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AWS Backup expands to support Amazon FSx file systems in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling centralized data protection and automated backup management for these systems.
Amazon S3, including S3 Tables and S3 Vectors, is now directly available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel, simplifying storage provisioning for developers.
AWS Deadline Cloud now allows users to directly discover and access only the queues, fleets, or jobs they have permissions for via the monitor, eliminating the need for farm ID requests.
AWS introduces an interactive API Playground for Amazon Location Service, enabling developers to test Places, Routes, and Maps APIs visually without coding or SDK setup.
AWS integrates deep SageMaker AI capabilities into its Agent Toolkit, enabling coding agents to handle model selection, training, optimization, and deployment within a single workflow.
AWS has expanded Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs to Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions, enhancing AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads.
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now offers ElastiCache Insights, a CloudWatch dashboard that aggregates node-based cluster metrics into a single view for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting.
Amazon Bedrock now offers reasoning summaries for OpenAI models via the Responses API, providing human-readable explanations of model reasoning alongside responses to aid debugging and transparency.
Amazon Connect Customer introduces automated checks to refine performance evaluation forms, helping managers improve AI-generated scoring accuracy with suggested adjustments.
AWS Lambda now allows OAuth authentication for self-managed Apache Kafka event sources, expanding security options for regulated industries and enabling consistent identity governance across Kafka and Lambda consumers.
Amazon GameLift Servers introduces CPU burstability for container fleets, enabling flexible resource allocation to handle fluctuating game server demands without performance trade-offs.
AWS GovCloud (US) now provides access to Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5, a cost-efficient model optimized for high-volume, real-time tasks and subagent workflows.
Amazon Bedrock now supports GLM 5.3 from Z.ai, offering an open-weight model for agentic coding and long-horizon software engineering with enhanced security and compliance.
Amazon EC2 now allows AMI owners to share specific tags with all AWS accounts receiving the image, reducing manual tag replication efforts and simplifying cross-account management.
AWS Client VPN now enforces device security checks before granting network access, integrating with posture providers like CrowdStrike and Jamf to block non-compliant devices.
Amazon Web Services released Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, a speech-to-speech model improving real-time voice agents with enhanced reasoning, lower latency, and multi-step task handling for customer service and assistants.
AWS Health launches a version catalog to centralize software lifecycle data, enabling proactive version upgrades and end-of-support risk management across AWS services.
AWS Brazil automates the distribution of non-Brazilian SaaS licenses to Brazilian customers, handling invoicing, tax calculations, and payments in local currency.
AWS launched a preview of the AI-driven Well-Architected Agent to automate infrastructure reviews and prioritize fixes across cost, security, performance, and reliability using business goals.
Amazon DynamoDB now allows filtered exports to Amazon S3, enabling users to export only specific items and attributes from tables for targeted analytics, data sharing, or offline use.
AWS Security Hub now provides remediation plans to address multiple related security exposures by fixing their root causes, with prioritization and step-by-step instructions available in multiple formats.
AWS Secrets Manager now shows security recommendations in its console via the Recommended Actions framework, helping users improve secrets security without leaving the interface.
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering to improve filtered search recall by up to five times, alongside a new prefix match operator for path and URL filtering.
AWS CloudTrail’s new Event Coverage feature reveals logging gaps in data plane operations across accounts and organizations, enabling targeted visibility improvements.
AWS Marketplace introduces an AI agent skill to simplify usage-based SaaS metering integration, reducing errors and accelerating deployment for sellers.
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications introduces unified graphics images, simplifying fleet management across supported GPU instance families and enabling cross-family instance type changes.
Amazon Bedrock now offers Anthropic’s Claude models in India, South Korea, and Singapore, enabling in-region inference for regulated industries requiring localized data processing.
Amazon released patch updates for multiple Amazon Corretto OpenJDK versions on September 25, 2026, including critical tzdata 2026d changes for time zone support.
Amazon DocumentDB now supports retryable writes for MongoDB-compatible applications, enhancing resilience against transient errors without code changes.
Amazon Transcribe now supports customer-managed AWS KMS keys for encrypting custom resources, replacing the default AWS-owned encryption with user-controlled keys for enhanced security and compliance.