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AWS IAM Policy Simulator has moved into the IAM console and now supports testing service control policies, with new scenario modeling and cross-account reporting features.
Amazon Bedrock will reduce prices for OpenAI’s GPT‑5.6 Luna and Terra models by up to 80% starting July 30, 2026, aligning with OpenAI’s pricing changes.
Amazon MSK Express brokers now stream data directly to Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3, cutting ingestion costs by up to 60% and reducing downstream query costs by up to 30%.
Amazon MSK Express now streams Apache Kafka data directly to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets, reducing ingestion costs by up to 60% compared to self-managed connectors.
Amazon Web Services announced the availability of Google DeepMind’s Gemma 4 family of open-weight models on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West).
xAI’s Grok 4.3 reasoning-first model is now accessible on Amazon Bedrock within AWS GovCloud (US-West), expanding generative AI options for U.S. government and enterprise workloads.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.7, introducing vector search optimizations, improved search relevance tools, and enhanced Query Insights for performance analysis.
AWS CloudFormation now integrates EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh, enabling automated instance replacement during updates without service disruption or additional cost.
AWS has launched AWS Interconnect — multicloud, enabling private, scalable connections between AWS and other cloud providers, starting with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud.
Amazon Connect Customer now automatically provides managers with relevant agent evaluation examples to support targeted coaching, reducing manual search time and improving feedback quality.
AWS GovCloud (US) customers can now replicate Amazon EFS file systems across AWS accounts to meet disaster recovery and compliance needs without custom synchronization.
AWS Console Home now includes the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, enabling customers to monitor and analyze cloud spending directly from their dashboard.
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre as source or destination locations, enabling faster, parallel data transfers with detailed metrics.
Amazon GameLift Streams introduces Custom Aspect Ratio and Dynamic Resolution to improve streaming flexibility and quality across devices and network conditions.
AWS launched a preview of the AWS Security Hub MCP App, a local MCP server integrating Security Hub exposure findings into AI workflows like Claude Desktop to streamline security investigations.
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now allows users to configure ad server timeout and concurrency settings directly, eliminating the need to contact AWS Support for adjustments.
Amazon Connect now enables audio optimization for calls from Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC, improving audio quality through local media redirection.
AWS adds warm throughput scaling-down to Kinesis Data Streams On-demand Advantage, letting users reduce ingest capacity to cut costs while maintaining sufficient throughput for current traffic.
AWS Lambda now logs Lambda Managed Instances capacity provider activities in CloudWatch Logs, enabling monitoring of scaling and instance lifecycle events for troubleshooting and optimization.
Amazon SES has introduced a guided setup in Mail Manager to simplify SMTP email sending, reducing configuration steps to a few clicks and providing immediate production-ready credentials.
AWS now provides access to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 model via Amazon Bedrock and the Claude Platform, with zero data retention by default on Bedrock.
AWS has released aws-bench, an open-source benchmarking tool for evaluating AI agents on AWS infrastructure tasks, aimed at improving accuracy and efficiency in real-world cloud operations.
Amazon ECS Service Connect now supports zone-aware routing to reduce cross-AZ data transfer costs and latency by prioritizing intra-zone service traffic, with automatic failover to maintain availability.
AWS has made the Gemma-4-E2B-it model from Google DeepMind available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding multimodal AI capabilities for AWS customers.
AWS has made Qwen3 embedding and reranking models available in SageMaker JumpStart for retrieval workflows, enabling multimodal and multilingual search pipelines.
AWS now offers Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 in SageMaker JumpStart, a real-time speech-transcription model from Mistral AI supporting 13 languages with configurable latency.
AWS has expanded availability of Amazon EC2 R8i instances to the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) regions, offering enhanced compute and storage performance for demanding workloads.
AWS adds an AI-powered troubleshooting agent for Apache Spark jobs running on Amazon EMR on EKS, enabling automated root-cause analysis and code fixes via natural language.
Amazon Location Service expands Places APIs with multilingual address translations, travel-optimized search, drive-through data, and flexible address formatting for developers.
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 G7 instances featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs in the US East (N. Virginia) Region, offering improved AI inference and graphics performance.