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AWS customers can now access NVIDIA’s Cosmos3 family of omnimodal AI models via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart for robotics, autonomous systems, and vision applications.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now hosts Meta’s Muse-Glimmer-30B and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8-27B foundation models, broadening AWS customers’ access to specialized AI tools for agentic workflows and multimodal reasoning.
Amazon Redshift now integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS, enabling AI agents to manage data warehouses and lakes via AWS MCP Server and curated Redshift skills.
AWS expands Amazon EC2 X8i instances to Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) regions, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has expanded to AWS Regions in US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), enabling faster agent deployment with lower latency for regional users.
Amazon Connect Customer expands AI-driven analytics in Africa (Cape Town) Region with generative summaries, live call monitoring, and automated alerts to enhance customer service efficiency.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now provides Recovery Plans to automate the sequential recovery of multi-server applications, reducing manual coordination and errors during disasters.
Amazon Elastic VM Service now supports the i7i.metal-48xl EC2 instance, powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, offering higher core counts and improved cost-performance for VMware workloads on AWS.
Amazon Cognito introduced an admin API to reset users' TOTP MFA configurations, enabling administrators to remove lost device associations and restore access without recreating accounts.
AWS has updated Mountpoint for Amazon S3 to allow users to control memory usage, either by setting a custom limit or letting the system auto-configure based on the environment.
Amazon Connect Customer now allows points-based scoring for agent evaluations, replacing the previous percentage-based system to offer more flexible performance assessments.
AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region, expanding its serverless data integration service with updated engines and enhanced security features.
AWS has expanded availability of EC2 C8id and M8id instances to additional regions, offering up to 22.8 TB of local NVMe storage and improved performance for compute and memory-intensive workloads.
AWS expands availability of EC2 R8id instances to eight new regions, enhancing memory-intensive workloads with up to 22.8TB local storage and 43% higher performance than R6id instances.
AWS IoT Core now routes time-series data directly to InfluxDB databases, eliminating the need for custom device-side code or intermediate services.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs now supports AWS PrivateLink, allowing private connectivity to MicroVMs from VPC resources without public internet exposure, aiding regulated workloads in financial services, healthcare, and...
AWS updates Amazon Connect Customer to let agents update or add customer profiles on existing cases, improving case accuracy and handling unidentified callers.
AWS announced that Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24, addressing security vulnerabilities and incorporating community fixes.
AWS IAM Roles Anywhere now offers a Java plugin for its SDK v2, allowing Java applications to obtain temporary AWS credentials directly without separate credential helper processes.
AWS Lambda has launched managed runtimes for Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 in public preview, allowing users to test upcoming versions before general availability and provide feedback.
AWS announced that Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the Oracle July 2026 Release Update for versions 19c, 21c, and 26ai, emphasizing security updates and new naming conventions for patches.
Amazon ECS now automatically detects and repairs container instances with impaired agent connectivity, reducing undetected workload failures and improving application availability without manual intervention.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23, including security updates and Aurora-specific improvements.
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports OAuth 2.0 authentication for replicating data from external Kafka clusters to Amazon MSK, expanding authentication options beyond SASL/SCRAM and mTLS.
Amazon Connect Customer now offers information extraction for voice and chat interactions, automatically capturing key data to reduce manual entry and improve agent efficiency.
AWS ParallelCluster 3.16 introduces pcluster-diag, a built-in diagnostics tool for cluster nodes, alongside stability enhancements and an updated HPC and AI/ML software stack.
Amazon Web Services has made OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud regions, expanding access to high-performance AI tools for U.S. government and regulated workloads.
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports version 8.4.11, introducing post-quantum TLS encryption and security fixes from the MySQL community.
AWS released Neuron 2.32.0 with expanded NKI programming, MXFP8 training kernels, and variable-size collectives for Trn2 and Trn3 instances, enhancing model training efficiency.
OpenAI reduced API pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol by 20% for input tokens and 33.3% for output tokens, effective through November 21, 2026, via Amazon Bedrock.