On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and […]
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13 Jul
1 Jul
Learn how Kubernetes version rollbacks for Amazon EKS let you reverse cluster upgrades within seven days. This new feature provides a safety net for upgrade failures—no cluster rebuilds required—turning Kubernetes version upgrades into a reversible, low-risk operation.
30 Jun
AWS CloudFormation speeds up infrastructure deployment with Express mode, enabling AI agents and developers to receive deployment confirmation in seconds and iterate faster. Available in all commercial Regions at no additional cost.
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5, are now generally available. They deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4-based instances, 5x larger cache, fastest memory of any processor instances in the cloud, and local NVMe storage options (C9gd).
AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public TLS certificates, enabling automated issuance and renewal through any ACMEv2-compatible client on any workload. Administrators get centralized governance, IAM-based access controls, and domain scoping, reducing operational risk as certificate lifetimes continue to reduce.
22 Jun
AWS launches a new serverless compute primitive, AWS Lambda MicroVMs. VM-level, isolated sandboxes with no shared kernel or resources between sessions. Rapid launch and resume, full lifecycle control, state preservation up to 8 hours, no infrastructure to manage.
18 Jun
Announcing Amazon EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
AWSAnnouncing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances, delivering high performance GPU acceleration for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload demand with comprehensive scaling policies, including predictive scaling for recurring traffic patterns, scheduled scaling for planned events, and target tracking to scale dynamically on real-time metrics. You can choose proactive scaling by using predictive scaling (automatic) and scheduled scaling […]
17 Jun
Proactively reduce tech debt autonomously with AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview)
AWSAWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview) automatically scans code repositories to detect, prioritize, and remediate technical debt at scale.
AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capabilities to assess code changes before production (preview)
AWSAWS DevOps Agent now offers release management capability in preview, reviewing code changes for release readiness and running autonomous release testing to help you ship code to production safely and with confidence.
AWS Security Agent now adds STRIDE-based threat modeling, full repo and PR code scanning with remediation across major Git platforms, and IDE integrations via Kiro power, Claude Code plugin, and MCP — letting developers run security reviews and fix issues without context switching.
16 Jun
Amazon S3 now lets you attach up to 1 GB of rich, mutable, and queryable context directly to your objects using annotations, purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows that need to discover, understand, and act on data at scale without maintaining separate metadata systems.
15 Jun
AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization capability to help content owners charge AI bots for content access
AWSAWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that enables content providers and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. AWS WAF now lets you set a price for that access, accept payment through third-party providers, and grant scoped access directly at the edge.
10 Jun
AWS launches Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. AWS Graviton5 is most powerful, and most energy efficient processor AWS has ever built, and offers up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based instances.
9 Jun
Anthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now available
AWSAWS announces the availability of Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Fable 5 makes Mythos-level capabilities available to all customers, with strong safeguards designed to make it safe for broader use.
5 Jun
Try the new console experience in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIs
AWSYou can use the new console experience on Amazon Bedrock to browse and compare the latest AI models side by side, organize work into projects with streamlined evaluation workflows, and access project-aware live documentation with auto-prefilled code snippets ready to copy and run.
3 Jun
Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication that automatically synchronizes user data, credentials, and pool configurations to a secondary AWS Region, enabling uninterrupted authentication during regional failovers without forced password resets—plus new support for customer managed KMS keys for encryption control.
1 Jun
OpenAI frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, and Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, are available on Amazon Bedrock. Deploy frontier models on Bedrock's high performance inference engine with built-in security, governance, and pay-per-token pricing.
28 May
Introducing the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub for generative AI-based SRE resilience journey
AWSAWS launches the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub with a significantly expanded experience that brings together a new application model, dependency discovery assessment, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and organization-wide reporting.
Introducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications
AWSAWS rebuilt Amazon OpenSearch Serverless from the ground up for agentic AI and dynamic workloads. Get instant autoscaling and up to 60% cost savings.
27 May
We’re excited to welcome four outstanding community leaders as our newest AWS Heroes. These individuals embody the spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing that makes the AWS community thrive. From building AI-powered tools that help fellow builders navigate AWS re:Invent, to leading some of the largest AWS communities in Latin America, to sharing deep cloud […]
18 May
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform at 1 year, Claude Platform on AWS, EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, and more (May 18, 2026)
AWSJust a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we introduced AWS Transform custom, which enables organizations to modernize and transform code at scale using AWS-managed and custom transformations. You can upgrade language versions, migrate […]
14 May
Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization enables customers to optimize their prompts for their current model or migrate prompts to new models faster than before with built-in evaluation feedback loops. Optimize your prompts and compare results for up to 5 models simultaneously.
6 May
AWS announces the general availability of the AWS MCP Server, a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents and coding assistants secure, authenticated access to all AWS services. The AWS MCP Server is part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a suite of tooling that includes the MCP Server, skills, and plugins that help coding agents…
5 May
Amazon WorkSpaces now lets AI agents securely operate legacy desktop applications—without APIs or modernization—using IAM authentication, MCP support, and computer vision within existing security frameworks.