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Visit website →AWS Weekly Roundup: Price Cuts for GPT Models on Bedrock, CloudWatch Managed Collector for Prometheus Metrics, and More (August 3, 2026)
AWS cut on-demand inference pricing for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock by up to 80%.
AWS Weekly Briefing: Athens, Greece Local Zone, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more
AWS opened a Local Zone in Athens, Greece, supports Claude Opus 5 through Amazon Bedrock, and released a Lambda SDK for .NET.
AWS Weekly Briefing: One-Click Lambda Setup Prompts, OpenAI GPT-5.6 Models on Amazon Bedrock, and More
AWS announced a range of updates including Lambda setup prompts for coding agents and support for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock.
Amazon SQS Turns 20: 20 Years of Reliable Messaging at Massive Scale
Amazon SQS marked its 20th anniversary by looking back on its technical advancements and key milestones over the years.
AWS Weekly News: AWS Builder Center Marks Its 1st Anniversary, Network Scanning in Security Hub, Loom for AWS, and More
This roundup celebrates AWS Builder Center's 1st anniversary and covers key updates including new features in Security Hub and Loom for AWS.
Upgrade Amazon EKS Clusters with Peace of Mind Using the Kubernetes Version Rollback Feature
Amazon EKS has launched a rollback feature that allows reverting to a previous version within 7 days if issues occur after an upgrade.
AWS CloudFormation Express Mode Accelerates Infrastructure Deployment Speed by Up to 4x
AWS has launched CloudFormation Express mode, which speeds up deployment by up to 4x by reducing resource stabilization wait times.
AWS Launches Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd Instances Powered by AWS Graviton5 Processors
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, delivering improved performance and efficiency.
AWS Certificate Manager Automates Public TLS Certificate Issuance with ACME Support
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now supports the ACME protocol, enabling automatic issuance and management of public TLS certificates.
Isolated Sandbox Execution with Full Lifecycle Control: AWS Lambda Introduces MicroVMs
AWS Lambda has launched Firecracker-based MicroVMs, providing an isolated, stateful environment for running user code.
AWS Weekly Briefing: NY Summit Recap, Hanoi Local Zone, Grok 4.3 on Bedrock, Price Cuts and More (June 22, 2026)
At the NY Summit, AWS announced various innovative features for an AI agent ecosystem spanning work, security, development, and customer-facing use cases.
Amazon EC2 G7 Instances Launch with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPU
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 G7 instances equipped with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs, significantly boosting AI inference performance.
Amazon ECS Introduces High-Resolution Metrics for Faster Service Auto Scaling
Amazon ECS now supports high-resolution metrics at 20-second intervals, greatly improving service auto scaling speed.
Key Announcements from AWS Summit New York 2026
AWS announced agent building, web search, AI traffic monetization, and security automation features centered on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Launches to Boost Speed and Accuracy of Enterprise AI Applications
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base removes the complexity of building RAG pipelines, accelerating the development of enterprise AI applications.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Announces Web Search Feature: Combining Up-to-Date Web Knowledge with AI Agents
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has launched a Web Search feature that fetches the latest web information securely, built on MCP.
AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview) autonomously and proactively reduces technical debt
AWS unveiled a new feature of AWS Transform that continuously analyzes technical debt in code repositories and automatically fixes it via Pull Requests.
AWS DevOps Agent Adds Release Management Feature to Review Code Changes Before Production Deployment (Preview)
AWS DevOps Agent has released a Release Management feature in preview that reviews and tests code changes.
AWS Security Agent Adds Threat Modeling, Kiro Features, and Claude Code Plugin
AWS Security Agent has strengthened its security analysis capabilities by adding threat modeling and IDE integration features.
Amazon S3 annotations: Attach rich, queryable context directly to objects
Amazon S3 has launched annotations, a new metadata feature that lets you store and query large-scale business context on objects.