AWS IAM outbound identity federation now allows private access to OIDC discovery endpoints via VPC interface endpoints, eliminating public internet exposure for token verification keys.
AWS End User Messaging and Amazon SES now provide AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server, allowing developers to perform messaging tasks via plain-language commands in supported AI coding agents.
AWS Lambda durable functions are now accessible in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling reliable multi-step workflows and AI processes while meeting compliance needs.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange, enhancing encryption for data in transit via updated ssl_groups parameter in versions 18 and higher.
Amazon RDS now offers PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 in its preview environment for testing, featuring performance and stability improvements before general release.
Amazon RDS now supports Multi-AZ deployments for SQL Server Developer Edition, enabling high availability testing without Enterprise licensing costs.
AWS introduces Amazon CloudWatch Omni, an AI-driven observability tool unifying application and agent monitoring across clouds and IDEs with natural language interaction and dependency mapping.
AWS GovCloud (US) now provides access to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 model, enhancing enterprise coding and knowledge workflows with improved efficiency and reporting capabilities.
Amazon Connect Customer now enables agent-to-agent collaboration, allowing specialized AI agents to work together during live interactions to resolve customer requests more efficiently.
Amazon ECS adds real-time deployment monitoring in the AWS console, consolidating progress tracking, health checks, and failure diagnostics for Linear, Canary, and Blue/Green strategies without extra cost.
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) has achieved FedRAMP Class C authorization across all U.S. regions, enabling federal agencies to deploy VMware workloads on AWS infrastructure.
Amazon EC2 X8i instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in AWS’s South America (São Paulo) region for memory-intensive workloads.
AWS Continuum for penetration testing now supports credential testing and domain suggestions, streamlining test configuration and reducing manual effort for developers and security teams.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model with vision and a 1-million-token context window, is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock for coding and knowledge tasks.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers Cluster Mode, enabling multiple applications to run on shared infrastructure via Amazon EKS, reducing per-application costs while maintaining existing management tools.
AWS has launched a mobile app for its Builder Center platform, expanding access to community resources, courses, and workshops on iOS and Android devices.
Amazon SageMaker AI enables serverless customization of the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model using SFT, DPO, and RFT, allowing domain-specific adaptation without infrastructure management.
Amazon Connect Customer adds AI-powered PDF import to recreate third-party evaluation forms, reducing manual setup time for quality programs.
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now offers two new monetization hooks to customize ad insertion workflows, enabling finer control over ad selection and delivery without additional middleware.
Amazon SageMaker AI now allows users to submit prioritized instance type lists for training and processing jobs, reducing wait times during high-demand periods.
AWS adds NVIDIA’s Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Alibaba’s Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers to SageMaker JumpStart for agentic coding and lightweight text-to-video generation.
AWS now offers Google DeepMind’s Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and NVIDIA’s Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models on SageMaker JumpStart for enterprise AI deployments.
AWS now hosts three new foundation models on SageMaker JumpStart: granite-speech-4.1-2b, kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and OpenFold3, expanding AI capabilities for speech, bilingual agents, and biomolecular prediction.
AWS End User Messaging introduces automatic failover in phone pools to improve SMS delivery reliability during downstream disruptions without requiring customer action.
AWS Elemental MediaLive introduces Video Aligned Locking to synchronize video pipelines without source timecode, simplifying frame-accurate stream alignment for digital workflows.
AWS has expanded its memory-optimized EC2 X2idn instances to the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, targeting memory-intensive workloads with improved performance and SAP certification.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod introduces model caching to reduce inference cold starts by pre-loading model weights and container images, cutting scale-out times by up to 60% for large models.
AWS Lambda now allows explicit control over direct read configurations for Amazon S3 Files, enabling optimized throughput or latency based on application needs without additional cost.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 for multimodal embeddings, enabling direct video, audio, and image search without transcription reliance.
Amazon RDS for Oracle adds support for the July 2026 Supplemental Patch Bundle, enabling database updates for Oracle 19c and 26ai with new and existing instance options.