude Opus 5.5; Launches CloudWatch Omni and Strands Harness
Amazon Bedrock now hosts OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, alongside new observability and agent infrastructure tools.